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• Eureka | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This 220 minute beautifully composed black & white film explores a transcendent story of redemption. On what seemed to be a normal morning in southwest Japan a crazed killer apparently without motive hijacks a city bus. In the ensuing carnage only three people survive - the driver a schoolgirl and her older brother. After a long period away the traumatized bus driver returns to his family only to find his wife has left him. The two students have withdrawn further into silence si

• K.D. Lang - Harvest Of Seven Years - Cropped And Chronicled | DVD | (29/04/2000) from £20.34   |  Saving you £-5.35 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Featuring live performances music videos and candid moments at home with the groundbreaking songstress Harvest Of Seven Years is the ultimate video compilation of early k.d. lang. TRACK LISTING: 1. Friday Dance Promenade (Live) 2. Bopalena 3. Polly Ann 4. Pine & Stew (Live) 5. Hanky Panky 6. Johnny Get Angry 7. Don't Be A Lemming Polka 8. Pay Dirt (Live) 9. Turn Me Round 10. Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray (Live) 11. Crying 12. Turn Me Round (Live at the 1988 Win

• Salmonberries | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Acclaimed singer K D Lang makes and impressive acting debut in Percy Adlon's (Bagdad Caf'') moving tale of two lost souls searching for love. Stunningly shot in north-western Alaska the film sees Kothebue (Lang) an androgynous Alaskan pipeline worker search out her family origins in a small town library. There she meets Roswitha (Rosel Zech) a quiet East German who retreated to Alaska after her husband was shot escaping across the Berlin Wall. As the women help each other come to terms with their pasts Roswitha rejects a sexual relationship despite the obvious desire developing between them.

• Ironheart | DVD | (29/06/2015) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Starring martial arts legend Bolo Yeung (Game of Death). Ironheart tells the story of an LA cop called John Keem (Britton K Lee) looking for the criminal gang who murdered his partner. While in Portland investigating the case he gets involved with Milverstead (Richard Norton) who’s gang deal guns drugs and people traffic. Can Keem find the evidence he needs to bring Milverstead to justice and avenge the death of his partner? From Robert Clouse director of Enter the Dragon Ironheart is an action packed martial arts adventure featuring some amazing fight action

• Spider-Man -- Superbit | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Spider-Man returns to battle a host of new baddies in the third adventure based on the popular comic book hero.

• Steve-O - Out On Bail | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £3.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (51.65%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Join Steve-O and the 'Jackass' crew for a third helping of insane stunts in by far the most offensive offering from Steve-O to date. Filmed in 12 different countries this video features all of the naughty behaviour that got Steve-O arrested in Sweden footage from the sell-out UK tour plus a whole bunch of other crap! Yeah dude!

• The Castle Of Cagliostro | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The delightful 1979 adventure yarn The Castle of Cagliostro was the first international hit for Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro). Quick-paced, high-spirited and loaded with wit, Cagliostro is a dandy throwback to the caper pictures of the 1960s. International man of mystery Lupin III stumbles back into the picturesque European duchy of Cagliostro with his faithful and gruff sidekick, Jigen. They will encounter, in no particular order, a runaway bride, a magical ring, an evil count with a dastardly plan, an inspector bent on catching Lupin, perilous rooftop chases, hooded guards with superhuman powers, a well-used dungeon, a counterfeiting scheme, and an ancient mystery promising grand treasure. Lupin deploys an array of Bond-type gadgets, razor-sharp wit, and a surprise up both his sleeves. Despite the hail of bullets, this caper is great fun, never taking itself seriously. Miyazaki's career illustrates how limiting the term animé can be for these films; there are hardly more than 10 live-action films of this genre as entertaining. Far less mean than Hollywood fare, it nevertheless is for ages nine and up since it contains adult-orientated language and gunplay. The Lupin character has been featured in other animé films, but never as successfully or with as much fun as in Miyazaki's. The new English-language dubbing is excellent to boot. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

• Runaway Train | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £21.35   |  Saving you £-3.37 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Manny (Voight) is the toughest convict in a remote Alaskan prison who along with fellow inmate Buck (Roberts) makes a daring breakout. Hopping a freight train they head full-steam for freedom but when the engineer dies of a heart attack they find themselves trapped alone and speeding toward certain disaster. Until that is they discover a third passenger beautiful railway worker (Rebecca De Mornay) who's just as desperate and just as determined to survive as they are!

