SPEND YOUR MONEY!

NEW RELEASES

*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD
BLUE
     
Toy Story 3                                                                           $15.99  $24.99   $32.99 
Mater’s Tall Tales                                                                  $15.99  $19.99
The Sound of Music: 45th Anniversary                                   $19.99 

Marmaduke                                                                          $16.99
Diary of a Wimpy Kid                                                           $16.99

The Pacific                                                                            $44.99  $64.99
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang                                                         $19.99
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs                                             $16.99
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel                             $16.99
Percy Jackson and the Olympians                                          $16.99

DVD SALE

$7

27 Dresses
Bride Wars
The Departed
The Dark Knight
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Alvin and the Chipmunks

TV on DVD SALE

$12.99

Bethenny Getting Married? Season 1

$29.99

The Good Wife: Season 1

$39.99

Sons of Anarchy: Season 2
Band of Brothers

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NEW RELEASES

*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD
BLUE
   
Toy Story 3                                                                           $15.99  $24.99   $32.99  $64.99
V: The Complete First Season                                               $27.99  $34.99

Band of Brothers                                                                   $39.99  $49.99
The Pacific                                                                            $42.99  $56.99
Mater’s Tall Tales                                                                  $19.99   ($5 off when you buy it with Toy Story 3)
The Sound of Music: 45th Anniversary                                   $22.99  $59.99

Katt Williams: 9 Lives                                                            $12.99 
Toy Story                                                                              $29.99   ($5 off when you buy it with Toy Story 3)
Toy Story 2                                                                           $29.99    ($5 off when you buy it with Toy Story 3)

DVD Sale

$3.49

Jaws 3
Uncle Buck
Training Day
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

BLU-RAY sale

$12.99

Gamer
Killers
Daybreakers
From Paris with Love

TV on DVD SALE

*There’s a V steelbook exclusive.

Video Game
Sales

Target

Buy Any 2 Games, Get 1 Free: Valid on PS3, 360, and Wii games from $14.99 – $59.99

Xbox 360 4GB Console with Kinect and Kinect Adventures game: $299.99 NEW
Kinect for Xbox 360: $149.99 NEW
Dance Central: $49.99 (Kinect)
Your Shape – Fitness Evolved: $49.99 (Kinect)
Kinectimals: $49.99 (Kinect)
The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout: $49.99 (Kinect)
Kinect Joy Ride: $49.99 (Kinect)
Kinect Sport8: $49.99 (Kinect)
Motionsports – Play For Real: $49.99 (Kinect)

Gran Turismo 5: $59.99 (PS3)
Goldeneye: $49.99 (Wii)

Best Buy

Xbox 360 4GB Console with Kinect and Kinect Adventures game: $299.99 NEW
Kinect for Xbox 360: $149.99 NEW
– Free $10 Gift Card when you buy 2 Kinect games.
– Free $20 Gift Card when you buy 3 Kinect games.
Dance Central: $49.99 (Kinect)
Kinect Joy Ride: $49.99 (Kinect)
Fighters Uncaged: $49.99 (Kinect)
Kinectimals: $49.99 (Kinect)
Dance Masters: $49.99 (Kinect)
The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout: $49.99 (Kinect)
Sonic Free Riders: $49.99 (Kinect)
Adrenalin Misfits $49.99 (Kinect)
Your Shape – Fitness Evolved: $49.99 (Kinect)
Motionsports – Play For Real: $49.99 (Kinect)
Kinect Sport8: $49.99 (Kinect)

007 – Bloodstone: $59.99 (360/PS3) NEW
Uncharted 2 GOTY: $49.99 (PS3)
Dragon Age Origins UE: $59.99 (360/PS3)
Storm 2: $59.99 (360/PS3) NEW
Fallout New Vegas: $59.99 (PS3)
Sean White Skateboarding: $59.99 (360/PS3), $49.99 (Wii)
Def Jam Rapstar: $59.99 (360/PS3), $49.99 (Wii)
Enslaved: $49.99 (360/PS3)
Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts: $79.99 (360/PS3), $59.99 (Wii)
Power Gig w/guitar: $179.99 (360/PS3) NEW
Goldeneye w/controller: $69.99 (Wii) NEW
Active Life Explorer: $59.99 (Wii) NEW
Disney Channel All Star Party: $39.99 (Wii) NEW
Family Game Night 3: $39.99 (Wii) NEW
Monopoly: $39.99 (Wii) NEW
Hollywood Squares: $29.99 (Wii) NEW

