23/12/11 - Whisper of the Heart comes to Blu-ray

Studio Ghibli’s Whisper of the Heart is to be released, through Studiocanal, on Blu-ray from 09 January 2012.

From the creators of the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away comes a tale scripted by the legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki. Directed by his protégé Yoshifumi Kondo, this film is a simple tale about a young girl who falls in love and learns to believe in herself.

Her name is Suzuku Tsukishima and she is nearing the end of her final year of junior high. An avid bookworm, she devours books while quietly dreaming about becoming a writer. One day, she meets Seiji, a lad who has the ability to both irritate and charm her, often at the same time. He also harbours an unusual ambition: to build violins in Cremona, Italy.

Around the same time, she meets a kindly old man who owns an antique shop, who she later learns is Seiji’s grandfather. One item in the store particularly catches her eye - a strange statue of a cat with glittering eyes. Inspired by Seiji’s utter determination to realize his own dream, she writes a story about the feline-shaped sculpture coming to life.

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22/12/11 - Restless comes to DVD

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is to release Restless on DVD on 13 February 2012.

Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasikowska) is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper) is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living, after an accident claimed the life of his parents.

When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world. For Enoch, it includes his best friend Hiroshi (Ryo Kase) who happens to be the ghost of a Kamikaze fighter pilot. For Annabel, it involves an admiration of Charles Darwin and an interest in how other creatures live.

Upon learning of Annabel's imminent early passing, Enoch offers to help her face her last days with an irreverent abandon, tempting fate, tradition and even death itself. As their unique love for each other grows, so do the realities of the world that they have felt closing in on them.

Daring, childlike, and distinctly rare - these two bravely face what life has in store for them. Fighting pain, anger and loss with youth, playfulness and originality, these two misfits turn the tables on life and play by their own rules. Their journey begins to collide with the unstoppable march of time, as the natural cycle of life comes to claim Annabel.

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21/12/11 - Big Love: Season 3 comes to DVD

HBO Home Entertainment is to release Big Love: The Complete Third Season on DVD on 23 January 2012.

As if juggling three wives wasn’t tricky enough, Season Three of Emmy® and Golden Globe®-nominated Big Love finds modern polygamist Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) tackling problems outside his three-house suburban home. Bill is a practicing polygamist who lives in suburban Salt Lake City with his three wives and seven children. An independent businessman who runs a growing chain of hardware stores, Bill faces a myriad of challenges in meeting the emotional, romantic and financial needs of his wives Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Nicki (Chloë Sevigny) and Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin).

Watch as Bill Henrickson, on a quest to try and get Ana to marry him and join the other three wives in the family, deals with the high demands and pressures of being a Mormon within a typically Monogamist society. With enemies closing in, can Bill keep himself and his family safe?

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20/12/11 - CSI: NY: Season 7 comes to DVD

CSI: NY: Complete Season 07 is being released on DVD, through Momentum Pictures, on 09 January 2012.

The New York CSI department welcomes a new member to the team in season seven; former FBI agent Jo Danville (Sela Ward) who is immediately in the line of fire when she stumbles over the body of a young woman who has been murdered within the NYPD crime lab.

Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) meets a desperate family in search of their missing son but has problems of his own as a hail of gunfire rips through the crime lab and he becomes part of a vendetta some 17 years in the making.

Following frightening incidents and a near death experience, the seventh series sees Mac seriously re-evaluating his position as a CSI. Series regulars Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo), Sheldon Hawkes (Hill Harper), Don Flack (Eddie Cahill), Lindsay Messer (Anna Belknap), Adam Ross (AJ Buckley) and Sid Hammerback (Robert Joy) return as the specialist team of forensic investigators set to bring justice to the streets of New York.

In the city that never sleeps the NY CSI team, like their counterparts in Las Vegas and Miami, know that people may lie, but the evidence never does.

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19/12/11 - Project Nim is released on DVD

Project Nim is being released on Blu-ray and DVD, through Icon Home Entertainment, on 09 January 2012.

In the 1970’s Nim became the focus of a controversial and groundbreaking experiment, which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. The film follows Nim's fascinating existence in a human society and the enduring impact he made on people along the way.

