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• Tan Dun: Marco Polo | Blu Ray | (27/04/2009) from £4.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (501.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• 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

• Manx Trains And Trams | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £10.55   |  Saving you £7.44 (70.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Isle of Man can justifiably boast of one of the most extraordinary railway systems in the world. The five lines that still run today provide a marvellous variety of interest and tourists and enthusiasts come from all over the world to enjoy the Victorian steam engines and trams. This DVD traces the development of these extraordinary systems with archive footage and shows how they have adapted to the twenty-first century. Visit the workshops where traditional skills for repair and rebuilding are still in use and take at trip alone the various lines through the Manx countryside and up onto the Island's highest mountain.

• Thunderbirds: Collection Part 1 (Vols 1 - 4 ) | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £87.73   |  Saving you £-23.74 (-37.10%)   |  RRP £63.99

  Trapped In The Sky: Criminal mastermind the Hood puts a bomb on a plane. International Rescue must foil the Hood's evil plans and at the same time save Tin-Tin who is on board. Pit Of Peril: The Sidewinder a revolutionary mobile army unit disappears underground during testing. Brains concocts an elaborate and risky scheme to rescue the men on board. The Perils Of Penelope: Professor Borender an important scientist and Lady Penelope are both abducted. T

• A Beautiful Girl Like Me | DVD | (15/09/2014) from £9.56   |  Saving you £6.43 (40.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A sociologist researching a book interviews murderess Camille who tells him the story of her life. Put in a reform school as a child for suspected patricide and later transferred to an orphanage she escaped and tricked a young man called Clovis into marrying her. After attempting to kill Clovis' mother she fled to Paris where she began an affair with a night-club singer. Camille has left a trail of destruction and deceit in her wake which now threatens to engulf the sociologist.

• A Family Of Spies | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  It's a non-stop party for a group of beautiful teens living it up in a posh area of Los Angeles. And one very sexy lady M.J. has found a congenial way to capitalize on her friendships and advance her position. But when the music stops and the mad whirl starts to slow down M.J. must suddenly face up to a void in her life.

• Rehearsal For Murder | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• The Ape Man | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  One of the areas of human knowledge which has expanded fastest over the last few decades is our awareness of the complexities of human evolution. Ape·Man is a useful summary of the current state of play dealing with such important questions as the divergence of early hominids from the other apes and the final confrontation of modern humans and their Neanderthal cousins. It is a fair-minded handling of some of the crucial debates--at what point, say, is it legitimate to talk of humans and human ancestors starting to decorate their possessions, say, and when did language and the complex innovations in hunting it makes possible start to be a factor? Inventive portrayals of the life of early humans as they wander out of the mists of time alternate with coherent and accessible accounts of fossil evidence, DNA studies and archaeology; this is both an intellectually satisfying series and an emotionally charged one. --Roz Kaveney

• Ray Charles - 50 Years In Music | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £2.96   |  Saving you £8.29 (487.65%)   |  RRP £9.99

  On 23rd September 1991 Ray Charles celebrated his 61st birthday. This date was also significant for it marked Ray's 50th anniversary of making music. To mark these twin milestone events a gala concert featuring a galaxy of stars was put together for US television. Tracklist: 1. What'd I Say [Ray Charles] 2. Hallelujah (I Love Her So) [Stevie Wonder] 3. Livin' for the City [Ray Charles & Stevie Wonder] 4. Busted [Ray Charles & Willie Nelson] 5. Never Stop! [Brand New Heavies] 6. Georgia on My Mind [Ray Charles & Michael Bolton] 7. Your Cheatin' Heart [Randy Travis] 8. I Can't Stop Loving You [James Ingram] 9. I Got a Woman [Michael McDonald 10. Just Ask Me To [Tevin Campbell] 11. Just For A Thrill [Ray Charles] 12. I Wish I Never Loved You at All [Ray Charles & Gladys Night] 13. Can't Keep a Good Man Down [Ray Charles] 14. America the Beautiful [Ray Charles & Friends]

• Boudu Saved From Drowning - DVD | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A Parisian bookseller Lestingois fishes Boudu a vagrant out of the river Seine. He befriends the tramp and puts him up at home where Boudu causes nothing but trouble. However events take a different turn when Boudu wins the lottery... Starring Michel Simon and Charles Granval renowned director Jean Renoir's 1932 classic farce Boudu Saved From Drowning /i> (Boudu sauv des eaux) has been beautifully restored in high definition and features a previously missing scene which was by chance conserved in the original negative.

• Cluny Brown | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Combining elegance and wit Lubitsch's last film set in 1938 London is one of the most engaging romantic comedies. Jennifer Jones and Charles Boyer are well teamed as the plumber's niece (later housemaid) and the intellectual Czech refugee who throw English society into disarray with their disregard for conventions. This charming satire aided by a wonderful script taking in snobbery upstairs downstairs and in the middle classes is given a jolly run around by a cast comprising most of Hollywood's British stalwarts from Sir C Aubrey Smith and Peter Lawford to Sara Allgood and Una O'Connor.

