DVD Reviews

Just my luck.

Released on DVD 13th November 2006. £14.99

Out now in USA $10.97 

Everything is going right for New York PR executive Lindsey Lohan, until she kisses bungling boy band promoter Chris Pine at a masked Ball. Suddenly they've swapped fortunes and he’s got her luck! Light, Bright and fluffy, this is just an excuse for lohan to turn on the charm but it’s none the worse for that. She's a screen natural and Brit band McFly bash out a few songs to jolly things up. 

Bonus Features.....Trailers Music video and featurettes...

Mission Impossible 3

Released 6th November 2006 £9.99(UK)

USA region 1 out now $20.87 

Former spy Ethan Hunt is called back into action to recover a missing IMF Agent. But complications arise when his fiancée is captured and he must fight to get her back when comes face to face with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer.

DVD Features

·         Available Subtitles: English, Spanish

·         Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)

·         Commentary by: Tom Cruise and director JJ Abrams Dolby Digital 2.0

·         Commentary by director J.J. Abram’s and actor/producer Tom Cruise

·         Deleted scenes

·         The Making of the Mission

·         Tribute Montage: Excellence in Film

·         Exclusive to Two-Disc Collector's Edition:

·         Mission Action: Inside the Action Unit

·         Visualizing the Mission

·         Inside the IMF

·         Mission: Metamorphosis

·         Scoring the Mission

·         Launching the Mission

·         Moviefone Unscripted: Tom Cruise/J.J. Abram’s

·         Tribute Montage: Generation: Cruise

·         Photo gallery

·         Trailers

The Da Vinci Code

On Sale Now £15.99(UK)

Released November 14th in USA $14.87

When respected American religious symbol expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by the French version of the FBI, led by Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the #1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with... Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in a chase through the Louvre, and out into the Parisian cityscape, and finally across the channel to England. Can Langdon and Sophie decipher the nature of a secret dating back to Leonardo Da Vinci and earlier before those responsible for the historian's murder add them to their hit list..?

DVD Features

·         Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French

·         Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)

·         First Day on the Set with Ron Howard Featurette: Director Ron Howard introduces the film and the excitement of beginning production at the Louvre in Paris

·         Featurette on “The Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown

·         Featurette: A Portrait of Langdon

·         Featurette: Who is Sophie Neveu?

·         Featurette: Unusual Suspects - The international cast…Colourful, memorable and frightening characters

·         Featurette: Magical Places

·         Featurette: Close-up on Mona Lisa

·         Featurette: The Filmmaking Experience Part 1 - Includes a DVD exclusive look at filming the last and revealing scene

·         Featurette: The Filmmaking Experience Part 2

·         Featurette: The Codes of "The Da Vinci Code"

·         Featurette: The Music of "The Da Vinci Code"

·         DVD ROM - "Da Vinci Code" Puzzle Game PC Demo

·         Bonus previews

Xmen the Last Stand

Out now on DVD in UK £14.99

 USA on Region 1 available now

The X-Men, mutant heroes sworn to defend a world that hates and fears them, are back! This time, with the help of new recruits The Beast and Angel, they must face evolution itself in the form of their former teammate, Jean Grey. Possessed with the cosmic power of the Dark Phoenix, the resurrected Jean Grey has become a danger to herself, her mutant comrades, and the entire planet. To stave off this imminent threat to humanity, a potential cure is discovered and processed to treat -- and ultimately eliminate -- genetic mutations, once and for all. Now, as the battle lines are drawn, the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier, must contend with both Jean Grey's world-consuming powers, as well as the malevolent Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier's former ally, Magneto

DVD Features

 # Available Subtitles: English, Spanish Available Audio Tracks: English (DTS 6.1 ES), English (Dolby Digital 5.1 EX), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)

# Commentary by: director Bret Ratner and screenwriters Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn ,producers Avi Arad, Lauren Shuler Donner, and Ralph Winter

# deleted scenes

# Three alternate endings with optional commentary

The Chronicles of Narnia 4 disc Extended Version

On DVD 20th November 06 in the UK

 USA 12th December 2006

Based on the classic novel by CS Lewis. Four London children are sent to a professor’s country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the Witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia, and the great battle between good and evil.

