SPEND YOUR MONEY!

NEW RELEASES

*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD
BLUE
     
Resident Evil: Afterlife                                   $16.99 $19.99 $25.99
Knight and Day                                              $14.99
Jersey Shore: Season 2 Uncensored                $16.99       
The A-Team                                                   $14.99
Beauty and the Beast (1991)                           $14.99
The Karate Kid (2010)                                   $14.99

DVD Sale

$5.99

The Bounty Hunter
Death at a Funeral
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
The Blind Side

$10

The A-Team
Knight and Day

BLU-RAY sale

$14.99

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Prince of Persia

TV on DVD SALE

$9.99

Entourage: Seasons 1-6
Eastbound and Down: Season 1
Sex & the City: Seasons 1- 6
Weeds: Seasons 3-5
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 5
Parenthood: Season 1

$14.99

The Office: Seasons 2-6
The Tudors: Seasons 3-4
Dexter: Season 4
Psych: Seasons 3-4
Glee: Season 1
True Blood: Season 2
Mad Men: Seasons 1-3
Family Guy: Volume 8
Castle: Seasons 1-2
House: Seasons 5-6
How I Met Your Mother: Seasons 3-5

$19.99

True Blood: Season 1
Modern Family: Season 1
Lost: Season 6
Grey’s Anatomy: Season 6

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NEW RELEASES

*Blu-Ray prices are in BOLD
BLUE
   
The American                                                 $14.99  $26.99
Resident Evil: Afterlife                                     $16.99 $21.99 $34.99
Resident Evil Anthology                                   $69.99
Twelve                                                            $17.99
Alien Anthology                                               $74.99
Inception                                                         $9.99  $19.99
Archer: Season 1                                            $22.99 
Jersey Shore Uncensored: Season 1 and 2      $21.99
The Town                                                      $12.99  $19.99
The Expendables                                           $9.99  $12.99

DVD Sale

$9.99

Toy Story 3

BLU-RAY sale

$19.99

Iron Man 2

BLU-RAY BLOWOUT!

A Christmas Carol                      $15.99   $27.99
Sex and the City 2                      $14.99  $19.99
The Last Airbender                    $13.99  $19.99
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice         $15.99  $24.99
Prince of Persia                          $15.99   $25.99
Fantasia/Fantasia 2000               $24.99  $27.99
Alice in Wonderland (2010)        $15.99 $27.99
Legend of the Guardians              $14.99 $19.99

TV on DVD SALE

Chuck: Season 3                                                     $14.99  $22.99
True Blood Season 2                                               $24.99  $29.99
Fringe: Season 1                                                      $19.99
The Sarah Conner Chronicles: Season 2                  $19.99
Mad Men: Season 3                                                $19.99
Burn Notice: Season 3                                            $19.99
Heroes: Season 3                                                   $19.99
The Simpsons: Season 13                                        $19.99
Family Guy: Volume 8                                             $19.99
Weeds: Season 5                                                    $16.99
Supernatural: Season 5                                           $14.99   $19.99
The Office: Season 6                                              $14.99   $19.99
House: Season 6                                                    $19.99   $29.99
Spartacus: Season 1                                               $26.99   $32.99

Video Game
Sales

Target

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood: $39 (360/PS3)
EA Madden 11: $39 (360/PS3)
Call of Duty Black Ops: $39 (360/PS3)
Halo Reach: $39 (360)
Dance Central: $39 (Kinect)
Donkey Kong Country Returns: $39 (Wii)
Super Mario Bros.wii: $39 (Wii)
Epic Mickey: $39 (Wii)
Active 2: $59.99 (360/PS3/Wii)
Your Shape Fitness Evolved: $39.99 (Kinect)
Motionsports Play for Real: $39.99 (Kinect)
Star Wars the Force Unleashed 2: $45 (360/PS3/Wii)
UFC Undisputed 2010: $19.99 (360/PS3)
Red Dead Redemption: $39.99 (360/PS3)
Battlefield Bad Company 2: $29.99 (360/Ps3)

Best Buy

Fallout New Vegas: $34.99 (360/PS3)
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood: $34.99 (360/PS3)
Tron Evolution: $39.99 (360/PS3)
Star Wars the Force Unleashed 2: $39.99 (360/PS3/Wii)
DragonAge Origins/Awakenings: $49.99 (360/PS3)
EA Madden 11: $49.99 (360/PS3), $39.99 (Wii)
EA FIFA Soccer 11: $49.99 (360/PS3), $39.99 (Wii)
EA NBA 2K11: $49.99 (360/PS3)
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit: $49.99 (360/PS3), $39.99 (Wii)
God of War II: $39.99 (PS3)
Medal of Honor: $39.99 (360/PS3)
Def Jam Rapstar: $39.99 (360/PS3)
Blood Stone 007: $39.99 (360/PS3)
Grand Theft Auto IV and Episodes from Liberty City: $29.99 (360/PS3)
Gran Turismo 5: $59.99 (PS3)
Red Dead Redemption: $59.99 (360/PS3)*
RDR Undead Nightmare: $29.99 (360/PS3)*
* Save $20 when you purchase both RDR games on 360 or PS3
Call of Duty: $59.99 (360/PS3)
Halo Reach: $59.99 (360)
Modern Warfare 2: $39.99 (360/PS3)
Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock: $39.99 (360/PS3/Wii)
Transformers War for Cybertron: $29.99 (360/PS3)
Battlefield Bad Company 2: $29.99 (360/PS3)
Batman Arkham Asylum: $19.99 (360/PS3)
Crackdown 2: $19.99 (360)
Epic Mickey: $39.99 (Wii)
Just Dance 2: $29.99 (Wii)
Donkey Kong Country Returns: $49.99 (Wii)
other Wii and NDS stuff on sale

