28/02/11 - True Blood: Season 3 out to buy

HBO Home Entertainment is to release True Blood: Season 3 on Blu-ray and DVD on 23 May.

In Bon Temps, everyone has something to hide, but when new threats emerge, no one can conceal the secrets of their past.

After Sookie (Anna Paquin) discovers that Bill (Stephen Moyer) has been kidnapped, she heads to Mississippi where she becomes entangled in a world ruled by a pack of vicious werewolves and the powerful Vampire King, Russell Edgington (Denis O Hare). There, her powers resurface and she learns that Bill may not be trusted.

Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) is also drawn to the King’s domain to settle an old score; Tara (Rutina Wesley) dives deep into turmoil; Jason (Ryan Kwanten) falls for a mysterious woman; Lafayette (Nelson Ellis) can’t avoid love or demons; Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) sharpens her vampire skills; and Sam (Sam Trammel) uncovers the truth about his birth family. It all leads up to the revelation of the series... Sookie’s real identity.

With a whole host of new characters appearing alongside everyone’s favourite VILFs, the relentlessly fast-paced third season proves that one bite is never enough - it’s True Blood at its most sexy and addictive yet.

Click here to buy this on Blu-ray for £34.93 (RRP: £49.99)
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25/02/11 - Race out and buy the nail'd game now

Deep Silver's arcade racing game nail'd is available now for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

nail'd is truly a hellish ride. No other racing game has ever featured such differences in altitude. Only those who master daring jumps into unknown depths at ultimate top speeds stand a chance to win the challenging action races.

Steep slopes, suddenly appearing obstacles and surprising turns in the track demand sharp reflexes, requiring players to give their all. Through its insane bursts of speed, nail'd catapults you from one adrenalin boost to the next.

In a tournament, players will charge through diverse geographical track settings, e.g. between the redwood trees and sheer granite mountain faces of Yosemite National Park.

Players in nail'd get to choose between various vehicle classes be it motorbikes or quads. Once they have picked their wheels, it's time to hit the track and prevail against challenging AI opponents. A compelling soundtrack by well-known bands helps to urge you on to do your very best. Moreover, a multi-player mode allows you to secure one of the top ranks in the leaderboards of global online tournaments.

Click here to buy this game for PC for £15.26 (RRP: £13.99)
Click here to buy this game for PS3 for £28.99 (RRP: £34.99)
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24/02/11 - Soundtrack to Paul out on CD and MP3

The soundtrack to Paul is available to buy on CD and MP3 album through Universal Music.

In the comedy-adventure Paul, best friends Graeme Willy (Simon Pegg of Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) and Clive Gollings (Nick Frost of Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) have saved for decades to take a sci-fi fan’s trip of a lifetime: a pilgrimage to America’s UFO heartland to track the legendary hot spots of extraterrestrial activity. But when a close encounter with an alien named Paul derails the plans their dream vacation turns into a road trip that will rock their universe forever.

Of course no road movie is complete without a batch of great songs designed to keep the heart pumping, and Paul certainly delivers. In keeping with the well documented love of Sci-fi that both Pegg and Frost share, each track has some link to science fiction. It is a more than diverse collection of classics from a range of genres such as Punk (“Another Girl Another Planet” - The Only Ones), Soul (“Just The Two Of Us” - Bill Withers & Grover Washington Jr., “Got To Give It Up” - Marvin Gaye), Rock N’ Roll (“Flying Saucers Rock N Roll” - Bill Lee Riley), 70’s Pop / Rock (“Hello It’s Me” - Todd Rundgren, “Dancing In The Moonlight” - King Harvest, “All Over The World” - Elo), Reggae (“I Chase The Devil” - Max Romeo) and the 50’s Sci-Fi inspired “Planet Clare” by B52’s. Even Cantina Band’s “Syd Masters & The Swing Riders” is a rock-a-billy cover of the music playing in the bar on Tatooine in Star Wars: A New Hope - famously Simon Pegg’s favourite film.

Click here to buy this CD for £11.99 (RRP: £13.99)
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23/02/11 - Spartacus: Blood and Sand out to buy

The first series of Spartacus: Blood and Sand is to be released on Blu-ray and DVD, through Anchor Bay Home Entertainment, on 16 May.

Relive the deadly brutality of the gladiator games as this epic tale takes you on a non-stop, jaw-dropping journey. Causing much controversy, the show is packed with erotically charged scenes with full frontal nudity and gut challengingly bloody battle sequences with spectacular heart pounding and awe-inspiring mix of live action and cutting edge graphics.

