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*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD BLUE
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season $29.99
Shutter Island $16.99 $24.99
From Paris with Love $17.99 $24.99
Nip/Tuck: Season 6 $39.99
Starstruck: Extended Edition $17.99 $19.99
Iron Man $13
Star Trek (2009) $15.99
X-Men Origins: Wolverine $14.99
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $15.99
True Blood: Season 2 $34.99 $54.99
Sons of Anarchy: Season 1 $24.99 $34.99
$14.99 BLU-RAY sale
Taken
Quantum of Solace
Braveheart
The Godfather
Gladiator
Fight Club
$19.99 BLU-RAY sale
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Iron Man
Saving Private Ryan
Star Trek (2009)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
$7.50 DVD sale
Tombstone
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forrest Gump
American Gangster
$10 DVD sale
Taken
Quantum of Solace
Yes Man
Step Brothers
$14.99
Entourage: Seasons 1-5
The Big Bang Theory: Seasons 1-2
Two and a Half Men: Seasons 1-6
Psych: Season 3
$18.99
Family Guy: Volumes 1-7
Monk: Seasons 4-8
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Volumes 1-4
$24.99
24: Season 7
The Simpsons: Season 20
RECENT RELEASE SALE
Crazy Heart $14.99 $22.99
The Blind Side $16.99 $22.99
Surrogates $15.99 $19.99
Legion $15.99 $19.99
The Spy Next Door $15.99 $19.99
Old Dogs $15.99 $25.99 ———————————————–
NEW RELEASES
*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD BLUE
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season $29.99
Shutter Island $17.99 $25.99
From Paris with Love $17.99 $24.99
Nip/Tuck: Season 6 $39.99
The Hurt Locker $12.99 $14.99
Avatar $14.99
The Tudors: Season 2 $14.99
Dexter: Season 2 $14.99
Breaking Bad: Season 2 $17.99
Supernatural: Season 4 $19.99
Smallville: Season 8 $19.99
30 Rock: Season 3 $19.99
The Boondocks: Season 2 $19.99
Fringe: Season 1 $19.99
The Office: Season 5 $19.99
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 $19.99
Mad Men: Season 3 $19.99
Rescue Me: Season 4 $19.99
Burn Notice: Season 2 $19.99
Bones: Season 3 $24.99
$14.99 BLU-RAY sale
The Hurt Locker
Angels and Demons
Moon
Zombieland
District 9
2012
Wedding Crashers
The Hangover
Terminator: Salvation
The Wrestler
The Departed
The Stepfather (2009)
The Boondock Saints 2
Carlito’s Way
Wyatt Earp
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Price of Persia: The Forgotten Sands: $47.99
Just Cause 2: $47.99
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa: $47.99
Skate 3: $47.99
Bioshock 2: $47.99
Starcraft Battle Chest (PC): $9.99
Zuma’s Revenge (PC): $14.99
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 $59.99/$49.99 + FREE $10 GC (for any system)
Best Buy
Lego Indiana Jones 2 $19.99 for all systems including DS and PSP.
Splinter Cell Conviction $39.99 Xbox
MLB 2K10 $39.99 Xbox and Wii
World of Warcraft Battle Chest $29.99
WOW: Wrath of the Lich King $29.99
Tetris Party Deluxe $29.99 Wii and DS
Afterglow controllers for any system $29.99
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THIS WEEK’S DVD REVIEWS at CHUD
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THE REST OF THE DVDs THIS WEEK
The A-Team: The Complete Series
Animal Planet: Between Two Worlds
Animation Express
BBC Earth: Oceans
Before And After Stonewall (25th Anniversary Edition)
Bleach: Season Five Box Set – The Assault
Bloodlock
Bob Hope: Thanks For The Memories Collection
Buddha On The Silk Road
Coach (2010 Movie)
The Cry Of The Owl
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season
Cycles
Dog City: The Movie
Family Matters: The Complete First Season
The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It
From Paris With Love
Ghostwriter: Season One
Hot Wheels Battle Force 5: Season One, Vol. 2
IMAX: Horses – The Story Of Equus
Dog City: The Movie
Metal Man
MLB: Reds Memories – The Greatest Moments In Cincinnati Reds History
Nip/Tuck: The Sixth And Final Season
Not The Messiah
180 Degrees South: Conquerors Of The Useless
Power Kids
Samurai Deeper Kyo: TV Series Perfect Collection
Shinjuku Incident
Shutter Island
SPK Curriculum: Our God Saves
Squatterpunk
StarStruck (Extended Edition DVD) (2010 Disney Channel Movie)
StarStruck (Extended Edition DVD/Soundtrack CD Set) (2010 Disney Channel Movie)
Stigma
Tales Of The Gold Monkey: The Complete Series
TCM Spotlight: Charlie Chan Collection
Toe To Toe
WWE: The Undertaker’s Deadliest Matches
Z Rock: Season Two
BLU-RAY: IT’S GETTING CHEAPER
Animal Planet: Between Two Worlds
Animation Express
Buddha On The Silk Road
Caddyshack
From Paris With Love
Happy Together (1997) (Kino)
Ice Road Truckers: The Complete Season Three
The Illusionist (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
Not The Messiah
180 Degrees South: Conquerors Of The Useless
Power Kids
Red Violin
Shutter Island
UFC: Rampage Greatest Hits
MUSIC
Section by Jeb D.
