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• The Fog | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £19.95   |  Saving you £-6.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A thick fog rolls into the sleepy town of Antonio Bay concealing the ghosts of murdered sailors desperate to seek revenge on the descendants of their killers. In one night the inhabitants of this town will pay the ultimate price for their forefathers' murderous greed...

• Zachariah | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Advertised in 1970 as "the first electric Western", Zachariah is an endearingly pretentious effort that prefigures such genre oddities as Jodorowsky's El Topo and Alex Cox's Straight to Hell. The story is the archetypal one about two friends who become gunslingers and must inevitably face off against each other in the finale, but it's treated here as if it Meant Something Deeper--which means that after enjoying 75 minutes of violence we can all agree that peace and love and harmony is on the whole better for children and other living things. Curly haired farmboy Zachariah (John Rubinstein) and eternally grinning apprentice blacksmith Matthew (Don Johnson) are the fast friends who run away from home to join up with a gang of outlaws known as the Crackers (played by hippie folk-rock collective Country Joe and the Fish). These apparent 19th-century Westerners tote electric guitars and are given to staging free festival freak-outs at one end of town to distract from the bank robbery at the other. The boys soon hook up with Job Cain (Elvin Jones), an all-in-black master gunfighter who is also an ace drummer (his solo is impressive), but then drift apart as Zachariah has a liaison with Old West madame Belle Starr (Pat Quinn) in a town that consists of fairground-style brightly painted wooden cut out buildings (a gag reused in Blazing Saddles), then gets rid of his outrageous all-white cowboy outfit to settle down on a homestead and grow his own dope and vegetables. Matthew, of course, goes for the black leather look after outdrawing Cain, and comes a gunning for the only man who might be faster than him, but the hippie-era message is once these kids have killed everyone else they can still make peace with each other and the desert or something, man. Aside from a Beatle-haired teenage Johnson making a fool of himself by over-emoting to contrast with Rubinstein's non-performance, the film offers a lot of beautiful "acid Western" scenery and excellent prog rock and bluegrass music from the James Gang, White Lightnin' and the New York Rock Ensemble. Comedy troupe the Firesign Theatre (huge on album in 1970) provided the script, which explains satirical touches like the horse-and-buggy salesman (Dick Van Patten) spieling like a used car dealer and the madame's claim to have had affairs with gunslingers from Billy the Kid to Marshal McLuhan. The DVD extras are skimpy, but the print quality is outstanding. --Kim Newman

• Ark Of The Sun God | Blu Ray | (17/04/2023) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Who needs Indiana Jones when you've got Rick Spear? Rick's a master cracksman the best damn thief in the business and he's been hired to find the fabled burial chamber of King Gilgamesh and retrieve the valuables within. But he's not the only one on the treasure hunt: others have their eyes on the loot and they'll stop at nothing to get it... A late-career highlight from Italian genre favourite Antonio Margheriti (The Long Hair of Death; Seven Deaths in the Cats Eye), with a characteristically charming performance from David Warbeck (The Beyond) as the dashing Rick, Ark of the Sun God tips its fedora at Raiders of the Lost Ark but adds its own wild invention into the mix. The tomb-raiders at 88 Films are proud to present the 4k UHD premiere of this fabulous slice of 80s adventure.

• Welcome To Mooseport | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A local plumber (Romano) is plunged into the national spotlight when in a local election he takes on the former President of the United States (Hackman) who can't believe he's running against the man installing his toilet! To make matters worse the former premier is trying to steal the election and the affection of the handyman's girlfriend (Maura Tierney)... Whoever wins one thing's for sure: this town isn't small enough for the both of them!

• Tess | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £8.82   |  Saving you £4.17 (47.28%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Roman Polanski adapted Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles and came up with this moody, haunting film starring Nastassia Kinski as the farm girl who is misused by the aristocrat for whom she works and who is then caught in a marriage where her initial happiness soon turns to grief. Fans of the novel may feel unpersuaded by Polanski's effort to marry Hardy's Dorset vision with his own fascination with psychosexual impulses toward survival, but the film is an often stunning thing to see, and Kinski's sensitive, intelligent performance lingers in the memory. --Tom Keogh

• Frasier - Series 11 | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £25.63   |  Saving you £9.36 (26.80%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Frasier returns with Season 11 - the final season of the smash hit comedy! Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer is Frasier - the hilarious psychiatrist first seen on TV's Cheers and subsequently the star of this smash-hit comedy series.

