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• Shakedown | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A highly trained terrorist cell led by the fanatic St. Joy (Ron Perlman) invades a high security bank seeking a stolen biological weapon of apocalyptic effect. Suddenly an immense earthquake shakes Los Angeles trapping Julie (Erika Eleniak) and the criminals inside. As aftershocks rip through the city Julie finds herself cut off from any outside aid except for a lone undercover FBI agent Alex McKay (Wolf Larsen) trapped with her. Overhead F16 jets circle the city ready to incinerate the deadly virus in a nuclear fireball awaiting the authorisation of General Wolf (Fred Dryer). Now Julie and Alex are all that stand between the terrorists and their deadly goal. A biological nightmare even worse than the earthquake tearing the city apart!

• Meet Joe Black / Mona Lisa Smile / Erin Brockovich | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Meet Joe Black (Dir. Martin Brest 1998): Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) has it all success wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger Joe Black (Brad Pitt) who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time Bill agrees to serve as Joe's earthly guide. But will he regret his choice when Joe unexpectedly falls in love with Bill's beautiful daughter Susan (Claire Forlani)? Mona Lisa Smile (Dir. Mike Newell 2003): Set in 1953 Katherine Watson (Roberts) is a free-spirited graduate of UC Berkeley who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom. Erin Brockovich (Dir. Steven Soderbergh 2003): She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees. A research assistant (Roberts) helps an attorney (Finney) in a lawsuit against a large utility company blamed for causing an outbreak of cancer and other illnesses in a small community.

• The Living End | DVD | (16/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The breakthrough feature of experimental filmmaker Gregg Araki, The Living End also marked a seminal moment in the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990s. A startling synthesis of thriller, love story, comedy and road movie, it's a consciously political and uncompromising work that confronts mainstream America's fear of AIDs. Luke (Mike Dytri) is a rootless hustler who's determined to live fast, die young, and make a beautiful corpse, while Jon (Craig Gilmore) is a freelance writer whose life and stability are devastated when he finds out he's HIV positive. They meet by chance (or is it fate?), and when Luke kills a cop, they take to the road, embarking on a wild odyssey with devastating consequences. Peppered with film references, specifically to other movies featuring couples on the run and powered by a soundtrack heavy on industrial music, The Living End is propelled by rage and indignation.

• Fellini | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Orchestra Rehearsal (1978): In this sly social and political allegory an orchestra assembles for a rehearsal under the inquisitive lenses of a TV crew. With their bullish union officials lingering on the sidelines the musicians introduce themselves one by one expounding with wit passion and rancour about the characteristics of their instruments. The rehearsal begins under the baton of an autocratic conductor and soon the musicians' bawdy humour turns to anarchy as he tries to impose his will on this diverse group of players... Featuring a superlative score from Nina Rota (The Godfather 1 & 2 expert cinematography from Guiseppe Rotunno (The Leopard) and ingenious production design from Dante Ferretti (Gangs of New York). And The Ship Sails On (1983): Italian cinematic maestro Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita 8 1/2) shows that even in his mid-sixties he had lost none of his power to shock entertain and amaze with And The Ship Sails On his haunting and majestic 'comedy of arias'. Made in 1983 the film is set on the eve of the first world war but this matters little to the peacock parade of opera celebrities who cast off on a luxury liner to scatter the ashes of the world's greatest diva near her native adriatic island. yet their gilded world is about to receive a chill blast of reality. The captain has rescued a group of serbian refugees and an enemy battleship looms on the horizon demanding their surrender. Unbeknown to the passengers their old order is about to be eradicated on a global scale and the ship sails on to a fate as inevitable as that of the Titanic. Ginger And Fred (1986: In this wonderfully affectionate and satirical 1986 film italian cinematic maestro Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita 8 1/2) celebrates the legacy of Rogers and Astaire - and sends up tacky television - with this touching tale of two elderly dancers who model themselves on cinem's greatest dance duo and who reunite after 30 years for one final TV dance spectacular. starring two of Italy's greatest acting talents: Cannes `best actress' winner Giulietta Masina (Nights Of Cabiria Juliet Of The Spirits La Strada) and oscar nominee Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita Divorce Italian Style).

