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NEW RELEASES
*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD BLUE
Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief $16.99 $25.99
Hot Tub Time Machine $17.99 $24.99
The Crazies (2010) $17.99 $24.99
The Closer: Season 5 $29.99
Twilight $22.99 $27.99
Twilight: New Moon $22.99 $27.99
Remember Me $17.99 $21.99
TV ON DVD
Eastbound and Down: Season 1 $16.99
Weeds: Seasons 3-4 $18.99
Family Guy: Something, Something Dark Side $16.99
Breaking Bad: Season 1 $16.99
30 Rock: Season 3 $16.99
Better Off Ted: Season 1 $8.99
Monk: Seasons 4-5 $16.99
Seinfeld: Seasons 1-9 $14.99
$6.50 DVDs
The Holiday
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Bell, Book and Candle
The Cat in the Hat (live-action crapfest)
$4.75 DVDs
The Lost Boys
Dennis the Menace
Overboard
Sense and Sensibility
$14.99 AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER TWO-PACKS
Book 1: Volumes 1 & 2
Book 1: Volumes 3 & 4———————————————–
NEW RELEASES
*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD BLUE
Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief $17.99 $26.99
Hot Tub Time Machine $17.99 $26.99
The Crazies (2010) $15.99 $19.99
Eureka: Season 3.5 $19.99
Alice in Wonderland (2010) $13.99
True Blood: Season 2 $39.99 $49.99
$14.99
Alvin and the Chimpmunks
Horton Hears a Who!
Jumper
27 Dresses
The Simpsons Movie
What Happens in Vegas
$24.99
It’s Complicated
Inglorious Bastards
Alvin and the Chipmunks The Squeakuel
Gamer
Tooth Fairy
Fantastic Mr. Fox
MEGA DVD Sale
$4.99
Adventures in Babysitting
$6.99
Alvin and the Chimpmunks
Horton Hears a Who!
Jumper
27 Dresses
The Simpsons Movie
What Happens in Vegas
The Goonies
$7.99
Top Gun
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
$9.99
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
The Breakfast Club
Video
Target
Buy a white Wii console, get Just Dance free
Best Buy
Buy ANY Nintendo Wii Game and Get a Second for 50% off.
RZ Gamers Club Members receive 500 bonus points ($10 value) with the purchase of Singularity this week
TOYS R US
Buy 1, get 1 40% off on all PS3, PS2, and PSP games
Buy 1, get 1 50% off on all $19.99 and under games
Buy 1 , get 1 50% off on select $29.99 DS games
Buy a PS3 console and an additional controller, get Blur free
Save $25 on DSi or Lite Club Penguin bundle
Buy any Wii console, get a $10 gift card
Buy any of these select Wii games, get a $10 gift card with each one:
* Lego Harry Potter
* The Last Airbender
* Sin & Punishment
* Just Dance
* Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
* Wii Fit Plus Bundle
* Dance on Broadway
* New Super Mario Bros. Wii
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Buy Lego Harry Potter $49.99, get these featured Lego games for 50% off: Lego Rock Band, Lego Indiana Jones, and Lego Batman
Singularity $59.99 w/ $25 gaming software coupon** (get Prototype FREE by mail when you purchase the 360 version)
Buy The Last Airbender $39.99, get $5 Rewards and FREE Last Airbender tattoo stickers
MLB 10: The Show $34.99
Alpha Protocol $34.99
Resonance of Fate $34.99
Naughty Bear $34.99
Ninety Nine Nights 2 $44.99 will be in stores by Friday, deal runs through July 10th
Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles $6.99
THIS WEEK’S DVD REVIEWS at CHUD
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THE REST OF THE DVDs THIS WEEK
Airline Disaster
Ancient Ink (The History Channel)
Antarctica
The Art Of Violin (Kultur)
Basilisk: The Complete Series
Bass Ackwards
BBC Earth: How The Earth Changed History
Beautiful
Ben 10: Alien Force, Vol. 7
A Bit Of A Do
Blood On The Highway
Bonnie’s Kids (Special Edition)
Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same
The Brotherhood VI: Initiation
Burning Paradise
The Celts: The Complete Epic Saga (Kultur)
The Closer: The Complete Fifth Season
The Crazies
Crazy: The Hank Garland Story
Creation
Days Of Thrills And Laughter
The Devil Within
Don McKay
The Eclipse
Eureka: Season 3.5
Everlasting Moments (The Criterion Collection)
First Love
Follow Me
Gintama, Collection 2
Hockney At The Tate (Kultur)
Homeland
Hot Tub Time Machine
How The Earth Was Made: The Complete Season Two
Inbred Redneck Vampires
Initial D: Fourth Stage, Pt. 2
It Came From Kuchar
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
The Last Big Thing
Leave It To Beaver: The Complete Series
The Legend And The Hero II
Lorna The Exorcist
Love Games (Mya)
Lust (Mya)
Mad About You: The Complete Fourth Season
Madeline’s Great Adventures
My Pony
Naked Obsession (Mya)
Naruto: Uncut Season Three, Box Set Vol. 1
National Geographic: A Traveler’s Guide To The Planets
The Navy Vs. The Night Monsters
New York Confidential
Next: A Primer On Urban Painting (Arthouse Films 014)
Night Train To Munich (The Criterion Collection)
A Nocturne: Night Of The Vampire
Nuclear Hurricane
Once More With Feeling
The Pagan Queen
Paranormal Cops: The Complete Season One
Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Plain Truth (Lifetime)
Pretty Bird
The Queen And I
The Real McCoys: Complete Season Four
Red Barry
Red Vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles – The First Five Seasons
Rem Koolhaas: A Kind Of Architect (Arthouse Films 013)
St Urbain’s Horseman
Sandok (Mya)
Say Hello To Yesterday
The Season
Seduction Cinema: Late-Nite TV – Sexy-Spoof Collection
Shaolin Prince (Shaw Brothers)
Stolen
String Theory
Submission Of A Woman (Mya)
SuicideGirls Must Die!
