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• Amores Perros | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's striking Amores Perros is the film Pulp Fiction might have been if Quentin Tarantino were as interested in people as movies. A car crash in Mexico City entwines three stories: in one car is Octavio, who has been entering his dog in fights to get enough money run off with his sister-in-law Susana; in the other car is Valeria, a supermodel who's just moved in with her lover Daniel, who has left his wife for her. As Valeria struggles to recover from her injuries her beloved dog is lost under the floor of the new apartment. Professor-turned-revolutionary El Chivo, who has been living as a derelict/assassin after a long prison sentence, rescues Octavio's injured dog from the crash. All three learn lessons about their lives from the dogs. Amores Perros opens with chaos, as Octavio and a friend drive away from the latest dogfight with the injured canine on the back seat and enemies in hot pursuit, then hops back, forward and sideways in time. It's a risky device, delaying crucial plot information for over an hour, but the individual stories, which weave in and out of each other with true-life untidiness, are so gripping you'll be happy to go along with them before everything becomes clear. Inarritu is a real find, a distinctive and subtle voice who upends all your expectations of Mexican filmmaking by shifting confidently from raw, on-the-streets violent emotion to cool, upper-middle-class desperation. A uniformly impressive cast create a gallery of unforgettable characters, some with only brief snippet-like scenes, others--such as Emilio Echevarria as the shaggy tramp with hidden depths--by sheer presence. On the DVD: The anamorphic presentation, augmented for 16:9 TV, is of a pristine print and shows off the imaginative cinematography (with non-removable yellow English sub-titles). The soundtrack is Dolby Digital 5.1 and there are 15-minutes' worth of additional scenes with commentary by Inarritu and writer Guillermo Arriaga (evidently the surviving trace of an entire feature commentary available on a Mexican DVD release), explaining why they were cut. With a behind-the-scenes featurette, a poster gallery, three related pop videos (two by Inarritu) and the trailer (and trailers for other Optimum releases) the special features offer a more than adequate addition to Amores Perros. --Kim Newman

• Can't Buy Me Love | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £15.86   |  Saving you £-0.87 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Nowhere-man Ronny Miller is secretly in love with Cindy Mancini the foxiest most popular girl on campus. When Cindy finds herself in a desperate predicament Ronny steps in to save the day...for a price! Cindy must pose as his girlfriend so that her popularity might rub off on him. What results is a hilarious yet touching series of complications as Ronny and Cindy discover that teenage love and friendship can still survive despite the hassles of peer pressure.

• Apocalypto | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When his idyllic existence is brutally disrupted by an invading force, a man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear where a harrowing end awaits him.

• El Topo | Blu Ray | (02/08/2021) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A mind-blowing 'acid-western' which shocked and bedazzled audiences upon its controversial original release, El Topo single-handedly invented the American midnight movie phenomenon... Jodorowsky's most violent and notorious film sees the director play 'The Mole' of the title: a black-clad. master gunfighter. In the first half, El Topo journeys across the desert dreamscape with his young son (Brontis Jodorowsky) to duel with four sharp-shooting Zen masters, who each bestow a Great Lesson before they die. In the second half, El Topo becomes the guru of a subterranean tribe of deformed outcasts who he must liberate from depraved cultists in a neighbouring town. A countercultural masterpiece that ingeniously combines iconic Americana symbolism with Jodorowsky's own idiosyncratic surrealist aesthetic, El Topo is an incredible journey through nightmarish violence, mind-bending mysticism and awe-inspiring imagery. This era-defining film is now presented in a stunning new 4K restoration with a wealth of newly produced and archival extras. Special Features: New 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative approved by Alejandro Jodorowsky High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation in 1.85:1 and 1.37:1 original aspect ratios Uncompressed mono 1.0 LPCM audio and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Original Spanish and English soundtracks Newly translated English, Spanish and French subtitles Audio commentary by Alejandro Jodorowsky Jodorowsky remembers El Topo, newly filmed interview filmed in Paris A Conversation with The Son of El Topo, a newly filmed, extensive interview with Brontis Jodorowsky who stars in El Topo The Father of Midnight Movies, an archival interview with Jodorowsky filmed in 2007 Original trailer Image galleries

• El Mariachi / Desperado / Once Upon A Time In Mexico | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  There's plenty of guns and a few explosions as bodies fly through the air and crash into tables and fruit stands. Once Upon a Time in Mexico, like all Robert Rodriguez movies, is all about the kinetic kick of high-velocity action. Johnny Depp, blasé and whimsical, plays a CIA agent who's drawn guitar-playing gun-slinger Antonio Banderas (long black hair flopping over his face like the ears of a Labrador puppy) into a ridiculously convoluted plot to overthrow the Mexican government. Along for the ride are a craggy-faced rogue's gallery including Willem Dafoe, Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo, Ruben Blades, and (to balance things out) the smooth, tantalising complexions of Eva Mendes and Salma Hayek. For sheer trashy fun, Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a step down from its predecessor, but Desperado set the bar pretty high. For coherent storytelling, look elsewhere, but for action razzle-dazzle, this is your movie. Rodriguez's complete trilogy--El Mariachi, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico--can also be found in one DVD box set--Bret Fetzer

