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• The Wicked Lady | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £4.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (122.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An extraordinarily racy movie for its time, The Wicked Lady was and still is as notable for its acres of heaving bosom as for its radical challenge to female stereotypes. This bodice-ripper about a bored aristocratic woman who turns highwayman just for kicks became a huge box-office success in post-war Britain, but Margaret Lockwood's eloquent bust proved a bit too expressive for Hollywood, so the film was expensively reshot for a sanitised US release. (From 1945 right up to Janet Jackson at the 2004 Superbowl, American audiences apparently have an enduring problem with those prominent parts of the female anatomy). This is the definitive Gainsborough picture, a period romp crammed with cads, in which the camera gazes lasciviously down (it's all shot from a male eyelevel) at the low-cut ladies' dresses. But this time the female anti-heroine gives as good as she gets... and then some. Lockwood's Lady Barbara Skelton is quite gleefully amoral--more so even than Thackeray's arch-manipulator Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair--failing even to pay lip service to the moral standards of the 1940s, let alone those of the 17th century. It is she who wears the trousers (quite literally, in her highwayman guise) while the weak-chinned and weak-willed men around her crumble under the weight of their conventionality. Only James Mason's handsome dandy highwayman can keep up with her, but even he has to draw the line somewhere. Ultimately, social mores reassert their grip and Lady Barbara gets her comeuppance, but not before she's overturned every contemporary movie convention about femininity. "She was the wickedest woman ever seen on the screen", trumpets the original theatrical trailer on this otherwise bare-bones DVD release: it's still probably true even today. --Mark Walker

• Rick And Steve - The Happiest Gay Couple In The World | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Welcome to West Lahunga Beach the gayest of gay ghettos where Rick and Steve make their fabulously decorated double income no kids home. That is until Rick's lifelong lesbian friend Kirsten asks him to be the father of her child. There's just one catch - Kirsten's wife Dana and Rick's husband Steve are mortal enemies. The insults fly and nothing goes unspoken. Who knew the ugly bitter truth of domestic bliss could look so cute? Starring the voices of Alan Cumming Peter Paige Wilson Cruz and Margaret Cho with music from the creators of Avenue Q.

• The Return Of The Superfly | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Ex-drug dealer Superfly is persuaded to return to America in order to trap the current dealers....

• The Old Testament | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £-3.39 (-170.40%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The Old Testament