Project Nim is an unflinching and powerfully devastating biography of an animal we tried to make human; a journey of power, attraction and group bonding in a species whose startling capacity for selfishness and aggression is offset by human displays of affection and intelligence. What we learn from Nim is his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.

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16/12/11 - The Change-Up out on Blu-ray & DVD

The Change-Up is to be released on Blu-ray and DVD, courtesy of Universal Pictures, from 23 January 2012.

Growing up together, Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) and Dave (Jason Bateman) were inseparable best friends, but as the years have passed they've slowly drifted apart. While Dave is an overworked lawyer, husband and father of three, Mitch has remained a single, quasi-employed man-child who has never met a responsibility he liked.

To Mitch, Dave has it all: beautiful wife Jamie (Leslie Mann), kids who adore him and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. To Dave, living Mitch's stress-free life without obligation or consequence is a world away from his sensible, settled lifestyle.

Following a drunken night out together, Mitch and Dave's worlds are turned upside down when they wake up in each other's bodies and proceed to freak out. Despite the freedom from their normal routines and habits, the guys soon discover that each other's lives are nowhere near as rosy as they once seemed.

Further complicating matters are Dave's sexy legal associate, Sabrina (Olivia Wilde) and Mitch's estranged father (Alan Arkin). With time not on their side, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other's lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.

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15/12/11 - Futurama Season 5 Blu-ray & DVD

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is to release Futurama: The Complete Season 5 on Blu-ray and DVD on 26 December.

The critically acclaimed sci-fi phenomenon, Futurama: The Complete Season 5 sees Fry, Bender, Leela and the rest of the gang create havoc in 13 hilarious brand new episodes and exclusive extras.

Catch all the ridiculous antics on Planet Express from evolution to mind exchanges, feline intolerance and even a robosexual marriage.

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14/12/11 - Legend is to be released on Blu-ray

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is to release Ridley Scott's classic 1985 fantasy movie Legend on Blu-ray on 06 February 2012.

Tom Cruise takes the starring role in this visually stunning fantasy adventure. Good and evil battle to the death amidst the spectacular surroundings of a timeless mythical forest where fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals live side by side.

The fantastic story sees Tom Cruise, a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate to undertake a heroic quest to save a beautiful princess, Mia Sara, and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness, Tim Curry. If he should fail, the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.

Co-starring Billy Barty and Alice Playten and directed by Ridley Scott, famed for his remarkable settings and unparalleled imagery, this incredibly realized fable is the stuff movie legends are made of.

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13/12/11 - The Devil's Double on Blu-ray & DVD

Icon Home Entertainment is to release The Devil's Double on Blu-ray and DVD on 26 December.

Baghdad 1987. Latif (Dominic Cooper) is taken to see his former schoolmate Uday (also played by Cooper), eldest son to Saddam Hussein. Latif is told that a great honour had been bestowed upon him: because of the great likeness between them, he has been chosen to be Uday's body double.

Trapped, tortured and fearful for the safety of his family Latif has no choice but to comply. Latif is forced to become part of Uday’s world, witnessing the horror of his insane life of gangsters and pimps. It is a world entrenched in betrayal and corruption, and an experience for which he almost pays with his life on more than one occasion.

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12/12/11 - Friends with Benefits Blu-ray & DVD

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is to release Friends with Benefits on Blu-ray and DVD on 06 February 2012.

Having had enough of relationships, Dylan (Justin Timberlake) and Jamie (Mila Kunis) think it’s going to be easy to add the simple act of sex to their friendship, despite what Hollywood comedies would have them believe. Physical pleasure without the emotional entanglements

. Sounds easy enough for two logical adults, right? Not quite. They soon discover that getting physical really does always lead to complications...

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09/12/11 - Game of Thrones Blu-ray and DVD

HBO Home Entertainment is to release Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray and DVD from 05 March 2012.

Combining a mythical world with a generation of family feuds, bloody war, treachery, murder, lies and lust, Game of Thrones has defined a world so unique, complex and compelling that any preconceived notions of the genre fall away.

