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Blu-sday: Shakespeare, Aliens, Technophiles and Pee Drinkers

No, it's not high school drama club's Senior Trip to Mexico, it's this week's DVD releases!


Dr. Who and Jean Luc Picard snaz it up to do a little Shakespeare for your uncultured ass, a child-sized alien demands your obedience, a teenage superhero just wants to protect you from technological menaces, and a gastronomically challenged British dude wants to keep you alive in the wilderness. Time to push play!

Man Vs Wild: Season 4
Man Vs Wild: Season 4 Credit: Discovery Channel

Man Vs Wild: Season 4

In which a man of adult age goes camping by himself and drinks water squeezed from elephant dung, just because. Okay, so maybe Bear Grylls isn’t totally by himself (that camera’s not levitating, y’know), and maybe he’s not doing it all just because (man’s gotta pay the bills, y’know), but he has been known to do things like drink his own pee, eat raw sheep’s eyeballs and, yes, squeeze the juice out of elephant scat to provide liquid sustenance. But do you know what sets Season 4 apart from the rest of that hot mess? Will Ferrell goes camping with him! Check out what Hollywood funny man Will Ferrell is willing to squeeze and drink from in order to survive out in the unforgiving wild. $19.99

Hamlet
Hamlet Credit: BBC Warner

Hamlet Blu-ray

What more could fans of Dr. Who and Star Trek: The Next Generation ask for than for a high-brow collaboration between the Doctor himself, David Tennant, and the Captain of the Enterprise, Patrick Stewart, in one of the greatest stories ever told? Tennant plays the brooding Prince Hamlet and Stewart plays dual roles both as Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, and King Claudius, King Hamlet’s brother and the man who kills King Hamlet in order to take his throne and his wife. Set in a more modern Denmark and performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hamlet recently premiered on BBC America and comes to Blu-ray tout de suite! $18.49

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