The Month’s Top U.K. Releases: May 2011

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Released 2nd May:

The Green Hornet:

Format: 3D Blu-ray/Blu-ray/DVD Classification: 12

Stars:  Seth Rogen (Knocked Up), Jay Chou (Curse of the Golden Flower), Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds)

After the death of his media-mogul father, wealthy playboy Britt Reid (Rogen) decides to take up his crusading mantle in a rather different fashion; by teaming up with his father’s mechanic Kato (Chou) to become the superhero The Green Hornet, and fight LA’s most ruthless criminals.

Star Trek: The Original Series, Complete:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD Classification: PG

Stars:  William Shatner (Boston Legal), Leonard Nimoy (Fringe), James Doohan (Bug Buster)

Join Kirk, Spock, Doctor McCoy, and Scotty in Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its’ five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no man has gone before!

Released 9th May:

The Way Back:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD Classification: 12A

Stars: Jim Sturgess (21), Ed Harris (The Rock), Colin Farrell (Phone Booth), Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones)

The true story of seven World War II prisoners who attempted the impossible; an escape from a brutal Siberian gulag; walking across 4,500 miles of the world’s most merciless landscapes; crossing freezing forests, boiling deserts, and even the Himalayas themselves.

The King’s Speech:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD Classification: 12

Stars:Colin Firth (Love Actually), Geoffrey Rush (Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl), Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club)

The true story of the King George VI of England, who was suddenly crowned King after the death of his father, and the abdication of his brother, and had to undertake an unorthodox treatment in order to overcome his terrible speech impediment, and successfully lead his country.

Released 16th May:

The Walking Dead: Season One:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD Classification: 15

Stars: Andrew Lincoln (This Life), Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break), Laurie Holden (Silent Hill)

An epic tale of survival and adventure, The Walking Dead sees police officer Rick Grimes (Lincoln) wake from a coma to find the world has been ravaged by a zombie epidemic of apocalyptic proportions.

 

The Next Three Days:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD Classification: 12

Stars:Russell Crowe (Gladiator), Elizabeth Banks (Scrubs), Olivia Wilde (House)

When his wife is arrested for a murder she swears she didn’t commit, John Brennan  exhausts every legal means of proving her innocence, before taking proceeding to break her out of prison.

Watch the official trailer for The Next Three Days here.

Spartacus: Blood and Sand: The Complete First Season:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD Classification: 18

Stars:Andy Whitfield (Gabriel), John Hannah (The Mummy), Manu Bennett (30 Days of Night), Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess)

The tale of Rome’s most infamous rebel comes alive in the graphic and visceral new series; where Spartacus is forced into slavery, and reborn as a Gladiator, in an arena where blood and death are primetime entertainment.

Black Swan:

Format: Blu-ray (Triple Play)/DVD (Plus Digital Copy) Classification: 15

Stars:Natalie Portman (Your Highness), Mila Kunis (The Book of Eli), Vincent Cassell (Mesrine)

Witness Darren Aronofsky’s mesmerizing tale of a young ballet dancer, and her slow descent into madness; as the whiter-than-white dancer is forced to find her dark side in order to portray both the white and black swan in the legendary ballet show Swan Lake.

Released 23rd May:

Tangled:

Format: 3D Blu-ray (Super Play)/Blu-ray (Double Play)/DVD (Plus Digital Copy) Classification: PG

Stars: Mandy Moore (A Walk to Remember), Zachary Levi (Chuck), Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy)

Disney’s twist on the tale of Rapunzel sees a bandit take refuge in a strange tower, only to to discover it’s inhabited by a spirited teenage girl with 70-foot-long golden hair.

 

True Blood: Season 3 & True Blood: Season 1-3 Complete:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD Classification: 18

Stars: Anna Pacquin (X-Men), Stephen Moyer (88 Minutes), Alexander Skarsgard (Generation Kill), Ryan Kwanten (Dead Silence)

After Bill’s mysterious kidnaping, Sookie Stackhouse heads to Mississippi; where she becomes entangled in a world ruled by a pack of vicious werewolves, meets a vampire king, and begins to believe that maybe Bill can’t be trusted.

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Matt Wheeldon is the Founder, and Editor in Chief of Good Film Guide. He still refers to the cinema as "the pictures", and has what some would describe as a misguided appreciation for Waterworld.