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• Rabid | DVD | (07/08/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of David Cronenberg's most successful early films, Rabid features porn star Marilyn Chambers as a woman who becomes infected with a virus after an operation. As result she grows a kind of phallus with which she penetrates her victims as she sucks their blood and thus the disease spreads rapidly. The film displays all Cronenberg's usual horrified fascination with the human body and its sexual function. Looking back, it can be read as a kind of parable about AIDS, but it works perfectly well as an effective low-budget shocker. On the DVD: the widescreen image on the DVD is acceptable quality, as is the sound. The fairly routine extras consist of excerpts from a TV interview with Cronenberg, lasting about 10 minutes; a collection of stills from the film; some written notes by horror expert Kim Newman that give useful background, though in part reproduce what is said in the interview; full filmographies for Cronenberg and the three principal performers, including a long list of Chambers' porn credits. --Ed Buscombe

• Great Guy | DVD | (01/08/2001) from £14.20   |  Saving you £-7.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Department of Weights and Measures Inspector Johnny Cave finds himself in the midst of deceitful government officials when he takes over for his boss whom the officials have beaten and put in the hospital. Cave quickly acts to turn everyone in but his corrupt counterparts refuse to go quietly. Soon he exposes the hidden government agenda that has his coworkers bilking the American taxpayers out of several thousand dollars per year by stealing an equally small amount from everybod

• The Hottest State | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £5.19   |  Saving you £10.80 (67.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Days before his 21st birthday William (Mark Webber) an actor meets and quickly falls madly in love with Sara (Catalina Sandino Moreno) a seductive yet elusive singer/songwriter. The film follows William from a Lower East Side tenement to a Mexican hotel room to a snowbound weekend in Connecticut to a sweltering homecoming in the hottest state of all - Texas - in the pursuit of Sara. His stubborn and sweetly innocent quest to find someone who loves him as much as he loves her may not lead to happiness but surely leads to newfound maturity.

• Last Man Standing | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A gang of bank robbers led by the ultra-violent Snake Underwood pull off a daring mid-day heist that leaves dozens of burning police cars and scores of innocent victims in its wake. Heading the investigation into the gang is the equally violent detective Kurt Bellmore and going by the book just isn't going to be enough...

• UFC: Ultimate Submissions | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  UFC: Ultimate Submissions

• Till Human Voices Wake Us | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Til Human Voices Wake Us is a ghostly romance from Australia. Guy Pearce plays a brooding psychiatrist who must go back to his family's summer home to bury his father and settle some lingering childhood traumas. Helena Bonham Carter is the mysterious woman he meets on his journey, twice: once in a fleeting encounter on a train, again as she takes a dive off a trestle into a river. By the way, she's amnesiac--Guy Pearce just can't shake that Memento feel. For viewers susceptible to this kind of thing, director Michael Petroni's lofty literary tone might just work (the breathless pauses are broken by quotations from TS Eliot); otherwise, it will look like a skeletal take on a potentially interesting subject. The two fine actors give it a go and they're always good to look at, but finally one wonders what they saw in this very slim proposition. --Robert Horton

• The Comedians - Seies 4 - Complete | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £13.15   |  Saving you £-0.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Comedians: Series 4

• The Child | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £11.92   |  Saving you £-2.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Let's play hide and go kill...! A newly-hired housekeeper in a remote area is alarmed to discover that her boss's eleven-year-old daughter is using supernatural powers to take revenge on the people she holds responsible for her mother's death with the aid of her flesh-eating zombie 'friends'...

• Shadowchaser The Gates Of Time | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Five thousand years ago an alien spacecraft piloted by the android SIRIUS is destroyed by an electrical storm and the remains of the craft and it's occupants are buried by time. It is survived however by an intriguing myth that the aliens possessed the gift of everlasting life and that the buried craft contains an elixir which if replicated would bring untold riches to the owner of such a powerful drug.

