To hell with the new stuff this week; there’s more action in the back catalog, whether it be Sony’s follow-up to their excellent first volume of Columbia Pictures’ noir classics or Kino’s Blu-ray edition of the Buster Keaton silent classic Steamboat Bill, Jr. (as well as their DVD set of Keaton sound-era shorts). And then there’s Flicker Alley’s revival of a real chestnut: the 1927 silent movie version of Maurine Dallas Watkins’ play Chicago, based on a real-life murder case and later turned into the hit musical of the same name. So who needs the 21st century?
Bitten
Rhi, $19.93
Brooklyn’s Finest
Overture/Anchor Bay, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.98
Chicago (1927)
Flicker Alley, $39.95
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics Vol. 2: The Brothers Rico/City Of Fear/Human Desire/Nightfall/Pushover
Sony, $59.95
Continental Divide
Universal, $14.98
Doctor Who: The Horns Of Nimon
BBC Warner, $24.98
Doctor Who: The Space Museum/The Chase
BBC Warner, $49.98
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
BBC Warner, $24.98