Look, The World’s End is definitely the big release of the
week, possibly tied with season five of the remastered Star Trek: The Next
Generation on Blu-ray, but all I want you to know is this week’s DVDs includes a horror
movie about shepherds fucking a broom. Seriously.
Simon Pegg convinces his grown-up pals to return home to
finish an epic pub-crawl during the end of the world in Edgar Wright’s finale
to the Cornetto trilogy. There are a truly preposterous amount of features,
check the first comment on the Amazon page for the full list.
• Star
Trek: The Next Generation – Season 5
One of TNG’s
finest seasons, done up in HD and with improved CG effects. Contains episodes
featuring Ambassador Spock, Worf as a midwife, and the fan favorite “The Inner
Light.” There’s also a tribute to Gene Roddenberry feature that is supposedly
quite good.
• Star
Trek : The Next Generation – Unification
The two-episode story from TNG season 5 — the one starring Leonard Nimoy as Ambassador
Spock — edited into a single movie.
• Doctor
Who: The Tenth Planet
The First Doctor arrives in the far-off future of 1986, only
to discover a rogue planet is on a collision course with Earth in this
new-to-DVD adventure.
• Night
of the Comet: Collector’s Edition
A comet causes everyone in L.A. to turn into zombies except two
valley girls, who must navigate the post-apocalypse in this extremely weird but
weirdly compelling cult classic.
“In the wake of the battle with the Garuda, Bo finds herself experiencing
strange new appetites – and increasingly evil urges. Ever loyal Lauren and the
Succubus get serious about their relationship, but keeping up with Bo proves to
be no easy task. Meanwhile, Kenzi continues to struggle with being human in a
Fae world, Hale is named the acting Ash, and Dyson’s new partner – a Valkyrie
vixen known as Tamsin – has her sights set on Bo.” I have no idea what any of
this means.
The Straw Hat pirates must brave a series of floating islands
and the fearsome beasts who inhabit them to rescue their navigator Nami in this
anime movie written by One Piece
creator Eiichiro Oda himself — which means for the first time ever, an anime
movie is actually canon.
• Planes
Sentient airplanes with enormous eyeballs and mouths
terrorize the skies in this sequel to Pixar’s similar horror classic Cars.
• Tank
Girl: Collector’s Edition
The toned-down Hollywood adaptation of the basically
unadaptable cult comic by Jamie Hewlett. To this day, the only movie to star
Ice-T as an anthropomorphic kangaroo-man.
• Drew:
The Man Behind the Poster
A feature-length documentary on artist Drew Struzan, who is
basically responsible for pretty much every single movie poster you love.
An alien spaceship returns to a small town to mutilate cattle
and people in this 1980 scifi flick, because they are apparently very, very
bored.
This 1993 skin flick starring Martin Sheen’s brother,
Sylvester Stallone’s brother, John Travolta’s brother and Burt Ward is
apparently not the original unrated version, which 1) has a lot of Amazon
commenters very upset and 2) what the hell is the point?
• The
Twilight Zone: The Complete Series
All 156 episode of Rod Serling’s classic TV series, full of
horror, scifi, intelligence, and guest stars. Warning: There are no extras on
this set, so look for “The
Definitive Collection” if you want those.
• Z-War
A 2011 movie called Zombie
Apocalypse: Redemption, retitled to confuse people looking for
World War Z that don’t look at the cover very hard.
• Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps
“An Alpine legend tells the story of three lonely herdsmen who were so starved of female companionship they built the girl of their dreams from a broom, some straw and a few rags. Then the Devil took pity upon them and made Sennentuntschi live and breathe…” Alpine legends are fucked up.
