Top 10 DVD rentals January 14 2008

Posted by Andy Kelly on January 14, 2008 12:01 AM

The Top 10 rentals this week from lovefilm.com:

1. Knocked up

Starring: Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann
Director: Judd Apatow
A comedy about the fallout from a one-night stand, which, though the participants agree they’re not right for each other, ends with a pregnancy.

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Death Proof (18)

Posted by Andy Kelly on January 13, 2008 11:55 PM

ALONG with a couple of hundred others, I was lucky enough to first see Tarantino’s latest opus in the presence of the great man himself, courtesy of his well-received visit to Fact last year.

I really enjoyed it then, and I still really enjoy it now. The problem for Tarantino is expectation levels.

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In the hands of the Gods (15)

Posted by Andy Kelly on January 13, 2008 11:53 PM

FIVE friends with a passion for football – including Liverpool’s Mike Fisher – decide to make the ultimate road trip, travelling to Argentina to meet their hero, the great Diego Maradona.

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Sherrybaby (15)

Posted by Andy Kelly on January 13, 2008 11:52 PM

IT’S impossible to start talking about this film without going straight to Maggie Gyllenhaal in the lead role – she’s simply mesmerising.

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Shoot 'Em Up (Cert 18)

Posted by Andy Kelly on January 13, 2008 11:50 PM

HIT-MAN Mr Smith (Clive Owen) is forced to save a pregnant stranger from villainous Hertz (Paul Giamatti) and his pistol-wielding henchmen.

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Weeds – Season 2 (Cert 18)

Posted by Andy Kelly on January 13, 2008 11:49 PM

GOLDEN Globe nominee Mary-Louise Parker plays widow Nancy Botwin, who turns to dealing cannabis as a means of keeping her cash-strapped family out of the gutter.

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Death Sentence (Cert 18)

Posted by Andy Kelly on January 13, 2008 11:47 PM

INSURANCE executive Nick Hume (Kevin Bacon) and his family – wife Helen (Kelly Preston) and teenage sons Brendan (Stuart Lafferty) and Lucas (Jordan Garrett) – are the picture of middle-class, suburban perfection.

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