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• Cal | DVD | (09/09/2013) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (48.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set in the economically depressed austerity Britain of today, Cal is a startlingly powerful drama and the follow-up to the hit 2009 film, Shank. Twenty-year-old Cal returns from France to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill. His finds his home city of Bristol facing hard economic times brought on by the global economic crisis, with poverty and crime on the rise and rioting and looting almost a nightly occurrence. It's not a warm homecoming as his sick mother remains stubbornly homophobic and wants nothing to do with the now openly gay Cal while his alcoholic and manic Auntie Jane, now living in a rundown council house, dulls her stagnation with welfare funded booze and disturbing attempts to sexually seduce her nephew. Navigating his way across this new landscape he meets a young student who needs his help. However his act of kindness brings him into contact with a lawless drug dealing pimp and a race against time to make peace with his mother and get out of town as quickly as possible. An intense tale of a family mired in poverty, angry and lost but still searching for love, respect and acceptance.

• Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Wild Combination is director Matt Wolf's visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer singer-songwriter cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992 Arthur prolifically created music that spanned an extraordinary diversity of styles and won the love of artistic communities that would seem utterly disparate. His collaborators and most ardent supporters ranged from Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg to rock bands like The Talking Heads and The Modern Lovers; the pre-Studio 54 disco scene of Nicky Siano's Gallery and David Mancuso's Loft; and DJ-producers like Francois Kevorkian and Larry Levan among others. Arthur's music spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art and now over fifteen years since his passing his work is still being embraced by new and ever growing audiences. Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur's family friends and closest collaborators including (in order of appearance) the musician and writer David Toop (who did the last print interview with Russell) parents Chuck and Emily Russell Allen Ginsberg Ernie Brooks (The Modern Lovers The Necessaries) Philip Glass Russell's partner Tom Lee Steve Knutson of Audika Records (responsible for reissuing Russell's work in recent years) the singer-songwriter Jens Lekman and others.

• The Heart Of The Game | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's your life. Make every shot count. When Seattle filmmaker Ward Serrill met Bill Resler a college tax professor who moonlights as a girls' basketball coach he didn't realize that he was about to embark on an incredible seven-year journey. Serrill camera in hand followed Resler - who looks more like Santa Claus in sandles than a whistle-blasting high school coach - into the Roosevelt High School gym and soon discovered a group of girls whose unbridled toughness passion and energy he came to call The Heart of the Game. Then one day onto the Roughriders' court (and into the film) walked Darnellia Russell - a tough inner-city girl whose off-court struggles would eventually threaten to crash the star athlete's plans to play college ball and be the first person in her family to get a college education. At the center of The Heart of the Game is Darnellia's unforgettable true story - the loss of her eligibility and her legal battle to get back on court to play the game that means everything to her. With Coach Resler her team and her family standing by her side she takes on enormous personal obstacles as well as the ruling body of high school sports in Washington State. Directed by Serrill this in-depth documentary not only illustrates the hard-charging energy and excitement of the game but also captures the fiercely competitive and extraordinary spirit of a winning team. Featuring narration by multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning artist and actor Chris ""Ludacris"" Bridges (Crash)