April 2010, Whatcha Got?

[J.M. Vargas]

OK, technically these were bought the day before April but I won't receive them until later in the week (or next week) so back off man!

Above The Law (Blu-ray) ($10 new at a local NYC shop)
Grand Illusion
Mayerling
Gerveise
Tales of Hoffman (all 'Essential Art House' Criterion titles going out of print due to Studio Canal taking the rights back)
Criterion 'C' coffee mug (to qualify for free shipping at Criterion's online store).

[mavrach]

Night of the Creeps

Gabirel Iglesias: Hot and Fluffy - We're seeing him in concert tonight, so I'm hoping to get this signed.

[hoytereden]

The Adventures of Superman: Seasons 5 and 6-Extremely cheap at Amazon and it completes my collection of a childhood (and adult) favorite.

[J.M. Vargas]

Speed Racer (Blu-ray) - $10 at Best Buy online (which you can pick-up at a nearby store if they have it in stock). Lots of $10 BD titles there, the same one's that are also $10 at BB stores except for "Speed Racer" and "The Postman" (which ring at their $16.99 marked price).

[LarryLockyer]

Toy Story 1 and 2(bluray/DVD)
Sherlock Holmes(Bluray)
Monster Inc (Bluray

[cdouglas]

Finally got around to picking up...

American Gangster (Blu-ray)
Serenity (Blu-ray)

Plus pre-ordered Apollo 13 (Blu-ray)

[Gabriel Girard]

Two PS2 blindbuys at a clearance sale: Legend Of Kay and Indigo Prophecy.

I also traded in a few finished/unliked games for Steve's favorite : Shadow Of The Colossus

[Steve T Power]

Two PS2 blindbuys at a clearance sale: Legend Of Kay and Indigo Prophecy.

I also traded in a few finished/unliked games for Steve's favorite : Shadow Of The Colossus

Nice! Best game of 2005!

[Jon Mercer]

Heroic Age (Blu-Ray)

[Andrew Forbes]

Hammer Films: Icons of Suspense

[Dan Mancini]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Planet Terror -- all on Blu-ray
And, Lord help me, I also grabbed a used copy of Alvin and The Chipmunks on BD for the kids (What can I say? They dug the "Squeakquel")

[Jon Mercer]

Lord help me, I also grabbed a used copy of Alvin and The Chipmunks on BD for the kids (What can I say? They dug the "Squeakquel")

10 years from now, your shrink will trace the roots of your alcoholism to this exact point.

[Dan Mancini]

Lord help me, I also grabbed a used copy of Alvin and The Chipmunks on BD for the kids (What can I say? They dug the "Squeakquel")

10 years from now, your shrink will trace the roots of your alcoholism to this exact point.

That or people will trace my batshit crazy, Lex Luthor-level of supervillainy back to this exact point. How is a monster created?

[Jon Mercer]

Lord help me, I also grabbed a used copy of Alvin and The Chipmunks on BD for the kids (What can I say? They dug the "Squeakquel")

10 years from now, your shrink will trace the roots of your alcoholism to this exact point.

That or people will trace my batshit crazy, Lex Luthor-level of supervillainy back to this exact point. How is a monster created?

So let me get this straight Mr. Mancini. You built a multi-national manufacturing conglomerate from the ground up, liquidated billions in research and development, faked your own death, reappeared and declared yourself "Lord Annhililatious: The Living Death That Kills", murdered the equivelant of the population of Rhode Island, spent the better part of thirty years in prison, managed to hornswoggle the american people into not only forgiving you, but electing you president, allowing you to commission NASA to build a time displacement device, just so you could go back in time and erase Ross Bagdasarian's bloodline from the face of history?

[Dan Mancini]

Lord help me, I also grabbed a used copy of Alvin and The Chipmunks on BD for the kids (What can I say? They dug the "Squeakquel")

10 years from now, your shrink will trace the roots of your alcoholism to this exact point.

That or people will trace my batshit crazy, Lex Luthor-level of supervillainy back to this exact point. How is a monster created?

