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Cate BlanchettFeatured Actor, Actress and Director

Every month we will be featuring a new actor, actress and director, with information on what they've done, what they've won and links to the movies they've been involved in.

This month it's Uma Thurman, Tom Hanks and Sir David Lean Just click on the links to visit their pages and choose some superb titles for your list!

Coming to DVD in December
     

The Mummy 3The Mummy 3 – Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor

The blockbuster global Mummy franchise takes a spellbinding turn as the action shifts to Asia for the next chapter in the adventure series

  HancockHancock

A hard-living superhero who has fallen out of favour with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife of the public relations professional who's trying to repair his image.
     
CassCass

Dramatisation of the events surrounding the life of Cass Pennant; one of the best-known figures of the infamous West Ham hooligan outfit, the I.C.F. (Inter City Firm).
  The Dark KnightThe Dark Knight

Dark, complex and unforgettable, The Dark Knight succeeds not just as an entertaining comic book film, but as a richly thrilling crime saga. Many consider this the best movie of 2008 !!!
     
Hellboy IIHellboy II

The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures.
  Man on WireMan On Wire

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974
     
The Love GuruThe Love Guru

Love, hockey, and Indian spirituality come together in this film that marks Mike Myers's return to live-action comedy. The Love Guru co-stars Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, and Ben Kingsley.
  The StrangersThe Strangers

A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants.
     
24 Redemption24 – Redemption

On they day of the Presidential Inauguration, Jack Bauer finds himself in the midst of a bloody uprising in the small African nation of Sangala. He must risk his life to transport a group or orphans to the American Embassy and sacrifice his own freedom to ensure that they are evacuated out of the country and make it safely to America.
     
Blu-Ray
 
halloween Over the past few months we have been building our range of BluRay titles, for those of you not sure what BluRay actually is, read on……………

Blu-Ray discs are one of the newcomers on the optical disc scene. The first optical discs available to consumers were the large video laser discs that were marketed during the early 1970s. By the 1980s the familiar CD became available. One compact disc was able to hold about 700MB (megabytes) of data. The first CDs were used for audio albums.

In the 1990s DVD (digital video discs) became popular. DVDs are the identical form factor of a CD but are able to hold much more data. The format was agreed upon because one DVD can hold a standard-length movie. Blu-Ray is the next iteration on the optical disc timeline. The Blu-Ray standard was established to hold a standard-length movie in HDTV format, or high-definition television. Such movies are displayed in significantly higher resolution and therefore they require much more storage space. A standard Blu-Ray disc holds 27GB (gigabytes) of information which is about 40 times the amount of data that a CD can hold.

Although the technology is identical to CDs and DVDs, the fundamental difference with Blu-Ray is the laser that is used to read the discs. A blue laser (hence the name Blu-Ray) is used instead of the red lasers that are used on earlier discs. Blue lasers have a shorter wavelength (450 nanometers) than red lasers (650 nanometers), and therefore the beam can be focused on a smaller area which means that you can cram more data on an identically sized disc.

The new laser means that Blu-Ray discs are not readable on standard CD and DVD players and readers. Many Blu-Ray drives, however, will be backwards-compatible so they will be able to playback the older disc formats. The growth of Blu-Ray is expected to parallel the increasing popularity of HDTV and overtake legacy systems.
  
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