　
SHADOWS
Teenage Fanclub
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Five years on from Man-Made, about the only thing that seems to have changed is that the band seems less reliant on drilling every hook into your brain through endless repetition: their arrangments are getting to be as tight and to the point as their writing, making each sublime melody that much more delectable. There is a very short list of bands that could write a song called “When I Still Have Thee” and not have it come off as cheaply ironic or unbearably twee. Instead, like the other gems on this album, it’s heartfelt power pop at its best (and most enigmatic: “Well, the Rolling Stones / Wrote a song for me / It’s a minor song / In a major key“).
　
IF I HAD A HI-FI
Nada Surf
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OK, covering Spoon I might have expected; Depeche Mode and even Kate Bush, sure. But Dwight Twilley? The Moody fucking Blues? This is a covers album of rare genius. I’d like to think that if I’d made it to Record Store Day this year, I’d have snagged the vinyl version, but I doubt I’d have been that perceptive. It’s a genuine ear-opener, though, and I’m glad to have it now; the carnival keyboards on “I Remembered What I Was Going to Say” are almost worth the price of the album alone, but track after track gives up some similar musical left-turn that keeps the sound consistent, but never gets complacent. And, damn, that cover of “Question” is absolutely addictive. Plus, the title’s a palindrome, so extra credit there, fellas.
　
THE BLACK DIRT SESSIONS
Deer Tick
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If the idea of a rootsy singer-songwriter with ambitions to be a Deano / Sammy-style crooner isn’t odd enough, try the fact that John McCauley has been known to perform in moderately sized theaters with no amplification… as in, none at all (no mike). Never actually heard him do it, but there’s enough cracked character in his voice that you can easily imagine him putting the songs across that way. And the songs are worth the listen: “Twenty Miles” is typical: a “give me one more chance” number where our narrator admits the usual set of alt-country transgressions (“I deserve every stone that got thrown down at me“), but then asks to be forgiven because “I think of your smile and I’m in love with your teeth.” Plus, when was the last time you heard a songwriter compare the current state of the world to “Mange”? A must for fans of John Prine or Townes Van Zandt; a pretty good recommendation for anyone else.
Other Noteworthy 6/8 Music Releases
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Soundtrack
. With great new tracks from (among others) Vampire Weekend, Florence and the Machine, and The Dead Weather, plus an amazing cover of “Let’s Get Lost” by Beck and Bat For Lashes, this actually might be the best album of the week. But I’ll be goddamned if I was gonna put up a graphic of that stupid album cover.
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
When a band waits till their third album to self-title, that typically suggests renewed purpose. And I will say that there’s more, say, Susan Tedeschi than Bonnie Raitt this time out. But less personality, too: there’s nothing with the observational specificity of “Toothbrush And My Table,” and on tracks like “Colors,” she approaches Stevie Nicks at her wimpiest. Not bad when it’s rocking, but did it really take three albums for her to come up with “What don’t kill you makes you stronger”?
Dierks Bentley, Up on the Ridge. I’m not sure that even Bob Dylan himself would think it worth his time to record “Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)” these days, but how else you gonna prove you’re not just another Nashville hunk? It’s all rootsy fiddle and frenetic bluegrass backing this time out. The originals are OK, the covers an interesting assortment: if you’ve misplaced your copy of Pickin’ On U2, Bentley’s cover of “Pride (In The Name Of Love)” will tide you over.
