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Better Call Saul
, the eagerly anticipated prequel
to
Breaking Bad
, is due to premiere in the US in
February next year – let’s hope that it arrives on
NZTV screens around the same time.
The series is set six years before Saul
Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) met Walter White;
at the time he was still known as Jimmy
McGill and was a small time lawyer hustling to
make ends meet.
Better Call Saul
will track his
transformation into the smooth-talking Saul, the
man who puts “criminal” into “criminal lawyer”.
Jonathan Banks will also reprise his role from
Breaking Bad
as fixer Mike Erhmantraut, while
other series regulars will include Michael
McKean (
This Is Spinal Tap
), Rhea Seehorn
(
House of Lies
) and Patrick Fabian (
Big Love
).
In the meantime, JB Hi-Fi has lined up a
cool new
Breaking Bad
box set, which brings
together all six seasons and is available on
both Blu-ray and DVD; both sets also include
UltraViolet digital files.
A monster
Planet of the Apes
box set is among the Blu-ray exclusives at JB Hi-Fi this month.
go ape for planet of THE apes!
Imagine Dragons
Dawn of the Planet of theApes
comes
out swinging on November 19 and will be
available in a variety of configurations,
including an exclusive DVD and Blu-ray
double bill, which includes the first film
in the rebooted franchise,
Rise of the
Planet of theApes
.
However, if you really want to go ape,
then you should grab the JB exclusive
box set
Planet of theApes: Caesar’s
Warrior Collection
, featuring all eight
films in the series in stunning HD and
specially packaged in a Caesar bust
sporting his penetrating, simian stare. It
will also be released on November 19.
JB Hi-Fi has also lined up a special
Transformers
movie collection on
DVD and Blu-ray to mark the release
of the latest addition to the blockbuster series,
Transformers: Age of Extinction
, which is out on
November 26.The latter will also be available as
an exclusive 2-disc standalone edition at JB.
Another box set sci-fi buffs will be
eager check out will be a new
Battlestar
Galactica
collection, which includes the
prequel
Blood & Chrome
and two otherTV
movie spin-offs,
Razor
and
The Plan
.
Meanwhile, kids – and probably a few
grown-ups, too – will be pleased to learn
that Spongebob Square Pants is turning Blu,
with both
The Spongebob Squarepants
Movie
and
It’s a Spongebob Squarepants
Christmas
being reissued in HD on November
26 – only from JB Hi-Fi.
In addition, JB has added two more cult
favourites to its growing collection of exclusive
Blu-ray reissues. Directed by Spike Jonze
and penned by Charlie Kaufman,
Being John
Malkovich
(1999) tells the wacky story of a
down-on-his-luck puppeteer (John Cusack) who
discovers a portal into brain of John Malkovich
(playing himself). It is out on November
5, alongside the Blu-ray edition of Steven
Spielberg’s debut 1971 feature
Duel
, in which
a salesman (DennisWeaver) is pursued by a
mysterious truck driver.
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