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• Shaft Trilogy | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  The original and hippest version of Shaft cruised onto cinema screens in 1971. John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is an African-American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Director Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) seems fond of certain detective genre clichés (e.g., the hero walking into his low-rent office and finding a hood waiting to talk with him), but he and Roundtree make those moments their own. Shaft produced a couple of sequels, a follow-up television series, and a remake starring Samuel L. Jackson, but none had the impact this movie did. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com Shaft's Big Score is the first sequel to the super-hip 1971 original. When a pal of detective John Shaft is murdered in a bombing, New York's coolest private eye finds himself caught in the middle of a power struggle between black and white gangsters over the numbers racket in Queens. Directed by Gordon Parks (who does a brief cameo as a croupier in an illegal casino) and written by Ernest Tidyman (both of whom made the original Shaft), this film lacks the pacing of its progenitor. Roundtree is at his best when he's questioning a woman he's just met about a suspect while at the same time beguiling her into the sack (ah, those lazy, crazy days of the sexual revolution). The finale--a shootout in a cemetery, followed by a car-boat-helicopter chase through Queens and up the Harlem River--is preposterously drawn-out: Shaft, impervious to machine-gun fire, winds up tripping, spraining his ankle, and limping while running from the chopper; two shots later, he's sprinting like a halfback. Look for late Muhammad Ali trainer Drew Bundini Brown as a wise-cracking mobster. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.comShaft in Africa, the second sequel to the original hit, foreshadows itself early on when Shaft, asked to go undercover in Africa to halt a modern-day slave trade, claims that he's not James Bond but strictly Sam Spade. Bond, however, is the operative model here, with John Shaft masquerading as an Ethiopian to infiltrate the slave business and bring it down. Yet everyone he encounters seems to know who he is and wants to kill him--but the string of dead bodies he leaves in his wake across two continents proves that no one is able to stop everyone's favourite hip private eye. Written by Stirling Silliphant, the film is long on action set pieces that are filmed with more energy than the previous movie, Shaft's Big Score. Given contemporary practices involving smugglers of illegal Chinese and Mexican immigrants, the plot isn't all that far-fetched. Roundtree, as usual, is the picture of unflappable cool--but don't get him mad. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• The Last Sect | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £9.75   |  Saving you £3.24 (33.23%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A modern group of seductive vampires are using the best source for fresh victims: the internet. While Van Helsing's descendent tracks them a young journalist is getting more than she bargained for from her story.

• SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongicus | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £7.58   |  Saving you £5.40 (117.65%)   |  RRP £9.99

  SpongicusPlankton turns the Chum Bucket into a realistic replica of the Colosseum, complete with a man-eating lionfish! Suction Cup SymphonySquidward’s inspiration for his musical entry in the Bikini Bottom Symphony Orchestra competition… SpongeBob and Patrick! House FancyJealous that Squilliam’s on House Fancy, Squidward lures the show producers to his fancier house. Desperate to make his home presentable, Squidward lets SpongeBob help.Krabby RoadPlankton forms a band that includes SpongeBob, hoping SpongeBob will write a song revealing the Krabby Patty ingredients. Penny FoolishMr. Krabs thinks he sees SpongeBob pick up a penny from the ground. A penny that should be HIS!Nautical NoviceBefore a class trip to the Nautical Museum, SpongeBob memorises the entire history of boating. Isn’t that reason enough for Mrs. Puff to give him his licence?Not NormalSpongeBob becomes “normal.” And boy, is it boring!GoneIt’s the strangest thing. SpongeBob awakens to find everyone in Bikini Bottom is gone!

• Borrowed Time | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £6.22   |  Saving you £9.77 (157.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Borrowed Time tells the story of the unlikely friendship between a hapless young burglar Kevin (Theo Barklem-Biggs - The Inbetweeners Movie BBC's Silk series 2) and his eccentric victim pensioner Philip (Phil Davis - Quadrophenia Vera Drake Brighton Rock). Desperate for cash and short on options to pay back local tyrant 'Ninja' Nigel Kevin breaks into Philip's house only to be held hostage by the old man at gunpoint. What follows is a bittersweet comedy about growing up and rediscovering youth in parallel as the burglar and victim form a bond that will help them both find a way out of their respective troubles.

