SPEND YOUR MONEY!

NEW RELEASES

*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD
BLUE
  
Diary of a Wimpy Kid                      $16.99     $24.99      
Kick-Ass                                         $16.99    $24.99      
The Ghost Writer                             $19.99    $26.99      
Heroes: Season 4                             $39.99    $49.99      

$4.75 DVD sale

Ocean’s Eleven
Stand by Me
Rain Man
Grandma’s Boy

$10 DVD sale

Taken
Julie & Julia
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Cloud with a Chance of Meatballs

BLU-RAY
sale

$14.99

Slumdog Millionaire
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
The Dark Knight
I Am Legend
A Knight’s Tale
The Patriot
The Illusionist

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NEW RELEASES

*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD
BLUE

Diary of a Wimpy Kid                      $19.99     $25.99      
Kick-Ass                                         $17.99    $22.99      
The Ghost Writer                             $16.99    $22.99      
Heroes: Season 4                             $39.99    $49.99      
Elvis: On Tour                                  $27.99      
Mercy: Season 1                              $32.99   
Elvis Collection                                $34.99        
James and the Giant Peach               $26.99  
   
DVD SALE

$3.99

Batman
21 Grams
Wedding Crashers
The Shawshank Redemption
Cape Fear
Lord of War
Memento
Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Million Dollar Baby
Semi-Pro
The Fifth Element

$6.99

Miracle

$9.99

The Dark Knight
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Watchmen
Legion
This Is It
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Crazy Heart
The Final Destination
Terminator: Salvation
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe

$13.99

Finding Nemo
Toy Story

BLU-RAY
sale

$7.99

Righteous Kill
Resident Evil: Extinction
Natural Born Killers
Domino
Unforgiven
Rush Hour 3
Lord of War
Any Given Sunday
The Aviator
Traitor

$12.99

The Hangover
Law Abiding Citizen
The Crazies (2010)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Brooklyn’s Finest
Wall Street
The Men Who Stare at Goats
We Own the Night
Terminator Salvation
Paul Blart Mall Cop
Watchmen

$19.99

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Hot Tub Time Machine
The Bounty Hunter
Shutter Island
She’s Out Of My League
Green Zone
The Wolfman
From Paris With Love

Video Game
Sales Update

Target

$19.99

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

$29.99:

WWE Smackdown Raw 2010
Sims 3
Sims 3 Ambitions

$39.99:

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11

$49.99:

Dj hero bundle
Tony hawk ride bundle
Skate 3
Modern Warfare 2
NCAA Football 11

FREE $5 GC w/ purchase of the Last Airbender $39.99/$29.99

Best Buy

Xbox 360 Wireless Controller 39.99
Singularity 39.99
DarkStar One: Broken Alliance 39.99

Get one of these two games FREE with purchase of Nintendo DSi or DSi XL hardware: Super Mario 64 DS or New Super Mario Bros.

TOYS R US

Buy 1 Get 1 for $5 on the listed DS games valued at $29.99-$34.99
(discounted item must be of equal or lesser value to the lowest priced
item purchased.)
Games listed:

iCarly, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, Spongebob’s
Boating Bash, Lego Harry Potter, Shrek Forever After, Fairyland Melody
Magic (includes a Magic Wand Stylus), Cooking Mamma 3 Shop & Chop,
Petz Nursery (includes free stylus with charm), The Sorcerer’s
Apprentice, Iron Man 2, Backyard Sports, Dragon Quest IX Sentinels of
the Starry Skies, The Last Airbender, imagine animal doctor care center,
Club Penguin Herbert’s Revenge, Toy Story 3, Transformers Cypertron
Decepticons, Transformers Cypertron Autobots, ZhuZhu Pets, Despicable Me
The Game Minion Mayhem.

Save $25 on “R” Ds Lite, DSi, or DSi XL Value Bundle, includes:

Ds Lite, DSi, or DSi XL

Universal Transporter The one pictured in the ad is colored black, but I have no idea if you could get the pink one.
One of these games (normally priced at $29.99 ea):
Lego Harry Potter,Toy Story 3,or Transformers Cypertron Autobots
Looking at the prices online it doesn’t state the prices for the bundles, though I may be wrong.

