What’s new to the Blu-ray and DVD Release Schedule This Week?

Kick-Ass (DVD and Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best comic book movies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #2105 Times Ranked: 17500 Win Percentage: 68.63% How Many Top-20′s: 77 Users (With 5 Users saying it is the best movie of all time).

Nic Cage in a glorious glorification of violence.

Ghost Writer (DVD and Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best thrillers of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #4535 Times Ranked: 2529 Win Percentage: 64.51% How Many Top-20′s: 10 Users (With 1 User saying it is the best movie of all time).

Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan in what, by almost all accounts, is a very good thriller.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (DVD and Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best family movies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #8640 Times Ranked: 346 Win Percentage: 57.99% How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users

It’s Chloe Moretz day today. Not only was she the uncomfortably adult Hit-Girl up in Kick-Ass but she plays a character more her age in this flick.

After.Life (DVD and Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best horror movies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #11680 Times Ranked: 18 Win Percentage: 20.66% How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users

Nice cast with Liam Neeson and Christina Ricci but there needs to be a solid script and direction to also make a movie connect.

A Prophet (DVD and Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best crime movies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #4675 Times Ranked: 1409 Win Percentage: 79.38% How Many Top-20′s: 4 Users

A very interesting looking flick that was nominated for best foreign movie at the Oscars last year.

DVD/Blu-ray Re-releases and Classics:

Escape from New York (Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best action movies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #549 Times Ranked: 36393 Win Percentage: 40.21% How Many Top-20′s: 100 Users (With 2 Users saying it is the best movie of all time).

Kurt Russell and John Carpenter. If you don’t know why that’s a good thing, go watch The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China. Then watch John Carpenter’s They Live, the best science fiction movie ever made.

Road to Perdition (Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best crime movies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #223 Times Ranked: 166012 Win Percentage: 42.05% How Many Top-20′s: 1510 Users (With 51 Users saying it is the best movie of all time).

Massively underrated movie. I could see this getting a Shawshank-type following as time goes by.

The Breakfast Club (Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best coming-of-age movies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #82 Times Ranked: 210071 Win Percentage: 52.78% How Many Top-20′s: 2188 Users (With 117 Users saying it is the best movie of all time).

Humanoids from the Deep (Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best monster movies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #5252 Times Ranked: 1021 Win Percentage: 33.97% How Many Top-20′s: 1 User

Piranha (Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best horror comedies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #2766 Times Ranked: 3181 Win Percentage: 37.34% How Many Top-20′s: 1 Users

The Kim Novak Collection (DVD)

DVD Includes: – Picnic – Jeanne Eagles – Bell, Book and Candle – Middle of the Night – Pal Joey

It’s a tough decision but if I had a time machine, Kim Novak would just barely edge our Ann-Margret and Lena Horne as the female from the past I would most like to see in person.

TCM Spotlight: Errol Flynn Adventures (DVD)

DVD Includes: – Northern Pursuit – Desperate Journey – Edge of Darkness – Uncertain Glory – Objective Burma

Errol Flynn was a dreamy dude, he made some solid adventure flicks too. His film persona will never be replicated. He’s just got this swagger on screen that’s irresistible.

The Great Waldo Pepper (Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best adventure movies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #4839 Times Ranked: 773 Win Percentage: 36.33% How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users

James and the Giant Peach (Blu-ray)

How would you rank it amongst the best children movies of all time? Flickchart Ranking: #1613 Times Ranked: 8024 Win Percentage: 33.74% How Many Top-20′s: 2 Users

New to Netflix and Instant Streaming New Releases:

Studio-enforced 28 day release moratorium opens for:

Nothing of Note. None of the major new releases from 4 weeks ago were affected by Netflix’s agreement with the studios.

New to Netflix Instant Streaming this week:

Streaming Pick of the Week: The Men Who Stare at Goats – One of the best casts you’ll ever see assembled in a movie that’s a little disappointing but still very entertaining.

Tuesday August 3:

• A Woman Under the Influence (1974) – John Cassavetes (dir.), Peter Falk
• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) – John Cassavetes (dir.), Ben Gazzara
• Shadows (1958) – John Cassavetes (dir.)
• Opening Night (1977) – John Cassavetes (dir.)
• Faces (1968) – John Cassavetes (dir.)

Friday August 6:

• The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) – George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Ewan McGregor
• The Land Before Time (1988) – Don Bluth (dir.)
• The Rich Man’s Wife (1996) – Halle Berry
• Big Fat Liar (2002) – Paul Giamatti
• Dragonfly (2002) – Kevin Costner
• Class Action (1991) – Gene Hackman
• The Big Chill (1983) – Jef Goldblum, WIlliam Hurt
• Guilty by Suspicion (1991) – Robert De Niro
• Cheyenne Autumn (1964) – Richard Widmark, Ricardo Montalban
• Above the Rim (1994) – Tupac, Leon
• Beautiful Girls (1996) – Uma Thurman
• The Duel at Silver Creek (1952) – Lee Marvin
• Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002) – Skating Documentary
• After Hours (1985) – Martin Scorsese (dir.)
• Waking Up in Reno (2002) – Patrick Swayze, Charlize Theron