It has created an 'accessible fantasy' epic for the small screen, which became the most watched show* on Sky Atlantic this year. The noble households are continuing a dark and ancient battle for control of The Iron Throne in a medieval kingdom in turmoil. Some look to the battlefield, some magic, others their powers of manipulation and cunning in a bid to rule the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. Yet behind the Northern Wall lies a bigger threat and Winter is coming...

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08/12/11 - The Hangover Part II Blu-ray and DVD

Warner Home Video has released The Hangover Part II on Blu-ray and DVD.

In The Hangover Part II, Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zack Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) travel to Thailand for Stu's wedding. Determined not to risk his own wedding by repeating the destructive antics of Doug’s bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu opts for a subdued, pre-wedding brunch... with no alcohol.

However, things don't go as planned, and a night of wild partying leaves the Wolfpack with no memory of the night before and no idea how to find the bride’s missing brother.

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07/12/11 - Abduction comes to Blu-ray and DVD

Lionsgate Home Entertainment is to release Abduction on Blu-ray and DVD from 13 February 2012.

For as long as he can remember, Nathan Harper (Taylor Lautner) has had the uneasy feeling that he's living someone else's life. When he discovers an image of himself as a young boy on a missing persons website, all of Nathan's darkest fears come true - his life has been a carefully fabricated lie which hides something more dangerous than he could have ever imagined. Before his ‘parents’ can explain they are murdered and Nathan finds himself on the run.

Propelled on a lethal, no-holds barred mission to learn the truth, every second counts as Nathan and his friend Karen (Lily Collins), aided by an undercover agent (Sigourney Weaver), race to evade an army of assassins and federal operatives. But as his opponents close in, Nathan realizes that the only way to survive is to stop running and take matters into his own hands.

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06/12/11 - Killer Elite comes to Blu-ray and DVD

Killer Elite is to be released on Blu-ray and DVD, courtesy of Entertainment in Video, on 16 January 2012

Based on a true story, Killer Elite races across the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East in the action-packed account of an ex special ops agent (Jason Statham) who is lured out of retirement to rescue his mentor (Robert De Niro).

To make the rescue, he must complete a near-impossible mission of killing three tough-as-nails assassins with a cunning leader (Clive Owen).

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05/12/11 - Doctor Who: Series 6 soundtrack

Silva Screen Records is to release the soundtrack to Doctor Who: Series 6 on 19 December.

This is the seventh Doctor Who release of Murray Gold’s thrilling music, a 66 track double album featuring lush performances from The BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Six years of composing riveting music for Doctor Who has led to Murray’s work being performed at a special Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall, a celebration of the music at the Millennium Centre Cardiff and a place in the Classic FM Hall Of Fame Murray Gold’s musical career spans cinema, TV, stage and radio and his extensive list of achievements includes Queer As Folk, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), Casanova, Alien Autopsy, The Devil’s Whore, Shameless and Torchwood.

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02/12/11 - Warrior comes to Blu-ray and DVD

Lionsgate Home Entertainment is to release Warrior on Blu-ray and DVD on 20 February 2012.

The ultimate test of a fighter becomes the ultimate test for a family when ex-wrestler Tommy (Tom Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the help of his estranged father (Nick Nolte) to win a coveted Mixed Martial Arts tournament.

By chance, Tommy’s fighter-turned-teacher brother Brendan (Joel Edgerton) has also entered the tournament in a desperate bid to provide for his family and the stage is set for a climactic confrontation between the two brothers.

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01/12/11 - Rise of the Planet of the Apes Blu-ray

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is to release Rise of the Planet of the Apes on Blu-ray and DVD on 12 December

A single act of both compassion and arrogance leads to a battle unlike any other when Rise of the Planet of the Apes makes its worldwide debut on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download.

James Franco stars as Will Rodman, a neuroscientist living in San Francisco trying to develop a cure for Alzheimer’s disease by testing on chimpanzees, giving them a human level of intelligence. After a test subject’s baby, Caesar, is orphaned, Will decides to raise him at home on his own with his Alzheimer-stricken father (John Lithgow).

What begins simply as a continuation of his experiment quickly turns into a problem for Will, as Caesar is taken away from him and forced to live in a primate facility. As Caesar’s intelligence continues to grow, he begins to stake his claim as the leader of his new primate counterparts, which will ultimately lead to the Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

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