Professional, assured, and very slick - Thick As Thieves is undoubtedly one of the best recent action heist movies.
Keith Ripley (Morgan Freeman) a cool calculating master thief who lives by the Thieves’ Code: do the job, watch your partner’s back, don’t hold out, and never co-operate with the cops. Unfortunately, his former partner didn’t live by that code. He sang to the cops and now he’s dead, killed by the Russian mob. Can Keith pull off the heist of his lifetime to steal the last two original Fabergé Eggs ever created in order to save his own life?
Directed by two times Emmy®Award winner Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker, Deep Impact) and starring Oscar ® winner Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas and Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill, Finding Neverland).
Released on DVD & Blu-ray 16th February.
Graeme Clark [6 Jan 2009 at 22:44]
Righteous Kill on DVD
Pension Plan: The Movie
“The two best actors alive at the top of their game”
Larry King, CNN
Released on DVD & Blu-ray 16th February.
Righteous Kill sees Pacino and DeNiro sharing highly anticipated screentime for only the second time in their illustrious careers. From the writer of the acclaimed Inside Man, Righteous Kill reunites these onscreen legends, for the first time allowing them to fully interact with each other scene for scene. The dynamite duo play veteran cops on the trail of a serial killer, who the force begin to suspect is one of their own. With fantastic supporting roles by Fifty Cent, Donnie Wahlberg and John Leguizamo.
Graeme Clark [6 Jan 2009 at 22:41]
RocknRolla on DVD
Gangsters 'n' Geezers
One of Britain’s most exciting film-makers, Guy Ritchie, is back and he’s on form. RocknRolla, packs a punch and is storming onto Blu-ray and DVD on 2nd February from Warner Home Video.
“I own this town.” But owning is getting expensive for old-school London gangster Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson). A wealthier foreign mob is moving in with a riverfront property swindle. A small-timer (Gerard Butler) and his crew think they can play both sides and become big-time. Now add a hard-as-ice accountant (Thandie Newton), a rocker playing dead to boost sales, wannabe music moguls (Jeremy Piven and Chris Bridges), a missing painting and a mad mosh of money and muscle, and you’ve got a real RocknRolla.
Featuring a star-studded British cast including Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton, Gemma Arterton, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Strong, and Toby Kebbell, RocknRolla is a fierce and funny caper, a smash-mouth cinematic smackdown of sex, thugs & rock ’n’ roll.
It's the new I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle, everybody
Click on the link above for the new teaser trailer for Lesbian Vampire Killers, released in cinemas nationwide on March 20th 2009.
BAFTA winning comedy-duo James Corden and Matt Horne (Gavin & Stacey) decide to escape their problems and head to the countryside for a weekend of debauchery. Things don’t quite go to plan and they find themselves stuck in a village where all the women have been enslaved by a legendary vampire curse. As the night unfolds the boys have to put all of their fears (and dreams) behind them in order to rise to the challenge of becoming LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS.
Directed by Kim Jee-Woon, The Good, The Bad, The Weird is the smash hit Box-Office sensation with over 7 million cinema admissions in South Korea alone.
Set in the 1930’s Manchurian desert where lawlessness rules, three Korean men fatefully meet each other on a train. Do-Won (JUNG Woo-sung) is a bounty hunter who tracks down dangerous criminals. Chang- yi (LEE Byung-hun) is the leader of a group of tough-as-nails bandits. Tae-goo (SONG Kang-ho) is a train robber with nine lives. The three strangers engage in a chase across Manchuria to take possession of a map Tae-goo discovers while robbing the train. Also on the hunt for the mysterious map are the Japanese army and Asian bandits. In this unpredictable, escalating battle for the map, who will stand as the winner in the end?
Directed by Kim Jee-Woon (A BITTERSWEET LIFE) the film stars Song Kang-ho (THE HOST), Jung Woo-sung (THE RESTLESS) and Lee Byung-hun (A BITTERSWEET LIFE, G.I.JOE
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD will open in cinemas across the country 6th February 2009. Certificate 15 & Running Time 130 Minutes. Click on the link above for the trailer.
The movie that takes no prisoners deploys on Blu-ray & DVD on January 26 2009 in a 3-disc Special Collector’s Edition Unrated Director’s Cut as well as in a single-disc format from Paramount Home Entertainment.
Directed by and starring Ben Stiller (Zoolander) and featuring an all-star cast including Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Jack Black (Kung Fu Panda), Nick Nolte (Hulk), and Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge), TROPIC THUNDER is “brilliant – great entertainment” (Sunday Mirror). The film follows five pampered actors on the set of a Vietnam War movie who are thrust into real-life danger and forced to become the fighting unit they’re attempting to portray in order to survive. The result is an over-the-top, unforgettable film that is “brilliant, *****” (UNCUT).
From Henry Selick, visionary director of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, and based on Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling book, comes a spectacular stop-motion animated adventure – the first to be originally filmed in 3D!
Coraline Jones (Dakota Fanning) is bored in her new home until she finds a secret door and discovers an alternate version of her life on the other side. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life and the people in it – only much better. But when this seemingly perfect world turns dangerous, and her other parents (including her Other Mother voiced by Teri Hatcher) try to trap her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination and bravery to escape this increasingly perilous world – and save her family.
Visit the official site at the link above. Check out Coraline’s bedroom, catch a show at the Mouse Circus, and be sure to head over to the Other Mother’s Workshop to upload your picture to see what you look like in Coraline’s world. If you click around and explore, you’ll uncover hidden behind-the scenes videos and find a lot of fun goodies to download.
The Tale of Despereaux tells the story of a brave and virtuous mouse that is simply too big for his small world. Though tiny, wheezy and saddled with comically oversized ears, Despereaux refuses to live a life of weakness and fear...believing he was destined to be celebrated in the tales of chivalry he so adores.
The Tale of Despereaux was released nationwide December 19th 2008. Click on the link above for the trailer.
