New Blu-ray & DVD releases w/c Jan 31st 2011

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New Blu-ray & DVD releasesw/c Jan 31st 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.

• 22 Bullets (£12.93 Blu-ray, £9.99 DVD, Anchor Bay)
• Amer (£12.93 Blu-ray, £9.99 DVD, Anchor Bay)
• Birds of a Feather Series 3 (£11.99 DVD, Network)
• Birds of a Feather Series 4 (£11.99 DVD, Network)
• The Black Rose (£11.99 DVD, Optimum)
• The Color Purple (£11.93 Blu-ray, Warner)
• Doctor Who: The Mutants (£12.93 DVD, BBC)
• Going The Distance (£13.93 Blu-ray, £9.93 DVD, Warner)
• Legend of the Fist (£12.97 Blu-ray, £9.99 DVD, Metrodome)
• Leverage Season 2 (£17.93 DVD, Icon)
• Mr Nice (£14.93 Blu-ray, £10.99 DVD, E1)
• Murder She Wrote Season 12 (£25.93 DVD, Universal)
• Panic In The Streets (£9.99 DVD, Optimum)
• The Royle Family: Joe’s Crackers (£17.99 DVD, ITV)
• The Secret Mediterranean with Trevor McDonald (£11.99 DVD, C4 DVD)
• Shock Labyrinth 3D (£8.99 DVD, Chelsea Films)
• A Swedish Midsummer Sex Comedy (£11.99 DVD, Optimum)
• The Thin Red Line (£9.99 DVD, Optimum)
• The Town (£15.93 Blu-ray, £11.93 DVD, Warner)
• Upstairs Downstairs: The Complete Series (£37.99 DVD, Network)
• Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps (£16.93 Blu-ray, £11.93 DVD, £28.93 Blu-ray Double Pack Fox)
• Winter’s Bone (£12.93 Blu-ray, £9.99 DVD, Artificial Eye)
• World’s Greatest Dad (£9.97 DVD, Universal)
• Yogi Bear: The Complete Series (£14.99 DVD, Warner)

The Town

Ben Affleck worked triple-time on The Town, in which he directs, stars, and co-adapts Chuck Hogan’s Prince of Thieves. Affleck’s Doug MacRay comes from a line of Boston bank robbers. With his father (Chris Cooper) behind bars, he spent most of his childhood in Charlestown with loyal hothead Jem (The Hurt Locker’s Jeremy Renner). Doug had a chance to go legit as a pro hockey player, but he threw it away on drugs and bad behavior. After the armed robbery that opens the film, Jem becomes convinced that bank manager Claire (Vicki Cristina Barcelona’s Rebecca Hall) saw something, so Doug, who wore a disguise at the time, sets out to make sure she doesn’t tell FBI agent Frawley (Mad Men’s Jon Hamm) anything incriminating (Titus Welliver plays Frawley’s partner).

Doug starts by asking Claire out, and finds she’s more shaken than stirred–and that he likes her better than Jem’s oxy-addicted sister, Krista (Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively), his sometime girlfriend. Unfortunately, neither Jem nor vicious enforcer Fergie (Pete Postlethwaite) will cut him loose until he orchestrates two more scores–the last to take place at Fenway Park. If The Town offers fewer surprises than Affleck’s directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, he raises the stakes with well-planned heists, nerve-jangling car chases, and deadly shootouts. Though Affleck looks too clean-cut to portray a thug, he gives a nicely understated performance, while Hall proves an inspired choice as a woman who could make a bad guy turn good–or die trying.

The Town is released on Blu-ray (£15.93) andDVD (£11.93).

Doctor Who: The Mutants

When a strange message pod turns up at UNIT HQ, the Doctor and his assistant Jo suddenly find themselves involved in another dangerous mission for the Time Lords. The TARDIS takes them to Skybase One above the inhospitable Solos. It is the 30th century and the planet is about to gain independence from Earth’s glorious empire. But someone on Solos has other plans and, alarmingly, the natives are slowly mutating into fierce-looking creatures. It’s time for the Doctor and Jo to find out why…

Special Features:

• Commentary by Katy Manning (Jo Grant) and Garrick Hagon (Ky), Christopher Barry (director), Terrance Dicks (script editor), Bob Baker (co-writer), Brian Hodgson (special sounds supervisor) and Jeremy Bear (designer), Moderated by Nicholas Pegg.
• Mutt Mad Cast and crew look back at the making of the story
• Race Against – Time Noel Clarke narrates a documentary looking at the representation of non-white actors in Doctor Who and on British TV as a whole
• Blue Peter Peter Purves looks at a collection of Doctor Who monsters
• Dressing Doctor Who
• Radio Times Billings (PDF DVD-ROM –PC/Mac)
• Programme Subtitles
• Production Information Subtitles
• Photo Gallery
• Coming Soon Trailer
• Digitally remastered picture and sound quality

Doctor Who: The Mutants is released on DVD (£12.93).

Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps

Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges an alliance with her fiancé, Jake (Shia LaBeouf). But Winnie and Jake learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals.

Extras:

Digital Copy
• A Conversation with Oliver Stone
• Money, Money, Money: The Rise and Fall of Wall Street
• Gordon Gekko is Back Featurette
• Deleted and Extended Scenes

Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps is released on Blu-ray (£16.93),Blu-ray Double Pack (£28.93) andDVD (£11.93).

Winter’s Bone

17 year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) embarks on a mission to find her father after he uses their family house as a way of securing his bail and disappears without a trace. Faced with the possibility of losing her home and being turned out into the Ozark woods, Ree challenges her outlaw kin s code of silence and risks her life to save her family.

She hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth. Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, WINTER’S BONE is directed by Debra Granik (DOWN TO THE BONE) and adapted for the screen by Granik and Anne Rosellini. Based on the best-selling novel by Daniel Woodrel

Winter’s Bone is released on Blu-ray (£12.93) andDVD (£9.99).

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