6 new releases this week including "The Changeling", "Body Of Lies" and "Lakeview Terrace. Don't forget to watch the trailers to get a sneak preview...
Clint Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich in Changeling a provocative thriller based on actual events.
Los Angeles, 1928: On a Saturday morning in a working-class suburb, Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) said goodbye to her son, Walter, and left for work. When she came home, she discovered he had vanished. A fruitless search ensues, and months later, a boy claiming to be the nine-year-old is returned. Dazed by the swirl of police, reporters and her conflicted emotions, Christine allows him to stay overnight. But in her heart, she knows he is not Walter.
As she pushes authorities to keep looking, she learns that in Prohibition-era L.A. women don't challenge the system and live to tell their story. Slandered as delusional and unfit, Christine finds an ally in activist Reverend Briegleb (Malkovich), who helps her fight the city to look for her missing boy.
3 copies in store Friday 27th March!
The CIAs hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agencys man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky a satellite link watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIAs Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
Leonardo DiCaprio (as Ferris) and Russell Crowe (as Hoffman) star in Body of Lies, adapted by William Monahan (The Departed) from the David Ignatius novel. Ridley Scott (American Gangster, Black Hawk Down) directs this impactful tale, orchestrating exciting action sequences and plunging viewers into a bold spy thriller for our time.
3 copies in store Friday 27th March!
In Lakeview Terrace, a young couple (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington) has just moved into their California dream home when they become the target of their next-door neighbor, who disapproves of their interracial relationship. A stern, single father, this tightly wound LAPD officer (Samuel L. Jackson) has appointed himself the watchdog of the neighbourhood. His nightly foot patrols and overly watchful eyes bring comfort to some, but he becomes increasingly harassing to the newlyweds. These persistent intrusions into their lives ultimately turn tragic when the couple decides to fight back.
2 copies in store Friday 27th March!
In My Best Friend's Girl Dane Cook is Tank. When guys get dumped, they hire Tank to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives - an experience so horrible it sends them running gratefully back to their beaus. So when Tank's best friend, Dustin (Jason Biggs), is dumped by his new girlfriend, Tank naturally offers to help out... and ends up meeting the challenge of a lifetime. Smart, beautiful and headstrong, Alexis (Kate Hudson) is the first girl who knows how to call his bluff, and Tank soon finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dustin and his love for his best friend's girl.
1 copy in store Friday 27th March!
Lust is blind
Based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago Blindness stars Julianne Moore as a doctor's wife who becomes the only person with the ability to see in a town where everyone is struck with a mysterious case of sudden Blindness. She feigns illness in order to take care of her husband (Mark Ruffalo) as her surrounding community breaks down into chaos and disorder.
1 copy in store Friday 27th March!
Welcome to the no-holds barred epic portrayal of the life of heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. Tyson: The Movie will take you on an incredible journey into the legendary boxer¹s life, from his days as a teenage drug dealer and thief in Brooklyn, New York to his meteoric rise to fame as the champion of the world and on to his shocking and outrageous decline.
For the first time in history, and in his own words, this unparalleled extremist takes you deep into his gritty world of crime, drug addiction and violence. Witness the 'monster' fighting for his reputation and his very life while imprisoned for rape, tearing Evander Holyfield¹s ear off with his teeth and tasting defeat at the hands of Britain's Lennox Lewis... all before finally declaring bankruptcy and revealing the loss of a $400 million fortune.
The top of the world or the bottom of the ocean... there is no in-between.
1 copy in store Friday 27th March!
Thursday, 26 March 2009
New Releases At Movie Mix 27th March 2009!
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Thursday, 12 March 2009
New Releases At Movie Mix 20th March 2009!
We've had people asking for it for months, it's probably on of the most anticipated films this year... yes, that's right, you guessed it "Quantum Of Solace"!! It's here!!
We also have 5 other new releases this week: "Zack And Miri Make A Porno", "Green Street 2", "Southern Gothic", "Blood Brothers" and " Flawless". Enjoy!
Quantum Of Solace continues the high octane adventures of James Bond (Daniel Craig) in Casino Royale.
Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M (Judi Dench) interrogate Mr White (Jesper Christensen) who reveals the organisation which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
Forensic intelligence links an Mi6 traitor to a bank account in Haiti where a case of mistaken identity introduces Bond to the beautiful but feisty Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a woman who has her own vendetta. Camille leads Bond straight to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a ruthless business man and major force within the mysterious organisation.
On a mission that leads him to Austria, Italy and South America, Bond discovers that Greene, conspiring to take total control of one of the world's most important natural resources, is forging a deal with the exiled General Medrano (Joaquin Cosio). Using his associates in the organisation, and manipulating his powerful contacts within the CIA and the British government, Greene promises to overthrow the existing regime in a Latin American country, giving the General control of the country in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of land.
In a minefield of treachery, murder and deceit, Bond allies with old friends in a battle to uncover the truth. As he gets closer to finding the man responsible for the betrayal of Vesper, 007 must keep one step ahead of the CIA, the terrorists and even M, to unravel Greene's sinister plan and stop his organisation.
