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• Scalps (Slasher Classics 07) | Blu Ray | (04/04/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A cut above many eighties slasher classics 1983 s SCALPS mixes splatter action with the supernatural when a group of college kids begin digging around an old Native American burial ground. Suffice to say a spirit by the name of Black Claw was enjoying his sleep and does not react well to being disturbed! A slaughter-thon that serves-up plenty of plasma-spillage and teen-trepanning set-pieces SCALPS has been unavailable in the UK since the days of rental shops. As such 88 Films is proud to bring back this low budget terror totem in a terrific new director-approved HD scan that will surely have tribes of horror fans hollering in happiness! Bonus Features: Director’s Commentary Original Trailer Reversible Sleeve Booklet Notes

• The Irish R.M. | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  This cracking box set contains every episode from all three series of the comedy drama The Irish RM. Peter Bowles stars in this comic drama series about a retired English army officer who becomes a resident magistrate in turn-of-the-century West Ireland. Living in a ramshackle house surrounded by the community's eccentric inhabitants Major Sinclair Yates struggles to apply judicial logic in a country where in the words of a former Lord Chief Justice ""The inevitable never ha

• Handel: Xerxes | DVD | (16/08/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The English National Opera has always had an attractively light touch in Handel; this classic production, designed by Nicholas Hytner (director of The Madness of King George and The Crucible), manages to preserve both the work's occasional passion and its undercutting of that passion into urbane absurdity. Anne Murray's Xerxes is a tyrant in love, who learns the hard way that he can neither play with, nor command, his subjects' affections; her forthright declamatory singing, not least in the famous "Larghetto", conveys both the petulance and the final grandeur of a man undergoing a sentimental education. Valerie Masterson and Christopher Hudson, as the principal pair of lovers, combine perfect singing with an attractive romantic ardour; Hudson in particular makes clear just how heroic a counter-tenor can sound, listened to without preconceptions. In the soubrette role of Atalanta, Lesley Garrett is a cute trouble-maker. Sir Charles Mackerras' conducting gives each of the genre arias of which the work consists both an appropriate intensity of emotion and an overall charm. The English libretto is by Hytner. The recording is decent PCM stereo and the picture, originally produced for TV broadcast, is in 4:3 ratio. --Roz Kaveney

• Der Ring Des Nibelungen: Highlights (La Fura Dels Baus) | Blu Ray | (22/11/2010) from £9.76   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Four in the Morning | DVD | (23/06/2008) from £11.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (13.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It is a moment before dawn and the river traffic on the Thames begins to ease its way through the fog. The River police find the body of a young girl left dry by the ebb tide. Her body is brought ashore and her possessions examined. Who is she? And what drove her to take her own life? For the young married couple (Judi Dench and Norman Rodway) love brought them together but now marriage and a child have driven them apart. Judi Dench's outstanding performance as the young mother gained her the British Film Academy's 1966 Award as the Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles.

• Italian For Beginners | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £8.71   |  Saving you £11.28 (129.51%)   |  RRP £19.99

  veral lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives.

• Foxy Brown | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £11.78   |  Saving you £7.20 (81.91%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This hip violent fast-moving film firmly established Pam Grier as the goddess of Blaxploitation. She plays Foxy a toughened woman living in a drug-plagued L.A. ghetto who goes on a one woman mission of vengeance after her undercover cop boyfriend (Terry Carter) is shot down in the street. The badass lass goes undercover herself as a call girl for the evil mistress of the drug cartel (Kathryn Loder) and with the help of a neigborhood vigilante committee wreaks some hell on the ba

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £12.41   |  Saving you £-6.42 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The 1938 version of Adventures of Tom Sawyer appears to be producer David O. Selznick's dry run for Gone with the Wind what with its similarities in period costumes color scheme and production design (both films shared the services of the great Hollywood art director William Cameron Menzies). Selected from hundreds of applicants (a precursor to Selznick's upcoming search for Wind's Scarlet O'Hara) Tommy Kelly is visually perfect as Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer though his acting varies from scene to scene. Better cast is Jackie Moran as the laconic pipe-smoking Huck Finn (Moran would show up in Wind as Dr. Meade's son). Never forcing its pace the film manages to include most of Twain's classic sequences including the fence-whitewashing episode Tom's rescue of Becky Thatcher (Anne Gillis) from the wrath of their schoolmaster (Olin Howlin) Tom and Huck's death and resurrection after the boys briefly skipped town for an idyll on a remote island the murder trial of town drunk Muff Potter (Walter Brennan) and ultimately unmasking of the vicious Injun Joe (Victor Jory) as the real killer and of course the chilling climax in the cave wherein Tom protects Becky from the fugitive Injun Joe. Originally released at 93 minutes Adventures of Tom Sawyer was trimmed to 77 minutes for a 1959 reissue; it has since been restored to its full length on videotape. In 1960 Tom Sawyer was syndicated to television by Selznick with accompanying commentary by the film's now-grown-up Becky Thatcher Anne Gillis.

