SPEND YOUR MONEY!

NEW RELEASES

*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD
BLUE
     

How to Train Your Dragon                                                     $16.99  $22.99   $24.99 
Disney’s Oceans                                                                     $17.99  $24.99
Predators                                                                               $17.99  $24.99 

Twilight                                                                                  $12

Harry Potter: Ultimate Edition Year 3 or 4                              $24.99  $34.99
The Rocky Horror Picture Show                                            $19.99
Twilight: New Moon                                                               $12


BLU-RAY sale

$10

Underworld
The Dark Knight
The Lost Boys
Bram Stoker’s Dracula

TV on DVD SALE

$12.99

Sex and the City: Season 6 Part 2

$17.99

Entourage: Season 6

$24.99

The Sopranos: Season 6 Part 2

$34.99

True Blood: Season 2

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NEW RELEASES

*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD
BLUE
   
How to Train Your Dragon                                                     $19.99  $22.99   $26.99 
Disney’s Oceans                                                                     $19.99  $25.99
Predators                                                                               $17.99  $24.99 
The Rocky Horror Picture Show                                            $19.99
Mirrors 2                                                                               $19.99  $24.99                

DVD Sale

$4.99

Jackass Number Two: Unrated
American History X
Seven Pounds
The Shawshank Redemption

$11

Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Birthday
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation DVD Premiere

$15

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Killers
Date Night

Kick-Ass
The Ghost Writer
Get Him to the Greek
Death at a Funeral (2010)
Robin Hood (2010)

$17

Spongebob Squarepants: Season 3

$21

Avatar The Last Airbender: Book 3

BLU-RAY sale

$19.99

Get Him to the Greek
Death at a Funeral (2010)
Moulin Rouge
Psycho (1960)
Romeo and Juliet (1996)
Robin Hood (2010)

$24.99


Killers
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Date Night
Kick-Ass
The Ghost Writer

$29.99

Supernatural: Season 5
Fringe: Season 2

TV on DVD SALE

*Nothing much

Video Game
Sales

Target

Fallout – New Vegas: $59.99 (360/PS3) get a $5 gift card w/purchase NEW
DJ Hero 2: $99.99 (360/PS3/Wii) NEW
Cars Toon – Mater’s Tale Gates: $49.99 (Wii) NEW
Kirby’s Epic Yarn: $49.99 (Wii) NEW
Wild Bunch – Zhu Zhu Pets: $34.99 (DS) NEW

Best Buy

Fallout – New Vegas: $59.99 (360/PS3) NEW
EA Sports MMA: $59.99 (360/PS3) NEW
Vanquish: $59.99 (360/PS3) NEW
DJ Hero 2: $99.99 (360/PS3/Wii) NEW
DJ Hero 2 Party Bundle: $149.99 (360/PS3/Wii) NEW
Kirby’s Epic Yarn: $49.99 (Wii) NEW
Wii Party: $49.99
Cars Toon – Mater’s Tall Tales: $49.99 (Wii) NEW
Wild Bunch – Zhu Zhu Pets: $29.99 (Wii) NEW
Who Wants to be a Millionaire: $29.99 (Wii)
Just Dance 2: $39.99 (Wii)
Halo – Reach: $59.99 (360)

TOYS R US

Fallout – New Vegas: $59.99 (360/PS3) NEW*
Kirby’s Epic Yarn: $49.99 (Wii) NEW*
* Get a $10 gift card AND Game Guide w/purchase
DJ Hero 2: $99.99 (360) NEW
EA Sports MMA: $59.99 (360) NEW
Wild Bunch – Zhu Zhu Pets: $39.99 (DS) NEW**
Kung Zhu: $34.99 (DS) NEW**
**Get 50% off any DS or Wii game when you buy either of these games.
Cars Toon – Mater’s Tall Tales: $49.99 (Wii) NEW

