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• BRITISH COMEDY GREATS Book & DVD Set | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £8.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (37.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Follow the era of British Comedy Greats from the silent screen stars Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, to the modern day stand-ups Peter Kay and Michael McIntyre. When it comes to the great icons of comedy, Britain rules the airwaves, screen and stage. No other country in the world can boast such a pedigree of top comic entertainers and their legacy lives on through their recordings and films. From the silent screen stars Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, to the modern day stand-ups Peter Kay ...

• The Scarlet Tunic | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £6.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (129.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Stuart St. Paul's adaptation of the classic Thomas Hardy short story 'The Melancholy Hussar'. Deserting German Hussar Matthaus Singer (Barr) falls madly in love with solicitor's daughter Frances Groves (Fielding) whereby she is torn by her duty and her desire. Frances' father (Shepard) would prefer her to marry the weasly suitor Humphrey (Sessions). The passion flows but will the heart be stronger than the outside forces set on keeping the lovers apart?

• Devils Gate | DVD | (12/12/2011) from £8.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (14.17%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Rachael (Laura Fraser A knight s tale, 16 years of Alcohol) is called by ex-boyfriend Rafe (Callum Blue Dead Like Me) who persuades her to return to the small foreboding island in the Shetland isles that she ran away from some 5 years previous. The pretense is that her father Jake (Tom Bell The Krays, Wish You Were Here) is dying. Matt (Luke Aikman Freight), a city boy, island hopping to take in the festival of fire, hears that she has been tricked. A love triangle forms, with Rachael, the least interested and keen to leave. Can Matt ensure her safety? Nothing is what it seems in this thriller, and no one will be the same again as the truth begins to surface in very dangerous circumstances. Stark but brilliant direction by Stuart St, Paul (Scarlet Tunic, Freight) makes this film a joy to behold.

• Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Debussy's great literary opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, based on Maeterlinck's dramatic reading of the classic tale of sibling rivalry, was first performed in 1902. This 1988 production was recorded at the Opéra National de Lyon, swapping a traditional medieval forest setting for a fin de siècle Castle Allemonde in which the characters wander through vast, shadowy and empty halls. The cast features Colette Alliott-Lugaz as a mercurial Mélisande and Francois le Roux as a Byronic Pelléas, with José van Dam as his brother Golaud, the austere fly in the ointment. Little actually happens on stage. The characters circle each other, describing events and emotions which they only half understand. Often, their recitative is introspective rather than a means of external communication. The drama is played out in the landscape of the mind, punctuated and emphasised by Debussy's remarkable, brooding and atmospheric score. At times, it becomes the swirling stuff of nightmare, an aspect to which John Eliot Gardiner's assured conducting pays close attention. The opera might come to its inevitable end, but there is a strong sense that these ghost-like figures are doomed to repeat their tragic tale endlessly. Uncomfortably haunting stuff, with moments of breathtaking beauty. --Piers Ford

• The Persuaders: The Complete Series (Repackaged) | DVD | (01/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A 9 disc set featuring the complete collection (all 24 episodes ever produced) of the cult TV series featuring John Barry's classic theme tune! Upper crust Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and nouveau riche Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis) two wealthy playboys from very different backgrounds are paired up by a stern judge who tasks them with becoming international crimestoppers.... Episodes Comprise: 1. Overture 2. The Gold Napoleon 3. Take Seven 4. Greensleeves 5. Powerswitch 6. The Time and the Place 7. Someone Like Me 8. Anyone Can Play 9. The Old the New and the Deadly 10. Angie Angie 11. Chain of Events 12. That's Me Over There 13. The Long Goodbye 14. The Man in the Middle 15. Element of Risk 16. A Home of One's Own 17. Five Miles to Midnight 18. Nuisance Value 19. The Morning After 20. Read and Destroy 21. A Death in the Family 22. The Ozerov Inheritance 23. To the Death Baby 24. Someone Waiting

• Roger McGuinn's Thunderbyrd-Rockpalast:Westcoast Legends Vol. 4 | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £17.16   |  Saving you £2.83 (16.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tracklisting: 1. Lover Of The Bayou 2. American Girl 3. Mr. Spaceman 4. Why Baby Why/Tiffany Queen 5. Golden Loom 6. Juice Head 7. Chestnut Mare 8. Midnight Dew 9. Dixie Highway (feat. Sam Clayton/Little Feet) 10. We Can Do It All Over Again 11. Shoot Him 12. Feel A Whole Lot Better 13. Turn Turn Turn 14. Mr. Tambourine Man 15. Eight Miles High

