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• The Silence | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £8.39   |  Saving you £14.59 (270.18%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The third in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of "chamber works" featuring characters in isolated, existentially dramatic settings, The Silence, made in 1963, is set in Timoka, a fictional Eastern European town with its own made-up language. Stylistically more sensual and maximal than its austere predecessors Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light, it was both a success and a scandal in its day, featuring as it does scenes of masturbation, sex and even lesbian eroticism. Jorgen Lindstrom plays Jonas, a small boy travelling with his mother Anna (Gunnel Lindblom) and aunt Ester (Ingrid Thulin). His aunt is dying of consumption, but his mother is a great deal more alive and smouldering with sexual energy. As the tension between the bedridden aunt and the frustrated mother mounts, Jonas roams the hotel corridors and chances almost surreally upon the hotels only other occupants--an elderly floor waiter and a troupe of performing dwarves. Meanwhile, his mother is picked up by a waiter in a cafe, is seduced by him in a church then engages in a traumatically miserable bout of hotel sex. Sultry, full of incident and dreamlike cinematic spectacle (the performing dwarves, a rumbling tank, an overheated railway carriage) there's a sense of aimlessness and oblivion about The Silence, in which the godlessness of the universe, though never discussed, is implied throughout the movie. There is, however, a note of humanist hope struck in the conclusion, more convincing than the platitudinous finale of Through a Glass Darkly. On the DVD: Bergman's notes explain how he had long nurtured the notion of setting a movie in an imaginary city where "the rules of society cease to exist", and how the young boy's curious wanderings were inspired by his first exposure to Stockholm as a child. Critic Philip Strick's notes reveal that Greta Garbo had at one point been mooted to make a return to the screen in this film and that in certain countries, censors insisted on separate screenings of The Silence for males and females. --David Stubbs

• Waterloo Road - Complete Series Three | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  New Head Teacher Rachel Mason makes her first appearance at Waterloo Road when Jack Rimmer's determination to improve exam results leads him into taking risks to secure the school's future. Teacher Tom Clarkson is struggling to maintain a normal life playing single dad to Chlo and Mika but both girls face challenges of their own. Other new staff includes a Deputy Head who looks set to rock the boat in the classroom and bedroom a woman with a mission in mind and a new drama teacher Matt Walker who plans to grab headlines with the school's first musical 'Park Side Story'. But corruption is rife in the tendering process to build a new training centre at the school with Rachel Mason coming under pressure from a blackmailing builder to secure his interest in the bid. What secret is she trying to hide - and how much will it cost the school? The pupils create as many challenges for others as they face themselves when a group of eco-Warriors decide to make the school greener at any cost a young student faces deportation leading to an immigration crisis and one young girl falls victim to a predatory supply teacher. Yes it's a new term at Waterloo Road and there's so much to learn - for the teachers as well as the pupils.

• Night of the Living Dead | Blu Ray | (07/10/2024) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Night of the Living DeadShot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero's claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combining gruesome gore with acute social commentary and quietly breaking ground by casting a Black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role.Night of the Living Dead was restored by the Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation and the Celeste Bartos Preservation Fund.4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES¢ New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director George A. Romero, co-screenwriter John A. Russo, sound engineer Gary R. Streiner, and producer Russell W. Streiner¢ New restoration of the monaural soundtrack, supervised by Romero and Gary Streiner and presented uncompressed¢ One 4K UHD disc of the film and two Blu-rays with the film and special features¢ Night of Anubis, a work-print edit of the film¢ Program featuring filmmakers Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert Rodriguez¢ Sixteen-millimetre dailies reel¢ Programme featuring Russo on the commercial and industrial film production company where key Night of the Living Dead participants got their starts¢ Two audio commentaries from 1994 featuring Romero, Russo, producer Karl Hardman, actor Judith O'Dea, and others¢ Archival interviews with Romero and actors Duane Jones and Judith Ridley¢ Programs about the film's style and score¢ Interview program about the direction of ghouls, featuring members of the cast and crew¢ Interviews with Gary Streiner and Russell Streiner¢ Newsreels from 1967¢ Trailer, radio spots, and TV spots¢ PLUS: An essay by critic Stuart Klawans¢ Illustration by Sean Phillips

• Peter Kay's Got The Pop Factor - ... And Possibly A New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £17.15   |  Saving you £2.84 (16.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Peter Kay returns with his outrageously funny take on TV talent shows the multi-internationally award-winning Britain's Got The Pop Factor...and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice. It's the final to end all finals and it''s down to the final three - R Wayne 2 Up 2 Down and the part time dinner lady full time diva Geraldine McQueen (Kay) but who will be crowned winner? DVD includes: The Final The Results Show!

