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• Kingpin | DVD | (15/11/1999) from £6.48   |  Saving you £9.51 (146.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The team behind Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary--two really stupid, gross-out films that worked and were quite funny--also made King Pin, a really stupid, gross-out comedy that doesn't work and isn't funny at all. Woody Harrelson stars as a former bowling phenomenon with a hook for a hand, and Randy Quaid is an Amish farmer with a hidden talent for pins. The two join forces and get a sexy business partner (Vanessa Angel), and the film starts looking more and more like a jokey variation of The Colour of Money. The Colour of Money, however, didn't feature jokes about having oral sex with a hideous landlady or defecating in a sink or dragging disgusting stuff out of one's teeth with a length of floss. Bill Murray provides some much-needed relief as Harrelson's ex-partner turned rival. How come this stuff is obnoxious while the equally perverse punch lines of There's Something About Mary are a riot? It's a great mystery, all right, but there it is. --Tom Keogh

• Spike Island | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £15.21   |  Saving you £0.78 (5.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  School is nearly out for summer (and forever) for five 16-year-old lads from Manchester. A nostalgic snaphot of Britain in the early 1990's this is a fictional story set against a real event -UK band The Stone Roses' legendary gig of May 27th 1990 at Spike Island in Widnes. The film follows the exploits of Stone Roses fans and wannabe band Shadowcaster Gary 'Tits' Titchfield Darren 'Dodge' Howard Chris 'Zippy' Weeks 'Little' Gaz Duffy and 'Penfold' Andrew Peach'. Nothing will stop our boys from seeing their heroes on stage this is the story of their journey and the 72 hours across which their friendships are tested and their future is shaped together or apart. Special Features: Making Of Extended and Deleted Scenes Zippy Drumming

• Too Late The Hero | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Set on a Pacific island in 1942, Too Late the Hero is a hard-as-nails "men on a mission" war movie: a group of British soldiers have to traverse the New Hebrides to destroy a Japanese radio transmitter, then get back to safety while being hunted all the way. Inevitably everything goes wrong, but director Robert (The Dirty Dozen) Aldrich turns the book of WWII movie clichés on its head and springs some unnerving surprises. Even the token American star, Cliff Robertson--echoing William Holden's grafted-on role in The Bridge on the River Kwai--proves less than obviously heroic, while an outstanding Michael Caine brings considerable depth to his usual cynical cockney. Henry Fonda gets heavily billed for a brief guest appearance, but there are star performances such fine British character actors as Denholm Elliot, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser and Lance Percival. This portrait of battle-worn men offers greater complexity than Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, while the jungle trek was more recently paralleled in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line. Only the attitudes--more 1970 than 1942--detract from Aldrich's tellingly realistic vision, which with a thoughtfully ironic script and a succession of tense set pieces and brutal firefights, builds to a harrowing climax. On the DVD: The picture is presented at approximately 1.7:1, reformatted from the original 2.2:1 70mm theatrical presentation. Despite approximately 25 per cent of the original image being missing, this loss is only really noticeable in a few scenes. Apart from the occasional fleck, the print is in superb condition, and despite the lack of anamorphic enhancement the picture is sharp, detailed and has excellent colour. The surround sound (not mono as listed on the packaging) is highly effective, with the tension being increased by a considerable amount of the music coming from the rear speakers. The special features are simply a few static pages of biographical and production notes. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Community | DVD | (11/03/2013) from £5.38   |  Saving you £10.61 (66.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Draymen Estate has become an urban legend. Amongst the sinister stories of unsavoury locals and brutal violence, several people have apparently gone missing.

• Spike Island | Blu Ray | (14/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  School is nearly out for summer (and forever) for five 16-year-old lads from Manchester. A nostalgic snaphot of Britain in the early 1990's this is a fictional story set against a real event -UK band The Stone Roses' legendary gig of May 27th 1990 at Spike Island in Widnes. The film follows the exploits of Stone Roses fans and wannabe band Shadowcaster Gary 'Tits' Titchfield Darren 'Dodge' Howard Chris 'Zippy' Weeks 'Little' Gaz Duffy and 'Penfold' Andrew Peach'. Nothing will stop our boys from seeing their heroes on stage this is the story of their journey and the 72 hours across which their friendships are tested and their future is shaped together or apart. Special Features: Making of Extended and Deleted Scenes Zippy Drumming

• The Horror Collection Vol II: British | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £8.69   |  Saving you £6.30 (72.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Matchbox Films presents 'The Horror Collection Vol II: British' THE MIRROR Jemma Dallender (Community, I Spit on Your Grave 2) stars in Edward Boase's sophomore feature The Mirror, a headline-grabbing British horror triggered by a widely reported news story that set Twitter and Facebook alight in 2013 when an allegedly haunted mirror appeared for sale on eBay. In the film, the three intrepid flatmates (Dallender, Joshua Dickinson, Nate Fallows) who purchased the supposedly haunted antique set up round-the-clock cameras in the hope of capturing evidence of paranormal activity. From footage recovered by police, their terrifying ordeal is slowly pieced together. COMMUNITY The Draymen Estate has become an urban legend. Amongst the sinister stories of unsavoury locals and brutal violence, several people have apparently gone missing. Even the police won't go there. Enter two naive student filmmakers, Isabelle (Dallender) and Will (Jordan), with a well-meaning plan to make a sympathetic documentary of life on the estate. The unlucky duo quickly discovers that problems of drugs and crime in this community go way beyond the norm. This is a community which is about to present the students with material of unimaginable horror - turning their final project into their darkest nightmare. SIREN A group of friends escaping the city for a weekend away have a simple plan, to tour the coast for a relaxing weekend. Things hit a snag when one of the friends spots a seductive, sultry young woman waving for help off the shore of one of many secluded islands along the coast. Reaching out to rescue her turns deadly and they risk everything to get off the island alive.

• When He's Not A Stranger | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An estimated one out of every three women will be sexually assaulted at some time in their life with ninety percent of these victims choosing not to report the assaults to the police. This powerful and disturbing film deals with 'Forcible Rape Amongst Friends' one of the most prevelant crimes facing young women today. Annabeth Gish (Mystic Pizza) portrays the shocked and violated victim Lynn McKenna who is lured into a sense of false security and raped by her bestfriend's boyfriend John Telersky (Deathstalker 2). Confused and ashamed and faced with the knowledge of almost certain defeat Lynn must decide whether or not to press criminal charges against her attacker and bring about necessary justice.