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• Bubblegum Crisis - Vol. 2 | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The second instalment of the popular Japanese anime, Bubblegum Crisis 2 contains the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the eight original videos. In a devastated high-tech Tokyo of a Blade Runner-ish future, four beautiful women disguised by their heavily armed exoskeletons protect society from killer androids and from an ambitious corporation that tries to take over the world, while also having complicated personal lives. The cute teenager NeNe always has a crush on someone or other; flighty Linna has to fit her superhero life into a busy social schedule; and Priss has her career as a rock singer as well as a habit of feeling emotional. Only the austere Sylia is entirely in control of her life--so much so that she needs the others for a bit of productive chaos. In the episodes included they deal with a mysterious car that is riding down motorcyclists, help a tragic android who is vampirising citizens to feed a damaged friend and cope with attempts by an evil conspirator to frame them for mass mayhem. The stories rely rather too heavily on extended sequences of fast bikes and car racing, or mechanised bodysuits and big robots tearing each other apart, but the plotting can be subtle and the emotional scenes tense and fraught. Someone trying to get a sense of anime's strengths and weaknesses could do a lot worse than start here. On the DVD: the disc is presented in a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and has a very loud Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack which presents every screech of tortured metal vehemently and every pounding anthem in the slightly pompous score. There are no extras apart from a very extended documentation of the credits. --Roz Kaveney

• EDWARD II (DVD) **GERMAN IMPORT** REGION 2 **ENGLISH OR GERMAN SOUND** NEW & SEALED | DVD | (23/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Demons 3 - The Ogre | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  What happens when the nightmare of your childhood suddenly becomes reality? Charel author of best-selling horror stories goes on holiday with her husband and her ten year old son in an ancient villa. The villa is said to be cursed and very soon Charel realises that the ogre that haunted her dreams as a child is alive and lives in the basement of this very house! It's not until the ogre kills their babysitter and kidnaps their boy that Charel's husband Tom realises that the stor

• Gangster: Gangster No.1, The Limey, Sexy Beast | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Gangster No. 1: It's 1968. Gangster has come to work for Freddie Mays the Butcher of Mayfair and he's enjoying his job. He likes the money the girls the suits the power the violence. And gangster is good at what he does very good. He frightens people and he's going to frighten Freddie Mays. The Limey: British ex-con Wilson (Terence Stamp) arrives in Los Angeles to investigate the mystery of his daughter's accidental death. His prime suspect the wealthy heavily guarded music promoter Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda) is no easy target. Propelled into an increasingly brutal search for truth Wilson with single-mindedness and terrifying precision moves unstoppably toward revenge. Sexy Beast: A contented ex-villain is forced to do one last spectacular robbery by a psychotic face from his past in this mould-breaking stylish thriller by one of the UK's hottest new talents Guinness surfer ad director Jonathan Glazer

• Lucky Chances 2 | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the novels ""Chances"" and ""Lucky"" by Jackie Collins this miniseries features the rise of Gino Santangelo in the Las Vegas casino industry... After the brutal murder of her mother the wild teenage Lucky Santangelo is packed off to an elite Swiss finishing school by her heavy-handed father Gino. Frustrated by her over-protective father the self-destructive Lucky soon skips school to go thrill-seeking in Europe's glittering hot spots. The exasperated Gino is not to be denied

• The Uninvited | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A photo-journalist witnesses a car accident where he sees the driver die but the next day he finds him alive and well?! The police find this fits a pattern of recent deaths followed by resurrection that could be linked to the drowned village of Sweethope...

• Islands In The Stream | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  George C. Scott plays Thomas Hudson a sculptor whose self-imposed isolation in the Bahamas is ended by two forces; the visit of his sons and the outbreak of World War II... The film is touching in its details of a father's love and heroic in its defiance of tyranny based on the posthumous novel 'Papa' by Ernest Hemingway.

• The Burning | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The scenario of this notorious splatter movie may be familiar- a group of teenage-counsellors at a lakeside summer camp face the vengeance of a twisted psychotic - but the nail-biting tension and graphic gore sequences of this bloody shocker will certainly not be. Described as 'a searing pulse-pounding bolt of energy sure to shock even the most hardened gore-addict' The Burning not only boasts the directorial talents of Tony Maylam - Director of The Recent SF/ Horror smash hit 'Spilt Second' - but also special effects by the genius of gore Tom Savini music by Rick Wakeman and a special appearance by 'Raising Arizona' star Holly Hunter. Long considered one of the goriest of horror films. The Burning the subject of numerous prosecutions has been unavailable since 1983. It is seemed to be an extremely frightening and nerve jolting movie.

