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• The Tripper | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £6.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (86.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As a rural Northern California town prepares for Frank Baker's (Paul Reubens) American Free Love Festival a serial killer roams the woods inflicting preemptive strikes on the hippies who have come for the sex drugs and rock and roll. Sporting a Ronald Reagan mask and leaving trademark jellybeans at his gruesome crime scenes the killer seems unstoppable! That is unless he meets an unimpeachle flower child... With a hip soundtrack and a killer cast including Lukas Haas Christopher Allen Nelson Jaime King and Courteney Cox The Tripper is a hilarious homage to classic horror - and politics!

• Ride, Rise, Roar | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £10.73   |  Saving you £5.26 (49.02%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ride Rise Roar is a David Byrne concert film that blends riveting onstage performances with intimate details of the creative collaborations that make the music and performance happen. Shot with multiple cameras over several concerts during the `Songs of David Byrne & Brian Eno Tour the film blends the energy and charisma of classic Talking Heads with the heartfelt pathos of David Byrne and Brian Enos most recent collaboration. Between the songs the film achieves an unprecedented intimacy with David Byrne and the band documenting behind-the-scenes auditions rehearsals and interviews with key players while revealing the creative process that led to the shows unique fusion of pop music and modern dance. Ride Rise Roar is a celebration of Byrnes extensive career as a musician and testifies to the creativity that keeps him going today.

• The Snake Pit | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The story of Virginia Cunningham who finds herself in an insane asylum and has no idea how she got there. Her husband Robert attempts to explain their relationship both before and after marriage and how her symptoms developed. Doctor Mark Kick struggles to get to the root of her problems but a relapse puts her back into 'The Snake Pit'... A touching central performance from Olivia de Havilland in this riveting exploration of mental illness.

• Lords Of Dogtown / Dogtown And Z-Boys | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Lords Of Dogtown: Anyone who grew up in Southern California will talk with both nostalgia and frustration about the periodic summers of drought in which the oppressive heat is exacerbated by a shortage of its antidote--fresh water. In 1975 a clan of scruffy rebellious teens found a way to turn this dearth to their advantage using the sloping bowl of empty suburban swimming pools to create a new underground sport - skateboarding. The development explosion and corporate co-

• Night Passage | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £8.71   |  Saving you £-3.72 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Thanks to ultracrisp Technirama photography of great mountainside and river gorge locations in Colorado, Night Passage is often terrific to look at; you can almost feel the autumn sun and brisk air. This should have been another classic Western pairing James Stewart with director Anthony Mann. But after choosing the locations, cast, and crew, and directing the precredit sequence, Mann abruptly resigned. He found Borden Chase's screenplay an "incoherent" rehash of relationships and setups from their previous films, nor was he encouraged by Stewart's determination to play the accordion and sing. Stewart's an ex-railroad cop who became a pariah by letting a prisoner--Audie Murphy's "The Utica Kid"--escape. The two cross paths again in a ghost town where Dan Duryea, doing a zany version of his loony outlaw from Winchester '73, has holed up with his gang. Replacement director James Neilson, a newcomer destined for bland Disney servitude, fosters a lot of flatfooted standing-around.

• Kiss Of The Damned (DVD) | DVD | (27/01/2014) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Milo Ventimiglia - TV Series Heroes TV Series Wolverine Rocky Ballboa) plays Paolo a screenwriter who has ensconced himself in a house far away from Hollywood in order to finish what seems like his last stab at writing a commercial screenplay. He's easily distracted though and after meeting the beautiful Djuna (Josephine de La Baume - Rush One Day ) during a night out he's inextricably infatuated. Djuna digs Paolo too but she's got a rare 'blood disorder' that doesn't allow her to venture our into sunlight. Scarily persistent Milo keeps courting her until she finally relents and agrees to hook up with him under one condition - she needs to be tied up so she can't bite him. Needless to say their lovemaking is somewhat acrobatic (despite the bondage) and she's presented with a fair shot at his neck which she takes. Djuna begins to school Paolo in the ways of the vampire. They try to drink only synthetic or harvested blood and kill only animals (killing humans is strictly forbidden). But that doesn't mean they live in a prudish culture. Paolo instantly takes a shine to the Euro-glitterati lifestyle that accompanies eternal life. Soon enough trouble comes in the form of Djuna's more carnal and violent sister Mimi (Roxane Mesquida). Mimi doesn't believe in the whole 'not killing people' thing. She's also not big on being tied down preferring her three-ways and one night stands anytime and anywhere she can get them.

