Hello, Muses!
July ends with a bang! In Adult books, the premise of
Blood and Feathers by Lou Morgan sounds like an interesting twist on the angel mythology. Aliens? Zombies?
Devil's Wake by married couple
Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due might be bringing something different to the genre. In Young Adult, I am super excited for the release of Flawed by Kate Avelynn,
Skylark by Meagan Spooner, and
Survive by Alex Morel. Oh, and if you are a fan of Simone Elkeles and her steamy, edgy novels, you might want to check out
Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry. I've already read it and should have a review up by Wednesday. All I can say is WOW.
Not much going on in the Movie department but if you are in the Olympic spirit, you may want to take a look at
Going for Gold, based on a true story. I personally am interested in checking out indie romance flick
Falling Overnight. And the only movie that is coming out in a blu-ray-DVD combo pack this week is
We the Party. In TV Series,
Hatfield & McCoys starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton finally comes out tomorrow, so if you missed it on the tube, here is your chance to view it. BBC series
Misfits Season 1 is something I've been wanting to check out for awhile.
Enjoy!
BOOKS (July 31st-August 2nd)
ADULT
Blood and Feathers (Blood and Feathers, #1)
by: Lou Morgan
“What’s the first thing you think of when I say ‘angel’?” asked Mallory.
Alice shrugged. “I don’t know... guns?”
Alice
isn’t having the best of days. She was late for work, she missed her
bus, and now she’s getting rained on. What she doesn’t know is that her
day’s about to get worse: the epic, grand-scale kind of worse that comes
from the arrival of two angels who claim everything about her life is a
lie.
The war between the angels and the Fallen is escalating;
the age-old balance is tipping, and innocent civilians are getting
caught in the cross-fire. If the balance is to be restored, the angels
must act—or risk the Fallen taking control. Forever.
That’s where
Alice comes in. Hunted by the Fallen and guided by Mallory—a disgraced
angel with a drinking problem and a whole load of secrets—Alice will
learn the truth about her own history... and why the angels want to send
her to hell.
What do the Fallen want from her? How does Mallory
know so much about her past? What is it the angels are hiding—and can
she trust either side?
Caught between the power plays of the angels and Lucifer himself, it isn’t just hell’s demons that Alice will have to defeat..
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires, The (Half Moon Hollow, #2)
by: Molly Harper
Iris Scanlon, Half-Moon
Hollow’s only daytime vampire concierge, knows more about the undead
than she’d like. Running all their daylight errands—from letting in the
plumber to picking up some chilled O neg—gives her a look at the
not-so-glamorous side of vampire life. Her rules are strict;
relationships with vamps are strictly business, not friendship—and
certainly not anything else. But then she finds her newest client, Cal,
poisoned on his kitchen floor, and only Iris can help.
Cal - who
would be devastatingly sexy, if Iris allowed herself to think that way -
offers Iris a hefty fee for hiding him at her place until he figures
out who wants him permanently dead. Even though he’s imperious,
unfriendly and doesn't seem to understand the difference between
"employee" and "servant," Iris agrees, and finds herself breaking more
and more of her own rules to help him - particularly those concerning
nudity.
Turns out what her quiet little life needed was some intrigue & romance—in the form of her very own stray vampire
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Darklands (Deadtown, #4)
by: Nancy Holzner
They call it Deadtown:
the city’s quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents.
Most humans stay far from its border—but Victory Vaughn, Boston’s only
professional demon slayer, isn’t exactly human…
Boston’s demons
have been disappearing, and Vicky’s clients are canceling left and
right. While fewer demons might seem like a good thing, Vicky suspects
foul play. A missing Celtic cauldron from Harvard’s Peabody museum leads
her to an unwelcome conclusion: Pryce, her demi-demon cousin and bitter
enemy, is trying to regain his full powers.
But Pryce isn’t
alone. He’s conjured another, darker villain from Vicky’s past. To stop
them from destroying everything she loves, she’ll have to face her own
worst fear—in the realm of the dead itself
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Devil's Wake
by: Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due
The first book
of an exciting new paranormal series from two award-winning authors
about what happens when an alien race brings Earth to the brink of the
Apocalypse. The husband and wife writing team of Tananarive Due
and Steven Barnes continue to achieve extraordinary literary feats with
this first book in the exciting new Devil’s Wake series.
