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Avatar: Collector’s Edition $19.99 $22.99
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Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore $17.99 $26.99
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The Big Bang Theory: Season 2
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Grown Ups
The Karate Kid (2010)
Death at a Funeral (2010)
Legion
The Bounty Hunter
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Lost: Season 6
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Smallville: Season 8
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Ancient Aliens: Season One (History Channel)
Avatar (Three-Disc Extended Collector’s Edition)
Back From Hell: A Tribute To Sam Kinison
Ballistica
Barking Water
BearCity
Beneath The Blue
Best Worst Movie
Brotherhood
Bruce Brown Surf Collection: The Ultimate Summer
Cats And Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore
A Christmas Carol (Disney 2009)
Coopers’ Christmas
A Crime
Dancing Dreams
Death Bet
Don’t Look Back
The Endless Summer (Digitally Remastered)
The Endless Summer (Digitally Remastered) (Director’s Special Edition Two-Disc Set)
Exam
Exhibit A
The Extra Man
Eyes Wide Open
Fear Me Not
Gangland: Season Six (History Channel)
Glee: The Complete First Season (Gleek Gift Set With Journal)
The Gunslingers
Handy Manny: Big Construction Job
Hayate The Combat Butler, Vol. 7
Heroes: The Complete Series
Initial D: First Stage, Pt. 2
Is It Just Me?
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
The Last Airbender
The Lightkeepers
Lottery Ticket
Metropia
Metropolis: Complete (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Kino)
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Numbers Roundup
Mrs. Miracle
MLB: Yankeeography – The Core Four Collection
Modern Times (Criterion Collection)
Monte Walsh
National Geographic: Great Migrations
The Night Of The Hunter (Criterion Collection)
The Office (USA): Overtime – Digital Shorts Collection
Opposite Day
Perry Mason: Season Five, Vol. 2
The Possession Of David O’Reilly
RoboGeisha
Der Rosenkavalier: The Film (Kultur)
Shaolin Mantis (Shaw Brothers) (Dragon Dynasty)
Share The Moon
Sherlock Jr./Three Ages (Ultimate Two-Disc Edition) (Kino)
16 Wishes
Special Ops
The Strange Case Of Doctor Rx (TCM) (DVD-R)
They Came To Play
31 North 62 East
2 Million Stupid Women
Vampire Knight, Vol. 3
Vengeance
WWE: The John Cena Experience
WWII: The Essential Collection – The World At War/Victory At Sea/The Century Of Warfare (History Channel)
Wycliffe: Series Four
Wycliffe: Series Five
BLU-RAY: IT’S
GETTING CHEAPER
Ancient Aliens: Season One (History Channel)
Avatar (Three-Disc Extended Collector’s Edition)
Bad Boys (Sony Blu-ray Essentials)
Beneath The Blue
Black Hawk Down (Sony Blu-ray Essentials)
Cats And Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Cats And Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore (Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Children Of The Corn (2009)
Clash Of The Titans (2010) (Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Crowley
A Christmas Carol (Disney 2009) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
A Christmas Carol (Disney 2009) (Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD)
The Extra Man
FIFA: The Official 2010 World Cup Film (3D)
The Fifth Element (Sony Blu-ray Essentials)
Gangland: Season Six (History Channel)
Ghost Machine
IMAX: Deep Sea (Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray Combo)
IMAX: Space Station (Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray Combo)
IMAX: Under The Sea (Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray Combo)
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
The Last Airbender (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
The Lightkeepers
Lottery Ticket (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Metropolis: Complete (Kino)
Modern Times (Criterion Collection)
Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol (Collector’s Edition) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Mutiny On The Bounty (1935) (Book Packaging)
National Geographic: Great Migrations
The Night Of The Hunter (Criterion Collection)
Open Season (3D)
Peanuts Deluxe Holiday Collection (Ultimate Collector’s Edition)
The Polar Express (Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray Combo)
