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DVDfever.co.uk – New Blu-ray & DVD releases – week commencing April 18th 2011
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.
- Bedlam (£12.99 DVD, 2entertain)
- Big Fat Gypsy Weddings (£9.99 DVD, C4 DVD)
- The Black Pirate (£9.99 DVD, Park Circus)
- Chain Letter (£13.99 Blu-ray, £9.99 DVD, G2)
- The Chaperone (£12.93 Blu-ray, £9.99 DVD, Clear Vision)
- Chaplin (1992) (£12.93 Blu-ray, Optimum)
- The Chief Series 3 (£11.93 DVD, Network)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (£16.93 Blu-ray, £9.97 DVD, Fox)
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders (£12.93 DVD, BBC)
- The Doors (£15.93 Blu-ray, Optimum)
- I, Superbiker (£15.93 Blu-ray, £11.99 DVD, Odeon)
- Life of Riley Series 2 (£9.99 DVD, Acorn)
- Little Fockers (£17.93 Blu-ray, £9.97 DVD, Paramount)
- Nurse Jackie Season 1 (£26.20 Blu-ray, Lions Gate)
- Nurse Jackie Season 2 (£26.20 Blu-ray, £15.93 DVD, Lions Gate)
- Prisoner Cell Block H Vol.7 (£26.93 DVD, Fremantle)
- Princess Bride (£12.93 Blu-ray, Lions Gate)
- Re-Cut (£11.99 Blu-ray, Spirit)
- Scream Trilogy (£36.97 Blu-ray, Lions Gate)
- Tron Legacy (£13.93 Blu-ray, £17.99 3D Blu-ray, £12.93 DVD, £17.93 Tron/Tron Legacy Blu-ray, Walt Disney)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Rediscover Narnia with a brand new adventure. While back home in England, Edmund (Skandar Keynes), Lucy (Georgie Henley), and their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter) are pulled into a magical painting, transporting them back to Narnia for their next great quest. Reunited with King Caspian (Ben Barnes) aboard the mighty, royal ship, the Dawn Treader, Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace set sail toward the islands of the East, battling slave traders, violent storms, sea serpents, and other new dangers at every turn. Despite these perilous obstacles, they stay the course in hopes of vanquishing the evil mist before Narnia is lost forever.
Take your family to a magical place this Easter with Kids Go Free tickets for Chessington World of Adventures and Alton Towers in all packs of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. And for your chance to also win an adventure packed family weekend away to a theme park, pick up the triple play.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is released on Blu-ray (£16.93) andDVD (£9.97).
Tron Legacy
The luminescent lines and shimmering surfaces of Tron: Legacy will tantalise anyone who’s lusted after the latest smartphone. The long-ago disappearance of his computer-genius father has left Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund, Four Brothers) with existential ennui and a lot of money. When he discovers his father’s secret workshop, he gets sucked into a computerised realm ruled by a megalomaniac computer program named Clu–who just happens to be his father’s virtual doppelganger.
To find his real father (Jeff Bridges, reprising his role from the original Tron, with a bit of his role from The Big Lebowski thrown in for kicks), Sam has to fight in gladiatorial games, drive in digital demolition derbies, and be stripped and dressed by slinky pneumatic babes. For all the techno-babble and quasi-philosophy the characters spout, this is a movie without an idea in its shiny head. It would be pointless to describe the many sillinesses because Tron: Legacy isn’t actually trying to be smart; it’s trying to look cool. It succeeds.
Olivia Wilde (House) looks like the coolest action figure ever (if the entire movie could be nothing but the shot of her lounging on a futuristic sofa, it would be a masterpiece of avant-garde gizmo-fetishism). The facemasks are cool, the glowing skintight outfits are cool, the light-cycles are really, really cool–and let’s be honest, it’s all about the light-cycles. That’s what the audience for Tron wants, and that’s what Tron: Legacy delivers.
Tron Legacy is released on Blu-ray (£13.93),3D Blu-ray (£17.99),Tron/Tron Legacy Blu-ray (£17.93) andDVD (£12.93).
Little Fockers
Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro return as the comic duo of a hapless, eager-to-please son-in-law and an overbearing father-in-law in Little Fockers. Despite the title, there’s not much of the kids in this sequel; like Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, Little Fockers is all about the tension-fraught relationship between crusty ex-CIA agent Jack Byrnes (De Niro) and male nurse Greg Focker (Stiller). This time, Jack has decided that Greg just might have what it takes to replace him as the protector and guide to the family, if he can provide for and properly educate the children.
From there it’s a series of scenes in which Greg tries to meet Jack’s expectations and fails spectacularly, this time complicated by the presence of sexy pharmaceuticals rep Andi (Jessica Alba), who hires Greg to represent an erectile dysfunction drug and gives him a bag of samples which leads pretty much where you think it might lead. This time around, the jokes are broader (the film starts with projectile vomiting and ends with a fistfight in a bouncy castle) and the plot is even less important, but the cast (including Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Owen Wilson, and Teri Polo) executes everything with professional skill. Fans of the previous films will enjoy this latest installment.-
Little Fockers is released on Blu-ray (£17.93),DVD (£9.97),Complete Blu-ray Boxset (£34.49) andComplete DVD Boxset (£17.99).
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
At a Tibetan retreat in the English countryside, a group of men are using ancient meditation rituals to tap into a mysterious alien power. They unwittingly create a bridgehead between Earth and Metebelis 3, a planet where the Two Legs are oppressed by giant spiders. The creatures are desperate to recover the blue jewel that the Doctor gave to Jo Grant as a wedding gift.
Now the Doctor must risk everything and return to Metebelis 3 to face the awesome power of The Great One, who plans to use the crystal to enslave all of human kind…
Special Features:
- Audio commentary
- Trailer
- John Krane remembers Planet of the Spiders
- Directing Who with Barry Letts
- Now and Then: the locations of Planet of the Spiders
- Photo gallery
- Extract from Wogan relating to Doctor Who
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders is released on DVD (£9.93).
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