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• 20 Pack: Thriller (including Asylum Erotica, Blind Terror, Callan, Class Of 1999 II, Cyclone & 15 More) | DVD | (17/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1. Asylum Erotica (Dir. Fernando Di Leo 1971) 2. Class of 1999 Part II (Dir. Spiro Razatos 1994) 3. Blind Terror (Dir. Giles Walker 2001) 4. Callan (Dir. Don Sharp 1974) 5. Cyclone (Dir. Fred Olen Ray 1987) 6. Female Perversions (Dir. Susan Streitfeld 1996) 7. Recoil (Dir. Art Camacho 1997) 8. The Tunnel (Dir. Daniel Baldwin 2000) 9. I Shot a Man in Vegas (Dir. Keoni Waxman 1995) 10. Flowers in the Attic (Dir. Jeffrey Bloom 1987) 11. How Awful About Allan (Dir. Curtis Harrington 1970) 12. No Big Deal (Dir. Robert Charlton 1983) 13. Jake Speed (Dir. Andrew Lane 1986) 14. Miss Monday (Dir. Benson Lee 1998) 15. Kandyland (Dir. Philip Marcus & Robert Allen Schnitzer 1987) 16. The Killing Mind (Dir. Michael Ray Rhodes 1991) 17. Music Of Chance (Dir. Philip Haas 1993) 18. Original Sin (Dir. Ron Satlof 1989) 19. Phoenix (Dir. Danny Cannon 1998) 20. Pure Danger (Dir. C. Thomas Howell 1996)

• Hannibal - Superbit | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Yes, he's back ... and he's still hungry. Hannibal is set 10 years after The Silence of the Lambs, as Dr Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, reprising his Oscar-winning role) is living the good life in Italy, studying art and sipping espresso. FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore, replacing Jodie Foster), on the other hand, hasn't had it so good--an outsider from the start, she's now a quiet, moody loner who doesn't play bureaucratic games and suffers for it. A botched drug raid results in her demotion--and a request from Lecter's only living victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman, uncredited), for a little Q and A. Little does Clarice realise that the hideously deformed Verger--who, upon suggestion from Dr Lecter, peeled off his own face--is using her as bait to lure Dr Lecter out of hiding, quite certain he'll capture the good doctor. Taking the basic plot contraptions from Thomas Harris's baroque novel, Hannibal is so stylistically different from its predecessor that it forces you to take it on its own terms. Director Ridley Scott gives the film a sleek, almost European look that lets you know that, unlike the first film (which was about the quintessentially American Clarice), this movie is all Hannibal. Does it work? Yes--but only up to a point. Scott adeptly sets up an atmosphere of foreboding, but it's all a build-up to the anticlimax, as Verger's plot for abducting Hannibal (and feeding him to man-eating wild boars) doesn't really deliver the requisite visceral thrills, and the much-ballyhooed climatic dinner sequence between Clarice, Dr Lecter and a third, unlucky guest wobbles between parody and horror. Hopkins and Moore are both first-rate, but the film contrives to keep them as far apart as possible, when what made Silence of the Lambs so amazing was their interaction. When they do connect it's quite thrilling but it's unfortunately too little too late. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com On the DVD: The good-looking widescreen (1.85:1) anamorphic print is accompanied by a directorial commentary on the first disc. Ridley Scott is no stranger to DVD commentaries by now, and keeps up a pretty constant flow of enjoyable story exposition, although provides few specifics about the actual filmmaking process. He's obviously more than happy to talk about this movie, since on the second disc there are also "Ridleygram" interviews with Scott about the process of storyboarding and a huge chunk of deleted or alternate scenes (including the alternate ending) with optional directorial commentary. There's a wealth of other extras to dip into, including five "making-of" featurettes (73 minutes in all), plus two multi-angle "vignettes" of the film's opening sequences (the fish-market shoot-out and opening titles), and a marketing gallery of trailers, stills and artwork. Surround-sound enthusiasts can select either Dolby 5.1 or DTS soundtracks for the main feature. --Mark Walker

• B.E.I.N.G. | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A tragi-comic assortment of stories, which focus on the strange and sometimes wonderful behaviourial ticks of man.

• The Scarlet Pimpernel | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  It's tough trying to beat the 1934 version of the popular adventure-romance story, starring Leslie Howard as the 18th-century British hero who poses as a fop in London society but runs a secret mission to rescue the doomed in Robespierre's Paris. But this 1982 television version, starring Anthony Andrews (Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited) as the Pimpernel and Jane Seymour as his beloved but estranged wife, is quite a treat. Andrews and Seymour expertly capture the essence of a relationship suffering from misunderstandings and elusive passion, and there is plenty of crackle to the action sequences. Clive Donner (What's New, Pussycat?) brings some strong cinematic qualities to this television presentation. --Tom Keogh

• Border Warz | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The road to redemption ends here... Get ready to cross America's deadliest border. In an area cram-packed with bandits drug smugglers illegal immigrants and U.S. immigration officers two young girls find themselves embroiled in a bitter drugs war.

• Nixon/Shadow Conspiracy/American History X | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nixon (Dir. Oliver Stone 1995): Nixon takes a riveting look at a complex man whose chance at greatness was ultimately destroyed by his passion for power - when his involvement in conspiracy jeopardized the nation's security and the presidency of the United States! With a phenomenal all-star cast. Shadow Conspiracy (Dir. George Pan Cosmatos 1997): Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) is one of the President's most powerful and trusted advisors but when he becomes involved with a college professor who has information on a traitor he suddenly becomes a fugitive. Hunted down in the dead of night by a ruthless killer Bishop enlists the help of former girlfriend Amanda Givens (Linda Hamilton) a plucky reporter and together they uncover a hideous conspiracy. But Bishop is now an outsider and must try to get Washington to believe him before it's too late... American History X (Dir. Tony Kaye 1998): Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists lands in prison for a brutal hate-driven murder. Upon his release ashamed of his past and pledging to reform Derek realises he must save his younger brother Danny (Edward Furlong) from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family.