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• Butterfly's Tongue | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (69.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the summer of 1936 before the outbreak of the civil war that plunged Spain into 3 years of agony and terror 8 year old Moncho is beginning his 1st day of school. At first afraid of his new teacher Don Gregorio- who he has heard flogs pupils - teacher and pupil soon develop an inseperable bond born of their shared interest in insect life. So begins moncho's apprenticeship into life and knowledge guided by his worldly teacher. But as the military marches through Spain and the

• Memories of a Teenager | DVD | (29/03/2021) from £15.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Argentinian drama based on the novel by Nicolas Zamorano. In the year following his best friend's suicide, 16-year-old Zabo (Renato Quattordio) records his thoughts in a diary as he begins to explore his sexuality.

• Vera Cruz | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £12.94   |  Saving you £3.04 (30.55%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Vera Cruz was only director Robert Aldrich's second Western (his first, made a few months earlier, was the revisionist, pro-Native-American Apache), but it's such an assured, stylish affair that he might have been roaming the sagebrush for decades. In the aftermath of the American Civil War two lone adventurers make their way south of the border, where Mexico is fighting a civil war of its own to rid the country of the French-imposed Emperor Maximilian. Neither the dour Benjamin Trane (Gary Cooper) nor the grinning, devil-may-care Joe Erin (Burt Lancaster) has much in the way of idealism, but Trane still retains a thin bitter edge of integrity, a quality quite alien to the cheerfully amoral Erin. In uneasy alliance, constantly looking to outwit or double-cross each other, the two find themselves escorting a beautiful French countess (Denise Darcel) and a shipment of gold across country. Cooper and Lancaster create a superb double-act, using their contrasted screen personas to point up the humour and the cynicism of the two mercenaries' relationship. Darcel makes less than she might of the femme fatale role, but there are relishable cameos from Cesar Romero as a suavely duplicitous aristo and Ernest Borgnine as another gringo with an exceptionally vicious streak. The script, according to Aldrich, was written on the run, "always finished about five minutes before we shot it", but you wouldn't guess it from the laconic wit of the dialogue. It looks great, too--Ernest Laszlo's widescreen photography makes the most of the handsome Mexican locations. With its irreverent take on the accepted moral conventions of the genre, Vera Cruz ushered in a new kind of Western, and its central love-hate relationship would be replayed in Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country (1962) and Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). On the DVD: Not much in the way of extras but the mono sound has been expertly remastered to the benefit of Hugo Friedhofer's spirited score. Above all, the film's presented in its full Superscope ratio (16:9), a blessed relief after all those years when it showed up panned-and-scanned on BBC1. If ever a movie needed widescreen, it's this one--if only to fit in all Burt's teeth. You can see why they called him "Crockery Joe". --Philip Kemp

• Pigsty | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Decades on from its release, and featuring an all-star cast that includes Jean-Pierre Laud, Anne Wiazemsky, Franco Citti, Pierre Clmenti, and Marco Ferreri, Pigsty [Porcile] remains one of Pier Paolo Pasolini's most controversial and wilfully provocative works – a deranged parody of cinema as revolutionary act. It comprises parallel stories: (1) Clmenti and Citti as cannibalistic savages who rampage a world outside of any distinct time or place, and who push against the boundaries of human morality; (2) Godard-regulars Laud and Wiazemsky as a romantically engaged couple in a contemporary Germany painted as a morass of industrialisation, fascist impulse, and bestial instincts. Special Features: New high-definition transfer in the film's original aspect ratio Original Italian theatrical trailer Newly translated optional English subtitles Illustrated booklet featuring rare archival imagery, the words of Pasolini, and more!

• Battleship Potemkin | DVD | (17/04/2000) from £8.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing that many have forgotten what an invigoratingly cinematic experience he created. A 20th-anniversary tribute to the 1905 revolution, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatisation of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. The story tells a familiar party-line message of the oppressed working class (in this case the enlisted sailors) banding together to overthrow their oppressors (the ship's officers), led by proto-revolutionary Vakulinchuk. When he dies in the shipboard struggle the crew lays his body to rest on the pier, a moody, moving scene where the citizens of Odessa slowly emerge from the fog to pay their respects. As the crowd grows Eisenstein turns the tenor from mourning a fallen comrade to celebrating the collective achievement. The government responds by sending soldiers and ships to deal with the mutinous crew and the supportive townspeople, which climaxes in the justly famous (and often imitated and parodied) Odessa Steps massacre. Eisenstein edits carefully orchestrated motions within the frame to create broad swaths of movement, shots of varying length to build the rhythm, close-ups for perspective and shock effect, and symbolic imagery for commentary, all to create one of the most cinematically exciting sequences in film history. Eisenstein's film is Marxist propaganda to be sure but the power of this masterpiece lies not in its preaching but its poetry. --Sean Axmaker

