New to rent (From The Northern Echo)

New to rent

12:37pm Thursday 15th July 2010 in

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Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang

U, 104 mins, Universal, DVD £19.99/Nanny McPhee DVD Box Set £22.99/Blu-ray & DVD Combi-pack £26.99).

Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Asa Butterfield, Lilian Woods, Oscar Steer, Eros Vlahos, Rosie Taylor-Ritson, Rhys Ifans, Sinead Matthews, Katy Brand, Ewan McGregor.

WHILE her husband (McGregor) is away at war, Mrs Green (Gyllenhaal) valiantly takes charge of the family farm with her three children, Norman (Butterfield), Megsie (Woods) and Vincent (Steer).

Chaos ensues when snooty, well-to-do cousins Cyril (Vlahos) and Celia (Taylor- Ritson) come to stay and take an immediate dislike to the rest of the brood.

Thankfully, Nanny McPhee (Thompson) arrives in the nick of time to prevent serious injury. Meanwhile, Mrs Green’s brother Phil (Ifans) schemes to get his sister to sell the farm so he can pay off his spiralling debts and avoid a beating from Miss Topsey (Matthews) and Miss Turvey (Brand).

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

(18, 152 mins, Momentum, DVD £17.99/Bluray £24.99).

Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Sven-Bertil Taube, Ewa Froling.

JOURNALIST Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) is found guilty of slandering a prominent industrialist but before going to prison accepts a job from the reclusive Henrik Vanger (Taube). The old man is haunted by the disappearance of his niece Harriet (Froling). The writer begins his investigation and he acquires a sidekick, computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rapace), who has valuable insights to the case. This gripping and suspenseful yarn adapted from the bestselling novel by Stieg Larsson, pulls no punches with violence meted out and images of torture and sexual abuse.

Director Neils Arden Oplev ensures that every bone-crunching punch is vital to the serpentine narrative.

I Love You Phillip Morris

(15, 93 mins, E1 Entertainment, DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99).

Stars: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro.

INSPIRED by an incredible true story, the film charts the romance of two prison inmates and their subsequent journey of self-discovery on both sides of the bars.

Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s film is sweet and at times hilarious, posing the obvious dilemma: can a gay con man go straight? The writer-directors strike a pleasing balance between laughter and soul-searching.