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NEW RELEASES

*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD
BLUE

     
The A-Team                                                    $17.99  $22.99
The Other Guys                                             $17.99 $19.99  $22.99
Despicable Me                                               $15.99 $22.99 $24.99 $29.99  
24: The Complete Series                                 $179.99  
Guardians of Gahoole: Owl Movie Bomb        $17.99  $22.99

The Town                                                       $17.99  $22.99
24: Season 8                                                   $36.99  $42.99     
Shrek: The Whole Story                                  $34.99  $49.99

DVD Sale

$17.99

The Kids are all Right
Robin Hood (2010)
Predators
Marmaduke
Charlie St. Cloud
Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief                 

BLU-RAY sale

$22.99

The Last Airbender
Up

$24.99

The Kids are all Right
Robin Hood (2010)
Predators
Marmaduke
Charlie St. Cloud
Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief            

$9.99

The Dark Knight
The Transporter 3
Office Space
Taken
The Lost Boys
Crank: High Voltage
Interview with the Vampire

$14.99

Sherlock Holmes
The Matrix
Gone with the Wind: 1-Disc
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Where the Wild Things Are
The Boondocks Saints
Fight Club
The Polar Express
Spider-Man 2
Narnia: Prince Caspian
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

$17.99

The Karate Kid (2010)
The Sound of Music
Ramona and Beezus

Christmas DVD SALE

$9.99

A Christmas Story
Four Christmases

$12.99

It’s a Wonderful Life

$17.99

Christmas Classics – 7 Pack

$19.99

Peanuts Holiday Collection
Home Alone: The Complete Collection

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NEW RELEASES

*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD
BLUE

   
The A-Team                                                    $16.99  $22.99
The Other Guys                                             $16.99 $19.99  $24.99
Inception                                                      $16.99 $19.99  $24.99
Despicable Me                                               $14.99 $19.99 $21.99 $34.99  
Knight and Day                                               $14.99  $16.99
Shrek: The Final Chapter                                 $14.99  $27.99
Lost: Season 6                                            $29.99  $39.99
24: The Complete Series                                 $199.99  
Nanny McPhee Returns                                 $17.99  $26.99
Guardians of Gahoole: Owl Movie Bomb        $17.99  $19.99 $24.99 $34.99

The Town                                                       $17.99  $19.99 $24.99
24: Season 8                                                   $39.99  $44.99     
Shrek: The Whole Story                                  $34.99  $49.99

DVD Sale

$3.49

Training Day
Risky Business
Rush Hour
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

$4.99

Peter Pan (P.J. Hogan version)
The Cat in the Hat
The Little Rascals
Harry and the Hendersons

