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• How High | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Grab your favourite munchies: Red and Meth, that dope-addled dynamic duo, are going to Harvard. And while it's not exactly demanding viewing, How High is destined to become a guilty pleasure of the cannabis crowd. The plot's a familiar one--take the basic selling points of any Cheech & Chong movie (a pair of shambolic protagonists who smoke lots of weed and drive funky 70s-style cars), graft them onto a generic "raising hell on campus" teen movie scenario and shake vigorously. The result is a prosaic effort that does contain some all-too-brief moments of genuine humour. Red and Meth, aka Redman and Method Man, may look like the world's oldest freshmen, but both offer genial performances, especially Method Man, who imbues the character of Silas with a dog-eared gentleness that raises him above the film's leaden script and plastic directing. --Rebecca Levine

• Gomorrah - The Series. Season 1 | DVD | (27/10/2014) from £11.14   |  Saving you £18.85 (169.21%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Based on the bestselling exposé of the Neapolitan mafia by award-winning journalist Roberto Saviano Gomorrah is an unforgettable and compelling story of power money and blood. Five stories are woven together in modern day Naples set in a brutal world from which there is no escape and no mercy. Gomorrah is directed by acclaimed and multi award-winning director Matteo Garrone. It won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes 2008 and was a multi prize winner at the European Film Academy awards with honours including Best European Film and Best European Director.

• A Fistful of Dollars | Blu Ray | (31/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Matchmaker | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £8.21   |  Saving you £-2.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The most successful matchmaker in Ireland is about to hit a brick wall. Janeane Garofalo stars as Marcy Tizard an election campaigner sent to Ireland to trace the relatives of her charge Senator John McGlory in an effort to emphasize his Irishness to the voters. Marcy lands in a remote Irish town during its annual matchmaking festival. Men are at every corner but love is nowhere in sight. Until she meets a man even more cynical than herself!

• Assault On Precinct 13 | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £5.89   |  Saving you £14.10 (239.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A classic head-to-head showdown ignites in Assault On Precinct 13, an all-new update of the 1976 action thriller of the same name.

• Swamp Thing | DVD | (06/07/2020) from £11.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Swamp Thing follows Dr. Abby Arcane as she investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When a mysterious creature emerges from the murky marsh, she finds herself facing the nightmares of a supernatural world where no one is safe.

• Miss Kobayashi s Dragon Maid: The Complete Series - Blu-ray + Free Digital Copy | Blu Ray | (17/08/2020) from £16.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid contains anime episodes 1-13 of the anime directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto. What happens when a drunken promise leads to living with a dragon? That's Miss Kobayashi's new reality when Tohru, her new maid-slash-dragon appears in her life! And if one wasn't enough, in comes Kanna, a little dragon with a big attitude. Soon, Kobayashi has a house full of adorable dragons - one serving tail and the other serving serious moe.