TOYS R US

Kinect for Xbox 360: $149.99 NEW
Dance Central: $49.99 (Kinect)
Kinect Joy Ride: $49.99 (Kinect)
Kinect Sport8: $49.99 (Kinect)
Your Shape – Fitness Evolved: $49.99 (Kinect)
Kinectimals: $49.99 (Kinect)
EA FIFA Soccer 11: $59.99 (360)
Rock Band 3: $59.99 (360)
EA NBA Elite 11: $59.99 (360)
Fable III: $59.99 (360)
EA MMA: $59.99 (360)
Star Wars – The Force Unleashed II: $59.99 (360)
Halo Reach: $59.99 (360)
NBA 2K11: $59.99 (360)
DefJam Rapstar: $69.99 (360)

007 Bloodstone: $59.99 (PS3) NEW
Medal of Honor: $59.99 (PS3)
Gran Turismo 5: $59.99 (PS3) NEW
Transformers – War for Cybertron: $59.99 (PS3)
Eyepet: $39.99 (Move)
EA Tiger Woods PGA Tours 11: $59.99 (Move)
TV Superstars: $39.99 (Move)
Brunswick Pro Bowling: $29.99 (Move)
The Shoot: $39.99 (Move)
The Fight – Lights Out: $39.99 (Move)
Singstar – Dance: $39.99 (Move)
Start the Party!: $39.99 (Move)

The World’s Biggest Loser Challenge: $39.99 (Wii)
Wheel of Fortune: $29.99 (Wii)
Goldeneye w/controller: $69.99 (Wii)
Megamind – Mega Team Unite: $39.99 (Wii)
PokePark: $49.99 (Wii)

K-Mart

Xbox 360 4GB Console with Kinect and Kinect Adventures game: $299.99 NEW
– Get a $40 Gaming coupon w/purchase.
Kinect for Xbox 360: $149.99 NEW
– Get a $25 Gaming coupon w/purchase.
Your Shape – Fitness Evolved: $49.99 (Kinect)
Dance Central: $49.99 (Kinect)
Kinectimals: $49.99 (Kinect)
Kinect Joy Ride: $49.99 (Kinect)
Kinect Sport8: $49.99 (Kinect)
– Get a $15 Gaming coupon w/purchase of one Kinect game and either the Xbox 360 w/Kinect OR just the Kinect system by itself

Goldeneye w/controller: $69.99 (Wii)
Gran Turismo 5: $59.99 (PS3) NEW
Jeopardy: $29.99 (Wii)
Wheel of Fortune: $29.99 (Wii)

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THE REST OF
THE DVDs THIS WEEK

