31/08/11 - Clone Wars Vehicles book released

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Incredible Vehicles is to be released through DK Books on 15 September.

After the successful third season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, now comes the definitive guide to all the vehicles featured in the programme.

The new crisis that the Clone Wars has brought to the galaxy requires that the Republic and the Separatist engineers develop new air, space and land craft. DK has produced, in collaboration with Lucasfilm, a detailed cross-section book, which looks inside the new fleet developed specifically for the Clone Wars.

This book provides cross-sections of eight of the vehicles from the hit TV series, giving readers the chance to discover how they all work by peeling away panels to learn about every aspect of each vehicle - such as the inner components, weapons systems and construction secrets. Readers will also learn about the roles of the different vehicles - from gigantic troop carriers to small stealth ships - and how these vehicles are developed to cope with the varied environments that they encounter on their travels from ice planets and tropical humid jungles to the perils of hyperspace.

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30/08/11 - House: Season 7 on Blu-ray & DVD

House: Season 7 is being released on Blu-ray and DVD on 26 September

Starring two-time Golden Globe® winner Hugh Laurie in the title role, Season 7 sees Dr House and Dr Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) finally confront their feelings for each other and try to make a relationship work.

Meanwhile ‘Thirteen’ is unusually absent, Taub’s marriage is under threat and Chase is experiencing personal problems of his own. As always, they all have to put these issues aside and help House save the lives of his patients.

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26/08/11 - Glee: Season 2 out on Blu-ray & DVD

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is to release Glee: The Complete Second Season on Blu-ray and DVD on 19 September.

As fresh romances arise and the infamous Finn-Rachel-Quinn love triangle develops, the New Directions braces themselves for their biggest challenge yet; battling Vocal Adrenaline at Nationals in New York! Before then, however, Gleeks can look forward to the high-school prom, the infamous Born This Way episode, and a selection of the best musical mash-ups and dance routines to hit the small screen.

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25/08/11 - Missing Poirot stories come to CD

AudioGO is to release two missing Hercule Poirot stories, The Capture of Cerberus and The Incident of the Dog's Ball, on CD on 08 September.

In 2004, a remarkable archive was unearthed at Agatha Christie's family home, Greenway - dozens of her private notebooks, filled with pencilled jottings and ideas. Hidden within this literary treasure trove were two rare, never-before-published short stories, discovered by archivist John Curran and published in his book Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making.

This September you can enjoy listening to them both, with AudioGO's release of The Capture of Cerberus & The Incident of the Dog's Ball. Read by the definitive Hercule Poirot, David Suchet himself, it's an unmissable treat for Christie fans. And with September marking the 121st birthday of the Queen of Crime, what better way could there be to celebrate than curling up with these tales?

The Capture of Cerberus was originally intended to be the twelfth in Agatha Christie's collection of Poirot stories, The Labours of Hercules, but she eventually rewrote it, keeping only the title. In this first, original version, Hercule Poirot is holidaying in Geneva, trying to take his mind off the impending war. But a chance meeting with an old acquaintance leads to an investigation involving a Nazi dictator and an enormous hound...

The Incident of the Dog's Ball, probably written in 1933, was reworked as the novel Dumb Witness (1937) with an entirely different murderer and motive. In it, Hercule Poirot receives a letter from an elderly lady, written two months before and asking for help. Now she is dead, and Poirot is convinced that her beloved terrier Bob holds the key to her death...

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24/08/11 - Prison Break comes to Blu-ray

Prison Break: The Complete Series is being released on Blu-ray, through Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, from 03 October.

Combining all four seasons and the thrilling series finale The Final Break, the 23-disc box set brings the entire tension-filled escapade home in high definition.

Starring Dominic Purcell (Blade: Trinity) and Wentworth Miller (ER), this high-action prison drama will have viewers on the edge of their sofas and is a must-have for any TV box-set collector.

When Michael Scofield’s (Miller) brother, Lincoln (Purcell), is wrongfully sentenced to death, Michael engineers an impossible escape - from the inside out. Getting arrested and imprisoned is only the first step and when they break free their troubles really begin...

After a deadly cross-country manhunt leads to a nightmarish Panamanian hellhole, Michael, together with the woman he loves and a band of hardened renegades must bring down a sinister government organisation and somehow manage to stay alive until the day he can stop running - forever.

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23/08/11 - X-Men: First Class on Blu-ray and DVD

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is to release X-Men: First Class on Blu-ray and DVD on 31 October.