K-Mart

Fallout – New Vegas: $59.99 (360) NEW
EA Sports MMA: $59.99 (360) NEW
Vanquish: $59.99 (360) NEW
Cars Toon – Mater’s Tall Tales: $49.99 (Wii) NEW
Kirby’s Epic Yarn: $49.99 (Wii) NEW
DJ Hero 2 (Game Only): $59.99 (360/PS3/Wii)
DJ Hero 2: $99.99 (360) NEW
Sports Champion: $39.99 (PS3)
The Shoot: $39.99 (PS3)
High Velocity Bowling: $39.99 (PS3)
New Super Mario Bros: $49.99 (Wii)
Metroid – Other M: $49.99 (Wii)
Sin and Punishment – Star Successor: $49.99 (Wii)
Wild Bunch – Zhu Zhu Pets: $34.99 (DS) NEW
Kung Zhu: $34.99 (DS) NEW

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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here to discover some of the latest DVD reviews.

THE REST OF
THE DVDs THIS WEEK

Aaah! Zombies!!
Agora
Accidentally On Purpose: The DVD Edition
Assault Girls
Bamboo Blade: The Complete Series
The Bionic Woman (1970s): Season One
Colin (One-Disc Standard Edition)
Colin (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Deadlands 2: Trapped (Extended And Unrated)
The Demon
Disneynature: The Crimson Wing – Mystery Of The Flamingos
Disneynature: Oceans
Eden Of The East: The Complete Series
Free To Be You And Me (Special 36th Anniversary Edition)
Fruit Fly
Generator Rex, Vol. 1
Giallo
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (Ultimate Edition)
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (Ultimate Edition)
Herman Cohen Classic Horror Double Feature: Horrors Of The Black Museum/The Headless Ghost
The Hitmen Diaries: Charlie Valentine
How To Train Your Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon/Legend Of The Boneknapper Dragon (Dragon Double Pack)
Jonathan Creek: The Specials
Journey To Promethea
Killers From Space (With Bonus T-Shirt In Size L)
Killers From Space (With Bonus T-Shirt In Size XL)
The Killing Machine
Kings Of The Evening
Kurau Phantom Memory: The Complete Series (S.A.V.E. Edition)
The Lemon Drop Kid
The Lost Tribe
The Lost World (With Bonus T-Shirt In Size L)
The Lost World (With Bonus T-Shirt In Size XL)
The Maze
A Mind To Kill: Series Two
Mirrors 2
Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Second Season, Pt. 3 (Standard Edition)
Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Second Season, Pt. 3 (Special Edition)
Monster A-Go Go (Special Collector’s Edition)
Naruto Shippuden, Box Set 4 (Standard Edition)
Naruto Shippuden, Box Set 4 (Special Edition)
Night Of The Demons
Organic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret
Pee-Wee’s Playhouse: The Complete Collection (Bundle)
Please Give
Predators
The Psycho Legacy
Raging Planet (Discovery Channel)
The Real L Word: Season One
Redeemer: Son Of Satan
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Vol. 4: Spooked Bayou
Scooby’s All Star Laff-A-Lympics, Vol. 2
’70s Drive-In Horror Double Feature: Ruby/Kiss Of The Tarantula
The Six Wives Of Henry Lefay
Smash His Camera
The String (Le Fil)
The Swamp Of The Ravens (With Bonus: Zombies AKA I Eat Your Skin)
Tales From The Darkside: The Final Season
Tapout: The Complete Series
Tears To Tiara: The Complete Collection
Theater Of War
20th Century With Mike Wallace: Politics And Presidents (Athena)
UFC 117: Silva Vs. Sonnen/Fitch Vs. Alves
Until The Light Takes Us (One-Disc Standard Edition)
Until The Light Takes Us (Two-Disc Limited Edition)
Utawarerumono: The Complete Series (S.A.V.E. Edition)
Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl
Wallander: Faceless Killers/The Man Who Smiled/The Fifth Woman
WWE: Night Of Champions 2010

