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• Tough And Deadly | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £5.49   |  Saving you £-0.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  When bounty hunter Elmo Freech saves a badly injured man from an assassins bullet as he lies in a hospital bed it's the start of a breakneck chain of brutal combat and furious action. Struck with amnesia the man Freech rescues can remember only one thing - his CIA codename 'Quicksilver'. Coupled with his lightening fast martial arts skills Freech realises that this guy is trouble especially after a crack hit-squad from a ruthless Milan Mafia family strike with orders to kill Quicksilver. Soon Freech and Quicksilver are taking on the CIA assassins and Mafia muscle as they try to expose an unholy alliance between the two. Freech and Quicksilver - back in action and tough and deadly...

• UNTERNEHMEN CAPRICORN S.E - MO | Blu Ray | (08/03/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lies Before Kisses | DVD | (01/04/2002) from £5.48   |  Saving you £0.51 (9.31%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a prominent businessman is accused of murdering a prostitute his wife turns to an investigative reporter for help in clearing her husband's name. Instead she is drawn into a vacuum of betrayal passion and obsession where no relationship is as it seems...

• The Book Group - The Complete First Series | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £12.65   |  Saving you £7.34 (58.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Book Group, the creation of writer-director Annie Griffin, is a superb, Glasgow-based comedy-drama. Annie Dudek stars as Claire, the prissy and neurotic American expatriate who initiates the titular group with a view to meeting high-minded types like herself. Instead, she gets Dirka, Fist and Janice, three Scottish footballers' wives, the wheelchair-bound Kenny, a leisure-centre worker with ambitions to be a writer despite his apparent inarticulacy, the stubbly-faced football-mad Rab and the insufferable Barney, a post-grad student and heroin addict at whom Claire makes one of the most embarrassingly disastrous passes in TV history in the opening episode. The Book Group is a magnificent device for bringing an unlikely cast of characters together, supposedly out of a love of literature but in fact because each of them in their own way has pretensions or ambitions to make something different out of their lives. Waves of sexual longing between the group members are among the many things that interfere with the discussions of the texts, with Kenny in particular an object of fascination for both Dirka and Fist. With each episode cleverly themed around the chosen book of the week, The Book Group is hilarious yet wise, understated and often painfully melancholic, based on detailed character study rather than contrived situations or eye-catching melodrama. It is indispensable viewing. On the DVD: The Book Group's main extra is a poorly edited but absorbing sequence of interviews with all of the cast members except James Lance, who plays Barney. Rory McGann (Kenny), who comes from a non-acting background, is particularly interesting. --David Stubbs

• Felons | DVD | (23/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  All is well at an afternoon barbecue until one of the guests decides to seduce the hosts wife and kill the next door neighbour (for being miserable). Things go from bad to worse as the friends plot against each other to cover up their part of the crime and keep hidden their own skeletons that are rapidly being discovered.

• True Colors | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £12.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (23.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Cusack and James Spader star in this dramatic absorbing story of two friends who move from law school to Washington's corridors of power. Cusack plays Peter a lower-class go-getter who climbs to the position of congressman by betraying everyone who ever trusted him including his idealistic blue-blood pal Tim. Tim of course would never cross a friend. Unless it was to avenge his own betrayal...

• The Vineyard | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £8.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (60.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An Island of death fueled by the blood of its victims. We've all heard that wine has its health benefits. But what if it could help prolong your life...indefinitely? Crackpot scientist and celebrated winemaker Dr. Elson Po has made the ultimate discovery: the secret to everlasting life. As with all good things however there's an inevitable downside; and a bunch of good-looking and horny youngsters invited to Dr Po's island under the premise of an 'audition' are about to find out the hard way. When the vineyard starts to give up its dark secrets these doomed teens will have to contend not only with Dr. Po and his kung-fu fighting henchmen but also with a rotting gang of marauding zombies! A startlingly tongue-in-cheek mix of action body-horror and undead terror The Vineyard comes courtesy of writer/director/actor James Hong - character actor extraordinaire and star of such genre favourites as Big Trouble in Little China and Blade Runner. Arrowdrome is a fleapit selected library of cult films; violent horrific sleazy exploitative. To explore step in to the cult arena! Special Features: Includes a trailer Includes a booklet by critic Calum Waddell Reversible sleeve

• The Vineyard | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £2.68   |  Saving you £2.31 (86.19%)   |  RRP £4.99

