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• Disturbing Behavior | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This paranoia-fuelled thriller, more intelligent and imaginative than you would have reason to believe, owes a huge debt to The Stepford Wives with its premise of a goody-good high school clique programmed by an evil doctor to be wholesome, academically driven and shining examples of clean living. Unlike its predecessor, though, David Nutter's film opts to open up its premise for everyone to see, diluting the scares but amplifying the creepy atmosphere. There's never any question of what's happening to the students of Cradle Bay High, who go from being druggies and sex fiends to the academically excellent Blue Ribbons, but it's a lot of fun to see these programmed teens run amok--and start killing people--when their hormones kick in. And considering they're all horny teenagers, this happens, oh, at least a few times a day. Model-perfect James Marsden, with stunning cheekbones and piercing blue eyes, is the new kid in town who stumbles on the plot with a little help from metalhead Nick Stahl. Moody Marsden stirs up trouble when he refuses to join up with the Blue Ribbons, prompting his concerned parents to consider signing him up for the program, especially after it turns Stahl into a vest-wearing, pep-rallying brainiac. The satire isn't entirely fulfilled (the evil kids hang out at the yoghurt shop and spout inspirational platitudes), but once the action kicks in it's quite an enjoyable ride, thanks primarily to Bruce Greenwood (The Sweet Hereafter) as the mad scientist behind it all and Katie Holmes (Go) as Marsden's love interest. Refusing the advances of the star football player and fighting gamely alongside Marsden, Holmes manages to deck a few bad guys with a fervour that squarely puts her in Linda Hamilton and Jamie Lee Curtis territory. Steve Railsback stars as the colluding chief of police and Dan Zudovic as a janitor with a penchant for getting rid of "rats," rodent and otherwise. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

• El Crimen Del Padre Amaro | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £5.45   |  Saving you £14.54 (266.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mam Tambin Amores Perros) stars as a recently ordained priest sent to help an aging priest run a small parish church in rural Mexico. Upon arriving at his new post he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession. Quickly her passion for her faith becomes helplessly entangled in a growing attraction to the new priest. But when the handsome priest crosses the line that separates temptation from sin he finds himself torn

• The Sleeping Voice (2011) (La voz dormida) | DVD | (01/06/2019) from £10.21   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Flying Fifty-Five | DVD | (22/04/2013) from £4.57   |  Saving you £5.42 (118.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Adapting a novel by Edgar Wallace, one of the twentieth century's most successful and prolific thriller writers, Flying 55 sets an exciting tale of double-crossing and blackmail amid the glamour of the horse-racing world. Featured here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements, Flying 55 is showcased in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey - just about the only thing he's really good at. ...

• A Tale Of Two Sisters | DVD | (01/02/2007) from £13.85   |  Saving you £1.14 (8.23%)   |  RRP £14.99

  'Our sorrow was conceived long before our birth...' When sisters Su-mi (Lim Soo-jeong) and Su-yeon (Mun Geun-yeong) return home from a sanitarium having supposedly recovered their health their stepmother Eun-joo (Yum Jung-ah) welcomes them back. However elder sister Su-mi intentionally avoids her and younger sibling Su-yeon shows a smack of fear for her. Soon strange things begin to happen in the house. Footsteps are heard and Eun-joo's birds are mysteriously poisoned. Assuming Su-yeon is behind the inauspicious incidents the stepmother locks her in the closet and when Su-mi learns about the cruel punishment conflict between the stepmother and two sisters becomes more bitter than ever... Based on the classic Korean folk tale 'Janghwa Hongryeon' Kim Ji-woon's accomplished chiller is a uniquely lush addition to the best of Asian cinema.

• Golf Balls | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Lavish clubhouse manicured greens 18 holes of golfing paradise...not! Tattered and almost without any customers Penneytree has become the target of a takeover by its competitor Bentwood Country Club. Inspired by a freak accident Liberty Penneytree hatches a plan to bring in more golfers. Gorgeous ladies led by 'Barbara The Bod' and the fun filled 'cart wash' are the attractions as busloads of new customers flock to the new Penneytree Golf Club. Bentwood issues the ultimate challenge a winner-take-all-match between Penneytree and Bentwood your pro against my pro. The winner gets the loser's property. Who's gonna win and who's gonna get the shaft?

