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The Lovely Bones $17.99 $25.99
Crazy Heart $17.99 $24.99
The Young Victoria $19.99 $26.99
Avatar $15.99 $19.99
$14.99 Bravo DVD Sale
Real Housewives of New Jersey: Season 1
Flipping Out: Seasons 1 and 2
Top Chef: Season 4
The Rachel Zoe Project: Seasons 1 and 2
The Millionaire Matchmaker: Season 1
$14.99 BLU-RAY / $7.99 DVD FOX sale
Buy Avatar and get 3 dollars off each.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Australia
Dances with Wolves
Jumper
Kingdom of Heaven
The Day After Tomorrow
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Independence Day———————————————–
NEW RELEASES
*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD BLUE
The Lovely Bones $17.99 $19.99
Crazy Heart $17.99 $24.99
The Young Victoria $17.99 $24.99
Avatar $15.99 $22.99
Drawn Together: The Movie $14.99 $19.99
Minority Report $19.99
$3.99 DVD Sale
Absolute Power
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Bone Collector
Semi-Pro
The Matrix Reloaded
BLU-RAY BONANZA!
$26.99
The Princess And The Frog (Combo Pack)
$24.99
District 9
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2-Disc Special Edition)
Star Trek XI
$22.99
2012
Toy Story: Special Edition (Combo Pack)
$19.99
Love Happens
$16.99
Bourne Ultimatum
$14.99
Fighting: Unrated
Kingdom Of Heaven: Director’s Cut
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
$12.99
The Terminator
Robocop
$24.99 BLU-RAYs
Saw V
Taken
$9.99 BLU-RAYs
Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Unrated
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Speed Racer
The Bucket List
Eyes Wide Shut
Video Game Sales Update
Target
$17 (originally $19.99/$20)
2000 Points Wii aard
1600 Microsoft Points card
$20 Playstation Network card.
$47
Lego Indiana Jones 2
Batman Arkham Asylum
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Toy Story Mania
Call of Duty Modern Warfare Reflex
EA Active
Tiger Woods 10
Mario Kart Wii
Best Buy
360/PS3/Wii
Avatar The Game: $19.99
Wii
Your Shape w/Camera: $39.99
Just Dance:$29.99
Cabela’s Monster Buck Hunter w/Gun: $49.99 ($29.99 w/o)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare Reflex Edition: $39.99
Red Steel 2 w/Wii Motion Plus: $49.99 ($39.99 w/o)
THIS WEEK’S DVD REVIEWS at CHUD
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THE REST OF THE DVDs THIS WEEK
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
American Experience: Earth Days (PBS)
And The Winner Is …
Bleach, Vol. 27: The Arrancar
The Blue Tooth Virgin
Cheech And Chong’s Hey Watch This
Citizen Duane
Crazy Heart
Crimes Of Fashion
Deadly Impact
Dojin Work: The Complete Series
The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!
Ex Drummer
The F Word: Series Four
Falcon Crest: The Complete First Season
The Family That Eats Soil
Fish Out Of Water
A Fork In The Road
44 Inch Chest
Fraternity Massacre At Hell Island
Godspeed
Heartland: The Complete First Season
Heartland: The Complete Second Season
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys – Season One
Hi-5: Season Four
The Horse Boy
Inside The Forbidden City
Knife Edge
The Lovely Bones
Mammoth
Merlin: The Complete First Season (BBC)
Naked Ambition
Naruto: Shippuden, Box Set 2 (Standard Edition)
Naruto: Shippuden, Box Set 2 (Special Edition)
Neowolf
Oh My God (Standard Edition)
Oh My God (Expanded Edition)
Orlock The Vampire: In 3DOtogi Zoshi: Collection Of Ages
Peacock
Perry Mason: Season Five, Vol. 1
Pressure Cooker
Prom Wars
Speed Racer, Vols. 1 And 2
Summer Hours (The Criterion Collection)
Surviving Crooked Lake
Tales From The Script
35 Shots Of Rum
The Tiger Next Door
The Transformers: Seasons Three And Four
UFC: The Ultimate Fighter Heavyweights
Uncertainty
Vampire Of Quezon City
Vivre Sa Vie (The Criterion Collection)
Wake
The Wordz Project
Xena: Warrior Princess – Season One
The Young Victoria
BLU-RAY: IT’S GETTING CHEAPER
American Experience: Earth Days (PBS)
The Basketball Diaries
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Batman And Robin
Battleship Potemkin
The Big Gay Musical
Cheech And Chong’s Hey Watch This
Crazy Heart
Fist Of Legend
A Fork In The Road
44 Inch Chest
The Lovely Bones
Minority Report
Summer Hours (The Criterion Collection)
The Telling
Vivre Sa Vie (The Criterion Collection)
The Young Victoria
MUSIC
section by: Jeb Delia
ALL DAYS ARE NIGHTS: SONGS FOR LULU
Rufus Wainwright
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Being willing to compose and perform a song cycle that blends Shakespeare with a silent movie goddess doesn’t make you a genius– it might just make you Robyn Hitchcock without the jokes– but it doesn’t mean you’re not one, either, and to the extent that “genius” is defined in terms of characteristics that are wholly unique to an artist, then Wainwright’s closer than many. He has some of Randy Newman’s genius for piano accompaniment that ideally puncutates his idiosyncratic singing style. I don’t know if the stage production of this piece includes any more instrumentation, but it would be hard to imagine it matching the emotional directness of the album. Even his dad will be hard-pressed to top this one this year.
