The Kick – Series 1
Set in downtown New York in 1900, The Knick is a new Cinemax drama series from Steven Soderbergh. It is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the boundaries of medicine and morality in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. Academy Award and Emmy nominee Clive Owen stars as Doctor John Thackery, a brilliant surgeon and whose ambition for medical discovery is tempered only by his secret addiction to opiates and cocaine.
Thackery is the newly appointed leader of the surgery staff and leads a team of doctors including his protégé Dr. Everett Gallinger; the young Dr. Bertie Chickering Jr. and Dr. Algernon Edwards, a promising surgeon who’s been recently thrust upon him. The Knick stars Clive Owen (whose performance earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television series – drama). Steven Soderbergh directed all ten episodes of the first season.
* As Seen on SOHO *DVD RRP $39.99 – 4 Discs * BD RRP $49.99 4 Discs *
While We’re Young
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts are Josh and Cornelia Srebnick, happily married middle-aged members of New York’s creative class. They tried to start a family and were unable to — and have decided they’re okay with that. But as Josh labors over the umpteenth edit of his cerebral new film it’s clear that something is missing. Enter Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), a free-spirited young couple, who are ready to drop everything in pursuit of their next passion — retro board games one day, acquiring a pet chicken the next. For Josh, it’s as if a door has opened back to his youth.
It’s not long before the restless forty-somethings, Josh and Cornelia, throw aside friends their own age — including Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz in a sly supporting role — to trail after these young hipsters who seem so plugged in and uninhibited. While We’re Young is an openly funny cross-generational comedy of manners about aging, ambition and success, as well as a moving portrait of a marriage tested by the invading forces of youth. No film has better captured the weird, upended logic of urban sophisticates: the older ones embracing their iPads and Netflix, the young ones craving vinyl records and vintage VHS tapes. Powered by Stiller and Driver’s note-perfect lead performances and loose, comic turns by Watts and Seyfried, While We’re Young is an absolute delight.
* DVD RRP: $34.99 * BLU-RAY RRP: $39.99 * GENRE: DRAMA*
Lego: Justice League: Attack of the Legion of Doom
Lego, DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation team up for another legendary animated adventure as the superheroes of the Justice League face off against their greatest foes, the Legion of Doom.
Crime is on the run as the newly formed Justice League keeps Metropolis safe and this makes evil genius Lex Luthor very unhappy. Together with Black Manta, Sinestro and a gang of ruthless recruits, Lex builds his own league and declares them the Legion of Doom. With this super powered team of terror and a plan to attack the top-secret government site, Area 52, can Lex finally be on the verge of victory? Sound the “Trouble Alert” and get ready for the bricks to fly when Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the rest of the Justice League face off against the world’s greatest Super-Villains!
It’s the next all-new original movie from LEGO and DC Comics.
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