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• Princess Mononoke | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Princess Mononoke has already made history as the top-grossing domestic feature ever released in Japan, where its combination of mythic themes, mystical forces, and ravishing visuals tapped deeply into cultural identity and contemporary, ecological anxieties. For international animation and anime fans, this epic, animated 1997 fantasy, represents an auspicious next step for its revered creator, Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service), an acknowledged anime pioneer, whose painterly style, vivid character design, and stylised approach to storytelling take ambitious, evolutionary steps here. Set in medieval Japan, Miyazaki's original story envisions a struggle between nature and man. The march of technology, embodied in the dark iron forges of the ambitious Tatara clan, threatens the natural forces explicit in the benevolent Great God of the Forest and the wide-eyed, spectral spirits he protects. When Ashitaka, a young warrior from a remote, and endangered, village clan, kills a ravenous, boar-like monster, he discovers the beast is in fact an infectious "demon god", transformed by human anger. Ashitaka's quest to solve the beast's fatal curse brings him into the midst of human political intrigues as well as the more crucial battle between man and nature. Miyazaki's convoluted fable is clearly not the stuff of kiddie matinees, nor is the often graphic violence depicted during the battles that ensue. If some younger viewers (or less attentive older ones) will wish for a diagram to sort out the players, Miyazaki's atmospheric world and its lush visual design are reasons enough to watch. For the English-language version, Miramax assembled an impressive vocal cast including Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup (as Ashitaka), Claire Danes (as San), Minnie Driver (as Lady Eboshi), Billy Bob Thornton, and Jada Pinkett Smith. They bring added nuance to a very different kind of magic kingdom. -- Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com On the DVD: with an impressive widescreen aspect of 2.35:1 and a pleasant 5.1 Dolby digital sound, you cannot fault the transfer of this animation in any way. However, the special features leave a lot to be desired on what is a classic piece of modern anime. The "Behind the Scenes" feature holds no information on the making of Princess Mononoke in its original form--with no input from animator Hayao Miyazaki--and the trailer is taken from the American release of the movie (even though it calls itself an "original" theatrical trailer), complete with the annoyingly hyped-up voiceover that comes with US film trailers. The redeeming feature of this DVD is the ability to watch the anime in its original language with subtitles, a much more passionate and beautiful form--so much of the feeling and lyricism of the movie is lost with the transfer to English language and misplaced casting. After watching the original Japanese version of Princess Mononoke and reading the book you begin to wonder why the West has become such a solitary child of Disney. --Nikki Disney

• Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 - Message To Love | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Thirty years ago half a million flower children set sail for the Isle Of Wight in search of peace love and understanding. They also witnessed one of the greatest ever rock festivals with legendary live performances from well known greats of the era. This DVD tells the story of the great event from backstage banter to the terrific live performances. Featuring performances by: The Doors - 'When The Music's Over' The Who - 'Young Man Blues' Jimi Hendrix - 'Machine Gun' Joni

• Flash Gordon | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £6.87   |  Saving you £9.12 (132.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When the totalitarian planet of Mongo decides on a whim to obliterate Earth, it's up to the quarterback Flash Gordon and his oddball companions to make the universe safe for democracy. Based on the classic (and infinitely more reputable) comic strip and its 1930s screen serialisation, this candy-coloured trash classic deserves immortality for Queen's unforgettably pulsating soundtrack alone. The legendary Max von Sydow appears to be having a blast as the evil Ming the Merciless, while Ornella Muti, as his daughter, is the living embodiment of what attracts adolescent boys to comics in the first place. (She makes Barbarella look mundane.) One of the most shamelessly entertaining movies ever made, this is a knowingly absurd sensory freak-out that'll have the viewer blissfully checking the sky afterward for signs of Hawkmen. --Andrew Wright

• Barb Wire | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £5.64   |  Saving you £4.35 (77.13%)   |  RRP £9.99

  ""Don't call me babe!"" Pamela Anderson is Barb Wire the sexiest toughest woman in Steel Harbor a city marked by chaos and crime providing a home for a new kind of mercenary. If you've got a problem Barb Wire is the solution. She'll use any dangerous weapon - including her own body - to take what she wants crossing the line for no man until the day Axel Hood hits town. He's on a mission and Barb is the only one who can get him out of town alive. Will Barb help the ma

• All American Murder | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Artie Logan (Schlatter) is about to enter a jungle of sex sleaze and murder. He's going to college! Christopher Walken stars in this suspense-filled thriller that explores the dark and twisted obsessions of a brutal killer. The killer's world is a world where the line between right and wrong is a jagged one....

