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• Three Businessmen | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £18.23   |  Saving you £-12.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Alex Cox's Three Businessman is an existentialist fable for the independent businessman. Two travelling art dealers staying in a labyrinthine Liverpool hotel, Frank King (Alex Cox) and Bennie Reyes (Miguel Sandoval of Clear and Present Danger), sit down for dinner only to find that the hotel staff have deserted them. They begin to walk the Mersey streets in search of sustenance, talking about dogs, dinner, the "Plutonium" credit card and the state of the world. But lost without a map, they inadvertently wander half way across the world on public transport in search of their hotel, touching down in Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Japan and Spain. In a desert, they come across a third businessman, Leroy Jasper (Robert Wisdom), clutching a replica of the Mir space station. Soon after, they stumble across a food stand outside a small abode that holds within it the true object of their quest. It is a destination that they have found without looking for. This small, mannered movie grows in stature as it progresses. Sandoval and Cox are amiably crotchety travelling companions. Aided and abetted by jump cuts, the surrealist conceit that allows the businessman to roam across the world without ever realising they have left Liverpool is distinctly Bunuelian (cf. the name of Cox's production company Exterminating Angel Films). On the DVD: An amusing commentary by Alex Cox and writing partner and producer Tod Davies has the added bonus of Cox acting out deleted scenes. The feature appears in widescreen format with an excellent sound and picture transfer, enhanced by Pray for Rain's melancholic soundtrack. But the Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop promo video promised on the sleeve and liner notes does not appear anywhere on the disc. --Chris Campion

• Medium - Season 1 | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £10.98   |  Saving you £24.01 (68.60%)   |  RRP £34.99

  From Emmy Award-winning executive producer creator and director Glenn Gordon Caron (Moonlighting) comes Medium a chilling drama series inspired by the real-life story of research medium Allison Dubois. Patricia Arquette (Lost Highway True Romance) stars as Dubois; a young wife and mother who since childhood has been struggling to make sense of her dreams and visions of dead people. Taking up a role as police consultant she uses her mind to uncover

• Thin Air | DVD | (01/01/1900) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A recently married man must search through his new wife's tangled past when she suddenly disappears...

• Bonnie & Bonnie | DVD | (29/11/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Leprechaun 4 - In Space | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £9.96   |  Saving you £-3.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One small step for man. One giant leap of terror! On a distant planet a power hungry Leprechaun kidnaps a Dominian princess Princess Zarina and plans to make himself king but not if a bumbling brigade of space marines have anything to say about it! Their commander is a mad scientist by the name of Dr. Mittenhand who's half machine thanks to one of his experiments. Once on the planet Leprechaun is blown up but quickly is reborn through one of the marines and wreaks havoc aboard the ship as Dr. Mittenhand plans to use the princess for his experiments to make himself whole again. But now after many of the marines are killed Leprechaun turns Dr. Mittenhand into a grotesque monster and plans to blow up the ship...

• Perfect Crimes 3 | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £11.81   |  Saving you £-8.82 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  3 star packed crime thrillers recreating the golden age of film noir. 'A Dime A Dance': When taxi-dancer Ginger's best friend Julie is found murdered the evidence points to a stalker killer. Detective Nick Marino stakes-out the dance hall and gets cheek-to-cheek with sexy Ginger. But while Nick's away Ginger finds herself in the arms of customer number 5 a slow dance of death. 'Good Housekeeping': 1950's USA. Helen Fiske had it all: the little house in the suburbs the well-stocked refridgerator and the hard-working husband. A good life. Until the night a blind gangster with a sharp cane and his two cronies turned her world upside down forever. 'The Black Bargain': Crime boss Abbazzia checks into a plush suite with the last remnants of his shot- up mob to regroup and wait for reinforcements. But as his women and bodyguards begin to desert he's left to ponder the rules of the underworld jungle- the wounded animal always dies alone...

• Living It Up | DVD | (07/01/2002) from £6.88   |  Saving you £13.11 (190.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Living It Up' tells the story of a bus driver who is on the verge of committing suicide when a man offers him some friendly advice: borrow $1 million from the Mafia and do everything he has ever dreamed of before ending his life. While spending the money he falls in love with a Mexican waitress (Salma Hayek) and realises now he has something to live for. The only problem is that now he has to find a way to pay back the $1 million he owes the mob!

