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• Seawards The Great Ships 50th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (01/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made for Films of Scotland and the Clyde Shipbuilders Association. Produced by Templar Films. An evocavtive testimony to the achievments on the Clyde and to the men of the black squads. Glasgow Docklands -The Govan Ferry tugs and puffers merge with the ocean-going cargo ships in this atmospheric view of life around the docks. As horses and carts still clatter up and down the Broomielaw it is hard to imagine the huge changes that Glasgow will see in just a few years. The river Clyde -The river from source to sea. Working life on the river and along it's banks in the ghraving docks at Meadowside Granary and in the commercial docks. Dredgers keep the channel clear for pleasure steamers ans ocean liners.

• Double Bang | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £5.48   |  Saving you £4.51 (82.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Billy Benson an honest cop is forced to enter a dark world of murder and corruption when his partner goes bad and begins doing business with a smalltime mobster. When his partner turns up dead Benson has no choice but to seek restitution outside the law for the murder. Get ready for a lethal game with one simple rule: the first one to die loses....

• Victory at Sea (six discs) | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £38.87   |  Saving you £1.12 (2.88%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A 26-episode World War II documentary from the American perspective, Victory at Sea is one of the most important series in the history of television. Made in 1952, the show was a huge success, winning many major awards and even spawning albums featuring the orchestral score by Richard--South Pacific--Rodgers. Produced with the full cooperation of the US Navy, each 26-minute programme consists of black and white wartime film edited to a narration by Leonard Graves. The two years leading up to America's entry into the war are dismissed in episode one, while the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour gets a show of its own, the raid depicted in a brilliantly edited montage which almost certainly contains "docu-drama" footage. Each episode contains at least one powerful stand-alone sequence in the tradition of Serge--Battleship Potemkin--Eisenstein, these action-suspense set-pieces giving the programmes an urgent, surprisingly modern feel. Indeed, the emphasis is at least as much on entertainment as information, the factual content delivered in poetic narration, the score transforming the war into a more than usually serious Hollywood adventure. The documentaries are nothing if not wide-ranging, covering parts of the land war despite the title, and including everything from the Atlantic convoys and U-boat "Wolfpacks", to war in Alaska, the South Atlantic, the Far East, the Pacific War and the Fall of Japan. There is an attempt to include other nations--certainly the D-Day episode acknowledges the British far more than Saving Private Ryan--but inevitably the focus is on America's war. The very dated narration gives a fascinating insight into how America saw WWII in the early 1950s, while the dynamic cutting and often genuinely remarkable wartime footage make Victory at Sea still gripping today. 20 years later, Granada's The World at War would become the definitive television WWII history but this release offers a unique opportunity to see a series of great importance from the very early days of television. On the DVD: The 26 episodes total approximately 11 and-a-half hours on six DVDs. The 4:3 picture varies depending on the different archive footage used but the image is always perfectly watchable and sometimes surprisingly good. The sound is mono and the music is sometimes distorted. Extras consist of reprinting the credits, an incredibly basic filmography and a gallery of 25 stills, presented without any supporting information and marred by a large Victory at Sea logo. These are the same on all six DVDs. Each disc also includes a few pages of disc-specific history, adding further detail to the events in each episode. --Gary S Dalkin

• Leonard Cohen - Under Review | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £12.33   |  Saving you £-6.34 (-105.80%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Leonard Cohen - Under Review 1934 -1977 is a 90-minute documentary film which reviews the poetry music performances and career of one of contemporary America's greatest artists. This documentary includes obscure footage rare interviews scarcely seen photographs live and studio recordings of Cohen's classics and reviews of some of Cohen's musical performances. There are reviews comments criticisms and insights from; official Cohen biographer Ira Nadel; Leonard's regular guitarist and band leader Ron Cornelius; producer on the New Skin For The Old Ceremony and New Positions albums John Lissauer; studio owner and engineer on Death Of A Ladies Man David Gold Cohen's backing vocalist Ronee Blakley; producer of Songs Of Leonard Cohen John Simon; Music Editor from Village Voice Robert Christgau; Rolling Stone magazine's Anthony De Curtis and many others.

