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• Hostage/Lucky Number Slevin/Last Man Standing | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bruce Willis stars as a small-town cop Jeff Talley; chief of Police in the sleepy town of Bristo Camino. Leaving behind the trauma of his career as a big city hostage negotiator Talley finds himself in a situation more volatile and terrifying than anything he could possibly imagine in his wildest nightmares... Lucky Number Slevin: A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin (Josh Hartnett) into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman). Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci) as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat (Bruce Willis) and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him! Last Man Standing: Jericho Texas 1931. A new breed of gunfighter haunts the windswept border town: tweed-suited mobsters from Chicago who control the illegal flow of liquor crossing the Mexican border. Jericho's two rival gangs have replaced civil law with civil war and Sheriff Galt is powerless to stop them. Then a mysterious stranger blows into town looking for a place to spend the night. Calling himself Smith he seems like just another drifter that is until he draws his gun. Then all hell is let loose. Soon he has been recruited by first one gang and then the other as he cleverly and deceptively betrays both sides in a war that can leave only one man standing...

• I Pierre Riviere | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £17.35   |  Saving you £2.64 (15.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault I Pierre Riviere a unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835 when a young man Pierre Riviere murdered his mother sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives including the written confession of Pierre himself and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of 'truth' and 'history'. Radical bold and uncompromising director Rene Allio's extraordinary work is at one and the same time an ethnographic enquiry an historical reconstruction and an unflinching portrait of psychopathology and its aftermath.

• Pascal Bonitzer: Rien Sur Robert | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £8.59   |  Saving you £6.40 (42.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Rien Sur Robert is a smart comedy about a man haunted by his experiences. Didier Temple is a journalist who writes an article about a Bosnian film he had never seen calling it ""pure fascist propaganda."" Following an argument with his girlfriend Juliette Didier's life falls apart. He is convinced he is being followed by a dark haired man. He thinks everyone is looking at him just waiting to insult him. He fights with his family. Juliette is fed up and leaves him for another man a TV director she meets in a park. At a dinner party Didier is introduced to his shadow Jerome Sauveur who could be his double except that he's more handsome and writes better than Didlier. Didier also encounters a strange young girl Aurelie but Juliette soon comes back. All these ghosts of his life keep haunting him and he finally winds up at the foot of Mont Blanc in rather unpleasant circumstances.

• Ghost Stories - Tombstone | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Reach beyond the darkness.... Beyond the grave.... to an unexplored dimension as we travel to the mysterious realm of ghosts. There was at least one killing per day in Tombstone. Some people were killed on the very first day they arrived - and that day sometimes lasts forever. If Tombstone takes a liking to you then you may never leave again. While scattered throughout the desert lie abandoned ghost towns.... there's more than one reason why they're called ghost towns.

• Minder - Series 3 - Part 2 Of 4 | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Looking For Micky When ""Mad Micky"" goes on the run Terry has to look after him and Arthur sees his chance of a scoop. Dream House When a super-star is away in Vegas Terry has to mind his empty house. Can Arthur break into showbusiness? Guest Stars: Wanda Ventham & Richard Griffiths. Another Bride Another Groom The last thing Arthur wants to do on his niece's wedding day is to shift a load of porno magazines. Guest Stars: Warren Clarke.

• Already Dead | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £18.00   |  Saving you £1.99 (11.06%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Already Dead is a suspenseful thriller of one man's journey down the twisted road of revenge. Thomas Archer (Ron Eldard) had everything: a beautiful wife a job as a senior associate at a powerful architecture firm and a beautiful son. This all changes on one fateful night when the Archers' home is burglarized and their young son is killed. Thomas does everything he can to try to put the pieces of his life back together. But when the police can't find the killer Archer's therapist Dr. Heller (Christopher Plummer) offers up another option - a last resort. Heller knows of a mysterious group that can track and find the killer of Archer's son killer and give Archer the opportunity to take justice into his own hands.

• Zack And Reba | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Reba (Murphy of CLUELESS and 8 MILE) calls off her wedding a week before it is to occur. After her fiance commits suicide guilty Reba takes off for her hometown of Spooner. There she encounters Beulah (Reynolds) and her grieving grandson Zack (Flanery of POWDER) who is still in love with his dead wife. Beulah begins scheming to bring these two attractive and mixed-up youngsters together...

