29/07/11 - Rio comes to Blu-ray and DVD

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is releasing Rio on Blu-ray and DVD from 24 October.

Set amidst a colourful jungle, a beach paradise, a sprawling metropolis and the celebration to end all celebrations, known as Carnival - Rio represents a vision of the magical Rio de Janeiro.

This high-flying animated comedy follows the grand adventure of two exotic macaws - Blu and Jewel - whose journey plays out through the colour, music, and emotion of Rio.

With an extensive selection of special features worthy of a Carnival-style celebration the Blu-ray, guided by Blu himself, leads viewers inside the world of Rio on film as well as the actual city. Go behind the sounds of Rio with music legends Sergio Mendes and Will.i.am; dance the samba alongside the film's characters; get to know the amazing landmarks highlighted in the film; and explore the city of Rio de Janeiro with Carlos Saldanha.

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28/07/11 - Warehouse 13: Season 2 on DVD

Universal Playback is to release Warehouse 13: Season Two on DVD on 19 September.

Catch up with Agents Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) and Peter Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) as they work to investigate paranormal objects in their barren South Dakota setting.

Warehouse 13: Season Two offers 13 brand new chaotic and ingenious episodes from quests to Egypt and the long-lost Warehouse 2, time travel to 1961 and an unfortunate incident with body swapping.

Season Two once again provides a refreshingly comical edge to the already critically acclaimed sci-fi show. With a stellar supporting cast of Saul Rubinek and Allison Scagliotti, Warehouse 13: Season Two once again changes the stern face of sci-fi with its comedic and inventive brilliance.

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27/07/11 - Double Impact reissued on DVD

Second Sight is to rerelease Jean-Claude Van Damme's classic '90s action movie Double Impact on DVD on 19 September.

This high-octane action extravaganza stars martial arts action hero Van Damme in the dual role of Chad and Alex, twins who were separated at birth when their parents were brutally murdered by members of a Hong Kong criminal cartel. 25 years later the pair are re-united by the family bodyguard (Geoffrey Lewis) to avenge their parents death.

Although polar opposites in personality, they are both high-kicking, fast-moving, fully trained martial experts and must do battle against the leather clad Kara (Cory Everson ) and lethal assassin Moon (martial arts veteran Bolo Yeung) to reclaim what is rightfully theirs.

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26/07/11 - Railways of the World on DVD

Strike Force Entertainment / Cherry Red Records has released Railways of the World: The 1960s on DVD.

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.

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25/07/11 - A Little Bit of Heaven on Blu-ray / DVD

Entertainment in Video is to release A Little Bit of Heaven on Blu-ray and DVD on 05 September.

A Little Bit of Heaven is a love story set in New Orleans about an irreverent young woman who unexpectedly falls in love with her doctor.

The film stars Kate Hudson and is directed by Nicole Kassell from an original screenplay by Gren Wells.

Marley Corbett (Kate Hudson) is young, beautiful, and wildly funny, but she’s afraid of opening herself up to true love and commitment. Though she uses her humour to prevent matters from getting serious, a life-changing visit to her doctor (Gael Garcia Bernal) sends both of them on an eye-opening adventure of mutual discovery, leading to revelations neither thought possible.

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22/07/11 - Revelation of the Pyramids released

Optimum Home Entertainment is to release The Revelation of the Pyramids on Blu-ray and DVD on 22 August.

After nearly forty years of study and research, the producers of this documentary have at last managed first to understand and then to prove what lies behind one of the greatest archaeological mysteries.

Patrice Pooyard, the director of the film guides you through the world's oldest and most beautiful sites after six years of investigation, aided by his anonymous informants and technical specialists. The result will shake the world history to its very core, and revolutionise Egyptology entirely.

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21/07/11 - Source Code comes to Blu-ray & DVD

Source Code is being released, through Optimum Home Entertainment, on Blu-ray and DVD from 15 August.

When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

In an assignment unlike any he’s ever known, he learns he’s part of a government experiment called the “Source Code,” a program that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last 8 minutes of his life.

With a second, much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Colter re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombs and prevent the next attack.

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20/07/11 - The Witches of Oz comes to DVD

The Witches of Oz is being released, through OMG, on DVD from 08 August.

A star-studded cast including Billy Boyd, Christopher Lloyd, Sean Astin and Mia Sara bring the much-loved magic of Oz into a modern day setting.

Dorothy Gale is a small-time author from Kansas who writes children's stories about Oz, a fantasy land that lies somewhere over the rainbow. When a New York agency offers to represent her books, Dorothy heads to the Big Apple and finds things are not what they seem...

