Boy oh Boy! Nothing says “Beautiful Saturday in Ballard” like murder and suspense! But that’s what you get when tasteless punks like Alfred Hitchcock enter the game, making their slimy, filthy no good trashy, you know… It’s almost like he’s trying to get the audience on the edge of their seats… Who would do such a thing!? Well, we’re going to put some of Hitchcock’s most famous films on our Wall O’ Cool so we can get such horrors out of our store before it’s… too late…. muahahahahaha

The Birds This 1963 classic has Tippi Hedren playing Melanie Daniels, a blonde with nothing much going on until a gagillion birds flock into town and attack the townspeople. What else needs to be said about The Birds?

Frenzy This later Hitchcock from 1972 takes place in London, where the Necktie Murderer is taking victims left and right. Sounds pretty bad, until you realize the police also have an innocent suspect in jail, who now must find a way to elude the law and prove his innocence!

The Man Who Knew Too Much Released in 1965, big Brass Actors James Stewart and Doris Day play innocent Americans vacay-ing in Morocco with their son, Hank, who gets kidnapped and taken to England. How they gonna get him back!?

Psycho Not many people have heard of this 1960 flick starring everyone’s favorite, Anthony Perkins, as crazy son Norman Bates. Somethings up with his mom, too…

Rope Released in 1948 and starring James Stewart, Rope deals with two young men who up and decide to strangle their classmate, hide his body in the closet, and have a dinner party. Crazy kids…

Torn Curtain This 1966 flick stars Paul Newman and Julie Andrews as a couple dealing with international espionage and deception after a trip to Copenhagen leads to Paul’s mysterious defection to East Germany. What’s up with that?

The Trouble with Harry Hitchy dives into some comedy with this 1955 film, but dont worry, it still has plenty of death. Basically, a bunch of people keep running into a corpse and don’t know what to do. Hilarity ensues.

Vertigo James Stewart is back in this 1958 romper which deals with an acnophobic detective hired to investigate a friend’s apparently suicidal wife. Doesn’t he have enough on his plate as it is!?

This has been a great week for new arrivals! Check this out:

Classic dramas like Citizen Kane, The Great Escape, Lawrence Of Arabia, Memento (the really cool special edition package), The Sound Of Music, West Side Story, Magnolia and The Godfather Collection.

Action classics like Fight Club (super special edition), Enter The Dragon, Reservoir Dogs (Mr. White edition), Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas (2 disc special edition) Dog Day Afternoon and Leon The Professional (the international edition).

Family classics, too, like A Bug’s Life, Flight Of The Navigator, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Finding Nemo and Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

Horror and Sci-Fi classics like The Day The Earth Stood Still, They Live, Dark Star, Creepshow, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (collector’s edition), Theatre of Blood/Madhouse (a Vincent Price double feature), Tron and the original Little Shop Of Horrors starring Jack Nicholson!

Also: The first 6 seasons of Friends, The Daily Show: Indecision 2004, a Labyrinth/Dark Crystal two-pack, and a ton of anime favorites like My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Fist Of The North Star, Ninja Scroll and a super special edition of Akira in a limited edition steelbook case.

And that’s just a tiny sampling of the latest trades. Not to mention new releases like Daybreakers and reissues of both Toy Story and Toy Story 2!

Come on in and take a look at all this cool stuff. You won’t be sorry. I promise.

Newish releases are on the shelves now, including these recent hits: Disney’s latest animated princess movie The Princess And The Frog, romantic comedy with Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker in Did You Hear About The Morgans?, animated superhero Astro Boy, heavy drama in Adoration, action-packed heist fun in Armored, a sci-fi/fantasy flick co-written by Peter Jackson called Jack Brown: Genius and the alien abduction thriller The Fourth Kind. Plus, more copies of Land Of The Lost, Drag Me To Hell and (500) Days Of Summer. Get ‘em while they’re hot.

Some recent trades to tell you about, too, including a whole bunch of music stuff, like Red Hot Chili Peppers: Off The Map and Funky Monks; Lynyrd Skynyrd: Freebird The  Movie/Tribute Tour (double feature) and Lyve From Steeltown; Dream Theater: Live At Budokan and Metropolis 2000: Scenes From New York; plus Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock, Dave Matthews Band: The Videos 1994 – 2001 and The Commitments. That’s a lot of music.

We also have some not-music stuff. Like movies. You remember movies, right? Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 12 Monkeys, Slumdog Millionaire, Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Blackhawk Down are all I can come up with while staying in an animal theme… there’s also The Simpsons Movie, A Christmas Story, First Blood, The Hunt For Red October, Funny Farm, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Wedding Planner and Blackbeard: The Miniseries are just a few of the random smattering of titles we’ve gotten in recently.

Come, browse, enjoy.