{"id":12639,"date":"2011-08-08T03:16:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T02:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=12639"},"modified":"2011-08-08T03:16:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T02:16:46","slug":"uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-8th-august-2011-stand-by-me-whisky-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/08\/08\/uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-8th-august-2011-stand-by-me-whisky-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"UK DVD & Blu-ray Releases: Monday 8th August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DVD & BLU-RAY PICKS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stand By Me<\/a><\/strong> (Sony Pictures Home Ent.): Rob Reiner’s marvellous adaptation of Stephen King’s short story The Body was one of the sleeper hits of 1986. When a writer (Richard Dreyfus) remembers his childhood in a small Oregon town, we flashback to a group of friends – Gordie (Wil Wheaton), Chris (River Phoenix), Teddy (Corey Feldman), and Vern (Jerry O’Connell) – who search for a missing teenager’s body. An unusual film for the 1980s, it mixes comedy and drama to excellent effect. [Buy it on\u00a0Blu-ray<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0DVD<\/a> from Amazon UK]<\/p>\n

Whisky Galore<\/a><\/strong> (Optimum Home Entertainment): One of the most famous Ealing comedies is this classic 1949 film about a ship carrying 50,000 cases of whisky which runs aground on a Scottish island. The first film by director Alexander Mackendrick, who went on to make The Ladykillers and The Man In The White Suit, this has been fully digitally restored and remastered. [Buy it on\u00a0Blu-ray<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0DVD<\/a>\u00a0from Amazon UK]<\/p>\n

ALSO OUT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chocolat<\/strong> (Miramax) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nIMAX: Deep Sea<\/strong> (Warner Home Video) [Blu-ray \/ 3D Edition]
\nIMAX: Legends of Flight<\/strong> (BPDP) [Blu-ray \/ with 3D Version]
\nSucker Punch<\/strong> (Warner Home Video) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamas<\/strong> (Miramax) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nThe Lost Bladesman<\/strong> (Icon Home Entertainment) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nYour Highness: Extended Edition<\/strong> (Entertainment One) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]<\/p>\n

>\u00a0UK Cinema Releases for Friday 5th August 2011 including Super 8<\/a>
\n>\u00a0The Best DVD & Blu-ray releases of 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

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Including Stand by Me and Whisky Galore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2156,2157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}