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• Sid And Nancy | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £11.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Love Kills. Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb execute performances that are 'nothing short of phenomenal' (Los Angeles Times) as Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his unforgettable junkie girlfriend - social misfits who literally love each other to death. In this 'riveting biography of burnt-out icons (The Washington Post) award-winning writer/director Alex Cox creates 'a great film' ('Siskel & Ebert') about the destructive lives of two 1970s punk legends. Their love affair is on

• Girls Just Want To Have Fun | DVD | (17/01/2003) from £6.47   |  Saving you £-2.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Two teenage girls Janey and Lynne dream of being selected as the new 'DTV' dance regulars so they attend an open audition. There they meet two teenage boys Drew and Jeff who have the same idea...

• Straight To Hell | DVD | (15/02/2005) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  By all rights, Alex Cox's absurdist spaghetti western Straight to Hell, should be up there in the canon of must-see cult movies. It was written in three days and filmed gonzo-style in six weeks in the Andalusian desert landscape of Almeria, Spain, on an abandoned film set originally built for Savage Cowboys, a 1969 Charles Bronson western. The cast includes the good, the bad and the ugly of rock and roll--namely Joe Strummer, Courtney Love (in her first starring role) and Shane McGowan--and cameos from Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones and Jim Jarmusch. It also features a pre-Reservoir Dogs plot concerning three sharp-suited but incompetent hitmen on the lam in the desert with the proceeds of a bank heist and a pregnant girlfriend in tow (Love). There they stumble upon a remote, ramshackle town, home to a gang of coffee-guzzling gunslingers called the McMahons (the Pogues) who initially accept the bumbling assassins as one of their own. But the appearance of shadowy industrialist IG Farben (Hopper) throws the precarious peace into a trigger-happy turmoil. Despite the promise, the film was almost universally panned on its release, the main criticism being that although the cast and crew seemed to having a blast, not much thought was put into translating the joke to the audience. It's certainly anarchic and frivolous, but also silly and pointless. Sy Richardson as the Jheri-curled Norwood who steals the show, remaining stoic and super-cool as the chaos rages around him. On the DVD: "Back to Hell", a 20-minute feel-good featurette, reunites the majority of the cast members (minus Courtney Love) 14 years on to reminisce on their experience making the film. At the end, Alex Cox cannily manages to elicit guarantees from the actors to appear in a mooted sequel. The original dialogue plays at low volume underneath the commentary track, making it hard to hear what the filmmakers are saying at various points. A promo video for the Pogues rendition of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is tacked on at the end, but looks as if it was sourced from a worn videotape. --Chris Campion

• Black Samurai | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £2.68   |  Saving you £-0.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Jim Kelly, the star of Black Samurai, was a multi-talented martial artist perhaps best remembered for his role in Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon. Black Samurai is essentially a vehicle for his fighting skills in which he plays a secret agent out to retrieve his Japanese sweetheart from the drug-dealing Satanist who has abducted her to blackmail her father. His investigative skills are almost non-existent--much of the plot consists of his arriving at the villains' houses and hitting people. At the same time, the character's utter ruthlessness and the extravagant evil of the villains, the chief of whom, Jannicot, is in the habit of sicking a vulture on his enemies, are entertaining enough and the 1970s styling unselfconsciously entertaining. The director, Al Adamson, was mostly famous for his horror films, and there is a Gothic extravagance to the sets and gimmicks here: Kelly's jet-pack sequence has to be seen to be believed. On the DVD: The DVD comes with a wonderful period trailer for The Green Hornet, the usual chapter selection, biographies of Kelly and Adamson (who was murdered in 1995) and a feature which enables you to look at the fight scenes in isolation. --Roz Kaveney

• Headless Body in a Topless Bar | DVD | (19/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

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• Room 237 | Blu Ray | (24/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A