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• Swindled | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  There's a sucker born every minute. Director Miguel Bardem (Javier Bardem's brother) delivers a stylish Grifters-style crime thriller that would not only make David Mamet proud - it would have him second-guessing the plot twists right down to the final frame. The slick handsome Ernesto (Ernesto Alterio) has spent a lifetime in the small-racket crime world working the three-card monte on suckers on the streets of Madrid conning store owners and scouting the train stations for easy marks to rob. His pleasant but decidedly small-time lifestyle changes when he meets the elderly El Manco (Manuel Alexandre) a veteran of the trade who has close contacts to the mysterious and masterful Federico (Federico Luppi) the king of all con men. The three hook up and after ascending to the rarified world of elegant hotels and high living Federico proposes a real estate con that will net them millions. The only hitch is that they need the assistance of Federico's ex-lover Pilar (Victoria Abril). A former con artist herself Pilar (who cheated Federico on a scam years earlier) is now living in luxury with her new elderly husband. The chase is on as the team embarks on their new complicated con . . . but can everyone be trusted? Swindled is an elegant fun fast-moving film where the secrets treachery and twists will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final frame.

• Anger Management / As Good As It Gets | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £13.56   |  Saving you £11.43 (84.29%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The irresistible pairing of Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler is the best reason to see Anger Management, a comedy that might have been subtitled "The Funny and the Furious". Nicholson and especially Sandler have screen personas that partially rely on pent-up anxieties, so there's definite potential in teaming them as a mild-mannered designer of pet clothing for chubby cats (Sandler) who's been ordered to undergo anger management therapy with a zany counsellor (Nicholson) prone to occasional tantrums and devious manipulation. Surely this meandering comedy looked better on the page; director Peter Segal scores a few lucky scenes (particularly Sandler's encounter with a Buddhist monk, played by John C Reilly), but a flood of cameos (Heather Graham, Woody Harrelson, Rudolph Giuliani, and others) can't match the number of laughs that fall flat. As Sandler's understanding girlfriend, Marisa Tomei plays a pivotal role in a happy ending that leaves everyone smiling, with the possible exception of the audience. --Jeff Shannon

• Romance | DVD | (10/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Romance follows a young French woman, Marie, and her journey to gain control of her life.

• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | Blu Ray | (22/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Cradle Will Rock | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Powerful and sweeping the critically acclaimed Cradle Will Rock starring John Cusack Bill Murray Susan Sarandon Hank Azaria and Joan Cusack takes a kaleidoscopic look at the extraordinary events of 1930s America. From high society to life on the streets director Tim Robbins (Dead Man Walking) brings Depression-era New York City to vivid life. A time when da Vincis are given to millionaires who help fund the Mussolini war effort. And Nelson Rockefeller commissions Mexican artis

• Wolfhound | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £8.96   |  Saving you £-3.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Beware the beast within... Returning to his parents' ancestral home Colum Kennedy (Allen Scotti) discovers an Irish village populated by animalistic shapeshifters. When a hauntingly beautiful woman (Julie Cialini) stirs ancient passions with him he must choose between his family and unleashing his own true nature.

• Un Ballo In Maschera - Verdi | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £29.68   |  Saving you £-4.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The classical work Un Ballo in Maschera composed by Giuseppe Verdi recorded live on 23 & 26 November 2005.

• Youssou N'Dour - Live At Union Chapel | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The crown prince of African music is in fiery form on the last night of his European tour at the Union Chapel London on 21st December 2002. Mixing material from his most recent and highly acclaimed album 'Nothing's In Vain (Coono Du Reer)' with classic songs like 'Immigres'. Dakar's favourite son mixes acoustic intimacy with all-singing all-dancing showstoppers in a joyous celebration of his music. Tracks include: Tan Bi (Heat. Breeze. Tenderness) / Moor Ndaje / Immigres (Bit

• Inheritance | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £3.98   |  Saving you £18.00 (904.52%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Christoffer heir to a vast industrial fortune has abandoned the family business for an idyllic life with wife Maria a beautiful stage actress. When his father commits suicide Christoffer must return to Denmark to face the life he left behind. What he finds is a business on the brink of bankruptcy a brother-in-law scheming for control and a domineering mother who insists Christoffer take control of the family business. His decision will force him to choose between two colliding wo

• Charles Manson Superstar | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £18.40   |  Saving you £-2.41 (-15.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1969 he became one of history's infamous villains presented by the media as evil incarnate. Charles Manson superstar sets the record straight after years of media disinformation and features an exclusive interview with Manson which allows him to speak for the first time without being censored or sanitized as well as rare archival news footage police documents and photos.

