SPEND YOUR MONEY!
NEW RELEASES
*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD
BLUE
Salt $16.99 $19.99
Step Up 3 $17.99 $24.99 $29.99
Toy Story 3 $24.99
Easy A $16.99 $19.99
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps $17.99 $24.99
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue $15 $20
Family Guy: It’s a Trap $12.99 $17.99
Family Guy: Star Wars Trilogy $18.99 $22.99
DVD Sale
$4.75
Robots
The House Bunny
Sixteen Candles
The Shawshank Redemption
Elmo in Grouchland
Spongebob goes Prehistoric
Dora’s Pirate Adventure
Barbie: Mermania
$10
Twilight
The Blind Side
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
Where the Wild Things Are
The Sword and the Stone (animated)
It’s Complicated
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Star Trek (2009)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
$15
Twilight: New Moon
Twilight: Eclipse
Eat Pray Love
Grown Ups
$12
Couples Retreat
Last of the Mohicans
Inglorious Basterds
Green Zone
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
$19.99
Eat Pray Love
Grown Ups
Christmas DVD SALE
$4.75
Frosty and Friends
Bob the Builder’s White Christmas
Thomas and Friends: Snowy Surprise
$9.99
The Polar Express
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
The Santa Clause
Santa Clause 2
Santa Clause 3
$14.99
Snow Buddies: Search for Santa Paws
$19.99
Snow Buddies: Search for Santa Paws———————————————–
NEW RELEASES
*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD
BLUE
Salt $15.99 $19.99
Step Up 3 $17.99 $25.99 $34.99
Despicable Me $19.99 $29.99
Devil $17.99 $26.99
Iron Man 2 $19.99
Easy A $17.99 $22.99
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps $15.99 $22.99
Futurama: Volume 5 $24.99
Family Guy: It’s a Trap $14.99 $19.99
Family Guy: Star Wars Trilogy $24.99 $29.99
DVD Sale
$3.49
Million Dollar Baby
Heartbreak Ridge
Bullitt
A Time To Kill
Caddyshack
$9.99
The Hangover
The Blind Side
Terminator Salvation
Sherlock Holmes
Where The Wild Things Are
$7.99
Righteous Kill
$9.99
The Taking of Pelham 123 (remake)
Dark City
The Lost Boys
$14.99
The Hangover
The Blind Side
Terminator Salvation
Sherlock Holmes
Where The Wild Things Are
Zombieland
The Boondock Saints II
BLU-RAY BLOWOUT!
Buy 2, get a 5 dollar gift card
Knight and Day $14.99 $19.99
The Expendables $16.99 $19.99
How to Train Your Dragon $19.99 $22.99
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice $17.99 $23.99
Predators $14.99 $19.99
The Karate Kid $14.99 $25.99
A Christmas Carol $15.99 $25.99
Beauty and the Beast $15.99 $25.99
The A-Team $19.99 $29.99
Santa Paws $15.99 $25.99
Sex and the City 2 $19.99 $29.99
Toy Story 3 $15.99 $25.99
Avatar: Collector’s Edition $24.99 $34.99
Clash of the Titans (2010) $19.99 $29.99
Shrek: The Final Chapter $19.99 $29.99
The Last Airbender $19.99 $29.99
Twilight: Eclipse $19.99 $29.99
Prince of Persia $15.99 $25.99
The Other Guys $19.99 $29.99
Grown Ups $14.99 $22.99
Eat Pray Love $14.99 $22.99
Inception $17.99 $19.99
The Town $17.99 $19.99
Legend of the Guardians $17.99 $19.99
TV on DVD SALE
HBO Holiday Sale
Entourage Season 6 $19.99
True Blood Season 2 $24.99 $29.99
Sex and the City: The Complete Series $99.99
Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Collection $19.99
Rome Season 2 $22.49
Deadwood Season 3 $22.49
Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 7 $16.99
Eastbound & Down Season 1 $13.49
Sopranos Season 6 Part 2 $29.99
Band of Brothers $37.49
John Adams $32.49
Video
Sales
Target
Call of Duty Black Ops: $59.99 (360/PS3)
Fallout New Vegas: $39.99 (360/PS3)
Super Mario Allstars: $29.99 (Wii)
Epic Mickey: $49.99 (Wii)
Michael Jackson Experience: $49.99 (Wii)
Just Dance 2: $39.99 (Wii)
– Save $20 with purchase of Michael Jackson Experience and Just Dance 2
Mafia II: $50 (360/PS3)
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit: $50 (360/PS3)
Medal of Honor: $50 (360/PS3)
Asassin’s Creed Brotherhood: $59.99 (360/PS3)
Gran Turismo 5: $59.99 (PS3)
NBA Jam: $40 (360/PS3)
Super Mario Bros. wii: $49.99 (Wii)
Def Jam Rapstar: $49.99 (360/PS3)
Glee Karaoke Revolution: $49.99 (Wii)
GoldenEye 007: $49.99 (Wii)
Donkey Kong Country Returns: $49.99 (Wii)
Wii Party: $49.99 (Wii)
Cars Toon Mater’s Tall Tales: $29.99 (Wii)
Tron Evolution: $37 (360/PS3/Wii)
Sonic Colors: $39.99 (Wii)
Family Game Night 3: $39.99 (360/PS3/Wii)
Pac-Man Party: $39.99 (Wii)
Shaun White Skateboarding: $29.99 (360/PS3/Wii)
Toy Story 3: $19.99 (NDS)
Kung Zhu: $29.99 (NDS)
Mario Kart: $34.99 (NDS)
Golden Sun Dark Dawn: $34.99 (NDS)
Active 2: $69 (360/PS3/Wii)
DJ Hero 2: $69 (360/PS3/Wii)
Tony Hawk Shred: $69 (Wii)
Best Buy
Call of Duty Black Ops: $49.99 (360/PS3)
Demon’s Souls: $19.99 (PS3)
Bioshock 2: $19.99 (360/PS3)
Lego Harry Potter: $24.99 (NDS)
Lost Planet 2: $9.99 (360/PS3)
Shaun White Skateboarding: $29.99 (360/PS3/Wii)
Mafia II: $39.99 (360/PS3)
Halo Reach: $39.99 (360)
Fable III: $39.99 (360)
Vanquish: $39.99 (360/PS3)
Borderlands GOTY: $39.99 (360/PS3)
Dance Dance Revolution: $49.99 (Wii)
Rapala Bass Fishing: $44.99 (360/PS3), $24.99 (Wii)
Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts: $54.99 (360/PS3), $34.99 (Wii)
DJ Hero 2: $54.99 (360/8PS3/Wii)
Tony Hawk Shred: $54.99 (360/PS3/Wii)
Guitar Hero WoR w/guitar: $74.99 (360/PS3/Wii)
– Save $20 when you buy any 3 games or $10 when you buy any 2, games listed with an *
Kinect Joy Ride: $49.99 (Kinect) *
Dance Central: $49.99 (Kinect) *
Kinect Sports: $49.99 (Kinect) *
Kinectimals: $49.99 (Kinect)*
Zumba Party: $49.99 (Kinect) *
Your Shape Fitness Evolved: $49.99 (Kinect), $39.99 (Move) *
Sonic Free Riders: $49.99 (Kinect) *
Fighters Uncaged: $49.99 (Kinect) *
Dance Masters: $49.99 (Kinect) *
Montionsports: $49.99 (Kinect) *
Game Party in Motion: $39.99 (Kinect) *
EyePet: $39.99 (Move) *
The Shoot: $39.99 (Move) *
Gran Turismo 5: $59.99 (PS3) *
The Fight: Lights Out: $39.99 (Move) *
Time Crisis: $49.99 (PS3) *
Uncharted 2 Among Thieves: $49.99 (PS3) *
Little Big Planet GOTY: $29.99 (PS3) *
Tron Evolution: $59.99 (PS3) *
Brunswick Pro Bowling: $29.99 (PS3) *
Castlevania Lords of Shadow: $59.99 (360/PS3) *
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood: $59.99 (360/PS3) *
– Free $5 Gift Card with the purchase of any one of the following 3 NDS games:
Mario VS Donkey Kong: $29.99 (NDS)
Dragon Quest: $34.99 (NDS)
Golden Sun Dark Dawn: $34.99 (NDS)
– Save $20 with the purchase of any two of the following 5 Wii games:
Glee Karaoke Revolution: $59.99 (Wii)
Just Dance: $39.99 (Wii)
Just Dance 2: $39.99 (Wii)
Just Dance Kids: $29.99 (Wii)
Michael Jackson Experience: $49.99 (Wii)
K-Mart
Nothing worth a trip.
