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• ABCs OF DEATH, The (BLU-RAY) | Blu Ray | (22/07/2013) from £11.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (66.74%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The ABCs of Death is perhaps the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived with productions spanning fifteen countries and featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film including the directors of House of the Devil Hobo with a Shotgun A Serbian Film Tokyo Gore Police You're Next and four British Directors - Ben Wheatley (Sightseers) Simon Rumley (Red White and Blue) Jake West (Doghouse) and Leeds based Lee Hardcastle who with his claymation short won a competition to be the final Director. Inspired by children's educational books the motion picture is comprised of twenty-six individual chapters; each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free rein in choosing a word to create a story involving death. Provocative shocking funny and ultimately confrontational The ABCs of Death is the definitive vision of modern horror diversity. This alphabetical arsenal of destruction orchestrated by what has been described as a stunning roll call of some of the most exciting names in horror across the world. Special Features: Filmmaker Commentary A Is For Apocalypse - Oil Burns Visual Effects B Is For Bigfoot - Making of C Is For Cycle - Deleted Scenes D Is For Dogfight - Making of H Is For Hydro-Electric Diffusion – Behind the Scenes The Making of Bertie the Bulldog & Frau Scheisse and Finished Short vs. Behind the Scenes I Is For Ingrown - Making of J Is For Jidai-Geki - Behind the Scenes R Is For Removed - Behind the Scenes Photo Gallery T Is For Toilet - Behind the Scenes V Is For Vagitus - Deleted Scene Behind the Scenes and Animatics W Is For WTF! - Behind the Scenes Bonus Flubs! and Star-Beast Outtakes Do You Know Your ABC’s Trailer

• The Return | DVD | (16/04/2018) from £8.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev makes his feature debut with this haunting, poignant family drama. Teenage brothers Andrei (Vladimir Garin) and Ivan (Ivan Dobronravov) have lived with their mother (Natalya Vdovina) and grandmother (Galina Petrova) for as long as they can remember when their long-lost father (Konstantin Lavronenko) suddenly turns up after a twelve-year absence. While Andrei seems happy to see him, the younger Ivan is reluctant and suspicious of his father's motives. The three take a boat to a deserted island in a remote lake in the north of Russia - a trip which turns into an endurance test as the boys struggle to come to terms with their father's presence and cruel, mysterious ways

• Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters | Blu Ray | (22/06/2020) from £12.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Cleanin Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters is the definitive retrospective documentary, charting the making of Ghostbusters, featuring Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Ivan Reitman. The documentary hallmarks the extraordinary achievements made by the filmmakers working in the photo-chemical era. It reveals a story of ingenuity, innovation and emphasises just how ambitious an undertaking the making of Ghostbusters really was. 46 insightful, entertaining and heartfelt cast and crew interviews accompany a wealth of never before seen archive material. The documentary demonstrates how the filmmakers collectively defied adverse time constraints and all manner of technical challenges to make Ghostbusters, the movie that inadvertently changed the film industry forever. Blu-Ray Extras Deleted Scenes Additional Tales John DeCuir Extended Fan Art

• Last Cannibal World | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An oil prospector (Massimo Foschi) and his partner (Ivan Rassimov) along with a young lady (Me Me Lai) and pilot fly deep into an inhospitable jungle in search of a missing exploration team. A bad landing causes a wheel to collapse so they find themselves stranded. Stumbling across the original team's camp they find evidence that they were massacred. They soon find that the jungle contains a deadly and horrifying secret when they come face to face with flesh eating cannibals!

• Silent Souls | DVD | (22/10/2012) from £6.59   |  Saving you £9.40 (142.64%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When Miron's beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merya culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero, a picturesque region in West-Central Russia. Although the Merya people blended with the Russians in the 17th century, their myths and traditions live on in the modern life of their descendants. The two men set out on a road trip thousands of miles across the boundless landscape. With them are two sm...

• In from the side - Special Edition BD | Blu Ray | (06/11/2023) from £11.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Like Water For Chocolate | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £17.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Expect to be very hungry (and perhaps amorous) after watching this contemporary classic in the small genre of food movies that includes Babette's Feast and Big Night. Director Alfonso Arau (A Walk in the Clouds), adapting a novel by his former wife, Laura Esquivel, tells the story of a young woman (Lumi Cavazos) who learns to suppress her passions under the eye of a stern mother, but channels them into her cooking. The result is a steady stream of cuisine so delicious as to be an almost erotic experience for those lucky enough to have a bite. The film's quotient of magic realism feels a little stock, but the story line is good and Arau's affinity for the sensuality of food (and of nature) is sublime. You might want to rush off to a good Mexican restaurant afterward, but that's a good thing. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Richard Pryor | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A 4 disc box set featuring a quartet of the finest films starring motormouth funnyman Richard Pryor! R.I.P Ritchie... Car Wash ((Dir. Michael Schultz 1976): An earthy irreverent but affectionate look at a typical day in Los Angeles car wash! An ensemble piece which interweaves the lives of employees customers and passers-by Car Wash stars a galaxy of gifted actors most of whom are relatively unknown to movie goers and spotlights an array of guest stars in vivid cameo rol

• Carandiru | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A doctor uncovers stories of crime, revenge, love and friendship when he stars work in Sao Paulo's infamous prison Carandiru.