BLU-RAY: IT’S
GETTING CHEAPER

Apocalypse Now (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Apocalypse Now (Three-Disc Full Disclosure Edition)
Assault Girls
Blu Dreams 2
The California Kid
Civil War Battlefields
Colditz
D-Day: Code Name – Overlord
Disneynature: The Crimson Wing – Mystery Of The Flamingos (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Disneynature: Oceans (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Eden Of The East: The Complete Series
Guadalcanal: The Island Of Death
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (Ultimate Edition)
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (Ultimate Edition)
Horror Double Feature: Thirteen Ghosts/House Of Wax
How to Train Your Dragon/Legend Of The Boneknapper Dragon (Dragon Double Pack) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Howling Trilogy: The Marsupials III, The Rebirth V, The Freaks VI
Mirrors 2 (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Night Of The Demons
Please Give
Predators
Psycho (50th Anniversary Edition)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (35th Anniversary Edition)
Romeo And Juliet (1996 Movie)
Seven Samurai (Criterion Collection)
The Six Wives Of Henry Lefay
Talking To Heaven
Tears To Tiara: The Complete Collection
Until The Light Takes Us
Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl
Wallander: Faceless Killers/The Man Who Smiled/The Fifth Woman

Music

Section By Jeb D.

THE UNION

Elton John and Leon Russell

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Thirty years ago, this album would have been a classic “battle of the bands”: of all the musical influences that went into constructing the Elton John hit-making machine, none was more prominent than the pounding piano and gospel-based vocal arrangements of Leon Russell. Today, though, it’s a meeting of elder statesmen, which, while not without its pleasures, lacks the sparks that might have flown back when each had something to prove. Both singers are still in strong voice, though Elton’s has thickened and deepened to the point where there’s less contrast between Russell and himself than there once would have been, and the T-Bone Burnett (who else?) production sets them off beautifully. Guests include Brian Wilson, Booker T, and Neil Young (whose voice is the ideal instrument for more of Bernie Taupin’s Civil War ruminations on “Gone To Shiloh”). The tone is often stately, but too often it’s equally static; though there is plenty of heart and soul in the writing and singing, the album never catches fire in the revival-meeting way of a “Burn Down The Mission,” “Roll Away The Stone” or “Take Me To The Pilot.” Given their deep love of gospel music, both singers might cock an ear to what Mavis Staples is up to these days: being a Living Legend doesn’t mean you can’t kick a little musical ass while you’re at it. Note that you can also buy a “Special Edition” with a making-of doc by Cameron Crowe.

UNDERCARD

The Extra Lens

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You could spend some time parsing out the difference between this John Darnielle and Franklin Bruno collaboration and a regular Mountain Goats album; I suppose that technically it’s a sequel to Darnielle and Bruno’s 2002 “The Extra Glenns” album. Better, instead, to focus energy on the music, which is brimming with the humanity and underdog empathy that are Darnielle’s specialty. The album title embodies that worldview: always aiming for the top spot, always falling just short. “Cruiserweights” spells it out explicitly, while “Only Existing Footage” shifts focus away from sports, to an equally brave attempt to fend off the world’s cold indifference.  “How I Left the Ministry”‘ is a story of infidelity and remorse that unreels slowly, filmically, while “Some Other Way” show human resilience in the face of even the darkest impulses. Undercard does separate itself from a typical Mountain Goats record with a more varied instrumental texture, including the saloon piano, and accordion, deployed as canny stage setting for “In Germany Before The War.” Rich and rewarding.

THE ORIGINAL MONO RECORDINGS

Bob Dylan

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Well, he’s not dead, and doesn’t hit 70 till next May, but otherwise Bob Dylan’s matching last week’s John Lennon barrage with a plateful of new releases, including this box set of his first eight studio albums, in remastered mono sound. Compared with the sometimes gimmicky stereo mixes that his contemporaries like the Beatles and Stones received, most of the stereo versions of Dylan’s 60’s output sound pretty natural, and the stereo can add texture when he begins to branch out to full-band recording. But there’s a nice clarity to the mono versions, particularly on the first few, so if you don’t yet have the complete early Dylan discography, here’s a nice (not exactly cheap: $130 list, $104 right now from Amazon) way to acquire it. Personally, I’d say your money’s better spent on this week’s Volume 9 of his Bootleg Series, with the first commercial release of all his early demos for the Witmark music publishing company, ranging from classics-to-be to material that he never commercially recorded. Though even the previously “unreleased” songs are often familiar (like “Hard Times in New York Town” or “The Death of Emmett Till”), hearing it all of a piece in this fashion really is a pretty stunning tribute to the sheer epic size of his talent: it’s almost a complete rewriting of the possibilities of popular music over the course of a couple of hours, delivered with an off-the-cuff ease, and an unusually unguarded openness. Also available is a single-disk collection of the Best of the Mono Recordings, featuring the usual suspects (“Blowin’ In The Wind,” “Like A Rolling Stone,” etc.). By the way, with pre-orders of either the complete Mono Recordings box or the Witmark Demos set, Amazon is including as an exclusive bonus a previously-unreleased concert recording from 1963, so if you’re interested in any of these, you might want to jump on it as soon as this column goes up.