• Suspiria | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Inspired by Thomas De Quincey's 'Suspiria de Profundis' and co-written by Argento and his long-term partner Daria Nicolodi SUSPIRIA is Argento's undisputed masterpiece of Grand Guignol horror hitting new peaks of terror through its stunning photography (courtesy of Luciano Tovoli) eye-popping production design and terrifying atmosphere of dread - thanks in no small part to the great score from Goblin! Susy Banyon (Jessica Harper) is an American ballet student travelling to Germany to study at an exclusive dance academy in the Black Forest. After one of the students and her friend are hideously murdered in the first of Argento's breath-catching set-piece killings Susy discovers that the academy has a bizarre history and as the body count rises she gets involved in a hideous labyrinth of murder black magic and madness...

• Aida | DVD | (21/05/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (501.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Daniela Dessi Elisabetta Fiorillo Fabio Armiliato Juan Pons and Roberto Scandiuzzi lead the cast in the renowned period production filmed in 2003 against the historic paper trompe-l'oeil sets painted between 1936-45 by Josep Mestres Cabanes the last representative of the old Catalan school of stenography.

• Street Fighter - The Ultimate Battle | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £11.98   |  Saving you £-5.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Shadaloo South-East Asia 1995. As civil war enters its seventh month warlord General M. Bison (Raul Julia) virtually brings about global warfare when he takes 63 Allied Nations relief workers hostage and threatens to execute them unless a ransom of billion dollars is paid. It is the mission of Colonel William F Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme) to rescue the hostages but he has to locate them first! As part of an audacious plan to track down the General and his futuristic fortress Guile and British Intelligence Officer Cammy (Kylie Minogue) recruit to the forces two renegade heroes. However their entire plan is nearly quashed when GNT news correspondent Chun-Li-Zang intervenes and she wants much more than just a story. Action reaches fever pitch as Guile Bison and their forces clash in a fierce battle and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance...

• Vacas | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  With Vacas, his first feature, the Basque director Julio Medem set out all the elements of his audacious and idiosyncratic approach to filmmaking: intricate, circular plots; richly sensual imagery and highly stylised camerawork; a deft interweaving of fantasy and reality; and a thoroughly subversive attitude to Spanish tradition and folklore. Vacas takes a staple Spanish genre--the epic historical melodrama with all its bombast and macho posturing--and kicks the stuffing out of it while pelting it with cowpats. The action unrolls between two Spanish civil wars--the Second Carlist War of 1874-5, and the rather better-known conflict that started in 1936. An incident in the first of these sets up a feud between two farming families in a Basque valley, and the story leapfrogs down the decades taking in star-crossed lovers, log-chopping contests (a staple Basque competitive sport, it seems), mutilation, madness, incest, photography and any number of cows, through whose placidly bemused gaze we view a good deal of the action. Though Medem is dealing with all the solemn Hemingway-esque elements of romantic Spanishry--honour, blood and death--his approach is too playful to admit any real sense of tragedy. Much of the time the tone is closer to myth, and there's more than a touch of magic realism: axes fly miles through the air, and a tree in the woods can apparently eat people alive. In the end, of course, love triumphs over all. Medem's films have since gained greatly in sophistication and technique, but there's exuberance about this debut work that's irresistible. On the DVD: Vacas on disc has trailers for all five of Medem's features to date; filmographies for Medem and his two lead actors, Emma Suárez and Carmelo Gómez; and useful written notes on the movie by film historian Robert Stone. The transfer's clean and clear, doing justice to Carles Gusi's rich photography, with good sound and in the original ratio. --Philip Kemp