• Hard Time | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-8.97 (-224.80%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Burt Reynolds plays Logan McQueen, a veteran, tough cop who likes to see justice done by his own ways. Things go bad after McQueen is framed for murder. Now he has to escape from a maximum security prison, and seek, on the deadly streets of a hot and dangerous Miami, for the man who wants him down

• Dirty Pair Flash - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1-6 | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Look out universe! When the galaxy-wide World Welfare & Welfare Agency unleashes the infamous Dirty Pair Kei and Yuri it's a case of every sentient being for itself! From the bestselling novels by Haruka Takachiho comes the apocolyptic saga of two young women destined to go down in history as the most destructive force known to man. Meet Kei and Yuri two junior level agents with a proclivity for being in the wrong place at the wrong time with just enough firepower to blow their way out of a bad situation and into something worse! Includes 6 complete episodes.

• Ben Harper - Pleasure And Pain | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A documentary featuring Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals. In Pleasure + Pain famed rock photographer/director Danny Clinch shows us the Ben Harper millions of fans around the world have come to know and love: a gifted and charismatic young singer/songwriter who plays with an unparalleled sense of passion and melody. Then Clinch digs deeper using unconventional angles and various film stock to paint an unassuming yet completely mesmorising portrait of Harper's life both on the ro

• Shortcut To Paradise | DVD | (06/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A mysterious stranger named Quinn arrives at the Paradise Condo claiming to be the new superintendent. But Quinn has a terrifying secret and by the time Paradise's residents figure it out it may be too late.

• Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £23.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Buster Crabbe stars as Flash Gordon in this classic 1930s serial presented for the first time on DVD. Humanity is doomed to destruction! A distant planet has broken its orbit and is headed straight toward the Earth. While Dr. Hans Zarkov works feverishly to finish a rocket ship of his own design internationally renowned polo player and Yale graduate Flash Gordon is a passenger on a small plane where he meets fellow passenger Dale Arden. When a meteor storm destroys their aircraft

• Halloween 2 | Blu Ray | (29/02/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Contractor, the | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £2.29   |  Saving you £7.70 (77.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Wesley Snipes is back in this explosive action-thriller about a deadly assassin who finds himself on the run when an attempt to kill a terrorist mastermind in London goes terribly wrong. Retired marksman James Dial (Snipes) lives a secluded lifeon his ranch in Montana. Haunted by his failure to exterminate one of the world's most notorious terrorists he is approached by his old employers to finish the job in London where the terrorist leader has been captured and is under heavy protection. What would be a routine mission for the sniper turns into a nightmare as Dial is forced into hiding and relentlessly pursued by the British police and their lead investigator Windsor (Charles Dance). But when Dial is framed for Windsor's murder he begins to realize that he has been seriously double-crossed. His only hope is a 12-year-old girl whom Dial reluctantly befriends as he desperately searches to find the killer and the truth behind his betrayal.

• S.W.A.T. / Bad Boys / Striking Distance | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A triple bill of high-octane action adventures featuring S.W.A.T. Bad Boys and Striking Distance. S.W.A.T.: An imprisoned drug kingpin offers a huge cash reward to anyone that can break him out of police custody and only the LAPD's Special Weapons and Tactics team can prevent it. Bad Boys: When 0 million of seized heroin is stolen from the Miami Police lockup Detectives Lowrey (Will Smith) and Burnett (Martin Lawrence) Miami's most mismatched cops are called upon to solve the case before the FBI close their department. Julie (Tea Leoni) is their only lead to the case but will only speak to Lowrey. As he is not around when she calls Burnett impersonates his cool slick partner. A hilarious role reversal begins in order to retain her trust. From then on it's a race against time as the trio dodge the mob and retain their charade while putting pressure on every low-life in Miami's underworld to track down their man. Striking Distance: Tom Hardy (Bruce Willis) is a fifth generation Pittsburgh cop. Formerly a homicide detective he publicly challenged the police department including several of his family members about the identity of the serial killer who took his father's life. Convinced that a newly active serial killer is the same gunman who murdered his father - despite the fact that another man is already behind bars for that crime - Hardy is working out of his jurisdiction to catch the killer. The maverick cop finds himself at odds with his new partner (Sarah Jessica Parker) as he skirts around the system and defies his uncle (Dennis Farina) his father's successor as the Chief of Homicide.

• Aika And Aine | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  TIME & MATTER: Come see the utopia of plastic architecture. Discover the challenging world of Finnish scientist artist and philosopher Erkki Kureniemmi inventor of DIMI (Digital Musical Instruments) series. Witness mysterious scientific experiments enjoy a symphony for matrix-printers and see a team of robots challenge the reigning world champion football team. Enter the unique and futuristic world of Finnish filmmaker Mika Taanila.