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Angel: The Complete Series
Arn: The Knight Templar
As Good As Dead
Assassin In Love
Astaire And Rogers Ultimate Collector’s Edition
Banqkok Adrenaline
Booky And The Secret Santa
Breaking Upwards
The Busby Berkeley 9-Film Collection
Coffin Rock
Crucible Of Terror
Daniel And Ana
The Darjeeling Limited (Criterion Collection)
The Dark Lurking
Demeking: The Sea Monster
Dexter’s Laboratory: Season One
Doghouse
Dragon Ball Z Kai: Saiyan Set
Dynasty (Warren Miller)
The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter (Shaw Brothers Dragon Dynasty)
Ex$pendable (Expendable)
Four Boxes
The Gates
Ghost Whisperer: The Final Season
Ghost Whisperer: Complete Series Value Pack
The Hangover (Extreme Edition)
He-Man And She-Ra: A Christmas Special
Horseland: The Complete Series
I Am Comic
I Am Love
I’ll Come Running
In Treatment: Season Two
Inspector Lewis: Series Three
It’s A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Johnny Staccato
Jonah Hex
Judges (Unrated Special Edition)
Kimjongilia
Kung-Fu Master
Ladies And Gentlemen … The Rolling Stones
Language Of The Enemy
Leaves Of Grass
Light Blast
Looney Tunes: The Essential Bugs Bunny
Lost Boys: The Thirst
The Magician (Criterion Collection)
Manson: My Name Is Evil
Marcus Welby, M.D.: Season Two
Mega Piranha
Michael McDonald: Model. Citizen.
MMA: Strikeforce
National Geographic: Wonders Of The Universe
Older Than America
Postcards From Buster: The Complete Series
Psycho Shark (Jaws In Japan)
Renegade: The Complete Series
Rudy Ray Moore: Black Dolemite – The Best Of Rudy Ray Moore Live
Samurai Vendetta
S&Man (Sandman)
Saturday Night Live: Presents A Very Gilly Christmas
Score (Uncensored Version)
Secrets Of Sex (Bizarre)
Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings – The Complete First Season
Smokey And The Bandit: The 7-Movie Outlaw Collection
Soul Of The Sword (Shaw Brothers)
Tokyo Majin: The Complete Series (S.A.V.E. Edition)
Trailer Park Boys: The Complete First Season
The Tudors: The Final Season
2012: Supernova
Tytania, Collection 2
University Of Kentucky: Blue Dawn – Inside Coach Cal’s First Season
Welcome To The NHK: The Complete Series (S.A.V.E. Edition)
WWJD: What Would Jesus Do?
White On Rice
Wolverine And The X-Men: The Complete Series
You Might As Well Live

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Arn: The Knight Templar
Assassin In Love
Banqkok Adrenaline
The BBC High Definition Natural History Collection 2
Callas Forever
The Darjeeling Limited (Criterion Collection)
Deep Blue Sea
Dragon Ball Z Kai: Saiyan Set
Dynasty (Warren Miller)
Gamera: The Guardian Of The Universe/Gamera: Attack Of Legion (Double Feature)
The Hangover (Extreme Edition)
I Am Love
Jonah Hex
Judges
Kevin Hart: I’m A Grown Little Man
Ladies And Gentlemen … The Rolling Stones
Leaves Of Grass
Lost Boys: The Thirst (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Magic
The Magician (Criterion Collection)
Mega Piranha
The Original Christmas Classics
Red Dragon
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
S&Man (Sandman)
Score
Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings – The Complete First Season
Sex And Lucia
Three Kings
2012: Supernova
Wolverine And The X-Men: The Complete Series
WWII In Hi Def (Topics)

Music

Section By Jeb D.

