 | Wet Hot American Summer
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.69 Independent comedy from the creators of the short-lived MTV sketch comedy show 'The State' and also members of the casts of 'Reno 911' and the comedy troupe 'Stella'. Best comedy of the past decade!
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 | Rock and Roll Part Three by Ozma
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $3.55 Power-pop from the sadly disbanded band. Beautiful lyrics with incredibly fun wordplay and catchy hooks (with keyboards!). Rivers Cuomo: "This is what =W= should sound like."
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 | NBA Dynasty Series - Boston Celtics - The Complete History
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $33.97 Relive Larry Legend, the lankiness of Robert Parish, and Kurt Rambis playing Sgt. Slaughter to Kevin McHale's 'Hulking Up'. Tons of great games that remind you why basketball is so wonderful.
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 | Angel - Season Five
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $21.99 The epoch of Joss Whedon's television work. Episodic, epic, and fantastically crafted. Somehow manages to be heartbreaking, hilarious, and intelligent at all times. Viva la Whedon!
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 | Spaced by Various Artists
Buy used from: $100.00 Unfortunately the DVD set of this series will probably never see the light of day in America, but go to amazon.co.uk and get it! Greatest sitcom of all time, for anyone of Gen X.
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 | The Office - The Complete Collection BBC Edition (First And Second Series Plus Special)
Buy new: $44.99 / Used from: $25.22 Ranks highly with Spaced and is often more poignant and more interesting as an experiment in comedy. The same camera work can be seen in "Arrested Development". Freeman and Gervais are amazing.
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 | Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $9.85 Legitimizes the art of comics for non-believers, while comforting all of us who have known all along. One of the easiest reads for a brilliant text you'll ever find. Can't be reccommended enough.
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 | WWE - Hard Knocks - The Chris Benoit Story
Buy used from: $19.99 Don't slight wrestling because you remember the childhood overblown comic wrestling of the 80's. Chris Benoit is an amazing athelete and this is a testament to one of the best wrestlers of all-time.
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 | Shaun of the Dead
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.87 From the creators of the show "Spaced" (see above), this was the absolute cult classic of 2004. You will love it more with each viewing. Fall in love with Pegg and Frost....for the first time.
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 | Ex Machina, Vol. 1: The First Hundred Days by Brian K. Vaughan
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.00 West Wing meets "Iron Man" meets the brilliant writing of Brian K. Vaughn. The politics and characters are the forefront here, not super-heroics. K. Vaughn is the master of epic comic storytelling.
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 | Mr. Show - The Complete Third Season
Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $8.74 My personal favorite season of the finest sketch comedy show ever to exist. Come for the David Cross and Bob Odenkirk and stay for the Jay Johnson. CHOO CHOO THE HERKY JERKY DANCER REPRESENT.
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 | The Movies Begin - A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894-1913
Buy new: $89.99 / Used from: $62.99 An amazing sprawling collection that chronicles the advent of cinema at the turn of the century. Melies, Edison, Porter are all included here. You'll be amazed at the quick evolution of the art form.
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 | Three Colors Trilogy (Blue / White / Red)
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $19.99 Beautiful and lyrical Eastern European cinema. Kieslowski is one of the great directors who you've never heard of. White is the lightest of the three, but watch "Red" last.
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 | The Billy Wilder DVD Collection (The Apartment / Avanti! / The Fortune Cookie / Irma la Douce / Kiss Me Stupid / One Two Three / The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes / Some Like It Hot / Witness for the Prosecution)
Buy new: $107.99 / Used from: $45.95 One of my favorite directors of all time. All of these films hold something that will pique your interest. Balances drama with comedy better than anyone.
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 | The Golden Age Green Lantern Archives, Vol. 1 (DC Archive Editions) by Bill Finger
Buy new: $35.52 / Used from: $26.12 See where my favorite comic book character began. A hero whose powers are only limited to his imagination. See what Mart Nodell created and has later spun into one of the most beloved comic heroes.
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 | A Force To Be Reckoned With (Savage Dragon, Vol. 2) by Erik Larson
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $4.00 A comic that taps directly into your childhood desire to see a huge dragon cop beat the s!$* out of monsters (including the Ninja Turtles in a teamup!) Erik Larsen is a quintessential comics artist.
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 | Getting Away With It: Or: The Further Adventures of the Luckiest Bastard You Ever Saw by Steven Soderbergh
Buy new: $16.20 / Used from: $0.49 Steven Soderbergh interviewing Richard Lester. One of our great modern directors having fascinating dialogue with one of the masters of the light touch from the past. Must read for fans of film.
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 | Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.99 The best current comic series going. Fun for anyone who enjoys great storytelling, with sly references to all of the fairy tales of your youth, but subverting them to jibe with our modern times.
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 | Mulholland Drive
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.58 David Lynch's brilliant movie about the movies (in league with Singin' In the Rain!). Let it soak in the first time, then start to deconstruct it with further viewings. A delicious neo-noir onion.
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 | Film Noir Reader by Alain Silver
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $7.30 Some of the articles are rather dry, but there's no better compendium of one of the most interesting film movements in history, and probably the best in US history. See the films first, then read!!!
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 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.56 A brilliant dense work of modern literature. Imagine a great Stephen King novel running parallel with a great Dave Eggers novel and then the two combing in unexpected ways and keeping you engrossed.
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 | The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer, Vol. 2 - The Later Years
Buy used from: $15.40 Any Tool music video you've ever seen has been influence by him and The Brothers Quay. Dense, gothic, beautiful work. Dimensions of Dialgoue is some of the finest cinema of all time.
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 | Classic Comedies Collection (Bringing Up Baby / The Philadelphia Story Two-Disc Special Edition / Dinner at Eight / Libeled Lady / Stage Door / To Be or Not to Be)
Buy new: $68.98 / Used from: $39.98 Some of the best sly comedy you'll ever have the opportunity to see. More wit in one movie here than you'll see in almost all the movies this year. Buy at least for Cary Grant's calm brilliance.
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 | Pinkerton by Weezer
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $3.50 Weezer's finest, rawest, and most heartfelt album. Constant switches in tempo and breaks in Rivers voice make this feel like something you shouldn't be listening to, but you can't help but do it.
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 | Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume One
Buy new: $49.99 / Used from: $31.99 I believe this contains Duck Amuck, the most delightfully anarchic cartoon I've ever seen. Submersive and constantly hilarious and fun to watch. Show kids how it used to be done.
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