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• Long Good Friday / Mona Lisa | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Long Good Friday (Dir. John MacKenzie 1981): In the savage and deadly world of the gangland king the man at the top is ruler only for as long as he controls everything in his territory. For that man the rewards can be infinite but so are the dangers. Harold Shand is enjoying the height of his powers and he is on the verge of something that would make his current 'arrangements' small fry. But stronger forces than even he can control have moved in and taken over. Climaxing in one long and bloody day of terror an Easter Good Friday he is to see his empire begin to crack and crumble. Mona Lisa (Dir. Neil Jordan 1981): Love is a weakness to be exploited and betrayed. Starring Bob Hoskins Michael Caine and Cathy Tyson 'Mona Lisa' is a classic drama written and directed by Neil Jordan about a driver (Hoskins) who falls for his employer - high-class prostitute Simone (Tyson). The DVD includes interviews and a commentary with Bob Hoskins and Neil Jordan the original theatrical trailer subtitles for the hearing impaired and much more!

• Carry On Henry | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £13.97   |  Saving you £-3.98 (-39.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Shot in the bright postal colours of a seaside postcard, Carry on Henry applies the usual Carry On sniggering to the married life of Henry VIII. Talbot Rothwell's script is standard bedroom farce and full of jokes about choppers, while the threat of beheading and the actuality of torture are constantly present but only as the terrible things that happen to cartoon characters who will be back next time. Sid James turns in one of his better performances as the endlessly lecherous and fickle Henry, married to Joan Sims and lusting after Barbara Windsor. There is a genuine sexual chemistry between James and Windsor which at times almost breaks open the farce formula. The usual regulars--Kenneth Williams as Thomas Cromwell, Terry Scott as Cardinal Wolsey, Charles Hawtrey as Sir Roger--do their usual turns; Williams is more subdued than usual, while Hawtrey hugely enjoys playing the Queen's secret lover. This was not one of the high points of the series, but it has its own curious charm. On the DVD: The DVD has no extras whatever, but is a good clean print in 1.77:1 ratio with crisp mono sound. --Roz Kaveney

• Machine Gun Kelly | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on the unique real life story Charles Bronson stars as Machine Gun Kelly a cold blooded sadist whose 1930's rampage earned him the title of Public Enemy Number One by the FBI. His homicidal tendencies are linked to his personal sensitivity of his height. Together with his ever loving partner Flo Kelly decides to crown his criminal achievements with a high profile kidnapping. Unfortunately Kelly takes too great a gamble and his intended farewell to the criminal world results in his own bloody downfall.

• Fear Of The Dark | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £12.96   |  Saving you £2.03 (13.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  12 year old Brian Billings is gripped by fear of the dark tormented by nightmares that feed off his terror. His brother dismisses the visions as attention seeking. But then one night they are left alone at home as a storm rages and a power cut plunges the house into pitch blackness. Now the two brothers must unite in a battle against the malevolent forces of darkness.

• Angels Hard As They Come | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £8.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Raw violent action when two gangs of bikers and some hippies meet up in an old ghost town... Definitely not for the squeamish - this hard hitting and powerful movie follows biker Long John riding into trouble after being invited to a party in a ghost town. The gathering isn't for the faint hearted as Hells Angels and a group of hippies party hard with booze and sex replacing conversation. But trouble looms as a girl is murdered and Long John and his pals are the chief suspects an

• X Change | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the not too distant future - technological advances means the quickest way to travel is to transfer your conciousness to another body. Stefan Toffler is called in to investigate a terrorist attack unknowingly he's transferred to the body of the main terrorist and has only two days to find himself.... or die!

