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• Swindled | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £5.74   |  Saving you £9.25 (161.15%)   |  RRP £14.99

  There's a sucker born every minute. Director Miguel Bardem (Javier Bardem's brother) delivers a stylish Grifters-style crime thriller that would not only make David Mamet proud - it would have him second-guessing the plot twists right down to the final frame. The slick handsome Ernesto (Ernesto Alterio) has spent a lifetime in the small-racket crime world working the three-card monte on suckers on the streets of Madrid conning store owners and scouting the train stations for easy marks to rob. His pleasant but decidedly small-time lifestyle changes when he meets the elderly El Manco (Manuel Alexandre) a veteran of the trade who has close contacts to the mysterious and masterful Federico (Federico Luppi) the king of all con men. The three hook up and after ascending to the rarified world of elegant hotels and high living Federico proposes a real estate con that will net them millions. The only hitch is that they need the assistance of Federico's ex-lover Pilar (Victoria Abril). A former con artist herself Pilar (who cheated Federico on a scam years earlier) is now living in luxury with her new elderly husband. The chase is on as the team embarks on their new complicated con . . . but can everyone be trusted? Swindled is an elegant fun fast-moving film where the secrets treachery and twists will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final frame.

• Romance | DVD | (10/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Romance follows a young French woman, Marie, and her journey to gain control of her life.

• The Adventures Of Tintin - Vol. 2 | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £6.88   |  Saving you £13.11 (190.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Created by the Belgian writer and illustrator Georges R''mi (better known to the world at large as Herg'' a name he adopted after the French pronunciation of his initials 'R.G.') Tintin and his faithful wire-haired fox terrier companion Snowy first appeared in 1929 in Le Petit Vingtieme the weekly children's supplement to Brussels-based newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle. The following year the pair appeared in their first comic book Tintin Reporter In The Land Of The Soviets and have since continued to amuse and entertain children and adults alike the world over having appeared in more than 120 million books published in 45 languages and 50 countries. The animated series was produced in 1992 under the careful control of the Herg'' Foundation (the artist himself passed away in March 1983) to ensure faithful adaptations of the original books were made particularly with regard to storyline graphic quality and accuracy and the overall spirit of the characters. In total adaptations of 20 of the 23 books were produced with results that speak for themselves. Starring the eponymous hero his dog and a support cast including the likes of Captain Haddock The Thomson Twins and Professor Calculus amongst others the animated Tintin is guaranteed to delight longtime Tintin fans at the same time introducing this remarkable character to a whole new audience. Contains the Episodes: 'The Black Island' 'King Ottakars Sceptre' 'The Red Sea Sharks' & 'Tintin in Tibet'.

• Wwe: Payback 2015 | Blu Ray | (13/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seth Rollins defends the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Dean Ambrose Roman Reigns and Randy Orton in a Fatal 4-Way match! Will one of the challengers finally get their revenge or will Rollins continue to live up to the moniker of “The Undisputed Future” of WWE? Plus the war between John Cena and Rusev comes to an end as the two rivals battle in a relentless “I QUIT” Match for the United States Championship. WWE Superstars and Divas dish out punishment at WWE PAYBACK!

