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• Summer City | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £4.12   |  Saving you £-0.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  1950s rock 'n' roll road movie detailing the escapades of four buddies (one played by Mel Gibson in his movie debut) who head out of Sydney for a surfing weekend.

• The Great Escape/The Thomas Crown Affair/The Magnificent Seven | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £29.97   |  Saving you £-9.98 (-49.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Great Escape (Dir. John Sturges 1963): One of the most ingenious and suspenseful adventure films of all time The Great Escape is a masterful collaboration between director John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven) screenwriters James Clavell (""Shogun"") and W.R. Burnett and composer Elmer Bernstein. Based on a true story this film also stars Steve McQueen James Garner Charles Bronson and James Coburn. The Thomas Crown Affair (Dir. Norman Jewson 1968): Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a lone wolf in chic clothing. He's a Boston tycoon who masterminds a daring bank job even though he doesn't need the money. What he needs is the thrill of the heist the adrenaline rush of not getting caught. Catching crooks is where insurance investigator Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway) comes in. She always gets her man. But this time she may be too much in love to give him up. McQueen and Dunaway are lovers and adversaries in a stylish cat-and-mouse thriller written by Alan R. Trustman and directed by Norman Jewison. Jewsion makes exciting use of split screen images as the action leaps from the boardroom to the boudoir the polo field to a glider cockpit. The Oscar winning Best Song (1968) ""The Windmills of Your Mind"" sets the perfect tone for the swirl of romance and intrigue... The Magnificent Seven (Dir. John Sturges 1960): Yul Brynner stars as one of seven master gunmen who aid the helpless farmers of an isolated village pitted against an army of marauding bandits in this rousing action tale based on Akira Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai. Released in 1960 John Sturges' masterpiece garnered an Oscar nomination for Elmer Bernstein (for Best Score) and launched the film careers of Steve McQueen Charles Bronson Robert Vaughn and James Coburn.

• Monsterwolf | DVD | (19/07/2011) from £6.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (86.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1528 French settlers in the New World betrayed the Atakapa Indian tribe and rounded them up for slavery using a particularly vicious wolf. Using magic the tribe’s Shaman entered the wolf becoming the BENANDANTI the legendary wolf-monster of vengeance.;Today in a small post-flood town of Louisiana history is repeating itself. Big Oil is taking advantage of the poor repressed townsfolk by taking their land at dirt cheap prices and killing their ecosystem. This betrayal of the native landowners awakens the Benandanti Wolf and those responsible are being slaughtered one-by-one.;Their only hope is Maria a 22 year old girl who used to live here as a child but has returned only to sell her property. As Maria and her childhood friend Yale try to stop the murderous wolf monster Maria discovers she’s tied to this land’s history and the wolf more than she ever imagined.

• Still Burning - Stiff Little Fingers | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Formed in 1977 Stiff Little Fingers are one of the seminal punk bands. Formed in Belfast their lyrics melded the personal and political with infectious hooks to create a unique sound that has influenced a generation. Celebrating their 30th Anniversary in 2007 and shot during their successful March 2007 tour 'Still Burning' presents the band's definitive story. Directed by Don Letts and with contributions from many of the members through the years and other punk luminaries including Steve Diggle (Buzzcocks) and Mike Peters (The Alarm) it charts the ups and downs the splits and reformations.

• The Most Dangerous Game | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Most Dangerous Game

• Crime Story - Series One | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Following the phenomenal success of Miami Vice executive producer Michael Mann returned to the small screen with a new kind of gritty police drama one that talked tougher and hit harder than anything TV had ever seen before. 'Crime Story' is the hard boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca (Anthony Dennison) from the mean street of early 1960s Chicago to the neon nights of mob paradise Las Vegas. The