• Ultimax Force | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Missing in action and presumed dead, Captain Dave Morgan turns up alive in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. He has been able to send word out - but help better come quickly before the sadistic Colonel Minh, who runs the hellish internment stockade, succeeds in breaking Morgan's body and spirit. Getting into Vietnam through the back door is easy enough, with the help of gunrunning soldiers of fortune but trying to ferret out the phantom POW camps, rescuing half dead prisoners and getting the...

• Rehearsal For Murder | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-6.08 (-305.50%)   |  RRP £1.99

  One year after the supposed suicide of his fiance a playwright gathers together the cast from his last play in order to find out what really happened on that fateful night.

• X-Men 1.5/X-Men 2: 4 disc doublepack | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £4.93   |  Saving you £30.06 (609.74%)   |  RRP £34.99

  X-Men 2 picks up almost directly where X-Men left off: misguided super-villain Magneto (Ian McKellen) is still a prisoner of the US government, heroic bad-boy Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is up in Canada investigating his mysterious origin, and the events at Liberty Island (which occurred at the conclusion of X-Men) have prompted a rethink in official policy towards mutants--the proposed Mutant Registration Act has been shelved by US Congress. Into this scenario pops wealthy former army commander William Stryker, a man with the President's ear and a personal vendetta against all mutant-kind in general, and the X-Men's leader Professor X (Patrick Stewart) in particular. Once he sets his plans in motion, the X-Men must team-up with their former enemies Magneto and Mystique (Rebecca Romjin-Stamos), as well as some new allies (including Alan Cumming's gregarious, blue-skinned German mutant, Nightcrawler). The phenomenal global success of X-Men meant that director Bryan Singer had even more money to spend on its sequel, and it shows. Not only is the script better (there's significantly less cheesy dialogue than the original), but the action and effects are also even more stupendous--from Nightcrawler's teleportation sequence through the White House to a thrilling aerial dogfight featuring mutants-vs-missiles to a military assault on the X-Men's school/headquarters to the final showdown at Stryker's sub-Arctic headquarters. Yet at no point do the effects overtake the film or the characters. Moreso than the original, this is an ensemble piece, allowing each character in its even-bigger cast at least one moment in the spotlight (in fact, the cast credits don't even run until the end of the film). And that, perhaps, is part of its problem (though it's a slight one): with so much going on, and nary a recap of what's come before, it's a film that could prove baffling to anyone who missed the first instalment. But that's just a minor quibble--X-Men 2 is that rare thing, a sequel that's actually superior to its predecessor. --Robert Burrow

• Minder - Series 4 - Parts 1 To 4 | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This DVD Boxset features the following episodes: Rocky Eight and a Half; Senior Citizen Caine; High Drains Pilferer; Sorry Pal Wrong Number; Car Lot Beggars; If Money be the Food of Love Play on; A Star is Gorn; Willesden Suite; Windows; Get Daley; A Well Fashioned Fit Up.

• The Roger Corman Horror Collection | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Siren DVD's three-disc Roger Corman Collection contains The Little Shop of Horrors and The Terror, which Corman directed, as well as Dementia 13, which he produced. Though he has a reputation as one of the craftiest businessmen in Hollywood, Corman was too cheapskate in the 1960s to bother copyrighting a bunch of his films and so the same titles have been showing up on video and now DVD from many different distributors. All these films were thrown together in odd circumstances to take advantage of leftover sets, contracted performers or tied-up production funds. Little Shop of Horrors (a disguised remake of A Bucket of Blood) was famously made over a three-day weekend "because it was raining and we couldn't play tennis". The Terror exists because Boris Karloff owed a few days' work after completing The Raven and castle sets were still standing. Dementia 13 was written and directed by a young Francis Coppola in Ireland to take advantage of a European trip made for Corman's The Young Racers. All the films are interesting, in themselves and as footnotes to distinguished filmographies. Little Shop of Horrors has a lasting cult reputation for its blackly comic tale of codependency between a skid-row botanist (Jonathan Haze, relying a bit too much on a Jerry Lewis impersonation) and a blood-drinking, flesh-hungry mutant plant voiced by screenwriter Chuck Griffith ("feed meeee!"), with a creepy cameo from a young Jack Nicholson as a masochist who loves to visit the dentist. The Terror, which has Nicholson as the bewildered lead, is a wilfully incomprehensible Gothic picture made up on the spot by Corman and a handful of other directors (including Coppola and Monte Hellman), climaxing with Karloff's bogus baron and a decaying spectre woman swept away by a flood in the dungeons. Dementia 13, a saga of axe murders and mad sculptors, is brisk grand guignol with a lot of creepy imagery to do with drowned children and family rituals. On the DVD: The Roger Corman Collection limply claims the films are "digitally mastered" (note, not "remastered") as they are simply copies of low-quality video onto disc. Because these titles are public domain no one seems willing to take any care with transfers, and all three films are in terrible state. The Terror, the only colour film, looks especially atrocious (Vistascope cropped to full-frame) but the black-and-white films also suffer all manner of damage. The packaging is classy, but it's a shame more work wasn't done on the films themselves.--Kim Newman

