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Once again, we look at a few titles in more detail which are due out next week. The prices listed are the current prices on Amazon. 
TV Series:
Blu-ray premieres:
House Season 7 House (Hugh Laurie) and Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) explore the ramifications admitting they have feelings for each other and attempt to make a real relationship work. Meanwhile, due to a colleague’s illness, Princeton Plainsboro is left without a neurosurgeon on site, threatening the hospital’s accreditation as a Level 1 Trauma Center. As the team attempts treatment to get their sick colleague back to work, they discover there is more to the illness than they originally suspected and turn to House for direction. Instead, House remains elusive, leaving the team on its own in the season premiere episode of House. House Season 7 is released on Blu-ray (£32.99) and DVD (£22.99). |
Thor 
Special Features:
Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant Featurettes Road to the Avengers Deleted Scenes with optional commentary Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailer Avengers Animated Trailer Thor is released on Blu-ray (£14.93), Blu-ray 3D (£17.99) and DVD (£9.99). |
Fringe Season 3 
Fringe, the series that Rolling Stone calls the “most exciting drama around,” returns with a brand new season of endless impossibilities, exploring the depths of the mysterious saga that holds millions of viewers in its hypnotic grasp. Shape shifters, cryonic heads, belly-dwelling beasts, and shadows that turn victims to dust inhabited the last season. Season three plunges further down the rabbit-hole as we rejoin our three unlikely partners–FBI Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but damaged scientist Walter Bishop, and his jack-of-all-trades son Peter–on mind-bending investigations, battling threats lurking at the border between science and science fiction. The world of the impossible is alive and well in what The New York Times describes as “the most satisfying, coherent story arc of any science-fiction-flavoured primetime drama.” Fringe Season 3 is released on Blu-ray (£36.93) and DVD (£29.99). |
The Killing Season 1 
Set in Seattle, the story also explores local politics as it follows politicians connected to the case. As the series unfolds, it becomes clear that there are no accidents; everyone has a secret, and while the characters think they’ve moved on, their past isn’t done with them. The Killing Season 1 is released on Blu-ray (£25.99) and DVD (£17.99). |
Ben-Hur – Ultimate Collector’s Edition 
Ben-Hur’s childhood friend Messala (Stephen Boyd) is now an ambitious Roman tribune; when Ben-Hur refuses to help Messala round up local dissidents on behalf of the emperor, Messala pounces on the first opportunity to exact revenge on his onetime friend. Tried on a trumped-up charge of attempting to kill the provincial governor (whose head was accidentally hit by a falling tile), Ben-Hur is condemned to the Roman galleys, while his mother (Martha Scott) and sister (Cathy O’Donnell) are imprisoned. But during a sea battle, Ben-Hur saves the life of commander Quintus Arrius (Jack Hawkins), who, in gratitude, adopts Ben-Hur as his son and gives him full control over his stable of racing horses. Ben-Hur never gives up trying to find his family or exact revenge on Messala. At crucial junctures in his life, he also crosses the path of Jesus, and each time he benefits from it. The highlight of the film’s 212 minutes is its now-legendary chariot race, staged largely by stunt expert Yakima Canutt. Ben-Hur’s Oscar haul included Best Picture, Best Director for the legendary William Wyler, Best Actor for Heston, and Best Supporting Actor for Welsh actor Hugh Griffith as an Arab sheik. Disc One & Two: The Movie
Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio Commentary by film historian T. Gene Hatcher with scene specific comments from Charlton Heston Music-only track showcasing Miklos Rozsa’s score Disc Three: Special Features
Ben-Hur: 1925 silent version, from the Thames Television restoration with stereophonic orchestral score by composer Carl Davis (143 min) 2005 Documentary: Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema–Current filmmakers such as Ridley Scott reflect on the importance and influence of the film on modern epics (58 min) 1994 Documentary: Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic, hosted by Christopher Plummer (58 min) Ben-Hur: A Journey Through Pictures–Audiovisual recreation of the film via stills, storyboards, sketches, music and dialogue Screen tests (30 min) Vintage newsreels gallery Highlights from the 1960 Academy Awards ® ceremony Theatrical trailer gallery Ben-Hur – Ultimate Collector’s Edition is released on Blu-ray (£15.99). |
Southland Season 1 & 2 
Michael Cudlitz (A River Runs Through It) plays John Cooper a seasoned Los Angeles cop, assigned to train young rookie Ben Sherman (Benjamin McKenzie, The O.C.). Cooper’s honest, no-nonsense approach to the job leaves Sherman questioning whether or not he has what it takes to become a police officer. Cudlitz and McKenzie are joined by cast members Regina King (Ray, Jerry Maguire) who plays Detective Lydia Adams. Adams lives with and is the primary caregiver of her mother. Her partner, Detective Russell Clarke (Tom Everett Scott) is an unhappily married father of three. Michael McGrady (The Thin Red Line) plays Detective Daniel “Sal” Salinger. Sal oversees fellow gang detectives Nate Moretta (Kevin Alejandro) and Sammy Bryant (Shawn Hatosy, Dexter Season 5). Arija Bareikis plays patrol officer Chickie Brown, a single mom who dreams of being the first woman accepted into SWAT. Southland Season 1 & 2 is released on DVD (£17.99). |
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