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• Les Enfants Du Paradis | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A film which regularly charts high in critics' polls of the best films of all time, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert's masterpiece Les Enfants du Paradis is as solid a landmark in French film history as the Eiffel Tower is on the Parisian landscape. And at 187 minutes running time, it's a massy edifice indeed, built from a rambunctious cast of characters--ranging from pickpockets and prostitutes to aristocrats and actors--whose lives intersect around the Theatre des Funambules, a popular Parisian theatre on the Boulevard du Crime, during the 1840s. (The title refers to the poor who can only afford seats in the upper galleries of the theatre.) The heart of the plot is a love story between mime artiste Baptiste (Jean-Louis Barrault) and streetwalker Garance (the magnificent, sand-paper-voiced Arletty). When Garance is falsely accused of pickpocketing, Baptiste provides a mimed alibi for her to the police (one of the film's most famous set pieces). The rose she later throws him in gratitude sets off a romantic obsession, one of several that structure the film, as do love triangles, duels, and tortured confessions of feeling. Thematically, Les Enfant du Paradis gnaws over typically French cinematic preoccupations: illusion and reality, the nature of performance, the indomitable spirit of the proletariat and so on, all made the more charged and poignant when you know the film was shot during the Nazi occupation. (One actor, Robert Le Vigan, was reportedly a Nazi collaborator and disappeared during the filming under mysterious circumstances and so had to be replaced by Pierre Renoir.) --Leslie Felperin

• Silent Hill | Blu Ray | (11/02/2022) from £17.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Unable to accept the fact that her daughter is dying, Rose (Radha Mitchell) decides to take the girl to a faith healer. On the way, the pair drive through a portal in reality, leading to an eerie town called Silent Hill. The town is surrounded by a potent darkness, and the human survivors fight a losing battle against it.Path of Darkness: The Making of Silent Hill: Including Silent Hill Origins, Casting, Set Design, Stars and Stunts, Creatures Unleashed, Creature Choreography On Set vintage featurette Around The Film vintage featuretteTheatrical trailer

• Mystic Pizza | Blu Ray | (04/03/2013) from £39.29   |  Saving you £-29.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A sweet and sassy comedy about the bonds of sisterhood, Mystic Pizza offers the opportunity to see some solid young actresses early in their careers. Three sisters of blue-collar Portuguese descent work in a pizzeria in the coastal town of Mystic, Connecticut. Each has her own unique romantic entanglements. One is the fast girl in town (Julia Roberts) who falls for a rich kid but wonders if she'll ever be accepted; one is the lifelong local girl (Lili Taylor) in love with her fisherman boyfriend (Vincent D'Onofrio) but scared of what marriage will do to their sex lives; and the youngest sister (Annabeth Gish) dreams of going to Yale but during a summer of babysitting has an affair with a married man. Through it all each sister depends on the others regardless of the complications. It's the alluring charm of the three disparate leads that makes Mystic Pizza the delightful experience it is. --Robert Lane, Amazon.com

• The Chronicles Of Narnia | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This DVD set brings to life all the excitement and enchantment of C.S. Lewis' Narnia; a timeless land where animals can talk mythical creatures roam the land and where four good children fight an epic battle between good and evil... - Disc One - The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe: Peter Susan Edmund and Lucy stumble through the back of an old wardrobe and are magically transported on a breathtaking adventure through the enchanted land of Narnia. - Disc Two - Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Prince Caspian calls the Pevensie children back to Narnia to help fight a mighty battle. Years later Lucy Edmund and their cousin Eustace join Caspian aboard the Dawn Treader on a quest to the edge of the world. - Disc Three - The Silver Chair: Aslan sends Eustace and school friend Jill on a dangerous journey to save Prince Rilian from the enchanted Silver Chair and return him to his rightful throne in Narnia. - Disc Four - Special Features: A whole disc of exciting extras including: a 2003 Cast Reunion Interview with the Pevensie Children; Blue Peter Clips; Costume and Set Design Features; Special Effects; Outtakes; Narnia Quiz; Trivia Pages; Biographies and much more.

• Renegade Justice | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £6.70   |  Saving you £13.29 (198.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a good cop gets blown away in a drive-by shooting the police department writes it off as a random act of violence. Big mistake. That young cop has a father who happens to be a street fighting nerves of steel avenger who has been trained by the special forces and is hell bent on one thing: Justice. To find his son's killer Simon Ballister (Steven Seagal) moves into the worst part of town where his welcome party turns out to be two gang members whom he sends home bleeding. Ballister isn't easily deterred and he'' stop at nothing to find his son's killer. But these gangs have more men more firepower more police protection and the fearless and dangerous recklessness of youth - all of which Ballister plans to use against them.

