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• Being John Malkovich | DVD | (14/03/2016) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Humphrey Bogart Crime Collection | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  THE BIG SLEEP: L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case...and follows a trail peopled with murderers pornographers nightclub rogues the spoiled rich and more. Humphrey Bogart plays Raymond Chandler's legendary gumshoe and director Howard Hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly involving Lauren Bacall) a brisk pace and atmosphere galore in this certified classic. KEY LARGO: A hurricane swells outside but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lionel Barrymore) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart). McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But the postwar world's realities may have taken all the fight out of him. John Huston co-wrote and compellingly directs this film of Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play with a searing Academy Awardwinning performance by Claire Trevor as Rocco's gold-hearted boozy moll. In Huston's hands it becomes a powerful sweltering classic. THE MALTESE FALCON: A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who's gonna take the fall. This third screen version of Dashiell Hammett's novel is a film of firsts: John Huston's directorial debut rotund 62-year-old Sydney Greenstreet's screen debut film history's first film noir and Bogart's breakthrough role after years as a Warner contract player. When George Raft refused to work with a first-time director Bogart took on the role of Spade - and launched the most acclaimed period of his career.

• John Wayne - 3 On 1 - Texas Terror / The Dawn Rider / The Trail Beyond | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  John Wayne - The Restored Collection' brings The Duke's classic early westerns to DVD as they have never been seen before. Using the original negatives held in the vaults of Republic Studios the films have been remastered to a standard of the highest possible quality. In Texas Terror the sheriff keeps his town crime free. But soon he's on the trail of a gang of villains responsible for murder. The Dawn Rider finds a man setting out to avenge the death of his father. In The Trail Beyond a cowboy travels to Canada to look for missing relatives.

• Shark Swarm | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £16.85   |  Saving you £3.14 (15.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A real-estate tycoon Lux sets his sights on quaint fishing town Full Moon Bay as the new location for a seaside getaway for the wealthy but the residents who own property where he wants to build are not so keen. When they refuse to budge Lux laces the water supply with a toxin deadly to marine life in order to force the local fishermen out but the toxin reacts with the local sharks turning them deadly and with no fish around to eat they turn to humans as their new snack. The fishermen must expose Lux for his deadly scam and rid the area of the sharks before they devourer the whole town.

• Hunting | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Michelle (Kerry Armstrong) is happily married and settled into a comfortable, safe routine. Yet when she meets Michael (John Savage) her world is turned upside down. Michael, one of her company’s leading clients, is successful, wealthy and mysterious. Tantalised by the glamorous world he shows her, it is not until a stay at his secluded country estate that events spiral out of control with explosive consequences.

• Black Listed | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £10.49   |  Saving you £2.50 (23.83%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Frustrated with the legal process a young and ambitious lawyer approaches his former college classmates and colludes with them to meter out strong justice where the all too lacking legal system has failed. These hyper-intelligent modern day vigilantes wreak out justice and vengeance upon those that were spared by the technicalities and limitations of our legal system. Sometimes the defenders of innocence become the criminals.

• Drawing And Painting People - Part 3 - Capture The Nature Of Hair And Skin | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• American Yakuza 2 | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It's time to clean house! Not since Pulp Fiction has a film captured the violence and terror of gangland warfare and underworld killers blended with sharp black humour and a sense of street style. See the blood soaked trials and tribulations of two Yakuza hitmen and their unlikely bonding with a mentally unbalanced ex-cop and his feisty teenage daughter.

• Man Trouble | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £9.72   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Harry Bliss (Nicholson) is the owner of the House of Bliss Guard Dog Agency he's a liar and smart with it. Life's far from perfect and his marriage is on the rocks but hey he's seeing a marriage guidance counsellor. When a famous opera singer Joan Spruance (Ellen Barkin) starts to receive mysterious phone calls and her house is ransacked she moves into the Hollywood home of her sister Andy (Beverly D'Angelo). However life with her sibling is no easier. Besieged by Andy's ex-lovers harassed by her own husband and stalked by a killer she decides to hire protection -a guard dog! Harry is soon offering more than protection to the sexy Joan in this wacky entertaining comedy.