• Arlington Road | Blu Ray | (10/04/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Contract | Blu Ray | (03/08/2009) from £11.44   |  Saving you £4.55 (39.77%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A father, who wants to redeem himself in the eyes of his son, tries to bring a world-class assassin to justice.

• Law Of Desire | DVD | (20/02/2017) from £4.56   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Law of Desire was an instrumental in bringing Pedro Almodóvar to a wider audience outside of his native Spain. Never one to ostracize audiences, Almodóvar here offers something to offend and delight everyone. Popular film director Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) is frustrated by his relationship with straight ˜lover' Juan (Miguel Molina) and soon Pablo's blue-collar lover is banished to the country. Itching to fill the gap in Pablo's life is the handsome and horny Antonio (Antonio Banderas), an obsessive fan of Pablo's homoerotic movies. Also pricking Pablo's personal and professional attention is Tina (a superb Carmen Maura), his sex-changed brother who is now a lesbian. Witty, sexy and utterly audacious, Law of Desire is Almodóvar at his most outrageous, provocative and insightful. Extras: Around Law of Desire Introduction by José Arroyo Trailer

• Thunderbirds: Volume 1 | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £5.46   |  Saving you £10.53 (192.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Filmed in VIDECOLOR [explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax] and SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a) the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracey boys take second place in the audiences' affections to their cool machines--the real stars of the show--while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catchphrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracey, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company.) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nailbitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. On this DVD: International Rescue's very first adventure provides a template for all the rest: in "Trapped in the Sky" an experimental new aircraft becomes the target of an evil Bond-style megalomaniac who wants to get his hands on all the neat pieces of kit operated by the Tracey siblings. The show introduces, in fetishistic detail, the recurring set-pieces: Thunderbird 1 taking off from the roll-back swimming pool, which pod will Thunderbird 2 use this week--the mole or the submarine perhaps?--and so on. Nostalgia fans will be pleased to learn that despite digital remastering the puppet strings are still in evidence, and no amount of high-tech restoration could remove the clunky expository dialogue: Stewardess: "It's the maiden flight of the new atomic-powered Fireflash." Passenger: "Isn't that the new aircraft that flies six times the speed of sound?" Stewardess: "That's right, but don't worry: it's perfectly safe." [Cut to: interior, Fireflash landing gear, a device clearly labelled "Auto-Bomb Detonator Unit"] Sinister bad guy (talking to himself for no readily apparent reason): "Perfect. Enough explosives to smash the Atomic Reactor." In the second episode, "Pit of Peril", an absurdly impractical US Army vehicle falls into the eponymous pit, necessitating use of pod five, the mole. Joy! Lady Penelope indulges in some James-Bond-style counter-espionage measures in the third episode, "The Perils of Penelope", while Parker indulges some of his famous Eliza Dolittle-isms; although he is trumped by the Cary Grant sound-a-like character Sir Jeremy Hodge (or 'odge as Parker would have it), whose response to a crisis is, "I say, open the door, we're British!". Then it's back to the action for the fourth episode, "Terror in New York City", in which poor Virgil is shot down by the US Navy in Thunderbird 2 before the boys must rescue an unscrupulous newshound from the wreckage of the Empire State Building (featuring the first appearance of their very own yellow submarine, Thunderbird 4) --Mark Walker

• From Up On Poppy Hill Steelbook | Blu Ray | (12/10/2020) from £30.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the legendary and highly celebrated Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Ponyo) comes FROM UP ON POPPY HILL, the uniquely inspired coming-of-age story directed by Goro Miyazaki from the screenplay by his father, Hayao Miyazaki. Set in Yokohama in 1963, this lovingly hand-drawn film centres on Umi and Shun and the budding romance that develops as they join forces to save their high school's ramshackle clubhouse from demolition. The top-grossing Japanese film of 2011 and winner of the Japan Academy Prize for Animation, FROM UP ON POPPY HILL captures the innocence of new love as well as the beauty of Yokohama's harbour and lush surroundings. The English language version also features the voices of Sarah Bolger, Anton Yelchin, Jamie Lee Curtis and Christina Hendricks. Extras: Press Conference Theme Song Announcement Interview with Goro Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki's Staff Speech Music Video Summer of Farewells - From Up On Poppy Hill - Performed by Aoi Teshima Yokohama - Stories of Past and Present

• The Six Million Dollar Man - Vol. 2 | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £12.42   |  Saving you £-2.43 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Steve Austin returns for three more exhilarating action-packed adventures: ""Day of the Robot"" ""Run Steve Run"" and ""Return of the Robot Maker"".

