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 The Visitor
After courting critical praise around the world, Tom McCarthy's follow up to The Station Agent is out on general release across the UK now.
A college professor becomes embroiled in the lives of a young immigrant couple living in New York City and stumbles into an unexpected romance as a result. As these strangers struggle to deal with their individual lives in a changed world, their shared humanity is revealed in awkward, humorous and dramatic ways.
To celebrate the release of the film, we are giving away three copies of the most authoritative and trusted source of information on world cinema - the TCM International Film Guide 2008 – all courtesy of www.wallflowerpress.co.uk.
To go into the hat, just read our exclusive interview with the director and cast and tell us the full name of Richard Jenkins' character.
To view the trailer for the film, click here.
Closing date: 26/07/2008.
 Taxi To The Dark Side
Awarded Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Oscars, this gripping investigation into the shocking mistreatment of United States’ prisoners of War held in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay is out to own on DVD now.
Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney, who also made the Oscar-nominated Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, the film incorporates never-before-seen images from inside the Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons, and interviews with former government officials, interrogators, prison guards, New York Times reporters Tim Golden and Carlotta Gall and the families of tortured prisoners.
The film seeks to ask and answer a key question: what happens when a few men expand the wartime powers of the executive to compromise the very principles on which the United States was founded?
The DVD features a host of additional footage, including a full audio commentary from director Alex Gibney. We've teamed up with Revolver Entertainment to give away three copies of this hard-hitting film. To go into the hat, just get in the cab and tell us the name of the unarmed Afghan taxi driver who was wrongly arrested by militia and later beaten to death.
Closing date: 24/07/2008.
 Mamma Mia!
Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the film adaptation of Mamma Mia!, the beloved musical that has been seen by more than 30 million people in 160 cities and eight languages around the world.
Bringing the magic of ABBA to the silver screen, Mamma Mia! has been given the Hollywood treatment. Out on general release in the UK on July 10, the film features the stars’ versions of 17 ABBA classics.
Mixed, mastered and produced by ABBA’s original musical geniuses Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, the soundtrack doesn’t disappoint; whether it’s Meryl Streep and Julie Walters making their mark on Dancing Queen, Pierce Brosnan and Meryl’s upbeat rendition of SOS, or the dazzling cast ensemble song and dance numbers such as Voulez-Vous, the Mamma Mia! soundtrack has it all.
For ABBA fans and fans of the film alike, the Mamma Mia! soundtrack is a Summer 2008 must have.
Thanks to the Dancing Queens over at Polydor we've got three copies of the album up for grabs. To go into the hat, just head for the dancefloor and tell us who plays Sophie.
If all that excitement isn't enough for you, you can also join in with the great singalong game at www.mammamiagame.com or find out more about the movie at www.mamma-mia-themovie.co.uk
Closing date: 23/07/2008.
 Batman Begins
As film fans the world over gear up for the hotly anticipated theatrical premiere of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight this summer, Warner Home Video is proud to announce the debut of Batman Begins in outstanding hi-definition Blu-ray.
Batman Begins, starring the brilliant Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne and directed by the critically acclaimed Christopher Nolan, explores the origins of the Batman legend and the Dark Knight’s emergence as a force for good in Gotham. The Blu-ray edition brings Nolan’s visceral vision of a corrupt and crumbling Gotham City to life with stunning high definition visuals and immersive, uncompressed surround sound.
The new Blu-ray edition allows fans to follow Christopher Nolan’s vision and direction via the exclusive ‘picture-in-picture’ In Movie Experience – the first available on a Warner Blu-ray disc. At the touch of a button on the remote, viewers can see the director talk through the action scenes, demonstrate bluescreen techniques and stunts and discuss other key elements of filming – all while the main film plays simultaneously. As well as a host of additional unseen content, the Blu-ray edition also contains three additional Easter Eggs and hidden links to enter a world of behind the scenes extras and special features.
Thanks to the superheroes over at Warner Home Video, we have two of these great Blu-ray discs up for grabs. To go into the hat, just head over to Gotham and tell us who places Ducard in the film.
Closing date: 21/07/2008.
