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• Argo: Declassified Extended Edition | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Set against the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 and 1980, Ben Affleck’s Argo is a nerve-jangling footnote to the birth of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Republic. The movie opens at the crest of the 1979 revolution--the storming of the US embassy in Tehran, and the escape of six diplomats to the precarious safety of the Canadian ambassador’s residence. To the rescue is Tony Mendez--a composed CIA agent whose heroism remained classified until 1997--and his state-approved plan to get the stranded embassy staff out of Iran under a brazen cover story: they’re an innocent film crew on a location hunt for the fake sci-fi blockbuster Argo. Hollywood is usually pressed into the service of the state in the name of comedy (either burying dictators in Team America: World Police or just bad news in Barry Levinson’s Wag the Dog), but Argo is a true story, and the tone of Affleck's Oscar-winning script is carefully split, switching between mounting tension in consular Tehran and a satire of the Hollywood machine as fronted by Alan Arkin and John Goodman--two raffish producers hired by Mendez to reverse-engineer some convincing buzz for the Argo movie. Affleck himself takes the role of Mendez, the steady-eyed agent betting everything on Hollywood’s age-old efficiency at creating a media circus for a project long before it exists. ‘History starts out as farce and ends up a tragedy’, remarks Goodman, but Argo ends on a patriotic upbeat, and doesn’t reflect much on history. It politely nods at the context of Iran’s attitude to the West, and we’re told about but not shown--bar the blank rage of the revolutionary mob--Iran’s anger at the Westerly flow of resources under Shah Pahlavi. Instead, Argo concentrates on the eggshell complexities of deception in plain sight, including a climactic set-piece in which Mendez’ team must fend their way through layers of suspicious Iranian airport security--with imminent capture, execution and political calamity only on the other side of their paper-thin pretext. It may have the ring of historical escapism, but Argo holds its nerve as a great Hollywood escape. --Leo Batchelor /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}

• Emma's War | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Australia 1942: the Japanese are bombing Sydney. Anne driven to the bottle by sheer terror of the war and the absence of her husband takes her two young children Emma and Laurel to begin a new and safe life in the mountains. The war that faces the family in the mountains is something else...

• I Shot Andy Warhol | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £99.99   |  Saving you £-87.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  You only get one shot at fame. He was the world-renowned King of Pop Art - and his life was about to take a dramatic turn in exchange for someone else's fifteen minutes of fame! Starring Lili Taylor and Jared Harris I Shot Andy Warhol explores the provocative story behind the shooting of the titular icon. Valerie Solanas (Taylor) a lesbian writer loner and prostitute has come to the Big Apple with one goal in mind: to spread the gospel of her radical feminism. Desp

• The Adventures Of Pocahontas - Indian Princess | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (-1.10%)   |  RRP £7.99

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• Donovan - The Donovan Concert - Live In L.A. | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Donovan was one of the most popular British recording artists of his day producing and recording a series of hit albums and singles in the 60's and 70's. Famous for top five UK singles Universal Soldier Catch the Wind Colours Sunshine Superman Hurdy Gurdy Man Jenifer Juniper and many more.The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A. was recorded in front of a packed house of adoring fans at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood California on 21st January 2007. Donovan performed all his legendar

• Horror in the Attic | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When Trevor Blackurn awoke from a coma he had no memory of his past. In search of answers he breaks into the secret attic with another patient (Seth Green) as the others are being killed one by one. A darkly sinister doctor (Jeffrey Combs) informed him that he'd been committed to a sanitarium for the criminally insane for the sacrificial murder of his fiancee. Thrown into a bizarre halfway house filled with strange psychos his thin grip on reality begins to slip away as he plunges into a violent world of magic nightmares wild sexual escapades and torturous medical experiments.

• The Dog Who Saved The Christmas Holidays | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (11.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It's a sun-soaked holiday season for the Bannister family as they travel to Southern California to stay with Aunt Barbara (Shelley Long), who surprises them with a new puppy named Eve (voiced by Peyton List). Everyone is smitten with Eve - except for the Bannister's dog, Zeus (voiced by Joey Lawrence), who sees what a mischievous animal she is when no one else is around. After deciding to run away, Zeus sees Ted and Stewey, two thrifty thieves, trying to break into the family home while the B...

• Leo The Lion - King Of The Jungle | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This charming animated adventure starring Leo the Lion and his jungle friends will thrill all young children. Because Leo is King of the Jungle he thinks he has the right to bully the other animals; he steals shade from Mr. Hyena taunts the monkeys and uses the crocodiles as stepping stones. Unfortunately Leo is far too busy throwing his weight around to notice that there is danger in the jungle - a group of hunters is kidnapping animals to sell them to a zoo. But when a beautif

• Sorted | DVD | (05/01/2010) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young man travels to London to investigate his brother's mysterious death and throws himself into the hedonistic world of club culture.

• Little Noises | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £1.26 (15.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Little Noises is a superb comedy drama film of a young entrepreneur who craves success fame and fortune in the literary world. He also wants love and approval from his beautiful best friend and he's just created a masterpiece that his agent loves. Crispin Glover plays an awkward and unsuccessful writer (Joey) who dates a playwright Stella (Tatum O'Neal) while sharing a room with an unsuccessful actor Timmy Smith (Steven Schub). He steals the poems of Marty a mute friend (Mat

• The Hunchback Of Notre Dame | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £5.38   |  Saving you £2.61 (48.51%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A joy to watch. This is the story of the lonely bell ringer of Notre Dame and the beautiful outcast gypsy Esmerelda.