The eeriness of Devil’s Wake
begins a week after tomorrow. An unprecedented infection has swept
across the world, bringing an epidemic of mindless biting attacks from
the infected that leave their victims “changed.” Society has broken
down. The victims are more than mindless zombies. They are the
result of a sinister alien life-form in the wake of the aliens’
insidious plot, humanity ultimately becomes enmeshed in a brutal
struggle for control of its home, planet Earth.
Part Dawn of the Dead and part Road Warrior, Devil’s Wake
is a testimony to courage, friendship, and the power of faith.
Horrifying and heartbreaking, exciting and challenging, it is a
compelling, brilliant story on the edge of what could be the end of it
all
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Lady is a Vamp, The (Argeneau, #17)
by: Lynsay Sands
One late night leads to . . .
Kidnapped
When Jeanne Louise Argeneau left work, she never thought she'd end up
tied down by a good-looking mortal. More attracted than annoyed, she
quickly realizes there is more to her abductor than meets the eye.
One desperate act leads to . . .
Love?
Paul Jones has need of a vampire, and only Jeanne Louise will do. He
just has to convince this beauty of a Vamp to help him . . . never
imagining that he would fall in love. But with the immortal world's
answer to law enforcement hunting them, their time together is running
out . . . and Paul and Jeanne Louise will need to risk everything to
spend an eternity together
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Moonglow (Darkest London, #2)
by: Kristen Callihan
Once the seeds of desire are sown . . .
Finally
free of her suffocating marriage, widow Daisy Ellis Craigmore is ready
to embrace the pleasures of life that have long been denied her. Yet her
new-found freedom is short lived. A string of unexplained murders has
brought danger to Daisy's door, forcing her to turn to the most unlikely
of saviors . . .
Their growing passion knows no bounds . . .
Ian
Ranulf, the Marquis of Northrup, has spent lifetimes hiding his primal
nature from London society. But now a vicious killer threatens to expose
his secrets. Ian must step out of the shadows and protect the
beautiful, fearless Daisy, who awakens in him desires he thought long
dead. As their quest to unmask the villain draws them closer together,
Daisy has no choice but to reveal her own startling secret, and Ian must
face the undeniable truth: Losing his heart to Daisy may be the only
way to save his soul
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Night Forbidden (Envy Chronicles, #5)
by: Joss Ware
The world is ash,
destroyed, and now controlled by Strangers. Survivors live in constant
peril. But in the heart of Envy, resistance grows . . .
Somehow
Bruno "Fence" Washington survived the apocalypse—emerging from a Sedona
cave into a strange and terrible new world . . . fifty years later. Now,
scouring the ruined earth for answers about the malevolent Strangers,
the former extreme sportsman encounters an Amazonian beauty who calls to
his every desire, but whose secret could mean his end.
Ana grew
up in the ocean, diving far beneath the waves to the remnants of a world
she never knew. Try as she might she can't resist the man who tempts
her in ways she never knew possible . . . whose touch elicits truths she
swore never to reveal. But the passion between them won't be denied
even though it means facing a new evil rising up from the roiling waters
to blanket the world in unending night
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Shadow Rising (Dark Dynasties, #3)
by: Kendra Leigh Castle
Ancient Secrets, Dark Passions...
As
one of the Grigori, a noble vampire dynasty shrouded in mystery, Ariane
has spent her life hidden away in the desert. Like all of her kind, she
is a watcher, fated to observe, forbidden to act. Yet when her best
friend, Sammael, vanishes, she defies all rules and flees her safe haven
to bring him home.
A shape-shifting assassin for the House of
Shadows, Damien Tremaine is hired to locate Sammael. His hunt for the
wayward Grigori leads him to Ariane, the rogue vamp who stands between
him and his bounty. Damien never lets emotion interfere with his work,
but a single touch from the sexy, beguiling vampire shatters his
self-control. Drawn together by their common goal, what begins as an
alliance of necessity soon becomes one of desire. But when the secret at
the dark heart of the Grigori comes to light, Damien and Ariane must
make a choice that could bind them eternally...or tear them—and
everything they care about—apart.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Voracious (Clare Point, #5)
by: V.K. Forrest
In the coastal hideaway
of Clare Point, Delaware—home for centuries to the Kahill vampire
clan—a vampire sworn to protect the love that may cost him everything,
will make the ultimate choice…
Voracious
After
months spent eliminating some of the world’s most ruthless criminals,
Aedan Brigid is on sabbatical in Clare Point. Instead of relief, he
feels on edge. Part of it is due to Dallas York, the gorgeous blonde bar
owner whose touch just sparked an intense, inexplicable connection. But
there’s another reason too. A local woman has been brutally attacked,
her face and body carved beyond recognition. And one glance tells Aedan
whose grisly handiwork it is.
