New Blu-ray & DVD releases w/c December 12th 2011

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.New Blu-ray & DVD releases w/c December 12th 2011


New movies and main releases:

  • Casuals (£10.99 DVD, Cornerstone)
  • Conan the Barbarian (£14.99 Blu-ray 3D, £9.99 DVD, Lions Gate)
  • Devils Gate (£7.49 DVD, Bluebell)
  • The First Movie (£8.99 DVD, Dogwoof)
  • The Inbetweeners Movie (£14.99 Blu-ray, £9.99 DVD, C4 DVD)
  • The Interrupters (£8.99 DVD, Dogwoof)
  • Mr. Popper’s Penguins (£14.99 Blu-ray, £11.99 DVD, Paramount)
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes (£14.99 Blu-ray, £9.99 DVD, Fox)
  • Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The World (£14.99 Blu-ray 3D, £9.99 DVD, EIV)
  • Super 8 (£14.99 Blu-ray, £11.99 DVD, Paramount)
TV Series/Misc:
  • 7-49 Up (£20.99 DVD, Network)
  • Britney Spears Live: The Femme Fatale Tour (£7.99 DVD, RCA)
  • Most Haunted: Christmas Spirits (£9.99 DVD, Lions Gate)
  • Pardon the Expression: The Complete Series (£17.99 DVD, Network)
  • Rab C Nesbitt Series 10 (£13.99 DVD, BBC)
  • Redcap: The Complete Series (£34.99 DVD, Network)
  • Tales from Europe: The Singing Ringing Tree and The Tinderbox (£11.99 DVD, Network)
  • U2: From The Sky Down (£12.99 Blu-ray, £10.99 DVD, Mercury)
Blu-ray premieres:
  • Festive Fireplace 3D (£12.49, Cornerstone)
  • Safari 3D (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-Ray) (£12.99, Kaleidoscope)

The Inbetweeners Movie

The multi award-winning Inbetweeners return – in this critically-acclaimed film. Will (Simon Bird), Simon (Joe Thomas), Jay (James Buckley) and Neil (Blake Harrison), have finished school forever, and are off on their first lads holiday. They‘re looking forward to two weeks in Malia with no parents, no teachers and little chance with the ladies.

From disastrous holiday accommodation, to Simon’s heartache, to Neil’s spectacular dancing, to Jay falling asleep in an ants nest, it’s a real coming-of-age film – where 4 boys become men… or at least try to. And with the chance for holiday romance the boys pull out all the stops!

Special Features:

    Extended version, 4 audio commentaries
    Exclusive Special Features (Over 2 hrs of unseen material):

      Making Of
      Joe Thomas Dangerman
      Things We Did Instead of Rehearsing
      London Premiere
      Skye Premiere
      Deleted Scenes
      Sims Parody
      Bloopers

The Inbetweeners Movie is released on Blu-ray (£14.99) and DVD (£9.99).


Rise of the Planet of the Apes


Will Rodman (James Franco) is a San Francisco scientist who has been trying to develop a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease by testing a genetically engineered retrovirus on chimpanzees. The virus mutates the chimpanzees, giving them a human level of intelligence. One of his test subjects, a female chimpanzee, goes on a rampage because she believes her baby, to whom she secretly gave birth, is threatened. She is killed after disrupting a board meeting. Will’s boss Steven Jacobs (David Oyelowo) orders subordinate Robert Franklin (Tyler Labine) to put all the test chimpanzees down, but he cannot bring himself to kill the chimpanzee’s baby, and instead gives him to Will, who names him Caesar (Andy Serkis) and raises him in his house.[5] Caesar has inherited his mother’s high intelligence, and learns quickly.

Will gives a sample of his cure to his father, Charles (John Lithgow), who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. At first his father improves but later his body’s immune system fights off the virus and his dementia returns. In his dementia, Charles gets into his neighbor’s car and damages it, angering the neighbor (David Hewlett). As he threatens Charles and pushes him down, the onlooking Caesar attacks him.

After the incident, Caesar is forced to leave Will’s house and is held in a San Bruno primate facility run by John Landon (Brian Cox). The apes are treated cruelly by Landon’s son Dodge (Tom Felton) who works as a guard there. Caesar is initially treated poorly by both the staff and the other apes. When Dodge brings his friends into the facility, one of them gets too close to Caesar’s cage and is grabbed by Caesar, who steals his pocket knife, later using it to escape his cell. Caesar then frees a gorilla and, with his help, gains dominance over the other apes.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes is released on Blu-ray (£14.99) and DVD (£9.99).


Super 8


In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.

Special Features:

    Commentary by J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, and Larry Fong
    The Dream Behind Super 8
    The Search for New Faces
    Meet Joel Courtney
    Rediscovering Steel Town
    The Visitor Lives
    Scoring Super 8
    Do You Believe in Magic?
    The 8mm Revolution
    Easter Eggs
    Deconstructing the Train Crash
    Deleted Scenes

Super 8 is released on Blu-ray (£14.99) and DVD (£11.99).


Mr. Popper’s Penguins

This is a live-action family comedy film and distributed by 20th Century Fox starring Jim Carrey, based on the children’s book of the same name.

Mr. Tom Popper (Jim Carrey) is a divorced realtor whose father traveled to many far places around the world during his childhood. When his father dies, a crate containing a penguin shows up at his doorstep. Eventually more penguins arrive, bringing the total to six. Originally intending to donate the penguins to the local zoo, Popper’s children fall in love with them so he decides to keep them. At the same time, Popper is given the task of buying Tavern on the Green, an old restaurant that he used to eat at with his father as a child, with the intent of tearing it down and building a new development in its place. However, its elderly owner (Angela Lansbury) will only sell it to someone who she deems a person of true value.

Special Features:

    Exclusive short – Nimrod and Stinky’s Antartic Adventure
    Deleted scenes
    Gag reel
    Featurettes including Penguin Pandemonium and The Legacy of Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Mr. Popper’s Penguins is released on Blu-ray (£14.99) and DVD (£11.99).


Conan the Barbarian


The legendary Conan The Barbarian stars ‘Game of Thrones’s Jason Momoa and Avatar’s Stephen Lang. From the producers of The Expendables comes a visual spectacular that brings the fabled action hero Conan to life like never before!

Based on the character created by Robert E. Howard, Conan was born on the battlefield. From those bloodsoaked beginnings, Conan is destined to venture into an unforgiving world after his father is brutally murdered and his village destroyed. As Conan battles his way through a treacherous world of monsters, sorceresses’ and bloodthirsty enemies, he chances upon Khalar Zym – the warlord responsible for his tribe’s destruction. And so Conan’s quest for true revenge begins… Also starring Ron Perlman and Rose McGowan.

Conan The Barbarian Blu-ray includes the feature as both 2D and 3D formats.

Conan the Barbarian is released on Blu-ray/Blu-ray 3D (£14.99) and DVD (£9.99).


Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The World


The action packed franchise is back…with the next generation of Spy Kids. Marissa Cortez Wilson (Jessica Alba) has it all: married to a famous spy-hunting television reporter (Joel McHale), with a new baby and intelligent twin step kids, Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook). When maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) disrupts her domestic bliss–threatening to take over the planet–Marissa comes out of retirement as a top secret agent.

With Armageddon quickly approaching, Rebecca and Cecil are thrust into action. With a little help from some familiar Spy Kids friends, Carmen (Alexa Vega), Juni (Daryl Sabara), and their faithful dog Argonaut (Ricky Gervais) and some mind-blowing gadgets, they just may be able to save the world.

Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The World is released on Blu-ray/Blu-ray 3D (£14.99) and DVD (£9.99).


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