THE INCREDIBLE MACHINE

Sugarland

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I normally wouldn’t feature these folks, but this album title is just begging for it: The Incredible Machine? Why not just call it The Soulless Corporate Focus Group CD? It’s the perfect illustration of the musically creative vacuum that is today’s mainstream “country” music scene: you can load up (as this album does) on warmed-over arena-rock bombast and clichés, but they’ll lap it up as long as you’ve got the right accent, attitude, and outfit. It’s all pointless, generic “anthems” designed to fit anyone’s personal wish to see themselves as put upon; Sugarland wants you to sing out with them that you “won’t give up the fight,” and to “stand up and use your voice,” as though there were no distinction whatever between “he/she-done-me-wrong” clichés  and the genuine misery infesting much of American life today, which once would have been the subject of mainstream country artists (Johnny Cash, say, or Merle Haggard), but today is relegated to fringe performers like Ryan Bingham and Justin Townes Earle. The bland uselessness of this album makes Lady Antebellum sound like The Carter Family.

Other noteworthy 10/19 Releases

Kind of a lean week, and I was sick in bed for most of it, so I know there’s a few new ones I didn’t get around to.

Liz Phair, Funstyle. I’ve listened to Funstyle a few more times since the download was reviewed here a few months back, and while Phair doubtless intends it to be biting and incisive, to me it still feels petulant, small, and musically lifeless. On the plus side, the CD release comes with a bonus disk of the first mainstream release of her original privately-issued Girlysound Tapes, which are worth hearing even if they do place the new album in a less than flattering context. On the minus side, the artist is no longer getting 100% of what you pay for this, which makes it somewhat less a bargain than the download was.

Bryan Ferry, Olympia. On the plus side: this album reunites Ferry with Brian Eno, as well as Mackay and Manzanera, for the first time in over thirty years (the rest of the kitchen sink cast includes Nile Rodgers, David Gilmour, Groove Armada, Scissor Sisters, Marcus Miller, Flea, and Jonny Greenwood). On the minus side: the Kate Moss album cover, and video for the first single, “You Can Dance,” suggest that it’s just more of the high-class makeout music that has been Ferry’s specialty since Avalon. Goes down smooth, but I’m hoping for a bit of “Re-Make/Re-Model” / “Mother Of Pearl” bite. We’ll see.

Kings of Leon, Come Around Sundown. America’s answer to Big Country returns with more of that keening guitar, martial drums, long looping basslines, and tight harmonies reminding us to keep going no matter how tough it gets. Ain’t no pigeon crap gonna slow down these fellas.

Darkstar, North. Not quite the grooves galore that 2009’s “Aidy’s Girl Is a Computer” might have led you to expect: instead, sober reflections on a darkening England in a time of personal tragedy (several bandmembers lost close friends or relatives over the past year), sung by new vocalist James Buttery (whose voice is anything but) through a series of filters that suggest the alien invaders in a 1950’s sci-fi film. The cover of the Human League’s “Gold” is taken at a stark half-speed, and there’s as much ache in the music as the lyrics in
“Under One Roof” and “2 Chords.”

Avey Tare, Down There. I suppose that “Tare” rhymed better with “There” than “Portner” would have, but yes, this is another Animal Collective spinoff (or is Animal Collective itself the spinoff? Hmmmm….). The expected merry mix of sounds and time signatures: my particular favorite, though, is the relatively forthright “Oliver Twist”.

