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• School Daze | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £8.08   |  Saving you £1.91 (19.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The best daze of your life. Available on DVD for the first time! Remember back in the day? Director Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing) does igniting a battle of the sexes in School Daze his groundbreaking urban musical-comedy that dares to take a taboo-smashing look at Historical Afro-American college life like no film before or since tackling topics only talked about behind closed doors. Loaded with enough romance rivalries and rituals School Daze is

• Skinned Deep | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A flat tire in the middle of nowhere forces the Rockwell family to seek help at a nearby ramshackle diner. The diner is run by Granny who is actually the insane matriarch of a group of mutants led by the imposing and metal-faced Surgeon General as well as the demented Plates (Warwick Davis - Leprechaun Willow Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone]. The entire Rockwell family is murdered with the exception of the teenaged Tina who is chosen by Brain to be his future wife. When a gang of aging but still murderous motorcyclists enters the picture Tina has to choose sides to save her life - and clearly this is a tough choice to make.

• Dancehall Queen | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Dancehall Queen is a hugely enjoyable melodrama featuring a resourceful heroine, spectacularly slimy villains and a lot of very loud music. Street vendor Marcia (Audrey Reid) is under pressure from all directions--family friend Larry has made her dependent on his good will before putting sexual pressure on her teenage daughter while street thug Priest has killed a friend for minding her patch and is now trying to push his way into her bed. What is attractive about this film is that Marcia wins by playing to her strengths: she goes back to the wild-child dirty dancing she loved before having her children and becomes Mystery Lady, a contender for cash prizes in competition. Most of the film's occasional touches of wild comedy come from her attempts to keep this from her rather staid daughter and the ease with which, from behind silver foil fringes and jewelled nose-chains, she can take revenge on the men who mess with her quieter persona. This is a surprisingly classy little movie, whose rawness comes across as urgency: e en those of us who miss half the patois dialogue can't help but respond to its fizzy energy. On the DVD The DVD has digitally re-mastered music, the usual chapter index, a Web link and what is called "Hyperactive DVDROM" content which means it is very, very flashy and very, very loud. --Roz Kaveney

• Girl With A Pearl Earring - Book & DVD | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In order to support her family seventeen-year-old Griet becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer and soon attracts the master painter's attention. Although worlds apart in upbringing and social standing Vermeer recognises her intuitive understanding of his work and slowly draws her into his mysterious world of art and passion. Whilst she falls increasingly under Vermeer's spell his volatile family quickly grow jealous of her. Maria his shrewd mother-in-law struggles to maintain the family's lavish lifestyle and seeing that Griet inspires Vermeer takes the decision to let their relationship develop. Van Ruijven also sensing the intimacy between master and maid commissions Vermeer to paint Griet's portrait. The result will be one of the greatest paintings ever created... but at what cost?

• The Ring | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £10.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This silent romantic-drama centers around a love triangle where two boxers Brisson and Hunter battle in the ring and the strains of the heart for the same woman.

• Britney Spears - Britney: The Videos | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Not as definitive as its title suggests, Britney--The Videos is a bare 30 minutes long and contains only two actual promotional videos for singles "I’m a Slave 4 U" and "Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know". The only other item of interest to anyone (other than the sort of Britney Spears obsessive who is but a short step from a restraining order) is the undeniably spectacular performance of "I’m a Slave 4 U" at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, during which a boa constrictor briefly became the most bitterly envied creature on planet earth. The rest of The Videos is naked hucksterism of which all involved should feel thoroughly ashamed. Apart from a rendition of soppy ballad "I’m a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" lifted from an Australian television programme, everything else is an advertisement for other products: Pepsi, a forthcoming HBO concert special and Spears’ imminent movie debut. Someone is taking Britney fans for granted--and for mugs.--Andrew Mueller