• One-Eyed Jacks | Blu Ray | (12/06/2017) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One-Eyed Jacks is a film with a troubled history. It was almost the feature debut of emerging television director Sam Peckinpah, who penned the original draft screenplay, and it was almost the only Western to be directed by Stanley Kubrick before he too left the project. The eventual director was Marlon Brando, stepping behind the camera for the first and only time. Brando is Rio, a bank-robber who is double-crossed by his friend and mentor, Dad (Karl Malden). Rio is imprisoned for his role in the crime, but escapes with thoughts of revenge. He tracks down Dad only to find that, during those years spent behind bars, Dad has used his ill-gotten wealth to become the sheriff of Monterey... A strange, baroque Western, One-Eyed Jacks met with bewilderment by critics and audiences upon release, but slowly developed a cult following despite a succession of below-par masters. Now, thanks to an outstanding new 4K restoration from Martin Scorsese s The Film Foundation, audiences can finally see the film as intended once again and recognise the masterpiece it always was.

• Attack The Block | Blu Ray | (07/11/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (228.90%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Trainee nurse Sam is walking home to her flat in a South London tower block when she's robbed by a gang of masked, hooded youths. She's saved when the gang are distracted by a bright meteorite, which falls from the sky and hits a nearby parked car. Sam flees, just before the gang have to fight off a small alien creature that leaps from the wreckage.While Sam and the police hunt for the gang, a second wave of meteors fall. Confident of victory against such feeble invaders, the gang grab weapons, mount bikes and set out to defend their turf. But this time, the creatures are bigger. Much bigger. Sam suddenly realises that the bunch of no-hope kids who attacked her are about to become... more her best and only hope to survive.Attack The Block is a fast, funny and frightening action-adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters. It turns a London housing estate into a sci-fi playground. A tower block into a fortress under siege. And teenage street kids into heroes. Its inner city versus outer space.

• On The Waterfront | Blu Ray | (11/08/2014) from £9.59   |  Saving you £3.40 (35.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Marlon Brando is the longshoreman who finds himself increasingly isolated when he challenges the might and power of the tough New York City dockers' Union. Rod Steiger is his elder brother torn between loyalty to union and love of family. Lee J. Cobb is the powerful union boss while Eva Marie Saint is the girl with whom Brando falls in love. Winner of 8 Oscars including Best Picture Best Actor Best Support Actress Best Director and Best Screenplay this devastating film has since its first screening become one of the movie greats.

• Hangman | DVD | (22/10/2018) from £6.27   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Decorated homicide detective Ray Archer (Al Pacino) partners with criminal profiler Will Ruiney (Karl Urban) to catch one of the city's notoriously vicious serial killers, who is playing a twisted version of murder using the child's game HANGMAN, while crime journalist Christi Davies (Brittany Snow) reports on the crime spree, shadowing the detectives. The trio races against the clock to prevent the murders, as every 24 hours, a body is hung revealing a new letter of the game carved into the backs or chests of the victims.

• The Aphrodite Inheritance | DVD | (20/10/2014) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When British engineer Barry Collier is injured in an accident in Cyprus, his brother David (Peter McEnery) immediately flies out to be at his side but it is too late. After the funeral David is approached by the beautiful Helene (Alexandra Bastedo), eager to inform him that the death was no accident. And her mysterious companions Basileos (Brian Blessed) and Charalambos (Stefan Gryff) seem to know a great deal more. But can he trust them? Collier finds himself drawn into a complex conspiracy.

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Two Disc Theatrical Edition) | DVD | (26/08/2003) from £3.63   |  Saving you £11.36 (312.95%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In the second part of the fantasy trilogy Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring, whilst their former companions make new allies and launch an assault on Isengard.

