Latest DVDs, CDs, books: March 27
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week.
DVDS
“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” (PG-13): A 9-year-old (Thomas Horn) struggles to cope with the Sept. 11 death of his father (Tom Hanks) in an Oscar-nominated drama highlighted by the silent, eloquent performance of Oscar nominee Max von Sydow.
“Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked” (G) finds cruise passengers Alvin, Simon and Theodore marooned on a tropical island. Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley headline “A Dangerous Method” (R) about the collaboration between psychiatric pioneers Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Angelina Jolie makes her filmmaking debut with “In the Land of Blood and Honey” (R), an ambitious drama about the 1990s Bosnian war. What happens in Vegas happens to an uptight architect (Imran Khan) and a quick-witted hairstylist (Kareena Kapoor) in the Bollywood romantic comedy “Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu” (not rated). And the animated Bible tale “The Lion of Judah” (PG) follows a group of stable animals trying to save a spunky lamb from the sacrificial Passover altar — the week before Jesus’ crucifixion.
CDS
Madonna, “MDNA”: Last year, DJ Martin Solveig dropped the most-played dance song of the year with his ubiquitous “Hello.”
So, perhaps it makes sense that he’s now collaborating with the most-ubiquitous dance pop star of the past three decades.
Solveig is one of the producers on Madonna’s latest disc, “MDNA,” her 12th overall, along with William Orbit, who oversaw Madge’s excellent 1998 disc “Ray of Light.”
Together, they’ve crafted yet another helping of disco cotton candy from pop’s leading sugar momma.
Also in stores: Clay Aiken, “Steadfast”; The All-American Rejects, “Kids in the Street”; Anberlin, “Dancing between the Fibers of Time”; The Chemical Brothers, “The Chemical Brothers: Don’t Think “; Cowboy Junkies, “Wilderness”; God Forbid, “Equilibrium”; Macy Gray, “Covered”; Iron Maiden, “En Vivo!”; The Mars Volta, “Noctourniquet”; Meshuggah, “Koloss”; Ministry, “Relapse”; Joan Osborne, “Bring It on Home”; Overkill, “The Electric Age”; Lionel Richie, “Tuskegee”; Shinedown, “Amaryllis”; 3 Inches of Blood, “Long Live Heavy Metal”; The Used, “Vulnerable”; and Wretched, “Son of Perdition.”
BOOKS
“Guilty Wives” by James Patterson: A luxurious girls’ trip to Monte Carlo turns into a nightmare when four partying friends are arrested after awakening on a yacht surrounded by police.
On the nonfiction front, Hank Haney candidly recounts his years as Tiger Woods’ golf coach in “The Big Miss.”
Also hitting shelves: “Betrayal” by Danielle Steel; “Chomp” by Carl Hiaasen; “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power” by Rachel Maddow; “Elegy for Eddie” by Jacqueline Winspear; “Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic’s First-Class Passengers and Their World” by Hugh Brewster; “The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism” by Kate Winslet; “Letter from a Stranger” by Barbara Taylor Bradford; “Life Among the Cannibals ” by Sen. Arlen Specter; “Lover Reborn” by J.R. Ward; “The Memory of Blood” by Christopher Fowler; “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life’s Greatest Challenges” by Deepak Chopra; “Titanic: Voices from the Disaster” by Deborah Hopkinson; and “The Unseen” by Heather Graham.
