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.

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.

Greetings Earthlings, I bring you the mid-week mishmash of Moviecycle news.

New release this week is Where The Wild Things Are, the Spike Jonez adaptation of the classic beloved children’s story by Maurice Sendak. Features original songs written and performed by Karen O of  Yeah Yeah Yeahs (I did not know that).

Cool new trades lately include a Wes Anderson trifecta: Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tennenbaums and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou; Lawrence Of Arabia, Singin’ In The Rain, Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Long Kiss Goodnight, a super-duper special edition Sin City, Princess Mononoke and The Muppets Take Manhattan. And a metric butt-load of VHS.

Hot recent releases are hot: Moon, The Invention Of Lying, Surrogates, Whip It and A Perfect Getaway to name but a few.

And let’s not forget we have a coupon over in the land of special offers: 20% off anything in the store through March 17th. Save yourself a pot of gold, don’tcha know.