The Smurftastic New Releases for December 6

Get comfortable, folks. This week’s New Release list is a long one. Scroll down to the end for the New Blu-ray list.

BLU = Also available for rent on Blu-ray disc

@ = Available for purchase in our store

SALE = Available for purchase from our online mercantile

 

PORTLANDIA: SEASON ONE—Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen’s sketch comedy show gives a spirited ribbing to our Oregon counterparts.   BLU @  SALE

 

THE HANGOVER PART II—“It happened again…”  BLU  @

 

THE HELP—The film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel features an incredible ensemble cast, headed by Oscar-worthy performances by Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis.  BLU  @  SALE

 

COWBOYS & ALIENS—Harrison Ford. Daniel Craig. Cowboys. Aliens. Need we say more?  BLU  @

 

THE DEBT—Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson star in this political thriller as former Mossad agents dealing with aftermath of a hit on a Nazi war criminal thirty years earlier. BLU @

 

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS—Reasons I want to see this movie (not necessarily in order of importance): 1) Written & directed by Will Gluck (Easy A). 2) Co-stars Patricia Clarkson and Richard Jenkins. 3) I just can’t quit that Justin Timberlake.

 

THE SIMPSONS: SEASON 14—This season includes a trip to rock & roll fantasy camp run by the Rolling Stones. BLU  @  SALE

 

THE SMURFS—As much eye-rolling as the trailer caused me, I must admit the casting of Hank Azaria as Gargamel is smart, and Neil Patrick Harris seems to make everything better.

 

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: VOLUME XXII—The latest collection has Mighty Jack, The Brute Man, Time of The Apes, and The Violent Years.  @  SALE

 

DESIGN FOR LIVING—Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins star in director Ernst Lubitsch & screenwriter Ben Hecht’s adaptation of the Noel Coward play. In the current issue of City Arts, our colleague Spenser says it’s, “perhaps the purest example of the ‘The Lubitsch Touch’ as well as a surprisingly sophisticated and delightfully risqué Pre-Code film…”  BLU  @  SALE

NEW VIDEO GAMES

Puss in Boots (Wii)

WWE 12 (Wii)

 

ANIME NEW RELEASES

Bleach: Fade to Black-The Movie    BLU

Squid Girl: TV Series Part 2

 

FAMILY NEW RELEASES

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien-Wild Truth

Dragon’s Lair: Complete Series (1984)

Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo: Complete Series

Hero: 108—Season 1, Volume 4

The Jetsons: Season 2, Volume 2

Looney Tunes Show: Season 1, Volume 2 (2011)

Mr. Popper’s Penguins   BLU  @

Perfect Game (2008)

Pippi Longstocking: Here Comes Pippi

Snowmen (2010)

Spongebob Squarepants: Season 7

Super Hero Squad Show: Season 2, Volume 2

Three Investigators: Secret of Skeleton Island

Timmy Time: Go Kart Timmy

Transformers Prime: Darkness Rising

Victorious: Season 1, Volume 2

What’s New. Mr. Magoo?: Complete Series

Wild Thornberrys: Season 2, Part 1

 

NEW TV ON DVD

American Restoration: Volume 1

Big Love: Season 5

CD HWY: Seasons 1 & 2

Dennis the Menace: Season 3

Half Pint Brawlers: Season 1

Hot in Cleveland: Season 2

How The States Got Their Shapes: Season 1

Law & Order: Season 9

Meet The Browns: Season 3

Mission: Impossible: Complete Series (1988)

Perry Mason: Season 6, Volume 2

Rawhide: Season 4, Volume 2

Sarah Jane Adventures: Season 4

 

NEW IMPORTS & FOREIGN FILMS

Astral City: A Spiritual Journey (2010)—Brazil   @

Body Puzzle (1992)—Giallo, aka Italian horror

City Hunter (2011)—Korean TV drama   @   SALE

Come Fly With Me (2011)(PAL Code 2)—UK

Come Have Coffee With Us (1970)—Italy

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1973)(PAL)—USA

Death Bell: Bloody Camp (2010)—Korean horror

Devil Story (1985)(PAL Code 2)—France

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Extended edition)(2009)—Sweden   BLU  @

