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• Kim | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale. Kim (Ravi Sheth) is a happy-go-lucky but street-wise fifteen year-old urchin in India in the 1890s. He lives by his wits but his kind heart has earned him the nickname of 'Friend of All The World'. There are two main influences on Kim's life: Mahbub Ali (Bryan Brown) the tough wily Afghan owner of a horse-train and a saintly old train-loving Buddhist Lama (Peter O'Toole) whom he meets in Lahore. Following a chance meeting with the British Maverick Regiment and its chaplain Kim learns that he is the son of a deserter...

• Cinema Of Vengeance | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Cinema Of Vengeance is the essential history of Martial Arts and the movies covering 50 years of Chinese action cinema from the late forties through to today's high-tec bullet ridden blockbusters from John Woo. The man who brought Martial Arts movies the most recognition was the legendary Bruce Lee who introduced Kung Fu to western audiences. There is still no comparison to his lightning quick abilities and screen charisma. However his untimely death in July 1973 left the Martia

• The Tripods - Series 1 | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £20.91   |  Saving you £4.08 (19.51%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In 1984 and 1985, The Tripods was the show that the BBC used to fill its traditional Saturday teatime Doctor Who slot. Adapted from the first two books in John Christopher's "Tripods" trilogy, the show frustratingly failed to deliver the final story that winds everything up. This release collects the first series of 13 episodes, which covers the first book (The White Mountains). In 2089, the human race lives a peaceful, agrarian existence in post-technological communities under the rule of the Tripods, vast alien machines that look like the Martians from War of the Worlds. In a small English village, teenage cousins Will (John Shackley) and Henry (Will Baker) are troubled as they near the age at which they will be "capped", fitted by the local Tripod with a metallic hairnet which will turn them into docile, uncreative, happy servants of the invaders. A wily vagrant tells the boys that far to the south, a community of uncapped freemen resists the Tripods, and they set off on a 13-episode journey that takes them to the coast, across the English Channel and down through France, with stop-offs in the impressive ruins of Paris, at a medieval-style chateau and on a vineyard in the Jura. Along the way, the lads fall in with "Bean Pole" (Ceri Seel), a gangling, bespectacled French rebel who is fascinated with the lost arts of machine-making, but at each of their stopovers there are temptations, mostly in the forms of appealing French girls, to settle down and become happy conformists, but in the end they do join up with the rebels, ready for a mission to the city of the Tripods that comes in Series Two. With production values significantly higher than Doctor Who at that time, the show conserves its effects and makes them count, with the Tripods only rarely intervening directly. Watched at a sitting, it seems padded and the three lead actors are variable, but taken in single-episode chunks it works quite well, with a subtly unsettling depiction of a backward world where everyone seems happy but actually isn't and actual villainy comes as a relief amidst the overwhelming niceness. The English and French locations are very well used, and the production design and costuming (lots of hats to cover the "caps") is imaginative without being panto-like. --Kim Newman

• Prime Suspect 2 | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £7.51   |  Saving you £2.48 (33.02%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the first Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren's ballsy woman Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennyson battled the boys club and their sexist barbs to prove herself in a chauvinist department. In Prime Suspect 2, she's assigned to head a racially charged murder investigation in a largely African/Caribbean neighbourhood. It's politics as usual in the image-conscious organization, so the superintendent adds to the team black Detective Robert Oswalde (Colin Salma), a sharp but hot-headed investigator who has just broken off an affair with Tennyson. Now Tennyson grapples with her own conflicted feelings while fighting political and public-relations battles both in the media and within the police system itself in the midst of investigating the labyrinthine case. Between the scant clues left to sift, a prime suspect on the verge of death himself and divisions in her own team that result in a devastating death, Tennyson soon begins to suspect she's been hung out to dry by the department. Screenwriter Allan Cubitt dives into the murky waters of volatile racial and social relations to create an even more complex and compelling mystery in Tennyson's second appearance and Mirren rises to the challenge to explore the contradictions of an uncompromising cop in a compromising position. --Sean Axmaker

• Falstaff-Chimes At Midnight | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This film is an amalgam of Henry IV parts 1 & 2 and also Richard II Henry V and the Merry Wives of Windsor. It's based on Welles' play Five Kings an adaptation of four Shakespeare plays which he produced in 1939 and again in 1960. The film's narration spoken by Ralph Richardson is taken from the chronicler Raphael Holinshed. Orson Welles plays Sir John Falstaff alongside an incredible cast featuring Margaret Rutherford Jeanne Moreau and John Gielgud. Welles is uncompromising as the tragicomic Shakespearean character and many critics believe this is the greatest screen portrayal of Falstaff.

