New Releases At Movie Mix 5th June 2008!

I'm very excited this week because Juno is released! I have to say it's one of the best films I've seen in ages and Ellen Page's performance is phenomenal! Also out this week is the ground-breaking Cloverfield, the heart-warming Dan In Real Life, the terrifying Buried Alive and the edgy thriller Cleaner.

Upbeat coming-of-age story about a smart teenage girl who has to face life full on when she falls pregnant. When Juno (Ellen Page), a teenager with all the answers, finds out she's pregnant by her classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera), she soon realises she has to ask for help from family and friends. Luckily, she enlists the help of her best friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) in trying to find a couple to adopt her unborn child, while her understanding parents (J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney) provide the support she needs to help her through some tough times. When Leah finally uncovers a young, affluent couple, Mark and Vanessa (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner), desperate to adopt, it seems the perfect solution, until Juno finds herself having to face some serious adult decisions while trying to figure out her place in the world.




3 copies in store Thursday 5th May!

Visually explosive sci-fi tale of the night a monstrous creature attacks the city of New York. When five young friends get together to hold a going-away party for one of their number, their celebrations are violently curtailed by a series of huge tremors felt throughout the city. As panic begins to spread, it soon becomes apparent that New York is under attack from some huge malevolent force intent on destroying the city. Told in a jerky, documentary style, from the perspective of a hand-held camera, the film chronicles the attempts by the group to make their way, with chaos raining down, towards the destruction in order to rescue another friend.

3 copies in store Thursday 5th May!

Comedy starring Steve Carell as advice columnist Dan Burns. In his column, Dan appears to be an expert on relationships, but in real life he struggles to succeed as a brother, son and single parent to three precocious daughters, Jane (Alison Pill), Cara (Brittany Robertson) and Lilly (Marlene Lawston). Things get even more complicated for Dan when he discovers the woman he has recently fallen in love with is already in a relationship with his brother, Mitch (Dane Cook).

1 copy in store Thursday 5th May!

Supernatural horror starring Tobin Bell ('Saw'). The story revolves around a group of college students who learn that the demonic spirit of a woman, murdered and buried alive in their vacation house, is out for blood.

1 copy in store Thursday 5th May!

Thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson as ex-cop Tom Cutler. After leaving the police force, Tom now earns his living cleaning up crime scenes in New Jersey. Tom's latest job requires him to go to an upper class neighbourhood to clean up after a murder. When he returns to the house the next day to return the key, he encounters the house's owner Ann Norcut (Eva Mendes), who has no idea what has happened. When Tom discovers that Ann's husband, a key prosecution witness about to testify about corruption in the police force, has disappeared, he suspects a setup and looks to his old partner, Eddie (Ed Harris) for assistance.

1 copy in store Thursday 5th May!

New Releases At Movie Mix 29th May 2008!

4 new releases this week, including Nicholas Cage in National Treasure Book Of Secrets, and the Coen Brothers' award winning No Country For Old Men.

Heart-pounding adventure sequel starring Nicolas Cage as artefact hunter and archaeologist, Ben Franklin Gates. When a missing page from the diary of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, surfaces, one of Ben's ancestors is implicated as a conspirator in the murder. In an attempt to clear their family's name, Ben and his father, Mitch (Jon Voight), travel the globe in search of the other missing pages from Booth's diary. The journey leads Ben and his crew not only to surprising revelations, but to the trail of the world's most treasured secrets.

3 copies in store Thursday 29th May!

The Coen brothers' stripped down and gritty chase thriller has a Vietnam vet desperately trying to give the slip to a relentless killer. While out hunting in the barren wilds of Texas, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers the aftermath of a drugs deal gone wrong, with dead bodies, heroin and a case filled with $2million in cash. Deciding to take the money, Moss says goodbye to his wife (Kelly MacDonald) and takes off to plan his next move. It's not long before he discovers he's being followed by psychopathic ex-special forces hitman, Chigurh (Javier Bardem), who decides his victim's fate, guilty or not, on the toss of a coin. As Chigurh raises the bodycount, gaining ever nearer to Moss, he in turn is hunted by local Sheriff Ed Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a seen-it-all-before cop, who could do without the excitement.

