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• George Washington | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For a first feature from a 24-year-old director, George Washington is an amazingly assured piece of work. The title’s misleading: this is no biopic of America’s first President, but a poetic, richly atmospheric rhapsody set in a rundown industrial town in the American South. Given this backdrop, and a predominantly black cast, you might expect an angry study of social deprivation and racial tension, but Green has no such agenda. Instead, he derives a shimmering, heat-hazed beauty from his images of rusting machinery, junkyards and derelict buildings, and if the overall tone is tinged with sadness, it’s mainly from a sense of universal human loss. The action, such as it is, moves at its own slow Southern pace, following a group of youngsters, black and white, over a few high-summer days. Things do happen--a couple decide to elope, one boy’s saved from drowning, another gets killed--but they’re presented in an oblique, understated fashion that owes nothing to conventional Hollywood notions of narrative. With one exception, the cast are all non-professionals, mainly youngsters who director-writer David Gordon Green found in and around the town where the film was made, Winston-Salem in North Carolina. Shooting in a semi-improvised fashion, Green draws from his young cast remarkably spontaneous performances and dialogue (often their own) full of unselfconscious poetry. Drawing on a wide range of influences--among other things he cites Sesame Street, documentaries and such 70s classics as Deliverance, Walkabout and especially Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven--Green has fashioned a film that’s fresh, tender and utterly individual. And it looks just gorgeous: belying the tiny budget, Tim Orr’s widescreen photography lavishes mellow softness on images of dereliction and small-town decay. Never has dead-end poverty been made to look so attractive. On the DVD: George Washington comes on a disc generously loaded with extras. Besides the obvious theatrical trailer we get two of Green’s early short films, Physical Pinball and Pleasant Grove (both clearly dry runs for the main feature), an 18-minute featurette about the film’s reception at the Berlin Film Fest and a deleted scene of a community meeting. This scene, the short Pleasant Grove and the movie itself also offer a director’s commentary--or rather a director’s dialogue, as Green shares the honours with one of his lead actors, Paul Schneider. Their laconic, unpretentious comments enhance the whole experience enormously. The film has been transferred in its full scope ratio (2.35:1) and looks great. --Philip Kemp

• Iron Eagle | DVD | (25/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Iron Eagles (short of Top Gun) is close to being the definitive boys' movie of the 1980s. An 18-year-old (Jason Gedrick) gets instruction from an old vet (Louis Gossett Jr) in how to fly an F-16 jet and kick butt in the Middle East, all while listening to his Walkman and--oh, yeah--saving his father from terrorist clutches. Gossett wears his tough-love face while the kids run rampant. Speaking of children, young guys must have like this comic-book movie, as its success spawned three sequels. But watch out for the Reagan-era jingoism and political reductiveness. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Scarecrow Slayer | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When Dave & Karl attempt to steal the Scarecrow from farmer Caleb's field Dave is shot and his soul is given new life as the terrifying scarecrow. One by one the Scarecrow dispatches anyone who stands between him and the object of his desire - Mary his former girlfriend.

• The Killing Club | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £10.29   |  Saving you £6.96 (77.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jamie (Julie Bowen) is a successful writer. When she accidentally kills her cocky boyfriend with a kitchen knife her best friend Laura (Traci Lords) convinces her not to call the police but to dispose of the body by feeding it to the animals at the local zoo. Jamie soon comes to terms with her guilt and is overwhelmed by a strange sense of liberation. Laura views the accidental murder as an omen and seizes the opportunity to embark on a murderous campaign of revenge against all the bad men in their lives. Next on their list of victims is Peter Gish the smooth boss of their friend Arlene (Dawn Maxey). Now with three members this self-styled 'Killing Club' plan to continue their murderous spree as long as luck stays on their side.

• The Wolves Of Kromer | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £7.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (39.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a small British town Seth and Gabriel are gay in love and werewolves. While their lunar lycanthropic secret remains hidden the townspeople begin to sense that these two young men are very different in many ways indeed...

• My Name Is Joe | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  My Name Is Joe: A former alcoholic who is currently out of work keeps himself busy by coaching a football team in Glasgow. When one of his players becomes involved with local gangsters their lives are changed forever... Bread And Roses: Maya and Rosa are Mexican sisters living and working in downtown Los Angeles working for a pittence and in very hostile conditions. When they happen upon a young activist there seems to be hope as he vows to help them both get the justice they deserve.

• Ben Harper - Pleasure And Pain | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A documentary featuring Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals. In Pleasure + Pain famed rock photographer/director Danny Clinch shows us the Ben Harper millions of fans around the world have come to know and love: a gifted and charismatic young singer/songwriter who plays with an unparalleled sense of passion and melody. Then Clinch digs deeper using unconventional angles and various film stock to paint an unassuming yet completely mesmorising portrait of Harper's life both on the ro

• Cheeky | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son a widower at the urging of his friends opts to appear on a vulgar wildly popular game show (for which his wife signed him up) and watches his life start to change for the better...

• The Disappearance Of Flight 412 | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• The Bourne Ultimatum - Augmented Reality Edition | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £5.72   |  Saving you £9.27 (61.80%)   |  RRP £14.99

  All he wanted was to disappear. Instead, Jason Bourne is now hunted by the people who made him what he is. Having lost his memory and the one person he loved, he is undeterred by the barrage of bullets and a new generation of highly trained killers. Bourne has only one objective: to go back to the beginning and find out who he was.Now, in the new chapter of this espionage series, Bourne will hunt down his past in order to find a future. He must travel from Moscow, Paris, Madrid and London to Tangier and New York City as he continues his quest to find the real Jason Bourne - all the while trying to outmaneuver the scores of cops, federal officers and Interpol agents with him in their crosshairs.

