DVD and Blu Ray Goals For 2012

2011 from a DVD point of view was a pretty fantastic year, with some brilliant additions, bargains and some awesome collections I've had going. These are some fun goals I have set myself for the next year ahead and this something I can probably look back on the end of next year (unless the world ends at some point obviously).

I might do a six month catch up in the middle of the year which might mean adding or subtracting stuff from this list.

1. Get at least one film with the following - Laurel and Hardy, Shirley Temple and Harold Lloyd - as these are probably the biggest names that yet to appear in my collection.
2. Finish off these series that only need one to complete - Alias (S4), Dollhouse (S2), Veronica Mars - especially this (S3), Seinfeld (S9), 
3. Add 7 more Disney / Pixar films to my collection at least. For Disney I'm just talking about the animated features.
4. Get the 2 Region 1 Kristen Bell movies I need - Gracie's Choice and The King and Queen Of Moonlight Bay.
5. Get every Uwe Boll film I need including They Live (which he produced)
6. Get at least 2 of the Mill Creek Entertainment 50 Movie Packs hopefully from the Drive-In or one of the sci-fi or horror lines.
7. 10 different wrestling DVDs added to my collection.
8. Add at least one seasons of these to my collection - Deadwood, True Blood, Hill Street Blues, Oz, Babylon 5, South Park (I only own the movie), and Fringe
9. 27 Blu-Rays by the years out (think this is more then a realistic goal)
10. Get all the Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger films I need to complete that part of my collection.
11. At the very least - 6 Chuck Norris movies, 5 Godfrey Ho movies, 3 Cynthia Rothrock, 3 Mark Dacascos and 4 Bruceploitation movies.

Don't Tease Me... Kristen Bell will be getting nekkid in new show

Kristen Bell's who's new show, House of Pies Lies debuts early next month on Showtime, sees her getting down to her underwear in the trailer (pictured), however this could just be a rumour, co-star Don Cheadle spoke of everybody having to sign off on what body parts will be shown in an episode because everybody as to get naked on the show apparently. I'm sure anything on KB doing nudity will get mentioned here... a lot

Note - I didn't realize I was doing posts with three KB pictures in a row honestly.

Movie Questionairre

These are just questions I took from random movie questionairres I found on the internet about movies and television, it might help you know what my tastes and that are. So here you go, feel free to take any of the questions for your own use.

Genre I most watch - I think it's probably comedy, or it's something with an element of comedy within in at least, it's the easiest to put on and have on if I doing something else.

Favourite Comedy - Airplane and Life Of Brian for just sheer amounts of laughs per minute, they are both also endlessly quotable and watchable.

Preferred way to watch movies - DVD first and foremost, I watch a couple of stuff online and a few things on broadcast television, but that's very rare. I only went to cinema once in 2011 and only a couple of times in 2010, not that I want to ignore it, it just shows how few I go.

Do I enjoy movies with a lot of gore? - kind of, zombie movies and brainless action are pretty cool in my book, but I haven't really got into the gorn thing - Hostel wasn't impressed with, Hostel II was not bad and haven't actually seen any of the Saw movies.

Favourite Horror Movie - it's gotta be The Shining. It's one of the few horror movies I watched in the dark the first time and had to turn the light on it was too unsettling (I was in my teens), I would say I've been saying The Shining is my favourite horror film since 1998.

What Films Do I Know Word For Word? - The original Star Wars trilogy just from watching them so much as a child and Gremlins for the same reason, in my adult life I would add True Romance to that thanks to a bunch of iconic scenes.

How Many DVDs Do I Own? - just over 3000 now, don't plan to stop for a few years, then who knows I'll readdress it.

What Are Some Films I Find Overrated? - The 2005 Crash, can't believe it ever got the Oscar for best movie it's just so emotionally manipulative, Brokeback Mountain which was up against it that year also is pretty average in my eyes.

What about underrated? - I think that's actually quite a difficult question to answer because with the world we live in today very web connected you can find fans of pretty much any film.

I'll add more questions in a bit

sources for questions - Kid On The Front Row blog, Empire Online Forum, Me

Could Use More Kristen Bell

I know what most of you are thinking who read this - nobody really reads this but I can pretend! - there is just not enough pictures of KB, so here's another one.

Feeling a bit ill

Will be back on properly when I'm 100 percent.

DVD Update (18/12/11 - 25/12/11) Christmas Day Special

Hey welcome to another DVD update that is only 8 days after the last one, so it's shorter then the normal, there might be another update before 2011 is over with, it all just depends if there is a spending spree before hand. Anyway onto the update -

Shaft In Africa - The only Shaft film I wanted and needed, so it's been of a collection completer here.

50 Pills - Got this because KB (Kristen Bell that's what I'll call her from now on in this update and in future updates) was it, I liked elements of it, KB aswell as the other females especially Monica Keena are good. Worth a watch.

Serious Moonlight - just feels uneven, Meg Ryan has never been too much of an appeal to me to be honest, I wish KB was in in it more but as you've guessed it she was the main reason I brought this.

