Latest DVDs, CDs, books: July 2
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
DVDS
“God Bless America” (R): Having recently lost his job and his marriage, a terminally ill man (Joel Murray) embarks on a cross-country killing spree with a 16-year-old girl (Tara Lynne Barr), ridding the world of annoying reality stars and other cultural irritants, in this dark comedy from writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait.
Elsewhere, Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa star in the pot-friendly comedy “Mac & Devin Go to High School” (R).
Topping today’s TV transfers: It’s a trip through the vaults this week with “Dynasty: The Sixth Season,” “Mannix: The Seventh Season,” “Streets of San Francisco: Season Three, Vol. 1” and “Streets of San Francisco: Season Three, Vol. 2.” Also out this week: “Man vs. Wild Season 6.”
CDS
Chris Brown, “Fortune”: Love him, hate him, love to hate him, there really is no fence-sitting when it comes to Chris Brown.
Argue about the quality of dude he is all you want, but there’s no debating he’s one of R&B’s current biggest stars.
And so no matter what anyone says, his “Fortune” won’t be affected.
Also in stores: Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., “Son of a Bitches Brew”; Drop the Lime, “Enter the Night”; Dub Pistols, “Worshipping the Dollar”; Flo Rida, “Wild Ones”; Nile, “At the Gate of Sethu”; Prodigy of Mobb Deep, “H.N.I.C. 3”; and Noah Stewart, “Noah.”
BOOKS
“Criminal” by Karin Slaughter: Pasts collide after a college student’s abduction is linked to a murder case from 40 years ago, forcing investigators Will Trent and Amanda Wagner to confront old demons.
In nonfiction, defense attorney Jose Baez recounts his experiences during the trial of Cases Anthony in “Presumed Guilty.”
Also hitting shelves: “Big Nate Fun Blaster” by Lincoln Peirce; “Die a Stranger” by Steve Hamilton; “Gold” by Chris Cleave; “How to Steal a Dragon’s Sword” by Cressida Cowell; “Iron Gray Sea” by Taylor Anderson; “Jack 1939” by Francine Mathews; “The Last Refuge” by Ben Coes; “The Last Rhinos” by Lawrence Anthony; “Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety” by Daniel Smith; “The Next Best Thing” by Jennifer Weiner; “The Nightmare” by Lars Kepler; “Once” by Anna Carey; and “Potboiler” by Jesse Kellerman.
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