Latest DVDs, CDs, books: May 8
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
DVDS
“The Vow” (PG-13): A young husband (Channing Tatum) must rewin the heart of his wife (Rachel McAdams) after she awakens from a coma, with no memory of their marriage, in this old-fashioned melodrama based on a true story.
Rounding out today’s recent releases, Kate Beckinsale returns as warrior Selene in “Underworld: Awakening” (R), leading vampires and Lycans into battle against the humans trying to wipe out both clans.
From there, it’s on to titles that never made it to local theaters. A violently jealous husband (Danny Huston) suspects his pianist wife (“Law & Order’s” Elisabeth Rohm ) of having an affair in the psychological thriller “The Kreutzer Sonata” (R), which co-stars Huston’s Oscar-winning half sister Anjelica. High school students unearth dark hometown secrets in the chiller “Playback” (R), with Christian Slater, while a remake of the Troma horror workout “Mother’s Day” (R) features Rebecca DeMornay. “Friday Night Lights’ ” Aimee Teegarden headlines the coming-of-age tale “Beautiful Wave” (PG-13). And “Adult Swim” comedy fixtures Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim team up in “Tim and Eric’s Billion-Dollar Movie” (R).
And a hometown favorite tops today’s TV transfers (all unrated): Robert Urich as detective Dan Tanna in “Vegas: The Third Season, Volume One.” Also on tap: “60 Minutes: Remembering Mike Wallace,” “Love’s Everlasting Courage,” “The Big C: The Complete Second Season,” “Fantasy Island: The Complete Second Season” and “Chuck: The Complete Fifth Season.”
CDS
Damon Albarn, “Dr Dee”: This new one from Blur/Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn is an opera based on the life and times of John Dee, a scientific adviser to Elizabeth I, created with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
Two words: circle pit!
Also in stores: Glenn Frey, “After Hours”; Philip Glass, “Glass Symphony No. 9”; Pat Green, “Songs We Wished We’d Written II”; Horseback, “Half Blood”; Infected Mushroom, “Army of Mushrooms”; John 5, “God Told Me To”; Keane, “Strangeland”; Mary Mary, “Go Get It”; Silversun Pickups, “Neck of the Woods”; Dee Snider, “Dee Does Broadway”; Tank, “This Is How I Feel”; VHS or Beta, “Diamonds and Dub”; and Rita Wilson, “AM/FM.”
BOOKS
“11th Hour” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro: The latest in the Women’s Murder Club series finds Lindsay Boxer pregnant, but that’s not slowing her down as she looks into the murder of a millionaire as well as the discovery of two heads found in an actor’s garden.
Also this week, Richard Paul Evans tells of one man’s search for hope after losing everything in “The Road to Grace.”
Also hitting shelves: “Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son” by Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez; “City of Lost Souls” by Cassandra Clare; “Home” by Toni Morrison; “I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)” by Stephen Colbert; “In One Person” by John Irving; “Middle School: Get Me out of Here!” by James Patterson; “Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture” by Andy Cohen; “Operation Trinity (The 39 Clues: The Cahill Files)” by Clifford Riley; “The Sea Witch” by Stephen Coonts; “The Sins of the Father” by Jeffrey Archer; “They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?: A Novel” by Christopher Buckley; “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More” by Augusten Burroughs .