• Tchaikovsky - the Sleeping Beauty (Nureyev) | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £21.59   |  Saving you £1.40 (6.48%)   |  RRP £22.99

  TchaikovskyThe Sleeping BeautyBallet in Three ActsPrincess Aurora - Veronica TennantPrince Florimund - Rudolf NureyevKing Florestan - Charles KirbyThe Queen - Susan MenckCatalabutte - Simon SemonoffCarabosse - Celia FrancaThe Lilac Fairy - Kristine SoleriThe Bluebird - Frank AugustynPrincess Florine - Karen KainSoloists Artists and Orchestra of the National Ballet of CanadaGeorge Crum conductor

• Ripping Yarns - The Box Set | DVD | (24/10/2002) from £69.99   |  Saving you £-45.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ripping Yarns: six episodes of Michael Palin's remarkable comedy showcase in one box set. The Testing of Eric Olthwaite: Set in the days of dark depression before Last of the Summer Wine started bringing jobs to the area. Eric's tough mining parents find their son so boring that they run away from home. Eric torn between love for his parents and lack of brain cells becomes involved with a hardened criminal. The rest is history. Tompkinson's Schooldays: Set in the Edwardian era the heyday of school stories it has all the authentic ingredients for absolutely topping schoolboy fun - excitement adventure heroes and bullies. Escape from Stalag Luft 112B: A tale of courage and valour from behind the lines in the Kaiser's Germany. An inspiring story of camp life and British officer who won't lie down! Whinfrey's Last Case: Dashing debonair Gerald Whinfrey saves his country twice a week but in 1913 a German plot to start the First World War without telling anybody coincides with his holiday. Where do Whinfrey's priorities lie? Has he got any? The Curse of the Claw: Gothic horror comes to Maidenhead. A timely reminder of what happens when men dabble in the dark world of oriental superstition. Michael Palin aided by plastic surgery plays old and young Kevin as well as Kevin's childhood hero Uncle Jack - an enormously cheerful physical disaster area who has had every disease known to man usually at the same time. Golden Gordon: Superfan Gordon Ottershaw supports a team which hasn't won a match for six years. But worse is yet to come when Gordon and his bicycle clips are re-united in a last desperate bid for glory.

• Carry On Don't Lose Your Head | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £6.66   |  Saving you £3.33 (50.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Carry On Don't Lose Your Head parodies the adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, with crinkly, cackling Sid James as master of disguise the Black Fingernail and Jim Dale as his assistant Lord Darcy. He must rescue preposterously effete aristo Charles Hawtrey from the clutches of Kenneth Williams' fiendish Citizen Camembert and his sidekick Citizen Bidet (Peter Butterworth). The Black Fingernail is assisted in his efforts to thwart the birth of the burgeoning republic by the almost supernatural stupidity of his opponents, who fail to recognise the frankly undisguisable Sid James even when dressed as a flirty young woman. What with an executioner who is tricked into beheading himself in order to prove the efficacy of his own guillotine, it's all a little too easy. As usual, no groan-worthy pun is left unturned, nor unheralded by the soundtrack strains of a long whistle or wah-wah trumpet. This is pretty silly stuff even by Carry On standards, with most of the cast barely required to come out of first gear and an overlong climactic swordfight sequence hardly raising the dramatic stakes. Most of the humour here resides neither in the script nor the characterisation but in the endlessly watchable Williams' whooping, nasal delivery (occasionally lapsing into broad Cockney) and the jowl movements of the always-underrated Butterworth. On the DVD: There are no extra features except scene selection. The picture is 4:3 full screen ratio.--David Stubbs

• Captain Kidd | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The exhilaratingly unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolving around treasure and treachery!

• Witchcraft 2 - The Temptress | DVD | (06/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Many years have passed since baby William was snatched from Satan's grasp. Protected from his sordid past by his adopted parents, William has grown into manhood unaware that he is the son of Satan.
  Now Satan has sent the sultry Witch Delores to find his kidnapped heir and return him to his side, in the depths of hell. To fulfill Satan's devious plan, Delores must first seduce William...and whoever gets in her way will die!

