| "Mesmerized DVD" |
| "An 18-year-old orphan is trapped in an arranged marriage to a cruel middle-aged man While she initially hoped for a better life she soon realised that she wants out of the arrangement When he turns up murdered she is the prime suspect arousing the ire of a nation Based on the true story of Victoria Thompson in New Zealand"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Une Femme Est Une Femme DVD" |
| "With UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME French director Jean-Luc Godard pays tribute to American musicals in much the same way that his debut feature the critical and commercial smash hit BREATHLESS did to American gangster films The story follows the beautiful Angela (Anna Karina) a strip-tease artist who wants nothing more than to have a baby Her live-in boyfriend Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy) doesn't want to refuse and risk sparking major friction between the two However fed up with her constant pleading Emile finally suggests that she shack up with his best friend Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and much to Emiles dismay she eventually takes his advice Godard's second feature employs jump cuts and jarring sound mixing--most notably during Karina's strip-tease performances UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME is Godard at his most affectionate and good-natured He also makes several cinematic in-jokes including one in which Belmondo's character mentions that he wants to hurry home to watch BREATHLESS the film that turned Belmondo into a megastar just one year before Featuring a magnetically cute performance from Karina who soon after the film became Godard's wife this loving romantic comedy is a dazzler"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Superstars Of Muscle - Schwarzenegger DVD" |
| "Arnold Schwarzenegger fronts this focus on the big names and even bigger bodies of bodybuilding In profiling the likes of Lee Haney Bob Paris and Tom Platz Schwarzenegger finds himself looking frail by comparison"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Shank DVD" |
| "Mo Alis futuristic knife-crime drama brings the dystopian environment of CHILDREN OF MEN and DISTRICT 13 to Londons East 17 SHANK delivers a ruthless vision of forthcoming urban life where guns have been superseded by knives and are fiercely wielded by aimless youths Amidst the chaos is the Paper Chazers gang a rare morally conscious group who trade scavenged food for money After Chazers gang member Junior (Kedar Williams-Stirling) witnesses his brother murder he must decide whether to get revenge of stick to the gangs moral code In this superbly paced and artistic film present-day social issues and murky city streets provide a perfect canvas for imagination and action"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Unreal Story of Pro Wrestling DVD" |
| "Full of action and interviews this baaad beefy story of the sweaty muscular celebrities of the hugely entertaining mat-slapping Pro Wrestling phenomenon The revealing secrets gimmicks and rules ("
Price: 13.49 |
| "The Jack Nicklaus Story DVD" |
| "Considered to be one of the worlds best golfers for the past 30 years Jack Nicklaus is the focus of this candid biography Features match footage and interviews with Nicklaus friends and other familiar faces of the golfing world"
Price: 13.49 |
| "Shake Hands With The Devil DVD" |
| "James Cagney plays a brilliant medical professor who doubles as head of the Irish Republican Army Cagney convinces one of his more pacifistic students Don Murray to join the underground struggle against British rule Murray suffers a crisis of conscience when his sweetheart Dana Wynter is taken hostage by the IRA and is slated for execution by the zealous Cagney"
Price: 14.49 |
| "Legend of God's Gun DVD" |
| "Spaghetti western style meets rock-and-roll hipster sensibility in first time feature filmmaker Mike Bruce's flashy tale of blazing six-shooters under the scorching desert sun Featuring a story that's jam-packed with lust greed revenge and mysticism and a soundtrack by Spindthrift this is one western that truly exists in a universe all its own"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Boys On Film Vol.1 - Hard Love DVD" |
| "This collection of titillating short films includes SUMMER GAY ZOMBIE SERENE HUNTER LE WEEKEND COWBOY FOREVER SCARRED PACKLUNCH MIRROR MIRROR and VGL HUNG"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Crusaders 1 And 2 DVD 2-Disc Set Box Set" |
| "This release brings together the entire Italian mini-series CRUSADERS a historical epic set in the Middle Ages"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Monsieur Lazhar DVD" |
| "A teacher and his students learn from one another in the wake of a tragedy in this drama from director Philippe Falardeau Simon (Emilien Neron) and Alice (Sophie Nelisse) are a pair of grade-school students who make a shocking discovery one day when they witness their teacher taking her own life in their classroom The school's principal (Danielle Proulx) wants things back to normal as soon as possible and when substitute teacher Bachir Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag) drops off his resume after learning of the tragedy he's hired almost on the spot The children don't immediately take to Lazhar since most of them have never had a male teacher before and Lazhar has his own adjustments to deal with -- he's an Algerian immigrant new to Montreal he's still learning the finer points of Quebecois French and his teaching style differs from that of his new colleagues But as Lazhar tries to guide Simon Alice and their classmates through the shock of what has happened he also finds the experience helps him heal after struggling with a loss of his own"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Hell Bent For Leather - Great Western Collection DVD" |
