Seven, count them, SEVEN, new releases this week, including the much-anticipated Golden Compass. And with 5 copies in store you won't have to queue to watch it! And after being delayed its release at least three times, Rob Zombie's Halloween finally arrives! See below for the rest of this week's new viewing. Don't forget to click on the trailers on the left hand side for sneak previews, enjoy!
Big-budget children's fantasy adventure adapted from the first instalment of Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards), a twelve year-old girl living in an Oxford somewhat dissimilar to the one we're used to, goes off in search of a friend who has been kidnapped by 'the Gobblers'. In this alternate world, where a person's soul appears outside the body in the form of an animal called a 'daemon', and witches and talking bears co-exist, a shadowy organisation called the 'Magisterium' controls the population, keeping them in check. As she embarks on her quest to find her friend, Lyra is soon involved in an epic battle against the forces of darkness in a desperate attempt to save her world.5 copies in store 24th April!
Thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Duvall and Mark Wahlberg. Bobby Green (Phoenix) has forsaken his name to escape his family and their tradition in law enforcement to pursue his ambitions as a Brooklyn nightclub owner. As he turns a blind eye to the drug dealing all around him, he comes face to face with the family he abandoned when his brother (Wahlberg) and father (Duvall) crack down on the club. Now Bobby must choose a side. Is he going to turn informant or will he help run the biggest crime ring in New York history?
2 copies in store 24th April!
Thriller starring Pierce Brosnan and Gerard Butler. Neil (Butler) and Abby (Maria Bello) Warner have the perfect life and a perfect marriage. With their beautiful young daughter, Sophie (Emma Karwandy), they are living the American dream... until today. When Sophie is suddenly kidnapped, they have no choice but to comply with the abductor's demands. The kidnapper, Ryan (Brosnan), a cold and calculating sociopath, takes over their lives with the brutal efficiency of someone who has nothing to lose. It soon becomes clear that Ryan's demands are all the more terrifying... because he doesn't want their money. What he wants is for Neil and Abby's life to be systematically dismantled and destroyed, piece by piece.
1 copy in store 24th April!
Unsettling thriller shot entirely through hidden cameras. Colin Hanks stars as Doug, a young man with a secret obsession for a beautiful woman (Ana Claudia Talancon). By planting hidden cameras and listening devices in her home, he learns her most intimate secrets in order to manipulate her into a relationship that she innocently permits.
1 copy in store 24th April!
Rob Zombie's brutal homage to John Carpenter's slasher classic. While faithful to Carpenter's vision, there are some obvious changes, the most pronounced of these being the substantial focus on Michael Myers's childhood. The film posits Michael (Daeg Faerch) as a troubled child made all the worse by a horrible home life and constant abuse at school. Zombie paints Michael's pain with palpable grit and sleaze, but he isn't out to put our culture on the couch; he simply wants to show Michael killing his entire family.2 copies in store 24th April!
2007 remake of the 1972 thriller, based on the Anthony Shaffer play, that starred Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. In this version, directed by Kenneth Branagh and adapted by Harold Pinter, Caine takes the Olivier role as Andrew Wyke, a wealthy socialite who invites his wife's lover, former hairdresser Milo Tindle (Jude Law, in the role originally played by Caine) to his country home. He has a proposal for Tindle which could benefit them both, but not everything is as clear cut as it might seem. An intricate battle of wits with potentially deadly consequences ensues...1 copy in store 24th April!
Gritty, take-the-money-and-run thriller with Christian Slater as a corrupt DEA agent chasing down his stolen cash. While in an apartment block, Iraq war vet Duke (Brian Geraghty) stumbles across a bag stuffed with cash from an aborted drugs deal. Finding it increasingly hard to adjust to life on civvy street, Duke decides to take the cash and make a run for it. Picking up his girlfriend Amber (Jenna Dewan) on route, the pair grab a quick wedding before heading off into what they think will be a lovely sunset. The cash however, belongs to corrupt DEA agent Pollen (Slater), who is slightly miffed that his ill-gotten gains have disappeared, and will stop at nothing to get his money back. With the resources of a government agency at his disposal, and murder on his mind, it's only a matter of time before he catches up with the newly-weds...1 copy in store 24th April!
Modern-day reworking of the classic Ealing comedy of the 1950s. Faced with dire financial problems, St.Trinians, the school for 'young ladies', has to somehow find the extra cash needed, or face closure from the bank. If that wasn't enough, Headmistress Camilla Fritton's (Rupert Everett) old flame Geoffrey Thwaites (Colin Firth) is now Education Minister, and he's not too impressed with the ethos of 'self-empowerment' (anarchy) practised at the school. But faced with the loss of their school, the usually ferocious St.Trinians girls decide to put aside their differences and work together to raise the cash the only way they know - by pulling off the heist of the century.
