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• 2000 Maniacs | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £10.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (23.13%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Available "fully uncut" for the first time in the UK, Two Thousand Maniacs! is the second of director HG Lewis' "blood" trilogy. Though the "once-in-a-lifetime" title makes a promise no film could keep--only about 30 maniacs show up--and the level of gore is a notch or so down from Blood Feast--only four deaths--this is perhaps the director's most watchable film. The Brigadoon-derived plot nugget concerns a Deep South town (variously suggested to be in Georgia or Arkansas, but actually Florida) wiped out by Union raiders during the Civil War, which reappears once every 100 years to wreak "blood vengeance". For the centennial celebrations, Pleasant Valley lures Yankee tourists off the road and subjects them to gruesome fairground games--a cannibal BBQ, a "horse-race", a "barrel roll" and "teetering rock". The ideas are nasty, and Lewis even attempts subtlety by keeping the quartering and the spiked barrel inside mostly off screen, but the creepiest touch is the "aw-shucks" good humour with which the ghostly Confederate maniacs--led by a mayor who is the spitting image of Sergeant Bilko's Colonel Hall--treat their horrible sport. It has the usual Lewis drawbacks--mostly inept staging, acting that veers between the wooden ("Playmate" Connie Mason) and the amateurishly hammy (one of the worst child actors in film history), clumsy editing, community theatre production values--but his fans wouldn't have it any other way and the hayseed music is great! On the DVD: The full-screen image is as good as this ever will look, considering Lewis' primitive understanding of lighting cinematography, with rich scarlet blood, vividly ugly 1963 leisurewear and very few print imperfections. The features offer an imaginative "Welcome to Pleasant Valley Centennial" menu, with buttons like the target you have to hit to drop the "teetering rock" on the Yankee; lurid original trailer ("Two thousand maniacs crazed for carnage started bathing a whole town in pulsing, human blood ... brutal, evil, ghastly beyond belief"); filmographies for Lewis, Friedman and star William Kerwin (aka Thomas Wood); promotional art gallery; notes by aptly-monickered expert Billy Chainsaw, highlighting the connections with John Waters and Brigadoon; a teaser trailer for "the Herschell Gordon Lewis Collection"; a mass of trailers for other "Tartan terror" titles. The Lewis-Friedman commentary and mind-numbing outtakes reel available on the Region 1 DVD are sadly absent, but that release doesn't have this one's major bonus addition--the entire soundtrack album, with compositions by Lewis himself (including the immortal "Yee-Hah, the South's Gonna Rise Again") and Flatt and Scruggs (of Bonnie and Clyde fame). --Kim Newman

• Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons - Vol. 4 - Episodes 19 To 24 | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £4.89   |  Saving you £11.10 (226.99%)   |  RRP £15.99

  First broadcast in 1967, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons was the most grown-up of all Gerry Anderson's SuperMarionation adventures. There are gadgets and toy-friendly machines galore, of course--like the Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle, the Angel Aircraft and Cloudbase itself--but, unlike the colourful fantasies of Stingray and Thunderbirds, this series' concern with an implacable, vengeful enemy, conspiracies and double-agents drew its inspiration from James Bond and the Cold War spy dramas of the 1960s. Special effects whiz Derek Meddings imbues the action sequences with a truly Bondian grandeur and, like the sinister Spectre of the Bond films, the Martian Mysterons seem all the more hostile for their unseen presence, their agents infiltrating every organisation dedicated to their destruction just as it seemed the Soviets were doing at the time. The indestructible Captain Scarlet is killed then resurrected every week (though not like South Park's Kenny), and more often than not the unstoppable Mysterons emerge triumphant, and always undefeated. The varied cast of Spectrum agents and their voice characterisations also aim at verisimilitude (Captain Scarlet, voiced by Francis Matt hews, sounds like a grim Cary Grant), while the puppetry is more realistic than ever. Now with newly remastered picture and Dolby 5.1 surround sound, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons still looks and sounds like the epitome of 60s cool. --Mark Walker

• Talons Of The Eagle | DVD | (21/05/2002) from £7.50   |  Saving you £-3.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Two cops each trained in martial arts investigate the murder of fellow agents...

• He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe - Vol. 7 (Animated) (DVD) | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  ""By the power of Greyskull! I have the power!!!"" Six more episodes from the adventure of Adam Prince of Eternia as he tries to keep his alter ego of He-Man secret when defending his planet from the evil Skeletor...

• Meantime | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Meantime centres on a East End family the Pollacks - Mavis Frank and their sons Mark and Colin - and their experience of unemployment poverty and life in early 1980s Britain. When Colin comes under the influence of skinhead Coxy and when Mavis's better off sister Barbara offers Colin work family tensions erupt into conflict. Mike Leigh's first independent film for five years has a superb cast of rising stars including Gary Oldman Alfred Molina Tim Roth and Phil Daniels. First shown on television it is a memorable and closely observed account of life in Thatcher's Britain.

