July 30th 2010:

July 30th :Benedict Cumberbatch is the new Sherlock on BBC1…

The star of Hawking and one of a fantastic cast in BBC’s The Last Enemy, Benedict Cumberbatchstars alongside Martin Freeman as Holmes and Watson in this new update for a new century, but how does it fare?

Find out what DVDfever.co.uk reviewer, Dan Owen made of this episode in this new review,which premiered on Dan’s Media Digest.

Apologies for the lack of updates this week, including the lack of a list of new releases, but it’s been one of thoseweeks. Normal service shall be resumed very soon.

A review ofSherlock: A Study in Pinkis online now and the next episode is on BBC1, Sunday at 9pm.

July 26th :Sam Worthington leads the Clash of the Titans on Blu-ray…

Released today:

With relative newcomer Sam Worthington leading the charge as Perseus, and ready to do battle with Liam Neeson as Zeus,Ralph Fiennes as Hades, as well as Medusa and The Kraken. With a cast list as long as your arm that includes PetePostlethwaite, Gemma Arterton and Mads Mikkelsen, and a shedload of CGI, there’s no way it can fail, right?

Clash of the Titansis online and out on Blu-ray and DVD now.

Country bumpkins havin’ a ball to CD…

DVDfever.co.uk reviewer Elly Robertsconfirms that this rootsy collective has been brewing-up storms across their region and Europe with their genuine takeon bluegrass belters and soulful balladeering, and says: Think Soggy Bottom Boys, but new. Find out why in this review.

Water Tower Bucket Boys: Sole Kitchenis online and out on CD now.

Music chart summary: w/e July 31st 2010…

I’ve got a bit fed up with the charts over the last few years as there hasn’t been a great deal to shout about. I mayend up dropping it altogether, but until then I’ll just summarise things with a few words about the new entries andanything else of interest.

Check out theMusic chart summary: w/e July 31st 2010which is online now.

COMPETITIONS: Generation Kill and Donnie Darko on Blu-ray…

Blu-ray discs for both of these are now up for grabs in these new competitions. Please click on the packshot to enter!This week is your last chance!

Visit the competition pagehere.

Youtube Highlight: Olvia Colman talks about Rev on GMTV…

The new sitcom started recently on BBC2 and one of its stars, Olivia Colman, appeared on GMTV to talk about it.

July 19th :Music chart summary: w/e July 24th 2010…

I’ve got a bit fed up with the charts over the last few years as there hasn’t been a great deal to shout about. I mayend up dropping it altogether, but until then I’ll just summarise things with a few words about the new entries andanything else of interest.

Also, beyond today’s update we’re taking a week off for a summer holiday, so see you next Monday and here’s hopingwe get some sun! 🙂

Check out theMusic chart summary: w/e July 24th 2010which is online now.

New DVD highlights out this week…

Once again, we look at a few titles in more detail.

The titles of note are the following, but read on for further details about the highlights:

• Chloe (22.99 Blu-ray, 17.99 DVD, Optimum)
• The Crazies (24.99 Blu-ray, 17.99 DVD, Momentum)
• Donnie Darko/Donnie Darko Director’s Cut (24.99 Blu-ray, Metrodome)
• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (24.99 Blu-ray, 17.99 DVD, Momentum)
• The Good Life Series 3 (19.99 DVD, BBC)
• How I Met Your Mother Season 4 (24.99 DVD, Fox)
• Ideal Series 5 (19.99 DVD, BBC)
• The Karate Kid (19.99 Blu-ray, Sony)
• The Karate Kid II (19.99 Blu-ray, Sony)
• The Kevin Bishop Show Series 2 (12.99 DVD, 2entertain)
• Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang (26.99 Blu-ray, 19.99 DVD, Universal)
• NCIS Season 6 (49.99 DVD, 119.99 Season 1-6 DVD, Paramount)
• The Ricky Gervais Show (24.99 DVD, Warner)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

A discredited journalist and a mysterious computer hacker discover that even the wealthiest families have skeletons in their closets while working to solve the mystery of a 40 year old murder. Inspired by late author Stieg Larsson’s successful trilogy of books, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO gets underway as Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander are briefed in the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, whose uncle suspects she may have been killed by a member of their own family. The deeper Mikael and Harriet dig for the truth, however, the greater the risk of being buried alive by members of the family who will go to great lengths to keep their secrets tightly sealed.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is out now on Blu-ray (£15.99) andDVD (£10.99).

Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang

In Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Oscar®-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson returns to the role of the magical nanny who appears when she’s needed the most and wanted the least in the next chapter of the hilarious and heartwarming fable that has enchanted children around the world.

In the latest installment, Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that Mrs. Green’s children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in and refuse to leave.

Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant who turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.

Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang is out now on Blu-ray (£15.99) andDVD (£9.99).

Also available is Nanny McPhee on Blu-ray (£9.99) and

NCIS Season 6

Season 6 finds the highly skilled NCIS team still under the able command of Special Agent Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), an uncompromising leader who will see justice done – even if it means bending the rules. This season, Gibbs welcomes new members to the unit, while directing the veteran agents in their dangerous investigations outside the chain of Naval and Marine command. Co-starring Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Cote de Pablo, and Rocky Carroll, this 6-disc set includes all 25 action-packed Season 6 episodes, along with high-calibre, behind-the-scenes special features.

NCIS Season 6 is out now on DVD (£32.99) andComplete Boxset (£69.99).

Ideal Series 5

Johnny Vegas, returns as Moz, the ultimate slacker, in a brand new series of the multi-award winning comedy drama Ideal. With his girlfriend Jenny quite literally in a coma, Moz decides to turn over a new leaf and abandon his career as a weed dealer. In fact, he’s even promising to make the ultimate sacrifice and get a proper job! Yet despite his best efforts, Moz soon finds himself dragged into a criminal underworld of shootings and human trafficking. Then, the unthinkable happens: Moz is busted by the police…

With it’s distinctive blend of comedy, menace, and romance – and even some very bizarre song and dance routines – series 5 takes viewers into riotous new territory.

Ideal Series 5 is out now on DVD (£12.99).

Youtube Highlight: Zac Goldsmith makes an arse of himself about election expenses…

Accused of dodgy election expenses, Richmond MP Zac Goldsmith appeared on Channel 4 News to try and defend his actions,but just ended up making an arse out of himself by talking over Jon Snow.

Donnie Darko feels the world is about to end on Blu-ray…

Released today:

I’d never seen this critically-acclaimed film before, even though it’s been out for nearly ten years, has been followed-upby an apparently lame sequel and has been released on DVD before in both regular and Director’s Cut forms, both of whichare on view here. Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone and Drew Barrymore star in a very dark tale indeed…

Donnie Darkois online and out on Blu-ray and DVD from today.

COMPETITIONS: Generation Kill and Donnie Darko on Blu-ray…

Blu-ray discs for both of these are now up for grabs in these new competitions. Please click on the packshot to enter!

Visit the competition pagehere.

July 16th :Press releases for new Blu-rays and DVDs…

New press releases are online now for the following:

• Lost: The Final Season on Blu-ray
• The Torment on DVD
• Biography – Stevie Wonder, Cat Stevens and The Kinks on DVD
• Shelter on Blu-ray and DVD
• Alien Anthology on Blu-ray
• Manson Girl on DVD

The latest press releasesare online now.

July 14th :New DVD highlights out this week…

Once again, we look at a few titles in more detail.