• Return Of The Living Dead | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Return of the Living Dead is a parody-cum-sequel spin-off from George Romero's superior Night of the Living Dead films. A corpse-containing canister gets breached and releases an oily, loose-limbed, brain-eating zombie tatterdemalion and a gas that revives anything dead in the vicinity, even a bisected dog preserved as a vet's teaching specimen and a case of pinned butterflies. The dim-bulb leading characters--earnest Clu Gulager, goofy James Karen and Thom Matthews--burn up a mess of surplus living body parts, but the rains wash the ashes into the earth of a nearby cemetery and a whole crowd of brain-eating zombies claw their way out to terrorise a group of teens who sport the kind of 1985 fashions, hairdos, slang preferences and musical tastes that will never feature in a TV nostalgia programme. There are plenty of in-jokes at the expense of the Living Dead films (learning that shooting 'em in the brain doesn't work, the appalled Matthews gasps, "You mean the movie lied?"), and director Dan O'Bannon, the writer of Dark Star and Alien, hurries things along through some gruesome action and terror-by-zombie bits until the surprisingly cynical anti-government conclusion. It's not as wittily outrageous as Re-Animator or Braindead, but it has an amiable, drive-in-cum-home video grunge about it. Frequently naked exploitation regular Linnea Quigley makes an impression as the punkette zombie who goes on the rampage wearing nothing but leg-warmers and body make-up. The frill-free DVD is full-screen (boo hiss!) except for the titles, offers only the trailer and inadequate cast and crew notes as extras, but it looks okay. --Kim Newman

• Swordfish / Basic / Collateral Damage | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Swordfish Log on. Hack in. Go anywhere. Steal everything. John Travolta stars as Gabriel Shear a sinister mastermind with an elite criminal crew who are desperately trying to access information locked inside a complicated computer system that contains government secrets and if they can hack it a billion payday... Basic Legendary drill instructor Sgt. Nathan West (Samuel Jackson) takes six Ranger cadets on a training mission to Fort Clayton in the Panamanian jungle but only two remain alive. The two survivors are uncooperative and give wildly differing accounts of what actually happened. Former Ranger and DEA agent Tom Hardy (John Travolta) currently on suspension for allegedly accepting a bribe is called in to try and separate the truth from the lies and find out what really happened. Collateral Damage: A firefighter (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing. Frustrated by the government's stalled investigation and haunted by the thought that the man responsible for murdering his family might never be brought to justice he takes matters into his own hands and tracks the bomber to Columbia...

• Paradise Lost | DVD | (01/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A company sprays a chemical onto a forest to make space for a holiday village. When Dr. Maurier discovers a child is born with defects she fights to close the project down.

• Eccentricities of a Blonde Hai | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Macrio spends an entire train journey to the Algarve talking to a woman he does not know about the trials and tribulations of his love life: straight after starting his first job he falls madly in love with a young blonde who lives across the road. No sooner does he meet her than he wants to marry her. His uncle totally opposed to the match kicks him out of the house and Macrio departs for Cape Verde where he makes his fortune. When he finally wins his uncle's approval to marry his beloved he discovers the singularity of his fiance's character.

• Cold Front | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Repo Chick | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Repo Chick

• 20 Centimetres | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  With an 'Almodovarian' twist and the flamboyance of The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert director Ramn Salazar's 20 Centimetres tells the story of Marieta (Mnica Cervera) a narcoleptic transsexual who longs to get rid of 8 inches of equipment that separates her from being the glamorous woman she dreams to be. When she accidentally falls asleep in the most inopportune times Marieta's dreams become lavish and colorful musical numbers where as a real woman she can sing in Spanish French & English. So cue up the lights powder that face and slip on that sexy gown because Marieta's dreams are about to come true... Nominated for the Golden Leopard award at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival.

• Graceland | DVD | (26/12/2016) from £17.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Cannibal | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £4.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (221.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Max, An agoraphobic golf fan, leads a secluded life in the woods. While practicing, he stumbles on the body of an unconscious young woman covered with blood. He takes her home and takes care of her. He asks her no questions. But when she runs away in the middle of the night, he follows her and finds out that she seduces men and eats them alive while having sex with them. Bewildered and fascinated, Max will start with her a relationship mixed with fear and tenderness. Yet, he’s not the only one who’s interested in the young woman when she’s abducted and taken away from him. Max will have to face the urban violence of his gangster’s past.