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Once again, we look at a few titles in more detail which are due out soon. The prices listed are the current prices on Amazon.
21 Jump Street Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier – and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind. With a tagline, “The only thing getting blown tonight is their cover.”, this film stars current hot properties Jonah Hill (The Sitter, Moneyball) and also Channing Tatum (Haywire, The Vow), the trailer for this has a lot of good laughs in it so it looks well worth a watch. Special Features:
21 Jump Street is released on Blu-ray (£12.99) and DVD (£9.99). |
Teen Wolf Season 1 
Teen Wolf is a supernatural drama series that follows Scott McCall (Tyler Posey) a high school student and social outcast that after being bitten by a werewolf, he gains extraordinary supernatural abilities. Scott attempts to maintain a normal life, while hiding from everyone his secret life as a werewolf with the exception of his best friend Stiles Stilinski (Dylan O’Brien) who helps him through this change in his life and body as well as mysterious werewolf, Derek Hale (Tyler Hoechlin). Allison Argent (Crystal Reed) is Scott’s new love interested despite the fact that she is immediately befriended by Lydia Martin (Holland Roden) a shallow yet intelligent girl who is the dating Jackson Whittemore (Colton Hayes) the lacrosse team captain who is suspicious about Scott’s recent displays of physical prowess and vows to find out what his secret is no matter how long it takes. Special Features:
Teen Wolf Season 1 is released on DVD (£13.99). |
Episodes Series 2
Matt LeBlanc plays a deliciously outrageous version of himself in this laugh-out-loud comedy from creators David Crane (Friends) and Jeffrey Klarik (Mad About You). Episodes offers a peek behind the curtain at the insanity of Hollywood. You’ll never watch TV the same way again. Sean (Stephen Mangan) and Beverly (Tamsin Grieg) are a happily married English couple, who are also the successful creators of a hit British TV show. Their life seems complete. That is until a hugely powerful and charismatic US network president persuades them to move to LA to remake their show for American television. He’s full of praise and promises “not to change a thing”. However, things begin to unravel as soon as Sean and Beverly arrive in LA. They discover that the network president has never even seen their show. To make matters worse, he insists that they replace their brilliant lead actor (Richard Griffiths), an erudite Royal Shakespeare veteran with… Matt LeBlanc! Sean and Beverly are appalled. But the decision is out of their hands. Matt comes on board, and soon Sean and Beverly find themselves in a complicated triangle which threatens to destroy not just their TV show but also their marriage. Lauded by USA Today as “easily the best new sitcom of the season”, the critically acclaimed Episodes returns for a much-anticipated second series. The second series picks up four months after the end of the first. Sean and Beverly’s marriage has been blown apart by Beverly’s fling with Matt, and Matt’s friendship with Sean appears to be beyond salvage. But as their sitcom “Pucks!” is about to premiere, all three are forced to find a way to continue working together. As the series progresses, we are plunged deeper into the twisted world of making television. It’s a portrait gallery of megalomaniac network executives, surgically-enhanced actresses and naked stalkers who appear unexpectedly in your kitchen. Through it all, Sean and Beverly struggle to rediscover the love they had when they started their American adventure, while Matt struggles to reclaim the stardom that was once his. Episodes Series 2 is released on Series 2 DVD (£12.99) and Series 1 & 2 DVD (£15.99). |
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
An epic and rigorous tale of a night and day in a murder investigation, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a beautifully photographed crime drama about police and prosecutors locating a buried body through one long night in the Anatolian steppes. In the short prologue three men are drinking and talking. Then a convoy of cars is travelling around the countryside at night as one of the men seen earlier is trying to remember where a body was buried. After several false leads and a rest in a remote village, the body is finally discovered early the next morning. In the course of the long investigation the characters and hidden thoughts of the main protagonists are gradually themselves exhumed. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is released on Blu-ray (£11.99) and DVD (£9.99). |
Rampart
From a screenplay by James Ellroy (“L.A. Confidential”) and director Oren Moverman (Oscar-nominated “The Messenger”), comes Rampart. Veteran police officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson), dedicated to doing “the people’s dirty work” and asserting his own code of justice, is the last of the renegade cops in the LAPD. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as he struggles to take care of his family, and fight for his own survival. With an all star cast including Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Foster and Steve Buscemi, this high octane cop thriller has been labelled “a film to file alongside the great LA noir masterpieces of the 1970s – dazzling, stunning and unique. Bonus Content:
Rampart is released on Blu-ray (£11.99) and DVD (£8.99). |
Trishna
Based on Thomas Hardy s classic novel Tess of the d Urbervilles, TRISHNA is a beautifully shot, classic tale of love and tragedy set across modern day rural Rajasthan and the thriving metropolis of Mumbai. Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman, Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed), who has come to India to work in his father’s hotel business. After an accident destroys her father’s Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings for each other, their relationship must remain a secret due to the conflicting pressures of a rural society which is changing rapidly through industrialisation, urbanisation and, above all, education. Their problems seem to be solved when Jay takes Trishna to an exciting new world of dance, vibrant life and possibilities – Mumbai. But Trishna harbours a dark secret that threatens the very heart of their love affair, and inequalities remain at the centre of their relationship that will lead her to question Jay’s intentions towards her. Trishna is released on Blu-ray (£10.99) and DVD (£9.99). |
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