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• Pain & Glory BD | Blu Ray | (13/01/2020) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Salvador Mallo is a veteran film director, afflicted by multiple ailments, the worst of which is his inability to continue filming. His physical condition doesn't allow it and, if he can't film again, his life has no meaning. The mixture of medications, along with an occasional flirtation with heroin, means that Salvador spends most of his day prostrate. This drowsy state transports him back to reflect on his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to Paterna, a village in Valencia, in search of prosperity, and the struggles and improvising his Mother made so that the family could survive. The appearance of his first desire and his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.

• Pain and Glory DVD | DVD | (13/01/2020) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.

• Final Analysis | DVD | (22/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  This film, which again pairs Richard Gere and Kim Basinger (who starred in 1986's No Mercy), offers up elements of classic noir: a hapless man becomes intimately involved with a beautiful blonde who may or may not be who or what she appears to be. Dedicated psychiatrist Isaac Barr (Gere) reluctantly, and then more obsessively, becomes involved with Heather Evans (Basinger), the sister of his patient, Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman). Evans is unhappily married to a gangster (appropriately played by a muscular and menacing Eric Roberts in a trademark role). Gere and Basinger make a credible, if dangerous couple, and Thurman delivers a subtle, understated performance and demonstrates her range and potential. The thriller is appropriately shot in gorgeous San Francisco, where the literal and figurative curving and hilly roads wind throughout. Credit legendary art director Dean Tavoularis for some amazing sets and scenes, notably the elegantly cavernous restaurant where Evans and her husband have a fateful dinner. This film is, in a way, glossy director Phil Joanou's Hitchcockian tribute--as a climactic lighthouse scene best demonstrates. Final Analysis doesn't offer an intimate look at its characters, but a beautifully stylized one, moody and gloomy. The intricate plot experiments with the device of "pathological intoxication," in which the subject completely loses control after drinking alcohol. And this doesn't mean a conventional ugly drunk; it means a frightening psychotic. Good and evil, hope and despair, beauty and repulsion are often juxtaposed in the film's complex world. --NF Mendoza

• Magic Magic | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (43.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A naive young tourist's road trip across Chile with friends turns into a waking nightmare.

• Gran Casino | DVD | (02/03/2009) from £2.89   |  Saving you £15.10 (83.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in the early 1900s Bunuel's surprisingly mainstream and riveting romantic melodrama is the powerful tale of two escaped convicts Gerardo (Jorge Negrete) and Demetrio (Julio Villarreal) who convince and Argentinean oil magnate to let them work on his rig. When he suddenly disappears his sister (Libertad Lamarque) immediately suspects the two workers of foul play but her attraction to Gerardo soon leads her to secretly team up with him to conduct their own murder investigation.

• Jesus Shows You The Highway | Blu Ray | (14/09/2020) from £15.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  What do you get when you cross Afro-futurism, Cold War paranoia, the dystopian world of Philip K. Dick and 60s exploitation cinema, along with a hefty dose of Lynchian surrealism? The answer: Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway, the second feature by Miguel Llansó (Crumbs) and one of the most striking and original films you'll see all year. The year is 2035, and Special Agent Gagano (Daniel Tadesse, Crumbs) dreams of leaving the CIA to open a business with his wife Malin (Gerda-Annette Allikas). Before he can hand in his resignation, however, a strange cyber virus attacks Psychobook, the CIA's operating system, forcing Gagano to enter cyberspace via virtual reality to combat the threat. Before long, however, the virus starts to reach out into the real world, destabilising the fragile socio-political order for its own ends, and Gagano, trapped in the VR world, must find a way out before it's too late. Featuring encounters with an Irish-accented Joseph Stalin, a kung-fu-fighting Batman, and Jesus Christ himself, to name but a few, Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is absurd, audacious and like nothing you've ever experienced before. 2-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation New audio commentary by critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Anton Bitel From Talinn with Love, a new visual essay by critic Will Webb exploring the influence of exploitation cinema on Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway Exclusive audio interview with director Miguel Llansó, conducted by critic Josh Hurtado Crumbs (2015), Miguel Llansó's feature directorial debut and spiritual predecessor to Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (Limited Edition Exclusive) Chigger Ale (2013) and Night in the Wild Garden (2015), two short films by Miguel Llansó Original proof-of-concept trailer Theatrical trailer Image gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Austin Hinderliter Double-sided fold-out poster Limited Edition illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway by Barry Forshaw and Crumbs by Anton Bitel Limited Edition of 2000 copies

• Bromance | DVD | (27/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When four friends go on a camping trip in a remote part of Argentina, sexual tensions quickly bubble to the surface. Once in virtual seclusion by the beach, Juli (the only girl) quickly recognises that that the boys seem to have a closer relationship than what she would consider normal . The line between friendship and love fade further for two of the boys in particular as their desire becomes too much to bear. When what started as a simple getaway quickly becomes tinged with sex, romance, and conflict, everyone is forced to confront who they really are for the very first time.

• Gothic Vampires From Hell | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-8.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

• 3 Play | DVD | (06/08/2007) from £8.56   |  Saving you £6.43 (42.90%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Foreplay Was Never This Much Fun! 3 Play adds a new unilateral twist to the classic love triangle scenario. This romantic comedy explores the true life story of three young independent smart sexy and otherwise normal people when they make the choice to forego accepted social norms. Leaving them open to the scrutiny and criticism of friends and family and forcing them to constantly answer the question....""Is this normal?""