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  • College [1927]College | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £9.94   |  Saving you £10.05 (101.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

    For many, Buster Keaton is the greatest comedian of the silent era rated even above Chaplin, and College (1927) is one of his finest films. A poor student who has to work his way through college, Buster is desperate to win the attention of a pretty girl and takes up sports. His attempt at the high jump is a classic piece of clowning, and as the cox in a boat race Buster displays his full genius for comic invention. Through every disaster, the great "stone face" as he was nicknamed betrays not a flicker of emotion, enduring all humiliations with aplomb. If not quite the equal of The Navigator (1924) or its immediate predecessor The General (1927), College shows Keaton at the top of his form. Tragically, the following year he lost his independence when he signed for MGM. His career collapsed, his marriage broke up and he became an alcoholic, never to regain former glories. On the DVD: The organ music accompanying this silent feature is pleasantly unobtrusive, and apart from a short section in the middle where it deteriorates, the print quality is reasonable. In addition there are two excellent Keaton shorts, One Week (1920) and The Blacksmith (1922).-- Ed Buscombe

  • Reservoir Dogs - Special Edition -Mr Blonde [1993]Reservoir Dogs - Special Edition -Mr Blonde | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £24.93   |  Saving you £-4.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e. a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them colour-coded aliases (Mr Orange, Mr Pink, Mr White) to conceal their identities even from each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception and betrayal.As many critics have observed, it is a movie about "honor among thieves" (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful and even--in the end--unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. --Jim Emerson

  • Bad LoveBad Love | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £21.97   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

    Titles Comprise: Lolita: Humbert is smitten. He plans to marry Charlotte Haze. That way he'll always be close to his dear one - Charlotte's precocious daughter! Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick explores the theme of sexual obsession (a subject he would revisit 37 years later in Eyes Wide Shut) with this darkly comic and deeply moving version of Vladimir Nabokov's novel. James Mason plays devious deluded Humbert: wedded to needy Charlotte (Shelley Winters); rivaled by the ubiquitous Clare Quilty (chameleonlike Peter Sellers); and enraptured to his gelatinous core by the blithe teen (Sue Lyon) with that lovely lyrical lilting name - Lolita! The Postman Always Rings Twice: When Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway) hires drifter Frank (John Garfield) to work as a handyman at his roadside diner he unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that will lead to his own murder. Nick's beautiful wife Cora (Lana Turner) persuades her lover Frank to join her in a plot to kill her husband but events spin out of control as the suspense builds in this tale of lust and immorality... Dangerous Liaisons: The game of conquest is underway. Anything goes when a predatory wealthy widow (Glenn Close) challenges a notorious rake (John Malkovich) to seduce a beautiful young newlywed (Michelle Pfeiffer). But this time a cardinal rule will be broken: two players will fall in love - with tragic results. This acclaimed winner of three Academy Awards boasts grand 18th century without missing a beat.

  • Feel Like Going HomeFeel Like Going Home | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Director Martin Scorsese pays homage to the Delta Blues. Musician Corey Harris travels through Mississippi and on to West Africa exploring the roots of the music. The film celebrates the early Delta Bluesman through original performances and rare archival footage.

  • Selwyn: the Complete Series [DVD]Selwyn: the Complete Series | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Bill Maynard returns as Selwyn Froggitt known to us all as the council labourer hapless handyman and all-round public nuisance persistently haunting the bar of the Scarsdale Working Men's Club and Institute. This time however Selwyn's making an attempt to broaden his horizons: bubbling with his usual enthusiasm he's uprooted himself from Scarsdale to the Paradise Valley Holiday Camp where he has been appointed Entertainments Officer. It's a big step for Selwyn but he can surely take it all in his stride... Spinning off from Yorkshire Television's hugely successful Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt Selwyn was again produced and directed by sitcom legend Ronnie Baxter (Rising Damp); this release contains the complete series originally screened in 1978.

  • Reservoir Dogs - Special Edition -Mr White [1993]Reservoir Dogs - Special Edition -Mr White | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e. a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them colour-coded aliases (Mr Orange, Mr Pink, Mr White) to conceal their identities even from each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception and betrayal.As many critics have observed, it is a movie about "honor among thieves" (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful and even--in the end--unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. --Jim Emerson

  • Classic Pop Of The 80sClassic Pop Of The 80s | DVD | (18/12/2006) from £6.05   |  Saving you £1.94 (32.07%)   |  RRP £7.99

    This rare collection of original videos brings back the fashions and fads of the period as well as its unforgettable soundtrack. Featuring Smokey Robinson Billy Joel Spandau Ballet Lionel Richie Natalie Cole Huey Lewis & The News Culture Club Tina Turner and Marvin Gaye...

  • Reservoir Dogs Limited Edition DVD Box Set [1993]Reservoir Dogs Limited Edition DVD Box Set | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

    Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e. a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them colour-coded aliases (Mr Orange, Mr Pink, Mr White) to conceal their identities even from each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception and betrayal.As many critics have observed, it is a movie about "honor among thieves" (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful and even--in the end--unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. --Jim Emerson

  • Crime PartnersCrime Partners | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £16.16   |  Saving you £-6.17 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Billy (Tyrin Turner) and Jackie (John Bryant) two bottom-rung criminals are sick of getting no recognition for their work. When a crime boss asks them to handle a high-profile hit they're ready for the recognition but unfortunately they aren't prepared for the aftermath! Based on a novel by Donald Goines.

