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• Faces Of Death | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A 'mockumentary' hosted by Dr. Francis B. Gross a coroner. He is trying to show you the different 'faces' of people while dying. There are faked scenes of people getting killed intermixed with footage of real accidents. There are executions by decapitation (in an Arab country) and the electric chair. One scene shows a group of tourists in Egypt smashing a monkey's head while still alive and eating its brains. There are shots of animals eating people and satanic orgies using dead bodi

• Over the Edge | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £7.09   |  Saving you £-1.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  New Grenada is a planned community in the rolling plains west of Denver. It is a soulless oasis of split levels home coffee mornings and crushing blandness where the adults strive to attract investment and their neglected kids are left to make their own entertainment. When the youth centre closes at dusk this manifests in vandalism drug-taking theft and general hooliganism resulting in the accidental shooting of a police officer. When the town's parents gather the next night to discuss the degenerating situation they soon discover the kids have had all they can take. Starring Matt Dillon (Crash Wild Things) in his first screen role Over The Edge is a beautiful yet starkly realised social treatise about the rhythms of teenage life made at a time where youth crime was rampant across middle America. The vastness of the desert setting adds to the sense of hopelessness that engulfs the townsfolk and makes for a ground-breaking and memorial movie that introduced the troubled-teen cinematic genre.

• Shadow Hours | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £6.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A semi-pretentious urban sleaze film, Shadow Hours offers Balthazar Getty--sporting a "BZAR" knuckle tattoo and a Charlie Sheen look as a recovering drug addict working nights in a Los Angeles filling station to support an angelic pregnant wife (Rebecca Gayheart). Getty is tempted to the wild side by sharp-suited mystery man Peter Weller, who takes him on a tour of nocturnal weirdsville: piercing clubs, bare-knuckle boxing arenas and big-money Russian roulette parlours. Getty comes to suspect that Weller is a perhaps-demonic serial killer who has been turning women's heads (literally) and calls in cop Peter Greene. But he also goes back to dealer Frederic Forrest to get back on drugs and is stuck with get-in-the-way boss Brad Dourif. The film has a good cast and the germ of an interesting idea, but ends up as just another drama about a backsliding rehab guy and nighttime folks. It works hard on being shocking without going all the way into Clive Barker territory, despite advice on extreme underground culture from shock-tactics queen Lydia Lunch and some nasty fishhook facial sculpture. The ending suggests Weller might be a semi-supernatural character, but cops out of dragging Getty all the way down to hell. Weller, who grabs most of the best lines ("I've seen things in this city make Dante's Inferno read like Winnie the Pooh"), is an interesting, ambiguous villain, but everyone else is very standardised. Writer-director Isaac H Eaton clearly has a large collection of David Lynch videos and watched Fight Club several times. On the DVD: Sound is presented in both 2.0 and 5.1, while the widescreen presentation looks a lot better than the full-frame video release. In addition, there's a trailer and a photo gallery montage of arty looking frame blow-ups scored with pounding weird-rock. --Kim Newman

• 2000 Maniacs | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £10.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (23.13%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Available "fully uncut" for the first time in the UK, Two Thousand Maniacs! is the second of director HG Lewis' "blood" trilogy. Though the "once-in-a-lifetime" title makes a promise no film could keep--only about 30 maniacs show up--and the level of gore is a notch or so down from Blood Feast--only four deaths--this is perhaps the director's most watchable film. The Brigadoon-derived plot nugget concerns a Deep South town (variously suggested to be in Georgia or Arkansas, but actually Florida) wiped out by Union raiders during the Civil War, which reappears once every 100 years to wreak "blood vengeance". For the centennial celebrations, Pleasant Valley lures Yankee tourists off the road and subjects them to gruesome fairground games--a cannibal BBQ, a "horse-race", a "barrel roll" and "teetering rock". The ideas are nasty, and Lewis even attempts subtlety by keeping the quartering and the spiked barrel inside mostly off screen, but the creepiest touch is the "aw-shucks" good humour with which the ghostly Confederate maniacs--led by a mayor who is the spitting image of Sergeant Bilko's Colonel Hall--treat their horrible sport. It has the usual Lewis drawbacks--mostly inept staging, acting that veers between the wooden ("Playmate" Connie Mason) and the amateurishly hammy (one of the worst child actors in film history), clumsy editing, community theatre production values--but his fans wouldn't have it any other way and the hayseed music is great! On the DVD: The full-screen image is as good as this ever will look, considering Lewis' primitive understanding of lighting cinematography, with rich scarlet blood, vividly ugly 1963 leisurewear and very few print imperfections. The features offer an imaginative "Welcome to Pleasant Valley Centennial" menu, with buttons like the target you have to hit to drop the "teetering rock" on the Yankee; lurid original trailer ("Two thousand maniacs crazed for carnage started bathing a whole town in pulsing, human blood ... brutal, evil, ghastly beyond belief"); filmographies for Lewis, Friedman and star William Kerwin (aka Thomas Wood); promotional art gallery; notes by aptly-monickered expert Billy Chainsaw, highlighting the connections with John Waters and Brigadoon; a teaser trailer for "the Herschell Gordon Lewis Collection"; a mass of trailers for other "Tartan terror" titles. The Lewis-Friedman commentary and mind-numbing outtakes reel available on the Region 1 DVD are sadly absent, but that release doesn't have this one's major bonus addition--the entire soundtrack album, with compositions by Lewis himself (including the immortal "Yee-Hah, the South's Gonna Rise Again") and Flatt and Scruggs (of Bonnie and Clyde fame). --Kim Newman

