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• The Cockettes | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1969. San Francisco. Sexual Anarchy! Emerging at the end of the `60s The Cockettes were a theatrical troupe of assorted hippies drag queens and gay men who embraced the new drug-fuelled anti-establishment counterculture in San Francisco. Founded by the flamboyant `Hibiscus' they started out by doing improv musicals before the midnight film at the Palace Theatre. As their popularity grew so did the number of performers and the flamboyance of the events which continued into th

• Pathology | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £8.75   |  Saving you £9.24 (105.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A group of medical students devise a deadly game: to see which one of them can commit the perfect murder.

• Randy Rides Alone / The Trail Beyond | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  In 'Randy Rides Alone' a man enters a saloon filled with murdered patrons and he finds himself accused of being the killer. In a brave attempt to prove his innocence he sets a trap to catch the real murderer. In 'The Trail Beyond' a cowboy travels to Canada to look for missing relatives.

• The World Of Henry Orient | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In New York City adolescent friends Gil and Val follow pianist Henry Orient (Sellers) - a clueless womanising virtuoso - all over town while he tries to seduce Stella (Prentiss) a married woman. However when Val's parents arrive for Christmas holidays the two girls are forced to grow up and test their friendship... This is an endearing and gentle comedy and combined with a classic Sellers performance it ensures that this film will be enjoyed over and over again!

• Nosferatu (1922) - Two-disc set | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nosferatu ... the name alone can chill the blood!". F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, released in 1922, was the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Nearly 80 years on, it remains among the most potent and disturbing horror films ever made. The sight of Max Schreck's hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire rising creakily from his coffin still has the ability to chill the blood. Nor has the film dated. Murnau's elision of sex and disease lends it a surprisingly contemporary resonance. The director and his screenwriter Henrik Gaalen are true to the source material, but where most subsequent screen Draculas (whether Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella or Gary Oldman) were portrayed as cultured and aristocratic, Nosferatu is verminous and evil. (Whenever he appears, rats follow in his wake.)The film's full title--Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror)--reveals something of Murnau's intentions. Supremely stylised, it differs from Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919) or Ernst Lubitsch's films of the period in that it was not shot entirely in the studio. Murnau went out on location in his native Westphalia. As a counterpoint to the nightmarish world inhabited by Nosferatu, he used imagery of hills, clouds, trees and mountains (it is, after all, sunlight that destroys the vampire). It's not hard to spot the similarity between the gangsters in film noir hugging doorways or creeping up staircases with the image of Schreck's diabolic Nosferatu, bathed in shadow, sidling his way toward a new victim. Heavy chiaroscuro, oblique camera angles and jarring close-ups--the devices that crank up the tension in Val Lewton horror movies and edgy, urban thrillers such as Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice--were all to be found first in Murnau's chilling masterpiece. --Geoffrey MacnabOn the DVD: This two-disc set gives you the choice of watching Nosferatu in either a sepia-tinted version or the original black & white. Both, however, feature the same modern electronic music score by Art Zoyd (at the movie's lavish 1922 premiere a live orchestra performed a newly composed, quasi-Wagnerian score by Hans Erdmann). The anonymous commentary track is a scholarly critical appraisal of the movie that exhaustively documents every aspect of it, from Murnau's aesthetic use of framing devices to the homoerotic subtext of the Hutter-Orlock relationship. In the "Nosferatour" featurette the movie's locations (principally, the Baltic cities of Wismer and Lubeck) are shown as they are today, and there is also a look at the original artwork that served as Murnau's inspiration. Two text features provide a brief history of the vampire myth from Vlad the Impaler onwards, as well as a discussion of the controversy caused by the movie's release. Appropriately, a trailer for the John Malkovich-Willem Dafoe movie Shadow of the Vampire, which imagines that "Max Schreck" actually was a vampire employed by Murnau in his obsessive pursuit of verisimilitude, is also included. --Mark Walker

• Friday The 13th - Part 5 - A New Beginning | DVD | (23/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Jason is back complete with hockey mask. And he's up to his old maniacal tricks in Friday The 13th Part V - A New Beginning. This time he seems to have set his sights on the young patients at a secluded halfway house. And more than a few of his teen targets end up in half in quarters you name it Jason does it. This is the fifth scary installment in the Friday The 13th saga. If you liked the first four and think you're up to getting back on Jason's bloody trail you'll love 'Friday The 13th Part V - A New Beginning'.

• Holy Water | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Four happy-go-lucky bachelors, with life slowly passing them by in a dreary Irish village, decide to do something crazy...and rob a shipment of Viagra!

• Hot Tub Time Machine | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £4.63   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Four guy friends, all of them bored with their adult lives, travel back to their respective 80s heydays thanks to a time-bending hot tub.