• Minutes Past Midnight | DVD | (11/09/2017) from £5.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As midnight falls, all manner of terror invades the Earth. Demons, cannibals, killers, ghosts and monsters swarm the world in these tales of the supernatural, the fantastic, and the just plain horrific. Featuring nine stories of horror.

• The Howards Of Virginia | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £8.89   |  Saving you £1.10 (12.37%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Leading man Cary Grant plays Matt Howard a common man who gains employment as a surveyor through the help of Thomas Jefferson. Howard quickly falls head over heels for his wealthy employer's daughter Jane Peyton (Martha Scott). The couple appear to be set for happiness until Matt becomes involved in politics and the War of Independence arrives...

• Fahrenheit 451 | Blu Ray | (29/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  François Truffaut co-writes and directs this classic drama adapted from Ray Bradbury's novel. In the not-too-distant future, forbidden volumes of literature are burned regularly by the 'firemen'. Montag (Oskar Werner) is the man in charge of the burnings, but after meeting a revolutionary book-owner, schoolteacher Clarisse (Julie Christie), he begins to have doubts - both about his vocation and his dead marriage to pleasure-seeking Linda (also Christie). Curious about the draw of literature, Montag keeps forbidden volumes of books for himself, and soon embarks on a secret affair with Linda. The cast also includes Anton Diffring and Cyril Cusack.

• A Swedish Love Story | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £8.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (78.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two adolescents meet and cautiously fall in love at the peak of an idyllic Swedish summer. Oblivious to social boundaries they innocently create their own milieu in contrast to the distorted relationships and disillusionment of the adult world around them. Beautifully shot by 'Elvira Madigan' cinematographer Jrgen Persson Roy Andersson's debut feature drew favourable comparisons with the work of the great Ingmar Bergman.

• The Wing and the Thigh | DVD | (16/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.62

  In this comedy Louis de Funes is a top restaurant critic the head of an important French culinary guide. At the beginning of the film he and his son (Coluche) are at odds as the son prefers working as a circus clown to studying the fine arts of gastronomy. The two join forces however to thwart the greedy owner of a chain of inferior restaurants who plans to take over the finest restaurants in France and substitute his formulaic fodder for real cooking. Another lure bringing the son into the picture is a lovely secretary working for the guide.

• Ordet | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £14.59   |  Saving you £5.40 (37.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A classic contrast of institutional religion vs. a personal interpretation of faith based on the play by Kaj Munk this is the story of a man who is ridiculed for believing he is Christ until his miracles heal two families of different faiths angry at each other over a love affair between their children.

• Last Action Hero / Kindergarten Cop / Twins | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Last Action Hero (Dir. John McTiernan 1993): Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) a young cinema fan is crazy about his all-time great movie hero L.A. cop Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenneger). Having received a magic golden cinema ticket Danny is blasted through the big screen and into the action alongside his celluloid hero who is more than a little puzzled by his presence. Fasten your seatbelt as the dare-devil duo dodge bullets bombs and bad guys in a whirlwind world where anything is possible! But. ..disaster strikes when the baddies grab half the magic ticket and make their escape into the real world where they find life a doddle for two rogues intent on madness and mayhem.With Jack and Danny in hot pursuit hold your breath as the action addicts discover that real life can be even more exciting than the movies Twins (Dir. Ivan Reitman 1998): An ambitious genetic experiment takes the wrong turn when two twins (Danny De Vito and Arnold Schwarzenegger) - who look nothing alike - are born and then separated. Years later the unlikely siblings meet: Julius a highly educated but sheltered giant with a big heart and Vincent a pint-sized hustler with an insatiable lust for women and money. With girl friends in tow and a hitman on their tail the new-found brothers set off on a wild cross-country misadventure to find their mother but end up finding out more about themselves and each other... Kindergarten Cop (Dir. Ivan Reitman 1990): Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as an undercover cop posing as a kindergarten teacher in order to catch a dangerous criminal. Once he wrangles his young charges as well as the affections of a beautiful teacher (Penelope Ann Miller) he prepares for a final showdown with his intended prey in this 'Totally Enjoyable' (People Magazine) action-comedy from Director Ivan Reitman.

