Welcome back to our weekly blog! Eight new releases to tell you about this week, including: Simon Pegg in "How To Lose Friends And Alienate People", Kiera Knightly as "The Duchess", and Al Pacino in "88 Minutes". Make sure you watch the trailers to help you decide what to watch.
How To Lose Friends And Alienate People Stars Simon Pegg as Sidney Young, a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him.
2 copies in store Friday 13th March!
In The Duchess Keira Knightley will play the 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. An ancestor of Princess Diana, she lived an extravagant, profligate and promiscuous life of political and romantic intrigue, becoming an important powerbroker amid Britain's ruling elite but also running up catastrophic gambling debts. She was alternately feted and reviled, and widely caricatured by the popular press.
1 copy in store Friday 13th March!
He has 88 minutes to solve a murder... His own!
Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Gramm - a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, who include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row, before his time runs out.
2 copies in store Friday 13th March 2009!
A remake of George Cukor's classic 1939 film, The Women is based upon Clare Boothe Luce's play centred around the trials and tribulations of four female friends.
Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) is a clothing designer who seems to have it all - a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable 11-year-old daughter and a part-time career creating designs for her father's venerable clothing company. Her best friend, Sylvie Fowler (Annette Bening), leads another enviable life - a happily single editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a possessor of a huge closet of designer clothes and a revered arbiter of taste and style poised on New York's cutting edge.
But when Mary's husband enters into an affair with Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes), a sultry 'spritzer girl' lurking behind the Saks Fifth Avenue perfume counter, all hell breaks loose.
Mary and Sylvie's relationship is tested to the breaking point while their tight-knit circle of friends, including mega-mommy Edie Cohen (Debra Messing) and author Alex Fisher (Jada Pinkett-Smith), all start to question their own friendships and romantic relationships.
1 copy in store Friday 13th March!
Josh Brolin stars as George W. Bush in acclaimed director Oliver Stone's new biopic W.!
Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that America's 43rd President is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. W. will take viewers through the trials and tribulations of Bush's eventful life - and joining Brolin on the ride will be the fair Elisabeth Banks, Thandie Newton, Richard Dreyfuss, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn, Ioan Grufford and Scott Glenn.
1 copy in store Friday 13th March!
War, Inc stars John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Ben Kingsley, Marisa Tomei and Hilary Duff!
War, Inc is a political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Dan Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires Brand Hauser (John Cusack) - a hit man - to kill a Middle East oil minister.
Now, struggling with his own growing demons, Brand must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff) an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter (Marisa Tomei) in check.
1 copy in store Friday 13th March!
Eagle Eye sees the return of Shia LaBeouf and Disturbia director D.J. Caruso!
Shia LaBeouf stars as Jerry, a young slacker whose overachieving twin brother dies mysteriously. When he returns home, he finds that he has been framed as a terrorist - along with his single mother! Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to carry out a political assassination, they must work together to extricate themselves.
Two unsuspecting Americans are separately drawn into a conspiracy by a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. By the time they discover her frightening identity, they have become her unwitting accomplices in a diabolical assassination plot.
1 copy in store Friday 13th March!
A high-octane action romance set in the world of British street racing and boy racer gangs.
Gear up for an adrenaline fuelled ride through the secretive world of high octane street racing. Brent lives on a rough Brighton estate where he looks after his alcoholic Dad and kid brother but it's his passion for cars that provides an escape; he's got an old Ford Capri that he's spent all of his spare time customising and which is now the fastest, gutsiest car around. Living fast in a world of danger is his life, it is his world. But in one week his world will be turned upside down...
1 copy in store Friday 13th March!
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
New Releases At Movie Mix 13th March 2009!
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
New Releases At Movie Mix 6th March 2009!
8 new releases this week, including Saw 5! Can you handle the gore? Max Payne, The Rocker, Gene Generation, Art of War 2, The Lodger, Quarantine and Brideshead Revisited also burst onto the rental scene. Watch the trailers to help you choose.
In the fifth installment of the Saw franchise, Detective Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, he must go on the hunt to eliminate all loose ends.