• Action Films Box Set Vol.1 | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Films include:RED SURFRemar is the perfect golden boy gone bad. His career as a professional surfer brought him money women and flashy sports cars but it didn't meet his expectations.CORRUPTA gritty and powerful police thriller that features a compelling performance from former Sex Pistols front man Johnny Rotten as a violent psychopathic cop killer.RIOTPeace on Earth becomes hell on Christmas Eve as a British SAS officer and his partner fight their way through riot torn streets to rescue the daughter of the British Ambassador.JUSTICEAfter years of deep undercover operation Frank Spello is determined to smash the organised crime syndicates and even endures 'doing time' in prison to source out information.ROBOCOP: DARK JUSTICETen years after his resurrection Robocop is up against the Bone Machine. The Trust secretly programmes Robocop to kill Delta City's Commander: Robocop's biggest challenge yet.ROBOCOP: MELTDOWNThe Trust schemes to take over Delta City. They transform the body of Robocop's best friend into a machine to destroy Robocop. Will Cable remember he is the man inside the machine?ROBOCOP: RESURRECTIONFugitives on the run Robocop and former partner Cable are separated during the battle with Robo-hunters. They fall into the hands of mercenary groups who reprogramme them.ROBOCOP: CRASH & BURNRobocop and Cable are trapped inside the towers of Control Headquarters. To save the city the defenders must shut down the powerful computer and the ultimate sacrifice must be made.

• Small Time Obsession | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Erroneously labelled a "gangster film", the independently made British film Small Time Obsession is in fact a thought-provoking essay on generation gaps and loyalties. London's Polish District is the setting, where four long-term friends are used to filling time and their pockets with petty crime. Michael (Alex King) has come to realise he has increasingly less in common with the others, and also with his parents who own a delicatessen. Life's big decisions elude Michael. His exclusively Polish-speaking father wants him to take over the family business, his greyhound Bullitt is starting to win prizes at the track and he's also secretly in love with Ali (Juliette Caton). Unfortunately she's already spoken for by tough guy Chris (Jason Merrells). This love triangle hardly has time to sort itself out since Chris is inadvertently embroiling them all in more Big Time crime. Although the circumstances inevitably lead to bouts of violence , what's refreshing here is that character relationships genuinely resonate with believability. First time writer/director Piotr Szkopiak tells the story with several shades of sympathetic subtlety, sensitively portraying the problems of a generation torn between inheriting their parents' displaced traditions and "fitting in".On the DVD: In this anamorphic widescreen presentation the dirty grey backdrop of London seems to rise up and swamp the characters. A 14-minute documentary ("Behind the Obsession") talks about those locales and how the director and distributor marketed the film. As well as a trailer, the extras package includes numerous text pages devoted to: cast and crew biographies, Production Notes, Locations, Media Reviews and the Polish Community. --Paul Tonks

• Star Trek Vs Star Wars - The Rivalry Continues | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  For years Star Wars fans have squared off against Star Trek fans over which space fantasy is the better choice. As a result both franchises have been embroiled in a continuing battle for merchandise sales publicity and box office receipts. The science-fiction genre has never seen anything like it and as these fictional universes continue to expand the competition seems to be never ending. Star Wars Vs Star Trek compares the space opera worlds off George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry for a one of a kind intergalactic documentary. It traces the origin and development of Star Trek from conception to the spin offs and film series. It also takes an in depth look at Star Wars from its sci-fi influences in the past to its continuing box office clout. Interviews with such stars as William Shatner George Lucas Leonard Nimoy Anthony Daniels Billy Dee Williams Carrie Fisher James Doohan and many more help to explain the amazing phenomenon. Whether you're a Trekkie or a Jedi Knight this is one show you won't want to miss.

• Penny Serenade | DVD | (07/08/2000) from £16.16   |  Saving you £-6.17 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Penny Serenade is the story of Julie and Roger Adams. It is an honest look at a happy if not exactly peaceful period in the domestic life of a newspaperman and a former salesgirl in a music shop.

