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• Rocky Anthology (Box Set) | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The story of Rocky Balboa, as presented in this five-movie Rocky anthology, looks suspiciously like a barely fictional parallel to Sylvester Stallone's own career. Such a strong vein of autobiography is hardly surprising, really, since Stallone wrote all five movies and directed II, III and IV. The original was a feel-good patriotic update on the American Dream, mirroring Stallone's own journey as a lucky break drags a man from the gutter into stardom; Rocky II was the story of a man who is subsequently plagued by the need to prove that his first success wasn't a fluke, and represented Stallone's attempt to keep his career afloat amidst a sudden explosion of blockbuster movies and superstar actors; the third featured a rival to his position echoing the friendly battle kept up with Schwarzenegger for box-office dominance; Rocky IV appeared at the same time as Rambo: First Blood Part II and was a veritable shower of self-glorification; and the fifth entered old age as gracefully as it could with younger blood ready to pounce from all directions. Balboa may have been "a little punchy", but Stallone was clearly the brains behind the Rockymovies' success.On the DVD: For picture and sound, it's to the first disc connoisseurs should turn. Transfer and 5.1 soundtrack are a notch above instalments III and IV. Inexplicably, II and V are only in three-channel surround. Disc 1 is also the place for the extras. Although the others feature their own trailer and a half-heartedly animated menu, the first has a montage menu that matches the excellent packaging and links rather easily to a hidden feature ("Rocky Meets Stallone"). There's a fascinating 12-minute "behind the scenes" short with director John Avildsen showing fight test footage and two short tributes to the late Burgess Meredith and cinematographer James Crabe. The commentary might seem a little crowded, featuring Avildsen, producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Talia Shire, Burt Young and Carl Weathers. The best feature is a 30-minute interview with Stallone, who remembers writing from an 8x9 room in Philadelphia and being inspired by an Ali fight. There are confessions about injuries, casting and his dog Butkus! As a 25th Anniversary special edition, the first disc alone is excellent value. --Paul Tonks

• Sharkzilla | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (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.

• L.A. Confidential / The Negotiator / Devil's Advocate | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  L A Confidential: L.A. Confidential is tough gorgeous and vastly entertaining (The New York Times) a genuine masterpiece that will knock your socks off (Rex Reed) and won 1997 Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Kim Basinger) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Director Curtis Hanson and a terrific cast serve up a ravishing thrilling tale of police corruption and Hollywood glamour in this film version of James Ellroy's novel. Three Cops (Kevin Spacey Russell Crowe Guy Pearce) a call girl (Kim Basinger) a mysterious millionaire (David Strathairn) a tabloid journalist (Danny De Vito) and the Chief of Detectives (James Cromwell) fuel a labyrinthine plot rife with mystery ambition romance and humour. The Negotiator: Maverick hostage negotiator Danny Roman (Samuel L. Jackson) is framed for embezzlement and murder. Newly married and unjustly faced with prison Roman turns hostage-taker to smoke out the guilty ones. Squaring off against him is respected methodical negotiator Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey). Under siege and racing the clock the two lock in a deadly battle of wits. Devil's Advocate: In this gleeful modern gothic fable Keanu Reeves plays eager Lomax and Al Pacino is the charismatic firm founder who knows there are cases to be won.... And soul to be lost. From Lomax's court triumphs and skyrocket rise to its double-twist ending The Devil's Advocate is red-hot entertainment. Lomax's life wife (Charlie Theron) and soul are on the line. He's landed a job that's Heaven on Earth...and which could lead him straight to hell.

• The Young Black Stallion | DVD | (22/03/2005) from £5.04   |  Saving you £9.95 (197.42%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Created as an IMAX movie based on the novel by father/son team Walter and Steven Farley Disney's Young Black Stallion tells the story of a wild colt who befriends a young girl in the Arabian desert eventually becoming her equine soul mate and champion racehorse. Set in 1946 North Africa the story begins as Neera gets separated from her desert caravan by an ambush of soldiers. Alone and lost she discovers a colt among the drifts and in time they forge a friendship of interdepende

• The Godfather: Part III | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £8.72   |  Saving you £9.27 (51.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  One of the greatest sagas in movie history continues! In this third film epic Corleone trilogy Al Pacino reprises the role of powerful family leader Micheal Corleone. Now in his sixties Micheal is dominated by two passions; freeing his family from crime and finding a suitable sucessor. That sucessor could be fiery Vincent (Andy Garcia)... but he may also be the spark that turns Michael's hopes of business legitimacy into an inferno of mob violence. Francis Ford Coppola directs P

