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• Privilege | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Steve Shorter the biggest pop star of his day is loved by millions; his approval or endorsement can guide the choices and actions of the masses. But in reality he is a puppet whose popularity is carefully managed by government-backed handlers keen to keep the country's youth under control. Only an act of complete rebellion can set him free. Starring Manfred Mann lead singer Paul Jones as Shorter and iconic Sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton as the girl who tries to help him defy the system Privilege is the third feature from provocative British director Peter Watkins a filmmaker who's unique v''rit''-style and oppositional themes have continually met with controversy throughout his career. Remastered in high-definition and made available in the UK for the first time since its original cinema release Privilege is presented here with two of Watkins' earliest film works.

• American in Paris | Blu Ray | (31/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Veiled Lady / The Lost Mine | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In The Veiled Lady / The Lost Mine David Suchet once again brings the great detective Hercule Poirot to rich life. The Veiled Lady is a comic caper, as Poirot and the ever-ready Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser) resort to burglary to stop a blackmailing cad. The Lost Mine is cleverly set in a Chinatown reminiscent of the 1930s concept of the Mysterious East. Suchet is a perfect Poirot, capturing both his dignity and his humour, and Fraser does a beautiful job of underplaying Hastings enough to keep him the perfect sidekick without ever making him boring. --Ali Davis

• George Washington | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For a first feature from a 24-year-old director, George Washington is an amazingly assured piece of work. The title’s misleading: this is no biopic of America’s first President, but a poetic, richly atmospheric rhapsody set in a rundown industrial town in the American South. Given this backdrop, and a predominantly black cast, you might expect an angry study of social deprivation and racial tension, but Green has no such agenda. Instead, he derives a shimmering, heat-hazed beauty from his images of rusting machinery, junkyards and derelict buildings, and if the overall tone is tinged with sadness, it’s mainly from a sense of universal human loss. The action, such as it is, moves at its own slow Southern pace, following a group of youngsters, black and white, over a few high-summer days. Things do happen--a couple decide to elope, one boy’s saved from drowning, another gets killed--but they’re presented in an oblique, understated fashion that owes nothing to conventional Hollywood notions of narrative. With one exception, the cast are all non-professionals, mainly youngsters who director-writer David Gordon Green found in and around the town where the film was made, Winston-Salem in North Carolina. Shooting in a semi-improvised fashion, Green draws from his young cast remarkably spontaneous performances and dialogue (often their own) full of unselfconscious poetry. Drawing on a wide range of influences--among other things he cites Sesame Street, documentaries and such 70s classics as Deliverance, Walkabout and especially Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven--Green has fashioned a film that’s fresh, tender and utterly individual. And it looks just gorgeous: belying the tiny budget, Tim Orr’s widescreen photography lavishes mellow softness on images of dereliction and small-town decay. Never has dead-end poverty been made to look so attractive. On the DVD: George Washington comes on a disc generously loaded with extras. Besides the obvious theatrical trailer we get two of Green’s early short films, Physical Pinball and Pleasant Grove (both clearly dry runs for the main feature), an 18-minute featurette about the film’s reception at the Berlin Film Fest and a deleted scene of a community meeting. This scene, the short Pleasant Grove and the movie itself also offer a director’s commentary--or rather a director’s dialogue, as Green shares the honours with one of his lead actors, Paul Schneider. Their laconic, unpretentious comments enhance the whole experience enormously. The film has been transferred in its full scope ratio (2.35:1) and looks great. --Philip Kemp

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - 5 Little Pigs / Sad Cypress | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Five Little Pigs: Poirot is called in to investigate a fourteen year old murder... A woman was hanged for poisoning her husband to death. Her only daughter has come of age and is back from living overseas. She must find out if there was a mis-carriage of justice all those years ago if she is to have any future. Her late father was an artist reknowned for having affairs with his models. The family home was full of visitors. Who else had a motive? The Sad Cypress: Another intriguing investigation for the brilliant Belgian detective as the beautiful Elinor Carlisle stands accused of a double murder; that of her wealthy aunt Laura Wellman and also of her rival in love Mary Gerrard. Elinor had the motive and the opportunity to administer the fatal poison to both women. Poirot believes the evidence to be irrefutable but once his little grey cells get to work he begins to piece together another version of events as Elinor finds time running out...

• Lick Library - Bass Legends - John Paul Jones | DVD | (12/12/2012) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Bullitt / Getaway / The Towering Inferno | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Bullitt: Detective Frank Bullitt's new assignment seems routine: protect a star witness for an important trial. But before the night is out the witness lies dying and the cool no-nonsense Bullitt ( Steve McQueen) won't rest until the shooters - and the kingpin pulling their strings - are nailed. The Getaway: Master thief Doc McCoy knows his wife has been in bed with the local political boss in order to spring him from jail. What he can't know is the sinister succession of double-crosses that will sour the deal once he's on the oustisde - and executing the ultimate robbery. Towering Inferno: A dedication ceremony at the world's tallest skyscraper turns into a high-rise catastrophe when an electrical flare-up causes a raging fire trapping society's most prominent citizens on the top floor!

