Latest DVDs, CDs, books: October 16
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
DVDs
"Moonrise Kingdom" (PG-13): In the summer of 1965, two 12-year-olds (Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward) run away into the wilderness, leaving a trail of worried adults (Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand) in their wake, in the latest from writer-director Wes Anderson.
Elsewhere, Alex (voiced by Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman (David Schwimmer) continue their journey home, this time as part of a European traveling circus, in "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" (PG). A groom's (Andy Samberg) estranged father (Adam Sandler) crashes the wedding party in the raucous, raunchy comedy "That's My Boy" (R). Trouble befalls six tourists during a visit to Pripyat, the abandoned former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, in the horror movie "Chernobyl Diaries" (R). And conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza looks into President Barack Obama's background in "2016: Obama's America" (PG).
Topping today's TV transfers: "Mad Men: Season Five," "Psych: Season Six," "Touch: The Complete First Season," "The Firm: The Complete First Season," "Alcatraz: The Complete Series" and "Gunsmoke: The Sixth Season, Volume Two."
CDs
Jamey Johnson, "Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran": One of country's present greats salutes one of its past when honky tonk throwback Jamey Johnson pays tribute to Mississippi legend Hank Cochran.
Joining Johnson is an incredible cast of fellow Cochran admirers, including Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, George Strait, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Elvis Costello, Ray Price, Ronnie Dunn, Vince Gill and Lee Ann Womack.
That's a guest list almost as impressive as Cochran's much lauded catalog.
Also in stores: Jason Aldean, "Night Train"; Trey Anastasio, "Traveler"; Anberlin, "Vital"; Brandy, "Two Eleven"; The Cult, "Weapon of Choice"; Placido Domingo, "Songs"; Donald Fagen, "Sunken Condos"; A Fine Frenzy, "Pines"; Rosie Flores, "Working Girl's Guitar"; Benjamin Gibbard, "Former Lives"; Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, "Sunday Run Me Over"; KEM, "What Christmas Means"; Jason Lytle, "Dept. of Disappearance"; My Dying Bride, "A Map of All Our Failures"; Pinback, "Information Retrieved"; Placebo, "B3 EP"; Widespread Panic, "Wood"; and Wu-Block, "Wu-Block."
BOOKS
"The Twelve" by Justin Cronin: The second book in the "Passage" trilogy focuses on three survivors of the apocalypse trying to navigate a shattered world and avoid the infected.
Also this week, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is back on the case after a paleontologist disappears while on a dig in "The Bone Bed" by Patricia Cornwell.
Also hitting shelves: "The Big Flatline: Oil and the No-Growth Economy" by Jeff Rubin; "Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors" by Peter Ackroyd; "Hidden" by P.C. Cast; "In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran" by John Taylor; "Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves" by Henry Wiencek; "The Panther" by Nelson DeMille; "People of the Black Sun" by W. Michael Gear; "Pharrell: Places and Spaces I've Been" by Pharrell Williams; "The Secret Keeper" by Kate Morton; "Sleep No More" by Iris Johansen; "Starstruck" by Lauren Conrad; and "The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury" by Robert Kirkman.
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