The List: Latest DVDs, CDs, books, June 18
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
DVDs
“Jack the Giant Slayer” (PG-13): Magic beans forever change the life of a young farmer (Nicholas Hoult) in director Bryan Singer’s lavishly reimagined fairy tale that also stars Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane and a swashbuckling Ewan McGregor.
Elsewhere, with the arrival of a legendary singer (Maggie Smith), a musical foursome is reunited in a retirement home in Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut “Quartet” (PG-13). No longer possessed, at least for the time being, Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) is found in rural Louisiana with no memory of the previous months in “The Last Exorcism Part II” (PG-13). And an 18-year-old (Mia Wasikowska) finds herself drawn to her recently deceased father’s long-lost brother (Matthew Goode) in the psychological thriller “Stoker” (R), co-starring Nicole Kidman, Jacki Weaver and Dermot Mulroney.
Topping today’s TV transfers: “Call the Midwife: Season Two,” “Body of Proof: The Complete Third Season,” “Workaholics: Season Three,” “Drop Dead Diva: The Complete Fourth Season,” “Wilfred: Season Two,” “Rectify,” “Web Therapy: The Complete Second Season,” “Doomsday Preppers: Season Two” and “Moonshiners: Season One.”
CDs
Falling in Reverse, “Fashionably Late”: Teen girls moan and parents groan when Falling In Reverse comes out with a new record.
The band’s polarizing frontman, Vegas’ own Ronnie Radke, is a love-him-or-hate-him kind of dude, and “Fashionably Late” certainly won’t change that with its cocksure, hip-hop influenced metal that’s as heavy on swagger as it is on metallic riffing.
Also in stores: J. Cole, “Born Sinner”; Donna the Buffalo, “Tonight, Tomorrow and Yesterday”; Empire of the Sun, “Ice on the Dune”; Hanson, “Anthem”; Mac Miller, “Watching Movies with the Sounds Off”; Rick Moranis, “My Mother’s Brisket & Other Love Songs”; Primal Scream, “More Light”; Kelly Rowland, “Talk a Good Game”; Sigur Ros, “Kveikur”; 3OH!3, “Omens”; and Tiesto, “Club Life — Vol3 Stockholm.”
BOOKS
“The Heist” by Janet Evanovich: The best-selling author of the Stephanie Plum novels introduces a new series featuring FBI Special Agent Kate O’Hare, who teams up with a handsome, charming con man to catch a crooked investment banker hiding in Indonesia.
Also this week, Neil Gaiman turns in his first novel for adults since “Anansi Boys” with “The Ocean at the End of the Lane,” a fantasy full of magic and evil.
Also hitting shelves: “Always Watching” by Chevy Stevens; “Darwin’s Doubt” by Stephen C. Meyer; “Instructions for a Heatwave” by Maggie O’Farrell; “Island Girls” by Nancy Thayer; “Killer Ambition” by Marcia Clark; “Lexicon” by Max Barry; “The Long War” by Terry Pratchett; “The 9th Girl” by Tami Hoag; “Sovereign” by Ted Dekker; “Sweet Salt Air” by Barbara Delinsky; “The Watcher in the Shadows” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; and “Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos” by Ed Hardy.
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