• The Burmese Harp | Blu Ray | (13/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A rhapsodic celebration of song, a brutal condemnation of wartime mentality, and a lyrical statement of hope within darkness; even amongst the riches of 1950s' Japanese cinema, The Burmese Harp, directed by Kon Ichikawa (Alone Across the Pacific, Tokyo Olympiad), stands as one of the finest achievements of its era. At the close of World War II, a Japanese army regiment in Burma surrenders to the British. Private Mizushima is sent on a lone mission to persuade a trapped Japanese battalion to surrender also. When the outcome is a failure, he disguises himself in the robes of a Buddhist monk in hope of temporary anonymity as he journeys across the landscape – but he underestimates the power of his assumed role. A visually extraordinary and deeply moving vision of horror, necessity, and redemption in the aftermath of war, Ichikawa's breakthrough film is one of the great humanitarian affirmations of the cinema. Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and honoured at the Venice Film Festival, The Burmese Harp is one of cinema's great anti-war classics, alongside La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir), Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata/Studio Ghibli), Paths Of Glory (Stanley Kubrick), All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone), and The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin). Special Features: New, restored high-definition 1080p transfer officially licenced from Nikkatsu Newly translated optional English subtitles Exclusive video interview with scholar and filmmaker Tony Rayns Original Japanese theatrical trailer PLUS: A 40-page booklet with an essay by Keiko I. McDonald and rare archival stills

• Nostalgia For The Light | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Chile's Atacama Desert is the driest place on earth. Atop its mountains, astronomers gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent they can see right to the boundaries of the universe.It is also a place where the heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners disappeared by the Chilean army after the military coup of September 1973. So while astronomers examine the most distant galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, surviving relatives of the 'disappeared', search for the remains of their loved ones, to reclaim their families' histories.Gradually the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the Chilean women come together.

• Carnal Sins | DVD | (25/03/2024) from £11.20   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Songs From My Heart | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (50.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tracklist:1. Carmen Overture 2. Aviator's March3. You're Worth Your Weight In Gold 4. Vilja Lied 5. Today Is The Happiest Day6. Oh, I Have In My Heart7. Concierto De Aranjuez8. Swinging Bells of Limburg 9. Funiculi Funicula10. The White Horse Inn 11. Second Waltz12. Chianti Song13. Maastricht Anthem 14. Radetzky March 15. Ob Blond, Ob Braun16. I Could Have Danced All Night17. With A Little Bit Of Luck18. Juliska From Budapest 19. Memory20. A Bright Young Man 21. Toselli Serenade22. Libiamo23. La Donna E Mobile24. Auld Lang Syne25. Ode To Maastricht 26. Lullaby 27. Entry March 28. Maastricht, City Of Jolly Singers

• SEAL Team: Season Three | DVD | (25/08/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dawn Of The Dead | DVD | (04/10/1999) from £17.00   |  Saving you £0.99 (5.82%)   |  RRP £17.99

  George Romero's 1978 follow-up to his classic Night of the Living Dead is quite terrifying and gory (those zombies do like the taste of living flesh). But in its own way, it is just as comically satiric as the first film in its take on contemporary values. This time, we follow the fortunes of four people who lock themselves inside a shopping mall to get away from the marauding dead and who then immerse themselves in unabashed consumerism, taking what they want from an array of clothing and jewellery shops, making gourmet meals, etc. It is Romero's take on Louis XVI in the modern world: keep the starving masses at bay and crank up the insulated indulgence. Still, this is a horror film when all is said and done and even some of Romero's best visual jokes (a Hare Krishna turned blue-skinned zombie) can make you sweat. --Tom Keogh

• Yatterman (DVD) | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (62.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Classic seventies anime series Yatterman flies to the silver screen in a brilliant crime-fighting explosion of candy-coloured camp, over-the-top adventure, and pure popcorn entertainment. Directed by legendary cult director Takashi Miike (13 Assassins, Ichi The Killer, Audition) and featuring a brand new plot and re-imaged characters, this live action debut of Yatterman will re-define the robot action adventure genre. Gan, the only son of a toy shop owner, and his girlfriend Ai are just normal teens who like to tinker away with robotic inventions - that is, when they're not out keeping the world safe from evil! Together with their giant robot dog Yatterwoof, and their small incompetent robot Toybotty, Gan & Ai transform into crime-fighting duo Yatterman to fight for world peace. Waging battle against perennial nemesis, the Doronbo gang. Formed by sexy villainess Doronjo and her lackeys Boyacky, and Tonzra, the Doronbo trio will stop at nothing to recover the powerful wish-granting Skull Stone, but they'll have to get past Yatterman first!

