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Resident Evil : Extinction
Resident Evil : Extinction is third in the spin off series of the popular video game. Set three years after the action of Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the world has turned to desert and survivors of the zombie-making T-virus are few and far between. Alice (Milla Jovovich), the genetically altered heroin of the series has been roaming the Earth alone attempting to stay off Umbrella’s radar. A convoy led by Claire Redfield (Ali Larter) and former U.B.C.S. agent Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) along with L.J. (Mike Epps) and other survivors who have not been infected, travel from small town to small town in search of other survivors and supplies. Alice and this convoy of survivors then join forces fending off the undead as they try to make their way to the promised safety of Alaska.
Resident Evil : Extinction has had mixed reviews ranging from 1/5 to 5/5 although everyone seems to agree that the third installment is better than the last. Being the third in the series as it is I find it unlikely that people would buy this if they have not seen the previous films. With that in mind i’m confident that those that do go ahead and buy Resdient Evil : Extinction will enjoy the roller coaster ride of action. I myself am a big fan of the games on which the films are based and did enjoy the first two films for what they are, unrealistic fun action films with a zombie theme.
- Actors: Milla Jovovich, Robert Kulzer, Paul Anderson, Spencer Locke, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter
- Directors: Russell Mulcahy
- Classification: 15 (UK)
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- DVD Release Date: 18 Feb 2008 (UK)
- Run Time: 90 minutes
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With the loss of support from Warner Brothers and now Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Netflix a Japanese broadcaster is reporting that Toshiba are ceasing production of HD DVD players. LG is currently the only lifeline that HD DVD has left. They are currently adopting a watch and wait policy and have as yet not pulled out of supporting the format. Those of you that invested in a dual format player might want to keep your eye out for some HD DVD bargains that are sure to start appearing.
You can read more on the Toshiba situation here
www.homecinemagear.co.uk
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Ratatouille
In Ratatouille, Pixar’s new animated adventure the hero is Remy, a French rat (voiced by Patton Oswalt) with a cultivated palate, who dreams of becoming head chef at a Paris restaurant. Obviously there is one major problem here; Remy being a rat and restaurants being decidedly rodent-phobic. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Remy’s passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race graced with the usual Pixar magic, that ineffable blend of headlong comedy, seamless technology, and wonder. Brad Bird (The Incredibles) directs this amazingly expressive animation. Remy’s shrugs and nods are nimbler than many flesh-and-blood actors can manage. Full of great gags, Ratatouille is a sure fire hit.
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Classification: U (UK)
- Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- DVD Release Date: 11 Feb 2008 (UK)
- Run Time: 107 minutes
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Posted by: admin in Cheap Blu-ray, Cheap DVD, tags: 20th Century Fox, Blu-ray, Cheap DVD, Death Sentence, Entertainment in Video, Garrett Hedlund, James Wan, John Goodman, Kelly Preston, Kevin Bacon, Leigh Whannell
Death Sentence
Adapted from Brian Garfield’s novel, Death Sentence features Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume, a man who takes the law into his own hands. Nick Hume is a successful businessman with two children and a lovely wife (Kelly Preston). While driving home from his older, college-bound son’s hockey game, Nick must pull into a gas station in a tough part of town. When the boy goes into the store to buy a drink, his throat is slit during a bloody robbery attempt. Nick identifies the killer, but with him as the only witness, the case is unable to go to trial. Discovering that the murder was merely a gang initiation, Nick is pushed over the edge, taking on the deadly gang headed by the fierce Billy Darley (Garrett Hedlund). Payback becomes all-encompassing for Nick: it not only takes over his life, but it also causes a startling physical transformation.
Director James Wan (SAW) forgoes emotional impact in favour of souped-up, visceral, and occasionally thrilling set-pieces. Bacon makes Nick’s transformation from a suburban, suit-and-tie family man into a gaunt, shaved-headed angel of death startling and believable. Full of interesting contradictions, DEATH SENTENCE lets viewers have it both ways–fulfilling their bloodlust while ensuring that Nick’s targets are despicable people who deserve their fates. Ultimately, though it serves to remind us that, as a solution, violence only begets more violence.
Wan delivers a high-end exploitation film, complete with a washed-out, grainy appearance and some startling violence, but with complex, thrilling action sequences.