Sanctimony - Uwe Boll directs, I liked this even though it's admittedly one of those sub-Se7en sort of films, Capser Van Dien who was weak in the brilliant Starship Troopers is still weak here but I was digging the story and all that.

Mad Max - Mel Gibson might have ruined his career after going off the rails big time but that doesn't stop the fact that the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon films are very enjoyable to me.

Logan's Run - so much of it was imprinted into my brain thanks to many references and spoofs and I hadn't actually seen it.

Darkman

Commando - for some reason it took me this long to add to to my Arnie collection but I'm glad to own it because it is great fun one of those quintessential 80s action movies

Rhod Gilbert and The Award Winning Mince Pie

The Last Sentinel - got this because it starred BSGs Katee Sackhoff and she was the big reason.

Cheating Death, Stealing Life - The Eddie Guerrero Story - 99p bargain buy, the doc from 2004 is pretty eerie now with his friend Dean Malenko talking about worrying about hearing Eddie Guerrero been found dead in a hotel room when he was fighting his addictions, and just a year later he was found dead in an hotel room. The doc also feels a bit short now compared to more comprehensive docs since but I still liked it.

The Flint Street Nativity

Frankie Boyle - If I Could Reach Out Through The TV and Strangle You I Would - bit of a rip off here Frankie, what's live here is the stand up bits that where in his Channel 4 series Tramadol Nights

The Robert Altman Collection

Brother Bear

The Simpsons Season 9

California Man

The following where Christmas Presents -

Totally Awesome

Auschwitz

Scream 4

Roman

Naked Space

House Of The Dead

Strange Wilderness

The Simpsons Season 6

The Simpsons Season 7

Kristen Bell Is Ringing Out At Christmas Time

You seriously think I would forget about posting a Kristen Bell picture on Christmas Day, the Christmas hat looks photoshopped (but it was the only Christmassy one I could find) and my pun was bad in the title (but you can't blame me Bell + Christmas, it was going to be done)

Merry Christmas - Ellie Kemper Dancing Included

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays etc, hope anybody reading this had a great day, I had a very nice day with very nice food, brilliant presents and time spent with my family.

The video above is Ellie Kemper dancing mostly from the Office, but some from Bridesmaids. She SO COOL

Kristen Bell Again

Picture might seem small so just click on it - then it should go bigger (dirty joke goes here).

The Random Kristen Bell Pic Of The Day

cuteness rating - 100%

Merry Christmas from Kristen Bell

Kristen Bell sings Let It Snow with Jackie Tohn and Hannah Anderson (I don't really know who either of them are - Tohn is a former American Idol contestant and Anderson is a friend) - Kristen Bell as got a good set of pipes on her

Tasty Kristen Bell

Hey, you see what I did there she's eating (what I assume is) a tasty bun, I'd like to take a bite of her tasty bun if you know what I mean (I'm quite naive I'm not sure what that means)...

Judy Greer Ties The Knot

Congratulations on Judy Greer getting married to Dean Johnsen who is a producer on "Real Time With Bill Maher". Always a bit of a fan of her from playing Kitty on Arrested Development, to one of the two better What Women Want performances (the other being Marisa Tomei) and her role in 13 Going On 30 among others.

For A Change - A Kristen Bell Picture

Seriously C - U - T - E, I would marry her and that in heartbeat, I know she goes out with Dax Shepard and that but a man can dream can't he?

The Now Predictable Kristen Bell Photo Of The Day

I'll be in my bunk again...

Random Ellie Kemper Cuteness and My Favourite Erin Moments

Ellie Kemper as she's seen in the Office.

Some of my favourite Erin moments include -

• Erin asks Andy out via hand puppet at the end of the seventh season, the IDIOT turns her down though!
• Pointing out the postives of the Scott's Tots fiasco to Michael
• Erin's Delivery of "Come On" below

• anytime she dances
• many of her scenes with Michael - who he becomes a father figure too, made more the better when you realise how much Michael as wanted kids in his life.
• Kevin and Meredith get her to tease Michael about falling in the koi pond and she instantly regrets it getting the scorn of mostly Kevin afterwards.

Another Random Kristen Bell Picture For Y'All

Again - reason not needed...

DVD and Blu Ray (yes you read that right) Update (04/12/11 - 17/12/11)

Howdy pardners and welcome to the second to last update (I think - my maths isn't the greatest) and what is special about this update is the first BLU RAYS added to my collection, which is somewhat exciting.

Doing Time On Maple Drive - Jim Carrey drama from just before he struck it big with Ace Ventura.

Titanic (2001) - This is the infamous Italian animated kids adaptation of the disaster that killed thousands featuring unlikely coincidences, a rapping dog with sneakers and bad Disney knock-off characters but it's fun to watch in it's audacity.

Dumbo - irony that it arrived in the post at the same time as the animated Titanic adaptation and I used to put in the Titanic disc rather then this classic.