Teenage Hitchhikers
The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo! The Complete Series
Tokyo Train Girls: Private Lessons
Tokyo Train Girls 2: Supervixen
Tokyo Train Girls 3: Sensuous Nurse
Tokyo Train Girls 4: Young Wife’s Desires
The Treasures Of Long Gone John
Uncle Vanya
Van der Valk Mysteries, Set 2
Visions Of New York City
Walk With The Master: The Story Of The Sites Of The Buddha (Kultur)
Warehouse 13: Season One
The Warlords
When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors
The White Ribbon
Wholphin, No. 11
WWE: Ricky Steamboat – The Life Story Of The Dragon
Wycliffe: Series Three
BLU-RAY: IT’S GETTING CHEAPER
BBC Earth: How The Earth Changed History
Beautiful
Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same
The Crazies
Crazy: The Hank Garland Story
Don McKay
The Eclipse
Everlasting Moments (The Criterion Collection)
Eyes On The Sky
Heroes Two
Hot Tub Time Machine
Kill Switch
Kill Switch (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
The Leopard (The Criterion Collection)
National Geographic: A Traveler’s Guide To The Planets
Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
Predator (Ultimate Hunter Edition)
Stolen
Uncle Sam
Versus
The Warlords
When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors
The White Ribbon
Wicked Lake (Director’s Cut) (Blu-ray/DVD/CD Combo Pack)
section by: Justin Clark and SCOTT!
LEGO HARRY POTTER: YEARS 1-4
Warner Home Video Games
360, PS3, Wii, DS, PSP
6/29
MSRP: $59.99, $49.99 Wii, $29.99 DS/PSP
The Lego games have proven something that I always suspected for years, but needed these games to test the hypothesis: Legos are always, will always be awesome. These games simply do not age. Though stagnant and repetitive at times, there’s such an irresistible charm to these things, and the people making them absolutely *get* why these games work, and the little things crammed into this newest iteration suggest that they might actually be trying to combat the slight, stale nature of these things. Kids, on the other hand, generally won’t give a fuck about anything in that last paragraph, and will flock to this sucker like a stranger with candy.
NINETY-NINE NIGHTS 2
Konami
360
6/29
MSRP: $59.99
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Eventually, someone will have to sit me down and explain, in detail, how people keep fucking this up. Dynasty Warriors, but prettier, plus magic. How hard can that be? Koei could churn one of those out while half the dev team’s on the shitter if they cared enough. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Konami have both taken swipes at this and failed miserably, while Square and Capcom have tried this with their own failed franchises with similar results. There has to be some ancient Chinese curse involved or something.
SINGULARITY
Activision
360, PS3, PC
6/29
MSRP: $59.99
Raven Software managed to sift out the tiniest of diamonds from the Devil’s Tower of multimedia shitpiles the world knows as X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Now it seems they might have pulled off an equally impressive task by making an FPS that isn’t trying to be Bioshock, nor involves space marines, and actually has a gimmick–in this case, time travel–that may actually work off the drawing board. That’s almost as miraculous as magnets.
SIN AND PUNISHMENT: STAR SUCCESSOR
Treasure
Wii
6/27
MSRP: $49.99
Attention hardcore Nintendo fans who haven’t jumped ship to the big-boy consoles: This game is your last chance. Either you pick this up, and reward an awesome developer taking the time to polish the everliving fuck out of a glorious shooter for consumption by an American audience after hearing us bitch and moan for years about how we never got its predecessor, or you officially lose your right to make a single complaint about this system ever again. And I mean any complaint. Lost a Wiimote? Fuck you. Netflix not giving you the resolution you want? Fuck you. Just got Falcon Punched out even though you had only 72% damage? Fuck you. Just got beat over the head 33 times in public by a crowbar-wielding hobo who stole your credit cards and your sandwich and your woman? Fuck you. That one doesn’t even have anything to do with the Wii but you deserve your fate nonetheless, you spineless, unsupportive punks. My well of sympathy for Wii owners will run absolutely dry should this game fail.