• Sex And Lucia | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £7.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After the loss of her long-time boyfriend Lucia she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island. There, bathed in an atmosphere of fresh air and dazzling sun, Lucía begins to discover the dark corners of her past relationship...

• The Chiltern Hundreds | DVD | (05/05/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Few actors could be better suited than David Tomlinson for the role of a doltish viscount unintentionally entangled in politics and this brisk 1949 satire was a huge success both for the accomplished character player and his similarly gifted co-stars Cecil Parker and eighty-year-old film veteran A.E. Matthews. The Chiltern Hundreds is directed by John Paddy Carstairs - whose later career encompassed a string of box-office hits with the likes of Frankie Howerd Norman Wisdom and Tommy Steele - and is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancée while she's still in England but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn - who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face Pym decides to stand again - as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal true-blue butler Mr Beecham... Special Features: Image Gallery

• Criminal Minds - Seasons 1-11 | DVD | (05/12/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All episodes from the first eleven seasons of the American crime drama following an elite team of FBI profilers as they analyse the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. Season 1 episodes are: 'Extreme Aggressor', 'Compulsion', 'Won't Get Fooled Again', 'Plain Sight', 'Broken Mirror', 'L.D.S.K.', 'The Fox', 'Natural Born Killer', 'Derailed', 'The Popular Kids', 'Blood Hungry', 'What Fresh Hell?', 'Poison', 'Riding the Lightning', 'Unfinished Business', 'The Tribe', 'A Real Rain', 'Somebody's Watching', 'Machismo', 'Charm and Harm', 'Secrets and Lies' and 'The Fisher King: Part 1'. Season 2 episodes are: 'The Fisher King: Part 2', 'P911', 'The Perfect Storm', 'Psychodrama', 'Aftermath', 'The Boogeyman', 'North Mammon', 'Empty Planet', 'The Last Word', 'Lessons Learned', 'Sex, Birth, Death', 'Profiler, Profiled', 'No Way Out', 'The Big Game', 'Revelations', 'Fear and Loathing', 'Distress', 'Jones', 'Ashes and Dust', 'Honor Among Thieves', 'Open Season', 'Legacy' and 'No Way Out: Part 2: The Evilution of Frank'. Season 3 episodes are: 'Doubt', 'In Birth and Death', 'Scared to Death', 'Children of the Dark', 'Seven Seconds', 'About Face', 'Identity', 'Lucky', 'Penelope', 'True Night', 'Birthright', '3rd Life', 'Limelight', 'Damaged', 'A Higher Power', 'Elephant's Memory', 'In Heat', 'The Crossing', 'Tabula Rasa' and 'Lo-Fi'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Mayhem', 'The Angel Maker', 'Minimal Loss', 'Paradise', 'Catching Out', 'The Instincts', 'Memoriam', 'Masterpiece', '52 Pickup', 'Brothers in Arms', 'Normal', 'Soul Mates', 'Bloodline', 'Cold Comfort', 'Zoe's Reprise', 'Pleasure Is My Business', 'Demonology', 'Omnivore', 'House On Fire', 'Conflicted', 'A Shade of Gray', 'The Big Wheel', 'Roadkill', 'Amplification' and 'To Hell... and Back'. Season 5 episodes are: 'Faceless, Nameless', 'Haunted', 'Reckoner', 'Hopeless', 'Cradle to Grave', 'The Eyes Have It', 'The Performer', 'Outfoxed', '100', 'The Slave of Duty', 'Retaliation', 'The Uncanny Valley', 'Risky Business', 'Parasite', 'Public Enemy', 'Mosley Lane', 'Solitary Man', 'The Fight', 'Rite of Passage', '... A Thousand Words', 'Exit Wounds', 'The Internet Is Forever' and 'Our Darkest Hour'. Season 6 episodes are: 'The Longest Night', 'JJ', 'Remembrance of Things Past', 'Compromising Positions', 'Safe Haven', 'Devil's Night', 'Middle Man', 'Reflection of Desire', 'Into the Woods', 'What Happens at Home...', '25 to Life', 'Corazon', 'The Thirteenth Step', 'Sense Memory', 'Today I Do', 'Coda', 'Valhalla', 'Lauren', 'With Friends Like These', 'Hanley Waters', 'The Stranger', 'Out of the Light', 'Big Sea' and 'Supply and Demand'. Season 7 episodes are: 'It Takes a Village', 'Proof', 'Dorado Falls', 'Painless', 'From Childhood's Hour', 'Epilogue', 'There's No Place Like Home', 'Hope', 'Self Fulfilling Prophecy', 'The Bittersweet Science', 'True Genius', 'Unknown Subject', 'Snake Eyes', 'Closing Time', 'A Thin Line', 'A Family Affair', 'I Love You, Tommy Brown', 'Foundation', 'Heathridge Manor', 'The Company', 'Divining Rod', 'Profiling 101', 'Hit' and 'Run'. Season 8 episodes are: 'The Silencer', 'The Pact', 'Through the Looking Glass', 'God Complex', 'The Good Earth', 'The Apprenticeship', 'The Fallen', 'The Wheels On the Bus', 'Magnificent Light', 'The Lesson', 'Perennials', 'Zugzwang', 'Magnum Opus', 'All That Remains', 'Broken', 'Carbon Copy', 'The Gathering', 'Restoration', 'Pay It Forward', 'Alchemy', 'Nanny Dearest', 'No. 6', 'Brothers Hotchner' and 'The Replicator'. Season 9 episodes are: 'The Inspiration', 'The Inspired', 'Final Shot', 'To Bear Witness', 'Route 66', 'In the Blood', 'Gatekeeper', 'The Return', 'Strange Fruit', 'The Caller', 'Bully', 'The Black Queen', 'The Road Home', '200', 'Mr. and Mrs. Anderson', 'Gabby', 'Persuasion', 'Rabid', 'The Edge of Winter', 'Blood Relations', 'What Happens in Mecklinburg...', 'Fatal', 'Angels' and 'Demons'. Season 10 episodes are: 'X', 'Burn', 'A Thousand Suns', 'The Itch', 'Boxed In', 'If the Shoe Fits', 'Hashtag', 'The Boys of Sudworth Place', 'Fate', 'Amelia Porter', 'The Forever People', 'Anonymous', 'Nelson's Sparrow', 'Hero Worship', 'Scream', 'Lockdown', 'Breath Play', 'Rock Creek Park', 'Beyond Borders', 'A Place at the Table', 'Mr. Scratch', 'Protection' and 'The Hunt'. Season 11 episodes are: 'The Job', 'The Witness', ''Til Death Do Us Part', 'Outlaw', 'The Night Watch', 'Pariahville', 'Target Rich', 'Awake', 'Internal Affairs', 'Future Perfect', 'Entropy', 'Drive', 'The Bond', 'Hostage', 'A Badge and a Gun', 'Derek', 'The Sandman', 'A Beautiful Disaster', 'Tribute', 'Inner Beauty', 'Devil's Backbone' and 'The Storm'.