• The Secret Policeman's Ball - The Middle Years | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A charity performance in aid of Amnesty international Filmed live over four nights at the Theatre Royal Drury lane London. The show includes sketeches from the Monty Python team and musical numbers from artists such as Sting and Eric Clapton.

• Talons Of The Eagle | DVD | (21/05/2002) from £7.50   |  Saving you £-3.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Two cops each trained in martial arts investigate the murder of fellow agents...

• Learn To Play Classic Rock Guitar Solos Volume 3 | DVD | (01/01/2000) from £16.97   |  Saving you £13.02 (43.40%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Kyokushin-Kai Karate - From Beginner To Black Belt | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-13.59 (-170.10%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Devised by Sosai Masutatsu Oyama in 1955 Kyokushin-kai karate is the utilisation of circular movement in the execution of techniques that distinguishes Kyokushin Karate from the traditional styles of Karate that rely on simple linear motion. Kyokushin karate is characterised by students dedication to strenous training conditioning and realistic contact while sparring as the principals are that this is necessary in order to fully appreciate the resiliency of the human body and spirit and to prepare for any serious confrontation. Features: Warm-up and stretching routines / Kicks punches blocking and equipment training / Individual drills for speed stamina and power / Foot sweeps / Low & high kicks / Takedowns / Combat & competition tactics

• Stargate SG-1: Season 7 (Vol. 37) | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Make it your mission to seek out STARGATE SG-1 Season 7's feature-length finale - a stunning adventure which sees our intrepid space travellers including heart throbs Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks fighting to save Earth from destruction. Volume 37 is the very last release of the superb Season 7 and includes the feature length season climax Lost City which also sets up the story for the all-new Stargate spin-off series Atlantis which is currently being filmed. In Lost City the SG-1 team makes an amazing discovery- information which will lead them to learn the location of the Lost City of the Ancients and use that race's technology to save the galaxy from evil Goa'uld oppression. Just as they are about to remove the vital information however evil forces launch an attack...

• The Quick And The Dead/Open Range/Desperado | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Quick And The Dead (Dir. Sam Rami 1995): Herod (Gene Hackman) Mayor and ruler of Redemption has turned his town into a haven for thugs and Miscreants of every type. In return for his 'leniency' he keeps 50 cents on every dollar traded by the unsavoury group. Each year in order to weed out rivals and to protect his position of power Herod holds a shooting contest which attracts people from miles around including his son 'The Kid' (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Cort (Russell Crowe). It is a shoot to kill contest with the prize being a large sum of cash. Herod wins every year so protecting his position and reputation for being the fastest killer in the West. That is until Ellen (Sharon Stone) rides into town a six-gun strapped to her hip and revenge burning in her heart. She's fast furious and her mind is set on winning the ultimate prize of a duel to the death with Herod. Open Range (Dir. Kevin Costner 2003): Academy-Award winning director Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves) helms this traditional Western tale of a way of life that is quickly disappearing. Boss Spearman (Duvall) Charley Waite (Costner) Mose Harrison (Benrubi) and ""Button"" (Luna) freegraze their cattle across the vast prairies of the West sharing a friendship forged by a steadfast code of honour and living a life unencumbered by civilization. When their wayward herd forces them near the small town of Harmonville the cowboys encounter a corrupt Sheriff (Russo) and kingpin rancher (Gambon) who govern the territory through fear tyranny and violence. Boss and Charley find themselves inextricably drawn towards the inevitable showdown as they are forced to defend the freedom and values of a lifestyle that is all too quickly vanishing. Amidst this turmoil life suddenly takes an unexpected turn for loner Charley when he meets the beautiful and warm-spirited Sue Barlow (Bening) a woman who embraces both his heart and his soul. As these courageous men prepare for the decisive battle that looms they are also forced to confront and conquer their own internal demons. Desperado (Dir. Robert Rodriguez): In this sequel/remake to 'El Mariachi' a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord and finally the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown...

