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In the second week of October, the entertainment folks have apparently come back from peeping the leaves, and are refreshed with a veritable grab bag of options. Lil Wayne wants to remind you he’s human (or actually that he’s not) with a new album recorded just before ducking into jail. Meanwhile, both the Dalai Lama and Russell Brand come out with their latest outlining of their philosophical outlooks. There’s even the latest from the writer of The Reader. So, without further ado:
Clint Eastwood’s come a long way from those minimalist “Man Without A Name” days. Now a full time director inching into his octogenarian years, Eastwood thrives in exhilarating landscape films — however, never at the expense of the plot. 
If 
Brooklyn author Myla Goldberg does not shy away from changing up her game — her debut Bee Season was set in the world of competitive spelling while her underrated sophomore tome Wickett’s Remedy cast love and loss against the backdrop of the 1918 influenza outbreak. Her latest, 
What’s most wonderful about Cesar Millan — well, aside from his oodles of unassuming charm — may be the sincere affection he clearly has for all the pets whose lives he enters. 
While Anna Boden may not be a household name, she has quietly created two of the great small sad-protagonist films of the past five years — Half Nelson and Sugar. While 
To many, the month of October is inexorably linked to baseball as the pennant races give way to the playoffs and ultimately the World Series. Hence, the release to DVD of 
As the World Series comes to a close, the basketball season starts its long march to the NBA Finals. If you want a preview of how Miami’s triple threat of LeBron & Friends fares against the Celtics (now infused with two more O’Neals) or the defending champion Lakers — or just want to play some hoops without leaving your feet, video basketball’s gold standard game is out with its latest version 
Humorist David Sedaris is the undisputed champion of putting this neurotic dysfunctional world onto paper in essay form, but how is he with sweet metaphorical fiction about the animal kingdom? With 
Alex Ross dived into pop music well into adulthood and in excitement wrote a well-received 2004 essay in the New Yorker. This year he expands his musings into the full length 
With a movie directed by David Fincher, penned by Aaron Sorkin, featuring music by Trent Reznor, based on one of the juiciest recent true stories (and involving the greatest interwebs phenomenon of the last decade), could there be any other choice for movie of the week? 
One of the best neurotic musical storytellers from the USA meets his UK literary match, and, it’s even better than it has any right to be. 
While I’m still a tad saddened the show was plucked from streaming before I got a chance to savor as much as I’d've liked (grrrr), it wouldn’t be fair to take said frustration out on 
It’s the godfather of role-playing games; like Harry Potter or crack, its fans get absorbed into its fold not to emerge until absolutely finished, and, even if only online now, it’s always a moment when Final Fantasy unveils its latest version — and 
David Grossman has earned his reputation as one of Israel’s foremost authors. With the epic tale of a wandering, searching mother, 
Is Jimmy Carter “History’s Greatest Monster,” as a random crowd member called him on The Simpsons, or is he a man who, with a noble heart, struggled through hard times, to little electoral reward. Fortunately, the soft-spoken Georgian and 39th POTUS recorded his thoughts to journal — now released as 
It’s relatively shocking there hasn’t been a major film about Beat-era poet Allen Ginsberg before now, yet there hasn’t, and into that void steps director Rob Epstein with 
While the fruit doesn’t fall too too far from the tree on 
It’s certainly no secret anymore that ABC’s 
As someone who once lost more than a day to SimCity (and i’m talking the full 24 hours, friend), I know to personally avoid games like 
While being mentioned as a likely for the Nobel Prize for Literature is practically an annual event for Lockport, New York, born writer Joyce Carol Oates, she makes her case yet again with 
He created mystical worlds filled with fantastic foxes and magical candy men — his stories were enrapturing, enthralling, and had the power to fill his young readers with both wonder and a severe case of the creeps. His persona was no less mythical and rife with contradictions like his wartime heroism and often embarrassing anti-semitism. 
While I know it might, by 2010, be a lousy wager to get excited about anything M. Night Shyamalan touches any part of (fool me 11 times, and what exactly happens again?). However, the auteur (perhaps wisely) handed off 
Nearly two decades after they came together, NYC trio Blonde Redhead continue to mold hypnotic creations from somewhere in a secret dimension beyond indie rock and punk. Record number eight, 
It’s hard to invest in science-fiction dramas, while some live to see that final leap home, others get canceled before we ever find out just what was the deal with those forward flashes anyway. While 
Ever since it was unleashed upon the rabid gamers at the Electronic Entertainment Expo of ‘09, 
Jonathan Dee, in Harper’s Magazine, calls Tom McCarthy’s 
James Ellroy has become a legend with hard-boiled stories like L.A. Confidential, featuring detectives, drinks, double-crosses, dames, and all the mayhem that ensues from words which start with d. In 
By all logic, Nicholas Fackler’s tale of dating with Alzheimer’s Disease, 
With their crisp pop hooks and a prominent piano, its no surprise Jukebox the Ghost have opened for Ben Folds. There’s nothing too complex in the Washington DC trio’s latest, 
Maynard James Keenan must have stashed a million extra hours into his life. In addition to fronting Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, and others, the imposing artist has become one of the country’s up-and-coming wine experts and producers. Blood Into Wine sweetly chronicles the singer’s obsession with guest spots by Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk, and others. For fans of wine, Tool, and Anthony Bourdain.
While Madden may have made football the common choice for mixing sports and video games, hockey, with its graceful skating, simple goal, and penchant to morph into Mortal Kombat, might just be the most fun game to play on a console. 
