New Releases At Movie Mix 2nd October 2008!

5 interesting new releases this week: "The Flock" starring Richard Gere, "Reeker 2" a horror sequel, "The Waiting Room" with Ralf Little of The Royale Family fame, "Felon" starring Val Kilmer and the imaginatively titled; "Zombies, Zombies, Zombies", don't ask me what that one's about!

Your fear is their desire. Emotionally scarred from years of tracking down sex offenders, hyper-vigilant case-worker, Babbage (Richard Gere) battles his own demons as he hunts for a missing girl who he's sure was abducted by one of his 'flock' of paroled criminals. Claire Dances co-stars as Gere's protege, Allison, who must learn the ropes whilst keeping her mentor on the right side of the law... and sanity.


1copy in store Thursday 2nd October!

When three fugitives fresh off a casino heist stop for gas at the Six Corners Cafe in Death Valley, they encounter an unexpectedly hostile breakfast crowd. Gunshots erupt. An explosion destroys the gas station. As the fire burns down, people are missing. Only six seem to have survived - a sheriff and his son, two of the criminals, a female doctor and a young waitress. It's a volatile and eclectic combination of survivors - the Godd, the Bad and the Cute.The fire department never arrives. The highway is deserted. No one comes to help. No one living, that is.The survivors discover they are trapped in an in between world, in a supernatural plane between night and day, light and dark, the living and the dead. And they are not alone. Horribly mutilated dead people mysteriously appear and warn of an inescapable killer - an evil trailing a sickening force of decay and rot.In order to see another day, the survivors must unite, set their differences aside, and combine their skills and resources to fight off the source of these deaths - the soul collecting, terrifying killing machine known as the Reeker.

1copy in store Thursday 2nd October!

The Waiting Room tells the story of two separate groups of friends, partners, colleagues and lovers, living and working alongside each other in South London and yet completely un-connected - until a chance encounter at a train station throws all of their lives onto a different track.

1copy in store Thursday 2nd October!

No Rules. No Hope. No Way Out. Val Kilmer, Stephen Dorff, Harold Perrineau, Jr. and Sam Shepard star in this prison drama, the story of a family man who is convicted of murder for killing an intruder who enters his home, threatening the lives of his wife and son. As he struggles to survive the violent penal system which includes a maximum-security state prison in which a corrupt lieutenant tries to maintain power and order, even if it means crossing the line.

1copy in store Thursday 2nd October!

Strippers Vs. Zombies...When a drug experiment goes horribly wrong it's up to a small group of exotic dancers working in a gentleman's club to fight back against the hordes of zombies who are descending on them. They must use their wits and skills to survive the night and not become victims of the flesh-eating zombies!

1copy in store Thursday 2nd October!

New Releases At Movie Mix 25th September 2008!

Only 2 to blog about this week so I won't waste your time banging on about them here! See below for details and trailers...

Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan star in Made Of Honour a delightful romantic comedy. For Tom (Patrick Dempsey), life is good: he's sexy, successful, has great luck with the ladies and know he can always rely on Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) - his delightful best friend and the one constant in his life!It's the perfect setup until Hannah goes overseas to Scotland on a six-week business trip... And Tom is stunned to realise how empty his life is without her. He resolves to ask her to marry him - but on her return Hannah has some news of her own: She is getting married to a handsome and wealthy Scotsman.When Hannah asks Tom to be her 'maid' of honor, he reluctantly agrees to fill the role... But only so he can attempt to woo Hannah and stop the wedding before it's too late!

1 copy in store Thursday 25th September!

Alan Pao's fast-paced thriller follows one man's descent into a world of drugs and violence as his new acquaintance turns out to be exacting a long-harboured revenge. Jesse Metcalfe plays Tristan Price, a wealthy and privileged teenager who seemingly has everything he could ever want, money, loving parents and a beautiful girlfriend. However, his perfect life is turned upside down by the arrival of Sebastian, a handsome, charismatic, ruthless drug dealer. As Tristan is sucked into a seedy underworld of drugs, sex and violence he begins to realise his new best friend is, in fact, his worst enemy.