• Ring Of Steel | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £12.11   |  Saving you £-3.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It only takes one fatal flash of a broken blade to trap a young man in the arena of death where victory is bought with blood and the greatest reward will be living to fight another day... Unknown to Alex Freyer after accidentally killing his opponent in a fencing match his every move is being watched by a man with deadly ambitions. A man who presides over The Ring Of Steel an underground 'club' where the rich and powerful bet for the highest stakes: other men's lives...

• The Buddy Holly Story | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £13.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Buddy holly laid the foundations for a generation of popular music with his ground-breaking combination of Country Music and Rhythm & Blues. This film tells his story from it's explosive beginning to it's tragic end with Gary Busey giving and electrifying Oscar Nominated performance as the genius from Lubbock Texas who changed the tune of Rock 'N' Roll.

• The Virginian - Six Shooter Collection | DVD | (20/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The rustle of sagebrush and hot desert sands; pounding cattle hooves and rifle-shot echo. In a time when the West was still wild, a man came to Medicine Bow, Wyoming and they called him The Virginian.Filmed entirely in colour, The Virginian starred Lee J. Cobb as Judge Garth, owner of the Shiloh Ranch, and James Drury in the title role as his foreman with ranch hands Trampas played by Doug McClure and Steve Hill played by Gary Clark.The cast was completed by Roberta Shore in the role of Betsy, the judge's daughter. The Six-Shooter Collection comprises the first six episodes ever broadcast, and features many guest stars including George C. Scott, Colleen Dewhurst, Jack Warden and Ricardo Montalban.The Virginian stands as a great American western; not afraid to take on hard-hitting issues - and not afraid to throw a few punches for the fun of it too.

• Sleeping With Strangers | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Struggling hotel owner Daniel MacTavish may not know a rocker from a rocking chair but he is very clear about one thing... Ever since a stretched Limo stopped in front of his place and a sloshed rock god and poultry movie goddess stepped out Daniel's little known hotel has become big news! Who's doing what to whom and how - an inquiring media want to know. And in the spinning merry-go-round of mix-up and boudoir bedlam involving the celebrities their entourage Daniel's fiancee

• The Knackery | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set in the very near future The Knackery is the latest hard hitting feature film from Belfast's leading independent production house Yellow Fever Productions (makers of the award winning Battle Of The Bone). All is not as it seems on the country's most watched family game-show... Reality television has taken things to the extreme and given the public The Knackery a show where six contestants fight for the grand prize of 'one million pounds'. To liven things up the producers of the show release a horde of genetically modified zombies which puts a little bit more pressure on the fighters in this Big Brother style beat-em-up. As an undercover reporter tries to scoop the story he's been waiting for he soon comes across a kid who has entered the arena unaware of the consequences. Seeing this as another excuse for higher ratings the shows producers announce their new contestant as they witness the fighting skills of the youngster against others - but as the fighters get killed off things take a turn for the worse leaving the reporter and kid to team up against some very tough opponents... human and not-so-human. Six contestants... One million quid... And a sh*t load of zombies!

• Predator 2 | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £11.30   |  Saving you £-1.31 (-13.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Last time it landed in the jungle. This time it's chosen Los Angeles. Ravaged by open warfare between rival drug gangs L.A. is the perfect killing ground for the Predator who is drawn by heat and conflict. When the police find mutilated bodies Lieutenant Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) thinks it's the work of the feuding gangs. Then a mysterious government agent (Gary Busey) arrives and orders him to stay off the case. Instead Harrigan sets out to learn what is really going on and comes face to face with the savage alien in a climatic electrifying confrontation...

• Baby Bright - Baby Bright And The Farm | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A scientific approach to baby development by Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith that's a great deal of fun for your tot! Includes parential guide.

• Bram Stoker's Dracula --Superbit | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula and fashions a modern masterpiece. It follows the tortured journey of the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian Prince (Gary Oldman) as he moves from Eastern Europe to 19th century London in search of his long lost Elisabeta who is reincarnated as the beautiful Mina (Winona Ryder)...

• Allen Jones: Women and Men | DVD | (14/05/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Allen Jones has produced some of the most startling and zestful images of the past five decades. His is a world of iconic women done up to the nines immaculately seductive a world in which glamour is a given where roles switch to the beat and passions flower in searing colour. His work be it painting sculpture or print has in turn; ushered in the British Pop Art movement of the late fifties; challenged Warhol and Lichtenstein on their home turf in New York; been the target of Feminist anger in the 1970's and has developed into a mature style which delights collectors and gallery goers around the world. However the man and his methods remain a mystery; this film explores the artist and his work with help from his only sitter Prima Ballerina Darcey Bussell his wife Deirdre Morrow artist Gary Hume and of course Allen Jones himself.

• True Romance (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Two lovers (Christian Slater Patricia Arquette) are thrust into a dangerous game of high-stakes negotiations and high-speed adventure. The pair come into unexpected possession of a suitcase of mob contraband. Fleeing to Los Angeles they hope to sell the goods and begin a new life. But both sides of the law have other ideas...