Hanson, Shout It Out. OK, I’ll admit that Tinted Windows gave the impression that at least one Hanson might have something more to offer than warmed-over bubblegum soul. But then I remembered that Taylor’s brothers were actually not members of Cheap Trick, Smashing Pumpkins, and Fountains of Wayne, which is the part of Tinted Windows that I actually enjoyed. Not terrible, but your life’s too short to spend forty minutes with this album.
Nevermore, The Obsidian Conspiracy. I don’t think I want to hear these guys cover The Doors’ “The Crystal Ship.” And if “She Comes In Colors” is, in fact, the song from Love’s Da Capo album, I’d probably want them hunted down and shot. So maybe it’s best I don’t actually listen to this one at all.
Andy Bell, Non-Stop. Hard to think of a better title for an album that is clearly designed for a full evening on the dance floor. A little deeper and darker sounding than Erasure, and maybe even a bit more disco-glam, if that’s even possible.
Orianthi, Believe (II). What I believe is that some people should just shut up and play their guitar.
Rooney, Eureka. Competent power pop and lite soul. Won’t disturb your sleep, but won’t sound at all bad on a summer afternoon.
Gary Wright, Connected. The only reason I’m not saying something snarky about this album is that I haven’t heard it. But I once saw this poor sod open for the J. Geils Band (back in their bluesrockin’ days), performing onstage in a nightgown. Hard to top that.
Jewel, Sweet and Wild. You don’t care what this album sounds like, and neither do I.
section by: Justin Clark and SCOTT!
EA/Harmonix
360, PS3, Wii
6/8
MSRP: $59.99; $49.99 Wii
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I’m not against a Green Day Rock Band game. The band’s been around long enough and left enough fuckawful punk bands in their wake to have earned that level of status, and hey, any move that results in Harmonix getting more money to do what they do best is fine by me. And oh yes, this game will sell. I’m almost certain I would be one of the people buying a copy if the game didn’t just pretend Kerplunk didn’t happen, or the band’s “growing up” period (Nimrod and Warning) wasn’t marginalized to the point of irrelevance. It’d be like Beatles Rock Band being comprised of Magical Mystery Tour and Let It Be and nothing else. Wait…..I’d still buy that. Never mind.
360, PS3, Wii
6/8
MSRP: $59.99, $49.99 Wii
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There is nothing this game can provide for me that this has not already. But if realistic, no-nonsense golf is your deal, this is pretty much the only game in town, so, have at it.
METAL GEAR SOLID: PEACE WALKER
Konami
PSP
6/8
MSRP: $39.99
MGS 4 drained the last drop of Give A Fuck I had for this series, but in this ever increasing failurepile, MGS 3 is still the closest to actually resembling a game that you can play. Peace Walker is a direct sequel, and takes many of its story cues from that game, which already puts it on higher ground than most of the things that have happened since MGS2. On top of that, though, the second half actually tells the story to take a bit of a hike as the game focuses on–are you sitting down?–GAMEPLAY. Remember that? That thing in video games where people aren’t talking and you can move around and do stuff? I missed that.
MEGA MAN: ZERO COLLECTION
Capcom
DS
6/8
MSRP: $29.99
Before Mega Man 9 and 10, I’d have been all over this. Now….well, it’s still a collection of the best, most ball-bustingly difficult platformers ever. We’re just not begging for them like a dog for table scraps anymore.
OOOOHH: ON THE DLC TIP
EARTHWORM JIM HD
Gameloft
Xbox Live
6/9
800 MS pts
It’s one of the greatest, most innovative platformers ever made, redrawn from scratch in HD, with all the additional content from the superior but criminally underplayed Sega CD port (although nobody’s mentioned if thats where they’re getting the remixed soundtrack from, or if they got Tommy Tallerico to take another swipe at it), plus 3 brand new levels, including one which pits Jim against Keyboard Cat, and 4-player co-op. Aside from a bit of iffy voice acting from the recently released trailer (I’ve never supported this need of the series to take away Jim’s redneck accent), everything that we ever loved about the game is here.
Yes, I will think of less of you as a person for not downloading this.
