Special Forces (Blu-ray Details)
Amidst the savage battlegrounds, Afghanistan war correspondent Elsa Casanova (Diane Kruger, Unknown) is willing to risk everything to get her story, even her life.
Taken hostage by the feared Taliban she faces imminent execution. As the news reaches government officials an elite commando force is despatched. But when all their radio equipment is destroyed during conflict, Elsa and her rescuers...
Elite Squad (Blu-ray Details)
Winner of the 2008 Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Elite Squad presents an astonishing and intimate look at Rio De Janeiro's vast and intricate web of police corruption.
Outside The Law (DVD Details)
Director Rachid Bouchareb (Days of Glory) brings another Oscar®-nominated film, Outside The Law, a thrilling post-World War II story of three brothers who become separated after losing their family home in Algeria.
Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the...
The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adele Blanc-Sec (Blu-ray Details)
Legendary director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Leon) transports us to the wild days of early Twentieth Century Paris, where feisty young writer Adele Blanc-Sec embarks on thrilling missions to find exciting material for her book and a cure for her sick sister. She sails to Egypt to raid a tomb that supposedly hides the cure, but what will she do when an army of resurrected mummies get in the...
Don't Look Now (Blu-ray Details)
Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie give career-best performances as John and Laura Baxter, an art restorer and his wife struggling to recover from the trauma of their daughter’s accidental drowning. To assuage their grief, the young British couple travel to wintry Venice, on a working holiday to restore a church. Once there, they get involved with two otherworldly sisters, Heather and Wendy (Hila...
I Saw The Devil (Blu-ray Details)
Kyung-Chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure, his victims ranging from young women to children. The police have chased him for a long time, but have been unsuccessful. One day Joo-Yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Dae-Hoon, a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He will do everything...
Laputa: Castle In The Sky - Double Play: The Studio Ghibli Collection (Blu-ray Details)
The beauty of Studio Ghibli can now be enjoyed on both the original DVD and Blu-ray with this all new Blu-ray Double Play edition!
Available for the first time in high definition on Blu-ray Double Play courtesy of Studio Ghibli and master animator Hayao Miyazaki Laputa: Castle In the Sky is an imaginative tale full of mystery and adventure. The high-flying journey begins when Pazu, an engineer's...
The Doors (Blu-ray Details)
2011 is the 40th Anniversary of the death of legendary Doors front man Jim Morrison. With their legend intact and music as popular as ever, Oliver Stone’s biopic has been restored and is released here for the first time on blu-ray. Val Kilmer was born to play Jim Morrison, and is supported by a cast that includes Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Billy Idol and Michael Madsen. Featuring music from The...
The Door (DVD Details)
A festival acclaimed fantasy thriller starring Mads Mikkelsen, and an intriguing immersion in parallel worlds. David, a formerly successful painter, distressed by his daughter’s death and his divorce from his wife, finds a mysterious door that allows him to take up his life at the point where it began to go awry. However what initially seems like a wonderful chance for a new beginning soon turns...
My Neighbours The Yamadas - Double Play: The Studio Ghibli Collection (Blu-ray Details)
Available for the first time in high definition on Blu-ray Double Play courtesy of Studio Ghibli, My Neighbours The Yamadas invites you to join the adventures of the quirky Yamada family brilliantly presented in an unique, visually striking comic-strip style.
Takashi Yamada and his wacky wife Matsuko, who has no talent for housework, navigate their way through the ups and downs of work,...
Rubber (Blu-ray Details)
RUBBER is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert, and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses terrifying telepathic powers that give him the ability to destroy anything he wishes without having to move. At first content to prey on small desert creatures and various discarded objects, his...
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Blu-ray Details)
Crash landing on Earth from his dying planet, an alien humanoid traveling by the name of Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) uses his superior intelligence to build a vast business empire. As he takes on, and beats, every major US corporation, people can only guess his true purpose – to save his dying world from drought.
And Soon The Darkness (Blu-ray Details)
Bored during a group cycling holiday in Argentina, best friends Stephanie (Heard) and Ellie (Yustman) decide to head off on their own for the final days of the trip hoping to find a bit more fun before having to head back home to the US. They wind up in a pretty rural village and spend the evening getting drunk in a bar, where Ellie picks up a handsome local while Stephanie heads back to their...
Bedevilled (Blu-ray Details)
A film with excruciating suspense leading to a gore leaden whirlwind of violence starts with Hae-won (Ji Sung-won), a middle management woman who with the increasing pressures of work and home situation decides to take a break from it all and return to the pleasant, remote island that she spent happy summers with her grandparents. Arriving she finds her childhood friend Bok-nam (Yeong-Hie So)....
Game of Death (DVD Details)
Action hero Wesley Snipes (Blade, Demolition Man) is back on top form in this dynamite-powered action spectacular, an accelerated blast of full-throttle violence, heart-pounding thrills and death-defying action sequences.
Also starring unstoppable kickboxing champion Gary Daniels (The Expendables) and stunt legend Zoe Bell (Death Proof, Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2).