K-Mart

Nothing worth a trip.

TOYS R US

Buy 1, Get 1 50% Off: ALL Video Games

THIS
WEEK’S DVD REVIEWS at CHUD

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THE REST OF
THE DVDs THIS WEEK

The American
And Soon The Darkness
Archer: The Complete Season One
Baccano! The Complete Collection
The Boy Next Door
The Cat That Came Back
Coyote County Loser
Dragonaut: The Resonance – Complete Series
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Pt. 3
Gintama, Collection 3
Handsome Harry
The Haunting Of Amelia
Jersey Shore: Season Two
Jersey Shore Two-Pack: Seasons One And Two
Kamui Gaiden: The Feature Film
Legendary
Legendary Assassin
Merantau
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Twelve
United States Of Tara: The Second Season

BLU-RAY: IT’S
GETTING CHEAPER

The American
And Soon The Darkness
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
Derailed
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Pt. 3
Kamui Gaiden: The Feature Film
Legendary
Merantau
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Resident Evil: Afterlife (3D)
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Surf Nazis Must Die
Twelve

Music

Section By Jeb D.

2010 Catch-Up Edition

I started this gig in March of 2010, so there’s some worthwhile music that came out in the early months, before I had the chance to review it; there’s also the odd album that I just flat missed when it was released. Here’s a rundown of a few of my favorite albums from 2010 that I didn’t review in the regular Special Edition column, with Amazon links:

Balkan Beat Box, Blue Eyed Black Boy. On their third album, the overt weirdness of their Israeli-Gypsy-Euro-Afro-beat electronica has settled into a kind of politically charged rocksteady, with the odd burst of… well, weirdness.

Biters, Biters and It’s OK To Like Biters. Their big brothers wondered who kept swiping all their Sweet and Cheap Trick records. These two EP’s point the finger.

V.V. Brown, Travelling Like the Light. More Brit retro-soul, poppier than Winehouse, sharper than Duffy.

Los Campesinos!, Romance Is Boring. Not the pop saviors I once thought they might be, but let’s face it: when they say “The Sea Is a Good Place to Think About the Future,” they’re probably right.

Johnny Cash, American VI: Ain’t No Grave. Granted, this posthumous collection is a bit on-the-nose, but Cash spent several years dying in public, and knew the score. His forthrightness redeems some sentimental touchstones of the pre-Dylan folk revival (“Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound,” “Four Strong Winds”). More to the point, I’d like to think he’d have approved the choice of “Aloha Oe” as his final farewell.

Cornershop, Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast. Sikh Pop For Now People.

Drive-By Truckers, The Big To Do. On the one hand, Shonna Tucker’s writing will never fit as smoothly between Hood and Cooley as her ex-hubby did. On the other hand, her “(It’s Gonna Be) I Told You So” and “You Got Another” get just as straight to the point as “This Fucking Job.” Toss in song after song of the quality of Hood’s scary “The Wig He Made Her Wear” and Cooley’s “Birthday Boy” and you’ve got another hour of riveting listening from the best rock and roll band working today.

Patty Griffin, Downtown Church. Back in January, I had no idea that this would be only the first of several excellent collections of country blues and gospel covers in 2010. I’d file this one behind Mavis Staples, Willie Nelson and Robert Plant, but I’d call it a tossup between her and Tom Jones. Which, by the way, is not an insult.

Dave Holland and Pepe Habichuela, Hands. Afrocubism was the cultural crossover of the year (hell, sometimes I think it was the album of the year), but this marriage of jazz and flamenco was right up there, too.

The Mynabirds, What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood. The Mynabirds are basically the insanely-talented Laura Burhenn, who pulled herself back from despair following the death of her former partner, and here delivers an amazingly rich and varied collection of thoughtful pop songcraft and stunning vocals. Another strong candidate for my favorite album of the year.

Youssou N’Dour, I Bring What I Love (Soundtrack). The remakes are fuller and tidier in sound than the original versions, but the vocals enlighten the originals with a lifetime’s refusal to abandon hope.

Robert Randolph and the Family Band, We Walk This Road. It’s highly unlikely that Randolph will ever top 2002’s Live At The Wetlands and its orgiastic celebration of revival-meeting fervor and slide guitar madness; I doubt anyone could, really. But he’s still out there slingin’.