4 copies on DVD, 1 copy on Blu-Ray Friday 6th March!
Mark Wahlberg delivers an explosive performance in this action-packed thriller based on the legendary, hard-hitting video game. Max Payne (Wahlberg) is a maverick cop with little regard for rules and nothing left to lose. Hell-bent on revenge, he's determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murder of his family, but his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmarish journey where dark fantasy collides with stark reality. As the mystery deepens, Max is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world...and face an unthinkable betrayal that will drive him to the edge of his own sanity.
2 copies on DVD, 1 copy on Blu-Ray Friday 6th March!
The Rocker tells the story of a failed, over-the-hill drummer who gets a second chance at fame.
Robert "Fish" Fishman (Rainn Wilson) is the extremely dedicated and astoundingly passionate drummer for the eighties hair band Vesuvius who is living the rock 'n' roll dream until he is unceremoniously kicked out of the group. Unfortunately for Fish, this happens right before Vesuvius becomes one of the biggest bands in the world. Fish is then forced to get a 'real' job and abandon his dream until an unlikely opportunity arises.
1 copy in store Friday 6th March!
In the futuristic world of Olympia, a city on the brink of destruction, a team of scientists discovers a way to instantly reconfigure human DNA so that all disease will come to an end. But even miracles come at a cost, and we'll find out if this new technology is actually a blessing or a curse. The DNA reconfiguration can save lives, but could potentially end them as well. Now, as the city is overtaken by gangs ters and DNA Hackers, the only promise for a better life is with the right DNA. Michelle (Bai Ling), a seductive assassin whose mission is to take out these so-called DNA hackers, is determined to use the new technology for good instead of evil. When her brother Jackie (Perry Shen) steals a genetic device from their next-door neighbor Christian (Alec Newman), a vigilante scientist, he gets dragged into the immoral cyber-underworld. Banded together with him, Michelle must fight not just for her own flesh and blood, but also for the survival of mankind.
1 copy in store Friday 6th March!
When Agent Neil Shaw (Wesley Snipes) comes out of hiding to avenge his former mentor's murder, he winds up on the trail of betrayal and lethal corruption. Under the charge of his friend and Senatorial candidate, his mission is to set things straight. But when more people turn up dead, Shaw realizes that he's been framed. Now he's letting the fists fly where they may to get to the bottom of an assassination conspiracy that everyone thinks he's behind. It's time to turn up the political heat and enjoy the action of the martial arts master!
1 copy in store Friday 6th March!
Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2), Hope Davis (About Schmidt), Shane West (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and Simon Baker (TV's "The Mentalist") star in this terrifying thriller. The Lodger follows a seasoned detective on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, the detective soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer incarcerated years ago. Could the wrong man be behind bars? Also starring Rachael Leigh Cook (Nancy Drew).
1 copy in store Friday 6th March!
Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew's videotape.
1 copy in store Friday 6th March!
Brideshead Revisited stars Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw and Hayley Atwell.
The film centres around the memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and sister Sebastian and Julia.
1 copy in store Friday 6th March!
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
New Releases At Movie Mix 20th February 2009!
Seven new releases this week, including Get Smart, Kill Switch and Tuesday. Trailers available for you to enjoy...
Get Smart features Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway in a new adaptation of the classic television series!
When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked by the evil syndicator known as KAOS, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell). Given little field experience and even less time, Smart armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and his unbridled enthusiasm must defeat KAOS if he is to save the day.
2 copies in store Friday 20th February!
His Rules. His Way. No Exceptions.
Detective Jacob King (Steven Seagal) is one of the most celebrated homicide detectives in the country. His brutal delivery of street justice is legendary among the men and women of law enforcement. But on this latest case, he may have finally met his match - Lazerus, a cunning and perversely violent killer who is on the loose and terrorizing the inner city. King's desperate pursuit of Lazerus takes him into the dark, depraved Memphis underworld of street sex and senseless violence.
1 copy in store Friday 20th February!
Written and directed by Sacha Bennett, Tuesday is a fast-moving, London-set heist story in which nothing is what it seems.