THE AGE OF ADZ

Sufjan Stevens

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The voice is still there: the template for contemporary indie, with the calculatedly offhand “aw-shucks-no-one-wants-to-hear-me-sing” approximation of pitch and melody, and the sensitive crack in the arch falsetto. This time, though, it’s sharing space with a busload of studio effects, vocal filters, hip-hop beats, all fighting their way through a dense patina of reverb, and moving at a dizzying pace, like a magician pulling an endless succession of tricks from his hat. Even in the cases where Stevens brings in actual instruments (like a string section), he drops them in and out of the music with the abruptness of a purloined sample; clearly, he’s not planning to allow the listener to simply sit back and bask. And the songwriting goes hand in hand with the musical fragmentation: taking his cue from schizophrenic artist Royal Robertson (the source of the album’s title), Stevens seems to be presenting the musical version of the confused and contradictory musings and interviews he’s given over the past couple of years, questioning the direction of his career, of music-making, and life in general. Like Robertson, Stevens will work in any medium to hand, and not always with clarity as his first purpose.  The songs pinball madly, punctuated by cries of “I’m not fucking around!” and “I must do the right thing! Get right with the Lord!” But at bottom, he’s still got that amazing melodic gift: I’ll grant you that “Impossible Soul” probably didn’t need to run all of 25 minutes, but you’d be hard pressed to find more than five minutes that you could cut without losing something memorable.

WRITE ABOUT LOVE

Belle and Sebastian

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The openers, “I Didn’t See It Coming” and “Come on Sister,” are such sheer pop perfection that you can forgive the occasional clunky rhyme (“money/honey,” “continental/rental,” and later on, “scars/flowers,” which only a Scotsman would even attempt). God puts in an appearance, as do Norah Jones and Carey Mulligan, all treated with equal reverence. And, for what it’s worth, Mulligan’s vocals on the title cut feel far more natural and direct than Jones’ fussiness on “Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John.” “The Ghost of Rockschool” is a song of devotion from a guy who still sings in his neighborhood church choir, and the aching reminiscence of “Read The Blessed Pages” teeters right on the edge of saccharine without ever quite tipping over into it. The genre-hopping arrangements from The Life Pursuit seem better focused this time around, with Murdoch integrating his musical influences rather than imitating them. Are there moments of passive-aggressive preciousness that make you want to reach into the speaker and slap him around? Well, yeah; it is a Belle and Sebastian record, after all. But most of the time, he pulls up just short of that, and most of the more problematic stuff is restricted to songs like “Calculating Bimbo;” and, let’s fact it, no one listening to a song with that title should have very high expectations for it. Tiny moments of teeth-grinding coyness apart, it’s an album of pure aural pleasure you can practically bathe in.

REUNITED

The Jazz Passengers

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New York bohos return with their first new studio album in over a decade, and they pick up right where Individually Twisted left off: muscular modern jazz that applies post-bop irony to pop song structure, with tight ensemble and firm, hard bottom. Roy Nathanson’s writing is in just as sharp form as his soprano squealing, and “Wind Walked By,” sung by Elvis Costello, is as bleak a picture of This Modern Life as any this year (our narrator is “shit outta luck, the American way“).  The band shakes their collective booty to “Button Up” and “National Anthem,” and their deconstructions of “Spanish Harlem” and Peaches and Herb’s title song are irresistibly sharp and silly. Marc Ribot again demonstrates that his guitar is twice as effective in a group than it was on his recent, stodgy, solo album; he’s in strong company, with Curtis Fowlkes’ trombone and Sam Bardfeld’s violin providing shadings of color that wouldn’t even occur to most of today’s jazz players. Elsewhere, Debbie Harry is, well, “reunited” with her old buddies on a pair of live tracks from 1995 (though she is still performing onstage with them this year), and she’s every bit the smoky chanteuse you remember; a particular delight is her vocal on the Passengers’ slinky rearrangement of “One Way Or Another.” Impure Bop For Now People.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK

Soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

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If you’ve seen The Social Network, you know how well this music works in the film’s context, and how vital it was: much of the strength of Sorkin and Fincher’s vision was their determination to present relatively mundane activities (using a computer, legal depositions, etc,) in more straightforward, realistic terms than is customary in film. To that end, much of the movie’s effectiveness derives from mood, texture, and tone, and the musical score becomes a key player in a number of scenes. But when pop stars make film scores, there’s the unfortunate expectation that the result will stand on its own as a listening experience, something for which they’re rarely intended and almost never successful. In the case of The Social Network, though, Reznor and Ross have an advantage, having previously honed their ambient chops on 2007”s Ghosts. As a listening experience, The Social Network is similar (no Adrian Belew this time, though), with tracks like “Painted Sun In Asbstract” and “Pieces Form the Whole” seeming to reveal themselves slowly, with an almost Reich-an deliberation, which is particularly impressive given their relatively short running times. Elsewhere, I enjoyed the motifs that link “Hand Covers Bruise (Reprise),”  “Almost Home,” and “It Catches Up With You” and on into “Intriguing Possibilities.” The straightforward adaptation of “In The Hall Of The Mountain King” is a bit jarring out of context, but would be great for spooking little Trick or Treaters later this month. And the download version’s only five bucks.

Other Notable 10/12 Releases

Antony and the Johnsons, Swanlight. I didn’t get the version with the 136-page hardcover book, so I don’t know if it offers any insight into this album’s shift in direction: it’s still Hegarty’s aching, astonishing voice over layers of dark melodies and washes of lush instrumentation, but somehow in a more affirmative, sometimes even positive tone:  “Everything Is New,” “Thank You for Your Love,” and the practically buoyant “Fletta,” with guest vocals from Bjork.

Secret Sisters, Secret Sisters. At first, you wonder just why these gals sound so distinctive in the midst of what has already been a very strong year in neo-country. The secret isn’t the Patsy Cline dresses and hairstyles, or even the fact that T-Bone Burnett started a new label just for them. No, the trick is that the gorgeous sisterly harmonies of Laura and Lydia Rogers owe more to The Andrews Sisters than The Carter Family, and that shift in context brings a bracing edge to both originals like “Tennessee Me” and classics of kitsch like “Somethin’ Stupid.”

Darius Rucker, Charleston, SC 1966. The blend of sincerity and smarm that made him an ineffective rocker has worked out perfectly in modern pop-country. Doesn’t make him any less dismissable, but bringing a bit of color to the palette of contemporary country music is still a nearly political act, so I’m willing to cut him some slack. That doesn’t extend to listening to this album more than once, though.

Lil Wayne, I Am Not A Human Being. This new collection from everyone’s favorite jailbird leads off with a track called “Gonorrhea.” I wonder if this is one of the songs that was described as being “for the ladies.”

David Gilmour & The Orb, Metallic Spheres. Floyd guitarist meets the kings of chillout. Evidently available in both a regular stereo version and one using the latest black-box “surround sound” technology called “3D60.”

California Guitar Trio, Andromeda. Their first album of all-original, jazzy-proggy material continues their march forward from the days when they were covering things like “Pipeline” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.” It’s not exactly an insult to say that their compositional skills aren’t in the same ballpark with their instrumental chops, given how jaw-dropping their playing can be. It is a fact, though.

Old 97’s, Grand Theatre Volume One. It’s a new alt-country landscape these days, but everything about this album steps to the fore with a renewed vigor, with Johnny Cash or The Band definitely taking a back seat to The Replacements. And it’s not the best song on the album, but “Please Hold On While The Train Is Moving” is not only a great metaphor, but might be my favorite song title of the week. 

Suzanne Vega, Close-Up 2: People & Places. Vega’s project of re-recording her back catalog is now up to “Luka.” So I imagine most people can stop right here.

DIE ANTWOORD, $O$. Says here that “Whether you like it or not DIE ANTWOORD are here to stay.” Honestly, I’m not bothered either way.

Railroad Earth, Railroad Earth. Tough to try and grab the roots-rock spotlight in the same week that the Old 97’s release their newest. Singer-songwriter Todd Sheaffer is no Steve Earle (or even Justin), but this is honestly-crafted, well-played stuff. Worth a listen.

Michael Formanek, The Rub and Spare Change. Stellar jazz bassist recruits a new band for extended, sharply-played flights of tonal fantasy, a bit of post-bop changeup, and a 17-minute “Suite” that is kinda pushing its luck.

