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Colonia

2009-06-11T06:47:00.001-07:00

Customer Review:
As a long time fan of the Cardigans, I found out about A Camp a while ago, and fell deeply in love with their self titled debut after discovering it. Imagine my delight and supreme surprise that A Camp announced they would release a new album early in 2009; my excitement was palpable. Needless to say, I had very, very high hopes.

The best part, is that they totally delivered. Nina Persson is one of the best song writers, and definitely one of the most consistently beautiful singers of her time. Nina's vocals are that of the angels, and on this album, she continues to prove to me why she is one of my all time favorite singer/songwriters.

It is no surprise that many people will never hear about this amazing band, because that seems to be the way it goes with amazing talent. However, if you are one of the lucky ones, you will recognize true talent when you hear it. That talent is A Camp, and they have released an AMAZING sophomore album with Colonia. Do yourself a favor and fall in love with the sweet sounds of A Camp!!!

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The Ecstatic

2009-06-11T06:46:00.001-07:00

The Ecstatic

Customer Review:
I put Mos Def up there with Common, Q-Tip, Lupe Fiasco, The Roots, and Kanye. His debut "Black on both sides" was brilliant and flawless in my opinion.

He returns with his 4th album, "The ecstatic", and it more than meets my expectations. Experimental, different from what is out there, and still accessible. The 16 tracks clock in at a little over 45 minutes so the songs cut right to the chase, with lyrics touching largely on life and war.

"Auditorium" features Slick Rick and has a Middle Eastern feel (with Iraq references in the lyrics) and a scat-filled coda. Awesome! Continuing along that vein (with some Islamic chants interspersed) is "Waheed".

"Priority" is a piano sprinkled groovy rap with nice strings. The bouncy clap-filled "Quiet dog bite hard" has a booming bassline, while "Life in marvelous times" is dramatically narrated, like some theatrical score with icy sounding synth strings.

"No hay nada mas" finds him singing/mumbling Wyclef-style over a smouldering Latin-tinged groove, entirely in Spanish. "Pretty danger" is Funk/Soul/Jazz-tinged, while "Workers comp" is Reggae-tinged (with Mos Def rapping/singing). Beginning to get the picture? No two songs sound alike on this disc. Also, the flow from track to track is brilliant, a complete album in every respect.

The piano driven "Roses" features Georgia Anne Muldrow's soothing vocals over an airy Neo Soul groove, D'angelo or Raphael Saadiq style. The retro sounding "History" features Talib Kweli, while closing is the stunning horn-peppered "Casa bey", sounding like something from a Blaxploitation movie.

What a superb CD this is. Definitely (along with K'Naan's "Troubadour") my favourite Hip Hop CD this year, and one of my favourites all round.

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The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)

2009-06-11T06:44:00.000-07:00

The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)

Customer Review:
Like I said, the album was a good dance/rap album, I can gaurantee you'll hear at least one of these tracks in the club some time. Tracks like the hard-hitting and bare-bones "Boom Boom Pow" have you up and moving alongside other danceable tracks, such as the sound-lush "Rock That Body", and the good-times "I Gotta Feeling". As the album progresses towards the end, unfortunately, this seems to die off, and the tracks become relatively hard to listen to, with Fergie wailing in the background to whichever rap will.i.am has sampled in overtop of her.

I've always had a problem with artists who attempt to throw a message into an album, and seemingly at the last minute, like BEP does with The E.N.D. and, come to think of it, with Monkey Business as well. The album follows a basic catalogue of party songs, but with songs like "Now Generation" and "One Tribe", BEP attempts to tell us something about ourselves, and provide a social criticism. This is given to us from the same artists who in previous songs claimed that they were too drunk to remember the lyrics, or were expecting late-nite booty calls. "Now Generation" essentially stands as a anthem to percieved entitlement, childish spoiledness, and a pointlessly thrown-in example of Obama-love. "Once Tribe" extrapolates on this when will.i.am tells us that in order to progress forward to 'peace' we must actually empty our minds, and become amnesiacs. Hardly solid advice for the future. It seems as if the artists have no actual concept of how to get what they want (Peace? Entitlement? Or maybe just booze. Who knows), but want it nonetheless.

Worthy of three stars, for the musical creativity, but not worthy of more, for the simple fact that it attempts to be intelligent in the end when the entire album negates intelligence, and slowly dies off from its great start.

