Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder comes out today and that couldn’t make me any happier. I love Futurama with a passion and any day where we can see more of it is a great day.

Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic animated feature film Akira arrives on Blu-ray today. If you get this, do yourself a favor and just watch it in Japanese. A few years back, they redubbed the original 1980’s era English voice cast and the movie simply isn’t as good for it. I had hoped that with a new fancy release, they’d include that audio track as well, but I’ve seen no evidence implying as much.

The French Connection and it’s sequel both hit a Blu-ray release today, which should be well worth checking out.

There’s also a really cheap 2 disc Charlie Chaplin Collection being released. If you don’t have any Chaplin in your DVD collection, now is the time to start. If you haven’t seen any Charlie Chaplin at all, shame on you.

(Also, a spot of news for the Trekkies. Season 1 of the original series is available for pre-order on Blu-ray here. It arrives in stores on April 28, just in time for the new movie. This should be excellent times.)

That about does it for DVD releases this week. See you next week.