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• Le Silence de la mer | Blu Ray | (23/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Le Silence De La Mer - Jean-Pierre Melville's debut film - is an adaptation of the novella of the same title by celebrated French Resistance author Vercors (the pen name of Jean Bruller). Clandestinely written in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of France and furtively distributed, it captured the spirit of the moment, and quickly became a staple of the Resistance.Melville's cinematic adaptation - partly shot in Vercors' own house - tells the story of a German officer, Werner von Ebrennac (Howard Vernon), who is billeted to the house of an elderly man (Jean-Marie Robain) and his niece (Nicole Stphane) in occupied France.One of the most important French films to deal with World War II, and a landmark in Melville's distinguished oeuvre, Le Silence De La Mer is a lyrical, timeless depiction of the experiences and struggles of occupation and resistance.

• Sound of My Voice | Blu Ray | (26/11/2012) from £17.53   |  Saving you £7.46 (42.56%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Synopsis- Brit Marling is intoxicating (The Huffington Post) and stirring (People) in the year's most talked-about psychological thriller. A filmmaker (Christopher Denham) and his girlfriend (Nicole Vicius) set out to expose the beautiful leader of a cult (Marling), who claims to be from the future. But the more they explore, the more danger they face in this intricate and taut thriller (USA Today). Special Features: Making of Sound of My Voice Maggie Featurette

• Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made | DVD | (26/10/2020) from £9.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Canadian horror co-directed by David Amito and Michael Laicini. A documentary crew find a 1970s film about teenage siblings Oralee (Nicole Tompkins) and Nathan (Rowan Smyth) who attempt to revive their pet dog which they believe is suffering in Hell and their efforts result in a portal being opened to the underworld. However, when the film is screened the audiences are confronted by evil and the blurring of fiction and reality could be the difference between life and death.

• The West Wing - Season 1 Part 1 | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £35.99

  Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing, set in the White House, has won innumerable awards--and rightly so. Its depiction of a well-meaning Democrat administration has warmed the hearts of countless Americans. However, The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funny and moving American TV series of all time. In its first series, The West Wing established the cast of characters who comprise the White House staff. There's Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (John Spencer), a recovering alcoholic whose efforts to be the cornerstone of the administration contribute to the break-up of his marriage. CJ (Alison Janney) is the formidable Press Spokeswoman embroiled in a tentative on-off relationship with Timothy (Thirtysomething) Busfield's reporter. Brilliant but grumpy communications deputy Toby Ziegler, Rob Lowe's brilliant but faintly nerdy Sam Seaborn and brilliant but smart-alecky Josh Lyman make up the rest of the inner circle. Initially, the series' creators had intended to keep the President off-screen. Wisely, however, they went with Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet, whose eccentric volatility, caution, humour and strength in a crisis make for such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. The issues broached in the first series have striking, often prescient contemporary relevance. We see the President having to be talked down from a "disproportionate response" when terrorists shoot down a plane carrying his personal doctor, or acting as broker in a dangerous stand-off between India and Pakistan. Gun control laws, gays in the military, Fundamentalist pressure groups are all addressed--the latter in a most satisfying manner ("Get your fat asses out of the White House!")--while the episode "Take This Sabbath Day" is a superb dramatic meditation on Capital punishment. Handled incorrectly, The West Wing could have been turgid, didactic propaganda for The American Way. However, the writers are careful to show that, decent as this administration is, its achievements, though hard-won, are minimal. Moreover, the brisk, staccato-like, almost musical exchanges of dialogue, between Josh and his PA Donna, for instance, as they pace purposefully up and down the corridors are the show's abiding joy. This is wonderful and addictive viewing.--David Stubbs

• Human Stain | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  How far would you go to escape the past? Coleman Silk (Hopkins) is a respectable college professor whose life is thrown into turmoil when his affair with a janitor (Kidman) is discovered...

• Atlantic Rim | DVD | (24/06/2013) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When giant monsters crawl out of the Atlantic Ocean and attack the Eastern Seaboard, the US Government is forced to trust experimental mech bots, piloted by inexperienced airmen. When the first defense fails, it's up to the three pilots to prove their worth by saving New York from the monsters.

• Portrait of a Lady | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £13.67   |  Saving you £-3.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nicole Kidman is Isabel Archer a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. But her headstrong innocence is no match for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle (Barbara Hershey in an Oscar-nominated performance) and the devious Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich). Adapted from the novel by Henry James.

• Checkpoint | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £5.61   |  Saving you £7.38 (131.55%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Canada, near the US Border, Jalil, Leslie, Michelle, Gab, and Tom are driving back home after a wedding. A car blocks the road and forces them to stop. It's the Border Police. The officers check their IDs. They seem suspicious and their questioning slowly intensifies. In particular, the origins of Jalil seem to intrigue the officers. As good citizens, the group stays calm. After all, they've done nothing wrong... Except that broken light... Except that pot found in the car...