• War Of The Colossal Beast | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A frightened young man races his truck down a dirt road constantly looking back in terror. He is being pursued by some unseen menace! Undoubtedly it is this menace that is responsible for a series of mysterious food truck robberies and the main suspect is the 60-foot tall Colossal Man! Previously presumed dead he is discovered living in a desolate mountain range in Mexico insane and horribly disfigured his face covered in scar tissue and missing an eye. Every effort of communicating with the giant fails and the military drugs him and transports him back to America where he promptly escapes to wreak havoc on an unfortunate city!

• Hot Tub Time Machine Steel Pack | Blu Ray | (10/10/2014) from £36.43   |  Saving you £-13.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Get ready to kick some serious past with the wildly inappropriate HOT TUB TIME MACHINE. The outrageous laughs bubble up when four friends share a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub only to wake up with nasty hangovers in 1986! Now nice-guy Adam (John Cusack) party animal Lou (Rob Corddry) married man Nick (Craig Robinson) and mega-nerd Jacob (Clark Duke) relive a wild night of sex drugs and rock ’n’ roll!

• Martian Successor Nadesico - Vol. 6 - Episodes 22-26 | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Earth and Jovian fleets converge upon Mars as the Nadesico and Nergal frantically battle to uncover the secrets buried in the ancient city. Driven past the point of human endurance the crew of the Nadesico must unlock the mysteries hidden within their own pasts in order to save the future of the human race! It's the spectacular climatic conclusion of Martian Successor!

• The Christmas Collection: The Christmas Shoes / A Different Kind of Christmas / A Christmas Romance / If You Believe | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Includes CHRISTMAS SHOES, A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS, IF YOU BELIEVE AND A CHRISTMAS ROMANCE.

• Parkin's Patch - The Complete Series | DVD | (16/04/2012) from £15.05   |  Saving you £24.94 (165.71%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A forerunner to Heartbeat, Parkin's Patch chronicles the work of a police constable and his colleagues in a fictional village in the North Yorkshire Moors during the late 1960s. Available for the first time this set contains all 26 episodes, boasting early appearances by Warren Clarke, Pauline Collins, Michael Elphick, Peter Sallis and James Grout; among the production crew are multiple-award-winning directors Michael Apted (Enigma) and Stephen Frears (The Queen), while writers include Softly Softly and Z Cars contributors Robert Barr and Allan Prior, and Sweeney creator Ian Kennedy Martin. Looking in detail at the unit beat system of policing amid spectacular moorland locations, the series sees P.C. Moss Parkin (John Flanagan Softly Softly) and D.C. Ron Radley (Gareth Thomas Blake s 7) encountering cases ranging from petty pilfering to abduction, sheep rustling to missing persons. And while village policemen may enjoy certain perks, living within Fickley s close-knit community also involves a dangerous proximity to criminals for both Parkin and his wife, Beth...

• Life of Crime | DVD | (05/01/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A wife of a corrupt real estate developer is kidnapped by two common criminals who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decided he'd actually rather not pay the random to get back his wife setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and plot twists that could only come from the mind of Elmore Leonard. Starring Jennifer Aniston Isla Fisher and Tim Robbins.

• Batman - The Brave And The Bold Vol. 6 | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £4.90   |  Saving you £1.09 (22.24%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The impassive foe Equinox joins Batman's Rogues Gallery but this villain is different than the evil masterminds Bats usually puts away. This character is all about character judging humanity and manipulating the world to maintain harmony between good and evil using Batman to control the balance. Always the hero with an edge Bats enlists the help of Dr. Fate and together they tip the scales of justice. Batman also teams with Kamandi for a showdown on future Earth partners with OMAC to crush the power-hungry Shrapnel and endures mind games with Psycho-Pirate. He even takes to song to defeat the Music Meister in a tuneful battle to save the world. Rejoice with Batman in these five action-packed episodes from the smart hip TV series that will leave you humming! Episodes comprise: 1. The Last Bat On Earth 2. When OMAC Attacks 3. Mayhem Of The Music Meister 4. Inside The Outsiders 5. The Fate Of Equinox

• Hotel | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £12.93   |  Saving you £-2.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Genius filmmaker Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas Timecode) brings together a dazzling all-star cast in this story of dark sexual intrigue where no one is quite what they seem and the staff are more in control than the guests. Figgis brings a fresh approach to film-making. Add this to the surplus of bizarre sexual activity and horrific cannibalistic images and Hotel becomes one place you will not want to check into alone...

• Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Red, White and Blues | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Mike Figgis joins musicians such as Van morrison Eric Clapton Jeff Beck and Tom Jones performing and talking about the British blues boom from the late 1950's onwards. A Thoughtful and musically uplifting analysis of the influence of the blues on British musicians and the re-export of the music to America.