DVD Features

Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1), French (Unknown Format), Spanish (Unknown Format)

# Disc 1: Extended motion picture with additional scenes and features

# Disc 2: Two Worlds of Narnia featurettes

# Disc 3: C.S. Lewis: Dreamer of Narnia - All-new feature-length film about the man who created Narnia

# Disc 4: Visualizing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The Complete Production Experience Collectible 10-page companion guide Certificate of authenticity

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

On DVD 20th November2006 in the UK

 5th December 06 in the USA

Jack Sparrow (Depp) endeavours to settle a blood debt to Davey Jones, the infamous captain of the ghostly ship, the Flying Dutchman. Faced with a potential afterlife of servitude and damnation, Jack also has the upcoming wedding of Will Turner (Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Knightly) to consider...

DVD Features

Trailers

Music video: Tiesto He’s A pirate

Cast and crew biographies

Pirates 3 trailer

And much more special features not finalised as of yet.

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

Available now on DVD £13.99 in the UK.

Out on DVD 21st November 06 in the USA priced $15.87

With their habitat under threat from flooding caused by the ending of the ice age, unlikely friends Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the sabre-toothed tiger, and Sid the sloth set out on a quest to find a boat that is rumoured to be at the other end of the valley. To add even more danger to their perilous mission, two carnivorous prehistoric fish have thawed out from the ice and begin to follow the herd in the rising water. While on their quest, the trio meets possums Crash and Eddie and Ellie the woolly mammoth, who believes that she is a possum. Manny is delighted that he isn't the last of his breed but Manny and Ellie have frequent disagreements. Separately, Scrat remains behind in order to hunt an acorn. The characters in the film go on a journey of self discovery, overcoming their fears and the sense of the unknown on the way. Featuring a superb voice cast including Ray Romano (EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND), John Leguizamo (SPAWN), Denis Leary (SMALL SOLDIERS), and Queen Latifa (TAXI), ICE AGE 2 - THE MELTDOWN is a fabulously animated film that retains the humour of ICE AGE, introduces a number of new characters and gives more screen time to the popular character Scrat, who is continuing on his arduous mission to acquire an acorn.

DVD Features

# Main Language: English Available Audio Tracks: DTS 5.1 Hearing Impaired: English

# Commentary by director Carlos Saldanha Commentary by producer Lori Forte and production team

# Simpsons sneak peak Garfield 2 DVD trailer

# Vivendi game preview one set top game Factoid Meltdown

Cars

Available November 27th in the UK priced £14.99

USA Region one available now Priced$14.99

Pixar's latest movie features the talents of Owen Wilson and Steve McQueen set in the world of car racing.

Lightning McQueen is a cocky, rookie race car. Speeding on his way to a big race, he crashes into Radiator Springs, destroying lots of the inhabitant’s belongings. In order to make up for what he did, the cocky roadster is sentenced to community service. Though he will do anything to get away from the work, McQueen must learn to respect and bond with the Radiator Springs inhabitants in order to get out of the town and back on the racetracks.

DVD Features

·         Main Language: English

·         Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1

·         Sub Titles: English

·         Hearing Impaired: English

·         The Inspiration for CARS

·         MASTER AND GHOSTLIGHT - animated short

·         ONE MAN BAND - Theatrical animated short

·         Sneak peek at RATATOUILLE

·         Deleted Scenes

·         Commentary

King Kong (3 Disc Deluxe Extended Edition) (2005)