The titles of note are the following, but read on for further details about the highlights:

• Bubba Ho-Tep (19.99 Blu-ray, Anchor Bay)
• Chasing Amy (23.99 Blu-ray, Walt Disney)
• Clayhanger: The Complete Series (59.99 DVD, Network)
• Clerks (23.99 Blu-ray, Walt Disney)
• Doctor Who: The Dominators (19.99 DVD, BBC)
• Fred Dibnah’s Industrial Age Box Set (19.99 DVD, Demand DVD)
• Green Zone (24.99 Blu-ray, 27.99 Blu-ray Steelbook, 19.99 DVD, Universal)
• Leap Year (24.99 Blu-ray, 19.99 DVD, Optimum)
• The Storm Warriors (24.99 Blu-ray, Showbox)
• Ultravox – Return To Eden – Live At The Roundhouse (13.99 DVD, EMI)
• Valentine’s Day (24.99 Blu-ray, 19.99 DVD, Warner)
• Youth In Revolt (24.99 Blu-ray, 17.99 DVD, Momentum)

Green Zone

Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93) re-team for their latest electrifying thriller in Green Zone, a film set in the chaotic early days of the Iraqi War when no one could be trusted and every decision could detonate unforeseen consequences.

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.

Spun by operatives with intersecting agendas, Miller must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil for answers that will either clear a rogue regime or escalate a war in an unstable region. And at this blistering time and in this combustible place, he will find the most elusive weapon of all is the truth.

Special Features:

• Deleted Scenes – with optional commentary from Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon (12:04mins)
• Matt Damon: Ready for Action – a look at how Matt Damon prepared for his role in Green Zone (9:22mins)
• Inside the Green Zone – a behind the scenes look at the making of Green Zone’s powerful scenes (8:50mins)
• The Real Miller – the real Roy Miller, Monty Gonzales, compares his real life war stories to Green Zone, distinguishing fact from fiction and reliving his old experiences vicariously through Miller’s unit (6:17mins)
• Recreating Baghdad – location managers Ben Rimmer and Terry Bryther, as well as various cast members discuss how Morocco served as a perfect location to double as Baghdad (3:11mins)
• Feature Commentary with Director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon (ON/OFF)

Green Zone is out now on Blu-ray (£15.99),Blu-ray Steelbook (£17.91) andDVD (£9.99).

Doctor Who: The Dominators

The Doctor is intending to take a peaceful holiday on the planet Dulkis, but the Quark robots have other ideas.

Doctor Who: The Dominators is out now on DVD (£12.99).

Valentine’s Day

From the director of Pretty Woman comes a movie about the day in the life of love. Join the hottest Hollywood stars in 2010’s biggest Valentine’s Day visual treat. Valentine’s Day focuses on intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up and trying to survive the pressures and expectations of February 14.

Special Features:

• The stars confess their Valentine’s Day stories
• Blooper Reel
• Stay Here Forever music video by Jewel
• Featurette: The Garry Factor

Valentine’s Day is out now on Blu-ray (£13.99) andDVD (£10.99).

Leap Year

A woman (Amy Adams) heads to Ireland in order to force her boyfriend (Adam Scott) to accept her wedding proposal by scheduling it on leap day, the only time when he couldn’t refuse due to the country’s tradition in this Spyglass Entertainment romantic comedy. SHOPGIRL’s Anand Tucker directs from a script by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan. Matthew Goode co-stars as a handsome innkeeper who throws a wrench into the woman’s plans.

Leap Year is out now on Blu-ray (£13.99) andDVD (£9.99).

July 12th :Freddie Connor and Zoe Tapper take on the gangsters in Baseline on Blu-ray…

Released today:

Well, it’s not quite as straight-forward as that, as Danny (Freddie Connor) is working for them, headed byJamie Foreman, but when he finds himself being inadvertently promoted from bouncer to henchman for his boss,it can only spell a world of trouble for him, girlfriend Jessica (Zoe Tapper) and his friend Paul (Gordon Alexander).

Baselineis online and out on Blu-ray and DVD now.

Lisa O Piu brings some Swedish nu-folk to CD…

DVDfever.co.uk reviewer Elly Robertstells us about a new babe on the block threatening to steal the crown of Joanna Newsom – Lisa O Pui, or Lisa Isakssonto family and friends. This Swedish brunette has put together an album that probably owes much to English trad-folkas it does to her native influences.

