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• Young Guns II: Blaze of Glory | Blu Ray | (21/02/2022) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Good weather for hanging. Billy the Kid's outlaw ingrates are penned like sows in a Lincoln County pit and the Kid is strapped in a nearby hotel. But the hangman will go home disappointed tonight. Billy cleverly breaks himself - then his gang - free. One of the West's greatest legends lives on to ride another day. Emilio Estevez, Keifer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips and Christian Slater saddle up for Young Guns II, featuring Jon Bon Jovi's 1990 Oscar® - nominated* and Golden Globe® Award-winning Best Original Song ʻBlaze of Glory'. By 1879, the Lincoln County Wars have ended but bad blood endures. Billy and his men look to Mexico for haven - if they can elude Billy's one-time friend, pursuing sheriff Pat Garrett (William Petersen).

• Holiday (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (24/02/2020) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This controversial drama, passed fully uncut by the BBFC, tells the story of the trophy girlfriend of a Danish drug lord who sets a dangerous game in motion when she seeks the attention of another man whilst on vacation in the Turkish Riviera. Included in the Hollywood Reporter's list of the ˜Best 20 Films from Sundance 2018', and in IndieWire's list of Sundance standouts that deserve to find distribution, the film has met with critical acclaim all around the world. Director Isabella Eklöf was also selected in the ˜10 Directors to Watch' list by IndieWire. Extras: High Definition presentation Classified fully uncut by the BBFC Original 5.1 surround sound On ˜Holiday' (2020, 20 mins): in-depth interview with writer-director Isabella Eklöf on the creation and production of her debut feature Q&A with Isabella Eklöf (2019, 29 mins): the filmmaker in discussion with critic Lizzie Francke, recorded at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts Deleted scene (3 mins) Willy Kyrklund. (2002, 11 mins): short documentary portrait of the acclaimed author and poet, directed by Eklöf Theatrical trailer Optional English translation subtitles Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive 28-page booklet containing new writing on the film by Anna Bogutskaya, an interview with Isabella Eklöf by Addy Fong, and film credits Limited edition of 3,000 copies

• Under The Tree | Blu Ray | (14/01/2019) from £14.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release UNDER THE TREE [Undir trénu], a dark, Icelandic suburban satire, as part of the MONTAGE PICTURES range in a Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition on 14 January 2019. This dark suburban satire tells the story of a man who is accused of adultery by his ex-fiancée and forced to move in with his parents. While he fights for custody of his four-year-old daughter, he is gradually sucked into a bitter dispute between his parents and their neighbours regarding an old and beautiful tree that casts a shadow on the neighbours' deck. As the dispute intensifies property is damaged, pets mysteriously go missing, security cameras are being installed and there is a rumour that the neighbour was seen with a chainsaw. Directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, whose previous credits include Either Way (remade by David Gordon Green in 2013 as Prince Avalanche), and starring Sigurdur Sigurjónsson (Rams), Montage Pictures is proud to present Under The Tree in its UK debut on Blu-ray and DVD. DUAL FORMAT FEATURES: 1080p presentation on Blu-ray, with a progressive encode on the DVD 5.1 audio (DTS-HD MA on the Blu-ray) Optional English subtitles Making Under The Tree [23 mins] a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film Trailer

• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | DVD | (30/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A big Oscar winner in 1975, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest still holds up remarkably well. Ken Kesey's novel, an allegory of repression and rebellion set in a mental hospital in the early 1960s, is cannily adapted by Czech director Milos Forman into a comedy drama with a cool, unassuming, near-documentary look. Jack Nicholson has his most jacknicholsonian role as Randle P McMurphy, a livewire troublemaker who unwisely cons his way out of prison and into a mental institution without realising he has switched from serving a sentence with a release date to being committed until adjudged sane by the same people he is winding up on a daily basis. Louise Fletcher, in a career-defining turn, is Nurse Ratched, the soft-spoken sadist who represents the worst type of matronly authoritarianism and clashes with Randle all down the line. Taking another look at the picture after all these years, it's a surprise that all the unknown actors who seemed like real mental patients have graduated to becoming prolific character actor stars: Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, Brad Dourif, the late Will Sampson, Sidney Lassick, Michael Berryman. Unlike many Best Picture Oscar winners, this deals with profound subject matter without seeming self-important: Forman's approach and all-round great acting make it play as a small character story as well as a Big Statement about the human condition. Full marks also for Jack Nitzsche's musical saw-based score. On the DVD: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest comes to DVD in a two-disc special edition with a great-looking anamorphic 1.85:1 print and 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack, plus tracks in French and Italian and optional subtitles in half a dozen languages. Disc 2 has the trailer, about 13 minutes of deleted scenes (mostly from the first third of the film, and all pretty good) and a making-of retrospective documentary with interesting material from producers Michael Douglas (who inherited the rights from Kirk) and Saul Zaentz, Forman, screenwriter Bo Goldman and many cast-members (though not Nicholson). There's also a commentary track by Forman, Douglas and others which repeats a few things from the documentary but also goes into more scene-specific detail about the development and shooting. --Kim Newman

• Lords Of Dogtown | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £8.08   |  Saving you £11.91 (147.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The film follows the surf and skateboarding trends that originated in California during the '70s.

• Murder In The First | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £9.96   |  Saving you £0.03 (0.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Christian Slater and Kevin Bacon star in this inspiring true story about two men who formed an unlikely friendship and fought against all odds to break an inhumane and unjust system. Alcatraz - the most feared prison in the world where no man has ever escaped with his life. Henri Young is caught attempting this impossible task and is condemned to the ""hole"" - a six by nine foot dungeon with no light or heat for ""rehabilition"". For three long years he is left naked to rot in solitary

• Les Choses Secrets | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £9.07   |  Saving you £10.92 (120.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two young women discover the power of sex to get what they want in the male-dominated business world. Nathalie a performance artist-stripper instructs her new friend the beautiful but inexperienced Sandrine on the art of seduction. Without delay they put their skills to the test at a Parisian bank where both rise to the top. But they meet their match in the ruthless son the bank's president - a vain unbridled power-hungry monster. Chosen by France's seminal critial publicati

• The Agnès Varda Collection | Blu Ray | (11/12/2017) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eight films from the groundbreaking female director Agnès Varda; Cleo from 5 to 7 Jacquot de Nantes L une Chante, L autre Pas Le Bonheur The Gleaners and I The Beaches of Agnès Vagabond La Pointe Courte

• Amant Double | DVD | (06/08/2018) from £7.77   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Marine Vacth (Jeune et Jolie) plays Chloé, a young woman who falls in love with her psychoanalyst Paul (Dardennes favourite Jérémie Renier). When they decide to move in together, everything seems perfect until a series of discoveries lead her to suspect that he may be living a double life. As she searches for the truth, Chloé s investigations plunge her into a dark and bewildering world of smoke, mirrors and doppelgangers where nothing is as it seems, and no one can be trusted. François Ozon returns with L Amant Double, a sleek but gleefully irreverent erotic thriller that sees the prolific French auteur ramping up the sexual tension while keeping his tongue firmly in his cheek. Combining Hitchcockian intrigue with nods to Brian de Palma and David Cronenberg, this is a theatre of excess that delights in keeping its audience guessing. A whirlwind of heightened senses and amped-up drama, L Amant Double is filthy, flamboyant and a whole lot of fun.

• Boudu Saved From Drowning | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £11.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (40.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In an oeuvre permeated with ambivalence toward bourgeois life director Jean Renoir speculates on the result of the abandonment of those values in Boudu Saved From Drowning. Producer Michel Simon stars as Boudu a vagabond who attempts suicide by throwing himself into the Seine grieving over the loss of his dog. But Eduaord Lestingois (Charles Granval) a humane bookseller rescues him and takes him into his home hoping to reform the shaggy bum. Shortly thereafter anarchy

• Wagner - Die Meistersinger (Stein, Horst) | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £19.95   |  Saving you £-4.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Stage and directed by Richard Wagner's grandson Wolfgang at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1984 this production of Wagner's only comedy dispenses with the common cliches to reveal the humanity of each character. Here Beckmesser is no longer a foolish caricature but a cultivated intellectual; Stolzing emerges as a thoughtful individual rather than aggressive aristocrat; and Hans Sachs sheds his solemn patriarchal veneer to become a likeable middle-aged man.

