Out this week in the United Kingdom is The African Queen with an exclusive Jack Cardiff audio commentary. In the USA Forbidden Planet and Smallville are both released this week. Forbidden Planet is a loose re-telling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

The excellent Russian/Finnish movie, 9th Company is released this week in North America, it’s an absorbing tale revolving around young army recruits in Afghanistan and it has first rate production values, highly recommended.

The Death Note collection from Japan is released in North America this week, the death note is a notebook in which the holder can put the name of a person whom they wish to die, it’s an interesting concept and is well played out.

Blu Ray Release Lists for week beginning 16th of August 2010. Out in North America is Dexter season 4 and Furry Vengeance as well as Dead Or Alive which is based on the popular video game, in the UK Centurion is released.

Some new releases this week in North America are the extended edition of Date Night and In The Shadow Of The Moon. In the UK a superb film restoration of Psycho hits blu ray, highly recommended if you love horror or Hitchcock movies.

Some new releases this week in North America are Charlies Angels and Road To Perdition, The UK gets Dario Argentos Inferno, its part of his Three Mothers trilogy and is now completely uncut for the first time in Britain.

Some new releases this week in North America are The Losers which was a box office flop and the Criterion edition of the classic Black Narcissus. Cats & Dogs is released just as the sequel hits cinemas, it’s a fun movie especially if you own a cat or a dog.

The big new release this week in North America and the United Kingdom is The Bounty Hunter, this much hyped film stars Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, during the promotion they claimed to be an item and all loved up and together and the stupid press bought it.

Bruce Willis fans can enjoy a double feature with the release of Last Man Standing and The Last Boy Scout, Last Man Standing is sort of a remake of A Fistful Of Dollars which itself was a western remake of Yojimbo.

Australia gets the excellent werewolf movie, The Howling, i have read the original Howling book, the movie takes a different route than the book but keeps the main parts intact, if anything there is less sex in the movie version.