Latest DVDs, CDs, books, Feb. 19
DVDS
“Argo” (R): When six Americans sneak out of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran during the 1979 student takeover, the CIA’s top exfiltration expert (director Ben Affleck) sets out to bring them home under the guise that they’re a film crew working on an absurd “Star Wars” rip-off.
Elsewhere, the wife (Keira Knightley) of a high-ranking government official (Jude Law) in 1874 Russia sees her idyllic life begin to unravel when she meets a dashing cavalry officer (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) in this latest adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” (R). A true crime novelist (Ethan Hawke) discovers a box of disturbing home movies that put his family in supernatural danger in “Sinister” (R). And when her little brother (Jackson Nicoll) disappears among the trick-or-treaters on Halloween, a high school senior (Victoria Justice) and her friends embark on an all-night adventure to find him in the comedy “Fun Size” (PG-13).
Topping today’s TV transfers: “Game of Thrones: The Complete Second Season,” “Swamp People: Season Three,” “Top Gear: The Complete Second Season,” “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams: Season Two” and “The Six Million Dollar Man: Season Three.”
CDS
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, “Push the Sky Away”: Nick Cave’s funereal blues is the sound of mirth’s heart stopping.
There’s a romanticism inherent in Cave’s repertoire, though, a seductiveness.
Even the brightest of days give way to the darkest of nights, and it’s the latter that Cave’s music soundtracks.
Also in stores: Atlas Genius, “When It Was Now”; Buckcherry, “Confessions”; Fatboy Slim, “Big Beach Bootique 5”; Iceage, “You’re Nothing”; Jamie Lidell, “Jamie Lidell”; Puscifer, “Donkey Punch the Night”; Swingin’ Utters, “Poorly Formed”; and Robin Trower, “Roots and Branches.”
BOOKS
“Alex Cross, Run” by James Patterson: Three murders send Washington, D.C., into a panic, putting Detective Alex Cross under immense pressure to solve the cases, all while he is unknowingly being watched.
On the teen fiction front, in “Neferet’s Curse” by P.C. Cast, 16-year-old Emily Wheiler begins a magical new life after being marked by a vampire, but as she grows in power, so does her longing for vengeance.
Also hitting shelves: “The Age of Edison” by Ernest Freeberg; “The Burning Air” by Erin Kelly; “Elsewhens” by Melanie Rawn; “Farewell, Dorothy Parker” by Ellen Meister; “Fuse” by Julianna Baggott; “Mind Games” by Kiersten White; “The Sound of Broken Glass” by Deborah Crombie; “Trinity Rising” by Elspeth Cooper; “The Vatican Diaries” by John Thavis; and “The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die” by Colin Cotterill.
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