3 copies in store Thursday 29th May!

Director Marc Forster's adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's bestseller about one man's search for redemption from a childhood betrayal in his native Afghanistan. Childhood friends Amir (Zekeriah Ebrahimi) and Hassan (Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada) spend their days on the streets of Kabul getting up to mischief and eagerly awaiting the spectacular kite-fighting contests. But the joyous excitement of the day is ruined by a shocking act that changes the two boys' relationship forever, with Amir leaving soon after to live in America, just as the threat of war becomes a grim reality. 20 years later, and still haunted by the past, Amir (played as an adult by Khalid Abdalla) returns to Afghanistan, now in the grip of the Taliban, determined to finally redeem himself.

2 copies in store Thursday 29th May!

Comedy about a father and daughter on a hunt for buried treasure. After spending several years in a mental institution, Charlie (Michael Douglas) is sent home to his 16-year old daughter Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood). Since being abandoned by her mother, Miranda has managed to survive by quitting school and taking a job in a burger bar. When her father is released and sent back to their home, Miranda finds her relatively calm world turned upside down. Charlie is convinced that the long-lost treasure of Spanish explorer Father Juan Florismarte Garces is buried somewhere beneath the local Costco store, and encourages the initially skeptical Miranda to get a job there so that they can devise a way to do some after-hours excavation work. Miranda goes along with the questionable plan in the hope of helping her dad realise his outlandish dream.

1 copy in store Thursday 29th May!

New Releases At Movie Mix 22nd May 2008!

7 new releases this week, Death Toll, Over Her Dead Body, He Was A Quiet Man, Suburban Girl, Penelope, In The Vally Of Elah and Cellar Door. Enjoy...

The crime lords of New Orleans meet their match in this action thriller starring Lou Diamond Phillips. With the city still recovering from the devastating hurricane Katrina, drugs and violence now control the streets. Federal agent Mayor Padial (Phillips) decides to tackle the problem by assembling a team of agents to go head to head with the city's crime lords, led by 'The Dog' (DMX).

1 copy in store 22nd May 2008!

Heavenly rom-com with Eva Longoria Parker's recently departed ghost desperately trying to scupper her ex-husband's attempts to move on with psychic Ashley (Lake Bell). Everything was going so well on Kate (Longoria Parker) and Henry's (Paul Rudd) wedding day, that is until a carved-ice angel crushed poor Kate and sent her into the next world. Distraught Henry accepts his sister's advice and decides to get some help from local psychic Ashley, even though he's openly sceptical. As the meetings develop, Henry can't help himself falling in love with Ashley, which doesn't go down too well with Kate's newly aware ghost. With the relationship continuing to grow, Kate's desperate attempts to disrupt proceedings sees her using every tool at her disposal to sabotage their future.

1 copy in store 22nd May 2008!

Black comedy starring Christian Slater and Elisha Cuthbert. Bob Maconel (Slater) is about to have a bad day. Another eight hours of sitting in a dull grey cubicle, ignored by his co-workers, existing in a world where he feels completely out of sync. On this particularly bad day Bob crosses the line from potential killer to inadvertent hero and in the process saves Vanessa's (Cuthbert) life. This invisible nobody saves the object of his desire only to have her ask him to end her life.

1 copy in store 22nd May 2008!

Coming-of-age romantic comedy loosely based on the series of short stories by Melissa Banks. Brett Eisenberg (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is a young woman attempting to work her way up New York City's publishing ladder. Brett attends a book signing, hoping to meet influential publishing giant Archie Knox (Alec Baldwin). No sooner do they trade glances than Archie is wooing Brett with extravagant dates, expensive gifts, and career assistance. The relationship is a storybook romance from the start, but slowly becomes complicated due to the couple's age difference and Archie's drink problem.

1 copy in store 22nd May 2008!

Fantasy adventure starring Christina Ricci, James McAvoy and Reese Witherspoon. The tale of a young woman overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds to win her Prince Charming has long been a staple of fairy tales but here, the classic tale is given a contemporary spin. What if, for instance, the rich and handsome Prince Charming actually turned out to be a total cad, and true love for the heroine rested in the hands of an initially duplicitous card shark? And what if, more importantly, the story was less about a young woman finding true love and more about her learning to love and value herself?