• Raving Maniacs | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £35.69   |  Saving you £-19.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ravers at the biggest rave in Providence Rhode Island perpetuate their evening by taking a new drug to hit the streets. The reckless youths in their quest for euphoria don't take a second thought to what they are taking indeed no one has ever seen these type of drugs before. But soon it becomes apparent that not all is well and unbeknown to them they are becoming embroiled in an alien plot...

• McLintock | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  George McLintock has to try and convince his wife that he has been faithful after a two year seperation with their fights the talk of the town. Matters are not helped by the extremely attractive cook Mrs Louise Warren he has hired at the ranch house... The film achieved a certain notoriety for the 'spanking' scene widely regarded as a cinematic first.

• Gossec/Gretry - La Petite Musique De Marie-Antoinette (Waas) | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £35.08   |  Saving you £-8.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

• A Crack In The Floor | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The continuing popularity of horror spoofs has created an opportunity for low-quality slashers such as A Crack In the Floor to pass themselves off as humorous. The story follows axe-wielding psychotic hermit Jeremiah who meets a bunch of fresh-faced young hikers and the movie employs every trick in the genre's book but still fails to rise itself above cheap exploitation (best indicated by the tasteless rape of Jeremiah's mother that prefaces the action). Brazenly claiming to feature Tracy Scoggins and Gary Busey--who in reality appear for about five minutes each--the film features young unknowns, the most high profile being Saved By the Bell's Mario Lopez. Which is fitting really because the film, with its mix of teen enthusiasm, redneck stereotypes and crass violence, is little more than that show meets The Dukes of Hazzard meets Deliverance meets Friday the 13th. Recommended for connoisseurs of everything gory and tacky but no-one else. On the DVD: The DVD manages to keep the quality set so spectacularly by the film itself--featuring an appalling trailer, a reprint of the information on the disc's box, biographies of the handful of established actors who make the briefest of cameos and trailers for some equally naff TV movies. Not what DVD was invented for. --Phil Udell

• Paris Opera Ballet - Swan Lake | DVD | (01/01/1995) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Paris Opera Ballet present an unforgettable performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

• A Genius, Two Partners And A Dupe | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Produced by Sergio Leone (and considered by many the missing link in Leone's career) Genius features Terence Hill and a barnstorming performance from McGoohan plus a bizarre cameo from Klaus Kinski. In one of the last major productions of the 70s boom in Italian Westerns Hill plays freewheeling con-artist Joe Thanks in this semi-sequel to the hugely succesful 'My Name is Nobody' up against crooked cavalry officer Major Cabot (McGoohan) who is planning an Indian massacre in orde

• Cult TV Legends | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The disc contains the colour 'Danger Man' episode 'Koroshi' and an adventure for 'The Saint' which pits Simon Templar against a mad scientist (in 'The House of Dragon's Rock' an episode directed by Roger Moore). The DVD also includes the opening episodes of 'The Persuaders' (Overture) and 'The Prisoner' (Arrival).

• Backflash 2 - Angels Don't Sleep Here | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £22.46   |  Saving you £-6.47 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Some secrets do not stay buried.Robert Patrick (Terminator 2) stars in this compelling thriller as a corrupt cop who's hiding the dark secrets of a high profile politician (Roy Scheider Jaws).Everything seems under control until a forensic specialist comes to town asking questions about the disappearance of his twin brother.There are more questions than answers in this daunting thriller about corruption mistaken identity and murder.