Latest DVDs, CDs, books: July 10
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
DVDs
American Reunion (R): Jim, Michelle, Stifler and the gang – and, of course, Stifler’s mom – are back for their totally believable 13th high school reunion in this fourth big-screen installment in the “American Pie” series.
Elsewhere, the small-town mixed martial arts dreams of Dustin “The Diamond” Poirier and Albert Stainback are chronicled in the documentary “Fightville” (not rated). And a young writer (Paul Dano) working in a homeless shelter comes face to face with the father (Robert De Niro) he hasn’t seen in 18 years in the drama “Being Flynn” (R).
Topping today’s TV transfers: “The Glades: Season Two,” “Warehouse 13: Season Three,” “iCarly: The Complete Fourth Season,” “Duck Dynasty: Season One” and, from the vaults, “Alice: The Complete First Season,” “Father Dowling Mysteries: The Second Season” and “Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Series (Deluxe Edition)” featuring 1,225 episodes on 131 DVDs.
CDs
Zac Brown Band, “Uncaged”: With their feel-good Jimmy Buffett meets Lynyrd Skynyrd meets Dave Matthews Band vibe, the Zac Brown Band has become a live favorite in recent years.
And now they’re “Uncaged!”
What does that mean?
That their records still aren’t as memorable as their shows.
Also in stores: Marina and the Diamonds, “Electra Heart”; Mission of Burma, “Unsound”; P.O.D., “Murdered Love”; Reverend Horton Heat, “25 to Life”; Staind, “Live from Mohegan Sun”; Serj Tankian, “Harakiri”; Rhonda Vincent, “Sunday Mornin’ Singin’ Live”; and Hank Williams Jr., “Old School, New Rules.”
BOOKS
“I, Michael Bennett” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge: After an imprisoned Mexican crime lord vows revenge, detective Michael Bennett takes his 10 kids out of New York City only to encounter more violence in his upstate hometown.
Also this week, Deborah Harkness follows up her debut novel, “A Discovery of Witches,” with “Shadow of Night,” in which newlyweds Diana Bishop, scholar and witch, and Matthew de Clermont, geneticist and vampire, race to find an enchanted manuscript.
Also hitting shelves: “Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian” by Eoin Colfer; “Backfire” by Catherine Coulter; “15 Seconds” by Andrew Gross; “The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln” by Stephen L. Carter; “It’s the Middle Class, Stupid!” by James Carville and Stan Greenberg; “Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger” by Christopher Andersen; “The Prisoner of Heaven” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; and “Such a Rush” by Jennifer Echols.