• My Blueberry Nights | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £3.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (415.47%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A beautiful young woman on the treacherous road to love.... In Wong War Kai's debut English language feature My Blueberry Nights the internationally acclaimed director takes his audience on a dramatic journey across the distance between heartbreak and a new beginning. After a rough break-up Elizabeth (Norah Jones) sets out on a journey across America leaving behind a life of memories a dream and a soulful new friend - a caf owner (Jude Law) - all while in search of something to mend her broken heart. Waitressing her way through the country Elizabeth befriends others whose yearnings are greater than hers including a troubled cop (David Strathairn) and his estranged wife (Rachel Weisz) and a down-on-her luck gambler (Natalie Portman) with a score to settle. Through these individuals Elizabeth witnesses the true depths of loneliness and emptiness and begins to understand that her own journey is part of a greater exploration within herself.

• Jools Holland - 10 Years Later | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  'Later With Jools Holland' BBC 2's flagship live music show is celebrating its 10th anniversary! Shot live and normally in one take 'Later' has played host to over 500 of the worlds finest artists. This DVD release contains 30 tracks by such artists as: The Verve Portishead Massive Attack Blur Oasis PJ Harvey Mary J Blige Bjork David Gray Pulp Orbital Moby and many more.

• The Human Centipede (Full Sequence 1, 2 & 3) Limited Edition Steelbook (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (11/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  4 Disc (3 x Blu-ray & 1 x DVD) Steelbook Edition Two American girls on a road trip across Europe encounter the formidable Dr. Heiter. A mentally disturbed man from a bleak council estate indulges an obsession with gruesome results. An insane prison warden hatches a twisted plan to cut costs and revolutionise the American prison system. Together they form the most shocking and controversial horror film series in film history, now witness the Complete Sequence! SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: All 3 Films on Blu-ray, plus a special bonus DVD disc featuring the Human Centipede 2 in FULL COLOUR! Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Trailers for all 3 films Commentary on First Sequence with director Tom Six Q&A with Tom Six and Dieter Laser Multiple interviews with the director about the film series Behind the scenes and making of documentaries across all 3 films Deleted Scene (First Sequence / Full Sequence)

• 101 Reykjavik | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £5.00   |  Saving you £10.99 (219.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Modern-day Iceland is terminally weird, if writer-director Baltasar Kormákur's debut film 101 Reykjavík is anything to go by. Our guide to this particular Icelandic saga is Hlynur, 28-year-old unemployed slacker and one-man Nordic-gloom factory; "I'll be dead after I die. I was dead before I was born. Life is just a break from death," he muses. After his gut-freezingly boring family Christmas dinner--whose highpoint is watching a video of last year's ditto--you can see his point. Distraction, and a welcome dose of Southern warmth, comes in the form of his mother's flamenco teacher Lola (the delicious Victoria Abril). Only after sleeping with her does he discover that she's not just Mum's teacher, but her lover as well. A little like Pål Sletaune's 1997 Norwegian postie-comedy Junk Mail, 101 Reykjavík gets a lot of lugubrious fun from its protagonist's sheer social and emotional ineptitude--though to give Hlynur his due, most of his mates seem equally clueless, (the women, as so often in this kind of movie, come off rather better). We've been here before, of course--as a male with a severe case of delayed adolescence is gradually brought to engage with adulthood--but the offbeat humour and eccentric details of Kormákur's film keep it fresh and engaging. Whether--in view of remarks like "Reykjavík is like some backwater in Siberia, with glaciated diarrhoea,"--it will do much for the Icelandic tourist trade is another matter! On the DVD: Filmographies for Kormákur, Abril, and lead male actor Hilmir Snaer Gudnason; subtitles and menu; and the theatrical trailer, which contains snatches of several scenes evidently cut from the final release. The sound is clean and immediate (score co-composed by Damon Albarn) and the widescreen print preserves the original 16:9 ratio. --Philip Kemp

• Foot Fist Way, the | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £6.21   |  Saving you £8.04 (162.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  "The Foot Fist Way" (produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay) focuses on the small town Tae Kwon Do instructor Fred Simmons who relishes the power that comes from being the king of his small kingdom.

• The Border | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  US World War II hero Audie Murphy is memorable in his role as a ""good"" bad guy in this tense tale of retribution. When hired killer John Gant (Murphy) rides into town no one is sure whose name is on his bullet. Several townsfolk knowing they have enemies each believe that the professional assassin is there to kill them. While they wait for him to make his move paranoia starts taking over in this suspense-filled story of payback on the wide-open plains.

• The Vampire Diaries - Season 6 | Blu Ray | (26/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Get ready for more epic suspense romance and thrill rides as hit series THE VAMPIRE DIARIES continues for a sixth season. Season five began with a sense of hope for Elena (Nina Dobrev). After a passionate summer with Damon (Ian Somerhalder) Elena headed to Whitmore College with Caroline (Candice Accola) not knowing that Bonnie (Kat Graham) sacrificed her life to save Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen). As Bonnie's friends fought to bring her back to life as the Anchor to the Other Side Stefan (Paul Wesley) had to face off with his doppelganger Silas and a newly human Katherine (Nina Dobrev) struggled with mortality and motherhood. Damon's relationship with Elena was put to the test when Enzo (Michael Malarkey) an old vampire friend from Damon's past revealed he was still alive and looking for revenge. Stefan and Caroline's friendship deepened as they stood up to the Travelers a nomadic witch tribe driven to strip Mystic Falls of magic and cast out its supernatural residents. Damon having lost his town and fearing that he would lose his loved ones on the crumbling Other Side Damon made a huge sacrifice to bring them all back -- with catastrophic results. While the cliffhanger season finale sent our characters reeling season six will be the story of their journey back to each other as they explore the duality of good versus evil inside themselves on their quest to reclaim their home. Matt Davis rejoins the cast as a series regular this season reprising his role as Alaric Saltzman recently returned from The Other Side. Episode List: I'll Remember Yellow Ledbetter Welcome to Paradise Black Hole Sun The World Has Turned and Left Me Here The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get Do You Remember The First Time? Fade Into You I Alone Christmas Through Your Eyes Woke Up With a Monster Prayer for the Dying TBC TBC TBC TBC TBC TBC TBC TBC TBC TBC

