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• JFK | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Not a John F Kennedy biopic, but a film of New Orleans' attorney Jim Garrison's investigation into the President's assassination, JFK is that rarest of things, a modern Hollywood drama which credits the audience with serious intelligence and ultimately proves itself a great film. Oliver Stone's film has the archetypal story, visual scale and substance to match; not just a gripping real-life conspiracy thriller, but a fable for the fall of the American dream (a theme further explored by the director in Nixon and Any Given Sunday). JFK doesn't reveal exactly what happened in Dallas on 22 November 1963--those who knew generally took their secrets to the grave--but marshals a vast wealth of facts and plausible theories, trusting the audience to draw its own conclusions. Following less than a year after Dances With Wolves (1990), these two epics mark the high point of Kevin Costner's career and the vast supporting cast here, including Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Sissy Spacek and Donald Sutherland, is superb. Quite simply the best American political film ever made. --Gary S Dalkin

• How Green Was My Valley | Blu Ray | (28/01/2013) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-17.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp), this Hollywood milestone (Halliwell's Film Guide) from producer Darryl F. Zanuck and director John Ford is one of the finest pictures ever made (Variety). Seen through the eyes of a boy (Roddy McDowall), How Green Was My Valley is the inspiring yet heart breaking story of young parents (Donald Crisp and Sara Allgood) struggling to keep their family together as they endure severe hardship in a small Welsh mining town. Co-starring Maureen O'Hara and Walter Pidgeon, this acclaimed classic captures the sentiments and issues of its time while reminding us of the dreams, struggles and triumphs that can touch every family.

• A Place In The Sun | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £6.08   |  Saving you £6.91 (113.65%)   |  RRP £12.99

  George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's 'An American Tragedy' garnered six Academy Awards (including Best Director and Best Screenplay) and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift stars as George Eastman a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite (Elizabeth Taylor). Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Eastman's professional a

• Softly Softly Task Force: Series 1 | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £24.36   |  Saving you £11.63 (47.74%)   |  RRP £35.99

  Legendary Z Cars police chiefs reunited to head up special task force. The classic long running police series starring Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor that became one of the BBC's most successful spin-offs. Stratford Johns stars as no-nonsense DCS Charlie Barlow, a tough, relentless and sharp-tongued copper, with Frank Windsor as his even-tempered sidekick DS John Watt. Together they tackle the force's most heinous crimes, and unravel the most perplexing cases. The two hard-nosed ...

• Messiah of Evil | Blu Ray | (27/11/2023) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A woman arrives in a sleepy seaside town after receiving unsettling letters from her father, only to discover the town is under the influence of a strange cult that weeps tears of blood and hunger for human flesh.Product FeaturesComing Soon

• The U.S. Vs John Lennon | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (50.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.

• James Bond - From Russia With Love (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £10.10   |  Saving you £6.89 (68.22%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The evil organization SPECTRE has hatched a plan to steal a decoder that will access Russian state secrets and irrevocably unbalance the world order. It is up to James Bond to seize the device first but he must confront enemies that include Red Grant and the ruthless Rosa Klebb a former KGB agent with poison-tipped shoes. Even as Bond romances a stunning Soviet defector he realizes he is being lured into a deadly trap and he will need all of his courage abilities and cutting-edge technology to triumph over the forces that seek to destroy him.

• Play Misty For Me | Blu Ray | (12/09/2016) from £24.17   |  Saving you £-4.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Clint Eastwood (making his very assured directorial debut) is a poetry-spouting stud-muffin DJ stalked by a maniacally amorous fan after a misguided one-night stand in this enjoyably schlocky, undeniably effective film about good intentions gone murderously wacky. Although many of the very 1970s trappings presented here may ultimately be too dated to be taken seriously (including a highly self-indulgent jazz number and a hilariously gooey seduction number between Eastwood and Donna Mills), the core premise of infatuation taken out of bounds remains uncomfortably plausible--and was influential enough to be appropriated by one of the biggest hits of the 1980s. (Here's a hint--it starred Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and a very unfortunate bunny rabbit.) A well-staged and occasionally very frightening thriller worth watching for Jessica Walter's peerlessly unhinged performance alone. Frequent Eastwood collaborator Don Siegel (director of Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff and The Beguiled, to name but a few) has a nice cameo as Murphy, the moustachioed, chess-playing bartender. --Andrew Wright, Amazon.com

• The Two Jakes | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £9.96   |  Saving you £3.03 (30.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jack Nicholson returns as private eye Jake Gittes in this atmospheric 'Chinatown' follow-up that's hit upon ""the elusive sequel formula for somehow enhancing a great original"". Much has changed since we last saw Jake. The war has come and gone 1948 Los Angeles teems with optimism and fast bucks. But there's one thing Jake knows hasn't changed: ""Nine times out of ten if you follow the money you will get to the truth"". And that's the trail he follows when a routine case of marital

