"Hellboy"

"The Devil's Backbone"

"Pride and Prejudice"

"The Whole Ten Yards"

"Ned Kelly"

"V - The Complete Series"

"Garfield and Friends - Vol. 1"

"Dark Shadows - Collection 13"

"The Jeff Foxworthy Show - The Complete First Season"

"Pennies from Heaven"

DVD reviews

"HELLBOY"

Grade: A-

The title character in Hellboy is a massive, red-skinned, cigar-chomping reformed spawn of Satan (played by Ron Perlman), who leads a secret organization of paranormal hunters who make the Ghostbusters look puny. Hellboy must fight off the immortal Rasputin (Karel Roden) and his undead Nazi crew from unleashing hell on earth - while simultaneously pining for his pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz (Selma Blair). Director Guillermo Del Toro (Blade II) adapts the Dark Horse Comics characters with visual panache, soulful romanticism and a sneaky wit, best embodied by Perlman's acerbic sarcasm. The two-disc DVD is a movie geek's dream: Two commentary tracks (one with the cast, the other with Del Toro and comic creator Mike Mignola), a 2 1/2 -hour making-of documentary, tons of storyboards and work product, comic-book pages and on-set footage that can be accessed as the film plays, and a quartet of Hellboy's favorite cartoons (including the UPA classics The Tell-Tale Heart and Gerald McBoing-Boing).

- Sean P. Means

"THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE" Grade: B+

Director Guillermo Del Toro used his Hellboy clout to get out a special edition DVD of his 2001 Spanish horror movie, a tight little freakout set during the Spanish Civil War. A boy (Fernando Tielve) is sent to an orphanage school, where he witnesses some strange doings with the staff - and notices the vengeful ghost of a murdered child. A solid cast - including Eduardo Noriega (Open Your Eyes) and Federico Luppi (from Del Toro's Cronos) - a tense script and Del Toro's generally spooky atmosphere make this low-budget shocker worth a look. The DVD includes a making of feature, and a thumbnail track of Del Toro's storyboards that plays during the film (though, alas, only when the English subtitles are turned off).

- Sean P. Means

PRIDE & PREJUDICE Grade: D

After "Clueless" and "Bridget Jones' Diary," do we really need another modern-day retelling of Jane Austen's classic? Certainly not this painfully unfunny one, which was filmed almost entirely in Utah County. Director Andrew Black can take modest pride in the film's bright, fizzy look and some appealing performances among his young cast of unknowns. But his movie is prejudiced by slack storytelling, ludicrous plot coincidences and one-note characters whose only aim in life seems to be to get hitched. The film unfolds in some sort of bizarre, Archie-comics reality where grad students never drink, smoke, swear or have sex and adults barely exist. The cast includes Carmen "American Idol" Rasmussen and Jared Hess, director of "Napoleon Dynamite," in a cameo as a Vegas wedding-chapel proprietor. DVD extras include the usual assortment of outtakes, commentary and "making-of" featurettes. In case you still care.

- Brandon Griggs

CD Reviews

OF RAPTURE by Gina French

Grade: B+

With Of Rapture, Gina French sheds her introspective acoustic persona for that of a growling, howling rocker. The intense, reflective lyrics that highlighted her 1997 debut, Sacred Ground, remain, but this time she has framed them with electric guitars, exotic woodwinds and a percussive back beat. The album, which took four years to complete, flows from song to song, held together by French's personality. Her core group of musicians include guitarist Bill Frost (some of his most tasteful work) and a rock-solid rhythm section of bassist Lance Lee and drummer Adam Sorensen. Of Rapture suffers only in a lack of tightness typical of bands that mostly perform live. Yet, even though the album was created in a piecemeal fashion, it remains delightfully full-blooded.

- Martin Renzhofer

"THE REBIRTH OF TRAGEDY"

by Twelve Tribes

Grade: A

Two years in the making, "The Rebirth of Tragedy" is a sonic journey that will challenge listeners with its open and unfamiliar sound. Steering melodic hardcore into another direction, Twelve Tribes' experimentation with polyrhythmic time signatures and chord structures makes for some meticulously crafted tunes. The songs are so structured that listeners can pick off melodies, riffs, beats and vocal choruses, dissecting the songs layer by layer. "Each song was viewed as a challenge for us to overcome . . . The goal was to break down barriers and incorporate music that moved us, no matter what the format," says guitarist Andy Corpus. No filler here as each song takes its own form, making for an intriguing listen on every track.

- Bryer Wharton

JOLIE HOLLAND, Thursday, Halo

Once in a great while a new artist comes along with a croon that cuts through a clattering club crowd. Jolie Holland has just such a voice. The Texas-based Holland, a founding member of the all-female bluegrass outfit the Be Good Tanyas, delivered a short, quirky set at Halo on Thursday - backed by guitarist Brian Miller providing jazzy licks, along with drummer Dave Mihaly - as an attentive audience curled up on the floor at her feet while she volleyed between acoustic guitar and fiddle. The set-opening "Sascha," from her new "Escondida" album, was the perfect appetizer for an hour that included "Goodbye California," "Do You?" and "The Littlest Birds" among its highlights. After an hour, without warning or thanks, the show was over. The abrupt ending made for a weird vibe among the audience, but judging by the line of people buying copies of her CDs, Holland made a good impression musically on her first visit to Zion.

