Network Releasing have announced the UK release of music industry satire The Story Of F*** on DVD next month and we have all the details along with the film’s trailer.

“The Music Industry is a cruel and shallow money trench where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There is also a negative side.” (Hunter S. Thompson)

Lewis Sipricosh (Finlay Robertson – How Not To Live Your Life) is a frustrated A & R at Kosmos Records looking for the next big act to impress his deranged and depraved music boss. Aided by his beautiful assistant Daisy (Tamsin Egerton – St Trinians) they decide to create and unleash a band called F*** on UK music lovers – the problem is that F*** can’t sing or play instruments… but when has that ever stopped a manufactured band from being successful?

This film is The Story Of F***, a snappy satire about the music industry from first time film-making cousins Adam and James Abadi featuring sex, drugs, alien abduction and crocodiles! The film also stars Jo Absolom, Ameet Channa, Andrew Thomas Jones, Pete Bennett and cult transgender actor and producer Desire Dubounet in her first major film role.

Here’s the trailer:

Special Features on the DVD release will include:

• Official Trailer

Network Releasing will be release The Story Of F*** (cert. 15) on DVD on 11th October 2010 and Chris and Phil will be reviewing the film in a future podcast.

Dogwoof have announced the theatrical release of acclaimed documentary Restrepo in UK cinemas next month and we have the film’s trailer to share with you.

Restrepo is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo”, named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment.

This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you.

“The war in Afghanistan has become highly politicized, but soldiers rarely take part in that discussion. Our intention was to capture the experience of combat, boredom and fear through the eyes of the soldiers themselves. Their lives were our lives: we did not explore geopolitical debates. Soldiers are living and fighting and dying at remote outposts in Afghanistan in conditions that few Americans back home can imagine. Their experiences are important to understand, regardless of one’s political beliefs.

Beliefs are a way to avoid looking at reality.

This is reality.”

- Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger – Directors, Restrepo

Here’s the trailer:

Dogwoof will be releasing Restrepo in UK cinemas on 8th October 2010.

Optimum Releasing have announced the Blu-ray release of Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro’s debut feature Delicatessen in the UK next week as part of the Studio Canal Collection, and we have all the details plus an exclusive clip to promote the release.

Delicatessen is the distinctive, spell-binding and never less than surreal debut of the directorial partnership between Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where food is scarce, Dominique Pinon stars an ex-clown who gets a handyman job in an apartment building and then falls for the daughter of the building’s owner – an imposing butcher who has resorted to murderous ways to get his meat.

Here’s the clip:

Special Features on the Blu-ray release will include:

• Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Audio Commentary
• Making of: Fine cooked pork meats by Diane Bertrand (13 min)
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Archives (8 min)
• Main course Pieces (65 min)
• Trailer
• Teaser

Optimum Releasing will be releasing Delicatessen on Blu-ray on 13th September 2010 and Puppy will be reviewing the film in a future Blu-ray Review column.

Let Me In, Matt Reeves’ remake of Let The Right One In, is due for release in November and we have an exclusive clip from the film courtesy of Icon Film Distribution. Let Me In is an astonishing coming-of-age story between a young girl and an alienated young boy starring Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road), Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass), Elias Koteas (The Killer Inside Me) & Richard Jenkins (Burn After Reading).

Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl from Kick-Ass) stars as Abby, a secretive 12-year old girl, who moves next door to Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Owen is a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school and in his loneliness, forms a profound bond with his new neighbour. Owen can’t help noticing that Abby is like no one he has ever met before. As a string of grisly murders occupy the town, Owen has to confront the reality that this seemingly innocent girl is really a savage vampire.

Let Me In, a haunting and provocative thriller written and directed by filmmaker Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) and produced by legendary British horror brand Hammer Films, is an astonishing coming-of-age story between a young girl and an alienated young boy unlike any other you have seen. Based on the best-selling Swedish novel Lat den Ratte Komma by John Ajvide Lindqvist, and the highly-acclaimed film of the same name, Let Me In takes audiences straight to the troubled heart of adolescent longing and loneliness.

Here’s the clip:

Icon Film Distribution will be releasing Let Me In at UK cinemas on November 5th 2010 and Chris and Phil will be reviewing the film in a future podcast.

Following on from its preview at last weekend’s FrightFest event in London, Metrodome have announced the release of Paul Andrew Williams’ hard-hitting hoodie-house-horror Cherry Tree Lane in UK cinemas on 3rd September. The film will also be released on DVD on 13th September.

From the acclaimed director of London To Brighton and The Cottage comes this chilling edge-of-your-seat tale of urban horror.

An ordinary British family face their worst fears when their normal, everyday lives are destroyed, piece by brutal piece, by a group of vicious youths who subject them to a vicious barrage of humiliation and violence. While the evening starts like any other, with the family settling down for a quiet evening in front of the telly, a simple knock at the front door will leave its bloody mark on them forever…

Writer-director Paul Andrew Williams carves his signature vision on the urban horror genre with this relentless slice of violence and terror – your home will never feel safe again.

