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• Boogie Nights | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £5.63   |  Saving you £14.36 (255.06%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of Good Fellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it isn't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of 70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the 90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson

• The Saucy Cinema Collection - 6 Films in a 3 DVD Set | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (24.95%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In this 3 DVD Box Set, Six separate films comes together to make this Saucy Cinema Collection.Buford’s Beach Bunnies – Starring Jim Hanks, Rikki Brando and Monique Parent, Directed by Mark PirroThe Erotic Adventures of the Three Musketeers - Starring Nina Hartley, Britt Morgan and Ron Jeremy, Directed by Norman ApsteinTrader Hornee - Starring Buddy Pantsari, Elizabeth Monica and John Alderman, Directed by TsanusoiEmanuelle's Sweet Revenge - Starring Laura Gemser, Barbara Arnow and Ruth Goodman, Directed by Staney F. RichmanExpose Me Now - Starring Ron Jeremy, Herschel Savage and Danielle, Directed by Joe ShermanThe Erotic Adventures of Zorro - Starring Douglas Frey, Rosyn Whitting and Penny Boran, Directed by Robert Freeman