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• Novo | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing that many have forgotten what an invigoratingly cinematic experience he created. A 20th-anniversary tribute to the 1905 revolution, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatisation of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. The story tells a familiar party-line message of the oppressed working class (in this case the enlisted sailors) banding together to overthrow their oppressors (the ship's officers), led by proto-revolutionary Vakulinchuk. When he dies in the shipboard struggle the crew lays his body to rest on the pier, a moody, moving scene where the citizens of Odessa slowly emerge from the fog to pay their respects. As the crowd grows Eisenstein turns the tenor from mourning a fallen comrade to celebrating the collective achievement. The government responds by sending soldiers and ships to deal with the mutinous crew and the supportive townspeople, which climaxes in the justly famous (and often imitated and parodied) Odessa Steps massacre. Eisenstein edits carefully orchestrated motions within the frame to create broad swaths of movement, shots of varying length to build the rhythm, close-ups for perspective and shock effect, and symbolic imagery for commentary, all to create one of the most cinematically exciting sequences in film history. Eisenstein's film is Marxist propaganda to be sure but the power of this masterpiece lies not in its preaching but its poetry. --Sean Axmaker

• 3 Classic Horrors Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 6 - Dementia 13 / Shock / Black Dragons | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £6.79   |  Saving you £-1.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Dementia 13: Dementia 13 will delight all fans who thrive on classics such as; Night Of The Living Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The Plot revolves around a seemingly benign member of a family who is the mad axe-murderer and is steadily picking off the rest of the family. The location is used imaginatively the gothic atmosphere suitably potent and there is a magnificently sharp cameo from Patrick McGee as the family doctor. Dementia 13 is guaranteed to make you double loc

• You'll Get Over It | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Teenager Vincent has it all: he's good looking sporty popular at school and has a beautiful girlfriend. However his world starts to fall apart when the other pupils find out his hitherto secret true sexuality...

• Deep In The Woods | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Deep in the Woods is an average horror film, unusual only because it was made in France. A troupe of young actors who specialise in school performances are hired by sinister aristocrat Francois Berleand to perform their "Little Red Riding Hood" act at his remote mansion as a birthday treat for his strangely silent grandson. As is often the case, the film works better in the early stages as it piles on the omens and disturbing touches, with unsettling byplay between host and guests, than it does in the extended finale, which features the familiar demises of most of the cast as someone dressed in the Big Bad Wolf costume stalks with a spear-gun and unorthodox use is made of a handy nail gun. The young, attractive victims bicker and get naked just like in a rubbish American movie and leading lady/likely survivor Clotilde Courau (best known as the young Anne Parillaud in Map of the Human Heart) is wasted in a nothing role, but mad people Berleand and Lavant provide some entertainment value.--Kim Newman

• Midnight Crossing | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (56.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a storm of desire deception and murder... four people are about to be swept away. There's no turning back tonight. Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway Daniel J. Travanti John Laughlin (Crimes Of Passion) Kim Cattrall (Mannequin) and Ned Beatty (The Fourth Protocol) star in a twisted suspense thriller of murder lust and greed. For Jeff Schubb inheriting his father's sloop and charter business in the Florida Keys was a dream come true. When his wife's employer Morely Barton suggests the two couples cruise to the Bahamas Jeff sees his financial worries drift away. Once at sea Morely provides a new destination an island off Cuba where he stashed his fortune before Castro's regime. He offers Jeff half to help retrieve his treasure. But all is not smooth sailing as the past encroaches on the present and too many deceits connect the foursome in a deadly game of intrigue.

• Red Surf | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £5.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (33.50%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Remar a pro surfer turns into a drug dealer. His girlfriend wants him to change his ways before he becomes the next victim of the streets.

• Midnight Crossing | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With a pounding, synthesised sound track, big-haired babes in bikinis and succession of increasingly incredible fight scenes and returns from the dead, Midnight Crossing takes some beating as an eminently watchable slab of 1980s schlock. Honesty is a premium in this torrid tale of a buried fortune, hot sex, deceit on the high seas and much extended suspense. Jeff Shub (John Laughlin), a six-packed hunk in tight shorts, lives for his yacht, inherited from his father. When his wife's boss Morley (married to a blind woman and played by Daniel J Travanti) charters the yacht for a birthday celebration, the two couples head off for the Bahamas. Then, Morley reveals his real agenda--the recovery of treasure he buried on a Cuban island in the pre-Castro years--and it soon becomes clear that nothing and nobody are what they seem. Kim Cattrall, years before her emergence as a stylish television star in Sex and the City, pops up in a in a wet t-shirt. And at the film's centre is a knockout, beyond self-parody performance from Faye Dunaway. Here she plays Joan Crawford playing a blind woman who might not, in fact, be blind at all. Dunaway confirms the suspicion that she was an actress born 30 years too late for the kind of scripts that would have best served her unique brand of throbbing melodrama. The rest of the cast, particularly the usually reliable Travanti, soon follow her over the top. The result is a compulsive 90 minutes of hammy and thoroughly enjoyable action. On the DVD: Presented in letterbox widescreen (1.85:1) format for maximum effect Midnight Crossing surfaces pretty much as it did in the cinema. Picture quality is fine. The daylight scenes on board the yacht certainly benefit but the interminable night-time struggles are less convincing. Were they shot in a tank? Probably, if the dull stereo sound quality at this point is anything to go by. Extras are limited to the original cinema trailer and filmographies of the leading players.--Piers Ford

• A Devil's Tail | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The final chapter in Simon Wolf's trilogy finds Asia joined by a giant wolf magical wizard and her cowardly agent as they face and enemy of unimaginable cunning and strength. Deep within his frozen lair they journey to battle hideous monsters and sensual sirens - a mystical plae where eroticsm breathes an aroma of sensuality and the Elders decide when mortality ends and immortality shall begin.

• Intimate Sensations | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A woman hires a private investigator to follow her husband, whom she suspects is having an affair. When he returns with photographic evidence of her husband's infidelity she decides to take revenge by having many affairs herself...

• Beast | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Les Vampires | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Les Vampyres is one of the most stylish and erotic vampire themed films to be produced in years and stars some of the adult industry's most beautiful and accomplished actresses. Winning just about every award the adult film industry has to offer Les Vampyres is an erotic thriller filled with evil passion and some of the most sensual scenes ever committed to film...