Charles Xavier, (James McAvoy) a gifted Oxford University graduate with the power to read minds has been under CIA surveillance for some time when agent Moira MacTaggart (Rose Byrne) tracks him down to help her recruit a team of mutants. Their mission is to take on Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon), a megalomaniac supremacist plotting nuclear Armageddon between America and Russia.

Meanwhile Erik Lensherr (Michael Fassbender) is on a mission to avenge the brutal murder of his mother whilst they were in a German concentration camp during World War II. Having mastered control of his incredible magnetic powers, he unleashes hell on all who stand in his way in his search for his arch nemesis, the same Sebastian Shaw.

Xavier and Erik’s paths soon cross and the two grow to be close friends, combining their powers to form a brotherhood of mutants... until the day comes where both are forced to make a decision that will change their lives forever.

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22/08/11 - Dark Star makes its way onto Blu-ray

Fabulous Films is to release John Carpenter's Sci-Fi classic movie Dark Star on Blu-ray on 17 October.

John Carpenter’s pulp science fiction classic - a brilliantly clever and funny parody of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, follows a warped intergalactic mission to blow up unstable planets.

Four bored astronauts fill in time between missions catching up on their tans with the help of a sunlamp, playing with suspiciously plastic-looking alien mascot they are taking back to Earth and conversing with their female version of Hal. Things start to go horribly wrong as the spaceship computer misfires and a surfer - makes it back to Earth Surfing on an improvised board.

Dark Star was intended to be a 68 minute student film. Hollywood Producer Jack Harris managed to convince the film-makers to shoot 15 minutes of extra footage and released the expanded version theatrically.

This Blu-ray edition contains the original theatrical version (83bmins) and the Directors cut (68 mins) release and is packed full of brand new extra features. The film has been sourced from an original 16x9 35mm theatrical print. The film was originally shot on 16mm, and then blown up to 35mm for theatrical distribution. The new master has been subject to a new grade and extensive manual frame by frame digital restoration with enhance and restored to Dolby Digital 5.1

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19/08/11 - The Adventures of Mark Twain release

Eureka Entertainment is to release The Adventures of Mark Twain on Blu-ray and DVD on 31 October.

The film features a series of vignettes extracted from several of Mark Twain's works, built around a plot that features Twain's attempts to keep his "appointment" with Halley's Comet.

Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn stow away with Mark Twain on an incredible journey in Twain’s airship.

The journey introduces the three friends to a variety of the author’s characters from; The Diary of Adam and Eve, Huckleberry Finn, The Mysterious Stranger, The Famous Jumping Frog of Caliverous County and Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.

The Adventures of Mark Twain was the first full length feature film in the magic of claymation, directed by Will Vinton (best known for The California Raisins animation).

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18/08/11 - Thor comes to Blu-ray and DVD

Paramount Home Entertainment is to release Thor on Blu-ray and DVD on 26 September.

Marvel Studios expands its film universe with a new type of super hero: Thor.

This epic adventure spans the Marvel Universe; from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard. At the centre of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war.

Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.

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17/08/11 - Sons of Anarchy Blu-ray and DVD

Sons of Anarchy: Season 3 is to be released on Blu-ray and DVD, courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, on 10 October.

Starring Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman, Mark Boone Junior and Golden Globe® winner Katey Sagal, the gang is back in the hit edgy TV drama.

Sons of Anarchy is an adrenalized series about a notorious outlaw motorcycle club intent on protecting their sheltered small town and families against encroaching drug dealers, corporate developers and overzealous law officers.

Season 3 kicks off after the kidnapping of Abel, as Jax (Hunnam) struggles to cope with his grief at the loss of his son and is sent into turmoil over the future of his club. As the search leads the team to Ireland, Jax comes face to face with a personal history that forces the gang to unite more than ever before. Meanwhile, Gemma (Sagal) is on the run after being framed for murder, and must risk her freedom after being hit with some unexpected news.

Intensity and action propels the season into gear and concludes with a finale that will change the families and the town of Charming forever.

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16/08/11 - Arthur comes to Blu-ray in September

Warner Home Video is to release Arthur on Blu-ray, Triple Play, DVD and Digital Download on 19 September.

Meet the world’s most loveable billionaire in this fresh new look at the classic story, featuring the fun-loving and hilarious Russell Brand, Oscar® winner Helen Mirren and Jennifer Garner.

Follow Brand as he reinvents the role of Arthur Bach, an irresponsible, wealthy charmer who has always relied on two things to get by - his limitless fortune and the good sense of his lifelong nanny and best friend Hobson (Mirren), to keep him out of trouble.