Andy Whitfield (McLeod’s Daughter) plays Spartacus, a man betrayed by the Roman Republic and sentenced to die in the gladiator arena. The star-studded cast includes John Hannah (The Mummy, Four Weddings and A Funeral) as Batiatus, Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess) as Lucretia and Peter Mensah (300) as Doctore a trainer of the gladiators.

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22/02/11 - Complete Animated Hulk on DVD

Clear Vision has released The Incredible Hulk: The Complete Animated Collection on DVD.

Available together for the first time ever as a complete collection, The Incredible Hulk: The Complete Animated Collection includes all 73 original bittersweet episodes from the 1966, 1982 and 1996 series adding up to over 16 hours of essential Hulk viewing.

Caught in the heart of a nuclear explosion, a victim of gamma radiation gone wild, Doctor Robert Bruce Banner finds himself transformed in times of stress into one thousand pounds of unfettered fury - and the most powerful creature ever to walk the earth.

The 1966 series includes all 39 original episodes including; ‘Origin of the Hulk’, ‘Bruce Banner Wanted For Treason’, and ‘The Grand Finale’.

Fans of the 1982 series can enjoy all 32 of the original episodes which include; ‘Tomb of the Unknown Hulk’, ‘Punks on Wheels’ and ‘Enter She-Hulk’.

And if the 1996 series was your favourite then you can enjoy these 21 timeless classics which include; ‘Return of the Beast Part 1 and 2’, ‘Doomed’ and ‘Mission Incredible’ along with many, many more.

Will the Hulk succeed in defeating the dreaded Doctor Octopus? And will Dr. Proto’s deadly invention get the better of our hero?

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21/02/11 - Carpenter's Dark Star is remastered

Fabulous Films is to release John Carpenter’s cult classic Dark Star as a two-disc ...Hyperdrive Edition from 28 February.

This 2011 ...Hyperdrive Edition has been sourced from a new 16 x 9 35mm transfer, with additional frame by frame digital restoration of the video master to provide the best picture ever seen. The soundtrack has also been digitally enhance and restored to Dolby Digital 5.1.

John Carpenter’s pulp science fiction classic - this 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 DVD contains the original shorter version, the longer theatrical release and is packed full of brand new extra features.

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18/02/11 - Zonad comes to DVD in March

Element Pictures Distribution is to release Zonad on DVD from 14 March.

Zonad (Simon Delaney) is from space... probably. Or so the Cassidy family assume when they discover an apparent alien in a shiny red space suit and helmet passed out on the living room floor beside the drinks cabinet.

The Cassidy’s and the people of Ballymoran make the intriguing visitor feel very welcome (and in the case of mother Mary (Donna Dent) and teenage minx Jenny (Janice Byrne) they make him feel very welcome indeed. Or at least they do until fleet Commander BONAD arrives…

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17/02/11 - Being Human soundtrack out in March

The soundtrack to BBC 3's Being Human is being released on CD and MP3 digital download through Silva Screen Records from 07 March.

Being Human is an off-beat sit-com about three housemates who happen to be a werewolf, vampire and a ghost. Whilst sharing a rented house in Bristol, the supernatural trio is desperately trying to balance their paranormal problems with the challenge of simply Being Human.

The series proved a major hit for BBC 3 and the third series kicked off on 23 January with a monster audience of 1.5 million viewers.

Click here to buy this CD for £8.99 (RRP: £13.99)
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16/02/11 - Paradox Soldiers released on DVD

Metrodome is to release Paradox Soldiers on DVD from 21 February.

The wartime action-adventure is given a sci-fi twist in the time-bending Paradox Soldiers, which fuses World War II action with the classic time travel enigma: what if you went back in time and accidentally did something that would critically affect your future existence?

Four strangers are enjoying a World War II re-enactment weekend when fantasy becomes reality and they find themselves accidentally caught up in a time vortex which throws them back to the real Second World War. Desperate to avoid capture by Nazi forces, the four must put aside their differences to find another portal that will return them to their own time.

On the way, they accidentally become embroiled in one of history’s most notorious, bloody and pivotal battles and realise if they fail in their mission, their future selves will never exist.

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15/02/11 - British Royal Weddings DVD

Strike Force Entertainment / Cherry Red Records are to release British Royal Weddings of the 20th Century on DVD from 04 April.

