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• Gram Parsons - Fallen Angel | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £24.93   |  Saving you £-9.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Fallen Angel features music from Gram Parsons' groundbreaking career with The International Submarine Band The Byrds The Flying Burrito Brother as well as his highly acclaimed solo albums. The film was made on location by director and musician Gandulf Hennig and American music journalist musician and biographer Sid Griffin. Friends contemporaries and devotees of Gram Parsons talk about the importance of his work and the bizarre circumstances of his early death. Rare footage of

• Videodrome | Blu Ray | (26/12/2011) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Lowlife cable TV operator Max Renn discovers a snuff TV broadcast called Videodrome which is much more than it seems.It's an experiment that causes brain damage. Max is caught in the middle of the forces that created and the forces that want to control Videodrome, his body itself turning into the ultimate weapon to fight them.

• Inspector Morse - Disc 23 And 24 - The Death Of The Self / Absolute Conviction | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (178.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and story lines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep-down sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --Piers Ford

• XX | DVD | (08/05/2017) from £5.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  XX is a new horror anthology featuring four murderous tales of supernatural frights, thrills, profound anxiety, and Gothic decay. Written and directed by four fiercely talented women the film stars female leads and is framed around innovative animator Sofia Carrillo. Vigorously challenging the status quo within the industry, this collection of tightly coiled short films by some of horror's most influential women offers a refreshing jolt to the senses.

• Smokescreen/Hi-Jackers | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Hi-Jackers Terry a lorry driver meets Shirley at a roadside cafe and offers her a lift. His truck carrying a valuable shipment of whiskey is later hijacked but who tipped off the hijackers? Smokescreen A parsimonious insurance assessor is assigned the task of investigating the mysterious death of a businessman. Was it an accident? Suicide? Or something more sinister?

• Jurassic Park: The Lost World (DVD) | DVD | (21/05/2018) from £4.56   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director Steven Spielberg takes us back to the scene of Jurassic Park in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the blockbuster sequel with even more dinosaurs, action and Academy Award-nominated visual effects. Four years since the disaster at Jurassic Park, two groups are in a race against time that will determine the fate of the remote island's prehistoric inhabitants. Featuring an all-star cast including Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughn and Pete Postlethwaite, this action-packed thrill ride will leave you on the edge of your seat...again! Special Features: The Making Of Deleted Scenes Marketing: Posters & Toys Industrial Light & Magic The World of Jurassic Park Dinosaur Encyclopedia Illustrations & conceptual drawings Models Storyboards Production Photos Production Notes Talent Profiles

• Katie Tippel | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £14.59   |  Saving you £5.40 (37.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made in 1975 and directed by Paul Verhoeven, Katie Tippel ("Katie the Streetwalker") is a handsome period drama set in 19th-century Holland, based on a true story. The second eldest daughter in a poor, Friesland family who move to Amsterdam, Katie (Monique Van de Ven) must find whatever work is going to make ends meet. She has already learnt to have no faith in her weak father. Now, as she enters a succession of jobs in which she experiences both exploitation and sexual harassment, she learns that men want her only for one thing. Duly, at the behest of her own mother, she enters into prostitution. However, when she becomes model to an artist, she is finally able to escape the poverty trap and ascend the social ladder, particularly when banker Hugo (Rutger Hauer) takes her as his lover. All this is set against a backdrop of social foment as the workers' impatience at poor social conditions increases. Although director Verhoeven, as well as Hauer and cinematographer Jan De Bont eventually became involved in mainstream American movies, Katie Tippel is very much of the European school of filmmaking: episodic and harsh in its depiction of everyday poverty. The dead puppy at the beginning definitely marks it out as being contrary to Hollywood's near-zero canine mortality rate. The sexual scenes are graphic to the point of gratuitousness but always grimly non-titillating. Budgetary limits cramp some of the mass street scenes, but generally the film is beautifully shot and ageless in feel. A far cry, certainly, from Showgirls, for which Verhoeven was later responsible. --David Stubbs

• Dancer In The Dark | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Winner of the Palme d'Ore at Cannes, this new film from Dogma 95 director Lars Von Trier is a bizarre musical starring off-the-wall pop star Bjork.