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Chickenfoot

2009-06-11T06:43:00.000-07:00

Chickenfoot

Customer Review:
I had high expectations and they were fully met! I've always liked Sammy and he along with Satriani and the other guys is a win win situation!! It's just loud, RnR!!!!

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21st Century Breakdown

2009-06-11T06:42:00.000-07:00

21st Century Breakdown

2009 release, the Punk trio's long-awaited eighth studio album,. The album is the best-selling trio's first studio album since 2004's two-time Grammy Award-winning Punk Rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide. 21st Century Breakdown is divided into three acts: "Heroes and Cons," "Charlatans and Saints," and "Horseshoes and Handgrenades," and follows a young couple, Christian and Gloria, through the mess and promise of the century so far. Songs include "Know Your Enemy", "21 Guns", "East Jesus Nowhere", "Before the Lobotomy", and "Restless Heart Syndrome."

Customer Review:
American Idiot is one of my favorites, but this new album from Green Day is just as good. I highly recommend this album to anyone who is a Green Day fan.

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Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King

2009-06-11T06:41:00.000-07:00

Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King

Produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance), Big Whiskey has been hailed by Rolling Stone as the group’s "heaviest album yet, both musically and emotionally," which went on to note: "Throughout, Carter Beauford beats out elaborate, propulsive groves; bassist Stefan Lessard lays down Flea-style funk bass lines; violinist Boyd Tinsley plays cresting, intense runs; and Matthews mirrors Moore’s saxophone lines with scatlike singing." Billboard, in a cover story on Dave Matthews Band, praised Big Whiskey as "its best album yet… Highlights include the funk-rock rave-up 'Shake Me Like a Monkey,' the stirring ballad 'Lying in the Hands of God,' the swampy rocker 'Alligator Pie (Cockadile),' radio-friendly fare like 'Why I Am,' which features playful horns over a solid rock riff and a hooky chorus, and 'Funny the Way It Is,' which parlays a subtle intro into a soaring, syncopated anthem."

Customer Review:
It goes unsaid that the past few years have been a dry patch of worthy releases from our favorite fellas, what with all the live recording issues, and the good but not great Stand Up from a few years back. BW&TGGK takes Dave and the boys back to their roots, back to the sounds avid fans will recognize all the way back to Before These Crowded Streets and even earlier. Of course there's the bittersweet in this release, with the passing of Leroi Moore last year. The worlds best Sax player is greatly missed and will never be REPLACED.. but at least we can take heart in hearing some of his best work yet on this release. Personal fave on this album - "Why I Am". Just an all-out jam session, the boys at their groovin best.. Buy it, trust me you'll find you leave it in the cd player to keep jamming to day after day.. Thanks for an awesome return to the band we all love!

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Watchmen (Director's Cut) (Amazon Digital Bundle + Digital Copy and BD-Live) [Blu-ray]

2009-06-11T06:39:00.000-07:00

Watchmen (Director's Cut) (Amazon Digital Bundle + Digital Copy and BD-Live) [Blu-ray]

Everybody's favorite graphic novel comes to the screen (after years of rumors and false starts), less a roaring work of adaptation than a respectful and faithful take on a radical original. Watchmen is set in the mid-1980s, a time of increased nuclear tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, as Richard Nixon is enjoying his fifth term as president and the world's superheroes have been forcibly retired. (As you can probably tell, the mix of authentic history and alternate reality is heady.) Things begin with a bang: the mysterious high-rise murder of the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a masked hero with a checkered past, puts the rest of the retired superhero community on alert. The credits sequence, a series of tableaux that wittily catches us up on crime-fighting backstory, actually turns out to be the high point of the movie. Thereafter we meet the other caped and hooded avengers: the furious Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), the inexplicably naked Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup, amidst much blue-skinned, genital-swinging digital work), Silk Spectre II (Malin Akerman), Nite Owl II (Patrick Wilson), and Ozymandias (Matthew Goode). The corkscrewing storytelling, which worked well in the comic book, gives the movie the strange sense of never quite getting in gear, even as some of the episodes are arresting. Director Zack Snyder (300) doesn't try to approximate the electric impact of the original (written by Alan Moore--who declined to be credited on the movie--and illustrated by Dave Gibbons) but retains careful fidelity to his source material. That doesn't feel right, even with the generally enjoyable roll-out of anecdotes. Even less forgivable is the blah acting, excepting Jeffrey Dean Morgan (lusty) and Patrick Wilson (mellow). Watchmen certainly fills the eyes, although less so the ears: the song choices are regrettable, especially during an embarrassing mid-air coupling between Nite Owl II and Silk Spectre II as they unite their--ah--Roman numerals. In the end it feels as though a huge work of transcription has been successfully completed, which isn't the same as making a full-blooded movie experience. --Robert Horton

Customer Review:
After the revelation of "The Dark Knight," here is "Watchmen," another bold exercise in the liberation of the superhero movie. It's a compelling visceral film -- sound, images and characters combined into a decidedly odd visual experience that evokes the feel of a graphic novel. It seems charged from within by its power as a fable; we sense it's not interested in a plot so much as with the dilemma of functioning in a world losing hope.