$189.97 for “R” PSP 3000 Value Bundle, includes:

PSP 3000
Despicable Me/ ModNation Racers

K-Mart

• Nothing major

THIS
WEEK’S DVD REVIEWS at CHUD

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you miss a review this week? A lot of titles go unnoticed during the
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THE REST OF
THE DVDs THIS WEEK

‘Night, Mother 
300 [WS] [Limited Collector’s Edition] [3 Discs] [Includes Digital Copy] [With Book] 
After.Life
Allnighter
American Graffiti [Collector’s Edition] [With MP3 Download] 
American Pie [WS] [Collector’s Edition] [With MP3 Download] 
Billy Elliot [Collector’s Edition] [With MP3 Download] 
Blood Done Sign My Name 
Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet 
Breakfast Club [With MP3 Download] 
Casino [WS] [Special Edition] [With MP3 Download]
Charlie’s Angels [Blu-ray] 
Chilling, True Crime Collector’s Set 
Coal Miner’s Daughter [Anniversary Edition] [With MP3 Download] 
Cop Dog 
Cross My Heart 
Daim Duab
Dazed and Confused [WS] [Flashback Edition]
Devil’s Candy 
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 
Do the Right Thing [With MP3 Download]
Duel 
Elvis: 75th Anniversary DVD Collection [17 Discs] [With Book/Memorabilia]
Fast Times at Ridgemont High [WS] [Special Edition] [With MP3 Download] 
Finding Bliss 
First Films of Akira Kurosawa [Criterion Collection] [4 Discs] 
Flashdance [Special Collector’s Edition] 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall [WS] [Rated/Unrated] [With MP3 Download] 
Ghost Writer 
Going Berserk 
Great Waldo Pepper 
Greek Tycoon 
Happiness Runs 
Hidden Gems: Hell on Heels – The Battle of Mary Kay/His and Hers/Adopt a Sailor 
Hidden Gems: Lonely Street/Unbeatable Harold/Route 30 
Hoboken Hollow [P&S] 
Hot Fuzz [WS]
Humanoids from the Deep 
I Am Legend [WS] [Ultimate Collector’s Edition] [3 Discs] [Includes Digital Copy] [With Book] 
Kick-Ass
Kim Novak Film Collection [3 Discs] 
Lifetime Movies Collector’s Set 
Living Wake 
Mallrats [Collector’s Edition]
Matthew Shepard Story 
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn 
Mitsein 
Open House 
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman [Deluxe Edition] 
Patterns Trilogy + Other Short Films 
Piranha 
Prophet 
River’s End 
Roger Corman’s Cult Classics: Death Sport/Battletruck 
Secrets of the Clown 
Shank 
Sixteen Candles [With MP3 Download] 
Spike 
TCM Spotlight: Errol Flynn Adventures [5 Discs] 
Test of Wills 
To Save a Life 
Towards Zero 
Weird Science
Wiz [WS]
Xanadu [Magical Music Edition]

BLU-RAY: IT’S
GETTING CHEAPER

After.Life
Blood Simple
The Breakfast Club: 25th Anniversary Edition
Bull Durham
Charlie’s Angels
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Elvis on Tour
Elvis: Blu-ray Collection
Escape from New York
The Ghost Writer
Heroes: Season Four
Humanoids from the Deep
James and the Giant Peach
Kalifornia
Kick-Ass 

Open House
Piranha
A Prophet
Road to Perdition
Splinter (2006)
To Save a Life
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music: 40th Anniversary Edition

VIDEO GAMES

section by: Justin
Clark and SCOTT!

NO MAJOR RETAIL RELEASES THIS WEEK.
Like you fucking care, Starcraft II players.

OOOHHHHH: ON THE DLC TIP

CASTLEVANIA: HARMONY OF DESPAIR
Konami
XBox Live Arcade
8/4
1,200 MS points










I have such mixed feelings about Konami in this day and age, but when a 2-D Contra or Castlevania happens, my loyalty is unquestionable. They own that shit. No one seems to know exactly where to take Silent Hill in the wake of the film, and the less said about DDR‘s continued existence, the better, but 2-D is Konami’s A-game. On the surface, this seems like it would be the one to break the streak, considering it’s essentially just a bunch of the maps from the previous portable titles slapped together, and the series is going to arcadey multiplayer for the first time, but previews have all mentioned the myriad tricks this thing has up its sleeve, like one of the bosses from Dawn of Sorrow being able to launch an attack from clear across the castle that cuts through the entire map. It’s so bizarre how this series has never found its niche as a 3-D actioner after all these years (though I remain a minor flag waver for Lament of Innocence, and Lord of Shadows has promise) but in 2D, it has never failed to take what should be disgustingly stale bread and keep churning out delicious french toast every single time.