• Wwe: Extreme Rules 2015 | Blu Ray | (29/06/2015) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (32.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Silent Night | Blu Ray | (08/03/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Mario Bava Collection | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  More than a quarter of a century after his death director Mario Bava remains one of international cinema s most controversial icons. Today his influence marked by stunning visuals daring sexuality and shocking violence can still be seen in the works of Martin Scorsese David Lynch Tim Burton Dario Argento and countless others in a legacy that extends far beyond the horror genre. This collection brings together 5 landmark movies from the first half of Bava s career encompassing the original giallo a bold Viking epic and his three gothic horror masterpieces featuring new transfers original European versions and exclusive featurettes to create the definitive celebration of one of the most important filmmakers of all time. Set Comprises: The Mask Of Satan: In the 17th Century Moldavia the evil Princess Asa is condemned to death for witchcraft and vampirism along with her brother Prince Igor Javutich. Two hundred years later two doctors en route to a medical convention discover her crypt and accidentally set her resurrection in motion! With the help of Javutich and others whom she enthralls with her cold dead kiss Asa sets her sights on her ultimate victim-princess Katia her own twin descendant! Black Sabbath: Boris Karloff is your host for Bava's 1963 classic triptych of terror which set new standards in graphic violence and spellbinding horror. Michele Mercier stars in The Telephone a tale of lesbian obsession and murder. In The Wurdalak Karloff stars with Mark Damon as the patriarch of a family of bloodthirsty ghouls. And in The Drop Of Water Jacqueline Pierreux is a nurse stalked by the vengeful spirit of a dead medium. The Girl Who Knew Too Much: Nora Davis (Leticia Roman) jets away to Rome to vacation with Edith an old family friend. Unfortunately her trip is anything but relaxing... On the first night Edith dies - and as Nora runs into the night for help she becomes an eyewitness to a murder as she sees a woman stabbed to death on the Piazza di Spagna! Being a young woman with an insatiable appetite for murder mysteries Nora can't get anyone to believe her story but with the help of the attentive Dr. Marcello Bassi (John Saxon) she learns that a murder did occur on that very spot - 10 years earlier - when Emily Craven fell victim to the Alphabet Murderer! What did Nora Davis really see and who is stalking her through Rome? Could it be the Alphabet Killer looking for victim D? Knives Of The Avenger: With husband King Harald missing at sea and presumed dead Queen Karin goes into hiding with her young son Moki to escape being forced into marriage with Hagen a general of Harald's army and now a bloodthirsty pretender to the throne. Wary of strangers she turns a beggar away from her cottage but upon hearing her cries for help the stranger returns and saves her from being assaulted by two men - with two well--thrown knives! The blademaster Rurik (Cameron Mitchell) is allowed to stay and he takes the boy under his wing teaching him the arts of survival. In time he recognizes Karin as the queen whom he raped years ago on her wedding night in merciless retaliation for Hagen's murder of his own wife and son. Realizing that Moki might be his own son Rurik now has a family to defend - and another to avenge - as Hagen and his soldiers converge on their hiding place! Kill Baby ....Kill! A doctor investigating a young woman's apparent suicide in a Balkan village discovers the locals believe the ghost of a baron's daughter is responsible. The victims in the small Transylvanian village are being found dead with gold coins planted in their hearts.

• Impulse | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When the demons of evil take over all powers of reason only Impulse remains! A paranoid leisure suit wearing gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women cons them out of their savings via and investment scam and then kills them. When he begins seeings an attractive widow her daughter Tina becomes suspicious of his motives..... An absolute must have for all you Shatner fans!!!

• Rabid | DVD | (07/08/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of David Cronenberg's most successful early films, Rabid features porn star Marilyn Chambers as a woman who becomes infected with a virus after an operation. As result she grows a kind of phallus with which she penetrates her victims as she sucks their blood and thus the disease spreads rapidly. The film displays all Cronenberg's usual horrified fascination with the human body and its sexual function. Looking back, it can be read as a kind of parable about AIDS, but it works perfectly well as an effective low-budget shocker. On the DVD: the widescreen image on the DVD is acceptable quality, as is the sound. The fairly routine extras consist of excerpts from a TV interview with Cronenberg, lasting about 10 minutes; a collection of stills from the film; some written notes by horror expert Kim Newman that give useful background, though in part reproduce what is said in the interview; full filmographies for Cronenberg and the three principal performers, including a long list of Chambers' porn credits. --Ed Buscombe

• The Big Bird Cage | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Women so hot with desire they melt the chains that enslave them. Inside the women prison hell called The Big Bird Cage... inmates like The Price is Right's Anitra Ford struggle to survive. They get their chance at escape when scheming revolutionary Pam Grier engineers a prison break... from the outside in!

• A Pure Formality | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A young woman has been found murdered and Onoff a famous writer is found wandering aimlessly in the rain with no identification or memory. Called in for questioning he is soon the prime suspect. By dawn the identity of the woman is revealed and now Onoff is faced with even more frightening consequences.

• Sailor Moon - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 To 6 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  1000 years ago during a time known as the Silver Millennium the universe was at peace and ruled by Queen Serenity from her palace in the heart of the Moon Kingdom. But with great good also came great evil... the Negaverse an evil universe run by the villainous Negaforce. After a failed attempt by the Negaforce to destroy Earth and the Moon Kingdom Queen Serenity sent her only daughter Princess Serena (Sailor Moon) and her court of princesses (Sailor Scouts) into the future to modern day Earth accompanied by two celestial guardians. A Moon Star Is Born: Earth is threatened by the Negaverse and its evil Queen. Serena a 14 year old schoolgirl discovers that she is 'Sailor Moon' and that her destiny is to save the world. Talk Radio: With the help of her guides and protectors Luna the magic cat and the mysterious Tuxedo Mask Sailor Moon defeats the evil Queen and saves her friends. Good prevails over Evil as Sailor Moon discovers - believe in yourself and anything is possible. Slim City: The Evil Queen of the Negaverse has discovered that people put an absurd amount of energy into crazy diets and fitness. She sends her henchman Jedyte to pose as a fitness instructor and capture the human energy. Sailor Moon saves the day and exposes the plot. So You Want To Be A Star: Superstar Saffron visits Serena's school and organises a talent contest. But does Saffron really work for the Negaforce and is the contest really a ploy to sap human energy from the contestants? You can be sure Sailor Moon Tuxedo Mask and Luna the cat will come to the rescue! Computer School Blues: As Jedite redeems himself he finds a new way to target human energy: computers. There is a new student that's been transfered to Crossroads Junior High. Her name is Amy and Luna has a suspicious feeling about her... Time Bomb: As Serena and her new best friend Amy goes shopping Jedite plans a new energy stealing attack by focusing on alarm clocks!