Bad Ass
Beverly Hills 90210: The Final Season
Beverly Hills 90210: The Complete Series (Bundle)
The Bing Crosby Collection (Universal Backlot Series)
Blassreiter: The Complete Series
Cadfael: The Complete Collection
Care Bears: The Giving Festival Movie
Cars Toon: Mater’s Tall Tales
Centurion
Cher: The Film Collection
Come Hell Or High Water
Deadfall Trail
Deadliest Catch: Season Six (Discovery Channel)
Demon Kiss
Destricted
Doctor Who: Story 79 – Revenge Of The Cybermen
Doctor Who: Story 154 – Silver Nemesis
Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years (Standard Packaging)
ExTerminators
The Facts Of Life: The Complete Fifth Season
Flipping Out: Season One
Flipping Out: Season Two
Frank Sinatra: Concert Collection
The Fugitive: The Fourth And Final Season, Vol. 1
The Goonies (25th Anniversary Edition)
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino – The Complete Series
Hannah Montana Forever: Who Is Hannah Montana?
I Am
IMAX: Van Gogh – Brush With Genius
The Larry Sanders Show: Season Two
The Larry Sanders Show: The Complete Series
Love And Distrust
Mad About You: The Complete Fifth Season
Marple: The Geraldine McEwan Collection
Michael Douglas Film Collection
Midsomer Murders: Village Case Files
Million Dollar Listing: Season Two
The Millionaire Matchmaker: Season One
My Super Psycho Sweet 16 2 (DVD-R)
Nip/Tuck: The Complete Series
Not Of This Earth (Roger Corman’s Cult Classics)
Oh! Edo Rocket, Pt. 1
Oh! Edo Rocket, Pt. 2
Once Fallen
The Pacific
The Red Green Show: The Toddlin’ Years (Seasons 1994-1996)
Riverman
The Rolling Stones: Let’s Spend The Night Together
The Terror Within/Dead Space (Roger Corman’s Cult Classics Double Feature)
Toy Story 3
Trial
UFC: The Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights
Utakata: The Complete Series
V (2009): The Complete First Season
The Visitor (1980)
White Christmas (Two-Disc Holiday Edition)
Winnebago Man
WOW: World Of Wonder – Discover, Optimize And Experience Home Theater (Disney)
WWE: Hell In A Cell 2010

BLU-RAY: IT’S
GETTING CHEAPER

The Bridge On The River Kwai (Collector’s Edition)
Cars Toon: Mater’s Tall Tales (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Centurion
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Blu-ray/DVD Combo In Blu-ray Packaging)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Blu-ray/DVD Combo In DVD Packaging)
Christmas Cottage
Come Hell Or High Water
ExTerminators
Fallen
Frozen Paradise
The Goonies (25th Anniversary Edition)
Highlander
Highlander 2
IMAX: Dinosaurs Alive! (3D)
IMAX: Grand Canyon Adventure – River At Risk (3D)
IMAX: Van Gogh – Brush With Genius
IMAX: Wild Ocean (3D)
Once Fallen
The Pacific
Riverman
The Sound Of Music (45th Anniversary Edition) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo In Blu-ray Packaging)
The Sound Of Music (45th Anniversary Edition) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo In DVD Packaging)
The Sound Of Music (Limited Edition Collector’s Set)
Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3 (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Toy Story: Ultimate Toy Box Collection (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
UFC: The Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights
V (2009): The Complete First Season
White Christmas (Anniversary Edition)
The Wiz
WOW: World Of Wonder – Discover, Optimize And Experience HD Home Theater (Disney)

MUSIC

Section By Jeb D.

NATIONAL RANSOM

Elvis Costello

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Costello’s always been one to confound expectations. Given the T-Bone Burnett production and cast of expert acoustic/roots music players, many will be expecting something traditional/bluegrass/country; from the album title and the illustration of a carpetbagging wolf on the cover, it wouldn’t be surprising to hear a rant on scurrilous doings in Whitehall or the halls of Congress. What he provides is neither: this is a fairly “traditional” Elvis Costello album, with witty, twisty, observations on human relations (romantic and otherwise), that just happens to rely more on fiddles and mandolins than farfisa organs and Fender Jazzmasters. While Wall Street does take its lumps on the rather clumsy title track, the album generally slides quickly from the large scale to the intimate, from the devastating portrait of a down-and-out singer in “Jimmie Standing in the Rain” to the delightfully tongue-tripping swain of “Slow Drag With Josephine.” There’s hints of something resembling The Attractions’ sound on “Five Small Words” and “The Spell That You Cast,” and all throughout the album, Costello’s in excellent voice, as though he found the brisk four-week recording process unusually invigorating. And if some of the dark love songs here cover familiar Costello territory, he’s still more than capable of crossing the listener up with the contrast of elegant melody and sour-milk romance on “You Hung The Moon” (“You hung the moon / From a gallows in the sky“) and hitting home with the bleak imagery of All These Strangers: “I saw my baby talking to a man today / Speaking softly in a confidential way /  I saw her shadow pull his glove off /  Life’s no pleasure when you doubt the one you love.” Less satisfying are the cheeky clichés of “I Lost You” (co-written with Jim Lauderdale) and the rather turgid Leon Russell contribution “My Lovely Jezebel;” but it’s the rare album by the amazingly fecund Costello that doesn’t have the odd clunker.  In a career that has ranged at least as widely as that of any pop musician before him (or since), we tend to expect every new Costello album to come with its own “hook” (Elvis and Bacharach, Elvis with string quartet or jazz band, new ballet or song cycle, etc.); as a consequence, an album that would (apart from the instrumentation) fit nicely with Trust or Spike can feel a bit slight. But if you’re willing to settle for a batch of terrific new songs from one of our greatest songwriters, you’ll find it a rewarding listen.