| "HELL BENT FOR LEATHER is a standard western that features Audie Murphy in the role of Clay a cowboy hunted by a posse out for blood Clay deals and trade in horses in an honest way and he does not suspect that a crooked US Marshal (Stephen McNally) interested in furthering his career is determined to nab him as a killer though he knows full well Clay is innocent When first attacked Clay grabs a hostage (Felicia Farr) who eventually sides with him and helps him in the long chase that follows Clay's challenge is not only to get away from the Marshal and his posse but to somehow prove his innocence as well"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Arcadia DVD" |
| "A father and his three children embark on an uncertain cross country journey in this emotional coming of age drama starring Oscar-nominee John Hawkes In the quiet pre-dawn hours of a New England morning Tom (Hawkes) rouses nine-year old Nat (Ty Simpkins) 12-year-old Greta (Ryan Simpkins) and their older sister Caroline (Kendall Toole) and hurries the trio into his dilapidated station wagon As their 3000 mile trip to California gets under way Tom talks dreamily of life on the West Coast while reassuring his kids that their mother isn't far behind Meanwhile Caroline resents being torn away from her boyfriend back home Greta holds her stuffed bunny Harrison tight and Nat longs to experience the majesty of the Grand Canyon With each mile they travel however Tom's mood seems to sour and before long a trip that was at first merely difficult becomes downright dangerous"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Big Love - Series 1-5 - Complete DVD 20-Disc Set Box Set" |
| "HBO pushes the boundaries once again with this hit show about a man with three wives Bill Paxton (ALIENS) stars as Bill Henrickson a Salt Lake City fundamentalist Mormon who appears to have eked out an achingly mundane existence for himself But scratch beneath the surface and Bill is far from ordinary Balancing three wives--Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn) Nicki (Chloe Sevigny) and Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin)--who live in adjoining houses Bill also has seven children to raise He negotiates the strange and stressful setup throughout the show while his best friend Don Embry (Joel McKinnon Miller) often chimes in with some advice from his own life as a polygamist This release includes every episode from the BIG LOVE series"
Price: 45.99 |
| "Good DVD" |
| "EASTERN PROMISES' Viggo Mortensen stars in this World-War-II-era drama as a professor who is reluctant to join the Nazi party As anti-Semitic feelings grow he is forced to choose between his career and a Jewish friend (Jason Isaacs THE PATRIOT) Jodie Whittaker who held her own against Peter O'Toole in VENUS plays Mortensen's character's wife"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Shankly Show DVD" |
| "THE SHANKLY SHOW is a live stage show honoring the memory and words of the much-respected manager and football legend Bill Shanky Recorded during its two-week run at the Royal Court Theatre Liverpool and starring Alexander 'Sandy' West as Shankly himself"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Games of Desire DVD" |
| "Directed by famed documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (BIGGIE AND TUPAC KURT AND COURTNEY) GHOST is the dramatisation of the events in which a group of Chinese illegal immigrants were drowned whilst fish for cockles off the South East coast in February 2004"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Spy - Series 1 And 2 - Complete DVD 3-Disc Set Box Set" |
| "Darren Boyd and Robert Lindsay star in the madcap espionage comedy SPY; the story of an ordinary man who stumbles into a job at MI5 When hapless Tim (Boyd) gets lost on his way to a sales assistant job in Westminster he accidentally gets recruited as a trainee MI5 agent under the guidance of 'The Examiner' (Lindsay) The real challenge however is keeping his double-life secret from his family including his disinterested son Marcus (Jude Wright) This release includes every episode in the series"
Price: 12.49 |
| "The Detectives - Series 2 DVD" |
| "Features all the episodes from series 2 of the popular comedy series with the ineffectual crime fighting pair of DC Bob Louis and DC David Briggs"
Price: 15.49 |
| "Chris Rock - Kill The Messenger DVD" |
| "Four years after 2004's NEVER SCARED Chris Rock returns with another hilarious stand-up performance in KILL THE MESSENGER Intercutting between performances held in South Africa London and New York City the program finds Rock riffing on the upcoming 2008 presidential election Barack Obama and (as always) the troubles between men and women It's fascinating to watch how Rock improvises with each crowd and their differing reactions Thankfully the effect never becomes tiresome or overdone and as always it's Rock's passionate delivery razor-sharp timing and fearless take on life that take centre stage"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Vendredi Soir DVD" |
| "Claire Denis' FRIDAY NIGHT a fantasy that follows a woman into a one-night stand is an adaptation of the popular novel by Emmanuelle Bernheim who also cowrote the story with Denis Dreamy and confused the film begins as Laure (Valerie Lemercier) is packing up her Paris apartment and preparing to move The chaos of this situation leads directly into the next as Laure gets in her car and begins to drive across town to a dinner party only to become stuck in a massive traffic jam As radio reports continue to stress the drastic and unbreakable gridlock that has Paris literally locked in the streets a rainstorm blurs Laure's vision Suddenly a stranger (Vincent Lindon) approaches on foot and she offers him a ride But they're not going anywhere just smoking and sitting idle Eventually Laure calls her friends and cancels on the dinner party leaving her Friday night wide open to follow whatever path it may take A master at building tension and suspense Denis creates so much chemistry between Laure and her fantasy man that viewers may await a turn to violence or something shockingly unexpected However that nervous and mysterious feeling just builds as the ambiguous story of FRIDAY NIGHT continues and a seemingly banal situation--a traffic jam on a rainy Friday--becomes a magical adventure"
