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NEW RELEASES
*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD BLUE
Valentine’s Day $16.99 $24.99
Extraordinary Measures $17.99 $22.99
Invictus $17.99 $24.99
The Spy Next Door $17.99 $24.99
Saving Private Ryan $22.99
The Jeff Dunham Show $12.99
$13 BLU-RAY SALE!
Knowing
Max Payne
The Boondock Saints
The Day After Tomorrow
$10 DVD sale
Aliens in the Attic
Funny People
My Sister’s Keeper
10 Things I Hate About You: Volume One
$13.99 Sex and the City TV on DVD sale
Seasons 1-6 Part 2———————————————–
NEW RELEASES
*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD BLUE
The Messenger $17.99 $22.99
Valentine’s Day $16.99 $25.99
Extraordinary Measures $19.99 $24.99
Invictus $17.99 $25.99
The Spy Next Door $19.99 $24.99
The Jeff Dunham Show $12.99
DVD sale
Men in Black $4.99
The DaVinci Code $4.99
Shrek the Third $6.99
Spider-Man 3 $9.99
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End $9.99
Alien vs. Predator $7.99
The Incredible Hulk (2008) $9.99
Angels and Demons $14.99
BLU-RAY sale
Ghost Rider $9.99
Traitor $9.99
Coming to America $9.99
U-571 $14.99
Do the Right Thing $14.99
Burn After Reading $14.99
The Fast and The Furious $14.99
Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift $14.99
2 Fast 2 Furious $14.99
Spider-Man 3 $14.99
The Bourne Ultimatum $19.99
Angels and Demons $19.99
The Incredible Hulk (2008) $14.99
The DaVinci Code $14.99
300 $13.99
Gran Torino $13.99
Watchmen: Director’s Cut $13.99
Heat $13.99
The Matrix $13.99
The Dark Knight $13.99
TV on DVD
The Office: Season 5 $34.99
24: Season 7 $34.99
Mad Men: Season 2 $34.99
One Tree Hill: Season 6 $19.99
Fringe: The Complete Season One $19.99
The Big Bang Theory: Season 2 $19.99
Friday Night Lights: Season 3 $17.99
Rescue Me: Season 5 Part 2 $24.99
How I Met Your Mother: Season 4 $24.99
Video 
K-Mart
Alan Wake – $20 Microsoft Gaming Coupon with purchase
Red Dead Redemption – $15 Gaming Coupon with purchase
Prince of Persia (360/PS3) – $15 Gaming Coupon with purchase
Split Second – $15 Gaming Coupon with purchase
New Super Mario Brothers – $10 Nintendo Coupon with purchase
Buy a PSP 3000 and get MLB 10 or Socom: Fireteam Bravo PSP for $9.99
Target
Split Second: $59.99 with free $10 gift card
Mass Effect 2: $39.99
Bioshock 2: $39.99
Best Buy
$30 Gift Card with Purchase of XBox 360 Arcade
Toys R Us
Red Dead Redemption with $25 gift card Tuesday 10 am-2 pm
THIS WEEK’S DVD REVIEWS at CHUD
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THE REST OF THE DVDs THIS WEEK
Air TV: The Complete Series
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
American Bandits: Frank And Jesse James
Animal Stories: The Complete 52 Episode Series
The Apocalypse (Budget Reissue With Bonus Digital Copy)
Area 51: The Alien Interview (Budget Reissue)
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan (Smashing Special Edition)
Confessions Of A Porn Addict
Countdown: Armageddon
Countdown: Armageddon/The Day The Earth Stopped
The Day The Earth Stopped (Budget Reissue)
Defamation
Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete 65 Episode Series
The Disappeared
Dragon Ball Z Kai, Pt. 1
Dragonquest (Budget Reissue)
Dragonquest/Merlin And The War Of The Dragons
Enemies Among Us
Exploitation Cinema Double Feature: Wacky Taxi/Superargo
Extraordinary Measures
Eyeshield 21, Collection 1
Gamera: The Giant Monster
The Girl On The Train
The Greatest American Hero: The Complete First Season (Budget Reissue)
The Greatest American Hero: The Complete Series (Standard Packaging)
Gunfight At La Mesa
Horror Double Feature: Book Of Lore/Grave Mistakes
Invasion Of The Pod People (Budget Reissue)
Invictus
The Jeff Dunham Show
The Last Madness
Law And Order: Criminal Intent – The Fifth Year
The Legend Of Prince Valiant: The Complete 65 Episode Series
Louis L’Amour Western Collection: The Sacketts/Conagher/Catlow
Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus (Budget Reissue)
Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus/30,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Merlin And The War Of The Dragons (Budget Reissue)
The Messenger
Minder: Season One
Minder: Season Two
Misconceptions
Mobile Suit Gundam Trilogy
Murder In Fashion
Mutant Vampire Zombies From The Hood!
