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• Man - In Concert 1976 | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  By 1976 Welsh wonders the Man band had been a working unit for eight years. At this point in their career the only founding member still standing was Mickey Jones. He was joined by long time drummer Terry Williams in again out again and in again Deke Leonard (Then on his third stint of duty) keyboard player Phil Ryan who had also had a touch of the ""Deke Leonard's"" in that it was his second stint with the band and new boy John McKenzie on bass. The band feeling that they had gone as far as they could go decided to go out with style on a British ""Farewell"" tour to promote their most recent long playing platter The Welsh Connection. The tour's highlight would be a series of concerts at the London Roundhouse on the 10th 11th and 12th of December. The Roundhouse had been the scene of many Man triumphs during the seventies so perhaps it was the ideal way for the band to bow out. The band would also be recorded at the Roundhouse with the results turning up on the posthumous live album All's Well That End's Well. Over the three days however the band were also filmed at the Roundhouse and the resultant film which includes performances from the three days and features interviews with the band as well as the bands manager and even the hard working put upon road crew. The band are in top form but let's face it when were they not in top form? In addition to the informative and hugely enlightening interviews the band perform some classic Man material including 771 551 Born With A Future Bananas and Babe I'm Gonna Leave You. This fascinating documentary has rarely been seen since the original film was broadcast in the late seventies and as such will be highly anticipated by the large and devoted fan base still commanded by Man and as such gives a great insight into what the band were all about during their seventies heyday.

• The Blair Witch Project | DVD | (23/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Anyone who has even the slightest trouble with insomnia after seeing a horror movie should stay away from The Blair Witch Project--this film will creep under your skin and stay there for days. Credit for the effectiveness of this mock documentary goes to filmmakers Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, who armed three actors (Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, and Josh Leonard) with video equipment, camping supplies, and rough plot outlines. They then let the trio loose into the Maryland woods to improvise and shoot the entire film themselves as the filmmakers attempted to scare the crap out of them. Gimmicky, yes, but it worked--to the wildly successful tune of $130 million at the US box office upon its initial release (the budget was a mere $40,000). For those of you who were under a rock when it first hit the cinemas, The Blair Witch Project tracks the doomed quest of three film students shooting a documentary on the legend of the Blair Witch from Burkittsville, Maryland. After filming some local yokels (and providing only scant background on the witch herself), the three, led by Heather (something of a witch herself), head into the woods for some on-location shooting. They're never seen again. What we see is a reconstruction of their "found" footage, edited to make a barely coherent narrative. After losing their way in the forest, whining soon gives way to real terror as the three find themselves stalked by unknown forces that leave piles of rocks outside their campsite and stick-figure art projects in the woods. (As Michael succinctly puts it, "No redneck is this clever!") The masterstroke of the film is that you never actually see what's menacing them; everything is implied, and there's no terror worse than that of the unknown. If you can wade through the tedious arguing--and the shaky, motion-sickness-inducing camerawork--you'll be rewarded with an oppressively sinister atmosphere and one of the most frightening denouements in horror-film history. Even after you take away the monstrous hype, The Blair Witch Project remains a genuine, effective original. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

• Red Surf/Corrupt/Riot/Justice | DVD | (14/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Red Surf (Fullscreen 4:3 / English - Dolby (2.0) Stereo / Cert. 18); When pro surfer Remar (Clooney) turns to drug dealing to support himself and his girlfriend, he struggles to change his ways before becoming a victim of the streets...; ; Corrupt (Fullscreen 4:3 / English - Dolby (2.0) Stereo / Cert. 18); Detective Fred O'Connor (Keitel) lives the high life, financed by illicit drug dealing. However, his life is shattered when his partner (Lydon) confesses to a series of murder...