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30 Rock: Season 4 $34.99
How I Met Your Mother: Season 5 $24.99
Two and a Half Men: Season 7 $29.99
Modern Family: Season 1 $34.99
DVD Sale
$10
Monsters vs. Aliens
Mamma Mia
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets
$14.99
The Princess Bride
The Boondock Saints
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Robin Hood $16.99 $24.99 $25.99
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue $17.99 $25.99
Human Target: Season 1 $27.99 $34.99
Spartacus: Blood and Sand – Season 1 $29.99 $44.99
Two and a Half Men: Season 7 $29.99
Modern Family: Season 1 $32.99 $38.99
Alice in Wonderland (2010) $14.99
Bored to Death: Season 1 $29.99 $34.99
Killers $17.99 $24.99
American Beauty $19.99
TV on DVD Sale
$29.99
How I Met Your Mother: Season 5
Community: Season 1
$34.99
30 Rock: Season 4
Castle: Season 2
Desperate Housewives: Season 6
$39.99
The Mentalist: Season 2
DVD Sale
$3.99
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
8 Seconds
Silent Hill
Swordfish
$7.99
Wonderland
Reservoir Dogs
$9.99
Ghostbusters
$14.99
Brooklyn’s Finest
The Crazies
Halloween 2
The Score
Deep Blue Sea
$19.99
Iron Man
Anchorman
$44.99
Martin Scorsese Collection
Video
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Civilization V $49.99 (PC)
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K-Mart
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THE DVDs THIS WEEK
All Hell Broke Loose
Allan King: The Actuality Dramas (Eclipse Series 24)
Alpha Incident (With Bonus T-Shirt In Size L)
Alpha Incident (With Bonus T-Shirt In Size XL)
Being Human: Season Two
Bleach, Vol. 32: The Hueco Mundo
Bored To Death: The Complete First Season
Calvin Marshall
Castle: The Complete Second Season
City Hall
Community: The Complete First Season
Date For Hire
Desperate Housewives: The Complete Sixth Season
Directors: Life Behind The Camera
Dragon Ball GT: The Complete Series
Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Box Z, Vol. 4
Eccentricities Of A Blonde-Haired Girl
The Experiment
Faces Of Schlock
Fantomas: The Complete Saga (Kino)
Festival Of Fright: Complete
Gamera Double Feature: Gamera Vs. Guiron/Gamera Vs. Jiger
Gamera Double Feature: Gamera Vs. Gyaos/Gamera Vs. Viras
Ghost Hunt: The Complete Series (S.A.V.E. Edition)
Hell’s Kitchen: Season One
Hell’s Kitchen: Season Three
How I Met Your Mother: The Complete Season Five
Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train (Special Commemorative Edition)
Human Target: The Complete First Season
Ice Age 3D/Dawn Of The Dinosaurs 3D (Two-Disc Set)
Indestructible Man (With Bonus T-Shirt In Size L)
Indestructible Man (With Bonus T-Shirt In Size XL)
Initial D: First Stage, Pt. 1
Joseph Campbell And The Power Of Myth (Athena)
Keeping Up With The Kardashians: The Complete Third Season
The Legend Of Bruce Lee
Leon Blum: For All Mankind
The Locksmith
Mr. Palfrey Of Westminster: Complete Collection
Modern Family: The Complete First Season
National Geographic: Collapse
Nikita Mikhalkov: The Films, Vol. 1 (Kino)
Ondine
Peanuts: He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown (Remastered Deluxe Edition)
Robin Hood (2010 Movie) (One-Disc Standard Edition)
Robin Hood (2010 Movie) (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Samurai 7: The Complete Series
Saturday Night Live: Best Of ’09/’10
The Secret In Their Eyes (El Secreto De Sus Ojos)
The Secret Of Moonacre
Spartacus: Blood And Sand – The Complete First Season
Stomp The Yard: Homecoming
Stripped Naked
Taggart, Set 3
30 Rock: Season Four
Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue
Tom And Jerry’s Greatest Chases, Vol. 5
Triple Dog
Two And A Half Men: The Complete Seventh Season
Xam’d, Collection 1
BLU-RAY: IT’S
GETTING CHEAPER
All Hell Broke Loose
American Beauty (Paramount Sapphire Series)
Being Human: Season Two
Best Of Travel: China (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Best Of Travel: Beautiful Japan (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Best Of Travel: Beautiful Mexico (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Bored To Death: The Complete First Season
Calvin Marshall
Charade (Criterion Collection)
The Experiment
Human Target: The Complete First Season
Modern Family: The Complete First Season
National Geographic: Collapse
Ondine
The Peacemaker
Ride The Divide
Robin Hood (2010 Movie) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Scenic National Parks: Glacier Banff And Jasper (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Scenic National Parks: Zion And Bryce (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
The Secret In Their Eyes (El Secreto De Sus Ojos)
The Secret Of Moonacre
The Slayers Revolution
The Slayers Evolution-R
Spartacus: Blood And Sand – The Complete First Season
Stomp The Yard: Homecoming (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Triple Dog
Vigilante (1983)
Xam’d, Collection 1
section by: Justin Clark and SCOTT!
