New in the last week

Cowley Road:

(This shop has not registered any new items to our online database in the last week. We do get new items in pretty much every week though, and have probably just been too busy to update it on this occasion!)

Summertown:

(This shop has not registered any new items to our online database in the last week. We do get new items in pretty much every week though, and have probably just been too busy to update it on this occasion!)

About Videosyncratic

Videosyncratic is more than just a video shop - not literally, but spiritually. And not spiritually in a Mel Gibson way, but in a far more spectacular than just a mere video shop way.

The ethos behind Videosyncratic is simple - a good film is a good film. You wouldn't expect to walk into a library and not be able to find the Bible, Dickens, Hemingway, Steinbeck, so how has it become acceptable to walk into a video shop and NOT expect to find The Graduate, Gone With The Wind, Star Wars, Breakfast at Tiffany's...... Police Academy? Why on earth would people want to only rent out a crappy selection of films released in the last six months when there is still a century of bloody brilliant films to catch up on?

The video industry is a weird one, I can't think of another industry which really has dwindled from being an exciting growth area into revolving around one huge single corporation with a couple of crappy chains trying desperately to emulate that corporation's approach. The few independent video shops that remain should be cherished, but are more often deserted outposts of a once great army than commited warriors of the wastelands of film. Which is what we are.

Since our Summertown store opened in 2002 we've amassed a collection of around 10,000 films and that figure swells weekly (the average 'Corporate Express' has around 3,000 units and that includes about 60 copies of each individual title - you do the maths). Yes, we have all of the worthwhile latest releases, we just don't think it's necessary to stock 60 copies of each. We decided to stock 2 or 3 of each and then supplement them with 57 or 58 other individual films of the highest quality.

We have the biggest, most diverse selection of films in Oxford, we hunt high and low to track down all of the long-deleted films you'd half-forgotten about or always wanted to see. We have all of the classics, all of the cults, more martial arts films than you can shake a big pointy stick at, a terrifying quantity of horror flicks a galaxy of sci-fi, a chick flick section that - if watched in it's entirety - would deplete the world's stock of tissues and chocolates down to nothing, and a world cinema section bigger than the national debt of most of the countries we showcase in it.

So, in brief, here's why you should cut up your corporate video card and hightail it over to us right now:

MORE FILMS THAN ANYONE ELSE
VHS and DVD, from Doctor Zhivago to Howard The Duck.

GOOD VALUE
New releases £3.50 for 1 night, everything else £3 for a whole 7 nights. Permanent 'Rent 2, get 3rd free' offer. Rent 5 items for £10 for the full 7 nights (excludes new releases). Also, all of our members get an ongoing £1.50 discount at the Phoenix Cinema.
(Price list current from 24th May 2006.)

RELAXED ATMOSPHERE FOR SUPERIOR PERUSABILITY
No plastic walls, corporate colours, annoying 'instore programming', customer bothering or special offer assaults here.

FRIENDLY, INTELLIGENT (on the most part) STAFF WITH A VAST KNOWLEDGE OF FILM
They don't wear uniforms, they know what they're talking about - they're human beings, dammit!

FREE MASSAGES FOR ALL CUSTOMERS
Except maybe not. What do you think we are, some kind of mooks?