By sheer coincidence four experienced criminals, two beautiful bank clerks and one desperate, penniless man nearing retirement decide to rob the same bank on the same day. Two detectives (Kevin McNally and Dylan Brown) must use their interrogative expertise to piece together seemingly unrelated people and clues to determine who really stole the Meidan-i-Noor - an emerald the size of a fist.
Ingeniously plotted and featuring an all-star cast of British talent that includes fast-rising star Ashley Waters (Bullet Boy, Speedracer), the film pulls off a major coup in reuniting Life On Mars co-stars John Simm and Philip Glenister. The duo ditch their TV police personas to feature as the head of a ring of audacious career criminals.
3 copies in store Friday 20th February!
Multi-award winning actor Brian Cox plays reclusive Avery Ludlow, a small-town shop owner whose only reason for living is his dog, Red. When a group of bored and bad-seed teens savagely kill the animal, Cox is determined to settle the score by wreaking vengeance by whatever means possible, whether within the law or not. But when Ludlow learns more about one of the killers, he finds himself conflicted by his desires for revenge and by the memory of a long-held secret.
Based on the novel by cult thriller writer Jack Ketchum, and written by the writer of The Grudge, Red is a powerful story detailing what motivates an otherwise quiet man to become obsessed with retribution.
1 copy in store Friday 20th February!
James "Animal" Allen (Ving Rhames), is serving a life sentence for murder at Folson Prison, taking the rap for his eldest son. After a brutal prison riot between the Mexicans and the Blacks, he is transferred to Susanville Prison, where he previously served 15 years. On the outside, Animal's son, James Jr., is framed for murder and faces serious jail time. To help his son, Animal has no choice but to return to his violent past as a money fighter. His new role brings him to the height of power as the leader of the Blacks, but he uncovers he is being used as a pawn in a conspiracy to spark an all out race war between the gangs.
1 copy in store Friday 20th February!
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.
1 copy in store Friday 20th February!
In the tradition of HALLOWEEN and WHEN A STRANGER CALLS, BABYSITTER WANTED is a suspenseful slasher flick that follows the plight of naive Christian Angie (Sarah Thompson): a college girl who answers an ad and becomes a babysitter for a respectable, middle-class family. That the family's home is in the middle of at first doesn't seem to bother Angie. But when she becomes plagued by menacing phone calls she soon discovers that excepting her newfound job may have been the biggest mistake of her life...
1 copy in store Friday 20th February!
Thursday, 12 February 2009
New Releases At Movie Mix 13th February 2009!
3 New releases this week including High School Musical 3 and Righteous Kill. Watch the trailers and make your choice...
High School Musical 3: Senior Year finds the East High School gang facing new challenges as they prepare to graduate from high school and head off in different directions.
With Troy and Chad both offered basketball scholarships to college and Gabriella invited to attend Stanford University, the students all join together with the Wildcats to stage a spectacular end of year musical and plan their prom.
High School Musical 3 features incredible new music and exciting dance numbers all designed to take maximum advantage of the big screen and deliver even more high energy entertainment.
3 copies in store Friday 13th February!
Righteous Kill stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as a pair of veteran New York City Police detectives who must track down a vigilante serial killer in this adrenaline fuled psychological thriller!
After 30 years as partners in the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before.
Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own - take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars?
2 copies on DVD and 1 copy on Blu-Ray Friday 13th February!
Keith Ripley (Morgan Freeman) a cool calculating master thief who lives by the Code: do the job, watch your partner?s back, don?t hold out, and never co-operate with the cops. Unfortunately, his former partner didn?t live by
that code. He sang to the cops and now he?s dead, killed by the Russian mob. Can Keith pull off the heist of his lifetime to steal the last two original Faberg Eggs ever created in order to save his own life?
Directed by two times EmmyAward winner Mimi Leder1 (The Peacemaker, Deep Impact) and starring Oscar winner Morgan Freeman2, Antonio Banderas and Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill, Finding Neverland).
1 copy in store Friday 13th February!
