On their way out onto the shelves today are over twenty Woody Allen titles, six seasons of Wings (four of them brand new and unopened), two seasons of Friends (also brand new and unopened) and one of my all-time favorite films of all time, ever.

Starting with this ginormous pile of Woody, we have way more than one shelf’s worth of stuff here. In fact, it’s almost enough to fill three shelves on the Wall O’ Cool, but after careful deliberation I’ve decided to just put them out chronologically. As with other residents of the Wall O’ Cool, we’ll rotate in new stuff as the other stuff goes home with happy customers. So here’s what we have:

Take The Money And Run: Woody Allen’s first original film as writer/director/star. Here, he plays Virgil Starkwell, a bumbling criminal trying to go straight after falling in love.

Bananas: In his second outing as writer/director/star, Woody is Fielding Mellish, a jilted lover (a common role for Woody in his films) who travels to San Marcos to get over his girlfriend. While there, he’s caught up in a revolution and eventually becomes the rebels’ leader, finally ending up captured by the FBI and put on trial for subversion.

Play It Again Sam: In his first film with Diane Keaton, Woody is Allen, a movie buff who receives romance advice from a recurring hallucination of Humphrey Bogart, while his best friends try to fix him up with a string of women with whom he completely fails to click.

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask): Woody Allen takes on the subject of sex with his zany sense of humor and absurdity in this series of hysterical vignettes.

Sleeper: Woody is Miles Monroe, awakened from a 200 cryogenic sleep, finds that in the future “…all women are frigid, all men are impotent and the world is ruled by an evil dictator… A disembodied nose!” Zaniness ensues.

Love And Death: In this historical comedy, Woody is Boris Grushenko who becomes a soldier in the Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars when his true love Sonja (Diane Keaton) plans to marry a herring merchant. Upon his return, Sonja agrees to marry him and they live in poverty until French troops invade Russia and Sonja hatches a plan to assassinate Napoleon.

Interiors: Once again working with Diane Keaton, this was Woody Allen’s first drama, exploring the dynamics of a family in crisis and proving that Woody Allen wasn’t just a comic actor/director.

Manhattan: Filmed in black and white, Woody is Issac Davis, a 42-year-old Manhattanite who “…has a job he hates, a seventeen-year-old girlfriend he doesn’t love, and a lesbian ex-wife who’s writing a tell-all book about their marriage…and whom he’d like to strangle.” Considered by many to be one of Woody Allen’s most enduring films.

That’s it for Mr. Allen and his induction into the Wall O’ Cool. We also have Stardust Memories, A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose Of Cairo, Hannah And Her Sisters, Radio Days, Crimes And Misdemeanors, Alice, Bullets Over Broadway, Small Time Crooks, Melinda and Melinda, Scoop and Match Point. Whew!

Onward… We have two brand new and unopened seasons of Friends: season 1 and season 9. And then we also have the first six seasons of Wings! Seasons 3 through 6 are brand new and unopened, too!

And now we come to a movie that I simply love: Start The Revolution Without Me stars Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland as two pairs of mixed-up-at-birth twins in the early days of the French Revolution. One pair is peasant, and a bit dumb, the other pair part of the aristocracy, and really not much smarter…  Filled with sight gags and witty dialogue, this movie has never failed to entertain me over the many dozens of times I’ve seen it and shared it with friends. Plus, it’s got narration by Orson Welles!

“Paris, France, 1789. Thirty years later, under the reign of Louis XVI, longstanding grievances between aristocrat and peasant were about to boil over. The pot in which these troubles boiled was kindled with the firewood of oppression and injustice and heated by the flames that sucked the air from gasping peasants. Would the pot cool off, would it merely simmer, or would it boil over in the kitchen of France– to stain the floor of history forever?”

That’s right, the beloved director of such films as Ran, Sanjuro, Yojimbo, Dreams, The Hidden Fortress, Rashomon and The Seven Samurai would be one hundred years old today if he were still alive. We don’t actually have any of those titles, so I will instead distract you with this dazzling display of cinematic treasures we’ve just uncovered.

Monty Python fan? We’ve got you covered with all 14 zany crazy volumes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus! Also, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, The Meaning Of Life and Terry Gilliam’s mind-bending Brazil. And speaking of mind-bending and Terry Gilliam, how’sabout the Criterion Collection version of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Yup, we got that.

Music fans may be interested in Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks, The Clash: West Way To The World, The Essential Clash or maybe Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of The Moon, a 2003 release that takes an in-depth look into the creation of one of rock’s timeless recordings.

Maybe you want to get your 80s on: The Breakfast Club, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Fletch and the sequel Fletch Lives, Animal House and one of my all-time favorites: The Blues Brothers.

But wait, there’s more! Rob Zombie’s House Of 1000 Corpses, the two-disc super special edition version of Se7en, Army Of Darkness, Soylent Green, Logan’s Run, The Andromeda Strain (a movie that terrified me when I saw it as a youngster) First Spaceship On Venus/Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet (double feature) and the mother of all crappy movies: Plan 9 From Outer Space (includes The Ed Wood Story with Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Ed Wood’s wife Dolores Fuller and even Vampira herself!).

Want more? Good! Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall smolder in Key Largo, Charlton Heston does what he does best in Ben Hur, Jack Nicholson chews it up in Five Easy Pieces and Chinatown, Paul Newman broods in Hud and The Hustler and Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif star in the sweeping epic Lawrence Of Arabia in a two-disc super-special limited edition.

Not finished just yet, but I’m getting there: Fan-favorites Die Hard, The Road Warrior and Fight Club, plus The Last Of The Mohicans and the classics The Conversation (later remade as Enemy Of The State) and High Noon starring Gary Cooper. A couple anime’ titles: Amon Saga and Appleseed, a tongue-in-cheek look back at “educational” films of yore in Social Engineering 201 (which touches on classic 16 mm films shown to schoolchildren from the 1940s to the 1970s like It Must Be The Neighbors and What To Do On A Date), and finally, a blaxploitation triple feature: Bad Azz Muthaz featuring Black Punisher (Jim Brown), Tattoo Connection (Jim Kelly) and Kid Vengeance (Fred Williamson). Ohhh yeah.

There’s a lot more than that, but my typin’ fingers hurt, so come on in and take a look at the Wall O’ Cool and see what strikes your fancy.

If you’re a fan of either of these shows, today is your lucky day! All five currently-available seasons of Entourage have just hit the shelves. That’s around 33 hours of wannabe stardom! And, in case you’re wondering, season 6 will be out on June 22nd. Just so you know.

We also have all four seasons of the highly-rated Mr. Show, featuring the incredibly funny David Cross and Bob Odenkirk.

Other interesting titles headed straight for the Wall O’Cool: Japanese action/horror/comedies Battle Royale and Battle Royale II; the John Woo action classic Hard Boiled in a two disc special edition; Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall heat up the screen in The Big Sleep; classic horror in Wes Craven’s original 1977 The Hills Have Eyes and the 1980 people-who-can-make-your-head-explode-with-their-minds chiller Scanners from David Cronenberg!