• Lease Of Life | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £21.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• All The King's Men | DVD | (09/07/2001) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Best Picture Oscar in 1949 went to All the King's Men, a hard-hitting political melodrama that will strike any number of eerily familiar chords with audiences weaned on later American politics: from the Kennedys to Nixon, Bill Clinton and beyond, US politicians obviously haven't changed much in the intervening decades. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, this grittily realistic movie charts the rise and fall of Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford in an Oscar-winning role), a hick lawyer whose ideals are inexorably eroded by his relentless pursuit of power. When we first meet him, Stark is the people's champion, a struggling self-taught advocate who isn't afraid to speak out against "graft". Although inspired by the real-life story of Louisiana Governor Huey Pierce Long, All the King's Men also parallels the much later Primary Colors (1998), which is itself a thinly disguised portrait of Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. Like that movie, this one tells the tale from the point of view of a young idealist (John Ireland) who succumbs to the fledgling politician's charm and joins his campaign team. There he meets cynical aide Sadie Burke (Mercedes McCambridge, in another Oscar-winning role) and together they connive at and excuse every increasingly corrupt move made in the name of political expediency, until matters get dangerously out of hand after the governor's son kills his girlfriend in a drunk-driving incident (a spooky premonition of Chappaquidick?). The performances are all top-notch, as is the fast-paced screenplay and direction from Robert Rossen (later director of The Hustler in 1961). Less idealistic than Capra's Mr Smith Goes to Washington, this is a movie ahead of its time which still has plenty to say about the state of modern politics, American or otherwise. --Mark Walker

• Candy | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Young Candy is a college girl who seeks truth and meaning in life encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process... Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel a sendup of Voltaire's 'Candide'.

• James Bond - A View to A Kill (Ultimate Edition 2 Disc Set) | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £11.04   |  Saving you £8.94 (111.06%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Agent 007 (Roger Moore in his final outing as James Bond) races against time to stop a power-mad industrialist (Christopher Walken) who plots to kill millions in order to corner the world's microchip supply. From the Eiffel Tower to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge James Bond can't be stopped.

• The Far Country | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £6.10   |  Saving you £3.89 (63.77%)   |  RRP £9.99

  James Stewart and Walter Brennan are a loner and his sidekick who figure to get rich quick by selling a herd of cattle at a fancy price in this tale set in the wild gold rush days of Dawson Yukon Territory. They are soon caught up in a conflict with the local self-appointed lawman John McIntire and his claim-jumping henchmen. When Brennan is killed Stewart is forced to put an end to rampant lawlessness in a guns-blazing climax. Ruth Roman plays a saloonkeeper who falls for Stewart. Also stars Steve Brodie Jack Elam Jay C. Flippen Kathleen Freeman Chubby Johnson Henry Morgan and Robert Wilke. Anthony Mann directed the film which was shot on location in Jasper National Park Alberta Canada.

• All About Eve | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (141.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's all about women.... and their men! From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door Eve Horrington (Anne Baxter) moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing (Bette Davies). The cunning Eve manoeuvres her way into Margo's Broadway role becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend (Gary Merrill) her playwright (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife (Celeste Holm). Only the cyni

• Gung Ho | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £6.36   |  Saving you £-1.37 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Marine raiders in a new outfit train for invasion in this gripping World War II action film. The bloodthirsty misfits of the 'Gung Ho' squadron become fierce fighting machines....

• Fun With Dick And Jane | DVD | (09/01/2006) from £9.59   |  Saving you £3.40 (35.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bonnie and Clyde they ain't. George Segal and Jane Fonda star in this hilarious send-up of upper middle-class mores and the price people are willing to pay to maintain a comfortable lifestyle. Just as they're putting in a new pool at the house that has sunk them deep into debt Dick is fired from his high-paying job as an executive. Housewife Jane isn't too worried at first figuring she'll go to work and they'll just tighten their belts for awhile but it quickly becomes appa

• Beethoven - the Symphonies (Von Karajan, Berliner Po) | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £17.59   |  Saving you £7.40 (42.07%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Now being released for the first time ever on DVD these performances pay tribute to the legendary Herbert von Karajan who recorded the complete Beethoven symphonies three times for Deutsche Grammophon.With the Berliner Philharmoniker and a stunning cast led by soprano Gundula Janowitz these performances remain the benchmark recordings unsurpassed by subsequent readings. Along with his role on the podium Maestro Karajan was also responsible for the thrilling visual direction.These recordings from the late sixties and early seventies offer insight into Maestro Karajan's role not only as a leading conductor but also as a pioneer in new media and filming techniques. This production set a new standard for the interpretation of Beethoven's Symphonies and in terms of music filming in general.

• Carefree | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £6.23   |  Saving you £3.76 (60.35%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A lawyer sends his girlfriend who cannot decide whether to marry him to a psychiatrist to help her increase her confidence. However she falls hopelessly in love with the charming psychiatrist who is uncertain of his best course of action... This delightful film features a superb score from Irving Berlin including the songs 'I Used To Be Colour Blind' 'The Yam' and 'The Night Is Filled With Music'.

• Fail Safe | DVD | (18/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  It is the Cold War. The world stands on the brink of nuclear catastrophe as tensions simmer between the US and the Soviet Union. When a US bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear bomb on Moscow it looks as if the fateful decision for all-out war will be taken by both sides. Having past the point of no return Colonel Jack Grady (George Clooney) pilots his bomber into Soviet territory refusing to yield to verbal commands to turn back. The U.S. President (Richard Dreyfuss)