- Actors: Kevin Bacon, Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Preston, John Goodman, Leigh Whannell
- Directors: James Wan
- Classification: 18 (UK)
- Studio: Entertainment in Video / 20th Century Fox
- DVD Release Date: 21 Jan 2008 (UK)
- Running Time: 105 minutes
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Posted by: admin in Cheap Blu-ray, Cheap DVD, tags: Blu-ray, Cheap DVD, Clive Owen, Entertainment in Video, Michael Davis, Monica Bellucci, New Line Home Video, Paul Giamatti, shoot em up
Shoot ‘Em Up
Paul Giamatti, Clive Owen, and Monica Belluci star in this fast-paced thriller. Owen plays Mr. Smith; a mysterious loner who teams up with an unlikely ally (Monica Belluci) in order to protect a newborn baby from a determined hitman (Paul Giamatti) who hunts them throughout the bowels of the city.
The plot is thrown out of the window at every opportunity in favour of more action, upping the body count and – heck, why not? – a bit more action. And you know what? Shoot Em Up works, and it does so because everyone is in on it. This is no postmodern pretentious reworking: this is a fun, stylish action movie, and proud of it. It boasts a trimmed-to-the-wire running time, some outrageous sequences, a few bum notes but a whole lot of energy. And while it is, all considered, an excitable action movie and nothing more, Shoot Em Up is also uproarious entertainment. Relax, switch your brain off, stick your tongue in cheek and settle down. If you can do all of these things, then Shoot Em Up is one of the most downright fun movies you’re likely to have seen in some time. and the kind of film that Friday night was invented for.
- Actors: Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci
- Directors: Michael Davis
- Classification: 18 (UK), R (U.S.),
- Studio: Entertainment in Video / New Line Home Video
- DVD Release Date: 21 Jan 2008 (UK)
- Running Time: 83 minutes
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Posted by: admin in Cheap Blu-ray, Cheap DVD, Cheap HD DVD, tags: Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Blu-ray, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cheap DVD, HD-DVD, Jenny Wade, no reservations, Patricia Clarkson, Scott Hicks, Warner Home Video
No Reservations
Master chef Kate Armstrong (Academy Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones) lives her life like she runs her kitchen at a trendy Manhattan eatery with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. Kate’s perfectionist nature is put to the test when she “inherits” her nine-year-old niece Zoe (Abigail Breslin), while contending with a brash new sous-chef who joins her staff. High-spirited and freewheeling, Nick Palmer (Aaron Eckhart) couldn’t be more different from Kate, yet the chemistry between them is undeniable. Rivalry becomes romance, but Kate will have to learn to express herself beyond the realm of her kitchen if she wants to connect with Zoe and find true happiness with Nick.
- Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson, Jenny Wade
- Directors: Scott Hicks
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- DVD Release Date: 28 Jan 2008 (UK)
- Run Time: 100 minutes
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Posted by: admin in Cheap Blu-ray, Cheap DVD, tags: 3:10 To Yuma, Blu-ray, Cheap DVD, Christian Bale, Dallas Roberts, Gretchen Mol, James Mangold, Lions Gate Home Entertainment, Maple Pictures, Peter Fonda, Russell Crowe
3:10 To Yuma
James Mangold (WALK THE LINE) directs this remake of the classic Western film. Christian Bale stars as a sheriff who vows to bring a killer (Academy Award winner Russell Crowe) to justice, but it won’t be easy to put the criminal on the train to Yuma
Set in Arizona in the late 1800’s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans (Christian Bale), struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the 3:10 to Yuma, a train that will take the killer to trial.
3:10 To Yuma brings together two of the most magnetic male leads in modern day cinema. On the one hand, there’s Christian Bale as the law-enforcing Sheriff, and he’s facing off against Russell Crowe’s killer. Unsurprisingly, it’s the conflict and sparks between these two that ignite the film, and turn it into a film well worth seeking out.
For what director Mangold realises is that the trick with 3:10 To Yuma (named after the prison train that Bale’s character seeks to put Crowe’s on) is to give his two stars room to work, and injecting plenty of action and excitement into the mix. The end result, while not a top-notch Western, turns out to be a real cut above most of the current multiplex fodder. Even if Westerns aren’t usually your thing, it’s well worth giving this DVD a try.
- Actors: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Dallas Roberts
- Directors: James Mangold
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Lions Gate Home Entertainment / Maple Pictures
- DVD Release Date: 28 Jan 2008 (UK)
- Run Time: 117 minutes
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