• Network | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £17.11   |  Saving you £-1.12 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Media madness reigns supreme in screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's scathing satire about the uses and abuses of network television. But while Chayefsky's and director Sidney Lumet's take on television may seem quaint in the age of "reality TV" and Jerry Springer's talk-show fisticuffs, Network is every bit as potent now as it was when the film was released in 1976. And because Chayefsky was one of the greatest of all dramatists, his Oscar-winning script about the ratings frenzy at the cost of cultural integrity is a showcase for powerhouse acting by Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight (who each won Oscars), and Oscar nominee William Holden in one of his finest roles. Finch plays a veteran network anchorman who's been fired because of low ratings. His character's response is to announce he'll kill himself on live television two weeks hence. What follows, along with skyrocketing ratings, is the anchorman's descent into insanity, during which he fervently rages against the medium that made him a celebrity. Dunaway plays the frigid, ratings-obsessed producer who pursues success with cold-blooded zeal; Holden is the married executive who tries to thaw her out during his own seething midlife crisis. Through it all, Chayefsky (via Finch) urges the viewer to repeat the now-famous mantra "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" to reclaim our humanity from the medium that threatens to steal it away. --Jeff Shannon

• Hold the Sunset - Series 1 | DVD | (26/03/2018) from £19.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Edith and Phil are retired and in love. And when she finally agrees to marry him, they're all set to move to a place in the sun. But then Edith's son Roger crashes back into their lives. Fifty going on 12, Roger has had a mid-life breakdown and left his wife, children and job. As Roger and a host of other unwanted visitors cause havoc around their house, Edith and Phil's lives explode into farce. All they wanted was a quiet retirement filled with sea and sand. It's just a shame about the son.

• Silent Witness - Series 2 | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Forensic pathologist Dr Sam Ryan (Amanda Burton) has an all-embracing passionate notion of justice. Driven almost obsessional her crusade and tenacity sometimes leads her to conduct her own enquires outside the laboratory uncovering new evidence that dramatically alters the course of police investigations. This can lead to trouble - both in her personal and professional lives but to Sam each dead body deserves nothing but the truth.... Episodes Comprise: 1. Blood Sweat and Tears 2. Cease Upon The Midnight 3. Only The Lonely 4. Friends Like These

• The Naked Civil Servant | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £8.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Clockers | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £7.90   |  Saving you £9.35 (140.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When there's murder on the streets everyone is a suspect. A gritty realistic adaptation of Richard Price's best-selling novel director Spike Lee examines the violent world of urban drug dealing through the eyes of Strike (Mekhi Phifer) a 19-year-old ""clocker "" short for round-the-clock pusher. Strike agrees to kill a fellow employee of his boss Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo) an influential popular drug lord. But when the hit goes down it is Strike's moral law-abiding brother V

• Bagpuss: The Complete Bagpuss | DVD | (06/04/2015) from £13.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (42.99%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Owls Of Athens - The Owls Of Athens were beautiful singers but they were greedy ; Flying - What a lot of ways there are for a mouse to fly! ; The Mouse Mill - Whoever heard of a mill that makes chocolate biscuits! ; The Ballet Shoe - Professor Yaffle is very clever but not very good at dancing. ; Uncle Feedle - How would you like to live in a house that was inside out?

• Exile | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £13.96   |  Saving you £-0.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Simm and Jim Broadbent give compelling performances in this Paul Abbott-created Danny Brocklehurst-written claustrophobic drama about father-son relationships and many other things. The marvellous Olivia Colman provides fine support proving she does drama as brilliantly as comedy.

