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• Eyes Wide Shut | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Visually beautiful, Stanley Kubrick's last completed film Eyes Wide Shut blends the sinister, the sensual and the clinical in a combination that is rather too personal and idiosyncratic to be entirely successful as the final statement about gender and sexuality he intended it to be. Adapted by Frederick Raphael from the Dream Story of Freud's friend Schnitzler, it shows a young successful couple confront the dangers that lurk beyond monogamy; Nicole Kidman's Alice does little more than fantasise, flirt and dream, but even this causes guilt and pain. Doctor Bill (Tom Cruise) does rather more--he visits a whore, crashes an orgy and continues to ask questions when warned off; if no disaster ensues, and it is possible that two people die as a result, it is only luck that averts it. Much of the best of what is here is to be found in occasional moments of stillness--Cruise walking through a morgue--or wild comedy--Cruise's attempt to hire a costume in the middle of the night interrupts major shenanigans at the fancy-dress shop. Cruise and Kidman do what they can with material that never means as much as it aspires to, and the standout performance is Sydney Pollack's, as a worldly wise client. On the DVD: Eyes Wide Shut on DVD is presented in lavish Dolby Sound that makes the most of the obsessive Ligeti piano piece and Shostakovich waltz that dominate the score, and in the 1.33:1 ratio that was Kubrick's considered choice. It has subtitles in English, Arabic, Bulgarian and Rumanian, two TV spots and informative interviews with Kidman and Cruise, as well as with Steven Spielberg, to whom Kubrick had talked at length about his artistic intentions. --Roz Kaveney

• Eyes Wide Shut | DVD | (10/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Visually beautiful, Kubrick's last completed film Eyes Wide Shut blends the sinister, the sensual and the clinical in a combination that is rather too personal and idiosyncratic to be entirely successful as the final statement about gender and sexuality he intended it to be. Adapted by Frederick Raphael from the Dream Story of Freud's friend Schnitzler, it shows a young successful couple confront the dangers that lurk beyond monogamy; Nicole Kidman's Alice does little more than fantasise, flirt and dream, but even this causes guilt and pain. Doctor Bill (Tom Cruise) does rather more--he visits a whore, crashes an orgy and continues to ask questions when warned off; if no disaster ensues, and it is possible that two people die as a result, it is only luck that averts it. Much of the best of what is here is to be found in the occasional moments of stillness--Cruise walking through a morgue--or wild comedy--Cruise's attempt to hire a costume in the middle of the night interrupts major shenanigans at the fancy-dress shop. Cruise and Kidman do what they can with material that never means as much as it aspires to and the stand-out performance is Sydney Pollack's, as a worldly wise client. On the DVD: The DVD is presented in a lavish Dolby Sound that makes the most of the obsessive Ligeti piano piece and Shostakovich waltz that dominate the score and in the 1.33:1 ratio that was Kubrick's considered choice. It has subtitles in English, Arabic, Bulgarian and Rumanian, two TV spots and informative interviews with Kidman and Cruise, as well as with Stephen Spielberg to whom Kubrick had talked at length about his artistic intentions. --Roz Kaveney

• The Man Without A Face | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mel Gibson's directorial debut. Since a tragic accident left him hideously scarred seven years ago Justin MacLeod has hidden away in his cliffside retreat. Meanwhile the locals have delighted in painting him as a perverted madman with an horrific past. Twelve-year-old Chuck Norstadt is also an outsider. Alienated from his family he awaits the day he can go to a boarding school far from home - but he has to pass his entrance exam first. Then by accident Chuck meets Justin Macleod. Justin turns out to be the friend and tutor that Chuck always needed. That summer in the inspiring tradition of Dead Poet's Society Chuck and Justin discover a friendship which enables them both to face the world that has for so long rejected them.

• The Man Without A Face | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £6.54   |  Saving you £6.45 (49.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Since a tragic accident left him hideously scarred seven years ago Justin MacLeod has hidden away in his cliffside retreat. Meanwhile the locals have delighted in painting him as a perverted madman with an horrific past. Twelve-year-old Chuck Norstadt is also an outsider. Alienated from his family he awaits the day he can go to a boarding school far from home - but he has to pass his entrance exam first. Then by accident Chuck meets Justin Macleod. Justin turns out to be the fr

• The Man Without A Face | DVD | (13/07/2015) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (11.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

• The Avenging Angel | DVD | (04/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Lost Skeleton Returns Again | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Larry Blamire's sequel to his 2001 B-movie pastiche 'The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra'. When the mysterious but extremely valuable radioactive element Geranium-90 is discovered in the Valley of the Monsters in the Amazon jungle a race ensues between the US government rival scientists bickering alien couple Lattis (Susan McConnel) and Kro-Bar (Andrew Parks) and sultry humanoid Animala (Jennifer Blaire) as they all vie to get their hands on the coveted mineral.

• Trail of the Screaming Forehead (Director's Cut) | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong.

• Sorted | DVD | (05/01/2010) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young man travels to London to investigate his brother's mysterious death and throws himself into the hedonistic world of club culture.

• Rancid | DVD | (26/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A Bad Day Just Got Worse... Living alone in New York his life in limbo struggling young writer John Hayson (Matthew Settle) reluctantly goes to a high school reunion. Among his old classmates are reminders of a past he's tried to forget and as the night unfolds he finds himself caught up in an ever more devastating chain of events. As the minutes and hours tick by the situation spirals out of control - on the run for a murder he didn''t commit Hayson is forced to face the terrible truth... he may not live to see the morning.

• Rancid | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £5.36   |  Saving you £4.63 (86.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Writer's block isn't the worst thing that happens to a young author in this thriller. Though he was on track for success his torturous past still haunts him. Then he meets an old love and things seem to be improving until he's framed for murder.