• Karam | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Karam is the story of one man's retribution dealt to him by life a retribution born out of his dark past. John is an assassin who works for mob boss Captain. One fateful day John ends up massacring an entire family as he stares into the eyes of the little girl whose life is slowly ebbing away from her realization hits John and he decides to quit and start a life without bloodshed with his wife Shalini. But as per the karmic laws of life John's plan and life's plan are in direct o

• Problem Child 1/Problem Child 2/Problem Child 3 | DVD | (07/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 13 | DVD | (29/01/2001) 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

• Hell Town / Blue Steel | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £7.39   |  Saving you £-2.40 (-48.10%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Hell Town: Dare Rudd(John Wayne) goes to work for his cousin as a cattleman but ends up losing all the money to crooked card players. Blue Steel:>/b> Marshal John Carruthers (John Wayne) goes undercover to catch a gang of crooked speculators who are buying up a supposedly worthless town that has been built on top of a big gold mine.

• Underworld Evolution | UMD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Selene and Michael continue the saga of war between the Death Dealers and the Lycans.

• Princess Mononoke (DVD and Book) | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Princess Mononoke has already made history as the top-grossing domestic feature ever released in Japan, where its combination of mythic themes, mystical forces, and ravishing visuals tapped deeply into cultural identity and contemporary, ecological anxieties. For international animation and anime fans, this epic, animated 1997 fantasy, represents an auspicious next step for its revered creator, Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service), an acknowledged anime pioneer, whose painterly style, vivid character design, and stylised approach to storytelling take ambitious, evolutionary steps here. Set in medieval Japan, Miyazaki's original story envisions a struggle between nature and man. The march of technology, embodied in the dark iron forges of the ambitious Tatara clan, threatens the natural forces explicit in the benevolent Great God of the Forest and the wide-eyed, spectral spirits he protects. When Ashitaka, a young warrior from a remote, and endangered, village clan, kills a ravenous, boar-like monster, he discovers the beast is in fact an infectious "demon god", transformed by human anger. Ashitaka's quest to solve the beast's fatal curse brings him into the midst of human political intrigues as well as the more crucial battle between man and nature. Miyazaki's convoluted fable is clearly not the stuff of kiddie matinees, nor is the often graphic violence depicted during the battles that ensue. If some younger viewers (or less attentive older ones) will wish for a diagram to sort out the players, Miyazaki's atmospheric world and its lush visual design are reasons enough to watch. For the English-language version, Miramax assembled an impressive vocal cast including Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup (as Ashitaka), Claire Danes (as San), Minnie Driver (as Lady Eboshi), Billy Bob Thornton, and Jada Pinkett Smith. They bring added nuance to a very different kind of magic kingdom. -- Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com On the DVD: with an impressive widescreen aspect of 2.35:1 and a pleasant 5.1 Dolby digital sound, you cannot fault the transfer of this animation in any way. However, the special features leave a lot to be desired on what is a classic piece of modern anime. The "Behind the Scenes" feature holds no information on the making of Princess Mononoke in its original form--with no input from animator Hayao Miyazaki--and the trailer is taken from the American release of the movie (even though it calls itself an "original" theatrical trailer), complete with the annoyingly hyped-up voiceover that comes with US film trailers. The redeeming feature of this DVD is the ability to watch the anime in its original language with subtitles, a much more passionate and beautiful form--so much of the feeling and lyricism of the movie is lost with the transfer to English language and misplaced casting. After watching the original Japanese version of Princess Mononoke and reading the book you begin to wonder why the West has become such a solitary child of Disney. --Nikki Disney

• Dead Wood | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £13.37   |  Saving you £-0.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• Public Access | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £9.81   |  Saving you £-3.82 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Into the idyllic town of Brewster comes Whiley Pritcher an intense and enigmatic stranger who begins a public access show that asks the question What's wrong with Brewster? The question soon has neighbour turning on neighbour and before long there are some that are ready to confide in Whiley and reveal the town's darker secrets. But is it wise to talk to strangers? A winner at the Sundance Film Festival 'Public Access' was the debut film of director Bryan Singer.

• Wagner: Parsifal Berlin 1992 (Euroarts: 2066738) | DVD | (14/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Iron Maze | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (-100.00%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Murder mystery and suspense are rife when the son of Japanese billionaire and his beautiful wife arrive in small town Pennsylvania with plans to convert an old steel mill into a huge money-making amusement park. When he is found seriously wounded no-one's surprised. None more so than former steel worker Barry who confesses to the crime. But this is no open and shut case. As the police investigate a succession of intimate lies and hidden truths unfolds that exposes a bitter love triangle and leave's the town's fate in the balance. What really happened? The answer lies deep in the Iron Maze. A maze of emotional deception industrial destruction and small-town prejudice.

• Any Man's Death | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war a roll of film holds the only clues to his disappearance. Following the trail found in the photos a veteran reporter finds himself in the middle of events as they escalate into war.