All Quiet On The Western Front (1979) - I've never seen this and it's a remake of a film I really, really like.

Jersey Girl (2004) - This watch Kevin Smith's first foray away from Jay and Silent Bob and the rest of the View Askew universe as it's likeable moments but it's pretty much just an okay film, got it to add to my KS collection.

Minority Report -

The Commitments

The Simpsons Season 11 - The eleventh season is the first season where the series started to falter, there are a number of weak episodes (elf jockey's for one) but it's still funny and even those weak episodes do actually make you laugh.

Honey I Shrunk The Kids - the first film I have saw at cinema at the age of 7 (many kids probably saw their first film at cinema earlier but you gotta remember I lived in Wales until I was 11 pretty far from the nearest cinema)

The Stepford Wives (1975)

What Planet Are You From? - Garry Shandling is an odd person to have in a lead role, The Larry Sanders Show worked even with his odd face and this film does aswell to a point. I liked it it was alright to watch.

Paris, Je T'aime

Rebel Without A Cause

Heartbreak Ridge

Geronimo

Get Carter (1971)

The Big Bang Theory Season 2 - the funniest laugh track sit-com on at the moment, thanks to Jim Parsons' who is always funny as Sheldon.

ER Season 12

Menace II Society

Richard Pryor - Here and Now / Live On The Sunset Strip

Deuce Bigalow - Male Gigolo - with a title that is an oxymoron it's as good as your gonna get with a movie starring Rob Schneider. Fun supporting turn from William Forsythe and a good small role for a pre-SNL Amy Poehler.

Hackers

In The Army Now

Valentine's Day - like Me, Myself and Irene being the first DVD I ever watched, Valentine's Day gets the auspicious honour of being the first Blu Ray I brought (alongside Greenberg) and the first I watched.

Greenberg

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince

When In Rome - starring Kristen Bell, which if you seen many of my earlier posts here you know I have a little thing for her and despite this getting some bad reviews I found it fairly charming.

Blackwoods

so there you have it - the last DVD update before Xmas and that.

Bonus Info - not that you have asked for it!

actors and actresses and that who I have got my first titles of (thanks to PVD database what I use it's very easy to see) include -

James Dean - his lack of films is my excuse but I should have at least owned one of his films before now.

Taylor Lautner - can't blame me since I most associate him with the Twilight Saga which I have an aversion too.

Serena Williams and Taylor Swift - a sportswoman and singer respectively now have entries in my database.

SOLD

The Fenn Street Gang Series 1 - got 12 pound for it so thought it was worth selling
London's Burning Series 3 - another DVD I thought would be worth selling.

Kristen Bell Picture Of The Day

And again I have no excuse for posting it. I'll be in my bunk statement was originally just going to be implied but...

Technical Difficulties...

Faulty lap top wire + old computer I'm currently on that's connection keeps going on = lack of new updates. Be back soon :)

I think I may have a Kristen Bell obsession...

Photos from Kristen Bell's photo shoot with Self Magazine - I just love her so and these are lovely... I'll be in my bunk...

Jury Service Coming Up...

Following in the footsteps of Homer Simpson, Toby Flenderson and Juror #7, today I start my Jury service which I guess I can't really go into, but updates might be more occasional then I'd like

TV Series Dead In The Water On DVD (As Far Me Collecting Them Go)

I was thinking earlier about my DVD collection and how I have have been collecting them for 10 years now and how many I've brought and especially how many sold during that time, simply because the title wasn't up to scratch or their wasn't much replay value (or the third option - I knew I'd get a big chunk of change for them) and it got me thinking about the status of my collection which as passed 3000 in the past few months and some of the DVDs that are part of my collection - namely the television shows -, these are the television shows that remain incomplete and the following list firstly is those, I'm not actually that excited to get more of -

CSI - Crime Scene Investigation - I've just majorly fell out of interest with this franchise, maybe it's just too flashy and William Petersen (who I know in more recent years as left the show), outside of Manhunter and Young Guns Ii as never been that appealing to me - to be honest the show as never made go wow, even if it's actor or story (such as Homicide, The Wire, NYPD Blue, Columbo, Monk, The Shield etc). CSI - Miami would be the closest thing to be buying any of at the moment (I don't own any Miami) thanks to Caruso's one-liners before the opening credits). I've only got the first part of the first season and am not rushing to get any more.

Smallville - just went on way too long, limping out after 10 seasons. I've got the the first three seasons and actually got them in a short space of time of each other and I even watched the next couple of seasons while on TV but I just stopped being into it. Michael Rosenbaum and John Glover's performances as Lex and Lionel Luther still stick with me as strong and you can't deny Kristin Kreuk and Alison Mack rate on the cutie scale, but some of the characters and performers on the show where very weak.

Charmed - another genre show, I own the first season but I just don't have the excitement to buy anymore, I've passed up buying later seasons because they haven't been prices I've wanted to pay (and not massively that expensive). It's odd I have no desire to get more as I like elements of the show and I really, really love Alyssa Milano. Maybe something will change in me and this will get off the list.