ROCK BAND TUESDAY

Blondie – Rapture
dc Talk – Jesus Freak
The Decemberists – The Perfect Crime # 2
Eagles of Death Metal – I Only Want You +
Eels – Saturday Morning +
Family Force 5 – Love Addict
KMFDM – Sturm & Drang
La Roux – Bulletproof +

+=Available for Lego Rock Band
$1.99/160 MS pts each







Someone stop me if I’m wrong but I think this is the first time Harmonix has just done a week of singles like this, and if that’s the case, I think they need to do it more often. Just about everyone gets something they want out of this, regardless of tastes. If anything, I question the La Roux drop unless they’re planning on retrofitting it to Rock Band 3’s keyboard, but they’ve worked around this before, and I am academically serious when I ask who the audience for Christian crunk-metal would be, exactly, but really, everybody’s a winner this week. Enjoy.

Music

Section By Jeb D.

TIN CAN TRUST

Los Lobos

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Following a decade or so where their expert playing was somewhat undermined by indifferent songwriting, it seems as though last year’s Disney songs collection lit a fire under these hombres, reminding them that strong musical construction can put across an idea more effectively than even the tastiest jam. Tin Can Trust is their most vital-sounding album since Colossal Head. Keeping it tight helps: eleven tracks (including a couple of trad arrangements and a Grateful Dead cover) leaves no room for filler. David Hidalgo remains one of the most scandalously neglected performers in rock music, combining an aching, soaring tenor voice (“The Lady and the Rose”)  with blistering guitar chops (“Do The Murray”). Meanwhile, Cesar Rosas rocks the bilingual blues, and drummer Louie Perez’ lyrical observations of life in the barrio remain as keen as ever.

THE SUBURBS

Arcade Fire

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Given the parade of indie heavyweights that have dropped new albums already this year (The Hold Steady, Broken Social Scene, The National, Band of Horses, etc.), Arcade Fire was going to have to deliver something special to retain their position of primacy on college radio stations across the continent. Mostly, they do… but it’s not exactly the knockout blow to any pretenders to their throne. The Suburbs features the usual swelling melodies, frenetic instrumentation and anguished, yelping vocals: maybe too much so this time out. I like the relaxed tone of the opening title track, but even at its best, the rest of the album sometimes feels as though it’s straining to rock out with an unwarranted urgency: “Meet me down by the river,” Butler shrieks on “Modern Man” against a madly-strumming guitar, only to undercut it by off-handedly concluding that “it don’t matter which river, they all go somewhere.” Like just about every track on the album, the melody will lodge instantly in your brain, but it could have got there just as well with about half the effort. If anything, this album sort of feels like the opposite of the compactness of the new Los Lobos release: a double album with 17 tracks, three of them extensions/revisits of other songs, can drag a bit here and there. Still, it ends strongly, from the guitar slashes that kick off “Deep Blue” through two iterations of “Sprawl,” and finally “Suburbs (Continued)” which does its Joycean bit to return us to its source. I don’t know that The Suburbs has any more to teach me about its subject than, say, “Pleasant Valley Sunday” did, but its combination of spacious textures and passionate playing produce an album that might not be quite as rich and rewarding as its two predecessors, but with a nostalgic warmth of its own.

KING OF THE BEACH

Wavves

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Rhapsody’s been streaming this album for a month, but according to Amazon it just comes out this week on disk. It’s remarkably dynamic for a piece of lo-fi lapcore: it helps that Williams uses a band this time, and his straight-faced approach usually pays off with a lyrical or melodic twist you didn’t see coming (though he’s not the poet of the mundane he imagines himself to be: songs like “Baseball Cards” and “Mickey Mouse” don’t really have a point of view, or even much of a point). But celebrating self-loathing with mad studio hijinks like you were Brian Wilson’s bastard son is a neat trick.

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

Squeeze

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WTF album of the week: Difford and Tillbrook recruit occasional bassist John Bentley, and Tillbrook’s touring band, to re-record 14 of their best-known songs. The idea, as the title implies, is to make them sound as close to the original as possible; it’s not only weird, it’s doubly redundant since Difford already re-cut a bunch of these on a solo album a few years back; I mean, it’s amusing to listen to… but they do expect you to pay for it. There is some precedent for it: a lot of the great rock and R&B singers of the 50’s and 60’s used to re-record their old hits in hopes of getting some of the dough that the record company kept the first time around. On the other hand, Eddie Floyd and Roy Orbison probably needed the money; these guys don’t.

OTHER NOTEWORTHY 8/3 RELEASES

Dr. John, Tribal. As reliable as the Mississippi, and nearly as old, Dr. John whips up his latest: the crew includes Allen Toussaint, The Lower 911, and Derek Trucks. No pop standards this time out: just the good Doctor’s patented soul and blues gumbo, spiced with post-Katrina and BP outrage, and highlighted by Trucks’ searing slide on “Manoovas.”