ROCK BAND TUESDAY
Deftones Pack 01 ($5.49/440 MS pts)
• Cherry Waves
• Hole In The Earth
• Minerva
Boys Like Girls – The Great Escape
Crown of Thorns – Rock Ready
$1.99/160 MS pts per track
Just like the Pantera pack two weeks ago: Right band, wrong album(s). But unlike the Great Southern Trendkill, these aren’t even any particular display of talent from anyone in that band. They’re not bad songs, but they’re probably the most boring to play compared to just about anything else in their discography. There may have to be some mild rioting if Deftones Pack 2 comes around without My Own Summer in it.
As for the other two? Boys Like Girls is generic, whiny pop rock at its most annoying, Crown Of Thorns at least gets points for looking like the people at every goth club I’ve ever been in, while sounding like every strip club I’ve ever been in. Instead of getting goth strippers, we get basically a black Motley Crue. Um…..hooray?
THE WEEK OF JUNE 8th 2010
GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON
DVD/BR SECTION by: Troy Anderson
SHUTTER ISLAND
Director: Martin Scorsese
Paramount
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Special Features
Featurettes
Shutter Island was this odd holdover from last year. A lot of internet film enthusiasts cast doubt on the quality of the film after the bump to 2010. It turns out they were right to a point. Scorsese’s latest didn’t have a shot in Hell during last year’s Oscar season. The only hope that one could have was that it would’ve kept The Blind Side from a Best Picture nomination. Hindsight is always fun.
Back to the DVD/Blu-Ray release, we get to see if the film had legs. Four months after the initial viewing, it’s still the same movie. Imagine if Samuel Fuller was still alive and got the chance to do a Silent Hill movie. Litter that concept with some solid character actors and sketchy Dennis Lehane original material. You don’t get a commentary or anything that informative on the supplemental material. I would’ve liked to have heard Scorsese explain himself, but I guess that’ll be left for some future Schickel documentary.
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: THE COMPLETE SEVENTH SEASON
hatched by: Larry David and others
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Special Features
Interviews
Curb Your Enthusiasm fired a shot into the mainstream by staging a Seinfeld reunion. Throughout the seventh season, you get to see how desperate Larry has become in a series defined by futility. The season started off strong with Jeff Garlin mounting Super Dave’s mentally challenged relative. We learned why bare midriffs are bad business. Hell, there was an even a clear-cut correlation between Larry and the creation of George Costanza. The stuff with Cheryl doesn’t even matter that much anymore. Who cares if she makes Larry more human? I want television’s greatest miserly misanthrope to live forever on HBO.
CADDYSHACK
d. Harold Ramis
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Caddyshack means more to me than Citizen Kane. The cinephiles that take fault with that can shove their copies of Empire up their ass sideways. I don’t speak a lot about dreams and hopes for Caddyshack, but it represents a better time in America. A time when the Irish got off the boats and went to Illinois to work as country club waitstaff. There was a time when Chevy Chase was funny and could actually bag young women. Hell, Rodney Dangerfield and Ted Knight were still alive. More importantly, it was right before Bill Murray blew up. That moment in time when he was still finding his cinematic niche. Most of the supplemental material are ports from the DVD, but you get a new Biography Channel documentary about the film’s 30th Anniversary.
NOT THE MESSIAH
d. Aubrey Powell
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Special Features
- The Road to the Albert Hall
- Showtime!
- The Bright Side…
- 6 Sing-Along Songs!
Not the Messiah is proof that Eric Idle is the George Lucas of the Monty Python troupe. Sure, it’s fun to revisit classic moments and share bits with friends. It’s just that it’s time to move the fuck on. Idle leads some friends in a delightful oratorio of the Python troupe’s best film. It’s a delightful attempt to cash in on the Python 40th Anniversary Spectacular, but it leaves me wondering about genre material overload. I can’t really say that I remember when it used to be a geek badge of honor to dig Python. By the time I hit High School, the Python films were required viewing among the cinegeek crowd. When you had 10-15 years to that, you’ve got a generation that’s now seeing Python as this nostalgic commodity. A property that has been traded in for cool until it becomes tired material for the old. A good portion of the CHUD community will check it out, but it doesn’t add up to anything important. This film just happens.
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2 comments
You have Tim Burton down as being the director of "Shutter Island". Just thought I'd point that out.
Yeah. I just saw that. I didn't update that part from last week.
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