Das Experiment
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Based on a true experiment where volunteers act out the roles of guards and prisoners with disturbing results. Out to own as part of the European Mavericks Heart Of Darkness box set.
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Notorious
DVD Review
Reissue for the film about spies in South America who attract Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant.
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Trumpton: The Complete Collection
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Classic early TV animation from the Sixties, with Hugh, Pugh, Barney, MacGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub
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Rebecca
DVD Review
A woman is whisked off her feet by a rich widower, but gets more than she bargains for when she moves into his mansion.
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Little House On The Prairie: Season Two
DVD Review
Complete second series about Laura Ingalls and her family.
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Pumpkinhead
DVD Review
A man conjours a pumpkinheaded demon to avenge his son's death.
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The Ordeal
DVD Review
A passing crooner is kidnapped by a loony in the woods.
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Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus
DVD Review
Documentary takes a musical road trip through the alt-country of the American South.
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Pulse
DVD Review
Facing the apocalypse, as a secret website devotes itself to the terrible isolation of ghosts and the parable of techno terror.
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13
DVD Review
Man becomes sucked into a potentially fatal gambling ring.
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