• East Side Story | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £12.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (15.49%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Diego has no friends lives in an ultra-conservative suburb of East LA and is in an unhappy relationship with his closeted estate agent boyfriend Pablo. The pair finally decide to split after Diego has had enough of playing a Mexican immigrant in Pablo's fetish games only for Pablo to woo Diego's spoilt and bratty Aunt Bianca (a hilarious turn from Gladys Jimenez star of camp classic Illegal Aliens). As it happens it's the perfect time to be single and out in East LA as the neighbourhood suddenly makes a name for itself as the property hot spot for young gay men and soon Diego's eyes start to roam. When the dashing Wes and his outrageous cholo-hating boyfriend Jon move in next door tensions start to grow. Jon is petrified by the Hispanic locale and makes ludicrous claims about his impending gay-bashing. Wes meanwhile falls head over heels for neighbour Diego. Hilarious feel-good and scorchingly hot from start to finish East Side Story tells an uplifting tale about loving thy neighbour... and not getting caught!

• La vie de Jesus | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the great debut films of recent times Bruno Dumont's La vie de Jsus [The Life of Jesus] presents life's brutality and exhilaration played out by turns within the quarters of a tiny Flemish country town. Here positioned in relative isolation from the rest of so-called cultural Europe the connections between individuals will take on a physical power inflected by boredom by desperation and by urges as raw as the earth. Freddy and Marie (played by David Douche and Marjorie Cottreel in astonishing performances) are two teenagers with their futures uncertain and their present undefined. They ride motorbikes they have sex - communication like any other sort. But in their hometown of Bailleul in Flanders where news from the world-at-large disappears just as quickly as it drifts in death proves to be inescapable and decidedly permanent. As the film's powerful climax unfolds the viewer will come away with his or her own interpretation of how the life of Christ has figured into the story of Freddy and Marie - a contemplation on the magnitude of mercy. With its frank honest depictions of the body in the course of the sexual act La vie de Jsus announced the emergence of a powerful philosophical intelligence - and a master of dramatic control - onto the scene of world cinema.

• Blackrock | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.

• James Dean | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Set against the backdrop of 1950's Hollywood 'James Dean' explores the tragedies and insecurities that fueled Dean's burning ambition to succeed as an actor and ultimately led to his downfall. From the devastating loss of his mother at an early age and his fractured relationship with his father; through his astonishingly rapid rise as one of the world's most celebrated icons 'James Dean' tells the story behind the legend.

• Diamond Geezer | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £12.93   |  Saving you £0.05 (0.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The story of Des a career criminal pulling off a big scam while in prison.

• Urban Gothic - Series 1 And 2 Complete | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Featuring both series 1 and 2 of the cult classic televison series. Behind the facade of London's shiny dockside developments its designer boutiques and coffee bars lie forgotten dark corners and darker secrets. It's a city where anything can happen and being young and pretty wont always save you. From vampire documentaries to alien-infested supermarkets from teenage necromancy to ghostly East End gangsters you'll find tales of the city to chill the blood in Urban Gothic.

• The Little Unicorn | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £20.97   |  Saving you £-11.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When orphan Polly discovers her horse may die giving birth she wishes with all her heart for help from the King of the Horses the Unicorn. As the mare dies she thinks her wish has gone unanswered until she sees the foal... a baby unicorn which totters its way into Polly's heart. When a sneaky photo of the unicorn appears in a newspaper media uproar ensues. Polly's Aunt Lucy (Emma Samms) sends Polly away to boarding school leaving no one to protect the little unicorn except her ageing grandfather (David Warner). He soon has his hands full when bumbling magician 'The Great Allonso' (George Hamilton) decides that the unicorn can restore his failing magic abilities and unscrupulous ringmaster Tiny (Joe Penny) prepares to steal the foal to exploit it in his run down circus. Can Polly and her best friend Toby rescue the unicorn and so free it to work the magic it has come into the world to perform...?