• A Touch Of Frost - Endangered Species | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £4.96   |  Saving you £8.03 (161.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The BAFTA-award winning series starring David Jason is back for another installment of underhand dealings that Frost has to sift through...

• Farscape 1.1 | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £5.98   |  Saving you £19.01 (317.89%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An international co-production of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Australia's Channel 9 and Hallmark Entertainment, Farscape is genre television at its most ambitious, inspired both by the cult appeal of Babylon 5 and the continuing success of the Star Trek franchise. Making extensive use of CGI, prosthetics and state-of-the-art puppetry, Farscape takes a visual leap beyond previous shows. Admittedly, the basic premise may be borrowed from Buck Rogers (American astronaut catapulted to far-flung galaxy populated by strange aliens), while the crew have something of Blake's 7 about them (a motley bunch of escaped convicts pursued by a relentless foe), and ideas like the living ship are borrowed from Babylon 5, but the Farscape concept has a freshness that makes it look and feel completely original. The production design is all bio-mechanical curves and the script never takes itself too seriously (fart jokes and double-entendres pop up when you least expect them). It must have been expensive to make, but it certainly looks (and sounds--in Dolby Digital 5.1) like every penny made it to the screen. In this handsome box set, two discs contain the first four episodes of the first season, completely uncut. In "Premiere", astronaut John Crichton is inadvertently catapulted into a parallel universe where he is taken on board the bio-mechanical ship Moya and meets the inhabitants: D'Argo, a seven-foot-tall Luxan warrior, Zhaan, a blue-skinned Delvian priestess, and the diminutive slug-like Rygel, the Henson Creature Shop's proudest creation. Another humanoid (and potential love interest), formidable-yet-sexy Peacekeeper Aeryn Sun, joins soon after. In true Buck Rogers style, Ben Browder plays Crichton as an all-American astronaut, although with a more believable sense of bewilderment; the supporting cast is a mixture of Australian and British actors, mostly disguised under heavy make-up. In episode 2, "Throne for a Loss", Rygel's devious side is developed further as he gets the crew into trouble when he "borrows" a crystal crucial to the operation of the ship and is kidnapped by some unpleasant characters. Disc Two opens with the wittily titled "Back and Back and Back to the Future", the obligatory time-travel episode, followed by "I, E.T.", in which Crichton feels the force of his earlier comment: "Boy did Spielberg get it wrong. Close Encounters, my ass." On the DVD: Disc One includes a "making of" documentary, with comments from the cast, Brian Henson and producer Rockne S. O'Bannon (the man also responsible for Alien Nation and SeaQuest), plus a profile of principal character John Crichton. Disc Two profiles Aeryn Sun and has the original trailer and DVD-ROM extras (screensaver and weblinks). --Mark Walker

• Doctor Who Collector's Edition - Doctor Who And The Daleks / Daleks Invasion Earth - 2150 AD | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In the mid-1960s, with Dalekmania sweeping Britain, BBC TV's Doctor Who materialised on the silver screen. Doctor Who and the Daleks replaced William Hartnell with Peter Cushing and remade the Daleks' TV debut with a much bigger budget in Technicolor and Techniscope. With his two granddaughters, Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden (and Roy Castle along for comic relief), the Doctor becomes an intermediary in a conflict between the robotic Daleks and angelic Thals on the almost dead world of Skaro. A huge hit on release, the film remains an enjoyable, well-produced family adventure, though somewhat lacking the menace of the TV original. Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD remakes the second Dalek TV serial and finds the Doctor and companions in a ravaged future London where a resistance movement has literally gone underground to fight the Nazi-like alien invaders. Peter Cushing once more makes a kindly, dependable Doctor, though Bernard Cribbins is given a cringe-making comedy routine impersonating a "roboman", and the jazzy soundtrack is wildly out of place. Nevertheless this is a superior sequel, offering lavish production values, better action set-pieces and a higher suspense and fear factor than its predecessor. The best moments remain surprisingly chilling even today. On the DVD: Doctor Who and the Daleks--the first disc--has a fun, very well-made 1995 documentary running 57 minutes and recounting the production of both feature films. Included are interviews with various surviving cast members. There is also an affectionate commentary with Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden, hosted by Jonathan Southcote, author of The Cult Films of Peter Cushing. Sadly Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD has no substantial extra features, but both discs include the respective trailer, presented anamorphically enhanced, and a DVD-ROM reproduction of the relevant cinema brochure. The mono sound is good and the pin-sharp, vibrantly colourful, anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 transfers are all but flawless, making both films look good as new. --Gary S Dalkin