New on DVD and Blu-ray
Get a Life: The Complete Series; Prometheus; Bond 50
Get a Life: The Complete Series
(Shout! Factory, $60)
Out on DVD for the first time, this little-watched 1990s sitcom was “enormously influential,” said the A.V. Club. Co-creator Chris Elliott starred as an insane 30-year-old paperboy living with his parents. “At its best, Get a Life broke not just from sitcom tradition but also from reality itself.”
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Prometheus
(20th Century Fox, $30)
Director Ridley Scott’s recent return to sci-fi proved to be “wickedly entertaining” as well as thought-provoking, said the New York Post. As the crew of a spaceship discovers beings on a distant planet, “Prometheus ponders where evil comes from and how it conquers its makers.”
Bond 50
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(MGM, $300)
Of the 22 James Bond films, nine get their first high-def release with this anniversary box set. But the real prize is a separate disc that “smartly breaks down the Bond mystique via short featurettes,” said the Toronto Star. All six actors who’ve played Bond sit for fresh interviews.
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