- Dan Nailen

Live Shows

CASSANDRA WILSON,

Friday, Red Butte Garden

Other artists made famous the tunes Cassandra Wilson played Friday at Red Butte Garden, but in this live show she made them undeniably her own. The jazz stylist transformed Patsy Cline's "Crazy," Bob Dylan's "Lay, Lady, Lay" and Sting's "Fragile

her signature looping rhythms and molasses-rich vocals. After the sun slipped dreamily into the cool backdrop of evening, she closed with Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey," singing "sweet as honey from the bee." Mm-hmm.

- Judy Fahys

SONIC YOUTH, Sunday, In The Venue

Whenever it takes the stage, New York City's post-punk legend Sonic Youth shows that the phrase "jam-band" doesn't necessarily have a negative connotation. Between the quintet's sprawling guitar workouts and sonic experimentation, "jamming" is a word that fits, as is "epic." From the languid opening "I Love You Golden Blue," the set was dominated by songs from the band's new "Sonic Nurse" album, each one spiraling into multilayered bliss as guitarists Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Jim O'Rourke blended guitar lines through songs such as "Pattern Recognition," "Unmade Bed" and "New Hampshire." With Steve Shelley bashing out intricate drum parts, and guitarist/bassist Kim Gordan providing a visual centerpiece with her trademark hyperkinetic bouncing at mid-stage, the band spread 15 songs across nearly two hours. Two tracks came from 1987's "Sister" album - "Schizophrenia" and "PCH" - but the rest were from "Sonic Nurse" and 2002's "Murray Street," save for a raucous, show-closing cover of "I Wanna Be Your Dog."

- Dan Nailen

Top 10 Albums

Compiled from a national sample of sales reports collected, compiled and provided by SoundScan.

1.''License to Chill,'' Jimmy Buffett2.''Confessions,'' Usher3.''The Hunger for More,'' Lloyd Banks4.''The Tipping Point,'' The Roots5.''Here for the Party,'' Gretchen Wilson6.''Under My Skin,'' Avril Lavigne7.''Horse of a Different Color,"

Big & Rich8.''Musicology,'' Prince9.''A Cinderella Story,'' soundtrack10.''Los Lonely Boys,'' Los Lonely Boys

Top 10 Songs

Compiled from radio play lists; monitored radio by Broadcast Data Systems; and a national sample of sales, compiled by SoundScan.

1.''Confessions Park II,'' Usher2.''Slow Motion'' Juvenile (featuring Souja Slim)3.''Burn,'' Usher4.''Lean Back'' Terror Squad5.''If I Ain't Got You,'' Alicia Keys6.''Move Ya Body,'' Nina Sky (featuring Sasha)7.''The Reason,'' Hoobastank8.''Turn Me On'' Kevin Lyttle (featuring Spragga Benz)9.''On Fire'' Lloyd Banks10.''Dip It Low'' Christina Milian

Top CD releases:

Badly Drawn Boy, "One Plus

One Is One"

Tony Furtado, "These Chains"

Moses Guest, "Guest Motel"

Kittie, "Until the End"

KMFDM, "WWWIII Tour 2003"

k.d. lang, "Hymns from the

49th Parallel"

Laura Love, "You Ain't Got No

Easter Clothes"

Herbie Mann and Phil Woods,

"Beyond Brooklyn"

Maria McKee, "Live in Hamburg"

Joni Mitchell, "The Beginning

of Survival"

Mystikal, "Prince of the South"

Old 97's, "Drag it Up"

Otep, "House of Secrets"

Doc Powell, "Cool Like That"

Rilo Kiley, "More Adventurous"

Sahara Hotnights, "Kiss & Tell"

Silkk tha Shocker, "Based on a

True Story"

Tommy Stinson, " Village Gorilla Head"

Taking Back Sunday, "Where You

Want to Be"

Various Artists, "Now That's What I

Call Music, Vol. 16"

Stevie Wonder, "A Time 2 Love"

Television's Top 10

A.C. Nielsen Ratings for the week of July 12-18:

1.''MLB All-Star Game"Fox2.''CSI"CBS3.''CSI: Miami"CBS4.''Without a Trace''CBS5.''Cold Case''CBS6.''60 Minutes''-SundayCBS7."MLB All-Star Pregame''Fox8."60 Minutes''-Wed.CBS9.''Law & Order''NBC10."Two And a Half Men''CBS

Weekend's Top Movies

No.Name of MovieEarns*

1.''The Bourne Supremacy"$ 52.52.''I, Robot"$ 21.73.''Catwoman"$ 16.74.''Spider-Man 2"$ 155.''A Cinderella Story"$ 7.86.''Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy"$ 6.97.''Fahrenheit 9/11"$ 4.78.''The Notebook"$ 4.29.''King Arthur"$ 310.''Shrek 2"$ 2.3

* Estimated earnings in millions.