So let me get this straight Mr. Mancini. You built a multi-national manufacturing conglomerate from the ground up, liquidated billions in research and development, faked your own death, reappeared and declared yourself "Lord Annhililatious: The Living Death That Kills", murdered the equivelant of the population of Rhode Island, spent the better part of thirty years in prison, managed to hornswoggle the american people into not only forgiving you, but electing you president, allowing you to commission NASA to build a time displacement device, just so you could go back in time and erase Ross Bagdasarian's bloodline from the face of history?

Not yet. Give me a decade. I just started building the muti-national manufacturing conglomerate on Sunday.

[stypee]

It's going to be a lean couple of months, my last purchase, until than Sherlock Holmes...

[Andrew Forbes]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (TAoJJbtCRF!)

[hoytereden]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (TAoJJbtCRF!)

That had to be a tough one to put on a theater's marquee! Anyway, a terrific film.

[HGervais]

No Blu-rays or DVDs yet....Reckless Records in Chicago will change that.....but I did pick up the new song cycle from David Bryne & Fatboy Slim about the life of Imelda Marcos called Here Lies Love. Lets just say I'm already on my third run through the double CD set.

[Steve T Power]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (TAoJJbtCRF!)

That had to be a tough one to put on a theater's marquee! Anyway, a terrific film.

It's a shame that Andrew Dominik hasn't popped up since. He's been attached to an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "Cities of the Plain" but there are doubts it will see the screen. I've heard that "Assassination" had a pretty troubled post production period, and that could be the reason for his slow return. At any rate, he reminds me of a young Terrance Malik, and that certainly ain't a bad thing. Whatever he does, i'll be there.

[cdouglas]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (TAoJJbtCRF!)

That had to be a tough one to put on a theater's marquee! Anyway, a terrific film.

It's a shame that Andrew Dominik hasn't popped up since. He's been attached to an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "Cities of the Plain" but there are doubts it will see the screen. I've heard that "Assassination" had a pretty troubled post production period, and that could be the reason for his slow return. At any rate, he reminds me of a young Terrance Malik, and that certainly ain't a bad thing. Whatever he does, i'll be there.

Likewise. I was very worried about the film due to all the rumors running around about how many post-production problems the movie had, but it turned out to be one of my favorite films of 2007. Great in just about every department... the script, the acting, Roger Deakins' cinematography, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' score... wow.

[J.M. Vargas]

Cinema, Happiness: The Short Films of Karpo Godina (1968-1972) - "free" with the $10 purchase of the March/April issue of 'The Believers' magazine. Bought it based on this glowing review in Tuesday's edition of The New York Times (which rarely wastes its weekly DVD recommendations section on magazine freebies). Think Dušan Makavejev-type Yugoslavian Black Wave movies, except shorter.

[LarryLockyer]

lord of the rings(Bluray)

[the5thghostbuster]

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Blu
Lord of the Rings 1978 Blu

[BenSaylor]

From the last couple of weeks:
Bigger Than Life
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Speed Racer (didn't like this when I saw it in theaters, but a sneaking suspicion that I might enjoy it more, coupled with its $5 price tag at Wal Mart sealed the deal)
Hammer Icons of Suspense

[mavrach]

Went back to the Blockbuster closing sale yet again. Everything is now $5:

Fido
The Informant!
I Love You, Man
Halloween II - Rob Zombie version.

[the5thghostbuster]

Bigger than Life (Blu Ray)
Hammer Films: Icons of Suspense

[thepegsdave]

Super Bowl XLIV: New Orleans Saints Champions (Blu-ray)

[Steve T Power]

Splinter Cell: Conviction (xbox360)

[LarryLockyer]

Splinter Cell Conviction (360)

[molly1216]

i went fishing the other night
that's when i go to the bull moose video
and buy about 20 bucks worth of basically crap hoping to find something worth watching.
i generally look for anything old and obscure or on a mongrel label
usually @ 2.97 or 3.97 - i got about 7 films for my 20 bucks.

so far i caught
Murder by Dawn (1932) forgettable old house mystery with Kenneth Strickfaden's Frankenstein Machines in it.
The Phantom from 10000 Leagues (1955) which is absolutely awful, but it has a guy in a monster suit tipping over row boats.
and i found Palooka (1934) with Jimmy Durante, Robt Armstrong and others including Thelma Todd - for 2.97 well worth the money. I didn't even know it was out there.

