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• Welcome to the Dollhouse | Blu Ray | (15/05/2023) from £15.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Junior high school student Dawn Wiener-dog Wiener is perpetually teased by her classmates and tormented by the school bully, Brandon. All she wants is to be popular and that would certainly help her emerging crush on the lead of her brother's garage band. Todd (Happiness) Solondz's celebrated coming-of-age comedy won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and young star Heather Matarazzo was awarded Best Debut Performance at the prestigious Independent Spirit Awards. Perfectly capturing the growing pains of youth and suburbia with startling intensity, Welcome to the Dollhouse was widely praised on release with Janet Maslin of the New York Times describing it as a mordantly hilarious suburban comedy - excruciatingly funny. Special Features High-Definition digital transfer of the film with uncompressed original stereo audio Interviews with Solondz and star Heather Matarazzo (2022) Todd Solondz's Suburban Nightmare: A visual essay by critic and author Hannah Strong on the film and its place within Solondz's work (2022) Audio commentary by BJ and Harmony Colangelo of This Ends at Prom podcast (2022) Trailer Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Welcome to the Dollhouse | Blu Ray | (06/03/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Junior high school student Dawn Wiener-dog Wiener is perpetually teased by her classmates and tormented by the school bully, Brandon. All she wants is to be popular and that would certainly help her emerging crush on the lead of her brother's garage band. Todd (Happiness) Solondz's celebrated coming-of-age comedy won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and young star Heather Matarazzo was awarded Best Debut Performance at the prestigious Independent Spirit Awards. Perfectly capturing the growing pains of youth and suburbia with startling intensity, Welcome to the Dollhouse was widely praised on release with Janet Maslin of the New York Times describing it as a mordantly hilarious suburban comedy - excruciatingly funny. Limited Edition Special Features High-Definition digital transfer of the film with uncompressed original stereo audio Interviews with Solondz and star Heather Matarazzo (2022) Todd Solondz's Suburban Nightmare: A visual essay by critic and author Hannah Strong on the film and its place within Solondz's work (2022) Audio commentary by BJ and Harmony Colangelo of This Ends at Prom podcast (2022) Trailer Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters Booklet featuring new writing by critics A. S. Amrah and Molly Lambert, archival writing by Solondz and Julian Murphet and extracts from contemporary writing on the film

• Palindromes | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Thirteen-year-old Aviva wants to be a Mom - and will go to any lengths to realise her dream.

• UFC: The Ultimate Fighter Live - Team Cruz vs Team Faber | DVD | (17/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

• 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 Bruce | DVD | (14/06/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Welcome To The Dollhouse | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £27.49   |  Saving you £-11.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Not all girls want to play with dolls. Todd Solendz became the most talked-about new director in recent years with this acclaimed comedy about the suburban condition. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 1996 Welcome To The Dollhouse follows 11-year old Dawn ""Wienerdog"" Weiner (Heather Matarazzo) a junior high geek who just wants to be popular. Teased by her classmates tormented by the school bully Dawn develops an improbable plan to

• From The Life Of The Marionettes | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made in Munich while Bergman was in self-imposed exile from Sweden, From the Life of the Marionettes is not so much a "whodunit" as a "whydunnit". The film opens with the shockingly violent and senseless murder of a prostitute by Peter, a young, successful businessman. Through a series of non-chronological flashbacks to a time before the crime, we attempt to fathom just what impelled Peter to perpetrate this terrible murder. Along with wife Katarina, the character Peter also featured in Bergman's 1973 film Scenes from a Marriage. Here, as there, we see that they are wedded in the sense of being emotionally chained to each other, yet hating each other for their mutual dependency. There is also a perturbing scene in which they both appear to "get off" when he takes a knife to her throat. His cold and duplicitous psychiatrist glibly ascribes the murder to a repressed homosexuality resulting in a violent outburst, while Katarina's business partner, who is gay, appears to harbour a desire to sabotage the pair's marriage. This film has an airless, fake-lit quality about it, which reflects the conditions of the characters' lives but by the end, leaves you mesmerised and still uncertain as to why what happened has happened. A late but great Bergman work. On the DVD: This edition adequately enhances the stark monochrome in which most of the film is set. Bergman's notes reveal that his depictions of Peter in his psychiatric ward were based on his own behaviour during a recent spell in a similar institution following his arrest for tax evasion. Philip Strick's critical notes observe that the sparing use of colour at the beginning and end of the film signify what may have been the only times in Peter's life when he "experienced reality". --David Stubbs

• Soldier Of Orange | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on real events, Soldier of Orange tells the story of Dutchman Erik Lanshof (a star-making performance by Rutger Hauer) and a small group of students as they struggle to survive the Nazi occupation to the end of the Second World War. The destinies of the characters range from joining the German army to making for England, the OSS and the Resistance. Across a canvas lasting almost three hours director Paul Verhoeven unfolds a saga of friendship, espionage and romance with almost documentary realism--though not as graphically violent as his later American films the torture scenes are intense--crafting a deeply affecting film widely regarded as the greatest ever made in Holland. Comparable recent films such as Enigma (2001) and Charlotte Gray (2002) do not come close. Hauer is brilliant at the heart of what is a detailed and thoughtful drama made with integrity and passion. Co-star Jeroen Krabbé has gone onto a notable career in Hollywood, while Edward Fox and Susan Penhaligon provide more familiar faces for British audiences. The film is shot in Dutch, German and English and subtitled as necessary. Twenty years later Verhoeven made Starship Troopers in 1997, a satirical science-fiction companion to this modern European classic.--Gary S Dalkin

• UFC 128: Shogun vs Jones | DVD | (28/05/2013) from £12.93   |  Saving you £-3.94 (-43.80%)   |  RRP £8.99

  A Light heavyweight title bout pairing champion Mauricio Shogun Rua with the New Releases young phenom Jon Bones Jones along with a pivotal bantamweight duel pitting former WEC titleholder Urijah Faber and Eddie Wineland against one another. Also to pair up lightweights Edson Mendes Barboza Jr. Vs. Anthony Njokuani and Kurt Pellegrino vs. Glelson Tibau and a key bantamweight battle between Joseph Benavidez and Ian Loveland.

• UFC 132: Cruz vs Faber | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-3.14 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Main Card Bantamweight Championship Dominick Cruz vs Urijah Faber Wanderlei Silva vs Chris Leben Dennis Siver vs Matt Wiman Tito Ortiz vs Ryan Bader Carlos Condit vs Dong Hyun Kim Preliminary Card Melvin Guillard vs Shane Roller George Sotiropoulos vs Rafael Dos Anjos Brian Bowles vs Takeya Mizugaki Brad Tavares vs Aaron Simpson Anthony Njokuani vs Andre Winner Jeff Hougland vs Donny Walker Special Features: Weigh-In Show Countdown to UFC 132

• UFC 149: Faber vs Barao | DVD | (28/05/2013) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-16.29 (-203.90%)   |  RRP £7.99

• Das unheimliche Haus - Filmclub Edition 13 | DVD | (26/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A