• Nightmaster | DVD | (26/09/2002) from £5.44   |  Saving you £0.55 (10.11%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Game Is Just Getting Good! By day Robbie (Tom Jennings) and Amy (Nicole Kidman) are ordinary students. By night they are the top contenders in a highly competitive simulated war game designed to test athletic prowess and intellectual superiority. Robbie remains champion of the dame pushed to the limit of his endurance by his extreme and obsessive martial arts instructor. When Robbie realizes the extent of his instructor's fanaticism the once friendly game has become real li

• Not Of This Earth | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-3.09 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Not Of This Earth

• Harley Street | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Set in London's famous medical district Harley Street gets behind the facade of suave medics treating celebrity and wealthy patients. Our private practice is run by three doctors: Martha Elliot Robert Fielding and cosmetic surgeon Ekkow Obiang. While each has their unique approach to their job all three medics are outsiders in the closed world of high-end private care dominated by white privately-educated men.

• Lovers Rock Gala Awards | DVD | (01/12/2009) from £12.37   |  Saving you £-0.38 (-3.20%)   |  RRP £11.99

  The UK's Biggest Ever Reggae Show Filmed Live @ the O2 Brixton Academy - July 2009Such a collection of artists has never been captured before on DVD. `Lover's Rock' has been played at music festivals, night clubs and households around the world for the last 30 years and is still popular today. The show hosted by Grammy Award Winner Jazzie B (OBE) features 16 of the top selling British Lovers Rock icons, including 38 of the biggest most popular love songs (running time: 2h 23m), made up from UK No 1 Pop Chart Hits and a number of world renowned hit songs.Featured Artists: Caron Wheeler, Sugar Minott, Trevor Walters, Winston Reedy, Susan Cadogan, Tradition, Sandra Cross, Michael Gordon, Paul Dawkins, Lorna Bennett, Errol Dunkley, Jimmy Lindsey, Vivian Jones, Dennis Bovell and Jean Adebambo.Featured Songs: `Back to Life', `Good Thing Going', `Stuck On You', `Paradise', `You Know How To Love Me', `Every Little Bit Of My Heart', `Breakfast In Bed', `Natural Woman', `Man In Me', `OK Fred', `Sugar Love', Plus many more...The biggest Reggae concert DVD to come out of the UK, this DVD will bring out the singer in you.

• Jose Limon - Three Modern Dance Classics | DVD | (31/01/2003) from £20.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (-10.50%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Jose Limon (1908-1972) was a Mexican-American choreographer who continues to be regarded as one of the modern dance world's seminal creative artists known for his intense dramatic presence and the theatricality and musicality of his dances. Here for the first time on video are three of his most famous works with the original casts filmed in their entirety for the Canadian Broadcasting Company in the 1950s.THE MOORS PAVANE (1949) is generally considered to be one of the great masterworks in the modern repertory. In the form of a Renaissance dance Limon destills the legend of Othello into a taut one-act human drama with music by Henry Pucell. Joining Limon are his close collaborators Lucas Hoving Pauline Koner and Betty Jones. Telecast date: March 6 1955.THE TRAITOR (1954) was Limon's response to the McCarthy hearings and the climate of betrayal that haunted the arts and entertainment fields during this period. Against a music score of violence passion and tenderness (by Gunther Schuller) the tragedy of Judas is portrayed as if it were taking place in modern times. Telecast date: October 23 1955.THE EMPEROR JONES (1956) is based upon the play by Eugene O'Neill wherein a fugitive from a chain gang sets himself up as the ruler of an island domain. He becomes a tyrant and his mistreated subjects eventually rebel and hunt him down. For this dance Limon commissioned a musical score from Heitor Villa-Lobos. Telecast date: March 13 1957.

