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• Charmed - Season 2 | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  In Charmed the three Halliwell sisters have accepted their destiny of protecting the innocent and vanquishing evil doers even though that is generally not on the agenda of every twenty-something on the fast track to discovering what life's all about. Prue (Doherty) the oldest is driven to succeed and dislikes the free-spirited antics of the youngest sister Phoebe (Milano). Piper (Combs) the earthy middle sister mediates between her siblings. Prue has the power to

• Welcome To Death Row | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Welcome to Death Row tells the unauthorised history of the most notorious rap label ever. And what a story it is, with enough blood and betrayal to satiate the Borgias and machinations that would make Machiavelli proud. The rise and fall of Death Row and its power-hungry CEO, Marion "Suge" Knight, makes The Godfather look like a bedtime story. The film centres on the testimony of Michael Harris--also known as "Harry O", as in octopus, because he had his business fingers in so many pies--who provided Suge Knight with the seed money to set up Death Row, and assigned his lawyer David Kenner to oversee the label's business affairs. The film traces the entire controversial history of the label, which at its height was turning over $500 million a year, and the impact it had on not only the music industry but American culture. "It was like working in a prison", says Doug Young, the label's record promoter, of Suge Knight's predilection for hiring gangsters and ex-felons. The film also details the relationship between Death Row and its biggest star, Tupac Shakur, and the effect that Shakur's sudden death in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting had on the label's fortunes (a story told in greater depth in Savidge's film Thug Immortal).Although none of the major players in this drama are represented on tape--Dr Dre and Interscope Records heads Jimmy Iovine and Ted Fields are as conspicuous by their absence as lawyer David Kenner and Suge Knight, the villains of the piece--the producers have unearthed an alarming number of believable behind-the-scenes sources including record promoters, managers, private investigators and former associates and employees of the label. Director Savidge wisely uses talking heads to tell his story, weaving into it a wealth of archive material and previously unseen home-video footage. The epic narrative is split into discrete chapters but, with so much information and opinion flying about, at times the chronology of events becomes confused. Yet this does little to spoil a documentary that goes a long way to revealing the intimate connection between the music industry and organised crime, and the desire for power and glory that drives them both.On the DVD: As if there wasn't enough information to digest in the documentary (which is presented in a clean 1:85.1 anamorphic format), the extra features on the DVD provide even more supplementary evidence. There are outtakes from the interviews used in the main feature, as well as additional interview footage of Snoop Dogg and Harry O. There is uncensored security camera footage of a fight in the lobby of the MGM Grand involving the Death Row entourage that preceded the death of Tupac Shakur by minutes, a music video for "Deep Cover" (the song that launched Snoop Dogg) and a fascinating audio commentary by director Savidge and producers Jeff Scheftel and Stephen A Housden, in which they relate the difficulties encountered in obtaining the trust of those they interviewed and the factors they took into consideration when constructing the film. Savidge recalls that the model they had in mind was the fractured, multi-perspective narrative of Kurosawa's Rashomon. --Chris Campion

• I Know What You Did Last Summer Trilogy | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  I Know What You Did Last Summer (Dir. Jim Gillespie 1997): On the magic Summer's night of high school's end Julie Helen Ray and Barry get into Barry's new Beamer and drive out to celebrate their lives and hopes before them. But on the road they have a terrible accident; hit and kill a man. In the shock and panic that follow they dump the body in the sea rather than reporting the accident. As the body sinks the hand of the dead man breaks the surface in a last grasp at life then disappears into the murky depths. The four friends realise they are now guilty of murder and swear to take their secret to their graves. But now someone is stalking them someone who knows who they are knows what they did last Summer and seeks revenge... I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Dir. Danny Cannon 1998): Remember Ben Willis? He's the fisherman who killed the boy who was driving the car when it went off the road in the fatal accident that killed his daughter Sara. He's the man in the slicker with a hook in his hand ready to exact bloody justice. Well he's back.... I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (Dir. Sylvain White 2006): When a seemingly harmless Fourth of July prank goes horribly wrong resulting in the death of a friend four teenagers from a small Colorado town agree to take their secret to the grave... Come the next Fourth of July the group of friends are going to find themselves fighting for there very lives as a terrifying killer stalks each and every one of them. It's a race against time to uncover the malevolent murderer before they all end up six feet under.

• Straight Outta Compton | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £5.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (159.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  He's got his homies a gun and a plan. Small time gangsta and tough Compton local Henry ""Hen"" Alabaster (writer-director Ryan Combs) is fresh out of the pen and looking to go legit by starting his own record company and producing rap records. His only problem is he needs some serious bills to bankroll the operation. Enlisting the help of three of his homies - Hump (Sean Epps) Johnny (Johnny DeaRenzo) and K.K. (Jules Dupree) - Hen hatches a plan to set up and then blackmail a corrupt

• Keepin' It Gangsta | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £9.69   |  Saving you £6.30 (39.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Straight Outta Compton: He's got his homies a gun and a plan. Small time gangsta and tough Compton local Henry Hen Alabaster (writer-director Ryan Combs) is fresh out of the pen and looking to go legit by starting his own record company and producing rap records. His only problem is he needs some serious bills to bankroll the operation. Enlisting the help of three of his homies - Hump (Sean Epps) Johnny (Johnny DeaRenzo) and K.K. (Jules Dupree) - Hen hatches a plan to set up and then blackmail a corrupt and racist politician Drake Norelli (Dave Baker) who has made a fortune laundering money for the mob. After doping Norelli and taking a series of compromising and incriminating photographs of him that could destroy his career Hen and his crew manage to extort four million dollars from the tarnished politico. But the homies' success is short lived and they soon find themselves up against the cops the mob and a crooked politician bent on revenge... Hood Angels: Traci Felicia and Cinnamon are street smart beauties who get framed for felonies they didn't commit. Trapped in his lock-up their luck takes a turn when they are approached by attourney Larry Abrahams who agrees to get their charges dropped - if the ladies investigate the murder of his friend and popular rap artist Nitro Jones. The ladies go under cover at Nitro's label and ferret out clues to his murder... Snuffed Out: Two girls who are responsible for the death of the District Attoney's nephew try to leave town. A drug dealer and a DEA agent are after the girls who defend themselves with guns...