• Rat | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (10.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Pete Postlethwaite is Hubert Flynn Dublin bread deliveryman who loves his pint of Guinness his bet on the horses and his wife Conchita in that order. So when he comes home from the pub one evening and changes into a rat Conchita is slow to forgive. Conchita (played to perfection by Imelda Staunton) at first resists her family's eccentric plans for Hubert but when an opportunistic ghost-writer knocks on the door and proposes to put their story in a book and then a film of the book and a book of the film and riches beyond her dreams... she is tempted. So setting the stage for a series of bizarre and comical adventures for Hubert the rat and his family. Rat is the tale of family values little furry folk and one man's struggle to regain his humanity... literally! Special effects by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

• Bon Voyage | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vivianne Denvers is a well-known film actress who has many male admirers. At the premiere of her latest picture she is pursued by Beaufort a rather large government official. To get away from him she attaches herself to an unsuitable older man who takes her home. After an argument she slaps him only to find that he has dropped dead! Terrified she calls on a former boyfriend to help her move the body...

• F.I.S.T. | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £15.55   |  Saving you £-2.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties.

• Fenn Street Gang - Series 3 - Complete | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £8.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Spinning off from the massively-popular Please Sir! The Fenn Street Gang shows the erstwhile Form 5C trying to cope with the world at large. Starring Peter Cleall Carol Hawkins David Barry and John Alderton this much-loved programme is one not to be missed! Episodes Comprise: 1. An Englishman's Home 2. Mother Knows Best 3. Alone At Last 4. Making Whoopee 5. After The Ball 6. The Ant And The Grasshopper 7. Abbott Of Arabia 8. Full Circle

• Made | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £5.07   |  Saving you £14.92 (294.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two aspiring boxers, lifelong friends, get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.

• Thunderbirds: Volume 8 | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Filmed in VIDECOLOR--[explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax]--and SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a)the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracey boys take second place in the audience's affections to their cool machines--the real stars of the show--while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catchphrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracey, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company.) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nail-bitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. On this DVD: The four episodes are: "Alias Mr. Hackenbacker", "Lord Parker's 'Oliday", "Ricochet" and "Give or Take a Million". Amazon.com

• Blood Suckers | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Whilst on holiday in Greece Richard Fountain (Patrick Mower) an Oxford don and the foreign secretary's son falls into the evil clutches of Chriseis (Imogen Hassall) leader of a coven of perverted socialites who murder innocent victims in pursuit of their blood. Richard's long absence from Oxford prompts his close friends Tony Seymour fiancee Penelope and Bob Kirby to instigate a search for him. The clues they find take them across the Aegean Sea to Hydra a small island where the two men find Richard drugged and unconscious in an old castle. A pagan orgy is building to a climax as Chriseis is preparing herself for her next victim. After a horrific struggle Chriseis flees her mouth dripping with blood and in a tussle with Kirby falls to her death. Richard is saved and returns to the sheltered life at Oxford but the nightmare is just beginning: the spirit of Chriseis is not yet dead!

• Come Home Charlie and Face Them: The Complete Series | DVD | (30/04/2018) from £4.70   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Adapting R.F. Delderfield's classic story of love, lust, crime and betrayal, this mini-series centres around a young bank clerk whose yearning to escape the mundanity of small-town life in the 1930s is answered all too readily when he falls for an exotic beauty with dangerous intentions.First aired in 1990, Come Home Charlie and Face Them was the final project of North Wales-born actor and writer Alun Owen, a key figure in 1960s television drama whose credits include the Oscar-nominated screenplay for A Hard Day's Night and scripts for landmark anthology series Armchair Theatre.Charlie Pritchard is a bank cashier in a small Welsh seaside town; lodging with bank manager Evan Rhys-Jones, he forms a relationship with Ida, the banker's earthy, quietly determined daughter. Ida's simple appeal pales, however, beside the promise of passion embodied by the seductive Delphine who with her brother, Beppo, runs the lively Rainbow Café. Charlie and Delphine are irresistibly drawn together... but each for entirely different reasons.

• Sergeant Ryker | DVD | (16/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  It's 1951 in Korea, a time that the United States Army doesn't like to remember. The Communists, led by Chinese forces, are tearing up the battlefield and overrunning American and South Korean positions, and in the midst of it Sgt. Paul William Ryker (Lee Marvin), decorated World War II hero with medals that would be the envy of any man in uniform, has been convicted of treason for allegedly deserting, going over to the enemy and spending weeks behind enemy lines. He's scheduled to be executed, but Capt. David Young (Bradford Dillman), the prosecutor in the case, begins to worry that Ryker wasn't properly represented at trial. He believes Ryker was guilty but wants him to be convicted fairly...

• Before The Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema Of Edwin S Porter | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £14.54   |  Saving you £1.45 (9.97%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Documentary on the early cinematographer Edwin S. Porter and his influences upon cinema.

• Best Of British Crime Collection | DVD | (10/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• At Home With The Braithwaites - The Complete Second Series | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The complete second series detailing the adventures of the Braithwaites and the effect a massive lottery win has on their family. Featuring all 8 episodes.