New Blu-ray & DVD releases w/c August 15th 2011

New Blu-ray & DVD releases w/c August 15th 2011Once 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.


New movies:

  • AC/DC: Let There Be Rock! (£12.93 Blu-ray, £10.99 DVD, Warner)
  • Camp Victory, Afghanistan (£11.99 DVD, Safecracker)
  • The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (£14.93 Blu-ray, £9.99 DVD, Optimum)
  • Mars Needs Moms (£8.99 DVD, Walt Disney)
  • Quarantine 2: Terminal (£8.49 DVD, Sony)
  • Sapphire (£7.99 DVD, Spirit)
  • Source Code (£12.99 Blu-ray, £9.99 DVD, Optimum)
  • The Strange World of Gurney Slade (£8.97 DVD, Network)
  • Theirs Is The Glory (£9.99 DVD, Spirit)
  • Uninhabited (£8.99 DVD, G2)

TV Series:
  • 90210 Season 3 (£25.97 DVD, Paramount)
  • Agatha Christie’s Marple Series 1-5 Complete (£69.99 DVD, ITV)
  • Angry Boys (£14.99 DVD, BBC)
  • Black Butler Series 1 Part 1 (£14.99 DVD, Manga)
  • Boon Series 5 (£27.99 DVD, Network)
  • Dramarama: Spooky – The Complete Series (£11.99 DVD, Network)
  • Gossip Girl Season 4 (£27.99 DVD, £47.99 Complete Boxset, Warner)
  • Heartbeat Series 6 (£34.99 DVD, Network)
  • Louis Theroux – The Odd, the Bad and the Godly (£12.99 DVD, BBC)
  • Mock the Week Too Hot For TV Box Set (£24.99 DVD, Spirit)
  • My Family Series 11 (£11.99 DVD, BBC)
  • Murdoch Mysteries Series 3 (£27.97 DVD, ITV)
  • Sekirei: The Complete Series (£17.93 DVD, Manga)
  • September Song Series 3 (£10.99 DVD, Network)

Blu-ray premieres:
  • Curse of the Golden Flower (£13.99, Universal)
  • Earth and Space (How the Earth Was Made & The Universe) (£29.99, History)
  • IMAX Deep Sea (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray) (£15.93, Warner)
  • The Spy Kids Trilogy (£36.97, Lions Gate)

AC/DC: Let There Be Rock!

A legendary concert that’s long been tricky to track down, AC/DC: Let There Be Rock! has finally got a long overdue disc release. And fortunately, it’s been worth the wait.

The concert was originally released in 1980, but has remained steadfastly hard to get hold of. Let There Be Rock’s arrival on Blu-ray brings with it 13 songs, including some of the band’s finest work. The songs themselves are further interspersed with interviews and backstage material, and it’s been put together extremely well. It positively glistens in high definition– it’s simply never looked better.

But, inevitably, it’s the performance itself that makes Let There Be Rock so special. This is the work of a very strong set of musicians, at the very top of their game. The concert, and the depiction of it here, is superb, and it’s a genuine musical treat. There’s an argument that, for the disc release, some tidying-up work on the audio wouldn’t have hurt, but given that it’s so long since Let There Be Rock has been available, it’s only a minor quibble.

The key factor here is that an important musical concert has been made properly available at last so that many more generations will be able to enjoy all that Let There Be Rock has to offer.

Special Features:

  • AC/DC: The Bedrock of Riff
  • Angus Young: A True Guitar Monster
  • Bon Scott: The Pirate of Rock ‘n’ Roll
  • AC/DC: A Rock Solid Legacy
  • “Bad Boy Boogie” Pod
  • “The Jack” Pod
  • “Highway to Hell” Pod
  • “Whole Lotta Rosie” Pod
  • “Rocker” Pod
  • AC/DC Playlist
  • AC/DC Playlist-Live Wire
  • AC/DC Playlist-Shot Down in Flames
  • AC/DC Playlist-Hell Ain’t a Bad Place To Be
  • AC/DC Playlist-Sin City
  • AC/DC Playlist-Rocker
  • AC/DC Playlist-Bad Boy Boogie
  • AC/DC Playlist-The Jack
  • AC/DC Playlist-Highway to Hell
  • AC/DC Playlist-Girls Got Rhythm
  • AC/DC Playlist-High Voltage
  • AC/DC Playlist-Whole Lotta Rosie
  • AC/DC Playlist-Walk All Over You
  • AC/DC Playlist-Let There Be Rock
  • Loud, Locked and Loaded: The Rites of Rock