TOYS R US
– Sale: $15 off hot Wii Games (see store for selection)
– Sale: Save $10 on all XBox 360 Kinect and PS3 Move Games
– Sale: Buy 1 get 1 for $20 on the following PS3 and XBox 360 games:
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (360)
Blood Stone 007 (360)
Spiderman Shattered Dimension (360)
Shaun White Skateboarding (360)
Fallout New Vegas (PS3)
Call of Duty Black Ops (PS3)
Medal of Honor (PS3)
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (PS3)
Castlevania Lords of Shadow (PS3)
Smackdown VS Raw 2011 (PS3)
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THE DVDs THIS WEEK
Ages of Man – John Gielgud
The Andy Griffith Show 50th Anniversary: Best of Mayberry
Angel
Beautiful Kate
The Best That Never Was
Billy the Exterminator: Season 1
Billy the Exterminator: Season 2
Bleach Uncut Box Set 7
Caprica: Season 1.5
Devil
Dismal
Easy A
Euphoria
Eyeshield 21: Collection 3
Family Guy: It’s A Trap!
Fernando Nation
A Fighting Chance
Futurama: Volume Five
Gene Simmons Family Jewels: Complete Season 4
Gene Simmons Family Jewels: Complete Season 5
The Guild: Season Four
The Heavy
The Horde
The House of Steinbrenner
Laugh it Up Fuzzball: Family Guy Three-Pack (Blue Harvest/SomethingSomething Something Darkside/It’s A Trap)
Left/Right
Let It Rain
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus
One Night in Vegas
Pinprick
Pony Excess
The Rivals
Rivers Wash Over Me
Salt
The Secret Life of the American Teenager: Volume Five
Skirt Day
Soul Kitchen
Step Up 3
Stonehenge Apocalypse
The Virginian – The Complete Season Two
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
BLU-RAY: IT’S
GETTING CHEAPER
Devil
Easy A
Family Guy: It’s A Trap!
Salt
Step Up 3
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Music
Section by Jeb D.
BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE
Jamie Foxx
After watching him lip-synch his way through Ray, someone asked me if Jamie Foxx could, in fact, sing; in the light of albums like this, my question is “Does that even matter?” With a celebrity name to use as a hook and entrée to catch the program director’s attention, today’s musical producer has more studio tools at his disposal than ever before, allowing him to easily shape the “talent” to the demands of the marketplace. The album begins with a nicely lilting fragment of “This Will Be,” but from there quickly settles down into the mild dance grooves, auto-tuned vocals, and makeout smoochiness that characterizes your Charlie Wilsons and R Kellys; Foxx’s voice is warm and confident, if not particularly distinctive. There’s the usual parade of guests (Drake, Ludacris, Soulja Boy) and borrowed beats. I have to admit that the straightforwardness of the title track is refreshing (“If we keep loving like this / We could make a child“), if a bit clumsy, and “Fall For Your Type” is a nice stud’s confession of vulnerability. The highest compliment I can pay this album is that it will fit right in with the rest of the stuff that Target and Best Buy are featuring in this week’s ads; exactly what sort of compliment that is I leave to your judgment.
THROUGH LOW LIGHT AND TREES
Smoke Fairies
Stateside release of the first complete album from the aptly-named Smoke Fairies: their sound simultaneously ethereal and ominous, Smoke Fairies are Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies, spiritual sisters who bring Appalachia to the downs of Sussex. Imagine something like the pure harmonies of, say, the Unthank sisters or Mountain Man, infused with the backcountry desolation of The Handsome Family, surrounded by deep, Lanois-style production and bluesy reverbed guitar, and you’ve got some notion of what’s going on here. Musically, they’ve advanced nicely over the first few singles and EP’s, the sound fuller, and less reliant on the simple John Lee Hooker-style blues drone of “Living With Ghosts” (though tracks like “Strange Moon Rising” and “Devil In My Mind” sound as doom-laden as The Hook at his best). The distinctive blend of blue notes and crystalline harmonies are the songs’ greatest strength: clichés of love and loss are the backbone of most of the lyrics, and there’s still a touch of the sophomore poetry journal (“Can you hold me like you held someone / You shouldn’t have let go? /Can you keep me deep inside / Like the regrets that burned a hole?“), but songs like “Eerie Lackawanna” and “Blue Skies Fall” suggest that they’re expanding their horizons. I don’t know how much further they will be able to grow, or how long they can rely on the sheer, stark beauty of their sound to sustain the music without coming up with something more interesting to sing about, but taken purely on its own terms, this is one gorgeous album.
