{"id":14456,"date":"2012-02-20T11:13:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T11:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14456"},"modified":"2012-02-20T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T11:13:30","slug":"uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-20th-february-2012-repo-man-miss-bala-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/02\/20\/uk-dvd-blu-ray-releases-monday-20th-february-2012-repo-man-miss-bala-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"UK DVD & Blu-ray Releases: Monday 20th February 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Repo Man<\/a><\/strong> (Eureka\/Masters of Cinema): Alex Cox’s startling 1984 directorial debut gradually became a cult film with its unusual mix of noir and sci-fi. When an unemployed punk rocker (Emilio Estevez) is hired by a guy named Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) to repossess cars for a living, he soon makes a strange discovery. Fully restored Blu-ray, with bountiful extras including audio commentaries and the network television version (i.e. the one without the swearing). [Buy the Blu-ray from Amazon UK<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Miss Bala<\/a><\/strong> (Metrodome): Accomplished crime drama, loosely based on real events, about a young woman (Noe Hernandez) with dreams of becoming a beauty queen who finds herself working for Mexican drug smugglers. Directed by Gerardo Naranjo, it is an unusually absorbing mixture of genres that aren’t combined that often.\u00a0It has been selected as this year’s Mexican entry for the Academy Awards. [Buy it on DVD from Amazon UK<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Warrior<\/a><\/strong> (Lionsgate): Although it didn’t live up to commercial expectations, this drama about two brothers (Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton) who enter the biggest \u2018winner takes all\u2019 Mixed Martial Arts event in history. Directed by Gavin O’Connor and co-starring Nick Nolte as their father (a performance which has earned him an Oscar nomination), it dealt with contemporary issues that maybe cut too close to the bone for mainstream audiences (e.g. war, recession). But the performances and assured direction might see it become a home entertainment favourite. [Buy it on Blu-ray<\/a> or DVD<\/a> from Amazon UK]<\/p>\n

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

Best Laid Plans<\/strong> (Sony Pictures Home Ent.)
\nDemons Never Die<\/strong> (Exile Media Group) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nDon’t Be Afraid of the Dark<\/strong> (StudioCanal) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nFright Night<\/strong>\u00a0(Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nGarden State<\/strong> (Miramax) [Blu-ray \/ Special Edition]
\nHollywoodland<\/strong> (Miramax) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nOne More<\/strong> (Odeon Entertainment) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nReal Steel<\/strong> (Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.) [Blu-ray \/ Normal]
\nWWII in 3D<\/strong> (Go Entertain) [Blu-ray \/ 3D Edition]<\/p>\n

>\u00a0Recent DVD & Blu-ray picks<\/a>
\n>\u00a0The Best DVD and Blu-ray releases of 2011<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Including Repo Man, Miss Bala and Warrior<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2447,2446,2240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456"}],"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=14456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}