We’ll be honest: we can’t work up much enthusiasm for the big new releases of this week. We could point out that Race To Witch Mountain isn’t bad for what it is, or that The Soloist contains some good performances, but we’d just be going through the motions. Frankly, you’d have a lot more fun—and see some better movies—if you dug through some of the budget-priced collections of lesser-known old Hollywood movies out this week, like the provocatively named “Big Iron Collection,” or the “Icons Of Screwball Comedy” sets. (Full reviews of the latter coming next week.) Or if you want a slam-dunk, guaranteed good time, you need look no further than the Blu-ray edition of John Carpenter’s Big Trouble In Little China, which combines martial arts, sorcery, and full-force American fisticuffs, Kurt Russell style!. If only there were a new title on DVD so good.
Actors And Sin: Actor’s Blood/Woman Of Sin
VCI, $14.99
Big Iron Collection: Crooked River/Colorado Ranger/Fast On The Draw/Hostile Country/Marshal Of Heldorado/West Of The Brazos
VCI, $29.99
Big Trouble In Little China
20th Century Fox Blu-ray, $29.99
The Chaos Experiment
Cinepro, $19.95
Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters
Warner, $14.98
Delgo
20th Century Fox, $22.98
Demon Warriors
Magnolia/Magnet, $26.98
Flight Of The Conchords: The Complete Second Season
HBO, $29.98
Fragments
Sony, $24.96
Icons Of Screwball Comedy, Volume One
Sony, $24.96
Icons Of Screwball Comedy, Volume Two
Sony, $24.96
John Heffron: Middle Class Funny
Image, $14.98
Labor Pains
First Look, $28.98; Blu-ray, $29.98
The Last Of The Mohicans
VCI, $19.99
The Love Boat: Season Two, Vol. 2
Paramount, $36.98
Mutant Chronicles
Magnolia, $26.98/$29.98; Blu-ray, $34.98
My Cousin Vinny
20th Century Fox Blu-ray, $34.98
The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh
Peace Arch, $29.99; Blu-ray, $34.99
Nature’s Grave
Screen Media, $24.98
Obsessed
Sony, $28.96; Blu-ray, $39.95
Project Runway: Season Five
Weinstein, $27.95
Race To Witch Mountain
Walt Disney, $29.99/$39.99; Blu-ray, $44.99
Shadowheart
Anchor Bay, $26.97
Sling Blade
Miramax Blu-ray, $34.99
The Soloist
Dreamworks, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.99
The Tigger Movie
Walt Disney, $29.99
Tim And Eric Awesome Show Great Job!: Season Three
Warner, $19.98
Trapped
Code Red, $19.98
Ulysses (1954)
Lionsgate, $14.98
The Waterboy
Walt Disney Blu-ray, $39.99
The Window
Film Movement, $24.95