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In theaters this Friday:

• Wanted—R—James McAvoy plays Wesley, a 25-year old slacker who hates his life. He's got a boss who torments him, a girlfriend who cheats on him and he downs panic attack pills like candy. But his life changes when he meets Fox (Angelina Jolie), an assassin who works for the Fraternitya, a centuries old league of supersensory assassins trained to carry out the unbreakable orders of fate. It seems Wesley's father was killed while working for the group. Fox and her crew train Wesley to follow in his father's footsteps and become an assassin himself. At first Wesley relishes the power but then he realizes that his new associates' intentions may not be as noble as first presented.

• WALL·E—G—After hundreds of years of doing what he was built for – cleaning up an earth abandoned by humans – WALL·E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) finds a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE realizes that WALL·E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future and she races back to space to report back to the humans who have been eagerly awaiting word on whether it is safe to return home. But WALL·E has been so lonely for so long that he ends up chasing EVE across the galaxy.

 

New DVD releases:

• 10,000 B.C. —A young hunter in a remote mountain tribe falls in love with a beautiful girl. But then a band of mysterious warlords raid their village and kidnap the girl. So the hunter leads a small group to track down the warlords and save the girl. As they venture out into unknown lands, they encounter other civilizations they never knew existed and realize just how far mankind's reach extends.

• Charlie Bartlett—Charlie Bartlett has been kicked out of every private school there is, so he ends up in public school trying to find his place there. He ends up serving as psychologist and pharmacist to his high school's student body, dispensing advice and psychiatric drugs like Ritalin and Prozac. And even though he starts selling the drugs to be popular, he soon realizes he can help these kids by just talking to them about their problems.

• Definitely, Maybe—Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) is a 30-something dad in Manhattan in the middle of a divorce. When his ten year old daughter Maya (Abigail Breslin) starts to question him about his life before he was married, Will tells her the story of his life as a young man in the big city and recounts his romantic relationships with three very different women. But he changes the names in his story so Maya has to guess who he finally married. As Maya pieces things together from her father's story, she begins to understand that love is not simple or easy.

• The Spiderwick Chronicles—Based on the best-selling series of books. Peculiar things start to happen to the Grace family after they leave New York and move into the secluded old house owned by their great, great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. The family blames the strange disappearances and accidents on young Jared but when he, his twin brother Simon and his sister Mallory start to investigate, they discover the fantastic truth about the Spiderwick estate and the creatures that inhabit it.

• In Bruges—Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson play two hit men whose London mob boss orders them to go cool their heels after a difficult “job.” So they go to the storybook Flemish city of Bruges. Out of place in the medieval city, the two hit men spend their days playing tourist. One of them loves the place and one of them hates it and the longer they are there the more bizarre their encounters with the other people there become.

• And don't miss all of your favorite TV shows released on DVD this week:

     Season 1: Early Edition

 

New CD releases:

• Last Days at the Lodge – Amos Lee

• Still Crooked – Crooked Still

• Back to Bacharach – Steve Tyrell

• Tales from the Beach – Incognito

• I, Flathead – Ry Cooder

• Superhero Brother – G. Love & Special Sauce

• The Black Parade Is Dead – My Chemical Romance

• The Best So Far – D'Angelo

• WALL·E soundtrack – Thomas Newman

 

New Book releases:

• Tailspin by Catherine Coulter— Married FBI Special Agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock take an early call at their San Francisco home. Their boss, Jimmy Maitland, received a Mayday call from Special Agent Jackson Crowne and he's sending them to find him. The plane Crowne was flying over the Appalachians went down with Dr. Timothy MacLean on board. Crowne was flying the renowned psychiatrist to Washington D.C. for his protection, and to find out who wanted him dead. The Special Agent safely lands the plane and pulls MacLean from the wreckage before it explodes. When Savich and Sherlock arrive on the scene, they find Crowne with a young woman named Abby – who's on the run following her father's mysterious death – and MacLean in a coma in a hospital bed. They learn MacLean has frontal lobe dementia, making his ability to maintain doctor-patient confidentiality very questionable. Now it's up to the trio of special agents to find out who is willing to kill to keep their secrets hidden.

• The Last Oracle by James Rollins — In this fifth Sigma Force adventure, group leader Cmdr. Gray Pierce encounters a homeless man on Washington D.C.'s Mall near the group's secret lair, far beneath the Smithsonian Castle. The homeless man passes Pierce a strange coin before collapsing in his arms and dying. Turns out the homeless man was really an MIT professor and the coin in question kicks off a wild adventure that includes Gypsies, autistic savant children, Russians bent on releasing enough radioactivity to poison the world, rogue American agencies and the Oracle of Delphi.

• My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates — Ten years ago 19-year-old Skyler Rampike's world was ripped apart by the murder of his 6-year-old figure skating champion sister, Bliss, and the resulting media scrutiny of the family. As Skyler explores his past, he tries to find answers for the unsolved murder, and also takes a good look at his own lost childhood. The satirical novel examines the lives of upper-middle-class America, and the intersection of private lives and tabloid “celebrity.”

 

 

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• Bobbi Brown Quick Face Collection

• Zakkerz

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