That world is America in 1985, with Richard Nixon in the White House and many other strange details, although this America occupies a parallel universe in which superheroes and masked warriors operate. The film confronts a paradox that was always there in comic books: The heroes are only human. They can be in only one place at a time (with a possible exception to be noted later). Although a superhero is able to handle one dangerous situation, the world has countless dangerous situations, and the super resources are stretched too thin. Faced with law enforcement anarchy, Nixon has outlawed superhero activity, quite possibly a reasonable action. Now the murder of the enigmatic vigilante the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) has brought the Watchmen together again. Who might be the next to die?

Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), the only one with superpowers in the literal sense, lives outside ordinary time and space, the forces of the universe seeming to coil beneath his skin. Ozymandias (Matthew Goode) is the world's smartest man. The Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) is a man isolated from life by his mastery of technology. Rorshach (Jackie Earl Haley) is a man who finds meaning in patterns that may only exist in his mind. And Silk Spectre II (Malin Akerman) lives with one of the most familiar human challenges, living up to her parents, in this case the original Silk Spectre (Carla Gugino). Dr. Manhattan is both her lover and a distant father figure living in a world of his own.

These characters are garbed in traditional comic book wardrobes -- capes, boots, gloves, belts, masks, props, anything to make them one of a kind. Rorshach's cloth mask, with its endlessly shifting inkblots, is one of the most intriguing superhero masks ever, always in constant motion, like a mood ring of the id. Dr. Manhattan is contained in a towering, muscular, naked blue body; he was affected by one of those obligatory secret experiments gone wild. Never mind the details; what matters is that he possibly exists at a quantum level, at which particles seem exempt from the usual limitations of space and time. If it seems unlikely that quantum materials could assemble into a tangible physical body, not to worry. Everything is made of quantum particles, after all. There's a lot we don't know about them, including how they constitute Dr. Manhattan, so the movie is vague about his precise reality. I was going to say Silk Spectre II has no complaints, but actually she does.

The mystery of the Comedian's death seems associated with a plot to destroy the world. The first step in the plot may be to annihilate the Watchmen, who are All That Stand Between, etc. It is hard to see how anyone would benefit from the utter destruction of the planet, but remember that in 1985 there was a nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union that threatened exactly that. Remember "Better Dead Than Red"? There were indeed cold warriors who preferred to be dead rather than red, reminding me of David Merrick's statement, "It's not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose."

In a cosmic sense it doesn't really matter who pushed the Comedian through the window. In a cosmic sense, nothing really matters, but best not meditate on that too much. The Watchmen and their special gifts are all the better able to see how powerless they really are, and although all but Dr. Manhattan are human and back the home team, their powers are not limitless. Dr. Manhattan, existing outside time and space, is understandably remote from the fate of our tiny planet, although perhaps he still harbors some old emotions.

Those kinds of quandaries engage all the Watchmen, and are presented in a film experience of often fearsome beauty. It might seem improbable to take seriously a naked blue man, complete with discreet genitalia, but Billy Crudup brings a solemn detachment to Dr. Manhattan that is curiously affecting. Does he remember how it felt to be human? No, but hum a few bars. ... Crudup does the voice and the body language, which is transformed by software into a figure of considerable presence.

"Watchmen" focuses on the contradiction shared by most superheroes: They cannot live ordinary lives but are fated to help mankind. That they do this with trademarked names and appliances goes back to their origins in Greece, where Zeus had his thunderbolts, Hades his three-headed dog, and Hermes his winged feet. Could Zeus run fast? Did Hermes have a dog? No.

