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• Like It Is | DVD | (11/09/2000) from £12.70   |  Saving you £2.29 (18.03%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Like It Is is much like watching a train wreck--the very idea of it is repellent and yet you perversely can't avert your eyes. While its urban grittiness and sooty veneer entranced some critics who mistook its violent, netherworld neorealism for art, Like It Is offers little in the way of redemption, positive gay imaging or even particularly good narrative. Paul Oremland directed this venture about a young, gay Blackpool tough named Craig (Steve Bell) who bare-knuckle boxes for money. He ultimately moves to London in search of a better life and falls in with the trendy London gay-club scene, meeting and falling for a handsome record producer named Matt (Ian Rose) and his wealthy boss (played by the Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey). The better life is quickly tainted by disillusion and misery, much as is the viewing experience. Steve Bell is, in real life, a featherweight boxing champion in Britain and therefore brings an urgent and raw vitality to the lead, but the characters as a whole are either irritating or unsympathetic, and it's ultimately difficult to find anyone to care for, or a story worth empathising with. --Paula Nechak, Amazon.com

• Macbeth | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sam Worthington plays the troubled Macbeth in this sexy, bloody, modern day adaptation of a Shakespeare classic.

• Puppet Master Trilogy | DVD | (20/01/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Disc 1: Puppetmaster OneAlex Whitaker and three other gifted psychics are investigating rumours that the secret of life has been discovered by master puppeteer Andre Toulon. But the psychics quickly discover Toulon's secret of death in the form of five killer puppets - each one uniquely qualified for murder and mayhem. Together they're an army of skilled assassins diabolically programmed to guard the deadly secrets of the Puppet Master. Disc 2: Puppetmaster TwoYou can't keep a good man down or a Puppet Master buried as the puppets return to exhume their beloved creator in Puppet Master II. This time the little devils are after the special fluid that keeps them alive which is only found in...you guessed it... human brains! The puppets - led by a new member the flamethrowing Torch - are happy to shed some light on the (brain) matter as they tunnel burn strangle and hook to survive. Disc 3: Puppetmaster ThreeAfter hearing that Andre Toulon's puppets have no strings but rather seem to have a life of their own Dr. Hess a Gestapo henchman during WWII sends the Gestapo to the theatre to kidnap them. During the melee Toulon's wife Elsa is killed and Toulon is whisked away by the Nazis. However on the way to headquarters the puppets attack the Gestapo and escape with Toulon. Now Toulon begins to plan his revenge. He creates a new puppet Six-Shooter models Blade after a pasty-faced Nazi and uses Elsa's essence to create Leech Woman. Now Toulon's army is ready to take revenge...

• A Day Of Violence | DVD | (08/09/2010) from £3.42   |  Saving you £12.83 (593.98%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A Day Of Violence

• Repo Jake | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Jake Baxter takes a job as a repoman with hopes of living the quiet life. Plans go sour when he's whipped into supersonic action involving a vicious crime lord a mob of angry car owners a sadistic porno ring and lastly a brutal illegal and very lethal car race known throughout L.A.'s underworld as the 'Slam Track.'

• Steve Vai - Visual Sound Theories - Live With The Holland Metrople Orchestra | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £9.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (23.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  These 2004 and 2005 live performances highlight the collaboration between instrumental guitar composer Steve Vai and the Metropole Orkest from Holland. Vai's trademark rock guitar creations are enriched by the accompaniment of a full orchestra directed by conductor Dick Bakker.

• The Last Temptation Of Christ | DVD | (29/01/2001) from £16.70   |  Saving you £-6.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It isn't difficult to imagine why this 1988 retelling of the Crucifixion story was picketed so vociferously on its release in the US--this Jesus bears little resemblance to the classical Christ, who was not, upon careful review of the Gospels, ever reported to have had sex with Barbara Hershey. Heavily informed by Gnostic reinterpretations of the Passion, The Last Temptation of Christ (based rather strictly on Nikos Kazantzakis's novel of the same name) is surely worth seeing for the controversy and blasphemous content alone. But the "last temptation" of the title is nothing overtly naughty--rather, it's the seduction of the commonplace; the desire to forgo following a "calling" in exchange for domestic security. Willem Dafoe interprets Jesus as spacey, indecisive and none too charismatic (though maybe that's just Dafoe himself), but his Sermon on the Mount is radiant with visionary fire; a bit less successful is method actor Harvey Keitel, who gives the internally conflicted Judas a noticeable Brooklyn accent, and doesn't bring much imagination to a role that demands a revisionist's approach. Despite director Martin Scorsese's penchant for stupid camera tricks, much of the desert footage is simply breathtaking, even on small screen. Ultimately, Last Temptation is not much more historically illuminating than Monty Python's Life of Brian, but hey, if it's authenticity you're after, try Gibbon's. --Miles Bethany

• WWE - Unforgiven 2000 & No Mercy 2000 | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Unforgiven 2000 / No Mercy 2000

• WWE - The Stone Cold Truth | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £7.96   |  Saving you £10.03 (126.01%)   |  RRP £17.99

  After his recently successful UK promotional tour Steve Austin returns with another potential money-spinner in The Stone Cold Truth. Austin tells his own story in his own unique style with insights from his daughters based in England and Mom Dad brothers and sister in Texas.