Centuries ago, Aedan lost his
beloved to a depraved monster nicknamed Jay. Now Jay is back, more
vicious than ever. Aedan is already breaking clan rules by getting
involved with Dallas—even if her mysterious gift sets her apart from
other humans. And soon, he’ll have to decide whether he’ll turn away
from the only life he’s known to protect a love he thought he’d never
feel again…
Release Date: 31 July 2012
vN: The First Machine Dynasty (The Machine Dynasty, #1)
by: Madeline Ashby
Amy Peterson is a self-replicating humanoid robot known as a VonNeumann.
For
the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed
organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android
mother's past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother,
Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.
Now she carries her
malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she's
learning impossible things about her clade's history - like the fact
that she alone can kill humans without failsafing..
Release Date: 31 July 2012
When Temptation Burns (Shadow Keepers, #6)
by: J.K. Beck
Half human, half daemon,
Ryan Doyle is a driving force for justice. As an agent for the
Preternatural Enforcement Coalition, he’s investigating murders linked
to a Los Angeles fringe group bent on exposing the shadow world to
humanity. He is a master of self-control, keeping his deepest hungers
hidden beneath a veneer of cool professionalism. Until he crosses paths
with sinfully sweet Andy Tarrent, a gutsy reporter who makes him crave
all the pleasures he’s denied himself for centuries.
Tracking a
band of conspiracy theorists eager to spill blood, Andy has uncovered
the story of her career. Brooding, mysterious Ryan is an enigma—but
their dance of seduction is hotter than any fantasy. As they race to
stop mass murder on the streets, Andy knows that Ryan is holding back,
keeping secrets. But getting close to Ryan means opening the door to a
world that will challenge her deepest beliefs—including what it means to
truly surrender to love.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
YOUNG ADULT
Colandra's Crusade- Angels and Demons Collide (Cronkel Chronicles, #1)
by: Susie Pilkington-Wood
Angels and demons collide in this epic new series. Last year alone, over
300 coma patients' souls went wandering. Colandra has the opposite
problem: he's lost his body. Somewhere, he believes, it's locked in a
coma. And the demon Lars will do everything in his power to stop
Colandra taking it. But Lars is so busy with his plans of world
domination that he fails to notice the troupe of angels lining up to
stop him - and his own servant, Vorce, quietly gaining power to achieve
his own plan - to take over the universe. Meanwhile Colandra's spirit is
reintroduced to his soulmate Michelle from a previous life, and
together they resolve to thwart Lars' and Vorce's plans - and in the
process reunite Colandra with his body.
Release Date: 30 July 2012
Destiny (Immortal, #4)
by: Gillian Shields
Everything is
connected. We weave in and out of one another's lives, like circles
within circles, and everything is for a purpose.
Helen has always
been the "crazy" one among the girls of Wyldcliffe, scarred by her
bleak past and her troubled relationship with her mother, the former
headmistress and leader of the Wyldcliffe coven, Mrs. Hartle.
But
Miss Scratton promised Helen that a love "beyond the confines of this
world" is waiting for her. Could this be Lynton, the mysterious music
student who visits Wyldcliffe for his lessons? And what about the brooch
her mother gave her--what can the Seal reveal about Helen's past and
future?
Now that Miss Scratton is gone, life at Wyldcliffe takes
an even darker turn. An unexpected threat arrives in the form of a new
high master, whom Helen remembers from her unhappy childhood. Can Helen,
Evie, and Sarah finally overcome Wyldcliffe's darkness? Will Lady Agnes
come to their aid? And what sacrifices must they make to fulfill their
destiny?
"Destiny" is the stunning conclusion to this gripping series about sisterhood, the circles of time, and love.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Far West, The (Frontier Magic, #3)
by: Patricia C. Wrede
From #1 New York Times
bestselling author Patricia C. Wrede, the fantastic conclusion to her
tale of magic on the western frontier.
Eff is an unlucky
thirteenth child...but also the seventh daughter in her family. Her twin
brother, Lan, is a powerful double seventh son. Her life at the edge of
the Great Barrier Spell is different from anyone else's that she knows.