• The Day Of The Triffids | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £17.16   |  Saving you £-7.17 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  All reports confirm that the world is witnessing an unprecedented shower of meteorites - a once in a lifetime spectacle that must be seen. And seen it is by most of the world's population. Bill Masen lies in his hospital bed in frustration with his eyes bandaged. When he finally gets to remove them the following morning he discovers the previous nights' light show has blinded all those who saw it. He is one of the few people to still have their sight. But worse is to come. With the meteorite shower has come the spores of a man-eating alien plant form Triffidus Celestus. The fate of mankind is in the hands of a few in this classic 1962 adaptation of the John Wyndham novel.

• Nine Perfect Strangers S1 | Blu Ray | (13/11/2023) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on The New York Times bestselling book by author Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers takes place at a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this 10-day retreat is the resort's director, Masha, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine perfect strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.

• The West Wing - Complete Seasons 1 and 2 | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £79.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (2.50%)   |  RRP £81.99

  Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental US patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funny and moving American TV series of all time. In its first series, The West Wing established the cast of characters who comprise the White House staff. There's Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (John Spencer), a recovering alcoholic whose efforts to be the cornerstone of the administration contribute to the break-up of his marriage. CJ (Alison Janney) is the formidable Press Spokeswoman embroiled in a tentative on-off relationship with Timothy (Thirtysomething) Busfield's reporter. Brilliant but grumpy communications deputy Toby Ziegler, Rob Lowe's brilliant but faintly nerdy Sam Seaborn and brilliant but smart-alecky Josh Lyman makes up the rest of the inner circle. Initially, the series' creators had intended to keep the President off-screen. Wisely, however, they went with Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet, whose eccentric volatility, caution, humour and strength in a crisis make for such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. The second series of The West Wing takes up where the first one left off and, a few moments of slightly toe-curling patriotic sentimentalism apart, maintains the series' astonishingly high standards in depicting the everyday life of the White House staff of a Democratic administration. With Aaron Sorkin's dialogue ranging as ever from dry, staccato mirth to almost biblical gravitas, an ensemble of overworked (and curiously undersexed) characters and an overall depiction of the workings of government that's both gratifyingly idealised yet chasteningly realistic, The West Wing is one of the all-time great American TV dramas. --David Stubbs

• Stanley Kubrick | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  This superb nine-disc Stanley Kubrick Box Set contains all the late director's work from 1962's Lolita to Kubrick's final film, the highly controversial Eyes Wide Shut (1999). There's also the excellent and highly informative two-hour documentary: Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, narrated (a little drably) by Tom Cruise. It isn't exactly a warts-and-all portrait of Stan the Man, which is not surprising, really, given that it's directed and produced by Kubrick's brother-in-law Jan Harlan, and that Kubrick's widow Christine was closely involved in the making of it. But it does give a detailed and revealing portrait of a brilliant, demanding and often infuriating man, airing rare footage that goes right back to his earliest years as a brash youngster in the Bronx, already playing to camera with a frightening degree of self-awareness. Six of the eight movies (all but Dr Strangelove and Eyes Wide Shut) have been digitally restored and remastered, and almost all (barring Strangelove again and Lolita) now boast Dolby Digital 5.1 stereo sound remixes. For some bizarre reason, Kubrick insisted on mono sound for the 1999 set, which he approved shortly before his death. Visually the improvement over the often grainy, scratchy prints previously on offer--The Shining (1980) was notoriously messy--is immense. All the features are presented in their original ratios, which in the case of Strangelove means the changing ratios in which it was originally shot, and for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) the full glorious 2.21:1 expanse of the Cinerama screen.So what don't you get? Essentially, the early Kubrick--the work of the young, hungry director before he moved to England and started to gather all the controlling strings into his own hand: most notably the tough, taut thriller The Killing (1956) and the icily furious war film Paths of Glory (1957). Too bad Warners couldn't have negotiated the rights for those too. But what we have here is the culminating phase of Kubrick's filmmaking career--the final 27 years of one of the great masters of cinema. On the DVDs: Besides the visual and sonic improvements mentioned above, each of the eight features includes the original theatrical trailer and multiple-language subtitles. The DVD of Dr Strangelove also gives us filmographies of the principal players, plus theatrical posters and a photo gallery, while Eyes Wide Shut includes interviews (taped after Kubrick's death) with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven Spielberg, plus a couple of 30-second TV spots. And with The Shining we get a fascinating 34-minute documentary made by Kubrick's then 17-year-old daughter Vivian, plus--just to add a further layer--Vivian's present-day voice-over commentary on her film. --Philip Kemp

• Rabbit Hole | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £4.86   |  Saving you £15.13 (311.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award Rabbit Hole is the new film from John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus Hedwig and the Angry Itch) based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by David Lindsay Abaire. Rabbit Hole features a triumphant return to the screen by Nicole Kidman starring alongside Aaron Eckhart two-time Oscar winner Dianne Wiest Sandra Oh and newcomer Miles Teller. Set in the suburbs of America Rabbit Hole tells the story of Becca and Howie Corbett a married couple struggling to return to their everyday existence several months after the loss of their child. With their world tilted off of its axis Becca and Howie embark on separate journeys making increasingly unexpected choices that threaten to pull them apart. But as a series of events unfold that offer to bring new meaning into their lives the couple must decide whether to allow their personal journeys to bring them back together. Rabbit Hole is a vivid honest and occasionally funny portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of situations.

