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• The Zone | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles (Davi) is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp (Gazzara). As the price of his freedom Welles is ordered to undertake a deadly mission to destroy a nuclear processing plant in a foreign nation owned by dangerous tyrant Lothar Krasna (Godunov)...

• Night Of The Living Dead | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Thirty years ago in the quiet Pennsylvania countryside the dead began to walk. Fuelled by an insatiable hunger for living human flesh the ghouls' ghastly quest inadvertently brought together six strangers whose inability to unite would ultimately lead to their tragic downfall. To celebrate its thirtieth anniversary the cult classic Night of the Living Dead has been expanded and enhanced to bring you the best visual and audio version ever available. So turn out the lights board up the windows and get ready for an all-new experience with the definitive horror film of all time.

• Sorry Angel | DVD | (21/05/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Owls and Hooters | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £6.18   |  Saving you £12.80 (401.25%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Double feature presentation starring Guinevere Tuner Lisa Gornick and Cheryl Dunye. In their heyday The Screech was the lesbian band nothing came near them. But the last ten years have taken their toll and relative obscurity has turned the once mighty musicians into mere shadows of their former selves. Iris (Guinevere Turner) drinks too much and dreams of that big comeback. MJ (VS Brodie) is apparently her ex but they're still inseparable. Former band-mate Lily (Lisa Gornick) and her partner Carol (Cheryl Dunye) are well past Lesbian Bed Death and just don't get on anymore. So naturally they've decided to have a child. Iris throws a Pool Party what should have been a joyous occasion goes horrifically wrong and leads to a series of shocking events. They believe that their only chance to get through this is by sticking together but a mysterious stranger enters their tight knit circle and starts to unpick the ties that bind these Older Wiser Lesbians otherwise known as OWLS. Also included is the feature length documentary Hooters an amazing intriguing and ultimately hysterical look at what went on behind the camera during the making of The Owls. This is no mere Making Of documentary Hooters is a statement that defines Lesbian Los Angeles at the end of the noughties.

• Jacknife | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Made in 1989 and set 15 years after the end of the Vietnam War, Jacknife tells the story of alcoholic trucker Dave (Ed Harris) who lives with his sister Martha (Kathy Baker). Robert De Niro is Megs, Dave's ex-'Nam sidekick who re-enters his life on the promise of a fishing trip. Megs and Martha embark on a tentative courtship to the seething fury of Dave, who considers Megs "bad news". However, through wartime flashbacks it soon becomes clear that his hitting the bottle is a means of bottling up his feelings about Vietnam, Megs and their mutual buddy Bobby, killed in action. Ruminative and romantic, Jacknife slow-burns its predictable though satisfying way to its resolution, the three main players carrying the burdens of their roles with admirable restraint, especially Ed Harris, whose rage is internalised at the expense of his liver. There are echoes of The Deerhunter but this is not a film of that order or scale, as its low-budget synthesiser soundtrack signifies, feeling at times like a superior made-for-TV affair. On the DVD: A full-screen version with a ratio of 4:3. Neither sound nor picture quality are exactly a showcase for DVD technology, both being a little fuzzy, while the dubbing goes noticeably awry on 42 minutes. Special features are decidedly un-special: the original, lugubrious trailer plus "talent profiles" which are merely lists of the main players' previous films. --David Stubbs

• Identity / Gothika / House Of Nine | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Identity (Dir. James Mangold 2003): A daring new thriller from director James Mangold and producer Cathy Konrad featuring an all-star ensemble cast including John Cusack Ray Liotta Amanda Peet Alfred Molina Jake Busey Clea DuVall and Rebecca De Mornay. Caught in a savage rainstorm ten travellers are forced to seek refuge at a strange desert motel. They soon realize they've found anything but shelter. There is a killer among them and one by one they are murdered. As the storm rages on and the dead begin to outnumber the living one thing becomes clear: each of them was drawn to the motel not by accident or circumstance but by forces beyond imagination forces that promise anyone who survives a mind-bending and terrifying destiny. Gothika (Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz 2003): Halle Berry stars as Dr. Miranda Grey a psychiatrist who becomes a patient in her own mental hospital after she is accused of murdering her husband (Charles S. Dutton). Grey's only initial memory of the incident involves a chilling encounter with a distraught girl (Kathleen Mackey) on a rain-soaked road. The incarcerated and medicated Grey is now haunted by the same apparition and she must convince her former colleague Pete Graham (Robert Downey Jr.) that she is not insane or guilty of murder. Meanwhile the seemingly mad ramblings of Chloe (Penelope Cruz) one of Grey's former patients now make more sense and Grey must throw aside clinical logic to solve the supernatural murder mystery. House Of Nine (Dir. Steven R. Munroe 2005): Nine strangers with no apparent connection between them are abducted: drugged kidnapped and sealed in a house together. Doors are bolted shut windows are plugged with brick. No way out. Disoriented and angry they are greeted by a voice on an intercom system: they are to be watched as they 'compete' for a prize of five million dollars. And the winner will be the only one who gets out alive!