• Vodka Lemon | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £5.01   |  Saving you £14.98 (299.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the tiny Kurdish village of Caucasus lives widowed army veteran Hamo. A few precious comforts - an old armoire an archaic television set his old uniform and a seven dollar monthly pension - keep him company until some long-awaited correspondence (and more pressingly money) reaches his remote village from his son who has begun a new life in Paris. Each day Hamo wakes to the rabble of eccentric villagers before making the long bus journey through the snow to an isolated cemetary a

• Last Days | DVD | (24/02/2014) from £7.52   |  Saving you £9.73 (155.43%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this terrifying apocalyptic horror a mysterious epidemic like no other has swept across the globe leaving chaos in its wake. With the world's population unable to go outside for fear of an inexplicable and painful death the population is now forced to live like savages in the darkness. Terror and famine take hold and despite gruesome reports of cannibalism survivors Marc and Enrique embark upon a treacherous journey to be reunited with their loved ones in the hope they too are still alive. Battling unimaginable horror at every turn the two men soon become caught in a conflict far worse than they could ever have imagined...

• Cronos | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A strange object the Cronos device has been found inside the statue of an angel in an antique store. While the dealer Jesus Gris is holding the device it springs open and its metallic legs pierces his flesh. Once bitten he develops a craving for human blood and his body grows more and more youthful with each drink. As the addiction spreads through his body he realizes he desires the blood of his innocent granddaughter... Winner of the Cannes Festival Critics' Week prize in 1992.

• Andrei Rublev | DVD | (11/07/2016) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Widely regarded as Andrei Tarkovsky's finest film, Andrei Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th-century Russian history which was marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and Tatar invasions. Made on an epic scale, it does not flinch from portraying the savagery of the time, from which, almost inexplicably, the serenity of Rublev's art arose. The great set pieces the sack of Vladimir, the casting of the bell, the pagan ceremonies of St. John's Night and the Russian crucifixion - are tours-de-force of visceral filmmaking.

• Jack Hunter (Box Set) | DVD | (18/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise: Jack Hunter And The Lost Treasure Of Ugarit: Jack Hunter (Ivan Sergei) an adventurous treasure seeker goes to Syria after his mentor and father figure Professor Fredrick Shaffer (Sean Lawlor) is killed. Professor Frederick Shaffer believed that the people of Ugarit a town in Syria that existed during the Pharoah's reign had buried a treasure before they were wiped out by the Pharoahs. Jack Hunter is one of the few archaeologists in the world who can interpret Ugarit writings however he never bought Frederick's belief of a hidden treasure. Before he was killed Frederick had discovered a clue that would prove his theory was true. We follow Jack to Syria where he meets Nadia Ramadan (Joanne Kelly) the Ministry of Archaeology for Syria. Nadia thinks Jack is only coming to Syria to steal their historical artifacts and sell them to the highest bidder. She and her co-worker Tariq Khaliff (Mario Bassill) accompany Jack Hunter on his quest to find who killed Professor Frederick. During their travels Jack discovers that the treasure is in fact real. Jack Nadia and Tariq are caught up in a chase thru Syria Egypt and Turkey trying to find the lost Treasure of Ugarit before Albert Littman (Thure Riefenstein) gets it for himself and the Russian mafia. Jack Hunter And The Quest For Akhenaten's Tomb: In the second of his all action adventures Jack Hunter sets off in pursuit of a legendary tomb meeting dangerous old adversaries and even more dangerous old flames along the way. The heroic archaeologist is on a mission to recover an ancient artefact that is a great energy source but in the wrong hands could be used as a devastating weapon. Jack and his team soon discover the obelisk that contains the secret symbols that should lead to the discovery of Akhenaten's tomb and the secrets to the whereabouts of the Star of Heaven but he soon realises he is competing with the deadly Russian Mafia. Jack Hunter And The Star Of Heaven: In the explosive conclusion of the trilogy archaeologist Jack Hunter arrives in Turkey to find the Star of Heaven an ancient and powerful weapon that was stolen by the Roman Emperor Constantine and taken to the city of Constantinople. Jack's arch-rival Albert Littleman and the Russian mob will stop at nothing to ensure they get there first and take the Star to use in their own evil plans. The race is onto see if Jack and his friends can find the treasure and recover the Star before it's too late! Arcane secrets buried for centuries are brought to the surface as the final piece of the puzzle is revealed and Jack's epic adventure reaches its spectacular end.