• Undercover Bridesmaid | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Brooke Burns stars as an undercover bridesmaid in this romantic comedy. When Texas tycoon Jim Thompson (Gregory Harrison) hires a private security firm for his daughter Daisy (Nicole Paggi)'s grand wedding, it falls to Tanya (Burns), as the only female bodyguard, to protect the spoiled bride-to-be. Having been jilted at the alter herself, the covert law enforcer is none too happy about assuming the role of an undercover bridesmaid. But with several conspiring suspects present at the wedding Tanya has her work cut out to protect the bride while trying to locate the family's harasser.

• How To Talk To Girls At Parties | DVD | (03/09/2018) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the visionary minds of writer Neil Gaiman and director John Cameron Mitchell comes a story of the birth of punk, the exuberance of first love, and the universe's greatest mystery of all: HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES.

• Jersey Shore - Season 2 | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The eight housemates of Jersey Shore are back for another season of GTL, fist pumping, and battling grenades. But this time the party has moved south to Miami Beach. The area code may have changed, but the drama remains the same.The Situation, Vinny and Pauly D give MVP a whole new meaning; Snooki continues her search for the perfect gorilla juicehead while JWOWW tries to keep her out of trouble; Sammi and Ron pick up right where they left off; and Angelina can't help but stir things up. MVP will be creepin', Ron Ron juice will be flowin', and Snooki will be Snookin' on Season Two of Jersey Shore.

• Unconditional Love | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £7.97   |  Saving you £12.02 (150.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After her husband leaves her an American woman travels to London for the funeral of Victor Fox the pop star she's adored all her life. There she meets Fox's gay lover and convinces him to come back to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer...

• Shoot The Pianist | Blu Ray | (28/07/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Francois Truffaut portrays a film noir world of gangsters and intrigue with Charles Aznavour as a famous concert pianist who leaves his former life behind to play in a sleazy Parisian bar. He gradually becomes involved in the criminal activities of the big-city underworld.

• Stoker (Blu-ray + UV Copy) | Blu Ray | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Stoker is a masterful psychodrama that teems with unsettling vibrations that hark directly back to Alfred Hitchcock, but also to the wave of contemporary cinema that has been surging in South Korea for the past decade. It is the first American feature by the auteur Park Chan-wook, whose widely seen trilogy of "revenge" films, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Lady Vengeance, paved the way for the meticulous craftsmanship of Stoker. The inspiration for Wentworth Miller's haunting script was Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, though Stoker makes for an altogether creepier tale of a mysterious uncle, his melancholy niece, and the deadly interplay of family secrets slowly revealed. Park's delicate weaving of style transforms the material into a narrative symphony, with thematic elements conveyed in the smallest details of composition, art direction, and graceful cinematography. Mia Wasikowska is India Stoker, the teenage niece who just lost her father to a violent auto accident. It's a complete surprise to India and her mother Evelyn (Nicole Kidman) when his handsome younger brother Charlie (Matthew Goode) shows up at the brooding family mansion (itself a character that is integral to the story). Charlie's enigmatic smirk signals both calm and danger, and his presence is a catalyst that ratchets up the emotional turmoil India and Evelyn are already experiencing. India senses the danger even as she is drawn to Charlie, and her mother's repressed sexuality turns into a bonfire under his mysterious charm. He tempts and teases them both in an expertly choreographed dance of menace that fuels the rage building in India and puts further pressure on her mother's cataclysmic despair. Charlie's psychopathic presence infests the brooding, yet deceptively airy surroundings of the Stoker estate with a sense of peril that is just out of reach. Several key scenes unfold at the family dinner table, where poison lurks in Freudian undercurrents and maybe in the food and wine, too. The most mesmerising sequence captures a visit from the sheriff, who's investigating the murder of one of India's schoolmates. The crime is just one of many acts of deadly violence that erupt with jarring force in the past, present, and future of Stoker's disturbing timeline. As the sheriff talks to India and Charlie, the camera swirls around to the rhythm of the scene, separating, uniting, then retreating from them in a virtuosic room-to-room sweep. The extended take says much more about the interplay of India and Charlie's dread connection than the oblique dialogue. It's also a breathtaking illustration of Park's obsessive attention to shot design. But Stoker is much more than an exercise in style; it is also an unnerving and understated thriller that gives big rewards for all that attention to detail. To say that there are plot twists is an understatement for a movie whose elegant creativity is the biggest twist of all. --Ted Fry

• Birthday Girl | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nadia is the mail-order bride of sweet but dull bank clerk John, and although she's as beautiful as he hoped she's hardly the ideal non-smoking, English speaking wife he hoped for...