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• A Special Day | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbour Mastroianni. As the day segues into night Loreon and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life.

• Full Of It | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £5.90   |  Saving you £10.09 (63.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Best Of Jazz Open 1998 | DVD | (20/04/2001) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Best of Jazz Open 1998 is not, as the title suggests, highlights from the entire "jazzopen" music festival which took place in Stuttgart in July 1998, but performances taken from the closing evening concert dedicated to the so-called "pope of jazz", presenter, festival organiser and producer Joachim-Ernst Berendt. The musicians were chosen in collaboration with Berendt, resulting in some remarkable music-making from the haunting solo trombone of Albert Mangelsdorff, to the breathtaking duel/duet between Robert Majewski's trumpet and Hendryk Miskiewicz's saxophone which forms the climax of "Night Time Day Time-Requiem". Though obviously improvised one might argue whether the virtuoso digitally processed performance by Urszula Dudziak is jazz at all, while saxophonist John Handy joins forces with traditional Indian musicians the Maharaj Brothers moving eloquently in the world/fusion/crossover territory more famously explored by John McLaughlin. Appropriately they give way to the John McLaughlin Group itself, "Social Climate" offering an atmospheric mood piece for Gary Thomas' fine flute playing, leading to a rousing electric guitar climax by McLaughlin. A mixed bag from which some tracks will appeal more than others, it is regrettable that the complete concert was not included; this 57-minute collection looks as if it was originally edited to fill a one-hour TV slot. On the DVD: There are no special features except two trailers for classical DVDs. The programme is presented in standard TV 4:3 and is sharp and detailed, though there are occasional compression artefacts. The sound is stereo and while full and clear the mixes sometimes so favour the lead instrument that other details such as cymbal hits can be seen but barely heard. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Tales Of The Macabre - Love Object / King Of The Ants / May | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Love Object: Kenneth is socially insecure. But when he buys 'Nikki' a silicone sex doll over the internet. Because of his experience with his new toy Kenneth's life takes a turn for the better when he attracts the attention of a real girl Lisa. But when the doll's jealous personality invades his consciousness Kenneth becomes trapped in a perverse triangle torn between the silicone Nikki and the flesh and blood Lisa. King Of The Ants: Sean is a painter with no direct

• Th13teen | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Gripped by fear the town of Emeryville is terrorized by a crazed serial killer with a penchant for carving the number 13 into the chests of his victims before burying them. Needless to say the local community are a mite perturbed that a killer is on the loose and the media only heighten their ensuing sense of doom by reporting his latest kills...

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 11 | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, a season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. --Mark Walker

• Texas Chain Saw Massacre - The Shocking Truth | DVD | (24/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This sensational, extremely influential, 1974 low-budget horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, Salem's Lot), may be notorious for its title, but it's also a damn fine piece of moviemaking. And it's blood-curdling scary, too. Loosely based on the true crimes of Ed Gein (also a partial inspiration for Psycho), the original Jeffrey Dahmer, Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of teenagers who pick up a hitchhiker and wind up in a backwoods horror chamber where they're held captive, tortured, chopped up, and impaled on meat hooks by a demented cannibalistic family, including a character known as Leatherface who maniacally wields one helluva chainsaw. The movie's powerful sense of dread is heightened by its grainy, semi-documentary style--but it also has a wicked sense of humour (and not that camp, self-referential variety that became so tiresome in subsequent horror films of the 70s, 80s and 90s). OK, in case you couldn't tell, it's "not for everyone", but as a landmark in the development of the horror/slasher genre, it ranks with Psycho, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. --Jim Emerson

• Ninja | DVD | (26/09/2016) from £7.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (38.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Reeve is a highly trained member of an elite unit of Ninja Warriors, when he is captured and being tortured he must use all of his training in order to escape. Aided by the former Director of Defense, who wakes up in a strange room with nothing but the a phone, Reese must fight, guns blazing, words swinging in order to stop an evil conglomerate from gaining access to a dangerous weapon.

• Blue Steel | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A band of ruthless outlaws try to force out the townsfolk in a small community after gold is discovered there. But one brave man stands in their way in this tense film one of John Wayne's best early works...