Naruto Shippuden, Vol. 9
National Geographic: Border Wars – Season One
The Navy Vs. The Night Monsters
The New Daughter
Night Dragon
Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties (Eclipse Series 21)
Poliwood
Queen’s Blade Wandering Warrior: A Single Step
Reggie Watts: Why $#!+ So Crazy?
Road Rage
Sometimes In Life
Southern Gothic
The Spy Next Door
30 Days: Season Three
30 Days: The Complete Series
30,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Budget Reissue With Bonus Digital Copy)
Tokyo Gore Police 1.5 (Two-Disc Special Edition)
2012: Doomsday (Budget Reissue With Bonus Digital Copy)
2012: Doomsday/The Apocalypse
Valentine’s Day
Waiting For Armageddon
Walkabout (The Criterion Collection)
War Of The Worlds 2: The Next Wave (Budget Reissue)
War Of The Worlds 2: The Next Wave/Invasion Of The Pod People
The Whitest Kids U’Know: The Complete Third Season
xxxHoLiC: Complete First Season
BLU-RAY: IT’S GETTING CHEAPER
American Bandits: Frank And Jesse James
Appleseed
Best Of Europe: Beautiful Germany (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
Best Of Europe: Beautiful Greece (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
Best Of Europe: Beautiful Italy (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
Carlito’s Way
Countdown: Armageddon
The Day The Earth Stopped
Dogora
Dragon Ball Z Kai, Pt. 1
Dragonquest
Dragonquest/Merlin And The War Of The Dragons
The Dukes
Extraordinary Measures
Invictus (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus
Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus/30,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Merlin And The War Of The Dragons
The Messenger
The New Daughter
9 Songs
Outlander
The Spy Next Door (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
30,000 Leagues Under The Sea
2012: Doomsday
2012: Doomsday/Countdown: Armageddon
Valentine’s Day (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
Walkabout (The Criterion Collection)
War Of The Worlds 2: The Next Wave
War Of The Worlds 2: The Next Wave/The Day The Earth Stopped
VIDEO GAMES
section by: Justin Clark and SCOTT!
RED DEAD REDEMPTION
360, PS3
5/18
MSRP: $59.99
Remember Red Dead Revolver? Yeah, me neither. Moving on.
Troubled production doesn’t even begin to cover what was happening behind the scenes at Rockstar while this game was in development, but whatever unhappiness plagued the game in its infancy, it sure as hell hasn’t shown up in any of the fantastic trailers released thus far. While I have the sinking feeling the general structure will have all the positives and negatives of GTA IV, that game’s ambition attached to a still under-utilized genre of gaming is an almost guaranteed win.
ALAN WAKE
Microsoft
360, PC
5/18
MSRP: $59.99
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At this point I don’t know what to feel about Alan Wake. Swap out a few key phrases in the reviews so far, you could easily be describing Silent Hill 2, which should be an instant sell for a lot of gamers, but those same reviews seem to suggest a story that never reaches SH2‘s heights outside of the first chapter, atmosphere that never ups the ante once you’ve seen the initial bag of tricks, and those two elements are necessary to smooth over the klutzy gameplay that apparently plagues both games. Nevertheless, I don’t know how anyone with a yen for survival horror can look at the footage released so far and not let their curiosity get the best of them. If not now, certainly at the first significant price drop.
PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE FORGOTTEN SANDS
UbiSoft
360, PS3, PC, Wii, DS, PSP
MSRP $39.99
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Aw, Ubi Soft, I know you wanted to cash in on that Shirtless Jake Gyllenhaal flick coming out on Friday, but you kinda caught us at a bad time. Surely, you could’ve saved this for one of those dead summer months we’ll be begging for a triple-A title to keep us sane while Twilight: Eclipse is playing on over 9000 screens for the delight of the repressed over- and undersexed around the country, not for when there’s two high profile titles already vying for gamer dollars? And it doesn’t help that, aside from the Prince himself looking like he has a face made of an abdomen, the game actually looks like a return to form for the series. My guilt while tooling around Red Dead Redemption this week will be palpable.
