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• The Acid House | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £7.10   |  Saving you £2.89 (40.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In The Acid House director Paul McGuigan adapts three Irvine Welsh short stories. These are set in an unflinchingly depicted world of grey, breeze block tenements, wiry psychos, short leather skirts, beer, fags and drugs, kinky sex in badly wallpapered lounges, random violence, hideous-looking babies, raves, footy, discarded crisp packets and barely intelligible dialogue featuring the occasional use of non-profanity."The Granton Star Clause" tells the unhappy tale of wee, pasty-faced Boab Doyle, who in one long, unhappy sequence loses his place in the football team, his girlfriend, his job and gets kicked out of the house by his parents, before an encounter with God (here, a hard-bitten, lager-quaffing Maurice Roeves) leads to a surreal, Kafka-esque conclusion. The second tale, "A Soft Touch", is gruellingly and well portrayed but pointlessly depressing. Kevin McKidd plays Johnny, a supermarket employee with an appalling slag-hag of a girlfriend who takes up with his new, violently psychotic and parasitical neighbour Larry. Will he stand up for himself? The answer will leave you thoroughly unsatisfied. Finally, there's "The Acid House", the funniest but silliest of the three tales in which Ewan Bremner plays an obnoxiously livewire Hibs fan who takes one too many tabs and ends up being transported into the mind of stereotypically middle-class couple's--Martin Clunes and Jemma Redgrave--baby. The Acid House is compulsive but bleak, exhilarating but ambivalent. The viewer is asked to bring their own moral compass to these stylised yet non-judgemental episodes. Fans of Trainspotting, however, will certainly find much of the scintillating same here.On the DVD: disappointingly, only the trailer is featured here. However, the DVD transfer in letterbox format is impeccable, used to its best advantage in the more surreal, fast-cut music video-style sequences, while the soundtrack, featuring The Verve and Primal Scream among others, also benefits. --David Stubbs

• Zappa (Dual Format DVD+Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (06/12/2021) from £17.44   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Conveying the scope of his prodigious and varied creative output and the breadth of his extraordinary personal and political life, director/producer Alex Winter and producer Glen Zipper were granted exclusive access by Gail Zappa to a vast collection of his unreleased music, movies, incomplete projects, unseen interviews and unheard concert recordings, much of which was deteriorating and in danger of being lost forever.

• Good Advice | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £12.80   |  Saving you £1.19 (9.30%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Womanising stockbroker Ryan Turner used to be a Wall Street hot shot until insider trading lands him in hot water. Now he's lost his job his apartment and even his girlfriend Cindy. Ryan's luck changes when Cindy's boss Page Henson a no-nonsense newspaper editor calls demanding Cindy's advice column. Suddenly Cindy is suffering from 'Brazilian Flu' and Ryan is writing her column and cashing her paychecks. At first his self-centered advice sucks but as he gets better the 'Ask

• 10 Rillington Place | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on Ludovic Kennedy's investigative book '10 Rillington Place' is the true and horrifying story of English mass murderer John Christie (chillingly played by Richard Attenborough). When Timothy Evans (John Hurt) his wife Beryl (Judy Geeson) and their young daughter movie into Christie's house they unknowingly sign their death warrants. Christie offers to help Beryl have an abortion and uses this opportunity as he has already done with previous victims to strangle and rape

• Gates | DVD | (17/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  What happens when your children choose your friends? First-day-back-at-work mum Helen (Joanna Page) hands over the new school drop-off duties to her builder husband Mark (Tom Ellis) with just one proviso: don't get sucked in. The last three years of her life at their last primary school have been eaten up by PTA meetings, coffee mornings, fund raisers and holidays with virtual strangers. Never again.

• Phantasm III - Lord Of The Dead | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Thirteen years after the original nightmare began Mike and Reggie reunite with the spirit of Mike's dead brother and are pursued by The Tall Man through warped dimensions of space and time. Who Will reign supreme? Prepared to be scared witless as the fine line between the living and the dead snaps with a vengeance!

• Phantasm III | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Thirteen years after the original nightmare began Mike and Reggie reunite with the spirit of Mike's dead brother and are pursued by The Tall Man through warped dimensions of space and time. Who will reign supreme? Prepare to be scared witless as the fine line between the living and the dead snaps with a vengeance!

• American Ballet Theatre Now | DVD | (08/03/2001) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  America's leading ballet soloists display highlights from their repertoire.

• Lookin' Italian | DVD | (03/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Handsome and fatally seductive Anthony (Matt Leblanc) is a sexy and irresistible Italian-American wise guy who shares a flat with his secretive Uncle Vinny and the two couldn't be more different. Vinny's a former Mafia 'soldier' who lived and almost died by the gun and is now trying to carry out a new anonymous life for himself while burying a dark and deadly secret from his past. But Anthony's charm and life-of-the-party nature make him an ace seducer all bulging muscles and leather trousers which is where he seems to keep his conscience and his brain! And that's how the trouble begins. Disgusted by the violence and killings he committed while living the life with the Mob Vinny is terrified his wild cocksure nephew is going the same way. And when a vicious and bloody drive-by results in the death of two of Anthony's closest friends Vinny's worst fears look set to come true.

• I Shot A Man In Vegas | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £5.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (-37.60%)   |  RRP £3.99

  What would you do if you killed your best friend? For five friends in Las Vegas it was just another night on the town. But on this particular night something went terribly wrong...

• Salieri: Falstaff | DVD | (21/06/2000) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Recorded at the Schwetziner Festspiele in 1995.

• The Sentinel | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sentinel