$9.99

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

$12.99

Mickey’s Christmas Carol

$19.99


White Christmas

$24.99


Back to the Future Trilogy

$26.99

The Godfather Trilogy

$29.99

Peanuts Holiday Collection

BLU-RAY sale

$39.99

Planet Earth
Back to the Future Trilogy

$9.99

The Dirty Dozen
The Aviator
Marley & Me
Mr. & Mrs. Smith

$49.99

Ultimate Matrix Trilogy Collection

$59.99

The Godfather Trilogy
Toy Story Trilogy

$89.99

Rome: The Complete Series

$179.99

Lost: The Complete Series


TV on DVD SALE

$24.99

Planet Earth

$79.99

The Tudors: The Complete Series

$89.99

Deadwood: The Complete Series
The Golden Girls: The Complete Collection

$119.99

The Wire: The Complete Series

$149.99

Lost: The Complete Series

$199.99

The Sopranos: The Complete Series


Video Game
Sales


Target

Halo Reach: $39.99 (360)
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit: $39.99 (360)
NBA 2K11: $39.99 (360)
Fable III: $39.99 (360)
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood: $49.99 (360/PS3)
Medal of Honor: $49.99 (360/PS3)
Grand Theft Auto Liberty City: $29.99 (360/PS3)
Red Dead Redemption: $49.99 (360/PS3)
RDR – Undead Nightmare: $19.99 (360/PS3)
Smackdown VS Raw 2011: $49.99 (360/PS3)
Rock Band 3: $49.99 (360/PS3)
Sims 3: $49.99 (360/PS3)
Dance Central: $39.99 (Kinect)
Kinectimals: $44.99 (Kinect)
Kinect Sports: $44.99 (Kinect)
Call of Duty Black Ops: $47 (360/PS3)
Shaun White Skateboarding: $29.99 (360/PS3/Wii)
Megamind Mega Team Unite: $29.99 (Wii)
Disney All Star Party: $29.99 (Wii)
Michael Jackson Experience: $39.99 (Wii)
Kirby’s Epic Yarn: $49.99 (Wii)
Just Dance 2: $29.99 (Wii)
Mario vs Donkey Kong: $24 (NDS)

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Super Mario All Stars: $29.99 (Wii)
Gran Turismo 5: $59.99 (PS3)
Uncharted 2: $49.99 (PS3)
Smackdown VS Raw 2011: $49.99 (360/PS3)
Dead rishing 2: $49.99 (360/PS3)
NBA 2K11: $59.99 (PS3)
Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock Guitar Kit: $74.99 (360/PS3)

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Donkey Kong Country Returns: $49.99 (Wii)
Tron Battle Grids: $49.99 (Wii)
Epic Mickey: $49.99 (Wii)
Michael Jackson Experience: $49.99 (Wii)
Shaun White Skateboarding: $49.99 (Wii)
Kirby’s Epic Yarn: $49.99 (Wii)
Toy Story 3: $49.99 (Wii)
Smackdown VS Raw 2011: $49.99 (Wii)
GodenEye 007: $49.99 (Wii)
Zumba: $39.99 (Wii)
Elmo’s A to Zoo Adventure: $39.99 (Wii)
New Carnival Games: $39.99 (Wii)
Glee Karaoke Revolution: $59.99 (Wii)
Family Game Night 3: $29.99 (Wii)
Monopoly: $29.99 (Wii)
Jeopardy: $19.99 (Wii)
Wheel of Fortune: $19.99 (Wii)
Hollywood Squares: $19.99 (Wii)
Family Feud: $19.99 (Wii)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: $19.99 (Wii)
Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader: $14.99 (Wii)

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Halo Reach: $39.99 (360)
Fable III: $39.99 (360)
Dragonage Origins/Awakenings: $39.99 (360)
GoldenEye 007: $39.99 (Wii)
Sonic colors: $39.99 (Wii)
NBA Jam: $39.99 (Wii)
Fit: $29.99 (Wii)
Wheel of fortune: $19.99 (Wii)
Jeopardy: $19.99 (Wii)
Just Dance 2: $29.99 (Wii)
Just Dance: $29.99 (Wii)
Just Dance for Kids: $19.99 (Wii)
Family Feud: $19.99 (Wii)
Hollywood Squares: $19.99 (Wii)
Dance on Broadway: $19.99 (Wii)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: $19.99 (Wii)
The Amazing Race: $19.99 (Wii)



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THE REST OF
THE DVDs THIS WEEK

