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• Like Water For Chocolate | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £17.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Expect to be very hungry (and perhaps amorous) after watching this contemporary classic in the small genre of food movies that includes Babette's Feast and Big Night. Director Alfonso Arau (A Walk in the Clouds), adapting a novel by his former wife, Laura Esquivel, tells the story of a young woman (Lumi Cavazos) who learns to suppress her passions under the eye of a stern mother, but channels them into her cooking. The result is a steady stream of cuisine so delicious as to be an almost erotic experience for those lucky enough to have a bite. The film's quotient of magic realism feels a little stock, but the story line is good and Arau's affinity for the sensuality of food (and of nature) is sublime. You might want to rush off to a good Mexican restaurant afterward, but that's a good thing. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Solo | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £12.97   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mario Van Peebles stars as a force of one in Solo a high-octane power fuelled action-thriller about an Army android who learns to think - and kill - for himself. The Army's biggest threat since the atom bomb Solo is indestructible - made to look like flesh and blood he is actually constructed of polymers and computer chips - and wired to win every battle. But when innocent civilians are torched by his unit Solo discovers he's on the wrong side of an illegal operation and heading on a collision course with Col. Madden (William Sadler) a man as implacable and pitiless as Solo was designed to be. Now the Army's ultimate weapon is waging a one man war against his own creators...