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• Firestarter | DVD | (17/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Stephen King wasn't exactly in peak form when he wrote Firestarter, so this 1984 movie adaptation was at a disadvantage even before the cameras rolled. There were so many King movies being made at the time the weaknesses of this one became even more apparent. In her first film role after her memorable appearance in E.T., Drew Barrymore stars as a little girl whose parents acquired strange mental powers after participating in a secret government experiment. From this genetic background she has developed the mysterious ability to set anything on fire at will, especially when she's angry. That makes her very interesting to government officials seeking to exploit her skill as a secret weapon. Her father tries to protect her by using his powers of mind-control, while George C. Scott plays an Indian who believes the girl must be destroyed. There is a routine climax involving a lot of impressive pyrotechnics, but none of this is grounded in a dramatically solid foundation, and none of the characters are developed enough for us to care about them. Director Mark L. Lester, who the following year made Commando with Schwarzenegger, keeps the pace cracking along, but nevertheless the movie gradually turns into a laughable thriller with no suspense whatsoever. It's a movie only a pyromaniac could love. --Jeff ShannonOn the DVD: This is a largely no-frills presentation, albeit with a decent anamorphic print. The only extras are the original theatrical trailer and a nicely presented menu. A fold-out booklet has informative liner notes and a reproduction of the film poster.

• Frivolous Lola | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £16.62   |  Saving you £-0.63 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Frivolous Lola is a spirited adult production that keeps very much to Italian director Tinto Brass' modus operandi of making light-hearted sex films with a European art house sensibility. The Lola of the title (played with gusto by Serena Grandi) is a flighty young woman, frustrated by her relationship with local baker's son Masetto. Her constant attempts to seduce him meet with little success, resulting in a passionate affair with her mother's lover, André. As with all of Brass' work, Frivolous Lola is an odd combination of European erotica and Carry On film--not helped by the clumsy English language dubbing and the somewhat bizarre appearance of Britain's own Patrick Mower. Aficionados of the director will also spot his primary fascination with a certain part of the female anatomy as Grandi's bottom dominates the shot at every possible opportunity. On the DVD: Frivolous Lola on disc is digitally remastered, and the picture shows off the lushness of the Italian countryside, even though that was probably the last thing on the director's mind. Extras include an erotic photogallery and an interview with Tinto Brass himself, which does nothing to divert from the image of this man as something of an enigma in his chosen field. --Phil Udell

• Shaft (1971) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (27/06/2022) from £25.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director GORDON PARKS (The Learning Tree) made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft (Embassy's RICHARD ROUNDTREE, in a career-defining role), a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss (Amazing Grace's MOSES GUNN) from Italian gangsters, he finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs. downtown turf war. A vivid time capsule of seventies Manhattan in all its gritty glory that has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore, the original Shaft is studded with indelible elementsfrom Roundtree's sleek leather fashions to the iconic funk and soul score by ISAAC HAYES. Special Features New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Alternate uncompressed stereo soundtrack remastered with creative input from Isaac Hayes III In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features Shaft's Big Score!, the 1972 follow-up to Shaft by director Gordon Parks New documentary on the making of Shaft featuring curator Rhea L. Combs, film scholar Racquel J. Gates, filmmaker Nelson George, and music scholar Shana L. Redmond Behind-the-scenes program featuring Parks, actor Richard Roundtree, and musician Isaac Hayes Archival interviews with Hayes, Parks, and Roundtree ¢ New interview with costume designer Joseph G. Aulisi New program on the Black detective and the legacy of John Shaft, featuring scholar Kinohi Nishikawa and novelist Walter Mosley A Complicated Man: The Shaft Legacy (2019) Behind-the-scenes footage from Shaft's Big Score! Trailers English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by film scholar Amy Abugo Ongiri

• Law Of Desire | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £8.89   |  Saving you £12.09 (204.91%)   |  RRP £17.99

  At its core Law Of Desire features a fabulous trio: the famous Madrid director Pablo (Poncela) for whom men are prepared to die his new love-crazed boyfriend Antonio (Banderas) and Pablo's flamboyant and gorgeous transsexual sister Tina. Pablo is suffering because Juan his lover shares his steamy passion but not his commitment and has returned to his village in southern Spain. Trying to forget him Pablo is seduced by the tall dark handsome and heterosexual Antonio who

• City Of Tiny Lights | DVD | (07/08/2017) from £8.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue.

