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• Shampoo | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A modish creation teased into life by Warren Beatty, Shampoo was an offbeat Hollywood hit back in 1975. Made after Watergate, it reflects on the hedonism of late-60s Los Angeles with a sad, somewhat cynical eye. Basically a bedroom farce, fuelled by some famously raunchy dialogue, its comedy is nevertheless underlain with melancholy. Screenwriter Robert Towne was inspired by Wycherly's Restoration comedy The Country Wife, wherein a wily fellow convinces friends of his impotence even while he is merrily seducing their wives. Hence, Towne invented handsome Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy (Beatty), who ought to be gay, but emphatically isn't. Shampoo begins on US Election Day, 1968, as Nixon is trouncing McGovern at the polls, and George Roundy is trying to sort his life out. An earnest advocate of sensual pleasure, he beds most of his female clients, from the fretful Jill (Goldie Hawn) to the wealthy Felicia (Lee Grant). Yet George is himself unfulfilled, and imagines that owning his own salon will satisfy him. He asks Felicia's husband Lester (Jack Warden) to back him, but first Lester coerces George into squiring his mistress Jackie (Julie Christie) to a Nixon victory party. Inevitably, Jackie is another of George's girls and, having seduced Felicia's vivacious daughter (Carrie Fisher) earlier that day, George has much to conceal from Lester and Felicia as the evening's festivities unravel. Shampoo shows the 60s turning sour. The characters are rich hippies, superficially liberated but deeply unhappy, and blandly indifferent to the dawning of the Nixon era. The excellent Lee Grant won an Oscar, but Shampoo is Beatty's film. He produced it, had a substantive hand in Towne's script, and deputised the nominal director, Hal Ashby. The film mildly exploits legends of Beatty's real-life sexual prowess, but mainly it embodies his commitment to making thoughtful movies for grown-ups. Richard Kelly

• Them | DVD | (05/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An early entry in the 1950s cycle of creature-feature pictures, Them! is the one about hordes of ants mutated to a giant size by the first A-bomb test. An exciting, persuasive exercise in paranoid science fiction, it exhibits an interesting tension between cautious warning about irresponsible tampering with the atom and a Cold War vision of the authorities taking on extraordinary powers to combat a threat to the country. It begins as an eerie desert mystery, with New Mexico cop James Whitmore investigating disappearances and deaths: a mobile-home and a general store are crushed as if tanks have rolled over them, a shopkeeper is found dead of a huge injection of formic acid, quantities of sugar have been stolen (the film's sole straight-faced joke) and a catatonic little girl is shocked into shrieking "them, them!". FBI agent James Arness takes charge and a plaster-cast of a strange imprint summons a father and daughter investigative team from the Department of Agriculture, cherubic Edmond Gwenn and smart-suited Joan Taylor. Law-enforcement, military and scientific experts deduce the nature of the problem and take swift, decisive action to counteract the danger. Director Gordon Douglas stages several great monster-suspense scenes: a first encounter in a sandstorm, a venture into a poisoned nest, a glimpse of horror at sea, and a finale in the Los Angeles storm drains. On the DVD: Them! has the wonderful scarlet-lettered, shrieking title on an otherwise sharp-looking black and white print. An amusing newspaper-style menu uses original artwork from the lurid poster to showcase some interesting snippets of test or outtake footage of the big puppet ants in action, and there's a wonderfully overblown terror-trailer.--Kim Newman

• Stir Crazy | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £11.21   |  Saving you £1.78 (15.88%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Playwright Skip Donahue (Wilder) and actor Harry Monroe (Pryor) are out of work and penniless. Deciding they have had enough of Broadway they set off to make their fortunes and find freedom down South. On the way their funds get so low that they have to find work; as singing dancing Woodpeckers promoting a bank. Plagued by bad luck thieves steal their costumes and rob the bank and guess who gets the blame and get put jail? Whacky laughs riotous situations thrills and spills ma