I also picked up Land that Time Forgot and People that Time Forgot which i haven't seen since i saw them 1st run, it should be interesting.

[the5thghostbuster]

Nightmare on Elm Street Blu Ray. Might still pick up the collection of the entire series on DVD, in order to get the sequels

[mavrach]

JCVD
The Outsiders

[SmokestackJones]

A few things:

Icons of Horror: Hammer Films

...and - it was a fun film but you can keep yer Robert Downey Jr. I finally got my hands on Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Granada Television Series.

-SJ

[molly1216]

i bought the new Sherlock Holmes sight unseen...aside from it being a bit too dark (unless that is my TV) it is a smashing good film.

The House of the Seven Gables (1940) from the universal Vault Collection came in the mail.

I have made a list of all the RKO 'lost' films, Warner Archive film and Universal Vaults that I WANT but can't afford and I am going to TRY to buy one once a week or at least every two weeks. the damn releases are getting ahead of me - there's a bunch of Ginger Rogers and Marie Dressler's, and Myrna Loys etc...it's painful not to have them.

[FrankB]

The T.A.M.I. Show

Hammer: Suspense Films

[mavrach]

Return of the Living Dead
The Wild Bunch - Blu-Ray

[HGervais]

Did a quick pass through SprawlMart of they had Serenity & Close Encounters of The Third Kind on blu-ray for 15 bucks each.

[Andrew Forbes]

Found a Canadian-only release of Bob le Flambeur, but it's looking like it has no English subtitles, so I'm trying to decide if I should keep it and try to make sense of the plot (and maybe regain some of my French while I'm at it) or take it back. HMV keeps bringing in these French-only releases from Maple pictures (Port of Shadows is another). I can only imagine how someone with no knowledge of French would feel if they popped in their new DVD and found it incomprehensible.

[molly1216]

i can't believe i was missing 1943 Phantom of the Opera
oddly no one else was missing it either..the new copy i bought off the shelf for 9.97
was most likely made in 2000 as it still had the original cobweb design cellophane.

Also picked up Universal's Inner Sanctum collection. Gotta have more Lon Chaney JR

also picked up a very strange film by accident
what i thought was an 'old'public domain film from Alpha
turned out to be a NEW film done digitally in black and white against blue screen
with bits of public domain films edited in: Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb (2007)
it is no where as good as The Call of Cthulhu is a 2005 but they seemed to have a lot of fun making it.

[the5thghostbuster]

Amazon had a sci-fi sale here in Canada. Picked up:

Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday DVD
Godzilla Tokyo SOS DVD
Godzilla: Final Wars DVD
Lost Skeleton of Cadavra DVD

[Mitchell Hattaway]

Minority Report (Blu-ray)

[ccb]

Avatar bare bones bought 00:14 ET today. That's all the $ the studio's getting from me.

[J.M. Vargas]

Cinematic Titanic: East Meets Watts & The Alien Factor (picked-up at the Titans' sold out presentation of "Danger at Tiki Island" in NYC's Nokia Theater in Times Square last weekend).

Avatar bare bones bought 00:14 ET today. That's all the $ the studio's getting from me.

Yeah right! See you in line for the 3D four-disc director's cut re-release double-dip this December!

[Mark Van Hook]

Snagged the Planet Earth Blu-Ray set for $38 in Amazon's Gold Box deal of the day. Way too good to pass up.

[ccb]

Avatar bare bones bought 00:14 ET today. That's all the $ the studio's getting from me.

Yeah right! See you in line for the 3D four-disc director's cut re-release double-dip this December!

No, J.M. Vargas, I think not.

[LarryLockyer]

Avatar(Blu-ray)
Iron Man(Blu-ray)
The Fast and the Furious(Blu-ray)
Tokyo Drift(Blu-ray)
Twister(Blu-ray)

[Steve T Power]

Snatch (Blu-ray)
Minority Report (blu-ray)

and for the other half:
Beetlejuice (blu-ray)
Edward Scissorhands (blu-ray)

[hoytereden]

Avatar Blu-ray

[Andrew Forbes]

Avatar (Blu-ray+DVD)