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• A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | DVD | (05/06/2000) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Scorsese's invigorating history of American movies avoids the straitjacket of chronology. Although he makes dutiful nods in the direction of Edwin S. Porter, D.W. Griffith and Orson Welles, he is equally interested in figures working at the margins, film-makers such as Andre De Toth, Ida Lupino, Sam Fuller and Edgar Ulmer, "who circumvented the system to get their vision onto the screen". He describes them as "illusionists", "smugglers", con artists who managed to hoodwink the money men into allowing them to make the films they wanted. Some worked in B-movies ("less money, more freedom") others (like Scorsese himself) struck their own Faustian bargains with the studios, making "one movie for them, one for yourself"His heroes are the outsiders, the film-makers who chafe against the assurances of the American dream. He offers a vivid, guilty vignette of himself as a four-year-old child, sitting in a darkened auditorium watching in amazement as Gregory Peck overpowers Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun, one of the first films his mother took him to. "The savage intensity of the music, the burning sun, the overt sexuality ... it seems that the two could only consummate their passion by killing each other". There's a certain irony in Scorsese, who once seriously considered becoming a priest, succumbing to a David O. Selznick Technicolor extravaganza which had already been condemned by the church.While often sounding like a serious-minded apprentice who watches old movies to pick up tips which will help him in his own work ("study the old masters, enrich your palette, expand the canvas-there's always so much more to learn") he never overlooks the illicit pleasure that cinema can bring. "I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane". --Geoffrey Macnab

• Hit And Run | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £9.70   |  Saving you £-4.71 (-94.40%)   |  RRP £4.99

  In the stifling suburban world inhabited by Joanna Kendall very little happens to change the meticulously planned existence. That is until she accidentally hits an eight-year-old girl who has dashed in front of her car. Her nightmare only worsens when after calling for help she chooses to drive on rather than take responsibility for what's happened. While nvestigators continuing their search for the cowardly hit-and-run driver she begins taking stock in herself by questioning the number of decisions and sacrifices she's made in her role as the ideal wife. And as the pressure of keeping up this innocent homemaker charade intensifies it is only a matter of time until this guilt-wracked woman finally breaks under the weight of her own conscience.

• Hit And Run | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-11.98 (-200.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When Joanna Kendall accidentally knocks an eight-year-old girl off her bike it is the start of a nightmare that slowly begins to destroy her cosy suburban life. Afraid to admit to being the hit and run driver Joanna finds herself in a race against time between the little girl's survival and the investigators' search for the driver...

• Crime True Stories 6 dvd Box set | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Titles Comprise: In The Eyes Of A Stranger: When Lynn Carlson witnesses a brutal slaying of a stranger on the subway she tells police that the dying woman gave her a message she didn't understand right before she died. Soon it becomes clear that the murders were part of something much bigger - a gold heist and two million dollars in cash that's gone missing. The Heart Of The Lie: Who was Bambi Bembenek? Lindsay Frost stars as the attractive enigmatic Bembenek a former Milwaukee cop and one-time pin-up girl convicted of the brutal slaying of her husband's ex-wife. Her sensational Midwest murder trial and subsequent prison break-out turned her into an international cause c''lebr''. Hit And Run: In the stifling suburban world inhabited by Joanna Kendall very little happens to change the meticulously planned existence. That is until she accidentally hits an eight-year-old girl who has dashed in front of her car. Her nightmare only worsens when after calling for help she chooses to drive on rather than take responsibility for what's happened. Dangerous Child: A divorced mother faces the bitter irony of being suspected of child abuse when in fact her own teen son is taking verbal and physical swipes at her. Murder Of Innocence: A woman who seemingly has everything becomes increasingly unhinged and a danger to everyone around her... The Ultimate Betrayal: The true story of one daughter's fight to bring her father to justice for years of physical and mental abuse...