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• Eric Clapton - Live At Montreux 1986 | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £16.25   |  Saving you £-1.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Eric Clapton's status as a guitar hero is unmatched by anyone else. Still in his late teens his fans nicknamed him ""God"" and he is still regarded with both awe and reverence by fellow guitarists and music fans alike. This concert from the Montreux Festival in 1986 came shortly before the release of his ""August"" album later that year and features the main musicians who would also appear on the album; namely Phil Collins on drums (who also produced the album) long time collaborator Nathan East on bass and Greg Phillinganes on keyboards. Tracklist: 1. Crossroads 2. The White Room 3. I Shot The Sheriff 4. I Wanna Make Love To You 5. Miss You 6. Same Old Blues 7. Tearing Us Apart 8. Holy Mother 9. Behind The Mask 10. Badge 11. Let It Rain 12. In The Air Tonight 13. Cocaine 14. Layla 15. Sunshine Of Your Love 16. Further On Up The Road

• Runaway Train (30th Anniversary Edition) | DVD | (05/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  DESPERATE AND DETERMINED TO SURVIVE Two convicts break out of Stonehaven Prison in the dead of winter, boarding a freight train with the intention of getting as far away as possible before their notoriously sadistic warden finds out. But the brakes fail and the driver has a heart attack, sending hundreds of tons of metal hurtling through the snowy Alaskan wastes at terrifying and unstoppable speed. Based on a script by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), with hardboiled prison slang added by real-life ex-con Edward Bunker (Mr Blue in Reservoir Dogs), this riveting thriller also boasts Oscar-nominated performances from Jon Voight and Eric Roberts with Voight playing spectacularly against type as a criminal so vicious that he served much of his sentence welded into his cell. Combining electrifying action with constant psychological tension (the only surviving member of the train crew is a young, inexperienced woman), Runaway Train is one of cinema's great thrill-rides.

• Father Came Too! | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Fast Lady team rides again! The newlywed Munroes purchase a rundown ramshackle cottage and plan to fix it up themselves primarily to escape their meddling father. However they haven't appreciated the scope of the work required to get the place up to scratch.. They have no choice but to seek outside help. When Builder Josh Wicks arrives on the scene the bills start going through the roof... Written by Henry Blyth (The Bulldog Breed) and Jack Davi

• Monty Python's Life Of Brian | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  That rarest of rare treasures, Monty Python's Life of Brian is both achingly funny and seriously satirical without ever allowing one to overbalance the other. There is not a single joke, sight gag or one-liner that will not forever burn itself into the viewer's memory as being just as funny as it is possible to be, but, extraordinarily, almost every line and every indestructibly hilarious scene also serves a dual purpose, making this one of the most consistently sustained film satires ever made. Like all great satire, the Pythons not only attack and vilify their targets (the bigotry and hypocrisy of organised religion and politics) supremely well, they also propose an alternative: be an individual, think for yourself, don't be led by others. "You've all got to work it out for yourselves", cries Brian in a key moment. "Yes, we've all got to work it our for ourselves", the crowd reply en masse, "Tell us more". Two thousand years later, in a world still blighted by religious zealots, Brian's is still a lone voice crying in the wilderness. Aside from being a neat spoof on the Hollywood epic, it's also almost incidentally one of the most realistic on-screen depictions of the ancient world--instead of treating their characters as posturing historical stereotypes, the Pythons realised what no sword 'n' sandal epic ever has: that people are all the same, no matter what period of history they live in. People always have and always will bicker, lie, cheat, swear, conceal cowardice with bravado (like Reg, leader of the People's Front of Judea), abuse power (like Pontius Pilate), blindly follow the latest fads and giggle at silly things ("Biggus Dickus"). In the end, Life of Brian teaches us that the only way for a despairing individual to cope in a world of idiocy and hypocrisy is to always look on the bright side of life. --Mark Walker

