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• Throw Momma From The Train | DVD | (09/07/2001) from £18.67   |  Saving you £-5.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Get ready for a runaway comedy that's right on track! Danny De Vito and Billy Crystal are hilarious and Anne Ramsey is hysterically frightful in this wickedly screwball laugh-riot that won a Gold Globe nomination for DeVito and an Oscar nomination for Ramsey. With Rob Reiner and Oprah Winfrey on board for cameos this fast-track comedy will certainly make you laugh. Writing teacher Larry Donner (Crystal) and his student Owen Lift (DeVito) have a lot in common: the women in their l

• New Dominion Tank Police | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Follow-up to the original series in which the slightly psychotic officers of the Tank Police employ their heavy weaponry at every opportunity! Newport City 2010. An overcrowded urban sprawl choking from pollution of unregulated technology. In a desperate attempt to stop the swelling tide of rampant crime and urban terrorism plaguing the city the government forms a special task force - The Tank Police. The Tank Police are assigned to restore order but their ruthless methods in comb

• Adrift | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £9.87   |  Saving you £-3.88 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Katy and Guy Nest set sail on a trip to try to save their marriage and find love again. However things don't go according to plan when their quiet cruise turns into a deadly nightmare after rescuing Nick and Eliza from a stranded cabin cruiser. Adrift on a sea of fear they become prisoners who must fight desperately to save their lives.

• Dolly Parton - Blue Valley Songbird | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a totally unexpected piece of casting, Blue Valley Songbird stars Dolly Parton as a country singer/songwriter with big hair, large breasts and lots of lippy. The comparison ends there, though, because here she plays Leana Taylor, a talented performer hampered by her provincial background (and unpleasant manager/boyfriend) who realises she must escape her small-town roots in order to achieve her true potential. This isn't the most taxing of narratives, but it's the music that counts here. This movie is of the "musical drama" genre--take a star musical performer, give them the lead role in a movie, then furnish them with every excuse to perform therein so long as it can be done as a realistic element within the overall story--and as such it's highly agreeable. Parton not only has buckets of musical talent but also has plausible acting skills, even if the viewer is bound to think that these are mainly to do with being Dolly Parton. In any event, the songs are excellent, so this is well worth watching even if you find yourself fast-forwarding until you see someone picking a guitar up.--Roger Thomas

• Way Down East | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Way Down East was the most successful film of the 1920s, even more so than the original versions of Ben-Hur or The Ten Commandments. That says much about tastes and values of the day, since this is no visually spectacular epic designed to wow audiences: director DW Griffith gave it the subtitle "A Simple Story of Plain People". The story follows impoverished New England country girl Anna Moore (Lillian Gish) to Boston in search of family aid. Instead she's duped into a fake marriage by playboy Lennox Sanderson (Lowell Sherman). Pregnancy forces Sanderson to abandon her to care for the child alone, which dies soon after birth. The disgrace sends her back into the countryside to work for Squire Bartlett, whose son David (Richard Barthelmess) begins to fall for her. But the dreadful secret threatens to be revealed, since the dastardly Sanderson turns out to be their neighbour. Themes of loyalty and social change come to a head for a thrilling finale. Amazing stunt work occurs on a frozen river's ice sheets that break up, dashing an unconscious Anna toward a waterfall. Populated by eccentric cameo roles, this view of 1920s' life is a far more fascinating exploration of the contemporary female than the novel or disastrous stage play that preceded it. On the DVD: Naturally a movie from 1920 is in mono and 4:3 ratio (which is effectively the old Academy standard ratio). But with subtle colour tints and using a musical score from its 1931 reissue, it still looks pretty good. Only a few reels have suffered damage (eg some heat blisters), otherwise film historian David Shepard's restoration job is commendable. The only extra is an essay on the history of the film which scrolls up the screen as an introduction. --Paul Tonks

• The Dark Hours | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £7.97   |  Saving you £7.02 (46.80%)   |  RRP £14.99

  She spent years getting into the mind of a monster. Now he is getting into hers... Harlan Pyne a violent sexual offender is convinced that psychiatrist Samantha Goodman conducted unethical experiments on him while she was his doctor. With the assistance of his troubled yet eager protege Harlan forces Samantha and her family to participate in a series of nightmarish games. On this night of terror escape is not an option truth guarantees nothing and revenge will not necessarily b

• Manfast | DVD | (01/12/2009) from £3.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (402.01%)   |  RRP £9.99

  4 girls. Thousands of men. 100 days. Can they make it without making it? In Tallahassee Florida four sexy party girls - billed by the locals as the ""House Of Babes"" - are struggling to pay back a $20 000 loan for their post-feminist magazine 'Biotch'. Their grad-student neighbour desperate for a thesis project for her masters in Women's Studies persuades the household to fast off men for 100 days. In exchange they'll receive $25 000 in grant money in order to save their magazine.

• Adrift / Nevada / Dirty Tricks | DVD | (06/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Adrift: Katy and Guy Nest set sail on a trip to try to save their marriage and find love again. However things don't go according to plan when their quiet cruise turns into a deadly nightmare after rescuing Nick and Eliza from a stranded cabin cruiser. Adrift on a sea of fear they become prisoners who must fight desperately to save their lives. Nevada: A beautiful and mysterious woman comes into a miss-if-blink Nevada town with a secret that threatens the status quo of the tightly knit group of women who run the town Monday through to Friday. Their men work at a dam a few hours away and can only return on the weekends for rowdy fun and raucous love. Her beauty and demeanour make Christy the obvious scapegoat for several of the women's frustrations and loneliness. Several others see her as a beacon of hope in an otherwise downtrodden existence. The ensuing conflicts sends their normally placid lives into a state of chaos. 'Nevada' is an insightful and witty exploration of the choices women must make in their lives as mothers lovers wives and as individuals. Dirty Tricks: 'Dirty Tricks' follows the hapless exploits of an unscrupulous English tutor at a seedy language school in Oxford. On the surface he is an eternal student: charming witty and accomplished. Beneath the facade however he displays a brilliant and ruthless talent for lying and manipulating everyone around him. Our 'hero' becomes friendly with wealthy couple Dennis and Karen Parsons but his initial feelings of bitterness regarding their success become complicated by a frenzied affair with Karen. This spawns a wild chain of events from sex and adultery to marriage money and accusations of murder. Eventually he escapes the leafy Oxford suburbs and the long arm of the law and flees to South America leaving a trail of madness and intrigue in his wake.