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!

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!

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!

New Releases At Movie Mix 6th February 2009!

11 new releases to tell you about this week... yes 11!!! Watch the trailers to help you decide what you might like to see.






During the last year of his life, whilst on a tour of Scotland in 1926, the legendary escape artist and magician, Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) issued a challenge to any and all psychics; he offered up a prize of £10,000 if any of them could tell him the last words his mother spoke to him before she died. Eager to win the much sought after prize is Mary McGarvie (Academy Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones), a beautiful con-artist, who along with her daughter Benji (Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan) pretends to perform incredible séances in which they communicate with the 'other side'.

During Mary's 'audition' with Houdini, she manages to convince him of her 'gift', but the con becomes complicated when the two develop an attraction which is anything but an illusion and Houdini's manager Mr. Sugarman (Timothy Spall) learns the truth about Mary's plans. DEATH DEFYING ACTS is a truly beautiful and visually stunning romantic thriller about magic and inescapable love.


1 copy in store Friday 6th February.







Based on the bestselling exposé of the Neapolitan mafia, by award-winning journalist Roberto Saviano, Gomorrah is an unforgettable and compelling story of power, money and blood.

Five stories are woven together in modern day Naples, set in a brutal world from which there is no escape and no mercy.

Gomorrah is directed by acclaimed and multi award-winning director Matteo Garrone. It won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes 2008 and was a multi prize winner at the European Film Academy awards with honours including Best European Film and Best European Director.


1 copy in store Friday 6th February.






City Of Ember stars Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Saoirse Ronan and Harry Treadaway!

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing ... The great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Two teenagers must race against time to search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, and help the citizens escape before the lights go out forever.



1 copy in store Friday 6th February.







In Taken Liam Neeson stars as Bryan, an ex-soldier who is forced to embark on a frantic quest to rescue his daughter (Maggie Grace) after she is abducted by slave traders.



3 copies on DVD and 1 copy on Blu-Ray Friday 6th February.








The Foot Fist Way is an uproarious, full-contact comedy featuring brought to you by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay.

Self-control, courtesy, perseverance, integrity and an indomitable spirit - those are the basic tenets preached by the proud but stern Master instructor Fred Simmons (Danny R. McBride) at the Concord Tae Kwon Do Studio. There 'the way of the foot and the fist,' a.k.a. the definition of the featured Korean martial art, turns boys into black belts and suburbanites into great warriors.

That is, until Simmons' seemingly perfect life starts collapsing when he discovers his wife having an affair. A chance to resurrect his life by battling his hero - the 8-time undefeated champ and star of the 'Seven Rings of Pain' trilogy, Chuck 'The Truck' Wallace (Ben Best) - gives Simmons' life purpose as he winds up on a wild, comic journey that will take him from egomaniacal bluster all the way to becoming the stand-up man of his delusional dreams.




1 copy in store Friday 6th February.







TV News reporter Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) and cameraman Duck (Terrence Howard) have worked in the world's hottest war zones: from Bosnia to Iraq, from Somalia to El Salvador. Together they have dodged bullets, filed incisive reports and collected Emmy awards. Then one
terrible day in a Bosnian village everything changes. During a live broadcast on national television, Simon has a meltdown. After that, Duck is promoted and Simon disappears.

Five years later Duck returns to Sarajevo with rookie reporter Benjamin (Jessie Eisenberg) to cover the fifth anniversary of the end of the war. Simon shows up, a ghost from the past, with the promise of a world exclusive. He convinces Duck that he knows the whereabouts of Bosnia's
most wanted war criminal 'The Fox'. Armed with only spurious information Simon, Duck and Benjamin embark on a dark and dangerous mission that takes them deep into hostile territory.

It's the scoop of a lifetime but will they live to report it?



2 copies in store Friday 6th February.







The Wackness stars Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck and Famke Janssen in an edgy, bittersweet and funny coming of age story.

It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop and wafting with the sweet aroma of marijuana - but change is in the air.

Set against this backdrop, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) spends his last summer before college selling dope throughout New York City, trading it with his shrink (Ben Kingsley) for therapy, while crushing on his step-daughter (Olivia Thirlby).



1 copy in store Fiday 6th February.







Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have - a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.



1 copy in store Fiday 6th February.







Katana master Tao (Steven Seagal) leads a special ops squad of ex-military vigilantes on a massacre mission, their target: vampires. On the post apocalyptic globe, sucked dry by bloodthirsty vampires, a few remaining survivors are trapped in an infected hospital. Tao is their only hope and he knows the only cure is execution. Now it's time for the last stand against the flesh-eating vampires and there's nothing left to lose but the last of humanity.



1 copy in store Fiday 6th February.







Boog and Elliot are back for more crazy adventures. After falling head over hooves in love with Giselle, Elliot's road to the altar takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is kidnapped by a group of pampered pets determined to return him to his owners. Boog, Elliot, McSquizzy, Buddy and the rest of the woodland creatures launch a full-scale rescue mission for their sausage-shaped friend and soon find themselves in enemy camp: the world of the pets. Led by a toy poodle named Fifi, the pets do not plan to let Mr. Weenie go without a fight. Can a toy poodle REALLY bring down an 900-pound grizzly bear? Will Elliot ever marry Giselle? Find out in Open Season 2.




1 copy in store Fiday 6th February.






An all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich, come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder, blackmail, sex addiction and physical fitness!

When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but dim-witted, gym employees, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts, events soon spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters! From Joel and Ethan Coen, the Academy Award winning directors of No Country For Old Men and The Big Lebowski, comes this brilliantly clever and endlessly entertaining movie that critics are calling smart, funny, and original.



3 copies in store Friday 6th February.