Pirate Radio
(Universal Studios, $20)
Though Pirate Radio wasn’t a box office hit, it deserves another spin on DVD, said the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The “rowdy, good-natured comedy” stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a 1960s deejay who takes on British censorship. Most of the 45 minutes of extra scenes here could “stand alone as skits.”
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The Fugitive Kind
(Criterion, $39.95)
In 1959, The Fugitive Kind united legendary playwright Tennessee Williams and young director Sidney Lumet, said the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Lumet’s enthralling adaptation of Williams’ 1937 stage play, about a drifter who flees arrest in the Deep South, stars Marlon Brando in the lead role.
The Abbott & Costello Show: The Complete Series Collector’s Edition
(E1 Entertainment, $60)
Starting in 1952, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello made the move to television, and filled homes with their “lunatic poetry,” said Newsday. The comedy duo’s groundbreaking sitcom was a “nonsensical parade of burlesque routines (‘Who’s on First?’; ‘Slowly I Turned’) and sheer idiocy.”