DVDs that I actually hope to get out of the dead in the water area, but just haven't added any new titles for quite a few years -

DVDs that I actually hope to get out the dead in the water area (meaning I haven't brought additions to in years)

The Shield - among the best cop shows ever made and for some reason I only own the first two (of seven) DVDs. I think I'm going to set a price per season for the others and If I see it for that or below that price I will buy it straight away.

Spooks - I brought the first series way back in 2004, and haven't brought a single series of it since - which is actually a mystery, because the show which is somewhat a British answer to 24 and was very gripping and handled twists very well and it was good seeing some British actors get some decent TV roles.

The All In The Family Franchise - I own 14 seasons from the All In The Family franchise (5 All In The Family, 5 Good Times and 4 from The Jeffersons) but none have been added since January 2006, so that's actually nearly 6 years. I enjoy these shows and there is others series (Maude, Archie Bunker's Place) that would make neat additions to my collection.

Boston Legal - The James Spader and William Shatner partnership is perfection, so it's another show on the mystery list of me having only one season of it. I got this the same day as the first season of The West Wing, which I've gone on to complete, why not the same for Boston Legal?

Three's Company - like the AITF Franchise, I've haven't got a Three's Company DVD since January 2006. A lot of the episodes are the same set up - a misunderstanding - but it's a lot of fun. like AITF Franchise it's all R1 so I have to order them myself rather then hope to see them in the shops.

NYPD Blue - I still stick by my statement years ago of the first season of NYPD Blue been one of the best first series of a US TV show ever and that's the only one I actually own, I believe they've only got as far as the 4th. I would love to add more.

Monk, In Living Color, Moonlighting, Due South and The Twilight Zone - other shows that I want to complete soon and might go into detail later

Was dead in the water for a long time but pulled myself out of in 2011 -

# These are shows I went ages without adding any new but then broke the chain in 2011 and added new stuff to my collection

Alias

ER

Homicide - Life On The Street

Lost

The Simpsons

Alias - there was a time I couldn't get enough of Sydney Bristow and had the biggest crush on Jennifer Garner (still love her), it seems Lost, the other show creator J.J. Abrams was involved in eclipsed this and the last two seasons (which I need) are certainly the weakest but there good enough to still warrant owning on DVD.

ER - I did pretty good at keeping up with this until it's 11th season (of 15), true by this point it's glory days where behind it but it still had a lot of great stuff going on from seasons 12 to 15 - Scott Grimes as Archie Morris coming into his own, Parminder Nagra and Linda Cardellini and a 15th season that featured many old favourites coming back (even from beyond the grave).

The Simpsons - Up until season five I brought these on DVD as soon as they came out but budgeting with my money mean't I couldn't afford to keep doing that, and now what 9 or so seasons added to this I just haven't had a chance to catch up yet.

Kristen Bell at The Unicef Ball

This is a very recent picture (December 8th) so it's not me just posting a old picture, but I haven't got an excuse to why it is here except that she is ace.

Mindy Kaling Making Animated Series With Greg Daniels

Source - Deadline Hollywood.

The Office and Parks & Recreation executive producer Greg Daniels is teaming with a writer from each of his two NBC series to develop new animated comedy projects for the network. One of the projects will be written/executive by The Officeco-executive producer/co-star Mindy Kaling, who will also voice a character, the other – by Parks & Recreation producer Alan Yang. Daniels and his manager/producing partner Howard Klein will executive produce both comedies. The Mindy Kaling project revolves around a girls high-school volleyball team.

Alan Yang’s toon is about a group of 20something guys sharing a house in Los Angeles’ upscale community of Hancock Park. For King Of The Hill co-creator Greg Daniels, returning to his animated roots was important when he closed a new overall production deal with Universal Television this past summer. “One of our focuses will be to return Greg to primetime animation, for which he had particular success with King of the Hill when he and I worked together at FBC,” NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt said in announcing the deal. In addition to the two animated projects, Daniels has a live-action comedy in the works at NBC, a U.S. version of the UK series Friday Night Dinner, which is looking for a writer. Kaling, repped by UTA and 3 Arts, will next be seen in the feature comedyThe Five-Year Engagement. Yang’s first feature, Gay Dude, comes out next summer.

DVD Update (20/11/11 - 03/12/11)

With this update it brings me up to date (and this is the first one not brought over from the other blog) so when the next one is due it should be on time.

Fatal instinct - I think I said when I was writing up about Mafia! that the more recent glut of so called spoofs have made the 90s spoofs seem way better.

Bloodrayne 2 - Deliverance - not as good as the first, the Kristinna Loken replacement is just not as good, but it as something of the Uwe Boll "charm" abou it.

The Amazing Transplant - badly acted, amateur directon but still a good little movie in it's own unique way from Doris Wishman.

