July 8, 2008 - DVD and CD new releases

Hey guys, here's the first of what will become a Tuesday staple: listing the CDs and DVDs that come out today. Normally I'll post these really early in the day (they should be up by 6:00 am most weeks).

DVDS:

• "Batman: Gotham Knight" - This is a collection of six animated short films tying Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. If you remember The Animatrix it's the same idea.
• "Stop-loss" - Surprise, surprise...a movie about the war in Iraq that failed at the box office this year. But this one deserves better...it's from Kimberley Pierce, the director of Boys Don't Cry. Check it out.
• "Superhero Movie" - Yet another crappy parody movie. Every time another one of these films come out my soul dies a little inside.
• more: Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten; Flakes; Patti Smith: Under Review; The X-Files: Revelations; The Tracey Fragments; Sleepwalking; The Ruins; Fastlane: The Complete Series, Psych: The Complete Second Season, Monk: Season 6, Journey to the Center of the Earth (with Rick Schroder), Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Fourth Season; Jake and The Fatman: Season 1 Volume 1.

CDS:

• Beck: "Modern Guilt" - He may be a Scientologist, but this dude still knows how to make good music.
• Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis: "Two Men With The Blues" - A famous stoner and some other guy make blues songs. Might appeal to some of you.
• "Momma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack" - Bring on the return of ABBA!
• more: Billy Joel: "The Stranger (2CD/DVD deluxe edition)"; Gaelic Storm: "What's The Rumpus?"; Great Big Sea: "Fortune's Favour"; Yaz: "In Your Room"; Saul Williams: "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation Of Niggy Tardust"; Alison Movet: "The Turn"; Chromeo: "Fancy Footwork."