Kind-hearted and utterly without purpose, Arthur spends every day in the heedless pursuit of amusement, but when his unpredictable public image threatens the staid reputation of the family foundation, Bach Worldwide, he is given an ultimatum: Marry the beautiful, but decidedly unlovable Susan Johnson (Garner) or say goodbye to his billion-dollar inheritance and the only way of life he knows.

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15/08/11 - See Julia's Eyes on Blu-ray and DVD

Optimum Home Entertainment is to release Julia's Eyes on Blu-ray and DVD on 12 September.

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her twin sister Sara, who has already gone blind as a result of the same disease, hanged in the basement of her house. Everything points to suicide, but Julia is compelled to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.

Determined to retrace her sister’s final steps, she is drawn into a maze of threats and spiralling hidden dread - a dark world that seems to hide a mysterious malevolent presence. As Julia begins to uncover clues to her sister’s death, she is convinced that someone is watching her - someone who means her terrible harm.

Those close to her begin to disappear and then to die. Her sight gone, confined to her sister’s house, Julia finds herself trapped in a nightmare from which she cannot wake. Will she survive?

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12/08/11 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution released

Square Enix is to release Deus Ex: Human Revolution on PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 from 26 August.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is an action RPG that offers open-ended, hybrid game play.

Set in the year 2027, the game tells the story of Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who has been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America’s most experimental biotechnology firms, Sarif Industries. Badly wounded during an attack on the facility, he soon finds himself chasing down leads all over the world, never knowing who to trust. Adam begins to question the ethics around neuroprosthetics, and everything he thought he knew. Unravel the truth behind a conspiracy rooted in the foundation of the world around you as it incites a new revolution.

By offering players the chance to play the game in multiple and vastly different ways, Deus Ex: Human Revolution challenges the foundations of gaming and provides an immersive experience where every choice has a lasting consequence.

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11/08/11 - Spy Kids soundtrack release

Lakeshore Records is to release the soundtrack to Spy Kids: All the Time in the World digitally on 16 August and on CD from 06 September.

The soundtrack contains music by Carl Thiel and Robert Rodriguez.

On the surface, Marissa Cortez Wilson (Jessica Alba) has it all... married to a famous spy hunting television reporter, a new baby and intelligent twin step kids. But in reality, trying to mother Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook), who clearly don't want her around, is her toughest challenge yet. Also, her husband, Wilbur (Joel McHale), wouldn't know a spy if he lived with one which is exactly the case - Marissa's a retired secret agent.

Marissa's world is turned upside down when the maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) threatens to take over the planet and she's called back into action by the head of OSS, home of the greatest spies and where the now-defunct Spy Kids division was created. With a little help from a couple of very familiar Spy Kids, Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni Cortez (Daryl Sabara), they just may be able to save the world and possibly bring their family together while they're at it.

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10/08/11 - Stargate Atlantis released on Blu-ray

Stargate Atlantis: Seasons 1-5 is to be released as a Blu-ray box set, courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, on 19 September.

For the first time on Blu-ray, you can own all five seasons of this ground-breaking science fiction series in this 20-disc set.

Atlantis, built thousands of years ago by the highly evolved ancients, is home base for an elite expedition team from Earth. These courageous military commanders and scientists leap through the City’s stargate to explore the wondrous Pegasus galaxy and battle the treacherous Wraith, who seek control of Atlantis - at any cost.

Includes over 50 hours of special features including extended episodes, behind-the-scenes extras and commentaries with the cast and crew.

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09/08/11 - Sucker Punch now on Blu-ray & DVD

Sucker Punch is now available to buy, courtesy of Warner Home Video, on Blu-ray and DVD.

Born from the creative vision of master filmmaker Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300), Sucker Punch features an ensemble cast of young stars, including Emily Browning, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens and Jamie Chung.

She has been locked away against her will, but Babydoll (Browning) has not lost her will to survive. Determined to fight for her freedom, she urges four other young girls - the reluctant Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), the outspoken Rocket (Malone), the street-smart Blondie (Hudgens) and the fiercely loyal Amber (Chung) - to band together and try to escape a terrible fate at the hands of their captors, Blue (Oscar Isaac) and Madam Gorski (Carla Gugino), before the mysterious High Roller (Jon Hamm) comes for Babydoll.

Led by Babydoll, the girls engage in thrilling fantastical warfare against everything from samurais to serpents, with a virtual arsenal at their disposal. Together, they must decide what they are willing to sacrifice in order to stay alive. But with the help of a Wise Man (Scott Glenn), their unbelievable journey - if they succeed - will set them free.