Munich

Play Misty For Me

Get Carter (2000)

Highlander

Croupier

Working Girl

The Dilemma - I don't know I just found it pretty boring, I enjoyed King of Queen in a minor way whilst on TV but I'm not just buying him in lead roles on the big screen and the Vince Vaughn shtick is wearing a bit thin for me now, it's good to see Winona Ryder in more bigger movies again always had a soft spot for her.

Deadly Weapons / Double Agent 73

Anzio / Cockleshell Heroes / Hellcats Of The Navy

Man With The Screaming Brain / Alien Apocalypse

The Hunger

Stay Hungry

Ed and His Dead Mother

Nikita / Subway

Two Thousand Manaics

Allan Quatermain and The Lost City Of Gold

Brothers & Sisters Season 3

Red Wolf

Cannonball - I feel like I should seen it earlier, I love the Cannonball Run films and I love Paul Bartel, this is like the Cannonball Run films but the intention is not out on out comedy, there is a lot of likeable actors who never made it big and there is small bits for Stallone and Scorsese.

The Man With Two Brains

Remo Williams - Unarmed and Dangerous

The Desert Fox / The Desert Rats

Sci-Fighter

Italian Stallion

Rhinestone - so glad to own this it seems rare as hell, Sylvester Stallone stars opposite Dolly Parton in a plot similar to what's been done a million times before (a bet about making somebody into something that haven't - in this case a country singer). I liked it in all it's cheesiness.

The Beast Must Die

Return To The Batcave - the original 60s Batman reunion movie is good fun

Sid & Nancy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy

Chopper Chicks In Zombietown

Don't Look Now

Ticks

Attack Of The 50ft Woman (1993)

Full Contact

A Night To Remember

Blu Ray count - still 0

FLASHBACK REVIEW #3 - Freaks and Geeks

The review as originally done March 1st, 2006.

I'm not sure if I was a freak or a geek at school - I think if you had to catgorize me, I guess I'd be closer to a freak (nowadays I guess I'm closer to a geek and nowadays I'm just proud to be who I am), this show set in a Michigan high school in 1980 as 18 (only 18!!!) episodes of perfection, well wrote, directed and cast (the young cast could actually pass for students- was Beverly Hills 90210 like that or even Dawson's Creek!)-

Linda Cardellini (now ER or not since that show ended in 2009) is plays the lead role of Lindsay - ex geek, wannabe freek, a wonderful anchor to the show - but list the rest of the cast: Martin Starr, Samm Levine, Seth Rogen (long before unlikely a-list beckoned) James Franco (Harry Osborne in the Spider-Man movies), John Francis Daley and Becky Anne Baker as well as frequent actors Natasha Melnick, Joanne Garcia, David Gruber, Steve Bannos, Sarah Hagan and Tom Wilson- are all remarkable, arguably there as never been a television cast so suited to their roles. I missed three names off then - because I believe there the performers that deserve extra recogniation: Joe Flaherty as Mr. Weir, so wonderful in anything he does (I have called this man god on more then one occasion) , Jason Segel - it's hard to explain just how good he is as Nick and possibly my favourite cast member: Busy Phillips as Kim Kelly, unbelievablely excellent in the bitchy, sometimes uncaring (often times caring) role that is so fully rounded.

The quality of writing is excellent including scripts from creator Paul Feig, Judd Apatow and Mike White. And such an excellent choice of music, The Grateful Dead's Ripple as been on in my house constantly. Stand outs episodes include the final episode, Kim Kelly is My Friend, Beers and Weirs and let's just say all the others.

The commentaries on this set are amazing (29 for 18 episodes) including cast members who went onto ER and Dawson's Creek (two big shows) shows how much love there is from the people who worked on this show (R1 only).

DVD Update (06/11/11 - 19/11/11)

Let's get straight into it, I think there as been a better ratio this fortnight to purchase to getting watched within the two weeks then normal -

1968 Tunnel Rats

Spartan - I got this because of the Kristen Bell connection and I really liked her part which isn't massive but it's a key part and plus I like David Mamet's stuff and Val Kilmer is underrated.

High School High - I think I wrote about Mafia! on here or maybe somewhere else that time as been kinder to that movie because of the lame spoofs of the last few years and I think it's certainly become true about High School High.

Alone In The Dark - The worst Uwe Boll film I've seen so far and that's not to say I didn't enjoy watching it

Deepwater - got it because of Kristen Bell but she's in it minutes. Even though I saw the twist coming a mile off it was still a watchable film and Peter Coyote was great in it.

Chosen One - Legend Of The Raven

Meet The Fockers

The Mystical Adventures Of Billy Owens

Death Becomes Her

The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air Season 1

Hulk

Bad Boys (1983)

For Your Consideration - saw this before and have to say I enjoyed it better second time I watched it.

The Fall Of The Roman Empire

Swingers

Machete - what I liked about this movie was it was exactly what I was expecting, mindless bloody violence and the actors clearly having fun, plus Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez looking smoking (and this is somebody who doesn't consider Rodriguez one of his favourites), Lindsay Lohan basically playing herself and Danny Trejo just been cool as fuck.