• El Mariachi / Desperado | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Before Robert Rodriguez' El Mariachi, Mexicans in North American action films were typically maids, drug dealers or prison inmates. Even if the Cisco Kid was a friend of yours, you handled a dust cloth or a Mac-10 if you lasted in Hollywood longer than a New York minuto. But when El Mariachi crossed the border in 1992, things changed. Granted, it still involved a drug lord in a shoot-em-up but this time the good guy was a Mexican. Austin-based Rodriguez made El Mariachi for a fistful of pesos and a little help from his friends. He wrote, directed, coproduced, edited and operated the camera. Plus, he assembled a cast that had never acted before to work por nada. Desperado continues the outrageous action adventure. Working with a much bigger budget, Rodriguez returns the nameless mariachi to non-stop action. Again thrust into a world he never made, the hero takes his guitar-case arsenal deep into the criminal labyrinth of Bucho (Joaquim de Almeida), el gran chingon of the Mexican drug lords. With an amigo (Steve Buscemi) and a beautiful bookstore owner (Salma Hayek), el mariachi confronts an outrageous cast along the way, including a bartender (Cheech Marin), a drug-deal, pick-up guy (Quentin Tarantino) and the original mariachi (coproducer Carlos Gallardo) as a new-found compa'. Antonio Banderas has the lead this time, and if he's not quite up to the challenge, it's probably because he's Spanish, not Mexican, a distinction not lost by anyone raised on what the popular media now calls "ethnic food." That said, Desperado is not to be missed. Using intelligence, romance and humour--as well as plenty of explosive, surreal violence--Rodriguez again showcases the timeless struggle between the forces of darkness and light. And, in the process, he's recasting the mould for the contemporary action hero--kids now argue about who gets to play the Mexican. --Stephan Magcosta, Amazon.com

• Shrek 2: Ltd Edition 2 Disc with Talking Packaging | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £4.79   |  Saving you £23.20 (484.34%)   |  RRP £27.99

  The lovably ugly green ogre returns with his green bride and furry, hooved friend in Shrek 2. The newlywed Shrek and Princess Fiona are invited to Fiona's former kingdom, Far Far Away, to have the marriage blessed by Fiona's parents--which Shrek thinks is a bad, bad idea, and he's proved right: the parents are horrified by their daughter's transformation into an ogress, a fairy godmother wants her son Prince Charming to win Fiona, and a feline assassin is hired to get Shrek out of the way. The computer animation is more detailed than ever, but it's the acting that make the comedy work--in addition to the return of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz, Shrek 2 features the flexible voices of Julie Andrews, John Cleese and Antonio Banderas, plus Jennifer Saunders as the gleefully wicked fairy godmother. --Bret Fetzer

• Spy Kids | Blu Ray | (15/08/2011) from £10.78   |  Saving you £14.21 (131.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino were the world's two greatest spies before they retired to raise a family. Nine years later they are forced out of retirement to take on the techno wizard Fegan, but when they dissapear its left to their kids to save them

• Call Me By Your Name | Blu Ray | (05/03/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.00

  It's the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio (Timotheé Chalamet), a precocious 17yearold, spends his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading and flirting with his fried Marzia. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a charming American scholar, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father, an eminent professor. Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever. Features: Snapshots of Italy: The Making of Call Me By Your Name featurette In Conversation With Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg & Luca Guadagnino Commentary With Timothée Chalamet & Michael Stuhlbarg Commentary With Luca Guadagnino Mystery of Love by Sufjan Stevens Music Video

• Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom (known in Italian as Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma) provoked howls of outrage and execration on its original release in 1975, and the controversy rages to this day. Until the British Board of Film Classification finally ventured a certificate in 2000, the movie could only be shown at private cinema clubs, and even then in severely mutilated form. The relaxation of the censors' shears allows you to see for yourself what the fuss was about, but be warned--Salò will test the very limits of your endurance. Updating the Marquis de Sade's phantasmagorical novel of the same title from 18th-century France to fascist Italy at the end of World War II, writer-director Pasolini relates a bloodthirsty fable about how absolute power corrupts absolutely. Four upper-class libertines gather in an elegant palazzo to inflict the extremes of sexual perversion and cruelty upon a hand-picked collection of young men and women. Meanwhile, three ageing courtesans enflame the proceedings further by spinning tales of monstrous depravity. The most upsetting aspect of the film is the way Pasolini's coldly voyeuristic camera dehumanises the victims into lumps of random flesh. Though you may feel revulsion at the grisly details, you aren't expected to care much about what happens to either master or slave. In one notorious episode, the subjugated youths are forced to eat their own excrement--a scene almost impossible to watch, even if you know the meal was actually composed of chocolate and orange marmalade. (Pasolini mischievously claimed to be satirising our modern culture of junk food.) Salò is the ultimate vision of apocalypse--and as if in confirmation, the director was himself brutally murdered just before its premiere. You can reject the movie as the work of an evil-minded pornographer, but you won't easily forget it. --Peter Matthews

• Seven Blood-Stained Orchids | Blu Ray | (13/04/2020) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Six women are dead, murdered by a madman known as the Half-Moon Killer. Giulia Torresi (Uschi Glas The Gorilla of Soho; The Body in the Thames) came close to being victim number seven; while she recovers, her fiancé Mario (Antonio Sabàto, Grand Prix, Gang War in Milan) sets out to snare the psycho and realises that the murders might not be as random as the police think From master director Umberto Lezi (Eyeball, Spasmo) comes a prime slice of Giallo action, with a careful plot, tense set-pieces and outrageous violence the black gloved killer makes inventive use of power tools, lead piping and even a telephone. Now restored to its original bloody beauty and completely uncut 88 Films are proud to present the first ever UK release for one of Lenzi's most audacious movies. Extras: 2K Remastered Transfer from the Original Negative Remastered English Soundtrack Remastered Italian Soundtrack and newly translated English Subtitles Audio Commentary by Giallo experts, Troy Howarth and Nathanial Thompson Blood Flowers - An Interview with Director Umberto Lenzi Killed By Death - An Interview with Actress Gabriella Giorgelli

• Embrace Of The Serpent | Blu Ray | (12/09/2016) from £10.35   |  Saving you £7.64 (73.82%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Before he can become a warrior a man has to leave everything behind and go into the jungle guided only by his dreams. In that journey he has to discover completely alone, who he really is. Some get lost and never come back Karamakate, a warrior shaman and last of his tribe, transcends the worlds of men and seeks truth through their dreams. He alone knows how to find the mysterious and psychedelic Yakruna plant; for some it has life-saving properties, for others it is a commodity waiting to be exploited. Two scientists, in two different times with very different agendas enlist Karamakate on their individual quests in an epic adventure into the heart of the Colombian Amazon to find this mythical plant. This Oscar nominated film is seen through Karamakate's eyes and bears witness to the effects ofcolonialism, religion and the exploitation of rubber, that affect indigenous traditions and the environment to which they are inextricably linked.

