Munich<\/strong>‘ (formerly a Best Buy exclusive) to wide retail at the same time.<\/p>\nWhile splitting up one box set, Universal bundles together another for the ‘Clint Eastwood 7-Movie Collection<\/strong>‘, which includes reissues of ‘Two Mules for Sister Sara’, ‘Joe Kidd’ and ‘High Plains Drifter’, along with new-to-Blu titles ‘Coogan’s Bluff’, ‘The Beguiled’, ‘Play Misty for Me’ and ‘The Eiger Sanction’. Give it a year or so if you’d like to get those individually.<\/p>\nMGM’s ‘The Sergio Leone Anthology<\/strong>‘ compiles Eastwood’s three “Man with No Name” Westerns ‘A Fistful of Dollars’, ‘For a Few Dollars More’ and ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’ with the non-Eastwood ‘Duck, You Sucker’. These are all reissues, though I’m not sure which edition of ‘The Good, The Bad’ is included. I would presume it’s the recent remaster but can’t say for certain.<\/p>\nFrank Sinatra would be 100-years-old in 2015\u2026 if, you know, he hadn’t died back in 1998. Regardless, Warner Bros. celebrates the centennial of the Chairman of the Board with a five-disc ‘Frank Sinatra Collection<\/strong>‘. Unlike the other studios, Warner is nice enough to simultaneously provide standalone copies of ‘Anchors Aweigh<\/strong>‘, ‘On the Town<\/strong>‘ and ‘Robin and the 7 Hoods<\/strong>‘. (The other two titles, ‘Guys and Dolls’ and ‘Ocean’s 11’, were previously released on Blu-ray.)<\/p>\nGuilty Pleasures<\/h2>\n
OHHHHHHH!! Have a Twinkie, snapperhead. Starz has dredged up the Andrew Dice Clay vehicle (heh, “vehicle,” get it?) ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane<\/strong>‘ from the depths of obscurity. I haven’t seen this since I was a teenager and watched it about 20 times on VHS. I’m pretty sure it’s a terrible movie, but a very quotable one. Un-fuckin-believable. <\/p>\nBird-lady Michelle Pfeiffer is in love with wolf-man Rutger Hauer, but only wisecracking teenage thief Matthew Broderick can save them from an evil bishop. If you can read that summary without rolling your eyes, you might have a nostalgic soft spot for Richard Donner’s silly medieval fantasy ‘Ladyhawke<\/strong>‘, now available through the Warner Archive. <\/p>\nTiny Tim Thomerson battles an evil jack-in-the-box in the epic crossover ‘Dollman vs. Demonic Toys<\/strong>‘. It’s too much awesomeness for just one franchise to handle!<\/p>\nTelevision<\/h2>\n
TV offerings this week include the first season of A&E’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire<\/strong>‘ (I’m very surprised it’s popular enough to have been renewed for a second), the second season of Showtime’s excellent ‘Masters of Sex<\/strong>‘, and the third season of PBS’ period drama ‘Mr. Selfridge<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\nMy $.02<\/h2>\n
The new edition of ‘Goodfellas’ is at the top of my must-buy list. I’m also excited that ‘Duel’ is finally available on its own, because the other Spielberg titles don’t interest me much. ‘Selma’ and ‘Mr. Turner’ deserve at least rentals. <\/p>\n
How about you? Please tell me you’re not buying ‘Fifty Shades’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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