Firaxis/2k Games
PC
9/21
MSRP: $49.99
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If this were any other genre, I’d say releasing this on the heels of Starcraft 2 was a bad idea, but this is real time strategy we’re talking about here, and I’m sure for fans, there’s room in everyone’s lives for new ways to send your puppets off to die in a satisfyingly senseless manner.
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RED DEAD REDEMPTION: LIARS AND CHEATS
Rockstar Games
Xbox Live, Playstation Network
9/21
$9.99/800 MS pts
God, every fiber of my being wants to complain again about the lack of single-player DLC but, for fuck’s sake, this pack adds multiplayer poker, a shotgun that fires explosive rounds, and horse racing. Where you can shoot guys off horses. I mean, come on.
COME ON.
ROCK BAND TUESDAY
Bob Marley – Legend ($19.99/1600 MS pts)
- Is This Love +
- No Woman No Cry +
- Could You Be Loved
- Three Little Birds +
- Buffalo Soldier
- Stir It Up
- One Love/People Get Ready
- I Shot the Sheriff
- Waiting in Vain +
- Redemption Song
- Satisfy My Soul +
- Exodus
- Jamming
$1.99/160 MS pts per track
+=Available for Lego Rock Band
It’s been a while since we got a full album release, let alone one that’s this big a deal. Pretty much all the Bob Marley songs 90% of the human populace knows in one package, minus Get Up, Stand Up, only because it’s in Rock Band 3. As gameplay, I think I’m most excited about the promise that harmonies will play a huge role here once RB3 hits, and that bassists get their due. I imagine quite a few of these being somewhat sparse and easy otherwise, although if you think the majority of the people downloading this are gonna be playing this clean and sober, you need to get out more.
Music
Section By Jeb D.
WAKE UP!
John Legend and The Roots
A depressingly brilliant idea: cover a bunch of soul classics from the 60’s and 70’s, with selection keyed towards demonstrating that things are just as fucked today as they were then. I’ve always been pretty indifferent to Legend as a singer, but The Roots are as sharp a musical outfit as any working today, and most of this works pretty damned well, particularly since such obvious touchstones as Marvin Gaye or Diana Ross are skipped over in favor of songs like Donny Hathaway’s “Little Ghetto Boy” and Les McCann’s “Compared To What.” The only real misstep is actually on the title song. Legend’s not crazy enough to try to go throat-to-throat with Teddy Pendergrass-he actually shares the vocal chores with Melanie Fiona and Common-but the magnificent spaciousness of the original recording did a lot to get you past the pretty uninspired lyrics, which lie a bit too exposed here. But that’s really just a minor bump in the road of an album that is well worth your time and coin.
HANDS ALL OVER
Maroon 5
It used to take guys like Toto or ELO years of gigging and many months’ worth of studio time to smooth all the interesting edges off their music, and craft their sound into something so easy to digest that it would bypass the Program Director and head straight for the Top 40; these guys are only three albums in, and they’re already expert at it. The bass pops and thumps, the harmonies are sharpened to an inch of their lives, strings and guitars are creamy smooth, and they’ve auto-tuned the shit out of this fucker. You can dance to “Don’t Know Much About That,” and wave your lighter to “Stutter.” And lest they overlook any key demographics, Lady Antebellum guests on the weepy “Out of Goodbyes.” I don’t want to be unfair, here: shaping your sound to mass public taste isn’t exactly a new game, and it’s not as though these guys appear to have anything in the way of a muse to betray; they’re pretty good at givin’ the people what they want. Listen to any one of these tracks on the radio, and your ears won’t bleed. But play the whole thing at once, and your soul just might.
