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• The Missouri Breaks | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Montana Badlands rancher David Braxton is a self-made man. Through years of tireless effort and determination he has transformed his vast and rugged land into a thriving prosperous empire. So when his livestock his fortune are threatened by a ruthless horse thief Braxton takes matters into his own hands. Hiring a sadistic 'regulator' to track down the outlaw Braxton intends to liberate the territory from crime but what he initiates instead is a complex series of events that re

• The Navigators | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ken Loach does for the railways in The Navigators what he did for the construction industry in Riff-Raff (1990). As ever, his sympathies lie firmly with the ordinary working blokes, not above of bit of banter and skiving, but essentially trying to do a decent job and stay loyal to their mates in the face of managerial double-talk and corporate devotion to the bottom line. It's 1995, and the Tories have just carried out their disastrous, pea-brained scheme to break up the railways. We follow the fortunes of a gang of track workers in South Yorkshire as they find themselves confronted with all the fallout of privatisation--redundancies, cost-cutting, corner-cutting and the wholesale junking of any concern with safety or quality of work. Accidental deaths, one hapless time-server explains, "have got to be kept to an acceptable level". Two scenes encapsulate the tragic-comic tone of the film. At one point the disbelieving workers are ordered by managers to smash up a load of new equipment; it's surplus to requirements, but can't possibly be sold to "the competition", their former British Rail workmates at the depot down the line. Later, called to a derailment, the track workers pass a whole series of hard-hat wearing managers, each paying no attention to what needs doing but muttering fiercely into a mobile phone trying to pass the buck for the accident to another company. Loach cast the film using local actors and comics, and there's a strong sense of authenticity in the flat accents and dry Yorkshire humour. But ultimately this is a lament for the destruction, not only of what was once a great rail network, but of the pride and camaraderie of those who worked on it. The film's ending is fittingly bleak. --Philip Kemp

• Brain Dead | DVD | (21/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two ESCAPED CONVICTS two VERY ATTRACTIVE lost hikers a TELEVANGELIST and his PRETTY YOUNG assistant all find themselves in the unusual (except in horror films) predicament of being trapped in a deserted fishing lodge with a host of alien-infected mutant amoeba controlled ZOMBIES at their doorstep. A random meteorite falls to earth and accidentally hits BILL a small town fisherman in the forehead leaving a marble sized wound in his skull. As his friend and fellow fisherman BEN tries to help him the meteorite dissolves into an oil-based gelatinous alien life form which seeps into Bill's BRAIN turning him into a CANNIBALISTIC ZOMBIE! Bill's eyes then snap open and he attacks his friend ripping Bob's BRAIN from his SKULL and devouring it. A while later Sydney Moyes a local FOREST RANGER finds the remains of one of the fisherman from the lodge and investigates leading to a VIOLENT GUNFIGHT with Bob. Sydney gets the drop on Bob but before she can shoot him a MONSTROUS humanoid creature attacks her and devours her brain. When they discover the missing fishermen have been MURDERED and DECAPITATED the disparate group are forced to put aside their differences and to work together to try and escape. With ALIEN controlled ZOMBIES stalking the woods the shelter they sought earlier may now become their TOMB.

• House Of Doom | DVD | (26/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  House Of Clocks: A gang of ruthless thugs intent on robbery prey upon a seemingly harmless elderly couple Vittorio and Sara. The simple plan turns into a terrifying nightmare as Vittorio's antique clock collection mysteriously turns back time. Now the hunters become the hunted and the old couple becomes a vengeful malevolent force. House Of Horrors: a masked man breaks into a couple's house and brutally murders them in a fantastically gory way leaving their two c