New to DVD Highlights
This is where you will find many interesting DVDs and Blu-rays new to the library. Some titles will have graced Alice's shelves in a previous life on VHS Video, some are already on DVD but have now made their way to Blu-ray, while others have eluded capture in any format - until now. However, to be privy to the bigger picture, you will need to also check out 'Featured Acquisitions', 'Latest Alice Picks', 'Recent Arrivals',and 'New Releases'.
There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
5.7/10
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Starring: Diana Dors, Goldie Hawn, Peter Sellers
Self-absorbed British cooking show host Robert Danvers (Peter Sellers) went through women as often as he went through serviettes. He thought he'd foun... Read more
Yellow Submarine (Blu-ray) (1968)
7.4/10
Director: George Dunning
Starring: Dick Emery, Lance Percival, John Clive, Geoffrey Hughes, (Voices of) , Paul Ange...
The Beatles have arrived in high definition with the revelatory Blu-ray release of Yellow Submarine. The 1999 standard DVD reissue of the animated f... Read more
Silver Linings Playbook ( Blu-ray ) (2012)
7.7/10
Director: David O Russell
Starring: Chris Tucker, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jacki Weaver
Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything - his house, his job and his wife. He finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and f... Read more
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (Blu-ray) (2017)
5.2/10
Director: D J Caruso
Starring: Donnie Yen, Samuel L Jackson, Toni Collette, Vin Diesel, Tony Jaa, Nina Dobrev,...
After coming out of self-imposed exile, daredevil operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) must race against time to recover a sinister weapon known as Pand... Read more
Wonder (Blu-Ray) (2017)
8/10
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Starring: Julia Roberts, Mandy Patinkin, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay
Based on the New York Times bestseller, WONDER tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences... Read more
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( Blu-ray ) (1984)
6.7/10
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, W...
Following on from "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", Kirk, McCoy and crew return to the Genesis Planet to learn the truth of Spock's fate, but a ruthl... Read more
Gilda ( Blu-ray ) (1946)
7.7/10
Director: Charles Vidor
Starring: George Macready, Glenn Ford, Joseph Calleia, Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth stars in this classic drama as part of a problematical love triangle involving husband, George Macready and his partner Glenn Ford and s... Read more
The Ward (2010)
5.6/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Jared Harris, Mika Boorem, Danielle Panabaker, Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Laura-...
It is the 1960s. Welcome to North Bend Psychiatric Hospital, an isolation ward for disturbed women that holds a terrifying secret. Kristen (Amber Hear... Read more
Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981)
6.7/10
Director: Daniel Petrie
Starring: Danny Aiello, Kathleen Beller, Ken Wahl, Pam Grier, Paul Newman, Rachel Ticotin,...
In a bombed-out wasteland stands a police station - less a precinct house than a fort in hostile territory. Outside its walls are the murders, the rio... Read more
48 Hrs ( Blu-ray ) (1982)
6.9/10
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Annette O'Toole, Eddie Murphy, Frank McRae, James Remar, Nick Nolte
Street-weary cop Nick Nolte springs smart-aleck convict Eddie Murphy for two days in order to capture a mad dog killer. James Remar is the dangerous q... Read more