• The Saint Francisville Experiment | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  1832 a fire breaks out in a New Orleans mansion. Firemen make a grim discovery - the bodies of slaves in chains tortured and mutilated. Over a century later four paranormal experts equipped with cameras and sound recording equipment agree to be locked in the house for one night. Reality TV equals Real terror! This film is done in the documentary style to heighten the suspense.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £199.99

  Two words suffice to sum up the enduring and endearing qualities of Agatha Christie's Poirot: David Suchet. Despite all the careful Art Deco trappings, the light, spacious sets and luxurious country locations, despite the excellent supporting cast and atmospheric music score, despite all its admirable qualities this series would be for nothing without Suchet's magnificent grasp on the fussy little Belgian detective. Poirot's obsessive mannerisms, his mania for sartorial detail, his maniacal devotion to personal hygiene (especially when it comes to looking after the moustache) are all rendered exactly by Suchet, clearly as much a perfectionist in this respect as his alter ego in every other. Buoyed by their success with Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes, Granada TV brought a lighter touch to Poirot, which first aired in 1989, and this series is often breezily humorous in contrast to the gloomy Victorian Gothic of its predecessor. The producers took similar care in maintaining the spirit of Christie's original books even when--as with the Holmes adventures--the screenwriters occasionally took pardonable liberties with story and characters. Suchet is ably supported by Hugh Fraser as the Bertie Woosterish Captain Hastings, Philip Jackson as the tenaciously bulldog-like Inspector Japp, and Pauline Moran as Poirot's often exasperated PA, Miss Lemon. --Mark Walker

• Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same | HD DVD | (26/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Rock's premier metalmen Led Zeppelin whose blend of gutsy blue and scathing rock catapulted them into the music world's pantheon take you on a spellbinding journey of song and imagination. This high-impact movie captures the group's legendary 1973 Madison Square Garden concert and uncorks a freewheeling mix of scenes showing group members at home and in elaborate fantasy settings. Robert Plant's raw lead vocals Jimmy Page's explosive riffery and the sonic-boom rhythm wall of bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham all swirl clash and collide - on classic tunes like Stairway to Heaven Dazed and Confused Whole Lotta Love and many others. No one goes down heavier than Zep!

• Paul Anka - and Friends | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Tracklisting: Introduction / I've Been Waiting For You All Of My Life / The Most Beautiful Girl In The World / Another Sleepless Night / Everything's Been Changed / Times Of Your Life / As Time Goes By / One In A Million You / If A Picture Paints A Thousand Words / Endless Love / Take Me To The River / Nights On Broadway / Everybody Ought To Be In Love / Love To Love You Baby / I Don't Want To Run Your Life / It Only Takes A Moment / Diana / That's What Friends Are For

• The Bagman | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Your past will ALWAYS come back to haunt YOU! 15 years ago Jack Marshall's house burned to the ground leaving him badly burnt with disfiguring scars and both parents dead! Everafter he was cruelly teased and tormented by his peers. 10 years ago when Jack was 17 his own private hell came to an end when he was savagely murdered by his classmates. Today Sue Creswell returns to her hometown where it all happened and the terror begins! Sue reunites with her old schoolmates. One by one they disappear in a swirl of grisly slaughter. Sue is tormented by an unknown silent caller and a trail of blood that leads to nowhere... Is Jack Marshall really dead?

• Led Zeppelin - The Origin Of The Species - A Critical Review | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £6.35   |  Saving you £-0.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An independent critical review of Led Zeppelin's The Origin Of The Species album; featuring analysis from leading figures in the music industry and interviews with those close to the band.

• Scorched/Meaning Of Life | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Scorched (Dir. Gavin Grazer 2003): Three bank tellers. One goal: knock the place over. Each has their own idea. Sheila (Silverstone) wants to break into the ATM. Stuart plans to ""borrow"" some money for the weekend and head to Vegas. And Woods (Harrelson) has a scheme involving a duck a dog and a safety deposit box. The ultimate inside jobs plotted by three people with nothing to lose. If only they were aware of each others plans! Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life (Dir. Terry Jones 1983): Those six pandemonium-mad Pythons are back with their craziest adventure ever! These naughty lads offer the usual tasteful sketches involving favorite bodily parts and functions the wonders of war the miracle of birth and a special preview of what's waiting for us in Heaven. Nothing is too sacred for the probing Python crew. After seeing them in action you'll never look at life in quite the same way again. It's far-out frank and jolly good fun!

• The Sting | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  All it takes is a little Confidence. After the huge success of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid George Roy Hill re-teamed with Hollywood stars Robert Redford and Paul Newman for this dazzlingly inventive tale about revenge in 1930s Chicago. The Sting is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed films of all time. Set in the 1930's this intricate comedy caper deals with an ambitious small time crook (Robert Redford) and a veteran con man (Paul Newman) who seeks revenge on the vicious crime lord (Robert Shaw) who murdered one of their gang. How this group of charlatans puts the sting on their enemy makes for the greatest double-crosses in movie history complete with an amazing surprise finish... The Sting was nominated for ten Oscars collecting seven on the night: Best Art Direction (Henry Bumstead James W. Payne) ; Best Costume Design (Edith Head); Best Director (George Roy Hill) ; Best Editing (William Reynolds) ; Best Score (Marvin Hamslich); Best Picture (Tony Bill Michael Phillips Julia Phillips); Best Screenplay (David S. Ward).