RoboGeisha
Der Rosenkavalier: The Film (Kultur)
Sherlock Jr./Three Ages (Kino)
16 Wishes
Special Ops
Spider-Man (Sony Blu-ray Essentials)
Spider-Man 2 (Sony Blu-ray Essentials)
Stauton Hill
The Tournament
The Twilight Zone (1960s): Season Two
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
The World At War (History Channel)
THE PROMISE
Bruce Springsteen
One of the more fascinating transformations in rock history took place between Bruce Springsteen’s releases of Born to Run (1975) and Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978). On the latter album, Born To Run‘s operatic “West Side Story”-style romantics and runaways give way to an older cast of characters, already disillusioned with life, and facing the prospect of a world where neither winning or losing are as clear-cut as they are in the movies. The writing itself shifts radically: gone is the profusion of images, characters with goofy in-joke names, and the torrential wordplay; instead, verses and choruses are honed to an edge, short and direct, and where Born To Run was driven by its Spector-ized production and almost jazzy mixture of piano, sax, and trumpet, Darkness is all about screaming guitar and pounding drums. What happened in that three-year interim, of course, was the lawsuit by Springsteen’s former manager that kept him out of the recording studio for almost two years, and in a way, grew Springsteen up: no longer a scrabbling musician with little to lose, he faced the prospect that some lawyers and stacks of paper could cost him not just money (which he’d really never had), but ownership of his life’s work. When the suit was finally settled, he spent a year sorting through the changes in himself, and his approach to music, before settling on the ten songs that became Darkness on the Edge of Town; the 2-CD set of The Promise is an attempt to re-create the album that might have emerged from that interim period. It’s fascinating to listen to him experiment with more pop song-oriented composing (including the first commercial release of his studio recordings of “Fire” and “Because the Night”), and to hear the original version of the epic title song (the high point of the “Lawsuit Tour” concerts in 1976). Listen particularly to the transition from the big, bold, and melodramatic version of “Racing In The Street” that opens The Promise with the stark and sober one that concluded side one of Darkness: over the course of the bruising lawsuit, Springsteen’s focus shifted from the grand gesture of the young street kid to the constantly-challenged faith of the working class American that would fuel so much of his work in the decades to come. The sound is fine for the period, and the occasional newly recorded vocal or instrumental part never feels obtrusive; on the contrary, it just reaffirms Springsteen’s commitment to his music as a continuum. In addition to this 2-disk set, of course, there is a pricey deluxe package (currently $90 from Amazon), but compared to similar releases this year from folks like Bowie and McCartney, it’s a bargain: the two full CD’s of The Promise, a newly remastered CD of Darkness, and three DVD’s/Blu-Rays, including a complete live show from 1978, another 90 minutes’ worth of other concert footage from the same era, the award-winning 2010 documentary on the making of the album, and a recent onstage performance of all of Darkness.
NOT MUSIC
Stereolab
Well, not new music, anyway. With Stereolab embarking on an open-ended hiatus, what we actually have here is material from the same sessions that produced 2008’s Chemical Chords. In fact, tracks like “Two Finger Symphony” and “Pop Molecules (Molecular Pop 2),” don’t simply harken back to songs from the preceding album, but are variations on themes from Chemical Chords, with a niggling repetitiveness that borders on the annoying. The album’s at its best when it steps away into what may or may not represent a future direction for Stereolab, from the “It’s Not Unusual” stylings of “Supah Jaianto” and “Lelekato Sugar” to the giddy enthusiasm of “Everybody’s Weird But Me.” The remix of “Silver Sands: Emperor Machine” is probably the strongest tune here, bringing a brightness to the band’s krautrock homage. Not an album designed to win new converts, but if Chemical Chords… well, struck a chord with you, here’s part two.