  • “Let There Be Rock” Pod

AC/DC: Let There Be Rock! is released on Blu-ray (£12.93) and DVD (£10.99).


Source Code

Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is on a mission to identify a bomber who destroyed a train just hours earlier and who plans to kill thousands more with a much larger explosion in the heart of Chicago.

A top-secret program, named ‘Source Code’, allows Colter to exist briefly as another man in the parallel reality of the doomed commuter train. Each time he returns to the train, Colter has just eight minutes to uncover the bomber’s identity. The more he learns, the more convinced he becomes that he can prevent the deadly blast from ever happening – unless time runs out first.

Filled with mind-boggling twists and heart-pounding suspense, Source Code is a smart action-thriller directed by Duncan Jones (Moon) also starring Michelle Monaghan (Eagle Eye, Due Date), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, The Departed), and Jeffrey Wright (Quantum of Solace, Syriana).

Special Features:

  • Audio commentary with Jake Gyllenhaal, director Duncan Jones and writer Ben Ripley
  • Cast and crew insights
  • Focal points
  • Expert Intel – The Science Behind Source Code
  • Access Source Code: Trivia track

Source Code is released on Blu-ray (£12.93) and DVD (£9.99).


Gossip Girl Season 4


High society and low blows are back as Gossip Girl continues for its much-anticipated fourth season. Last season ended with a bang as a heartbroken Chuck lay bleeding in the streets of Prague while Blair and a newly single Serena jetted off to Paris for a fabulous summer abroad. Meanwhile, Nate, fresh off his painful breakup with Serena, decided to take a page out of Chuck’s playboy playbook just as Dan discovered he was going to have to settle down and be a father.

Gossip Girl Season 4 is released on DVD (£27.99) and DVD Boxset (£47.99).


Angry Boys


Chris Lilley (We Can Be Heroes, Summer Heights High) amps up his acutely observed character-based comedy style in the highly acclaimed mockumentary series Angry Boys. Chris brings to life Daniel and Nathan Sims, identical twins who live on a farm in Dunt, South Australia; Ruth Sims, aka Gran, a prison guard who works at a juvenile justice centre for boys; U.S. rapper S.mouse, who finds himself on house arrest after doing a poo on a police car; former world surfing champion Blake Oakfield, a surf gang leader who lost his balls in a shooting; and Jen Okazaki, domineering mother/manager of her skateboarding champion son and creator of the Gaystyle Enterprises empire.

Angry Boys is released on DVD (£14.97).


Quarantine 2: Terminal


Quarantine: When a news crew decides to trail a brave fire-fighting team, they never suspect that the first call for help they respond to that night may be their last. Now they’re trapped in an apartment complex sealed off by the government. With no way of escape, they find themselves surrounded by frightened residents who are infected with a deadly mutant virus. What happens next is only known because of the footage they left behind.

Quarantine 2: Earlier tonight, a bizarre disease was unleashed in a run-down Los Angeles tenement. No one got out alive, but something escaped. Aboard Flight 318, the first symptoms begin to show. As the infection begins to takes root, innocent passengers suddenly transform into terrifying, bloodthirsty killers. Forced to land at an isolated terminal, and surrounded by armed government agents, the crew and passengers grow increasingly desperate. The only question now is how far they will go to survive.

Special Features:

  • Commentary with Writer/Director John Erick Dowdle and Writer/Producer Drew Dowdle
  • Locked In: The Making of Quarantine
  • Dressing the Infected: Robert Hall’s Make-Up Design

Quarantine 2: Terminal is released on DVD (£8.49) and DVD Boxset (£12.99).


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