That level of symbolism is coiling away beneath all superheroes. What appeals with Batman is his humanity; despite his skills, he is not supernormal. "Watchmen" brings surprising conviction to these characters as flawed and minor gods, with Dr. Manhattan possessing access to godhead on a plane that detaches him from our daily concerns -- indeed, from days themselves. In the film's most spectacular scene, he is exiled to Mars, and in utter isolation reimagines himself as a human, and conjures (or discovers? I'm not sure) an incredible city seemingly made of crystal and mathematical concepts. This is his equivalent to 40 days in the desert, and he returns as a savior.

The film is rich enough to be seen more than once. I plan to see it again, this time on IMAX, and will have more to say about it. I'm not sure I understood all the nuances and implications, but I am sure I had a powerful experience. It's not as entertaining as "The Dark Knight," but like the "Matrix" films, LOTR and "The Dark Knight," it's going to inspire fevered analysis. I don't want to see it twice for that reason, however, but mostly just to have the experience again

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True Blood: The Complete First Season (HBO Series)

2009-06-11T06:37:00.000-07:00

True Blood: The Complete First Season (HBO Series)

TRUE BLOOD chronicles the backwoods Louisiana town of Bon Temps... where vampires have emerged from the coffin, and no longer need humans for their fix. Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin, Golden Globe(R)-winner for "True Blood", Academy Award®-winner for “The Piano”) works as a waitress at the rural bar Merlotte's. Though outwardly a typical young woman, she keeps a dangerous secret: she has the ability to hear the thoughts of others. Her situation is further complicated when the bar gets its first vampire patron - 173-year old Bill Compton (Steven Moyer, "Quills") - and the two outsiders are immediately drawn to each other. Delivering the best of what audiences have come to expect from Creator and Executive Producer Alan Ball (writer of Oscar®-winning Best Picture “American Beauty”, creator of the Emmy® Award-winning HBO® series “Six Feet Under”), TRUE BLOOD is a dark and sexy tale that boldly delves into the heart - and the neck - of the Deep South.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Documentary
Other

Customer Review:
I have not opened it, but don't need to. I watched all of the shows in season one. I am patiently waiting for June 14th to get her for season two to start. Excellent purchase.

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Gran Torino (Widescreen Edition)

2009-06-11T06:35:00.000-07:00

Gran Torino (Widescreen Edition)

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/09/2009 Run time: 116 minutes Rating: R

Customer Review:
Clint Eastwood has become an icon, not just for his iconic film roles over the very long career he has had, but also for his outstanding directing. Ironically enough, the movies where he is the director AND main actor, are the ones that shine the most. (Example. "Pale Rider" and "Unforgiven")

"Gran Torino" is expertly directed and acted by Eastwood and brings that classic touch that only he can do. His character, "Walt", is not likeable at all in the beginning and many may feel that way even through the end. He is an angry man, mad at the world and all of the problems the world has caused him. He is a veteran of the Korean war--a war the U.S. lost. He is a recent widower and his two sons and their families have little to do with him unless they need something. His neighborhood is deteriorating around him. He is a racist, pure and simple, non-apologetic about it.

With all of that said, you might wonder if there is anything redeeming about the character of "Walt" or the movie. A resounding, yes. The movie traces "Walt" as he goes from being that grumpy old man in the neighborhood who doesn't want to have a thing to do with his neighbors, particularly the Asian ones living next door, to being the same grumpy old man, but mellowing out as he befriends the Asian teenager and his sister next door.

While his own family doesn't need him and views him somewhat as a burden or annoyance, the Asian family next door needs him to help with getting an Asian gang from leaving them alone. "Walt" sees a young teenager who has potential and knows that he needs to help him out with some tough love and being like a big brother. The scenes are classic and enduring. The chemistry between Eastwood and the actors who portray brother and sister is spot on.

The pacing of the movie is good and you are never bored. I was always excited as to see what would happen next and Eastwood didn't disappoint.

Many might find the movie as not politically correct and I think that is a good thing. Political correctness has its place, I guess, but in movies, I don't see a reason. Eastwood's character was shaped by a hard life and war and he doesn't mince words and tells it like it is. It is one of his best acting performances by far in recent years.

Overall, "Gran Torino" is fine Hollywood filmmaking at its best. You will thoroughly enjoy this movie and yes the title is a reference to Eastwood's character's car which has underlying significance to the story.

