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To celebrate the new two Miramax DVDs for £10 special offer (which runs from now until July 6th), a group of actors re-enacted scenes from classic Miramax movies in a London shop recently. Yes, it’s slightly bizarre, but it’s also oddly entertaining! We’ve got the footage of the re-enactments, so if you fancy taking a look to see if these thesps can outdo Uma Thurman and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, or if their version of scenes from Chicago, Scream and Clerks outdo the originals, just take a look at the video below!

Warner Home Video is set to release L.A Confidential – 10th Anniversary Edition.

Based on James Ellroy’s ‘L.A. Quartet’ series of novels, L.A. Confidential delves into a sordid 1950s Hollywood full of police corruption, prostitution and murder. Directed by Curtis Hanson, the film was nominated for nine Oscars (bagging two), and boasts an all-star cast including Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Guy Pearce and Kim Basinger.

The digitally re-mastered L.A Confidential – 10th Anniversary Edition will be released on October 6th (TBC), and though the special features have yet to be confirmed, the forthcoming region 1 Special Edition suggests we could be looking at one spectacular DVD package:

Special Features (TBC):
Disc 1
Audio Commentary With Movie Expert Andrew Sarris
Music Only Track
Trailers and TV Spots
Showest
Nite Owl Action
Hollywood
Theatrical Trailer
Soundtrack Promo 
Disc 2
Whatever You Desire: Making L.A. Confidential
Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of L.A. Confidential
A True Ensemble: The Cast of L.A. Confidential
L.A. Confidential: From Book To Screen Off The Record
Photo Pitch
The L.A. Of L.A. Confidential Hollywood Center Motel Formosa Café
Sid Hudgen’s Office
Victory Motel
Bidwell’s Office
Nick’s Liquor
Lynn Bracken’s House
Frolic’s Room
Pierce Patchett’s House
Movie Premiere Pot Bust
Mrs. Leffert’s House
Nite Owl Café
Navarette’s Hole-up
Fitch House
City Hall
L.A. Confidential 2000 TV Pilot

Universal Playback will be releasing Heroes – Season 2 on July 28th in the UK, one month ahead of the US release! The series picks up four months after the incident at Kirby Plaza, and while The Company emerges with intentions to unleash a virus that will suppress the heroes’ superpowers, things are made far worse when Sylar returns to cause even more bloody havoc.

Starring Hayden Panettiere, Milo Ventimiglia, Masi Oka, Ali Larter and Kristen Bell, Heroes – Season 2 will arrive on DVD with an RRP of £34.99 and will include loads of great extras including deleted scenes, documentaries, alternate endings and a sneak peak at Season 3!

Special Features:
Deleted Scenes
‘Heroes Season 2 – A New Beginning’ Featurette
‘Kensei’ Documentary
‘The Drucker Files’ Featurette
‘Genetics of a Scene: The Anatomy of the Cherry Blossom Scene’ Featurette
‘Genetics of a Scene: Maya d Alejandro Run from the Police’ Featurette
‘Genetics of a Scene: The Final Scene’ Featurette
Alternate Ending
Alternate Episode #11
Season 3 Sneak Peek

Fancy getting a prize just for writing about movies? Well you could if you head over to our reviews section (click the link on the top navigation bar or got to www.dvd-monthly.co.uk/reviews). With over 500 of our reviews already online - and more coming very soon - each of them gives you the opportunity to add your own review underneath our one! While that’s good enough to do on its own, we’ll be picking the best review each month and printing it in the magazine. And whoever wrote that review will win a prize! We’ve already chosen the review that will be printed in the issue out July 3rd. They’ll be getting Men In Black, So I Married An Axe Murderer and Anger Management on Blu-ray, so get writing and who knows what you could win next month! 

Check out this great clip from the smash hit series, ‘Pushing Daisies’, which recently got massive audiences on ITV. It stars Anna Friel alongside Lee Pace, who plays Ned, a man who has the ability to bring people back from the dead just by touching them. However if he touches them again, they die, which causes particular problem with his childhood sweetheart Chuck (Friel), whom he resurrects, but afterwards he can never touch her again. It’s out on DVD this Monday through Warner Home Video, so if you want to see whether it’s worth buying, watch the clip below!

COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED

Fancy winning yourself a copy of Be Kind Rewind on DVD and a fantastic Digital Video Camera to go with it, so you can make your own ’sweded’ films! PLUS, five runners up will win Be Kind Rewind on DVD!

If that sounds good to you, just click the link below, fill in the short survey and you could be in with a chance to win!

Be Kind Rewind is available to buy on DVD and Blu-ray on June 30th through Pathe Distribution.

The competition/survey closes on June 30th. Winners will be chosen at random from all entries received (skill question must be answered). As ever, the editor’s decision is final. No cash alternatives can or will be offered.
 
 

We’ve got a packed issue, as we go behind the scenes with the cast of Jumper, get up close and personal with Cockney action hero Jason Statham and talk to the director of Cloverfield. Here’s just a few of the things you can look forward to in Issue 105 of DVD Monthly:

Interviews:
Jason Statham
Matt Reeves (Director of Cloverfield)
Hayden Christensen
Samuel L. Jackson
Jamie Bell
Eric Bana
Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman
Ryan Reynolds

Features Include:
RIP NYC - See how the movies have trashed the Big Apple, from Alien invasions to mutant plots!
Heroes Never Die - Rambo, Rocky and John McLane have returned, but are other classic action heroes preparing for a comeback?

Reviews Include:
The Bank Job
Cloverfield
Dan In Real Life
Dirty Harry Ultimate Collector’s Edition Box Set
Jumper
The King Of Kong
National Treasure 2
Californication - Season 1
CSI: Miami - Season 5, Part 1
Doctor Who - Series 4, Volume 1
Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs
Peep Show - Series 5
Weeds - Season 3
And Over 120 More…

PLUS: Inside your new HD Monthly – 32 pages of all the best in hi-def
Hi-Def Nation - We go to the industry insiders to discover the future of HD TV
Win a complete Blu-ray set-up
Latest HD News

Blu-ray Reviews Include:
I, Robot
Jumper
Juno
Bonnie And Clyde
Sweeney Todd
Walk Hard

AND LOADS MORE!

DVD Monthly Issue 105 - including the 32 page mini-magazine, HD Monthly - is on sale now, priced only £3.99, so make sure you get yourself a copy! 

Bridging the gap between Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins and the forthcoming The Dark Knight, Batman: Gotham Knight presents a selection of animated ‘Batman’ stories from the creative minds of four prestigious Japanese animation studios and some of the comic book world’s finest talents.

The DVD contains six separate stories focusing on the Caped Crusader, and stars the voice talent of Gary Dourdan (‘CSI’), David McCallum and Parminder Nagra (‘ER’).

Warner Home Video will be releasing the DVD and Blu-ray of Batman: Gotham Knight on July 14th.