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• Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. | Blu Ray | (10/12/2018) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge s Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka s armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the government in the face of a vicious and bloody civil war. When her family fled to the UK, she became Maya, a precocious and creative immigrant teenager in London. Finally, the world met her as M.I.A. when she emerged on the global stage, having created a mashup, cut-and-paste identity that pulled from every corner of her journey along the way; a sonic sketchbook that blended Tamil politics, art school punk, hip-hop beats and the unwavering, ultra-confident voice of a burgeoning multicultural youth. Never one to compromise on her vision, Maya kept her camera rolling throughout. MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. provides unparalleled, intimate access to the artist in her battles with the music industry and mainstream media as her success and fame explodes, becoming one of the most recognizable, outspoken and provocative voices in music today.

• British Transport Films Collection - Vol. 3 - Running A Railway | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £15.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Running a Railway is the third release in bfi Video's digitally re-mastered double-disc DVD series of British Transport Films combining favourites from the much loved and best-selling video series with additional material. This new collection contains four hours of footage including the multi-award-winning Terminus directed by John Schlesinger. Among these rare gems are: Farmer Moving South (1952): The true story of a Yorkshire farmer who decided to sell his land and move his entire stock - cattle pigs and poultry machinery ploughs and tractors - south to Sussex by rail in December on what was the coldest night of the year. I Am A Litter Basket (1959): Every day the people who use railway stations drop hundreds of tons of litter all over the place while me and my mates have to stand by empty and starving. Until one day we get so desperate we go foraging for ourselves. And what happens? Take a look at this film. It makes me weep to think of it. I nearly gave up all hope until - but wait and see! Modelling for the Future (1961) Visions of an earlier Channel Tunnel scheme and a model of the proposed terminal. This film demonstrates a range of facilities and shows the possibilities of an age-old dream - a dry land crossing between England and France. The Third Sam (1962) - Sam Smith is taught to drive an electric locomotive. He learns the new job without difficulty but one day his train breaks down and Sam summons up three sides of his character to deal with the emergency. With narration in typical rhyming monologue by Stanley Holloway this is an original and amusing approach to instructional filmmaking. E For Experimental (1975): An account of the development of British Rail's experimental Advanced Passenger Train (APT) The film explains in simple terms some of the many novel design features of the APT including the tilt mechanism and the hydro-kinetic brake and shows the train in action during its trials. All these films are now preserved in the bfi National Film and Television Archive. The DVDs are a 'must' not only for the transport enthusiast but also for anyone who enjoys historical documentary films. A booklet containing an introduction and film notes by BTF historian Steven Foxon accompanies the discs.

• The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air - Season 3 | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £5.35   |  Saving you £24.64 (460.56%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A wealthy family living in Bel-Air California receives a dubious gift from their poorer relations in Philadelphia when Grammy Award-winner Will Smith arrives as The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. His mother wants him to learn some good old-fashioned values from his successful relatives. But Will shatters the sophisticated serenity of Bel-Air with his streetwise common sense much to the dismay of his upper-crust uncle Philip Banks (James Avery) Aunt Vivian (Janet Hubert-Whitten and Daph

• Eurythmics - Peacetour | DVD | (28/06/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-3.44 (-57.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As music DVDs go, sweet dreams must surely be made of this. Quite apart from carrying a great performance (although the music production is perhaps too sanitary overall), the label appears to have gone all-out to ensure that pretty much every extra feature that the DVD format supports is represented here in the best possible way. The performance is taken from the final (London Docklands Arena) date of the 1999 tour in support of Amnesty International and Greenpeace and includes all the classics you'd expect. There are some nice multi-angle options on a couple of the songs, a self-congratulatory and patronising interview/documentary section (but better to have it than not), a discography, a complete lyrics section, and a rather dull gallery of photographs which looks like a way of using up the PR department's leftovers. But the music's great if you're a fan and pretty damn good even if you're not, and as a demonstration of how all music DVDs should be produced--i.e. stuffed to the last possible byte with all kinds of material--this release is the business. --Roger Thomas

