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• UQ Holder! Collection BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (22/04/2019) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When you're the grandson of a famous hero, you'd think that your life would be interesting, but Tota Konoe is stuck in the dullest place he can imagine! He can't even leave his tiny village until he can defeat his teacher and foster parent Yukihime, and she seems to be impossibly powerful. Then everything changes when Yukihime is attacked and Tota learns that both she and Tota himself aren't who or what Tota thought they were! Now Tota has a new, impossibly long life ahead of him and an amazing destiny that ties in with the fate of his grandfather, the legendary Negi Springfield! Get ready for vampires, demons and magic users galore as Tota discovers the perils of being a member of the world's most exclusive organization

• Les Enfants Du Paradis | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £16.96   |  Saving you £3.03 (17.87%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A film which regularly charts high in critics' polls of the best films of all time, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert's masterpiece Les Enfants du Paradis is as solid a landmark in French film history as the Eiffel Tower is on the Parisian landscape. And at 187 minutes running time, it's a massy edifice indeed, built from a rambunctious cast of characters--ranging from pickpockets and prostitutes to aristocrats and actors--whose lives intersect around the Theatre des Funambules, a popular Parisian theatre on the Boulevard du Crime, during the 1840s. (The title refers to the poor who can only afford seats in the upper galleries of the theatre.) The heart of the plot is a love story between mime artiste Baptiste (Jean-Louis Barrault) and streetwalker Garance (the magnificent, sand-paper-voiced Arletty). When Garance is falsely accused of pickpocketing, Baptiste provides a mimed alibi for her to the police (one of the film's most famous set pieces). The rose she later throws him in gratitude sets off a romantic obsession, one of several that structure the film, as do love triangles, duels, and tortured confessions of feeling. Thematically, Les Enfant du Paradis gnaws over typically French cinematic preoccupations: illusion and reality, the nature of performance, the indomitable spirit of the proletariat and so on, all made the more charged and poignant when you know the film was shot during the Nazi occupation. (One actor, Robert Le Vigan, was reportedly a Nazi collaborator and disappeared during the filming under mysterious circumstances and so had to be replaced by Pierre Renoir.) --Leslie Felperin

• D-Tox | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £6.09   |  Saving you £3.90 (64.04%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sylvester Stallone stars as an FBI agent who goes to a secluded D-Tox centre after a serial killer murders his girl friend, only to find the killer has followed him...

• California Solo | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-0.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A former Britpop rocker (Robert Carlyle) who now works on a farm gets caught driving drunk and faces deportation after living in Los Angeles for many years. His efforts to stay in the U.S. force him to confront the past and current demons in his life.

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

• Lost In La Mancha | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £5.30   |  Saving you £14.69 (277.17%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An enthralling documentary about director Terry Gilliam's aborted attempt to shoot a new Don Quixote movie in Spain.

• La Bamba | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £24.98   |  Saving you £-18.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Born to poverty. Destined for stardom. He lived the American dream. The life of rock and roll legend Ritchie Valens bursts across the screen in this celebrated music-filled movie with star-making performances by Lou Diamond Phillips as Richie and Esai Morales as his half-brother Bob. La Bamba depicts the 17-year-old Mexican-American's rocket rise to fame from field laborer to rock star with a string of hit singles and a date with destiny. Fueled by Valens' hit songs performed

• Dans Ma Peau | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A successful businesswoman accidentally injures herself and develops an obsession with her own wounds. Increasingly she finds secret pleasure in self harm to the detriment of her job and her loving boyfriend... A powerful and darkly disturbing French drama from newcomer Marina De Van.

• Hawks and Sparrows | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of the handful of films that found Pier Paolo Pasolini sustaining a merrier mode of cultural assault, Hawks And Sparrows (Uccellacci E Uccellini) features Italy's popular comic actor Tot (known to cinephiles as the star of Roberto Rossellini's Dov' la liberta...?) and Pasolini regular Ninetto Davoli in a picaresque fable that lampoons politics, religion, and the legacy of neorealism.A crow gifted with the power of speech accompanies wandering duo Tot and Ninetto on a trail that leads to their roles as Franciscan friars who preach to the literal hawks and sparrows, before returning in time to gaze upon slum-dwellers, Danteist dentists, itinerant actor-hippies, and, ultimately, the state of the modern world.