• Girl On A Motorcycle | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Caught midway between 1970s soft-porn clunker The Story of O and Bunuel's sado-masochistic fantasy Belle de Jour, the 1968 erotic curio Girl on a Motorcycle is one of Marianne Faithfull's chief claims to notoriety. She stars as Rebecca, a leather-clad, former bookstore clerk in search of sexual fulfilment who flees her dependable schoolteacher husband for a dangerous liaison with Daniel (Alain Delon), a dashing Professor addicted to speed. The story is told entirely in flashbacks as Rebecca rockets along the road, having donned her leathers and walked out on her sleeping husband at the crack of dawn. It all must have seemed fairly daring and provocative in 1968, providing viewers with ample opportunities to view a naked Faithfull at the height of her allure. But today the existential musings of the lead character seem achingly pretentious, the erotic symbolism merely gawky and unintentionally amusing: the sight of Alain Delon with a phallic pipe dangling from his mouth is like something out of a Rene Magritte painting. The sex scenes between Delon and Faithfull are all swamped in a polarised visual effect that, while garish and psychedelic, is dated and distinctly unerotic. Director Jack Cardiff is better known as a cinematographer on classics such as The African Queen and Black Narcissus. Among Cardiff's other directorial credits is a worthy adaptation of DH Lawrence's Sons & Lovers, but Girl on a Motorcycle is a saucy road movie with no final destination. On the DVD: This DVD version is misleadingly presented as being the fully restored and uncut version of the film. Yet it was the US version not the European one that was heavily cut (and titillatingly re-titled "Naked Under Leather"). The restoration certainly does not refer to the print quality: although the colours are vivid and bright, the print used to master the DVD (in 16:9 anamorphic format) is extremely grainy and, at times, speckled with dirt and scratches. Included as one of the special features, a theatrical trailer loaded with innuendo shows just how much the film was marketed to a prurient audience. Director Jack Cardiff provides an audio commentary but has few revelatory things to say about his film beyond technical considerations, and even makes several clunking errors (recalling his casting decisions concerning a scene that takes place in a provincial German café, he raves about how he strove to find authentic French locals!). He does reveal that the film's use of a voice-over was inspired by the internal monologue that forms the basis of James Joyce's Ulysses. Given Cardiff's age and experience one feels that he must have more interesting anecdotes and insights, making this commentary feel like a wasted opportunity. --Chris Campion

• Double Platinum | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £26.32   |  Saving you £-20.33 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A soapy backstage melodrama originally produced for network broadcast, Double Platinum downplays showbiz verisimilitude to turn on the tears. With 60s soul queen Diana Ross and 90s pop princess Brandy sharing production credit as well as billing, this formulaic tearjerker focuses on its stars' dramatic chops more than their musical prowess, a choice that won't deter their respective audiences, even as it disappoints less partisan music fans who might have hoped for a stronger musical component.Olivia King (Ross) is the former St. Louis housewife who abandoned her family for pop stardom, only to return 18 years later determined to meet, and reconcile with, her daughter, Kayla (Brandy), now nurturing her own footlight fantasies. But when the prodigal mom finally does reveal herself to the bright, feisty teen, Kayla is outraged and then hard-boiled. Olivia's offer to help the undeniably talented girl make industry contacts is accepted, with the bitter caveat that the superstar should abandon any hopes of a true maternal bond with her embittered daughter. The usually imperious Olivia meekly accepts those terms, while the secretly yearning Kayla keeps up her tough-cookie cover, but the plot telegraphs its ultimate destination, even as the tears flow.Both stars acquit themselves well in the story's stormier clashes, and the emotional tug of the story is well engineered to soak hankies. Less credulous viewers will be hampered by the original songs--when Ross steps on-stage, her regal demeanour and flashy (if occasionally silly) gowns support her supposed status as a legend, but the utterly forgettable, generic songs she mouths deflate that image. That said, viewers less interested in the actual music than the glitzy idea of the two characters may well be content to wallow in the waterworks of a story that could as easily have been titled Divas: The Next Generation. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Night Of The Bloody Apes | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A doctor tries to save his dying son by performing a heart transplant only he uses the heart of an ape... with disastrous results. This Mexican schlock horror film manages to combine female wrestling extreme and ludicrous violence with blue pyjamas torn blue dresses and naked shower romps invloving some highly original simian seduction techniques! 'Night Of The Bloody Apes' was banned as an official Video Nasty in the 1980s for its extreme gore sex and violence.