The Soft Pack, The Soft Pack. They may now be called The Soft Pack (instead of The Muslims), but they rock harder. Nice. Plus: California secedes! “Don’t butt heads! / Cut out the Feds!“

Vampire Weekend, Contra. Not much left to say about these guys (one of the best second albums I’ve heard in years); this is what Sting might sound like if he was still fun.

NO MAJOR NEW RETAIL RELEASES THIS WEEK
And a happy new year….

BOOM.

OOOHHHH: ON THE DLC TIP

DEAD RISING 2: CASE WEST
Capcom
XBox Live
12/27
800 MS pts

Dead Rising‘s still not a good series, but I suppose if you were more willing to suffer through another 20 hours of broken combat system just for the joy of beating a zombie upside the head with a combination Swiffer/Chainsaw/Mrs. Field’s Frozen Cookie Dough Gun, then the idea of getting to do a few more hours in a co-op plot-tying DLC with DR1‘s Frank West and the return of the photo system might be right up your alley.

RASKULLS
Halfbrick Studios
XBox Live
12/29
800 MS pts

Basically, it’s a glorified Mr. Driller clone, with little guys that look like Sackboy’s X-Ray shooting their way around colorful maps. Anything wrong with that? Not a thing.

ROCK BAND TUESDAY

Celebrating Band On The Run Pack ($6.99/560 MS pts)

• Maybe I’m Amazed
• Band on the Run
• Helen Wheels
• Let Me Roll It X

Inhabited – Open My Eyes
Siouxsie and The Banshees – Cities in Dust X


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

The entire pack should be a blast, but Band On The Run and Maybe I’m Amazed should be required purchases, though good luck to vocalists trying to FC that lentil soup recipe.

Cities In Dust once again reminds me I need to know a lot more about Siouxsie and the Banshees. Inhabited, however, reminds me once again that Christian rock is an oxymoron.

The Week of December 28th, 2010

GROUP EDITED by: TROY ANDERSON

DVD/BR
SECTION by: Troy Anderson

UNITED STATES OF TARA: SEASON 2

Creator: Diablo Cody
Paramount/Showtime

CLICK HERE TO BUY IT AT AMAZON!

Special Features

• Chats with the cast
• Cast bios

The United States of Tara took forever to return with a second season. While Diablo Cody has started to tread water with her feature film scripts, the lady is kicking all sorts of ass in the television team environment. Pushing past the initial setup phase, the second year takes us deeper into how the Gregson Family copes with Tara. Max faces the most difficulty, as he has to come to terms with the fact that his wife’s alter-egos want to fuck around and screw random people that they meet. This can be hard when your wife of nearly twenty years is bringing home women and men at odd hours. A lot of fans tuned out during Charmaine’s wedding, but I don’t really see it as a jumping the shark moment. The third year is supposed to be starting back in Early 2011. The start date keeps getting pushed around, so I don’t want to make any promises. Just keep an eye out for it.

THE AMERICAN
director: Anton Corbijn

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Special Features 

The American isn’t a better film than Splice, but I welcome any new release from Anton Corbijn. While Corbijn gets to put his visual panache to work, the film is very quiet for his usual offerings. Clooney gets to up his game, by downplaying his charm and relying more on quiet calm. The film also sports quality nudity and some nice field of depth during Italian countryside exteriors. While the Martin Booth source novel is a little friendlier than the film, I’ve still got to recommend this flick because of Violante Placido’s rockin’ boobs.

ARCHER: SEASON 1
creator: Adam Reed and Matt Thompson

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SPECIAL FEATURES

Archer took some time to grow on me. I first reviewed it at CHUD when it debuted on FX back in March. While I didn’t dig it as much as Sealab 2021 or Frisky Dingo. Now, I’ve watched the full first season and I have to say that I get what Reed/Thompson are striving for with Jon Benjamin’s laid-back style. It’s very easy to pass over the sardonic in favor of direct humor, but animated humor is asking more from its audiences than ever before. If anything, I see the show working as a nice stepping stone to Louie and I don’t get why FX hasn’t tried to bundle the programs together. Both shows hit you with a wall of unease and they want you to work through the setup to find the joke. Sometimes, it’s right in front of you. But, it’s your job as an active viewer to discern what matters.

JERSEY SHORE: SEASON 2 UNCENSORED
featuring: Snooki, The Situation and The Marinara Players

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Special
Features

Jersey Shore: Season 2 proved that the magic had left. Grant Morrison once said that the more cameras that you put on the street, the more people will start to act for them. That line got me thinking more and more about this show, as I waded through the sheer amount of advertising glut that MTV dropped on the online press. The first show just happened and America learned to laugh at Italians again. Then, the fame machine kicked in and we started seeing Guidos becoming a commodity. The world has learned nothing from Tony Danza, as MTV decided to take a chance to stretch the material. Reality shows, Vodka, parodies, guest-spots and various media claptrap all showed that MTV had no idea how to protect their new franchise. Now, we’ve got a second and upcoming third year of these eight fucks trying to convince the world that they still matter.