• Anastasia/Inn of the Sixth Happiness double pack | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £5.56 (58.96%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An Ingrid Bergman double-bill comes to DVD with the classy pairing of Anastasia (1956) and The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958). In Anastasia Bergman gives one of her memorable, haunting and haunted performances as an amnesiac chosen by a White Russian general (Yul Brynner) in 1928 to play the part of the long-rumoured but missing survivor of the Bolsheviks' murderous attack on the Czar's family. The twist is that Bergman's mystery woman seems to know more about the lost Anastasia than she is told. Based on the play by Marcelle Maurette and Guy Bolton, this film--directed by Anatole Litvak (Out of the Fog)--really does get under one's skin, not least of all because of its intriguing story but more so as a result of the strong chemistry between Bergman and Brynner. --Tom Keogh The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is an epic and extraordinary true story--or, at least, an extraordinary story based on a novel (Alan Burgess's The Small Woman) based on a true story. Gladys Aylward (an improbably mesmerising Ingrid Bergman) is a British would-be missionary with an obsession about China. As she has no experience, the Missionary Society won't let her go, but she goes anyway, alone, to a remote northern province. She is hated, then loved; finally she becomes both a significant political figure and the heroine of a miraculous escape in which she shepherds 100 children to safety across the mountains just ahead of a Japanese invasion. Curt Jurgens is suitably stony as Lin Nan, the half-Dutch, half-Chinese military officer who falls in love with her, and a visibly ailing Robert Donat (who died before this, his final film, was released) is the wily local mandarin who sees and makes use of her extraordinary abilities. Directed by Mark Robson, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a sweeping, stirring tear-jerker, a big tale told in a big landscape with acres of orchestrated strings by Malcolm Arnold. It's a beautiful and beautifully made film that's a classic of the "everyone said I couldn't but I did it anyway" genre.--Richard Farr

• Isadora | Blu Ray | (18/05/2015) from £17.48   |  Saving you £7.50 (51.76%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Vanessa Redgrave & James Fox stars in Karel Reisz’s Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated film biopic of Isadora Duncan the most iconic dancer of the 20th century. Vanessa Redgrave regarded this as her best-ever dramatic performance and this Blu-ray release includes newly filmed extras with Melvyn Bragg and many more extras.

• That Dirty Black Bag: Season 1 | DVD | (26/07/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Cunning Little Vixen - Janacek | DVD | (15/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen is a real charmer of an opera, a tale that shows the natural world the composer had loved from childhood in its true colours: miraculous, beautiful, mysterious but also cruel. The inspiration came from a series of illustrated stories published in a Czech newspaper. The Vixen of the title is captured by a forester and taken home as a plaything for his children. She is soon thrown out of the house and has to make her own way in the world, encountering lust, stupidity, pride, love and ultimately death. This 1995 performance was taken from the Chatelet Theatre in Paris. Visually, Nicholas Hytner's production is a triumph, the animals wonderfully wittily wrought (the mosquito with its syringe for a nose, the mangey old dog, distasteful in baggy Y-fronts, the hideous, goggle-eyed frog). And it's also brilliantly cast: Eva Jenis's Vixen is funny, sexy, endearing and youthful enough in voice and figure to convince. Thomas Allen is a veteran of the role of the Forester, a huge presence and singing in impeccable Czech. In fact, there's not a weak performance here, and that goes for the dancers and instrumentalists as well as the singers. And at the helm, who better than Sir Charles Mackerras, arguably the greatest living interpreter of Janacek's music? This is in essence a grown-up fairy tale, ravishingly done and extremely highly recommended. On the DVD: The Cunning Little Vixen is presented on disc in vividly remastered PCM stereo, with 16:9 picture format that does full justice to the alluringly colourful designs. The disc is encoded for regions 2 and 5, and the menu and subtitle languages are English, German, French and Spanish. The useful booklet gives coherent background information and synopsis as well as full casting details. There's also a substantial (23-minute) trailer of other offerings from Arthaus Musik. --Harriet Smith

• The Knowledge | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  There are over 13 000 taxi drivers in London. And in order to become taxi drivers every single one of them (like every one of their predecessors for over 140 years) has to pass an exam called 'The Knowledge Of London'. Writer Jack Rosenthal's The Knowledge is the story of four men and their attempts to become cab drivers. In the process they acquire a different kind of knowledge: knowledge of themselves and of those closest to them of their strengths and weaknesses of what they wa

• Battleship Potemkin | DVD | (17/04/2000) from £8.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing that many have forgotten what an invigoratingly cinematic experience he created. A 20th-anniversary tribute to the 1905 revolution, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatisation of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. The story tells a familiar party-line message of the oppressed working class (in this case the enlisted sailors) banding together to overthrow their oppressors (the ship's officers), led by proto-revolutionary Vakulinchuk. When he dies in the shipboard struggle the crew lays his body to rest on the pier, a moody, moving scene where the citizens of Odessa slowly emerge from the fog to pay their respects. As the crowd grows Eisenstein turns the tenor from mourning a fallen comrade to celebrating the collective achievement. The government responds by sending soldiers and ships to deal with the mutinous crew and the supportive townspeople, which climaxes in the justly famous (and often imitated and parodied) Odessa Steps massacre. Eisenstein edits carefully orchestrated motions within the frame to create broad swaths of movement, shots of varying length to build the rhythm, close-ups for perspective and shock effect, and symbolic imagery for commentary, all to create one of the most cinematically exciting sequences in film history. Eisenstein's film is Marxist propaganda to be sure but the power of this masterpiece lies not in its preaching but its poetry. --Sean Axmaker