• Miami Vice - Series 5 - Complete | DVD | (26/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Miami Vice the most innovative and powerful TV series of its time returns with the final season Season Five on DVD! Featuring unforgettable songs from musical legends in 5.1 Surround Sound and amazing guest stars these DVD releases are destined to be a must-own for any Miami Vice fan. Join Crockett and Tubbs as they reunite in the world of Miami Vice in the groundbreaking series that defined a decade and became a cultural icon. Episodes Comprise: 1. Hostile Takeover (3) 2. Redemption in Blood (4) 3. Heart of Night 4. Bad Timing 5. Borrasca 6 .Line of Fire 7. Asian Cut 8. Hard Knocks 9. Fruit of the Poison Tree 10. To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance) 11. Miami Squeeze 12. Jack of All Trades 13. The Cell Within 14. The Lost Madonna 15. Over the Line 16. Victim of Circumstance 17. Freefall (1 & 2) 18. World of Trouble 19. Miracle Man 20. Leap of Faith 21. Too Much Too Late

• Comin' Round The Mountain / Little Giant | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £2.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (70.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Buck Privates Come Home: Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building. The World Of Abbott And Costello: A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap In the Navy Hit the Ice Who Done It? Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Mexican Hayride Hold That Ghost Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion Little Giant In Society Ride 'Em Cowboy The Naughty Nineties Buck Privates Come Home Buck Privates Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops Lost in Alaska Comin' Round the Mountain Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.

• Dragon Ball Z - The Strongest Guy In The World | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Thanks to the dragon balls and his dedicated assistant Dr Kochin the evil Dr. Wheelo has been freed from his icy tomb. Now these mad scientists plot to take over the world with their fearsome biotechnology - there's just one hitch: Dr. Wheelo's body has died but now his brain is living in a glass jar! Dr. Wheelo seeks the strongest healthiest body in the world to be the new home for his magnificent brain so Dr. Kochin and the android warriors kidnap Piccolo and master Roshi trying

• Female Perversions | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Female Perversions is the provocative and stimulating story of Eve Stephens a successful attorney struggling under the tremendous pressures of power promiscuity and a destructive sister. Consumed by wild sexual fantasies she is unable to feel satisfied by either her male or female lovers. She uses them to fuel her all consuming desire for sexual fulfilment regardless of the damage she is doing to those around her. In a truly shocking exploration of female perversion Swinton delivers a riveting performance that ranks alongside her stunning portrayal of `Orlando'. Dare to let yourself go... where you've never been before.

• Dead Set (re-package) | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From Nathan Barley co-creator and Guardian writer Charlie Brooker comes the outrageous new thriller Dead Set E4's first-ever horror series released exclusively by 4DVD on 3rd November. Starring Jaime Winstone (Donkey Punch Kidulthood) Dead Set is a chilling new horror series in which the dead are returning to life and attacking the living. Curiously there are a few people left in Britain who aren't worried about any of this - that's because they're the remaining contestants in Big Brother. Cocooned in the safety of the Big Brother house they're blissfully unaware of the horrific events unfolding in the outside world. Until an eviction night when all hell breaks loose... Kelly (Winstone) a production runner working on a fictional series of Big Brother finds herself trying to fend off the walking dead alongside her producer boss Patrick (Andy Nyman Severance) boyfriend Riq (Riz Ahmed Britz) and the remaining Big Brother housemates. Over the ensuing days in a cruel reflection of the game show they thought they were entering the contestants fall victim one by one to the hungry masses outside. Staying alive requires crucial teamwork - which can be tricky when you're a group specifically selected by TV producers to wind each other up. Featuring a range of cameo appearances from Davina McCall and several former Big Brother housemates Dead Set promises to be a gripping horror bound to keep you at the edge of your seat.