When
the government forms an expedition to map the Far West, Eff has the
opportunity to travel farther than anyone in the world. With Lan,
William, Professor Torgeson, Wash, and Professor Ochiba, Eff finds that
nothing on the wild frontier is as they expected. There are strange
findings in their research, a long prarie winter spent in too-close
quarters, and more new species, magical and otherwise, dangerous and
benign, than they ever expected to find. And then spring comes, and the
explorers realize how tenuous life near the Great Barrier Spell may be
if they don't find a way to stop a magical flood in a hurry. Eff's
unique way of viewing magic has saved the settlers time and again, but
this time all of Columbia is at stake if she should fail.
Release Date: 1 August 2012
Flawed
by: Kate Avelynn
Sarah O’Brien is only
alive because of the pact she and her brother made twelve years
ago—James will protect her from their violent father if she promises to
never leave him. For years, she’s watched James destroy his life to save
hers. If all he asks for in return is her affection, she’ll give it
freely.
Until, with a tiny kiss and a broken mind, he asks for more than she can give.
Sam
Donavon has been James’s best friend—and the boy Sarah’s had a crush
on—for as long as she can remember. As their forbidden relationship
deepens, Sarah knows she’s in trouble. Quiet, serious Sam has decided
he’s going to save her. Neither of them realize James is far more
unstable than her father ever was, or that he’s not about to let Sarah
forget her half of the pact..
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Otherkin (Otherkin, #1)
by: Nina Berry
I thought I knew myself. Then I met Caleb.
Dez is a good girl who does as she’s told and tries not to be noticed.
Then she rescues a boy from a cage, and he tells her secrets about herself.
Now inside her burns a darkness that will transform her.
Everything
is about to change -- and neither Caleb, nor the Otherkin, nor those
who hunt them are prepared for what Dez will unleash.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Pushing the Limits
by: Katie McGarry
"I won't tell anyone,
Echo. I promise." Noah tucked a curl behind my ear. It had been so long
since someone touched me like he did. Why did it have to be Noah
Hutchins? His dark brown eyes shifted to my covered arms. "You didn't do
that-did you? It was done to you?" No one ever asked that question.
They stared. They whispered. They laughed. But they never asked.
So wrong for each other...and yet so right.
No
one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl
with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on
her arms. Even Echo can't remember the whole truth of that horrible
night. All she knows is that she wants everything to go back to
normal. But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the
black leather jacket, explodes into her life with his tough attitude
and surprising understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could
never have imagined. They should have nothing in common. And with the
secrets they both keep, being together is pretty much impossible.Yet
the crazy attraction between them refuses to go away. And Echo has to
ask herself just how far they can push the limits and what she'll risk
for the one guy who might teach her how to love again.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Skylark (Skylark, #1)
by: Meagan Spooner
Sixteen year-old Lark Ainsley has never seen the sky.
Her
world ends at the edge of the vast domed barrier of energy enclosing
all that’s left of humanity. For two hundred years the city has
sustained this barrier by harvesting its children's innate magical
energy when they reach adolescence. When it’s Lark’s turn to be
harvested, she finds herself trapped in a nightmarish web of experiments
and learns she is something out of legend itself: a Renewable, able to
regenerate her own power after it’s been stripped.
Forced to flee
the only home she knows to avoid life as a human battery, Lark must
fight her way through the terrible wilderness beyond the edge of the
world. With the city’s clockwork creations close on her heels and a
strange wild boy stalking her in the countryside, she must move quickly
if she is to have any hope of survival. She’s heard the stories that
somewhere to the west are others like her, hidden in secret – but can
she stay alive long enough to find them?
Release Date: 1 August 2012
Survive
by: Alex Morel
Hatchet meets Lost in this modern-day adventure tale of one girl's reawakening.
Jane
is on a plane on her way home to Montclair, New Jersey, from a mental
hospital. She is about to kill herself. Just before she can swallow a
lethal dose of pills, the plane hits turbulence and everything goes
black. Jane wakes up amidst piles of wreckage and charred bodies on a
snowy mountaintop. There is only one other survivor: a boy named Paul,
who inspires Jane to want to fight for her life for the first time.
Jane
and Paul scale icy slopes and huddle together for warmth at night,
forging an intense emotional bond. But the wilderness is a vast and
lethal force, and only one of them will survive.