MAXIMUM BALLOON
Maximum Balloon
Not so much taking a break from TV On The Radio as pushing its envelope slightly. Thankfully, David Sitek isn’t yet a “superstar” producer, so the parade of guest singers avoids the obvious: instead of the latest pop diva (whoever that might be this week) or lite-jazz sensation, we get a few people whose work I’ve loved (Karen O and TVOTR bandmate Kyp Malone), and some voices that are delightfully new to me (Holly Miranda, Yukimi Nagano). The album effectively mixes deep dance grooves (“Absence of Light,” “Tiger”), haunting romance (“Communion,” “The Lesson”) , and plain pop fun (“If You Return,” “Young Love”), and the collaboration with David Byrne, “Apartment Wrestling,” is everything you’d dream a Talking Heads reunion could be.
GUITAR HEAVEN: THE GREATEST GUITAR CLASSICS OF ALL TIME
Santana
Carlos invites you over for an evening of Guitar Hero. From the on-the-nose title to the cheesy K-Tel cover graphics, this is pretty much a case of an album being just what it says on the tin. The veteran axe idol takes on a dozen rock classics known for great guitar solos/riffs (“Smoke On The Water,” “Bang A Gong,” etc.) with guest stars including Scott Weiland, Chris Daughtry, Nas, and Joe Cocker, and goes nuts. It’s full of choices, both in songs and arrangements, that range from inspired to downright loony (on “Riders On The Storm,” Ray Manzarek dumps the song’s signature electric piano, and instead sits in the background, playing the organ part to “When The Music’s Over”). The track that stands most clearly apart is “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” with India.Arie on piano and vocals, and classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma (allegedly) sawing away almost inaudibly in the background. The gentle samba-like treatment is interesting, but where we could buy a line like “I look at the floor / and see it needs sweeping” from a Maharishi-addled acidhead, in Arie’s crooning delivery, it does sound unusually daft. Elsewhere, Santana never plays one note where five or six will do, there’s wah-wah all over the damn place, and some of the guest contributions are fun (Nas manages to make “Back in Black” even sillier and more over-the-top than the original). There is the occasional misstep– it would be hard to imagine a combination of singer or arrangement that is less suited to the delicate “Little Wing” than the overblown treatment that Carlos and Cocker give it– but it’s not about the songs, it’s about overdosing on Santana’s axemanship, and if that’s what you seek, it delivers in spades.
Other Noteworthy 9/21 Releases
Zac Brown Band, You Get What You Give. Expertly-played country-rock, that in a world devoid of T-Bone Burnett, the Drive-By Truckers, Steve Earle, the Bottle Rockets, or Dave Alvin, might have bit more to recommend it.
Michael Franti & Spearhead, The Sound of Sunshine. Bay Area rabble-rouser goes pop, resulting in smooth grooves for sensible young adults.
Black Country Communion, Black Country Communion. The obvious comparison is Them Crooked Vultures (retro metal band with Zep connection). For what it’s worth, though, these guys seem to have spent as much time on hooks as riffs, and there’s a reason that Glenn Hughes was the fill-in guy for both Purple and Sabbath: he’s got Daltry-like control as well as power. Bonamassa shreds and slashes, Bonham thuds and slams, and lead single “One Last Soul” is one catchy sumbitch.
Thievery Corporation, It Takes a Thief. Garza and Hilton assemble an ace “Best Of” collection, which will bring a glow of nostalgia to lovers of ads for Lexus and Jaguar everywhere.
Wingless Angels – Volume I & II. Keith Richards’ second collaboration with the Rastafarian spiritual group. Impossibly soulful and soothing
Jane Monheit, Home. I don’t begrudge a personable young woman making a career of expertly singing jazz standards for adoring audiences. But in a world where virtually every great recording that any of these songs has ever had is at your digital fingertips, I’m not sure there’s much need to buy her albums, too.
THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 21st 2010
GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON
SECTION by: Troy Anderson
ROBIN HOOD
Director: Ridley Scott
Universal
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Special Features
Notebook: Watch the theatrical version with behind-the-scenes footage,
hand-drawn “Ridleygrams” and filmmaker interviews
Nottingham”: A portfolio of designs, including video introductions,
galleries of conceptual art, costume designs, storyboards and other
imagery
Robin Hood wasn’t a movie that I wanted to bomb. I was fucking stoked for the release and I was telling everyone that this was going to be different. Ridley Scott was going to rediscover his directing talent and craft a tale about Medieval England that worked. What we got was about 15 minutes of action and the Democracy Skit from Monty Python and The Holy Grail. I would start my rather lengthy fuck you essay to Scott/Crowe, but I’m saving that for the Blu-Ray review. If you have a Blockbuster left open in your neighborhood, I’d recommend a rental before a purchase. While it does look amazing in the Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack, it’s still a turd.
MODERN FAMILY: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON
Brought forth by: Steven Levitan and Christopher (Not the cool one) Lloyd
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Special Features
Deleted family interviews
Disc 2:
Deleted, extended and alternate scenes
Deleted family interviews
Disc 3:
Deleted, extended and alternate scenes
Deleted family interviews
Disc 4:
Deleted, extended and alternate scenes
Gag reel
Real Modern Family moments
Before Modern Family
Fizbo the Clown
The Making of Modern Family: ‘Family Portrait’
Modern Family ‘Hawaii’
Modern Family took awhile to get going for me. I had stopped caring about any ABC show that didn’t involve Jorge Garcia and I didn’t see that changing. Then, they offered up Ed O’ Neill. I’m a huge Married with Children and I’ve followed the once and future Bundy through a variety of failed television offerings. What followed was a hit and miss affair that made smile more times than it didn’t. Kobe Bryant shows up to take Middle America’s minds off the gays and their baby. There’s also a few Latinos to cater to that demographic, while a few choices jokes slip in.
30 ROCK: SEASON FOUR
brought forth by: Tina Fey, The Scheinhardt Wig Company and Lorne Michaels’ money
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SPECIAL FEATURES
Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
30 Rock marched into its fourth season with a drop in the ratings. What it did do was take the focus further away from Tina Fey until the whole romantic subplot slid back into play. Where the fourth year soared was when the focus stayed on Alec Baldwin and his quest for better pussy. Elizabeth Banks and Julianne Moore spent half of the year making the world see Liz Lemon as a hairy little troll. But, it wasn’t a battle of looks. When you place two capable female leads with charming personalities against a Liz Lemon, the troll gets blown off the map. There’s also the fact that Julianne Moore is wicked hot with that Foxboro MILF look she was rocking. James Franco also appears with a Japanese pillow fuck buddy. Franco failed to secure an Emmy nomination for his efforts.
AMERICAN BEAUTY: SAPPHIRE SERIES
d. Sam Mendes
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Special
Features
- Audio Commentary with Sam Mendes and Alan Ball
- “American Beauty: Look Closer”
- Storyboard Presentation with Sam Mendes and Director of Photography Conrad L. Hall
American Beauty gets unfairly shat on because it curb-stomped The Insider for its Best Picture Oscar. I don’t really care, as American Beauty was the better film. The Insider didn’t offer up any tits and it was boring shit that partially took place where I lived. American Beauty took us to a fantasy world where a teenage girl would try to seduce Kevin Spacey. Hell, Spacey even looked at Mena Suvari’s tits without flinching. I’m not going to say anything that could get me sued, but that’s world class acting on Lex Luthor’s part. That being said, Thora Birch has an amazing fucking rack. It looks even better in glorious 1080p and matching lossless audio. This weekend, I flipped my television to 120mhz and let visitors watch Thora Birch’s stand at a window and expose herself to Wes Bentley. My context is my context, bitches.
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2 comments
Troy, I am interested in working in the VG sales section. What's the best way to get in touch with you/email address (I can't seem to find any info on the site)
Just want to say I love the column but I take offense to American Beauty being a better film than The Insider no that isn't the case. The Insider has better performances and a story that everyone needs to know about its timely even today and speaks more about the leftist rightist media better than any piece of art over the last 30 years. Shit The Hurricane was better than American Beauty but yeah give the oscar to Spacey over Denzel or Crowe fucking white people I tell you.
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