Latest DVDs, CDs, books: April 05, 2011
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
DVDS
“Tron: Legacy” (PG) — Two decades after digital visionary Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) disappeared inside Tron’s video-game grid, his tech-savvy son, Sam (Garret Hedlund), investigates his disappearance — and finds himself sucked into the same cyber-universe. (The 1982 original also turns up today on DVD; there’s even a multi-disc package that includes both movies.)
Two other sequels also arrive: “Little Fockers” (PG-13), in which the father-in-law from hell (Robert De Niro) puts his nervous son-in-law (Ben Stiller) under surveillance yet again. And in “The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader” (PG), Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes) join Caspian (Ben Barnes) and their useless cousin Eustace (Will Poulter) for a fantastical voyage aboard the title ship.
On the indie front, “Casino Jack” (R) casts Kevin Spacey as the notorious Jack Abramoff, the George W. Bush era’s favorite lobbyist-about-town. And in “I Love You Phillip Morris” (R), a brush with death inspires a happily married cop (Jim Carrey) to embrace his homosexuality, become a con artist and fall for the title character (Ewan McGregor) while both are behind bars.
Leading the TV-to-DVD transfers (all unrated): “Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story,” “Life Unexpected: The Complete First and Second Seasons,” “Masterpiece Classic: Any Human Heart” and “Friday Night Lights: Season Five.”
CDS
Hollywood Undead, “American Tragedy”
Rap rock’s not dead, it just deserves to die.
These dudes wear masks and drop hard rhymes over harder guitars. “American Tragedy?” Yeah, pretty much.
Also in stores: Ray Davies, “See My Friends”; INXS, “Original Sin”; Jim Jones, “Capo”; The Kills, “Blood Pressures”; The Raveonettes, “Raven in the Grave”; Robbie Robertson, “How to Become Clairvoyant”; The Smithereens, “2011”; Vicious Rumors, “Razorback Killers.”
BOOKS
“The Fifth Witness” by Michael Connelly: Lawyer Mickey Haller, having expanded his practice into foreclosures, finds himself involved in a murder trial after one of his clients is accused of killing a mortgage banker.
On the nonfiction front, Tina Fey shares stories from her childhood, time on “Saturday Night Live,” life as a mother and more in her memoir “Bossypants.”
Also in stores: “City of Fallen Angels” by Cassandra Clare; “Crunch Time” by Diane Mott Davidson; “44 Charles Street” by Danielle Steel; “I’ll Walk Alone” by Mary Higgins Clark; “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series” by Richard Paul Evans; “Mobbed” by Carol Higgins Clark; “Mourning Gloria” by Susan Wittig Albert; “Plague” by Michael Grant; “Red Glove” by Holly Black; “Sign of the Moon” by Erin Hunter; “Treason at Lisson Grove” by Anne Perry; “Unlimited: How to Build an Exceptional Life” by Jillian Michaels; “Vespers Rising (The 39 Clues Series)” by Rick Riordan; and “Where She Went” by Gayle Forman.
