December DVD Competition 2015

Life Story

From the moment they are born, every animal on the planet begins the same great and perilous journey – life.
Life Story is the latest epic series from the BBC’s world renowned Natural History Unit and possibly the biggest David Attenborough project of the last five years. The stories featured take in some of the most varied and extreme experiences faced by animals in the wild, from a gosling leaping from a 120 metre high cliff to a tiger cub growing up in one of the world’s most dangerous animal societies and the life changing moment when an orphan chimp meets his first friend.
* As Seen on TV One * DVD $39.99 – 2 DISCS * BD $39.99 – 2 DISCS *

 

Last Cab to Darwin

Michael Caton (Packed to the Rafters TV series, The Animal, The Castle) gives the performance of a lifetime as Rex, a Broken Hill cab driver who, when told he doesn’t have long to live, sets out on an epic journey to Darwin in a bid to die on his own terms. Along the way he discovers that before you can end your life you have to live it, and to live it, you have to share it.
Filled with hope, humour and heart, Last Cab To Darwin takes us on a journey, reminding us that it’s never too late to start living.
Last Cab to Darwin also starts Jacki Weaver (Magic In The Moonlight, Silver Linings Playbook), Ningali Lawford (The Circuit TV series, Rabbit Proof Fence), Emma Hamilton (Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard II, The Cold Light of Day).

* DVD RRP: $39.99 * BD RRP: $44.99 * GENRE: DRAMA *

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) stars as Napoleon Solo opposite Armie Hammer (The Social Network) as Illya Kuryakin in director Guy Ritchie’s action adventure The Man from U.N.C.L.E., a fresh take on the hugely popular 1960s television series.
Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. centres on CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin. Forced to put aside longstanding hostilities, the two team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organisation.

The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organisation. Together, they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide nuclear catastrophe.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E also stars Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki and Hugh Grant.

* DVD RRP: $39.99 * BD RRP: $44.99 * GENRE: Action/Adventure *

Southpaw

From acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), Southpaw tells the story of Billy “The Great” Hope, reigning Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World (Academy Award® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal).

Billy Hope seemingly has it all with an impressive career, a beautiful and loving wife (Rachel McAdams), an adorable daughter (Oona Laurence) and a lavish lifestyle. When tragedy strikes and his lifelong manager and friend (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) leaves him behind, Hope hits rock bottom and turns to an unlikely savior at a run-down local gym: Tick Willis (Academy Award® winner Forest Whitaker), a retired fighter and trainer to the city’s toughest amateur boxers. With his future riding on Tick’s guidance and tenacity,

Billy enters the hardest battle of his life as he struggles with redemption and to win back the trust of those he loves.

* DVD RRP: $39.99 * BD RRP: $44.99 * GENRE: DRAMA *

The Gift

Can you really go through life having never wronged anyone? Even if you are unaware of how, or when, and even who you may have wronged….chances are there is someone out there who won’t ever forget it…or you.

Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) are a young married couple whose life is going just as planned until a chance encounter with an acquaintance from Simon’s high school sends their world into a harrowing tailspin. Simon doesn’t recognize Gordo (Joel Edgerton) at first, but after a seemingly coincidental series of encounters proves troubling, a horrifying secret from their past is uncovered after nearly 20 years.

As Robyn learns the unsettling truth about what happened between Simon and Gordo, she starts to question: how well do we really know the people closest to us and are bygones ever really bygones?

Written by Joel Edgerton who stars alongside Jason Bateman (Horrible Bosses 2, This Is Where I Leave You), Rebecca Hall (Transcendence, Iron Man 3), The Gift is also Edgerton’s directorial debut.

* DVD RRP: $34.99 * BD RRP: $39.99 * GENRE: DRAMA *

 

The competition is now closed.  Thank you.