• Bullitt | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Before the night is out the star witness for an important trial lies dying and Detective Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) won't rest until the shooters - and the kingpin behind them - are nailed. From the opening shot to the closing shootout Bullitt crackles with authenticity: San Francisco locations crisp dialogue and to-the-letter police hospital and morgue procedures. An Oscar winner for Best Film Editing (1969) this edgy thriller features one of cinema history's most memorable car chases. Buckle up for unbeatable action.

• WWE - Action/Hardcore | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tagged Classics double DVDs showcase the best events from WWE's past and are consistently strong sellers. ACTION! Over-the-top action and excitement as only the WWE can dish out. This DVD is a collection of the most thrilling matches and action from 2001. Containing a wide range of footage including WWE Superstars: Booker T, Triple H, Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. Also including the winner takes all stakes of the legendary Invasion pay per view event. This release will keep you on the edge of your seat. Get ready for ACTION!HARDCORE: Welcome to the World of anything goes. Barbed wire-wrapped baseball bats, steel cages, tacks and tables & chairs are just some of the tools these artists of brutality use to take the sport to extremes the WWE and its fans have never seen before. These WWE Superstars have become legends through their sacrifices. Including Jeff & Matt Hardy, Triple H, Hardcore Holly, Undertaker and many more. If you like it HARDCORE you'll love this release!

• Monster High: Ghouls Rule | DVD | (20/07/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (54.60%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The ghouls of Monster High hope to share Halloween with the normies to demonstrate that individuality isn't a bad thing, and neither is being a monster.

• Groove | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £11.58   |  Saving you £8.41 (72.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Parties are not always as fun as they look like they should be. Case in point: Groove. The distinction lies in the realm between watching people have fun and actually having fun. Set in San Francisco over the course of one night, this is the story of a rave, plain and simple. Preparation includes inhabiting an empty warehouse, finding the power supply and sending out coded invitations. The film kicks in as the party does, when people start arriving and the DJs start spinning. There's a nice moment early on when a cop shows up asking for the owner of the building, who is then taken on a tour of "a new Internet start-up". It becomes even funnier when the cop turns out to be smarter and more compassionate than anyone would expect. Writer-director Greg Harrison cleverly focuses the story on David, a novice who's never been to a rave before, which breaks the story out of what could have been the suffocating, insular world of rave culture. Unknowingly dosed by someone, David is adopted by Layla, an attractive but lonely East Coaster who has begun to regret her party lifestyle. Other characters include a guy who's just proposed to his girlfriend, a college teaching assistant selling his own manufactured drugs, a DJ who gets to meet his idol and a gay couple having trouble finding the party. If the characters turn out to be just character types, that's OK because the film itself floats by on its own high-octane enthusiasm. Groove is light and frothy entertainment with a beat you can dance to. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com

• Manchester United - Beyond the Promised Land | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  It may be stating the obvious, but if you are a fan or in any way interested in Manchester United the football team or global brand then you will love this video and any critical appraisal is largely an irrelevance. If, however, you share the antipathy of most other football fans and see them only through a red mist, it is unlikely to bring much joy. After an opening celebration of the last-minute treble-winning triumph in the Champions League and a brief tribute to the victims of the Munich air crash, the film settles into a fairly sedate account of the 1999/2000 championship season. Scenes from the United backroom are interspersed with various supporters providing a more passionate perspective on following the team for whom success has become almost a given in recent years. These include the bartenders who travel all the way from New York to attend the game in which Real Madrid ended United's hopes of successive European titles (which is not in the least bit hilarious).Among the more corporate elements of the club's set-up on display are a forum encouraging sponsors to develop traditional and new markets (China will be huge) and various meetings with Vodafone to explore their newly agreed partnership (look out for ringing tones based on your favourite terrace chants). Given the inherent excitement usually generated by what happens on the pitch, the overall tone of the film is surprisingly flat with what little action that remains being reduced to very brief goal highlights and largely divested of its significance. Such episodes as Beckham's supposed fracas with the manager, the mysterious disappearance of Mark Bosnich, and the press conference fiasco that marked the non-arrival of Ruud Van Nistelroy are touched upon, but potential controversy is subsumed into the general glorification of the club's march for glory. One memorable scene where successive players' teams fail to answer any questions correctly at a pub-style quiz and are trounced by the management, will not do anything to reverse the common perception of footballers' acumen off the pitch. Bitter and twisted? Not this reviewer: altogether now "1-0 to the Arsenal, 1-0 to the Arsenal". --Steve Napleton