Lisa O Piu: When This Was The Futureis online and out on CD now.

Music chart summary: w/e July 17th 2010…

I’ve got a bit fed up with the charts over the last few years as there hasn’t been a great deal to shout about. I mayend up dropping it altogether, but until then I’ll just summarise things with a few words about the new entries andanything else of interest.

Check out theMusic chart summary: w/e July 17th 2010which is online now.

COMPETITIONS: Generation Kill and Donnie Darko on Blu-ray…

Blu-ray discs for both of these are now up for grabs in these new competitions. Please click on the packshot to enter!

Visit the competition pagehere.

Youtube Highlight: Kylie on GMTV!…

Kylie Minogue appeared on GMTV recently to promote her new album, Aphrodite, and spent a good hour on the sofa beinginterviewed, presenting the weather and being sat next to Richard Arnold dressed as a smurf! Here’s her entire time inthe studio.

July 6th :New DVD highlights out this week…

Once again, we look at a few titles in more detail.

The titles of note are the following, but read on for further details about the highlights:

• Afterwards (15.99 DVD, Elevation)
• American Pie 1-7: The Complete Collection (34.99 DVD, Universal)
• Ashes to Ashes Series 3 (39.99 DVD, 69.99 Boxset, E1)
• The Avengers Series 4 (59.99 DVD, Optimum)
• Beyond The Pole (24.99 Blu-ray, 19.99 DVD, Brightspark)
• Cargo (19.99 Blu-ray, 15.99 DVD, Evalation)
• Chance In A Million Series 2 (19.99 DVD, Revelation)
• Doctor Who Series 5 Vol.2 (19.99 Blu-ray, 15.99 DVD, BBC)
• Force Of Five (24.99 Blu-ray, 17.99 DVD, Showbox)
• Generation Kill: Complete HBO Series (39.99 Blu-ray, Warner)
• Morecambe and Wise Show Series 8 (15.99 DVD, BBC)
• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (28.99 Blu-ray, 19.99 DVD, Fox)
• Predator: Ultimate Hunter Edition (22.99 Blu-ray, Fox)
• The Smurfs Season 1 (39.99 DVD, Fabulous Films)
• Stargate Universe (59.99 Blu-ray, 49.99 DVD, Fox)
• Without A Trace Season 6 (39.99 DVD, Warner)
• Worried About The Boy Limited Edition DVD & CD (19.99 DVD, Universal)
• WWE Wrestlemania 26 (29.99 DVD, 34.99 Blu-ray, Silver Vision)

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

This adaptation of Rick Riordan’s remarkably popular fantasy book series tells the tale of accident-prone teenager Percy (Logan Lerman), who discovers that he’s actually a demigod, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus’ lightning is stolen. Percy must master his newfound skills in order to prevent a war between the gods that could devastate the entire world. Veteran director Chris Columbus (HOME ALONE, HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE) directs from his own script with co-writer Craig Titley. 3:10 TO YUMA’s Logan Lerman toplines a godlike cast that includes Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan, and Sean Bean.

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is out now on Blu-ray (£17.91) andDVD (£11.93).

Doctor Who Series 5 Vol.2

This volume release contains the fourth, five and sixth episodes from the fifth series. Episodes include: ‘The Time Of Angels’, ‘Flesh And Stone’ and ‘Vampires In Venice’.

Doctor Who Series 5 Vol.2 is out now on Blu-ray (£12.93) andDVD (£10.43).

Ashes to Ashes Series 3

ASHES TO ASHES follows on from the hugely successful BBC series LIFE ON MARS, and sees the return of the self styled ‘Sheriff of Manchester’ DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister). Whereas LIFE ON MARS was a throwback to the crime-fighting style of the 1970’s, ASHES TO ASHES takes you back to ‘the decade that taste forgot’, the 1980’s.

