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• Never The Twain - Series 5 and 6 - Complete | DVD | (10/10/2011) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Hill Street Blues - Season 3 | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  ""Let's be careful out there."" The complete second season of Steve Bochco's ground-breaking cop show. Episodes Comprise: 1. Trial by Fury 2. Domestic Beef 3. Heat Rash 4. Rain of Terror 5. Officer of the Year 6. Stan the Man 7. Little Boil Blue 8. Requiem For a Hairbag 9. A Hair of the Dog 10. Phantom of the Hill 11. No Body's Perfect 12. Santaclaustraphobia 13. Gung Ho 14. Moon Over Uranus 15. Moon Over Uranus: the Sequel 16. Moon Over Uranus: the Final Legacy 17. The Belles of St. Marys 18. Life in the Minors 19. Eugene's Comedy Empire Strikes Back 20. Spotlight on Rico 21. Buddy Can You Spare a Heart? 22. A Hill of Beans

• Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Modern Times marks the last proper appearance of Charles Chaplin's iconic Little Tramp, and finds our hero struggling to make ends meet in the Depression of the 1930s. Along the way he takes up with a juvenile delinquent (actually 24-year-old Paulette Goddard) and plays a prison incident with "nose powder" for drug-induced laughs--both plot elements seeming quite innocent here, though both would provoke controversy today. Modern Times' most famous sequences portray the dehumanisation of factory labour to fine comic effect, balancing satire with slapstick to perfection in several superbly executed set-pieces. While the film has sound-effects and musical score, speech is only presented through mechanical means, via a gramophone, or through wall-sized TVs far more futuristic than in those in HG Wells' Things to Come (also 1936)--it's an interesting footnote that the comic and the SF visionary were friends. Chaplin famously not being a fan of sound cinema acknowledges the need to move with the times, yet hilariously spoofs the exploitation of man and machine while doing so. Amid some great laughs, the political message comes though clearly: the boss is making a fortune while doing jigsaw puzzles in his luxury office, the workers are toiling ever harder on the production line for their pittance. On the DVD: Modern Times is offered in the original 4:3 black and white with good mono sound evidencing just a little distortion and a very clean, clear picture with minimal grain to give away its age. Also included are French and Italian dubbed versions and a pointless and ineffective English Dolby Digital 5.1 version of the soundtrack. The disc features multiple subtitle options, including English for hard of hearing. Disc Two begins with a six-minute introduction by David Robinson. Next comes a very worthwhile 26-minute documentary by Philippe Truffault, Chaplin Today, centred around a perceptive subtitled discussion between French filmmakers Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne. There are three trailers, beautifully reproduced posters, an eight-part photo gallery and one entertaining deleted scene, as well as Chaplin's "nonsense song" from the film in isolated form and in a "Karaoke" version. The Documents section begins with a silent 42-minute 1931 documentary/propaganda film, In the Machine Age made by the US Dept of Labor. Along similar but more entertaining lines is Symphony in F a 1940 colour film combining music, manufacturing footage and animation celebrating the Ford motor company, while also included is a sequence from the Liberace Show (1956) with the star performing the vocal version of "Smile", the theme from Modern Times. Demonstrating the truly universal appeal of Chaplin is a 1967 short For the First Time, documenting what happens when the people of the remote Baracoa mountains in Cuba see their first ever movie, Modern Times. This is a remarkable collection which does a great film justice. --Gary S Dalkin

• Barbra Streisand - The Belle Of 14th Street | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Barbra is the ""top-billed act"" in this affectionate tribute to turn of the century vaudeville. No detail was too small for this lovingly created world of a bygone era. Her first television special to feature guest-stars The Belle of 14th Street celebrates in ways both comedic and heartfelt ""The Golden Age of Song"". A marvelous showcase for such evergreens as Sophie Tucker's ""Some Of These Days "" ""How About Me"" (written by ""a new young talent"" Irving Berlin) the poignant ""I'm Always Chasing Rainbows "" and the sublime ""My Buddy"" - all classics of the vaudeville era reinvented by the ""greatest star"" of our time. This DVD is from the 5-disc boxed set Barbra Streisand: The Television Specials.

• Charlie Chaplin - Monsieur Verdoux | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  This blistering little black comedy was well ahead of its time when released in 1947. Originally Orson Welles had wanted Chaplin to star in his drama about a French mass murderer named Landru but Chaplin was hesitant to act for another director and used the idea himself. He plays a dapper gent named Henri Verdoux (who assumes a number of identities) a civilised monster who marries wealthy women then murders them (as we meet him he's gathering roses as an incinerator ominously bel

• George Clooney Box Set | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A cracking compendium of films featuring George Clooney. One Fine Day (Dir. Michael Hoffman, 1996: In this charming, romantic comedy, three-time Academy Award nominees Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney find that opposites attract whether they like it or not... Melanie Parker (Pfeiffer) is juggling single parenthood with a career as an architect. Jack Taylor (Clooney) is a commitment-shy newspaper columnist who only has his daughter every other weekend. When their kids miss a scho...

