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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Atonement

Atonement reunites Keira Knightley with her Pride & Prejudice director, Joe Wright, for the movie based on Ian McEwan’s book of the same name. The result? Once of the most widely acclaimed pictures of 2007.

Atonement tells the story of Cecilia Tallis (Knightley), and the housekeeper’s son, Robbie Turner (James McAvoy). On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, Cecilia (Kiera Knightley) strip off her clothes and plunges into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), a childhood friend who, along with Cecilia has recently graduated from Cambridge. Also watching is Cecilia’s thirteen-year-old sister Briony whose actions prove to have far-reaching repercussions changing all three of their lives forever with Robbie and Cecilia becoming victims of the younger girl’s scheming imagination.

With a terrific cast and superb direction from Wright, it’s utterly understandable that Atonement has earned itself such praise. Diligently told, with some superb photography, Wright is blessed by terrific central performances by Knightley and McAvoy, both of whom have never been better. Atonement proves itself as a top quality drama, with a real emotional punch and is one of the increasingly rare breed of films that sticks in your head for days after.

• Actors: Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave
• Directors: Joe Wright
• Classification: 15 (UK)
• Studio: Universal Pictures UK
• DVD Release Date: 4 Feb 2008 (UK)
• Running Time: 118 minutes

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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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The Kingdom

Oscar® winners Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper team up with Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman to ignite the screen in The Kingdom a high-intensity action thriller based on the Riyadh compound bombings which took place on May 12, 2003, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Actor, writer, and director Peter Berg (FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS) delivers a fearless, action-packed political thriller with THE KINGDOM. Shot in the Middle East with unsettling immediacy, the hand-held cameras put viewers right inside the action, while the tension between American FBI agents and their Saudi counterparts maintains an interesting uncertainty about who’s ‘right’ and who’s ‘wrong’.

The bad guys, however, are unmistakable: the film opens with a brutal terrorist attack on an oil company compound in Saudi Arabia, where a visiting FBI agent is killed. Back home in Washington, fellow agents Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx, RAY) and Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner, ALIAS) want revenge, and will do whatever it takes to gain access to the investigation. Fleury all but blackmails a Saudi prince to get clearance against the wishes of a timorous attorney general, and flies overnight to the scene of the crime.

Accompanying him are the no-nonsense forensics expert Mayes, Southern-fried bomb authority Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper, ADAPTATION), and smart aleck Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT). Once there, they encounter the resistance of a Saudi government more interested in getting the Americans safely out of the country and avoiding conflict, rather than in solving the crime. They are assigned a smarmy handler with a weak stomach (Jeremy Piven, ENTOURAGE) to make sure they stay out of trouble. The team must navigate a maze of bureaucracy to begin collecting evidence, but they have an unlikely ally in their Saudi escort, Colonel Faris Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom, PARADISE NOW), a scrupulous and intelligent officer whom Fleury befriends. Soon enough, procedure and protocol give way to car chases and explosive fire fights, and the bleak political climate of extremism and violence is portrayed in a stark light with no easy answers

• Actors: Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper, Jason Bateman, Jeremy Piven
• Directors: Peter Berg
• Classification: 15
• Studio: Universal Pictures UK / Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: 28 Jan 2008 (UK)
• Run Time: 106 minutes

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