• Street Fighter - The Ultimate Battle | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £11.89   |  Saving you £-5.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Shadaloo South-East Asia 1995. As civil war enters its seventh month warlord General M. Bison (Raul Julia) virtually brings about global warfare when he takes 63 Allied Nations relief workers hostage and threatens to execute them unless a ransom of billion dollars is paid. It is the mission of Colonel William F Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme) to rescue the hostages but he has to locate them first! As part of an audacious plan to track down the General and his futuristic fortress Guile and British Intelligence Officer Cammy (Kylie Minogue) recruit to the forces two renegade heroes. However their entire plan is nearly quashed when GNT news correspondent Chun-Li-Zang intervenes and she wants much more than just a story. Action reaches fever pitch as Guile Bison and their forces clash in a fierce battle and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance...

• Stranded | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £7.00   |  Saving you £-1.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface of the planet. The astronauts are faced with a dire situation. With no resources and no time to wait for the rescue team to arrive they have just one alternative: three must die so two can survive. The story takes us with the details of a documentary on the adventures of the three crew members (Susana Herbert and Rodrigo) who decide to die to let their team-mates survive. They cover the distance separating them from Marineris Valley and descend into its depths where they find hidden beneath a permanent layer of fog a great mystery about the planet's distant past - and a chance of survival for the castaways on Mars.

• Exhume | DVD | (02/09/2019) from £3.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on true events, Patrick and his wife Karen Connor are hired by the state to exhume bodies resting under a closed down reform school known for the sadistic torture and murder of young boys in the early 1900's. During this horrific excavation they are met with unnatural forces causing them to question their sanity and will to live.

• Return Of The Living Dead | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £32.77   |  Saving you £-17.78 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Return of the Living Dead is a parody-cum-sequel spin-off from George Romero's superior Night of the Living Dead films. A corpse-containing canister gets breached and releases an oily, loose-limbed, brain-eating zombie tatterdemalion and a gas that revives anything dead in the vicinity, even a bisected dog preserved as a vet's teaching specimen and a case of pinned butterflies. The dim-bulb leading characters--earnest Clu Gulager, goofy James Karen and Thom Matthews--burn up a mess of surplus living body parts, but the rains wash the ashes into the earth of a nearby cemetery and a whole crowd of brain-eating zombies claw their way out to terrorise a group of teens who sport the kind of 1985 fashions, hairdos, slang preferences and musical tastes that will never feature in a TV nostalgia programme. There are plenty of in-jokes at the expense of the Living Dead films (learning that shooting 'em in the brain doesn't work, the appalled Matthews gasps, "You mean the movie lied?"), and director Dan O'Bannon, the writer of Dark Star and Alien, hurries things along through some gruesome action and terror-by-zombie bits until the surprisingly cynical anti-government conclusion. It's not as wittily outrageous as Re-Animator or Braindead, but it has an amiable, drive-in-cum-home video grunge about it. Frequently naked exploitation regular Linnea Quigley makes an impression as the punkette zombie who goes on the rampage wearing nothing but leg-warmers and body make-up. The frill-free DVD is full-screen (boo hiss!) except for the titles, offers only the trailer and inadequate cast and crew notes as extras, but it looks okay. --Kim Newman