SPLIT/SECOND
Disney Interactive
360, PS3, PC
MSRP: $59.99
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I don’t know what corner of Hades Disney pulled this game out of, but I can’t help but feel like every Criterion Games employee just had a “millions of voices cried out in terror” moment. I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone made a run into Burnout‘s side of the demolition derby racing spectrum, and did it well, but with Burnout Paradise dipping its toes into the open world pool, it’s good to have this game around keeping the crash-into-shit-real-good faith.
TRAUMA TEAM
Atlus
Wii
MSRP: $59.99
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I continue to believe this series’ true home is on the DS, but more Trauma Center is more Trauma Center, and this entry adds 5 different medical fields to the trademark surgery, including one guy who works in the ER by day, is a costumed superhero by night. Shine on, you crazy diamond of a series, you.
OOOOHH: ON THE DLC TIP
METAL SLUG XX
Xbox Live Arcade
5/19
1200 MS pts
Well, it’s Metal Slug. At this point you know whether you’re excited for this or not, because the song’s staying the same here, only now with DLC and co-op. But the formula hasn’t gotten old (yet), and this is one of the few games still upholding the old guard of run n’ gun shooters in any sort of next gen format.
ROCK BAND TUESDAY
Grateful Dead Pack 03 ($9.99/800 MS pts)
- Beat It on Down the Line +
- Cumberland Blues +
- Scarlet Begonias +
- Throwing Stones
- Touch of Grey +
- U.S. Blues +
The Smithereens – A Girl Like You
The Smithereens – Only a Memory +
+=Available in Lego Rock Band
$1.99/160 MS pts per track
The Grateful Dead joins the Foo Fighters and Weezer in the 3-DLC Pack Club this week. I’d say this is the only band of that group that earns it though: They stretch on, but there hasn’t been a Grateful Dead track yet that hasn’t been fun to play. The Smithereens tracks, I haven’t heard in close to ten years now, but my reaction upon hearing them was something along the lines of “Oasis,plus a better handle on melody, minus the dickhead sense of superiority”. This is definitely a good thing.
MUSIC
section by: Jeb Delia
INFINITE ARMS
Band of Horses
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Given the somewhat lackluster new album delivered by the BoDeans recently, it’s nice to have these good fellas offering up those rootsy harmonies and chiming guitars. Ben Bridwell goes the by-now-almost-obligatory “musical collective” route (he’s the only one who actually appears on every track here), but all the players are so in tune with each other that something like the lead single, “Laredo,” feels as tough and together as if they’d been gigging the song for years, while the harmonies on “Blue Beard” are so tight you’d think they’d let Fleet Foxes into the studio. Me, I’d have trimmed the payroll and cut down on some of the backing tracks, but a diffusion of focus is kind of the point of some of the songs. And if Bridwell sometimes sounds like another leftover hippie, at least he’s got the good sense to be worried by that (“On My Way Back Home”).
BROTHERS
The Black Keys
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Two albums into the full-band experiment, I’d say that enlarging the group is diminishing the sound. Where before your imagination would fill in the spaces that Auerbach and Carney left for your ears, now they’re being literally filled, and not always in the most complementary ways—I mean, maybe you imagined cheesy harpsichord fills and backup singers cooing “oooh-aaah” on their earlier albums, but I never did (and that whistling on “Tighten Up” actually makes me a little nervous). The songs are still good—“Ten Cent Pistol” has a nice soul groove, and “Sinister Kid” is a wildly catchy statement of purpose (“That’s me, that’s me—the boy with the broken halo”), and the various studio tricks and guest players work better than they did last time. I suppose you can’t just stay in one place for your entire career. But these days, The Black Keys are a pretty good rock and roll band; they used to be something odder and less easily defined.
LOVE & ITS OPPOSITE
Tracey Thorn
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Marriage and kids seemed like a good enough reason for Thorn to step away from the music scene; the terrors of “middle age” (mind you, she’s younger than Madonna) seem to have been compelling enough to prompt her return. This album’s even starker and bleaker than 2007’s Out of the Woods, and the lyrics can be an unflinching mirror (“Can you guess my age in this light?” she asks in the appropriately depressing “Singles Bar”). But, then, who better to ask such questions than a pop star whose sensual, worldly younger self is preserved forever on CD’s and iPods all over the world, and who has to see that contrast all the time. And the album’s title is apt: the opposite of “love” is certainly not “hate,” but the kind of bland indifference to emotion that Thorn’s voice can convey at its coolest. Great cover: Thorn and Jens Lekman on Lee Hazelwood’s “Come On Home To Me.”
