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• The Sorcerers | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The Sorcerers, the second film directed by the lost "wunderkind" of British cinema Michael Reeves, may not have the scope and visceral impact of his masterpiece, Witchfinder General (1968), but there's enough fierce originality here to show what a tragic loss it was when he died from a drugs overdose aged only 24. The film also shows the effective use he made of minimal resources, working here on a derisory budget of less than £50,000--of which £11,000 went to the film's sole "named" star, Boris Karloff. Karloff plays an elderly scientist living with his devoted wife in shabby poverty in London, dreaming of the brilliant breakthrough in hypnotic technique that will restore him to fame and fortune. Seeking a guinea-pig, he hits on Mike, a disaffected young man-about-town (Ian Ogilvy, who starred in all three of Reeves' films). But the technique has an unlooked-for side effect--not only can he and his wife make Mike do their bidding, they can vicariously experience everything that he feels. At which point, it turns out that the wife has urges and desires that her husband never suspected. Karloff, then almost at the end of his long career, brings a melancholy dignity to his role; but the revelation is the veteran actress Catherine Lacey as the seemingly sweet old lady, turning terrifyingly avid and venomous as she realises her power. The portrayal of Swinging London, with its mini-skirted dollybirds thronging nightclubs where the strongest stimulant seems to be Coke rather than coke, has an almost touching innocence, but Reeves invests it with a dream-like quality, extending it into scenes of violent death in labyrinthine dark alleys. By this stage, some ten years after it started, the British horror cycle was winding down in lazy self-parody. Reeves had the exceptional talent and vision to revive it, had he only lived. On the DVD: The Sorcerers DVD has original trailers for both this film and Witchfinder General (both woefully clumsy); filmographies for Reeves, Karloff and Ogilvy; an "image gallery" (a grab-bag of posters, stills and lobby cards); detailed written production notes by horror-movie expert Kim Newman; and an excellent 25-minute documentary on Reeves, "Blood Beast", dating from 1999. The transfer is letterboxed full-width, with acceptable sound. --Philip Kemp

• Cyderdelic | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The revolution will be televised! Eco-warriors Cyderdelic are a radical trio with an anarchic agenda. A BBC crew followed Beetle Smith Su Long and Frogger on the road in their 'Ambience' - a converted ambulance - in their quest to spread their revolutionary message to anyone who'll listen. Our intrepid trio are inept but well-meaning DJs who take their music and protests wherever they can. Hailing from the West Country they attend live events - both here and abroad picket w

• Jack The Reaper | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £21.44   |  Saving you £-10.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  As a punishment for failing a test on the industrial revolution a group of teens are taken on a field trip to a railroad museum where a mysterious Mr. Steele (Tony Todd - Candyman) tells them about Railroad Jack- a cold-blooded Reaper - an horrific creature who ushers souls to the afterlife and is known to haunt a stretch of desert highway called Death's Door.On their return they travel along Deaths Door and their school bus crashes right beside a strange, deserted fairground. Enticed by the lights and the sounds of this deadly carnival, the teens set out to find help. But terror ensues when they discover the carnival is Jack The Reaper's hunting ground. Railroad Jack (Douglas Tait Freddy v Jason) has been waiting for them, armed with a pickaxe and he has laid claim to their souls.

• The Professionals | DVD | (30/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £149.99