• The Trip To Bountiful | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Set in Houston Texas during the 1940's Carrie Watts lives with her hen-pecked son and his controlling wife. Entering the last years of her life she wishes that she could revisit the town of Bountiful the place where she grew up as a child. However her son and his wife are very reluctant to let her go for her health and financial reasons. Carrie decides that an escape attempt is due... Catching a bus to Bountiful she meets and strikes up a conversation with a young woman (Rebecca De Mornay) to whom she recounts the story of her life...

• Captain Kidd | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The exhilaratingly unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolving around treasure and treachery!

• The Killing Floor | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £5.84   |  Saving you £7.15 (122.43%)   |  RRP £12.99

  There are stories that feed on your fear where terror plays on your nightmares and the turn of every page leads you further into darkness. But for a man who has built his career on finding the next big horror novel it was just a matter of time before the story turned on him. Soon after David Lamont a literary agent dubbed ""The King of Fright"" moves into a coveted three-storey penthouse in New York he begins receiving violent crime scene photographs that appear to have taken place in his new apartment. The photographs are soon followed by stalker videotapes which document his every move.

• Bigger Than The Sky | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £4.79   |  Saving you £15.20 (317.33%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Life has a role for everyone. Mike (Corbett) only wants to perform in great productions. So when a clueless amateur (Marcus Thomas) is given the lead in Cyrano de Bergerac Mike decides he must personally train him. But when real life begins to mimic the play's love triangle and his protg falls for the girl Mike loves but can't commit to (Smart) suddenly it's Mike's turn to learn - not how to act but how to live!

• 200 American | DVD | (07/01/2006) from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  How Much Are You Worth? Conrad a director at a high-powered advertising agency is in mourning for his lost relationship. To ease the pain he hires a male prostitute Tyler for $200 and finds himself in danger of falling in love again. Although Conrad is getting more involved he understands things have to remain on a financial level and offers Tyler a job at the agency on condition that he has sex with him twice a week. But the effects of Tyler's entry into the workforc

• How To Get Ahead In Advertising | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-13.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The career where two heads are better than one! To hotshot advertising executive Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant) people are pathetic sheep to whom he can sell anything...except a brand-new pimple cream. Creatively blocked Dennis becomes so stressed that he sprouts a pimple of his own...a pimple that eventually grows intoia huge head with a mind and a voice! Before long the sassy carbuncle takes over Dennis' life revealing to him a diabolical plan to control the masses. Now Dennis must find courage deep within himself to save society and himself from the beastly blemish!

• Blood On The Sun | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  While much of the world watched the early success of 'Mein Kampf' and the bombing of Pearl Harbour was ten years in the future few were aware of the existence of an oriental 'Hitler' ... Baron Giichi Tankara. But the war had already started in Japan for James Condon American journalist and editor of the Japanese Chronicle whose intuition has led him to believe that major trouble was brewing. The role of Condon man of hard words and harder fists is just the kind of tough guy that first brought James Cagney stardom and in this movie you will not be disappointed as he battles to stay alive long enough to warn the rest of the world against a Japanese militarist plot called the 'Tanaka Plan' that has world domination as its objective. This is one of the first American martial arts movies and features some gripping action with Cagney doing his own stunts for which he trained intensively with Ken Kuniyuki a fifth degree judo master before shooting. This is Cagney at his best.

• Legal Eagles | DVD | (11/09/2000) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Robert Redford, usually a pretty good judge of material, got snookered badly in Legal Eagles, an Ivan Reitman comedy which also stars Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah. Redford is a rising assistant D.A. who is prosecuting a woman (Hannah) for theft of a painting by her father. Before he knows what's hit him, he's involved romantically both with the defendant and with her scattered lawyer (Winger). Redford is as good as he can be, given the circumstances but this is a film that doesn't know where it's going. Originally intended as a serious film about the legal wrangling over the estate of the late Mark Rothko, this film quickly degenerated when the script was turned over to Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr, whose sparkling oeuvre includes Turner and Hooch. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Resting Place | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £5.95   |  Saving you £4.04 (67.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When a life is lost a community is divided... When a black Army lieutenant slain in Vietnam is denied burial in his Georgia hometown's all-white cemetery an Army major (John Lithgow) gets involved. Discovering that the Lieutenant's unit had recommended him for a Silver Star the major seeks information to get the community to accept the man as a hero. What he discovers is that the Lieutenant's own men may have killed him...

