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• March Comes in Like a Lion - Season 1 Part 1 (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (03/07/2023) from £22.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Chica Umino, the author of Honey & Clover, comes the award-winning coming-of-age manga about a shogi player and the meaning of familynow brought to life in full animation for the first time by director Akiyuki Shinbo (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, the Monogatari series)! Rei Kiriyama is a seventeen year old professional shogi player. Among the youngest in history to go pro, he has many expectations for the future, yet his recent separation from his foster family has left him conflicted and his career has stagnated. However, after meeting a family of three sisters, color slowly returns to his life

• Science Fell in Love So I Tried to Prove It (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/03/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Punk Samurai | Blu Ray | (13/03/2023) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Legendary punk director Gakuryu Ishii (Sogo Ishii) adapts the famously unfilmable Kou Machida novel Punk Samurai Slash Down, telling the story of Junoshin Kake (Go Ayano), a ronin samurai with ambitions to be a part of the Kuroae clan. In search of employment and a permanent position and having committed murder the ronin Kake Junoshin tells the Kuroae clan that a religious cult is aiming for their destruction. This gets him in, but he is soon disproved and arrested. Given the death sentence and awaiting death he has to be quick on his feet and figure out a way to get himself out of the hole. Then the resurrection occurs. Special Features: Making Of (66 mins) Go Ayano interview (6 mins) Premiere Stage Greetings (16 mins) Trailer Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju Reversible Sleeve featuring original Japanese artwork Slipcase edition limited to 1000 copies

• Al Berto | DVD | (11/06/2018) from £7.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It s 1975 and when the winds of change are blowing over post-revolutionary Portugal. Al Berto returns to his small village after several years in Brussels, where he was trained as a painter. Settling illegally in a mansion that had been expropriated from his family during the revolution, young Al Berto begins to hang out with locals who share his interest in the arts and dream of a different life. Among them is the handsome João Maria -who will soon become Al Berto s lover. Soon Al Berto begins a counter-culture revolution that bewitches the towns youngsters but threatens the ideals of the most conservative locals.

• La Ronde | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £9.35   |  Saving you £10.64 (113.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Max Ophuls is widely regarded to be one of the greatest and most revered directors in the history of cinema. His trademark array of lavish fluid camera movements would influence generations of filmmakers to come. Among the many who have had praised his genius are Francois Truffaut Jean-Luc Goddard Martin Scorsese Stanley Kubrick who believed his camera could pass through walls and more recently directors such as Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine Far From Heaven) and Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights Magnolia) who called him his idol. Now for the first time on DVD Orphuls masterpiece La Ronde. Anton Walbrook is the enigmatic omnipotent master of ceremonies guiding us through a series of amorous encounters in Vienna of 1900. Featuring some of the greatest names in French cinema Max Ophuls' wonderful adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's play was honoured with a BAFTA for 'Best Film' as well as Oscar nominations.

• The Turning | DVD | (06/04/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The very best of Australian screen talent combine to recreate the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. Seventeen directors from diverse artistic backgrounds each direct a chapter from the novel with a star-studded cast that includes Cate Blanchett. Linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret relationships irretrievably alter resolves are made or broken and lives change direction forever. Featuring the directing debut of Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland Tracks).

• Naruto The Movie 2: Legend Of The Stone Of Gelel | DVD | (29/12/2008) from £17.04   |  Saving you £0.95 (5.58%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Naruto Shikamaru and Sakura are executing their mission of delivering a lost pet to a certain village. However right in the midst of things troops led by the mysterious knight Temujin attack them. In the violent battle the three become separated. Temujin challenges Naruto to a fight and at the end of the fierce battle both fall together from a high cliff. Furthermore Shikamaru having been left behind beholds a giant moving fortress as it appears before his very eyes. In order to get a grasp on the situation he infiltrates the fortress by himself however once there he witnesses a frightening sight...

• Mon Oncle | Blu Ray | (24/11/2014) from £17.09   |  Saving you £5.90 (34.52%)   |  RRP £22.99

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• Claymore - Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (30/01/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a world rife with deadly creatures called youma , a young silver eyed woman, Clare, works on behalf of an organization that trains female youma halfbreeds into warriors with the ability to destroy these creatures. Considered a rogue for picking up a stray child and almost losing herself to her youma side by Awakening , she is constantly assigned rather dangerous missions.

• Property is No Longer a Theft | Blu Ray | (20/03/2017) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Having tackled the corrupting nature of power with Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and taken an angry, impassioned look at labour relations with The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Italian master Elio Petri next turned his attentions to capitalism for the darkly comic Property is No Longer a Theft. A young bank clerk (Flavio Bucci, the blind pianist in Dario Argento's Suspiria), denied a loan by his employer, decides to exact his revenge the local butcher (Ugo Tognazzi, La Grande bouffe) who is not only a nasty, violent, greedy piece of work but also one of the bank's star customers. Quitting his job, the clerk devotes all of his time tormenting the butcher, stealing his possessions one-by-one, including his mistress (Daria Nicolodi, Deep Red). Told in an off-kilter fashion by Petri, abetted by the woozy sound design and another outstanding score by Ennio Morricone, Property is No Longer a Theft presents a caustic, blackly comic look at a corrupt society.

• Somali and the Forest Spirit (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/03/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Blue Lock Part 1 | Blu Ray | (15/01/2024) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Japan's desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team's next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer?