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• Return Of The Living Dead | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Return of the Living Dead is a parody-cum-sequel spin-off from George Romero's superior Night of the Living Dead films. A corpse-containing canister gets breached and releases an oily, loose-limbed, brain-eating zombie tatterdemalion and a gas that revives anything dead in the vicinity, even a bisected dog preserved as a vet's teaching specimen and a case of pinned butterflies. The dim-bulb leading characters--earnest Clu Gulager, goofy James Karen and Thom Matthews--burn up a mess of surplus living body parts, but the rains wash the ashes into the earth of a nearby cemetery and a whole crowd of brain-eating zombies claw their way out to terrorise a group of teens who sport the kind of 1985 fashions, hairdos, slang preferences and musical tastes that will never feature in a TV nostalgia programme. There are plenty of in-jokes at the expense of the Living Dead films (learning that shooting 'em in the brain doesn't work, the appalled Matthews gasps, "You mean the movie lied?"), and director Dan O'Bannon, the writer of Dark Star and Alien, hurries things along through some gruesome action and terror-by-zombie bits until the surprisingly cynical anti-government conclusion. It's not as wittily outrageous as Re-Animator or Braindead, but it has an amiable, drive-in-cum-home video grunge about it. Frequently naked exploitation regular Linnea Quigley makes an impression as the punkette zombie who goes on the rampage wearing nothing but leg-warmers and body make-up. The frill-free DVD is full-screen (boo hiss!) except for the titles, offers only the trailer and inadequate cast and crew notes as extras, but it looks okay. --Kim Newman

• 976 Evil II - The Astral Factor | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Disguised as a harmless horoscope this number is the vehicle for evil. When a caller named Gruber phones in he is hooked by devilish forces that send his spirit on murderous sprees while his body sleeps...

• The China Syndrome (1981) (Widescreen) | DVD | (18/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  James Bridges (Urban Cowboy, Bright Lights, Big City) directed this 1979 film that became a worldwide sensation when, just weeks after its release, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred. Jane Fonda (Klute, Julia) plays a television news reporter who is not taken very seriously until a routine story at the local nuclear power plant leads her to what may be a cover-up of epic proportions. She and her cameraman, played by Michael Douglas (Wall Street, American President), hook up with a whistleblower at the plant, played by Jack Lemmon (Save the Tiger, Missing). Together they try to uncover the dangers lurking beneath the nuclear reactor and avoid being silenced by the business interests behind the plant. Though topical, The China Syndrome (produced by Douglas) works on its own as a socially conscious thriller that entertains even as it spurs its audience to think. --Robert Lane

• The Unborn | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Featuring the big screen debut of one Lisa Kudrow (Friends) the deeply unsettling horror exploitation movie The Unborn stars Brooke Adams and Jeff Hayenga as Virginia and Brad Marshall a couple whose unsuccessful attempts at having a child see them turning to IVF specialist Dr. Richard Meyerling (James Karen) for help. Initially overjoyed when she is eventually confirmed to be pregnant Virginia soon senses something is not quite right and finds her very worst fears confirmed when it becomes shockingly clear that her unborn foetus is very much in charge of the proceedings.

• Plain Dirty | DVD | (17/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes it kills. Inez Macbeth (Dominique Swain) is married to Edgar (Henry Thomas) a violent petty thief with big ambitions. When her loveless marriage leads to an affair with a gentle young lawyer Edgar retaliates by brutally holding her captive with the help of his best friend Flowers (Arie Verveen). With time running out Inez concocts a desperate escape but does she have the guts to do whatever it takes?

• Homer And Eddie | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  She's ruthless. He's witless. They're on the road together and falling apart at the seams! In this little-known gem of a touching drama a retarded man gets help from a sociopathic woman when tries to reunite with his dying father who years earlier disowned him...

• Joyride | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  J.T. stands to inherit his father's rundown motel; it's his prison and he's serving a life term. Trying to catch the eye of the beautiful resident Tanya J.T. suggests the pair steal the car of mysterious visitor Mrs Smith and take it for a joyride only to find a corpse in the boot...

• Capricorn One / Saturn 3 | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Thanks to repeated showings on cable television and home video, this speculative thriller has built quite a loyal following since its release in 1978. The provocative "what if?" scenario still packs a punch, even if it is not always believable. James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O J Simpson star as three astronauts who agree to spare the government embarrassment by faking their historic landing on Mars after their spacecraft is determined to be unsafe for blastoff. When a scheming mission controller (Hal Holbrook) plots to kill the astronauts in a staged capsule fire, the trio embarks on a dangerous mission to expose the truth. Elliott Gould costars as the journalist determined to crack the conspiracy, and director Peter Hyams turns up the tension with an exciting chase sequence involving Telly Savalas as an eccentric barnstormer who comes to Gould's aid in his attempt rescue the hoax mission's sole survivor. --Jeff Shannon

• UNTERNEHMEN CAPRICORN - STEELB | Blu Ray | (24/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Girl | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Andrea is attractive and intelligent but to the opposite sex she is a no-go area. She is not part of the in-crowd and is quite happy to go to university a virgin. That is until she meets Todd who turns her world upside down. Suddenly sex becomes the only thing on her mind. Starring Dominique Swain proving that her stunning performance in Lolita was not a one off.

• Hardbodies 2 | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-16.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Everything that can go wrong does so when a film crew ends up in adventure far more dangerous than they were ready for.

• Desperate Housewives - The Early Years | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Stars Marcia Cross One of the major stars of (Desparate Housewives) in the this glossy movie about releationships... Sex Comedy and all the other stuff that gets in the way of being happy...