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Welcome back to This Week, our weekly editorial that brings together everything that's worth a look this week at Blockbuster.co.uk.
We've got a cracking line-up of releases and brand new content for you to enjoy this week. From the latest Tom Hanks blockbuster to a druggy horror, two terrific World Cinema titles and the first season of Ashes to Ashes; not to mention an interview with screen legend Edward Woodward, we've got all you want to see and more.
DVD Highlights
Charlie Wilson's War - Movie of the Week
Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts shine in this film based on the extraordinary true story of how one playboy congressman, a renegade CIA agent and a beautiful Houston socialite joined forces to effectively destroy the Soviet advance in Afghanistan and helped to bring about the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Charlie Wilson's War is our Movie of the Week.
Charlie Wilson (Hanks) was more known for his escapades with strippers, alcohol and cocaine rather than his work in the House of Representatives until one of his supporters, Joanne Herring (Roberts) tells him about the plight of the people of Afghanistan, suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation. Wilson teams up with CIA Agent Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) to help the Afghan people fight the Soviets, but his efforts have some unintended consequences that change the world forever.
Shrooms
Best described as a 'druggy horror movie'. A group of American friends head to Ireland in order to visit old pals and get properly trashed. The bunch go deep into the Irish woods to look for some of nature's finest magic mushrooms. Unfortunately one of them has a bad mushroom that enables them to see the future - a future where each of them are being stalked and killed one by one. A future which begins to come true.
While it's not groundbreaking stuff, Shrooms is pretty entertaining, enjoyable by both casual and serious horror fans alike. You don't have to be on drugs to enjoy this movie.
Also available on Blu-ray here
Ashes to Ashes
It's time to fire up the Quattro, it's 1981 and DCI Gene Hunt and the gang are back in this terrific sequel series to hit BBC show Life on Mars. You don't have to have watched Life on Mars in order to enjoy the show.
Gene Hunt and his faithful sidekicks, Ray Carling (Dean Andrews) and Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster) have joined the London Met to take on the 'southern nancy' criminal scum. However, he receives the shock of his life when he's thrown together with sexy, intelligent DI Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes). Gene is still a firm believer in old-fashioned values, where a woman's place is in the home, and 'real men' shouldn't moisturise, be sensitive, remember birthdays or put the bins out without being asked!
Kiltro
The best martial arts action film since Ong Bak, Kiltro is an ultra-violent street movie with real martial artists performing real martial arts action. Zamir (Zaror) is a member of a violent street gang, the Kiltros, whose life is forever changed when a powerful martial artist looking for vengeance, kills his mother and kidnaps the woman he loves. Zamir must fight through wave after wave of opponents in order to claim vengeance and save his girlfriend.
If you enjoyed Ong Bak or the Hong Kong classics then you are in for a treat - Marko Zaror is the new Tony Jaa. Please note: This movie is subtitled.
The Best of the rest:
Here are some other titles that might take your fancy:
An epic war film set during the Chinese Civil War, Assembly comes to DVD and Blu-ray; elsewhere on site, it gets a bit chilly for two students when they breakdown on a deserted road in Wind Chill, while eighties legend Dolph Lundgren directs and stars in new action flick The Defender.
For a full list of everything that's released this week and every week for the past twelve weeks and next twelve weeks, check out our new releases section.
Extras! Highlights
We've got some terrific Extras! for you to enjoy this week.
Tom Hanks: A League of his Own
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in California on July 9, 1956 to chef Amos Mefford Hanks and hospital worker Marylyn Frager. "The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else," notes Hanks with some satisfaction. "We could crush these new generations if we decided to." Marshall Julius celebrates the career of Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks and star of Charlie Wilson's War.
First Among Equals: Edward Woodward
To celebrate the release of eighties classic - The Equalizer - Series 1; we sent Marshall Julius to meet series star and British screen legend, Edward Woodward to talk about his role on the show and the effect of the Wicker Man.
Also...
For more behind the scenes editorials, interviews and features, check out our Extras! Section.
More Ideas
Got Woodward? Edward Woodward isn't the only screen star in the family, last year we interviewed his son, Peter Woodward. Find out what he had to say here.
Like Tom Hanks? Have you seen The Terminal? This is the most popular rental of all time. Read our review and check it out here.
Nostalgic for the 80s thanks to Ashes to Ashes? Return to 1981 and browse a hundred years of cinema with Browse By Year. Click here for everything released in the eighties.
Like Kiltro? Have you seen Ong Bak? Check it out here.
Until next week!
Mal Simons
Blockbuster Online Team
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