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• It's The Rage | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £6.92   |  Saving you £-0.93 (-15.50%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mixing a superb cast with a serious salting of dark humour "gun culture" comedy It's The Rage is that rare thing, a genuinely outstanding film which went straight-to-video. Like Magnolia (1999) it makes coincidence a virtue in telling the stories of a group of disparate characters, and how their lives are entwined and sometimes ended because of America's obsession with firearms. When Jeff Daniels shoots his business partner, his wife, Joan Allen, leaves for a job with a software billionaire, Gary Sinise, and the film expands to encompass brother and sister punks (Giovanni Ribisi and Anna Paquin), a video store assistant, a pair of detectives and a gay couple. Adapted from his own play, Keith Reddin ensures the script remains pointed, while Sinise delivers a wonderful performance of supreme eccentricity recalling Peter Seller's Dr Strangelove. Indeed, there is much akin to Kubrick's tense, pitch-black humour in this anti-gun parable, while in various ways, from the central Daniels/Allen couple to the sardonic detachment of the music to Paquin's "almost-relationship" with an older man It's the Rage parallels the contemporaneous American Beauty (1999). It's actually the more powerful film, and though made for cable deserved all the praise it received on its festival screenings. On the DVD: The trailer doesn't capture the spirit of the film at all, while the 13-minute making-of documentary is routine promotional material. The commentary by first time film director (but veteran stage director) James D. Stern is exceptionally good, both enthusiastic and packed with information; the fact that It's The Rage really bites can almost certainly be attributed to Stern's college roommate being shot dead. The sound is Dolby Digital 5.1 and while this isn't the sort of film to show-off a sound system,it's atmospheric and the diverse music score becomes almost a character in itself. The anamorphically enhanced 1.77-1 image is good but a little grainy and shows occasional compression artifacting. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Unreal Story Of Pro Wrestling | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £13.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (10.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  With it's outrageous characters over the top spectacular hard hitting and mat slapping action it is the world's favourite guilty pleasure. This programme examines the world's sweatiest showdowns between the good the bad and the downright ugly. Learn the sensational secrets the gimmicks the rules (if there are any) of one of the most enthralling and captivating professions in the world. This programme also includes action and interviews with some of the best and beefiest legend

• The Kindness Of Strangers - A Portrait Of Andre Previn | DVD | (01/04/2001) from £12.55   |  Saving you £7.44 (59.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Tony Palmer's appreciation of André Previn, The Kindness of Strangers, takes its title from Previn's biggest work to date, A Streetcar Named Desire, an opera based on the play by Tennessee Williams. Blanche Dubois, the leading character, speaks of her reliance on the kindness of strangers to see her through her troubles. The preparation for the opera cuts between Previn's other activities and forms the riveting climax to the film as opening night approaches, though it remains a moot point why these sequences should be accompanied by the 'Romanza' from Vaughan Williams' Fifth Symphony? Despite struggling to hear his singers in a hopelessly inadequate orchestra pit, Previn's common sense and humour win through. The film has many instances of this, as when reporting an anecdote to an orchestra of young musicians, Previn tells them that conducting is not an exalted calling of limousines and mistresses but more often a case of knowing where to get your underwear laundered. Previn always has enjoyed the thrill of hearing his music performed fresh off the printed page from his first MGM title, The Sun Comes Up (starring Jeanette Macdonald and Lassie) to the San Francisco premiere of Streetcar. This beautifully shot film runs the gamut of his versatility, taking us to Germany to hear him conducting Ravel, advising a young conductor at Tanglewood on the complexity of a Richard Strauss score, playing Gershwin with bass player David Finck, and then at a haunt of yesteryear, a jazz club in New York: the nomadic life of an itinerant musician lives with him still it seems. This is an affectionate portrayal of a fine musician, sensitively directed. --Adrian Edwards

• Anne-Sophie Mutter - Mozart - Trios And Divertimento | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

• Rapt | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £7.91   |  Saving you £11.07 (225.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  On a morning like any other a powerful business man Stanislas Graff is kidnapped outside his luxurious apartment building by a gang of thugs. From there begins a terrifying ordeal that will last for several weeks. Despite being tortured and humiliated Graff resists his captors. He accepts his fate without complaint. Cut off from the world receiving only glimpses of information from his captors Graff fails to understand why nobody is willing to pay the ransom. Outside his world is falling to pieces as details of his personal life are revealed. All he had managed to keep private; his affairs his gambling debts his shady dealings are exposed by the police investigation and media frenzy. Friends and family begin to discover that the real Stanislas Graff may not be the man they thought they knew...