O MOON, QUEEN OF NIGHT ON EARTH
Jonathan Richman
I had lost touch with Richman’s music over the past few years, till I found out that one of my nephews got up onstage and sang “Government Center” with him at a club recently. Even with that evidence that the man still has what it takes to appeal across generations, I was pleasantly surprised to find this latest album one of the strongest song collections of his career. No longer the faux-naif, Richman is still an inspired primitive, building songs around structures he learned in the 50’s and 60’s, but with a raw earnestness that (as my nephew’s enthusiasm suggests) speaks today to fans of artists like Sufjan Stevens. “She had heart / She had soul / And things they don’t have a name for” he intones in his cracked croon, over a gentle Latin beat in “I Was The One She Came For,” a clear-eyed tribute to the mystery of sexual love, while “My Affected Accent” is a funny, oddly touching reflection on the perils of being a high school oddball (“I used big words/ And I talked through my hat / I shoulda been bullied / More than I was”), and “The Sea Was Calling Me Home” captures the claustrophobic unease of nightmare. The music is still mostly just Richman’s strummed-and-raggedly-plucked acoustic guitar, with a few studio touches and backing vocals: raw but sweet, more adult than ever, and utterly winning.
TRUE GRIT (SOUNDTRACK)
Carter Burwell
I haven’t seen True Grit yet, so I have no idea if the Coens are playing things straighter than usual on this one. If Burwell’s soundtrack is any indication, the answer is probably “pretty much, yeah, and classically so” (and if you don’t already know the story, some of the cue names are going to be a bit spoilery). From the “Ken Burns”-style piano intro to “The Wicked Flee” to the swelling strings of “Your Headstrong Ways” to the ominous “River Crossing,” Burwell evokes the wide-open grandeur that is the calling-card of great Western films, with his own contemporary touches: something sly and sinister inhabits “The Snake Pit,” forces looming and ineffable mark “Turkey Shoot.” Like most great Western film scores, Aaron Copland’s fingerprints are all over this one, culminating in the powerful “One Against Four;” while “Riding To Death” and “The Grave” carry the forthright resignation of a world where fate, and faith, were inextricably intertwined, summed up by Iris’ Dement’s timelessly raw and evocative vocal on “Leaning On The Everlasting Arms.” True Grit is classically evocative of the rich heritage of Western film scores, shot through with unique contemporary touches, and suggests that the movie it accompanies will be among the Coens’ best.
Other Notable 12/21 Releases
Keyshia Cole, Calling All Hearts. Smooth and slinky diva pop. Like you needed me to tell you that.
Keri Hilson, No Boys Allowed. Sassy and bouncy diva pop. Like you needed me to tell you that.
Ghostface Killah, Apollo Kids. Not available for preview, but will likely be ubiquitous in short order.
Dave Specter, Spectified. In a year filled with perfectly acceptable white-boy blues albums, here’s another. But you’re not allowed to buy it until you’ve picked up the latest Buddy Guy first.
Dock Boggs, Dock Boggs. Dark thoughts and murder songs on a remastered collection by the man who defined the sound of the modern banjo nearly a century ago.
Sun Ra, Live In London 1970. Like a lot of players of their time, Ra and his Arkestra ventured to Europe when they wanted to find an audience that actually appreciated jazz. Two compete sets from their UK debut performance.
(Yeah, it was kind of a slow week. Happy Holidays!)
NO MAJOR NEW RETAIL RELEASES THIS WEEK
Merry Christmas, you filthy animals.
OOOHHHH: ON THE DLC TIP
BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE GAME – IT’S ABOUT TIME
Telltale Games
PC, Mac
12/22 PC/Mac, TBA PS3 and IPad
$24.95 5-episode pre-order
If it was my millions upon millions of dollars to blow, I’d have handed this property to Rockstar, made it open world, with three different Hill Valleys, accurate to the last stone, and let those guys and Bob Gale go to town. But, alas, these phantom dollars were not mine, and we’re getting a point and click adventure, which could still be damn amazing, considering this is pretty much the ONLY company making point-and-click adventures in this day and age, and the three major players (Bob Gale, Chris Lloyd, and Michael J. Fox, lending his image but not voice) are heavily involved. If anything, I’m a bit concerned about tone, and how cartoony they’ve already gone with the design extending to the gameplay. But then, I’m that asshole whose favorite film in the trilogy is Part II, so, feel free to ignore me.
