Released 3rd August:
Kick-Ass:
Format: Blu-ray/DVD Combo with Digital Copy/DVD
Classification: R
Stars: Nicholas Cage (National Treasure), Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes), Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad)
Wondering why nobody ever tries to be a superhero, Dave Lizewski dons a green wetsuit and rubber gloves, calls himself ‘Kick-Ass’, and heads out to fight crime; inspiring the public, and meeting up with the highly trained father-daughter superhero team of Big Daddy and Hit-Girl, on their quest to take down a local mafioso.
The Breakfast Club: 25th Anniversary Edition
Format: Blu-ray
Classification: R
Stars: Emilio Estevez (Mighty Ducks), Paul Gleason (Not Another Teen Movie), Anthony Michael Hall (Edward Scissorhands), John Kapelos (Legally Blonde)
The Breakfast Club is an iconic John Hughes (Sixteen Candles) movie that perfectly captures the culture of the 80’s high school student, by locking a jock, a princess, a geek, a waster, and an oddball together in a room for Saturday detention; a brilliant coming-of-age comedy, featuring an all-star 80’s cast, that delivers exactly what it should.
Heroes: Season Four
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Classification: Not Rated
Stars: Jack Coleman (Dynasty), Hayden Panettiere (I Love you Beth Cooper), Milo Ventimiglia (Armored), Zachary Qunito (Star Trek)
Relive all 18 episodes of Heroes’ fourth season; as the heroes have to mourn the loss of old friends, and face terrifyingly powerful new enemies, with numerous twists and turns being encountered along the way; featuring hours of behind the scenes footage and extras features, starring the show’s writers, cast, and main artists.
Released 10th August:
Date Night
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Classification: PG-13
Stars: Steve Carell (Get Smart), Tina Fey (30 Rock), Mark Wahlberg (Planet of the Apes, 2001), Taraji P. Henson (The Karate Kid, 2010)
Two of America’s best loved comedians star as an unremarkable married couple who get mistaken for Manhattan crooks; and end up getting into all-sorts of adventures involving everything from snooty waiters to crooked cops, strippers, a super-spy, and a ridiculous car chase; in a film that never strives to be realistic, but always shoots for comedy gold.
Death at a Funeral
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Classification: R
Stars: Chris Rock (Dogma), Martin Lawrence (Bad Boys), Zoe Saldana (Avatar), Danny Glover (2012)
A near scene-for-scene remake of the British comedy Death at a Funeral, this movie involves a family gathered together for a dignified memorial service, where a drug-induced hallucinogenic state combines with the wrong body, some startling revelations about the deceased, and a whole number of family issues, to create an unusually amusing funeral.
The Joneses
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Classification: R
Stars: David Duchovny (The X-Files), Demi Moore (Striptease), Amber Heard (The Stepfather), Gary Cole (Office Space)
The Joneses are a marketing unit in disguise, who move into an upper crust neighborhood with their ready-made pretend family, and begin to convince the locals to buy a whole range of expensive and luxury goods, with their attractive appearance, and charismatic nature, but soon find it difficult to maintain their Stepford-like facade.
Released 17th August
Dexter: The Complete Fourth Season, and Dexter: Seasons One-Four
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Classification: Not Rated
Stars: Michael C. Hall (Gamer), Jennifer Carpenter (The Exorcism of Emily Rose), Julie Benz (The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day), John Lithgow (3rd Rock From the Sun)
Family man, and blood-spatter analyst Dexter Morgan moonlights as a serial killer; but only kills those who deserve punishment; but now his every-man facade is becoming more and more difficult to uphold, as he is drawn into a deadly game with a serial killer who’s every bit as dangerous as him.
Released 31st August
House: The Complete Sixth Season
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Classification: Not Rated
Stars: Hugh Laurie (Blackadder), Lisa Edelstein (Obsessed), Robert Sean Leonard (Dead Poets Society), Omar Epps (In Too Deep)
Rejoin medical genius Dr. Gregory House as he struggles to regain his medical license and his life (following the dramatic finale of the show’s fifth season), whilst still attempting to combat and solve a range of medical mysteries from the uncomfortable position in which he has landed.
Sons of Anarchy: Season Two
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Classification: Not Rated
Stars: Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Charlie Hunnam (Children of Men), Mark Boone Junior (Batman Begins), Katey Sagal (Married With Children)
After being stung by an ATF crackdown, and an unprovoked murder, the outlaws bikers that make up the Sons of Anarchy face a deadly threat from an enemy who will stop at nothing to drive them from their home town, and face a leadership struggle that threatens to split the group from the inside out.
Harry Brown
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Classification: R
Stars: Michael Caine (The Italian Job, 1969), Emily Mortimer (Shutter Island), Charlie Creed-Miles (The Fifth Element), David Bradley (Harry Potter)
When retired marine Harry Brown loses everything, to a gang of thugs who harass his local London estate, and the police are powerless to do anything about it, he feels compelled to take the law into his own hands; dispensing his own, black-and-white, form of justice, in a bid to clean up the streets once and for all.
Read the full Blu-ray review online here.