• Three The Hard Way | DVD | (31/12/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The story involves a white supremesist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly who shoot kick and karate chop their way to final victory.

• I.D. | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £20.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When you go undercover remember one thing: who you are. In an effort to halt the escalating violence of fanatical football supporters four young policemen are sent undercover. One of these John (Reece Dinsdale) soon finds his own personality changing and feels a sense of belonging he never felt on the force...

• Sons Of The World | Blu Ray | (26/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  If you thought District 13 was exciting...You haven't seen anything yet! Sons Of The Wind combines the exhilarating sport of free-running with mixed martial arts. Starring the Yamikazi the founding fathers of parkour and some of Asia's top martial artists. Sons Of The Wind is a globetrotting action-adventure that takes our heroes from the roof tops of London to Paris and Bangkok to face their greatest challenge yet the Yakuza!

• Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Chaplin's last 'silent' film filled with sound effects was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society the machine age (the use of sound in films?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital... When he gets out he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag sent to jail foils a jailbreak and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out.

• Charlie Chaplin - Circus | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £19.22   |  Saving you £-5.23 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Made in 1928 while he was in the middle of a painful divorce case, Charlie Chaplin's The Circus was so associated with bad memories for its maker that he refused even to mention it in his 1964 autobiography. Consequently, it has enjoyed less of a reputation than films such as The Gold Rush (1925) and City Lights (1931). However, while it's not quite in their league, The Circus undoubtedly deserves to be rescued from relative obscurity. Here, Chaplin's Tramp is taken on as a clown at the circus, having been chased into the big tent by a policeman wrongly suspected of theft and wowing the audience with his pratfalls. He falls in love with the ill-treated ringmaster's daughter (Merna Kennedy) but is swiftly rivalled by a new addition to the circus, a handsome tightrope walker. To try to win back her affections the Tramp attempts the same act, culminating in the best sequence of the film, when he is assailed by monkeys as he totters amateurishly and precariously along a rope suspended high in the tent. Although The Circus is marred by the rather hackneyed and (even in 1928) stale melodramatic device of the cruel father and imploring daughter, it scores high on its slapstick content, with routines involving a hall of mirrors and a mishap with a magician's equipment demonstrating Chaplin's dazzling ability to choreograph apparently improvised mayhem. On the DVD: The Circus features a generous trove of extras on this two-disc set, including extracts from Lord Mountbatten's home movies of Chaplin, a deleted scene involving a prankster prize-fighter, as well as original footage showing how the perfectionist Chaplin would shoot and reshoot scenes. An introduction from David Robinson explains the adverse circumstances which held up the shooting of The Circus, including a fire and gales, which destroyed the set, while a further documentary delves into Chaplin's earliest work to provide context for the film. On the first disc, the film itself is an excellent transfer. --David Stubbs

• Brain From Planet Arous, The / Teenage Monster / Space Cadet | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  You have to credit the folks who put this double bill together. The Brain from Planet Arous, a low-budget alien invasion 1958 film, is one of those programmes that lingers in the memory as much for its title and impressively ludicrous giant-staring-transparent-brain monster as for its poverty row dramatics, in which the usually stiff John Agar grins evilly and flashes contact lenses when possessed by the creature and a good guy brain shows up to take over his dog to thwart the renegade cerebrum's plan for world domination. For this release, Brain is teamed with its original co-feature, a movie so bad you wouldn't buy it on its own but whose presence here is a pleasing extra. Whereas Brain from Planet Arous delivers exactly what its title promises, Teenage Monster is a cheat: rather than feature a mutant 1950s delinquent in a leather jacket, it's a melodramatic Western in which prospector's widow Anne Gwynne keeps her hulking caveman-like son (who seems to be well into middle-age) hidden, only for a scheming waitress to use the goon in her murder schemes. Brain is snappily directed, even when staging disasters well beyond its budget, while Teenage Monster drags and chatters and moans until its flat finale. On the DVD: The Brain from Planet Arous/Teenage Monster double bill disc is a solid showing for such marginal items, featuring not only the trailers for these attractions but a clutch of other 1950s sci-fi pictures (Phantom from Space, Invaders from Mars, etc.) and a bonus episode ("The Runaway Asteroid") from a studio-bound, live-broadcast juvenile space opera of the early 50s (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet) in which hysterical types in a capsule break off from the space programme to deliver ringing endorsements of gruesome-looking breakfast foods. --Kim Newman

• Obsession | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

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• The Devil Rides Out | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Revered as one of the best horror films produced by Hammer Studios 'The Devil Rides Out' is a chilling battle between good and evil. Christopher Lee perhaps best known for his role as Dracula gets to show his good side as the heroic and cavalier Duc de Richleau who maintains the air of a gentleman throughout his tireless battle with a Satanic coven led by the wonderfully villainous Mocata (Charles Gray).

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