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UK DVD and Blu-ray Releases: Monday 25th January 2010

Including Magnolia, Fish Tank, Mesrine Parts 1 & 2, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, Thirst and The Double Life of Veronique

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DVD & BLU-RAY PICKS

Magnolia (EIV): The classic 1999 ensemble drama written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, which is a mosaic of several interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley. [Read the full review here] [Buy it on Blu-ray]

Fish Tank (Artificial Eye): Writer-director Andrea Arnold’s second feature-length film, which is an absorbing tale of a teenage girl (Katie Jarvis) on an Essex housing estate who strikes up a friendship with her mother’s new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender). [Read the full review here] [Buy it on DVD]

Mesrine Parts 1 & 2 (Momentum): An epic two part crime saga starring Vincent Cassel as a the real life criminal who gets involved in a series of hold-ups, prison breaks and kidnappings throughout the 1970s and 80s across several continents. [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (Sony): A charming animated comedy, based on the book by Judi and Ron Barrett, about a young scientist who invents a weather machine which inadvertently starts raining food down on his town. [Buy it on Blu-rayBuy it on DVD]

The Double Life of Veronique (Artificial Eye): A Blu-ray release for this 1991 French-Polish drama directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, which stars Irène Jacob as two women who have a mysterious connection. [Buy it on Blu-ray]

Thirst (Palisades Tartan): A vampire story from director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) about a priest saved by a blood transfusion , which also transforms him into a vampire. [Buy it on Blu-rayBuy it on DVD]

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ALSO OUT

A Town Called Eureka Season 3.0 (Universal Playback) [Buy it on DVD]
Bullet Boy (Verve Pictures) [Buy it on DVD]
Candy (ICA)
Copying Beethoven (Verve Pictures) [Buy it on Blu-ray| Buy it on DVD]
Fame (2009) (EIV) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
Gaea Girls & Shinjuku Boys (Second Run) [Buy it on DVD]
House [Hausu] (Eureka/Masters of Cinema) [Buy it on DVD]
Katyn (Artificial Eye) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Universal) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
Love Exposure (Third Window Films) [Buy it on DVD]
Lubitsch in Berlin (Eureka/Masters of Cinema) [Buy it on DVD]
Ocean Waves (Optimum) [Buy it on DVD]
Passchendaele (High Fliers) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
Permissive (BFI) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
Pontypool (Kaleidoscope Entertainment) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
Privilege (BFI) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
Red Road (Verve Pictures) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
Smokin’ Aces (Universal) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassin’s Ball (Universal) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
Straightheads (Verve Pictures) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
That Kind of Girl (BFI) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
Undercover (Optimum) [Buy it on DVD]
Une Femme Mariée (Eureka/Masters of Cinema) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
Whiteout (Optimum) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]
Zidane (Artificial Eye) [Buy it on Blu-ray | Buy it on DVD]

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