New to rent (From The Northern Echo)

New to rent

11:15am Thursday 19th November 2009

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Terminator Salvation

(12, 110 mins, Sony Pictures, DVD £19.99/Quadrilogy DVD Box Set £34.99/Blu-ray £24.99/Skull Blu-ray Box Set £74.99).

Stars: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood, Anton Yelchin, Jadagrace Berry, Common, Michael Ironside, Helena Bonham Carter.

JOHN Connor (Bale) leads the dwindling human race against Skynet and its relentless army of Terminators, flanked by his doctor wife Kate (Howard), second in command Barnes (Common) and feisty lieutenant Blair (Bloodgood). Like the machines, John searches in vain for Kyle Reese, the man who is destined to be sent back in time to protect his mother.

Director McG’s all-guns-blazing reboot of the Terminator series sows the seeds of a new trilogy charting John Connor’s rise to leader of the Resistance in the aftermath of Judgment Day.

Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs

(U, 90 mins, Twentieth Century Fox, DVD £19.99/Ice Age 1-3 DVD £24.99/Blu-ray £28.99/ Ice Age 1-3 Blu-ray £44.99) Stars: John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Simon Pegg.

SID the sloth (voiced by Leguizamo) yearns for a family so he ’appropriates’ a nest of soon-to-hatch dinosaur eggs.

Manny the woolly mammoth (Romano) senses the folly of this endeavour. Sure enough, the eggs crack open, releasing three baby dinosaurs, and the mother comes looking for her stolen babies. She scoops up Sid, who has bonded with the carnivorous youngsters, and carries them all back to the nest. Manny and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger (Leary) embark on a perilous rescue mission.

My Sister’s Keeper

(12, 97 mins, Entertainment In Video, DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99).

Stars: Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, Evan Ellingson, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Evan Ellingson.

BRIAN Fitzgerald (Patric) and his wife Sara (Diaz) are blissfully happy with their son Jesse (Ellingson) and two-year-old daughter Kate. Their lives change forever when they discover that Kate has leukaemia, and the couple make a controversial decision to conceive another child – a genetic match – in order to save her life. But youngest child Anna (Breslin) reaches the age of 11 and announces that she no longer wants to be a guinea pig.

So she hires lawyer Campbell Alexander (Baldwin) to plead her case before Judge De Salvo (Cusack).

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