• Star Trek (2009) | Blu Ray | (20/02/2017) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  J.J. Abrams' 2009 feature film was billed as "not your father's Star Trek," but your father will probably love it anyway. And what's not to love? It has enough action, emotional impact, humor, and sheer fun for any moviegoer, and Trekkers will enjoy plenty of insider references and a cast that seems ideally suited to portray the characters we know they'll become later. Both a prequel and a reboot, Star Trek introduces us to James T. Kirk (Chris Pine of The Princess Diaries 2), a sharp but aimless young man who's prodded by a Starfleet captain, Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood), to enlist and make a difference. At the Academy, Kirk runs afoul of a Vulcan commander named Spock (Zachary Quinto of Heroes), but their conflict has to take a back seat when Starfleet, including its new ship, the Enterprise, has to answer an emergency call from Vulcan. What follows is a stirring tale of genocide and revenge launched by a Romulan (Eric Bana) with a particular interest in Spock, and we get to see the familiar crew come together, including McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Sulu (John Cho), Chekhov (Anton Yelchin), and Scottie (Simon Pegg).The action and visuals make for a spectacular big-screen movie, though the plot by Abrams and his writers, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (who worked together on Transformers and with Abrams on Alias and Mission Impossible III), and his producers (fellow Losties Damon Lindeloff and Bryan Burk) can be a bit of a mind-bender (no surprise there for Lost fans). Hardcore fans with a bone to pick may find faults, but resistance is futile when you can watch Kirk take on the Kobayashi Maru scenario or hear McCoy bark, "Damnit, man, I'm a doctor, not a physicist!" An appearance by Leonard Nimoy and hearing the late Majel Barrett Roddenberry as the voice of the computer simply sweeten the pot. Now comes the hard part: waiting for some sequels to this terrific prequel. --David Horiuchi

• The Ugly Truth | Blu Ray | (08/02/2010) from £8.29   |  Saving you £13.70 (165.26%)   |  RRP £21.99

  A romantically challenged morning show producer (Katherine Heigl) is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outlandish experiments by her chauvinistic correspondent (Gerard Butler) to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love.

• Grace Of My Heart | DVD | (12/10/2015) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (66.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Grace of My Heart is a 1996 film written and directed by Allison Anders, set in the music world, starting in New York's Brill Building early 1960's era, weaving through the California Sound of the mid '60s and culminating with the adult-contemporary scene of the early 1970's . The story follows the life and career trajectory of it's protagonist, Denise Waverly. The soundtrack features songs by artists Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and Jill Sobule, replicating the musical style that emerged from the Brill Building, New York's music factory in the heyday of girl groups and 'pre-fab' acts like The Monkees. Loosely based on the early career of the great singer-songwriter Carole King Released for the very first time on DVD in the UK.

• Killing Zoe | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £7.39   |  Saving you £8.60 (116.37%)   |  RRP £15.99

  American safecracker (Stoltz) is summoned to Paris by childhood buddy Eric (Anglade) to help pull a Bastille Day bank heist. Dreams of easy money quickly evaporate when the heist goes sour and Eric transforms into a psychotic drug-crazed sociopath... This highly controversial first film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction) was an instant cult classic and fast became the barometer by which Generation X gauged its own nihilism.

• Rab C Nesbitt - Series 1 - Episodes 1 to 6 | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The complete first series of the cult classic comedy show.

• Bones: Season 1 | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £14.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (166.78%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperence Brennan, who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and writes novels as a sideline, has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones.

• Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band | DVD | (07/09/2020) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Biographical documentary from film-maker Daniel Roher which examines the peaks and troughs of the career of Robbie Robertson and The Band. The film features archival footage and exclusive interviews with famous friends and fans of the group who once backed Bob Dylan, such as Martin Scorsese and Bruce Springsteen.

• Miracle | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  If you believe in yourself anything can happen. In 1980 amidst the tense political climate of the Cold War Herb Brooks (Kurt Russell) took over as coach of the U.S. Olympic hockey team. With the help of affable assistant coach Craig Patrick (Noah Emmerich) Brooks selected a group of twenty amateur hockey players who faced the daunting task of bringing respectability to their country's floundering program. While Brooks was well aware that his team lacked the talent and expe

• You & I | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £9.05   |  Saving you £6.94 (76.69%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Summer in Berlin. Jonas is planning a trip through the little known area of the Uckermark in preparation for a photography project. He invites his best friend, Phillip, to come along. They haven't met since the time they spent together in London. So they pack up their Mercedes camper and take off across uncharted territory, stopping whenever they see something they like, taking pictures and generally enjoying a laid-back road trip. The fact that Phillip is gay has never been an issue for either of them. When they pick up a hitchhiker named Boris, however, who shows Jonas some interesting spots and starts to make moves on Phillip, the friendship of the two starts to fray. Maybe three's a crowd after all? By the end of the summer, things between Jonas and Phillip won't ever be the same again.