1 copy in store Thursday 25th September!

New Releases At Movie Mix 18th September 2008!

OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD! Sex And The City is out this week! Put on your Manolo Blahniks, pour yourself a champagne cocktail, get yourself down to Movie Mix and rent or buy your copy from Thursday. You'll laugh and you'll cry but most all you'll know what happened to Carrie and the girls after the TV series ended. If blokey humour is more your thing we also have Harold And Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Dead Girl, Feast, and Honeydripper.

For too long, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) had been looking for love in all the wrong places... but in all the right shoes. In this much-anticipated movie event Carrie, Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) are back, four years after the hit TV series ended. As they continue to juggle career, relationships, motherhood and life in Manhattan, the girls realise that more than ever, true friendship never goes out of style.

4 copies in store Thursday 18th September!

Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay marks the triumphant return of these two hilarious, slacker anti-heroes. The movie stars John Cho as Harold and Kal Penn as Kumar, two stoners who can't seem to get a break. Their last adventure found them travelling across country to find a White Castle hamburger in order to satisfy a weed-induced case of "the munchies". This time, the boys get themselves in trouble by trying to sneak a bong onboard a flight to Amsterdam. Now, being suspected as terrorism, they are forced to run from the law and try to find a way to prove their innocence. What follows is an irrevelent and epic journey of deep thoughts, deeper inhaling and a wild trip around the world that is an "un-PC" as it gets!

1 copy in store Thursday 18th September!

Set in Los Angeles, The Dead Girl is a story about a dead girl, told in five chapters. A woman, miserable in her circumscribed life caring for her domineering mother, finds a body. Somehow, this discovery allows her to change. At the morgue, the sister of a girl missing for 15 years believes the body is that of her sister; this liberates her. An older woman, married to a man who pays her little attention, finds evidence in a storage unit; how will she handle it? The mother of the dead girl, who left home some years before, visits the last place her daughter lived and makes her own discoveries. Last, we flash back to the victim's final day.

1 copy in store Thursday 18th September!

Set in Los Angeles, The Dead Girl is a story about a dead girl, told in five chapters. A woman, miserable in her circumscribed life caring for her domineering mother, finds a body. Somehow, this discovery allows her to change. At the morgue, the sister of a girl missing for 15 years believes the body is that of her sister; this liberates her. An older woman, married to a man who pays her little attention, finds evidence in a storage unit; how will she handle it? The mother of the dead girl, who left home some years before, visits the last place her daughter lived and makes her own discoveries. Last, we flash back to the victim's final day.

1 copy in store Thursday 18th September!

Regarded by many as the 'Godfather of American Independent Cinema', John Sayles (City Of Hope) returns with the must-see Honeydripper, continuing his extraordinary examination of the complexities and shifting identities of American sub-cultures. The film is a fable about the birth of rock 'n' roll...It's 1950 and it's a make or break weekend for Tyrone Purvis (Danny Glover), the proprietor of the Honeydripper Lounge. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to bring back the crowds that used to come to his place. He decides to lay off his long-time blues singer Bertha Mae, and announces that he's hired a famous guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a one night only gig in order to save the club.Into town drifts Sonny Blake (Gary Clark Jr), a young man with nothing to his name but big dreams and the guitar case in his hand. Rejected by Tyrone when he applies to play at the Honeydripper, he is intercepted by the corrupt local Sheriff, arrested for vagrancy and rented out as an unpaid cotton picker to the highest bidder. But when Tyrone's ace-in-the-hole fails to materialize at the train station, his desperation leads him back to Sonny and the strange, wire-dangling object in his guitar case. The Honeydripper lounge is all set to play its part in rock n' roll history.

1 copy in store Thursday 18th September!

New Releases At Movie Mix 11th September 2008!

Seven new releases this week, including "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" which lots of people have been asking for. Have fun!