Throughout the twentieth century, Royal Weddings were events of majestic splendour. People would camp out overnight in the streets of London to get a prime location for the procession the next day. They would gather in their thousands to garner a glimpse of the newly married couple on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Street parties were held up and down the country in celebration - the extravagance, the splendour, the sheer pomp and pageantry all combined to make for extraordinary scenes of patriotic pride and national unity.

In this collection you can relive all the major Royal Weddings of the Twentieth Century, seeing them just as the cinema audiences of the time would have experienced them. This is a comprehensive and nostalgic look back at some of the most memorable and extraordinary days, in not just royal history, but in the history of Britain.

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14/02/11 - Archer comes to DVD this May

Archer: The Complete Season One is to be released on DVD through Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment from 02 May.

Archer is an animated comedy set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), a spy agency where global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and manipulate each other.

Sterling Archer, deemed the ‘world’s most deadly secret agent’, does his job purely for the accompanying jet set lifestyle of women, parties and fast cars.

The series is voiced by H. Jon Benjamin (Family Guy) as Archer, Jessica Walter (Arrested Development) as Archer’s domineering mother and boss Malory, Aisha Taylor (24) as Archer’s ex-girlfriend Lara Kane, George Coe (Saturday Night Live) as Woodhouse, Archer’s long suffering butler, and Judy Greer (Love and Other Drugs) as Cheryl, Malory’s ditzy secretary.

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11/02/11 - SAW: The Final Chapter out in March

Lions Gate Home Entertainment is to release SAW: The Final Chapter on DVD and 3D Blu-ray on 07 March.

As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw’s (Tobin Bell) brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen (Sean Patrick Flanery), a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror...

SAW: The Final Chapter also stars Cary Elwes, Chester Bennington, Betsy Russell, Gina Holden and is directed by Kevin Greutert.

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10/02/11 - Law & Order: UK series 3 out on DVD

Universal Playback is to release Law & Order: UK - Series 3 on DVD from 07 March.

Based on the hugely popular American TV franchise, Law & Order: UK - Series 3 follows the investigative and prosecution teams as they struggle to get to the heart of a range of brutal crimes a London that never sleeps.

Bradley Walsh and Jamie Bamber return as Detectives Brooks and Devlin, with Freema Agyeman, Ben Daniels and Bill Paterson bringing up the rear as the prosecution team determined to get to the truth of the matter once a suspect has been detained.

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09/02/11 - Red comes to Blu-ray and DVD

Entertainment One is to release Red on Blu-ray and DVD from 14 February.

Based on the cult D.C. Comics graphic novels by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, Red is an explosive action comedy about a team of Retired and Extremely Dangerous former CIA operatives played by Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren.

Frank (Willis), Joe (Freeman), Marvin (Malkovich) and Victoria (Mirren) used to be the CIA's top agents - but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets. Now framed for assassination by the CIA's machine like lethal assassin Will Cooper (Karl Urban) they must use all of their collective cunning experience and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive.

To stop the operation the team embark upon an impossible cross-country mission to break into the top secret CIA headquarters, where they will uncover one of the biggest conspiracies and cover-ups in government history.

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08/02/11 - The Virginian comes to DVD in April

The Virginian: The Complete Series One is being released on DVD, through Acorn Media UK, on 04 April.

Tackling rustlers, land-grabbers, escaped convicts, conmen, corrupt railroaders and various other villains, The Virginian was fair-minded, fast-drawing and not afraid to stand up for his friends in a place where a disagreement could mean sudden death.

Based on Owen Wister’s great novel on the American West the series was filmed entirely in colour. It first aired in America in 1962 and on BBC TV in 1967.

Featuring an outstanding cast, with James Drury as the lead along with Lee J.Cobb, Doug McClure, Gary Clarke and Roberta Shore, the show also attracted a host of A-list guest stars including George C.Scott, Lee Marvin, Bette Davis, Robert Duvall and Ricardo Montalban. With its sensational storytelling, hard-hitting issues and outstanding performances, The Virginian stands as a monument to the great American Western.

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07/02/11 - Harry Potter Blu-ray and DVD out soon

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 will be released on Blu-ray Triple Play and DVD on 11 April from Warner Home Video.

Part 1 begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the Horcruxes - the keys to Voldemort's immortality. On their own, without the guidance or protection of their professors, the three friends must now rely on one another more than ever. But there are Dark Forces in their midst that threaten to tear them apart.

Meanwhile, the wizarding world has become a dangerous place for all enemies of the Dark Lord. The long-feared war has begun and Voldemort's Death Eaters seize control of the Ministry of Magic and even Hogwarts, terrorizing and arresting anyone who might oppose them. But the one prize they still seek is the one most valuable to Voldemort: Harry Potter. The Chosen One has become the hunted one as Voldemort's followers look for Harry with orders to bring him to the Dark Lord... alive.