King Solomon's Mines (1985)

Showtime

War Of The Worlds (2005)

Creepshow 2 - saw this a lot when I was a kid and it's pretty much just as I remember it.

Against The Wind

Permanent Record

F.I.S.T.

Lock Up

Tango & Cash

Darfur

500 Days Of Summer - a bit of a deconstruction of the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" and Zooey Deschanel is certainly the poster child for MPDG. I really liked this film.

Ocean's Eleven (2001)

Far Cry - another Uwe Boll movie and a right kick of his lately and still don't see why he spurns such hate.

Embrace Of The Vampire - it's got Alyssa Milano and it's all sexy and this 1994 movie helped me with my growing up (if you know what I mean)

DVD Update (23/10/11 - 05/11/11)

Welcome to another DVD update. Still nothing on the Blu Ray front, so anywhere straight into the update - not as many as the last few updates but still enough to keep me busy -

Nine Months - the film that was eclipsed by Hugh Grant deciding to get it on with a hooker (Divine Brown, odd how some names stick with you even if you don't use them in years) is actually an okay film (just an okay film mind you).

Hollow Man - now I own Hollow Man, I just need two more Paul Verhoeven films then I've got them all (Spetters and Black Book are the hold outs) it's still just the invisible rapist movie to me.

Steel Magnolias

Postal - okay somebody please explain to me the Uwe Boll hate? before seeing this I'd never seen one of his movies and I enjoy it for all it's offensive

Sidekicks

LolliLove

The Office Season 4

Dive Bomber

Our Man Flint / In Like Flint

The Raven

RoboCop Volume 1

Team America - World Police

ECW - It Ain't Seinfeld

The Eye

The Simpsons Season 8

The Office Season 7

When The Wind Blows

Cold Mountain

The Chronicles Of Riddick

DVD Update (09/10/11 - 22/10/11)

Welcome to another update, some arrivals that where Birthday present related arrived aswell as some good little finds.

Dick Tracy

The Nutty Professor / The Nutty Professor 2

Dr. Dolittle

Dr. Dolittle 2

Dear Wendy

The Sugarland Express

Driven

Mystic Pizza / Sleeping With The Enemy / Dying Young

The Suite Life Of Zack and Cody - Lip Synchin' In The Rain

The Living End

Robo Vampire / Devil's Dynamite

Herbie Goes Bananas

The Shepherd

Robin Hood (1973)

Chicken Run

Splash

Good Morning Vietnam

Cop Land

L.A. Story

The Number 23

French & Saunders - Still Alive

Edge Of Darkness

Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events

Kurt & Courtney

The Grinch

Antz

Journey To The Center Of The Earth (2008)

The Time Machine (2002)

The Island

Killer X

Beavis and Butt-Head - The Mike Judge Collection Volume 3

Da Ali G Show

Meet The Parents

Flowers In The Attic

Snake Strikes Back

Undefeatable

The Mighty

Changeling

The Colony

Hope and Glory

Death By Engagement

Laughing Matters

The Simpsons Season 10

Sex and The City Season 2

Old School

All About Eve

The Toxic Avenger

The Phantom

Silver Hawk

Kung Fu Emperor

Fists Of Legends 2

Shogun Assassin

Another big haul, I reckon it will slow down in the coming weeks and I predict it will pick up again in the new year.

In other news I got a Playstation 3 this week which means I also own a Blu-Ray player for the first time - 10 years a month and 10 days-ish to the day I got my first ever DVD player. I've said before that I will be collecting Blu Ray's but only stuff I will not have on DVD, I have nearly 3000 DVDs and don't plan anytime soon to start from scratch.

DVD Update (24/09/11 - 08/10/11)

It's time for the regular DVD Update. Seems a bit more then the last few updates. Also a certain someone had a birthday during the last couple of weeks. I think some of these will give away what some of my guilty pleasures are, also features features pointless bonus notes on some pointing out stuff a perv (like me) might enjoy.

That's So Raven – Supernaturally Stylish - I liked the show, it's very OTT in just about every performance but the characters are likeable. Most of the live action Disney shows (and even Nickeledon ones at that) are often good for what they are.

Once Bitten

Police Story 2 - if your talking about great sequels, Jackie Chan's never get mentioned like the first movie this is a cool as hell.

Delirious - John Candy film that just isn't as good as I remembered it would be, I guess that sometimes happens hey, Candy in a lead role is always watchable though.

Local Hero

Aliens In The Attic – watched this going or coming back from holiday a few years back. Fun movie. Bonus = Ashley Tisdale in a bikini. Robert Hoffman who plays her boyfriend, I forget his character name is really fun as his Doris Roberts as the grandmother.

ER Season 15 - The 15th and final season of ER, is a return to form after quite a run of overall weak seasons, maybe it's because it sort of works as a greatest hits season, with many long gone characters making returns, including two from beyond the grave.

Riot

That's So Raven – Disguise The Limit - pretty much what I wrote about the other DVD, should go here aswell.