• Reel Heroes: Big Lebowski | Blu Ray | (09/04/2013) from £16.18   |  Saving you £8.81 (54.45%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Big Lebowski, a casually amusing follow-up from the prolifically inventive Coen brothers (Ethan and Joel), seems like a bit of a lark and the result was a box-office disappointment. It's lazy plot is part of its laidback charm. After all, how many movies can claim as their hero a pot-bellied, pot-smoking loser named Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) who spends most of his time bowling and getting stoned? And where else could you find a hair-netted Latino bowler named Jesus (John Turturro) who sports dazzling purple footgear, or an erotic artist (Julianne Moore) whose creativity consists of covering her naked body in paint, flying through the air in a leather harness, and splatting herself against a giant canvas? Who else but the Coens would think of showing you a camera view from inside the holes of a bowling ball, or an elaborate Busby Berkely-styled musical dream sequence involving a Viking goddess and giant bowling pins? The plot--which finds Lebowski involved in a kidnapping scheme after he's mistaken for a rich guy with the same name--is almost beside the point. What counts here is a steady cascade of hilarious dialogue, great work from Coen regulars John Goodman and Steve Buscemi, and the kind of cinematic ingenuity that puts the Coens in a class all their own. --Jeff Shannon

• Steve-O - Out On Bail | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £3.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (50.50%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Join Steve-O and the 'Jackass' crew for a third helping of insane stunts in by far the most offensive offering from Steve-O to date. Filmed in 12 different countries this video features all of the naughty behaviour that got Steve-O arrested in Sweden footage from the sell-out UK tour plus a whole bunch of other crap! Yeah dude!

• Like It Is | DVD | (11/09/2000) from £12.70   |  Saving you £2.29 (18.03%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Like It Is is much like watching a train wreck--the very idea of it is repellent and yet you perversely can't avert your eyes. While its urban grittiness and sooty veneer entranced some critics who mistook its violent, netherworld neorealism for art, Like It Is offers little in the way of redemption, positive gay imaging or even particularly good narrative. Paul Oremland directed this venture about a young, gay Blackpool tough named Craig (Steve Bell) who bare-knuckle boxes for money. He ultimately moves to London in search of a better life and falls in with the trendy London gay-club scene, meeting and falling for a handsome record producer named Matt (Ian Rose) and his wealthy boss (played by the Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey). The better life is quickly tainted by disillusion and misery, much as is the viewing experience. Steve Bell is, in real life, a featherweight boxing champion in Britain and therefore brings an urgent and raw vitality to the lead, but the characters as a whole are either irritating or unsympathetic, and it's ultimately difficult to find anyone to care for, or a story worth empathising with. --Paula Nechak, Amazon.com

• Puppet Master Trilogy | DVD | (20/01/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Disc 1: Puppetmaster OneAlex Whitaker and three other gifted psychics are investigating rumours that the secret of life has been discovered by master puppeteer Andre Toulon. But the psychics quickly discover Toulon's secret of death in the form of five killer puppets - each one uniquely qualified for murder and mayhem. Together they're an army of skilled assassins diabolically programmed to guard the deadly secrets of the Puppet Master. Disc 2: Puppetmaster TwoYou can't keep a good man down or a Puppet Master buried as the puppets return to exhume their beloved creator in Puppet Master II. This time the little devils are after the special fluid that keeps them alive which is only found in...you guessed it... human brains! The puppets - led by a new member the flamethrowing Torch - are happy to shed some light on the (brain) matter as they tunnel burn strangle and hook to survive. Disc 3: Puppetmaster ThreeAfter hearing that Andre Toulon's puppets have no strings but rather seem to have a life of their own Dr. Hess a Gestapo henchman during WWII sends the Gestapo to the theatre to kidnap them. During the melee Toulon's wife Elsa is killed and Toulon is whisked away by the Nazis. However on the way to headquarters the puppets attack the Gestapo and escape with Toulon. Now Toulon begins to plan his revenge. He creates a new puppet Six-Shooter models Blade after a pasty-faced Nazi and uses Elsa's essence to create Leech Woman. Now Toulon's army is ready to take revenge...

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

  Jake Baxter takes a job as a repoman with hopes of living the quiet life. Plans go sour when he's whipped into supersonic action involving a vicious crime lord a mob of angry car owners a sadistic porno ring and lastly a brutal illegal and very lethal car race known throughout L.A.'s underworld as the 'Slam Track.'

• WWE - The Stone Cold Truth | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  After his recently successful UK promotional tour Steve Austin returns with another potential money-spinner in The Stone Cold Truth. Austin tells his own story in his own unique style with insights from his daughters based in England and Mom Dad brothers and sister in Texas.

