June, New Titles, 'True Grit', 'Blue Valentine'

True Grit

The Coen brothers return, offering their own distinctive take on Charles Portis's revenge-western novel. Jeff Bridges assumes the role of the cycloptic avenger Rooster Cogburn which won John Wayne an Oscar in 1969.

Blue Valentine

The title of this mature and moving new US indie captures the tug of war between the excitement of new love and the misery of its slow, painful death. Young American filmmaker Derek Cianfrance bats us back and forth between all sorts of emotions and moods – hot and cold, hope and despair, energy and lethargy – as he shares with us the exciting beginning and dispiriting end of the five-year marriage.

Other new stuff

How Do You Know

Unstoppable

Marketing Of Madness

No Strings Attached

Glass Lips

Childrens Hospital season 1&2

June, New Titles, 'The Green Hornet', 'Next Three Days', 'Hit List'

This wonky but charming action caper documents the crime-thwarting travails of Britt Reid aka The Green Hornet (Seth Rogen doing Seth Rogen), a lingo-spouting party boy and publishing heir, and Kato (a film-stealing Jay Chou), his quiet Chinese expat mechanic-cum-sidekick who is happily saddled with most of the inventing and fighting duties. Their enemy is debonair crime kingpin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz, rolling out his Oscar-winning, hot-hot-hot-hot-COLD! Hans Landa turn), and with the aid of a slickly remodelled vintage Chrysler, some custom-moulded masks and a pair of silly hats, the pair set out to obliterate the criminal scourge of LA.

The Next Three Days

Fred Cavayé’s popular 2008 French prison-break melodrama ‘Anything for Her’ becomes a terse, overly serious, character-driven potboiler in the hands of Paul Haggis, the writer-director of ‘Crash’ and ‘In the Valley of Elah’. The plot – Russell Crowe’s browbeaten family man finds his life falling apart when his wife (Elizabeth Banks) is convicted of murder and decides to bust her out – promises high-stakes drama and high-octane action, so it’s a shame that it takes ‘The Next Three Days’ well over an hour to get going. When it does, the film is gripping, intense and highly enjoyable. But it’s a long, tough slog to get there.

Other New Stuff...

The Hit List (2011), Cuba Gooding Jr. in a twist on 'Strangers On A Train', as his wishlist of people he'd like dead start dying

Journey Of The ChildMen - Mighty Boosh on Tour

Wonders Of The Solar System

June, New Titles, 'Black Swan' 'Uncle BoonMee...' 'The Fighter'

It’s best to switch off the more sensible side of your mind, along with any idea that you’re going to experience a documentary-style portrait of the world of ballet, before encountering Darren Aronofsky's ‘Black Swan’. It’s a film that really only works if you let yourself be swirled up, like its main character, in a storm of hysteria, paranoia and tears: it’s too impulsive and emotional to be picked apart at the level of logic and too ludicrous to exist in a world other than its own. It’s huge fun, but only if you’re willing to swallow its more bonkers excesses.

Uncle BoonMee Who Can See His Past Lives

And if that isn't the right kind of bonkers for you, then try this Thai noodle. The film joins a dumpy, softly-spoken tamarind farmer (Boonmee) as he takes metaphysical stock of his time on earth while he slowly, gracefully succumbs to kidney disease. As the film rummages through his subconscious, we meet friendly apparitions of his late wife and his son, the latter of whom has been cross-bred with a monkey. We even get a glimpse of a past life when he inhabited the body of a horny catfish.

Other New Stuff for June

La Signora Senza Camelie (1953) Region 2

La Signora Senza Camelie (1953) Blu-Ray

Map Of The Sounds Of Tokyo (2009)

Of Gods And Men (2010) Region 2

Inside Job (2010)

Tamara Drewe (2010)

Restrepo (2010)

Canterbury Tales, The (1972) Region 2

Lemmy (2010)

Last Train Home (2009)

Dead Man (1994) Blu-Ray

Made In Dagenham (2010)

American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010)

Eden Is West (2009)

Two In The Wave (2009)

Morning Glory (2011)

Fighter, The (2010)

Black Swan (2010) Blu-Ray

Another Year (2010)