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• Nightmare Alley | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tyrone Power - cast against type at his own insistence - gives the performance of his life as handsome scumbag and conman Stanton Carlisle. He seduces fellow sideshow artiste Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell) to learn the secret of the once-lucrative mind-reading act she performed with her alcoholic husband (Ian Keith), Carlisle, a 'born mentalist', secures the secret method and sets off with his new carnie wife, Molly (Coleen Grey) to milk the big time as a spiritualist in Chicago. As Carlisle's success grows, it's only a matter of time before his greed - and twisted involvement with femme fatale psychoanalyst Lilith Ritter (Helen Walker) - brings his world crashing down around him.

• Holy Smoke / Hideous Kinky | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Holy Smoke: An Australian family try to rescue their daughter Ruth who has embraced the teachings of an Indian guru called Baba. They enlist the help of an American Counsellor who specialises in reconditioning the minds of members of religious cults. Hideous Kinky In the early 70's Julia escapes grey London and a failed relationship with her two daughters aged six and eight and heading to Morocco in search of adventure. The two girls enjoy the colour and life of Marrakech but the city has less to offer a pennilesss mum. It's only when Julia meets the charming Bilal that her life is transformed.

• The Lies Boys Tell | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Before he dies Ed Reece has got some unfinished business... Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas gives a terrific performance as an eccentric old man determined to revisit some milestones from his past and reconcile with his feuding family in this superb drama. With a brilliant witty script from Oscar winning Ernest Thompson (On Golden Pond). 'The Lies Boys Tell' also stars Craig T Nelson (Poltergiest) and the veteren character actress Eileen Brennan (Private Benjamin).

• Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso | DVD | (22/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  For those with any interest in Vivaldi's operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 San Francisco Opera revival by Pier Luigi Pizzi of his own 1979 production which was largely responsible for beginning modern interest in Vivaldi's stage work. The composer first premiered Orlando finto pazzo in 1714, but the Orlando Furioso finalised in 1727 was so heavily reworked as to be virtually an entirely new opera, and so successful Handel set the same epic poem by Aristo under the title Alcina in 1735. Vivaldi's opera is not of that calibre, offering rather too much functional recitative and only a handful of truly memorable arias. However, the cast perform with such commitment and style as to make the work thoroughly enjoyable. It is a tale of romantic and magical intrigue on a small island, inevitably echoing Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the classically elegant set-design and colourful costumes evoke a suitable sense of fantasy. Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne makes the title role her own while Susan Patterson is a characterful and strong-minded Angelica. William Matteuzzi makes a sympathetic Medoro, notably outmanoeuvred in love, while as the sorceress Alcina Kathleen Kuhlann is a appropriately complex and powerful in revealing the loneliness at the heart of her corruption. On the DVD: There are no features other than the two trailers which appear on almost all Arthaus releases. The production is presented in the original television 4:3 and the image is little better than a good video. The picture is not especially detailed and too often the performer's faces are slightly out of focus while the sets are pin-sharp. Overall the image suffers the usual problems from originally being shot on professional video, in addition to which some compression artefacting is noticeable. The prologic sound is fine, though appears simply to down mix the main stereo signal to the rear channel and the result is more accurate if switched to straight stereo. --Gary S Dalkin

• Kill Me Tomorrow | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  What they like to do might hurt them. Tricia the prettiest girl in Mountain Glenn is in love with Russell the town hot-shot. But Holly Peacock the mysterious new girl has stolen him away from her luring him with illicit sex in cemeteries. When Tricia catches him with Holly sparks fly but Holly turns out to be an evil witch with demonic powers and her lust for sex is just a cover for her hunger for murder...

• Roadkill | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A road trip across the US takes a terrifying turn for the worse after a prank on a lonely truck driver results in him setting out to track down the culprits...

• Nightmare Alley | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tyrone Power cast against type at his own insistence gives the performance of a lifetime as handsome scumbag/carnival barker/con-man Stanton Carlisle. He seduces fellow sideshow performer Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell) to learn the secret of her once lucrative mind-reading act with her alcoholic husband (Ian Keith). Carlisle a ""born mentalist"" secures the secret method and sets off with his new carnie wife Molly (Coleen Gray) to milk the bigtime as a spiritualist in Chicago. A

• Call Northside 777 | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  When a classified ad grabs the attention of Chicago Times editor Brian Kelly (Lee J. Cobb) he sends ace reporter P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) to dig up new evidence in the 11-year-old case of a cop killer: It appears that Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) has taken a fall and been wrongly imprisoned for the murder. Although hard-nosed McNeal is initially skeptical he eventually believes that Wiecek was in fact a patsy. And although McNeal hits one dead end after another the avid newsman never gives up the search for justice for the innocent Wiecek... An absorbingly intelligent film noir adapted from true events as reported in the 1930s articles of James P. McGuire.

• Emma | DVD | (16/08/2021) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This delightfully fun and lighthearted comedy is based on Jane Austen's classic novel. Dazzling Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare In Love) shines as Emma a mischievous young beauty who sets up her single friends. Funny thing is...she's not very good at it! So when Emma tries to find a man for Harriet (Toni Collette Knives Out) she makes a hilariously tangled mess of everyone's lives. You'll enjoy all the comic confusion... until Emma herself falls in love, finally freeing everyone from her outrageously misguided attempts at matchmaking!