Welcome to the New DVD Release report from Cinema Static for the first week of May, and its pretty much meh unless your a Doctor Zhivago fan. There’s a ton of nature related Blu-ray releases if you want to stay inside and view Earth in glorious high definition. Hey you didn’t spend $3000 on a plasma high def home system for nothing? Besides who wants to fly to Poland with all that crazy fog going around?
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DVD MOVIE OF THE WEEK
My DVD pick of the week is, “Dirty Dancing Limited Keepsake Edition.” LOL just messing with ya. There really isn’t anything that stands out for me this week. Bobby Dogs, Leap Year, Tooth Fairy, I mean come on!
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DVD TV SERIES/DOCUMENTARY OF THE WEEK
My choice for TV Series/Documentary of the week is “Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy.” This in depth documentary covers the entire horror franchise as well as interviews on the new film. Runner up this week is the Ronald D. Moore science fiction TV movie, “Virtuality.”
(Editor’s Note: Psst: There’s a bunch of Doctor Who in the TV section this week!)
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BLU-RAY PICK OF THE WEEK
“Saving Private Ryan,” is my Blu-ray pick of the week. Runner up is, “Escape From La” and I’m not kidding, call me Snake! Try to avoid “The Tooth Fairy”, another “solid” career choice for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Like watching it on Blu-ray is going to ease the suffering, yeah sure! Enough about my personal issues, here’s the checklist for the week.
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THIS WEEKS NEW RELEASES FOR TUESDAY, MAY 4TH. 2010
FILMS ON DVD
• Anything Goes
• A Ripple Of Hope
• Before You Say I Do
• Bobby Dogs
• Bound By A Secret
• Chelsea on the Rocks
• The Chosen
• Cold Storage
• Cross
• Desires Of The Heart
• Dirty Dancing: Limited Keepsake Edition
• Doctor Zhivago: 45Th Anniversary Edition
• The Dukes
• Ernest Hemingway Collection
• First Spaceship on Venus (Cinema Insomnia Slime Line)
• Fallen
• Fallen: The Beginning
• Fallen: The Destiny
• Freud
• Get Even
• Greek Pete
• The Giant Panda
• Hellbinders
• Imagine This
• Leap Year
• The Lost Coast
• Matinee (1992 re issue)
• Meadowoods
• Mine
• Nine
• The Moment After 2: The Awakening
• Muse
• Njinga The Queen King The Return Of A Warrior
• No Time for Sergeants
• Perfect Combination
• Play the Game
• Preacher’s Kid
• Redirecting Eddie
• Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (Roger Corman Cult Classics)
• The Sanctuary
• The Secrets Of Jonathan Sperry
• Shades of Pale
• Shaolin Iron Men (4 Film Set)
• Suburbia (Roger Corman’s Cult Classics)
• Tetro
• The Tooth Fairy
• Tokyo Sonata
• Tony Palmer’s Film: Strange Case Of Delfina
• Tony Palmer’s Film: Valentina Igoshina Chopin
• Vampegeddon
NEW TV SERIES, LIVE PERFORMANCE AND DOCUMENTARY ON DVD
• According To Jim: The Complete Second Season
• The Awkward Comedy Show
• Axel Rudi Pell: One Night Live
• Bobby Fischer Live
• Boogie Man-The Lee Atwater Story
• Colorado Cowboys
• Chickenfoot: Get Your Buzz On Live
• Darker Than Black: Complete Series Set
• A Day in the Recording Studio Mark Schulman
• Dirt: The Complete Second Season
• Doctor Who: The Curse Of Peladon
• Doctor Who: The Masque Of Mandragora
• Doctor Who: The Monster Of Peladon
• Dragon Ball: Season 4
• Dragon Ball Z: D-Box Three
• Edgar Allen Poe’s House Of Usher
• Ellefson David Of Megadeth-Metal Bass
• Extreme: Take Us Alive
• The Facts Of Life Season 4
• One Night Only: Barbra Streisand And Quartet At The Village Vanguard: September 26, 2009
• On The Road With Charles Kuralt Set 2
• Honeymooners: Second Honeymoon
• Honeymooners: Valentine Special
• Hayate The Combat Butler: Part 5
• High Country Rails
• Iron Man: Armored Adventures Complete Season 1
• Junjo Romantica Season 1 DVD Collection
• Man Vs Wild: Season 4
• Marvel Iron Man: The Complete Animated Series (3-Disc DVD)
• Marvel X-Men: Volume 5: (2-Disc DVD)
• Mars Rising
• Monsters Resurrected
• Murdoch Mysteries Season 2
• My Chemical Romance-Road Less Travelled
• National Geographic’s Most Incredible Photos
• Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (Documentary)
• Nova: Extreme Cave Diving
• Penn & Teller: Bullshit! The Complete 7th Season
• Rozen Maiden & Traumend: S 1 & S 2
• Sade: Munich Concert
• Saturday Morning Cartoons 1980′s Vol 1.