Harry's only hope is to find the Horcruxes before Voldemort finds him. But as he searches for clues, he uncovers an old and almost forgotten tale - the legend of the Deathly Hallows. And if the legend turns out to be true, it could give Voldemort the ultimate power he seeks.

Little does Harry know that his future has already been decided by his past when, on that fateful day, he became "the Boy Who Lived." No longer just a boy, Harry Potter is drawing ever closer to the task for which he has been preparing since the day he first stepped into Hogwarts: the ultimate battle with Voldemort.

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04/02/11 - Legend of the Fist on Blu-ray & DVD

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen is being released on Blu-ray and DVD, through Metrodome, from 31 January.

Up until this year, the most legendary of all the martial arts heroes Chen Zhen - an eastern fictional martial arts master recurring in eastern culture - had only been played by two actors on the big screen. Bruce Lee in the seminal Fist Of Fury and Jet Li in the breakout hit Fist Of Legend.

This year, the baton will be passed to a new martial arts superstar. A new martial arts master who has already proved his worth in the East, starring in numerous movies and invented the highly revered Triple Kick in his high-octane, jaw-dropping style, Donnie Yen.

In Shanghai during World War II: Several years after the death of the legendary masked crime-fighter Chen Zhen, a mysterious and charming stranger works his way to the upper-echelons of the Shanghai mafia. But, by night, a caped martial arts genius begins single-handedly taking out the city’s underworld figures.

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03/02/11 - Jackass 3 comes to Blu-ray and DVD

Paramount Home Entertainment is to release Jackass 3 on Blu-ray and DVD on 14 March.

Pushing everything including taste to the limit, the raucously funny ode to outrageous insanity, Jackass 3 is being released in a jam-packed Explosive and Extended Edition 3D Triple Play, a single-disc DVD and the 1-3 box set.

Celebrating all forms of madness and mayhem, the entire Jackass crew - including Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy and Jason “Wee Man” Acuna - returns for more side-splitting lunacy and cringe-inducing stunts.

From wild animal face-offs with a crazed bull to pitiless practical jokes - high-five anyone? - you can guarantee logic-defying acts, pain and suffering as Jackass 3 reaches new heights in the pursuit of the inventively insane.

Click here to buy the Triple Play Blu-ray edition for £16.93 (RRP: £27.99)
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02/02/11 - LEXX complete series comes to DVD

LEXX: The Complete Series is to be released on DVD, through, Mediumrare Entertainment, on 28 March. The box set contains all 61 episodes across 19 Discs.

Follow the adventures of a group of desperate fugitives aboard the Lexx, ‘the most powerful destructive force in the two universes.” The Lexx is a massive ‘living bio-engineered spacecraft that resembles a wingless dragonfly that is capable of destroying a planet with ease. The crew of the Lexx are motivated largely by fear, lust and hunger: factors that gradually come to dominate their lives more and more. A cult hit known for its quirky, sexually charged adult storylines and ‘boldly’ talking Sci-Fi where others had not gone before.

Click here to buy this DVD collection for £48.99 (RRP: £69.99)

 

01/02/11 - DVDs for railway enthusiasts

Strike force Entertainment / Cherry Red records are to release two DVDs for railway enthusiasts on 28 February: Railways of The World: The 1960’s and Scottish Express (1946).

Railways of The World The 1960’s: In the late 1950s and early 1960s, ITN filmed a series of news items abroad called 'Roving Report'; most have never been seen since their initial broadcast. The period covered by this DVD was a time of intense transition for railways the world over. From in-depth studies of rail systems in Europe to unique and unusual services around the globe - this is ITN Roving Report: Railways of The World The 1960’s.

Scottish Express (1946): The film is about the preparation and operation of the immediate post-war Scottish Express LNER service drawn by A3 class steam locomotive 4489 on its 10am run from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley with her driver and fireman Tom and Fred. Shot from the lineside, on board the train and in the steam engine's cab during the run, the film also shows the construction of steam engines at the LNER's Doncaster works and visits the company's coachworks at York. Other LNER steam locomotives featured are 4485 'Webster', 4492, 4599, 4464 'Britten' 4493 NE and 4465.

Click here to buy Railways of The World The 1960’s DVD for £11.20 (RRP: £11.99)
Click here to buy Scottish Express (1946) DVD for £11.49 (RRP: £14.99)

 

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