New Releases At Movie Mix 30th January 2009!

January has almost merged into February and the new releases are now coming thick and fast! Seven to inform you about this week...





Last seen together in the box-office smash Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby director Adam McKay brings Will Farrel and John C Reilly back together again in Step Brothers!

In Step Brothers Ferrell plays Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy (Mary Steenburgen). Reilly plays Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old who lives with his father, Robert (Richard Jenkins). When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As their narcissism and downright aggressive laziness threaten to tear the family apart, these two middle-aged, immature, overgrown boys will orchestrate an insane, elaborate plan to bring their parents back together. To pull it off, they must form an unlikely bond that maybe, just maybe, will finally get them out of the house.

2 copies in store Friday 30th January!












From director Paul W.S. Anderson comes Death Race an action-thriller set in the post-industrial wasteland of tomorrow, with the world's most brutal sporting event as its backdrop. A penitentiary full of felons has inspired the jailers to create a grisly pastime ripe for lucrative kickbacks. Now, adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for televised violence and a spectacular arena come together to form the Death Race.

Three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames (Statham) is an expert at survival in the harsh landscape that has become our country. Just as he thinks he has turned his life around, the ex-con is framed for a gruesome murder he didn't commit. Forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein - a crowd favorite who seems impossible to kill - Ames is given an easy choice by Terminal Island's warden (Joan Allen): suit up or rot away in a cell.

His face hidden by a metallic mask, one convict will be put through an insane three-day challenge. Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals in the country's toughest prison to claim the prize of freedom. Driving a monster car outfitted with machine guns, flamethrowers and grenade launchers, one desperate man will destroy anything in his path to win the most twisted spectator sport on Earth.

2 copies on DVD and 1 copy on Blu Ray Friday 30th January!








The Accidental husband is a stylish romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman, Colith Firth and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Dr. Emma Lloyd (Thurman) is a popular New York radio DJ, whose practical love advice is listened to and loved by women everywhere! Off-air, her own love life is running smoothly with Emma planning her wedding to her dependable fiancé Richard (Firth). That is until she makes the shocking discovery that she's already married... To someone else!

With her life in crisis Emma sets out to track down her mystery man - in order to annul the marriage. However as events unfold, she discovers that following her own advice is a lot more difficult than she anticipated!

1 copy on DVD in store Friday 30th January!







Igor is a playfully irreverent comedy which brings a new twist to the classic monster genre. It tells the story of a mad scientist's hunchbacked lab assistant who has big dreams of becoming a scientist in his own right and winning the coveted first place award at the annual Evil Science Fair.


1 copy on DVD in store Friday 30th January!






In the year 2707, Earth's natural resources have been exhausted by mankind. Battle rages between the soldiers of four leading Corporations: Capitol, Bauhaus, Mishima and Imperial. When the violence breaks an ancient stone seal, Necromutants appear and begin to multiply by the millions, destroying all before them.

The Corporation's leader, Constantine (John Malkovich), is about to abandon the planet and leave countless innocents to their desperate fate, when he is approached by Brother Samuel, leader of the Brotherhood, an ancient monastic order who offers hope to the discouraged leader. Against the odds Constantine entrusts brother Samuel and other like minded soldiers to save them from the mutant armies.


1 copy on DVD in store Friday 30th January!







Detours can be deadly.

When four friends embark on a road trip to Vegas looking for fun and a few cheap thrills, they have no idea that they're about to fall into a blood drenched charnel house of tension, torture and the darkest depths of pure primal fear!

After their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they must find a way back to civilisation. But there plan soon arouses the malice of Rusty nail - a murderous, vengeful trucker with an insatiable appetite for gruesome mutilation and sadistic pain - and he'll stop at nothing to ensure they pay their toll... one body at a time!


1 copy on DVD in store Friday 30th January!







Set in the west-side of Los Angeles fight world, Redbelt, is the story of Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a Jiu-Jitsu teacher who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing instead to pursue an honorable life by operating a self-defense studio with a samurai's code.

Terry and his wife Sondra (Alice Braga), struggle to keep the business running to make ends meet. An accident on a dark, rainy night at the Academy between an off duty officer (Max Martini) and a distraught lawyer (Emily Moritimer) puts in motion a series of events that will change Terry's life dramatically introducing him to a world of promoters (Ricky Jay, Joe Mantegna) and movie star Chet Frank (Tim Allen). Faced with this, in order to pay off his debts and regain his honor, Terry must step into the ring for the first time in his life.


1 copy on DVD in store Friday 30th January!

New Releases At Movie Mix 22nd January 2009!