• World On A Wire | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £3.68   |  Saving you £16.31 (443.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Simulacron 1 is a highly advanced project designed to elevate conventional computer technology to a new level by creating a virtual reality inhabited by computer-generated people or 'identity units'. When the head of the project dies mysteriously after showing signs of mental disturbance Dr Stiller becomes his successor. However Stiller also begins to behave bizarrely. He speaks of people disappearing whom no one else knows belives someone is trying to murder him and has nausea attacks. As he begins to probe deeper into Simulacron the line between the real and virtual world becomes increasingly blurred and his own existence is questioned. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 2 part TV production is a science-fiction classic that explores the notion of a computer-generated other world pre-dating The Matrix by 26 years. Since its original broadcast in 1973 it has rarely been shown and following increasing demand the Fassbinder Foundation have restored this remarkable film under the artistic direction of the film's highly acclaimed cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.

• The Neon Demon | Blu Ray | (31/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Dark horror thriller; when aspiring model Jesse (Elle Fanning) moves to Los Angeles to embark on her career, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has in The Neon Demon, the new film from Nicolas Winding Refn.

• Birdman Of Alcatraz | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.18   |  Saving you £7.81 (95.48%)   |  RRP £15.99

  How does bitter convict Robert Stroud cope with a lifetime of solitary confinement? The answer in a sense comes from above in the form of a feeble sparrow he finds in the isolation yard. Stroud brings this newfound companion to his cell nurses it to health and from that point on there's no turning back. Despite having only a third grade education and no hope of parole Stroud becomes a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind prison walls

• Night Of The Living Dead | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £20.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  George A. Romero's terrifying classic, the movie that invented the zombie genre, in a stunning new 4K restoration. Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master GEORGE A. ROMERO, is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned boxoffice smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesheating ghouls, Romero's claustrophobic vision of a late1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (DUANE JONES) in its lead role. Stark, haunting, and more relevant than ever, Night of the Living Dead is back, in a new 4K restoration.

• The Jensen Code - The Complete Series | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £19.92   |  Saving you £0.07 (0.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sixteen-year-old Terry Connor is sent, along with a few of his friends, to an Outward Bound centre. On his first day at the centre Terry is taken pot-holing by the senior instructor, Alex. All goes well until, at 100 feet underground, Alex goes to search for the torch that Terry has dropped.Hours pass, and, to Terry's astonishment, when Alex finally returns he has no recollection whatever of having been absent. Terry suspects something sinister is taking place - it is surely no coincidence that there is a secret Ministry of Defence establishment nearby. But just how deeply his curiosity will involve him in dangerous matters becomes clear when he learns the truth about the 'Jensen Code'...The Jensen Code was a highly unusual children's thriller series, written by Carey Harrison (author son of actor Rex Harrison), and starring David (Dai) Bradley, the BAFTA-winning young star of Kes, as the teenager who unwittingly uncovers a terrifying space-age espionage project. This complete 13-part series, rarely seen since its original transmission in 1973, is released here for the first time in any format. Originally made in colour, The Jensen Code now exists only as black and white telerecordings made for overseas sales, the full colour episodes having been junked many years ago.

• The Sons of Katie Elder (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (15/09/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The King's Choice | DVD | (15/01/2018) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the true the story about three dramatic days in April 1940, where the King of Norway is presented with an unimaginable ultimatum from the German armed forces: surrender or die.

• Party Party | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's New Year's Eve and Larry's parents are off to the vicarage dance... totally unaware that their home is about to be the venue for the wildest party ever... Music soundtrack features tracks from numerous leading bands of the 80s including Elvis Costello Madness Modern Romance Bad Manners and Altered Images.

• Close My Eyes | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two siblings raised by different parents reunite as adults only to discover a deep passion for one another. Over a hot summer in London things have changed since they last met and Natalie the older sister is married to a hugely wealthy man and languishing in the home countries whilst Richard is seeking escape from the anxieties and pressure of working life. Overwhelmed by their love they struggle to overcome their addiction not wishing to hurt those around them and yet seemingly unable to part.

• Babylon | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £11.26   |  Saving you £9.99 (99.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Babylon is set in South London at the start of the '80s a time when reggae music was at its peak and racism was rife and follows Blue the lead rapper for Ital Lion Sound in the run-up to a Sound System competition with a rival crew led by Jah Shaka. Over the course of the film Blue clashes with his friends family police and the violent racists who endeavour to make life hard for him; all of which in turn set up for the film's violent climax.