COUNTRY MUSIC
Willie Nelson
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Willie grabs the band from the Alison Krauss/Robert Plant Raising Sand album, including the omnipresent T-Bone Burnett, and shows the kids how it’s done: he gets old-timey with “Satisfied Mind,: Louvin-style spooky on “Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down;” he wallows in self-pity like nobody’s business on “Ocean of Diamonds” and “Man With the Blues,” plus finds time to tap the odd toe with “Freight Train Boogie” and “Pistol Packin’ Mama.” The deliberately generic album title is a bit too faux-humble (and a tad misleading for anyone who’s idea of country music is anything that’s ever been heard on American Idol). For Nelson fans, it’s at least the third outstanding album he has released in the past year and a half. For others– if you like a bit of roots music, but have always had trouble getting past the 80’s Nashville glitz that seemed to coat Nelson like paint for the past couple of decades, this would be a great place to get to know one of the greatest living American singers.
TRUE LOVE CAST OUT ALL EVIL 
Roky Erickson and Okkervil River
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It would be awfully easy to give this album a free pass simply because, after all these hard years, Erickson’s earned it and more. And there are times when you suspect that Will Sheff’s Okkervil River are playing the primitive just a little too cleverly (the occasional use of Erickson’s actual hospital recordings doesn’t seem to make any point that Erickson’s singing doesn’t on it own). But song after song, Erickson’s emotional directness cuts through any attempt to over-indulge his pain. There’s a bit of the electric charge of “You’re Gonna Miss Me” on “Bring Back The Past” and “John Lawman,” but it’s mostly a lo-fi country-tinged affair, framing the harrowing story of one of the few rockers who wouldn’t be embarrassed by such a heartfelt album title.
CHARLEMAGNE: BY THE SWORD & THE CROSS 
Marco Sabiu with Christopher Lee
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Go ahead, laugh at the concept of the 87-year-old Count Dooku handling lead vocals on a “symphonic heavy-metal concept album” about the legendary Christian king. But bless him, Lee jumps in with both feet, and turns the Father of Modern Europe into Saruman. It says here that there are “two metal bands, plus a 100-piece orchestra under the direction of composer Marco Sabiu,” but with its washes of organ, dee-dee-deedling guitar solos and blocks of sonic thunder, it all sounds like Spinal Tap to me—and, as with Tap, what makes it irresistible is the sincerely straight faces with which it’s all put together and performed. The album even comes with confirmation “from the
Other noteworthy 4/20 music releases:
Sweet Apple: Love & Desperation. Mascis and company deliver hook-laden thump, riffs that will lodge in your spinal column, while singer John Petkovic works out his pain with arena-rock singalong choruses, sometimes teetering right on the edge of Bad Company. But if there’s a point to the Roxy Music “homage”, it eluded me.
Apples in Stereo: Travellers in Space & Time. I realize that duplicating the success of New Magnetic Wonder was going to be difficult, but if it’d been me, my first move would not have been to up the Jeff Lynne quotient, at the expense of Brian Wilson or Ray Davies. There’s maybe 85% as much hookiness as last time, but that’s still well ahead of most anything else you’ll hear this week.
Caribou: Swim I gotta love the idea of an electropop math Ph.D willing to go toe to toe with Handsome Dick Manitoba, even if he lost. Dunno whether this will duplicate the prestige and prizes that were lavished on
Sevendust: Cold Day Memory. Says here this is their first album with the original Sevendust lineup in almost eight years. Also says it is their “most well-received” ever. Which means they don’t need any comment from me.
Armin Van Buuren: A State of
Merle Haggard: I Am What I Am. I haven’t heard what must be about Hag’s 437th album yet, but don’t be surprised if it turns out that Willie only has the second-best country album released this week.
Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna. Presented as a public service, since anyone who would even listen to this album already knows much more about it than I do.
Kate Nash: My Best Friend Is You. I haven’t been much into one-man-studio-bands since Todd Rundgren… but Nash is a woman, so that’s OK. My prediction: just as poppy as her last album, twice as cheeky.
Aqualung: Magnetic North. Someone once called this guy “Badly Drawn Brian Wilson;” not completely accurate, but not that far off…
Radio Department: Clinging To A Scheme. These guys take their sweet time between releases (four years this time), but I’m guessing it’ll pay off as well as the last one did.
VIDEO GAMES
section by: Justin Clark and SCOTT!
MONSTER HUNTER TRI
Capcom
Wii
4/20
MSRP: $44.99
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For those willing to spend the time with them, the Monster Hunter games are actually fairly satisfying gameplay experiences. Not that anyone on American soil knows that since every single one of them has failed miserably to catch on in the States, one of a scant few Capcom series that hasn’t. There was an interview not too long ago with the series creator who says a huge reason the series took off in Japan was due to the local multiplayer aspect, which rewards four people in close proximity, able to communicate and work as a unit with or against one another. And yet, the newest iteration of the game is coming out on a console with an online component a step or two higher than connecting two game systems together with Twizzlers covered in Crazy Glue.