Buddy Guy, Living Proof. You know all those white-boy blues albums you’ve been passing up all year? Here’s what you’ve been saving your money for.

FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS
Bethesda
360, PS3, PC
10/19
MSRP: $59.99, $49.99 PC

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My name is Justin. And I cannot beat Fallout 3. It’s nothing against the game itself. The game is amazing, and breathtaking, well realized, well written, and just a testament to what this generation has to offer. But you know that scene in Once Upon A Time In Mexico where Johnny Depp’s going on about the roasted pork being so good that it’s TOO good, and he’s going to shoot the cook after it’s done? That’s my relationship with Fallout 3. It’s so big, and grandiose, with SO much stuff to do that does not advance the main story, and all of it is strong enough to support itself, and somehow, it loses me in that. I’m 58 hours in that game, and I just got the go ahead to pick up a G.E.C.K. And now you tell me there’s a sequel with a Mohave Desert that’s just as big as the Capital Wasteland? It’s probably a beautiful, amazing, well forged masterpiece, and chances are good I will never play it in this life.

DJ HERO 2
Warner Home Video Games
360, PS3, Wii
10/19
MSRP: $59.99

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I feel bad that I never gave the first DJ Hero any play. My mostly-hate relationship with Activision has some to do with that, but I’ve been dying for a game that does just about everything this game does, and I didn’t support it. And yet, I blasted the hell out of the often spectacular remixes. DJ Hero 2 might be the time to fix that, but God, this hitting a week before I sell my relatives to the Russian black market for that Rock Band 3 keyboard and the Alien Blu Ray set was a poor choice.

EA SPORTS MMA
EA
360, PS3
10/19
MSRP: $59.99

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More or less, the only basis for comparison for this game is UFC: Undisputed, a game which was pretty cool for what it was, but too technical for my own personal taste in fighters. Still, it’s a game I begrudge no one for enjoying the shit out of. EA’s game pretty much brings their Fight Night sensibility to the table for a lot of this, which means this will play a bit differently, but may have the same technicality problem that kept me from Undisputed. It does, however, rely on the right analog stick in a way that might make all the difference on how natural this thing plays, though.

KIRBY’S EPIC YARN
Nintendo
Wii
10/17
MSRP: $49.99

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I do love those sporadic weeks when I’m kinda envious of Wii owners. Chances are, you could buy this game when Best Buy or wherever opens and be done with it by the time The Price Is Right came on., but who cares? This is one of those experience games where the world and aesthetic looks like a place you just want to curl up in for hours at a time, no matter how easy it is. It’s the gaming equivalent of a Snuggie.

OOOHHHH: ON THE DLC TIP

NO MAJOR DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT THIS WEEK.
You mean you don’t have enough to do? Greedy bitch.

ROCK BAND TUESDAY

Stone Temple Pilots Pack 01 ($9.99/800 MS pts)

• Big Empty
• Crackerman
• Creep
• Dead & Bloated
• Huckleberry Crumble
• Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart

Jimmy Eat World Pack 02 ($5.49/440 MS pts)

• Bleed American
• My Best Theory +
• Pain

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

Factor in Plush being in Rock Band 3, and I’d say all the truly vital STP tracks are now available for this series. Big Empty, in particular, is a huge grab that will get a ton of play at my house.

I can take or leave Jimmy Eat World. Sweetness is in the game, hence there’s nothing else in their catalog to get my blood pressure up over one way or the other.

Lastly, I would like to take this time to point out that Stan Bush’s The Touch is on the Rock Band Network this week, only in aid of identifying those who likely will not but more importantly should not breed.

THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 19th 2010

GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON

DVD/BR
SECTION by: Troy Anderson

APOCALYPSE NOW: FULL DISCLOSURE EDITION

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
LionsGate/American Zoetrope

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Special Features

• Apocalypse Now – The 1979 Cut and Apocalypse Now Redux are presented for the first time in Hi-Def!
• New 1080p transfers supervised by Francis Ford Coppola – first time
ever in original theatrical aspect ratio (2.35:1) in home entertainment
release!
• Exclusive to Full Disclosure edition: Hearts of
Darkness, the feature-length making-of documentary with optional audio
commentary from Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola
• Exclusive to
Full Disclosure edition: 48-page printed collectible booklet with letter
from Francis Ford Coppola, never-before-seen archives from the set,
behind-the-scenes photos and more!
• Exclusive to Full Disclosure
edition: 52-page John Milius script excerpt (onscreen) with handwritten
notes from Francis Ford Coppola
• Exclusive to Full Disclosure edition: Storyboard Gallery
• Exclusive to Full Disclosure edition: Marketing Archives
• New “A Converation with Martin Sheen” interview by Francis Ford Coppola
• New “An Interview with John Milius” by Francis Ford Coppola
• Never-before-included Complete 2001 Cannes Film Festival: Francis Ford Coppola interview by Roger Ebert
• Audio Commentary by Francis Ford Coppola
• Monkey Sampan “lost scene”
• Additional Scenes
• “Destruction of the Kurtz Compound” – with audio commentary by Francis Ford Coppola
• “Heart of Darkness” – 1938 Mercury Theatre audio recording with Orson Welles
• “The Hollow Men” – video of Marlon Brando reading T.S. Eliot’s poem
• “The Birth of 5.1 Sound” featurette
• “Ghost Helicopter Flyover” sound effects demonstration
• “A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now” featurette
• “The Music of Apocalypse Now” featurette
• “The Synthesizer Soundtrack” article by Bob Moog
• “Heard Any Good Movies Lately? The Sound Design of Apocalypse Now” featurette
• “The Final Mix” featurette
• “Apocalypse Then and Now” featurette
• “PBR Streetgang” interviews with the boat crew actors
• “The Color Palette of Apocalypse Now” featurette

Apocalypse Now is one of the greatest films ever made. Some of the female readers would argue the point with me, but most CHUD female readers don’t read my stuff. I tend to write for the cock ‘n’ glock crowd, so I feel that I’m preaching to the choir. LionsGate has managed to wrestle the Zoetrope releases away from Paramount and the result is some amazing stuff. Both cuts of the film, the third disc sports Hearts of Darkness and the package screams Criterion knock-off. But, it’s the best Criterion knock-off that I’ve seen. Worlds above their Studio Canal Collection efforts, LionsGate is offering viewers the only way to properly view Apocalypse Now. There’s 1080p picture quality, pristine audio and enough featurettes that I feel Coppola’s brain has officially been plucked of every bit of info juice. The only thing that could make it better is if someone found a tape of Harvey Keitel screaming I AM WILLARD.

PREDATORS
Director: Nimrod Antal

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Special Features

Predators is
a solid attempt at rebooting a franchise. Screw the AVP crap and keep the memories of Danny Glover in the past. This flick had Danny Trejo, the weird chin guy from King Kong, That 70s Venom and that guy from The Shield. Laurence Fishburne shows up, as he has now gone crazy after seeing his daughter’s pimpled ass doing porn. There’s a lot of moments in the film that feel right, but you don’t get that overall complete feeling that the first two Predators brought. By the end of the film, you’re left hoping that a sequel actually answers some questions.

MOULIN ROUGE
director: Baz Luhrmann

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SPECIAL FEATURES

• Featurettes
• Picture-in-Picture Commentary
• and more!

Moulin Rouge
is one of the better Best Picture nominees of the last decade. I love Baz Luhrmann’s energy and I feel that the man has a truly amazing film in him. This is yet another case of a film that gets close to that edge, but then drops the balls. Everything feels predictable when it’s not busy trying to throw pop culture stained curveballs to warm their heart and boggle the mind. The film has built up a sizeable fanbase over the last few years. I consider myself a fan, as I appreciate trying to hyper-kinetically tell stories that modern youth would ignore. The film also offered up Rufus Wainwright’s version of La Complainte De La Butte. That’s enough to warrant a purchase from me.

PSYCHO
d. Alfred Hitchcock

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