• Eloge De L'Amour | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jean-Luc Godard's eagerly awaited Eloge de l'Amour was one of the highlights of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, dividing critics between those who loved its extraordinary beauty and those who found it hard to discern an overall theme from a multitude of contending threads. Certainly the plot is elusive. A young writer (Bruno Putzulu) wants a dark-haired woman (Cecile Camp) to play a role in his evolving project, a study of the four stages of love: meeting, physical passion, separation and reconciliation. By the time the funding comes through, she has killed herself and he looks back to the time when he might, or might not have met her before. Above all, the picture explores the blurred territory between the personal and the collective memory and the difference between a life which is simply lived and one in which the individual brings the power of imagination to their existence. Ultimately, the characters remain curiously faceless and the film fragments into a kaleidoscope of merging images, colours and landscapes and collective experience triumphs.Godard's legendary status as the godfather of French New Wave cinema has long since passed into the realms of cliché. Here, the "present" is shot on the streets of Paris in black and white. Godard's city of light looks as timeless as it did back in 1966 when he made Masculin Feminin. The second part of the film is shot in digital video, absorbing the audience with its electrically intense, mesmerising colours. Eloge de l'Amour is, more than anything, a sensual experience. Godard provokes but doesn't provide any answers. But fans of his more polemical work will enjoy the satirised American producers who want to purchase the rights to the Resistance couple's story. Americans have no memory, says the author. So they buy it from others. Godard never was a fence-sitter. --Piers Ford On the DVD: the main DVD extra on this disc sounds enticing: an interview with one of the world’s most innovative and influential directors. Yet the reality is disappointing, as it’s merely a transcript. The biography is more of the same. The only other additional feature is the subtitles, though there’s no option to turn them off. --Nikki Disney

• Thunderheart | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tough but moving, Thunderheart is an unusual story about an arrogant FBI agent (Val Kilmer) who participates in a federal investigation of a murder on an Oglala Sioux reservation. Kilmer's character is part Sioux himself, a detail that leaves him cold as he sets about pushing his way through the community to find facts on the case. In time, however, he begins to feel an ethnic tug and grows increasingly sympathetic to the locals and hostile toward his fellow G-men, much to the dismay of his agency mentor (Sam Shepard). The script is based on real events that occurred on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 in South Dakota (involving an armed stand-off between Indian activists and the FBI, an event that prompted Thunderheart director Michael Apted to make a companion documentary, Incident at Oglala). The conclusion of Thunderheart feels like politically charged whimsy, but the real strength of the film is Kilmer's outstanding performance as a man in transformation. Apted's clear-eyed depiction of the Sioux's spiritual and cultural continuity with the past has none of the cloying romanticism of other films about Indians. Produced by Robert De Niro. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com --This text refers to the VHS edition of this video

• Piranha 3 | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area's new razor-toothed residents.

• Sunshine | DVD | (10/04/2013) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This sprawling family saga follows a Hungarian-Jewish family across three generations, and stars Ralph Fiennes as the father, the son, and the grandson in three distinctly different roles. As a Europudding vehicle for Fiennes and a top-drawer cast (including Jennifer Ehle, Rachel Weisz, Deborah Unger, Miriam Margolyes and William Hurt), Sunshine delivers on all fronts: there's glossy melodrama, high-moral seriousness as history wears the family down like the wind, and leitmotifs--the family elixir called "Sunshine" that founds their fortune, semi-incestuous adulterous liaisons, photographs and faces--that thread the epic three-hour narrative together. Fiennes begins as a stiff Budapest lawyer-cum-officer and judge during the First World War, torn when anti-Semitism raises its head. His son is a champion fencer who denounces the family faith to attain advancement but ends up in the Nazi-run labour camps all the same. The last in the line, a policeman this time, must navigate the Stalinist forces of repression and endures through the 1956 uprising to take back the family name and faith. And yet as a film by director István Szabó (Colonel Redl, Mephisto), it's a bit of a soggy disappointment lacking the bile and spit and visual inventiveness that makes the best of his other works so outstanding. Perhaps the fact that Szabó is directing an all-English speaking cast is the problem, leaving the film feeling strangely old-fashioned and paradoxically lacking a sense of place (despite much of it being filmed in Hungary itself). Although there are some charged emotional beats throughout, pretty costumes, and lots of entertainingly tasteful bonking sequences, the fencing sequences in particular become tooth-pullingly tedious and the whole thing seems to drag, especially as it takes itself so seriously. --Leslie Felperin

