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• Stand By Me | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £5.65   |  Saving you £7.34 (129.91%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A sleeper hit when released in 1986, Stand by Me is based on Stephen King's novella "The Body" (from the book Different Seasons); but it's more about the joys and pains of boyhood friendship than a morbid fascination with corpses. It's about four boys ages 12 and 13 (Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell) who take an overnight hike through the woods near their Oregon town to find the body of a boy who's been missing for days. Their journey includes a variety of scary adventures (including a ferocious junkyard dog, a swamp full of leeches and a treacherous leap from a train trestle), but it's also a time for personal revelations, quiet interludes and the raucous comradeship of best friends. Set in the 1950s, the movie indulges an overabundance of anachronistic profanity and a kind of idealistic, golden-toned nostalgia (it's told in flashback as a story written by Wheaton's character as an adult, played by Richard Dreyfuss). But it's delightfully entertaining from start to finish, thanks to the rapport among its young cast members and the timeless, universal themes of friendship, family and the building of character and self-esteem. Kiefer Sutherland makes a memorable teenage villain and look closely for John Cusack in a flashback scene as Wheaton's now-deceased and dearly missed brother. A genuine crowd-pleaser, this heartfelt movie led director Rob Reiner to even greater success with his next film, The Princess Bride. --Jeff Shannon

• The Boston Strangler | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The unexpected casting of Tony Curtis as the presumed Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, is only the first of the attractions of this hard-nosed suspense picture. Although the style of The Boston Strangler looks dated today, with its split-screen experiments and post-Bonnie and Clyde permissiveness, the film still has the clean, strong lines of a methodical policier. For the first hour, we don't focus on the Strangler, instead following the Beantown cops (led by Henry Fonda) as they track down leads; the best sequence is the near-accidental connection made between burglary suspect DeSalvo and the killings. Director Richard Fleischer had a forceful hand with true-crime material (Compulsion, 10 Rillington Place) and he takes an unblinking look into the then-taboo subject of sexual pathology. Curtis's physical transformation into a dumpy, dull-eyed brute is the best aspect of his performance; it's a role he lobbied hard for, but it did not lead to more challenging work. --Robert Horton

• Boogiepop Phantom - Vol. 4 And | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Poom Poom: Poom Poom came down from Heaven. He holds a balloon and travels floating around to the flower country and the doll country and the dinosaur country. And in the world of Poom Poom where everything is perfect in the amusement park where there are no grown ups merely there are powerful children who live without pain... Under The Gravity's Rainbow: Manaka knew nothing of the world. Trapped in the house by her grandmother life became more and more impossible

• Boogie Pop Phantom - Vol. 2 - Episodes 4-6 | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  My Fair Lady: Yoji's concept of the world is what he sees on his monitor. For him the only real thing is the generated girl he plays with every waking moment. Then one day reality intrudes on his world and the girl of his dreams appears. She's so very nearly perfect; with a little help she will go the rest of the way. You'll see it's really all so very easy... Interlude: Morita and Yamamoto are two typical cops in what seems like a sleepy town. It wasn't always li

• Boogie Pop Phantom - Vol. 3 - Episodes 7-9 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Until Ure In My Arms Again: Mamaro was never like other guys but he suddenly discovers that he has little in common with humans at all. Closest to his sister he still beats her regularly. To the rest he is merciless. His life is spent looking for life's redundant parts society included. And one day he finds the parts which are useless... She's So Unusual: Nagi Kirima goes through life with a single purpose: carry on the investigation which has brought her to the

• Boogie Pop Phantom - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1-3 | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first volume in a truly challenging and original anime series which focuses on a group of troubled Japanese schoolchildren who can see or hear people and things that their classmates cannot... Episodes comprise: Portraits From Memory: Within the light and within the city is death and when the power failed the world changed. In the air is flux. Within the night is Boogiepop Phantom; if you meet her one dark night with a dark soul no one has ever lived to tell. Within Boogiepop Phantom is your salvation or your end. Perhaps both... Portraits Of Darkness: Jonouchi is cursed with vision: he sees the world's evil that no one can. Powerless to avoid it crushed by theiburden and pushed beyond his limits his existence has a single purpose: change. He travels the city removing the pain in others but it carries a price. How complete can a life be if it is without pain? Life Can Be So Nice: Misuzu lives a terrible lie and a lie that conveniently serves something quite malevolent. Her life changed some years ago in many ways: some subtle and others less so. By adopting an alien philosophy her world changed. One way or another many of us serve another who holds power. Some fail to recognize it until too late...