The A-Team (2010 Movie)
Altiplano
America Lost And Found: The BBS Story (Criterion Collection)
Angst
Army Wives: The Complete Fourth Season
The Back Nine
Boys Briefs 2
Cathouse: The Specials (DVD-R)
Chabrol: La Demoiselle D’Honneur/Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Two-Disc Special Edition)
A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures
Cyrus
Dear Mr. Gacy
Despicable Me (One-Disc Standard Edition)
Despicable Me (Two-Disc Limited Edition)
Disengagement
Double Take (Kino)
Dragon Ball Z Kai, Pt. 3
Eban And Charley
Frenemy
Gasland
Ghost Bird
Guest Of Cindy Sherman
Gunsmoke: The Fourth Season, Vol. 2
Hawaii Five-O: The Tenth Season
The Honeymooners Specials: Christmas Special
The Immaculate Conception Of Little Dizzle
The IT Crowd: The Complete Fourth Season
Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work
The Last International Playboy
Leave It To Beaver: Season Five
Married … With Children: The Complete Series
Micmacs
MLB: Pittsburgh Pirates – Baseball’s Greatest Games: 1960 World Series, Game 7
MLB: San Francisco Giants – 2010 World Series (Collector’s Edition)
Mother And Child
Mugabe And The White African
Nanny McPhee Returns
Naruto: Uncut Season Four, Box Set Vol. 2
Nyan Koi! Complete Collection
The Other Guys (Theatrical Edition)
The Other Guys (The Unrated Other Edition)
Resonnances
Robert Klein: Unfair And Unbalanced
Sands Of Destruction: The Complete Series
Schoolgirl Report, Vol. 7: What The Heart Must Thereby …
Slave
Straight To Hell Returns
Tower Of Druaga: The Complete Series
The Trotsky
Trouble In Mind (25th Anniversary Special Edition)
24: Season Eight – The Complete Final Season
24: The Complete Series
WWE: Top 50 Superstars Of All Time

BLU-RAY: IT’S
GETTING CHEAPER

The A-Team (2010 Movie)
The Black Pirate (Deluxe Edition) (Kino)
Cyrus
Dear Mr. Gacy
Despicable Me (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Despicable Me (Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Dragon Ball Z Kai, Pt. 3
Hard Boiled (Dragon Dynasty)
Harsh Times
Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work
Micmacs
Mother And Child
Nanny McPhee Returns
The Other Guys
The Other Guys (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Queen’s Blade: Complete Series
Skiing Everest (Blu-ray/DVD Combo) (Topics)
True Grit
24: Season Eight – The Complete Final Season
Vampire Circus (Hammer Horror Collection) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
WWE: SummerSlam 2010

Music

Section By Jeb D.

MICHAEL

Michael Jackson

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At this juncture, is there any possibilty of consensus here? Fans will have messianic expectations, skeptics will be waiting to pounce on flaws, and both groups will insist on permanently locking first impressions into the MJ legacy (that fucking awful cover won’t help in that regard). I’m somewhere in between: once upon a time, a lot of us believed that Off the Wall and (to a lesser degree) Thriller seemed to promise that Jackson was laying the foundations for a new pop music. We were wrong, of course: Jackson, like Prince, would find himself following his own artistic path as the mainstream headed off in a different direction, and (like Prince) his eccentric public persona would come to overshadow evaluation of his music. While Jackson and Prince both made tentative moves to try and come to a rapport with hip-hop, Prince’s musicianship and production abilities allowed him to remain comfortable outside the mainstream–he was a genius, and got the same kind of pass as, say, Bob Dylan: geniuses don’t get written off during their fallow periods. Jackson, though, was expected to be the King of Pop, and anything less than total domination of the national cultural conversation was seen as a judgement on the supposedly diminished quality of his work, rather than on the fickleness of the pop marketplace. So where does that leave us with the music? This album is programmed nearly as cannily as Johnny Cash’s posthumous American VI, with the difference that Cash knew he was dying when he cut the songs, and even if he didn’t personally assemble his final album, he had no illusions about the significance of recording a song like “Ain’t No Grave.” Given Jackson’s (presumed) unawareness of the nearness of death, the inclusion of songs like “Much Too Soon,” “Behind the Mask,” and (for heaven’s sake) “I Can’t Make It Another Day” play an awful lot like an attempt to cap off his legacy with a kind of too-neat finality, and “Breaking News,” with its sound bites of salacious headlines is a kind of self-serving rebuke to the cult of celebrity (“the papparazzi” appear as the villains in no fewer than three songs, including the ham-handed “Monster,” with 50 Cent). A small army of producers (including Tricky, Fiddy, and Teddy Riley) have reached into the bag of Jackson tricks, with touches of “Billie Jean” decorating “Hollywood Nights,” and Lenny Kravitz filling in for Eddie Van Halen on “I Can’t Make It Another Day.” It can certainly be argued that the proportion of actual Jackson (as opposed to helpful posthumous partners) is a bit low, but I wouldn’t have expected Jackson’s potentially “completed” versions of these tracks to sound much different. The little snippet of Jackson’s studio demo that introduces “I Like The Way That You Love Me” ought to come off cheesy, in context, but I have to admit that it earns its poignancy: the man may have cracked under the pressure of an omniverous, prurient public, but in those few seconds, we’re back in the world of that 11-year-old kid with the astonishing voice and uncanny stage presence.