Fanboys - There is elements of this film that don't quite click, like why would Kristen Bell's character hang out with these guys and actually like one of them, and that's not out of my lust for Bell, that's out of how adjusted her character seems to be. I like the story though, it captures the mood of the excitement of Phantom Menace coming out, and I like the drama moments of the movie. Some of the cameos are fun and it genuinely a likeable film. Bonus = Kristen Bell in Leia's Slave Bikini

Magical Mystery Tour - quite an atrocious print for this release of Beatles first flop, as a narrative film it's non existent but at least the songs, which are mostly excellent make superb music videos, there are fun random moments but as a whole it's nothing compared to Hard Day's Night or Help!

The Office Season 5 - The seasons best thing involve the development of Michael and Pam's relationship (not like that!) when he negotiates his way back into the company after leaving to form the Michael Scott Paper Company (which Pam came with him) and gets his old job back aswell as getting Pam a new position in the company, it's really a sweet development there. The adorable Erin played by the adorable Ellie Kemper also joins the cast this season.

Saturday Night Live – The Best Of Cheri Oteri

Pulse - oh Kristen Bell, seriously what do you do to me, you make me go out and buy films like this just because of the fact you are in them. This is a scareless remake of a Japanese original is forgetful at least five minutes after watching.

Dan In Real Life

Final Destination 3 - plane crash - exciting, highway pile up - exciting, faulty rollercoaster - less so exciting, besides some of the deaths been pretty cool the film doesn't have quite the same inventiveness as the first two.

The Snowman - if your British like me I think it's required by law to watch this every Christmas.

The Monster

Halloween II

Made In Britain

Fatal Passion

Anywhere But Here - Natalie Portman made this in 99 and Where The Heart Is in 2000, and if she would have stayed on this road her career would have been much less interesting. (make it sound like a) Bonus (but it's not) - Natalie Portman kissing Thora Birch (on the cheek for half a second to say goodbye).

RoadRacers

TAPS

For Queen and Country

Deadlier Than The Male / Some Girls Do

Rio Bravo

Beautiful Girls - besides Leon, this was the best performance Natalie Portman delivered as a child / young teen, and it's perhaps the similarties in the characters that make them both stand out - both are old before their time and Portman convinces in both.

Vampire In Brooklyn - Eddie Murphy was still in fail to find a hit period that as lasted from Harlem Nights to his next movie after this The Nutty Professor broke the chain. It's a horror comedy and it's neither scary or funny, you want at least one of them don't you?

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar - it's still surreall some 16 years later to see Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes, camping up to high heaven in drag.

Intolerable Cruelty

Little Britain Series 2

London's Burning Series 3

Blade - House Of Chthon

The Love Bug

Only The Brave

Caligula

2DTV Series 3

The Bridge At Remagen

Rock Profile

Man Of The House - it's reviews weren't good but it's a lot of fun, Bonus - Kelli Garner, Vanessa Ferlito, Monica Keena and others as cheerleaders.

Flags Of Our Fathers / Letters From Iwo Jima

Ugly Betty Season 1

Paul - Simon Pegg and Nick Frost make a project together without Edgar Wright for the first time and the two co-write a decent movie but it fails to hit the heights of Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead, or even Hot Fuzz.

RoboCop – Crime Wave

The Mechanik

The League Of Gentlemen Are Behind You

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - while it's beautifully shot, which you can't say about a lot of other kung fu movies, it's just not as interesting to me as these.

The Majestic - it's a sweet movie but it never quite gets you emotionally as it aspires to be.

True Lies

The Simple Life 3 - Interns - Bonus = Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's naked backs... if that's your sort of thing.

DVD Update (11/09/2011 - 24/09/2011)

Hellooooooooooooooo, welcome to the bi-weekly, fortnightly, two weekly DVD update, let''s get straight to the meat of the meal ---

30 Rock Season 2 - so I finally get to see the second series of 30 rock, whilst very funny is not as funny as the first or third series I still enjoyed it very much.

Saturday Night Live Christmas - my only complaint of any potential SNL completion disc is the re-use of sketches, in this case the one that sticks out is the Schwety Balls sketch, whilst very funny is the third disc I've got with it on (it's also on the Molly Shannon and Alec Baldwin discs - I'm sure if there is ever an Ana Gasteyer disc, the third person in the skit, it will be on that). R1 disc.

Night At The Museum 2 - an improvement on the first film with a fun villain in Hank Azaria, some cool smaller roles and the established characters and new faces jelling well.

The League Of Gentlemen - Christmas Special - along with Blackadder's Christmas Carol and The Ricky Gervais pair (The Office and Extras), one of my favourite Christmas specials.

Shameless Christmas and New Year Specials

Hitman

Bowfinger - funny movie, dare I say it the last funny starring roles for Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy so far.

King Kong - The 2005 version, which I've actually never seen, picked it up very cheap to complete my Peter Jackson collection.

Hannibal / Red Dragon - two Hannibal Lecter films collected together, neither of them even as good as Manhunter or The Silence Of The Lambs

Legally Blonde - very enjoyable with a very appealing lead peformance from Reese Witherspoon. It's only of them films which is best to ignore the sequel because it as none of the charm or the sparkle of the first movie.

