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• The Devil's Brigade | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Whilst America was massing its forces at the beginning of World War 2, Britain had to keep the Germans at bay by mounting commando raids. To do this, the Allies created special task forces, one of which - the 1st Special Service Force - is destined for a raid on Norway. This force consists of Canadian and American conscripts and is lead by Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick (William Holden), who has the daunting task of moulding this renegade group into a crack team of commando warriors. But when t...

• Sabrina | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Humphrey Bogart William Holden and Audrey Hepburn star in a Cinderella story directed by renowned filmmaker Billy Wilder. Bogie and Holden are the mega-rich Larrabee brothers of Long Island. Bogie's all work Holden's all playboy. But when Sabrina (Hepburn) daughter of the family's chauffeur returns from Paris all grown up and glamorous the stage is set for some family fireworks as the brothers fall under the spell of Hepburn's delightful charms!

• Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Vol. 5 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £24.79   |  Saving you £-4.80 (-24.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tokyo becomes a killing field as a living wave of bio-organic metal sweeps through the city like the hands of a mad god! As Galatea's power continues to grow the Knight Sabers must join with the remnants of the A.D. Police in a desperate battle to stop the boomer onslaught. But will even their combined forces be enough when the boomers outnumber the humans by a million to one? An all-new series of HARDsuits with spectacular advanced capabilities may be mankind's only hope but th

• Twin Falls Idaho & Northfork (2 Disc Box Set) | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Northfork: Northfork is a mythical tale of loss and resurrection continuing The Polish Brothers' cinematic obsession with the American heartland and the country's shifting dreams and visions. It is 1955 and the barren town of Northfork is quite literally about to be 'dammed'. Plans for a new hydro-electric plant in the area mean that the plains on which the town stands are soon to be flooded. With most of the townsfolk already evacuated several stoic citizens remain among them a lustful young couple a modern-day Noah who has built an ark for his two wives and a frail orphan boy who dreams he is the lost member of a host of wandering angels. Charged with removing the last of the residents is an Evacuation Committee comprising of six trench-coated agents some of whom will discover their own lives profoundly changed before the deluge is over. (Dir. Michael Polish 2003) Twin Falls Idaho: A different kind of love story. The minute he wakes up and the minute before sleep - for two minutes each day Blake Falls feels alone. He tries to grab those minutes before they vanish. They are enough to remind him who he is. Francis Falls understands that if it weren't for Blake he wouldn't be able to make it. His conjoined twin's heart is very strong. Blake he knows could live without him. The brothers live quietly in an eccentric hotel peopled with odd characters talking in a shorthand formed over 25 years. They dress impeccably in a custom-tailored suit adjusting each other's ties; they dine on cotton candy and on their birthday their only meal is their trademark chocolate cake; they blow out two candles one at a time. They can keep straight faces while telling outrageous tales from their earlier days in show business. When Francis becomes ill Blake holds him through the night the way he always has. Together they feel complete. When Penny (Michele Hicks) a beautiful young woman enters their lives for the first time someone sees the brothers' world from the inside. She makes them think of possibilities when they're certain there aren't any. They start to wonder how it would be to feel complete in new ways. ""Maybe I'll call you when I'm single "" Blake quips. They imagine living not as medical anomalies but as individuals who can breathe walk and dream on their own. (Dir. Michael Polish 1999)

• One Good Turn | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Reunited with many of the team behind Trouble in Store (1953), his smash hit of the previous year, for his second starring role Norman Wisdom played the oldest orphan of Greenwood Children's Home. Having being raised in the home Norman has stayed on as odd-job man, a role which ideally suits his man-child persona. Not only does he have to find the money to buy one of the orphans a model car, but after a visit to Brighton he discovers Greenwood is due to be closed down by the home's own unscrupulous chairman, a property developer with plans to build a factory on the site. Also starring Thora Hird, One Good Turn was surely a film with a personal resonance for Wisdom who was himself brought-up in an orphanage after his mother died and his father was unable to raise him. As would become a tradition, he contributes a song, "Please Opportunity", and the movie, though produced by Rank, now sits easily in that classic Ealing era where the ordinary man took on the big guys and won. The innocent knockabout humour remains appealing and it is simply impossible not to like Norman Wisdom. The film's success led directly to the aptly named Man of the Moment (1955). --Gary S Dalkin

• Donizetti: La Fille du Regiment (Daughter of the Regiment) | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Daughter Of The Regiment - Opera in Two Acts by Gaetano Donizetti.Recorded at the Wolf Trap Festival 1974.

• William Burroughs: A Man Within | DVD | (26/12/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential cultural icons, with testimonies from artists, musicians, writers and friends. William Burroughs is now regarded as a huge influence over late 20th century fiction and cultural life. This documentary features previously unseen footage of Burroughs in conversation, as well as footage of him at many of his infamous readings, where he brought to life his writing, in front of audiences the world over.