• Tanks! - Sturmgeschutze And Panzerjaeger | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (-21.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Assault Guns and Tank Hunters of the Panzer Divisions played a vital role in the German army of World War Two.

• Lost - Series 2 - Part 2 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  By the second half of the second series of Lost, the debates are really hotting up. Is it the most cleverly plotted, densely packed television programme of recent times, cunningly working on many levels and lacing lots of hidden clues as it moves along? Or is it pretentious, slow-moving tosh, that's desperately trying to stretch out a simple concept to fill as many seasons as possible?

• Jazz - A Film By Ken Burns | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  The BBC, sceptical about the British appetite for extended documentary programmes, edited Ken Burns' epic 17-hour history Jazz back to around 12 hours. That's what's presented in this box set of the series, and while the flow of the original is preserved, so are its idiosyncrasies. The film dwells at length on early jazz, particularly on its origins in New Orleans, and there's a good deal of absorbing history here. On the other hand, in suggesting that the important work of jazz was done by 1975, Burns gives us cause to question how much of his earlier research is awry too. There isn't much here to reflect the brimming vitality of post-1960s jazz, and many listeners and musicians have been enraged by Burns' neglect of such pivotal figures as Joe Zawinul, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Pat Metheny and Michael Brecker--all players whose work responds vigorously to the question that Burns thinks nobody can answer: "Where are the modern equivalents of Armstrong, Ellington, Parker and Coltrane?" Armstrong and Ellington are the touchstones of Burns' film, providing the narrative thread around which the stories of other major figures turn, among them Bechet, Basie, Goodman, Parker, Miles Davis and Coltrane. Burns also finds populist mileage in the politicisation of jazz, making dramatic capital out of racial divides that most jazz players, black and white, have ignored. The fact is that almost all jazz players, regardless of race, have felt like outsiders. Despite such distractions, Jazz is the longest jazz documentary yet produced, and it's rich in musical examples and classic, rare and unseen footage. Even when working with simple stills, Burns uses seductive camera work and Keith David's epigrammatic narration to maximum effect. There's plenty to enjoy here, but viewers should be aware, as Joshua Redman points out in Musicians' Views in our Ken Burns' Jazz shop, that Burns' film is an often compelling perspective on jazz, not a definitive study. --Mark Gilbert

• 96 Minutes | DVD | (12/08/2013) from £5.28   |  Saving you £7.71 (146.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Inspired by true events, 96 Minutes is the story of four teenagers and the events that unfold over one terrifying night. Told in real time, the film cuts between a disastrous carjacking at the end of the day and the seemingly unconnected events leading up to it. Four kids. One night. One shocking act of violence that slams them headlong into each other.

• Belle's Magical World / Beauty And The Beast | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Belle's Magical World is a straight-to-video animated story set in the Beast's castle, which, as viewers know from the original Beauty and the Beast film, is under a spell until the Beast can learn to love. Starting with this familiar premise, it plummets into three disjointed episodes surrounding Belle's life as a captive in the castle. In "The Perfect World" a misunderstanding of words erupts between Belle and the Beast, made worse by a feigned apology. Fifi and Lumiere take the spotlight in "Fifi's Folly" when a romantic evening together becomes a chilling adventure inside a runaway sleigh. In "The Broken Wing" Belle entreats the Beast to act kindly toward a tiny songbird. Each tale offers a diluted moral message, yet the entire effort feels contrived and confusing. --Lynn Gibson The film that officially signalled Disney's animation renaissance and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. It relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the Beast (a prince whose heart is too hard to love anyone besides himself) Belle boldly takes her father's place, imprisoned in the Beast's gloomy mansion. Naturally, Belle teaches the Beast to love. What makes this such a dazzler, besides the amazingly accomplished animation and the winning coterie of supporting characters (the Beast's mansion is overrun by quipping, dancing household items) is the array of beautiful and hilarious songs by composer Alan Menken and the late, lamented lyricist Howard Ashman, (winning the 1991 Oscar for Best Song and Menken's score won a trophy as well). The downright funniest song is "Gaston" a lout's paean to himself (including the immortal line: "I use antlers in all of my de-co-ra-ting"). "Be Our Guest" is transformed into an inspired Busby Berkeley homage. Since Ashman's passing, animated musicals haven't quite reached the same exhilarating level of wit, sophistication and pure joy. --David Kronke