Good job, Capcom.
OOOH: ON THE DLC TIP
AFTER BURNER CLIMAX
XBL, PSN
4/20 XBL, 4/21 PSN
$9.99/800 MS pts
If there was ever a new release that should make any red blooded old school gamer drop to their knees and mourn, it’s this one. Sure, After Burner‘s been prettied up with next gen graphics, features good old fashioned shooter fun, with a couple of new twists, and all that jazz but let’s face it: That series was all about the gyroscopic cabinet, and no matter how good Climax turns out to be, something vital always be missing.
Also, the title sounds like slang for sex during a herpes outbreak.
ROCK BAND TUESDAY
Coheed and Cambria ($5.49/440 MS pts)
- Guns of Summer +
- Here We Are Juggernaut
- The Broken +
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Peek-a-Boo
Supergrass – Sun Hits the Sky +
The Violent Femmes – American Music
+Track available for Lego Rock Band
(Individual tracks are $1.99/160 MS pts)
Sadly, this was one of those weeks where I actually had to YouTube the entire DLC slate, and I’ve learned two valuable lessons from that little musical journey. One, my knowledge of late 80s/early 90s pop rock still has some serious holes in it that need to be rectified sooner than later. And two, I’ve been absolutely right in assuming that the next person to tell me I’ll enjoy Coheed and Cambria if I like The Mars Volta does indeed deserve to be hit an obscene number of times in the kidneys.
THE WEEK OF APRIL 20th 2010
GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON
DVD/BR SECTION by: Troy Anderson
AVATAR
Director: James Cameron
20th Century Fox
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Special Features
- Jack
- Shit
Avatar still isn’t a very good movie, but it shouldn’t inspire tirades of cinematic anger. Cameron’s done better, but that’s still not the point. The point is that it’s nothing more than a Merian C. Cooper flick ran through a Cray computer. If you’re looking to watch the film in 3-D, that’s not going to be on this disc. Hell, you’re not even going to get a commentary or a featurette. It’s bare-bones. So, wait for something better. That is if you can wait.
THE LOVELY BONES
d. Peter Jackson
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Special Features
A giant three hour supplemental documentary
The Lovely Bones is an interesting failure that is propped up by Stanley Tucci’s amazing performance. Alice Sebold’s novel wasn’t that amazing, but it allowed Jackson some room to play with the supernatural. I love how he’s able to capture Mark Wahlberg’s love for his daughter while getting that vengeful streak down pat. Honestly, I’m willing to watch anything by Jackson that doesn’t feature a fucking Hobbit or King Kong. Give the film a shot on Tuesday. If you hate it, you hate it. It could’ve been worse. Andy Serkis could’ve motion captured Susan Sarandon’s performance as the grandmother.
THE YOUNG VICTORIA
d. Jean-Marc Vallee
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Special Features
- Deleted and Extended Scenes
- The Real Queen Victoria Featurette
- Making of The Young Victoria
- Lavish History: A Look at the Costumes and Locations
- The Coronation Featurette
- The Wedding Featurette
The Young Victoria was a film that snuck up on me. I’m a huge British history fan and it was nice to see the early years of Queen Victoria portrayed in modern cinema. Too often are we shown the effects of her reign or the Queen as some old warthog bitch. When you’re given a chance to see leaders in their youth, it opens up something amazing to be seen. Humanizing the out-of-reach has been a proud film tradition, especially when it comes to our leaders. But, there’s no bullshit with Emily Blunt’s performance. You buy here as a woman first and as the Queen second.
CRAZY HEART
c. Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall and Colin Farrell
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Special Features
- Deleted Scenes
Jeff Bridges finally got an Oscar for impersonating David Allan Coe. I like how FOX aggressively tried to push these movie onto more screens, but it still seems like it went unwatched. Robert Duvall’s performance invokes memories of Tender Mercies, but I have to say that this is the better film. Bridges has a quiet anger/regret about him. When you see his scenes with Farrell, it’s almost too much. Being a younger man, I can’t attest to the pain of the elderly subset. But, it has to be aggravating to live so long that you see everyone become better than you. Just a constant stream of people looking better, having more and feeling better. If you’re over the age of 50 and watch this movie alone, please don’t kill yourself.
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5 comments
Man, I think you've reached the penultimate incarnation of this article.
I couldn't ask for any more. Sheer perfection. Keep it up!
love the new setup, as I can now skip the music section entirely but what's with the off handed slams on LOTR and Avatar? Got something against actually good blockbusters?
I never got the whole LOTR experience and I didn't enjoy Avatar. Simple as that.
Frank doesn't know what "penultimate" means.
so this is the second to last incarnation of this article. I can't wait for the finale, I really don't know how he's going to top this one but I bet It's going to flip my lid. Prediction: Christopher Lee is the going to be the new "Jacob"
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