• The Christmas I Love | DVD | (05/12/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tracklist:1. O Daughter Of Zion 2. From Heaven High I Come To You (Medley) 3. Tomorrow's The Day Children 4. Angels We Have Heard On High 5. Come Little Children6. It Was Born The Heavenly Child7. O Christmas Tree 8. The Little Drummer Boy 9. Lullaby (Guten Abend, gut' Nacht) 10. Jingle Bells 11. Ave Maria 12. Christmas Rose 13. Winter (Largo From The Four Seasons) 14. Every Year Anew 15. Oh, How Joyfully 16. Never Have The Bells Sung More Sweetly 17. O Sweet Child Jesus18. Let Us Be Happy And Jolly19. White Christmas 20. Sleigh Ride 21. Evening Prayer (From Hnsel & Gretel) 22. Softly Falls The Snow 23. Ring Out Little Bell 24. O Come Al Ye Faithful25. The Holy City 26. Petersburg Sleigh Ride 27. Silent Night

• Napola | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Men Make History. We Make The Men. As Hitler launches the first major military aggressions of World War II the strongest and smartest German young men enter exclusive schools known as ""Napolas"" to train as future leaders of the Third Reich. In 1942 a recruiter from one such Napola sets his sights on Friedrich a talented adolescent boxer who sees the training and prestige offered by the Napola as his ticket out of an impoverished family unit run by his anti-Nazi father. In

• Jackass - The Movie | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £3.74   |  Saving you £16.25 (434.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time.

• Flame | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £99.99   |  Saving you £-84.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Nine Queens | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If David Mamet had been born in Buenos Aires instead of Chicago, Nine Queens is most likely the kind of movie he'd be making. An intricate, playful scam caper, where not only the characters but we the audience are constantly trying to suss out who's screwing whom--and how, and why--it's a movie very much in the Mametian mould. But at the same time the Argentinian setting gives Fabian Bielinsky's debut feature a specifically Latin pungency and the urgent sense of a society teetering over a financial abyss. Which is all the more remarkable since, even though a key plot-point turns on a bank going bust, the movie was made a few months before the Argentinean economy went belly-up. The intrigue grips from the very outset as Juan, a young con artist, overreaches himself in a grocery store. He's rescued from disaster by Marcos, an older and more experienced grifter, who then takes him on in a master-pupil relationship. When the chance of a major coup involving some rare stamps (the Queens of the title) turns up, the partnership starts coming under strain; can either one really trust the other? And is either who he pretends to be? The plot suffers from a few implausibilities and loose ends, but sustains its momentum beguilingly. Ricardo Darín, as the saturnine Marcos, and Gastón Pauls as the fresh-faced, seemingly ingenuous Juan play off each other beautifully--but the dominant character is the seething, hustling city of Buenos Aires itself, where social mores are fluid and uncertain, and everybody has his eye out for the main chance. This is a society Bielinsky (who also scripted) clearly knows intimately, and like a true con-artist he makes shrewd use of his expertise to keep us guessing right up to the final twist. –-Philip Kemp

• We've Got Christmas Mail | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £11.95   |  Saving you £-1.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An Unexpected Delivery That Changed Their Lives...

• Black Sheep | DVD | (03/11/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £10.61 (66.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Deviant, multi-stranded black comedy set in the dark underbelly of modern Berlin. The story follows a group of deadbeats as they act out their bizarre and twisted plans to hit the big time. Satanists, prostitutes, artists and thieves are just some of the unsavoury characters looming large in this anarchically offbeat urban parody.

• Unstoppable | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You can't stop a man who will stop at nothing... A former Army Special Ops soldier mistaken for a government agent is injected with a hallucinogenic mind-control drug that allows people to alter his reality with simple suggestions. Finding himself on the run he must search for the antidote while battling his foes his inner demons and the illusions the drug allows his enemies to create...

