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OSCAR EXCLUSIVE! Complete this year’s Oscar winners collection at JB Hi-Fi this month.

A lejandro Iñárritu’s dark comedy Birdman was the big winner at this year’s Oscars, taking home four major awards, and arrives on DVD, Blu-ray and Ultraviolet on June 11. As well as the best director statuette for the Mexican filmmaker, the film was named best picture and also won Academy Awards for best original screenplay and best cinematography. And to mark its release JB Hi-Fi has lined up a very special exclusive Blu-ray edition, which includes alternative cover art and a series of striking art cards. This month also sees

June 3, as is The Theory Of Everything , the moving biopic that earned rising British star Eddie Redmayne the best actor award for his portrayal of the motor neuron disease-stricken Stephen Hawkings. Incidentally, if that sounds a little too heavy, note that you can also catch Redmayne in a somewhat campier mode as the villain in Jupiter Ascending , which is out on June 24. Also due in June are a number of other films that featured prominently in the 2015 Oscars, including the true stories Foxcatcher – which was nominated in five categories but went home empty handed – the Martin Luther King drama Selma (up for best picture but in the end had to settle for best song) and Wild (a best actress nod for Reece Witherspoon).

With no official announcements of late about Alien 5 , the rumour mill is in overdrive at the moment. The new installment of the blockbuster saga is to be directed by Neill Blomkamp – pictured above on the set of his latest sci-fi hit Chappie, which is out on DVD and Blu-ray this month – has hinted that the movie may now be more closely aligned with the upcoming Prometheus sequel and may not even be called Alien. Other scuttlebut suggests Sigourney

the release of the two films that bagged this year’s top acting Oscars. Still Alice, which saw Julianne Moore pick up the best actress statuette for her moving performance as a professor suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease, is out on

Weaver won’t be taking a lead role in the new film, although Bill Paxton – who appeared in Aliens – has apparently put his hand up to reprise his character. We’re sure it will all become clear shortly; in the meantime, make sure you check out JB Hi-Fi’s exclusive two disc Blu-ray edition of Chappie , available from June 17.

The latter is available in an exclusive JB Hi-Fi edition, which features a collectable ‘Life After Wild’ story extension from author Cheryl Strayed.

COLUMBO HAS NEVER LOOKED SHARPER Television’s shabbiest detective Columbo has been spruced up for release on Blu-ray. Guest stars in the first

three seasons include Johnny Cash, Vincent Price, Leonard Nimoy, Martin Landau and Roddy McDowell, while the pilot episode was directed by a young

The first three seasons of the cult ‘70s TV show are due out on BD on June 11, with each of the movie length episodes restored from the original 35mm negatives. Audiences were first introduced to the seemingly shambolic but razor-sharp LA lawman Lieutenant Columbo – memorably played by Peter Falk – in 1971, with the show going through a number of re-boots over the decades before concluding in 2003. What made Columbo unique was that the murderer was revealed at the very beginning of each show; instead the series was all about how the wily detective would trick the killer into incriminating themselves.

Steven Spielberg. Another key figure behind the scenes was Steve Bochco ( Hill Street Blues , NYPD Blue ), who served as story editor on the first two seasons.

Cauterize is the eagerly awaited sophomore album from former Creed man Mark Tremonti’s eponymous group. Co-produced by the band and his old pal Michael ‘Elvis’ Baskette (Falling In Reverse, Amity Affliction), Cauterize is the follow-up to 2012 debut All I Was and sees the man himself backed up by Eric Friedman (guitar), Wolfgang van Halen (bass) and Garrett Whitlock (drums). “We feel it is our best work to date,” reckons Tremonti. In fact, the recording sessions were so productive,Tremonti plan to quickly follow Cauterize with a new record, provisionally entitled Dust .

LIVE ACTION MAKEOVER FOR ATTACK ON TITAN

A live action version of the anime smash Attack on Titan is due in cinemas later this year. Release dates are still to be announced but the film is set in world where the remnants of humanity live inside a series of giant walled cities, built to keep out the ferocious, flesh-eating Titans.

The director is Shinji Higuchi, whose anime credits include the Neon Genesis Evangelion re-boots and who is also attached to the big budget Japanese reboot of Godzilla . For more on Japanese animation, check out our regular Anime round-up on page 40.

Cauterize is due out on June 6

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