  • Reservoir Dogs - Special Edition -Mr Brown [1993]Reservoir Dogs - Special Edition -Mr Brown | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £10.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

    Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e. a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them colour-coded aliases (Mr Orange, Mr Pink, Mr White) to conceal their identities even from each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception and betrayal.As many critics have observed, it is a movie about "honor among thieves" (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful and even--in the end--unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. --Jim Emerson

  • Verdi - Aida, La TraviataVerdi - Aida, La Traviata | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

    Performed at La Scala in Italy 'Aida' is Guiseppe Verdi's famous grand opera at its very best. 'La Traviata' is Peter Hall's production and comes from the 1988 Glyndebourne Festival under the musical direction of Bernard Haitink.

  • Bloody WednesdayBloody Wednesday | DVD | (29/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

    After losing his job a young man holes up in a ramshackle hotel where after being terrorised his mind begins to run riot and turns to a bloody revenge against those he perceives to have slighted him...

  • Africa ExpressAfrica Express | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £9.35   |  Saving you £0.64 (6.84%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Italian action star Giuliano Gemma stars in the comedy adventure Africa Express. Gemma plays John Baxter an American adventurer who sells various goods in Africa with the help of his chimpanzee partner. His goal is to save up enough money to open a gas station in his home city of Detroit. But during his travels he encounters disguised spy Madeleine Cooper (Ursula Andress) who is running from crazed hunter Robert Preston (Jack Palance). Now his simple existence as a trader

  • Cutthroat AlleyCutthroat Alley | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £5.90   |  Saving you £10.09 (171.02%)   |  RRP £15.99

    A serial killer is spreading terror throughout the hood slitting people's throats and causing mass fear and panic. Jacob and his friends decide to take action against this deadly killer certain that they are risking their lives against an insane psychopath...

  • Surf's Up/Open Season/Monster HouseSurf's Up/Open Season/Monster House | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

    Surf's Up: A stylistically daring CGI feature ""Surf's Up"" is based on the groundbreaking revelation that surfing was actually invented by penguins. In the film a documentary crew will take audiences behind the scenes and onto the waves during the most competitive heartbreaking and dangerous display of surfing known to man the Penguin World Surfing Championship. Open Season: Boyz 'n the Wood Boog a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot a fast-talking mule deer the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to create a rag-tag army against the hunters. Monster House: CGI animation from executive producers from Robert Zemeckis (Back To The Future) and Steven Spielberg in which three teens discover that their neighbour's house is really a living breathing scary monster! Even for a 12-year old D.J. Walters has a particularly overactive imagination. He is convinced that his haggard and crabby neighbor Horace Nebbercracker who terrorizes all the neighborhood kids is responsible for Mrs. Nebbercracker's mysterious disappearance. Any toy that touches Nebbercracker's property promptly disappears swallowed up by the cavernous house in which Horace lives. D.J. has seen it with his own eyes! But no one believes him not even his best friend Chowder. What everyone does not know is D.J. is not imagining things. Everything he's seen is absolutely true and it's about to get much worse than anything D.J could have imagined....

  • When Thugs Cry [2003]When Thugs Cry | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

    When Thugs Cry examines the struggles of two brothers from Alabama's sticky black clay prarie to rise above ghetto celebrity in the rap music scene and land a major record deal from Chicago's asphalt jungle. Jah-Rista in the role of mic-controller Jeffrey Love and prolific producer Soundmaster T in that of Jeff's beat making brother Terry virtually play themselves for a story set in Englewood. Although their acting debuts both pull off compelling performances that journey through love sibiling rivalry betrayal violence and redemption. Carl Wright makes his serious film role debut as the cleric who encourages the brothers to follow their dreams and persevere through the grim obstacles partly embodied by their mother. A startling look at inner city life.

  • McVicar [1980]McVicar | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Sentenced to 23 years: he won't accept a day of it! This is the incredible true story of John McVicar - a man who took on the entire prison system and refused to surrender. Roger Daltrey gives a powerful performance as McVicar in a film that is shocking brutal and full of gritty violent realism. The film strongly depicts the brutal aspects of British prison life and follows McVicar into his eventual rehabilitation.

  • Earl Klugh - The Jazz Channel PresentsEarl Klugh - The Jazz Channel Presents | DVD | (26/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  • Heaven & EarthHeaven & Earth | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

    In 1998 UK guitarist Stuart Smith assembled a cast of legendary musicians to record a solo record entitled Heaven and Earth. The Making of Heaven and Earth features over 4 hours of footage including interviews previously unseen live and studio footage an in-depth breakdown of teh writing and recording of each song and live shows. Track List 1. Don't Keep Me Waiting 2. Heaven and Earth 3. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean 4. When A Blind Man Cries 5. Life On The Line 6. Dreams of Desire 7. Still Got The Blues 8. Do You Ever Think Of Me? 9. It's Got To Be Love 10. Shadow of the Tyburn Tree 11. Road To Melnibone 12. When The Blues Catch Up With You / Howling AT The Moon 13. Memories 14. Trouble In Paradise 15. Lose My Number 16. The Eyes of Man

  • Warrant-Born Again DVD [2007]Warrant-Born Again DVD | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    Tracklist: 1. Devil's Juice 2. Dirty Jack 3. Bourbon Country Line 4. Hell CA 5. Angels 6. Love Strikes Like Lightning 7. Glimmer 8. Roller Coaster 9. Down In Diamonds 10. Velvet Noose 11. Roxy 12. Good Times

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