STRONG BAD’S COOL GAME FOR ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE
TellTale Games
Playstation Network
12/21
$14.99
Homestar Runner‘s always been a hit or miss kind of deal for me, where I’ll laugh my ass off when it’s on, and want to burn the nerd contingent of the internet and watch the lot of them die screaming the next. Still, I hold the little universe in some regard if only for bringing me Trogdor, Coach Z, and the Strong Bad Sings album. Enough regard where the game’s worth $15? Considering all 5 episodes are in this package (and yep, that’s cheaper than the PC episodes put together), I’d gonna give the thumbs up. It’s quirky, and fun, and the wait for the next Back To The Future episode is LONG.
NEO GEO STATION
Playstation Network
12/21 (only Fatal Fury and Metal Slug available for PSP on this date)
$8.99 Per title; $6.99 on PSP
So, basically, SNK’s releasing all their heavy hitters to the PSN this week. Namely, Fatal Fury, Metal Slug, Art of Fighting, Magician Lord, King of Fighters ’94, Super Sidekicks, and Baseball Stars. In theory this is all well and good for most players, especially since there’s online multiplayer for all of these now. However, there’s a perfectly good SNK compilation for PS2 and PSP out there that, while it occasionally suffers from an imperfect emulation, is still all these games in one place for the cost of buying just one through the PSN, if you look in the right place. There’s even a fairly amazing Samurai Shodown collection for those same two systems. That said, the emulation is arcade perfect for these downloadable versions, so its not like there’s no reason for these. Still, if you have the systems and means, choose wisely. And as for SNK, give us the put the PS1/Saturn versions of KOF ’95 through ’98, and maybe Mark of the Wolves on my PSP, and I’ll love you forever. You could release all the bullshit 3D Samurai Shodowns you want after that.
A WORLD OF KELFLINGS
NinjaBee
Xbox Live Arcade
12/22
800 MS pts
The first game felt like Microsoft’s answer to Pikmin, but with a medieval bent. Cute, but it felt small in a way a game like this, dedicated to world building, shouldn’t be. There’s a list of improvements for the sequel a mile long, though, all of which are huge plusses in its favor, save the fact that Avatars can bring their props into the game. Because if you think you’re not gonna see entire kingdoms laid waste by some dickhead with an 80 MS pt lightsaber, you haven’t been playing nearly long enough.
ROCK BAND TUESDAY
John & Yoko/The Plastic Ono Band – Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Anais – Peut-Etre une Angine
BB Brunes – Dis-Moi X
BAP – Verdamp Lang Her
Wir sind Helden – Nur ein Wort
Linea 77 – Fantasma
Litfiba – Proibito
Caesars – Jerk It Out X
$1.99/160 MS pts per track
X-Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansion available for 99 cents/80 MS pts
I’d have appreciated the Happy XMas track if they did what they did for All You Need Is Love in Beatles Rock Band and sold that single for charity. As it is, it’s an expected, but not unwelcome addition to the library, if only that song didn’t get run into the ground by December 15 most years. Could be worse. Could be fucking Christmas Wrapping.
The rest is all European singles. The video for Proibito is fucking hilarious, the Caesars track is inseparable from my happy memories of SSX 3, but nothing else of note in the list. It’s almost entirely generic pop-rock.
The Week of December 21st, 2010
GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON
SECTION by: Troy Anderson
FUTURAMA: VOLUME 5
Creators: Matt Groening and David X. Cohen
20th Century Fox
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Special Features
- Animatics
- Deleted Scenes
- Featurettes and more!
Futurama returned with a fizzle. While I enjoy the show, I must state that I still prefer The Simpsons. The Comedy Central years started with a nice holdover from the DTV movie releases, but it comfortably worked back into the flow of a regular season. This season was made of more moments than full episodes. My personal highlights were the evolution debate and the LOLcatz invasion of Earth. Even that lacked the finesse of a Luck of the Fryish or Jurassic Bark. I can just see Fry’s poor dog in my mind during that final montage waiting for his master to return and it gets me all emotional. There’s none of that emotion in this release, but it does mark the first real Futurama season released on Blu-Ray.
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2 comments
How do you not have anything about the Vietnam expansion for Bad Company 2??
Because Troy hates all things that are good. Welcome to chud's special edition.
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