• Disturbing Behavior | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This paranoia-fuelled thriller, more intelligent and imaginative than you would have reason to believe, owes a huge debt to The Stepford Wives with its premise of a goody-good high school clique programmed by an evil doctor to be wholesome, academically driven and shining examples of clean living. Unlike its predecessor, though, David Nutter's film opts to open up its premise for everyone to see, diluting the scares but amplifying the creepy atmosphere. There's never any question of what's happening to the students of Cradle Bay High, who go from being druggies and sex fiends to the academically excellent Blue Ribbons, but it's a lot of fun to see these programmed teens run amok--and start killing people--when their hormones kick in. And considering they're all horny teenagers, this happens, oh, at least a few times a day. Model-perfect James Marsden, with stunning cheekbones and piercing blue eyes, is the new kid in town who stumbles on the plot with a little help from metalhead Nick Stahl. Moody Marsden stirs up trouble when he refuses to join up with the Blue Ribbons, prompting his concerned parents to consider signing him up for the program, especially after it turns Stahl into a vest-wearing, pep-rallying brainiac. The satire isn't entirely fulfilled (the evil kids hang out at the yoghurt shop and spout inspirational platitudes), but once the action kicks in it's quite an enjoyable ride, thanks primarily to Bruce Greenwood (The Sweet Hereafter) as the mad scientist behind it all and Katie Holmes (Go) as Marsden's love interest. Refusing the advances of the star football player and fighting gamely alongside Marsden, Holmes manages to deck a few bad guys with a fervour that squarely puts her in Linda Hamilton and Jamie Lee Curtis territory. Steve Railsback stars as the colluding chief of police and Dan Zudovic as a janitor with a penchant for getting rid of "rats," rodent and otherwise. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

• El Crimen Del Padre Amaro | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £5.85   |  Saving you £15.40 (335.51%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mam Tambin Amores Perros) stars as a recently ordained priest sent to help an aging priest run a small parish church in rural Mexico. Upon arriving at his new post he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession. Quickly her passion for her faith becomes helplessly entangled in a growing attraction to the new priest. But when the handsome priest crosses the line that separates temptation from sin he finds himself torn

• Flying Fifty-Five | DVD | (22/04/2013) from £4.33   |  Saving you £5.66 (130.72%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Adapting a novel by Edgar Wallace, one of the twentieth century's most successful and prolific thriller writers, Flying 55 sets an exciting tale of double-crossing and blackmail amid the glamour of the horse-racing world. Featured here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements, Flying 55 is showcased in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey - just about the only thing he's really good at. ...

• A Tale Of Two Sisters | DVD | (01/02/2007) from £6.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (54.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  'Our sorrow was conceived long before our birth...' When sisters Su-mi (Lim Soo-jeong) and Su-yeon (Mun Geun-yeong) return home from a sanitarium having supposedly recovered their health their stepmother Eun-joo (Yum Jung-ah) welcomes them back. However elder sister Su-mi intentionally avoids her and younger sibling Su-yeon shows a smack of fear for her. Soon strange things begin to happen in the house. Footsteps are heard and Eun-joo's birds are mysteriously poisoned. Assuming Su-yeon is behind the inauspicious incidents the stepmother locks her in the closet and when Su-mi learns about the cruel punishment conflict between the stepmother and two sisters becomes more bitter than ever... Based on the classic Korean folk tale 'Janghwa Hongryeon' Kim Ji-woon's accomplished chiller is a uniquely lush addition to the best of Asian cinema.

• Golf Balls | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Lavish clubhouse manicured greens 18 holes of golfing paradise...not! Tattered and almost without any customers Penneytree has become the target of a takeover by its competitor Bentwood Country Club. Inspired by a freak accident Liberty Penneytree hatches a plan to bring in more golfers. Gorgeous ladies led by 'Barbara The Bod' and the fun filled 'cart wash' are the attractions as busloads of new customers flock to the new Penneytree Golf Club. Bentwood issues the ultimate challenge a winner-take-all-match between Penneytree and Bentwood your pro against my pro. The winner gets the loser's property. Who's gonna win and who's gonna get the shaft?

• The Christmas I Love | DVD | (05/12/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tracklist:1. O Daughter Of Zion 2. From Heaven High I Come To You (Medley) 3. Tomorrow's The Day Children 4. Angels We Have Heard On High 5. Come Little Children6. It Was Born The Heavenly Child7. O Christmas Tree 8. The Little Drummer Boy 9. Lullaby (Guten Abend, gut' Nacht) 10. Jingle Bells 11. Ave Maria 12. Christmas Rose 13. Winter (Largo From The Four Seasons) 14. Every Year Anew 15. Oh, How Joyfully 16. Never Have The Bells Sung More Sweetly 17. O Sweet Child Jesus18. Let Us Be Happy And Jolly19. White Christmas 20. Sleigh Ride 21. Evening Prayer (From Hnsel & Gretel) 22. Softly Falls The Snow 23. Ring Out Little Bell 24. O Come Al Ye Faithful25. The Holy City 26. Petersburg Sleigh Ride 27. Silent Night

