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• Ocean's Eleven - The Documentary | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £12.86   |  Saving you £-2.87 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Released to coincide with Steven Soderbergh's classy remake, The Ocean's Eleven Story is a fascinating American television documentary that sets the original Ocean's Eleven film in its historical context. Despite the opportunistic title, the film itself only constitutes part of the story and is featured in only the briefest of clips--none of which include any dialogue. Despite this--and the rather shoddy nature of the interview footage--there is still enough excellent archive material and interesting stories to make The Ocean's Eleven Story a worthwhile proposition. Placing the film in the context of the whole "Rat Pack" period, the documentary also looks at the role of Sinatra and company in the political rise of the Kennedy clan, the involvement of the Mafia and their heady days in Las Vegas. It also focuses on the individual lives of the five principal members--Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop--and is particularly poignant with regard to Davis, who was treated as a god on stage but with utter contempt off it. This is maybe not the greatest piece of documentary film making ever made, but with a subject this engaging it would be difficult to fail. On the DVD: Despite the quality of much of the material involved (particularly the film of the Rat Pack performing in Las Vegas), there is a rather rushed feel to the release. DVD extras are minimal, featuring merely some dated TV footage and some equally odd trailers for other films starring the five. --Phil Udell

• Guilty As Charged | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Forbidden Planet | Blu Ray | (07/09/2010) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Will and Grace: Series 4 (Episodes 13-17) | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £4.14   |  Saving you £8.85 (213.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Join Will Grace Jack and Karen as they hilariously struggle through life's challenges. Can Grace cope with the wedding of her ex-fiance? Is Will's new boyfriend really a ballet dancer? How will Karen react when she discovers her new horse is gay? And will Jack succeed in his plans to 'in' his latest rival? Episode titles: Whoa Nelly Grace In The Hole Dyeing Is Easy Comedy Is Hard A Chorus Line Someone Old Someplace New.

• Nancy Sinatra - Movin' With Nancy | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Network television was already wrestling with a generation gap and the rowdy cultural upheaval posed by rock when American network NBC aired this 1967 special for Nancy Sinatra, with younger viewers increasingly tuning out the typical videotaped studio productions that typified TV specials. To sidestep those conventions (and, one suspects, to showcase the stars modest performing gifts to best advantage), director Jack Haley Jr. shot Movin with Nancy on film in and around Los Angeles, yielding sequences that anticipate the visual experiments that would characterise music videos more than a decade later. The results are intriguing: for Sinatras fans, the chance to see her in all her leggy, mini-skirted glory will be irresistible, but amateur pop sociologists will be at least as fascinated by the period details and some unwittingly bizarre undercurrents. For the putative teen viewers of the day, theres the psychedelic montage of "Some Velvet Morning", one of several duets with Sinatras frequent partner at that time, Lee Hazlewood (a country-tinged, B-team Sonny to her blonde variation on Cher), interweaving the two singers on horseback and making much out of bewildering references to Euripides Phaedra. For the grown-ups, there are segments teaming her with Dean Martin (awkwardly addressed as her "god-uncle") and Sammy Davis Jr., as well as a reverential sequence in which she caresses oversized posters of her famous father (including a still from his then-current crime feature, Tony Rome, depicting him with a menacing pistol) that raises all sorts of knotty psychiatric issues. The mix of Rat Pack glitz, flower power, and mainstream pop gets an added kick with Day-Glo fashions cut to Carnaby Street lines, vintage commercials for Royal Crown Cola ("Its a mad, mad, mad, mad cola!"), and pop covers that likewise lock in a sense of temporal dislocation as Nancy gamely tackles "Up, Up and Away" (in a hot air balloon, of course) and "Who Will Buy?" from Oliver!, here goosed with go-go powered dancing. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Will and Grace: Series 2 (Episodes 5-8) | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hit American sitcom Will and Grace is as perky as Friends and as wittily urbane as Frasier. The premise concerns Will (Eric McCormack), a mildly uptight lawyer who agrees to have as a flatmate his best friend, interior designer Grace (Debra Messing). Their relationship has all the hallmarks of one between lovers--emotional dependency, little things that get on each other's nerves, strong mutual interests and volcanic arguments. The only snag is that while Grace is straight, Will is gay. Though not shy of poking sharp fun at that situation, Will and Grace is among sitcom's most potent and sophisticated antidotes to homophobia. Though initially a little too pleased with its own camp pertness, the show grows and grows on you with successive episodes, finally becoming indispensable. It also benefits from secondary characters Jack (Sean P Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally), also gay and straight respectively, both outrageously and hilariously irresponsible characters: he's a free spirit and freeloader, she's "working" as Grace's assistant even though she doesn't need the money, having married some. Despite its diamond and rapid-fire punch lines, Will and Grace conveys enough sense of the lovelorn predicament of the main characters to prevent it becoming too cute. --David Stubbs

• Courageous Legacy (aka Courageous) | Blu Ray | (08/03/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Action 2 (Triple Box Set) | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cover Up American bases in Israel are being bombed by a rebel forces. The explosions however are just a diversion for a secret plot that may shake the free world... Expect No Mercy Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the Virtual Arts Academy in search of another operative Eric. In this high-tech facility controlled by Warbeck a new generation of assassins trains for actual killings in a virtual reality arena. Penetrating the organization as a new recruit Justin finds Eric and joins forces with the idealistic Vicki. Together they must bring down Warbeck before another assassination is committed. Combatting holographic programs of limitless power Justin and Eric combine their skills to escape the computer generated world and confront Warbeck in an explosive battle where the pain is very real. The Gladiator Los Angeles which lives by the automobile has begun to die by it. A homicidal maniac the Skull has been terrorizing the city killing motorists at random with his death car. But when Rick's little brother is killed Rick becomes part Guardian Angel part crusader and part warrior with one thing on his mind: revenge...

