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• The Butcher's Wife | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £8.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (37.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Marina (Demi Moore), a blonde Southern belle with a clairvoyant streak, sees signs--a shooting star with two tails, a snowglobe that washes up on the beach, a wedding band inside of a fish--telling her that her true love is about to come ashore. And soon enough, a boat lands on the beach in front of her home; only the guy inside is a stout butcher from New York City named Leo (George Dzundza). Still, portents are portents, and the next thing you know she's married and running barefoot around a butcher's shop in Greenwich Village, where she inspires various residents with her predictions. Leo, however, is frightened by his wife's abilities and encourages her to see Alex (Jeff Daniels), a psychiatrist who works across the street. To placate him, she does--and soon begins to suspect that she's misread her signs and married the wrong man. The Butcher's Wife could use a little more humour about Marina's powers (her pronouncements are dizzyingly earnest) but the movie is buoyed up by a fantastic supporting cast, particularly Margaret Colin as a soap opera actress, Frances McDormand as a lesbian dress shop owner and Mary Steenburgen as a dowdy church choir leader who just wants to sing the blues. Like Marina, you know what's going to happen but the cast manages to make getting there charming. --Bret Fetzer

• Metallica - Aural Amphetamine | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  While Heavy Metal is often accused of being static and conservative in truth it is a radical form that regularly re-invents itself and one which attracts generation after generation of musicians willing to learn from the past but hungry to evolve the future. And so it was that in the early 1980s a young man called Lars Ulrich was so taken by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal then creating music paper headlines in the UK that he came to England to track down obscure records take them home to LA and with his buddies listen to them - until they came up with a genre of their own soon be termed Thrash Metal. This film is a study and review of this new dawn in rock music and with the aid of those who were there at the time presents both the story of this fascinating musical journey and reassess the sounds the bands the impact and the legacy of Thrash. Contains interviews with members of Metallica Megadeth Machine Head Diamond Head Elixir Neurosis Laaz Rockit Sacrilege BC and others. Performance footage of all the pivotal Thrash bands review and re-assessment from journalists Malcolm Dome Lonn Friend and Joel McIver.