OTHER GAMES OF INTEREST
All Points Bulletin (EA; PC; $49.99)
Naughty Bear (360, PS3; $49.99)
Deathsmiles (Cave; 360; $49.99)
Sniper: Ghost Warrior (City Interactive; XBox 360, PC; $39.99/$29.99)
The Last Airbender (THQ; Wii, DS; $39.99/$29.99)
ROCK BAND TUESDAY
Nickelback Pack 01 ($9.99/800 MS pts)
- Burn It to the Ground
- Figured You Out
- Never Again
- Photograph
- Rockstar
- This Afternoon
$1.99/160 MS pts each
“Sometimes, being an adult means doing things you maybe don’t want to do.” – Harmonix’s Casey Malone, via Twitter
Music
Section By Jeb D.
NIGHT WORK
Scissor Sisters
If great pop music didn’t carry the danger of an annoyance factor, it wouldn’t work so well in commercials. But it does, and this album is about as ideal an example as you’ll hear. Shears and company mined the catalog of every band that has ever lodged irreplacably, mercilessly in your brain– ABBA, Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band– laid on a patina of Elton glitz and post-Madonna sass, and dumped it out onto the dance floor. Your ears may scream “Turn it off! Turn it off!!”. But your feet would like a word with them.
STREET SONGS OF LOVE
Alejandro Escovedo
Escovedo’s been called the Last True Believer, and that’s not just an allusion to one of his former bands. He’s an artist of conscience and commitment: some years back, he stopped performing his greatest song when he learned it was on George Bush’s iPod. And that kind of all-in commitment to his music drives his best work, which at this point is on a three-album win streak. For all his respect among his peers (No Depression magazine called him the “Artist of the Decade” around 1999, and I was never sure if they meant the one past or the one to come), his willingness to experiment with things like rock and roll string quartets has sometimes stretched his compositional gifts past the breaking point. But on the heels of the seductive The Boxing Mirror and the autobiographical Real Animal, the focus and determination on this new album might be what finally puts him across to a wider audience. Produced by Tony Visconti, with guests like Bruce Springsteen and Ian Hunter, Escovedo again works with co-writer Chuck Prophet to deliver a set of songs that pulse with the kind of passion and sweat that made you fall in love with rock and roll in the first place: “She said her first love was her last / So she cries when she hears Johnny Cash.” Strongly recommended to fans of The Hold Steady and Gaslight Anthem (as well as, you know, Springsteen).
STARING DOWN THE BRILLIANT DREAM
Indigo Girls
Long-term friends and partners; crusaders for every worthwhile cause imaginable (and probably a few that aren’t– either worthwhile OR imaginable). And so completely earnest, honest, and sincere that I’m not even going to raise the possibility that their releasing yet another live double has been timed to coincide with the revival of Lilith Fair (well, maybe I am). Beyond their sterling personal qualities, of course, there’s the vocals, rough-hewn by decades on the road, but with the most bracing harmonies this side of the Everlys. Anyway, if you’ve ever heard an Indigo Girls song in your life, the chances are pretty good that it’s here; my problem is that I can never remember any of those songs five minutes after I’ve heard them, but maybe that’s just me.
FRANK FAIRFIELD’S PAWN RECORDS PRESENTS UNHEARD OFS & FORGOTTEN ABOUTS
Various Artists
If you saw Fleet Foxes live last year, you might have caught their opening act: a courtly older gentleman making vital music on fiddle and banjo. Frank Fairfield has been performing music for over half a century, but he’s also been preserving it, in something close to its natural state, on his own record label. This collection gathers together some of the rare and fascinating recordings from all over the world that Fairfield has collected over the years, providing startling glimpses into the sound of bygone life, much of it from a time when preserving a human voice forever was barely a step up from black magic. Heaven knows, this album could be a sampler’s delight, with unearthly, long-forgotten sounds from folks like Goerit Grisee & Bok Djam, a group identified as the “Sudanese Wandering Minstrels” singing what sounds like “Go Tell Aunt Rhody,” the dark, elegant jazz of Sandor Nemeth’s Gypsy Orchestra, and a version of “La Bamba” from before Richie Valens was born. My favorite, though, is from Tauta Archer, whose chanted “Ama Ama” is clearly the original source for Plastic Bertrand’s “Ca Plane Pour Moi.”