• Groove | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £11.19   |  Saving you £8.80 (78.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Parties are not always as fun as they look like they should be. Case in point: Groove. The distinction lies in the realm between watching people have fun and actually having fun. Set in San Francisco over the course of one night, this is the story of a rave, plain and simple. Preparation includes inhabiting an empty warehouse, finding the power supply and sending out coded invitations. The film kicks in as the party does, when people start arriving and the DJs start spinning. There's a nice moment early on when a cop shows up asking for the owner of the building, who is then taken on a tour of "a new Internet start-up". It becomes even funnier when the cop turns out to be smarter and more compassionate than anyone would expect. Writer-director Greg Harrison cleverly focuses the story on David, a novice who's never been to a rave before, which breaks the story out of what could have been the suffocating, insular world of rave culture. Unknowingly dosed by someone, David is adopted by Layla, an attractive but lonely East Coaster who has begun to regret her party lifestyle. Other characters include a guy who's just proposed to his girlfriend, a college teaching assistant selling his own manufactured drugs, a DJ who gets to meet his idol and a gay couple having trouble finding the party. If the characters turn out to be just character types, that's OK because the film itself floats by on its own high-octane enthusiasm. Groove is light and frothy entertainment with a beat you can dance to. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com

• Manchester United - Beyond the Promised Land | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £13.24   |  Saving you £0.75 (5.66%)   |  RRP £13.99

  It may be stating the obvious, but if you are a fan or in any way interested in Manchester United the football team or global brand then you will love this video and any critical appraisal is largely an irrelevance. If, however, you share the antipathy of most other football fans and see them only through a red mist, it is unlikely to bring much joy. After an opening celebration of the last-minute treble-winning triumph in the Champions League and a brief tribute to the victims of the Munich air crash, the film settles into a fairly sedate account of the 1999/2000 championship season. Scenes from the United backroom are interspersed with various supporters providing a more passionate perspective on following the team for whom success has become almost a given in recent years. These include the bartenders who travel all the way from New York to attend the game in which Real Madrid ended United's hopes of successive European titles (which is not in the least bit hilarious).Among the more corporate elements of the club's set-up on display are a forum encouraging sponsors to develop traditional and new markets (China will be huge) and various meetings with Vodafone to explore their newly agreed partnership (look out for ringing tones based on your favourite terrace chants). Given the inherent excitement usually generated by what happens on the pitch, the overall tone of the film is surprisingly flat with what little action that remains being reduced to very brief goal highlights and largely divested of its significance. Such episodes as Beckham's supposed fracas with the manager, the mysterious disappearance of Mark Bosnich, and the press conference fiasco that marked the non-arrival of Ruud Van Nistelroy are touched upon, but potential controversy is subsumed into the general glorification of the club's march for glory. One memorable scene where successive players' teams fail to answer any questions correctly at a pub-style quiz and are trounced by the management, will not do anything to reverse the common perception of footballers' acumen off the pitch. Bitter and twisted? Not this reviewer: altogether now "1-0 to the Arsenal, 1-0 to the Arsenal". --Steve Napleton

• The Firm | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  These days people are dangerously nostalgic about the sinister tackiness of the 1980s, but there's no stiffer antidote to such delusion than Alan Clarke's The Firm. This unforgettable film was made as a one-off drama for the BBC in 1988, but its cult following has grown steadily through video, thanks to a startling central performance from a young Gary Oldman, and the riveting manner in which Clarke captures the lethal, mindless energy of football hooliganism. Oldman plays Clive "Bexy" Bissell, working-class East London boy done good: a prosperous estate agent, proud homeowner, happy husband and doting father. But his chief pleasure is to be team leader ("top boy") of a bunch of overgrown yobs who attend football matches in order to cause violence. At weekends Bexy leads his "Inter City Crew" into rucks with rival warlords such as Yeti (Phil Davis) and Oboe (Andrew Wilde), in search of what he calls "the buzz", no matter the cost to his young family and his future prospects. The Firm was entirely shot on SteadiCam, enabling Clarke to drop the viewer right into the thick of the action and exploit some hair-raisingly authentic rowdiness from his talented cast. Among these thugs, soap fans will spot Eastenders' Steve McFadden and Charlie Lawson of Coronation Street. The Firm is a masterpiece of social-realist drama, and one of the most virulently anti-Thatcherite films of its time. An avid supporter of Everton FC, Clarke responded to Al Hunter's script because he felt that the vicious idiots spoiling football were a new breed of disgrace. The tabloids raised a stink about the film's violence, and the BBC delayed its broadcast until 1989. A year later, Alan Clarke died of cancer, But The Firm is a tremendous last testament from the finest English director of his generation. --Richard Kelly

• Despicable Me - Augmented Reality Edition | Blu Ray | (23/04/2012) from £11.21   |  Saving you £10.04 (100.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The world's greatest villain (Steve Carell) has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes.