• A Gorgeous Girl Like Me | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £19.33   |  Saving you £0.66 (3.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist he meets Camille Bliss who is in prison to interview her as researching for a book entitled Women Criminals... Camille is accused of having murdered her lover Arthur and her husband Clovis. She tells Stanislas her life and her love affairs...

• Bob Le Flambeur / Un Flic | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A double bill of Jean-Pierre Melville classics including 'Bob Le Flambeur' and the hardboiled thriller 'Un Flic'. Bob Le Flambeur (1955): Once a renowned criminal Bob the Gambler now contents himself with gambling frequenting casinos in the shady districts of Paris. He is convinced his gangster days are over - until he meets up with an old accomplice who has news which interests him. The casino at Deauville has a safe which is loaded with several hundred million francs. Short of cash Bob decides to plan one last great robbery. He recruits a number of former fellow criminals and plans the theft to the greatest detail. Unfortunately on the day of the robbery things rapidly begin to go wrong. Bob's luck appears to have taken an unexpected turn - for the better. Un Flic: Melville's last film returns to the genre in which he made the classic Le Samourai. A band of crooks carry out a bank robbery and then an incredible hold-up on a train. When he investigates the crimes Parisian detective Commissaire Coleman discovers that they were masterminded by his friend - the night club owner Simon abetted by his seductive girlfriend Cathy...

• Zero Day | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Two kids. One school. ""We are the Army of Two!"" So begins the video diary of Andre (Andre Keuck) and Cal (Calvin Robertson) two best friends and alienated high school students who have meticulously planned a ""big-ass mission"" that will shock and terrify their community. They have officially declared war stockpiled their weapons and set the day now ""let the countdown begin."" Make no mistake: Zero Day is not a ""Blair Witch"" stunt. With his uncanny unprofessional cast and unflinching intimacy director Ben Coccios award-winning first feature is a disturbingly authentic and harrowing look at a tragedy as unthinkable as todays headlines.

• G | DVD | (10/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

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• Bone Snatcher | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Hell has been unleashed! Alex, a scientist who hates field-work, finds himself in a truck surrounded by sand flies and blowing dirt, bouncing across the desert. What is probably the worst day in his life is about to get worse. As he clings to his seat, a radio call comes through - four prospectors who disappeared in the desert have been found stripped of flesh with their bones scattered around a strange rock dome. With no clues to the massacre, things become terrifying when Alex discovers that he and his colleagues are being hunted by millions of creatures united into one horrifying and unstoppable killing machine. As darkness descends, the ground they stand on becomes a living carpet capable of devouring their flesh with every step.

• Dead Hate The Living | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Dead Hate the Living is a love letter to the nightmarish scenarios and visual freakouts of Italian horror pictures, although it also echoes with such American genre classics as Phantasm, The Evil Dead, and Scream. What could be better than a bunch of Italian horror buffs making their own zombie flick in a spooky abandoned hospital? Being attacked by the real thing, of course. The hapless crew discover a creepy black altar (complete with its own decorative corpse) and incorporate it into their film. When their scripted ceremony opens a portal from another dimension and unleashes an army of rampaging zombies, the hallways become flooded in red and blue and green pools of light for no good reason other than it looks cool. The hospital is suddenly adrift in an alternative reality because... well, just because. Writer-director Dave Parker never tries to explain the madness (a zombie's exclamation, "Hate the living! Love the dead!" is as much motive as we're offered), choosing instead simply to plunge viewers into the inspired mayhem. What makes it all work is a love of the genre, a cast of energetic, likable performers, cool zombie makeup, and a sure, stylish hand. Horror movie mavens will pick up on oodles of clever references (a bumper sticker that reads "Fulci lives"; a zombie king commanding, "Make them die... slowly"), but these are merely asides in an accomplished, clever, and remarkably entertaining indie horror riff. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• 2 Seconds | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Refreshingly charming 2 Seconds starts from an unlikely premise - a mountain bike racer in the midst of a mid life crisis - and goes up from there on. Beautifully photographed and with an appealing lead in Charlotte Laurier's French-Canadian Laurie the film's title refers to the amount of time it takes for our hero to hesitate lose a crucial race and find herself plunging into an early retirement at 28 years of age thus kickstarting a chain of events that will change her life fo

• Motocross Championship Review 1986 | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £15.74   |  Saving you £4.25 (21.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A season review of the 1986 Motocross Championship featuring Dave Thorpe Erik Geboers Andre Malherbe and Georges Jobe.