Buckcherry, All Night Long. The title cut isn’t the only piece of amazing inspiration on this album (really– “All Night Long”? Where do they come up with these ideas?): I mean, there’s also “It’s A Party” and “I Want You” just to show off their range. Look, I’ll bet there’s at least a couple AC/DC albums you don’t own yet. That’s a hint.

The Black Crowes, Croweology. It was fun when these guys were doing vintage 70’s blues rock twenty years out of time, so I suppose it’s only appropriate that they’re jumping on the “Unplugged” bandwagon a decade after everyone else.

Gaelic Storm, Cabbage. Given that Shane MacGowan has pretty much retired the drunken Irish sod as subject matter, these boyos wisely step outside the tradition, drawing both musical and topical influences from Jamaica, Africa, and… Simon and Garfunkel? (if I’m not mistaken, there’s even a Phil Jupitus callout). It’s good, lively fun… but a little less reliance on drunken Irish sods wouldn’t hurt.

Katie Meula, The House. Meula’s family fled the USSR ahead of the civil war in Georgia, and wound up in the peaceful environs of… Belfast. I guess she must find it pleasant, since her breathy pop is so smooth and slick it makes Duffy sound like Kate Bush. I have to admit, though that  “With God on the drums, and the Devil on the bass” is a bit of imagery that Ms. Bush wouldn’t scorn.

Autolux, Transit Transit. I sort of liked “Audience No. 2” when it was released as a single earlier this year, but I’ll admit I’d hoped for a bit more variety from the resultant album. Not really bad: shoegazing marches on. But like a lot of their peers, Autolux’ focus on atmosphere and effect can leave the listener feeling a bit shortchanged in the hook department.

Gov’t Mule, Mulennium. The only thing better than a live album that features both a cover of “21st Century Schizoid Man”, and a guest appearance by Little Milton would be if that was one of the songs he played on. Missed opportunity there, fellas.

THE WEEK OF AUGUST 3rd 2010

GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON

DVD/BR
SECTION by: Troy Anderson

KICK-ASS
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Lionsgate

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Special Features

Kick-Ass was

a fun comic adaptation that received too much fellating around this site and other movie news depots. Tons of advance screenings, promos and the various trappings that come with pimping a genre film can only help to cloud opinions. Four months later, I’ve rewatched the film with clearer eyes. While I like aspects of the original Romita/Millar comic better than the film, I can respect what the actors bring to the mix. Nicolas Cage is reclaiming his moniker of weird fuck actor back from Crispin Glover. Then, there’s the matter of little Miss Chloe Moretz. This girl is becoming something than a Breslin or a Fanning. She reminds us that you can still be a working kid actor and enjoy what you’re doing.

THE GHOST WRITER
Director: Roman Polanski

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Special Features

The Ghost Writer shows the world that Roman Polanski can still make films while evading the American legal system. This film is an adaptation of the Thomas Harris novel about a ghost writer helping a pseudo Tony Blair to write his memoirs. Sporting one of the stronger supporting casts in a Polanski film, the once and future nosecutter shows that he can still craft a mystery. My only problem with the film is that McGregor acts circles around Brosnan. While I do appreciate Pierce Brosnan and his limited range, he just isn’t the kind of guy that can share a screen with Ewan McGregor. It’s not like watching Anakin and Obi-Wan hanging out in the United Kingdom. But, it’s not far off.

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
d.
John Carpenter

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SPECIAL FEATURES

Escape from New York has
finally arrived on Blu-Ray. The new transfer is a VC-1 encode that showcases the film in near pristine conditions. I know that some of you still have memories of that shitty Escape from L.A. Blu-Ray from a few months ago. Well, this disc sports a clean transfer and a robust audio track. However, all of the special features are ports over from the last Special Edition DVD. While you’re looking for this title on Tuesday, check out the other cult MGM titles hitting Blu-Ray for the first time. I’m talking about Blood Simple, people. I held off on that title, because I haven’t had the chance to find out if it is the true theatrical cut.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID
d. Thor Freudenthal

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Special
Features

• Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Character Clips
• Cartoons
• Theatrical Trailer

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is one of those odd family flicks that I had people pushing on me. Greg, Rowley and Angie are a trio of kids for the ADD age. None of these characters sport charming personalities and they make no effort to be endearing. But, they are real kids who are self-obsessed peons trying to do their best to make it through the day. Greg continues to steal the show as this status obsessed kid who is willing to do anything to advance. Almost serving as a parody of the clueless adults in his life, Greg becomes an enjoyable little shit. While FOX has quickly rushed a sequel into production, I have to hope that they don’t lose the slight edge shown in this film. Any film that is anti-Kids Rule is fine by me.

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