BLACK DUB

Black Dub

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His production efforts for folks like U2, Peter Gabriel, and his own albums, suggest that Daniel Lanois does not regard lack of aural focus as a problem; often, it’s pretty much the point. Thus Lanois’ new band: Black Dub, which combines his guitar playing, the drumming of jazz vet Brian Blade, and New Orleans’ Daryl Johnson on bass, into a blend of music that slides through a range of styles, from blues to reggae to jazz to modern radio pop, with an aimlessness that suggests that the band is well-named: it’s like the “dub” version of a more directed funk outfit. What keeps hooking the ear, though, isn’t the slightly meandering songwriting, but the voice putting it across: Trixie Whitley is the 22-year-old daughter of the late Chris Whitley, and the gal has a set of pipes on her. There’s a kind of generic quality to her phrasing, and to her voice itself–it wouldn’t be hard to imagine her belting out the latest “American Idol”-inspired Top 40 pap–but technique can be learned and vocal identity shaped, particularly by someone who starts out with the amazing vocal strength and power that Whitley displays here. She brings the gospel wail on “Last Time” and “Canaan,” shows off her lower range on the bluesy “Surely,” and the variety of her repeated attacks on the phrase “I wanna live where love lives!” from “Love Lives” are veering into Van Morrison territory. The band provides expert backing, with particularly hypnotic work from Lanois on “Slow Baby” and “Sirens.”  Black Dub is an enjoyable listening experience in its own right, but I suspect we’ll one day look back on it as just the first stirrings of the career of an amazing young singer.

SMALL CRAFT ON A MILK SEA

Brian Eno

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What tends to set Brian Eno apart from a lot of his modern neo-classical compositional peers is his insistence that music has value as artifact, devoid of anything resembling intellectual rigor, emotional expression, or structural purpose. He describes the improvisational music-making here as “not attempts to end up with a song, but rather with a landscape, a feeling of a place and perhaps the suggestion of an event. In a sense they deliberately lack ‘personality’: there is no singer, no narrator, no guide as to what you ought to be feeling.” In typical Eno fashion, his collaborators are almost “found music” themselves: guitarist Leo Abraham first hooked up with Eno when they were both shopping in the same guitar store, and keyboardist Jon Hopkins came to Eno’s attention when he curated the Luminous Festival. The album opens in quiet, familiar Music For Airports-era Eno territory, with “Emerald and Lime” and the title song. But every now and again, Eno and company deliver a strong kick in the pants with stuff like “Horse” and “Two Forms Of Anger,” that call to mind his early post-Roxy recordings. It’s kind of a shame that it’s an all-instrumental album, as many of the pieces here have the same kind of sly melodic invention that we heard on the songs from Another Green World and Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). Even after all these years of Eno’s commitment to “ambient sound,” it’s hard to call something “background music” without sounding as though you’re damning with faint praise, but that seems to be the man’s goal, so who am I to argue? Best movie soundtrack since The Social Network, even if there’s no movie to go with it.

