To hell with the new stuff this week; there’s more action in the back catalog, whether it be Sony’s follow-up to their excellent first volume of Columbia Pictures’ noir classics or Kino’s Blu-ray edition of the Buster Keaton silent classic Steamboat Bill, Jr. (as well as their DVD set of Keaton sound-era shorts). And then there’s Flicker Alley’s revival of a real chestnut: the 1927 silent movie version of Maurine Dallas Watkins’ play Chicago, based on a real-life murder case and later turned into the hit musical of the same name. So who needs the 21st century?
Bitten
Rhi, $19.93
Brooklyn’s Finest
Overture/Anchor Bay, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.98
Chicago (1927)
Flicker Alley, $39.95
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics Vol. 2: The Brothers Rico/City Of Fear/Human Desire/Nightfall/Pushover
Sony, $59.95
Continental Divide
Universal, $14.98
Doctor Who: The Horns Of Nimon
BBC Warner, $24.98
Doctor Who: The Space Museum/The Chase
BBC Warner, $49.98
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
BBC Warner, $24.98
Doctor Who: Underworld
BBC Warner, $24.98
Dragnet 1968: Season Two
Shout! Factory, $44.99
ER: The Complete Thirteenth Season
Warner, $49.98
Eyeborgs
Image, $27.98; Blu-ray, $29.98
Gamera Vs. Barugon
Shout! Factory, $19.93
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Music Box, $29.95; Blu-ray, $34.95
Have Gun Will Travel: Season Four, Vol. 2
Paramount, $29.98
Jason & The Argonauts
Sony Blu-ray, $24.95
Jimmy Hollywood
Lionsgate Blu-ray, $19.99
Ladybugs
Lionsgate Blu-ray, $19.99
Life On Mars (UK): The Complete Collection
Acorn, $79.99
Lost Keaton: Sixteen Comedy Shorts 1934-27
Kino, $34.95
Love And Other Disasters
Image Blu-ray, $17.98
Project Runway: The Complete Seventh Season
Weinstein, $27.99
Return To Lonesome Dove
Rhi, $19.93
Rhoda: Season Three
Shout! Factory, $29.93
A Single Man
Sony, $27.96; Blu-ray, $34.95
Squidbillies: Volume Three
Cartoon Network, $19.98
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Kino, $29.95; Blu-ray, $34.95
Touching Evil: The Complete Collection
Acorn, $79.99
The Wind Journeys
Film Movement, $24.98