• Cirque Du Soleil-Saltimbanco | DVD | (15/06/2004) from £8.25   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Eclectic evocative and breathtakingly dazzling! A celebration of life where an international troupe of more than fifty performers ranging from 8 to 45 years of age defy gravity and dazzle with their artistry. A panoply of acts in which top-notch acrobatics are executed with masterly beauty handbalancing double trapeze double tightrope Chinese poles the Russian swing bungees jugglers and clowns. Created in 1994 as an antidote to the violence and despair typical of the 20th century this phantasmagorical show proposes a new vision of urbanity overflowing with optimism and happiness. Saltimbanco is not linear; rather it is a kaleidoscope an adventure in which anything can happen. Saltimbanco has its own language a soul expressed through the voice the body and music.

• How To Make A Monster | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £8.07   |  Saving you £11.92 (59.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  More than any other of the Creature feature titles How To Make a Monster truly brings the classic 1950's horror genre into the 21st Century. Reality and fantasy collide head-on in the adolescent world of computer game creation. A greedy band of misfit programmers is hired to create the most gruesome monster for the ultimate scary video game ""Evil-ution."" However each game programmer begins to disappear as they are individually hunted and killed by an indestructible monster - the mo

• Pirates of Somalia | DVD | (29/01/2018) from £9.52   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them.

• The Silent House (Original) | Blu Ray | (01/08/2011) from £5.88   |  Saving you £17.11 (290.99%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Inspired by true events The Silent House was filmed in one continuous amazingly relentless shot with no edits. One of the most terrifying intense and horrific films in modern horror it's also one of the most groundbreaking since The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity. Shy introverted Laura and her jaded father have promised to clean an old friend's property in order for it to be sold. Travelling deep into the hostile unforgiving landscape of rural Uruguay they are to spend the night in an isolated run down cottage. With no civilisation for hundreds of miles and no electricity or modern conveniences within the property Laura begins to dread the on coming night. As darkness prevails her father investigates a strange noise from the above floor. When he doesn't return Laura has nothing but fear to console her. But She's not alone. Something is waiting in the shadows something that knows her worst nightmares.

• Basic Instinct - Special Edition | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With more than a decade of cinema in Basic Instinct's wake it's fascinating to look back at just how influential Paul Verhoeven's "erotic thriller" has been. The director's endless fight with censorship and unwillingness to kowtow to social mores meant his movies became notorious for graphically depicting sex and violence while pushing contemporary boundaries of taste. This whodunit about a bisexual femme fatale (Sharon Stone in a career-best performance) caused an enormous furore on its release; but after years of generally inferior imitations there's not much in it that seems quite so shocking now. It's perhaps best appreciated in retrospect more for its Hitchcockian style than the steamy sex. On the DVD: one of the most welcome elements of the disc is an acknowledgement of the film's own influences--from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Verhoeven's own The Fourth Man. The print is far superior to the previous release, looking magnificent in 1:78.1. Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar-nominated score sounds terrific in either 5.1 or DTS, as does Verhoeven's thick accent on the first commentary track alongside then Director of Photography Jan De Bont (Speed), who together reminisce on locations and manipulating their actors' performances. A second commentary from feminist critic Camille Paglia is a brave way of putting paid to the gay/feminist community uproar. There are some standard inclusions (trailer, production notes, photo gallery etc) but far more interesting are two mini-documentaries; "Cleaning Up Basic Instinct" shows how and why the TV version was so dull, while "Blonde Poison" focuses on the film's making and marketing. Finally, there are three storyboard comparisons and nine minutes of screen tests for Stone and Tripplehorn. This is the definitive release of an oft-cited modern classic. --Paul Tonks

• Man Hunt | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Director Fritz Lang's political thriller follows a British hunter's attempts to outrun Nazi agents after he targets Adolf Hitler. While on holiday in Bavaria willdlife hunter Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) stumbles upon the Fuhrer's country retreat eventually spotting Hitler in the gardens. After lining up the leader in the crosshairs of his empty rifle Thorndike is arrested by members of Hitler's Gestapo bodyguard who try to beat a confession out of him. After eventually escaping and navigating a tortuous route back to Britain Thorndike is forced to seek help from local seamstress Jerry Stokes (Joan Bennett) when he discovers German agents are hunting him down.