  Perhaps the most easily parodied action series of its era, The Professionals was the one about the gruff but fatherly counter-terrorist top cop Cowley (Gordon Jackson) and his favourite surrogate sons, the curly haired ex-copper Ray Doyle (Martin Shaw) and taciturn-but-pouting ex-mercenary William Bodie (Lewis Collins). As set out by series creator Brian Clemens (veteran of the more fantastical Avengers), their job was to stop threats to the government, visiting dignitaries or the general public "by any means necessary". What this boiled down to was dashing about, leaping out of cars, getting into thump-happy fistfights, leering at every "bird" who passed by as if they were trying to prove something, wearing eye-abusing late-70s leisure wear well beyond the sell-by date, potting baddies with guns hauled out of their smart shoulder holsters, and occasionally choking back manly tears when another of the trio was wounded. All three leads were professionals of another stripe--the sort of actors who could soar with a good script and do their best to sell a weak one--and they were generally set against a parade of top-flight British character acting talent along with sundry sit-com/pin-up refugee disposable girlfriends and suspects. One strange, if understandable, element of the premise is that CI5 tackle all manner of Greek, Middle Eastern, Soviet and radical nutcase groups--with the odd racist Klansman, corrupt civil servant and dubious big business tycoon thrown in to prove they're not fascists--but almost never have anything to do with the Irish terrorist groups who were the main focus of the organisation's real-life counterparts from 1977 to 1983. --Kim Newman

• Feeding the Nation: How Farming Changed Forever | DVD | (08/11/2011) from £12.79   |  Saving you £0.20 (1.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Using rare footage, this charming documentary looks back at the age of the family farm. With stories from farm workers and the Land Army, this film is a window into a world that has vanished.

• It Was An Accident | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Nicky’s a young man who plans to go straight when he returns home to his old stomping ground, but old friends and new enemies make that hard to achieve.

• Sally Lindsay Pub Quiz DVD Game | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Join Sally Lindsay Britain's favourite landlady Alan Carr and her other celebrity mates for fun-packed quiz party! Get the drinks in as Sally Lindsay gets the UK's best pub quiz underway!

• She Led Two Lives | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  In this true story Rebecca Cross meets an old flame who does not realise that she is already married. They start a passionate affair which results in Rebecca committing bigamy and marrying her lover. She struggles to keep the secret from both men but life eventually catches up...

• Sacred Flesh | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Torn between sexual desire her vows of chastity and her fears of eternal damnation a medieval nun struggles with her sanity. Bordering on madness she seeks solace in the savage words of sexual denial that are spoken to her by a disturbing Death Nun vision. Her sanity is further threatened by the imagined figure of Magdalen who challenges her concepts of sex as an evil malignant force. In between these discussions the nun's mind is filled with brooding violent sexual fantasies that push her into a world of blackness blood and orgasmic self destruction. Sacred Flesh has continued to provoke controversy since its original theatrical release in 2000 and has regularly featured in the press and in tv documentaries where the clips of lesbian whippings and crucified orgies still shock.

• Power Rangers Ninja Storm - Samurai's Journey | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £6.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (84.75%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Continuing to gorge with an appetite for destruction Lothor and his alien minions mount an all-out attack led by Madtropolis to drain the Wind and Thunder Rangers of their power! It's all jammin' and no slammin' even in Megazord mode when Cam must travel in time to snag the ultimate power source -- a Samurai amulet that unlocks the mystery of the 'ancient warrior of evil.' Meanwhile with things frozen in time Lothor unleashes Operation Alien Outreach to take advantage of a d

• Starry Night | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-29.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A century is a long time to wait for your dreams to come true. In this whimsical thought-provoking fantasy Vincent Van Gogh returns to life in modern day Los Angeles a century after his death. Having sold only one painting in his lifetime Vincent is awestruck to learn that he is now considered one of the world's greatest artists and that his paintings command millions. But no one believes that he's Vincent Van Gogh least of all his own lawyer the media and a skeptical art detective who is out to prove that he's an imposter. He devises a plan to give the proceeds from his masterworks to struggling young artists -- however the only way he can profit from his own work is to steal it back from the greedy and rich collectors who hoard it. Vincent soon falls in love with a talented art students who inspires him to paint new masterpieces in this award-winning film about art love and second chances.