BORN FREE
Kid Rock
As a would-be mix of Eminem and Motorhead, Kid Rock managed to turn himself into a punchline for late-night TV comics, but he certainly shifted some product. That well running dry, he’s reinventing himself here in the vein of someone like John Mellencamp–or more specifically, Bob Seger, who is here, playing keyboards (!). The title song is a “Made In USA” rabble-rouser designed to follow Seger’s “Like A Rock” into TV commercial residual-land, and song after song tosses out the star-spangled cliches: our hero is “working for the man,” and when trouble “rains, it pours.” There’s rootsy cred with such guest musicians as Heartbreaker Benmont Tench, Zac Brown, Red Hot Chili Pepper Chad Smith, David Hidalgo from Los Lobos and Chavez guitarist Matt Sweeney. I give the guy credit for the impulses behind the picture of hardscrabble Detroit that emerges in “Times Like These,” but the “Why can’t we all just get along?” of “Care” is more interesting for its weird blend of T.I. and Martina McBride than anything Mr. Rock has to say. Still, if you’re jonesing for a bit of heartland rock that isn’t beholden to the current Nashville product machine, you could do worse than the genial “Rock Bottom Blues,” the crunchy “God Bless Saturday,” and Rock’s winningly effective duet with Sheryl Crow on “Collider.”
LEGACY OF A LEGEND
Dave Brubeck
THE DEFINITIVE DAVE BRUBECK ON FANTASY, CONCORD JAZZ AND TELARC
Dave Brubeck
In honor of the 90th birthday of one the most important pianists in the history of jazz, we get two complementary anniversary sets. Legacy covers Brubeck’s best-known period, recording with his quartet for Columbia during the 50’s and 60’s, and includes Brubeck’s two best-known recordings, “Blue Rondo A La Turk” and “Take Five” from the 1959 album of the same name. Time and again, the set demonstrates Brubeck’s lifelong quest to reconcile the classical piano training his mother insisted upon with the exciting and uninhibited jazz scene of the postwar U.S, with challenging time signatures and rhythmic innovation. Besides the two “hits,” high points include the lush “The Duke,” Carmen McRae’s sassy vocal on “My One Bad Habit,” and the previously-unreleased “You Go To My Head” and “Three To Get Ready,” from Brubeck’s personal collection. Definitive forms the donut around the Legacy hole, capturing Brubeck’s earliest recordings for Fantasy (including exquisite trio performances of “Laura” and “Singin’ In the Rain,”) and his autumnal career following the Columbia era, and right up to the present day, with highlights including the imaginative quartet interplay on “Day After Day,” and the solo piano “Variations on Brother Can You Spare A Dime,” a testament to Brubeck’s continuing power and presence as a pianist (following heart surgery, he expects to return to concert performances in the spring). Start with Legacy as tne main course, with Definitive providing appetizer and dessert.
Other Notable 11/16 Releases
Norah Jones, Featuring Norah Jones. As a songwriter, she’s third-level Joni Mitchell. As a singer, she can be formidable, with a veteran’s command of phrasing and nuance; and given the fact that these duets consist of her guest appearances on other people’s songs, it makes for an engaging, if erratic, listening experience, touching such bases as the “Little Willies” project (a sultry “Love Me”) all the way up to this year’s guest appearance with Belle and Sebastian. She has no clue what to do with “Ruler of My Heart,” but she practically crawls inside Bryan Ferry’s groin on “More Than This.”
Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album. I’m perfectly prepared to believe those people who tell me that this show is well-written and well-acted. But what I’ve heard of the music suggests that it’s maybe not exactly in my wheelhouse, as they say. And given that I’m pretty sure I don’t need any more versions of these songs, I’ll leave this one for the fans.
Keith Urban, Get Closer. Country solely by association and outlook, this is the sort of thing that made Bryan Adams a millionaire. And now all you people have done the same for this dweeb. I hope you’re happy.
Rascal Flatts, Nothing Like This. Yeah, right.
Annie Lennox, A Christmas Cornucopia. A natural for Lennox’ voice, really, when you think about it, with the arrangements not worlds removed from what a Eurythmics Christmas album would have sounded like. Her voice has naturally thickened over the years, but if she still does it for you, it’s quite listenable.
Pink Martini, Joy To The World. Christmas tunes rendered NPR-safe.