• Sharkzilla | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £11.40   |  Saving you £-1.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the freezing North Atlantic waters off the coast of Greenland Nexecon Petroleum is ushering in a new age of oil exploration. It's drilling and producing platform the Colossus is the largest ever constructed and can drill deeper than any rig before. However there is concern among Geologists that the delicate ocean floor could be disrupted with catastrophic effects. As the powerful drill tears through the seabed a fissure forms revealing a second 'mirror' ocean that has existed beneath ours for millions of years. The crew of the Colossus are unaware that this second ocean is home to the most terrifying predator imaginable; Carcharadon Megalodon the ancient ancestor of the Great White Shark. Soon the 11 ton 60 foot monster stakes its territory in the waters above destroying and devouring everything in its path. Now the crew of the Colossus must battle the most fearsome creature ever to roam the oceans in order to survive in the most hostile waters imaginable.

• 101 Reykjavik | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £5.00   |  Saving you £10.99 (219.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Modern-day Iceland is terminally weird, if writer-director Baltasar Kormákur's debut film 101 Reykjavík is anything to go by. Our guide to this particular Icelandic saga is Hlynur, 28-year-old unemployed slacker and one-man Nordic-gloom factory; "I'll be dead after I die. I was dead before I was born. Life is just a break from death," he muses. After his gut-freezingly boring family Christmas dinner--whose highpoint is watching a video of last year's ditto--you can see his point. Distraction, and a welcome dose of Southern warmth, comes in the form of his mother's flamenco teacher Lola (the delicious Victoria Abril). Only after sleeping with her does he discover that she's not just Mum's teacher, but her lover as well. A little like Pål Sletaune's 1997 Norwegian postie-comedy Junk Mail, 101 Reykjavík gets a lot of lugubrious fun from its protagonist's sheer social and emotional ineptitude--though to give Hlynur his due, most of his mates seem equally clueless, (the women, as so often in this kind of movie, come off rather better). We've been here before, of course--as a male with a severe case of delayed adolescence is gradually brought to engage with adulthood--but the offbeat humour and eccentric details of Kormákur's film keep it fresh and engaging. Whether--in view of remarks like "Reykjavík is like some backwater in Siberia, with glaciated diarrhoea,"--it will do much for the Icelandic tourist trade is another matter! On the DVD: Filmographies for Kormákur, Abril, and lead male actor Hilmir Snaer Gudnason; subtitles and menu; and the theatrical trailer, which contains snatches of several scenes evidently cut from the final release. The sound is clean and immediate (score co-composed by Damon Albarn) and the widescreen print preserves the original 16:9 ratio. --Philip Kemp

• Eastern Boys | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Campillo the celebrated writer of Palm D or winner The Class, creator of The Returned and director of 120BPM comes his highly acclaimed debut feature film EASTERN BOYS. Daniel cruises the Gare du Nord where Eastern European Boys hang out. One afternoon he plucks up his courage to speak to Marek, one of the boys and invites him to his home. However, next day when the doorbell rings, Daniel hasn t the faintest idea that he has fallen into a trap.

• What Waits Below | DVD | (29/08/2002) from £5.96   |  Saving you £-1.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Clayton 'Wolf' Wolfson and his friend Lieutenant George Barwell have been hired by U.S. Colonel Stevens (who's in charge of the Omega Base Communications Operations) to blow a hole in a mountain adjacent to the Omega Base. The Army plans to open up an entrance to an unexplored cave system where they can set up a sonic tester to test communication abilities. Against Wolf's warning that the caves might not be safe Colonel Stevens starts sending down men and equipment. The first night in the cave a technician above ground hears a scream on the radio and then silence. When Wolf and the others go back into the cave the men are missing and the sonic tester is destroyed. Deep within the cave system. the rescue team find caves of breathtaking beauty but there is great danger which they cannot see ''- the one that is waiting for the right moment to attack...

• Baby Boy | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £5.38   |  Saving you £14.61 (271.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this follow up to "Boyz N The Hood", director John Singleton takes us back to the same neighborhood where we meet Jody, an unemployed 20 year old black man living at home with his mother, who has a complicated love life. Can he sort his mess out?