• Verdi: Falstaff -- Aix-en-Provence/Mazzola | DVD | (20/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  With Willard White in the title role, this very well-sung production of Falstaff from the Aix-en-Provence festival, set in the 1950s, makes for a radical yet plausibly alternative view to the traditional setting in "Merrie England". By casting Jamaican-born baritone White in the title role, director Herbert Wernicke has emphasised Falstaff's role as an outsider, spurned by the community on account of his success as a local businessman and here with the added burden of being black. White engages our sympathy for Falstaff's plight, notably in the last act where he finally turns the table on his adversary, Ford. Yet in his world-weary sophisticated persona this Falstaff seems at odds with the farce unfolding about him; he's been there, done that. There are, nevertheless, key moments to relish: his flicker of the eye as he dismisses Pistol and Bardolph with his letters to the Misses Ford and Page; the duet he shares with Ford on the trials and tribulations of love; and the return of his self-esteem as he pulls himself up to full height following his ducking in the Thames. His face in the final act, shot in close-up, white beard illuminated by moonlight, framed by Herne's horns, is unforgettable. The supporting cast are uniformly excellent as singers and actors, a joy to watch and hear. The main set consists of a polished wooden floor with walls of wooden slatted flaps that open and shut as characters drop in and out of the action. White linen on washing lines, sheets tumbling out of drawers, or, somewhat incongruously, neatly folded on the bed that Falstaff rolls out of after his dip in the Thames, make welcome visual diversions. The Orchestre de Paris play brilliantly under maestro Enrique Mazzola who captures the ebb and flow of Verdi's fast moving score to perfection. On the DVD: Falstaff on disc has subtitles in Italian, English, German, French and Spanish. The picture quality has a real three-dimensional feel to it and the soundtrack likewise. --Adrian Edwards

• Destiny's Child - Live in Atlanta | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £7.19   |  Saving you £-1.20 (-20.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Destiny's Child: Live In Atlanta

• Handel: Messiah | Blu Ray | (04/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sexual Malice | DVD | (19/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sex so hot, it's deadly", announces the tagline for Sexual Malice. Originally screened in 1994, this is a quintessential late-night TV movie. The well-worn plot concerns relationships inside and outside of marriage, with a twist obvious enough for the non-rocket scientists among us to have twigged well before the denouement. As for the sex scenes--there's little here that errs on the outré side of Dirty Dancing (interestingly enough, there's a secondary role for one Don Swayze), and the visuals are stylishly, almost tastefully done--Ashley Irwin's coffee-table funk adding the right musical enhancement. As the upwardly mobile accountant Christine Chandler, Diane Barton gives a creditable portrayal of a woman caught between the routine of marriage to the predictable Richard (stolidly dependable Edward Albert) and the excitement of an illicit affair with the passably seductive Quinn, played with a certain edge by Doug Jeffrey. The two subplots are wafer thin in narrative terms, but those who enjoy bump-and-grind under piers and in changing rooms will certainly stay the course. On the DVD: Sexual Malice comes to DVD in a 4:3 full frame print that's nonetheless a classy looking effort, and the stereo soundtrack is similarly pristine. There are detailed filmographies, a well-reproduced but oddly random photo gallery, and a trailer that manages to summarise a completely different scenario. As its closing voice-over proclaims, "Caught between a boring husband and a dangerous lover, a passionate woman can commit just about anything". Now you know.--Richard Whitehouse

• A Knight in York | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Tracklist:1. Locked Within The Crystal Ball2. Gilded Cage3. The Circle 4. Journeyman5. World Of Stone6. The Peasant's Promise7. Toast To Tomorrow8. Fires At Midnight9. Barbara Allen10. Darkness 11. Dance Of The Darkness 12. Dandelion Wine13. All The Fun Of The Fayre14. First Of May

• Swinging Bach | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A swinging performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's music recorded at the Marktplatz Leipzig July 28th 2000.