• Groove | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £11.58   |  Saving you £8.41 (72.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Parties are not always as fun as they look like they should be. Case in point: Groove. The distinction lies in the realm between watching people have fun and actually having fun. Set in San Francisco over the course of one night, this is the story of a rave, plain and simple. Preparation includes inhabiting an empty warehouse, finding the power supply and sending out coded invitations. The film kicks in as the party does, when people start arriving and the DJs start spinning. There's a nice moment early on when a cop shows up asking for the owner of the building, who is then taken on a tour of "a new Internet start-up". It becomes even funnier when the cop turns out to be smarter and more compassionate than anyone would expect. Writer-director Greg Harrison cleverly focuses the story on David, a novice who's never been to a rave before, which breaks the story out of what could have been the suffocating, insular world of rave culture. Unknowingly dosed by someone, David is adopted by Layla, an attractive but lonely East Coaster who has begun to regret her party lifestyle. Other characters include a guy who's just proposed to his girlfriend, a college teaching assistant selling his own manufactured drugs, a DJ who gets to meet his idol and a gay couple having trouble finding the party. If the characters turn out to be just character types, that's OK because the film itself floats by on its own high-octane enthusiasm. Groove is light and frothy entertainment with a beat you can dance to. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com

• Spider-Man 2 | UMD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Meet Joe Black / The Mexican | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Meet Joe Black: Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) has it all success wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger Joe Black (Brad Pitt) who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time Bill agrees to serve as Joe's earthly guide. But will he regret his choice when Joe unexpectedly falls in love with Bill's beautiful daughter Susan (Claire Forlani)? The Mexican: Brad Pitt stars as Jerry Welbach a small-time loser who is given no choice but to run an errand for a powerful boss (Bob Balaban) who will have him killed if he fails. But if he accepts the job to go to San Miguel to pick up the beautiful handcrafted gun known as the Mexican his loud demanding girlfriend Samantha (Roberts) will leave him and move to Vegas. But through a course of bizarre events his contact is shot in the top of his head the gun is stolen and Sam is kidnapped and held hostage by a hired killer (James Gandolfini) who is not all that he seems...

• Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £9.37   |  Saving you £13.61 (213.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The skilful blending of drawn animation and computer-generated imagery excited anime fans when this science fiction mystery was released in 1995: many enthusiasts believe Ghost suggests what the future of anime will be, at least in the short term. The film is set in the not-too-distant future, when an unnamed government uses lifelike cyborgs or "enhanced" humans for undercover work. One of the key cyborgs is The Major, Motoko Kusanagi, who resembles a cross between The Terminator and a Playboy centrefold. She finds herself caught up in a tangled web of espionage and counterespionage as she searches for the mysterious superhacker known as "The Puppet Master." Mamoru Oshii directs with a staccato rhythm, alternating sequences of rapid-fire action (car chases, gun battles, explosions) with static dialogue scenes that allow the characters to sort out the vaguely mystical and rather convoluted plot. Kusanagi's final quote from I Corinthians suggests that electronic evolution may compliment and eventually supplant organic evolution. The minor nudity, profanity, and considerable violence would earn Ghost in the Shell at least a PG rating. --Charles Solomon

• Spider-Man | UMD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Marvel comics' most famous superhero in the bggest movie of 2002!

• Death In Small Doses | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £5.49   |  Saving you £0.50 (9.11%)   |  RRP £5.99

  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.