III/IV

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals

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It’s typically perverse of Adams that his set of “outtakes” from Easy Tiger is twice as long as that album, and about as far removed from it as you could imagine. If that was his nod back to his Whiskeytown days, heartfelt with longing, III/IV is what Adams describes as “a double-album concept rock opera about the 80’s, ninjas, cigarettes, sex, and pizza,” with minimal introspection or twang, save on “Typecast.”  To get the most out of III/IV, it will help to be fond of the version of Adams that is the Paul Westerberg manqué of Rock N Roll; a good portion of these two disks would have fit neatly on that album (“Sewers At The Bottom Of The Wishing Well” not only sounds like a tidier Replacements, it’s an image that no one but Adams– or Westerberg–would have come up with). The two CD’s are brimming with catchy, memorable rockers: the rousing “Users,” the psychedelia of “Kill The Lights,” the daft hyperbole of “Kisses Start Wars;” and I like the fact that a song about a self-centered clown who doesn’t quite get women is called “Star Wars” (“Is that too much to ask/ Someone to love and to love me/ Someone that loves me that way I love Star Wars?“). Some of the songs feel sketchy and a bit incomplete (“Stop Playing With My Heart” goes through about three different ideas for its refrain), but, hey, that’s also latter-day Westerberg to a “T.” If you’ve found yourself in the mood for the rootsy version of Ryan Adams lately… well, this won’t assuage that. But if, like me, you’ve found 2010 to be pretty fine year in all kinds of musical forms except straight-ahead rock ‘n’ roll, here’s a most welcome helping of big guitars, snotty vocals, and sharp, snarky wit.

BASIC INSTINCT

Ciara

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Atlanta homegirl (hey, CHUDsters!) was inspired to get into the music biz when she stayed home from school and watched Michael Jackson videos on TV. Hers isn’t a story of hardscrabbling years spent schlepping from agent to agent, looking for that break: she was recording herself and her friends as a teenager, and had her own publishing deal right out of high school, got the big break from L.A. Reid, had some hits, hooked up with the Wilhelmina modeling agency, made bazillions and got on magazine covers and ads for chocolate cellphones. This last is the principal reason I’m covering this release: gives me an excuse to post that album cover photo. What– the music? Usual diva stuff, sassy sistah-isms, putdowns of rivals and exes, with guest rappers, funny voice EQs, and professionally polished beats– the hell did you expect?

TEMPEST: ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

Elliot Goldenthal and Various Artists

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Haven’t seen the movie yet, and if Julie Taymor weren’t the director, you might wonder if Goldenthal had gone completely off the rails thinking that this is what a Shakespeare film should sound like. But given that it’s Taymor, whether the film works or not, I have confidence that it won’t lack for provocative visuals… or “aurals,” provided here. It’s fitting that the album opens with an excerpt from the play, over a misty, minimal synth melody, with a vocal by Reeve Carney, because he’s at the center of his own little storm these days: he’s the lead in Taymor’s troubled Spider-Man musical, and his reedy breathiness has the right tone for Puny Parker. Ben Whishaw (who plays Ariel in the film) contributes a couple more similar readings, including a chilling “Full Fathom Five,” and the album closes on the wistful “Prospera’s Coda,” sung by Beth Gibbons. These vocal selections are mingled in among excerpts from Goldenthal’s score, ranging from the exciting guitar distortion of “High Day Two Step” to the ominous Glass-like “Hell Is Empty,” to the eerie, ethereal “Brave New World.” Like the Tron:Legacy soundtrack, I think Tempest has ambitions to be a standalone listening experience as well as an effective film score, and on balance, I’d say that Tempest works slightly better in that regard, but only slightly– it gets kind of a pass because, unlike Tron, you can’t just close your eyes and picture a more interesting movie (god knows closing my eyes and picturing Russell Brand conjures up just about anything BUT Shakespeare).

