Archive for October, 2009

Best Sellers October 20, 2009

All items are available in the store.  The highlighted discs are also available through our website.

Wallace & Gromit: Matter of Loaf and Death
Wallace & Gromit: Complete Collection
30 Rock: Season 3
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
The Gate
Trick ‘r Treat
Skin in the 70s
Caligula (Unrated Edition)
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 4
Drag Me To Hell
Chinatown (Centennial Collection)
Red Sun
The Human …

The rain is back and it’s time to retreat indoors and huddle in front of your TV.  Gray days like these make me dream of escaping into another world and coupled with the glow of seeing WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, I’m up for some good fantasy films. We suggested several quality choices over on …

Pick Of The Week on Monkey Goggles: Black Devil Doll From Hell

The folks over at Archie McPhee’s excellent blog Monkey Goggles (who made us dance a happy jig by including us on this list) post  a weekly assortment of cool stuff  aptly titled Things We Like. This week’s installment includes a film pick by our colleague Rhias. Follow the link to read all about the infamous …

New Releases for the week of October 13th

DRAG ME TO HELL—Here’s a review by our colleague Bryan Theiss:
After three big budget Spider-man movies in a row and his past as the director of The Evil Dead practically forgotten, the old Sam Raimi suddenly reappears with this crowd-pleasing and darkly humorous horror show. Trying to impress her boss at the bank, a young …

best sellerz

October 13, 2009
1 Wallace & Gromit: Matter of Loaf and Death
2 Wallace & Gromit: Complete Collection
3 It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia: Season 4
4 30 Rock: Season 3
5 Wallace & Gromit: Complete Collection BluRay
6 Anvil: The Story of Anvil
7 Phantasm 2
8 Gate, The
9 Human Condition, The (Criterion)
10 How to be a Man
11 Urgh! A Music War
12 Red Dwarf: Back To Earth
13 It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 3
14 Chinatown (Centennial …

It’s the weekend again–time for us  to cram as much movie watching as possilble into a 48 hour period while still trying to get out and enjoy what could be the last nice weekend of the year.  We just assembled a special scary sales section for our Halloween-themed films, just look for the creepy pumpkin …

New to View: MacGuffin & Backroom Podcasts

The Sweet Sixteen edition of the MacGuffin Podcast is now available.  Spencer and I adjourned to the orange chairs in the Western/War/Adventure section to discuss our viewing habits–how many movies we watch in any given week and how we decide what to see in the theater and what we can watit to see on DVD.  …

New Releases for the first week of ROCKtober!

The first week of October brings a full harvest of new & interesting titles to our shelves. Here’s a list:
ANVIL: THE STORY OF ANVIL–This spring’s big hit is now on DVD…

YEAR ONE

NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD—And now a review by our colleague Kevin Clarke:  In the early 1970s, around the same time Hollywood was going through its …