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• Paulie | DVD | (02/07/2006) from £8.83   |  Saving you £9.16 (103.74%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The human beings are almost as interesting as the title character in the surprisingly subtle and engaging Paulie, a film about the cross-country adventures of a smart-mouthed parrot. As director John Roberts deploys the footage, the bird becomes a vivid personality; every quizzical twist of his head is oddly expressive. The people who interact with Paulie are a quirky and interesting bunch as well, and the casting is topnotch: Tony Shalhoub (The Siege) as a Russian immigrant janitor, Cheech Marin as an open-hearted mariachi musician, and Gena Rowlands as a widowed painter in a footloose Winnebago--all are vividly eccentric individuals, memorable in their own right. There are some tired swipes at the cold-blooded meanies of Big Science (beady-eyed researcher Bruce Davison has Paulie clapped in irons), but for the most part the film respects the complexity of everyone's motivations, and that's virtually unheard of in today's Hollywood, even in films supposedly designed for grownups. --David Chute

• Dogtown and Z-Boys | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £14.44   |  Saving you £2.55 (17.66%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The awe-inspiring moves street smarts and attitudes demonstrated in 'Dogtown And Z-Boys' are widely regarded as having a significant influence on contemporary American pop culture. Narrated by Sean Penn Dogtown and Z-Boys is a truly genre defining documentary film which has picked up an array of high profile film awards including the Best Director and Audience Award's at the Sundance Film Festival and the Best Documentary Award at the Independent Spirit Awards.

• Dogtown & Z-Boys | Blu Ray | (05/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.58

  In the early 1970s, a group of young surfers from a tough neighbourhood south of Santa Monica took up skateboards and off-handedly changed the world. At least it appears so after watching Dogtown and Z-Boys, a documentary about how twelve "Z-Boys" (including one girl) resuscitated a dead sport and created a lifestyle that spread infectiously to become a worldwide counterculture phenomenon, namely high-flying "vert" (i.e. vertical) skateboarding and punk rock abandon. Director Stacy Peralta, one of the original Z-Boys, and Craig Steyck, the photographer whose publicity first made them famous, would have you believe that with empty pools as their springboard, the clan single-handedly carved a niche that grew into what is now referred to as "extreme sports" (snowboarding seems particularly implicated). Degrees of accuracy aside, the hoard of original footage Peralta and Steyck have access to makes for an engaging portrait of "accidental revolutionaries" whose mythology as expressed by themselves (all but one of the original crew give extensive interviews) and those they influenced (including Henry Rollins, Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, and Sean Penn, who narrates) is far more entertaining than any evenhanded version could ever hope to be. --Fionn Meade

• Chlorine | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £12.13   |  Saving you £0.86 (7.09%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Covering all the aspects of backyard pool skating from driving around jumping fences draining pools getting busted and features skating from pool skating greats Steve Alba Dave Reul Darrell Delgado G Man Steve Olson Dave Hackett Tony Alva Lance Mountain Brian Patch and many more. It is not another film about the history of pool skating. It portrays the pool skating scene as it exists today. Music Contributions from Devo Mutato Catskills Records Soul Fire Records Tru Thoughts Recordings Asian Man Records.

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