• Katie Tippel | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £14.59   |  Saving you £5.40 (37.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made in 1975 and directed by Paul Verhoeven, Katie Tippel ("Katie the Streetwalker") is a handsome period drama set in 19th-century Holland, based on a true story. The second eldest daughter in a poor, Friesland family who move to Amsterdam, Katie (Monique Van de Ven) must find whatever work is going to make ends meet. She has already learnt to have no faith in her weak father. Now, as she enters a succession of jobs in which she experiences both exploitation and sexual harassment, she learns that men want her only for one thing. Duly, at the behest of her own mother, she enters into prostitution. However, when she becomes model to an artist, she is finally able to escape the poverty trap and ascend the social ladder, particularly when banker Hugo (Rutger Hauer) takes her as his lover. All this is set against a backdrop of social foment as the workers' impatience at poor social conditions increases. Although director Verhoeven, as well as Hauer and cinematographer Jan De Bont eventually became involved in mainstream American movies, Katie Tippel is very much of the European school of filmmaking: episodic and harsh in its depiction of everyday poverty. The dead puppy at the beginning definitely marks it out as being contrary to Hollywood's near-zero canine mortality rate. The sexual scenes are graphic to the point of gratuitousness but always grimly non-titillating. Budgetary limits cramp some of the mass street scenes, but generally the film is beautifully shot and ageless in feel. A far cry, certainly, from Showgirls, for which Verhoeven was later responsible. --David Stubbs

• The Beyond - Uncut | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young woman inherits a decaying hotel on the edge of a Louisiana swamp unaware that more than fifty years ago it served as the gateway to hell and that its horrific evil lives on to this day. Her dream to build a new life for herself becomes a nightmarish fight for survival as horrors straight out of Lovecraft's Book of Ebion lay their own claim to her property and the souls around her...

• Case Of The Frightened Lady | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £6.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The ancient and mysterious house of 'Mark's Priory' is the family seat of the Lebanon family. Lady Lebanon (Helen Haye) is desperate to have an heir to carry on the family name and has told her son Lord William (Marius Gording) that he must marry her niece Isla Crane (Penelope Dudley-Ward). But Lord William has no intention of marrying and Isla has fallen in love with a young architect who is working on the renovation of Mark's Priory. Lady Lebanon's desire to have the Lebanon name continue along with her doctor's scheming intrigues creates a crescendo of tension that only murder can release. But who is the homicidal maniac and what sinister motives lurk beneath the servants' strange behaviour? As the police are called in to investigate the shadows of terror and death lurk in every corner of Mark's Priory.

• Raging Bull (Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (12/07/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bon Voyage | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £10.40   |  Saving you £9.59 (92.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vivianne Denvers is a well-known film actress who has many male admirers. At the premiere of her latest picture she is pursued by Beaufort a rather large government official. To get away from him she attaches herself to an unsuitable older man who takes her home. After an argument she slaps him only to find that he has dropped dead! Terrified she calls on a former boyfriend to help her move the body...

• Business Is Business | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A bawdy, though sympathetic look at the lives of two Amsterdam prostitutes, 1971’s Business is Business was the film debut of Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, who would later graduate to the Hollywood mainstream with films like Total Recall and Basic Instinct. Starring Ronnie Biermann as Greet, a worldly wise prostitute who, in between gratifying the often bizarre needs and fantasies of her bourgeois clients, is decently protective of her neighbour and friend in the trade, the busty, younger Nell of whose relationship with an abusive leech (Bernard Droog) she disapproves. Finally, she decides they must both break out of their decreasingly fulfilling lives and seek out matrimonial stability. An amiable if slightly aimless movie, based on the writings of Albert Moll, Business is Business probably seemed like an authentic depiction of the Amsterdam demi-monde in its day. Today, its kinky peccadilloes look rather quaint in comparison with, say, Nick Broomfield’s Fetishes. The breezily kitsch soundtrack is redolent of a more innocent age overall. However, both Biermann and Sylvia De Leur forcefully resist any of the dollybird clichés of the era in their strong characters.--David Stubbs On the DVD: Business is Business on disc can be viewed with or without English subtitles. Extras are disappointing with only a Verhoeven, Biermann and De Leur filmography and film notes from David Parkinson, along with a few World cinema trailers and the film’s original trailer. The image resolution is average for a 1971 film and the Dolby digital soundtrack enhances the grunts and groans.--Nikki Disney