4/5 stars

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Ghostbusters [Blu-ray]

2009-06-11T02:02:00.000-07:00

Ghostbusters [Blu-ray]

Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis wrote the script, but Bill Murray gets all the best lines and moments in this 1984 comedy directed by Ivan Reitman (Meatballs). The three comics, plus Ernie Hudson, play the New York City-based team that provides supernatural pest control, and Sigourney Weaver is the love interest possessed by an ancient demon. Reitman and company are full of original ideas about hobgoblins--who knew they could "slime" people with green plasma goo?--but hovering above the plot is Murray's patented ironic view of all the action. Still a lot of fun, and an obvious model for sci-fi comedies such as Men in Black. --Tom Keogh

Customer Review:
A tongue in "sheet" film that carries to pretenses, many laughs and
high humor. As for it being racist, huh? Lots of flaws in thie movie but
being racist is not one of them. I never discredit someone's honest reaction to a film, but c'mon! Disregard the racist monker and rent
the film. If you saw it in the theater, rent it again. Not as funny because you knew the jokes in advance. It's silly. It's fun. Paranormal
psychiology is to me voodoo science. And voodoo science is easy to
parody. They did. It worked.

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Weekend Box Office ending 05/31/09

2009-06-06T02:00:00.000-07:00

1. Up - $68.1M

Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.

4. Drag Me to Hell - $15.8M

After a very successful detour into comic book adaptations with the Spider-Man series, director Sam Raimi goes back to his horror roots with DRAG ME TO HELL. Alison Lohman stars as a young woman whose life becomes cursed after she makes what seems to be a small decision. Justin Long and David Paymer costar, but fans of Raimi\'s EVIL DEAD wonder if Bruce Campbell will make an appearance...
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Most Recent Trailers (06/05/09)

2009-06-06T01:59:00.000-07:00

Kill Bill Vol. 2

Continuing the story-line which unfolded in "Kill Bill Vol. I," this is a revenge tale of an expert assassin, called The Bride, who sets out on a quest to wreak vengeance upon her former employer, Bill, and other members of their assassin circle, for shooting her at her wedding--along with everyone else in attendance--and leaving her for dead. When this chapter in the story begins, The Bride will have already encountered some of her targets, as she continues battling her way up the chain of command, knowing it will ultimately lead her to her main goal: her chance to 'Kill Bill.'

Woman in Berlin

Trailer for Woman in Berlin
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Most Watched Trailers (06/05/09)

2009-06-06T01:57:00.000-07:00

Twilight Saga: New Moon

After TWILIGHT sunk its teeth into the box office, a sequel based on Stephenie Meyer's second book arrives in theaters. The novel NEW MOON finds Bella spending more time with Jacob Black in the absence of her bloodsucking love, Edward.

Toy Story 3

Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and the the all-star casts of TOY STORY and its sequel return for a third outing as the voices of Pixar's beloved toys. Lee Unkrich, a co-director on TOY STORY 2 and FINDING NEMO, takes the reins for this third film, while LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE screenwriter Michael Arndt pens all the action. This time around, Woody, Buzz, Jessie, and the rest of the toys have their adventures in Disney Digital 3-D.

Pandorum

When two men emerge from a deep sleep in the middle of space, they discover that they have no memories of who they are and where they're going. But their memory loss pales in comparison to the problem of the murderous warriors on board their ship who don't want to leave anyone alive.

Gamer

Trailer for Gamer

Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself

Tyler Perry returns as Madea (and director, screenwriter, and producer) in this drama about family, love, and redemption. Madea discover three kids trying to steal from her, and she sends them to their only relative. Their aunt April (Taraji P. Henson) is an alcoholic who is having an affair with a married man, but the three children--and an attractive new tenant--may represent a chance for a fresh start.

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Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

2009-06-06T01:54:00.000-07:00

#1: Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyoncé

Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Beyoncé

(C) 2008 Columbia.

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Movies Coming Soon

2009-06-01T01:46:00.000-07:00

Whatever Works opens June 19th, 2009 (limited)

Dead Snow opens June 19th, 2009 (limited)

Year One opens June 19th, 2009 (wide)

This comedy blends the old-school talent of director Harold Ramis with the new millennium hit-making prowess of producer Judd Apatow. YEAR ONE stars Apatow collaborator Michael Cera and funnyman Jack Black as men who are banished from their ancient village, causing them to travel across the world.

Under Our Skin opens

Irene in Time opens June 19th, 2009 (limited)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opens June 24th, 2009 (wide)

With the success of the live-action film TRANSFORMERS, the robots in disguise proved that there was too much action for just one film. This sequel promises more in the epic battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons.

Hurt Locker opens June 26th, 2009 (limited); July 24th (wide)

This thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow (POINT BREAK) travels to Baghdad with a U.S. military bomb detonating unit. THE HURT LOCKER stars Jeremy Renner, Guy Pearce, and Ralph Fiennes.