AFROCUBISM

AfroCubism

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While 1997’s Buena Vista Social Club remains one of the best-known albums in the “world music” catalogue, less well known is that it was originally to have been a cross-cultural meeting of musicians from Cuba and Mali, mining the rich musical history, shared and apart, of the two cultures. Why the Malians never turned up remains unexplained, but last year, producer Nick Gold managed to finally connect up the two groups of musicians, and the result is a dazzling marriage of musical styles: if you know the original Buena Vista album (or have some familiarity with similar bands like the Gypsy Kings), you’ll have some idea of what’s going on here. Though there are some elegant vocals from Kassé Mady Diabaté, singer-guitarist Eliades Ochoa is the front man, and even if my high school Spanish is only up to getting a general idea of what he’s on about, his mixture of quick patter with elegant melisma conveys the ache of love and loneliness as clearly as Neil Young or Joni Mitchell ever have. What makes the album even more enjoyable than its predecessor, though, is the astounding musical summit going on, spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist Bassekou Kouyate and the extraordinary Rail Band guitarist Djelimady Tounkara. It’s an embarrassment of musical riches, with styles including griot, Tres Cubano, flamenco, bossa nova, and American blues sometimes winding in and around each other on the same track. Tounkara virtually flies on “Djelimady Rumba” and the Cuban favorite “La Culebra,” while the Malian standard “Jarabi” gets a sly, percussive Afro-Cuban twist from the mingling of Kouyate’s kora and n’goni with Ochoa’s guiro. The album is rounded out with kora virtuoso Toumani Diabaté joining Bassekou and Ochoa in taking elegant solos to flesh out the Cuban standard “Guantanamera.”

OTHER NOTEWORTHY 11/2 RELEASES

Huey Lewis & The News, Soulsville. Well, better these guys than Phil Collins.

Neil Diamond, Dreams. From “Cherry Cherry” to “You Got To Me” to “Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show,” Diamond earned my (sometimes grudging) respect as a sharp writer of terrific pop songs. That did not then, and does not now, extend to his singing of other people’s songs (or even his own).

Brad Paisley, Hits Alive. Bunch of hits on disk one, bunch of live versions of most of the same ones on disk two. Still, it’s priced cheap and even if the dude’s writing or singing isn’t particularly distinctive, on the live disk you get more of his guitar playing… which really isn’t that much more distinctive, but is pretty hot.

Keith Richards, Vintage Vinos. With Keef making the rounds on his book tour, this is obviously the ideal time to release a collection of his best Mick-less music; for better or worse, though, the forgettable nature of most of the tunes and words also demonstrates just how much vision and concept that Jagger brings to their partnership. If the chunky riffs and endearingly cracked voice are enough for you, though, there’s probably stuff on here you don’t already have (including the Katrina benefit single, “Hurricane,” credited to the Stones, though it’s mostly just acoustic Richards).

7 Walkers, 7 Walkers. Deadheads Bill Kreutzmann and Robert Hunter evoke the spirit of Crescent City musical giants from Jelly Roll Morton to Dr. John to Gary U.S. Bonds– who was actually from Florida, demonstrating that a good N’Awlins celebration has room for folks from all over, even a pair of Bay Area hippies. Willie Nelson and legendary bassist George Porter Jr join in a musical celebration of New Orleans that should help tide you over til the next season of Treme.

Various Artists, Mostly Ghostly: More Horror for Halloween. Um… released Stateside the week AFTER Halloween? It’s still worth your money: among its 24 tracks are such rarities as Screaming Lord Such’s “Black and Hairy,” Terry Teen’s “The Hearse,” Morgus & The Three Ghouls’ “Morgus the Magnificent,” Ronnie Cook and the Gaylads’ original version of the Cramps’ classic “Goo Goo Muck,” and a dozen more that you’ll find equally essential.

Neville Brothers, Authorized Bootleg Warfield Theatre San Francisco. Well, you can’t deny the sheer definitiveness of stuff like “Sister Rosa” and “Big Chief,” or the beautiful treatment of Bob Marley’s “One Love.” You can, however, bemoan the pedestrian choices for the oldies covers: “Johnny B. Goode,” “Rip It Up,” “Long Tall Sally,” etc. At $25, the CD is for Neville fanatics only; at $10 the download is sort of not great, not bad.

Weekend, Sports. San Francisco-based noise-poppers who are more expert on the former than the latter.

Good Charlotte, Cardiology. Whether it’s in any way productive to still remember what teenage yearning felt like when you cross the big 3-0, it’s certainly commercial if you’re as musically canny as these fellas.

