Roadshow - September 2010 Releases

SHARPE’S PERIL

RELEASE DATE:       1 September 2010
STARRING:              Sean Bean
NUMBER OF DISCS:   2
RRP DVD:               $39.99

The award-winning series Sharpe, starring Sean Bean, returns for another action-packed adventure.

It's India, 1818 and Lt Col Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are travelling across India, escorting the beautiful Marie-Angelique Bonnet to meet her fiancé. While in bandit-plagued badlands, they come across the very dregs of the Crown's troops - an ill disciplined, rag-tag unit led by boy soldier Beauclare.

As Sharpe and company sit down to have dinner with their hosts, the camp comes under attack by the notorious bandit Chitu. As the dust settles, it becomes apparent there have been many casualties and Sharpe realises that he is the only person now capable of getting this wagon train to the safety of the next army garrison. Little does Sharpe know that the adventure has only just begun and that he has inadvertently stumbled across a massive opium trafficking ring.

As seen on Prime TV.

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ACCIDENTS HAPPEN

STUDIO:                  Hopscotch
RELEASE DATE:       29 September 2010
DIRECTOR:              Andrew Lancaster
STARRING:              Geena Davis, Harrison Gilbertson
CATEGORY:            Drama
RRP DVD:               $39.99

Accidents Happen is a brash and moving comedy about family, fate and misfortune in American suburbia.

The manicured lawns of 1980's New England imply an order that simply doesn't exist for the Conway family, headed by razor-tongued Gloria. Youngest son Billy has been a witness to a series of tragic accidents, including one that fractured his whole family. Always the good boy, Billy takes up with the neighbourhood troublemaker in acts of delicious delinquency in a world already spinning out of control. The ensuing collision of guilt, truth and self-discovery may be just what his family needs to move on.

The debut feature from Australian writer/director Andrew Lancaster and starring New Zealander Joel Tobeck, Accidents Happen was runner-up in the Audience Award at the 2009 Sydney Film Festival and was included in the Official Selection of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

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THE GREATEST

STUDIO:                  Roadshow
RELEASE DATE:       15 September 2010
DIRECTOR:              Shana Feste
STARRING:              Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon
CATEGORY:            Drama
RRP DVD:               $39.99
RRP BD:                 $39.99

A grief-stricken couple whose family has been pushed to the breaking point by the death of their older son, Bennett, in a car crash.

When a young woman, Rose (Carey Mulligan) shows up a few months later announcing that she is pregnant with Bennett’s child, the Brewer’s are forced to take her in. At first, Rose’s presence threatens to tear the family even further apart but, eventually, her interaction with each of the Brewers proves to be the very thing that brings them back together.

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DR WHO: Series 5 - Volume 3

RELEASE DATE:       1 September 2010
STARRING:              Matt Smith
RRP DVD:               $29.99
RRP BD:                 $39.99

Full of new characters and some familiar monsters, The Doctor’s amazing adventures continue with the third volume of the hugely popular fifth series, featuring the next three episodes; Amy’s Choice, The Hungry Earth & Cold Blood. Starring Matt Smith as the eleventh Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond, this exciting new series also guest stars a wealth of British acting talent including Toby Jones (Frost/Nixon), Meera Syall (Beautiful People) and Neve McIntosh (Bodies).

Amy’s Choice: It’s been five long years since Amy travelled in the Tardis with her mysterious Doctor - and when he shows up again, on the eve of the birth of her first child, danger is not far behind him. Amy is faced with a heartbreaking choice that will change her life forever.

The Hungry Earth: Finds us in 2015, and the most ambitious drilling project in history is under way. Dr Nasreen Chaudhry and her team have reached 21 kilometers into the Earth's crust - but something is stirring far below. Amy Pond discovers there's nowhere to run when you can't even trust the ground at your feet.

Cold Blood: The Doctor must face his most difficult challenge yet. It’s the most important day in the history of Earth - the dawn of a new age of harmony, or the start of its final war and a battle that the Doctor can’t take sides in, a day when nobody must die …

Special Features: A behind the scenes look at the monsters from the collection including the terrifying Sulurians.

As seen on Prime TV.

Also available on Blu-Ray

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NATURE’S GREAT EVENTS

RELEASE DATE:       1 September 2010
STARRING:              Sir David Attenborough
NUMBER OF DISCS: 2
RRP DVD:               $39.99
RRP BD:                $49.99

Using state of the art filming technology and narrated by Sir David Attenborough, Nature’s Great Events captures the Earth’s most dramatic and epic wildlife spectacles and the intimate stories of the animals caught up in them.

From the flooding of the Okavango Delta in Africa, to the great summer melt of ice in the Arctic and the massive annual bloom of plankton in the northern Pacific Ocean, each programme features a different event set in one of the world's most iconic wildernesses.

Witness tiny grizzly bear cubs emerging from their den in snow-covered mountains, baby elephants struggling to survive against drought, a lion attack in Africa, humpback whales hunting as a team, the world’s largest concentration of dolphins and sharks gathering off the coast of South Africa; plus polar bear families navigating their precarious way on thinning ice.

This fantastic series employs revolutionary ultra high speed shooting, motion controlled photography, stunning aerial and lapse time techniques pioneered on Planet Earth to reveal, in intimate detail, some of the best-loved wildlife, as their lives become entwined with these dramatic events.

Combining the epic cinematography of Planet Earth, with all the emotion, intimacy and storytelling of a wildlife diary, this dramatic series charts the effects of seasonal changes which each year transform parts of the planet, drawing in thousands of animals and determining their fate. But who are the winners and losers of Nature’s Great Events?

Special Features: Six ten minute making of featurettes – one to accompany each programme.

As seen on TVOne.

Also available on Blu-Ray

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Published 5th Oct 2010

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