• I Could Read The Sky | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted by Nichola Bruce from the acclaimed photographic novel by Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke 'I Could Read The Sky' is a haunting and lyrical film about identity love loss and the isolation and loneliness of the immigrant. Dermot Healy movingly portrays a man reflecting upon his life from his rural upbringing on the West Coast of Ireland to his journey to London and experiences in the vividly modern metropolis. Driven by a dynamic music soundtrack that draws from both envir

• Cutting Class | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Welcome to Wurleigh High School, where the pressures of student life can be seriously crushing. The night janitor hates teenagers, the students are turning to drink. Brian's just returned from a mental hospital, and everyone else is losing their mind. Somebody is cutting classes at Wurleigh High, and the bodycount's rising.

• The Incredible Hulk - Season One Part Two (Marvel Originals Series - 90s) | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the comics written by Stan Lee The Incredible Hulk details the adventures of Dr. David Banner - a nuclear research scientist - who in a dreadfull accident is subjected to a massive overdose of gammer radiation. Miraculously Banner survives... But he is forever changed! Now whenever angered or distressed the mild-mannered scientist finds himself transforming into a powerful seven-foot green creature known as the Incredible Hulk...

• Love Potion #9 | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Biochemist Paul (Tate Donovan) has no luck at all with women and is persuaded by his friends to visit a fortuneteller who gives him a love potion # 8 to make him irresistible to women. Being a scientist Paul believes none of this until his cat accidentally gets a taste and attracts every female cat in the neighborhood. He enlists fellow scientist Diane (Sandra Bullock) to help him analyze it and after experimenting on monkeys they decide to test it on themselves and both embark on a quest to find romance. In the end they discover that they really want each other; but before they can get married an old boyfriend of Diane's returns with his own dose of love potion number 8. Paul's only hope is to get something even more powerful Love Potion #9.

• Club Culture - Human Traffic / Sorted / South West 9 | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Featuring an outstanding cast of rapidly rising talent, Sorted is a hallucinogenic cocktail of thriller and insider's eye view of the London club scene. Debut director Alexander Jovy has promoted raves and is a qualified lawyer, so it's unsurprising his club scenes, filmed on real nights at the Ministry of Sound and other clubs, are completely authentic. The story has young lawyer Carl, Matthew Rhys, coming from Yorkshire to investigate the death of his high-flying (in every sense) brother. Jovy portrays the gulf between Carl's world in his relationship with classy, conventional Sunny (Sienna--Take a Girl Like You--Guillory), and the hedonistic fantasyland of the club scene represented by fallen Pre-Raphaelite angel Tiffany (Fay--Eyes Wide Shut--Masterson). Straddling the two worlds is a remarkable Jason Donovan as Martin, customs officer by day, glam transvestite by night. Unfortunately atmospheric drama soon gives way to lightweight thriller conventions while Tim Curry's camp villain (surely a parody of DeNiro's Louis Cypher from Angel Heart), creates expectations of a much darker conclusion. Sorted is ultimately old-fashioned, romantic and soft-centred where it needs far more edge, but is nevertheless so luxuriantly stylish it may mark Jovy as his generation's answer to Ridley Scott. A word of warning: several scenes feature very powerful stroboscopic lighting effects. --Gary S. Dalkin On the DVD: The expansive, beautiful colour-saturated cinematography is well captured by the 2.35:1 anamorphic transfer and the Dolby Digital 5.1 sound mix is stunning. There are 10 text profiles of cast and crew, together with seven video interviews comprising over 45 minutes of footage. Also provided is a 26-page electronic press kit, the original trailer and 10 minutes of deleted scenes, with optional director's commentary. The featurette is actually a montage of behind-the-scenes shots edited to the movie's haunting love theme, while the outtakes edit assorted gaffs to the main dance anthem. The alternately informative and trivial director's commentary also features producer Mark Crowdy; together they make good company. --Gary S. Dalkin

• The 60s | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Strange Hearts | DVD | (13/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jack Waters (Robert Forster) is a gambler. Once a child star his luck has been on a downward slope since his show finished. Now middle aged he carries on trying to win a cash payout from national television game shows yet his lucky streak eludes him. But with the arrival of the naive Henry Fields (Kip Pardue) a change of fortune may occur. Jack takes him under his wing and introduces him to the world of game shows and the winnings that might be made. Jack also introduces Henry to his friend Moira (Rose McGowan) an exotic dancer who beguiles Henry. Moira is also Jack's neighbour and has a dream of winning at any cost in common with him. As Henry's lucky streak takes him to the most popular game show on TV Jack's luck is fading. He has a plan though and sees that Henry could be his way of making a fortune but as Henry falls for Moira will she get to him before Jack? Or will the manipulating game show producer ruin everyone's plans?

• The Butcher of Louisiana | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £6.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Three years ago, Jesse, a seemingly-ordinary boy branded 'The Butcher', committed a gruesome series of murders. Having ended in his capture and execution on death row, Jesse was found guilty on all accounts. Years on, Kate, the boy's mother is determined to prove her son's innocence: how he was not insane, but instead possessed by a terrifying demon. Inviting a film crew into her home, the TV crew start documenting exceptionally strange happenings. Soon enough the truth becomes very clear, as Kate unearths proof of the devil himself.

• Dead-Bang | DVD | (27/06/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A