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Wednesday 30th	Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is proud to present this season’s must-have accessory, as the stylish and funny romantic comedy 27 Dresses becomes available to buy and rent on DVD and Blu-ray on 28th July 2008. From the makers of The Devil Wears Prada and starring Katherine Heigl, the box office smash hit chronicles the ups and downs of sassy, smart, single Jane – the eternal bridesmaid! More details here. Voted Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards and acclaimed winner of 4 Oscars including Best Direction for the Coen brothers, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor – Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men, released by Paramount Home Entertainment on 2nd June 2008, is a gripping tale of money, murder and mayhem. More details here.
Tuesday 29th	From legendary multiple Academy Award® winning director Robert Benton (Kramer Vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart), comes Feast of Love, a funny and uplifting tale of comedy and romance from Entertainment in Video released to rent on 28th April and to buy on DVD on 12th May 2008. More details here. The Jim Jarmusch Collection: Volume 1, comprising of Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law is released by Optimum Home Entertainment on the 12th May 2008. More details here.
Monday 28th	Boyzone fever is set to sweep the nation next month when the hugely popular 90s Irish boyband finally reunites and kicks off their much anticipated comeback UK tour. Out to own from 26th May 2008, Boyzone Live and behind the scenes courtesy of Universal Pictures Video, includes - Live at the Point, Live at Wembley and Said & Done. More details here. Elisha Cuthbert, beautiful star of smash hit series 24, is My Sassy Girl. An English-language remake of the major Korean box office hit, this offbeat romantic comedy will be released to rent on DVD by Entertainment In Video on 12th May and to buy on 26th May 2008. More details here.
Sunday 27th	Remember the first time you saw Buffy the Vampire Slayer? To celebrate 10 years since Buffy first arrived in the UK, the excitement surrounding this essential and chillingly original series is starting all over again on DVD! Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is thrilled to present all seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD at a fantastic new price for a short time only. More details here. The poignant and intimate epic based on Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel, The Kite Runner, available to buy on DVD from Paramount Home Entertainment from 2nd June 2008, is a profoundly moving tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes, betrayal and redemption. More details here.
Friday 25th	Universal Pictures is delighted to announce the DVD release of a not-to-be-missed epic television event The Andromeda Strain, released as a special 2 disc DVD on 19th May 2008, an all star brand new version of the legendary Michael Crichton’s classic sci-fi novel of the same name. More details here. The boy who never grew up is back to face his arch enemy, Captain Hook, in a tale of dastardly plots and daring escapes. Peter Pan – Return to Never Land, released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on 16th June 2008, is another Disney adventure based on the J M Barrie treasured tale Peter Pan. More details here.
Thursday 24th	Metrodome Distribution is releasing the acclaimed war movie Assembly by Feng Xiaogang (The Banquet) on DVD and Blu-Ray on 5th May 2008. Based on a true story, Assembly follows one man's journey in search of truth and honour. More details here. Network is proud to announce the release of Agony – The Complete Second Series on 12th May 2008. This witty BAFTA-nominated sitcom features Maureen Lipman (The Pianist) as sassy "agony aunt" Jane Lucas, who finds that while dishing out advice to strangers is simple enough, sorting out one’s own personal life can prove a lot more complicated. More details here.
Wednesday 23rd	Agent Stan Smith and his crazy dysfunctional family as they return for Volume 3 of American Dad, the hilarious series from ‘Family Guy’ creator Seth MacFarlane. The DVD box set arrives on 12th May 2008 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. More details here. Academy Award® winner Cuba Gooding Jr leads a stellar cast in the all action, gritty thriller Hero Wanted, available to buy and rent on DVD from 16th June 2008, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. More details here.
Tuesday 22nd	The third feature from director Frank A. Cappello (screenwriter of Constantine and director of No Way Back and American Yakuza), He Was A Quiet Man, released by High Fliers on 26th May 2008, stars Christian Slater, William H. Macy and Elisha Cuthbert in the compelling story of a disturbed nobody whose life is changed profoundly when his homicidal plans are thwarted by a bizarre but timely twist of fate. More details here. "Dumb And Dumber" meets "Legally Blonde" in Blonde And Blonder, released on DVD (£12.99) by High Fliers Films on 23rd June 2008, the madcap comedy caper starring Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards as a pair of peroxide airheads who become mixed up in a mirthful medley of murder, mayhem and mobsters. More details here.