• A Soldier's Story | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (-66.60%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Charles Fuller adapted his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play for the big screen in 1984. The film version, A Soldier's Story is essentially a murder mystery, played out against a background of inter and intra-racial conflict at a Second World War training camp. To the consternation of his white opposite number at the camp, a black captain (Howard W Rollins) arrives to investigate the death of a black sergeant (Adolph Caesar). Suspicion immediately falls on a pair of bigoted white officers but as the tale unfolds in a series of flashbacks, it soon becomes clear that a different kind of prejudice is also at work. Assisted by some excellent performances, director Norman Jewison opens the story out from its stage roots. There's a wonderful baseball scene (filmed on location at Little Rock) in which the double standards of Dennis Lipscomb's fidgety white captain are exposed with neat irony; he'll cheer his successful black team all the way home in the name of sport. His gradual, forced liberalisation provides the film with an important comic element. A Soldier's Story wears its heart on its sleeve without being superficial in any way. It's a compelling tale, well told and often highly entertaining, in which nobody gets off lightly, least of all the good guy. On the DVD: The widescreen presentation helps give an epic feel to what could, in other hands, have been a claustrophobic production. The picture quality is fine. But the monaural sound track is often rather muffled, leaving you straining to catch some of the dialogue. This is also a shame because the blues music--an inspired job by Herbie Hancock, assisted by Patti Labelle singing her lungs out as bar owner Big Mary--is an important element of the film's underlying theme and deserves to be better heard. The extras are valuable. Norman Jewison's commentary is detailed and sensitive. As he says, the film deals with "ideas in racism never seen on screen before", and he acknowledges the strength of his actors in getting those ideas across. "March to Freedom" is an excellent short documentary which features the moving testimonies of black servicemen on the insufferable prejudices they encountered while attempting to defend their country during the Second World War; A Soldier's Story is thus put sharply into context. --Piers Ford

• Little Annie Rooney | Blu Ray | (20/11/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Night Of The Living Dead | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Thirty years ago in the quiet Pennsylvania countryside the dead began to walk. Fuelled by an insatiable hunger for living human flesh the ghouls' ghastly quest inadvertently brought together six strangers whose inability to unite would ultimately lead to their tragic downfall. To celebrate its thirtieth anniversary the cult classic Night of the Living Dead has been expanded and enhanced to bring you the best visual and audio version ever available. So turn out the lights board up the windows and get ready for an all-new experience with the definitive horror film of all time.

• The Counterfeit Traitor | Blu Ray | (25/10/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Black Hawk Down - The Reel Collection | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The harrowing true account of what happened when a mission by a group of elite US troops in Somalia went terrribly wrong.

• The House On 92nd Street | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  ""The F.B.I.'s own tense terrific story behind the protection of the Atomic Bomb!"" Nazi spies have infiltrated America one of which tries to recruit a college graduate who then becomes a double agent for the F.B.I.

• Wes Craven's Don't Look Down | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Wes Craven acts as executive producer on this psychological horror film. Carla's (Megan Ward) sister accidentally falls off a cliff when the railing becomes loose while Carla's boyfriend takes photos. She has a hard time getting over her death and keeps having visions of her sister yelling at her for not saving her. It seems that every time she gets next to the edge of a high area she gets terrified. She then starts to take a class with other acrophobiacs. Then the people in the group start getting killed one by one. She starts to suspect that someone wants her never to get over her fear and that he loose railing was meant for her...

• Britain At War - Keep Smiling Through | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The fighting spirit of the people during World War 2 has never been denied. From the home front to the front line they kept smiling through - with a little help fromt he stars in battle dress. Arthur Askey Jack Warner Gert & Daisy Max Wall Tommy Trinder and George Formby all lent a hand each bringing their individual brand of humour to the war effort. New songs and old favourites sung by Gracie Fields Beryl Davis Syd Walker and Bernie Clifton all helped to raise morale. While an army of unsung amateur performers enlisted by ENSA entertained their hearts out for the troops the public and the spirit of the nation. This warm funny and highly enjoyable programme will keep you smiling too.

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

  A tollbooth attendant's fascination with a young woman who works at a gas station leads him into a love triangle and murder.

• Bullitt / Getaway / The Towering Inferno | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Bullitt: Detective Frank Bullitt's new assignment seems routine: protect a star witness for an important trial. But before the night is out the witness lies dying and the cool no-nonsense Bullitt ( Steve McQueen) won't rest until the shooters - and the kingpin pulling their strings - are nailed. The Getaway: Master thief Doc McCoy knows his wife has been in bed with the local political boss in order to spring him from jail. What he can't know is the sinister succession of double-crosses that will sour the deal once he's on the oustisde - and executing the ultimate robbery. Towering Inferno: A dedication ceremony at the world's tallest skyscraper turns into a high-rise catastrophe when an electrical flare-up causes a raging fire trapping society's most prominent citizens on the top floor!

• Family Plot | Blu Ray | (10/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Devil Doll | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Grab a good seat and don't look away from the stage for The Great Vorelli (Bryant Haliday) is about to dazzle London with his eerie mixture of hypnotism and ventriloquism. However there may be something a little too lifelike about his dummy Hugo who has the ability to walk across the stage all by himself. Experience the haunting imagery and unforgettable twist ending of Devil Doll the cult horror classic from producer Richard Gordon which has chilled audiences for decades. Hailed as tense and terrifying this gem of psychological suspense and supernatural thrills can now be enjoyed in a dazzling new transfer--so little Hugo can reach out and shock you like never before!

• CSI: Vegas: Season One | Blu Ray | (05/04/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A