New music isn't the only media to be released on Tuesdays; it's unveiling day for new DVDs as well…
Though Christmas is a few months away, this week we get a visit from The Ghosts Of Oscar-Bait Past. If you could go back in time, would you spend more time with Richard Attenborough's biopic Chaplin? (And if you did, would that spare Robert Downey, Jr. years of self-destructive drug abuse? And would that cost us his comeback performance in Iron Man? So many moral dilemmas with time-traveling.) After you see the new 170-minute cut of The New World, will you wish that Terrence Malick had stuck to his guns and released this version the first time around? (Rather than the 150- and 135-minute cuts that appeared back in '05 and '06?) On the decidedly non-Oscar-bait side, Lionsgate's "Ghost House Underground" imprint invites you to check out eight new titles from horror's New Wave, while drive-in mavens have their pick of vintage gothica (the "Hammer Films Icons Of Horror Collection"), '80s trash (Navarre's "Exploitation Cinema" series, featuring Mausoleum and Blood Song), '70s trash disguised as high-toned adventure (the kitschy "what if we faked the moon landing?" thriller Capricorn One) and '00s trash disguised as blockbuster "fun" ( Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull). Finally, alt-rock-addled parents looking for a non-annoying video to put on for their kids should rejoice now that the four-episode collection Yo Gabba Gabba: Dance Dance Bunch has arrived. There's a party on my TV!
The Adventures Of Robin Hood: The Complete Second Season Mill Creek, $14.98
Alfred Hitchcock – The Premiere Collection: Lifeboat/Spellbound/Notorious/The Paradine Case/Sabotage/Young and Innocent/Rebecca/The Lodger MGM, $119.98
Arch Of Triumph Republic, $14.98
Back To You: Season One 20th Century Fox, $39.98
Brotherhood Of Blood Lions Gate/Ghost House Underground, $19.98
Capricorn One Lions Gate, $19.98
Chaplin: 15th Anniversary Edition Lions Gate, $19.98
Charlie & Lola: Vol. 1-8 BBC Warner, $79.98
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – The Eighth Season Paramount, $84.98
Dance Of The Dead Lions Gate/Ghost House Underground, $19.98
Dark Floors Lions Gate/Ghost House Underground, $19.98
The Deputy – Starring Henry Fonda: 1959-1961 Timeless, $34.98
The Edge Of Heaven Strand, $27.99
The Edwardians BBC Warner, $49.98
Exploitation Cinema: Mausoleum/Blood Song Navarre, $12.98
Hammer Films Icons Of Horror Collection Sony, $24.96
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull Paramount, $34.99/$39.99; Blu-Ray, $39.99
The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie Criterion, $39.95
The Last House In the Woods Lions Gate/Ghost House Underground, $19.98
Liberty's Kid: The Complete Series Shout! Factory, $59.98
Life With Derek: The Complete First Season Koch, $29.98
Long Way Down EMI, $39.98
Mongol New Line, $27.98; Blu-Ray, $35.99
Nash Bridges: The First Season Paramount, $39.98
The New World: The Extended Cut New Line, $20.98
No Man's Land: The Rise Of Reeker Lions Gate/Ghost House Underground, $19.98
One Touch Of Venus Republic, $14.98
The Partridge Family: The Complete Third Season Sony, $29.95
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie Universal, $29.98
Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Tribute Show Kultur White Star, $19.99
Room 205 Lions Gate/Ghost House Underground, $19.98
Rules Of Engagement: The Complete Second Season Sony, $29.95
The Sarah Silverman Program: Season Two, Volume One Comedy Central, $26.98
Short Cuts Criterion Collection, $29.95
Silverhawks: Season 1 Vol. 1 Warner, $44.98
SpongeBob SquarePants: Who Bob What Pants? Nickelodeon, $16.99
Standard Operating Procedure Sony, $28.96; Blu-Ray, $38.96
Still Life New Yorker, $29.95
Stuck Image, $27.98; Blu-Ray, $35.98
The Substitute Lions Gate/Ghost House Underground, $19.98
Survivorman: Season 2 Discovery, $19.98
Sweet Sixteen: Director's Cut Code Red, $19.98
Trackman Lions Gate/Ghost House Underground, $19.98
Ultraman: The Complete Series Navarre, $49.98
The Unit: The Complete Third Season Fox/MGM, $39.98
The Universe: The Complete Season Two A&E;, $44.95
War, Inc. First Look, $28.98; Blu-Ray, $34.98
Witness To The Mob Koch, $29.98
Yo Gabba Gabba: Dance Dance Bunch Nickelodeon, $16.99
Y.P.F. Velocity/ThinkFilm, $27.98