January has been a quiet month for DVD releases but it is picking up now, this week we have six to tell you about including Tropic Thunder and Rock N Rolla. Watch the trailers to help you decide...









Written and directed by Ben Stiller and featuring a host of stars including Robert Downey Jr, Jack Black, Nick Nolte and Steve Coogan Tropic Thunder is an action packed comedy not to be missed!

A group of well-known successful actors are cast in the biggest, most expensive war movie ever produced! They include Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) - a pampered action superstar, Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), an intense, three-time Oscar-winning actor; Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), star of the popular gross-out comedy franchise "The Fatties"; multi-platinum hiphop-star-turned-entrepreneur-turned-actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson); and first-timer Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel).

After filming begins, the director (Steve Coogan) has a change of heart and throws the actors into real-life combat and they are forced to become the fighting unit they're portraying. Will they make it out of the jungle in one piece?

3 copies on DVD and 1 copy on Blu Ray 22nd/23rd January!






The clock ticks on three strangers trapped in an elevator who all have a desperate, urgent need to escape their confines.

Claudia (Amber Tamblyn) is in a hurry to return to the hospital bedside of her dying grand-mother. Tommy is a young punk on his way to elope with his girlfriend. Karl (Aiden Gillen) has guilty secrets that must be erased from his apartment before his wife and daughter get there. But all three are trapped in an elevator in a deserted building on holiday weekend - and are desperate to get out.

What first seems an inconvenience soon turns into a nightmare when no one answers their calls, their meagre water supply runs out and one of them goes just a little bit crazy under the pressure. Propelled by escalating tension and an increasingly desperate conflict, Blackout hurtles towards a terrifying climax.


1 copy in store 22nd/23rd January!






Based on the popular Imperium Comics Series, Trailer Park of Terror. Six troubled high school students and their chaperone, return from an outdoor character building retreat in the mountains. During a raging storm, their bus crashes, hopelessly stranding them in the middle of the trucker's triangle, a forgotten locus of consummate evil in the middle of nowhere. The luckless group seeks shelter for the night in a ramshackle trailer park they find down the road. However, it's not refuge or help they find. Instead terror finds them in the form of Norma, a damned redneck reaper with a killer body who dispenses vengeance and death aided by her cursed companions, a bloodthirsty brood of undead trailer trash. Fear has a new home in this darkly comic zombie horror!


1 copy in store 22nd/23rd January!






Evil In Ink.

American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer explores and exploits ethnic designs from around the world. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he glimpses the exotic world of traditional Samoan tatau in the work of the fiercely proud Alipati. Fatefully, Jake is attracted to Alipati's beautiful cousin, Sina.

When Jake impulsively steals an ancient Samoan tattooing tool, he unwittingly unleashes a powerful angry spirit. Suddenly, his art takes on a frightening new dimension, exposing everyone he touches, including the feisty Singaporean Victoria, to mortal peril.

Sensing the solution can only lie with the Samoans, Jake follows them to Auckland, where he runs into an old adversary, tattoo artist Crash and a new one, the respected Samoan elder Aleki Va'a.

His investigation takes him on a devastating journey into the dark heart of Pacific mysticism. There, Jake must recover his own soul if he is to save the woman he loves and escape with his life.


1 copy in store 22nd/23rd January!






In a post-apocaplyptic world, vicious cannibals are rife. A small band of people are forced to fight for survival, no matter what the cost.


1 copy in store 22nd/23rd January!









Director Guy Ritchie presents Rocknrolla - a dramatic crime thriller starring Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton and Tom Wilkinson!

When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, and all of London's criminal underworld wants in on the action. Everyone from a dangerous crime lord to a sexy accountant, a corrupt politician and down-on-their-luck petty thieves conspire, collude and collide with one another in an effort to get rich quick.



3 copies on DVD and 1 copy on Blu Ray 22nd/23rd January!

New Releases At Movie Mix 15th January 2009!

Don't forget to watch the trailers this week, we have Disaster Movie, You Don't Mess With The Zohan, Appaloosa and The Crew. See you next week!





From the directors of Meet The Spartans and Epic Movie comes Disaster Movie.

Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events.

2 copies in store Thursday 15th January/Friday 16th January!







Director Dennis Dugan and screenwriters Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog), and Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) present You Don't Mess With The Zohan - a hilarious comedy about a Mossad Agent (Sandler) who fakes his own death in order to pursue his dream... To become a hairstylist in New York!



2 copies in store Thursday 15th January/Friday 16th January!