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08/08/11 - Blood Creek comes to Blu-ray & DVD

Blood Creek is being released, through Entertainment in Video, on Blu-ray and DVD from 24 October.

In 1936, the Wollners, a German family living in rural Town Creek, Maryland, are contacted by the Third Reich to host a visiting scholar, Professor Ricard Wirth (Michael Fassbender). In need of money, they accept Wirth into their home. Wirth's grand occult project seals the Wollners off from the rest of the world and makes them players in a horrifying game of survival.

Now, in 2007, Evan Marshall's (Henry Cavill) life has stalled at twenty-five years old. Left without answers after his older brother Victor's (Dominic Purcell) disappearance from a camping trip near Town Creek, he has tried to move on. But when Victor returns one night, very much alive and having escaped his captors, Evan asks no questions. at his brother's request, he loads their rifles, packs up their boat and follows him back to Town Creek on a mission of revenge that will test them in every possible way...

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05/08/11 - Buffy's eighth season comes to DVD

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is to release the Buffy: Season 8 - Motion Comics animated series on DVD on 03 October.

Created and written by Joss Whedon (Angel, Firefly), Buffy: Season 8 - Motion Comics will give the series's loyal legion of fans a long-awaited opportunity to accompany Buffy on another action-packed adventure. Based on the Dark Horse comic book series, the eye-popping motion comic adventures breathe new life into the Buffyverse. The Hellmouth may have been destroyed, but the world still needs saving and Buffy is back and doing what she does best.

In the wake of Sunnydale's destruction, the U.S. government has deemed Buffy and her slayers a terrorist threat. Relegated to operating from a remote castle in Scotland, Buffy and the new 'scoobies' are also faced with a seemingly unstoppable group of Japanese vampires and a new 'Big Bad', Twilight, who is on a mission to destroy every slayer on Earth.

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04/08/11 - The Beaver is released on DVD

Icon Home Entertainment is to release dark comedy The Beaver on DVD on 10 October.

The Beaver is directed by Jodie Foster, who co-stars alongside Mel Gibson. The film is an emotional story about a man on a journey to re-discover his family and re-start his life.

Plagued by his own demons, Walter Black (Gibson), formerly a successful toy executive and family man, has completely lost his way. No matter what he does, Walter can’t seem to get himself back on track... until a beaver hand puppet enters his life.

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03/08/11 - The New Daughter on Blu-ray & DVD

The New Daughter will be released by Entertainment in Video on Blu-ray and DVD on 17 October.

Academy Award winner Kevin Costner stars in this brand-new thriller as John, a newly divorced father who moves into a rural South Carolina home with his adolescent daughter Louisa and young son Sam. But when Louisa begins to behave in a bizarre and increasingly violent manner, John must uncover the truth behind her transformation.

Is the former owners shocking secret to blame? And how far will a father go to protect his daughter from an ancient evil determined to take her over?

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02/08/11 - Uninhabited comes to DVD this month

Uninhabited is released on DVD, through G2 Pictures, on 15 August.

Harry and Beth want a different kind of holiday. So they charter a boat to drop them off on a remote coral island on the Great Barrier Reef. The island is idyllic - surrounded by a wide reef, covered in palms and full of birds and other wildlife, small and totally deserted. Or is it?

The young lovers soon come to believe there is someone else on the island. Things go missing from their camp - and then they discover someone else’s footprints in the sand. What they didn’t realise was that the island has a ghost - a young girl who had died in shocking circumstances some eighty years earlier. The ghost at first plays mischievously with the young couple, but then turns malevolent. And their idyllic island holiday becomes a nightmare.

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01/08/11 - High School of the Dead Blu-ray / DVD

High School Of The Dead (H.O.T.D) is being released on Blu-ray and DVD, on 29 August, through Manga Entertainment.

Based on the hit manga series written by Daisuke Sato and illustrated by Shoji Sato, the zombie apocalypse saga High School of the Dead is produced by Madman and directed by Tetsuro Araki (Death Note; Black Lagoon).

A seemingly ordinary day at Fujimi High School rapidly descends into a terrifying nightmare and a deadly fight for survival for a group of teenage students who find themselves caught up in the chaos caused by an outbreak of a new disease that turns its victims into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies.

Forced to slay large numbers of their teachers and fellow students just to escape the confines of the school, they soon learn that the outbreak is not only a local or even national problem but also a global one. As the pandemic rages out of control, society begins to collapse and everyday moral codes begin to crumble.

Now it is up to Takashi Komuro to unite the small group of school friends and other survivors and lead them on a journey that they hope will take them to a place of safety beyond this new world of the living dead.

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