• Bowling For Columbine : Special Edition (Two Disc Set) | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £6.03   |  Saving you £13.96 (231.51%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the wake of the Columbine high school massacre acclaimed documentary filmmaker Michael Moore's latest film takes a critical look at America's obsessive gun culture.

• Iron Sky: Dictator's Cut | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £7.05   |  Saving you £-1.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In 1945 the Nazis flew to the Dark Side of the Moon and established a secret hideout where they've been preparing for their grand return. The year is 2018 and the Americans return to the Moon in search for powerful energy source Helium-3. They end up landing too close to the secret Nazi fortress and although the big Nazi weapon Götterdämmerung is not yet ready to be deployed soon the skies are full of iron as the Nazi war machines take a pre-emptive move against threat from Earth. The Dictator's Cut of Iron Sky is an all-new take on the film following the original vision of the director Timo Vuorensola. This version is 20 minutes longer loaded with new visual effects new music from Laibach - and of course tons of new politically incorrect humour. Special Features: 20 Minutes of Additional Footage

• Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £4.45   |  Saving you £7.54 (169.44%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Papi is back, and he’s ready to party! From the studio that brought you Beverly Hills Chihuahua – you’re invited to the ultimate celebration of friendship and family: Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva La Fiesta! Join Papi (voiced by George Lopez) and his two – and four-legged family as they move into a posh Beverly Hills hotel, complete with a luxurious doggy spa. But there’s trouble in puppy paradise when Rosa, the littlest member of the pack, feels smaller and less special than ever. Now it’s up to Papi to help Rosa find – and celebrate – her inner strength, which turns out to be bigger than she ever dreamed. Overflowing with laughter, love and excitement, this is tail-wagging fun for the whole family!

• The Spirit Of The Beehive | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in rural Spain just after Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War Victor Erice's debut film The Spirit Of The Beehive is a remarkable story of a child's innocence amid post-war traumas. Ana Torrent gives a stunning performance as a young girl adjusting to the new Fascist rule. When a travelling cinema comes to town and shows the Boris Karloff film Frankenstein Ana starts to worry about the fate of the Monster. Goaded on by her sister who tells her the Monster lives on the

• Colors | DVD | (09/07/2001) from £8.14   |  Saving you £4.85 (59.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Directed by Dennis Hopper, Colors is a superior 1988 action movie set among the street gangs of LA that teams up Robert Duvall as Hodges, the elder cop, with young hothead partner Danny McGavin (Sean Penn). Investigating a murderous feud between the “Bloods” and the “Crips”, Duvall attempts to impress upon the impetuous Penn the value of a more cautious, easy-going approach in dealing with gang members, rather than trying to charge in among them. The film as a whole was one of the first to take a serious, unromantic and unstereotypical look at gang culture, at how youngsters are sucked into it, how few options are actually open to these macho hoodlums and how little they have in the way of family, community and stability other than the gangs. The partnership between Penn and Duvall by contrast, though well played, is pretty much the standard old cop/young cop set-up, right down to Duvall’s frequent, ominous remarks about how close he is to retirement. While the action is sometimes disjointed and the relationships between the gangs at times confused, it at least helps to dispel the usual Hollywood good vs. evil dynamic. Instead, there’s a more ambient sense of violence, desperation, retribution and recrimination. Penn’s doomed relationship with a “homegirl” indicates that while the LAPD may capture a few felons, they’ve little chance of capturing the hearts and minds of the criminalised poor. Later films such as John Singleton’s Boyz 'n the Hood (1991) would go further in exploring how life looks from the gangsta perspective.On the DVD: The films is presented in an anamorphic 16:9 widescreen version, with the usual chapter and language selections. The only other feature is the original, detailed but run-of-the-mill trailer. --David Stubbs

• Return Of The Living Dead | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A sudden storm brings a shower of polluted rain and in a downtown cemetery something stirs six feet under the earth. The bad news is the living dead are back. The worse news is that they haven't had a decent meal in years... and as anybody will tell you there's nothing as greedy as a ghoul with a taste for human brains. 'Return Of The Living Dead' is a special effects masterpiece and has its rotting tongue firmly in its ghoulish green cheek.