• Carlos Saura - Carmen / Flamenco / Tango | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This box set features a collection of films directed by the Spanish maestro Carlos Saura. Tango: A 1998 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film Carlos Saura's incomparable vision of dance and music is woven around the Latin passion of the Tango. In this sensual motion picture evocatively photographed in stunningly rich and vivid colours by legendary Vittorio Storaro cinematographer of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Last Emperor' tells the passionate struggle of choreograph

• Time To Leave | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Francois Ozon's most intimate and lyrical work 'Time to Leave' features a moving performance from Melvil Poupaud as a 30 year-old man facing up to the reality of his own mortality. With his perfect life thrown into chaos by the shock diagnosis of a serious illness fashion photographer Romain finds himself unable to share the news with his boyfriend or family confiding instead only in his grandmother (affectingly played by screen legend Jeanne Moreau). But anger and denial give way to an acceptance of sorts when a chance encounter with a waitress (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) offers Romain a glimmer of hope and the unexpected chance to leave something of himself behind.

• 3 Classic Westerns Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 3 - McLintock / Robin Hood Of The Pecos | DVD | (02/02/2005) from £6.82   |  Saving you £-1.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  McLintock: Cattle baron banker and model citizen George McLintock has the world in his hands. The only thing missing is his wife Katherine who left him two years earlier suspecting him of adultery. In an effort to get on with his life McLintock saves a beautiful but impoverished widow from resettlement and hires her as his cook welcoming both her and her two children into his home. Sparks begin to fly and McLintock's simple and serene lifestyle comes to a crashing halt

• Sword Of God | DVD | (13/01/2020) from £2.61   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two Christian knights arrive on a remote island intent on converting Pagan villagers to their own religion. The first seeks to win them over with understanding and humility, whilst the second relies on intimidation and violence. As a rift forms between the men, the villagers must decide which side they are on, and the men must decide how far they are willing to go for their faith. Bloodshed is inevitable and many will die.

• Casa de Lava | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• The Bill - The Trial Of Eddie Santini | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This special collector's edition starring one of The Bill's most popular characters is a one off action packed video following one of the most gripping storyline The Bill has ever seen the story of Eddie Santini a recent recuit to CID who believes breaking the rules gets the job done but rapidly finds himself up on a charge of murder...

• Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Previously unavailable in its full uncut length, Rainbow Bridge mixes the psychedelia of late 60s counterculture with its foremost musical hero, Jimi Hendrix. Shot a mere three months before the guitar god's untimely death in 1970, the story is built around Hendrix's final live performance at the Rainbow Bridge Occult Meditation Center on Maui. Straddling concert footage of Hendrix (backed by drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox) is the story of actress Pat Hartley, as she travels to Hawaii and meets a group trying to establish a new alternative community. What should be immediately noted is that the actual footage of The Jimi Hendrix Experience fills only a fraction of the running time. That said, Hendrix and co deliver suitably exciting renditions of such classics as "Purple Haze" and "Voodoo Chile", which will more than satiate passionate Hendrix fans. Elsewhere, there's a plethora of trippy visuals and lots of hippie's droning on about higher consciousness while smoking marijuana (funnily enough). Still, the DVD version has the helpful option of excising all that nonsense. Otherwise, this is a satisfying if unfortunately padded glimpse of a true musical icon. --Danny Graydon

• Black Orpheus | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Making a huge impact on its release Marcel Camus' Oscar Golden Globe and Palm D'Or winning film retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice against the vibrant backdrop of the Rio carnival. The infectious soundtrack by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfa is credited with bringing the bossa nova sound to a world-wide audience and in this new transfer featuring the extended version of the film full justice is done to the glorious colour photography Black Orpheus remains as fresh and intoxicating today as it was when it thrilled audiences at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.