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• Hobson's Choice / The Sound Barrier | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Hobson's Choice (1953) and The Sound Barrier (1952) is a double bill of cleverly juxtaposed films from David Lean's early canon, demonstrating that even without the landmark epics to come, British cinema would have been an infinitely poorer place without his tremendous contribution. Both films reflect his endlessly penetrating view of human behaviour and its perseverance through obstacles great and small. And both are effectively prisms that reflect all the aspects of that view, keeping the audience's sympathies constantly on the move. Hobson's Choice, based on Harold Brighouse's eternally popular 1916 comedy, boasts fine turns from Charles Laughton--at his brilliant, physical best--as the boot-shop owner with three troublesome daughters, and John Mills as the lowly boot maker, elevated and improved by the eldest daughter Maggie in a neat inversion of the Pygmalion fable. But both are kept in their place by Brenda de Banzie's portrayal of Maggie, a performance that glows with intelligence, truth and increasing warmth. The Sound Barrier is a drama about the race for a supersonic aeroplane. Superficially, its setting is quintessential post-World War II Britain: stiff upper lips, twin beds and clipped Rattigan dialogue. But it's prescient stuff. Ralph Richardson's aircraft manufacturer, sinister in his obsession, is an ominously skilful film performance. And Lean's take on the unthinkable cost of human achievement, interwoven with some spectacular cinematography, absorbs and unsettles. It's especially poignant now that the supersonic age has been summarily ended by Concorde's retirement. On the DVD: Hobson's Choice and The Sound Barrier are both black-and-white films presented in 4:3 picture format, from reasonable prints, and with a mono soundtrack of suitably robust quality for Malcolm Arnold's inventive scores. There are no extras, apart from scene indexes. --Piers Ford

• Storm And Sorrow | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Twenty five year old Molly Higgins has been invited to join the American climbing team on a world class expedition in the Soviet Union. Tackling the storm ravaged peaks of a treacherous mountain range is a dangerous task taken on by only a select few. The chance of a lifetime Molly willingly accepts the challenge. Confronting the climb however isn't the only obstacle in Molly's way...

• Breeders | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Wanted: Intergalactic couple seeks romance + possibly more w/nubile SWF. We're a real pair! He's an NSGEM (Non-Smoking, Green-Eyed Monster). She's a SCECLS (Scantily Clad, Egg-Carrying Love Slave). You're eager to get nekkid, have an IQ that resembles a Celsius temp. reading, and reside at an unnamed female college filled w/randy staffers & idiotic administration. First date w/us includes attempts at terrorisation & you being encased in a monster semen chrysalis. May include zombification. Interested? Wander down to the local sewers--we'll be waiting! (No boyfriends (except as HDs [hors d'oeuvres]) or STDs (space-transmitted diseases).) --Keith Simanton, Amazon.com

• Warriors Of Virtue - The Return To Tao | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Set a few years after the original film "Warriors of Virtue," the sequel finds Ryan and his best friend Chucky arrive at a martial arts competition in Beijing and thrust into the parallel land of Tao to do battle as the next Warriors of Virtue!

• Repli-Kate | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Every guy on campus wants a copy of Kate. Weird Science enters the Twenty-First Century in this laugh-out-loud tale of cloning gone mad! Young geneticist Max Fleming may be brilliant enough to have created the world's first cloning machine but when it comes to women he's a moron. So when he accidentally clones the girl of his dream he seizes the opportunity to create what he feels will be the perfect woman - one who acts just like a guy. But Max soon realizes that the differences between men and women are what makes it all worthwhile!

• Go to Hell | DVD | (27/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.89

• Warriors of Virtue | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set a few years after the original film "Warriors of Virtue," the sequel finds Ryan and his best friend Chucky arrive at a martial arts competition in Beijing and thrust into the parallel land of Tao to do battle as the next Warriors of Virtue!

• The Night Of The Living Dead - The Remake | DVD | (23/10/2000) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-2.08 (-34.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  There is a fate worse than death. It's a new night for terror and a new dawn in horror movie-making when special-effects genius Tom Savini (creator of the spectacularly gruesome make-up in Friday The 13th and Creepshow) brings modern technology to this colorful remake of George A. Romero's 1968 cult classic. Seven strangers are trapped in an isolated farmhouse while cannibalistic zombies - awakened from death by the return of a radioactive space probe - wage a relentless atta