• Collateral Beauty | Blu Ray | (08/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a successful New York advertising executive (Will Smith) experiences a deep personal tragedy and retreats from life entirely, his colleagues devise a drastic plan to force him to confront his grief in a surprising and profoundly human way.

• Day of the Dead: Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (17/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Flavia the Heretic | Blu Ray | (25/05/2020) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Witness the most notoriously graphic and nasty descent into the nunsploitation genre with Gianfranco Mingozzi s unforgettable masterpiece of shock cinema that is Flavia The Heretic. Set during 15th Century Italy when brutality was wielded mercilessly in the name of God, young Flavia (Florinda Bolkan) is imprisoned in a monastery by her tyrannical father. Rather than the years of quiet contemplation she might expect, the sexually frustrated Flavia instead gets a crash course in hell on earth as rape, torture, castration, bondage and worse becomes her world but that is nothing compared to what will become of her! Beautifully filmed by Alfio Contini (The Night Porter) and boasting a score by Oscar-winning composer Nicola Piovani this disturbingly cruel exploration of religiously condoned sexual violence is as well made as it is sadistic on the senses. Extras: New unique interview with the iconic Florinda Bolkan the legend of arthouse and grindhouse Italian cinema (imdb) Audio commentary by genre-specialist Kat Ellinger, Editor Diabolque Magazine

• Kill Bill 1 and 2 (Box Set) | DVD | (05/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! For the first time both parts of Quentin Tarantino's martial arts homage are available on this fantastic collection box set. Kill Bill - Volume 1: In part 1 of Quentin Tarantino's delirious revenge movie Uma Thurman plays 'The Bride' a woman seeking vengeance on those who massacred her wedding party... Inspired by countless Japanese swordplay actionfests (the classic Lady Snowblood among them) yakuza gangster thrillers (offering a ca

• Mega Python Vs. Gatoroid | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £6.72   |  Saving you £-0.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After a species of giant python invades the everglades the obvious choice is for park workers to breed mutant gators to counter the threat. But things start to go very wrong when the megapythons and gatoroids start thrashing it out on the street. Can '80s pop sensations Tiffany and Debbie Gibson save the state of Florida before being savagely massacred? It's unlikely.