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• Judgement Day | DVD | (13/12/1999) from £7.38   |  Saving you £-1.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the depths of space a giant meteor collides with an asteroid sending a deadly shower of fragments towards Earth. After a small piece makes impact eliminating everything around it the United States Airforce observes that the worse is yet to come - a 14 mile long fragment powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth. Determining that their own 'Spaceguard' is not up to the job the military turns to Dr. David Corbett - inventor of 'Thor' an explosive device capable of eliminating the meteor. But deranged religious leader Thomas Payne has another plan. Kidnapping Corbett so that Thor cannot be used. Payne and his cult believe that the world is fated for the impending doom.

• A Crack In The Floor | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The continuing popularity of horror spoofs has created an opportunity for low-quality slashers such as A Crack In the Floor to pass themselves off as humorous. The story follows axe-wielding psychotic hermit Jeremiah who meets a bunch of fresh-faced young hikers and the movie employs every trick in the genre's book but still fails to rise itself above cheap exploitation (best indicated by the tasteless rape of Jeremiah's mother that prefaces the action). Brazenly claiming to feature Tracy Scoggins and Gary Busey--who in reality appear for about five minutes each--the film features young unknowns, the most high profile being Saved By the Bell's Mario Lopez. Which is fitting really because the film, with its mix of teen enthusiasm, redneck stereotypes and crass violence, is little more than that show meets The Dukes of Hazzard meets Deliverance meets Friday the 13th. Recommended for connoisseurs of everything gory and tacky but no-one else. On the DVD: The DVD manages to keep the quality set so spectacularly by the film itself--featuring an appalling trailer, a reprint of the information on the disc's box, biographies of the handful of established actors who make the briefest of cameos and trailers for some equally naff TV movies. Not what DVD was invented for. --Phil Udell

• A Genius, Two Partners And A Dupe | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Produced by Sergio Leone (and considered by many the missing link in Leone's career) Genius features Terence Hill and a barnstorming performance from McGoohan plus a bizarre cameo from Klaus Kinski. In one of the last major productions of the 70s boom in Italian Westerns Hill plays freewheeling con-artist Joe Thanks in this semi-sequel to the hugely succesful 'My Name is Nobody' up against crooked cavalry officer Major Cabot (McGoohan) who is planning an Indian massacre in orde

• Verdi: Otello -- Berlin Opera/von Karajan | DVD | (12/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The complete opera 'Otello' by Giuseppe Verdi. Performed by the German Opera Choir and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The cast includes: Jon Vickers Mirella Freni and Peter Glossop. Conducted and directed by Herbert Von Karajan.

• Banana Joe | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Banana Joe (Bud Spencer) is delightfully free of the ravages of intelligence and lives blissfully in a tropical village in Africa which is untainted by hard-nosed corporations corruption drugs gangs or other ills of modern society. One day Banana Joe takes his banana boat to the local trading post where he is informed he now needs a permit in order to operate his boat. Quite willing to comply with this seemingly simple formailty he treks off to the big city to gain this importa

• Lucas Radebe - The Cheif's Story | DVD | (06/12/2010) from £5.29   |  Saving you £10.70 (202.27%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Take an in-depth look at the life of 'The Chief' right back from growing up in South Africa the infamous shooting and how his move to Leeds United came about. Lucas Radebe is one of the most respected figures in world football not just for what he does on the pitchas captain of Leeds and South Africa but also for the work he does off it. In an age of multi-million pound transfer deals and playboy lifestyles Radebe has kept his feet firmly on the ground a dedicated a large part of

• Carmen Miranda - Bananas Is My Business | DVD | (30/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• What Have They Done To Your Daughters? | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Verdi - Otello | DVD | (04/11/2008) from £21.03   |  Saving you £3.96 (15.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

• The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas | DVD | (18/01/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Honduran teenager Sabina Rivas (Greisy Mena) dreams of becoming a famous singer. She wants to travel to the United States in hope of realising her dream, and to distance herself from her boyfriend turned vicious gang member Jovany (Fernando Moreno). However, to do so she must travel across Mexico, with its brothels, ruthless gangs, drug trafficking and corrupt migratory agents. At the Mexican-Guatemalan border Sabina and Jovany, who has committed all necessary atrocities required to be accepted by the Mara Salvatrucha gang, meet again. Sabina's lack of any documents, passport or visa are preventing her from crossing, and she is forced to work for a brothel run by Doña Lita (Angelina Peláez), who does not want her to leave. The only person who can help her escape this life is her best customer and confessor Mexican Consul Don Nico (Miguel Flores), who infatuated by her beauty and innocence does not want her to leave either. However, Sabina believes that if she does everything she is told to do, she will eventually end up with that coveted Mexican visa. Winner of Best Supporting Actress (Angeline Pelaez), Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects at the Ariel Awards in Mexico in 2013, this dramatic story on the darker side of Mexico is adapted from Rafael Ramirez Heredia's novel La Mara.