• Wodehouse Playhouse - The Truth About George And Other Short Stories | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Classic adaptations of P G Wodehouse's short stories. Each story is introduced by the author in one of his last recordings. The stories are based around three general themes: The Mulliners relating to the rather bizarre extended family of Mr. Mulliner; The Oldest Member stories which take place in and around the golf club; and The Drones Club an all male society whose members include Freddy Fitch-Fitch and Adolhus Stiffham. This double feature contains seven half hour long stories

• Steve Lacy - Lift the Bandstand | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £6.73   |  Saving you £2.26 (33.58%)   |  RRP £8.99

  This indispensable DVD offers one of the most interesting films ever made about a modern experimental jazz pioneering. The star is Steve Lacy the soprano sax innovator talking about his musical concepts and his major influences from Sidney Bechet to John Coltrane Cecil Taylor Gil Evans and Thelonious Monk who showed him the way to 'lift the bandstand'.The documentary film directed by Peter Bull presents clips of all these artists who underpin the human inspirations behind Lacy's processing of sly wit precise abstraction and mystical method. He's revealed as a sort of post-modern modernist whose music can sing it's laughing at itself crying.

• School Of Life | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ryan Reynolds lights up the screen as the charismatic Mr D A teacher whose lessons extend far beyond the classroom in this heart-warming tale of learning to appreciate every moment we're given. At Fallbrook Middle School a Warner has won the coveted Student-Elected Teacher of the Year award 43 years in a row. Unfortunately it was ""Stormin"" Norman Warner each time and now that he's passed away the burden of maintaining the family legacy falls to Matt Warner (David Paymer) who's

• Blues And Country Fingerpicking Guitar Lessons | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Seven instructors cover the steady bass/syncopated melody of the Piedmont blues players; the muffled bass and swingy chords of Travis-style pickers; the strumming and pounding of Delta blues stylists; and the banjo-like rolls and single-string approach of bluegrass-oriented pickers. Taught by Happy Traum Thom Bresh Doc Watson John Jackson Eddie Adcock Roy Book Binder and Rory Block.

• Neath The Arizona Skies / Paradise Canyon | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  In 'Neath The Arizona Skies' Nina the daughter of a rich Indian is due to inherit her father's oil field but needs his signature to claim the land. Several outlaws have realised her worth and abduct her. In 'Paradise Canyon' an undercover federal agent is on the trail of a gang of counterfeiters.

• Hurricane Express | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £6.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (91.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This Western adapted from a serial follows a young man in search of his father's killer known as 'The Wrecker'...

• The Haven | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Four very different friends - an aspiring writer a very smart boy with an abusive father a drug addicted musician and a loose cannon - grow up togther and stay best friends until the end of college where each must face his personal demons...

• Horror Hotel | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

• Scorched/Meaning Of Life | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Scorched (Dir. Gavin Grazer 2003): Three bank tellers. One goal: knock the place over. Each has their own idea. Sheila (Silverstone) wants to break into the ATM. Stuart plans to ""borrow"" some money for the weekend and head to Vegas. And Woods (Harrelson) has a scheme involving a duck a dog and a safety deposit box. The ultimate inside jobs plotted by three people with nothing to lose. If only they were aware of each others plans! Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life (Dir. Terry Jones 1983): Those six pandemonium-mad Pythons are back with their craziest adventure ever! These naughty lads offer the usual tasteful sketches involving favorite bodily parts and functions the wonders of war the miracle of birth and a special preview of what's waiting for us in Heaven. Nothing is too sacred for the probing Python crew. After seeing them in action you'll never look at life in quite the same way again. It's far-out frank and jolly good fun!

• The Man With The Golden Arm | DVD | (17/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Frank Sinatra stars with Kim Novak and Eleanor Parker in this riveting drama about a poker dealer/jazz musician who descends to skid row after becoming addicted to heroin. Will he make it back into the spotlight -- or even survive? Based upon the classic American novel by Nelson Algren The Man With The Golden Arm was far ahead of its time with its depiction of what drugs can do to even an ambitious person. Its cautionary tale still holds up today as heroin has come back to haunt not

• Belcanto - The Tenors Of The 78 Era - Part 2 | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The outstanding tenors of the 78 era: comprising thirteen episodes each with a biographical and a musical focus this two-volume edition features bel canto singers captured on black and white sound film. Backed up with footage much of which is shown here for the very first time the individual artists are profiled and their exceptional talents demonstrated in representative recordings.