This Week on DVD & Blu-ray (01-03-12)

It’s the first batch of releases of 2012! Is there anything to get excited about? Well, maybe – that is, if you’re a germaphobe or if you live in an old house with annoying troll things whispering underneath it. In that case, go ahead and check out “Contagion” and “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” and check out reviews for those films, highlighted below. Or if you find yourself with nothing to do some night, you can make it a “Shark Night”. There’s also “The Guard” with Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle, a film I intend to catch up with, which our Sundance correspondent Catina Martinez reviewed early last year (see link to review below). I also plan on catching up with Todd Hayne’s HBO adaptation of “Mildred Pierce” (see trailer below) starring Kate Winslet, GuyPearce, Evan Rachel Wood, and Melissa Leo. 

 

 

There ya have it! I gotta get back to playing Sophie’s Choice with my Top Ten list of 2011, as well as catching up with more viewing and reviewing. Enjoy the

Rundown….

 

 

• 1313 Wicked Stepbrother (DVD)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season Five (DVD)
• Back Door Channel: 1979 Camp David Peace Accord (DVD)
• The Chateau Meroux (DVD)
• Chris Isaak: Live/Greatest Hits Live (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Contagion (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Don’t Let Him In (DVD)
• The Greening of Whitney Brown (DVD)
• The Guard (DVD/Blu-ray)
• I Don’t Know How She Does It (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Justified: The Complete Second Season (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Mildred Pierce (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Puncture (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Removal (DVD)
• Ringo Starr and the Roundheads Live (DVD/Blu-ray)
• Serendipity (Blu-ray)
• Sesame Street: Iron Monster and Sesame Heroes (DVD)
• Shark Night 3D (DVD/Blu-ray)
• She’s All That (Blu-ray)
• Swastika (DVD)
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Live (DVD)
• Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! The Wubb Club (DVD)