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• Female Vampire | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Eurotrash sex/horror auteur Jesus Franco's Female Vampire delivers nudity, drinking of human body fluids, plentiful zoom shots, languorous music, a vestigial storyline and the odd moment of surrealism (a flapping bat car ornament). It opens with a soulful-eyed brunette (Lina Romay) striding through misty woods wearing only thigh-boots, a leather belt and a black cloak, then chancing across a breeder of tropical birds upon whom she performs an act of oral sex that winds up painfully and fatally for the poor chump. One of Franco's better films, this still has an extremely leisurely pace which means that the story drifts dreamlike (or tediously, depending on your point of view) between protracted but unappealing sexual encounters as a smitten fellow with the requisite 70s porno moustache (Jack Taylor), a vampire-hating doctor (director Franco) and a blind coroner pursue the gloomy Countess for their own reasons. The vampire is mute but has an Anne Rice-style whining voice-over, and the dubbing means that everyone else seems equally dissociated from the words that fail to approximate their lip movements. Fans of Lina's frustrated naked writhings get to see her do the thing on top of several men and women, a bed, a tree and in a bath of blood. To Franco-philes, it's a masterpiece; to everyone else, wearisome tat. On the DVD: Female Vampire on disc comes with a nice widescreen transfer of a print that goes on longer than any previous UK release (though it runs 94 mins, not the 101 listed on the cover); an alternate opening sequence (with the title The Bare Breasted Countess); a fairly complete list of Franco credits; a French trailer (for La Comtesse aux Seins Nus); and four brief alternate scenes from a version of the film with less explicit sex but more blood (i.e., necks are bitten but not private parts). --Kim Newman

• Cronos | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A strange object the Cronos device has been found inside the statue of an angel in an antique store. While the dealer Jesus Gris is holding the device it springs open and its metallic legs pierces his flesh. Once bitten he develops a craving for human blood and his body grows more and more youthful with each drink. As the addiction spreads through his body he realizes he desires the blood of his innocent granddaughter... Winner of the Cannes Festival Critics' Week prize in 1992.

• Bing Crosby - Screen Legends - A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court / Going My Way / Holiday Inn / Pennies From Heav | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (66.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This box set features a quartet of 'Der Bingle's' best-loved movies! A Road To Zanzibar (Dir. Victor Schertzinger 1941): Chuck and his pal Fearless flee a South African carnival when their sideshow causes a fire. After several similar escapades they've finally saved enough to return to the USA when Chuck spends it all on a ""lost"" diamond mine. But that's only the beginning; before long a pair of attractive con-women have tricked our heroes into financing a comic safari featur

• FREIER FALL - FREIER FALL - KO | DVD | (22/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (48.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A major Columbia Pictures release in glorious Technicolor, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad was one of Hollywood's first modern fantasy action blockbusters. On a mission to rescue his fiancée, the Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant), Kerwin Mathews acquits himself well as Sinbad, while Torin Thatcher is a suitably malevolent magician who has shrunken the princess in a bid to get Sinbad to undertake a perilous quest. Truth be told, no one remembers Ray Harryhausen films for the script or the acting; the real stars are the still impressive action set-pieces, a battle with a cyclops, a giant Roc, a dragon, and a duelling skeleton; this last anticipating a much more lavish battle with skeleton warriors in Jason and the Argonauts. The cast may be all-American rather than Arab but even so, everything about this film works, from the fabulous set design of the Sultan's palace which evokes a real fairytale atmosphere, to Bernard Herrmann's truly classic score. On the DVD: The film exhibits a strong anamorphically enhanced 1.85-1 ratio image, with powerful mono sound. At about 80 minutes, the extras last almost as long as the movie. The most important and extensive addition is "The Harryhausen Chronicles", a documentary, while "This is Dynamation" gives an introduction to the stop-motion animation process itself. Ray Harryhausen is an affable host, a modest man who talks engagingly about his work in a way that really makes one appreciate the sheer ingenuity and skill which went into making not just The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, but also Jason and the Argonauts, the subject of a further featurette on the disc. On top of this there are trailers for the aforementioned films, plus one for the disappointing but still fun Golden Voyage of Sinbad. Overall, a first-class film on an equally good DVD. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Jungle 2 Jungle | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £15.33   |  Saving you £-0.34 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The laughs are unmistakably wild in this outrageously funny hit comedy starring film favourites Tim Allen and Martin Short. When successful broker Michael Cromwell (Allen) travels to the Amazon jungle to get his wife's signature on divorce papers he discovers the surprise of his life. He has a 13-year-old son who's been raised among the natives! After Michael agrees to take the boy back to his own ""Jungle"" New York City he quickly learns the teen has more skill with a blowpipe t

• Missing Lynx | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  From producer Antonio Banderas comes The Missing Lynx an original animated comedy-adventure that will charm and excite viewers of all ages. Meet Felix; a jinxed lynx who's clumsy as he is unlucky. After one of his countless mishaps he finds himself in the Animal Recovery Centre but his luck worsens further when the centre is attacked! The animals find themselves pursued by an eccentric millionaire named Noah who has hired Newmann the self-proclaimed greatest hunter in the world to collect animals for an Ark he is building. Felix assembles a ragtag band of animals - Gus a paranoid chameleon; Beety a daredevil goat; Astarte a brave falcon and Rupert a poor-sighted mole - to foil Noah's plans and these crazy comrades learn the value of working together in this unlikely tale of friendship and heroism.