Paul McCartney & Wings, Band On The Run. It’s a measure of just how starved we were for any leftover scraps of Fab Fourism during the 70’s that this occasionally catchy collection of inoffensive pop was upgraded into an Artistic Statement. Granted, it’s one of the few McCartney solo albums with more than one or two songs that reward careful listening– it actually has, like, three or four.  And with your choice of several different reissue packages, you can spend up to a hundred bucks to hear them again.

Weezer, Death To False Metal. Ten songs that weren’t considered good enough to make it onto previous Weezer albums (ponder that for a moment) are spiffed up and recorded-over to produce a “new” album that will allow the Cuomo faithful and lapsarians to resume savaging each other on message boards. I’m neither, actually, but it sounds OK to me.

Matt & Kim, Sidewalks. Smart and smart-ass modern pop, with just enough beats to keep it honest. “Where You’re Coming From” might even be sincere, and it’s catchy enough to make it worth the effort to listen enough times to decide.

MICROSOFT KINECT
Microsoft
360
11/4
MSRP: $149.99

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Kinect could be awesome. It could also be $150 of pure hobo ballsweat, but it’s still very up in the air. The technology, though still iffy, has tons of potential. Dance Central looks pretty spectacular. Child of Eden is already my most anticipated title for next year. And letting us play Minority Report with the Dashboard is just nifty. On the other hand, every report so far says the motion recognition still isn’t any more polished than it was at E3, and aside from the aforementioned Dance Central, the lineup on launch day adds up to dick. One-trick-pony as it may have been, even having Molyneaux’s Milo demo packed in would’ve been a stronger statement of intent than what we’re getting. And hate to beat this dead horse till we see whitemeat, but the lack of feedback is still one of those major factors that may very well doom this sucker unless we start hearing about some serious killer apps before the year’s done.

GOD OF WAR: GHOST OF SPARTA
Sony
PSP
11/2
MSRP: $39.99

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What really bugs me about the PSP is that Chains of Olympus and, by all reports, Ghost of Sparta are the kind of games the system could be churning out on a regular basis, and it always settles for being a PS2 hand-me-down machine,  (or vice versa, in the case of the GTA games), or a homebrewer’s delight. These games scratch a portable itch Nintendo just will not ever reach with the DS, and they deserve a much bigger audience than I know will throw down for this, especially in the middle of holiday release clusterfuck.

007: BLOOD STONE
Activision
360, PS3, PC, DS
11/2
MSRP: $59.99; $49.99 PC; $29.99 DS

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I have this sinking feeling that this game may represent the last time we see Daniel Craig as Bond on our screens. This blows. Nothing against the game, especially since we went through this song-and-dance with Everything Or Nothing, which ended up being a stronger send-off for the Brosnan era than…that other thing, but the strength of the Craig era is that Quantum of Solace (which I don’t quite get the growing hate for) built off Casino Royale. A standalone game, especially one so focused on being a standard actioner, seems so very cheap if this is how Craig’s run finishes out. Having said that, the guys behind this seem to have learned from the Bourne game’s successes and failures, and that’s a pretty solid place to start.

GOLDENEYE 007
Activision
Wii, DS
11/2
MSRP: $59.99; $49.99 PC; $29.99 DS

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Meanwhile, I’m concerned about this game for completely different reasons. The Perfect Dark XBL release taught us a valuable lesson about nostalgia. It’s still a solid, ambitious game, and worth the $15, but as gamers, we treated that game like Christ came back and bought enough wine, fish, and bread for EVERYBODY this time. Activision taking the high road with Goldeneye–keeping the structure, but tweaking the core–is probably the best way to go about it to avoid that trap, and keeping it on a Nintendo system just feels right (though I’m still annoyed at how close the XBL version was to completion before we got cockteased). Frankly, I trust them with it slightly more than I trust Rare, in their current state, but it’s still in dubious hands, and it’s not clear how much is there with Goldeneye to salvage.

Don’t lie and say you’re not excited about playing around with the Moonraker laser again, though.