• Rocketeer | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £4.97   |  Saving you £10.02 (201.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Based on a retro-styled comic book hit of the 80s, this Disney film was meant to launch a whole line of Rocketeer films--but the series began and ended with this one. That's too bad because this underrated Joe Johnston film has a certain loopy charm. The story centres on a pre-World War II stunt pilot (Bill Campbell) who accidentally comes into possession of a rocket-propelled backpack much coveted by the Nazis. With the aid of his mechanic pal (Alan Arkin), he gets it up and running, then uses it to foil a plot by a gang of vicious Nazi spies (is there any other kind?) led by Timothy Dalton. Jennifer Connelly is on hand as the love interest but the real fun here is when the Rocketeer takes off. There's also a nifty battle atop an airborne blimp. --Marshall Fine

• Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £8.75   |  Saving you £16.24 (185.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Rock's premier metalmen Led Zeppelin whose blend of gutsy blue and scathing rock catapulted them into the music world's pantheon take you on a spellbinding journey of song and imagination. This high-impact movie captures the group's legendary 1973 Madison Square Garden concert and uncorks a freewheeling mix of scenes showing group members at home and in elaborate fantasy settings. Robert Plant's raw lead vocals Jimmy Page's explosive riffery and the sonic-boom rhythm wall of bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham all swirl clash and collide - on classic tunes like Stairway to Heaven Dazed and Confused Whole Lotta Love and many others. No one goes down heavier than Zep!

• True as a Turtle | DVD | (05/09/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  1950's nautical comedy starring John Gregson and June Thorburn as a newlywed couple embarking on a hastily planned honeymoon on board a yacht, the ˜Turtle'. Tony Hudson (John Gregson) asks his new wife Jane (June Thorburn) to go on a cruise on to France the ageing yacht ˜Turtle'. The yacht's skipper is the cantankerous Dudley Partridge (Cecil Parker) an important customer of Tony's. Along with the rest of the crew the newlyweds encounter a series of hilarious mishaps on their trip which leave them all at sea

• The Deer Hunter 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (20/08/2018) from £31.98   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.

• Cape Fear Box Set (1962 & 1991 versions) | DVD | (14/01/2002) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The original 1962 version of Cape Fear is directed by J Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) in a deliberately Hitchcockian manner, and stars Robert Mitchum as a creepy ex-con angry at the attorney (Gregory Peck) whom he believes is responsible for his incarceration. After Mitchum makes clear his plans to harm Peck's family, a fascinating game of crisscrossing ethics and morality takes place. Superior to Martin Scorsese's punishing 1991 remake, which seems trapped in its explicitness, Thompson's film accomplishes a lot with a more economical and telling use of violence. The result is a rich character study that explores the nature of guilt. Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake dabbles a bit in some fascinating psychological crosscurrents between its characters, but it finally trades in all that rich material for extensive and gratuitous violence. Robert De Niro plays a serial rapist released from prison after 14 years. Angry because his appalled attorney (Nick Nolte) made it easy for him to be convicted, this monster is out to hurt Nolte's character through his wife (Jessica Lange) and daughter (Juliette Lewis). The themes of interlocking guilt and anger between these people suggests a smart film in the making. But the final act, set on a boat with De Niro's vengeful pervert attacking Nolte and the two women, takes a more unfortunate direction. The stars of the original film, Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck, each make a cameo appearance. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• This is My Street | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ian Hendry June Ritchie John Hurt and future Randall and Hopkirk stars Annette Andre and Mike Pratt feature among an outstanding cast in this mid-sixties realist drama from noted director Sidney Hayers. This Is My Street is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Jubilee Close a drab street of decaying houses in London's Battersea is home to a cross-section of working-class families. Yearning to escape from this depressing environment is the pretty ambitious Margery Graham; the victim of an enforced marriage she is tied to a lazy boorish husband and young daughter Cindy. Margery lives next door to her widowed mother who in order to make ends meet has taken in a lodger Harry - a slick unscrupulous salesman with a roving eye and a more-than-neighbourly interest in Margery... Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Original Pressbook PDF  

• Sergeant Cork: The Complete Series | DVD | (19/02/2018) from £84.74   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  John Barrie is Sergeant Cork, one of the early members of London's Metropolitan Police C.I.D. plain-clothes detectives tasked with maintaining law and order in the seething metropolis of Victorian London. Assisted by Bob Marriott (William Gaunt) from his attic office at Old Scotland Yard, Cork has to contend with the heavy crimewave created by the massive population boom, industrial expansion and an ever-widening gap between the rich and poor. Devised by Dixon of Dock Green creator Ted Willis and produced by Jack Williams best known for the classic series Within These Walls and New Scotland Yard Sergeant Cork features inventive scripts from Willis, Man in a Suitcase contributor Richard Harris, Police Surgeon co-creator Richard Bond, and Timeslip contributor Bruce Stewart, among others. This complete set features all six series, comprising 66 episodes.