Although Dorothy has always believed that Oz was a fictional place created by her eccentric grandfather, strange happenings in New York soon prove that it's very real indeed. The inhabitants of Oz have come to our world to seek Dorothy's help in defeating the Wicked Witch of the West and her plans for global domination

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19/07/11 - The Rig comes to DVD in August

Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment is to release The Rig on DVD from 08 August.

As a hurricane rages outside, the small but experienced crew of a deep-sea oil drilling rig settles in to ride out the storm. Isolated on the rig and a hundred miles from shore, their calm is short lived when a crew member goes missing and an extensive search proves futile. Slowly, they discover that a deadly creature is stalking the skeleton crew, eliminating them one by one.

Surrounded by nothing but raging ocean, their communication severed and no way off the rig, the roughnecks try to survive the stormy night with an unrelenting force of death hunting them down.

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18/07/11 - Train Simulator 2012 arriving in Sept

Train Simulator 2012, the sequel to Railworks 2 will be available for PC, through Railsimulator.com, on 23 September.

RailWorks 3: Train Simulator 2012 (referred to as just Train Simulator 2012) ups the ante with the most realistic graphics and level of detail in the series to date. Train Simulator 2012 promises to be the most advanced train simulator in the world, with the most up to date graphics available for the PC and numerous technical innovations to create the most immersive sense of reality yet seen in a PC simulation.

With 15 highly detailed and accurate locomotives from the age of steam to present day and eight different routes featuring authentic signalling, stations and landscaping, the Train Simulator 2012 core set provides hundreds of hours of challenging game play. The RS Career System allows players to compete against other drivers around the world, or they may choose to create the routes and collections of their dreams with a vast range of additional downloadable locomotives, stock and routes. Built-in tutorials make it easy for newcomers to get in the cab and start playing right away.

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15/07/11 - Call of Duty Elite beta goes live

The beta version of Call of Duty Elite is now live. The pre-release of this new subscription-based digital community platform, built expressly for the 30-million strong Call of Duty fanbase, has begun its staged launch on Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE using Call of Duty: Black Ops.

The beta will be activated in phases for feature testing, with limited invitations rolling out in the coming weeks. Call of Duty Elite will officially debut this fall as an integral part of Activision's release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, on 08 November.

The 2.8 million Call of Duty gamers who have already registered to participate will now have the opportunity to connect, compete and improve in this evolution of the Call of Duty multi-player experience.

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14/07/11 - The Great Debaters comes to DVD

The Great Debaters is being released on DVD, through High Fliers Films, on 22 August.

Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker star in the gripping Golden Globe nominated drama The Great Debaters. The film, which Washington also directed, was inspired by the true story of a temperamental debating coach who moulded the students of a small Texas college into one of the US’s most formidable debating teams.

Washington plays the role of ambitious coach Professor Melvin Tolson while Forest Whitaker plays Dr James Farmer Snr, the resentful father of a student whose loyalties now lie almost exclusively with his coach. Tolson, an outspoken Wiley College professor, recognises the remarkable power of knowledge and can see how his young debating students possess the spark of a new generation. Convinced that they could invoke great change if given the necessary confidence and tools, he implores them to take responsibility for their future while at the same time furtively attempting to protect them from his clandestine role as an organiser for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union.

One of Tolson's most promising students is the 14-year-old prodigy James Farmer Jr. whose father is a renowned scholar and a major influence in the emerging student's life. However, James Snr. has yet to learn how to truly harness the power of knowledge through action and assertion but his son has seen the appalling effects of racism all around him and longs to live in a world where nobody is in fear simply because of the colour of their skin.

Tolson coaches his team to a virtually undefeated season that includes the first debate in the US between white and black students and which ends with an invitation to challenge Harvard University's national champions. The team must rise to the Harvard challenge but are forced to play out the contest in front of a national radio audience and against the backdrop of a racist lynch mob, violent clashes with the police and a near riot.

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13/07/11 - Kojak season 4 & 5 are out on DVD

Kojak: Complete Season Four & Complete Season Five - the final season are being released on DVD, through Mediumrare Entertainment, on 29 August.

Emmy and Golden Globe winner Telly Savalas is back again as Lieutenant Theo Kojak, television's greatest detective, in the unforgettable homicide series. Kojak is hitting the gritty streets of New York City with his trademark lollipop and trilby hat in pursuit of the toughest criminals. Kojak is a detective for the NYPD, and solves crimes in the Big Apple during the 1970’s, which was one of the roughest decades the city has seen. The series depicted the mean streets of New York City with realism that few other television series have since matched.

Click here to buy Kojak: Complete Season 4 on DVD for £25.99 (RRP: £34.99)
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12/07/11 - The Real Sound of Chicago out on CD

BBE Records is to release The Real Sound of Chicago on CD on 15 August.

Compiled by Mr Peabody Records, this album takes us to the place that is celebrated the world over for the talent of its musicians spanning across countless genres of music. You name it - Soul, Funk, Rock, Jazz, Blues, etc.