OTHER GAMES OF INTEREST

Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage (Tecmo Koei; 360, PS3; 11/2; $59.99)
Ys: The Oath In Feighana (XSeed; PSP; 11/2; MSRP: $29.99)

OOOHHHH: ON THE DLC TIP

NO MAJOR DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT THIS WEEK

You still have 126 more hours of Alien Anthology bonuses to watch. GET BACK TO WORK, SLACKER.

ROCK BAND TUESDAY

Rush – Subdivisions X

The Doors Greatest Hits (Now available as singles)

• Light My Fire X
• Riders on the Storm X
• Touch Me X
• Hello, I Love You
• L.A. Woman
• Love Her Madly
• Love Me Two Times
• Peace Frog
• People Are Strange
• Roadhouse Blues
• Soul Kitchen
• The Crystal Ship

$1.99/160 MS pts per track

X-Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansion available for 99 cents/80 MS pts

Weird week. Basically, all this week is for is to release the Doors tracks as individual singles. The only new material is the Rush track, although thats a grab in and of itself if Rush is your deal. Gives some people the opportunity to catch up, I suppose.

The Week of November 2nd, 2010

GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON

DVD/BR
SECTION by: Troy Anderson

TOY STORY 3

Directors: Lee Unkrich
Walt Disney/Pixar

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Special Features

Day And Night Theatrical Short Filmmakers Commentary With Commentary By Director Lee Unkrich and Producer Darla Anderson
Bonus: The Gang’s All Here – A look at the returning voice talent for Toy Story 3.
Toys! – A look at all the toys from updating classic characters to developing the Sunnyside Daycare and Bonnie’s Room toys.
Buzz Lightyear Mission Logs: The Science of Adventure (conj with NASA)
Paths to Pixar: Pixar Editors, past and future, share anecdotes about their career path.
Studio Stories: Where’s Gordon? There’s a hidden room at Pixar that we call the Where’s Gordon?, and this is its story.
Studio Stories: Cereal Bar The majestic and expansive Pixar cereal bar is explored.
Studio Stories: Clean Start The Pixar animation team shaves their heads to mark the start of TS3 animation.
A Toy’s Eye View: Creating a Whole New Land
Toys! A look at all the toys from updating classic characters to developing the Sunnyside Daycare and Bonnie’s Room toys. Blu-ray
Interactive Game: Toy Story Trivia Dash
Cine-Explore by Dir. Lee Unkrich and Prod. Darla Anderson
Beyond the Toybox -commentary track
Beginnings
with Michael Arndt – Screenwriter Michael Arndt analyzes successful
opening scenes from ToyStory, Nemo and the Incredibles.
Bonnie’s
Playtime – A roundtable discussion with the Lee Unkrich and the story
artists who brought the “Bonnie’s Playtime” scene to life.
Roundin’
Up a Western Opening – Development process and scene analysis of
“Western Opening” in its various iterations through the story process.
Goodbye Andy – An exploration of character design, acting and animation in the scene “Andy’s Goodbye”.
The
Accidental Toymakers of Pixar – Meet the makers of the original Buzz
Lightyear and watch how the newest version of Buzz – the Ultimate Buzz
is constructed.
Life of a Shot – Overview of artist contribution to
each step of the production pipeline on a select group of shots from the
Western Opening of Toy Story 3.
Making of Day and Night
Epilogue – Stand-alone 1.33 version of the Epilogue.
Ken’s Dating Tips, Lotso Commercials, “Dancing with the Stars” at Pixar
Trailers and More

Toy Story 3 made a shitload of money this summer by recycling the best parts of Toy Story 2 and going darker. I love seeing Ned Beatty star in a children’s movie, but this film could’ve been so much more. While it did succeed in making Andy pretty creepy, it did damage to the progress made in the first two films by just recycling the same story. A lot of people have made the argument that the third chapter in this trilogy shifted the focus from growing up to rejuvenation, but I don’t totally buy it. What this film asks for you to believe is that Disney will ask Pixar to keep creating more of these films. As long as kids wants to be Buzz Lightyear on Halloween, Tim Allen will get steady work from the guys at Emeryville.

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