Girl Who Played With Fire (Extended edition)(2010)—Sweden    BLU  @

Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest (Extended edition)(2010)—Sweden   BLU @

Haunted Changi (2010)—Singapore

Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinema—France   @

Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence (PAL Code 2)—USA

Hustle: Season 6 (2011)(PAL Code 2)—UK

I.D. (1989)(PAL Code 2)—UK

An Idiot Abroad 2 (2010)(PAL Code 2)—UK

The Journey (1992)(PAL Code 2)—Argentina

Lady Without Camelias (1953)(PAL Code 2)—Italy, dir. by Michelangelo Antonioni, also on R. B BLU

Large (2001)—UK

Leo’s Room (2009)—Uruguay

Life, Above All (2010)—South Africa   BLU

Mammuth (2010)—France

Medea (1969)—Italy, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

New Tricks: Series 8 (2011)(PAL Code 2)—UK

Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)—UK

Ocean of an Old Man (2008)—India

Piccadilly Jim (2006)—UK

Point Blank (2010)—France @

Resurrected (1988)—UK

Road Home (1988)—Poland

Sexy Rangers (2011)—Japan

She’ll Be Wearing Pink Pajamas (1984)—UK

Shoestring: Series 1 (1979)(PAL Code 2)—UK

Silver Fleet (1943)—UK

Sinking of The Laconia (2010)(PAL Code 2)—UK

Triple Tap (2010)—Hong Kong   BLU

Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities (2008)—Australia

Underbelly: The Golden Mile (2009)—Australia

Underbelly: War on the Streets (2010) —Australia

Whitechapel: Series 2 (2010)(PAL Code 2)—UK

 

NEW WARNER ARCHIVES

Around the World Under the Sea (1965)

Bitter Sweet (1940)

Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)

Constant Nymph (1943)

Daktari: Season 1 (1966)

Monogram Cowboy Collection: Volume 1

Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987)

Northwest Passage (1940)

Pearl: The Miniseries (1978)

People Against O’Hara (1951)

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1968)

Seventh Cross (1944)

Smilin’ Through (1941)

 

NEW DOCUMENTARIES, MUSIC, & STAND-UP COMEDY

Best Government Money Can Buy?

Barbara Cartland: My Life is a Novel

Edgar Cayce: The Beautiful Dreamer

Composing Outside The Beatles: Lennon/McCartney

Aaron Copland: Music in the 20’s

Discovering Havana: In The Footsteps of Hemmingway

Ecuador: Rainforest vs. Globalization

Essence of Mahayana Buddhism

Flabs 2 Abs

Pablo Francisco: They Put It Out There

Gabriel Iglesias: Stand-up Revolution

In Conversation with The Dalai Lama

Invisible Frame/Cycling The Frame

Irish Lighthouses

Kill All Redneck Pricks: A Documentary About A Band Called KARP

Learn How to Tattoo an Asian Back Piece

Rosina Lhevinne: The Legacy of Rosina Lhevinne

Make Believe

Map For Saturday

Meditating with The Dalai Lama

Message of Peace & Compassion

Mott The Hoople: The Ballad of Mott The Hoople

Nazi Hunters (2010)

No Woman No Cry

Ozzy Osbourne: God Bless   BLU

Palace of Versailles

Raging Boll—Uwe Boll, that is.

Renee (ESPN 30 for 30 series)

Rolling Stones: Ed Sullivan Show

Rolling Stones: Some Girls-Live in Texas  BLU

Dexter Romweber: Two-Headed Cow

Roswell: The Aliens Attack

Rough Cut: Woodworking with Tommy Mac

Secrets of Young Millionaires

Dmitry Shostakovich: The Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich

Sleep Furiously—“Sleep Furiously is set in a small farming community in mid Wales…It is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out.”

Rickey Smiley: Open Casket Sharp

Too Important to Fail

Trans-Siberian Muse

When Strangers Click

Wimbledon: 2011 Official Film

Wimbledon: Men & Women’s Final 2011