• The Andromeda Strain | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Directed with clinical precision by Academy Award winner Robert Wise this compelling account of the Earth's first biological crisis is perhaps the most chillingly realistic science fiction thriller ever made. After an errant satellite crashes to earth near a remote New Mexico village the recovery team discovers that almost everyone in the town are victims of a horrible death with the mysterious exception of an infant and an old homeless man. The survivors are brought to a state-of-the-art laboratory descending five stories beneath the ground where the puzzled scientists race against time to determine the nature of the deadly microbe before it wreaks worldwide havoc. A trailblazer in the areas of special effects and inventive sets The Andromeda Strain is based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel that created national paranoia for its topical relevance to the first moon landing.

• Fred Astaire - Screen Legends | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £19.41   |  Saving you £5.58 (28.75%)   |  RRP £24.99

  One of the greatest music and dance stars in the history of motion pictures Fred rose from a fairly inauspicious start where a studio exec remarked: ""Can't sing. Can't act. Slightly balding. Can dance a little."" Well his career and achievements speak for themselves. A remarkable talent this box set features 4 of his most-loved films. You'll Never Get Rich (Dir. Sidney Lanfield 1941): After his wife discovers a telltale diamond bracelet impresario Martin Cortland tries to

• Chopper | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the true-life story of one of Australia's most notorious criminals

• Fortress | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £14.12   |  Saving you £-8.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The story of Fortress takes place in drastically overpopulated America of the year 2017, where each woman is allowed only one pregnancy. John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen (Loryn Locklin) flee to Mexico when she becomes pregnant after the death of their first child. They are captured by border police and sent to the Fortress, a subterranean high-security prison owned by the Men-Tel corporation and operated by "Zed-10", an omnipotent computer system, and a sadistic, genetically "enhanced" warden (Kurtwood Smith) who has nefarious plans involving Brennick's wife and unborn child. Along with his cellmates (including Jeffrey Combs, a favourite of director Stuart Gordon), Brennick plots a breakout and Fortress shifts into auto-pilot action mode. After making his reputation with such audacious horror films as From Beyond and Re-Animator, Stuart Gordon graduated to a bigger budget with Fortress but his penchant for exploitation remains deliriously intact. While borrowing elements from a variety of better sci-fi movies, Fortress indulges every prison-flick cliché, but does it with such enjoyable B-movie vigour that it qualifies as a bona-fide guilty pleasure (indeed, it deserves to be ranked with James Cameron's original Terminator in terms of its budgetary ingenuity). Featuring such giddy (and gory) devices as "intestinators" (deadly obedience devices implanted in prisoners' bodies) and a torturous "Mind Wipe Chamber", this is really just a drive-in action movie with lofty ambitions and the schlocky script hasn't a prayer of rising above the level of juvenile popcorn fodder. But there's no denying the energy and enthusiasm that Gordon brings to the film, which understandably became a global box-office hit and spawned a 1999 sequel starring Lambert and Pam Grier. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The Cable Guy | DVD | (10/05/1999) from £8.95   |  Saving you £4.04 (45.14%)   |  RRP £12.99

  There's No Such Thing as Free Cable The manic madness of Jim Carrey strikes again in this totally wired out of control comedy! Slip the cable guy fifty bucks and you'll get the movie channels for free - it's a time honoured urban ritual. But when Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick) moves into his new apartment he picks the wrong cable guy - this guy doesn't want fifty bucks; he just wants a friend for life. And he won't take no for an answer.

