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• The Ages Of Lulu | DVD | (16/12/2002) from £9.32   |  Saving you £10.67 (114.48%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Ages of Lulu is a gruelling sexual odyssey from Spanish director Bigas Luna, made immediately prior to his popular trilogy Jamón, jamón (1992), Golden Balls (1993) and The Tit and the Moon (1994). Starting as the somewhat queasy story of the young Lulu's affair with the manipulative Pablo (Oscar Ladoire), the movie takes a much darker turn once they are wed. It is conventional cinematic wisdom that there's no such thing as sex after marriage, but here Lulu's husband incomprehensibly leads her into blindfolded incest, then is heartbroken when she reacts with disgust. Soon Lulu (superbly played by Francesca Neri from ingénue to hardened 30-something), is paying gay men for group sex, eventually becoming an unwilling attraction in a commercial sado-machochistic orgy. The closest most UK audiences will have come to this before is in Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) and Crimes of Passion (1984), and it is surely one of the most gut-churningly nightmarish scenes ever passed for home viewing. While Ages of Lulu may function as a reactionary warning against the wilder shores of sex, Luna's intention remains unsatisfyingly enigmatic, since the script is under-written and psychologically unconvincing. The end result is pretentious, repellent pornography which degrades human beings of any sexual persuasion. On the DVD: The Ages of Lulu is transferred at an anamorphically enhanced 1.78:1 and image quality is very good, though in some scenes very slightly soft. The film can be watched with or without English subtitles, and the sound is unremarkable stereo. The main extras are a seven-page essay on Bigas Luna and five pages detailing the now restored 110 seconds of cuts made to the 1998 video release. The main title still contains 65 seconds of alternate footage to the cinema original for legal reasons. Also included are filmographies of Lunas and Oscar Ladoire, two trailers plus trailers for six other films. --Gary S Dalkin

• Muck | Blu Ray | (21/09/2015) from £24.28   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A group of friends emerge from the darkness bloody and lucky to be alive. Having already lost two friends in the marsh they break into an empty vacation house to take shelter. Whatever was in the marsh is still after them but it’s not the only thing that wants them dead. Something much worse and more savage lays in wait. Trapped between two evils they’re forced to fight die or go back the way they came…

• CECILIA - MOVIE | DVD | (31/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• snoopy and friends - il film dei peanuts (3d) (blu-ray 3d+blu-ray) BluRay Italian Import | Blu Ray | (03/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dune - Der Wüstenplanet - Mediabook - Limited Special Edition (inkl. 2D-Version) (+ CD-Soundtrack) - Cover "Silver" | Blu Ray | (30/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A