• Napola | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £22.96   |  Saving you £0.02 (0.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Men Make History. We Make The Men. As Hitler launches the first major military aggressions of World War II the strongest and smartest German young men enter exclusive schools known as ""Napolas"" to train as future leaders of the Third Reich. In 1942 a recruiter from one such Napola sets his sights on Friedrich a talented adolescent boxer who sees the training and prestige offered by the Napola as his ticket out of an impoverished family unit run by his anti-Nazi father. In

• Jackass - The Movie | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £3.80   |  Saving you £16.19 (426.05%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time.

• Flame | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Nine Queens | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If David Mamet had been born in Buenos Aires instead of Chicago, Nine Queens is most likely the kind of movie he'd be making. An intricate, playful scam caper, where not only the characters but we the audience are constantly trying to suss out who's screwing whom--and how, and why--it's a movie very much in the Mametian mould. But at the same time the Argentinian setting gives Fabian Bielinsky's debut feature a specifically Latin pungency and the urgent sense of a society teetering over a financial abyss. Which is all the more remarkable since, even though a key plot-point turns on a bank going bust, the movie was made a few months before the Argentinean economy went belly-up. The intrigue grips from the very outset as Juan, a young con artist, overreaches himself in a grocery store. He's rescued from disaster by Marcos, an older and more experienced grifter, who then takes him on in a master-pupil relationship. When the chance of a major coup involving some rare stamps (the Queens of the title) turns up, the partnership starts coming under strain; can either one really trust the other? And is either who he pretends to be? The plot suffers from a few implausibilities and loose ends, but sustains its momentum beguilingly. Ricardo Darín, as the saturnine Marcos, and Gastón Pauls as the fresh-faced, seemingly ingenuous Juan play off each other beautifully--but the dominant character is the seething, hustling city of Buenos Aires itself, where social mores are fluid and uncertain, and everybody has his eye out for the main chance. This is a society Bielinsky (who also scripted) clearly knows intimately, and like a true con-artist he makes shrewd use of his expertise to keep us guessing right up to the final twist. –-Philip Kemp

• We've Got Christmas Mail | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An Unexpected Delivery That Changed Their Lives...

• Black Sheep | DVD | (03/11/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £10.61 (66.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Deviant, multi-stranded black comedy set in the dark underbelly of modern Berlin. The story follows a group of deadbeats as they act out their bizarre and twisted plans to hit the big time. Satanists, prostitutes, artists and thieves are just some of the unsavoury characters looming large in this anarchically offbeat urban parody.

• Unstoppable | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You can't stop a man who will stop at nothing... A former Army Special Ops soldier mistaken for a government agent is injected with a hallucinogenic mind-control drug that allows people to alter his reality with simple suggestions. Finding himself on the run he must search for the antidote while battling his foes his inner demons and the illusions the drug allows his enemies to create...

• Cirque Du Soleil-Saltimbanco | DVD | (15/06/2004) from £4.77   |  Saving you £8.22 (172.33%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Eclectic evocative and breathtakingly dazzling! A celebration of life where an international troupe of more than fifty performers ranging from 8 to 45 years of age defy gravity and dazzle with their artistry. A panoply of acts in which top-notch acrobatics are executed with masterly beauty handbalancing double trapeze double tightrope Chinese poles the Russian swing bungees jugglers and clowns. Created in 1994 as an antidote to the violence and despair typical of the 20th century this phantasmagorical show proposes a new vision of urbanity overflowing with optimism and happiness. Saltimbanco is not linear; rather it is a kaleidoscope an adventure in which anything can happen. Saltimbanco has its own language a soul expressed through the voice the body and music.

• How To Make A Monster | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £8.07   |  Saving you £11.92 (59.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  More than any other of the Creature feature titles How To Make a Monster truly brings the classic 1950's horror genre into the 21st Century. Reality and fantasy collide head-on in the adolescent world of computer game creation. A greedy band of misfit programmers is hired to create the most gruesome monster for the ultimate scary video game ""Evil-ution."" However each game programmer begins to disappear as they are individually hunted and killed by an indestructible monster - the mo

• Pirates of Somalia | DVD | (29/01/2018) from £9.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them.