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• Atlantic City | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  French New Wave director Louis Malle made two pieces of memorable Americana in mid-career, Atlantic City (1980) and Pretty Baby (1978). Atlantic City stars Burt Lancaster in one of his greatest screen performances: as an ageing crook now working the numbers racket from a seedy apartment in the casino town of Atlantic City. Susan Sarandon is a waitress whose brother is on the run from the mob, having stolen a cache of drugs. She and Lancaster form an odd but engaging couple and hatch a plot to beat the odds stacked against them. Atmospheric, bittersweet, with lots of character and some neat action: it all adds up to a pretty classy offering. On the DVD: Unfortunately, the picture and sound quality on the DVD are only average. The image is 14:9 ratio and has been taken from a print of variable quality in which some reels are barely adequate. There are no additional features. --Ed Buscombe

• Special Needs | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £2.80   |  Saving you £11.45 (743.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shot in New Zealand Finland Sweden USA Norway Canada Austria and Swirzerland this DVD features the most reknowned snowboarders around ; and they really push back the boundaries of possibility. The riders undertake such challenges as the Arctic Challenge Skating the Battle Ice Race and Base Jumping.