New Releases At Movie Mix Saturday 5th July 2008!

We will be closed from 4pm on Sunday 29th June - Friday 4th July for a much needed refit. Join us on Saturday 5th July from 10am for the Grand Opening (details above).

As well as the champagne, strawberries and balloons, enjoy this week's new releases: There Will Be Blood, Funny Games, September Dawn, Frontiers, Reservation Road and The Bucket List.

Academy Award-winning drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) is a down-and-out silver miner who transforms himself into a rich oil tycoon. When he learns of a small oil-rich town in California, he moves there with his adopted son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier). Using his son to project the image of a caring family man, Plainview gains the co-operation of almost all the locals in the town, with promises to build schools and cultivate the land to make their community flourish. However, over time, Plainview's gradual accumulation of wealth and power causes his true self to surface, and he begins to slowly alienate himself from everyone in his life, including his son.

3 copies in store Saturday 5th July 2008!

In this remake of his 1997 film 'Funny Games', director Michael Haneke delivers a savage critique on the way violence is portrayed in the media. Arriving at their remote holiday cabin in the Hamptons for a quiet vacation, George (Tim Roth), his wife Ann (Naomi Watts), and their young son Georgie (Devon Gearheart), find themselves subjected to a harrowing ordeal involving mental and physical torture, when two young, psychotic killers come calling.

1 copy in store Saturday 5th July 2008!

On September 11, 1857 in an unspoiled valley of the Utah Territory 120 men, women and children were savagely murdered.Who ordered the massacre, and why, has been hidden in a cloak of secrecy and conspiracy. And the reputation of one of the nation's mightiest religious figures has been preserved and protected.Until now...Based on actual historical events, September Dawn is a feature length drama that depicts the tragic encounter between a party of innocent settlers and a fanatic Mormon militia. The religious terrorism depicted in the film happened 150 years ago and resonates in many ways with acts of mindless violence occurring across the world today.

1 copy in store Saturday 5th July 2008!

Graphically violent gorefest from 'Hitman' director Xavier Gens. With the 2002 riots raging in Paris, a group of young, small-time crooks use the distraction to pull off a heist. With the cops on their trail, four members of the gang hole up in a remote motel. Unfortunately for the robbers, the motel is run by a family of neo-Nazi cannibals headed by uniformed patriarch Le Von Geisler (Jean-Pierre Jorris). Gang member Yasmine (Karina Testa) is pregnant and the people-munching Geislers see her unborn baby as a fantastic opportunity to reverse the effects of decades of inbreeding...

1 copy in store Saturday 5th July 2008!

Emotional drama starring Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo as two fathers whose lives are changed forever by a terrible accident. Law associate Dwight Arno (Ruffalo) and his son Lucas (Eddie Alderson) are driving back to Lucas' mother's (Mira Sorvino) house after attending a baseball game. When Dwight swerves to avoid an oncoming car he hits 10-year-old Josh Learner (Sean Curley), killing him instantly. Panicked, Dwight speeds off. The only witness to the hit and run is Josh's father Ethan (Phoenix). The police are called in, and an investigation begins. Haunted by the tragedy, both fathers react in unexpected ways, as do Ethan's wife Grace (Jennifer Connelly) and his daughter Emma (Elle Fanning). As the investigation falters, Ethan loses patience with the police and begins his own search for truth and justice...

1 copy in store Saturday 5th July 2008!

Adventure comedy starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. Billionaire Edward Cole (Nicholson) and working class mechanic Carter Chambers (Freeman) are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do before they 'kick the bucket' and an unrealised need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest.




1 copy in store Saturday 5th July 2008!

New Releases At Movie Mix 26th June 2008!

There's something for everyone this week... thriller, horror, comedy, kids, drama - it's all here! Check out the trailers to help you choose.

Don't forget we will be closed from Monday 30th June - Friday 4th July for a major refit! Drop in on Saturday 5th July for the grand opening of your brand new store, offering you a whole lot more!

Thriller based on the true story of a 1971 London bank robbery that baffled the authorities and captivated the public. Jason Statham stars as Terry Leather, a former crooked car salesman who wants to put his shady past behind him and start a family. But when Terry's old neighbour, Martine Love (Saffron Burrows), proposes a foolproof plan to rob a Baker Street bank, Terry reluctantly agrees to come on board. As the operation gets underway, the resourceful group of thieves tunnel their way into a safe-deposit vault at the Lloyds Bank in Marylebone where they discover millions of pounds worth of cash and priceless gems. However, Terry and his crew don't realise the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal that spans London's criminal underworld, the British government, and even the Royal Family.

2 copies in store Thursday 26th June!

Zombie horror movie directed by George A. Romero. Film student Jason (Joshua Close) and his crew are shooting a mummy movie in the Pennsylvania woods when news reports begin pouring in about the dead rising from their graves. Cast member Ridley (Phillip Riccio) reacts to the news by abandoning the group and retreating to his family's fortified mansion halfway across the state, while the remaining cast and crew are forced to fight for their lives despite having no weapons and only an old Winnebago in which to seek shelter. The group soon realise that there is no escape from the plague of the living dead.

1 copy in store Thursday 26th June!

Big budget Hollywood adaptation of the historical novel by Philippa Gregory. The story is a fictionalised account of the life of Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson) who was mistress to King Henry VIII (Eric Bana) before he married her sister, Anne (Natalie Portman). Set during one of the most dramatic periods in British regal history, the narrative focuses on the relationship and rivalry between the two Boleyn girls and the power game being played by their family in which the sisters are mere pawns. When Mary is ousted in favour of Anne, she leaves the King's Court to marry a commoner, but is compelled to return when her sister embarks on a reckless plan to try and save herself from ruin.

1 copy in store Thursday 26th June!

A young boy is left with a growing problem when he finds a mysterious egg on the shores of Loch Ness, in this big screen adaptation of Dick King-Smith's children's favourite. One day, while beachcombing beside his home on Loch Ness, Angus MacMorrow (Alex Etel) finds an egg that he's never seen before. After taking it home, the egg hatches, and Angus is amazed to find he is the proud owner of a 'Water-Horse', the loch's most famous, fabled inhabitant, which Angus decides to christen 'Crusoe'. But with his new friend growing ten times its own size every day, and some not too friendly locals to contend with, Angus soon has his hands full trying to keep Crusoe under wraps.

1 copy in store Thursday 26th June!

Feelgood comedy-of-errors starring Jack Black as a man who accidentally erases all the videos in his friend's store, then has to re-make them to keep the business going. Junkyard worker Jerry (Black) thinks the power plant directly opposite is threatening his health. Taking matters into his own hands, he opts for a pre-emptive strike, but in the process manages to magnetise his brain. Turning up at 'Be Kind Rewind', the video store where his friend Mike (Mos Def) works, Jerry's electro-brain succeeds in erasing all the tapes in the store. Desperate to keep the business from going under, Mike and Jerry hit on a plan to remake every film in the store in their own inimitable way. Unfortunately for them, their scheme is soon scuppered when news of their plan escapes, prompting legal threats of copyright infringement, and the closure of the store. But just when all seems lost, the friends' belief in human nature is finally restored in the most unexpected way.

1 copy in store Thursday 26th June!