Roadshow – May 2013 Releases

PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

LABEL: Roadshow
RELEASE DATE: 10 April 2013
DIRECTOR: Stephen Chbosky
STARRING: Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Mae Whitman
CATEGORY: Drama
RRP DVD: $34.99
RRP BluRay: $39.99

A funny and touching coming-of-age story based on the beloved best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is a modern classic that captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. Starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is a moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope – and the unforgettable friends that help us through life.

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GANGSTER SQUAD

LABEL: Roadshow
RELEASE DATE: 15 May 2013
DIRECTOR: Ruben Fleischer
STARRING: Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn
CATEGORY: Action
RRP DVD: $39.99
RRP BluRay: $39.99

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the illgotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and, if he has his way, every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control.

It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, streethardened cop…except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.

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ATTENBOROUGH – 60 YEARS IN THE WILD

LABEL: BBC
RELEASE DATE: 01 May 2013
DIRECTOR:
STARRING: Sir David Attenborough
CATEGORY: Documentary
RRP DVD: $39.99
RRP BluRay: $39.99

Three spectacular films revealing how documenting the natural world has changed during the 60 year career of one of the most important naturalists of the last century, Sir David Attenborough.

Sir David Attenborough has been at the forefront of natural history film-making for over half a century, witnessing an unparallelled period of change in our planet’s history. In this unique and important series, he delivers his testimony in a trio of spectacular films, focusing on three areas which have transformed most profoundly over his career: film-making, science and the environment. During his extraordinary career he has seen, first-hand, more of the natural world than anyone else and witnessed how our remarkable planet has changed more rapidly and extensively than ever before.

In The Trials of Life: Capturing Behaviour, Attenborough turns to his long-running, landmark Life series to show how remarkable advancements in wildlife filming techniques have transformed our perception of the animal kingdom. Aerial filming revealed the unique hunt strategy of hunting dogs, sped-up time-lapse photography revealed that plants have a life and behaviour of their own, while endoscope lenses uncovered the secrets of an army ant nest – walls of interlocked, living ants. Leading developments in film-making, Attenborough’s series regularly revealed animal behaviours that had never been witnessed before.

Life on Earth – The Secrets of Evolution revisits sequences from his very earliest broadcasts to his most recent, illustrating how each breakthrough in biodiversity, genetics and evolutionary biology – his first passion, have transformed the way we understand the framework of the living world.

The final episode, The Living Planet: Our Fragile World, explores the threats now facing the natural world.Travelling back to the locations of his early series, Attenborough demonstrates the degree to which the wild world has shrunk in only a few decades. But he also reveals how much public attitudes, awareness and understanding of the natural world has changed over time.

Richly illustrated with the sequences he has spent 60 years capturing and packed with the personal anecdotes of television’s most accomplished raconteur, this series is a unique synopsis of a unique halfcentury and a positive celebration of Attenborough’s life’s work.

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BLACKOUT

LABEL: BBC
RELEASE DATE: 15 May 2013
STARRING: Christopher Eccleston, Dervla Kirwan
CATEGORY: TV
RRP DVD: $19.99

Christopher Eccleston is joined by Dervla Kirwan (Injustice, The Silence) and Ewen Bremner (Page Eight, Perfect Sense) in this original three part drama for BBC One. Also starring Bafta Award winner Andrew Scott (Sherlock, The Hour).

How far would you go to be forgiven? Daniel Demoys has had it all. A loving wife, kids and the chance to make the world a better place. He’s also an alcoholic and drug addict and is fast driving a wedge between him and his family. But when Daniel wakes up from another drunken night with blood stained hands, and realises he might be responsible for a murder he is driven to despair.

A dramatic act of redemption buys him public adoration, so much so that he has become a candidate in the race for Mayor. As his public star rises ever higher and he tries to repair the damage done to his private life he is painfully aware that it could all come crashing down at any moment. Blackout is an epic, edgy thriller following a man battling with his own dark soul as he makes a stab at salvation.

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THE MASTER

LABEL: Roadshow
RELEASE DATE: 15 May 2013
DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson
STARRING: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix
CATEGORY: Drama
RRP DVD: $34.99
RRP BluRay: $39.99

Set in America in the years following World War II, a charismatic intellectual (Philip Seymour Hoffman) launches a faith-based organization and taps a young drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) as his right-hand man. But as the faith begins to gain a fervent following, the onetime vagabond finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced and his mentor.

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