• Watching The Detectives - Vol. 1 | DVD | (29/05/2000) from £10.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The first DVD compilation of its type this features an episode from each of three classic American television police shows. Each episode contains a special guest star; Ironside 'Tagged for Murder' with Bruce Lee Columbo 'A Stitch in Crime' with Leonard Nimoy and Kojak 'The Birthday Party' with none other than Richard Gere. COLUMBO: A STITCH IN CRIME Dr Barry Mayfield (Leonard Nimoy) is a brilliant young heart surgeon on the staff of a major Los Angeles Hospital. However he cannot accept that the hospital's senior heart specialist the revered Dr Edmund Hiedeman has invited a foreign specialist to help them with their work on a drug that will combat transplant rejection. Veteran Nurse Sharon Martin believes that Mayfield is a cold opportunist who would like to take all the credit for the research project. Even she doesn't know how far he will go to reach his goal. IRONSIDE: TAGGED FOR MURDER When George Bellingham is electrocuted in his own pool Detective Sgt Ed Brown refuses to accept the accidental death verdict and discusses his suspicions with Ironside. They track down a series of mysterious numbers on the dead mans watch which leads them to some former friends of Bellingham's including a retired general who tells the strange story of a robbery in the closing days of the war. With special guest star Bruce Lee. KOJAK: BIRTHDAY PARTY Kojak's young niece Ellena is kidnapped during her birthday picnic by an unidentified woman. The kidnappers call Kojak's office threatening the safety of the child unless one of their accomplices being held for the murder of a policeman is released immediately from the precinct house. A furious Kojak works against the clock to discover the identity of the kidnappers and save his niece. With special guest star Richard Gere.

• Death Of An Angel | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A newly ordained minister's faith is put to the test when her daughter mysteriously vanishes and a strangely charismatic figure enters her life as they search for clues.

• Behave Yourself! | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £6.44   |  Saving you £-2.45 (-61.40%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Ring Of Fire | DVD | (27/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Istomin, Stern, Rose Trio - Beethoven & Brahms | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £15.59   |  Saving you £3.40 (17.90%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Beethoven/Brahms (Istomin Stern Rose Trio)

• Godfathers And Sons | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £7.29   |  Saving you £2.70 (37.04%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Marc Levin travels to Chicago with hip-hop legend Chuck D (Public Enemy) and Marshall Chess (son of Leonard Chess and heir to the Chess Records legacy) to explore the heyday of Chicago blues as they unite to produce an album that brings veteran blues players together with contemporary hip hop musicians. Along with never-before-seen archival footage of Howlin' Wolf Muddy Waters and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band are original performances by Koko Taylor Otis Rush Magic Sl

• Matinee Classics | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Superman Cartoons of Max and Dave Fleischer: Max and Dave Fleischer were the animation team responsible for the onscreen antics of such favourite characters as Koko The Clown Betty Boop and Popeye. In 1941 they were hired by Paramount to bring the wildly popular comic book character of Superman to the screen in a series of animated cartoons. This special edition DVD collects for the 1st time the Fleischer Brothers' massively influential Superman short subjects in their en

• The Stan And Ollie Collection - The Sleuth / West Of Hot Dog | DVD | (19/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The Sleuth: Hilarious! Stan utilises a variety of disguises including a marvellous house maid's uniform topping it all off with a femme fatale get-up and finally 'gets his man!' West Of Hot Dog: Sole heir to a fortune (if he lives to collect it) Stan finds there's an alternative heir waiting who's not above giving him a 'push' from time to time. Will Stan find the courage to stand and fight like a man?

• Schumann/Haydn - Mischa Maisky | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Mischa Maisky plays the Cello Concertos 1 & 2 and his own transcriptions of two Haydn Violin Concertos in Vienna's Hetzendorf Palace - a master of the Viennese classical style performing in elegant Baroque surroundings. Maisky's tasteful transcriptions do full justice to Haydn's music exquisitely beautiful and virtuosic. Maisky also plays the Schumann Cello Concerto with the Wiener Philharmoniker under the baton of Leonard Bernstein.

• Penny Serenade | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Penny Serenade is the story of Julie and Roger Adams. It is an honest look at a happy if not exactly peaceful period in the domestic life of a newspaperman and a former salesgirl in a music shop.

• Titanica | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £8.07   |  Saving you £6.92 (46.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Narrated by Leonard Nimoy Titanica reveals the clearest motion pictures ever captured of the Titanic. Witness startling images of the long-lost ruin contrasted with never-before-seen 1912 archival photos showing her in all her splendor. Feel the passion of the explorers each obsessed with a different aspect of the expedition. Relive the memories of two survivors in an exclusive interview with Frank Goldsmith alongside the poignant recollections of Eva Hart.

• The Cool And The Crazy | DVD | (29/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A cult 50's B-movie about a rebellious youth fresh from reform school who hooks up with the bad influence pusher who got him put away to form a local marijuana ring. They deal the demon weed to the local small town high school kids in the hope of getting them hooked. Before long these youngsters are hopelessly addicted rampaging through the town with crime insanity and death the inevitable results.