Here’s the trailer:

Special Features on the DVD release will include:

• Commentary with Writer/Director Paul Andrew Williams
• Behind Closed Doors featurette
• Rehearsing the Horror featurette
• Out-takes
• Two trailers

Metrodome will be releasing Cherry Tree Lane (cert. 18) on DVD on 13th September 2010.

You can listen to Phil’s interview with director Paul Andrew Williams at FrightFest here.

Warner Bros. are proud to announce that Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch will be in cinemas on March 25th, 2011. To celebrate this news and to whet your appetite for the film we have both the teaser trailer and six character banners featuring Babydoll, Blondie, Rocket, Sweet-Pea, Amber and Madam Gorski to share with you!

(Yes, we know they’ve been posted all over the web in recent weeks but since we’ve just been sent them it’s a good excuse to publish them here aswell…)

Amber (Jamie Chung):

Babydoll (Emily Browning):

Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens):

Madam Gorski (Carla Gugino):

Rocket (Jena Malone):

Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish):

Zack Snyder presents a hyper-violent spin on Alice in Wonderland for his directorial follow-up to Watchmen with this Cruel and Unusual Films production for Warner Bros. The plot details the action-packed fantasy world of a mental patient (Emily Browning), who escapes from her reality to deal with her abusive stepfather.

Here’s the first trailer:

Warner Bros. will be releasing Sucker Punch in UK cinemas on 25th March 2011 and Chris and Phil will be reviewing the film in a future podcast.

Visit the official website: http://wwws.warnerbros.co.uk/suckerpunch

Optimum Releasing have announced that Jean-Luc Godard’s classic love story Breathless (A Bout De Souffle) will be receiving a digitally restored re-release on DVD and Blu-ray for its 50th Anniversary next month!

Celebrating 50 years of cool, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless premiered at Berlin before receiving a digital re-release in UK cinemas on June 25th. With Godard still going strong and about to release a new film, Socialisme, we celebrate where it all began, with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg effortlessly stylish and in love in Paris: he a petty criminal on the run from the police, she a wide-eyed American student selling the New York Tribune on the Champs-Elysées.

Here’s the trailer:

Digitally restored and available on DVD & Blu-ray next month, the film comes with great extras (further details below).

Special Features on the DVD release will include:

• Introduction by Jefferson Hack, creator & publisher of Dazed & Confused magazine
• Rarely seen interview with Jean-Luc Godard by Mike Hodges from UK arts show Tempo (1965)
• Short film: ‘Je T’Aime John Wayne’ directed by Toby MacDonald
• Featurette on the life of Jean Seberg

Please note that Breathless will also be released on Blu-ray as part of the Studio Canal Collection, with different extras.

Optimum Releasing will be releasing the 50th Anniversary edition of Breathless (cert. PG) on Blu-ray and DVD on 13th September 2010 and Chris and Phil will be reviewing the film in a future podcast.

Warner Bros. have confirmed the UK theatrical release of Zack Snyder’s Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’Hoole, which will be in cinemas, in 3D, on 22nd October and we have the trailer and a new featurette, featuring Zack and Deborah Snyder to share with you. The film features the voices of Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Emilie de Ravin, Ryan Kwanten, Miriam Margolyes, Helen Mirren, Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham.

Acclaimed filmmaker Zack Snyder makes his animation debut with the fantasy family adventure Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’Hoole based on the beloved Guardians of Ga’Hoole books by Kathryn Lasky. The film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father’s epic stories of the Guardians of Ga’Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones.

While Soren dreams of someday joining his heroes, his older brother, Kludd, scoffs at the notion, and yearns to hunt, fly and steal his father’s favor from his younger sibling. But Kludd’s jealousy has terrible consequences—causing both owlets to fall from their treetop home and right into the talons of the Pure Ones. Now it is up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave young owls. Together they soar across the sea and through the mist to find the Great Tree, home of the legendary Guardians—Soren’s only hope of defeating the Pure Ones and saving the owl kingdoms.

Here’s the trailer:

And here’s the featurette featuring Zack and Deborah Snyder:

Warner Bros. will be releasing Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’Hoole in UK cinemas on 22nd October 2010 and Chris and Phil will be reviewing the film in a future podcast.

Academy Award®-nominated documentary filmmaker Nanette Burstein (On The Ropes) makes her feature film directorial debut with Going The Distance, in cinemas nationwide next month, and we have a clip from the film to share with you courtesy of Warner Bros. The film is written by Geoff LaTulippe and stars Golden Globe Award winner Drew Barrymore (Whip It), Justin Long (Drag Me To Hell), Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jim Gaffigan and Golden Globe Award nominee Christina Applegate.