Release Date: 2 August 2012
MOVIES & TV SERIES (July 31st)
MOVIES
4.3.2.1
Directed by: Noel Clarke
Starring: Emma Roberts, Tasmin Egerton
Writer/director Noel Clarke (Kidulthood, Adulthood) returns to the helm
for this frenetic urban thriller following four friends who went their
separate ways, but find their fates colliding following a chance meeting
with a group of ruthless diamond thieves. Jo (Emma Roberts, Cassandra
(Tasmin Egerton), Kerrys (Shanika Warren-Markland) and Shannon (Ophelia
Lovibond) used to be inseparable, but lately they've begun to grow
apart. As Jo struggles for a sense of direction while earning a meager
income in a sterlile
supermarket, Cassandra races off to New York for a fling with a guy she
met online, militant feminist Kerrys wages an unrelenting war against a
male dominated society, and Shannon falls into a treacherous,
self-destructive tailspin. But just when it seemed as if these old
friends were headed down different paths, a brazen crime thrusts them
back together for an exhilarating adventure that will prove just how
unpredictable life can really be. Sean Pertwee and Kevin Smith co-star.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Dead Season
Directed by: Adam Deyoe
Starring: James C. Burns, Scott Peat
In the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse, desperate survivors Elvis and
Tweeter flee America for the safety of a tropical island, only to find
that the locals have lost their humanity, and pose an even greater
danger than the flesh eaters back on familiar shores. In addition to be
the first feature film shot on the Canon 7D camera, Dead Season also
holds the unique distinction of being the first film shot on the island
of Vieques, Puerto Rico since Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Detention
Directed by: Joseph Kahn
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook
An apocalyptic fantasy, horror, science fiction, action- thriller, body
swapping, time-traveling teen romantic comedy starring Josh Hutcherson,
Dane Cook and Shanley Caswell, Detention follows the local students of
Grizzly Lake as they survive their final year of high school. Bringing
even more angst to student life, a slasher killer has chosen their high
school as his new home of slaughter. It becomes a race against time to
stop the killer, which will in turn save the world - if only they can
get out of detention.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Falling Overnight
Directed by: Conrad Jackson
Starring: Parker Croft, Emilia Zoryan
Falling Overnight tells the story of twenty-two year old Elliot Carson
on the day before he has risky surgery to remove a brain tumor. Facing
what could be his last night, Elliot's path intersects with Chloe Webb, a
young photographer who invites him to her art show. Elliot welcomes the
distraction and as the night descends, Chloe takes him on an intimate
and exhilarating journey through the city. But as morning approaches,
and Chloe learns of Elliot's condition, the magic of the evening
unravels, and they must together face the uncertainty of Elliot's future.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Firstborn
Directed by: Michael Apted
Starring: Terri Garr, Peter Weller, Corey Haim
A teenager and his kid brother spar with their mother's shady new
boyfriend in this dramatic thriller from veteran British director
Michael Apted. When her ex-husband remarries, Wendy (Teri Garr) feels
despondent -- until she starts dating handsome, unctuous Sam (Peter
Weller), an underemployed salesman with no shortage of big ideas.
Excited to finally feel good about herself again, Wendy invites Sam to
move in and offers to invest in his get-rich-quick schemes. None of this
sits well with her
sons, Jake (Christopher
Collet) and Brian (Corey Haim), who remain unimpressed with Sam even
after he convinces Wendy to buy Jake a motorbike. They're even less
jazzed when Sam stops currying favor and turns disciplinarian even while
pulling Wendy into his hard-partying lifestyle. Within a few months,
Brian's on the verge of expulsion for picking fights at school, and even
honor-role student Jake is mouthing off to his teachers. As for Wendy,
she's too busy taking beatings and doing cocaine to notice that her
family has fallen apart. It isn't until Jake gets wise to the industrial
quantities of white powder squirreled away under the floorboards that
he comes up with a plan to get Sam out of their lives forever. Although
onetime Tiger Beat heartthrob Christopher Collet plays Firstborn's title
role, the films' supporting cast is littered with actors whose stars
would far eclipse his (Sarah Jessica Parker, Robert Downey Jr.) --
though in some cases only for a little while (Corey Haim).
