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• Rose Red | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (180.36%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The leisurely pace of the horror miniseries Rose Red is like settling into a long book full of detail--a book not unlike those of Stephen King, who wrote the script. The story (about a researcher into the paranormal who takes a team of psychics into a haunted house) recycles themes that King has used before--a telekinetic girl, a house with its own consciousness--but for his fans, the familiarity is probably comfortable and even enjoyable. The cast (including Nancy Travis, Julian Sands, and Melanie Lynsky from Heavenly Creatures) gives committed performances, and the special effects are television-grade but used pretty well. Most of it doesn't make much sense, but at its best Rose Red is absurd and creepy at the same time. --Bret Fetzer

• Frank Herbert's Dune--TV series | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Frank Herbert's Dune is a three-part, four-and-a-half-hour television adaptation of the author's bestselling science fiction novel, telling a more complete version of the Dune saga than David Lynch's 1984 cinema film. The novel is a massive political space-opera so filled with characters, cultures, intrigues and battles that even a production twice this length would have trouble fitting everything in. While television is good at setting a scene, it loses the novel's capacity to explain how the future works, and as with Lynch's film, Frank Herbert's Dune focuses on Paul Atreides, the young noble betrayed who becomes a rebel leader--an archetypal story reworked everywhere from Star Wars (1977) to Gladiator (2000). Top-billed William Hurt is only in the first of the three 90-minute episodes, and while he gives a commanding performance, carrying the show falls to the less charismatic Alec Newman. This version is at its strongest in the ravishing Renaissance-inspired production and costume design and gorgeous lighting of Vittorio Storaro (The Last Emperor). The TV budget special effects range from awful painted backdrops to excellent CGI spaceships and sandworms. The performances are variable, from the theatrical camp of Ian McNeice as Baron Harkonnen to the subtlety of Julie Cox's Princess Iruelan. John Harrison's direction is less visionary than Lynch's, but he tells the story more coherently and ultimately the tale's the thing. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Waiting For Guffman | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £11.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (25.44%)   |  RRP £14.99

  There's A Good Reason Some Talent Remains Undiscovered. Blain Missouri may be small but Corky St. Clair always dreams big. Determined to get back to the lights of Broadway he's created Red White and Blaine a musical celebration of the burg's 150th anniversary. This is Spinal Tap and Best In Show co-creator Christopher Guest plays Corky in this acclaimed comedy. Eugene Levy Catherine O'Hara Parker Posey Fred Willard and Bob Balaban co-star as stagestruck townfolk who pin their hopes of being discovered on Corky's hilariously hapless theater production... and on reports that big-time talent scout Mort Guffman will be in the audience.

• Christopher Guest | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A triple bill from actor/writer/director Christopher Guest: Waiting For Guffman (1996): The sometimes dry sometimes bubbling satire of Middle America which chronicles Corky Corkoran's efforts to put on a spectacle commemorating the town of Blain's 150th anniversary. A mockumentary style film Corky drafts an odd assortment of local talent to bring his historical revue to life including the local dentist and a travel agent couple. The film spoofs the 'artistic' pretensions of

• Mr Magoo | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £19.89   |  Saving you £-4.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Someone got the rather inspired (but ultimately misguided) idea to match Hong Kong action director Stanley Tong with comedy stalwart Leslie Nielsen in this dim-witted live-action Disney version of the vintage cartoon, in which the very near-sighted tycoon bumbles his way into the heist of a giant, priceless ruby known as the Star of Kuristan. The result is an abundance of slapstick humour related to Mr. Magoo's visual impairment (prompting a brief protest during the film's 1997 release by the National Federation of the Blind) and a tired plot involving a lovely jewel thief (Kelly Lynch) who'll stop at nothing to get her stolen jewel back. Of course, Magoo manages to foil the thieves at every turn, even though he's frequently unaware of his unintentional heroics. This standard family fare from Disney (best suited for kids 12 and under) will probably play better on home video, but you'll have to watch and listen closely for the few jokes that really pay off. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Art School Confidential | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Art School Confidential follows talented young artist Jerome Platz (Max Minghella) as he escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art school. Here the boyish freshman's ambition is to become the world's greatest artist like his hero Picasso. Unfortunately the beauty and craft of Jerome's portraiture are not appreciated in an anything-goes art class that he finds bewildering and bogus. Neither his harsh judgments of his classmates' efforts or his later attempts to create pseudo-art of his own win him any admirers. But Jerome does attract the attentions of his dream girl - the stunning and sophisticated Audrey (Sophia Myles) - an artist's model and daughter of a celebrated artist. Rejecting the affectations of the local art scene Audrey is drawn to Jerome's sincerity. When Audrey shifts her attentions to Jonah (Matt Keeslar) a hunky painter who becomes the school's latest art star Jerome is heartbroken. Desperate he concocts a risky plan to make a name for himself and win her back.

