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DVD PICKS<\/strong><\/p>\n Ghost Town<\/a><\/strong> (Paramount): The first proper leading man role for\u00a0Ricky Gervais<\/a>\u00a0in a mainstream\u00a0Hollywood movie is a smartly written comedy about a grumpy English dentist in New York who starts seeing ghosts after an operation goes wrong.<\/p>\n Written and directed by\u00a0David Koepp<\/a>\u00a0(who made the overlooked ghost story Stir of Echoes in 1999, as well as penning blockbusters like Spider-Man and Jurassic Park), it has a neat comic setup, solid supporting performances from\u00a0Greg Kinnear<\/a>\u00a0and Tia Leoni<\/a>\u00a0and some surprisingly touching moments.<\/p>\n Available on DVD and Blu-ray, the extras are the same on both and include the following:<\/p>\n Linha De Passe<\/a><\/strong> (Pathe):\u00a0An interesting look at contemporary Brazil through the eyes of four poverty-stricken brothers who live in a\u00a0favela<\/a>\u00a0neighborhood in\u00a0S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Directed by\u00a0Walter Salles<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Daniela Thomas<\/a>, it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0back in May where one of its stars,\u00a0Sandra Corveloni<\/a>, won the award for\u00a0Best Actress<\/a>.<\/p>\n * Listen to an interview I did back in September with <\/a>Walter Salles<\/a><\/strong> *<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [ad]<\/p>\n ALSO OUT<\/strong><\/p>\n 100 Feet<\/a><\/strong> (DNC Entertainment) > Buy\u00a0Ghost Town<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Linha de Passe\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0at Amazon UK DVD PICKS Ghost Town (Paramount): The first proper leading man role for\u00a0Ricky Gervais\u00a0in a mainstream\u00a0Hollywood movie is a smartly written comedy about a grumpy English dentist in New York who starts seeing ghosts after an operation goes wrong. Written and directed by\u00a0David Koepp\u00a0(who made the overlooked ghost story Stir of Echoes in 1999, as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[848,208,632],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005"}],"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=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nBad Biology<\/a><\/strong> (Revolver)
\n Burn Notice – Season 1<\/a><\/strong> (Fox)
\n Charles Darwin & The Tree of Life<\/a><\/strong> (2 Entertain)
\n Ghost Town<\/a><\/strong> (Paramount)
\n Gran Casino<\/a><\/strong> (Optimum)
\n Incendiary<\/a><\/strong> (Optimum)
\n La Boh\u00e8me<\/a><\/strong> (Axiom Films)
\n Le Cercle Rouge<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Optimum)
\n Le Doulos<\/a><\/strong> (Optimum)
\n Leon Morin Pretre<\/a><\/strong> (Optimum)
\nMy Dinner with Andre<\/a><\/strong> (Optimum)
\n My Name is Bruce<\/a><\/strong> (Anchor Bay)
\n Nights of Cabiria<\/a><\/strong> (Optimum)
\n Oz and James Drink to Britain<\/a><\/strong> (Acorn Media)
\n Pride & Glory<\/a><\/strong> (EIV)
\n Quiet Chaos<\/a><\/strong> (New Wave Films)
\n Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Series 2<\/a><\/strong> (Warner)
\n The Baxter<\/a><\/strong> (Momentum)
\n The Federico Fellini Collection<\/a><\/strong> (Optimum)
\n The Jean-Pierre Melville Collection<\/a><\/strong> (Optimum)
\n The Midnight Meat Train<\/a><\/strong> (Lionsgate)
\n The Warlords<\/a><\/strong> (Metrodome)
\n Transsiberian<\/a><\/strong> (Momentum)
\n Victorian Farm<\/a><\/strong> (Acorn Media)
\n Waterloo Road – Series 3<\/a><\/strong> (Acorn Media)
\n Wise Blood<\/a><\/strong> (Second Sight)<\/p>\n
\n> Browse more DVD Releases at\u00a0Amazon UK<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Play
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\n<\/a>>\u00a0Take a look at the current UK cinema releases<\/a>\u00a0(W\/C Friday 27th February)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"