From the producers of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up comes a comic look at one guy's arduous quest to grow up and get over the heartbreak of being dumped - if he can only make himself start Forgetting Sarah Marshall.Struggling musician Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) has spent six years idolizing his girlfriend, television star Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). He's the guy left holding her purse in paparazzi photos and accidentally omitted from acceptance award speeches. But his world is rocked when she dumps him and Peter finds himself alone. After an unsuccessful bout of womanizing and an on-the-job nervous breakdown, he sees that not having Sarah may just ruin his life. To clear his head, Peter takes an impulsive trip to Hawaii, where he is confronted by his worst nightmare: his ex and her tragically hip new British-rocker boyfriend, Aldous (Russell Brand), are sharing his hotel. But as he torments himself with the reality of Sarah's new life, he finds relief in a flirtation with Rachel (Mila Kunis), a beautiful resort employee whose laid-back approach tempts him to rejoin the world. He also finds relief in several hundred embarrassing, fruity cocktails.

3 copies in store Thursday 11th September!

Keanu Reeves is Tom Ludlow - a veteran LAPD Vice Detective - hell bent on finding the killers of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington (Terry Crews). Forest Whitaker stars as Captain Wander, Ludlow's supervisor, whose duties include keeping him within the confines of the law and out of the clutches of Internal Affairs Captain Biggs (Hugh Laurie). Ludlow teams up with a young Robbery Homicide Detective (Chris Evans) to track Washington's killers through the diverse communities of Los Angeles.

2 copies in store Thursday 11th September!

Timber Falls stars Josh Randall and Brianna Brown as Mike and Sheryl. When the couple stake their tent in the rugged mountains of West Virginia the worst they expect are mosquitoes. What they get is a nightmare...Sheryl vanishes. Mike wanders through the woods searching on his own and meets a God-fearing woman who says she can help.Little does Mike know, her help is the last thing he needs. After a string of horrific events, he finds Sheryl bound to a table in a remote cabin cellar. Something evil has been planned...

1 copy in store Thursday 11th September!

Sometimes the things we can't change... End up changing us.The Air I Breathe is based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. Director Jieho Lee divides this vast tale into four threads, a timid businessman (Forest Whitaker) bets his life on a horse race after he discovers the fix he is in, a fragile pop star (Sarah Michelle Gellar) finds her management contract unexpectedly in jeopardy; a gangster (Brendan Fraser) who sees the future must decide whether or not to follow his visions, and a doctor (Kevin Bacon) tries to save the love of his life from a deadly injury. A common thread weaves its way through the lives of these characters: the ruthless crime boss Fingers (Andy Garcia).

1 copy in store Thursday 11th September!

Smart People stars Dennis Quaid as Professor Lawrence Wetherhold - an imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed intellectual giant. However when it comes to solving problems relating to love and family, he's completely lost!His teenaged daughter (Ellen Page) is an acid-tongued overachiever who follows in her father's misery-loving footsteps, whilst his adopted brother (Thomas Haden Church) has perfected the art of freeloading. When his brother shows up unexpectedly for an extended stay at just about the same time as he accidentally encounters his former student Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), the circumstances cause him to stir from his deep, deep freeze, with often comical, sometimes heartbreaking, consequences for himself and everyone around him.

1 copy in store Thursday 11th September!

After witnessing the brutal murder of his family, Jack Brooks (Trevor Matthews) is left with an unquenchable fury that he is constantly fighting to control.Now working as a local plumber and struggling in a relationship with his girlfriend Eve (Rachel Skarsten), Jack's life has become a downward spiral. One night, Jack attempts to fix Professor Crowley's (Robert Englund) old, rusted pipes, but unknowingly awakens an ancient evil. Lured by this demonic power, Crowley discovers a monstrous black heart that quickly forces its way inside him. Possessed by the heart by beating in his chest, the Professor starts a slow, gruesome transformation. Only then does Jack realise he can't run away from his past, and quickly discovers the true purpose of his inner rage.

1 copy in store Thursday 11th September!

You can't kill what's already dead!Set in war-torn Eastern Europe, a band of battle-worn mercenaries undertake a dangerous mission into a no-man's land at the behest of a mysterious businessman. When they locate and secure a disused military bunker, they also discover a terrifying secret that has laid buried for half a century--and which they'll have to fight to survive.

1 copy in store Thursday 11th September!