• Neo-Realist Box Set | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £33.23   |  Saving you £1.76 (5.30%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Rome Open City: Roberto Rossellini's startling depiction of Nazi-occupied World War II Rome and one of the most prominent examples of his neorealist cinematic style is the story of a tenaciously held underground resistance against the Germans. When its leader Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero) and a priest Don Pietro (Aldo Fabrizi) are captured the resistance collapses with disastrous personal results to all. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay; Fellini collaborated with Rossellini in the writing of the script. 'Open City' is all the more remarkable in that it was made immediately following the liberation of Rome had been developed while Rossellini himself was in hiding and was filmed in the locations where the true events that the story are based on occurred. (Dir. Roberto Rossellini 1945) The Bicycle Thieves: After nearly two years of unemployment Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) finally finds work posting bills. But he needs a bicycle to do the job. Unfortunately he was forced to pawn his own bicycle long ago. In a humbling tragic scene Antonio exchanges his family's linen for his bicycle. But when the bike is stolen on his first day of work he must comb the streets of Rome in search of the bike: his family's only means to survival. Shot on location in Rome and using non-actors as a means of heightening the reality of the film Ladri Di Biciclette received the Honorary Award for Best Foreign Film at the 1950 Oscars. (Dir. Vittorio De Sica 1948) Miracle In Milan: Once upon a time an old woman discovered a young child in her cabbage patch. She cared for him until her death at which time the boy was placed into an orphanage. When the child is released from the orphanage he inspires shantytown squatters to improve their huts and enjoy the world. But as they begin to rebuild the squatters strike oil. The landowner evicts them wanting the oil for himself. But the old woman drops down from heaven to give Toto a magical dove which grants them whatever wish they want. Winner of the Grand Prize at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival - tied with Frken Julie. (Dir. Vittorio De Sica 1951) Umberto D: Retired civil servant Umberto struggles to survive on his rapidly dwindling pension in the harsh environment of post-World War II Rome a city plagued by its society's total disregard for the plight of the elderly the poor and the downtrodden. His only companions are his loyal dog Flag and a pregnant housemaid named Maria (Maria-Pia Casilio). Facing eviction from his humble home by his tyrannical landlady (Lina Gennari) Umberto's desperate failed attempts to raise money lead him to contemplate suicide. But first he must find a home for his little dog. Filmed on location in Rome with a totally non-professional cast Vittorio De Sica's compassionate but unsentimental handling of Umberto's tale devastatingly conveys the wretchedness of poverty and old age. 'Umberto D' is a deeply emotional and moving film that has quite rightly been hailed as a timeless classic of modern cinema. (Dir. Vittorio De Sica 1952) I Vitelloni: Five young men linger in post-adolescent limbo dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink women and nights at the local pool hall. Federico Fellini's second solo directorial effort is a semi-autobiographical masterpiece of sharply drawn character sketches. An international success and recipient of an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay I Vitelloni compassionately details a year in the life of small-town layabouts struggling to find meaning in their lives. (Dir. Federico Fellini 1953)

• Camp Rock | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Camp Rock tells the rock n' roll Cinderella story of Mitchie Torres (Demi Lovato), a teen with an amazing voice and a driving ambition to be a pop singer who wants to spend her summer at a prestigious rock camp.

• A Fistful of Dollars Limited Edition 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (12/05/2025) from £29.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It wasn't really the first film of its kind, but the western all'Italiana or spaghetti Western was never the same again after Sergio Leone's groundbreaking A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint Eastwood in the classic role that made him an international icon. A nameless stranger (Eastwood) rides into the Mexican border town of San Miguel and quickly finds himself in the middle of a bloody battle for power between two rival families, the Baxters and the Rojos. Cannily realising there's money to be made from playing each side against the other, the Man with No Name soon finds himself caught in the crossfire as the body count escalates, his only chance of escape a standoff against the Rojos' mercilessly cruel leader, Ramón (Gian Maria Volonté). Leone's clever and contemporary inversion of Western archetypes was not only the first entry in a much-beloved trilogy, but the director's first collaboration with the brilliant composer Ennio Morricone. Now fully uncut and freshly restored in glorious 4K with an arsenal of new and old bonus material, the Man with No Name rides again like never before! 4K ULTRA-HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella ¢ Perfect bound collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Henry Blyth, Bilge Ebiri, Pasquale Iannone and Eloise Ross ¢ Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella DISC 1 FEATURE (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY) ¢ New 4K restoration from the original 2-perf Techniscope negative ¢ 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) ¢ Original English and Italian front and end titles ¢ Newly restored original lossless English and Italian mono audio ¢ Optional newly remixed lossless English and Italian DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack ¢ Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack ¢ Audio commentary by film historian and Leone biographer Sir Christopher Frayling ¢ Audio commentary by film historian and critic Tim Lucas ¢ Trailers, TV spots and radio spots DISC 2 EXTRAS (BLU-RAY) ¢ When It All Started, a newly filmed interview with film historian and critic Fabio Melelli ¢ Four Fingers Four Picks, a newly filmed interview with guitarist Bruno Battisti D'Amario ¢ Wind & Fire, a newly filmed interview with Morricone biographer Alessandro de Rosa ¢ A Night at the Movies, a newly filmed interview with filmmaker Paolo Bianchini ¢ A Fistful of Outtakes, highlights from the original rushes ¢ The Day the Soundtrack Changed, a new visual essay by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon exploring the film's iconic score ¢ Marisol: Leone's Madonna of the West, an archival interview with co-star Marianne Koch ¢ The Frayling Archives and A New Kind of Hero, two archival interviews with Sir Christopher Frayling ¢ A Few Days in Spain, an archival interview with Clint Eastwood ¢ Tre Voci, an archival featurette with Leone collaborators Mickey Knox, Sergio Donati and Alberto Grimaldi ¢ Opening scene with Harry Dean Stanton filmed for the film's US TV debut in 1975, plus an archival interview with the prologue's director Monte Hellman ¢ Restoration Italian Style, an archival featurette on the film's remastering for DVD ¢ Location Comparisons 19642004, an archival featurette ¢ Alternate credits sequences ¢ Three comprehensive image galleries: A Fistful of Pictures, On the Set and Promoting ˜A Fistful of Dollars' COMING IN MAY 2025... FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE! COMING IN JUNE 2025... THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY!