• Branded To Kill | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seijun Suzuki's absolutely mad yakuza movie Branded to Kill bends the hit-man genre so out-of-shape it more resembles a Luis Bunuel take on Martin Scorsese. Number Three killer Goro Hanada (Jo Shishido) is a hired gun who loves his work, but when he misses a target after a mere butterfly sets his carefully balanced aim astray, he becomes the next target of the mob. Goro is no pushover and easily dispatches the first comers, leaving them splayed in death contortions that could qualify for an Olympic event, but the rat-a-tat violence gives way to a surreal, sadistic game of cat and mouse. The legendary Number One mercilessly taunts his target before moving in with him in a macho, testosterone-laden Odd Couple truce that ends up with them handcuffed together. Kinky? Not compared to earlier scenes. The smell of boiling rice sets Goro's libido for his mistress so aflame that Suzuki censors the gymnastic sex with animated black bars that come to life in an animated cha-cha. Because Suzuki pushed his yakuza parodies and cinematic surrealism too far, his studio, Nikkatsu, finally called in their own metaphoric hit and fired the director with such force that he was effectively blackballed from the industry for a decade. It took about that long for audiences to embrace his audacious genre bending--Suzuki's pop-art sensibilities were just a bit ahead of their time. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Pyrokinesis | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Junko Aoki has always kept away from other people. Held to be rude and unfriendly her co-workers make no effort to associate with her. But Junko's remote appearance hides a deadly secret; she has the ability to start fires with her mind. This makes her one of the deadliest people on the planet. Life changes for her after she is befriended by fellow office worker Tada and his sister Yukie welcomes Junko as a member of the family. It is this emotional involvement that leads Junko's

• Japan Organised Crime Boss | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Yakuza is in turmoil when Osaka's ruthless Danno Organisation has ambitions to take over and control the entire Japanese underworld. After staging a series of successful territorial battles they make their way to Yokohama's busy port district with the intention of ruling that too. An alliance is formed between the remaining Yakuza clans to take on the might of the Danno organization. From the acclaimed international director of Battle Royale.

• K.D. Lang - Live By Request | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Live by Request is, most certainly, a live recording of KD Lang, though nobody in the audience seems to do much requesting. Taped in December 2000 in New York, it shows Lang and her band before a smallish audience, rattling out a few of her better-known songs and some of Lang's generally creditable readings of standards, in between interruptions from a host who walks Lang through brief discussions of her career and influences. Listening to Lang sing is, of course, no hardship: few indeed are the vocalists who can mix it with the legacies of Roy Orbison ("Crying") and Patsy Cline ("Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray") and emerge with dignity intact, never mind reputation enhanced. That said, whatever intensity there may have been about the show on the night has not translated to this recording, and this is little more than a succession of polite performances greeted by polite applause. On the DVD: The picture format is the 4:3 television standard, and there are three sound modes to choose from (Dolby Digital Surround, DTS Surround, PCM Stereo). The menu of songs is easily navigable, but there are disappointingly no bonus features. --Andrew Mueller

• Spider-Man / Charlie's Angels / Vertical Limit | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Spider-Man (1 Disc Edition): Peter Parker (Maguire) was a shy quite nerdy teenager...until he was bitten by a genetically altered spider. Now with the heightened senses and incredible strengths and abilities of a spider Parker has become the amazing Spider-Man. Charlie's Angels: Cameron Diaz Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu are Charlie''s Angels - a trio of elite private investigators who with the latest in high-tech gadgets martial arts techniques and a vast array of disguises unleash their state of the art skills on land sea and air. Their goal to track down a kidnapped billionaire-to-be and keep his top-secret voice identification software out of his lethal hands. Aided by their faithful lieutenant Bosley (Bill Murray) and under the sure hand of their suave playboy boss notorious for his clever ways of avoiding face-to-face meetings the girls must foil an elaborate murder-revenge plot that could destroy individual privacy and corporate security worldwide. Adventure has never been more beautiful! Vertical Limit: An emotionally-charged action-adventure tale of a retired climber (Chris O''Donnell) who must launch a treacherous and extraordinary rescue effort up K2 the world''s second highest peak to save his estranged sister and her summit team in a race against time....

• Streetwise / Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (15/06/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A