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• The Gun In Betty Lou's Handbag | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £8.26 (122.73%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Here's the hilariously outrageous comedy aimed at entertaining everyone! No one ever paid any attention to shy librarian Betty Lou Perkins until someone found THE GUN IN BETTY LOU'S HANDBAG! And when Betty Lou confesses to a crime she didn't commit her world turns upside down! The bogus confession launches a series of uproariously funny events as a new sexy Betty Lou captures headlines rocks out in nightclubs outwits the mob and wins cheers from the townspeople! Starring a truly

• Angel - The Vampire Anthology - Gunn | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £2.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (335.91%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This DVD release features 4 of Gunn's best episodes selected by series creator Joss Whedon. Vampire hunter and vigilante Charles Gunn's (J. August Richards) life changed forever when his sister was turned into vampire. Sporting a pickup truck decorated with stakes Gunn took a while to warm up to Angel but is now a firm part of the team. His collection includes a face-off with his old gang and a visit from a debt collector who has come to fetch his soul. Episodes comprise:

• Two Bits | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £12.93   |  Saving you £0.06 (0.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  You're never too old to believe in a dream. Or too young to make one come true! This sweet and nostalgia-drenched drama set in Depression-era South Philadelphia follows one 12-year-old boy's coming of age. Young Gennaro desperately wants to go to the opening of La Paloma the city's brand-new movie theater. But he hasn't the quarter he needs for admission. So he spends the day trying to raise the money and in the process has several misadventures and discovers many hidden t

• Cult Action Extravaganza | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Cult Action Extravaganza three-disc set offers three very different movies that have nothing in common bar residency in Siren's film archive. They are: The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) and Get Christie Love! (1974). The Most Dangerous Game is a classic, one of the first talkies to get pictures moving after five very static years following the birth of sound. The plot finds resourceful hero Joel McCrea and heroine Fay Wray being hunted on the island of the insane Zaroff (Leslie Banks). One of the grandfathers of the summer blockbuster, the film's setup has been reworked many times since, notably in John Woo's Hard Target (1993). By modern standards it's technically primitive, though still gripping stuff, complete with the jungle set built as a test run for King Kong (1933) and graced by Max Steiner's prototype of all Hollywood action scores. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is another landmark or rather watermark. The third-ever CinemaScope production, this was a prestige release with Technicolor location filming at Key West, Florida of never-before-achieved underwater cinematography and four-channel stereo recording of a superlative Bernard Herrmann score. Even a still-impressive underwater battle with an octopus pre-dates the more famous giant squid of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). The humans aren't bad either, with a young Robert Wagner making a charismatic if ethnically unconvincing Greek lead as sponge fisherman Tony and Terry Moore playing Juliet to his Romeo with real vivacity. Starring Theresa Graves, Get Christie Love! is a tame TV movie imitation of early 1970s female blaxploitation films such Pam Grier's Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). Running a standard TVM 73 minutes and with a low budget and content sanitised to US network standards, this is lightweight stuff about an undercover cop determined to smash a drugs ring. Nevertheless the movie was popular enough to spawn a short-lived TV show and is significant for being the first time a black woman took the title role in any American network production. Tarantino completists may be interested, as before he paid homage to Christie Love in the dialogue of Reservoir Dogs (1991). On the DVD: Cult Action Extravaganza presents the films in their original aspect ratio and sound format; The Most Dangerous Game and Get Christie Love! are 4:3, mono. The former is faded b/w with reasonably sturdy sound, though the transfer suffers from compression artefacting. No one would expect great quality from a 1974 TV movie, but Get Christie Love! suffers from both a poor print and a mediocre DVD transfer. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is presented in the extra wide 2.55:1 of early CinemaScope and though sadly not anamorphic both the seascapes and underwater cinematography are still impressive. The four-channel stereo sound is revelatory, clear, detailed and years ahead of what we have come to expect early 1950s films to sound like. --Gary S Dalkin