• Shared Rooms | DVD | (05/12/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• SHARED ROOMS-ORIGINAL KIN - MO | DVD | (24/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Shampoo | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shampoo was billed as a sex comedy when it was first released in 1975, cashing in on the priapic reputation of its leading man and producer Warren Beatty. More than a quarter of a century on, that tag looks somewhat inadequate. Against a background of aimless bed-hopping and power-broking, Shampoo satirises the cultural and political wasteland of late-1960s Beverley Hills society. Ladies who lunch are married to ambitious, unfaithful husbands with mistresses; their daughters are dysfunctional; and the mistresses spend more time with their dogs than their lovers. George, the philandering hairdresser, is the common denominator who services them all. But he has private ambitions and is hustling for investment in his own salon. Beatty's restless performance as the man who can't say "no" is intriguing, waking up suddenly and too late to the chaos and vapidity of his life. The humour is bleak, sharpened by the background of Nixon's ascent to the White House: Shampoo is a cynical by-product of the Watergate scandal. There are good performances from Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn as two of George's leading conquests, and from a pre-Star Wars Carrie Fisher as the teenager who tries to seduce him. But Lee Grant garnered the awards as the embittered wife who finally calls "time". On the DVD: Shampoo is presented in 1:85.1 anamorphic widescreen, replicating the glossy production values of the original theatrical experience. The mono Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is well balanced. There are no extras apart from standard subtitles. --Piers Ford

• 17000 Block | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set against the backdrop of Detroit's underworld 17 000 Block tells the story of Buck a young man trapped in the middle of a street family rivalry - he is coerced by his unscrupulous Uncle Eddie to pull a robbery. When the job goes bad Buck finds himself running from the law and the streets.

• Charlie Chan in the Chinese Cat | DVD | (01/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  'Expert Is Merely Man Who Make Quick Decision-And Is Sometimes Right.' -Charlie Chan Number Three Son Tommy comes to the aid of a damsel in distress - by offering Charlie Chan's services - in this top-notch whodunnit fare' (Variety) starring Sidney Toler and Benson Fong. Leah manning (Joan Woodbury) has never stopped searching for her father's murderer, although the police and DA gave up a long time ago. And now, to add insult to injury, an 'expert criminologist' has written a 'novel' accus...

• Super Mario Bros. 3 - Toadally Magical Adventure | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Mind your mummy Mario.Hip and Hop steal the golden mummy case of Prince Mushroomkhamen a dead ringer for Mario and awaken the wrath of Mommy Mummy Mushroomkhamen who tears up Desert Land in search of her kidnapped son. The Mario Brothers come to the aid of the terrified Desert Landers but Queen Mushroomkhamen mistakes Mario for her son and drags him back to the tomb with her and to make matters worse she mummifies Mario and puts him down to a 10 000 year long nap!Misadventures in babysittingThe Mario Brothers are warped into a Brooklyn apartment and mistakenly appointed as babysitters for a rebellious and prank-playing brat Junior. During a game of hide and seek Junior sneaks into the Warp Zone entrance lands in Mushroom Kingdom and befriends the Koopa kids actually helping them trap Mario and Luigi in the belly of a heated volcano!Toaddally magical adventureToad is toadally infatuated with the Wizard King's new magic wand. Against the wizard's wishes he uses the wand to create giant pipe creatures that he hopes will keep King Koopa's army away. But Toad is unable to control the power of the wand and the pipe creatures turn against him and wreak havoc on the Kingdom. The Mario Brothers and the Wizard King must come to Toad's rescue.Oh BrotherA grudging hostility is aroused between the Brothers when they are Kooped up in Toad's cottage due to a rain storm outside. Their tempers flare and the Brothers face off vowing to de-brotherize themselves and go their seperate ways. Princess Toadstool for PresidentPrincess Toadstool is fed up with Koopa's antics and challenges him to try and win the Kingdom from her fair and square in a democratic election.Also includes Episode - Dadzilla

• DIE SIEBENTE NACHT - MOVIE | DVD | (26/01/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A