New Shit This Week

DVDs:

BUY:

There Will Be Blood - One of the best movies released in 2007, There Will Be Blood is a cinematic masterpiece with incredible cinematography, a great story, an Oscar-worthy supporting performance by Paul Dano and one of the all-time greatest cinematic peformances from Daniel Day-Lewis in his Oscar-winning role. The only downside is that this movie wasn't released in Blu-Ray for reasons I can't possibly fathom.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - Proving that American audiences are still a bunch of damn idiots, this movie flopped in theaters, despite being one of the funniest movies of the year. Now it's out on DVD in a new director's cut. Knowing that it's an Apatow production, that means that the new cut of the movie is probably 3 hours long with 8 hours of deleted scenes and they're all hilarious. Even the music is outstanding as instead of merely being Weird Al-style parodies, the songs in the movie are almost credible and some could pass as actual hits from their respective eras.


Rent It:

P2 - A surprisingly good suspense thriller that did a decent amount at the box office and is worth a look on DVD.

Lions For Lambs - A huge flop that got lousy reviews, but I'm still curious enough to give it a look.

Reservation Road - The trailer made it look pretty good and the cast is first rate. Strange that it didn't get much of a push in theaters, though.

Resurrecting The Champ - It got decent reviews, so it should be worth a look at least.


CDs:

Buy It:

The Duke Spirit - Neptune - One of my favorite indie bands that no one's heard of, I didn't even know that this album was coming out because it got no advance press. Still, I intend to buy it as soon as I can find a place to do so.


Borrow It:

Tapes N Tapes - Walk It Off - One of the first blog sensations to actually survive to a second successful album, Tapes N Tapes isn't quite on my purchase list yet, but if this one's as good as the first they'll be there next time around.

The Breeders - Mountain Battles - Bad reviews are what's going to keep me from buying this one, but if I like it I might buy it later on.

Foals - Antidotes - Tapes N Tapes are the old blog sensation and Foals are the new ones. Now they fight each other in a steel cage death match to see which band is allowed to survive long enough to breed.

Ashes Divide - Keep Telling Myself It's Alright - A former member of A Perfect Circle founded this band. Sadly, it wasn't MJK, but I'm sure it's probably still pretty good.