Everything's coming up Hulk this week, with the release of this past summer's semi-blockbuster and a box set of the complete '70s TV show. Or if you like your TV adventure series a little more classy, the complete Man From U.N.C.L.E. is now widely available, after spending a year as a Time-Life exclusive. (We reviewed the Time-Life set last year.) Or if you like your TV adventure series a lot less class, can we interest you in a little show called Knight Rider? On the highbrow front, the release of the week is the latest box set from Criterion's Eclipse label, this time collecting four films about geishas (both respectable and not) by Japanese master Kenji Mizoguchi. Also notable for fans of world cinema: Hou Hsio-Hsien's French cinema homage Flight Of The Red Balloon (an at times devastating meditation on transience as the only constant in life). Meanwhile, the pulp-minded can enjoy the latest Warner gangster set or a nicely packaged series of sci-fi/monster flicks from Legend. Lastly, the bounty of classic cinema getting the full Blu-Ray treatment (as opposed to being just slapped onto the format with minimal clean-up) now includes six classic James Bond films, complete with copious commentaries and featurettes.
Idea for crossover: James Bond versus The Hulk. How can we make this happen?
Casino Royale: 40th Anniversary Edition (MGM, $19.98)
Creature From The Haunted Sea (Legend, $14.95)
Devil Bat (Legend, $14.95)
Eclipse Series 13–Kenji Mizoguchi's Fallen Women:Osaka Elegy / Sisters Of The Gion / Women Of The Night / Street Of Shame Criterion, $59.95
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Premise, $26.99; Blu-Ray, $34.99)
Family Guy, Vol. 6 (20th Century Fox, $39.98)
The F Word (Cinelove, $14.95; Blu-Ray, $22.95)
Flight Of The Red Balloon IFC, $24.95
The Go-Getter (Peace Arch, $19.99)
Gone To Seed (BFS, $39.98)
A Grandpa For Christmas (Rhi, $14.95)
Gunnin' For That #1 Spot (Oscilloscope, $29.95)
Half A Person (Ariztical, $29.95)
Hot Moves (Code Red, $19.98)
The Incredible Hulk Universal, $29.98/$34.98; Blu-Ray, $39.98
The Incredible Hulk: The Complete Series (Universal, $149.98)
James Bond Blu-Ray Collection: Dr. No / Die Another Day / Live and Let Die / For Your Eyes Only / From Russia with Love / Thunderball MGM, $34.98 ea.
Knight Rider: The Complete Series (Universal, $139.98)
The Last Man On Earth (Legend, $14.95)
The Lazarus Project (Sony, $24.96)
Linewatch (Sony, $24.96)
Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Vol. 6 (Warner Bros., $64.98)
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Series (Warner Bros., $199.92)
Missing (Criterion, $39.95)
The Naked Brothers Band: Season 2 (Nickelodeon, $26.98)
On The Rumba River (First Run, $24.95)
Phantom From Space (Legend, $14.95)
Phantom Planet (Legend, $14.95)
Rain Shadow (Acorn, $39.99)
Route 66: The Complete Second Season (Roxbury, $49.98)
Six In Paris (New Yorker, $29.95)
Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith (The Weinstein Company, $19.98)
South Of Nowhere: Season One (Nickelodeon, $35.98)
The Strangers Universal, $29.98; Blu-Ray, $39.98
The Stone Angel (Handmade, $26.99)
To The Limit (First Run, $24.95)
Trailer Park Of Terror (Summit, $22.99)
Vice (41 Inc., $19.95)
Warner Gangster Collection Vol. 4: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse / Invisible Stripes / Kid Galahad / Larceny, Inc. / The Little Giant / Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (Warner, $59.98)