• Hostel | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £3.40   |  Saving you £16.59 (487.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel and discover the grim reality behind it.

• The Vampire Diaries - Season 1-6 | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £71.53   |  Saving you £8.46 (11.83%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Acclaimed by critics and fans alike, The Vampire Diaries is the story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same beautiful girl in a small town where supernatural beings live in secret amongst its residents. As the series begins, brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore return to their hometown of Mystic Falls, Virginia, for very different reasons. Get ready for epic romance, suspense and a bloody good thrill ride.

• Kontroll | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £17.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (10.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The massive labyrinthine netherworld that is the Budapest subway system provides the stunning setting for KONTROLL a high-style high-speed romantic thriller in which the lives of assorted outcasts lovers and dreamers intersect and collide and where one handsome young hero one mysterious maiden and one particularly nasty killer must conduct a race against time trains and destiny itself in their frantic pursuit of one another. KONTROLL was awarded The 23rd Prix de la Jeunes p

• Rosodium | DVD | (23/10/2023) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bomber Boys - The Fighting Lancaster | DVD | (02/08/2010) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Joe English learned to fly a Lancaster bomber before he could drive a car. During World War Two RAF Bomber Command called upon young men barely out of their teens to fly some of the most dangerous missions of the entire war. In 1943 the life expectancy of an air gunner was just three minutes in combat. For every 100 Bomber Command aircrew only 24 would survive their tour... Now Joe English is reunited with the five other surviving aircrew from RAF 625 Squadron Lancaster 'The Lucky H' to tell their stories for the very first time. Joined by other surviving Bomber Command veterans they provide a powerful and moving insight into life - and death - as one of the 'Bomber Boys'. At the same time seven grandsons of bomber veterans experience life first hand in a recreation of a wartime British Commonwealth Air Training Plant providing them with a new understanding of what their grandfathers endured - and the sacrifices they made. The veterans and their grandchildren are then reunited for an unforgettable flight in one of only two surviving airworthy Lancasters before setting out together to visit the graves of wartime comrades in Europe. Making full use of rare and personal archive materials Bomber Boys is one of the finest tributes to the men of wartime RAF Bomber Command ever produced for television. All four full-length episodes are included.

• Hannibal | Blu Ray | (07/09/2009) from £21.95   |  Saving you £-1.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Anthony Hopkins Oscar winning pyschopath Hannibal Lector comes back into the life of FBI Agent Clarice Starling in this long awaited sequel to The Silence Of The Lambs.

• Les Diaboliques | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Henri-Georges Clouzot cast his own wife Vera as the hapless victim in this acclaimed masterpiece of the macabre. A wife plans the murder of her tyrant husband with the help of his mistress yet when his body dissappears panic and confusion ensues... The Great Suspense Film That Shocked the World... And Became A Classic.

• Finding Forrester (Dual Format) (Blu-ray & DVD) | Blu Ray | (27/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Finding Forrester is a very accomplished example of the sentimental melodrama that Gus Von Sant has made his own--issues like integrity and snobbery are presented with just enough simplification to the set pieces that no-one feels challenged. Brilliant baseball player Jamal gets the chance to move from a sink school in the Bronx to a private academy where his real intellectual and artistic talent will be nurtured along with his sporting skills. This is an American film about class and race, but one that makes the real issue Jamal's unsuspecting need to defend himself against accusations of plagiarism. His artistic mentor is a reclusive novelist, whose whereabouts he keeps secret even when he stands to lose everything. Rob Brown is extraordinary as the boy, conveying the sensitivity, genius, obstinacy and physicality of a character written as a paragon; Sean Connery turns in a predictably fine performance as Forrester, using his authority to make the part credible; F Murray Abrahams is, as always, an effective villain--he brings an observed creepy snobbery to the film; Anna Paquin makes a good impression in the minor part of Jamal's white schoolfellow and supporter. On the DVD: The disc includes two powerful deleted scenes of school choirs, a "making-of" documentary and a short film about the auditions process which found Rob Brown. It has fine sound--Dolby Digital 5.1--that brings out the film's jazz score perfectly. The anamorphic 2.35:1 aspect ratio, enhanced for 16:9 TVs, looks just fine. --Roz Kaveny