• The Criminal Acts of Tod Slaughter: Eight Blood-and-Thunder Entertainments, 1935-1940 (Limited Edition) Bluray | Blu Ray | (20/11/2023) from £61.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Includes: Maria Marten, Or The Murder In The Red Barn (Milton Rosmer, 1935) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (George King, 1936) The Crimes Of Stephen Hawke (George King, 1936) It's Never Too Late To Mend (David MacDonald, 1937) The Ticket Of Leave Man (George King, 1937) Sexton Blake And The Hooded Terror (George King, 1938) The Face At The Window (George King, 1939) Crimes At The Dark House (George King, 1940) The terrifying talents of Newcastles Norman Carter ˜Tod Slaughter - the first true icon of British horror cinema - are showcased in this long-overdue box set. Featuring the eight films which 'Europes' Horror Man made in collaboration with British producer-director George King (Tomorrow We Live), this comprehensive collection also includes a number of rare shorts and newsreel items. Unlike his contemporaries, such as Boris Karloff and Charles Laughton, Tod Slaughter never left his native shores. Instead, he chose to make his mark in Britain by transferring his most sensational theatrical performances to the screen. Portraying every kind of cruel and cunning criminal - from petty thief to mass murderer - he became the first great villain of British horror, at a time before the Grand Guignol of Hammer Films began to take hold, without once donning monster make-up. Criminally overlooked by film historians, and only previously seen in compromised versions, these fascinating films have been newly restored using original film materials preserved at the BFI National Archive, and are accompanied by an array of essential contextualising extras, including archival short films and radio plays presented with optional soundtracks by British music legends Current 93, newly recorded commentaries, critical appreciations and personal recollections, and a 120-page book. Strictly limited to 6,000 individually numbered units for the Uk and US. Product Features New 2K restorations of Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Crimes of Stephen Hawke, Its Never Too Late to Mend, The Ticket of Leave Man, and Crimes at the Dark House from original nitrate negative elements 2K restoration of Sexton Blake and The Hooded Terror from 35mm dupe positive HD remaster of The Face at the Window Original mono soundtracks Audio commentary with film historians Josephine Botting and Vic Pratt on Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn (2023) Audio commentary with critics and authors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman on Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023) Audio commentary with critics and authors David McGillivray and Kim Newman on The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (2023) Audio commentary with film historian Josephine Botting and podcaster Dave Thomas on The Ticket of Leave Man (2023) Audio commentary with critics and authors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman on Sexton Blake and The Hooded Terror (2023) Audio commentary with film historians Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby on The Face at the Window (2023) Audio commentary with film historians Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby on Crimes at the Dark House (2023) New interviews with Imogen Slaughter, great-niece of Tod Slaughter, and her father Giles, in which they discuss their famous relative's life off stage and off camera (2023) New interview with artist and illustrator Ania Goszczyńska and Current 93 channeller and trance scribbler David Tibet, in which the pair delve into their long-term obsession with the life and work of the first British villain (2023) Stephen Thrower on Tod Slaughter (2023): the author and musician dissects the great actors multiple villainous incarnations The Tod Slaughter Repertory Company (2023): video essay on the regular players from Slaughters feature films Maria Marten and Sweeney Todd radio plays (1932): newly remastered from original 78 rpm shellac discs, these original recordings are presented with optional, newly recorded Current 93 scores London After Dark (1926): first known film footage of Slaughter, captured on stage at the Elephant and Castle Theatre, presented with optional, newly recorded Current 93 score Tod Slaughter at Home (1936): mock interview with Sweeney Todd, recorded for the Pathétone newsreel Pots of Plots (1938): short film in which Slaughter, sitting at the make-up station in his dressing room, reprises three of his infamous villainous roles, including Sweeney Todd Bothered by a Beard (1946): humorous short educational film which traces the history of shaving, featuring a scene in Sweeney Todd's infamous barber shop Puzzle Corner No. 14 (1954): Slaughter's last appearance on camera, delivering a Sweeney Todd monologue Image galleries: promotional and publicity material for all eight films The Crimes of Stephen Hawke original treatment gallery New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Limited edition exclusive 120-page book with new essays by Jean-Claude Michael, Ania Goszczyńska and David Tibet, Doug Young and Kip-Xool, excerpts from Slaughter's unpublished memoirs, archival essays and reviews, and film credits World and UK premieres on Blu-ray Limited edition box set of 6,000 numbered units for the UK and US All extras subject to change

• The Bill - Volume Five | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Running for three decades The Bill was one of the most successful programmes ever made for British Television. Constantly in the top ten ratings and winner of numerous awards (including a BAFTA for Best Continuing Drama in 2009) the ongoing drama of Sun Hill police station remained must-see programming throughout its run. This series of volumes takes you back to the beginning in order and features fan favourite characters Sgt. Cryer WPC Ackland Ted Roach Jim Carver and Christopher Ellison as the irascible DI Burnside. The thirteen episodes in this set feature prisoner abuse dead bodies undercover operations and corruption allegations - it's all in a day's work for the men and women of The Bill.