Other Notable 6/29 Music Releases
Wolf Parade, EXPO 86. I understand that there’s some kind of rivalry going among the band’s hardcore fans as to whether Boeckner or Krug is the better writer. Dunno if it counts as a “win,” but guitarist Krug does seem more the driving force on this album, which feels louder, heavier, and more focused than previous efforts.
Jackie Greene, Till The Light Comes. I used to think he was at his best when he rocks harder than he thinks, and I suppose that’s still true. But compared to this week’s releases by, say, Wolf Parade or Escovedo, he really doesn’t even rock that hard. Maybe it’s thinking too hard that’s the problem.
Peter Case, Wig!. Escovedo’s not the only guy this week who’s making music after coming off his deathbed. In Case’s case (ahem), though, this is his first post-recovery effort, and it’s a heapin’ helpin’ of raw, dirty low-down blues and rock and roll stomp.
Kenny Burrell, Be Yourself. Quite possibly my favorite jazz guitarist of all time, in a vital new live recording. Fewer standards than you might expect from the 79-year-old Burrell, and on numbers like “Raincheck” and “Bass Face,” the band grooves like a single instrument. Damn fine shit.
Hawkwind, Blood of the Earth. Guys are late. We’ve already had “comeback month” when we had Devo, Steve Miller, Cowboy Junkies, Elvin Bishop, Suzanne Vega, fucking Gary Wright, and goddam Foghat.
John Zorn: Goddess: Music for the Ancient of Days. The title of this album might lead you to expect some new-agey harp and piano settings of music to Gaia or other related female earth deities. And you’d be right. But it’s the last damn thing I ever expected to hear from John Zorn. And Marc Ribot’s on here somewhere, too.
Kenny G., Heart and Soul. Oh, just fuck this guy sideways.
THE WEEK OF JUNE 29th 2010
GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE
Director: Steve Pink
MGM/FOX
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Special Features
Hot Tub Time Machine was a fun comedy, but I’m tired of the 1980s now. When you look at the half-hearted embrace of the Reagan/Thatcher era, you have to wonder why? Sure, it’s fun to talk about cocaine and fear of AIDS-related death. But, the jokes you can mine out of that material isn’t any better than any other time. This film is still pretty good, even though it comes with an unnecessary Unrated cut. What got axed from the film to drop it down to an R? I didn’t see the little fat kid from “Sex Drive” plowing any ass. What’s sadder is the fact that John Cusack is stuck with the thankless role of the old bastard. It’s weird to throw an 80s icon on the backburner, but Rob Corddry and Craig Robinson pick up the slack.
THE CRAZIES (2010)
Director: Breck Eisner
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Special Features
• Featurettes
• Motion Comics
• Storyboards
• Image Gallery
• Screenplay
• Trailers
The Crazies (2010) was a horror remake that almost worked. Director Breck Eisner is one of those guys who is just the right project away from exploding. Sure, he’s had a misfire with Sahara in the past. But, the guy is right in the same place that Gore Verbinski was when The Ring was being developed for an American remake. There’s talent exhibited during the horrific action scenes and rushed crowds of potentially infected vs. the Army. But, you’ve got a weird mix of B-list actors and character talent that seems to fight over the story direction. When the third act comes along, it poops the bed harder than Batman begun. On the upside, Anchor Bay/Starz/whatever they are now produced a truly incredible Special Edition package that would put most major studios to shame.
THE LEOPARD (CRITERION COLLECTION)
d. Luchino Visconti
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• Commentary
• Documentary
• Interviews
• Trailers
• Newsreels
• Gallery
• Essay
The Leopard was one of the most important works of Italian Cinema. When Criterion first delivered a superb 3-Disc DVD release, no one thought it could be topped. The tales of Don Salina and his battles with the warring factions of 1860s Italy. Unlike most historical epics, Visconti taps into something amazing with Burt Lancaster’s performance. Sure, he’s there for key moments in Italy’s national history. What’s different is that he’s emotional in his response to the seething seas of change around him. People make him angry, women make him lustful and the threat of loss makes him defensive. This isn’t a passive tale of costumed aristocrats sitting around and moaning. This is a living, breathing work of art.
NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH
d. Carol Reed
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Special Features
- Interview
- Booklet
Night Train to Munich is
one of those great Carol Reed movies that came out before his Post World War II golden period. Rex Harrison and Margaret Lockwood star as the leads in this unofficial sequel to The Lady Vanishes. Lockwood is the daughter of a Czech scientist who manages to escape the Nazi Invaders. The guy’s kind of a douche, since he left his daughter behind to get sent to a concentration camp. Harrison plays a British agent who works with Lockwood, so that she may escape the foul Germans and flee to England. It’s a film very much of its time, but the espionage and adventure is a refreshing addition to the Criterion Collection. What’s also amazing is the level of restoration shown to the new transfer for the DVD. I have never seen this film look better and I recommend a viewing to all.
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