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• I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  All Bernie Fishbine wants in life is to meet the perfect mate. Ordinarily one wouldn't think this would be a problem because he's the ideal boy-friend for any girl. He's lovable sweet and considerate but he's also a little chubby. Everyday he wakes up in the Philadelphia apartment he shares with his neurotic mother Sarah Fishbine and his belligerent grandfather Gramps. One particular night he meets Tress Garabaldi at the bus stop. She's beautiful Italian-American graduate student. Soon they are getting to know each other and Tress even offers to help Bernie get into shape. Bernies feelings for Tress grow but while she finds Bernie nice her real intention is to use him as a research subject of her graduate thesis paper The Psychological Study of an Obese Male. But her plan is foiled after she starts to fall for Bernie's humour sweetness and depth.

• Alien Dawn (DVD) | DVD | (18/02/2013) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An alien attack plunges the world into chaos. The president is dead, the military is defeated, and all that remain are a few survivors as the invaders start building cities and start harvesting humans for food. Now a band of armed survivors must rise up and become a terrorist army to fight off the alien invaders before they destroy the rest of the human race. THE DAWN OF DESTRUCTION!

• Trauma | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Trauma was director Dario Argento's big crossover attempt at combining the Italian giallo genre with the American stalk 'n' slash. His fans may debate whether the result was a complete success, but the film certainly put his name in front of a wider international audience. Essentially the story is a psycho-murderer-mystery, with the audience made to piece together clues towards the identity-revealing denouement. The movie comes alive as a result of suitably intense performances, even while the characters die. Piper Laurie and Brad Dourif supply atypically explosive cameos. The leads are contrastingly subdued for the most part, no doubt because of their characters' involvement with drugs. Asia Argento (the director's daughter) is an anorexic who witnesses her parents' decapitations among a series of similar murders by the notorious "Headhunter". Christopher Rydell plays the ex-junkie who takes her in and helps track down the killer. Backing them up are some even greater performances from Tom Savini's eye-boggling special FX. With the aid of a motorised garrotte, the beheadings are gruesomely real, especially the one that leaves a head still able to talk. On the DVD: Trauma comes to disc in full 2.35:1 widescreen, though this isn't the clearest of transfers (plenty of artefacts present). The sound is in an unspecified Dolby mix. An interesting selection of extras almost makes up for the lack of a commentary. There are filmographies of Dario and Asia, a gallery of behind-the-scenes stills, and trailers for the movie Phantom of the Opera and several more in this series of releases. More interesting are the text features: interviews with Asia on her memories of the shoot and with renegade horror director Richard Stanley surreally recalling his long-term fandom of everything Argento. Most fascinating, there's a mini-essay on what was cut and why by the BBFC for the original UK video release. --Paul Tonks

• The Square Peg | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Square Peg marks a slight departure for Norman Wisdom, being his first comedy to be set, however recently, in the past. He plays one of a pair of council workmen, who while repairing the road outside an army base come to illustrate the oxymoronic nature of the phrase "military intelligence". Finding themselves drafted, the workmen are sent to repair the roads ahead of the Allied advance through war-torn Europe by the sergeant they previously embarrassed. Norman finds himself behind the German lines, joins-up with French Resistance, gets captured then sets out to rescue British prisoners from a German military HQ by impersonating General Schreiber. Of course Wisdom plays Schreiber too, offering the sort of comedy stereotyping which Basil Fawlty in best "Don't mention the war" mode would appreciate. The Square Peg is the film which introduced Norman Wisdom's famous catch-phrase, "Mr. Grimsdale!" for whenever disaster struck. The long suffering Mr Grimsdale is played by Edward Chapman, who would reprise the role in Wisdom's A Stitch in Time (1963) and The Early Bird (1965), as well as playing Mr Philpots in The Bulldog Breed (1960). Hattie Jacques gets to sing a remarkable duet with Wisdom, and a pre-Goldfinger (1964) Honor Blackman provides the love interest.--Gary S. Dalkin

• Zathura / Jumanji | UMD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Perpetrators Of The Crime | DVD | (01/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Three university guys plan on not joining the dole queue. In their last Spring holiday they kidnap a wealthy developer's daughter and demand a ransom of a million dollars. But they haven't realised yet just what a handful their victim is going to be.

• The New Adventures Of Pinocchio | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The New Adventures of Pinocchio is the charming sequel to the 1996 live-action movie. With a largely brand-new cast, the most important returning actor is Martin Landau as Geppetto. His role is pared down, however, by a neat twist in the tale. Udo Kier is the other returning actor, this time in the new bad guy/girl role of Madame Flambeau, whose carnival sets itself up in Pinocchio's town and offers everyone a miracle elixir to change their lives. Pinocchio (now played as a real boy by Gabriel Thomson) hopes the elixir will make his papa feel better from a nasty cold, but it turns out Flambeau tricked him with puppet-making juice. So now it's Geppetto who's the wooden star of the show! Lots of surprises keep the story happily moving along, with secret identities waiting to spring from the likes of Warwick Davis as the ringleader Dwarf. The Jim Henson Studio puppets are first class as always, with some flawless computer graphics coming to the rescue every so often. There's a beautiful backdrop of Luxembourg countryside too for this pantomime where everyone looks as if they had great fun putting it together. --Paul Tonks