When two gunmen, Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortenson), arrive in Appaloosa they find a small, dusty and lawless town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons). Bragg has not only taken supplies, horses, and women for his own, but also has left the city marshal and a deputy for dead. In Bragg they an unusually wily adversary who raises the stakes by playing with emotions. It is now up to Cole and Hitch to stand against the actions of the renegade rancher, which have already taken their toll on the town.


1 copy in store Thursday 15th January/Friday 16th January!







After a decade of meticulously planned heists, respected crime boss Ged Brennan has learnt never to take unnecessary risks.

But when a recent heist goes wrong and a notorious drugs baron is brutally butchered, prompting rival crews to the brink of gang war, Ged's world is thrown into chaos.

Facing betrayal all around him, and with his biggest heist ever approaching, Ged has to rely on his killer instincts as he fights for survival.



1 copy in store Thursday 15th January/Friday 16th January!

New Releases At Movie Mix 8th January 2009!

Sorry I haven't blogged for a while but what with Christmas and New Year, our delivery schedule has been thrown completely out of whack! Speaking of the past holidays, I hope you all had a great Christmas and David and I wish you all a very happy new year. You will notice that I have included titles that had been released over that holiday period but I will start with the titles due out this week. Enjoy... and don't forget to watch the accompanying trailers for a taster of what's to come.






The Escapist stars Brian Cox as Frank Perry - an institutionalized convict who is twelve years into a life sentence without parole.

When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined he make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence.

1 copy in store Thursday 8th January!






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 Thursday 8th January!







When nursery teacher Jenny escapes to the country for a relaxing weekend away with her boyfriend, she is unaware of a romantic surprise he has in store. The location is perfect. A lake enclosed by woodlands, seemingly deserted. The scene is set for a picturesque proposal. But before the happy couple can enjoy the retreat, their peace is shattered by a gang of violent youths.

What begins is a shocking and unrelenting game of cat and mouse, as Jenny is forced to fight back against her aggressors.


1 copy in store Thursday 8th January!


The following films are already in store...




Explore your worst fears imaginable with this shocking suspense thriller inspired by disturbing true events. After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and a haunting voice, Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler) and James Hoyt's (Scott Speedman) remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

2 copies in store NOW!





Cass is the incredible true story of one man's identity struggle and ultimate redemption. The film follows how a Jamaican orphan baby, adopted by an elderly white couple in 1950's London, changed from being the most feared hooligan in the country to Britain's best-selling black author.

2 copies in store NOW!






Bangkok Dangerous stars Nicholas Cage as a hitman who travels to Bangkok to complete an assignment which will change his life forever...

When carrying out a hit, assassin Joe (Cage) always makes use of the knowledge of the local population. On arriving in Bangkok, Joe meets street kid Kong and he becomes his primary aide. But when Kong is nearly killed, he asks Joe to train him up in the deadly arts and unwittingly becomes a target of a band of killers.

Meanwhile, whilst carrying out the assassination of the Prime Minister of Thailand, Joe hesitates, is spotted and becomes a target for gang members himself. He now has a choice: escape the country and save himself or take massive risks in trying to rescue Kong.


3 copies in store NOW!






In Babylon A.D Vin Diesel stars as a veteran-turned-mercenary who is hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The "package" is a mysterious young woman with a secret. Based on the novel by Maurice G. Dantec.


1 copy in store NOW!






The Love Guru stars Mike Myers as Pitka an American who was raised in India by Gurus and is now back in the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality!

His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player, Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke's wife starts dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid -- to the horror of the teams' owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer). Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break a 40-year-old curse and win the Stanley Cup.


1 copy in store NOW!






Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Lauryn, a young girl who embarks on a life changing journey to Chicago in order to chase her dream to become a dancer. When her plans veer off track, she find herself discovering a whole new style of dance, working at a Burlesque club. Filled with fantastic dance routines, Make It Happen details Lauryn's voyage of discovery, as she discovers a whole new side of her self, while still holding on to her dreams.


1 copy in store NOW!






Surviving Each Floor Is The Name Of The Game

Only One Can Survive.

A New Year's bash in an abandoned high-rise building turns into a grisly bloodbath when five guests receive a mysterious text invite to a VIP party on the 27th floor. Joined by two crashers, the strangers soon realize they're trapped and the only way out are the twisted clues left by a murderous psychopath. The catch? Each game leads to one of their own gruesome deaths. With a series of shocking twists, Steel Trap holds you in its grip all the way to its mind-blowing ending.


1 copy in store NOW!







A seasoned senior enlisted special operations United States Marine (Kilmer) is wounded during combat operations in Iraq. He is retired from the Marine Corps and visits a friend on a ranch in the south west. When he arrives he discovers his friend has disappeared and no one will even admit to knowing him.



1 copy in store NOW!