LIVE ON THE SUNSET STRIP
Otis Redding and His Orchestra
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I’d call this, not Exile On Main Street, the week’s most important re-release… except, incredibly, most of this stuff hasn’t been released before: three complete live sets, on two CD’s, of the greatest soul singer of his day ripping apart the Whiskey A Go Go at the height of his power in 1966, in sharp, clear sound. I’m generally not a fan of the “kitchen sink” approach to this sort of musicology (exercising a bit of critical judgement is what editors are supposed to get paid for), but in this case, I’ll excuse it: if they had stuck to just the most obvious selections from the Redding catalog, I’d never have these versions of “A Hard Day’s Night” or “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag.” And so what if there’s five versions of “Satisfaction” on here—it’s not like I wouldn’t listen to him sing the song five times over.
OTHER NOTABLE 5/18 MUSIC RELEASES
LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening. OK, it’s probably my worst impulses showing through, but the song from this album I can’t get out of my head is “Drunk Girls.” The smooth groove of “You Wanted a Hit” damn well gets the job done, too.
Janelle Monáe, The ArchAndroid. Pretentious sci-fi bullshit? Maybe. But trust me—
The Rolling Stones, Exile on
Crooked Still, Some Strange Country. Here’s the hook: smooth, pure folkie vocals laid on top of some of the most frenetic bluegrass playing around.
Nas and Damian Marley, Distant Relatives. In the marriage of dub and hip-hop, I’m guessing the reception will be amazing.
Mindi Abair, In Hi-Fi Stereo. There’s plenty of young women out there learning to play E-Z Listening “jazz lite” on guitar or piano, but it’s the sax players that get the push (see: Candy Dulfer, Katja Rieckermann, etc.). I suspect it’s because the Marketing department likes the idea of hotties who lick their lips, then put something hard in their mouth and blow. Better this than Kenny G, anyway.
Susan Cowsill, Lighthouse. Yes, THAT Susan Cowsill.
Mary Gauthier, The Foundling. Is genuine tragedy more compelling than tragedy imagined? The case would be made stronger by more compelling music than is on offer here.
THE WEEK OF MAY 18th 2010
GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON
DVD/BR SECTION by: Troy Anderson
INVICTUS
Director: Clint Eastwood
Warner Brothers
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Special Features
- In-depth picture-in-picture: explore the movie’s creation with those
who lived the real-life saga as well as the cast and filmmakers
Mandela meets Morgan
The Eastwood Factor: Clint Eastwood looks back at his films and career
Matt Damon plays rugby
Invictus music trailer
Invictus was supposed to be a paint by the numbers movie. Hell, I’m a huge Eastwood fan and I wasn’t expecting anything from the flick. But, what Eastwood managed to do was create the first essential sports film about rugby. It’s about more than the sport, it’s about a people coming to define themselves in the modern era. Morgan Freeman does his career best as Mandela. Taking subtle cues and building as a quiet lead, Freeman does what other actors fail to do. He respects the story.
THE MESSENGER
d. Oren Moverman
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Special Features
Officers and the families of fallen soldiers by Joe Kelly and John
Vernon
Audio commentary with Oren Moverman, Lawrence Inglee, Ben Foster, and Woody Harrelson
“Going Home”: Reflections from the set
“Variety” Screening Series Q& A with Oren Moverman, Woody
Harrelson, Alessandro Camon, Lawrence Inglee, Ben Foster, and Bobby
Bukowski
“The Messenger” shooting script
The Messenger would have to be the Hal Ashby style answer film for the War on Terror. Trying to address the soldier’s return to the private sector is never easy to accomplish onscreen. Most of the time it becomes heavy-handed, while other times it turns into Travis Bickle gunning down a pimp. Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson play well off each other, as they take different approaches to their casualty notification assignment. Sure, it’s sacred. But, what does it do to these men? Watching the results has made this film one of my favorite cinematic experiences of last year.
VALENTINE’S DAY
d. Garry Marshall
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The stars confess their Valentine’s Day stories
Commentary by director Garry Marshall
The Garry factor
Jewel “Stay Here Forever” music video
Blooper reel
Exclusive Sex and the City 2 sneak peek trailer
Additional scenes
Valentine’s Day is the film that will play on the other television. The man television will be left for playing Red Dead Redemption and watching Lost. In between your stints on The Island and the Old West, the female will tell you stories about celebrities finding love. There will be talk about that delightful Bradley Cooper and how she loves that Black Eyed Peas song. You won’t care, you have the other television. Purchasing this film as a femme bait was a smart decision. You’re just that clever.
EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES
c. Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell
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Special Features
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- Deleted Scenes