• Lord of the Dance - Dangerous Games | DVD | (29/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Krippendorf's Tribe | DVD | (22/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! After squandering his grant money despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts makeup and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the ""Shelmikedmu "" a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse he gets into the act as we

• Miami Vice - Series 1 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The cops. The cars. The clothes. The music. From executive producer Michael Mann (Heat Collateral) comes the first season of the explosive groundbreaking detective show that redefined the word ""cool."" Set against the seamy and steamy Miami underworld ride shotgun with suave Vice cops Sonny Crockett (Golden Globe winner Don Johnson) and Rico Tubbs (Phillip Michael Thomas) as they battle a never-ending gallery of criminals drug dealers and lowlifes. Features episodes 1-8 from Season One.

• The World According To Garp | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  This is the splendid film adaptation of John Irving's bestseller. Robin Williams plays the role of T.S. Garp a complex and unpredictabale young man at odds with a violent and cruel world... The World According To Garp earned two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor: one for John Lithgow; and the other for Glenn Close as Best Supporting Actress.

• Running | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £13.81   |  Saving you £-11.82 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Mike Andropolis is a failure law school drop-out and jack-of-all-trades about to lose his house and family. In desperation he decides to train for the Olympic Marathon in a last ditch attempt at winning back his family and his self-respect...

• Strauss: Capriccio | Blu Ray | (05/05/2014) from £31.82   |  Saving you £-0.57 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Recording from the Vienna State Opera, 2013. To celebrate the 150th birthday of Richard Strauss C Major is releasing Capriccio for May. 'Ren e Feling is a world-class Countess: moving and intense.' - Der Kurier.

• The Incredible Hulk | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £6.74   |  Saving you £6.25 (92.73%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mr McGee don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry...... 1: A Solitary Place In a bid to avoid triggering the Hulk David seeks isolation in the wilderness of Baja Mexico. However his hideaway is found by a woman on the run who pleads with David for his help. 2: Like a Brother David takes a job in a car wash where he has to overcome racial prejudice and protect his fellow workers from the influence of a local drug dealer. 3: Haunted David is hired by Renee Stevens to help her move back into her childhood home where she lived before her twin sister drowned. Once in the house they are haunted by a chilling series of events from Renee's tragic past.

• Confessions Of A Trickbaby | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Life in prison is the dismal future faced by 'White Girl' , a career criminal who specializes in armed robbery, often posing as a prostitute. Her cell-mate, Cyclona, is a psychotic young lesbian who is about to do life for murder. Cyclona develops a strong passion for White Girl which goes unreciprocated until the two girls manage to break out of prison.On the run, Cyclona reveals a horrifying secret about the victims of her murder conviction. Shocked by what she hears White Girl realizes she's in the company of a serial killer who is following the call of her hallucinatory visions an signs sent from hell, but is in no position to cope on her own, having been wounded in the escape.In a race for their lives, these two desperados tear across the States, leaving a trail of chaos and mayhem on their bizarre road-trip to Mexico

• Body Count | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Pike is a man who always seems to get mixed up with the wrong people. After his release from prison a friend persuades him to do one more hit this time a no-violence raid on an art gallery. Things don't go as planned...

• Minder - Series 1 - Part 3 Of 4 | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £9.97   |  Saving you £6.02 (37.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Episode 7 - THE BENGAL TIGER: Terry is sent in to mind Arthur's local newsagent who is being threatened. Episode 8 - COME IN T-64 YOUR TIME IS TICKING AWAY: Arthur's interest in Candy Cabs is being threatened so he sends Terry to find out what is going on. Episode 9 - MONDAY NIGHT FEVER: Arthur falls for a would-be singer and promises to make her a star. Terry has his doubts.