The story continues, only this time around its 1983. DI Alex Drake is ultimately determined to find out the truth about Gene Hunt and the hidden secrets of the world she inhabits. The third and final series also marks the arrival of Scotland Yard’s DCI Jim Keats. Sent to watchfully observe the team’s performance, his presence leads to some unexpected revelations on past happenings. Prepare to be captivated by easily, the darkest of all three series.

Ashes to Ashes Series 3 is out now on DVD (£25.91) andComplete Boxset (£44.99).

Stargate Universe

Younger in tone than previous STARGATE series, this sci-fi drama follows a group of scientists, soldiers, and ordinary people who are forced to travel through a Stargate when they come under attack. Emerging on an archaic starship headed away from Earth, the group soon find that their destiny has been sealed, as the ship’s course is locked. Now they must fight for survival against hunger, dehydration, the twisted secrets of the Stargate, and even each other. Features the first series of the show.

Stargate Universe is out now on Blu-ray (£49.93) andDVD (£37.49).

July 5th :Brad Pitt leads his troop of Inglourious Basterds on Blu-ray…

A definite return to form for Quentin Tarantino following many years churning out some mediocre and duff contentand this makes for a great collaboration as three worlds collide – those of Col. Hans Landa of the SS – a so-called “Jew-hunter”,looking to wipe out all the Jews hiding in France, Lt Aldo Raine – the leader of the Inglourious Basterds, looking towipe out all of the Nazis, and Shosanna Dreyfus, a girl who runs a cinema in France but who has no love for the Nazisgiven what they did to her family…

Inglourious Basterdsis online and out on Blu-ray and DVD now.

A stylish release from Nell Bryden on CD…

DVDfever.co.uk reviewer Elly Robertsstates that Nell Bryden is a stylish and soulful singer with a broad range of musical influences crossing early jazz,country, gospel and blues. Find out why you should listen to this album in this review.

Nell Bryden: What Does It Take?is online and out on CD now.

Music chart summary: w/e July 10th 2010…

I’ve got a bit fed up with the charts over the last few years as there hasn’t been a great deal to shout about. I mayend up dropping it altogether, but until then I’ll just summarise things with a few words about the new entries andanything else of interest.

Check out theMusic chart summary: w/e July 10th 2010which is online now.

COMPETITIONS: Generation Kill & Donnie Darko on Blu-ray…

Blu-ray discs for both of these are now up for grabs in these new competitions. Please click on the packshot to enter!

Visit the competition pagehere.

Youtube Highlight: Frank Sidebottom’s Proper Telly Show now on Youtube!…

Following the tragic death of Chris Sievey, aka Frank Sidebottom, recently, I uploaded all eleven episodes across bothseries of this wonderful series from little known Manchester station, Channel M, and also a long segment from his testcardwhich was broadcast overnight.

July 2nd :Tom Hollander is a man of the cloth in Rev…

One of the stars of In The Loop, I felt Tom Hollander made a stirling job of a far from challenging script inthis new sitcom, amongst a great cast including Olivia Colman, Steve Evets, Miles Jupp and Alexander Armstrong.

Find out what DVDfever.co.uk reviewer, Dan Owen made of this episode in this new review,which premiered on Dan’s Media Digest.

A review ofRev: On Your Knees, Forget The Feesis online now.

The Avengers Series 4 on DVD…

A press release for this forthcoming release is online now.

The latest press releasesare online now.

July 1st :Can The Doctor save the day in the finale of Doctor Who…

Well, Rory turned up again, or rather not quite. Then all of the Doctor’s enemies turned up from years gone byand threw him into the Pandorica, but how would he get out of it? Oh, what a pickle…

Find out what DVDfever.co.uk reviewer, Dan Owen made of this episode in this new review,which premiered on Dan’s Media Digest.

A review ofDoctor Who: The Big Bangis online now.

COMPETITION: Donnie Darko on Blu-ray…

3 Blu-ray discs are now up for grabs in this new competition. Please click on the packshot to enter!

Visit the competition pagehere.

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