• The Tango Lesson | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sally Potter's self-reflective film stars Potter (an actress and the director of Orlando), more or less as herself, learning to tango from master-dancer Pablo Veron and considering making a film called The Tango Lesson. The film that we happen to be watching, however, is concerned largely with the delicious conflict between the politics of tango--the need for one partner, typically the woman, to yield to the other--and the expectations of the film-maker to do things on her own terms. Can Potter simultaneously surrender and control for the duration of this circular project? The question is made more complicated by Veron's desire to be in one of Potter's films--in other words, to follow her lead. Potter may not be Veron's equal on the dance floor, but that isn't the point of this interesting movie and its provocative, internal debate. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Neverending Story - Vol. 2 - The Gift | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bastian Balthazar Bux (Mark Rendall) is an average twelve year old boy whose life revolves around going to school watching TV and playing video games. That is until he discovers a magical book `The Neverending Story' in a fascinating curiosity shop owned by the mysterious Carl Coreander (John Dunn Hill). Bastian's imagination is inspired by the book's tale of an enchanted world called Fantasia; a world ruled by the Childlike Empress (Audrey Gardiner) and inhabited by an assortment o

• Father Dear Father - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Patrick Cargill stars in Father Dear Father as Patrick Glover Divorcee Thriller Writer and Father to two teenage Daughters. His Life revolves around his writing his family & their Saint Bernard dog H.G.(Wells). Episodes Comprise: 1. The Proposal 2. Pussies Galore 3. The Return Of The Mummy 4. Publish And Be Damned 5. It Won't Be A Stylish Marriage 6. I Should Have Danced All Night 7. The Lost Weekend

• The Boston Strangler | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The unexpected casting of Tony Curtis as the presumed Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, is only the first of the attractions of this hard-nosed suspense picture. Although the style of The Boston Strangler looks dated today, with its split-screen experiments and post-Bonnie and Clyde permissiveness, the film still has the clean, strong lines of a methodical policier. For the first hour, we don't focus on the Strangler, instead following the Beantown cops (led by Henry Fonda) as they track down leads; the best sequence is the near-accidental connection made between burglary suspect DeSalvo and the killings. Director Richard Fleischer had a forceful hand with true-crime material (Compulsion, 10 Rillington Place) and he takes an unblinking look into the then-taboo subject of sexual pathology. Curtis's physical transformation into a dumpy, dull-eyed brute is the best aspect of his performance; it's a role he lobbied hard for, but it did not lead to more challenging work. --Robert Horton

• The Final Curtain | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £3.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Established TV host J.J. Curtis and up and coming TV star Dave Turner are embroiled in a race to discredit each other to win ratings...

• Passed Away | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A crazy bunch of family members must spend the weekend together when their dear old dad suddenly passes away. Dealing with the grief is easy... dealing with each other isn't...

• Parents | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £13.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Jenny Pope (Sally Phillips) loses her job house and savings after getting 'punchy' with a colleague she and her family are forced to move back in with her parents Len (Tom Conti) and Alma (Susie Blake). Along for the upheaval are hubby Nick (Darren Strange) a struggling self-proclaimed entrepreneur and kids Sam and Becky. Three generations living under the same roof isn't ideal but beneath the spats and squabbles are some home truths. One that your parents are never too old to completely utterly annoy you. And two that you're never too old to learn from them.

• Saturday Night Revue | DVD | (18/08/2014) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Starring British blonde bombshell Sally Gray opposite debonair film/radio star songwriter and music-hall veteran Billy Milton Saturday Night Revue is a delightfully engaging musical comedy/drama set in '30s London which showcases some the era's finest light musical talent – including Sydney Kyte and his Orchestra Billy Reid and his Accordion Band and Webster Booth. This rare film is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer from original film elements in its original aspect ratio. There are two clubs in London called Moons; one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Mary Dorland is singing at the cheap one but her father who does not approve of her singing career believes she is performing at the Society one...

• Man About the House - Complete Box Set | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Chrissy and Jo share a bedsit flat at 6 Myddleton Terrace in the Earls Court district of London. The morning after a farewell party for a third (female) flatmate and in sore need of the extra financial contribution they prepare to start looking for her replacement. Unbeknownst to them asleep in the bath after drinking too much of an appalling concoction they called punch is Robin Tripp the friend of a friend of a friend of a friend and a catering student to boot. Since he can co