• Out Of Africa | Blu Ray | (03/02/2014) from £21.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sydney Pollack's 1985 multiple-Oscar winner is a sumptuous and emotionally satisfying film about the life of Danish writer Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), better known as Isak Dinesen, who travels to Kenya to be with her German husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) but falls for an English adventurer (Robert Redford). The film is slow in developing the relationship, but it is rich in beautiful images of Africa and in the romantic tone surrounding Blixen's gradual discovery of her life and voice. One downside: while we may all love Redford, he is as convincingly British as Kevin Costner is in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. --Tom Keogh

• 99 Women | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sleaze epic in which three women are sent to a kind of 'Devil's Island' prison where aside from the sinister Governor Santos (Herbert Lom) the inhabitants are all either sex-crazed female prisoners or sex-crazed female guards (who also happen to be sadists...) Features copious amounts of lesbian torture and sex numerous displays of hot and sweaty semi-naked women - all wearing stockings and very little else.

• The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928) (Masters of Cinema) Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition | Blu Ray | (21/08/2017) from £14.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the most emotional film experiences of any era, Carl Theodor Dreyer s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc [La Passion de Jeanne d Arc / Jeanne d Arc s lidelse og dod.] is a miracle of the cinema, an enigmatic and profoundly moving work that merges the worlds of the viewer and of saintly Joan herself into one shared experience of hushed delirium. Dreyer s film charts the final days of Joan of Arc as she undergoes the debasement that accompanies her trial for charges of heresy through her imprisonment and execution at the stake. The portrayal of Joan by Renée Maria Falconetti is frequently heralded as the all-time finest performance in the history of film, and Dreyer s unusual and virtuosic method, in seeming to render the very soul of his actress, vaulted the director decisively into the ranks of the art form s supreme geniuses. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Passion of Joan of Arc in an exclusively restored version, presented in both 20fps and 24fps playback speeds, and featuring Dreyer s own original Danish-language intertitles. DUAL FORMAT SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: Special edition O-card (First pressing only) Exclusively restored high-definition master presented in the film s original aspect ratio, in 1080p on the Blu-ray Presented in both 20fps and 24fps playback speeds Optional audio tracks: a piano score performed by Japanese silent film composer Mie Yanashita (for the 20fps option), and a radical new accompaniment by esteemed American avant-garde musician Loren Connors (for the 24fps version) Newly translated optional English subtitles for Dreyer s original Danish intertitles The complete Lo Duca version of the film the version (featuring an alternate edit and soundtrack) that circulated in France and around the world for decades before the rediscovery of Dreyer s director s cut | Video demonstration of the restoration A collector s booklet featuring writing on the film, alongside rare archival production imagery

• The Banana Splits Movie | Blu Ray | (26/08/2019) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  American horror comedy based on the 1968 Hanna-Barbera TV series. On his birthday, young Harley (Finlay Wojtak-Hissong) and his family attend a live recording of 'The Banana Splits' TV show. However, when it is announced that the show is going to be cancelled, the fun-filled afternoon turns to one of horror as the show's fuzzy robotic characters take over the studio and embark on a gruesome killing spree.

