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.

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Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez goodies galore; Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, Sin City, Reservoir Dogs, El Mariachi, Desperado, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. You will be blown away by all the gore and gun violence. 

Four flicks from quirky Tim Burton; Beetlejuice, Corpse Bride, Edward Scissorhands and Batman (as much as I adore Heath Ledger’s Joker, Jack Nicholson’s grin was pretty frickin’ sweet… Kim Basinger’s screams make my ears bleed though).

How about violence and British humor? We have both flicks from writers Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

Other dark and unsettling choices? Donnie Darko, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, V for Vendetta, and a great Darren Aronofsky double feature, Requiem for a Dream and Pi.

Two flicks for our biopic shelf; Domino, starring Keira Knightly as Domino Harvey, the real life model turned bounty hunter and Wonderland, the story of a grisly murder in L.A. and the events leading up to it,  involving porn star John Holmes (Val Kilmer).

Finally, to lighten the mood we have Big Trouble in Little China, starring Kurt Russell and Kim Cattrall in this corny cult classic and Who’s Harry Crumb?, starring the incredibly awesome John Candy who I have a feeling will be getting a shelf to himself in the near future on the Wall O’ Cool……

Cause who is cooler than John Candy?!?

It’s yet another gorgeous day in Ballard and if you don’t get out and enjoy it you only have yourself to blame. Perhaps one or more of the recent arrivals on our new trades wall will entice you out into the sun long enough to come into the store.

How about Gary’s all-time number one favorite movie Boogie Nights? Perhaps a more comical look at the subject of s-e-x (can you whisper in text?) in Woody Allen’s Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (which bears little resemblance to the book of the same name, just FYI) and also The 40-Year-Old Virgin.  And while we’re on the subject, maybe you want to visit the darker side of the street in Todd Solondz’s Happiness. Or maybe American Beauty.

Maybe you’re after a gritty crime drama? One of my all-time favorites in the genre is L.A. Confidential, and there’s one here just waiting for you to take it home, dear readers. We also have Reservoir Dogs in the Mr. Brown edition for the collectors out there and Fargo, too! Or how about one of Jack Nicholson’s finest performances in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, probably the best movie about not-so-crazy crazy people ever (look for early performances from Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd!).

We seem to be scratching the darker underbelly of our new arrivals in this post, but fear not! I’ve saved a handful of the more light-hearted titles for last.  First up we have The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, The Wiz (yes, the Motown version of The Wizard Of Oz, with Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Lena Horne and Nipsey Russel!) and finally, a trio from Trey Parker and Matt Stone: South Park Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Baseketball, and the best musical about real-life cannibal Alfred Packer ever made: Cannibal! The Musical. I couldn’t make that up.

Whatever your tastes, I’m sure there’s something here to satisfy you, so come on in and see us. We don’t bite.