The Month’s Top UK Releases: July 2011

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Here you can find our pick of the best films and TV series’ being release on Blu-ray and DVD this coming July, and should any title grab your attention, simply click its title to be taken directly to Amazon.co.uk where it can quickly, easily, and, more often than not, cheaply, be pre-ordered.

Released 4th July:

Drive Angry:

Format: Blu-ray (Double Play 3D+2D+DVD)/DVD Classification: 18

Stars:  Nicolas Cage (Con Air), Amber Heard (The Stepfather), William Fichtner (Prison Break), Billy Burke (Twilight)

After his daughter is murdered and his granddaughter is kidnapped by a satanic cult looking to use the baby as a human sacrifice, Milton breaks out of hell and goes on a road-trip with an attractive waitress in order to kill the cult leader, but has Satan’s right-hand man chasing him every step of the way, looking to bring him back.

Hall Pass:

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

Stars:  Owen Wilson (Shanghai Noon), Jason Sudeikis (What Happens in Vegas), Christina Applegate (Married With Children), Jenna Fischer (Blades of Glory)

After constantly being disgusted by their husbands obsession with sex, and their coveting every attractive woman they see, two women grant their husbands a Hall Pass; good for one week off marriage; allowing the guys to do whatever they want, with whomever they can… or can’t, as the case may be.

The Resident:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD Classification: 15

Stars:  Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Losers), Christopher Lee (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy)

Every year, millions of single women move apartment. They don’t know who lived in the apartment before them and they don’t bother to change the locks – they should. After separating from her husband, Juliet Devereau is one such woman starting a new life in a stunning loft apartment that seems too good to be true.

The Adjustment Bureau:

Format: Blu-ray Steelbook (Triple Play)/Blu-ray (Triple Play)/DVD Classification: 12

Stars:  Matt Damon (The Bourne Identity), Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada),

On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, an ambitious politician meets a beautiful woman like none he’s ever known, but just as he realizes he’s falling for her, he discovers that mysterious men are conspiring to keep the two apart. Up against the very agents of Fate itself he must let go and accept his destiny, or risk everything to be with her.

Released 11th July:

Battle: Los Angeles:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD Classification: 12

Stars: Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight), Will Rothhaar (Kingpin), Jim Parrack (True Blood), Ramon Rodriguez (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)

A war movie first, science-fiction film second, Battle L.A. follows the end of the world as we know it; when aliens invade the planet, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected, and a Marine staff sergeant and his platoon are our last hope.

Ironclad:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD Classification: 15

Stars: James Purefoy (Rome), Brian Cox (Manhunter), Paul Giamatti (The Hangover Part II), Jason Flemyng (X-Men: First Class)

Chronicling the true story of a pivotal yet often overlooked moment in British history; the siege of Rochester; where a few brave men dared to stand against a tyrannical king, with the odds stacked so firmly against them, that they were all but guaranteed a brutal and untimely death.

Released 18th July:

Faster:

Format: Blu-ray/DVD Classification: 15

Stars: Dwayne Johnson (The Other Guys), Billy Bob Thornton (Armageddon), Maggie Grace (Taken)

After being released from prison, a man known only as Driver embarks upon a killing spree designed to get revenge for past grievances; causing a potential victim to hire a lone assassin to get to him before he finishes his task.
 

Justified: Season 2:

Format: DVD Classification: 15

Stars: Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood), Walton Goggins (The Shield), Nick Searcy (Castaway), Joelle Carter (American Pie 2), Natalie Zea (The Other Guys)

Timothy Olyphant returns as U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens for the second season of FX’s Justified; a modern-day western in which the strong-willed, quiet, lawman continues his stay in his old hometown, and carries on dishing out his own form of justice.

Released 25th July:

Rango:

Format: Blu-ray (Triple Play)/DVD Classification: U

Stars: Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean), Timothy Olyphant (Justified), Bill Nighy (Love Actually), Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2)

When Rango winds up in the gun-slinging town of Dirt; a lawless outpost populated by the desert’s most wily and whimsical creatures; the cowardly lizard is welcomed as the new Sheriff and forced to play his new role to the hilt…until, he starts to become the hero he once only pretended to be.


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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.