• Phineas Newborn Jr Trio/Duke Jordan Trio - Masters Of Mordern Jazz Piano | DVD | (01/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  This DVD featrues rare filmed trio appearances by two of the best exponents of modern jazz piano. Phineas Newborn Jr. and Duke Jordan. Phineas Newborn Jr. was an extremely gifted piano player and the inventor of the double octave technique who Leonard Feather once rated as one of the three greatest jazz pianists of all time. But his career was seriously marred by emotional and mental imbalance and he died in obscurity aged 58. Duke Jordan was primarily known for his late-forties recordings with Charlie Parker and for being the composer of the standard ""Jordu"". He was a subtle inventive and melodic pianist. This 1985 performance finds him in Copenhagen - where he resided from 1978 until his death in 2006. Tracklisting: Phineas Newborn Jr. 1. Introduction 2. Theme for Basie 3. Lush Life 4. Blues for the Left Hand Only 5. New Blues 6. Oleo Duke Jordan Trio: 7. Dances a Ball 8. Medley: Lush Life / Solitude 9. Gone with the Wind 10. Jordu

• Soul Searcher | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £15.73   |  Saving you £0.25 (1.96%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Joe Fallow works nights driving a street sweeper hangs out in a cafe with his one & only friend and is hopelessly in love with waitress Heather. Then one night an ailing Grim Reaper comes to Joe with an offer: to be trained as his replacement dispensing supernatural justice in the afterlife. Now someone is breaking down the walls between Hades and our world and Joe must prevent the ancient Moat of Souls from opening or there truly will be Hell on Earth! But Joe can't let go of the life and the girl that he left behind... Soul Searcher: it's the film they said couldn't be made an effects-laden fantasy adventure that cost no more than a reasonably priced family car!

• Jerry Maguire | UMD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Classic Christmas Collection (Beyond Christmas/A Christmas Wish/Scrooge) | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise: 1. Beyond Christmas 2. A Christmas Wish 3. Scrooge (1935)

• Will and Grace: Series 5 (Vol. 6) | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £18.71   |  Saving you £-4.46 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Will and Grace continue their hilarity littered journey through series 5. Featuring episodes 21-24: 21. Dolls And Dolls 22. May Divorce Be With You 23. 23 24. 24

• Will and Grace: Series 5 (Vol. 4) | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £11.47   |  Saving you £2.78 (27.23%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Will and Grace's journey through series 5 continues... Featuring episodes 13-16: 13. Fagmalion Part One: Gay It Forward 14. Fagmalion Part Two: Attack of the Clones 15. Homojo 16. Women And Children First

• Dogs of Chinatown | DVD | (02/01/2017) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Will and Grace: Series 4 (Episodes 5-8) | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Episodes include: Loose Lips Sink Relationships Rules Of Engagement Bed Bath And Byond and Star-Spangled Banter.

• Monty Alexander Trio - New Morning - The Paris Concert | DVD | (16/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Accompanied by the excellent Bobby Thomas Jr. and Hassan W. Shakour this concert which was filmed in 2001 at the New Morning Concert in Paris shows that Monty Alexander can truly live up to his name as being ""The Great"".In the course of an exemplary musical journey both as monster pianist and subtle composer Monty Alexander is truly spectacular. One of his main influences was Louis Armstrong and after travelling to New York he performed together with Frank Sinatra at a local Bar. Alexander's swing and lyricism inspired giants such as Milt Jackson Clark Terry Dizzy Gillespie and many others some of whom he recorded albums with. Recently he has concentrated on Randy Weston and Bob Marley as he returns to his Jamaican roots.

• The Hoot Owl | Blu Ray | (24/06/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Chesterfield Kings - Where Is The Chesterfield King? | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £10.89   |  Saving you £1.10 (10.10%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Where Is The Chesterfield King?!?! is a film in the style of Ed Wood meets Hard Days Night. The Chesterfield Kings take on the evil Andro a maniacal alien bent on world domination who has kidnapped drummer Mike. Can the Chesterfield Kings find their drummer halt Andro's master plan and save the world? In the late 70s The Chesterfield Kings set their own course into the past with an unbelievably raw '60s rhythm & blues sound that borrowed heavily from pre-1966. The Kings so unlike any other underground sensations of the period became the pioneers of the then flourishing garage rock revival and remain so to this day.

• Grover Washington Junior - Live From Atlantic City | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The late great Grover Washington Jr. in a beautiful concert expertly caught on tape at the Trump Regency Cabaret Theater in Atlantic City. Here Grover's always sinuous and glittering ensemble brings its trademark soulfulness polish and dexterity to many of the master's greatest instrumental achievements -- from 'Winelight' to 'Inner City Blues' from 'Take Me There' to 'Just the Two of Us'. The amazing sax technique that was Grover Washington's is fully on display here in extended jams and medleys. And the interplay among keyboards bass percussion vocals and guitars - swinging easily from edgy funk to lush romance - is nothing short of dazzling. A gorgeous evening from a great and much-missed musician. Tracklist 1. Winelight 2. Nice `N' Easy 3. Take Me There 4. Blues For D.P. 5. Time Out Of Mind 6. Medley: Inner City Blues 7. Mercy Mercy Me 8. Where Is The Love 9. Knucklehead 10. Black Frost 11. Santa Cruzin' 12. Just The Two Of Us 13. It Feels So Good 14. Sausalito