Available in the UK on 13th November 2006

USA Region one available 14th November 2006

KING KONG is director Peter Jackson's sprawling, epic remake of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 movie of the same name, and it sees a film crew travel to the mysterious Skull Island, picks up giant gorilla King Kong, and bring him back to 1930s New York City. Despite his origins as a low-budget filmmaker with a taste for the unsavoury side of life, Peter Jackson has turned into an event filmmaker someone who can conjure up a movie on a scale unlike anything we've seen before. Jackson expands on this basic premise by drawing on the jaw-dropping talents of his special effects team to satisfy his thirst for the grand spectacle. The movie posits Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, the starry-eyed blonde beauty whom Kong falls for; Jack Black as Carl Denham, a low-rent Orson Welles look-alike who drags the crew to the island to make his movie; and Adrian Brody as Jack Driscoll, a hack playwright who battles Kong both physically and for Darrow's heart. As the men struggle against Kong and the lumbering dinosaurs of Skull Island, Andy Serkis, who made the character of Gollum so believable in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, steps in to form the facial features of the mighty gorilla, lending a real emotional sucker-punch to the scenes between Darrow and Kong. But it's the final third of the movie where Jackson really delivers; his 1930s New York is stunning, and when Kong breaks free from his shackles and stampedes on a lovelorn trek through the city, then ironically climbs the Empire State Building with his sweetheart, it's impossible to not be swept away by the sheer beauty and sadness of the moment. While its three-hour length may prove daunting to some, the payoff in Jackson's KING KONG is ultimately worth it, proving once again that he is a director of breathtaking vision. Extended edition.

DVD Features

Main Language: English

 More details on special features when they come available

 Superman Returns (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2006)

Available in the UK December 4th 2006

USA Region one available 28th November 2006

After eliminating General Zod & the other Kryptonian arch-villains, Ursa & Non, Superman leaves Earth to try to find his former home world of Krypton after astronomers have supposedly found it. When he finds nothing but remnants, he returns home to Earth - to find out that Lois Lane is engaged to a relative of his boss, and that Lex Luther is at it again - after swindling an elderly, terminally ill woman. The psychopathic Luther, whose plans to destroy California failed because of Superman's heroics, vows vengeance against the Man of Steel and contrives a new sinister plot - using the crystals of Krypton to build a continent that will wipe out most of North America! Embedded in the continent's structure is Kryptonite - the lethal substance that is Superman's only weakness. Upon learning of Luther’s sinister scheme, Superman must again race against time to stop the psychopathic Luther before millions - possibly billions - are killed.

DVD Features

·         Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French

·         Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)

·         "Requiem for Krypton: Making Superman Returns": a comprehensive 3-hour documentary including:

·         -Secret Origins and First Issues: Crystallizing Superman

·         -The Crystal Method: Designing Superman

·         -An Affinity for Beachfront Property: Shooting Superman (Superman on the Farm, Superman in the City, Superman in Peril)

·         -The Joy of Lex: Menacing Superman

·         -He's Always Around: Wrapping Superman

·         Resurrecting Jor-El

·         Deleted scenes: The Date, Family Photos, Crash Landing/X-Ray Vision, Old Newspapers, Are You Two Dating?, Martinis and Wigs, I'm Always Right, Jimmy the Lush, Language Barrier, Crystal Feet, New Krypton

·         Easter egg: "Wrong!"

·         Theatrical and video game trailers

·         TM & (c) DC Comics

Retro DVD's of the month.

Every month we will list review old DVD releases under this retro section for moviefans.....you never know it may turn out to be a movie you will really enjoy!

Serenity.

The crew of the Serenity is getting desperate. They have lain lower and lower to protect their doctor, Simon Tam (Sean Maher), and his telepathic traumatized little sister, River (Summer Glau), from the alliance, whom he rescued her from a year earlier. This has made getting jobs harder and now they are desperate. When they take River on a robbery during which Reavers (humans who have gone crazy and turned into cannibals) attack, Simon decides that it’s time to leave the crew of the Serenity for his and River's safety. She then mutters "Miranda" and goes berserk and nearly shoots Capt. Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), until her brother says the safety word to put her to sleep. Reynolds decides to take them back on board for safety, only now an alliance operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is on their tracks and making Reynolds determined to find out what "Miranda" is and what the Alliance is hiding.

Serenity is available on amazon.com and Amazon .co.uk on region 1 and 2 now.

Bats

Bats, the result of a government experiment gone wrong, have suddenly become intelligent, vicious, and omnivorous, and are attacking people near Gallup, Texas. Bat specialist Sheila Casper and her assistant Jimmy are brought in but can they stop the bats before the military comes in and, in their ignorance, makes things worse?

DVD Features:

Subtitles: English, Audio Track 1: English, Dolby Digital 5.1, and Audio

Track 2: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Audio

Track 3: English, THX Surround EX, Audio

 Track 4: Commentary by director Louis Morneau and actor Lou Diamond Phillips, Dolby Digital 2.0 

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