Erin’s (Barrymore) wry wit and unfiltered frankness charm newly single Garrett (Long) over beer, bar trivia and breakfast the next morning. Their chemistry sparks a full-fledged summer fling, but neither expects it to last once Erin heads home to San Francisco and Garrett stays behind for his job in New York City. But when six weeks of romping through the city inadvertently become meaningful, neither is sure they want it to end. And while Garrett’s friends, Box (Sudeikis) and Dan (Day), joke about his pre-flight calorie-cutting and his full-time relationship with his cell phone, they don’t like losing their best drinking buddy to yet another rocky romance. At the same time, Erin’s high-strung, overprotective married sister, Corrine (Applegate), wants to keep Erin from heading down an all-too-familiar road.

But despite the opposite coasts, the nay-saying friends and family, and a few unexpected temptations, the couple just might have found something like love, and with the help of a lot of texting, sexting and late-night phone calls, they might actually go the distance.

Here’s the ‘DJ Your Hook-up’ clip:

Warner Bros. will be releasing Going The Distance in UK cinemas from 10th September 2010 and Chris and Phil will be reviewing the film in a future podcast.

Cine Asia have announced the UK release of The Sword With No Name on Blu-ray and DVD in September, which brilliantly blends dazzling swordplay action, political intrigue, tragedy and romance to tell the story of one of Korea’s most legendary and controversial national heroines, the Empress Myeongseong.

Set during Korea’s fabled Joseon Dynasty, this stunning, action-packed adaptation of the life of the Empress brings to the screen a breathtaking depiction of the inspirational leader who stirred the courage of her nation in the face of seemingly overwhelming foreign aggression and of the man who stood by her side.

When a young woman of noble birth embarks on a dangerous cross-country journey, she encounters an infamous bounty hunter who, honour-bound, becomes her protector and, against all odds, falls deeply in love with her.

A few years later, in order to fulfil a sacred promise, she enters the royal court and ascends to the throne as Empress, leaving behind the man who would willingly and unconditionally give her his all. However, when aggressive Japanese forces gather against the Empress and her nation, the bounty hunter finds a way to once again stand by her side as a devoted bodyguard. As the conflict escalates to all-out war, her irrepressible leadership manages to sustain her people and to give them the hope of victory. But tragically, as her reputation spreads, she becomes a target for assassination and only one man’s courage will provide her with the strength to face her destiny.

Here’s the trailer:

From Kim Yong-gyun, the acclaimed director of the hit South Korean horror movie The Red Shoes, The Sword With No Name stars Jae-jin Baek, Jae-woong Choi, Seung-woo Cho and In-gu Heo.

Special Features on the Blu-ray and DVD release will include:

• ‘Making of’ featurette including extended and deleted scenes
• Cast interviews
• Trailer gallery

Cine Asia will be releasing The Sword With No Name (cert. 15) on Blu-ray and DVD on 20th September 2010 and Chris and Phil will be reviewing the film in a future podcast.

Artificial Eye have confirmed the UK theatrical release of Abbas Kiarostami ‘s Certified Copy in cinemas next month and we have the film’s trailer to share with you. Set over the course of one day in the Tuscan countryside, Certified Copy is a playful and provocative two-hander following the intriguing relationship between a man and woman who appear to have just met …

James Miller (William Shimell) is an English writer, in Tuscany to promote his new book. An unidentified gallery owner (Juliette Binoche, who won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance) attends Miller’s lecture on the subject of art and the value of original works versus copies, following which the pair meet up and decide to embark upon a sightseeing journey through the picturesque Tuscan countryside. There, they are mistaken for a married couple. On the insistence of the woman they keep up the pretence, but as time goes on we realise that there may be more to their seemingly new relationship than meets the eye.

The conversations and arguments between the couple and the characters they encounter throughout the day, offer smart and light-hearted reflections on marriage and sexual politics, whilst director Abbas Kiarostami constantly challenges his viewers to work out what is copy and original, play-acting and reality.

Oscar®-winner Juliette Binoche (Hidden, The English Patient) stars as the woman identified only as “She”, alongside internationally acclaimed British opera singer William Shimell (currently appearing in Manon at the Royal Opera House), in his debut film role. Certified Copy is directed by Palme d’Or-winning auteur Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us), his first production outside his native Iran.

Here’s the trailer:

Artificial Eye will be releasing Certified Copy in UK cinemas on 3rd September 2010.

20th Century Fox have unveiled the first trailer for action-thriller Unstoppable which is due for release in UK cinemas this November. Marking the fifth collaboration between director Tony Scott and Denzel Washington (after The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3, Deja Vu, Man On Fire and Crimson Tide), the film also stars Chris Pine (Star Trek, Carriers) and Rosario Dawson (Eagle Eye, Sin City).

Oscar-winner Denzel Washington and Star Trek’s Chris Pine team with action maestro Tony Scott in this non-stop action thriller. A massive unmanned locomotive, nicknamed “The Beast” and loaded with toxic cargo, roars through the countryside, vaporizing anything put in front of it. A veteran engineer (Washington) and a young conductor (Pine), aboard another train in the runaway’s path, devise an incredible plan to try and stop it – and prevent certain disaster in a heavily populated area.

Here’s the trailer:

20th Century Fox will be releasing Unstoppable in UK cinemas on 12th November and Chris and Phil will be reviewing the film in a future podcast.