Life Is Hot in Cracktown opens June 26th, 2009 (limited)

My Sister's Keeper opens June 26th, 2009 (wide)

THE NOTEBOOK's Nick Cassavetes directs another tear-jerking literary adaptation with this drama based on Jodi Picoult's novel. When married couple Sara and Brian learn that their baby daughter has a serious illness, they make a surprising choice that has ramifications for years to come. MY SISTER'S KEEPER stars Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alex Baldwin, and Joan Cusack.

Surveillance opens June 26th, 2009 (limited)

Jennifer Lynch, director of BOXING HELENA and daughter of David Lynch, helms this sci-fi-fueled thriller. Though the Santa Fe desert appears calm, it's the site of a number of gruesome murders. A trio of local police officers has found several witnesses, but soon the investigation belongs to the FBI. In this film starring Julia Ormond and Bill Pullman, nothing is as simple as it might seem.

Quiet Chaos opens June 26th, 2009 (limited)

Nanni Moretti stars in and co-wrote this moving Italian drama about grief. Pietro (Moretti) has just lost his wife, and he is left alone with their young daughter (Blu Yoshimi). He promises the girl that he will wait for her in the car when she returns to school for the first time, but then his temporary offer turns into habit. Now, Pietro spends his days in his car, watching the world around him and grieving in his own way.

Girl From Monaco opens June 26th, 2009 (limited)

In this dark French comedy, rich lawyer Bertrand (Fabrice Luchini) gets more than he bargained for when he travels to Monaco to defend a client in a murder trial. Accompanied by his loyal bodyguard, Christophe (Roschdy Zem), Bertrand meets the young and sexy Audrey (Louise Bourgoin), a weathergirl who may get him into trouble.

Afghan Star opens

Stoning of Soraya M. opens June 26th, 2009 (limited)

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Movies Opening This Week

2009-06-01T01:45:00.000-07:00

Strangers opens June 3rd, 2009 (on demand)

Based on their Award-winning short film, filmmakers Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv deliver a feature length film tracing the star-crossed romance between two sports fan rivals, Eyal and Ran.

Unmistaken Child opens June 3rd, 2009 (limited)

Away We Go opens June 5th, 2009 (limited)

The journey of an expectant couple as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.

Seraphine opens June 5th, 2009 (limited)

Seraphine de Senlis was a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper whose brilliantly colorful canvases adorn some of the most famous galleries in the world. German art critic and collector Wilhelm Uhde -- the first Picasso buyer and champion of naive primitive painter Le Douanier Rousseau -- discovers her paintings while she is working for him as a maid in the beautiful countryside of Senlis near Paris. A moving and unexpected relationship develops between the avant-garde art dealer and the visionary outsider artist.

After Last Season opens June 5th, 2009 (limited)

Medical students try to adjust to both the changing of the seasons and personal difficulties in this low-budget film.

Downloading Nancy opens June 5th, 2009 (limited)

When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day, he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis. Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters. Nancy has finally found the one and only thing that can liberate her from the pain in her life. While she pursues the freedom that she feels will only come with ultimate liberation, Albert is left to put the pieces together and try to salvage what is left.

Lorna's Silence opens June 5th, 2009 (limited)

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (THE CHILD) direct this drama about an Albanian woman torn between connections to three men and her own dreams. Lorna (Arta Dobroshi) is an immigrant living in Belgium. Though she has a boyfriend, her involvement with the Mafia leads her to marry Claudy (Jérémy Renier) so she can get citizenship. But her life is further complicated when she is told to marry a Russian criminal, putting Claudy's life in danger.

24 City opens

With 24 CITY, Jia Zhang Ke combines his gifts for documentary and fiction to produce a deeply affecting reflection on the past. In order to try to come to terms with the rapid progress enveloping China, Zhang Ke settled in the city of Chengdu to document a changing of the guard in the form of a state-owned factory that was being destroyed so that a gargantuan living complex could be constructed (this is where the film gets its title). Zhang Ke's sensitivity to the workers who were about to lose their jobs is what spawned 24 CITY, and he pays honor to them by letting them tell their own stories with the utmost grace. Some of these individuals are actors (most notably Joan Chen, who cleverly references herself), and some are non-actors. But the stories themselves are all culled from actual interviews Zhang Ke conducted with the people who spent the majority of their lives working in that factory. Zhang Ke films these interviews patiently, incorporating hauntingly beautiful imagery of the factory being dismantled to further punctuate the feelings of loss. 24 CITY could be a companion piece to Yung Chang's remarkable UP THE YANGTZE, another film that aims to preserve the memory of noble Chinese citizens before modern progress has swept them under the rug.