The Who, Live At Leeds – 40th Anniversary Super-Deluxe Collectors’ Edition. By my count, this is the third release of vintage Who live material so far in 2010, but I’ll admit I could have missed one or two. It does have two distinctions: a) it also includes the show that took place in Hull the night AFTER Leeds, and which the band actually preferred, but felt wasn’t sonically ready for release. And b) at around eighty bucks, it’s the most expensive! 4CD’s, vinyl LP and single, and souvenir book for all you readers out there.
John Martyn, Live at Leeds: Deluxe Edition. Unlike previous issues with dodgy bits, this time we supposedly get the complete unadulterated 1975 Leeds show from Martyn and bassist Danny Thompson, with rehearsal/soundcheck stuff added. It’s not the place to begin appreciating Martyn’s songwriting or guitar playing (among other things, the between-song banter is dated and embarrassing)–start with Solid Air or Sweet Little Mysteries: The Island Anthology— but it’s a stunning live performance and an excellent recording/remastering. I do wish the man had learned to pronounce the letter “S,” though.
The National, High Violet (Expanded Edition). I assume there’s some perfectly good reason that they couldn’t have just released the bonus tracks and live stuff on a lower-priced EP, instead of making their fans buy the whole album again.
Ne-Yo, Libra Scale. Concept album about funky superheroes called The Gentlemen, and the dangers of falling in love with a woman named Pretty Sinclair. Rocks a bit.
Rihanna, Loud. You know, if I honestly believed she actually knew anything about “S&M” (title of the lead track here), I might be inclined to pay attention.
The Doors, Live In Vancouver 1970. If you’ve been waiting for a Doors live album that covers the Morrison Hotel era, here ya go.
Nelly, 5.0. I didn’t get to hear an advance of this one, but I suspect by the time you read this, you’ll have heard it anyway.
SECTION
by: Justin Clark and Matt Rose
ASSASSIN’S CREED: BROTHERHOOD
Ubi Soft
360, PS3
11/16
MSRP: $59.99
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There’s a tiny part of my brain that wants to moan about the fact that we’re basically getting a big-ass expansion for Assassin’s Creed 2 instead of Ubi Soft crafting a new country for us to stab random strangers in, but every new detail about Brotherhood seems hellbound to tell that whiny bitch to cram it. Rome is the logical progression from the last game’s ending–actually, to be fair, the logical progression would’ve been 2 hours-long DLC of Nolan North over a blank screen going “Seriously, what the fuck WAS that ending?”–but with Ezio traipsing around one of the world’s biggest cities, with all the options from AC2 plus the ability to recruit, train, assign targets, rebuild Rome, organize raids, PLUS multiplayer that, oh thank the creator, is an extension of the campaign instead of the main event, its hard to not feel like maybe Assassin’s Creed 2 was the demo for this.
Which still doesn’t excuse that ending.
NEED FOR SPEED: HOT PURSUIT
EA
360, PS3, PC, Wii
11/16
MSRP: $59.99/$49.99 PC, Wii
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I owe EA an apology. My interest in this, up till a few days ago, was zero. I’ve never been a fan of the Need For Speed games, or any racing game that bills itself as a simulator really. Then I found out Criterion Games, creators of my beloved Burnout franchise, were in charge. Now it’s near the top of my Christmas list. Unfortunately, the demo by itself doesn’t inspire much faith, since the cars they chose handle like a city bus, but that tends to be the case with the initial cars in every Burnout game. And you just know when shit gets real in that game, it’ll be in some sexy number going 200, 300,000 miles an hour until you slam headfirst into the back of a Fanta truck.