4 copies on DVD and 1 Blu-Ray in store Friday 20th March!
Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks star in Kevin Smith's new film Zack And Miri Make A Porno.
Lifelong platonic friends Zack (Rogen) and Miri (Banks) look to solve their respective cashflow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.
2 copies in store Friday 20th March!
Football and violence collide once again with football hooliganism, but this time in prison.
2 copies in store Friday 20th March!
Hazel Fortune (Yul Vazquez) works in a strip club in the small Southern town of Redemption. Haunted by the death of his only daughter, Fortune has become a self-destructive, suicidal alcoholic, until he meets Starla Motes (Nicole DuPort). Hazel's downward spiral is interrupted when is befriended by Starlas daughter, Hope (Emily Young). But when Hope is kidnapped by Enoch Pitt (William Forsythe), a ruthless, psychotic preacher on a bloody crusade, Hazel must make the decision to rejoin the living and risk life and limb to save her from a terrible end.
1 copy in store Friday 20th March!
From producers John Woo and Terence Chang, the visionary minds behind undisputed action masterpieces "Hard Boiled", "Mission: Impossible II" and "Red Cliff", comes a new classic of heroic bloodshed cinema.
1930s Shanghai: a glittering city of vice and decadence. Three young men arrive to this exhilarating paradise in search of a better future. But as time goes by, their paths diverge as they all descend into a perilous life of crime. Soon, friends turn against friends, brother against brother as the blood bonds forged in the innocent early days of their friendship are shattered. Once, they hoped for a better tomorrow; now tragedy and betrayal have become a way of life.
Crafted by the acclaimed talents behind such breathtaking spectacles as "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon", "House Of Flying Daggers" and "Brotherhood Of The Wolf", "Blood Brothers" is a bullet-soaked journey into a thrilling and explosive gangster's paradise.
1 copy in store Friday 20th March!
Flawless is a thrilling crime drama, set in London in 1960. Michael Caine stars as a retired janitor who convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive (Demi Moore) to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation.
1 copy in store Friday 20th March!
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009
New Releases At Movie Mix 13th March 2009!
Welcome back to our weekly blog! Eight new releases to tell you about this week, including: Simon Pegg in "How To Lose Friends And Alienate People", Kiera Knightly as "The Duchess", and Al Pacino in "88 Minutes". Make sure you watch the trailers to help you decide what to watch.
How To Lose Friends And Alienate People Stars Simon Pegg as Sidney Young, a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him.
2 copies in store Friday 13th March!
In The Duchess Keira Knightley will play the 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. An ancestor of Princess Diana, she lived an extravagant, profligate and promiscuous life of political and romantic intrigue, becoming an important powerbroker amid Britain's ruling elite but also running up catastrophic gambling debts. She was alternately feted and reviled, and widely caricatured by the popular press.
1 copy in store Friday 13th March!
He has 88 minutes to solve a murder... His own!
Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Gramm - a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, who include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row, before his time runs out.
2 copies in store Friday 13th March 2009!
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 Friday 13th March!
Josh Brolin stars as George W. Bush in acclaimed director Oliver Stone's new biopic W.!
Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that America's 43rd President is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. W. will take viewers through the trials and tribulations of Bush's eventful life - and joining Brolin on the ride will be the fair Elisabeth Banks, Thandie Newton, Richard Dreyfuss, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn, Ioan Grufford and Scott Glenn.
1 copy in store Friday 13th March!
War, Inc stars John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Ben Kingsley, Marisa Tomei and Hilary Duff!
War, Inc is a political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Dan Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires Brand Hauser (John Cusack) - a hit man - to kill a Middle East oil minister.
Now, struggling with his own growing demons, Brand must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff) an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter (Marisa Tomei) in check.
1 copy in store Friday 13th March!
Eagle Eye sees the return of Shia LaBeouf and Disturbia director D.J. Caruso!
Shia LaBeouf stars as Jerry, a young slacker whose overachieving twin brother dies mysteriously. When he returns home, he finds that he has been framed as a terrorist - along with his single mother! Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to carry out a political assassination, they must work together to extricate themselves.
Two unsuspecting Americans are separately drawn into a conspiracy by a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. By the time they discover her frightening identity, they have become her unwitting accomplices in a diabolical assassination plot.
1 copy in store Friday 13th March!
A high-octane action romance set in the world of British street racing and boy racer gangs.
Gear up for an adrenaline fuelled ride through the secretive world of high octane street racing. Brent lives on a rough Brighton estate where he looks after his alcoholic Dad and kid brother but it's his passion for cars that provides an escape; he's got an old Ford Capri that he's spent all of his spare time customising and which is now the fastest, gutsiest car around. Living fast in a world of danger is his life, it is his world. But in one week his world will be turned upside down...
1 copy in store Friday 13th March!
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Wednesday, 4 March 2009
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!
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