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

The West Wing Season 3 - and now my West Wing collection is complete, brought for a decent price of £3.

Easy A - The best teen movie since Mean Girls, there I said it.

The Road To Welville

Barton Fink

Punch-Drunk Love

Fierce Creatures - the closest thing to a sequel to A Fish Called Wanda is actually pretty funny if you ignore any comparisons to Wanda.

Diamond Dogs

Animal Farm

National Lampoon's Class Reunion

Reality Bites / Mystery Men / Your Friends and Neighbors

The Magic Christian

An Evening With Kevin Smith 2 - my only problem with Kevin Smith Q&A is the amount of people who ask questions who think they are hilarious. This second Evening is rather two filmed Q&As rather then a collection of like the first volume and is perhaps weaker for it.

Oscar - not sure why there is a negative response to this movie it's a very fun farce.

No Retreat, No Surrender 3

Prancer

Loose Cannons

Black Swan

New American Reunion Poster

Here is the latest poster for American Reunion, the fourth movie (not counting the direct to DVD sequels) which has all the characters in the same positions there was in the 1999 original, every key cast member is returning and I'm just not sure how much I am looking forward to this, I think the hope I have for this movie is that it will bring a happy memory back of 1999 and all that.

DVD Update (28/08/2011 - 10/09/2011)

A pretty short round up compared to previous two weeks, thanks to not really as much to buy as before out there in my town. I never actually thought I'd say adding 24 titles to my collection would seem like a few, so I can't really complain.

Mortuary Academy - love Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov whenever there together (doesn't matter if it's director-actor, writer-actor, actor-actor etc.)

Double Dragon - the 90s trend of mostly unsuccessful video game adaptions.

Capone - early Sly Stallone film where he is in a supporting role.

Canadian Bacon - Michael Moore's only non documentary feature (though some would argue it's as accurate as his other films). This was one of John Candy's last films (he died whilst making his actual last film Wagon's East but this was released after his death) whilst there was some moments of sparks

My Bloody Valentine 3D - only got it because it was dirt cheap, horror remakes usually do fall into the unnecessary category but withhold my opinion until I actually see it.

Planet Of The Vampires - OOP on the MGM Midnite Movie was one of the three most wanted releases I wanted (but now I got all three - the others are The Trip/Psych Out and Killer Klowns From Outer Space, all added this year). Mario Bava is an awesome director so I'm hoping for a good thrill ride here. I haven't had chance to watch this properly, briefly put it into DVD player to try it out.

Mafia - time as actually been friendlier to this movie after been forced to deal with what passes as spoof these last few years and there are a couple of moments here that generally do make me laugh out loud.

The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires - Hammer meets Shaw Brothers in this co-production

Cyrus - not bad just feels uneven, Jonah Hill at least adds another dimension to his usual performance.

I Only Arsked - the movie adaptation or something like that of the 50s British sit-com Army Game (which I have never actually seen so can't comment on) but this movie had an irresistible classic British cast including Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Bresslaw and Norman Rossington.

Wacko - enjoyable spoof of slashers (beating Scary Movie by 18 years). George Kennedy raises some laughs as the main girls father, as does Joe Don Baker as the frazzled detective and Elizabeth Daily (who went onto voice Tommy on Rugrats) looks so cute here in a supporting friend role.

The Ultimate Weapon

Fatal Love - Molly Ringwald as the reputation of being a mega-b*tch in real life but on the screen I can't resist her, even if it's if a Made For TV movie (which are something I used to pretty much ignore until I realized like anything you can get your gems in the rough)

The Devil's Arthmetic

The Secret Agents Club

Red Scorpion

Necessary Roughness - Haven't watched this yet

Last Action Hero - I'm not sure why it gets a negative response because it's a very enjoyable movie.

The Crow - Brandon Lee was tragically killed on set which probably adds a layer to the film that otherwise wouldn't have been there. Only just realized this is the third posthumous release I got in the past two weeks.

The Truman Show - October 4th, 1998 my bday and also the day I got to see Truman Show with a free ticket and seeing it even now it's still a delight and with the rise of "reality" TV since then it became even more relevant.

How I Met Your Mother Season 3 - the third series costing me a total of 1.27 (not quite as good as the 2nd series for 99p).

Pledge This - according to IMDB among the worst possible films ever made which with me collecting National Lampoons and the fact I can't resist a movie that gets a very, very negative reception (1.5 by the way). I found this oddly enjoyable so sue me and I haven't got any secret crush on Paris Hilton or anything (Sarah Carter is the most appealing girl to me here FYI).

Andre The Giant - been spoilt for choice with WWE DVDs about certain wrestlers this 90ish minute collection of Andre matches just doesn't offer a strong enough round up of the 8th Wonder Of The World.

Caveman

So there you have it, some happy additions and an actual straight update from me for a change, see you in 2.