• Predator 2 (Special Edition) | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £11.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (91.74%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Predator wreaked havoc in the jungle and struck box-office gold, so Hollywood logic dictated that Predator 2 should raise hell in the big, bad city. Los Angeles, to be specific, and this near-future L.A. (circa 1997) is an ultra-violent playground for the invisibility-cloaked alien that hunted Arnold Schwarzenegger in the previous film. Scant explanation is given for the creature's return, and because Ah-nuld was busy making Total Recall, Danny Glover was awkwardly installed as the maverick cop (is there any other kind?) who defies a government goon (Gary Busey) to curtail the alien's inner-city killing spree. But why bother, when the victims are scummy Colombian drug lords? Don't look for intelligent answers; director Stephen Hopkins favors wall-to-wall action over sensible plotting, allowing Stan Winston's more prominently featured Predator to join the ranks of iconic movie monsters. And anticipating Alien vs. Predator, there's a familiar-looking skull in the Predator's trophy case! --Jeff Shannon

• Fun In Acapulco | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £12.82   |  Saving you £3.17 (24.73%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mike works on a boat in Acapulco: when the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired Mike must find new work and becomes embroiled in a love triangle with two women and a champion Mexican diver!

• Blame It On Rio | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Upon arriving in exotic Rio long-time friends Matthew (Michael Caine) and Victor (Joseph Bologna) and their teenage daughters (Demi Moore and Michelle Johnson) barely unpack before this infamous pleasure spot begins to cast its torrid spell. Matthew quickly succumbs to Cupid's arrow but when guilt gets the better of this married man he vows to end the affair and keep it a secret... even from Vicor. But as his white lies grow so does his libido and Matthew continues his indiscreti

• Butterfly On A Wheel | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The taut psychological thriller "Butterfly on a Wheel" asks the question; what happens when your daughter's kidnapper decides he doesn't want the ransom money?

• Justice League - Brave And Bold | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (120.68%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The first showdown pairs Green Lantern and The Flash against Gorilla Grodd an evil genius primate with a mind-controlling device and a vendetta against humankind. Only the Justice League can save us from gorilla domination! Then Lex Luthor's reputation as a devious mastermind is finally exposed or is it? Luthor assembles a mighty evildoer team - Ultra-Humanite Cheetah Copperhead Solomon Grundy Star Sapphire The Shade and The Joker - to destroy the Justice League. This is the on

• Queer As Folk 2 - Same Men. New Tricks | DVD | (10/04/2000) from £5.50   |  Saving you £14.49 (263.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Picking up where Queer as Folk left off, QAF2: Same Men, New Tricks exists primarily to wrap up the series. Consisting of two one-hour episodes, it occasionally moves fast--but it won't leave anyone who watched the first series behind. Stuart is still, we're constantly reminded, "a twat", and it's around him that this sequel revolves. Trying to come to term with his place in the world, he finds young Nathan a formidable protege, his family needing him less, and his friends... well, Stuart never was much of one for relationships. Vince, his one friend, has started to take charge of his own life, leaving Stuart to grow less and less connected to anyone else's definition of responsible behaviour. It's maddening, but it's also what makes the show so much fun to watch. Then comes the ending: keeping in mind that QAF2 was done solely to ensure that there would be no conceivable way to do any further series, the fantastical final 15 minutes is extremely effective, if a bit incongruous with the rest of the show. Camp and way, way, way over the top, it's an ending that the guys in the show would probably relish. --Randy Silver