Price: 16.99 |
| "Hustler White DVD" |
| "Angel-faced Santa Monica hustler Montgomery Ward (Tony Ward) leads a lovelorn sociologist (Bruce LaBruce) into the seedy underbelly of LA's gay porn milieu Quintessential LaBruce the film is an uneasy blend of social satire romantic comedy and graphic unromantic sexuality"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Duma DVD" |
| "When Xan and his parents discover an orphaned Cheetah cub they take the cat under their wing Soon the boy and the cub become inseparable"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Dorian Yates - Mr Olympia - Helsinki 1992 DVD" |
| "This documentary focuses on the story of the 1992 Mr Olympia contest held that year in Helsinki Finland In addition to all of the action from the competition (including eventual winner Dorian Yates) the disc features interviews and special guest posedowns"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The Idiots DVD" |
| "Lars von Trier's first contribution to Denmark's Dogme 95 collective concerns a group of adults who decide to get in touch with their 'inner idiot' When Karen (Bodil Jorgensen) a shy sensitive young woman follows a group of mentally disabled individuals home after an encounter at a restaurant she discovers that they are in fact healthy and intelligent Led by Stoffer (Jens Albinus) the group lives communally in his wealthy uncle's house Stoffer believes that by 'spassing' in public they are rejecting the conformity and normality of modern society and he spends his unemployed days thinking of different ways to toy with the world at large Shot with handheld digital cameras and using natural lighting and natural locations THE IDIOTS possesses an urgency that makes it feel like a documentary Von Trier sparked a heated controversy with his decision to film the sex scenes with actual intercourse adhering to the Dogme tenets (He hired porn actors for the close-ups) This controversy aside the film nonetheless raises questions about cultism modern ethics and the idea of individuality within the absurdity of the characters' world"
Price: 9.49 |
| "The Legend Of Jud Starr DVD" |
| "Cimarron's Marshall Crown has his hands full after bad guy Jud Starr avoids being hanged and sets off on a terrifying crime spree before fleeing into hostile Indian territory A Stuart Whitman 'Cimarron' Western"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Simple Men DVD" |
| "Robert John Burke stars as Bill McCabe a failed computer thief who's just been doublecrossed by his girlfriend and partner Vowing revenge on the next beautiful blonde he encounters Bill meets up with his younger brother Dennis (William Sage) a philosophy student concerned about their father William (John A MacKay) It seems the McCabe paterfamilias was a former major league shortstop who became an anarchist bomber in the 1960s nearly blowing up the Pentagon On the run for twenty-three years William was recently caught by the FBI but escaped again Based on information from their mother the McCabes travel to Long Island where William may be hiding Along the way the brothers meet the epileptic Elina (Elina Lowensohn) and her friend Kate (Karen Sillas) a beautiful blonde with whom Bill is instantly smitten While Dennis figures out that Elina is somehow connected to William Bill contends with Kate's ex-con husband Jack (Joe Stevens) and Jack's best friend Martin (Martin Donovan) both of whom are also in love with her"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Gun For A Coward - Great Western Collection DVD" |
| "Having inherited a huge cattle ranch from his late father Will Keough (Fred MacMurray) wants nothing more than to tend to his work and live in peace but this is made impossible by the tense situation in his own household Will's two younger brothers Bless (Jeffrey Hunter) and Hade (Dean Stockwell) are as different as night and day Convinced that he was responsible for the death of his father Bless refuses to use a gun and is thus branded a coward; conversely Hade is wild and reckless literally an accident waiting to happen Exacerbating the situation is the brothers' grim and merciless mother (Josephine Hutchinson) who has instilled most of Bless' guilt feelings and Will's sweetheart Aud Niven (Janice Rule) who finds herself drawn to the sensitive Bless Ultimately there will have to be a showdownbut who among the Keogh siblings will survive?"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Jack And The Beanstalk / Africa Screams DVD" |
| "Two features In 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Costello falls asleep and dreams himself into the titular fairy tale Also includes 'Africa Screams' in which the boys go hunting for diamonds in darkest Africa"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Hot Rock DVD" |
| "When four misfits get together to try to steal a huge priceless diamond it's a formula for an entertaining film Although Robert Redford is a little out of his element it is still a fun mix with Redford George Segal Ron Leibman Paul Sand and Zero Mostel Making no apologies for the criminal act itself the movie just concentrates on the characters and the fun of the movie"
Price: 9.49 |
