Clint Eastwood, Brad Pitt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Mickey Rourke, Renee Zellweger, Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett – plus, of course, Bolt and his faithful hamster friend Rhino – are just some of the major stars featuring in this month’s titles. June sees the release of some of the biggest and most successful movies to hit the cinemas this year, from multi-award winning Slumdog Millionaire (probably the best film made in Mumbai that you will see this year) to the stunning Gran Torino, and from war drama Valkyrie to the romantic comedies of Confessions Of A Shopaholic and He’s Just Not That Into You.
We start the month with the biggest winner of the 2009 Academy and BAFTA Awards, the stunning Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s terrific tale about an unlikely finalist in India’s version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. The film contains everything – drama, humour, sadness and vibrant, colourful locations and is a must see for all lovers of quality cinema. Then we have another award winning drama, The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke in possibly his finest film role to date, together with the highly acclaimed Marisa Tomei.
Tom Cruise lines up alongside Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp and Eddie Izzard in Valkyrie, a film based upon the true events leading up to an assassination attempt on the life of Adolf Hitler by his own officers and the ramifications of the result.
Another highly acclaimed drama to be released this month is The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Julia Ormond and Tilda Swinton in a stunningly original story about a man who is born in his 80’s and ages backwards. Slightly long at just over two and a half hours but well worth the effort.
Romantic comedies He’s Just Not That Into You, featuring Scarlett Johansson, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Connelly and Confessions Of A Shopaholic with Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy and Kristin Scott Thomas are sure to be popular, as will Vicky Cristina Barcelona starring Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and introducing Rebecca Hall, and New In Town with Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick Jnr.
Film of the month for me is undoubtedly the terrific new movie from Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino, in which he stars as well as directs. The man just gets better and better and the many of you who enjoyed his recent offering The Changeling will undoubtedly enjoy this cracking movie.
Other notable releases in June are Revolutionary Road starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, plus the super new movie from Disney, Bolt, with voices supplied by, among others, John Travolta and Miley Cyrus and the latest family comedy from Steve Martin who once again returns as the hapless Inspector Clousseau in Pink Panther 2.
With over 25 titles being added this month there is certainly plenty of top quality movie entertainment available and remember, you can still take advantage of our 2 for £6 offer on any of the new and recent releases. Enjoy!
Buying
a DVD player
Many
of you will be considering purchasing a DVD. Great idea,
as the picture and sound quality is infinitely superior to video. However,
we would caution you that not all DVD movies will play properly on a budget
priced machine (£150 or less). We would advise you to consider quality
makes such as Sony, Sanyo, JVC, etc, to get the best results from the
hundreds of titles that we have for rental.
DVD
Look
out for the spinning disk on the left which denotes that a film is also
available in DVD format. We
have the largest selection of rental DVD's anywhere in Bexhill.
Most releases are available on both DVD and video and the rental charges are the same for both formats
Look
out for the spinning disk on the left which denotes that a film is also
available in DVD format. We
have the largest selection of rental DVD's anywhere in Bexhill.