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• Dead Presidents | DVD | (13/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Twin brother codirectors Albert and Alan Hughes planned their first film, the 1991 ghetto crime drama Menace II Society as a response to John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood, which they considered wimpy and moralistic. They set their sights on The Deer Hunter in this ambitious follow-up, and they just about pull it off. Larenz Tate (from Why Do Fools Fall in Love) plays Anthony Curtis, an open-hearted African American teenager who gets shipped out to Vietnam with several of his pals, witnesses unspeakable horrors and then struggles to readjust to civilian life. The evolving textures of life in a declining inner-city neighbourhood over a period of a decade are seamlessly evoked and there's enough nuanced character development and personal interaction for a seven-hour miniseries. Still in their early 20s, the Hughes brothers are already poised and masterful movie makers; they cover an enormous amount of historical and emotional ground and every twist and turn is crystal clear. They betray their inexperience only at the very end, in an elaborately staged heist sequence that, while stunningly executed, feels a bit desperate, as if they were reaching blindly for a big pay off. Chris Tucker (Rush Hour) has a startling supporting role as a kid who becomes a junkie during the war and never quite recovers. --David Chute

• The Last Match | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £8.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (43.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

• The Last Match | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £8.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Direct from its gala sold out premiere at the London Flare Festival The Last Match is an uncompromising and rare look at what happens when two boys fall in love against the backdrop of a repressive Cuban society. Reinier is a sexy rent boy working nights on the beat to make ends meet and spending his days on the soccer field. It is on the field where he meets and falls in love with Yovsani. Both are already in relationships with women and so develop an intense connection in secret. But as feelings get stronger so to do the obstacles threatening to tear them apart. A brilliantly evocative and emotional film The Last Match is not to be missed.