• Love Kills | DVD | (12/10/1999) from £8.97   |  Saving you £-2.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Deceipt and treachery about inside the walls of the magnificent Heiss family mansion. Evelyn Heiss a recently widowed gold-digging trophy wife has fallen for her smooth-talking younger new age masseur Poe Finklestein. Poe is a striking hunk who massages his way first into Evelyn's affections and soon after her bed. The rest of her family are a source of constant irritation as they await with increasing anticipation the reading of the will. The eccentric Heiss family are heirs to a European dynasty with its fabulous wealth and jewels worth millions. What they hadn't counted on is the underbelly of Hollywood who have their own plans for the Heiss family fortune...

• El Violin | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (20.09%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Plutarco his son Genaro and grandson Lucio lead double lives. On the one hand they are simple country musicians and on the other they actively support the peasant guerilla movement against the oppressive government. When the army occupies the village the rebels are forced to flee and leave their ammunition behind. Making the most of the fact that he looks like an inoffensive violinist Plutarco has a planto recover the munitions hidden in his cornfield. His music enratures the captain but he still has to get his hand on the ammunition.

• Guardian | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Though the Guardian opens with a nod or two to Three Kings, it really offers a cut-down version of Fallen, with Los Angeles Detective Kross (Mario Van Peebles) facing Telal--a body-hopping Sumerian demon he encountered at an archaeological site in Iraq during the Gulf War--entrusted by ritual scarification with the task of protecting a 12-year-old boy who will grow up to unite the three great monotheistic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) and thus set the Devil's work back millennia. A sub-plot deals with a red powder drug ("Chaos"), imported by the demon's minions, which catches on in LA sending coke-sniffing agents into murderous frenzies (the funniest scene) and briefly giving guest star dealer Ice-T superpowers until an ambiguously angelic hit lady (Stacy Oversier) tosses him off a building. There are elements of The Matrix stirred in, with Oversier and Telal dead ringers for the Carrie-Ann Moss and Hugo Weaving characters, but it inevitably boils down to a Fallen-style formula. It's stripped-down demonology--ever since The Evil Dead, those Sumerian demons have been getting a bad press--with direct-to-video action, but is by no means unlikeable. On the DVD: Along with the trailer, this disc offers IMDB filmographies for Van Peebles, Remar, Ice-T and John Terlesky (who used to be a busy B-actor in the likes of Chopping Mall and Valet Girls and now directs quickies such as Guardian). The transfer is augmented for 16:9 and looks significantly better than the video version, giving this low-budget effort a relatively lush feel, though the Iraqi desert does look as though it was an hour or so drive out of Los Angeles. --Kim Newman

• Dizzy Gillespie And The United Nations Orchestra | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The master of bebop trumpet captured live in concert.

• Verd - Un Ballo In Maschera | DVD | (04/11/2008) from £22.05   |  Saving you £2.94 (11.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Leoncavallo - Pagliacci and Operatic Arias (Corelli) | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £21.89   |  Saving you £1.10 (4.80%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Leoncavallo - Pagliacci And Operatic Arias (Corelli)

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

  In the course of one intense hilarious week from Sunday to Saturday Johnny (Mike Starr) must use all his wits and charms to pay off a debt in a comic plot that snowballs into a suspenseful climax. Johnny is the owner of a deli a middle aged happy-go-lucky perpetually-behind-the-eight-ball kinda guy... a gambler with a heart of gold. Johnny's mother has been giving her son a week for years to play a special number - but Johnny stopped playing the number five years ago. The inevitable day comes when Mrs Amico's number comes up and he scrambles to raise the money...

• Fish N Chips | DVD | (05/08/2013) from £6.95   |  Saving you £6.04 (86.91%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fish, a fish, is desperate to evolve into a landling. Chips, a cat, would like to return to his privileged lifestyle. Both of them need a talisman to achieve their goal. Unfortunately they are fighting for the same one, a magical bone.

• Otello | DVD | (01/01/2004) from £22.60   |  Saving you £-15.35 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After recording Andrea Chenier in 1955 and Il Trovatore in 1957 for RAI the Italian national broadcaster Del Monaco recorded Otello for Rai on 30 September 1958. Conducted by the magisterial Tullio Serafin the performance also profited from direction by Franco Enriquez who made the most of the limited resources available in those pioneering days of Italian television: using the rather modest studio scenery he created an expressionist ambience of contrasting light and shadows a dark and gloomy atmosphere that evoked the impending tragedy.

• Thriller Films (Box Set) | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This box set contains the following four titles: Cosa Nostra: A writer gets entangled in the world of Mafia hardman. His break comes when his Mafioso novel is turnedinto a Hollywood movie... but he is dogged by his crusading past. Plato's Run: An explosive story about battle-hardened mercenaries in a daring 'do-or-die' mission to rescue escapees from a brutal Cuban prison. Valentine's Day: A member of a crime family agrees to give state evidence but is killed. The only witness is his girlfriend. Detective Jack Valentine allows his lust to cloud his judgement. Merchant Of Death: Hard-bitten cop Jim Randall's colleague is gunned down in an ambush. Jim becomes a one-man slaughterhouse in his mission of revenge.