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Recommended DVDs

A specially recommended selection of DVDs, soundtrack CDs and books from the alt-flix store in association with Amazon.com

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What's new at alt-flix.co.uk

November 2009. Halloween is now over, a big thanks to everyone who contacted us after checking out our updated Horror Film guide. Lots of you have suggested your favourite Horror movies and we'll definitely bear them in mind for next years guide.

With Christmas just around the corner we have updated our near legendary Christmas movie guide in the guise of an advent calendar. Check it out and let us know if you agree with our choices.

The latest DVD & Blu-ray releases section is updated for November, December and January. Some interesting releases coming up.

Our sister site The Cult Of TV has just gone live, our site featuring the best - and sometime the worst in cult television. So far you'll find some features on some very peculiar children's TV dramas (including SKY, The Jensen Code and King Of The Castle) a review feature of some wonderfully camp comedy, plus a schedule of the best DVD TV releases for the coming months. Also look out in the next few days for a chance to win a cult classic kids TV DVD that is being released very shortly. Also check out the Cult Of TV twitter page for lots of TV news, views and all the nonsense that they are getting up to.

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What else is available at alt-flix

Director Guides

Ken LoachDirectors: Our ever expanding guide to the top directors in cinema. Includes a biography, filmography, comment about the directors body of work plus individual film reviews and news updates on directors current projects, cinema and DVD releases etc. We've just added a guide to the life and work of Stanley Kubrick. Other directors currently featured in the guide include Ken Loach, Terry Gilliam, Michael Haneke, Shane Meadows, The Coen brothers, Lindsay Anderson and Mike Leigh.

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Film Guides

Haunted House of HorrorFilm Guides: An assortment of different film guides we've put together. Includes the following: Top 100 British movies; Best in World Cinema; and the best USA movies.

Also some interactive movie guides like the Horror Film guide in the guise of a Haunted House, and our Christmas movie guide in the guise of an advent calendar.

Latest DVD releases

Hell RideLatest DVD releases schedule: Check out the release schedules for our pick of the bunch of recent and forthcoming contemporary DVD & Blu-ray film releases. All of our recommendations are available in our special alt-flix new release stores in association with Amazon. Highlights include:

November 2009: Mainstream blockbusters and Christmas films dominate November's releases with Star Trek XI, Terminator Salvation, and Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen all released to tie in with Christmas spending splurge.

December 2009: Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds (one of our fave films of the year) and the so-so Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (should have got Terry Gilliam to direct that one).

January 2010: Exciting us is The Red Balloon and Cinema Paradiso on Blu-ray, and debut DVD releases for Pontypool and The Hide.