• No - Film | DVD | (17/06/2013) from £10.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Starring Gael Garcia Bernal (Amores Perros Y Tu Mama Tambien) this is the inspiring Oscar-nominated true story of the advertising executives who fought a dictator with an advertising campaign. Chile 1988. International pressure forces dictator General Pinochet to call for a referendum on his presidency. Brash young advertising executive Rene Saavedra (Bernal) spearheads the opposition campaign but after years of 'disappearances' and threats to himself and his colleagues can they really win the election using happiness? NO is the concluding part of highly acclaimed director Pablo Larrain's Pinochet trilogy following on from Tony Manero and Post Mortem. Special Features: Behind The Scenes UK press interview with Pablo Larrain 56th BFI London Film Festival Q&A with Pablo Larrain Theatrical trailer UK Screening Q&A with Gael Garcia Bernal and Eugenio Garcia Amnesty International UK Interview with Gael Garcia Bernal Image Gallery

• In The Blood | DVD | (02/06/2014) from £4.50   |  Saving you £10.49 (233.11%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.

• Ma Ma | DVD | (14/11/2016) from £9.61   |  Saving you £10.38 (108.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Penélope Cruz stars in this Spanish drama from film-maker Julio Medem. When unemployed teacher and single mother Magda (Cruz) is diagnosed with breast cancer, she begins to doubt everything around her. While watching her son play football she meets talent scout Arturo (Luis Tosar) who takes a shine to both Magda and her son. When Arturo receives a phone call with news that his wife and daughter have been in a car accident, Magda goes with him to the hospital. As she has told no-one else of her illness, Magda decides to confide in Arturo and the two grow closer, bonding over ill fate. When she discovers that she is pregnant Magda realises that she has something to live for and changes her ways to ensure she is around to see her daughter grow up.

• Audrey Hepburn Collection Box Set | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £13.66   |  Saving you £36.33 (265.96%)   |  RRP £49.99

  This Audrey Hepburn Collection box set contains the following films: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sabrina, Funny Face, Paris When It Sizzles and Roman Holiday.

• Eisenstein In Guanajuato | DVD | (23/01/2017) from £15.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Trace Of Your Lips | DVD | (18/12/2023) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Jungle | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £13.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the director of Wolf Creek and staring Daniel Radcliffe, JUNGLE is the true story of one man s fight for survival as he ventures in to the Amazon rainforest. What starts as a dream adventure quickly descends in to a harrowing and desperate nightmare.

• Dumb and Dumberer | DVD | (29/12/2003) from £7.59   |  Saving you £8.66 (136.81%)   |  RRP £14.99

  For every outcast who has tried to fit in, comes the prequel to the worldwide hit 'Dumb & Dumberer.' Lovable goofballs Harry & Lloyd return in an adventure of truly idiotic proportions.

• Wages Of Fear | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £18.88   |  Saving you £1.11 (5.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1953, before any American studio exec used the phrase "high concept", Henri-George Clouzot's The Wages of Fear boasted a premise so literally explosive that audiences were excited before they got into the theatres. With an oil-fire burning out of control deep in the South American jungle, two lorryloads of highly unstable nitro-glycerin have to be driven through miles of unstable terrain littered with dangerous turns, crumbling planks, falling rocks and mediocre hardtop. One good jolt will vaporise truck, nitro, drivers and a substantial swathe of the countryside, so the company recruits desperate souls among the loser tramps who loiter around the nowhere town of Las Piedras, begging for any kind of work. On the road, Clouzot stages a string of unforgettable sequences: one stretch of badly paved track can only be crossed by driving at under six miles an hour or over 40; a mountain turn requires that the trucks back out onto a rickety, rotten wooden structure; a 50-ton boulder has fallen into the road, and one of the drivers calmly drains a litre of nitro into his thermos to blow it up, only remembering when the fuse is lit that this will rain pebbles all over the countryside and a few good hits on the cargo will set it off. This is perhaps as great a mix of action-adventure and contest as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and still a textbook example of sustained suspense. On the DVD: The print is in great shape, though the image is a little soft; the menu has a clever explosive aspect and uses the same vintage artwork as the sleeve cannily combined with a snippet. There are trailers for both Wages and Clozuot's other masterpiece, Les Diaboliques, as well as biographies of the principal cast, eight stills and three posters.--Kim Newman

• Welcome to Collinwood | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £4.90   |  Saving you £9.09 (185.51%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Five hapless inner-city low-lifes unsuccessfully attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but wind up gaining more than they lose.

• Carlito's Way | DVD | (24/07/2000) from £8.88   |  Saving you £4.11 (46.28%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Al Pacino cuts a noble figure in this very enjoyable drama by director Brian De Palma (Scarface), based on a pair of books by Edwin Torres. Pacino plays a Puerto Rican ex-con trying hard to go straight, but his loyalty to his lowlife attorney (a virtually unrecognisable Sean Penn) and enemies on the street make that choice difficult. Penelope Ann Miller plays, somewhat unlikely, a stripper who has a romance with Pacino's character. The film finds De Palma tempering his more outlandish moves (think of Body Double or Snake Eyes) just as he did with the popular Untouchables and Mission: Impossible. But while Carlito's Way was not as commercially successful as those two movies, it is a genuinely compelling work graced with a fine performance by Pacino and a surprising one from Penn. --Tom Keogh

• Cinderella | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £9.93   |  Saving you £10.06 (101.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Walt Disney's Cinderella based on the world's greatest fairy tale has captivated audiences for generations with its spellbinding story memorable music spectacular animation and unforgettable characters. Experience the magic in this Royal Edition - with Disney Enhanced Home Theatre Mix and music videos - and you too will believe that dreams really do come true.

• Miami Vice (Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx) | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £3.04   |  Saving you £16.95 (557.57%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Eighties icons Crockett and Tubbs come to the big screen in this Michael Mann-directed adventure.