Other Noteworthy 12/14 Releases

Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling, and Dharohar Project, ITunes Festival London. Accidentally dropped this EP off last week’s column, but it’s not to be missed, one of those rare East-Meets-West recordings that gets the balance right. Fine live sound, with highlights including Marling’s chilling vocal on “I Speak Because I Can,” Mumford’s “The Cave,” and the rousing, ecstatic “To Darkness/Kripa.”

Philip Glass, Kepler. Haven’t heard Glass’ latest opera yet (there hasn’t even been a fully staged performance in the U.S. yet), but it’s got to be on the radar.

Diddy/Dirty Money, Last Train to Paris. Aural version of a 40’s romance flick, but with deep beats, and terms of endearment like “darling” replaced with “motherfucker.” Still, romance is as romance does.

Phish, Live in Alpine Valley 2010. Aural (2 CD’s) and visual (2 DVD’s) nirvana for people who found Nirvana a bit overstimulating.

Shriekback, Life in the Loading Bay. You know, at least when Devo or OMD do a comeback album, you get the sense that someone missed them in the first place. But if your 80’s jones is acting up, “Flowers of Angst” will spandau your ballet.

Roy Lee Johnson And The Villagers, Roy Lee Johnson and The Villagers. Johnson wrote “Mr Moonlight,” which I have had more than one person tell me is the worst song The Beatles ever recorded. If, like me, you think that’s a horribly misguided opinion, you may be ready for the Muscle Shoals funk to be heard here on “I Can’t Stand This Loneliness,” and “Patch It Up.”

Jonsi, Go Live. I probably don’t have to sell you on the delights of Jonsi’s solo album from early this year, and the live release sounds great (haven’t seen the DVD visuals), but I did have to quote the press kit: “the lead singer of Sigur R¢s’s gone on a world tour to defend his gem on stage.” Defending your gem can be a full-time job, can’t it?

VIDEO GAMES
SECTION

by: Justin Clark and Matt Rose

SUPER MARIO ALL-STARS: LIMITED EDITION
Nintendo
Wii
12/12
MSRP: $29.99

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Except for the art book and the collectible soundtrack, this is the same package from the SNES days, given a new 25th Anniversary slathering of paint. Am I complaining about that? Not really, though I seem to remember The Lost Levels (a.k.a. the REAL Super Mario Brothers 2) having a degree of ball-busting difficulty the likes of which I don’t think I’ve seen in a Nintendo game ever since. So, good luck with that. Other than that, its an old game, the 16-bit makeover did add a bit of color and life the old games didn’t have, and most importantly, the price is right. And lest we forget, Mario 3 is ALWAYS worth a purchase. Always.

OOOHHHH: ON THE DLC TIP

BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY 2 – VIETNAM
EA
XBox Live, Playstation Network, PC
12/18 PC, 12/21 360, PS3
$14.99/1200 MS pts

Unlike some, I have zero issue with game developers using Vietnam as a backdrop. Anything to get them away from using World War II as a backdrop. That war’s the Hoth level of First Person War Shooters. Either way, a new backdrop, fine. At the same time, it’s falling victim to the same pitfalls of WWII shooters, in that while those games couldn’t resist using Saving Private Ryan as a basis of design, Vietnam shooters can’t seem to escape Apocalypse Now. And the mere fact that Ride of the Valkyries is on an inescapable loop on a station in the Jeeps in this game just makes me sigh. Regardless, hey, it’s hefty DLC for a perfectly serviceable FPS. I just they had something else to go with it. Oh, what are they called….oh, yeah, IDEAS.

