HIT HIPSTER-BAITING US COMEDY SERIES 'PORTLANDIA' COMES TO DVD 24 JUNE

Hit hipster-baiting US comedy series Portlandia finally makes it way to UK DVD for the first time thanks to Mediumrare.

Written, created and starring Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen and musician/singer Carrie Brownstein from bands Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag, this hilarious comedy has been lauded by critics and viewers alike and now Portlandia: Season 1 & 2 comes to UK DVD as a bumper three-disc set on 24 June 2013.

The show is driven by a series of hilarious character-based shorts all of which take place in Portlandia, the creators' dreamy and absurd hipster rendering of Portland, Oregon where right on has gone beyond wrong, 90s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage. Armisen and Brownstein play an array of colourful and unique characters with guest stars including Steve Buscemi, Selma Blair, Heather Graham, Kyle MacLachan, Tim Robbins, Kristen Wiig, Gus Van Sant, Jeff Goldblum and Eddie Vedder to name a few.

Season One inhabitants include: the owners of a feminist book store; a militant bike messenger; a creative couple whose answer to improving things is to 'put a bird on it'; an organic farmer who is in fact a cult leader and a couple negotiating a safe word to help govern their love life.

Season Two sees the return of some of the town's favourite residents along with some brilliant new characters: an intoxicating mixologist; a couple obsessed with Battlestar Galactica; an artisanal knot maker; a woman who kidnaps her favourite band; a group of rats eager to raid the packaging-free grocery store, and a ridiculously long queue for the most popular brunch restaurant in Portlandia, that descends into chaos.

'Rich in character and wryly satirical observational detail'The Guardian

Psychological Thriller 'The Fall' COMES TO DVD 17 JUNE

Hollywood A-lister Gillian Anderson stars in a gripping new psychological thriller from the BBC, The Fall, which comes to DVD and Blu-ray from Acorn Media.

The Fall is an enthralling drama that forensically examines the lives of two hunters - one a serial killer that stalks his victims at random - the other a high-powered detective superintendent brought in to catch him. This five-part series hit TV screens and became BBC Two's biggest drama series launch in eight years and will be available on DVD and Blu-ray from 17 June 2013.

Emmy and Golden Globe winner Anderson (The X Files, Great Expectations), plays DSI Gibson, who arrives in Belfast on secondment from the Met to conduct a review into a high profile murder case where the police are getting nowhere. She quickly realises that the case is linked to others and that there is a deadly serial killer at large.

Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan - Once Upon a Time, Shadows in the Sun) is a serial killer, who stalks his victims at random in and around Belfast whilst chillingly hiding behind the facade of loving husband and father.

'Thoughtful, brooding, clever, tense, bleak, character-based, but also scary as hell'The Guardian

THE BROOD makes its DVD debut ON 8 JULY

The Brood, one of David Cronenberg's most chilling and disturbing works finally gets its long-awaited UK Blu-ray debut thanks to Second Sight Films.

This early masterpiece from the maestro of horror, stars Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar and is still as shocking today as it was on its original release. It comes to DVD and Blu-ray packed with brand new bonus features on 8 July 2013.

Frank Carveth (Art Hindle - Invasion of the Body Snatchers) is becoming increasingly concerned about his ex-wife Nola's (Eggar) secretive treatment at the sinister 'Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmics'. Headed by cult figure Dr Raglan (Reed - The Devils), his controversial and extreme methods seek to unleash his patients rage, which take on physical manifestations. As Nola's increasingly psychotic anger is vented during her sessions, brutal murders befall those at whom it's directed. When Frank's daughter is abducted he is led to Raglan's Institute and a terrifying, repellent final confrontation, renowned as one of the most notorious scenes in horror cinema.

'One of the best horrors we've seen in years, truly frightening'Scream Magazine

BREATHTAKING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY 'CHASING ICE' COMES TO DVD AND BLU-RAY ON 10 JUNE

Dogwoof is delighted to announce the release of the multi-award winning breathtaking feature documentary Chasing Ice on DVD and as their first ever Blu-ray release.

In the spring of 2005, National Geographic photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth's changing climate. That first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk. Chasing Ice is the story of one man's mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet.

James Balog set about trekking across the Arctic region and, using time-lapse cameras, created The Extreme Ice Survey. Using techniques, untested in bitterly cold, subzero temperatures, he battled for years to pull together evidence of the effects of climate change. The astounding videos he recorded shrink months and years into seconds to highlight how ice is literally disappearing from the landscape.

The film gained huge critical acclaim on its cinematic release and helped convert even the most hardened climate change sceptics and now it comes to DVD and on Blu-ray, so its amazing imagery can be seen in its high-definition glory, on 10 June 2013.

Chasing Ice is a truly astonishing film that shows both the human drama of a man determined to show a changing planet, and the actual evidence, it has to be seen to be believed.

'Striking, beautiful and thought-provoking'Sunday Mirror