• Going Back | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £5.72   |  Saving you £0.26 (9.52%)   |  RRP £2.99

  For the men of Echo Company it was hell to get out but they found it even harder... Going Back. From the Director of Boys in Company C and starring Casper Van Dien as Captain Ramsey comes a hard fought drama about Echo Company one of the hardest hit American units of the Vietnam War.Kethleen Martin (Carre Otis) a TV journalist is assigned on location to Vietnam to cover the reunion of Echo Company as they revisit old battlefields. Kathleen's documentary gets off to a rocky start when it is revealed that Captain Ramsey was accused of providing wrong bombing coordinates causing the deaths of his own men. The drama unfolds as we learn of the men and their stories culminating in the re-enactment of that fateful day.

• Scary Movie 4 | Blu Ray | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Anna Faris and Regina Hall return to save the world from a ruthless alien invasion in this new spoof!

• The Objective | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £4.60   |  Saving you £3.39 (73.70%)   |  RRP £7.99

  From the acclaimed director of The Blair Witch Project. When reconnaissance satellites pick a radioactive heat signature in a remote tribal region of Afghanistan CIA Agent Ben Keynes and his highly trained Special Ops team are sent in to investigate the phenomenon. Amid the bedlam of the war torn region the Agency fears that AlQaida has finally got its hands on a nuclear weapon. As the team head into the barren Afghan desert it soon becomes clear that this threat may be coming from something infinitely more powerful and definitely not human. How do you fight an enemy that is not of this world?

• Firewalker | Blu Ray | (04/04/2016) from £12.09   |  Saving you £3.90 (32.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This smashing, no-holds-barred adventure stars action legend Chuck Norris (Missing in Action) and Lou Gossett (Toy Soldiers) as a pair of treasure-hunters with a knack for finding danger at every turn! After a long career of mishaps, wrong turns and utter failures, archaeological adventurers Max (Norris) and Leo (Gossett) are ready to call it quits until a spunky blonde beauty with an ancient treasure map hires them to guide her into Central America to find Aztec gold. But as they draw closer to the priceless bounty, they are unaware that a powerful, vengeful spirit is tracking their every move and will stop at nothing to protect the sacred treasure!

• The Tracy Anderson Method - Dance Cardio Workout II | DVD | (26/12/2011) from £7.33   |  Saving you £12.66 (63.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Expanding on her popular Tracy Anderson Method Dance Cardio & Total Cardio DVDs, Tracy Anderson brings you her Dance Cardio II programme, offering new choreographed sequences for you to learn and perfect. The Tracy Anderson Dance Cardio II DVD is an essential supplement to Tracy's Method series of DVDs. In this 50 minute DVD, Tracy carefully choreographs movements that allow you to continuously burn calories and create a longer and leaner figure.

• Jigsaw | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £18.54   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the highest grossing Horror franchises of all time is back, taking the Jigsaw killer's signature brand of twisted scenarios to the next level. After a series of murders bearing all the markings of the Jigsaw killer, law enforcement find themselves chasing the ghost of a man dead for over a decade and embroiled in a new game that's only just begun. Is John Kramer back from the dead to remind the world to be grateful for the gift of life? Or is this a trap set by a killer with designs of their own?

• The Six Million Dollar Man | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £9.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Chariots Of Fire | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £10.89   |  Saving you £5.09 (64.43%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for Best Picture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class prejudice and anti-Semitism. There's delicious support from Ian Holm (as Abrahams's coach) and John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a couple of Cambridge fogies. Vangelis's soaring synthesised score, which seemed to be everywhere in the early 1980s, also won an Oscar. Chariots of Fire was the debut film of British television commercial director Hugh Hudson (Greystoke) and was produced by David Puttnam. --Jim Emerson

• Leon the Pig Farmer | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hailed as "genre-breaking stuff" on its release in 1992, this is the tale of a London estate agent who find he's the son of a Yorkshire pig farmer.