• Mexico Macabre: Four Sinister Tales from the Alameda Films Vault, 1959–1963 (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (12/06/2023) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  These four macabre titles from the vaults of one of Mexico's best-known film companies offer uniquely Mexican takes on the ghosts, witches, and monsters familiar to fans of horror cinema and fiction. Fernando Méndez's Black Pit of Dr. M (Misterios de ultratumba) sees a doctor make a pact with his dying colleague in order to learn the secrets of the afterlife. In Chano Urueta's The Witch's Mirror (El espejo de la bruja), a murderer is tormented by the ghost of his dead wife, whilst in Urueta's The Brainiac (El barón del terror), a nobleman executed for necromancy returns in diabolical form to eradicate the lineage of his killers... by sucking out their brains! Finally, in Rafael Baledón's The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona), a young bride visits her aunt's Gothic mansion, where she finds that she is the descendent of one of Mexican folklore's most terrifying figures. With their star-studded casts, beautiful photography, eerie production design, and bone-chilling atmosphere, these films have terrified audiences for decades, and are now available in this strictly limited, individually numbered Blu-ray box set, which includes an array of new extra features - including four new audio commentaries, and rare English-language dub tracks as well as a set of art cards and a fully illustrated 100-page book. Product Features High Definition remasters for Black Pit for Dr. M, The Witch's Mirror, The Brainiac, and The Curse of the Crying Woman Original Spanish mono audio Optional English mono audio dub tracks for The Witch's Mirror, The Brainiac and The Curse of the Crying Woman Audio commentary with Abraham Castillo Flores, film programmer and curator specialising in the preservation of Mexican horror cinema, on Black Pit of Dr. M (2023) Audio commentary with David Wilt, film historian and Mexican-cinema specialist, on The Witch's Mirror (2023) Audio commentary and brain nibbling with Keith J Rainville, publisher of From Parts Unknown and screenwriter of Los campeones de la lucha libre, on The Brainiac (2023) Audio commentary with Morena de Fuego, doctor in film studies and LatAm horror specialist, on The Curse of the Crying Woman (2023) Daniel Ripstein on the history of Alameda Films and his grandfather, producer Alfredo Ripstein Jr (2023) Author Eduardo de la Vega Alfaro on director Fernando Méndez (2023) Author Eduardo de la Vega Alfaro on director Chano Urueta (2023) Author Eduardo de la Vega Alfaro on director Rafael Balédon (2023) Memories of a Villain (2018): TV UNAM special on actor Carlos López Moctezuma Mondo Macabro: ˜Mexican Horror Movies' (2002): episode of Pete Tombs and Andy Starke's fondly remembered British television series, providing an overview of Mexican genre cinema from the 1950s to the 1970s Original theatrical trailers Image galleries: promotional and publicity material New and improved English translation subtitles Limited Edition exclusive 100-page book with new essays by José Luis Ortega Torres, David Wilt and Abraham Castillo Flores, archival articles, and full film credits Limited Edition exclusive art cards World premieres on Blu-ray Limited edition box set of 6,000 numbered units for the UK and US All extras subject to change

• Abouna | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-30.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's second feature following the award winning 'Bye Bye Africa' offers confirmation of the arrival of a visually assured and highly sophisticated talent in world cinema. Set in Haroun's native Chad the sensuous 'Abouna' begins with the striking image of a man in Western dress crossing a desert in the Southern Sahara. The man who pauses briefly to powerfully stare down the camera lens is the father of 15 year-old Tahir (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa) and Tahir's eight-yea

• Hard Hunted | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Playgirls and Playboys team up as federal agents who fight amongst other things international terrorists who've stolen a trigger to a nuclear bomb.

• Paradise Lost | DVD | (01/09/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A company sprays a chemical onto a forest to make space for a holiday village. When Dr. Maurier discovers a child is born with defects she fights to close the project down.

• Guys 'N' Dolls - Greatest Hits | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Track Listing: 1.There's A Whole Lot Of Loving 2.Let's All Get Together 3.Always Laughing 4.You Don't Have To Say You Love Me 5.Barbara Ann/ I Get Around 6.Killing Me Softly With His Song 7.Love Train 8.If Only For The Good Times 9.You're My World 10.Don't Pull Your Love 11.Mamacita 12.Angel Of The Morning 13.Only Loving Does It 14.You And I 15.How Do You Mend A Broken Heart 16.Our Song 17.Love Lost In A Day 18.All The Money In The World 19.I Got The Fire In Me 20.Broken Dreams Extra: 1. There's A Whole Lot Of Loving Goin' On 2. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me 3. Rescue Me 4. Mamacita

• The Versace Murder | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  July 15 1997. The world is shocked at the news that Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace has been tragically and brutally murdered execution style on the steps of his Ocean Drive Villa in the famous South Beach section of Miami Beach Florida. Shortly thereafter the authorities led by FBI Special Agent John Jacoby announce a nationwide manhunt for their only suspect alleged spree killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan from San Diego California. Destiny or design? Follow the steps of both Versace and Cunanan from the time of Cunanan's farewell dinner party in San Diego to the aftermath of both the murder of Versace and Cunanan's alleged suicide on a Miami Beach houseboat.