• Rocky - Special Edition | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £9.35   |  Saving you £13.63 (214.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The 1976 Best Picture Award-winner Rocky has the look of a contemporary on-the-streets movie like Taxi Driver, but the heart of a fairytale. For the Bicentennial Year, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), a Muhammad Ali-like stars-and-stripes blowhard, cynically offers a title shot to an unknown over-the-hill Philadelphia club fighter, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone). Unlike the sequels, Rocky is a rare American sports movie to realise there's more drama and emotional resonance in losing than winning. The unique finale suggests that going the distance against the odds is more of a triumph than a conventional victory. Stallone, then an unknown as actor and writer, crafts the script to his own strengths--mumbling, Brando-like sincerity combined with explosive physicality expressed in his use of a side of beef as a punch-bag or wintery jogs around Philly. Surprisingly little of the film is taken up with ring action, as we follow Rocky's awkward courtship of pet-store minion Adrian (Talia Shire) and uneasy relationship with her slobbish brother (Burt Young), while Burgess Meredith provides the old pro licks as the curmudgeonly trainer. Though it led to a slick, steroid-fuelled franchise, it has a pleasing roughness, exemplified by the memorable funk/brass band score and the array of fidgety, credible method acting tics. On the DVD: 1.85:1 16x9 print, which represents the sometimes-slick, sometimes rough look of the cinematography; feature commentary with supporting cast and crew (Burt Young admits to rubbing vermouth into his neck to make himself repulsive), video interview with Stallone, a retrospective featurette (which includes news footage of the Ali fight that inspired the story), 8mm test fight footage with a flabbier Stallone, tributes to Burgess Meredith and cameraman James Crabe, trailers for Rocky and all the sequels (which makes a solid précis of the whole series). All this and a "special hidden feature" (a comic sketch with Sly meeting Rocky).--Kim Newman

• 88 Minutes | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £4.39   |  Saving you £11.60 (72.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A taut real-time thriller in which Al Pacino stars as a forensic psychiatrist who must track down his wannabe killer. His time is running out.

• Al Murray - Time Gentlemen Please - Complete Serie | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  37 episodes of the Al Murray sitcom Time Gentleman Please.

• An Inconvenient Truth | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £12.94   |  Saving you £7.05 (35.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

• Ultimate Gangsters Box Set 201 | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.46

  In this 10 disc collection features Five classic gangster films; American Gangster:Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team with director Ridley Scott (Gladiator) in this powerful, epic story. Armed with ruthless tactics and a strict sense of honour, crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) rules Harlem’s chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts (Crowe) sets out to bring down Lucas’s multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation. Carlito's Way: Oscar winner Al Pacino gives an electrifying performance as former drug kingpin Carlito Brigante, who is sprung from prison by his highpowered attorney (Academy Award winner Sean Penn). He stuns the New York underworld by vowing to go straight from a history of violence, but his plans are undermined by misguided loyalties and an outmoded code of honour. In a life-or-death battle, Carlito takes on therelentless forces that refuse to let him go.Casino:Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese’s riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas, 1973, is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob’s multimillion-dollar casinooperation, where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice.Mean Streets:Mean Streets announced Martin Scorsese’s arrival as a new filmmaking force – and marked his first historic teaming with Robert De Niro. It’s a story Scorsese lived, a semi-autobiographical tale of the first-generation sons and daughters of New York’s Little Italy. Harvey Keitel plays Charlie, working his way up the ranks of a local mob. Amy Robinson is Teresa, the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy. And in the starmaking role that won Best Supporting Actor Awards from the New York and National Society of FilmCritics, De Niro is Johnny Boy, a small-time gambler in big-time debt to loan sharks.Scarface:Directed by hit-maker Brian DePalma and produced by Martin Bregman who brought both Carlito’s Way legends to the screen, Scarface follows the violent career of a small-time Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami’s cocaine empire. With its intense screenplay by Academy Award Winner Oliver Stone, driving musical score by Giorgio Moroder, and superb insights into Miami’s Latin lifestyle, Scarface joins the ranks of Hollywood’s greatest underworld dramas, as it lays bare the sordid power of the American drug scene.

• Scarface 1983 + Scarface 1932 Special Edition with Statue | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £117.17   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  SCARFACE THE WORLD IS YOURS EDITION Say hello to the ultimate Tony Montana experience with the Scarface The World Is Yours Edition. This limited edition gift set includes: The World is Yours Collectible Statue Own a limited individually-numbered replica of one of the most iconic props from the film. Scarface (1983) 4K UHD Experience the unforgettable film like never before with HDR for brighter, deeper, more lifelike colour. Includes the brand new Scarface 35th Anniversary Reunion feature: an all-new conversation with Director Brian De Palma and actors Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer from the Tribeca Film Festival plus The Scarface Phenomenon. Scarface (1983) Blu-ray ™ Enjoy the film in HD with over 2 ½ hours of bonus features, including the new 35th Anniversary Reunion special feature. Scarface (1932) Blu-ray ™ See 2 versions of the original 1932 Scarface directed by Howard Hawks newly restored. BONUS FEATURES SCARFACE 35TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION: An all-new conversation with director Brian De Palma and actors Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer from the Tribeca Film Festival PLUS The Scarface Phenomenon The World of Tony Montana The Rebirth The Acting The Creating Deleted Scenes Scarface: The TV Version And More! In the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbour was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name Scarface. The iconic film starring Al Pacino along with Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Robert Loggia has become a cultural phenomenon brilliantly directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone.