The Band Perry, The Band Perry. These three siblings make slighly confused country music: “Daddy rocked us to sleep with the Rolling Stones; Mama woke us up with Loretta Lynn,” claims vocalist Kimberly Perry. OK, but when I was a kid, you’d have had to play Loretta Lynn damn loud to get me out of bed. Anyway, a nice alternative to Lady Antebellum: less corn, more fiber.

Badly Drawn Boy, It’s What I’m Thinking: Photographing Snowflakes. Are you as surprised as I was to realize that this is Gough’s seventh studio release? If, like most people, you haven’t really been paying attention since Have You Fed the Fish? and About A Boy, you will either be pleased or chagrined to hear that nothing much has changed. And since this is the first of a three-album cycle, you can probably relax again for the next few years.

Dar Williams, Many Great Companions. An attractive twofer package: one disk of Williams’ “hits,” and a second disk with a set of newly recorded versions of some of her favorite songs (with only a couple of duplications), abetted by guest stars like Mary Chapin Carpenter, and members of Nickel Creek and The Nighthawks.

HUMS FOR THE HOLIDAYS

The music companies have already begun their Christmas season onslaught, so as a bit of a bonus over the next few weeks, we’ll have a quick rundown of some of the week’s new seasonal/Christmas releases and noteworthy reissues.

James Brown, The Complete James Brown Christmas. Self-recommending: all three of Brown’s Christmas LP releases on two CD’s, supplemented with seven bonus tracks. Not only are “Let’s Make Christmas Mean Something This Year” and “Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto” as great a pair of “protest” song as any that black America produced in the 60’s, but just for the hell of it, Brown also stuck “Say It Loud – I’m Black And I’m Proud” on a Christmas album.

Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, Crazy For Christmas. Hicks’ “Somebody Stole My Santa Claus Suit” (included here) has been a favorite on Christmas mixtapes/CD’s I’ve made over the years. Here’s a whole new album’s worth of his Western swing and sly, whacked-out humor applied to the season, including such epics as “Santa Gotta Choo Choo,” “I’ve Got Christmas By The Tail,” and an absolutely killer “Carol of the Bells” in jazzy 4-part harmony.

Brian Orchestra Setzer Orchestra, Christmas Comes Alive!. It’s hard to know what we have more of right now: Setzer live albums or Setzer Christmas albums. Here’s one that tips both categories right over into irrelevance!

Stile Antico, Puer Natus Est-Tudor Music for Advent & Christmas. There’s stacks of great recordings of ancient liturgical choral music for the season from such groups as The Tallis Singers and The Taverner Consort, but if you’ve ever felt like just dipping a toe into the pure sonic mysteries of a more devotional age, this’ll do just fine.

Indigo Girls, Holly Happy Days. Their passion and decency in the face of the world’s evil has always been the main (only?) thing keeping them from being just a set of nice harmonies, which rather well suits them to songs that demand a level of trust and belief that few of their peers can match. You’ll never remember the original songs five minutes later, but you won’t soon forget their “Angels We Have Heard On High,” either.

Wilson Phillips, Christmas in Harmony. Three-part harmony instead of two, so it’s 50% better than the Indigo Girls, right? Right?

Olivia Newton-John, Christmas Collection. On the odd chance that anyone cares, this is mostly repackaged material, including some previously-unreleased songs that Liv sang on a Kenny Loggins TV special. Think about that: music so special that for ten years she reserved it just for Kenny Loggins.

MEDAL OF HONOR
EA
360, PS3, PC
10/12
MSRP: $59.99, $49.99 PC

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It’s pretty transparent this series is getting a new jump start only in a continuing effort to drink Activision’s milkshake, one I support wholeheartedly, but to give the devil their due, part of the…I suppose “charm” would be the only appropriate word…of Modern Warfare is their willingness to go as close to the deep end as they can without jumping. That game’s flaw wasn’t that it was unrealistic, but that it was just too damn short, while retreading too much of MW1‘s ground. And like most games where the creators are aiming for staunch realism, this thing runs a danger of being utterly unengaging. But, there’s a crowd for that. I’m just not part of it. Give me my random nuclear explosions in major cities any day.