 Diary Of The Dead
Out to own on Blu-ray and DVD now - the master of horror returns to the kind of filmmaking he pioneered and the genre he invented. In his first independent zombie film in more than 20 years, George A Romero takes us back to ground zero in the history of the living dead.
Jason Creed and a small crew of college filmmakers are in the Pennsylvania woods making a no-budget horror film when they hear the terrifying news that the dead have started returning to life.
Led by Jason's girlfriend, Debra, the frightened young filmmakers set off in a friend's old Winnebago to try to get back to the only safety and security they know: their homes. But there is no escape from the crisis, nor any real home for them anymore. Everything they depend upon, all that they hold dear, is fractured as the plague of the living dead begins to spread.
Thanks to the living dead over at Optimum Releasing, we have four of these great DVDs to give away. To go into the hat, just head for the hills and tell us who plays Debra.
To view the trailer, click here
Closing date: 20/07/2008.
 Get Smart
This Warner Bros action comedy goes on general release in the UK on August 22 - and to celebrate, we've got some goodies up for grabs.
Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS.
When the headquarters of US spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23 (Dwayne Johnson). Smart is partnered instead with the only other agent whose identity has not been compromised: the lovely-but-lethal veteran Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway).
As Smart and 99 get closer to unraveling KAOS’ master plan - and each other - they discover that key KAOS operative Siegfried (Terence Stamp) and his sidekick Shtarker (Kenneth Davitian) are scheming to cash in with their network of terror. Given little field experience and even less time, Smart - armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and his unbridled enthusiasm - must defeat KAOS if he is to save the day.
To celebrate the release, we've teamed up with the super-spies at Warner Bros to give away some seriously Smart merchandise - three sets containing a mug, keyring and hoodie. To go into the hat just tell us the full name of the character that Steve Carell played in The 40 Year Old Virgin.
For more information about the film, visit the official site
Closing date: 11/07/2008.
 The Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan's long-awaited follow-up to Batman Begins is out on general release in the UK on July 25 and to celebrate the release, we've got some Dark Knight gear up for grabs.
The Caped Crusader - played by Christian Bale - is back in action as he tries to uphold the law on the streets of Gotham. But he soon finds his efforts to rid the city of the scourge of crime hit a brick wall, thanks to the rise of an up-and-coming criminal genius - The Joker.
We've teamed up with the caped crusaders over at Warner Bros to give away three great sets of goodies, each containing a journal, hat, waterbottle and pen.
To go into the hat, just tell us who plays Mr Fox in Batman Begins.
To watch the trailer, click here
Closing date: 10/07/2008.
 The Happening
This lightning-paced, heart-pounding paranoid thriller from M Night Shyamalan is out on general release in the UK on June 13 - and you could make that date lucky for some by entering our competition to win some sexy merchandise.
It begins with no clear warning. It seems to come out of nowhere. In a matter of minutes, episodes of strange, chilling deaths that defy reason and boggle the mind in their shocking destructiveness, erupt in major American cities. What is causing this sudden, total breakdown of human behavior? Is it some kind of new terrorist attack, an experiment gone wrong, a diabolical toxic weapon, an out-of-control virus? Is it being transmitted by air, by water... how?
For science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) what matters most is finding a way to escape the mysterious and deadly phenomenon. Though he and his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) are in the midst of a marital crisis, they hit the road, first by train, then by car, with Elliot’s math teacher friend Julian (John Leguziamo) and his eight-year-old daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez), heading for the Pennsylvania farmlands where they hope they’ll be out of reach of the grisly, ever-growing attacks. Yet it soon becomes clear that no one – and nowhere – is safe. It is only when Elliot begins to discover the true nature of what is lurking out there that he discovers a sliver of hope that his fragile family might be able to escape what is happening.
While we may not be able to save you from death and destruction, we can make sure you go out in style, thanks to the raft of goodies the doomsayers at 20th Century Fox have let us snaffle. To win one of three sets - containing a vintage bag, cap and T-shirt - just read our review of The Lady In The Water and tell us the full name of the character played by Paul Giamatti in that film.
Closing date: 10/07/2008.
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