In modern times, Chicago’s Dance floors have had a worldwide reputation for House music; it’s a sound that has pretty much reached to areas all across the globe. Yet, in the early developmental stages of the Chicago Dance era (mid-late 1970’s to early 1980’s), there were scores of musicians recording Dance music, hoping to be the next mainstream success story.

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08/07/11 - Horror movie Bane comes to DVD

Safe Cracker Pictures is to release Bane on DVD on 18 July

Blending psychological horror with full-on gore, Bane, finally comes to DVD after a successful festival season that saw it win Best Horror Feature at Shriekfest in Los Angeles.

Katherine awakes in an underground cell with three other women - all have complete amnesia. The women soon discover they are part of a gruesome experiment with no obvious purpose. That night one of the other girls witnesses the first visit to their cell by the terrifying figure of the blood splattered Surgeon. One by one the Surgeon cuts a four digit number into each woman’s skin - the exact time he will return to kill them. Is there any way to escape? What is the purpose of the experiment? And who or what is screaming every time the lights go out?

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07/07/11 - Stargate Universe final season on DVD

Stargate Universe: The Complete Final Season is being released on DVD, through Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, from 29 August.

Stargate Universe: The Complete Final Season follows Col Everett Young (Louis Ferreira) and his crew of soldiers, civilians and scientists - including the volatile Dr Nicholas Rush (Robert Carlyle) - stranded on-board alien ship The Destiny as it follows a predestined course through the universe.

Supplies on board are running dangerously low, tensions are rising and Destiny’s ultimate mission remains unknown. Facing uncharted space and enemies who would take the ship by force, the crew must learn to trust each other and the Destiny itself in order to survive, and to keep hopes of returning to earth alive.

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06/07/11 - Lavender Hill Mob on Blu-ray & DVD

The Lavender Hill Mob is being released on Blu-ray and DVD, through Optimum Classics, on 01 August. The movie is also being reissued theatrically from 22 July.

Henry Holland (Alec Guiness) has worked faithfully for 20 years as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. A shy retiring man, completely inconsequential to his employers, he has long dreamt of a way to execute his plan of the perfect gold robbery - the only catch being how to move the gold on once stolen.

One day he befriends Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), a maker of souvenirs. Holland remarks that, with Pendlebury's smelting equipment, one could forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel Towers and smuggle the gold from England into France. Soon after, the two plant a story to gain the services of professional criminals Lackery (Sid James) and Shorty (Alfie Bass). Together, the four plot their crime, leading to unexpected twists and turns.

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05/07/11 - Camelot is released on DVD in August

Camelot: The Complete First Season is being released on DVD through Entertainment One on 01 August.

Experience the legend of Camelot as never told before. Featuring an acclaimed all-star cast, Camelot is an action-packed, blood-thirsty and raunchy tale not to be missed.

From Michael Hirst, creator of The Tudors and Chris Chibnall, creator of Torchwood, Camelot is packed with action, romance and betrayal.

Britain is steeped in war and deception when a young and reckless Arthur, unknown son and heir to the murdered king, is installed to the throne. His enemies, including Arthur's ruthless half-sister Morgan are quick to declare war, and the young king has to defend his kingdom with only one supporter by his side: the mysterious sorcerer Merlin...

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04/07/11 - The Task comes to Blu-ray and DVD

The Task is being released on Blu-ray and DVD through G2 Pictures on 11 July.

Something diabolical is taking place on the set of “The Task” a new reality show in which players complete terrifying missions within the confines of an abandoned prison hoping to win a hefty cash prize.

As six young students explore their new environment, malicious spirits make their presence known in the most gruesome ways imaginable. Unable to escape the labyrinthine prison, the contestants become unwitting pawns caught at the centre of a blood-soaked night of terror.

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01/07/11 - Big Mommas is back on Blu-ray & DVD

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son is released on Blu-ray and DVD through Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment on 18 July.

Martin Lawrence returns as FBI agent Malcolm Turner who must once again don the fat suit and go undercover as his alter-ego, with hilarious consequences. Joined by fellow stand-up comic and hip-hop sensation Brandon T. Jackson, the action and mishaps come thick and fast.

After Malcolm’s step-son Trent witnesses a murder, the two must pull out all the stops to protect Trent’s identity and catch the killer, before the killer catches them. The gloves come off and the fat suits go on as Malcolm and Trent head under-cover at an all-girl performing art school disguised as the infamous Big Momma and her hefty side-kick Charmaine.

Combining their detective skills with classic comedy, hot music and new dance sensation - The Cleveland Shuffle, Big Momma and Charmaine will stop at nothing to prevent from blowing their cover and catching the bad guys.

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