• Daughter Of Darkness | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £16.94   |  Saving you £-9.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Cathy Stevens is experiencing recurring dreams. They're believed to have hidden meanings that will shed light on the truth about her father a man she has never met. Determined to find answers Cathy sets out to Romania where her parents met thirty years ago. What follows is her worst nightmare...

• The Chronicles Of Narnia - Prince Caspian / Voyage Of The Dawn Treader | DVD | (16/06/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (16.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Digitally re-mastered re-release of the Children's classic from the famous Narnia series of books by CS Lewis. Prince Caspian (Two episodes) Wicked King Miraz plans to take over the whole kingdom of Narnia forcing the rightful heir Prince Caspian to flee. With the help of the Pevensie children and an army of persecuted fauns dwarfs and talking beasts Caspian goes into battle. With Aslan''s guidance will they succeed in ridding Narnia of this evil force? The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Four episodes) Edmund and Lucy return to Narnia with their spoilt cousin Eustace Scrubb. King Caspian needs their help so they set sail aboard the Dawn Treader to the edge of the Eastern World. Encountering sea serpents dragons and invisible enemies they strive to survive the quest and break the evil enchantment at the end of this momentous voyage. These adaptations of two of C S Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia continue the story begun with The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe. Presented here for the first time in their original episodic format this DVD will delight both young and old alike. Wicked King Miraz plans to take over the whole kingdom of Narnia forcing the rightful heir Prince Caspian to flee

• Waterworld | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Let's be honest: this 1995 epic isn't nearly as bad as its negative publicity led us to expect. At the time it was the most expensive Hollywood production in history (it had a Titanic-sized $200 million budget), and the film arrived in cinemas with so much controversy and negative gossip that it was an easy target for ridicule. The movie itself, a flawed but enjoyable post-apocalypse thriller, deserves better. Waterworld stars Kevin Costner as the Mariner, a lone maverick with gills and webbed feet who navigates the endless seas of Earth after the complete melting of the polar ice caps. The Mariner has been caged like a criminal when he's freed by Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and enlisted to help her and a young girl (Tina Majorino) escape from the Smokers, a group of renegade terrorists led by Dennis Hopper in yet another memorably villainous role. It is too bad the predictable script isn't more intelligent, but as a companion piece to The Road Warrior, this seafaring stunt-fest is adequately impressive. --Jeff Shannon

• Predator | DVD | (03/09/2018) from £4.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  John McTiernan directs this sci-fi action feature starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Major Alan 'Dutch' Schaefer (Schwarzenegger) and a band of mercenaries head into the Central American Val Verde jungle to rescue some American hostages from a band of guerrilla fighters. However, they soon discover there is also an extraterrestrial evil force at work in the jungle. The mercenaries are picked off one by one and soon Schaefer is forced to face the alien predator alone.

• Kings of the Road (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/09/2018) from £9.91   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  German drama written and directed by Wim Wenders. The film follows Bruno Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) as he travels around the country fixing projection equipment. One day on the road, he meets Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler) who, suffering from depression after splitting up with his wife, tries to kill himself by driving his car into the River Elbe. Bruno invites him into his car to dry off in some clean clothes and, after Robert accepts his kind invitation, the pair set off along the West German border as Bruno travels from one old cinema to the next, discussing their lives, thoughts and hopes as they go.