• Circle of Pain | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Circle Of Pain

• One Day as a Lion | DVD | (16/05/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Caged Seduction - The Shocking True Story | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £8.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  She is a determined woman with a grim past and hopeful future an ex-con determined to go straight and stay clean - until a lover's betrayal sends her back to a nightmare of abuse humiliation and desperation at a women's prison where the staff brutalised the inmates and forced them to have sex. Yet even criminals have rights and Alice vows to fight for justice and expose the scandal with the help of a crusading lawyer. But with her freedom and even her life under threat just how far is she prepared to go and what price will she have to pay?

• Federal Protection | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Frank Carbone was a lifetime gangster until the mob put out a contract on him. He agreed to testify and entered the witness protection program. But a new look and a fake ID can't hide the fact that he's someone special especially when the beautiful women come around.

• Cold Dog Soup | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (48.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Cold Dog Soup

• Suddenly | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Nothing ever happens in Suddenly. It's a just small town with small concerns. That is until the President decides to show up... In this intelligent 1954 film noir thriller Frank Sinatra delivers an electrifying lead performance as psychotic undercover assassin John Baron. Alleged to have been viewed by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 only days prior to the shooting of President Kennedy 'Suddenly' was subsequently withdrawn from circulation by United Artists at Sinatra's personal request. Chillingly prophetic in it's subject matter 'Suddenly' is a killer addition to any noir collection.

• UFC 140: Jones vs Machida | DVD | (16/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Main Card:Jon Jones vs. Lyoto MachidaFrank Mir vs. Antonio Rodrigo NogueiraTito Ortiz vs. Antonio Rogerio NogueiraClaude Patrick vs. Brian EbersoleMark Hominick vs. Chan Sung JungPreliminary Card:Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Igor PokrajacJared Hamman vs. Constantinos PhilippouJohn Makdessi vs. Dennis HallmanYves Jabouin vs. Walel WatsonMark Bocek vs. Nik LentzRich Attonito vs. Jake HechtMitch Clarke vs. John Cholish

• Curious George Vol. 1 - Zoo Night And Other Animal Stories/Curious George Vol. 2 - Rocket Ride And Other Adventures/Curious George | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Feature length movie of the curious lovable monkey.

• Remembrance Of Love | DVD | (18/12/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-16.01 (-401.30%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Joe Rabin is a Holocaust survivor. After the war he went to America got married and had a family. Today he is on his way to Israel for a reunion of Holocaust survivors. It seems that he has another reason for going... for during the war he had a girlfriend and they were separated when she became pregnant. He has never found out what happened to her or their baby; he hopes to find out now...

• Replacement Killers | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This didn't turn out to be quite the deserving American vehicle for Hong Kong action superstar Chow Yun-fat that it should have been. But it is an entertaining potboiler about a hired gun (Chow) who fails to carry out an assignment to kill a cop (which would leave the fellow's son without a father), and becomes a target himself when the contract is handed over to other assassins. Mira Sorvino plays a document forger who is drawn into the fray, pairing up with the hero as they fight their way out of bad spots. The whole enterprise is a little too routine, but the action is sharp and the battles are imaginative and crisp. Director Antoine Fuqua has a by-the-numbers feeling for the influence of Hong Kong on contemporary thrillers (this film was also produced by John Woo), and that's enough to make The Replacement Killers purely enjoyable if not exactly a revelation. --Tom Keogh

• Brainscan | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When horror fanatic Michael (Edward Furlong) receives a virtual reality game called 'Brainscan' he cannot help himself and decides to play the game. Michael finds himself committing a simulated murder. It's frightening and totally unbelievable but when Michael awakes his excitement turns to fear when the TV reports a brutal murder in his neighbourhood. Is it more than just coincidence? When a second game mysteriously arrives Michael is determined not to play. Enter the Trickster (T. Ryder Smith) the devilish mastermind behind the game who forces Michael to continue playing and face his deepest fears from which there is no escape. The Trickster is now in control but is it a game or is it real?