• Bikini Bandits | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £21.84   |  Saving you £-2.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bikini Bandits' is a slick fashionable avant-garde mix of satire porn and violence that will have anyone over 18 years of age jumping for joy! With 9 separate 15 minute episodes plus the full length feature 'Freeze Motherf*ckers' this is Charlie's Angels for grown-ups!

• Bram Stoker's Dracula | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.90

  Love Never Dies Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula to create a modern masterpiece. It follows the tortured journey of the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian Prince (Gary Oldman) as he moves from Eastern Europe to 19th century London in search of his long lost Elisabeta who is reincarnated as the beautiful Mina (Winona Ryder)...

• Oliver Stone Collection | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  Director Oliver Stone is celebrated in this four-film, six-disc box set collection that includes two-disc "director's cut" versions JFK and Any Given Sunday respectively, plus Heaven and Earth and the documentary Oliver Stone's America. JFK is that rarest of things, a modern Hollywood drama which credits the audience with intelligence. Epic in length--this 198-minute director's cut runs 17 minutes longer than the cinema version--Oliver Stone's film has the archetypal story, visual scale and substance to match; not just a gripping real-life conspiracy thriller, but a fable for the fall of the American dream. Stone's DVD commentary is thoughtful, eloquent and considered. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack and the anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 picture are both first-class. The second disc contains 53 minutes of deleted and extended versions of scenes, all of which are available with or without commentary by Stone, a 10-minute video interview with the real "X", and a half-hour examination of documents only declassified in the wake of the film's release. Any Given Sunday is a massive 150-minute American football drama which, for all its ferocity and cynicism, is as soft-centred and clichéd as any Rocky-style underdogs-make-good crowd-pleaser. This is the director's cut with Stone's commentary ranging far and wide: he is far more interesting and thought-provoking to listen to than his film is to watch. The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 image and Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack are both flawless. The loaded second DVD includes Jamie Foxx's audition video, a routine 27-minute making-of documentary, music videos, outtakes set to music, and 33 minutes of deleted/alternative scenes with optional commentary from Stone. DVD-ROM and other features complete an exceptional package. Heaven and Earth follows Platoon (1986) and Born of the Fourth of July (1989) to conclude Stone's Vietnam War trilogy. Where Stone won Best Director Oscars for both previous films, Heaven and Earth proved a box-office disaster and went unrecognised by the Academy. It's hard not to think that racism underlay the commercial failure, for where the hit movies addressed the sufferings of white American soldiers played by Hollywood stars, Heaven and Earth focused on the fundamental victims, adapting the true story of a young Vietnamese woman, Le Ly, who goes from village girl to freedom fighter to wife of a US marine struggling to adjust to life in America to reconciliation in Vietnam. Superbly made, with a stunning performance by Hiep Thi Le as Le Ly, and powerful support from Tommy Lee Jones, this is intelligent, harrowing filmmaking which attempts to understand and bridge the divide between nations traumatised by war. Unfortunately heavily cut to bring it down to a multiplex-friendly running time, the often brilliant 135 minutes on show suggest a longer modern classic ended-up on the cutting room floor. The DVD features an incisive commentary by Stone, who alone of major Hollywood directors fought in Vietnam. Confirming that Heaven and Earth was heavily cut is the inclusion of 48 minutes of deleted/extended scenes, including a vastly extended 22-minute opening, Dolby Digital 5.1 sound and anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 picture are excellent. Oliver Stone's America is a 53-minute interview in which Stone talks candidly about his films, concentrating on the trio included in the Oliver Stone Collection, firing off considered opinions at a rapid rate. Also included is Stone's student film, Last Year in VietNam, clearly influenced by the French New Wave in general and L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961) in particular. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Singing Kettle - Toy Town | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A non-stop fun-packed singalong adventure - Cilla as a doll Artie as a soldier Gary as a spaceman and Kevin as a cowboy have arrived in Toytown dressed for the occasion. However there's work to do to get everything ready for the arrival of the Mayor. The Town Hall clock counts down as the Singing Kettle try to locate the coloured kettles and find the clues to enter the amazing world of Toytown! ""Spout handle lid of metal there's lots of fun with The Singing Kettle!"" Includes the songs: Toytown Dreams Calamity Cowboys Push The Damper In Bonzo's Rhyme Time Everyone Likes A Nursery Rhyme Leap Frog Brooom! Nobody Loves Me Pavements are for People Burping Bears My Teddy Bear Toys Toys Toys.

• Death In Small Doses | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £6.28   |  Saving you £-4.29 (-215.60%)   |  RRP £1.99

  When successful Dallas architect Nancy Lyon died in agony from arsenic poisoning it seemed that no-one could unravel the mystery surrounding her death; someone was about to get away with murder. However District Attorney Jerry Sims is determined to find the truth... Based on a true story.