Some weeks are just weirder than others. This week the new DVDs cover everything from nearly lost classics to ‘funny’ psychotics. Yes, there’s some cold among the…um, not gold:

Nikita kicked ass on the CW for four years. Collect The Complete Fourth Season on DVD starting now.

There’s actually a really really old guy here at remembers seeing Don Siegel’s Riot in Cell Block 11 when it came out in the movie the-ayters back in the Fifties. Gosh, he’s so cute and…ancient. But seriously: the director of the first Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The Shootist, Dirty Harry, Escape from Alcatraz and so much else made this movie fifty years ago. Gotta see it again.

 Great buzz on the Israeli thriller (with lots of blood), Big Bad Wolves

 William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, about an insanely dangerous dynamite delivery, disappeared almost without a trace back in 1977. And it’s still worth watching today more than thirty years later, if only for the intense performance by Roy Scheider and Friedkin’s dark, ultra-tight direction.

A new Direct to Video flick that might be worth a look: The Suspect, with Mekhi Pfifer and William Sadler. Cool premise: “Two African American social scientists pose as bank robbers in an effort to understand the racial dynamics of small-town law enforcement. However, their experiment takes an unplanned, deadly turn.”

Tin Can Man is a horror film that made a splash at the film festivals…seven year ago. Now, after years out of view, it’s finally being released. What is that all about?

 …and then there’s Legend of the Psychotic Forest Ranger. Really, do we need to say more? Somebody else watch this so we don’t have to…