Cheerleaders are going for glory.Bring it on again (Cert 12, 86 mins, Universal Pictures Video, pounds 15.99, Comedy/Drama, also available to buy VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. pounds 9.99) In this sassy, straight-to-DVD sequel to Bring It On, the pom-poms and daring acrobatic moves are out in force. Freshmen Whittier (Anne Judson-Yager) and Monica (Faune A Chambers) can't wait to join the cheerleading squad at the new college but both girls are devastated when the head cheerleader (Bree Turner) refuses their applications because they have uncool boyfriends. Unwilling to dump her beau or her friends, Whittier seeks revenge by establishing her own rival squad, The Renegades, to bid for glory at the National American Cheerleading Competition. DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. Extras: none stated. THE LADYKILLERS (Cert U, 87 mins, Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. , pounds 9.99, Comedy/Thriller) A group of thieves plot a daring robbery only for their elderly landlady to discover the ruse. The conniving criminals are forced to kill the old dear but the pensioner is not as harmless as she seems in Alexander Mackendrick's last Ealing comedy. Starring Alec Guinness (pictured) DVD Extras: Theatrical trailer. THE MOST FERTILE MAN IN IRELAND (Cert 15, 93 mins, Arrow Films, pounds 12.99, Comedy) Twenty four-year-old virgin Eamonn Manley (Kris Marshall) lives in '70s Belfast with his possessive mother. By day, he works in a dating agency; by night, he seeks solace in his bedroom where he imagines himself a superhero su·per·he·ro n. pl. su·per·he·roes A figure, especially in a comic strip or cartoon, endowed with superhuman powers and usually portrayed as fighting evil or crime. , winning the heart of his secret love Rosie (Kathy Keira Clarke). After a chance encounter with good time girl Mary Mallory (Tara Lynne O'Neill), Eamonn discovers he has the highest sperm count in the whole of Ireland: a powerful boast at a time when male fertility rates are plummeting. Sensing a business opportunity, Eamonn enlists the help of friend Millicent (Bronagh Gallagher) to hire himself out to the ladies of Belfast as a stud for the night. However, the plan goes awry when Protestant hard man Mad Dog Billy Wilson (James Nesbitt) takes exception to Eamonn's success with the ladies. DVD Extras: Cast interviews. |
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