• Mughal-E-Azam | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The great Mughal Emperor Jalaluddin Mohammed Akbar has everything he can ask for - immense wealth a vast empire and trusted lieutenants - except the one thing he really craves a son and heir. He prays to the gods and his wish is eventually fulfilled when his wife Rani Jodhabhau gives birth to a boy. Akbar lavishes all his affection on him but as the boy grows Akbar sees that his affection is perhaps spoiling him. Thus he sends him away to make a warrior and by the time he returns he has grown into a strapping man Prince Salim. At the unveiling of a statue to welcome his return Salim is taken by it's sheer beauty. When it proves to be a real person the lovely courtesan Anarkali this turns into love and this is when the problems begin for a prince can not marry a courtesan.... Mughal-E-Azam is a solid gold classic of India cinema that became the biggest blockbuster ever on it's original theatrical release in 1960.

• Stargate SG-1 :Series 8 - Vol. 39 | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £6.55   |  Saving you £13.44 (67.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Episodes comprise: Icon:Daniel attempts to aid a battle-ravaged society when the team's appearance sparks a war. Avatar:The SGC experiment with a virtual reality chair from the Gamekeeper's world (season 2) but Teal'c becomes trapped in a virtual loop against an undefeatable batch of Anubis drones. Affinity: Teal'c moves into an apartment off-base where he becomes involved in a neighbor's problems. Meanwhile Carter's boyfriend Peter Shanahan proposes and Carter tries to decide. Teal'c is then charged for murder and kidnapping. Daniel disappears while trying to prove Teal'c innocent. Covenant When a billionaire industrialist threatens to reveal the existence of alien life at a press conference SG-1 is asked to keep him quiet. Carter must decide just how far she will go to stop this threat to national security...

• Destiny's Child - The Platinum's On The Wall | DVD | (14/05/2001) from £8.96   |  Saving you £-2.97 (-49.60%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With their sleek, cyber R&B sounds and lyrical/video world of cars, money, shopping, boys and sex, Texas' Destiny's Child hardly broke any new ground. However, The Platinum's on the Wall captures them at their career height, and proves no one was doing this stuff with more grandeur, sass and ice-cool efficiency. To paraphrase one commentator in 2001: This is Destiny's Child's world, the rest of us are just living in it. Beginning with their first, 1997 hit, the slow-burning, teasing "No, No, No" (Part 1) including the foxy trot of "Bills, Bills Bills"--an attack on backsliding homeboys as withering as TLC's "No Scrubs"--this collection culminates in their irresistibly over-the-top performance of "Independent Women Part 1" at the Brits 2001, in which their set, gold lamé outfits and stage entrance made Cleopatra seem like a minor member of a bicycling monarchy in the lavishness stakes. Featuring costume changes on an almost frame-by-frame basis, these videos are certainly lavish also, though the group are seen to best advantage on the likes of "Say My Name" where Beyonce Knowles, the group's leader and true star, gets to show off her persona a little. Disappointingly, the extra "biography" feature here is not a steamy account of their rapid rise and frequent personnel changes but a dreary, text-only account of their numerous TV appearances and platinum sales figures. --David Stubbs

• Lackawanna Blues | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £11.45   |  Saving you £-3.46 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Based on the award-winning play by Ruben Santiago-Hudson this poignant and colourful drama tells the inspirational story of a courageous woman Nanny whose spirit and strength served as the foundation for a struggling community trying to survive during the segregation era. Starring an exceptional ensemble cast led by Jimmy Smits Rosie Perez and Macy Gray this inspiring drama from HBO Films is a celebration of the good things in life no matter how tough times may be.

• Night Of The Living Dead | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (-3.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Still today 'The Night Of The Living Dead' is one of the most gruesome and terrifying films ever made. Guaranteed to frighten you out of your wits this is the story of seven people barricaded inside a farm house while an army of flesh eating zombies roams the countryside. Don't watch it alone...

• In Love And War | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  North Vietnam 1965. Navy pilot Jim Stockdale suffers the repeated tortures given by his captors but he vows to himself that he will never confess what he knows. Meanwhile his wife Sybil struggles to hold her life together with little or no news of her husbands captivity.

• Johann Strauss - Dance And Dream | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The history of the waltz is inextricably linked to the history of the Strauss family. A Night in Vienna explores and relives the elegant atmosphere of ballroom dancing in 19th-century Vienna featuring popular soprano Lesley Garrett who also hosts the docudrama The Waltz King an enthralling story of the composers father and son.

• Cinerama: Search for Paradise | Blu Ray | (18/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A