• Snakes on a Plane/White Noise 1 and 2 | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This box set features the following films: Snakes On A Plane (Dir. David R. Ellis) (2006): On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean an assassin bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody lets loose a crate full of deadly snakes. The rookie pilot and frightened passengers must band together to try and apprehend the assassin before it's just not the witnesses' life in jeopardy... White Noise (Dir. Geoffrey Sax) (2005): People have always searched for a way to communicate with the other side - fascinated motivated driven to find a way to connect with loved ones who have passed on. Michael Keaton plays successful architect Jonathan Rivers whose peaceful existence is shattered by the unexplained disappearance and death of his wife Anna (Chandra West). Jonathan is eventually contacted by a man (Ian McNeice) who claims to be receiving messages from Anna through EVP. At first skeptical Jonathan then becomes convinced of the messages' validity and is soon obsessed with trying to contact her on his own. His further explorations into EVP and the accompanying supernatural messages unwittingly open a door to another world allowing something uninvited into his life. White Noise 2: The Light (Dir. Patrick Lussier) (2007): A man whose family is murdered tries to commit suicide but he is brought back from the brink of death. He soon discovers that he now has the ability to identify people who are about to die and begins saving them from their demises-only to discover the perils of interrupting death's plans.

• Omega Cop | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £11.36   |  Saving you £-7.37 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The year is 1999... John Travis is the toughest cop alive... The only cop alive. He and his elite force stand between murderous mutants and the remains of humanity...

• Closer/Mona Lisa Smile/Erin Brockovich | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mona Lisa Smile (Dir. Mike Newell 2003): Set in 1953 Katherine Watson (Roberts) is a free-spirited graduate of UC Berkeley who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom. Erin Brockovich (Dir. Steven Soderbergh 2003): She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees. A research assistant (Roberts) helps an attorney (Finney) in a lawsuit against a large utility company blamed for causing an outbreak of cancer and other illnesses in a small community. Closer (Dir. Mike Nichols 2004): If you believe in love at first sight you'll never stop looking... Writer Patrick Marber adapted the screenplay from his own scathing stageplay in which a chance meeting between Englishman Dan (Jude Law) and American visitor Alice blossoms into a troubled relationship bringing together and then affecting a second couple involving Larry (Clive Owen) and Anna (Julia Roberts). Sex and love are explored capturing all the vulnerability and brutality of people falling in and out of love...

• Van Helsing | UMD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Like a roller coaster ready to fly off its rails, Van Helsing rockets to maximum velocity and never slows down. Having earned blockbuster clout with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, writer-director Stephen Sommers once again plunders Universal's monster vault and pulls out all the stops for this mammoth $148-million action-adventure-horror-comedy, which opens (sans credits) with a terrific black-and-white prologue that pays homage to the Universal horror classics that inspired it. The plot pits legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) against Dracula (the deliciously campy Richard Roxburgh), his deadly blood-sucking brides, and the Wolfman (Will Kemp) in a two-hour parade of outstanding special effects (980 in all) that turn Sommers' juvenile plot into a triple-overtime bonus for CGI animators. In alliance with a Transylvanian princess (Kate Beckinsale) and the Frankenstein monster (Shuler Hensley), Van Helsing must prevent Dracula from hatching his bat-winged progeny, and there's so much good-humored action that you're guaranteed to be thrilled and exhausted by the time the 10-minute end-credits roll. It's loud, obnoxious, filled with revisionist horror folklore, and aimed at addicted gamers and eight-year-olds, but this colossal monster mash (including Mr. Hyde, just for kicks) will never, ever bore you. --Jeff Shannon

• Van Helsing | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the director of "The Mummy" comes the tale of a fabled 19th-century monster-hunter summoned to a distant Eastern European land on a quest to vanquish evil.