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• Blood On The Sun | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £5.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (33.39%)   |  RRP £7.99

  James Cagney is Nick Condon an American newspaper editor working in Japan between World War I & World War II. While investigating the double murder of a fellow reporter and his wife Condon discovers the insidious Tanaka Plan which plainly states the Japanese aims of World domination. If he is to warn the world about this Japanese plot he must stay alive with the help of Iris (Sylvia Sidney) a beautiful Chinese American spy.

• Straw Dogs | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  According to critic Pauline Kael Straw Dogs was "the first American film that is a fascist work of art". Sam Peckinpah's only film shot in Britain is adapted from a novel by Gordon M Williams called The Siege of Trencher's Farm which Peckinpah described as a "lousy book with one good action-adventure sequence". The setting is Cornwall, where mild-mannered US academic David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) has bought a house with his young English wife Amy (Susan George) in the village where she grew up. David is mocked by the locals (one of whom is Amy's ex-boyfriend) and treated with growing contempt by his frustrated wife, but when his house comes under violent siege he finds unexpected reserves of resourcefulness and aggression. The movie, Peckinpah noted, was much influenced by Robert Ardrey's macho-anthropological tract, The Territorial Imperative. Its take on Cornish village life is fairly bizarre--this is a Western in all but name--and many critics balked at the transposition of Peckinpah's trademark blood-and-guts to the supposed peace of the British countryside. A scene where Amy is raped caused particular outrage, not least since it's hinted she consents to it. Not for the first time in Peckinpah's movies there are disquieting elements of misogyny, and it doesn't help that the chemistry between Hoffman and George is non-existent. (Impossible to believe these two would ever have clicked, let alone married.) But taken as a vision of irrational violence irrupting into a civilised way of life Straw Dogs is powerful and unsettling, and the action sequences are executed with all Peckinpah's unfailing flair and venom. Oh, and that title? A quote from Chinese sage Lao-Tze, it seems, "The wise man is ruthless and treats the people as straw dogs." The film was long withheld from home viewing in Britain by nervous censors, but this release presents it complete and uncut. --Philip KempOn the DVD: Straw Dogs is as jam-packed a disc as is possible for a film made before the days of obligatory "making of" features. Both the sound and visuals have transferred well, and, like the script, have aged well. There's a bumbling original interview in the style of Harry Enfield's Mr. Cholmondley-Warner, along with stills and original trailers. The new material includes a feature on the history of the film's censorship and commentaries by Peckinpah's biographers musing over interesting fan-facts (though none of the speakers have any first-hand experience of the making of the film). However, Katy Haber's commentary, and interviews with Susan George and Dan Melnick, offer a much more in-depth and intimate portrayal of the man and the making of the film. --Nikki Disney

• Black Brigade | DVD | (01/01/2020) from £9.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Phenomenon - The Lost Archives - Vol. 3 | DVD | (09/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Governments, multinational corporations and religious organizations have secretly wielded tremendous power by holding back critical data or spreading misinformation to further their own aims. This program exposes the almost inconceivable stories of deceit, conspiracy, sanctioned piracy and scientific knowledge hidden from the world for far too long!Keeping the Faith: The Mystery of Mass SuicideHow can the charismatic energy of any leader translate into the voluntary death of hundreds, even thousands, of people? Throughout the course of civilisation incidents of mass suicide have shaken humanity to the core. Yet history records very different social attitudes toward these extreme events. From the martyrdom of the Jews at Masada to the debauchery and carnage perpetuated by Jim Jones in Guyana, are these the acts of the morally righteous or the morally depraved? In the end, what made them do it?Science Fraud: E=MC$The cold fusion debacle and the purported discovery of the Piltdown man stand as two of the greatest shams perpetrated over the course of scientific history. Have we learned anything from the real or alleged goldbricks of the past? Experts in the field think not. Today's scientists are under considerably more pressure to achieve results in their field. If they don't, they risk losing research grants or, perhaps more importantly, their chance at university tenure. How do these inherent conflicts of interest impact the integrity of medical and scientific discovery, and how do they affect our society at large?

• Strangeland | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

• Black Hole High - Vol. 1 | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Playing Away | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The tale of a West Indian cricket team from Brixton travelling to a Suffolk village to play against the local team as the culmination of the village's 'Third World Week' and the inevitable culture clash that takes place. They get into all kinds of confrontations in the pub at the vicar's stuffy reception and over women but that is nothing compared to what happens during the big match.

• Special Needs | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £2.80   |  Saving you £11.45 (743.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shot in New Zealand Finland Sweden USA Norway Canada Austria and Swirzerland this DVD features the most reknowned snowboarders around ; and they really push back the boundaries of possibility. The riders undertake such challenges as the Arctic Challenge Skating the Battle Ice Race and Base Jumping.

• Blackadder - Series 1 | UMD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Your Starter For 10 | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  This introductory DVD package contains the following 10 films:Gladiator, Bridget Jones's Diary, Snatch, American Pie 2, Spider-Man, Stuart Little, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Fast and the Furious, Erin Brockovich, and Taxi Driver.

• Austin Powers 2 - The Spy Who Shagged Me | UMD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Around The World In 80 Days | UMD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Big Fish | UMD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Antz / Small Soldiers | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Raymond Chandler - Farewell My Lovely / The Big Sleep | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Horror Collection | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

• 5 Star DVD Starter Pack | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  This great value 10-way DVD box set is the ideal way to begin any DVD collection. It includes the following great movies in their original packaging! The Full Monty When Saturday Comes Big Bound Bachelor Party That Thing You Do National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon Volcano Boiling Point Commando

• Cruzin' | DVD | (24/02/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Cruzin' chronicles a 12 day, 1000 mile bike ride from northern to southern Vietnam. The film focuses on former Olympian, Antonio 'Tony' Cruz and 13 of his closest friends and bike enthusiasts. It's considered one of the most rigorous leisure rides due to steep climbs and massive rollers. This is an entirely experimental film: the cameras are always on the riders which allows the audience to be immersed in their actual journey. The idea was to depict the camaraderie between friends and...

• Vengeance Valley | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-2.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Even tempered Owen Daybright (Lancaster) spends his life covering up for his good-for-nothing brother Lee protecting the rascal from his fathers wrath. After getting a young woman pregnant Lee shifts the blame to Owen. He even encourages the girls brother to get revenge hoping that Owen out of the picture he'll become sole heir to his fathers farm. That's as much as any man can take...and Owen decides that now is the time to settle the score.

• Century of Warfare: VE Day - 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £7.09   |  Saving you £12.90 (64.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As news of the German surrender spread 8th May was declared Victory in Europe or VE-Day. Crowds took to the streets but the celebrations did not have the same hysterical joy as had greeted the end of the First World War. The second had gone on for longer and caused far greater world-wide death and destruction. It was the culmination of six years of bloody warfare which had devastated the continent and killed tens of millions of people and witnessed the true horror of the Nazi's Final Solution. People were exhausted and only too aware that the conflict must continue until Japan was also defeated. Special Features: 10 Individual Graphic Sequences from the Acclaimed Series (The Century of Warfare)