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Going For Gold
Directed by: David Blair
Starring: Matt Smith, Sam Hoare
The powerful and uplifting story of how two men from very different
backgrounds triumphed against the odds, capturing Olympic Gold and
embodying the battling spirit of the 1948 London games. The fact that
the games took place at all was astonishing in itself, as Britain was
still struggling with the damaging after effects of war. The film
follows the compelling journey to the Olympic final of an unlikely
pairing of competitors, boatbuilder’s son Bert Bushnell and Eton and
Oxford-educated Richard “Dickie” Burnell. Thrown together as double
sculling partners just six weeks before the games, they had to confront
and overcome vast differences in their personal and professional lives,
as well as push themselves to their physical and emotional limits.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
LOL
Directed by: Lisa Azuelos
Starring: Miley Cyrus, Demi Moore
An authentic story that perfectly captures coming of age in today's
digital world, LOL is a remake of the hugely popular 2008 French film
LOL (Laughing Out Loud). Starting a new year of high school, Lola (Miley
Cyrus), (or "Lol," as her friends call her), works to find the right
balance between family, school, friends and romance. Broken-hearted by
her ex, Lol's world is soon turned upside down when she is surprised to
find her best friend, Kyle (Douglas Booth), a musician in an up and
coming
rock band, could possibly
be the love of her life. In her quest towards independence,
self-identity and young adulthood, Lol discovers that while Facebook
"status" is easy to change; true relationships are worth the effort.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
We the Party
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Starring: Mandela Van Peebles, Simone Battle
A revealing look at contemporary youth culture, writer-director Mario
Van Peebles' We the Party shows teenagers as they are, not as adults
would like them to be. Set amidst the latest trends in music, dance and
fashion, We the Party is a colorful, cutting-edge comedy set in an
ethnically diverse Los Angeles high school during America's first black
president. The film focuses on five friends as they deal with romance,
money, prom, college, sex, bullies, facebook, fitting in, standing out,
and
finding themselves.
Evoking such classic teen comedies as The Breakfast Club and House Party
but with an attitude and style all its own, We the Party captures the
hopes, confusion, challenges and dreams of today's teenagers as they
plunge headlong into an uncertain future.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
TV SERIES
Fog and Crimes: Series 1
Starring: Luca Barbareschi, Natasha Stefanko
The River Po dominates the region of Ferrara with its seasons, its power
and its mystery. It nourishes the close-knit fishing communities who
live on its banks, and it also hides their secrets. Secrets that are
sometimes uncovered by people like police inspector Franco Soneri.
Almost as inscrutable as the river itself, he stands brooding at crime
scenes chomping on a cigar, trying to see what others are missing. In
the ensuing investigations, he and his team often stumble upon old
wounds left over from World War II, when differing political alliances
turned neighbors into enemies. Passion for his job makes him Ferrara's
best investigator but takes a toll on his relationship with the
beautiful Ukrainian lawyer, Angela Cornelio. Filmed on location in the
atmospheric countryside of northern Italy, these mysteries are inspired
by the best-selling crime novels by Valerio Varesi.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Hatfields & McCoys: Complete Miniseries
Starring: Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton
The Hatfield-McCoy saga centers on "Devil" Anse Hatfield and Randall
McCoy. Close friends and comrades during the Civil War, they returned to
their neighboring homes - Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across
the Tug River border in Kentucky - to increasing tensions,
misunderstandings and resentments that soon exploded into all-out
warfare between the families. As hostilities grew, friends, neighbors
and outside forces joined the fight, bringing the two states to the
brink of another Civil War.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Melrose Place: Season 7, Volume 1
Starring: Thomas Calabro, Andrew Shue
A nighttime soap opera about the lives, careers, trials and tribulations
of a group of young people living in an apartment building in the
trendy neighborhood of Melrose Place. The show was a spin off of Beverly
Hills 90210 and starred Heather Locklear as the scheming Amanda
Woodward, head of her own advertising agency and owner of the apartment
building.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Melrose Place: Season 7, Volume 2
Starring: Thomas Calabro, Andrew Shue
A nighttime soap opera about the lives, careers, trials and tribulations
of a group of young people living in an apartment building in the
trendy neighborhood of Melrose Place. The show was a spin off of Beverly
Hills 90210 and starred Heather Locklear as the scheming Amanda
Woodward, head of her own advertising agency and owner of the apartment
building.
Release Date: 31 July 2012
Misfits: Season 1
Starring: Matthew McNulty, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Kelly, Nathan, Curtis, Alisha and Simon are five unruly teenagers forced
to do community service as payback for their crimes. But when a freak
electrical storm hits their town, strange things begin to happen to them
that are way out of their control. In fact, they have no idea that
they've actually turned into superheroes, each with a power they didn't
choose or want - a power which reveals each of their deepest, darkest
insecurities. But while they just want to finish their community service
and get through the challenges of everyday teenage life -
relationships, friendships, parents and sex - fate has another task in
store for them: they must save their town from the evil that has
descended upon it. If you think life's tough for your average superhero,
it's even tougher when you've got a curfew...
Release Date: 31 July 2012