• Ballad in Blue | DVD | (09/06/2014) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Making his only major film appearance legendary soul singer musician and composer Ray Charles helps transform the lives of a blind boy and his widowed mother in this poignant uplifting film drama set in mid-1960s London. Presented in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio Ballad in Blue sees Charles - who had lost his sight completely by the age of eight - performing some of his best-loved songs including I Got a Woman Hit the Road Jack and Busted. During a performance for blind children global star Ray Charles befriends David a young boy who has recently lost his sight and tries to help him come to terms with his condition. Then during a world tour Charles finds himself in Paris where a surgeon is pioneering a radical procedure that could restore David's sight; he sets out not only to convince David's over-protective mother to allow her son to undergo the surgery but also to reconcile her with her boyfriend a struggling composer who seeks solace in alcohol. Special Features: Image gallery

• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, Act 5 (Romeo & Juliet & As You Like It) | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The animated Shakespeare series continues with the tale of two star crossed lovers contending with feuding families in Romeo and Juliet and the comical pangs of the heart from the daughter of an exiled Duke in As You Like It

• For Hire | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This 1997 thriller For Hire ponders the question of what terrible things a person might be persuaded to do, given the right circumstances and the right price. Rob Lowe plays Mitch, a Chicago cab driver trying to make it as an actor, married to the pregnant Faye. Among his clients are bestselling writer Lou Weber (Joe Mantegna), who befriends Mitch and confides in him that a drug dealer is trying to kill him. Over the next few days, Mitch begins to suffer severe stomach pains, collapsing in Weber's apartment after a fare and is diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer. With only a short time to live, he decides to take up Weber's offer to rub out his drug dealer stalker for $50,000, a nest egg for his family after he's gone. A not entirely unpredictable twist follows, hinted at by the Lucifer-like beard sported by Mantegna and the film alights only briefly to meditate on the potential for evil in all of us before resuming its journey along conventional, though certainly passable Hollywood thriller lines. An intriguing precept--it's just a slight shame that neither the players nor director's hearts seem really to be in this movie. On the DVD: Features a trailer. --David Stubbs

• Alien 3 | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (32.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the lone survivor when her crippled spaceship crash lands on Fiorina 161 a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. Ripley's fears that an Alien was aboard her craft are confirmed when the mutilated bodies of ex-cons begin to mount. Without weapons or modern technology of any kind Ripley must lead the men into battle against the terrifying creature. And soon she discovers a horrifying fact about her link with the Alien a realisation that may compel Ripley to try destroying not only the horrific creature but herself as well.

• On The Game | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Narrated by Charles Gray (Diamonds Are Forever) On the Game is a riotous look at the history of the oldest profession from the ancient Hebrews who decreed all women must prostitute themselves once to the Roman Emperor Claudius' wife who was the most famous part time hooker to the Victorians who were austere on the surface but not when their clothes were off! Starring some beautiful girls with lashings of nudity and some true British greats such as Carmen Silvera (Allo Allo) and David Brierley (Voice of K9 in Doctor Who) On the Game is a vintage slice of Slap & Tickle.

• Body Shot | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £11.10   |  Saving you £-5.11 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A photographer finds himself framed when his photographs develop into evidence against him.

• Painted Desert, The / Clark Gable On Film | DVD | (01/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Painted Desert: Filmed at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona The Painted Desert follows the lives of two feuding cowboys J. Farrell MacDonald and William Farnum who clash over who will raise an orphaned boy they find at a deserted waterhole. Farnum takes the boy whom he names Bill but several years later the feud continues this time over water their adjacent ranches share. Tension escalates until the grown Bill played by William Boyd must choose between h

• Suddenly | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Nothing ever happens in Suddenly. It's a just small town with small concerns. That is until the President decides to show up... In this intelligent 1954 film noir thriller Frank Sinatra delivers an electrifying lead performance as psychotic undercover assassin John Baron. Alleged to have been viewed by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 only days prior to the shooting of President Kennedy 'Suddenly' was subsequently withdrawn from circulation by United Artists at Sinatra's personal request. Chillingly prophetic in it's subject matter 'Suddenly' is a killer addition to any noir collection.

• The Magnificent Seven | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Yul Brynner stars as one of seven master gunmen who aid the helpless farmers of an isolated village pitted against an army of marauding bandits in this rousing action tale based on Akira Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai. Released in 1960 John Sturges' masterpiece garnered an Oscar nomination for Elmer Bernstein (for Best Score) and launched the film careers of Steve McQueen Charles Bronson Robert Vaughn and James Coburn.