New Blu-ray & DVD releases w/c July 11th 2011

• Angelo’s (£7.99 DVD, C4 DVD)
  
• Animal Kingdom (£14.93 Blu-ray, £9.99 DVD, Optimum)
  
• Battle: Los Angeles (£13.00 Blu-ray, £10.00 DVD, Sony)
  
• Bloomington (£8.99 DVD, TLA)
  
• Bruce Hornsby & The Range: The Way It Is (£3.99 DVD, EV Classics)
  
• Conan The Barbarian (£12.59 Blu-ray, Fox)
  
• Doctor Who Series 6 Part 1 (£17.93 Blu-ray, £15.93 DVD, BBC)
  
• Essential Killing (£9.99 Blu-ray, £8.99 DVD, Artificial Eye)
  
• Fair Game (£13.93 Blu-ray, £9.99 DVD, E1)
  
• Ironclad (£13.93 Blu-ray, £9.93 DVD, Warner)
  
• Law and Order: UK Series 4 (£12.93 DVD, Universal)
  
• Lead Baloon Series 4 (£12.99 DVD, £22.47 Complete DVD Boxset, BBC)
  
• Love’s Kitchen (£6.99 DVD, 20/20)
  
• Luther Series 2 (£11.99 DVD, £22.47 Complete DVD Boxset, BBC)
  
• My Dog Tulip (£8.99 DVD, Axiom)
  
• Obsession (£15.93 Blu-ray, Arrow)
  
• Patagonia (£12.93 Blu-ray, £8.99 DVD, Verve)
  
• Second Thoughts Series 2 (£11.99 DVD, Network)
  
• Sperm Donor Unknown (£12.99 DVD, Brightspark)
  
• Single Handed Series 1 (£15.93 DVD, Acorn)
  
• Slaughter High (£9.99 DVD, Arrow)
  
• The Task (£12.99 Blu-ray, £8.97 DVD, G2)
  
• That’s What I Am (£12.99 Blu-ray, £8.97 DVD, Clear Vision)
  

Battle: Los Angeles

Battle: Los Angeles is a war movie first, science fiction second. It’s got it all: a burned-out retiring sergeant who gets drawn back in because, dammit, the Marines need him; the guy who’s about to get married; the guy who’s still a virgin; the guy suffering from shell shock and who just might crack; the newbie officer with a lot of book learning who you just know is going to freeze under pressure and have to be shepherded by that burned-out sergeant, who learned his lessons on the battlefield… and so much more.

There’s not a moment in this movie you haven’t seen before–the only twist is that the enemy is alien, so whatever shred of concern you might have for raining heavy artillery on a fellow human being can be cheerfully cast aside. But clichés are clichés because they are efficient and effective, and despite the profound familiarity of Battle: Los Angeles, there’s no denying the movie rips along (though two-thirds of the way through you may have forgotten who was the virgin and who was the shell-shocked guy–but really, does it matter?).

The look owes a debt to District 9, a hand-held, vérité grittiness, with most of the CGI carefully given a dingy, dirty look so that it meshes with the urban landscape. Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight) does an impressive job of spitting out ham-fisted dialogue like he really, really means it, while the rest of the cast is suitably generic. This is an unrepentant love letter to the military; many viewers, faced with the unsettling chaos and moral ambiguities of real wars, will find this mythologizing not only soothing, but even moving.

Special Features include:

• PS3 Theme
  
• Behind The Battle
  
• Directing the Battle
  
• Building the Aliens
  
• Acting with Aliens
  
• Shooting the Aliens
  
• Preparing for Battle
  
• Boot Camp
  
• Creating L.A. in LA
  
• The Freeway Battle
  
• Command Control
  
• Staff Sergeant Nantz
  
• Marine Behind The Scenes
  
• Aliens Ambush The Marines
  
• Battling Unknown Forces
  
• Technical Sargeant Santos
  
• Alien Autopsy
  
• Gas Station Explosion
  
• Visual FX on the Freeway
  
• Do You Believe in Aliens?
  
• Alien Command & Control
  

Battle: Los Angeles is released on Blu-ray (£17.93) and DVD (£10.00).

A medieval Magnificent Seven, that combines the visceral, stylized action of 300 with the impassioned heroism and romance of Braveheart. Starring James Purefoy (Solomon Kane), Brian Cox (The Bourne Supremacy), and Paul Giamatti (Shoot ‘Em Up), Ironclad is an ultra-violent action thriller that tells the true story of a motley crew of tough, battle hardened warriors, who withstood several brutal and bloody months under siege, in a desperate bid to defend their country’s freedom.

Ironclad is released on Blu-ray (£13.93) and DVD (£9.93).

The Doctor returns, alongside newly weds Amy and Rory, to face monsters and mysteries and adventures all across time and space, in a thrilling new series of Doctor Who. Together they’ll find themselves in sixties America, battling the invasion the world forgot, then journey on the high seas of 1696 aboard a pirate ship, to solve the mystery of the Siren.

In a bubble universe at the very edge of reality, the Doctor will meet an old friend with a new face, and in a monastery on a remote island in the near future, an industrial accident will take on a terrible human shape. And waiting for them, at the end of all this, is the battle of Demon’s Run, and the Doctor’s darkest hour. Can even the truth about River Song save the Time Lord’s soul?

Only two things are certain. Silence will fall. And a good man is going to die…

Special Features:

• The Silence – Look behind you… featuring exclusive behind the scenes footage, the silence is broken on the most terrifying creatures to ever mess with the Doctor’s mind. With never before seen interviews and designs from the Doctor Who production team.
  
• The Gangers – See the flesh made real in this exclusive featurette on how the Doctor Who team created The Gangers. With exclusive footage of these ‘doubly’ scary new monsters, behind-the-scenes action and interviews with the cast and crew.
  

Doctor Who Series 6 Part 1 is released on Blu-ray (£17.93) and DVD (£15.93).

From the director of The Bourne Identity comes this riveting thriller inspired by the experiences of real-life CIA officer Valerie Plame (Academy Award® nominee Naomi Watts). When Plame’s retired ambassador husband Joe Wilson (played by Academy Award® winner Sean Penn) writes a newspaper article challenging the basis for the U.S. war on Iraq, the White House leaks Plame’s undercover status leaving her international contacts vulnerable, her career in shambles and her life in danger.

Crackling with sharp dialogue, gripping intrigue and heart-pounding suspense, Fair Game is the adventure that’s so unbelievable, it can only be real.

Fair Game is released on Blu-ray (£13.93), and DVD (£9.99).