• Daredevil (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Attorney Matt Murdock is blind, but his other four senses function with superhuman sharpness. By day, Murdock represents the downtrodden. At night, he is Daredevil, a masked vigilante stalking the dark streets of the city, a relentless avenger of justice.

• Invasion Earth - The Aliens Are Here | DVD | (17/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  An enormous alien spacecraft lands behind a movie theatre in the tiny desert town of Dead Rock. An insect alien vaporizes the projectionist and in a flurry of film splicing he puts together an incredible collection of Science Fiction film clips featuring monsters all in the act of destroying the Earth. As the aliens try to gain control two ten year olds realize that the incredible visual effects on the screen aren't effects at all... but real aliens invading earth. Now it's up to them to save the day!

• Evolution/Ghostbusters | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £8.08   |  Saving you £1.91 (23.64%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Evolution (Dir. Ivan Reitman 2001): Glen Canyon Arizona the present day. The impact of a meteorite changes the life of biology teacher Dr. Ira Kane and geology teacher Harry Block from Glen Canyon Community College when he manages to take a sample. Soon he discovers a slimy blue fluid coming out of the meteorite. Shortly after he realises that cells within the meteorite evolve at an incredible rate. What appears to be a sure thing for the Nobel Prize soon develops into a nightmare: By evolving and adapting at that unbelievably fast rate the aliens start spreading out leading to destruction and the involvement of the military. Ghostbusters (Dir. Ivan Reitman 1984): When the University downsized the para-psychology department Doctors Venkman ( Bill Murray) Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Spengler (Harold Ramis) make the leap from scientist to Ghostbusters investigators and exterminators of paranormal pests! The bewitching Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) discovers her refrigerator has become a portal into the spiritual dimension our heroes then come face to face with an ancient evil force with plans to raise hell in Manhattan!

• The Cursed | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  For Terry and her family everything that can go wrong has. When her brother-in-law commits suicide it seems like the whole family curse will never spare them. Now with the bank threatening to repossess their house Terry and her husband are prepared to do almost anything to end their run of misfortune. Tempted by fate they decide to retrieve the money that was stolen and bury in a secret location near her dead brother-in-law. But with their greed lies the sinister secret

• Demons In My Head | DVD | (02/05/2000) from £11.40   |  Saving you £-5.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From award-winning horror director Neil Johnson comes the terrifying tale of Travis Brown whose life is turned inside out when a meteorite lands in his backyard. Travis is having the worst life of his week...

• Brokeback Mountain | UMD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An epic love story set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas.

• The Santa Clause | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £12.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (54.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tim Allen makes an impressive screen debut in Disney's well-written holiday film, The Santa Clause. Divorced toy company executive Scott Calvin is pleased to have his son Charlie for Christmas, though the boy himself isn't happy about it. But when Santa Claus accidentally topples off the roof of the house and falls with a thud in the snow, Scott finds himself taking the merry old elf's place and earning new respect in his son's eyes. When the night ends, the reindeer take them to the North Pole, and Scott discovers that by donning the fabled red suit, he's inadvertently agreed to become the next Santa Claus. The next morning he wakes up in his own bed and thinks it's all a dream--but Charlie remembers it with crystal clarity. Scott now has to deal with his suspicious ex-wife (Wendy Crewson) and her psychiatrist boyfriend (Judge Reinhold), who both think he's playing tricks with Charlie's mind, and also with his own out-of-control body, which is putting on weight and growing a prodigious beard. The Santa Clause probably won't supplant It's a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street as anyone's favourite Christmas film, but it's an enjoyable, straightforward family film, anchored by the affable charisma of Allen. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Evolution | UMD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• A.I. / The Time Machine / Eight Legged Freaks | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A.I. - Artificial Intelligence 'Artificial Intelligence' is the story of David (Haley Joel Osment) the first mecha (a futuristic term for a mechanized human being) designed with the ability to love. A couple whose son is in a coma adopts David to help them recover from their loss. Naturally things do not go as planned and David is forced to leave the mother (Frances O'Connor) he's been imprinted to love and make his way in the world. Traveling with Teddy a hi-tech stuffed bear David escapes the Flesh Fair where angry humans destroy mechas to purge artificiality and unexpectedly befriends Gigolo Joe (Jude Law) a robot designed to pleasure women. Joe agrees to help David in his quest to become human. The Time Machine (2002): This adaptation of the classic sci-fi adventure tale by H.G. Wells directed by Simon Wells (the great-grandson of the author) stars Guy Pearce as Alex Hartdegen an absent-minded New York professor preoccupied with what passes for technology at the turn of the 20th century. However the one thing that can distract him from his calculations is his love for Emma (Sienna Guillory) his bride-to-be. When tragedy strikes and he loses Emma Alex uses the time-travelling machine that he's built in secret to change the present by going into the past. When that fails to alter fate he leaps forward in time eventually landing 800 000 years in the future an era where humanity has splintered into two races; the docile Eloi and the ferocious Morlocks. There Alex befriends two of the Eloi (Samantha and Omero Mumba) and attempts to help them resist almost certain death at the hands of the Morlocks... Eight Legged Freaks: What do you get when you cross toxic waste with a bunch of exotic spiders? Eaten!!! Mutated ravenous arachnids the size of SUVs invade a tiny Arizona town in this gleeful comedy monster-mash.

• Daredevil | UMD | (07/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99