This Week on DVD & Blu-ray (10-18-11)

This week you can catch up with a “Bad Teacher” or walk the plank with the latest installment on “The Pirates of the Caribbean” ride. Also, after a run online and VOD, Kevin Smith’s controversial  “Red State” is finally released. There’s an impressive list of Blu-rays out this week too. From Martin Scorsese’s “Cape Fear” remake to Alex Proyas “The Crow” (one of the best comic book adaptations), and both the spectacular “The Guns of Navarone” and “Willy Wonka and Chocolate Factory” celebrate anniversaries. I’m looking forward to checking out the new DC Animated feature “Batman: Year One” based on the classic comic story that influenced the Christopher Nolan films, as well as “Page One: Inside the New York Times” an interesting doc covering the renowned newspaper.

Previous reviews are highlighted below. Enjoy the Rundown!

• A Better Life (DVD/Blu-ray)
• America: The Story of Us (Collector’s Edition) (DVD)
• American Pickers: Volume Two (DVD)
• Armadillo (DVD)
• Baaria (DVD/Blu-ray) 
• Bad Teacher (DVD/Blu-ray) 
• Baseball’s Greatest Games (Collector’s Edition) (DVD)
• Batman: Year One (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest (DVD/Blu-ray) 
• Cape Fear (1991) (Blu-ray)
• Captain America/Captain America II: Death Too Soon (DVD)
• CatDog: Season 1, Part 1 (DVD)
• Chick Magnet (DVD)
• The Clowns (Blu-ray)
• Craig Ferguson: Does This Need to Be Said? (DVD)
• The Crow (Blu-ray) 
• Darkness Falls (Blu-ray)
• Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismakiis Leningrad Cowboys (Criterion Collection) (DVD/Blu-ray)
• The Guns of Navarone (50th Anniversary Edition) (Blu-ray)
• Hellraiser: Revelations (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Happiness is… Peanuts: Snow Days (DVD)
• The Hollywood Knights (Blu-ray)
• The Howling Reborn (DVD/Blu-ray) 
• Kuroneko (Criterion Collection) (DVD/Blu-ray)
• The Last Circus (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Monte Carlo (DVD/Blu-ray) 
• The Names of Love (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Page One: Inside The New York Times (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Pawn Stars: Volume Three (DVD)
• The Pirates of the Caribbean Limited Edition 15-Disc Four Movie Collection (Blu-ray)
• The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2-Disc Combo Pack) (DVD/Blu-ray)
• The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Limited Edition 5-Disc Combo Pack) (Blu-ray)
• Red State (DVD/Blu-ray)
• The Rise and Fall of Margaret Thatcher (DVD)
• The Road to World War II (DVD)
• The Robber (DVD)
• Robotech: The Complete Original Series (DVD)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Complete Season Three (DVD/Blu-ray) 
• Thundercats: Season One – Book One (DVD)
• Tomcats (Blu-ray)
• Top Shot: Reloaded – The Complete Season Two (DVD)
• Under Suspicion (Blu-ray)
• V: The Complete Second Season (DVD)
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (3-Disc 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition) (Blu-ray)
• You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South (DVD)