Deadfall (DVD Details)
Michael Caine stars as cat burglar and professional conman Henry Clarke is this glossy heist thriller. During a stay at a sanitarium for recovering alcoholics, Clarke is approached by a mysterious woman, Fe, who has a business proposition for him; her husband, Richard, plans the most ingenious of robberies. With Clarke’s ability as a thief, they have a winning combination.
The trio head to...
The Long, Hot Summer (DVD Details)
Directed by Martin Ritt, THE LONG HOT SUMMER is based on three William Faulkner stories, and marks the first on-screen teaming of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Featuring an all-star cast including Newman, Woodward, Orson Welles and Lee Remick, this smoldering story from the Deep South is filled with sexual tension, bawdy humor and powerfully clashing personalities. When suspected barn-burner...
Splice: Double Play (Blu-ray Details)
Splice is the story of two brilliant young scientists who have engineered a brand new species within the confines of their laboratory. Rebel superstars of the scientific world, the pair revel in their success as the new creature continues to gain them attention and notoriety. However, unbeknown to their peers, the scientists introduced human DNA into the experiment and the creature they have...
Deadly Crossing (DVD Details)
When an influx of violent and ruthless heroin dealers descend on Seattle, Elijah Kane (Steven Seagal) leads an elite undercover squad of cops to bring them to justice.
Tearing up the rulebook, Kane and his crack team of law enforcers storm the city streets to clean out the drug barons by any brutal means necessary.
Splice (DVD Details)
Splice is the story of two brilliant young scientists who have engineered a brand new species within the confines of their laboratory. Rebel superstars of the scientific world, the pair revel in their success as the new creature continues to gain them attention and notoriety. However, unbeknown to their peers, the scientists introduced human DNA into the experiment and the creature they have...
Whisper Of The Heart (DVD Details)
Shizuku is spending her last summer vacation in junior high school, reading and translating lyrics of popular foreign music into Japanese, daydreaming of becoming a writer. Lately she finds that all the books she chooses in the library have been previously checked out by the same boy, Seiji Amasawa - Shizuku wonders what kind of guy he is... Could it be that the obnoxious boy she stumbles into...
The Concert (DVD Details)
Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov (Aleksei Guskov) was the celebrated conductor of the renowned Bolshoi Orchestra. But during the communist era, he was fired at the height of his fame for refusing to get rid of all his Jewish musicians, which included his best friend Sasha.
Now demoted to the position of cleaner at the Bolshoi, he learns by chance that the Chatelet Theatre in Paris...
The Secret of Kells (Blu-ray Details)
Adventure, action and danger await young Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent God to find a crystal and complete the legendary Irish Book of Kells. From the producers of Kirikou and Triplets of Belleville, a new animated masterpiece.
In the 9th Century, in a remote part of Ireland, lies the fortified Kells Abbey, where 12 years old Brendan lives quietly. He is hard at work with the...
Born To Raise Hell (Blu-ray Details)
A hard core Interpol Agent is assigned to an Eastern European task force to target gun trafficking and dope running throughout the Balkans. While investigating a Russian gun dealer, his team is caught in a bloody street war between a Gypsy gang and the Russians, leaving one task force member dead.
Fueled with vengeance, he leads us on an action packed thrill ride while avenging his friend's...
The Loved Ones (DVD Details)
After a freak car accident, high school student Brent Mitchell (Xavier Samuel, Twilight: Eclipse)’s flame goes out. He was behind the wheel when a random figure ran into the road and there was nowhere to turn. The car ended up around a tree and his father ended up dead. His home, now reduced to just him and his mother, is a muted shell filled with grief and silent despair. The only bright point of...
The Losers (DVD Details)
In a tale of double-cross and revenge, a team of Special Forces operatives find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from teh inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max, a ruthless man hell bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war.
The Special Relationship (DVD Details)
Michael Sheen again reprises his role as Tony Blair in the third film in writer Peter Morgan’s informal ‘Blair trilogy’ following The Deal and the Academy Award winning The Queen. The Special Relationship is a dramatic and compelling look at Tony Blair and Bill Clinton’s overlapping years in office, their burgeoning political and personal friendship, and it’s eventual unravelling in bitterness and...
Breathless: StudioCanal Collection (Blu-ray Details)
A small time crook, Michel Poiccard, chased by the police after stealing a car, shoots one of them and flees. Back in Paris he finds an American girlfriend and succeeds in seducing her. He convinces her to go to Italy with him. But the police have discovered the murderer’s identity and are on his trail…
The Pianist: StudioCanal Collection (Blu-ray Details)
Based on a true story, THE PIANIST tells the story of brilliant Polish pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman (ACADEMY AWARD ® WINNER, Adrien Brody), a Jew, who escapes deportation. Forced to live in the heart of the Warsaw ghetto, he shares the humiliation and the struggles of the occupation whilst hiding in hiding in the ruins of the capital. A German officer comes to his aid and helps him to survive ...