• Adoption | Blu Ray | (12/07/2021) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Márta Mészáros is without doubt one of the most significant female directors from Central Europe, with the majority of her outspoken work dealing frankly with issues of gender, politics and society. Adoption, one of her best-known works, is a story about the hushed rebellion of two strong women, one in her forties and one in her teens. 43-year-old Kata longs to have a child of her own. Rejected by her married lover, Kata looks into adoption, and befriends orphaned teenager Anna, herself determined to start a new life for herself. Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 1975 Berlin Film Festival, Márta Mészáros became the first woman filmmaker ever to receive the award. Seen today, Adoption, which features a single woman who constantly defies expectations, is powerful not just as a refreshing counterpoint to Europe's rising conservatism but, even more importantly, in the context of bold feminist cinema. Ela Bittencourt, Sight & Sound Adoption rings with a relevant message of self-empowerment and decisively taking control of one's fate in the face of a dour and uncaring society. Julia Ray, Cinema Rediscovered Special Features: Adoption (Örökbefogadás, 1975) presented from an HD transfer of the new restoration by the Hungarian National Digital Archive and Film Institute A Conversation with Márta Mészáros (2009): an archival filmed interview with the director Trailer Booklet with new writing on the film by Carmen Gray New and improved English subtitle translation World premiere on Blu-ray Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)

• The Past | Blu Ray | (09/06/2014) from £14.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following a four-year separation Ahmad returns to Paris from Tehran upon his French wife Marie's request in order to finalize their divorce procedure. During his stay Ahmad quickly discovers the conflicting nature of Marie's relationship with her daughter Lucie. But Ahmad's attempts to build bridges between the two soon begin to encroach on Marie's new partner Samir (Tahar Rahim A Prophet) and as tensions begin to mount it soon becomes clear that the past is only close behind... Directed by Palme d'Or winner Asgar Farhadi (A Separation) and featuring an unforgettable central performance by Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) that earned her the Best Actress award at Cannes 2013 The Past is a tight-knit family drama as gripping as any thriller.

• Eden of the East The Complete Collection | DVD | (14/11/2022) from £16.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  !On November 22nd, 2010, ten missiles strike Japan. Known as Careless Monday, this attack does not result in any apparent victims, and is soon forgotten by almost everyone. Then, three months later... Saki Morimi, a young woman currently Washington D.C. on her graduation trip, is saved by a mysterious man, who has lost his memory, and has nothing except for a gun and a phone with 8.2 BILLION yen in digital cash.

• Borgen: Season 3 | Blu Ray | (16/12/2013) from £13.99   |  Saving you £21.00 (150.11%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Can you attain power and still be yourself? Over two years have passed and Birgitte Nyborg is no longer the Prime Minister of Denmark. Disillusioned with the way her old party is heading she decides to try to make a comeback by publicly challenging the incumbent Party Chairman. Failing narrowly in this attempt Birgitte assesses her options and concludes that her only way back into politics is to start again and found a new political party. Forging an unlikely alliance with journalist Katrine Fønsmark who becomes her new media adviser and spokesman the third season of Borgenfollows the journey of Nyborg and her new party towards a taking a fresh shot at parliament and fighting her way back to power back to Borgen.

• Bromance | DVD | (27/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When four friends go on a camping trip in a remote part of Argentina, sexual tensions quickly bubble to the surface. Once in virtual seclusion by the beach, Juli (the only girl) quickly recognises that that the boys seem to have a closer relationship than what she would consider normal . The line between friendship and love fade further for two of the boys in particular as their desire becomes too much to bear. When what started as a simple getaway quickly becomes tinged with sex, romance, and conflict, everyone is forced to confront who they really are for the very first time.

• Queer As Folk USA - Season 2 Box Set | DVD | (24/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  They're here they're queer and they make Sex & The City look like a demure tea party. Showtime's quintessentially American Queer As Folk--based on the British miniseries--pours on copious amounts of hot and steamy sex. This slick (and slickly entertaining) series shares the same basic concept as its British counterpart--centering on a group of gay friends living in a primarily industrial city--but after that all bets are off. Whereas the British version focused on the gritty realistic drama of its characters the American QAF is a glossy fun soap opera that occasionally tackles big issues but never lets you forget that life at times can be a party and you shouldn't be one of those poor suckers starving to death. A good part of the show's charm lies in its cast--boy-next-door Michael (Hal Sparks) ruthlessly seductive rake Brian (Gale Harold) out-and-proud Emmett (Peter Paige) wallflower Ted (Scott Lowell) and nubile teen Justin (Randy Harrison)--who grew from standard gay prototypes to intriguing characters by the first season's end. And while some subplots didn't work (such as Emmett's farfetched foray into gay-conversion therapy) others were quietly affecting including Brian's coping with his father's death. Some may object to the show's relentless fixation on sex (and gay men--there are just two lesbian characters) but this is a series that in its own polished way is both engrossingly fun and truly groundbreaking. It's liberating to watch an American TV series in which the straight world is only peripheral. Let's hear it for the boys!

• A Hijacking (Kapringen) | Blu Ray | (26/08/2013) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A tense, chilling drama following the emotional journeys of a ship's crew as they are hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean.

• Northwest | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £4.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (236.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Eighteen-year-old Casper (Gustav Dyekjær Giese) who lives in the infamous Nordvest suburb of Copenhagen with his mother brother Andy and sister Freya is a talented housebreaker who makes ends meet committing burglaries for neighbourhood boss Jamal. When a rival gangster Bjorn makes Caspar an offer of more lucrative terms and perhaps the promise of advancement through the ranks of his very white Danish family the enraged Jamal is not prepared to tolerate defection; things violently escalate placing the teenager and his family at the centre of a toxic conflict. What could be a predictable genre tale is elevated far above the ordinary by director Noer s fresh script and restrained approach and by Gustav Dyekjær Giese s natural and powerful performance. His remarkable stillness only serves to intensify Casper s inner turmoil.