• Roy Chubby Brown Live: Pussy & Meatballs | Blu Ray | (22/11/2010) from £10.48   |  Saving you £16.50 (194.35%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Roy Chubby Brown Live: Pussy And Meatballs

• You See Me Laughin - The Last Of The Hill Country Bluemen | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £14.26   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  You See Me Laughin' is a full length documentary that takes a look at the often untamed lifestyles of the last great North Mississippi bluesmen and the Oxford MS based label Fat Possum Records that struggles to record them. The film is an exciting collage of exclusive interviews live performances and personal anecdotes. It includes rare black and white footage of R.L. Burnside from 1974 disturbingly funny stories about touring told firsthand by Iggy Pop and Jon Spencer Blues Explo

• Milt Jackson / Ray Brown | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £5.16   |  Saving you £7.09 (181.79%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Inarguably one of the most important figures in 20th-century American music jazz impresario Norman Granz introduced live jazz to mainstream audiences with his Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series founded four record labels including the legendary Verve Records managed the careers of icons Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson and produced a roster of some of the greatest artists in jazz history: Charlie Parker Lester Young Bud Powell Count Basie Billie Holiday Stan Getz Dizz

• Bonded By Blood | DVD | (16/12/2013) from £4.49   |  Saving you £3.50 (77.95%)   |  RRP £7.99

• Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles - Vol. 5 | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Inspired by Robert Heinlein's pulp classic and executive-produced by Paul Verhoeven, who made the big-screen version, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles is cutting-edge TV animation that's more for grown-ups than kids. The neat equipment, combat suits and weapons are as deadly as they are cool, and even though the extreme gore and violence of the movie has been toned down, the endless threat from all manner of nasty bugs is still pretty terrifying. Five roughly 20-minute episodes are spliced together into a movie-length feature, which makes for a satisfyingly lengthy story arc instead of the more usual self-contained individual episodes. Like all good war stories, at its heart Roughnecks celebrates that Band of Brothers-style bonding in extreme circumstances, which we viewers can only experience vicariously. --Mark Walker

• Highlander: Immortal Edition (Limited Edition Steelbook) | Blu Ray | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor McLeod. He is immortal. Connor McLeod (Christopher Lambert - Mortal Kombat Subway) survives a wound that should kill him in a clan battle in the Scottish Highlands in 1536 and is banished from his village. Years later McLeod is met by Juan Sanchez Vlla-Lobos Ramirez (Sean Connery - The Untouchables The Hunt for Red October) a swordsman who teaches McLeod the truth about himself; he is immortal one of a race of many who can only die when the head is cut from the body. When one immortal takes the head of another the loser's power is absorbed into the winner. Ramirez teaches McLeod the ways of the sword until he is killed by his gravest foe the evil Kurgan (Clancy Brown - The Shawshank Redemption) who lusts for the ultimate power of the immortals The Prize; enough power to rule the earth forever. McLeod must fight his way through the centuries until the time of the Gathering when the few immortals who have survived the ages will come together to fight until only one remains. In New York City the final fight is about to begin and in the end there can be only one.

• Dirty Oil | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Deep behind-the-scenes into the strip-mined world of Alberta Canada where the vast and toxic Tar Sands deposit supplies the U.S. with the majority of its oil. Through the eyes of scientists 'big oil' officials politicians doctors environmentalists and aboriginal citizens directly impacted by 'the largest industrial project on the planet today ' the filmmakers journey to both sides of the border to see the emotional and irreversible toll this 'black gold rush' fueled by America's addiction to oil is taking on our planet.

• Peter Warlock - Some Little Joy (Mark Dexter/ Lucy Brown - A film by Tony Britten) | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Dancing At The Blue Iguana | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From Michael Radford the Oscar-winning director of Il Postino comes this unglamorous semi-improvised film exploring the complex intersecting lives of five exotic dancers who work at the LA strip-club The Blue Iguana. Showcasing six actresses who continue to win awards across their careers: Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill) Jennifer Tilly (Bound) Sandra Oh (Grey's Anatomy) Sheila Kelley (Singles) Charlotte Ayana (Training Day) and Kristin Bauer (True Blood).

• She Hate Me | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £7.31   |  Saving you £12.68 (173.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fired from his job for whistle-blowing, a high-powered executive turns to impregnating lesbian women for cash in the latest film from Spike Lee.

• Nightmare on Elm Street (Blu-ray + DVD Combi) | Blu Ray | (25/10/2010) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley) returns in A Nightmare on Elm Street, a contemporary re-imagining of the horror classic.