• Psycho Beach Party | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (40.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Fun fun fun! 'Psycho Beach Party' discovers a post-Freudian nightmare world of repressed violence and kinky sex bursting to get out. - The New York Times From screenwriter and dragtress extraordinaire Charles Busch comes this audaciously funny whodunit and psycho thriller parody set on the sun-drenched beaches of '60s Malibu. When pouty-lipped misfit Chicklet finally makes her way into the cool crowd she begins having insanely bizarre blackouts. At precisely the same time all of her beefcake surfer pals mysteriously drop like flies and she quickly becomes the chief suspect. A madcap romp filled with shirtless hunks a wannabe surf babe with a split personality oh and a few severed body parts.

• Live From Baghdad | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A dramatised version of CNN's coverage of the Gulf War. In 1990 CNN was a 24 hour news network in search of a 24 hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Veteran CNN produer Robert Wiener and his long time producing partner Ingrid Formanek find themselves in Iraq on the eve of war. Up against the big three networks Wierner and his team are rebels with a cause willing to take risks to get the biggest stories and unlike their rivals take them at a moment's notice...

• Urbania | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Charlie (Dan Futterman) is a tormented young gay man who has recently become romantically unattached. Unable to reconcile himself to the loss of his long term companion Charlie decides to live on the edge. One night as he aimlessly wanders the streets of downtown Manhattan he locks gaze with a mysterious stranger. This chance encounter marks the beginning of a nightmarish quest as he haunts the city nightly in an increasingly desperate attempt to find him. Charlie meets a host of bizarre characters on his journey each of whom recounts an urban myth. Charlie finds his borders of reality quickly shifting - the lines separating past and present truth and illusion hate and healing gay and straight have been blurred. As a result the urban myths that are imparted - the man with the stolen kidney the poodle in the microwave - as well as his own visions fuse to create a new reality round him. Disturbed and dejected Charlie decides to punish those people responsible for his misery. 'Urbania' is a provocative sexually charged noir that probes the powerful and the trancendant nature of love

• The Gulf War | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The 1991 Persian Gulf War is a military triumph for the United States. But when thousands of returning veterans start to develop medical problems it appears that the military is trying to downplay or ignore the situation. It takes perserverance on the part of the military families and members of congress to bring to light the dilemma and prompt action on the part of the government.

• 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...

• In Memory Of My Father | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (10.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Modern day Hollywood and a self-proclaimed film legend bribes his son to document his death under the unquestioning assumption that it will be historically important. The result... In Memory Of My Father a twisted celebration of a Hollywood family narcissistically dealing with an eventfully frustrating day regardless of the distracting centerpiece which they're forced to endure - Daddy's corpse. With the tinted tonality of Six Feet Under and the inappropriate wit of Curb Your Enthusiasm Writer/Director/Actor Christopher Jaymes steers us through Daddy's wake alongside his two brothers his ex his new teenage girlfriend his Dad's shopaholic twenty-something partner and a host of neurotic relatives and friends.

• Hiroshima/the Gulf War/Gypsy Warriors | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £13.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Gulf War | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (-79.90%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The 1991 Persian Gulf War is a military triumph for the United States. But when thousands of returning veterans start to develop medical problems it appears that the military is trying to downplay or ignore the situation. It takes perserverance on the part of the military families and members of congress to bring to light the dilemma and prompt action on the part of the government.