• Michael Jackson's This Is It (1 Disc) | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £4.64   |  Saving you £15.35 (330.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Michael Jackson's "This Is It" will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place this summer.

• Serpico/The Untouchables/Chinatown | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £11.24   |  Saving you £1.75 (13.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Titles Comprise: Serpico: Sidney Lumet's tense thriller based on real events featuring an outstanding Al Pacino as an undercover officer who incurs the wrath of cop colleagues for exposing corruption within the force... The Untouchables: Brian De Palma's The Untouchables is a must-see masterpiece: set to a classic Ennio Morricone score this is the glorious and fierce depiction of the larger than life mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago - and the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down. This classic confrontation between good and evil stars Kevin Costner as federal agent Eliot Ness Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery winning an Oscar as Malone the cop who teaches Ness how to beat the mob: shoot fast and shoot first. Chinatown: A landmark movie in the film noir tradition Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one unforgettable night in ... Chinatown.

• Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson | Blu Ray | (01/06/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Horror Film Director Found Slain, Buried Under Floor , screamed the 1995 headlines read around the world. But the truth behind the wild life of Al Adamson including the production of such low budget classics as SATAN'SADISTS, DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and THE NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES and his grisly death reveals perhaps the most bizarre career in Hollywood history. Told through over 40 first-person recollections from friends, family, colleagues and historians plus rare clips and archival interviews with Adamson himself BLOOD & FLESH is the award-winning chronicle of bikers, go-go dancers, porn stars, aging actors, freak-out girls, Charles Manson, Colonel Sanders, alien conspiracies and homicidal contractors that House Of Mortal Cinema calls brilliant stuff a superb documentary and one of the top films of the year.

• The Munsters | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Get ready to be entertained by America's first family of fright. In this timeless one-of-a-kind comedy series. The unforgettable family of The Munsters casts a hilarious spell that will keep you laughing through every episode! Episodes comprise: 1. Munster Masquerade 2. My Fair Munster 3. A Walk on the Mild Side 4. Rock-a-Bye Munster 5. Pike's Pique 6. Low-Cal Munster 7. Tin Can Man 8. Herman the Great 9. Knock Wood Here Comes Charlie 10. Autu

• Clerks | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £17.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (10.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dante and Randal return in this sequel to Kevin Smith's seminal slacker classic.

• Scarface | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £5.98   |  Saving you £17.00 (568.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This sprawling epic of bloodshed and excess, Brian De Palma's update of the classic 1932 crime drama by Howard Hawks, sparked controversy over its outrageous violence when released in 1983. Scarface is a wretched, fascinating car wreck of a movie, starring Al Pacino as a Cuban refugee who rises to the top of Miami's cocaine-driven underworld, only to fall hard into his own deadly trap of addiction and inevitable assassination. Scripted by Oliver Stone and running nearly three hours, it's the kind of film that can simultaneously disgust and amaze you (critic Pauline Kael wrote "this may be the only action picture that turns into an allegory of impotence"), with vivid supporting roles for Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Robert Loggia. -- Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Parasite - Killer Parasit 3D (2-Disc Limited Collector‘s Edition Nr. 88) - Mediabook - Cover C - Limited Collector's Edition auf 222 Stück (Blu-ray 3D) (+ CD-Soundtrack) | Blu Ray | (14/03/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Al Murray: Stand Up Collection | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Al Murray: Barrel of Fun LiveThe Pub Landlord is back to serve up his unique, special brew of bar-room banter in this brand new stand-up show that left his regulars over-flowing with laughter. The Guv tackles all the current topics; from global warming and a PC-world gone mad, to debt and the financial crisis - whilst dispensing his knowledge on the ultimate fail-safe chat-up lines and, ahem,... erectile dysfunction. The People's Publican will also be campaigning for issues that have struck a note with his unerring humanity and compassion, such as giving ginger people their rights They're the British Aborigines and need to be left alone. Tap in to a whole new Barrel of Fun, and no half measures, with this hilarious DVD recorded live at London's Hammersmith Apollo. Al Murray: The Only Way is Epic TourBroken Britain may be staring into the bottom of an empty pint glass, but don't lose hope - Al Murray The Pub Landlord is back to fill it up again, with a brand new stand-up show of epic proportions. Britain's most irrepressible Innkeeper will be serving up his premier brew of ale-inspired acumen and bar-room buffoonery on this latest live DVD, recorded as part of his 2012 The Only Way is Epic Tour. This monumental new show from the multi-award-winning comedian directly follows the nationwide success of the Guv's twice extended Barrel of Fun tour. Get your orders in now! Special Features: Late Lock In '96: 2009's Stand Up Performance of The Pub Landlord's Classic First Perrier Nominated Show Alistair Murray: Sous le Veston: An Expose Into the Man Beneath the Blazer for the French Arts Channel Behind the Scenes: Including Unseen Footage from the 'Compete for the Meat' Quiz Shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2010

• Al Murray - Live 2005 | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £6.54   |  Saving you £13.45 (67.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Al Murray returns with his inspired Pub Landlord comic character!