• The Prophecy Of The Tiger | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £3.34   |  Saving you £-1.35 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  You Can't Refuse Your Destiny... Dr Henry Jekyll (Adam Baldwin) a young surgeon and his new bride travel to Hong Kong for their honeymoon. Tragically the marriage ends in violence when his wife is killed in a massive explosion. They have been caught in the middle of a Hong Kong gang war. Desperately ill with serious burns Dr Jekyll is resurrected by a Chinese medicine doctor Dr Chau. Changed in appearance the grief-stricken Jekyll learns that he is sought by the police in connection with his wife's death. Forced to change his name he buries his former identity and his thoughts are only of vengeance against his wife's killers. Driven by rage he undergoes extensive martial arts training to fuel his crime fighting alter ego and avenge the brutal gangs that dominate Hong Kong's underworld. Ultimately he learns the truth that shocks him to the core. According to the ancient Chinese Book of Being his arrival in Hong Kong was predestined and he is fated to become the legendary White Tiger a mythical crime fighter.

• Offenbach: La Belle Helene -- Zurich/Harnoncourt | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £34.31   |  Saving you £-9.32 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Offenbach's operetta La Belle Hélene, which pokes fun at the Parisian upper class of a century and a half ago through tales of ancient Greece, requires a leap of imagination on behalf of today's audience that this production only partly succeeds in reconciling. On musical grounds we're on sure footing. Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the chorus and orchestra of the Zurich Opera House with his customary flair for precise and taut rhythms and an appreciation of the composer's wit and the good tunes that are a-plenty. His multi-national cast headed by Vesselina Kasarova as Helen of Troy and Deon van der Walt as her lover Paris are excellent and among the smaller parts there's a lively and stylish performance from Liliana Nichiteanus as Oreste. The video direction by Hartmut Schroder and the superb sound obtained from the relatively intimate Zurich Opera House, a delightful setting for this operetta, are further assets. The production alas is unenlightening and perpetrates an over-the-top style that seems to be synonymous with Offenbach. The backdrop, a pink concave awning is hideous. The costumes by designer Jean-Charles de Castelibajac are silly: Paris is dressed in lederhosen and looks a twerp, Calchac, the high priest wears a Ku Klux Klan hat and Helen at one point looks as though she'll take to absailing. Kasarova suggests the lure of Helen in her voice but a beauty she's not. So it's left to Harnoncourt who joins the company at the curtain call with a twinkle in his eye and a nifty side step and his superb orchestra to remind us what might have been. --Adrian Edwards

• Dorothy And The Wizard Of Oz: We're Not In Kansas Anymore | DVD | (19/03/2018) from £3.77   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  First ten episodes from the children's animated series based on the novel 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' by L. Frank Baum. After defeating the Wicked Witches of the East and the West, Dorothy Gale (voice of Kari Wahlgren) from Kansas finds herself back in the magical land of Oz where she has been named Princess of Emerald City by Queen Ozma (also Wahlgren). With her friends the Tin Man (JP Karliak), Scarecrow (Bill Fagerbakke), Lion (Jess Harnell) and her dog Toto by her side, Dorothy sets off for a series of magical adventures but soon discovers that the Wicked Witch of the West's niece Wilhelmina (Jessica DiCicco) is trying to bring her aunt back to life. The episodes are: 'Beware the Woozy', 'Magical Mandolin', 'Toto Unleashed', 'Official Ozian Exam', 'Locket Locket in My Pocket', 'Mixed-Up Mixer', 'Ojo the Unlucky', 'The Lion's Share', 'Rules of Attraction' and 'Brain Power of Love'.

• Skin Flick | DVD | (16/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Skin Flick follows a gang of skinheads on their daily quest for adventure: Man Sex Gang Banging Granny Theft Petty Pilfering & General Mayhem. Low on cash they 'visit' two bourgeois gay men. Then it turns nasty...