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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.
The Muppets Muppet domination continues with a hilarious new movie from Walt Disney Studios. Jason Segel, Academy Award® nominee (Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role, Junebug, 2005; Doubt, 2008; The Fighter, 2010) Amy Adams and Academy Award® winner (Best Performance by An Actor In A Supporting Role, Adaptation, 2002) Chris Cooper join everyone’s favourite Muppets and an all-star celebrity cast in a comic adventure for the whole family. While on vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, his brother Gary, and friend Mary uncover the diabolical plot of a greedy oil millionaire to destroy the Muppet Theatre. Now, the Muppet-loving trio must reunite Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and their friends to stage the greatest Muppet telethon ever and save their beloved theatre. The gang is back together again in a must-own movie full of irresistible music and family fun. Bring home the biggest Muppet adventure ever on Disney Blu-ray! Special Features:
Scratching The Surface: A Hasty Examination Of The Making Of The Muppets A Little Screen Test On The Way To The Read Through Deleted Scenes Theatrical Spoof Trailers Audio Commentary With Jason Segel, James Bobin And Nicholas Stoller The Muppets is released on Blu-ray (£15.99) and DVD (£10.99). |
J. Edgar 
During his lifetime, J. Edgar Hoover would rise to be the most powerful man in America. As head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years, he would stop at nothing to protect his country. Through eight presidents and three wars, Hoover waged battle against threats both real and perceived, often bending the rules to keep his countrymen safe. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted, if ever elusive, prize. Hoover was a man who placed great value on secrets-particularly those of others – and was not afraid to use that information to exert authority over the leading figures in the nation. Understanding that knowledge is power and fear poses opportunity, he used both to gain unprecedented influence and to build a reputation that was both formidable and untouchable. He was as guarded in his private life as he was in his public one, allowing only a small and protective inner circle into his confidence. His closest colleague, Clyde Tolson, was also his constant companion. His secretary, Helen Gandy, who was perhaps most privy to Hoover’s designs, remained loyal to the end…and beyond. Only Hoover’s mother, who served as his inspiration and his conscience, would leave him, her passing truly crushing to the son who forever sought her love and approval. As seen through the eyes of Hoover himself, J. Edgar explores the personal and public life and relationships of a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it during a life devoted to his own idea of justice, often swayed by the darker side of power. Watching the trailer, I know nothing about J Edgar Hoover and I still don’t know a lot, but Di Caprio has proved himself a very watchable actor and Clint Eastwood doesn’t often put a foot wrong, so this could well be worth a watch. Extra Content
J. Edgar is released on Blu-ray (£13.99) and DVD (£8.99). |
Safe House
Safe House is the kind of film where, for anyone who’s seen the trailer, you can simply check your brain at the door. It’s really not a film about rocket science. Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is a CIA agent who spends many dull days monitoring cameras in a safe house in Johannesburg with no ‘house guests’. That’s until the biggest bad-ass of them all is ushered in. Enter Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), who’s handed himself into the authorities after a shady deal causes him to be tailed by some grumpy-looking baddies wanting to pop a cap in his bottom, led by a chap called Vargas (Fares Fares). You know he’s evil because he never smiles and he has a beard. And all this is fine as a film for about 40 minutes or so, after which time things start to slow down for a while, then there’s some more action for a bit, then there’s a twist straight out of the “Hollywood Big Book of Twists”, then things meander for a bit longer, stalling occasionally. And then it ends. For a film with such a simple premise, there’s a confusing element in there. Not the machinations of the plot, but in how it was all put together in the way it was, and also in having a number of big names and failing to utilise their talents and letting them sleepwalk through the two hour running time. Safe House is released on is released on Blu-ray (£17.99) and DVD (£8.99). |
Man on a Ledge
Twenty storeys upwanted fugitive Nick Cassidy threatens suicide from a Manhattan rooftop. Ashostage negotiator Lydia Mercer tries to talk him down she discovers that Cassidy was convicted for his part in a multi-million dollar diamond robbery. Whilst Cassidy creates the ultimate distraction his brother and his feisty girlfriend are out to prove his innocence by committing a new crime. With an all-star cast that includes Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Anthony Mackie, Jamie Bell, Ed Harris and Edward Burns, this adrenalin fuelled action thriller will have you on the edge of your seat… Special Features: Featurette: The Ledge, Trailer with commentary by Elizabeth Banks, Interviews with Crew. Man on a Ledge is released on Blu-ray (£13.99) and DVD (£9.99). |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father’s belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open. A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls “The Worst Day,” he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears. Now, as Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock-–encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way–he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, to the mother who seems so far away from him and to the whole noisy, dangerous, discombobulating world around him. Special Features
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is released on Blu-ray (£14.99) and DVD (£11.99). |
K9 Complete Box Set
K9 The COMPLETE COLLECTION is TV s Most loved Robot dog K9 blasts back into action via a Space Time Manipulator and arrives in the late 21st Century in a London scarred by Alien Intrusion and Government rule through a Cybernetic Police Force. K9 is a cybernetic construct from the 50th Century and has the appearance of an earth dog both in shape and size. He arrives at the home of Professor Gryffen, a renowned cybernetics and temporal dynamics expert who is working on the Alien Space-Time-Manipulator (STM) which opens a portal to anywhere in space and time. K9 is following a group of rogue Aliens, Jixen Warriors who attack Gryffen and a couple of teenagers; Starkey a homeless rebel and Jorjie, a very capable intelligent young girl. To save them K9 sacrifices himself and explodes, soon followed by his regeneration thanks to a strange alien device implanted in his mainframe. The new look K9 can now hover and fly and has more capabilities than ever before. K9 loses his long term memory and begins a quest to not only protect humanity but to discover more about his time and Space travelling past. The year is 2059 and the Earth has suffered at the hands of natural disasters and the world government s have developed cybernetic technology and replaced human police and security forces with Cybernetic Civil Pacification Corps (The CCPC) who are controlled by the sinister Department. The Department have divisions run by Inspectors who control Public Order and Alien and Paranormal activity. Alongside Gryffens errand boy, Darius the teens are destined to become K9 s companions in the battle against repression by the Department and the ongoing intrusion by Alien Life forms. The series features many new and bizarre Alien menaces from beyond Time and Space as well as some evil home grown human adversaries. K9 Complete Box Set is released on DVD (£21.99). |
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