Monday 21st	Renowned ghost hunters Yvette Fielding and Karl Beattie are joined by their fearless team of ghost busters including psychic David Wells and paranormal investigator Ciaran O’Keefe investigating the most spooky phenomena yet in Most Haunted Series 9 set for DVD release by Universal Pictures on 28th April 2008. More details here. Directed by and starring award-winning comedian Chris Rock, I Think I Love My Wife is a laugh-out-loud comedy about marriage and the struggle to resist temptation. This hilarious film is released to buy on 2nd June 2008 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. More details here.
Friday 17th	An audience hit at the Sundance Film Festival, Waitress, released to buy and rent on DVD on 28th April 2008 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, serves up a sweet, sassy and delicious slice of life tale -- as it reveals the power of friendship, motherhood and the willingness to take a chance. It’s the story of a small town woman who transforms her hopeless life into a hilarious and unexpected love story. This vibrantly different romantic comedy is the final film from writer-director Adrienne Shelly. More details here. Directed by Julian Schnabel, the visually stunning film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly tells the remarkable true story of how a man who had it all finds it within himself to carry on when all seems truly lost. Winner of a host of awards, including the Director’s Award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA Award® for Best Adapted Screenplay, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is released to buy and rent on DVD on 9th June 2008 from Pathé Distribution Ltd. More details here.
Thursday 16th	Back in the Dark Ages of Television, Channel 4 managed to get its hands on a comedy sketch show so brilliantly funny and original they selfishly endeavoured to keep it to themselves by burying it in the mid-week, post-pub schedules. Fortunately, a horde of a comedy fans and millions of other viewers managed to catch this hidden jewel and bestowed upon it the cult comedy status it so richly deserved. That show was Absolutely, due to be released on DVD by Fremantle Home Entertainment on 5th May 2008. More details here. Directed by Palme d'Or nominated director Marek Kanievska and starring Oscar nominee Sharon Stone and BAFTA Award nominee Rupert Everett, A Different Loyalty, be released on DVD by Showbox Home Entertainment on 12th May 2008, is an intriguing spy thriller based on the remarkable true story of Eleanor Philby and her relationship to husband Kim Philby, regarded as one of the most successful double agents of the Cold War era. More details here.
Wednesday 15th	He’s back! Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Cliffhanger) reprises his role as the ex-Vietnam hero in the explosive fourth instalment of Rambo, which is released to buy on DVD, Blu-ray, UMD™ Video and to rent on DVD from 23rd June 2008, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. More details here. Wentworth Miller returns as long-running fugitive Michael Scofield, alongside cast members Dominic Purcell, Robert Knepper, Wade Williams and William Fichtner. The addictive, ‘edge of your seat’ action-packed drama Prison Break: Season 3 is released to buy on DVD from 19th May 2008 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. More details here.
Tuesday 14th	The legend of the Loch and its mysterious inhabitant has captured the imagination of millions of people worldwide for generations. Now the ancient myth is brought vividly to life in the enchanting The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, available to buy on DVD, Blu-ray and UMDTM Video and to rent on DVD from 30th June 2008, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. More details here. Network will release Eric Chappell’s Only When I Laugh – The Complete Second Series on 12th May 2008, RRP £12.99. The second series of this hilarious sitcom sees the return of the much loved hypochondriac layabouts James Bolam, Peter Bowles and Christopher Strauli. More details here.
Wednesday 9th	Featuring a dream cast headed by Martin Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Penelope Cruz and Simon Pegg, the comedy drama The Good Night can be yours to own on DVD from 26th May 2008 courtesy of Momentum Pictures. More details here. Making box-office history in the US by becoming the first film released by Fox Searchlight to cross the coveted $100 million mark in theatrical box-office grosses, June becomes the month of Juno as this Academy Award®-winning (Best Original Screenplay), critically acclaimed, box office smash comes to DVD on 2nd June 2008 from Twentieth Century Fox. More details here.