2 copies in store 22nd May 2008!

Thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron. After being informed that his son, Mike (Jonathan Tucker), has gone missing after his return from a tour of duty in Iraq, Mike's father Hank (Jones) travels to his son's military base to see if he can make any sense of his disappearance. Hank soon becomes frustrated by the lack of interest shown in the case by the military and the police, and with the help of Detective Emily Sanders (Theron), takes matters into his own hands. The pair begin to piece together the events that led to Mike's disappearance, making some interesting discoveries in the process.

2 copies in store 22nd May 2008!

Independent horror movie in which a young woman, Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), awakens to find herself imprisoned in a serial killer's basement. Refusing to play along with her captors twisted game, Rudy has only her wits to use against his savage and murderous insanity.

1 copy in store 22nd May 2008!

New Releases At Movie Mix 15th May 2008

Watch Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's musical version of Sweeney Todd, or kick back with something lighter like Bee Movie. We also have The Backwoods and The Living And The Dead. Go mad and watch all four in one sitting or spread them out over a week... it's up to you. And don't forget when you rent three or more films at the same time between Monday and Thursday you'll get a free bag of popcorn thrown in for free. Yes FREE, no charge, it's on us!

Based on a 'penny dreadful' tale (which later became an urban myth) from the mid-19th Century, this musical tells the tale of Benjamin Barker (Depp), a barber who returns to London after spending years in exile for a crime he didn't commit. He soon discovers from pie-maker Mrs Lovett (Bonham Carter) that, in his absence, his wife has taken her own life and his daughter is now in the care of the man who had him sent away - the dastardly Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). Seeking revenge and filled with a murderous rage, Barker sets up a barber's shop above Mrs Lovett's premises. Now calling himself Sweeney Todd, Barker kills off all his customers with a razor to the throat and sends their cadavers to the shop below to be used as a tasty new filling for Mrs Lovett's meat pies. What was once the worst pie shop in London quickly becomes one of the city's most popular eateries, but Barker won't be satisfied until he can lure Judge Turpin into the barber's chair...

3 copies in store 15th May 2008!

Big-budget, Jerry Seinfeld voiced, children's animation about a honey-bee who decides to sue the humans when he discovers they're eating the fruits of his labour. Barry (Seinfeld), fresh out of bee college, wants more than the daily chore of working in the hive; he wants to get out there, exploring the big wide world, spreading his wings. When he finally gets the chance to be a 'pollen jock', he has a near-fatal accident but is saved by the intervention of kindly New York florist Vanessa (voice of Renee Zellweger), and a friendship quickly blossoms. But when he discovers the sad truth that the humans are taking the honey and selling it for their own profit, Barry becomes so incensed that he decides to hit them where it hurts - right in the pocket, and takes them to court.

3 copies in store 15th May 2008!

Thriller set in the 1970s starring Gary Oldman. Lucy (Virginie Ledoyen) and Norman (Paddy Considine) are a young married couple who visit a friend (Oldman) in the Basque region of Spain. Their tranquil summer turns to horror when they discover a girl with horribly mutilated hands in the forest. They try to help her by taking her away from the home in which she is locked, but the local villagers, who have to protect the girl, start a pursuit in the forest they know much better than the visitors.

1 copy in store 15th May 2008!

Award-winning horror from director Simon Rumley. Lord Donald (Roger Lloyd-Pack) and Lady Nancy (Kate Fahy) Brocklebank reside in the magnificent but run-down Longleigh House with James (Leo Bill), their handicapped son. Donald is preparing to sell the house when Nancy becomes very ill. Donald arranges for the family nurse, Mary (Sarah Ball), to take care of Nancy while he attempts to raise enough money to pay for an operation. However, James wants to prove to his father that he can look after his mother on his own and decides to lock Nurse Mary out of the house. It isn't long before James starts mixing his mother's pills and forgetting to take his own medication, and as the stress of looking after his mother increases, so does his own condition.

1 copy in store 15th May 2008!