• The Hellion | DVD | (11/09/2017) from £20.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In one of the most intense and unnerving British horrors of recent years, three friends head to the sea for a drunken weekend away, only to be imprisoned on the top floor of their holiday apartment by a malevolent paranormal force. Unable to contact the outside world their sanity reaches breaking point and they begin to turn on each other.

• The Element Of Crime | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Way, way before he dreamt up his famous Dogme manifesto, Lars von Trier launched his feature-film career with The Element of Crime and proved that, 400 years after Hamlet, the Danes can still do melancholy like nobody else. Less a film noir than a film jaune sale, this ultra-enigmatic thriller is shot entirely in tones of grimy sepia in a world where nightfall seems to be an unceasing condition. A police detective, Fisher (Michael Elphick), is summoned from Cairo to "Europe" (the location never gets any more specific than that) to investigate a series of gory child-murders. He comes to suspect that the killer may be a mysterious character called Harry Grey and sets out to retrace Grey's movements. The film takes its title from a treatise written by Fisher's old mentor Osborne (Welsh actor Esmond Knight, a veteran of Powell and Pressburger's films), but it might as well refer to water. Von Trier conjures up a world not only permanently benighted, but dank, sodden and dripping both indoors and out, cluttered with mouldy, antiquated industrial machinery. There are echoes (or pre-echoes) here of half-a-dozen other movies--Blade Runner, City of Lost Children, Tarkovsky's Stalker, Welles' The Trial--and at times it feels as though von Trier has just set out to show he can do art house as well as anybody and possibly better. The plot makes no sense whatever and clearly isn't meant to, and Elphick's bemused expression, one suspects, derives from the actor as much as from the character he's playing. As always with von Trier you can't help wondering if whole thing isn't an elaborate put-on, especially since the director himself shows up, epicene and shaven-headed, playing a personage called "Schmuck of Ages". But what it lacks in coherence (either narrative or visual) Element of Crime makes up for in atmosphere, which it has, literally, by the bucketful. This release, incidentally, is the English-language version. --Philip Kemp

• Prying Eyes | DVD | (03/09/2018) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  During a house warming party, six friends decide to take a look at the attic because an old story about it excited their curiosity. That was definitely a bad idea.

• Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) -- Berlin/Barenboim | DVD | (05/04/2000) from £22.97   |  Saving you £2.02 (8.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A massive success from its premiere on May 3, 1786, Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro ("The Marriage of Figaro") downplays the social satire in Beaumarchais' original tale of romantic intrigue and revenge between the classes, instead emphasising the psychological dimensions. Here in a live production from the Staatsoper, Berlin, director Alexandre Tarta employs simple sets, focusing all attention on a very fine cast as they spin-out the farcical ironies. The result is one of the most acclaimed interpretations of recent years, with soprano Dorethea Röschmann reprising her star-making 1995 Salzburg debut as the sensual and flirtatious Susanna. Rene Papé makes a fine Figaro, and there are no weak links, with not just the singing but the performances uniformly excellent. The humour on show makes the sorrow all the more genuinely affecting. Of course Mozart's music is marvellous, packed with great arias and duets, and under Daniel Barenboim the State Opera Choir Berlin "Staatskapelle Berlin" are on splendid form.On the DVD: With the opera lasting 190 minutes the only other feature on the disc is a plot synopsis. However, the subtitles can be switched on or off. The booklet also provides a synopsis, together with some background on the opera and the performers. Filming a live production with theatre lights is never going to result in the most detailed images, and under these circumstances the anamorphically enhanced picture fares well, being far superior to VHS. The Dolby Digital 5.1 sound is realistic, detailed and absorbing without ever being unnecessarily showy. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Tchaikovsky - the Nutcracker (Colomer, Orchestre Colonne) | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £11.54   |  Saving you £-3.55 (-44.40%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Christmas Night. A little boy sits alone by a small feeble Christmas tree from the branches of which sadly hang garlands salvaged from Christmases past. His mother is dead. Suddenly in a dream or by magic she is there next to him and places a small gift at the foot of the tree. The enchanted night begins: the gift grows bigger and becomes a miraculous icon fiends flood in the mother appears alive followed by two Angels of Light created by Marius-Mephisto. The whole room is dancing and the child begins to laugh. Is it a dream? Reality is that which we feel to be real. Reality is the moment here and now. Freed from his fear the boy watches the Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker directed by Marius his master and danced by the Prince and Princess. ''I remember! Christmas.. .. Marseille the tree the Nativity scene the presents the thirteen desserts -among them my favourite -the NUTS! Above all I loved cracking nuts. My father had shown me that the insides were like a little human brain. I remember.. . My mother. I was seven years old. One evening she said to me 'your mother is going on a long journey. Promise me you will be good. I remember. Christmas.'' '' So wrote Maurice B''jart in his programme notes for his version of the well-loved Christmas ballet The Nutcracker (Casse-Noisette). B''jart''s magical staging transforms the piece into an enchanting and enchanted autobiography and a loving homage to the choreographer''s mother and to his creative hero Marius Petipa. The first part of the performance is punctuated by B''jart on a huge video screen telling something of his childhood. Summing up his approach to creating this ballet B''jart remarked ''You live a life and you dream a life. When you come to write your own life you tell a lie to build the truth.'' Using Tchaikovsky's score in its entirety augmented with popular waltz and accordion music performed on-stage by the legendary Yvette Homer B''jart takes the original St Petersburg story as a springboard from which to evoke the memories emotions and feelings of his own life''s journey: from a Marseille childhood dominated by the memory of his mother to the passionate commitment to dance inspired by the father of classical ballet Petipa. The stage is flooded with allusions to B''jart''s actual and imaginary history: characters both real and symbolic forests scouting bull-fighting bicycles old songs and much more create a universe of feeling reaching its apotheosis in a faithful recreation of the original Pas de Deux -a true declaration of love. The only character in his Nutcracker that relates to the original is Mephisto who replaces Drosselmeyer as the facilitator of fantastical dreams and happenings. Goethe''s Faust fascinated B''jart when he was still very young and the choreographer''s Mephisto is at the same time his creative hero Marius Petipa. Marius-Mephisto opens up a world to the boy Bim (B''jart) in which his dream life and his desire to dance are intertwined. Three performances of B''jart''s Nutcracker were recorded live fiom the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris for the purposes of this television presentation. The showman of modem dance Maurice B''jart''s work has been provocative influential and popular in equal measure. His choreography has always been physically thrilling setting up an immediate emotional combustion between audience and performer and he attracted huge new audiences for dance with the Ballet of the Twentieth Century productions he mounted in sports stadia public squares and circus tents. Since founding the B''jart Ballet Lausanne in 1987 he has been working on a more intimate scale but his style has remained just as electric vivid and direct in its appeal as ever.

• The Big Bird Cage | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Terry a social - climbing young woman accidentally gets caught up in the activities of two revolutionaries Blossom and Django and finds herself in a concentration camp for women. In the centre of the camp is a towering wooden machine (The Big Bird Cage) in which the women risk their lives processing sugar as the evil warden looks on. The prisoners are subjected to sadistic cruelty from the guards and fellow prisoners and all attempts at escape are dealt with... permanently. Terry's only hope for escape lies in Blossom and her revolutionary allies.

• Living Nightmare | DVD | (12/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  It all began with what seemed a simple nightmare but it kept recurring and soon it became too terrifying to ignore as much as Michael tries to push it to one side it will not leave him.... The more he dreams the more the fear grows and the more his personality changes. The dream takes over his world completely making him become blind to what is a dream and what is reality.

• The Big Bird Cage | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Written and directed by one of Quentin Tarantino's heroes Jack Hill (Switchblade Sisters Foxy Brown Coffy) The Big Bird Cage is considered one of the definitive exploitation movies of the 1970s and stars Pam Grier as Blossom and Sid Haig as Django a pair of revolutionaries whose heist on a tropical nightclub doesn't quite go according to plan. The ensuing confusion leads to the wrongful arrest of a scandalous social climber Terry (Anitra Ford) who finds herself incarcerated in a notorious jungle prison populated by scantily-clad inmates. Brutalized and subjected to numerous indignities Terry and her fellow inmates' only hope for survival lies in a rescue plot hatched by Blossom and Django.