• Always Say Yes | DVD | (22/07/2019) from £13.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Colors | DVD | (09/07/2001) from £8.14   |  Saving you £4.85 (59.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Directed by Dennis Hopper, Colors is a superior 1988 action movie set among the street gangs of LA that teams up Robert Duvall as Hodges, the elder cop, with young hothead partner Danny McGavin (Sean Penn). Investigating a murderous feud between the “Bloods” and the “Crips”, Duvall attempts to impress upon the impetuous Penn the value of a more cautious, easy-going approach in dealing with gang members, rather than trying to charge in among them. The film as a whole was one of the first to take a serious, unromantic and unstereotypical look at gang culture, at how youngsters are sucked into it, how few options are actually open to these macho hoodlums and how little they have in the way of family, community and stability other than the gangs. The partnership between Penn and Duvall by contrast, though well played, is pretty much the standard old cop/young cop set-up, right down to Duvall’s frequent, ominous remarks about how close he is to retirement. While the action is sometimes disjointed and the relationships between the gangs at times confused, it at least helps to dispel the usual Hollywood good vs. evil dynamic. Instead, there’s a more ambient sense of violence, desperation, retribution and recrimination. Penn’s doomed relationship with a “homegirl” indicates that while the LAPD may capture a few felons, they’ve little chance of capturing the hearts and minds of the criminalised poor. Later films such as John Singleton’s Boyz 'n the Hood (1991) would go further in exploring how life looks from the gangsta perspective.On the DVD: The films is presented in an anamorphic 16:9 widescreen version, with the usual chapter and language selections. The only other feature is the original, detailed but run-of-the-mill trailer. --David Stubbs

• The Red Monks | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A beautiful young woman is charmed into a loveless marriage by a dashing aristocrat. But life at the old mansion is not all that it seems and this is not a Mills & Boon style romantic tale. The barred and gated crypt below the ancient house contains a deadly secret. Mysterious events lead to head rolling revelations about a secret cult known as The Red Monks. But who's past is more deadly?

• El Crimen Del Padre Amaro | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £5.85   |  Saving you £15.40 (335.51%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mam Tambin Amores Perros) stars as a recently ordained priest sent to help an aging priest run a small parish church in rural Mexico. Upon arriving at his new post he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession. Quickly her passion for her faith becomes helplessly entangled in a growing attraction to the new priest. But when the handsome priest crosses the line that separates temptation from sin he finds himself torn

• These Peculiar Days | DVD | (09/12/2019) from £12.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mexican comedy drama written and directed by Chucho E. Quintero. The film follows eight adolescents as they celebrate finishing high school with a remote weekend getaway together. However, clashes between former lovers cause tensions to run high as new romantic relationships are formed and the awkward teens, unsure of their place in the world, each begin to explore their sexuality in different ways.

• Real Women Have Curves | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £11.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (16.78%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Real women take chances have flaws embrace life... Should Ana leave home go to college and experience life? Or stay home get married and keep working in her sister's struggling garment factory? It may seem like an easy decision but for 18 year-old Ana every choice she makes this summer will change her life. At home she is bound to a mother who wants her to become someone she's not. But at school she's encouraged by a teacher who sees her potential and adored by a boyfr

• Naked Lies | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An undercover agent (Tweed) is sent on a covert operation in Mexico. She has a gun virtually no back-up and no way out. She uses all her weapons including her brains and body against a playboy counterfeiter and his sadistic henchman...

• El Bonaerense | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £7.33   |  Saving you £12.66 (172.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Zapa is a young locksmith who works in a quiet sleepy part of Buenos Aires. Life is slow and the hours pass slowly untill one day he is sent on a job opening a safe in an office only to find that the next day he is arrested for robbing the establishment. His uncle bails him out and suddenly he has a new job a new love interest and his life has become stranger than fiction....

• Night Of The Bloody Apes | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A doctor tries to save his dying son by performing a heart transplant only he uses the heart of an ape... with disastrous results. This Mexican schlock horror film manages to combine female wrestling extreme and ludicrous violence with blue pyjamas torn blue dresses and naked shower romps invloving some highly original simian seduction techniques! 'Night Of The Bloody Apes' was banned as an official Video Nasty in the 1980s for its extreme gore sex and violence.

• Cabaret Voltaire - Live At The Hacienda 83/86 | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two stunning shows from Cabaret Voltaire at Manchester's legendary Hacienda club. Tracks include: Intro 24/24 In The Shadows Get Level (Version) Over And Over Talking Time Animation Product Patrol Crackdown Dream Ticket Trouble Hell's Home Just Fascination We Got Heart Piledriver Kino Hey Hey I Want You Sex Money Freaks Shakedown (The Whole Thing)

• Night of the Bloody Apes - Scanavo Full-Sleeve Box - Limitiert auf 777 Stück (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (13/11/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• El Violin | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £14.56   |  Saving you £3.43 (19.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Plutarco his son Genaro and grandson Lucio lead double lives. On the one hand they are simple country musicians and on the other they actively support the peasant guerilla movement against the oppressive government. When the army occupies the village the rebels are forced to flee and leave their ammunition behind. Making the most of the fact that he looks like an inoffensive violinist Plutarco has a planto recover the munitions hidden in his cornfield. His music enratures the captain but he still has to get his hand on the ammunition.

• Once Upon A Time In Mexico Superbit | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Antonio Banderas returns as the mythic guitar slinging hero El Mariachi in director Robert Rodriguez' sequel to "Desperado."

• The Red Monks | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-2.44 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £6.99

  A newlywed couple move into a old castlebefore long the wife becomes suspicious of her husbands constant disappearences into the environs of their new home and decides to investigate. What she discovers is much more than she bargained for-as she comes face to face with an ancient evil cult of devil worshipping monks. Descendants of the Knights Templar this secret society of Satanists perform their diabolical rituals in the castles' catacombs and seek out the blood of virgins to complete their sacrificial killings.

• Cecilia | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £14.92   |  Saving you £0.07 (0.47%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Cecilia: Cecilia Valdes