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• The Red Violin | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  François Girard's The Red Violin (1998) is a good-looking but ultimately insubstantial piece from a director who seems more concerned with tone, colour and style than narrative coherence. The film traces the story of a violin originally made in 17th-century Italy, which is taken to an 18th-century monastery to be played by a child prodigy. The violin later comes into the hand of a virtuoso in 19th-century Oxford, from there to China in the Cultural Revolution and on to Montreal, where--before it can be auctioned--it is "acquired"' by Samuel L Jackson. Unfortunately, none of these stories make much of an impression: the episode in Oxford is particularly weak, with Greta Scacchi wasted, and the film is even less than the sum of its parts. Jackson is completely miscast as an expert on musical instruments, even if a criminal one. To be frank, this is a poor effort, though well photographed and with a pleasing score by composer John Corigliano performed by violinist Joshua Bell. On the DVD:The disc contains a theatrical trailer but no other features. The soundtrack is excellent, in Dolby Surround. The image is equally good, in a 1.78:1 anamorphic print. --Ed Buscombe

• The Heirloom | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sometimes inheritance is a curse. Twenty years ago an inexplicable mass suicide occurred in the millionaire Yang household. The entire clan hung themselves at the exact same hour place and height. Only one member survived. To this day the case remains unsolved. Twenty years later distant relative James inherits the Yang house moving in with his girlfriend Yo a dancer who aspires to study in the U.S. To celebrate the engagement they invite their friends Yi-Chen and Ah-Tseng to their new home and stay the night. As supernatural events begin to take place James and Yo discover the eccentricities of the house including a mysterious fourth floor. Delving deep into history James and Yo find out that the Yang fortune was built with the aid of dead babies fed on blood and refused the opportunity to reincarnate. Raising child ghosts may bring great fortune but at the same time great doom. From here on James and Yo unearth more secrets about the Yang family - and even about James himself - until they confront the evil dwelling on the fourth floor...

• Demon Strike | DVD | (22/12/2003) from £11.68   |  Saving you £-5.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A must have for any kung fu fan - watch as Hwang Jang-Lee and Leung Ka Yan battle it out for the first and only time in their prolific careers.

• Las Vegas Warrior | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The bosses control everything in this underground world where modern day gladiators fight for the entertainment and unrelenting addiction of the gambling and audience. When a female journalist and her team are given an assignment in Las Vegas to investigate a brutal new martial arts competition they are less than enthusiastic. But when one of the fighters is killed in competition her instincts are to research and report on the seedy and violent world of real-life fight clubs and the