Land of the Lost opens June 5th, 2009 (wide)

A disgraced paleontologist, his assistant and a macho tour guide find themselves in a strange world inhabited by dinosaurs, monkey people and reptilian Sleestaks.

Herb & Dorothy opens June 5th, 2009 (limited)

My Life in Ruins opens June 5th, 2009 (wide)

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING's Nia Vardalos stars in this comedy as a tour guide in Greece who is forced to quit her job by a smarmy coworker. Richard Dreyfuss, Rachel Dratch, and Harland Williams play members of her tour group.

Hangover opens June 5th, 2009 (wide)

OLD SCHOOL director Todd Phillips presides over more male mischief with this comedy. A trio of groomsmen from L.A. (played by Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis) parties hard when they travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party for their friend Doug. But it turns out that they partied a little too hard when they wake up the next morning with a missing groom, a tiger in the hotel room bathroom, a baby in the closet, and no memory of the night before.

Boomerang opens

Ball Don t Lie opens

Art of Being Straight opens June 5th, 2009 (limited)

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Dim Sum Funeral opens June 12th, 2009 (limited)

2009-05-30T00:46:00.000-07:00

Dim Sum Funeral opens June 12th, 2009 (limited)

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Just Dance (Amazon MP3 Exclusive Version)

2009-05-29T04:04:00.000-07:00

Customer Review:
This is a fun dance party remix of some of the hottest dance hits released over the past 6 months. This extended mix also includes some of the best producer/dj/remix artists out there - including Moto Blanco, Tony Moran and Warren Rigg, Jody den Broeder, Armin Van Buuren, and Jason Nevins. While this mix doesn't break any new ground - you can't beat the price, and the selected artists include established stars and new talent you may mot have discovered. deadmau5 and kascade, and Utada, are artists that dance and house music enthusiasts need to discover. (Check out deadmau5 and kaskade's "I Remember" and deadmau5 "Faxing Berlin").

As for breaks in the music after downloading - if you use Itunes - just go to the file info (after highlighting all of the songs in the album) and check gapless playback.

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Boom Boom Pow

2009-05-29T04:03:00.000-07:00

Customer Review:
Boom Boom Pow is to Hip-Hop what We Built This City is to Rock-'N-Roll.

BEP accomplishes the rare feat of making bad music in a down economy, when great art tends to peak. Such bravado being preached as the bleeding edge of music, yet uses the tired auto-tuned style as a crutch.

I understand the hooks in this track--hey I bounced my head to Hammer, Ice, and the Factory...when I was in Jr. Higg. While I can look back at those "artist" with a smile, there's nothing remotely interesting with Boom Boom that I can relate to even in a cheesy nostalgic way.

Expect this song to make Blender's Top worst tracks of all time 50 soon after its fad passes.

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Veckatimest

2009-05-29T04:02:00.000-07:00

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Grizzly Bear's debut album, "Horn of Plenty," was prototypical freak folk, quite in the vein of contemporaries like Animal Collective, Deerhunter and Yeasayer; with a tinny, lo-fi sound and a rather limited sonic palette, the album was a study in the avant-garde, mixing the rock and folk orthodoxies of yore with the technology of the twenty-first century. They were nonetheless a dynamic, electrifying group, especially galvanizing live, as their rap-rock performance of "Knife" with Girl Talk at the 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival and numerous others equally as fresh and exciting evince. 2006's "Yellow House" found them more focused than ever, having carved out a niche for themselves somewhere in-between Animal Collective experimentalism and Fleet Foxes purism. Here, in 2009, they have, by some considerable distance, produced their most accessible and best album, continuing to refine the sound of "Yellow House" and infusing it with pianos and keyboards and other instrumentation which they had previously shunned. The result is their most focused outing yet, with songs that are instantly stunning but also seem to unfurl over time; with each spin, the listener becomes aware of something new, some small, seemingly insignificant sonic nuance that eluded him at first and somehow manages to shake things up completely.

