"Actor: Curtis Billings"

• Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Halloween is one of the great modern horror films, but as a franchise its track record has been spotty at best, painfully bad at worst. Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later, directed by horror vet Steve Miner (Friday the 13th parts 2 and 3, House), won't displace John Carpenter's original but it might help you forget the films in between. Miner certainly has: the film begins as if sequels 3 through 6 never happened. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, reprising her role for the first time in almost two decades) faked her death and is now a single mom and headmistress of an exclusive California private school. She's also a secret alcoholic who lives in fear of her homicidal brother-bogeyman Michael Myers. Guess who decides to show up for a family reunion? The film begins with classic horror-movie exposition (the deserted college campus, Michael's escape, Laurie's waking nightmares) accomplished with some humour and style, but it's all set up for the second half, a driving roller coaster of stalk-and-slash thrills. There's little of the self-conscious genre referencing of Scream and at times the film is a little far-fetched--it is a slasher movie about a knife-wielding homicidal maniac who won't stay dead, after all--but Curtis transforms Laurie from a shrieking victim into an empowered, determined horror-movie heroine who's learned a thing or two from the previous films. Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, and TV cutie Michelle Williams (Dawson's Creek) co-star, and the script received uncredited polish from Scream writer Kevin Williamson; Curtis's mom, Janet Leigh, pops up in a cameo. --Sean Axmaker

• Dirty Pair Flash - Vol. 2 - Episodes 7-11 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With a gang of android hit-women and cross-dressing assassins on their tails the Lovely Angels find that it's a very small world after all when a mysterious killer wants them dead. The ultimate vacation becomes the ultimate nightmare a the deadly chase leads Kei and Yuri through haunted houses five-star restaurants and a painstaking recreation of the most barbaric century of all the 20th! Episodes comprise: Tokyo Holiday Network / Seventeen Mysterious High School / Hot Springs S

• Dirty Pair Flash - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1-6 | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Look out universe! When the galaxy-wide World Welfare & Welfare Agency unleashes the infamous Dirty Pair Kei and Yuri it's a case of every sentient being for itself! From the bestselling novels by Haruka Takachiho comes the apocolyptic saga of two young women destined to go down in history as the most destructive force known to man. Meet Kei and Yuri two junior level agents with a proclivity for being in the wrong place at the wrong time with just enough firepower to blow their way out of a bad situation and into something worse! Includes 6 complete episodes.

• Dirty Pair Flash - Vol. 3 - Random Angels | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tired of the same old action flicks? Tired of seeing buildings blown-up aircraft exploding and bodies falling? Of course not! Well never fear Kei and Yuri are back in five new collateral damage-filled episodes! Yes the lovely Angels are on the job and that means the entire universe is at risk. Fearless ruthless and completely clueless the Dirty Pair are ready to tackle their most dangerous cases ever. It's every sentient being for itself when the 3WA's universal wrecking crew takes to the spaceways in 'Random Angels'!