New to rent (From The Northern Echo)

New to rent

11:11am Thursday 3rd December 2009

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Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince

(12, 147 mins, Warner Home Video, DVD £22.99/Years 1-6 DVD Box Set £49.99/Blu-ray £28.99/Years 1-6 Blu-ray Box Set £59.99)

Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Jim Broadbent, Tom Felton, Helena Bonham Carter

HARRY, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts for their sixth term, where Harry (Radcliffe) wrestles with his feelings for Ron’s sister Ginnie (Wright). Professor Severus Snape (Rickman) appears to align himself with the rejuvenated Death Eaters.

Harry spends time with headmaster Albus Dumbledore (Gambon) and a Pensieve, delving into Voldemort’s past. The new Potions master, Horace Slughorn (Broadbent), may hold the key. This is a marked improvement on the fifth instalment, condensing JK Rowling’s hefty book into a mere 147 minutes. Visual effects are near flawless as usual, seamlessly melded with the live action, including the welcome return of Quidditch.

Inglourious Basterds

(18, 152 mins, Universal, DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99/Special Edition Blu-ray £29.99)

Starring: Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Brad Pitt, Eli Roth

IN Nazi-occupied France, sadistic Colonel Hans Landa (Waltz) kills dozens of suspects, but one young woman, Shosanna (Laurent), escapes and reinvents herself as a cinema owner in Paris, where she plots her revenge.

Meanwhile, British Lieutenant Archie Hicox (Fassbender) goes undercover to assassinate Hitler during the premiere at Shosanna’s cinema, aided by leading lady Bridget von Hammersmark (Kruger).

Simultaneously, a gang of merciless Jewish-American renegades, led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt) and his loyal sergeants Donowitz (Roth) and Stiglitz (Schweiger), plot to blow up the cinema and kill the leaders of the Third Reich in Quentin Tarantino hit and miss movie.

The Hangover

(15, 93 mins, Warner, DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £26.99)

Stars: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Sasha Barrese, Jeffrey Tambor, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Mike Tyson

TWO days before he walks down the aisle with his fiancee Tracy (Barrese), Doug (Bartha) heads for a stag weekend in Las Vegas with pals Phil (Cooper) and Stu (Helms) and eccentric future brother-in-law Alan (Galifianakis). After several hours of heavy drinking, Phil, Stu and Alan wake with pounding headaches and no memory of the night before.

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