Tuesday 8th	Property shows have come and gone but one constant with us since 1999 and stronger and bigger than ever is the elite home design Channel 4 television show Grand Designs. Now the fourth series comes to DVD on 5th May 2008 courtesy of Fremantle Home Entertainment, just in time for the Grand Designs Live show at the Excel centre in London from 3rd through to 11th May. More details here. Produced by Eric Névé and directed by Frederic Schoendoerffer, Paris Lockdown, released on DVD by Momentum Pictures on 23rd June 2008, is one of the most graphically violent, sexually explicit and all-round shocking movies to come out of France since Virginie Despentes' Baise-moi and Gaspar Noé's Irréversible. More details here.
Monday 7th	At last, a romantic comedy with a difference. From award-winning writer-director Amy Heckerling comes I Could Never Be Your Woman, released by High Fliers Films on DVD from 23rd June 2008. a sharp and upbeat romantic comedy for the ages starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd, Jon Lovitz. More details here. A huge hit at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Special Jury Prize, the feature debut from writer-director Georgina Riedel, How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer, released on DVD by Scanbox Entertainment on 26th May 2008, stars America Ferrera, Elizabeth Pena, Lucy Gallardo and Steven Bauer in a charming, amusing and touching story of three generations of women from the same Mexican-American family who each discover love during one sweltering summer in a small Arizona border town. More details here.
Friday 4th	PS I Love You is the feel-good comedy of the year. A fantastic £11m, No. 1 box office smash, the film features an A-list Hollywood cast headed Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow, Harry Connick Jr, Kathy Bates and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Available to rent and buy on DVD on 12th May 2008 courtesy of Momentum Pictures, this must-own DVD is an irresistibly charming romantic comedy about the enduring power of love, when sometimes the only thing left to say is PS I love you. More details here. A modern re-telling of a classic Korean legend the spectacular Dragon Wars is released to buy on DVD and High Definition Blu-ray and to rent on DVD from 19th May 2008, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. More details here.
Thursday 3rd	Youth Without Youth, released by Pathé from 21st April 2008, is based on the novella of the same name by Romanian author Mircea Eliade and is Francis Ford Coppola's first directed film since 1997's The Rainmaker. Directed by Academy Award® winning Coppola, the film stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, an ageing professor of linguistics who survives a cataclysmic event to find his youth miraculously restored. More details here. The arresting debut feature from writer-direct Julien Leclercq, and starring Albert Dupontel, Marthe Keller, Marie Guillard and Patrick Bauchau, Chrysalis, released on DVD (£15.99) by Momentum Pictures on 9th June 2008, is a slick, neo-noir, sci-fi action thriller in the tradition of Blade Runner and Minority Report. More details here.
Wednesday 2nd	Featuring an all-star cast from such hits as American Beauty, Enchanted and Dawson’s Creek, Standing Still is out on rental DVD on 28th April 2008 and retail DVD on 12th May 2008 from Momentum Pictures. Starring Oscar-nominated Amy Adams, Mena Suvari, James Van Der Beek and Colin Hanks, Standing Still features the best talent from American TEEN comedy. More details here. The eagerly and long awaited follow up to Suspiria and Inferno, Mother Of Tears, released by Optimum Home Entertainment on 21st April 2008, is a twisted opus from the master of the macabre - Dario Argento. More details here.
Tuesday 1st	Continuing the thrilling journey of the popular Stargate SG-1 television series, the much anticipated feature-length film Stargate: The Ark of Truth is released on DVD on 28th April 2008. Released by MGM and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, it stars series favourites Amanda Tapping and Beau Bridges. More details here. To commemorate its 40th anniversary, Warner Home Video is releasing one of the most influential films of our times as a two-disc special edition. Released on 5th May 2008 and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, the story of Bonnie and Clyde is famous for breaking taboos and being one of the first films to use violence in the name of art, paving the way for a new generation of young politicised film-makers dubbed ‘New Hollywood’. More details here.