• Martin | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Martin is a modern sort of vampire. He gains his victims cooperation with the use of a hypodermic needle instead of hypnotism and uses razors in the place of fangs. Martin claims to be 84 years old and certainly drinks human blood. The boy arrives in Pittsburgh to stay with his uncle who promises to save Martin's soul and destroy him once he is finished but Martin's loneliness finds other means of release.

• Splitting Heirs (Retro VHS Packaging) | Blu Ray | (19/10/2021) from £14.30   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Platoon (Limited Edition Steelbook) BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (18/09/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Harry Novak Collection - Volume 2 (The Notorious Cleopatra, Wilbur And The Baby Factory, The Toy Box) | DVD | (09/07/2012) from £22.93   |  Saving you £-2.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The King of psychedelic swing(ing) is back! Legendary film maker Harry Novak returns with three more slices of outrageous smut, propelling us on a journey down the pits of bad taste and sleaze. Little is left to the imagination as Harry serves up a cocktail of orgy madness and grindhouse mayhem that will bring instant gratification to the most educated of perverse minds!The Notorious Cleopatra:Historical accuracy is flushed down the aqueduct in Novak's bawdy parody of Shakespeare's early tragedy. Dispensing with the play's poetry for nudity and sexual frolics, Caesar is portrayed as a grotesque slob lamenting the lack of beauty amongst his daily orgies. The arrival of the stunning Cleopatra (played by Afro-American actress Sonora) adds a touch of exotica, however proves more than a handful for the infatuated Mark Anthony. Events take a sinister turn as jealousy overcomes both men in their passion for the Queen of the Nile, leading to a bloodbath of murder and mayhem. Cleopatra or not, you sure are a stacked bitch!Wilbur And The Baby Factory:Just as activist stud Wilbur Steele (Peter Ford) is about to be drafted off to Vietnam, two strange men step in and persuade him to take part in a bizarre experiment involving impregnating 2000 women! Saved from the draft, Wilbur is happy to lend his services, only to soon realise he's a human guinea pig for birth control and part of a mad plot to sterilise the whole of the United States. Stuart Lancaster (Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) plays the benefactor behind the experiment, a deranged billionaire whose manhood is the size of a peanut.The Toy Box:Possibly cinema's first mix of sex, sci-fi, horror and drugs! Widely considered Novak's finest sexploitation movie, The Toy Box revolves around a swingers party, where the guests act out sexually perverse scenarios for a man called Uncle to obtain gifts from a mysterious toy box. Starring the lush, buxom goddess Uschi Digard, this is a hallucinatory, delirious and widely erotic spectacle that is a must-have for every fan of cult, horror or sleaze.

• The Day Of The Triffids | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  All reports confirm that the world is witnessing an unprecedented shower of meteorites - a once in a lifetime spectacle that must be seen.' Bill Masen lies in his hospital bed and listens to the radio broadcast in frustration - the bandages on his eyes are not meant to be removed until the following morning. When the time comes he is relieved to find he can see perfectly. But is soon to discover that he is one of the few people left in the world that can. The previous night's light show has blinded all those who watched. With the meteorites have come the spores of a man-eating alien plant form - Triffidus Celestus. Multiplying quickly they uproot themselves in search of a prey that stumbles helplessly in the dark. The fate of the world is in the hands of a few as the Triffids threaten the future of mankind in this classic adaptation of John Wyndham's sci-fi chiller.

• The Alchemist | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £44.99   |  Saving you £-39.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  On a dark night in a forest in 1871 an attractive woman in white is begin led by an evil she cannot understand to a rendevous with the Alchemist. Her husband is racing against time fighting the tangled woodlands trying to prevent her soul from begin stolen. He arrives just as the evil forces are about to engulf her. Using all his strenght he attempts to destroy the Alchemist but destroys his wife instead. The Alchemist condemns him to eternal damnation to walk the earth an animal in search of a lost soul. It is 1955 now and the reprisal of the Alchemist must be avenged. Before hell is let loose on the world.