SONIC COLORS
Sega
Wii, DS
11/16
MSRP: $49.99/$29.99 DS
Supposedly, Sonic Colors is supposed to be the game that distills Sonic back down to his basic elements–namely speeding around dazzling, colorful courses at insane speeds with assholes like Amy Rose and Big The Cat mucking about–but if the fact that this is a 3D Sonic game didn’t make every goddamn warning bell in your head explode in terror, I also have this game called Jingling Keys Above Your Head you might be interested in.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 1
EA/Warner Interactive
360, PS3, PC, Wii, DS
11/16
MSRP: $59.99/$49.99 PC, Wii/$29.99 DS
There hasn’t ever been a truly Great Harry Potter game (though that Quidditch game from years back was a rather huge blip on the radar). As pure entertainment one might blow through in a weekend, they’ve only been inching towards greatness every time. For Deathly Hallows, the games officially stop resembling Zelda and start resembling a less pretty Dead Space. Which is a nice step. There’s also Kinect support on 360, though they seriously dropped the ball in that they didn’t add voice command support. Either let us yell Avada Kedavra at everybody regardless of age or whether they deserve it, or don’t bother.
OOOHHHH: ON THE DLC TIP
ALIEN BREED 3: DESCENT
Team 17
XBox Live Arcade
11/17
800 MS pts
The original was on Amiga, which I didn’t play. The first two of the remakes, I never downloaded. But, gameplay-wise, it’s been described as the closest thing we’ll get to having Smash TV back. Therefore, I approve.
ROCK BAND TUESDAY
The Bee Gees Pack 01 ($9.99/800 MS pts)
- Jive Talkin’
- Night Fever
- Stayin’ Alive X
- Nights on Broadway
- Tragedy
- You Should Be Dancing
B.B. King – The Thrill Is Gone X
Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale
$1.99/160 MS pts per track
X-Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansion available for 99 cents/80 MS pts
The Bee Gees pack should be amazing, as long as someone unplugs the mic at parties. I don’t know why Stayin’ Alive hadn’t crossed my mind as a prime candidate for that Pro Guitar expansion, but damn if it isn’t perfect. I can’t believe it’s taken this long for B.B. King to make it in this series for the first time, but this damn sure better not be the last. That Procol Harum song is one of those tracks where I never knew the artist of title, but the second I YouTubed it was an “Oh, yeah, THAT song” moment. No beef with that one.
The Week of November 16th, 2010
GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON
SECTION by: Troy Anderson
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER: CRITERION COLLECTION
Director: Charles Laughton
Criterion
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Special Features
Night of the Hunter has finally advanced past that single disc MGM disc that came out at the start of the DVD boom. Harry Powell is a legendary character that Mitchum brings to life with relative ease. Powell is a religious fanatic that preys upon women and children, as he desperately searches for his next easy pickings. When he meets Shelley Winters, Powell learns that her ex-con husband gave her the ten thousand dollars that he stole. Powell wants that cash, so he tries to seduce Winters and torture her kids to get it. Rarely have I seen such a film that treats kids without a light touch. There’s never a moment in the film where you don’t believe that Harry Powell won’t resort to butchering the little shits to get his way. The film gets a half-ton of special features from Criterion, including one major highlight. The cast performs scenes from the film on The Ed Sullivan Show. I don’t know where they found the kinescope, but it looks amazing when compared to Criterion’s release of The Golden Age of Television.
BEST WORST MOVIE
Director: Michael Stephenson
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Special Features
Deleted Scenes
Interviews
Best Worst Movie is a film that has developed a cult following that I don’t understand. Troll 2 is a giant piece of shit that lacks the magic of the Sonny Bono/Julia Louis-Dreyfus original. Filmed over a couple of weeks in Salt Lake City, none of the key players could’ve imagined the life that Geekdom would bestow upon this cinematic upper-decker. Hell, the first film had a troll in it! The sequel only has goblins, but I’m getting away from my point. This documentary was the lovechild of the young star of Troll 2 and he treats the film like the oddity that it is. Almost all of the cast takes part in this documentary, but none of them lack anything important to say.
MODERN TIMES: CRITERION COLLECTION
director: Charlie Chaplin
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Screw the extras, what I'm really curious to see if that extra 16 minutes makes Avatar feel more complete. I always thought it was weird that we were following Jake on this emotional journey where he finds a place where he feels he belongs yet we never really saw how out of place he felt in his own world, Earth. If this 8-minute opening scene on Earth can accomplish that, then buying this film again will most certainly be worth it.
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