QUAKE ARENA ARCADE
Pi Studios/iD Software
XBox Live Arcade
12/15
Price Not Yet Released

I missed the boat on Quake altogether, sadly. The series never jumped ship to my console neck of the woods till the non-entity that was Quake 4, and by the time I finally got that curious to check out the originals (mostly because I heard members of Nine Inch Nails were involved to some degree), it was already hideously dated. So, I guess this is the week where I just throw up my hands and go “More power to ya”, probably like PC gamers did when console players made a mess of their pants over Perfect Dark and Goldeneye coming back.

X-MEN: THE ARCADE GAME
Konami
Wii
12/14
$9.99/800 MS pts

I could say that the game is dated, with all manner of cheap hits, an artificial difficulty, and how the arcade style of gameplay almost requires co-op in order to work, but WHO GIVES A SHIT. It’s the goddamn X-Men Arcade game from our youth. NOTHING CAN STOP THE BLOB, BITCHES. Now, get that old school Simpsons game out there, and the early 90s will be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century once and for all.

ROCK BAND TUESDAY

Billy Joel Pack 01 ($19.99/1600 MS pts)

  • Big Shot X
  • Captain Jack
  • It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me
  • Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song) X
  • Only the Good Die Young X
  • Piano Man
  • Pressure
  • Say Goodbye to Hollywood
  • The Entertainer
  • The Stranger
  • We Didn’t Start the Fire
  • You May Be Right

$1.99/160 MS pts per track
X-Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansion available for 99 cents/80 MS pts

While there’s some great songs in here, a lot of which are gonna be a dream for the budding keyboardists out there, I gotta admit: In no way, shape, form, or function have I ever classified Billy Joel as rock music. And I must say, I’m going to have cognitive dissonance with that fact long as this game remains active. It’s like finding bacon in your matzoh ball soup during Hannukkah. It’s probably delicious, but something is just fundamentally *wrong* here.

The Week of December 14th, 2010

GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON

DVD/BR
SECTION by: Troy Anderson

THE A-TEAM

Director: Joe Carnahan
20th Century Fox

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Special Features

Disc 1:

  • Theatrical Version
  • Extended Version
  • The Devil’s in the Details: Inside the Action with Joe Carnahan
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Gag Reel
  • A-Team Theme Mash-Up Montage
  • Plan of Attack
  • Character Chronicles
  • Visual Effects Before and After with Commentary by Visual Effects Supervisor James E. Price
  • Theatrical Trailer

    Disc 2: Digital Copy

  • The A-Team only helped to continue my love of Joe Carnahan’s work. What began as Part 2 of the Liam Neeson grief tour has become an action movie that stood heads and tails above all challengers. Hell, it had a coherent plot and it didn’t have to force unnecessary character twists into the mix to push the story along. Some people have a problem with Carnahan’s past work on films like Smokin’ Aces, Narc and whatever the fuck he did that wasn’t those flicks. But, the guy is stepping into his own style while advancing past a lot of his old hat. You also get the prawn guy from Africa playing Murdoch.

    THE TOWN
    director: Ben Affleck

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    Special Features 

    • Includes theatrical version plus extended cut not seen in theaters
    • Commentary on both versions by Ben Affleck
    • English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 on both versions; French Dolby 5.1 and Spanish Dolby 5.1 on theatrical version only
    • Ben’s Boston: Actor-director Ben Affleck takes you through the
      moviemaking process in his hometown. Segments include: The Cathedral of
      Boston; Nuns with Guns: Filming in the North End; Pulling Off the
      Perfect Heist; The Town: and more

    The Town remains one of my favorite films of the year. It’s not Top 10 material, but it has gone to show that Affleck is a capable director who knows how to get what he wants out of a cast. Some might say that he’s a poor man’s Michael Mann, but I feel that’s being a little too harsh. While the guy’s never going to win any major acting awards, he can develop a rapport with character actors that generates into amazing chemistry onscreen. I’d just like to see the guy learn how to work outside of the crime drama. Fuck, just shoot a movie outside of Boston.

    THE OTHER GUYS
    director: Adam McKay