SUPER SCRIBBLENAUTS
Warner Home Video Games
DS
10/12
MSRP: $29.99

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From all reports, everything that was wrong with the still-enjoyable Scribblenauts from last year–primarily, moving the main character being a bitch, and strange word restrictions popping up at times–has been fixed, plus the fact that adjectives can now be used. So, what you’re saying is now, it’s a perfect game? That’s all they had to say. “Now, it’s perfect.”

OOOHHHHH: ON THE DLC TIP

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 4: EPISODE 1
Sega
XBox Live Arcade, Playstation Network, WiiWare
10/13
$14.99/1200 MS pts

DEAD SPACE: IGNITION
EA
XBox Live
10/13
400 MS pts

Between this and Dead Rising 2, I gotta hand it to game developers for finding new ways of whetting our appetites for upcoming titles without blowing any of the main game’s money shots in the process. It’s a process that’s been a long time coming, but the tech has finally caught up. The studios get to be creative without taking anything or anyone from polishing the main game, we get more playtime in an established universe and as a result, give the studios more money. In this case, Ignition is basically Hotel Dusk in space, written by one of the guys behind the surprisingly decent Dead Space comics, and unlocks content in Dead Space 2 when it happens. Everyone wins.

ROCK BAND TUESDAY

Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced? ($19.99/1600 MS pts)

• Purple Haze +
• Manic Depression +
• Hey Joe (Live)
• Love or Confusion +
• May This Be Love +
• The Wind Cries Mary +
• Fire (Live)
• 3rd Stone from the Sun +
• Foxey Lady +
• Are You Experienced?
• Stone Free +
• Highway Chile +

$1.99/160 MS pts per track
+=Available in Lego Rock Band

So, let’s just do some simple math here. Taking the PSP title out of the equation, four Rock Band games released since 2007. With this pack, they cross the milestone of having released over two THOUSAND songs. And that’s not counting the steadily increasing Rock Band Network stuff or Beatles Rock Band. By comparison, there’s seven Guitar Hero games released in the same time period, and the combined total of all the DLC released on all of them doesn’t even come within spitting distance of a quarter of that. And they celebrate by releasing another fully playable Jimi Hendrix album. Arguably THE Jimi Hendrix album.

Harmonix is awesome. They deserve to keep doing what they do for years to come. I’ll be giving them yet more of my money within the next three weeks to support that very cause.

THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 12th 2010

GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON

DVD/BR
SECTION by: Troy Anderson

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

Directors: Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders
DreamWorks

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Special Features

• Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon: Hiccup and the gang return to search for a mysterious dragon in this all-new adventure
• The
  Animators’ Corner Enhances the Movie-Viewing Experience through
  Picture-in-Picture Storyboards, Behind-the-Scenes Footage and Insightful
  Interviews
• Uncover More Dragon Fun Facts through Pop-Up Trivia
• Three Deleted Scenes are Revealed
• Author Cressida Cowell Shares Her Inspiration
• Learn to Draw Toothless
• Take the Viking Personality Test
• Race for the Gold in the Viking Winter Games
• Build Your Own 3D Dragons
• And More Fiery Fun!

How To Train Your Dragon has that sort of Iron Giant effect on people. Watching adults bawl their eyes out over a simple story of a young man befriending a giant creature never gets old. While I can’t say that I was crazy over the film, it did manage to do something that I haven’t seen a DreamWorks Animated flick do yet. They dropped the pop culture bullshit, most of the lazy jokes and actually hired two guys that could maintain creative focus throughout the length of a feature. If it would’ve had a better original score, it could’ve passed for lesser Pixar.

THE MAGICIAN
Directors: Ingmar Bergman

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Special Features

The Magician is an underrated Bergman gem from the late 1950s. The film focuses on Vogler’s Magnetic Health Theater and its impact on a small town. Various supernatural events happen around the traveling roadshow and a few people are dedicated to exposing the Theater as a bunch of charlatans. I didn’t know