• Saving Grace Seasons 1 & 2 (2-Pack)
• Square Of The Moon: Rise Of The Light Hunters
• Tekkaman Blade Complete (Vols 1-3, Eps. 1-49)
• Tony Roberts: Wired
• Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union: Complete Season Two
• Tribal Beyond The Four: 20 Years Of Music Art
• Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Season 2
• Tsubasa: Complete Series
• UFC 110: Nogueira V. Velasquez
• Ultimate Samurai Miyamoto Musashi
• Vandread Ultimate Collection
• Velvet Underground-Vanishing Point
• Virtuality
• Visions Of Nature: Timescapes
• Voltron Lion Force Part 1
• Voltron Lion Force Part 2
• Wolverine & X-Men: Revelation
• WWE: Wrestlemania 26: Collector’s Edition
• You’re Under Arrest: Full Throttle Collection 2
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FILMS ON BLURAY
• Beautiful Planet: Italy Sacri Monti
• Beautiful Planet: Poland Torun- The Castle of Malbork
• Bobby Dogs
• Celine: Through The Eyes Of The World
• Chelsea On the Rocks
• Chickenfoot: Get Your Buzz On: Live
• Cinema Paradiso
• Collective Soul: Home
• Dirty Dancing Limited Keepsake Edition
• Doctor Zhivago 45th Anniversary Edition
• The Dukes
• Elektra (Directors Cut)
• Escape from LA
• Four Seasons: Adorable Autumn
• Four Seasons Box Set
• Four Seasons: Splendid Spring
• Four Seasons: Sunlit Summer
• Garfield: The Movie
• The Giant Panda
• Hamlet (2009)
• Highlander: Immortal Edition
• K-19: The Widowmaker
• Leap Year
• Mother
• Nine
• The Notebook
• One Night Only: Barbra Streisand And Quartet At The Village Vanguard: September 26, 2009
• Preacher’s Kid
• Romantic Cities: Amsterdam
• Romantic Cities: Athens
• Romantic Cities: London
• Romantic Cities: Miami
• Romantic Cities: Paris
• Romantic Cities: Venice
• Saving Private Ryan
• Tetro
• The Tooth Fairy
• Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Season 2
• Visions Of Nature: Timescapes
• Wild Asia : Monsoon- India’s God Of Life
RENTAL/USED DVD OF THE WEEK
The 2009, R rated drama/comedy “Shrink” starring Kevin Spacey is my Rental/Used DVD of the week.
Henry Carter (Spacey) is L.A.’s top celebrity psychiatrist. Problem is he’s self medicating with pot, while struggling with his own mid-life career crisis. Everything changes one day when a pro bono case turns into a unexpected life changing event.
This is one of those quirky “Hollywood life” films that delivers a interesting story with some often deep and hilarious characters. Great performances by Spacey of course, as well as Keke Palmer and Dallas Roberts. There’s also an unexpected un credited performance by Robin Williams that added a sense of wtf surealness to the film.
Spacey fans will want to purchase this one, everyone else I recommend “Shrink” as a solid rental. Rated R, mainly for drug use and explicit language. DVD includes, Director (Jonas Pate) audio commentary as well as several interviews and a Jackson Browne music video. I picked it up at (FreakBeat Records) in the Valley for $5 bucks used.
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NEXT WEEK IN DVD/BLU-RAY
Next week, the cinematic red tide of, “Legion” and “Daybreakers” are set to roll onto the shores of home video hell. There’s a new Beatles documentary called, “Behind The Curtain” that looks interesting. And “The Karate Kid 1 & 2″ finally arrives on glorious Blu-ray. If that’s not a good reason to purchase a new plasma TV, Blu-ray player home system combo, I don’t know what is.
Until then see you at the DVD store! I’ll be in the TV section this week. 
