The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film Collection comes out on Blu-ray today and I can’t emphasize enough how good this is. Sure, the second and third film in the trilogy aren’t that great, and your kids will like them just fine. But, the original movie… It’s a thing of perfect beauty. It is perhaps the finest comic-book movie of the 1990s. Sure, it wasn’t a hard thing to do, but this film was fantastic. It’s also incredibly quotable. I find myself quoting it quite frequently. The thing this got right more than most other iterations of the Turtles was the relationship between the brothers. Raphael and Leonardo in this film set the tone for how I liked to see the Turtles from here on out. I apologize if I’m spending an inordinate amount of words on this set, but the first Turtles picture is easily one of my favorite movies ever. The fourth movie in the box was the extremely fun 2007 CGI film directed by Kevin Munroe.

Lone Wolf and Cub TV Collection Volume 1 is something I’m very keen to check out. I have a deep and gorgeous thirst for Samurai pictures (thanks to an early obsession with Akira Kurosawa) and I love the Lone Wolf and Cub series thanks to Dark Horse comics. This is a match made in heaven.

Roman Polanski’s criminally underrated The Ninth Gate came out on Blu-ray today. Hopefully Johnny Depp can woo some of his fans toward this really interesting film from a great filmmaker. He plays an antique book dealer who ends up finding a gate to Hell. Very good stuff.

I Love You, Man came out. I didn’t see it, but I like Paul Rudd and think this looked pretty funny. I’ll be checking it out at some point soon for sure.

The last thing I’d like to point out today is Chris Isaak: Greatest Hits – Live. I’ve had this on a continual loop on my computer as I work for a couple of days now. Ever since I was a kid, watching the “>Wicked Game music video on MTV as a youth, I’ve been terribly interested in Chris Isaak’s work and this is just a great concert to have on DVD. My only beef with it was that the audience seemed far too well-lit for a show like this to the point where it felt a little unnatural. All in all though, this is a great disc and I really think you should pick one up. I mean, if you like Chris Isaak. Which I do.

Be sure to check out Arse-bot’s highlights and lowlights from this week’s releases over at his examiner page!