From the swingy, triumphant opening, "Southern Point," where frontman Ed Droste passionately intones, "You'll never find (But I'll return to you) / You'll never find (When you return to me)," to the spare and cryptic beauty of the closer, "Foreground," the listener is afforded nary a second to rest or take in the better songs in the album. Rather, "Veckatimest," not unlike Animal Collective's "Merriweather Post Pavilion," is meant to be taken in holistically. While on first listen, it all seems like somewhat of a blur, repeated listening attunes one to the smaller scattered details that make the album so cohesive and appealing at first blush. The only songs that are not outright hits are "About Face" and "Fine for Now," but even these, with some repeated listening, will grow on the listener. Nevertheless, tracks like "Cheerleader," the ubiquitous and infectious "Two Weeks," the beautiful, epic detachment of "While You Wait for the Others," the hushed, simmering "I Live With You" and the whimsical "Dory" more than make up for these slight and forgivable missteps. Ultimately, though, "Veckatimest" is nothing more and nothing less than a consummation of all of their initial promise. As such, it is absolutely essential and destined to become a cult classic. Get it now.

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Live from Madison Square Garden

2009-05-29T04:01:00.000-07:00

2 CD edition. History rocked and rock made history during a sold-out three-gig stand at Madison Square Garden in late February 2008 when icons Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood performed a concert together for the first time since their all-too-brief days in the legendary Blind Faith in 1969. Whether they will ever team again is unknown. But with Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood Live From Madison Square Garden, fans everywhere are able to experience the sound and the glory of a performance on that famous stage by two of rock's greatest artists.

Customer Review:
My interest for this album was sparked by Stevie Winwood's appearance at Clapton's Crossroads Festival Crossroads: Eric Clapton Guitar Festival 2007. That was just the appetizer for this feast of sublime musicianship. I feel that Clapton produces his best work when he collaborates with others, and this album just goes to prove my point. Clapton and Winwood compliment each other so well that the resulting musical magic is so warm, it glows. It doesn't hurt that the band behind them are stellar musicians as well.
'Live from Madison Square Garden' is one of those rare treats that makes you feel good just listening to it. Do yourself a favor and get it now!

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Relapse

2009-05-29T04:00:00.000-07:00

Highly anticipated 2009 album from one of the most successful Rap artists in history. He's sold more albums than most Rock and Pop superstars. He's a Grammy winner. He's an Oscar winner. He's been on the cover of practically every music magazine since his debut album dropped in 1999. Now, 10 years after The Slim Shady LP, Eminem marks his 10th anniversary as a Hip Hop hurricane with Relapse, yet another skillful collaboration with Dr. Dre. Features the single 'Crack A Bottle' (which features Dre and 50 Cent).

Customer Review:
relapse isnt eminems best work but it is definitely worth buying. he goes back to harder beats and being more serious but at the same time has his fun side with goofy lyrcis that make you laugh and say wtf! i still think marshal mathers and eminem show are his best work but its good to have eminem back in the rap game because this is a cd that rap needs badly! its a cd that you can listen to straight through without skiping because every song is worth listening to over and over again

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21st Century Breakdown

2009-05-29T03:58:00.000-07:00

2009 release, the Punk trio's long-awaited eighth studio album,. The album is the best-selling trio's first studio album since 2004's two-time Grammy Award-winning Punk Rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide. 21st Century Breakdown is divided into three acts: "Heroes and Cons," "Charlatans and Saints," and "Horseshoes and Handgrenades," and follows a young couple, Christian and Gloria, through the mess and promise of the century so far. Songs include "Know Your Enemy", "21 Guns", "East Jesus Nowhere", "Before the Lobotomy", and "Restless Heart Syndrome."

Customer Review:
This album just stinks. It's boring and uninspired. It's an unfortunate attempt to create a rock opera such as Tommy or Quadrophenia. The ballads are blah and the only songs that rock with any melody or style are Horseshoes and Handgrenades (sic), Know Your Enemy, and American Eulogy/Mass Hysteria. If you are looking for the 2009 update to Dookie or Nimrod, please heed this Warning. Note to Green Day: It's been 15 years since Woodstock '94, and it's showing, boys.

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Bride Wars

2009-05-29T03:57:00.000-07:00

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I caved in this weekend and let my wife pick this movie, (but only because I got two other movies for myself) and we were kind of let down. This was one of those cases, and most female oriented movies are, that the previews almost turn out better than the actual movie. Even my wife commented on how they were so mean and rude to other men that we both could not figure out why anyone would marry either of them. There was not enough story development to make it worthwhile. I definitely would not buy this one. Rent it first, and then if you like it, buy it.

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