New Blu-ray & DVD releases w/c May 2nd 2011

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New Blu-ray & DVD releasesw/c May 2nd 2011

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Once again, we look at a few titles in more detail which are due out next week. The prices listed are the currentprices on Amazon.

• Archer Season 1 (£11.93 DVD, Fox)
• Arthur and the Great Adventure (£10.93 DVD, EIV)
• The Big C Season 1 (£15.93 DVD, Sony)
• Bruce Springsteen: The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town Documentary (£8.99 DVD, Columbia)
• The Complete Stressed Eric Collection (£15.93 DVD, BBC)
• Daniel Deronda (£11.93 DVD, Second Sight)
• The Green Hornet (£15.93 Blu-ray, £17.93 3D Blu-ray, £9.97 DVD, Sony)
• I Come With The Rain (£11.93 Blu-ray, £8.93 DVD, Trinity)
• Rock & Chips: The Complete Collection (£16.93 DVD, BBC)
• Star Trek: The Original Series Complete (£144.93 Blu-ray, £73.97 DVD, Paramount)
• The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: The Murder at Road Hill House (£9.99 DVD, 2entertain)
• Tekken (£11.99 Blu-ray, £8.44 DVD, Optimum)
• The Time Traveller: The Girl Who Lept Through Time (£10.99 DVD, Manga)
• Twilight Zone Season 1 (£34.93 Blu-ray, £24.99 DVD, Fremantle)
• Waking the Dead Series 9 (£17.93 DVD, £84.93 Complete DVD Boxset, BBC)

Waking the Dead Series 9

Starring Sue Johnstone, Tara Fitzgerald and Trevor Eve, the ninth series sees Detective Superintendent Boyd and his cold case team tackle their most challenging and personal cases to date. Foisted upon Boyd by the top brass of the Police Force is a new team member: DSI Sarah Cavendish, a brilliant counter-terrorism officer who matches Boyd in rank. He knows she must have fallen from grace to end up with the Cold Case squad alongside him – but how? As the team pick up on Sarah’s on-going symptoms of post-traumatic stress, Sarah repeatedly challenges Boyd’s unorthodox take on police procedure – something, she warns, he will pay for one day…

The complete boxset contains all 90 episodes of this hugely popular crime series are available on 46 discs.

Waking the Dead Series 9 is released on DVD (£17.93) andComplete DVD Boxset (£84.93).

The Green Hornet

Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is a slacker by day, party animal by night… until he finds a serious career that’s seriously cool: crime-fighting action hero. As the Green Hornet, he teams up with gadget wiz and martial arts master Kato (Jay Chou) to take down LA’s underworld. Even Britt’s assistant Lenore (Cameron Diaz) doesn’t suspect this mismatched pair is the masked duo busting the city’s toughest thugs led by Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz). With style, swagger and an arsenal of awesome gear, the Green Hornet and Kato are doing justice their way, making every mission a mix of over-the-top action and outrageous comedy.

Special Features:

• PS3 Theme
• Jay Chou Audition
• Double Barrel
• movieIQ
• The Green Hornet Cutting Room
• Filmmakers’ Commentary
• “Awesoom”-Gag Reel
• “Trust Me” -Director Michel Gondry
• Writing The Green Hornet
• The Black Beauty: Rebirth of Cool
• The Stunt Family Armstrong
• Finding Kato
• The Art of Destruction

The Green Hornet is released on Blu-ray (£15.93),3D Blu-ray (£17.93) andDVD (£9.97).

Rock & Chips: The Complete Collection

Includes all three episodes written by the late John Sullivan: The pilot, Five Gold Rings and The Frog and the Pussycat.

Rock & Chips: The Complete Collection is released on DVD (£16.93).

Star Trek: The Original Series Complete

The most famous episode in franchise history, “The Trouble with Tribbles,” is one of the highlights of the second season of Star Trek: The Original Series. A deserved classic, the humourous story centers on an ever-expanding mass of furry creatures that memorably rain themselves down on top of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and into the middle of a Federation-Klingon showdown. It inspired one of the most memorable episodes in the spin-off series Deep Space Nine, “Trial and Tribble-ations.” Also in the second season, the Vulcan culture of Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) is fleshed out in “Amok Time” (in which Spock is faced with the possibility of killing his captain and friend) and “Journey to Babel” (introducing Spock’s father, played by Mark Sarek, in what would turn out to be a long-recurring role).

A new character, navigator Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), was introduced; his Monkees haircut was intended to appeal to the younger audience, but he was also a Russian, which at the height of the cold war reflected Gene Roddenberry’s optimistic vision of a more enlightened future. Other social-commentary opportunities presented themselves in “The Omega Glory,” “The Doomsday Machine,” and “Assignment: Earth,” the last also one of those periodic opportunities to scrimp on the budget by time-traveling to an earlier version of Earth. Another example was “A Piece of the Action,” a comic episode set in the Roaring Twenties and memorable for, among other things, Kirk’s teaching a made-up card game called Fizzbin.

In other significant episodes, “I, Mudd” saw the return of the bounder from season 1, “The Changeling” was the original inspiration for the first Trek feature film a decade later, “Wolf in the Fold” (penned by the author of Psycho) provides an example of the series’ great writing, and “Mirror, Mirror” introduced the concept of the parallel universe inhabited by vicious, amoral counterparts of the regular crew, another theme later borrowed (more than once, and to good emotional effect) by DS9.

Star Trek: The Original Series Complete is released on Blu-ray (£17.93) andDVD (£9.97).

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