Ordinarily your steadfast steward of the DVD Release List would be using this space to direct you to some hidden gems on the weekly slate, and/or to remind you of the biggest titles of the week (and possibly make excuses for them). But this week we can’t stop salivating over some releases we’re especially stoked to see on the shelves: like the sure-to-be-awesome-looking Blu-ray releases of A Bug’s Life and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, or the bargain-priced set of Friday Night Lights’ excellent third season, or the Criterion box set of Shohei Imamura films, or the Criterion edition of the evocative ‘70s crime film The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (full review coming tomorrow), or the nice new DVD editions for Fritz Lang’s 1941 anti-Nazi thriller Man Hunt and John Ford’s overtly revisionist western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
But hey, if you’re looking for one of those hidden gems, consider Kobe Doin’ Work, Spike Lee’s docu-analysis of an ordinary regular season Lakers game (and his conscious homage to the similar soccer doc Zidane). And hey, you know what’s a pretty good movie, despite all the bad buzz that surrounded it? Valkyrie.
3 Days Of The Condor
Paramount Blu-ray, $29.99
8 Simple Rules: The Complete Second Season
Lionsgate, $29.98
24: Season Seven
20th Century Fox, $59.98; Blu-ray, $69.99
Bank Robbery Collection: The Great Bank Hoax/The Great Bank Robbery
Warner, $14.98
Batman (1989)
Warner Blu-ray, $34.99
A Bug’s Life
Disney Blu-ray, $39.99
Charles Bronson Collection: Telefon/St. Ives
Warner, $14.98
Circle Of Iron
Blue Underground Blu-ray, $34.95
Crips And Bloods: Made In America
New Video, $19.95
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
Kino, $29.95
Dr. Doolittle: Million Dollar Mutts
20th Century Fox, $22.98
Driven To Kill
20th Century Fox, $22.98; Blu-ray, $29.99
Eden Log
Magnolia, $26.98; Blu-ray, $34.98
El Dorado
Paramount, $16.99
Enemy At The Gates
Paramount, $29.99
Eric Clapton: Live From Madison Square Garden
WEA/Reprise, $27.99
Fanboys
Weinstein, $19.98
Fast Company
Blue Underground Blu-ray, $34.95
The Friends Of Eddie Coyle
Criterion, $29.95
Friday Night Lights: The Third Season
Universal, $29.98
Girl On A Motorcycle
Redemption, $19.95
Infected
Genius Products, $14.95
Invasion Iowa
Echo Bridge, $19.99
Kobe Doin’ Work
ESPN, $19.95
The Last Horror Film
Troma, $14.95
The Legend Of The Blood Castle
Mya, $24.95
The Machinist
Paramount Blu-ray, $29.99
Man Hunt
20th Century Fox, $14.98
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
Paramount, $16.99
Masaru Konuma: Debauched Desires
Kino, $44.95
My Bloody Valentine (2009)
Lionsgate, $29.95/$34.98; Blu-ray, $39.99
Nightmare Castle
Severin, $19.95
Outlander
Weinstein, $19.98
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Sony, $28.96; Blu-ray, $39.95
Paul Simon & Friends: The Library Of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular Song
Shout! Factory, $19.98
Peyton Place: Part One
Shout! Factory, $39.99
Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films By Shohei Imamura
Criterion, $79.95
Russell Brand In New York City
Comedy Central, $16.99
Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Vol. 1
Warner, $26.98
Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Vol. 1
Warner, $26.98
Sister Sister: The Second Season
Paramount, $36.98
Spy Game
Universal Blu-ray, $29.98
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Lionsgate, $14.98; Blu-ray, $29.99
The Town That Was
Cinelove, $22.95
True Blood: The Complete First Season
HBO, $59.99; Blu-ray, $79.98
Valkyrie
United Artists, $29.98/$34.98; Blu-ray, $39.99
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks Live At The Hollywood Bowl
Listen To The Lion, $29.99
Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Synapse, $24.95
Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler
Synapse, $24.95
We Feed The World
Kino, $29.95
Yonkers Joe
Magnolia, $26.98