This is a stocking stuffer that just won’t work. Unless you have size 52 feet.
“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Complete Series” (Paramount Home Video Distribution/CBS Home Entertainment) is a beast of a boxed DVD set. Its mammoth size surely would prevent it from fitting in any stocking, so get out the gift wrap for this one.
How big is it? Try 93 discs, which contains every episode of the 16 seasons. This is the first time the series, starring Ted Danson and Elisabeth Shue, has been presented in one collection.
A dozen substantial bonus features will thrill fans. One concentrates on the show’s writers, another demonstrates how an episode goes from concept to completion, and yet another shows how the cast moves from location to the sound stage. Audio commentaries and more put an exclamation point on this boxed set.
The only difficult part is finding 244 hours, 4 minutes to watch it.
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Another gift-worthy title is “Mystery Science Theater 3000: Vol. XXXIX” (Shout! Factory), a four-DVD set that features previously unreleased episodes “Girls Town,” “The Amazing Transparent Man” and “Diabolik” as well as a disc of unreleased host segments “Satellite Dishes.” Bonus features include a featurette about “The Amazing Transparent Man” and a documentary special that chronicles the final days shooting the final episode of the original run of “MST3K, Diabolik.”
“Lemon” (Magnolia Home Entertainment) is certainly no lemon of a movie. The comedy follows the mishaps of a 40-year-old man who can’t catch a break and attempts to get a grip on his professional and personal life. Brett Gelman stars. Special features include interviews with director Janicza Bravo and Gelman, who also co-wrote the film.
“No Gods, No Masters” (Icarus Films) is a three-part film that is divided into three one-hour episodes, which all chronicle anarchism’s history, from Paris to New York and from Tokyo to Buenos Aires. The parts explore 1840-1906, 1907-1921, and 1922-1945.
Film Movement presents “The Sissi Collection,” a wonderful set of newly restored films (on Blu-ray Disc) that vaulted Romy Schneider to stardom. The set includes “Sissi” (1955), “The Young Empress” (1956) and “Sissi: The Fateful Years of the Empress” (1957. Additionally, a precursor film from 1954, “Victory in Dover,” in which Schneider plays Britain’s Princess Victoria, is included. Bonus features includes “Forever My Love,” a 1962 condensed English-dubbed version featuring a theme song by Burt Bacharach, a making-of featurette, and more.
“In His Own Home” (IndiPix Films) covers the shocking 2010 shoting of a disabled Ghanaian graduated student attacked by University of Florida campus police responding to a 911 call.
“Married by Christmas” (Monarch Home Entertainment) is a race to the altar this holiday season. Due to an antiquated clause in her grandmother’s will, an ambitious young executive must marry by Christmas or lose her place at the family company. The movie stars Jes Macallan.
“Albert: A Small Tree with a Big Dream” (Paramount Home Video Distribution/Nickelodeon) arrives just in time for the holidays. The story of a tiny Douglas fir tree who dreams of becoming the Empire City’s most famous Christmas tree is cute.