• Almodovar - Vol. 1 | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A collection of films from acclaimed Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar comprising: Dark Habits (1983): Nothing is quite what it seems in this early Almodovar comedy in which the unconventional nuns of a dilapidated Madrid convent write soft porn get high and still find time to design fabulous evening wear! Pepi Luci Bom (1980): Pepi (Carmen Maura) is an unemployed heiress whose illegal plants indiscreetly placed on the balcony lead to an unwelcome visit from a police

• Leonardo (Italy) - Season 01 | Blu Ray | (18/10/2021) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A compelling look at one of the most restlessly brilliant men of all time, Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo gets inside the mind of the genius, showing the drama behind his art and exploring a tantalizing murder-mystery.

• Earth 2 - The Complete Series | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £27.25   |  Saving you £12.74 (46.75%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Embark on the quest to find a new home planet for humanity in the year 2192 as the complete sci-fi epic Earth 2 lands on DVD for the first time ever! From Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment comes the thrilling story of Devon Adair (Debrah Farentino), who is struggling to find a healthy environment for her deathly ill son, Ulysses. Disregarding government orders, she puts together an expedition to establish new civilisation on an Earth-like planet 22 light years in the future. But after their ship crash-lands on the wrong side of planet G889, the ''colonists'' quickly discover that their new home already has some very strange and hostile inhabitants. Catch DVD-exclusive special features and join stellar guest stars including Tim Curry, Virginia Madsen, Terry O'Quinn and more in all 21 groundbreaking episodes of this Emmy award winning series. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Extended Scenes - 8 scenes from 5 episodes (Water, Better Living Through Morganite, Redemption, All About Eve, Survival Of The Fittest) Blooper Reel Outtakes

• Cheeky | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Carla is an attractive, carefree young woman from Venice who comes to London to find a place for her lover Matteo and herself to live. At an estate agency the proprietress, Moira, makes some explicit sexual overtures to Carla which she finds intriguing. Deciding not to relate these to Matteo she instead starts telling him lies. He becomes very jealous as he imagines Carla's erotic adventures and abandons his trip to London. Carla, upset by his rebuff, goes to a party where she takes part, along with other beautiful girls, in a pleasure-pain endurance test - Trojan Ordeal! Eventually Matteo does come to London and when he confronts Carla, her revelations not only make him madly jealous, but also arouse him sexually. So he tells Carla Swear Carla, that you'll always lie to me!

• Andrew Lloyd Webber - Cats / Joseph / Jesus Christ Superstar / By Jeeves / Evita | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A box set containing the best of Andrew Lloyd Webber on DVD each production featuring a dedicated 'Making Of' featurette! Shows include: Cats Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Jesus Christ Super Star Evita By Jeeves

• Official Competition | DVD | (05/12/2022) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat co-direct this Spanish satirical comedy drama starring Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martinez. Hoping to finally cement his legacy, 80-year-old billionaire businessman Humberto Suarez (Jose Luis Gomez) hires acclaimed director Lola Cuevas (Cruz) to helm a film based on an award-winning novel. However, as rehearsals get underway, Lola's artistic ambitions are thwarted by her two rival lead performers: Hollywood star Felix Rivero (Banderas) and renowned thespian Ivan Torres (Martinez).

• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital) | Blu Ray | (28/02/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Embrace Of The Serpent | DVD | (12/09/2016) from £8.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (78.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Before he can become a warrior a man has to leave everything behind and go into the jungle guided only by his dreams. In that journey he has to discover completely alone, who he really is. Some get lost and never come back Karamakate, a warrior shaman and last of his tribe, transcends the worlds of men and seeks truth through their dreams. He alone knows how to find the mysterious and psychedelic Yakruna plant; for some it has life-saving properties, for others it is a commodity waiting to be exploited. Two scientists, in two different times with very different agendas enlist Karamakate on their individual quests in an epic adventure into the heart of the Colombian Amazon to find this mythical plant. This Oscar nominated film is seen through Karamakate's eyes and bears witness to the effects ofcolonialism, religion and the exploitation of rubber, that affect indigenous traditions and the environment to which they are inextricably linked.