• The Contemporary Arts | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Discover the world of fine art with the people who made it happen. Arata Isokai: The architect of the Museum of Contemporary Art reveals the motivation of the design of his symbolically imaginative buildings. Eui Kyu Kim: The renowned Korean Artist who creates spiritual canvases that emphasise the curves and contours of the body. Ed Ruscha: Considered to be one of the first modern artists who embraced the impersonality of billboard advertising to philosophise about the arbitrariness of the painted and printed expression. Bob Branaman: A Distinguished film-maker print-maker and painter whose work encompasses a broad and eclectic range of subject matter from the treatment of the aboriginal people in America to his love of the female form. Don Williams: Using the medium of pastel in realistic fashion by documenting his surroundings with a camera and incorporating the photographs into hauntingly realistic pastels. The Fauves: An overview of the sensation that this group created in art during the early 1900's and the lasting influence they have even today. Sam Francis: A montage of Francis' watercolours at the hight of his popularity reviewed by Andre Emmerlich. Man Ray: Ranging from the sublime to the bizarre Man Ray was a visionary in contemporary art. His fine and graphic art was innovative and his photography continually went beyond all accepted boundaries. He is still an art icon 30 years after his death. Aurobora Press: Housed in one of downtown San Francisco's oldest buildings this turn of the century firehouse has been revived as a living studio where artists can work through their inspiration in a nurturing comfortable setting. Richard Pousette-Dart: One of the original Abstract Expressionists who now enjoys the notoriety that his New York contemporaries have long experienced. Often termed 'painterly' abstraction learn how Pousette's work expresses an evocative field of colour hinting at myth ritual and psychological themes. Wrapped In Glory: The tale of how American history has been recorded stitch by stitch in rare and beautiful quilts that demonstrate how utility meets art. The Eight: A survey of paintings by the group of 'Eight' who broke away from the established traditions of American art and imposed an influence that remains present even today. Andre Emmerlich: Perhaps the world's most famous art dealer candidly reveals the relationship between the artist and the dealer and the myth of the discovered artist.

• Discovery Atlas - South Africa Revealed | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  South Africa has recently gone through one of the most extraordinary transformations of any nation on earth forging peace and democracy out of a state of sectarian civil war. The spirit of hope can still be found in countless individual stories which acknowledge their hardships while leaning towards a bright future. Narrated by Emmy'' Award-winning actor Andre Braugher.

• Poseidon | UMD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• Various Composers - Legato: the World of the Piano Vol. II | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £35.62   |  Saving you £-12.63 (-54.90%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Legato - World Of Piano:Marc-Andre Hamelin

• Wayland's Quest | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £6.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When an evil warlock seeks to terminate the Reign of Kings there is not 1 but 7 things that can save him... Seven Swords. Apart they sre just steel and leather but united... Guarded by giant spiders fire-breathing dragons and even the Gods; nothing will come between the warlock and the power of steel. Secretly others covet the Swords yet still there is only one person in the land who has the courage to stem the spread of this evil tyrant. Who will finally gain the power of the Gods? Can you unlock the clues to the Seven Swords or will you too be consumed by the promise of limitless power? A movie with multiple endings and puzzles to keep you on the edge of your seat. Take heart - the Legend of Wayland will save the day!

• Andre Cluytens and Emil Giels | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tracklisting: 1.Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition 2.Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 3 in A minor Op 28 3.Ravel:Daphnis et Chlo - fragments symphonique 2e srie 4.Tchaikovsky:Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat major Op 23

• Be Cool | DVD | (13/05/2013) from £7.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (28.24%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Starring an unbelievably hip all-star cast including John Travolta Uma Thurman Andre 3000 Steven Tyler and The Rock and bursting with the hottest music in the biz Be Cool is the wildly hilarious tale about a gangster turned music mogul... and what it takes to be number one with a bullet. When Chili Palmer (Travolta) decides to try his hand in the music industry he romances the sultry widow (Thurman) of a recently whacked music exec poaches a hot young singer (Christina Milian) from a rival label and discovers that the record industry is packin' a whole lot more than a tune!