• Zone Of The Enders: Delores - Vol. 3 - Episodes 11-14 And | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Links family has made it to Mars on a wing and a prayer but their troubles are far from over! James Links doesn't want to be a hero except to his wife and children but he'll have plenty of chances to practice for the role on Mars! Championing the people of a planet on the verge of insurrection with the authorities still hot on his trail this space trucker has more on his mind than any other man should have to cope with!

• The Ultimate Ninja | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A Fight For Ninja Supremacy... A twenty year old feud between Ronald a benevolent village leader and Roger an evil tyrant leaves Ronald dead and Roger running the village with an evil bunch of ruffians. Ronald's three children have been split up and are now young adults. Jimmy the eldest has been in training for 20 years to extract revenge upon his father's killer and retain control of the village. Meanwhile Victor an evil Ninja leader has stolen the Black Ninja Warrior from Charles the new leader of the Red Ninjas. Charles sets out to recapture the Black Ninja Warrior and prevent Victor from stealing the Gold Ninja Warrior. Jimmy heads for the village to get Roger as Charles begins his quest to find and destroy Victor. Jimmy has doubts: will he take back the village will he be re-united with his brother and sister and will he deal with Roger? The final battle is between good and evil right and wrong Ninja clans and justice.

• The Dead Next Door | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-1.64 (-6.80%)   |  RRP £23.99

  This well-known film financed by Sam 'Evil Dead' Raimi follows the effects of a deadly virus which turns corpses into flesh-eating zombies. A crack team of soldiers called The Zombie Squad fight a non-stop struggle for life and death....

• Saturday Morning Pictures - The Best Of The Children's Film Foundation - Vol. 4 | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Runaway Railway Some young railway enthusiasts repair a derelict locomotive and find themselves inadvertently involved in a mail train robbery! Junket 89 Junket always seems to be in trouble at school but his troubles really begin when the absent minded science master allows him to borrow his experimental instant transportation machine to journey to faraway places...

• Blood Camp Thatcher | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In a faceless and clinical landscape of the future where every living soul is a potential enemy of the State a degenerate hierarchy - ruling by terror and intimidation - wields absolute and ultimate power over life and death. The State has become master; the protesters deviates the unfortunates who end up at notorious Camp 17 have little to look forward to. Behind the electrified fences a band of sadistic guards - teasing taunting dispensing cruelty at the crack of a whip - make survival a living hell. The cold-blooded commandant Thatcher and his devious cronies live a life of two pleasures: one of the flesh the other organising regular Turkey Shoots - it is the only possible escape. With a head start selected prisoners are allowed to run beyond the camp's boundaries to the hills and apparent freedom whilst Thatcher and his evil menagerie scheme to devise fascinating and gruesome deaths for their 'turkeys'. As the hunt begins so does the ultimate nightmare.

• Pentathlon | Blu Ray | (30/07/2012) from £8.16   |  Saving you £6.09 (88.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When East German Eric Brogar (Dolph Lundgren) wins a gold medal in the Pentathlon, he escapes to freedom in the west with the help of a beautiful American athlete. But his demanding coach, Heinrich Mueller (David Soul), vows revenge and Eric's best friend and his father pay the ultimate price for his freedom when they are killed by the Secret Police.In Los Angeles, Eric starts to train for the gold again. But when Mueller comes to America, Eric must win the most deadly game of all... the fight for his life.

• A Man For All Seasons | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £12.10   |  Saving you £4.89 (40.41%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Description Roger Clark farms his 100 acres in Suffolk using traditional farming methods and the power of the native Suffolk Punch. Credits Director: Alan James Features Rating: (Ex) Genre: General Interest (Leisure/Health) Running Time: 60 min. EAN: 5060058000099

• Buffet Froid | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Bertrand Blier's C''sar Award winning surreal comedy in which Gerard Depardieu stars as a suspected serial killer pitted against an ageing police inspector.

• The Beggar's Opera - John Gay | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £28.12   |  Saving you £-22.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Beggar's Opera

• Absence Of The Good | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £2.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (568.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For many years Homicide Detective Caleb Barnes (Stephen Baldwin - The Usual suspects) has been able to keep a professional distance from the routine horror of his job. But since his son died in a tragic accident he is losing touch with his soul. When a series of seemingly unrelated murders begins to plague Salt Lake City the detective immerses himself in searching for the killer. Faced with a frustrating lack of clues and the devastation of his wife Mary Caleb painstakingly un

• The Fifth Commandment | DVD | (15/02/2010) from £3.97   |  Saving you £2.02 (50.88%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The 5th Commandment