• Good Arrows | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £10.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Irvine Welsh & Dean Cavanagh bring you the Ultimate Credit Crunch Movie. Darts legend Andy The Arrows Samson and his voluptuous wife Big Sheila are the subject of a fly on the wall documentary that is unintentionally revealing a wardrobe full of skeletons. After suffering an heart attack Andy loses his throwing skills and he is faced with some stark home truths. Andy's ex-best friend and mentor Alwyn thinks he has the solution to Andy's dilemma. Big Sheila however is piling the hurt on and it's going to take a miracle to get Andy back at the oche. Good Arrows is an hilarious look at what happens when a star falls from the sky.

• The Firm | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  These days people are dangerously nostalgic about the sinister tackiness of the 1980s, but there's no stiffer antidote to such delusion than Alan Clarke's The Firm. This unforgettable film was made as a one-off drama for the BBC in 1988, but its cult following has grown steadily through video, thanks to a startling central performance from a young Gary Oldman, and the riveting manner in which Clarke captures the lethal, mindless energy of football hooliganism. Oldman plays Clive "Bexy" Bissell, working-class East London boy done good: a prosperous estate agent, proud homeowner, happy husband and doting father. But his chief pleasure is to be team leader ("top boy") of a bunch of overgrown yobs who attend football matches in order to cause violence. At weekends Bexy leads his "Inter City Crew" into rucks with rival warlords such as Yeti (Phil Davis) and Oboe (Andrew Wilde), in search of what he calls "the buzz", no matter the cost to his young family and his future prospects. The Firm was entirely shot on SteadiCam, enabling Clarke to drop the viewer right into the thick of the action and exploit some hair-raisingly authentic rowdiness from his talented cast. Among these thugs, soap fans will spot Eastenders' Steve McFadden and Charlie Lawson of Coronation Street. The Firm is a masterpiece of social-realist drama, and one of the most virulently anti-Thatcherite films of its time. An avid supporter of Everton FC, Clarke responded to Al Hunter's script because he felt that the vicious idiots spoiling football were a new breed of disgrace. The tabloids raised a stink about the film's violence, and the BBC delayed its broadcast until 1989. A year later, Alan Clarke died of cancer, But The Firm is a tremendous last testament from the finest English director of his generation. --Richard Kelly

• Despicable Me - Augmented Reality Edition | Blu Ray | (23/04/2012) from £9.97   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The world's greatest villain (Steve Carell) has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes.

• Meantime / Made In Britain | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Meantime: 'Meantime' centres on East End family the Pollacks - Mavis Frank and their sons Mark and Colin - and their experience of unemployment poverty and life in early 1980s Britain. When Colin comes under the influence of skinhead Coxy and when Mavis's better off sister Barbara offers Colin work family tensions erupt into conflict. Mike Leigh's first independent film for five years has a superb cast of rising stars including Gary Oldman Alfred Molina Tim Roth and Phil Daniels. First shown on television it is a memorable and closely observed account of life in Thatcher's Britain. Made In Britain: Trevor is a teenage skinhead. Caught smashing the windows of a Pakistani owned shop he is sent to an assessment centre by social worker Harry where it is discovered he is highly articulate and intelligent. But he escapes steals cars and goes berserk; can Harry still save him?

• House Of Pain | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Eric Carson is searching for his brother an athlete who came to the secret hospital of the legendary Dr Moreau to help him with a rare blood disease. The boy was subjected to Moreau's radical transplant techniques an operation that turned him into half man/ half panther. Eric finds his brother more animal than man when he is captured and subjected to a similar operation. Before his animal side can take over completely Eric rallies the other manimal experiments to revolt against Mo

• The Prophecy Of The Tiger | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  You Can't Refuse Your Destiny... Dr Henry Jekyll (Adam Baldwin) a young surgeon and his new bride travel to Hong Kong for their honeymoon. Tragically the marriage ends in violence when his wife is killed in a massive explosion. They have been caught in the middle of a Hong Kong gang war. Desperately ill with serious burns Dr Jekyll is resurrected by a Chinese medicine doctor Dr Chau. Changed in appearance the grief-stricken Jekyll learns that he is sought by the police in connection with his wife's death. Forced to change his name he buries his former identity and his thoughts are only of vengeance against his wife's killers. Driven by rage he undergoes extensive martial arts training to fuel his crime fighting alter ego and avenge the brutal gangs that dominate Hong Kong's underworld. Ultimately he learns the truth that shocks him to the core. According to the ancient Chinese Book of Being his arrival in Hong Kong was predestined and he is fated to become the legendary White Tiger a mythical crime fighter.