Le cercle rouge: StudioCanal Collection (Blu-ray Details)
A perfect combination of the Hollywood heist film and Melville’s trademark existentialism, LE CERCLE ROUGE is a masterful study of the French Underworld and a uniquely stylish Gallic film noir, starring Alain Delon as an aristocratic master-thief who joins forces with a fugitive and alcoholic ex-cop in order to carry out the ultimate robbery, with each of the mismatched trio determined to cheat...
Anime Review Roundup
You Can (Not) Advance For Another Three Weeks
I forgot to mention this last week, but Manga Entertainment have delayed the release of the second Evangelion movie Evangelion 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance until June 20th 2011. A three-week delay is a...
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Anime Review Roundup
Anime on Demand's Next Simulcast Is…
C. That's a pretty unassuming title for an anime, especially given some of the extravagant and lengthy titles that some shows get, but C is a rarity for the UK streaming market. It's a noitaminA show, that late...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Anime Review Roundup
Even after all this time, the idea of an arcade beat-'em-up adapted to the screen leaves me with a shiver of dread. After all, I paid money to see Mortal Kombat: Annihilation in the cinema. But you don't always need deep characterisation, you don't...
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Series 5 of classic TV show The Avengers out to buy now on DVD
THE AVENGERS:
THE COMPLETE SERIES 5
Out to own on DVD – 25th October 2010
It’s time to celebrate 50 years of a show that defined 1960s television as The Avengers: The Complete Series 5 is high-kicking onto DVD from 25th October 2010, courtesy...
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Guillermo Del Toro Triple Blu-ray Box Set arrives October
GUILLERMO DEL TORO
BLU-RAY TRIPLE BOXSET
Prepare to be astounded with the upcoming Blu-ray release of Guillermo Del Toro’s ultimate collection on the 25th October 2010 courtesy of Optimum Home Entertainment
“Cronos, a unique, terrifying mini-ma...
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Manga classic Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind arrives on Blu-ray in October
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
OUT ON BLU-RAY FROM 18th OCTOBER 2010
From Academy Award- Winning Director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli comes the marvellous manga masterpiece Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind available on Blu-ray Disc for...
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Ong Bak III hits DVD and Blu-ray in October
ONG BAK III
Tony Jaa is back with a vengeance!
Out to own on DVD / Blu-ray & EST – 11th October 2010
Martial arts superstar Tony Jaa returns with the third instalment of the acclaimed action series, Ong Bak III, available on DVD, Blu-ray...
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Comic strip action flick The Losers is out on DVD and Blu-ray in October
THE LOSERS
Out to own on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital Download – 11th October 2010
Set your target on THE LOSERS which blasts onto DVD and Blu-ray from 11th October 2010 courtesy of Optimum Home Entertainment. THE LOSERS is the ultimate action-come...
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Anime Review Roundup
The Winners of the Ponyo Competition Are…
The competition closed this weekend, and already we have the results. Congratulations, and copies of Ponyo are due to…
Heather Shaw, James Moore and Claire Grigg.
Stay tuned for more competitions in the...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Anime Review Roundup
Bleach Comes To Crunchyroll
When I posted that Bleach review last Monday, I made note that Crunchyroll had started an Internet petition to get the Japanese licensors to allow Bleach to be streamed to the world, the same way that Crunchyroll...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Jeong-won Shin directed Chaw out in DVD this March
WILD BOAR, WILD GORE:
CHAW
Directed by Jeong-won Shin
Starring Tae-woong Eom, Yoon Jae-Moon
& Josiah D. Lee
Out To Own On DVD / EST March 1st 2010
UK PREMIERE
Blackly funny and equally terrifying, Chaw follows in the...
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Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God out in January on DVD and Blu-ray
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: WRATH OF THE DRAGON GOD
Out to own on DVD, Blu-ray and EST – 11th January 2010
Based on the ever-popular series of role-playing games, Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God arrives on DVD, Blu-ray and EST...
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This Is Spinal Tap: Up to 11 - 25th Anniversary Edition
1982 and the world’s loudest rock band, Spinal Tap, are about to embark on their biggest world tour to date. Along for the ride is film-maker and fan Marti DiBergi (Rob Reiner), there to make a behind-the-scenes tribute to his favourite heavy metal...
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Anime Review Roundup
It’s been a slow news week when it comes to anime in the UK, at least I’ve found little to be inspired, or concerned by. I had a moment at the weekend when I learned that Bandai Entertainment had put some episodes up on its Youtube channel, offering...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Optimum March Releases
INCENDIARY
“powerhouse performance from Michelle Williams”
SUNDAY EXPRESS
Starring Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, Matthew Macfadyen
Directed by Sharon Maguire
Based on the novel by Chris Cleave
This tense, explosive thriller is...
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Elite Squad (Review) (Blu-ray)
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Outside The Law (Review) (DVD)
Introduction
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Review for Don't Look Now (Review) (Blu-ray)
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Don't Look Now (Review) (Blu-ray)
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This Is Spinal Tap: Up to 11 - 25th Anniversary Edition
This could very well be my first triple dip from VHS to DVD to BD...
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