This Week on DVD & Blu-ray (12-06-11)

There’s quite a bit to choose from this week, but I can’t recommend you rush to see any of the new releases from this year. Of course, I haven’t seen “The Help” yet, one of the more polarizing movies of the year, but “Cowboys and Aliens” and “The Hangover Part II” failed to live up to the mounting anticipation they both had. I hope that “The Debt” gets more viewers now that it’s finally out. While not a perfect spy flick, it offers some solid performances. I look forward to catching up with “Love, Above All” and “Point Blank” (see trailers below) and continuing to skip the latest Jim Carrey debacle.

Criterion has some notable releases this week. There’s Hitchcock’s darkly comic “The Lady Vanishes” and the pre-Code comedy “Design for Living” starring Gary Cooper and Fredric March, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, adapted from a play by Noel Coward.

• A Christmas Wedding Tail (DVD)
• A Matter of Size (DVD)
• Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future: The Complete Series (DVD)
• Care Bears: Super Cuddly Collection (DVD)
• Cowboys & Aliens (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Curious George: Gets a New Toy (DVD)
• The Debt (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Design for Living (Criterion Collection) (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition (DVD/Blu-ray)
• The Hangover Part II (DVD/Blu-ray)
• He’s Mine Not Yours (DVD)
• The Help (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Inside Hana’s Suitcase (DVD)
• The Lady Vanishes (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
• Law & Order: The Ninth Year (DVD)
• Love. Above All (DVD/Blu-ray)
• The Love We Make (DVD/Blu-ray)
• The Lucy Show: The Official Fifth Season (DVD)
• MacGillivray Freeman’s Arabia (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Mangus! (DVD)
• Michael Feinstein: The Sinatra Legacy (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Mission: Impossible Trilogy (Extreme Edition Gift Set) (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Mr. Popper’s Penguins (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Point Blank (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Psychic Experiment (DVD)
• Rapt (DVD/Blu-ray)
• The Simpsons: The Complete Fourteenth Season (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Skeleton Warriors: The Complete Series (DVD)
• Talking Heads: Chronology (DVD)
• The Three Investigators in the Secret of Skeleton Island (DVD)
• Tora! Tora! Tora! (Blu-ray)
• Transformers Prime – Darkness Rising (DVD)
• Triple Tap (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Vietnam in HD (Blu-ray)