• Laurel and Hardy - Great Guns/Jitterbug/the Big Noise | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £21.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (13.64%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Great Guns (Dir. Monty Banks 1941): Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy join the army to protect their country...but who will protect the army from them? In Great Guns the comic team play a chauffeur and a gardener whose hypochondriac employer (Dick Nelson) a wealthy young man with little experience is drafted. Convinced that he needs them in order to survive in the service they join up as well. Of course the Texas cavalry post to which they're all assigned is made far worse for the wear by the presence of these well-meaning troublemakers and there is never a dull moment in this classic featuring two of the cinema's most revered comic actors! Jitterbugs (Dir. Malcolm St. Clair 1943): Considered the best of the Laurel and Hardy projects filmed at Twentieth Century Fox this energetic musical comedy also introduces singer Vivian Blaine. Stan and Oliver star as a traveling two-man jitterbug band who operate out of a dilapidated jalopy and form an unlikely partnership with a likable con man (Bob Bailey). When the trio joins a carnival they meet Susan a naive young singer (Vivian Blaine) whose mother has been swindled by grifters. Suddenly chivalrous the three orchestrate a sting operation using disguises - with Laurel dressed as Susan's disheveled aunt and Hardy as a rich Texan - to get the woman's money back. Although things don't go as planned the inimitable comedy duo provide nonstop laughs from start to finish in this delightful caper. The Big Noise (Dir. Malcolm St. Clair 1944): The zany antics of legendary comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy come to life in this romp about two phony private detectives. The duo play janitors accidentally hired as sleuths to protect a new super-bomb destined for the War Department in Washington D.C. However the bomb's inventor has loaded his house with crazy contraptions that entrap and confuse the protectors. Meanwhile next door is the biggest threat of all - a gang of crooks determined to get their hands on the inventor's deadly creation. Through a series of crazy misadventures our heroes end up in a remote-controlled airplane along with the bomb and head straight for trouble.

• Prince Of Darkness | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £9.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Deep in the crypt of an old church absolute evil has been lurking in the form of the Sleeper a sinister green liquid that contains the essence of the Devil himself. Discovered by a priest this liquid is investigated by physics experts in the hope that science will help fight the battle against evil but their experiments unwittingly set Satan free...

• Cirque Du Soleil-Saltimbanco | DVD | (15/06/2004) from £4.41   |  Saving you £8.58 (194.56%)   |  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.

• Annie | DVD | (11/12/2000) from £8.16   |  Saving you £4.83 (59.19%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Though it's not in the same league as the classic screen musicals, Annie's heartwarming rags-to-riches storyline, social comment (shallow as it may be) and catchy songs make for an entertaining and unpretentious 90 minutes' viewing. Aileen Quinn is the irrepressible titular orphan, by no means as irritating as she looks in the cover picture; Albert Finney is Oliver Warbucks, the tyrannical tycoon (with a hidden heart of gold, of course) who adopts her for a week in the interests of good PR. The real show-stopper, though, is Carol Burnett as the gin-soaked harpy Miss Hannigan, ruling with an iron fist over an orphanage full of unruly girls, flirting with every man in sight and eventually scheming with her unscrupulous brother (Tim Curry) to kidnap Annie and reap a fat Warbucks reward cheque. While the songs--including "Tomorrow", "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile" and "It's a Hard Knock Life"--are excellent, the kids' voices are shrill and the production pretty low-rent: Annie is very obviously a stage show brought to screen on a low budget. But while it lacks the polish that make the Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe musicals so special, it's funny and sweet and has a rough charm all its own. On the DVD: The film is presented in widescreen, preserving its original 2.35:1 aspect, and is enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs; the soundtrack is Dolby surround, though as noted above the music score is relatively rough and ready so top-notch sound isn't actually as important as it would be in other musicals. The extras are pretty disappointing--an uninspired interactive menu features only the obligatory multi-language subtitles, (very) short biographies of the key cast members, a few publicity cards and posters, the theatrical trailer and--most interestingly--an isolated musical score. No commentary from director John Huston, no documentaries, nothing about the 1930s cartoon strip that was, apparently, one of the most popular of its day. There's actually more information in the accompanying booklet than there is on the disc. --Rikki Price

• The Living Wake | DVD | (26/03/2012) from £5.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Starring Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) and comedian Mike O'Connell (Funny People) director Sol Tryon's critically acclaimed debut feature is a timeless fairy tale with a biting sense of humour sure to be a cult classic. When self-proclaimed genius K. Roth Binew (O'Connell) learns his life will be cut short by a grave but unnamed illness he decides to go out in style - with a living wake. Accompanied by his faithful assistant Mills (Eisenberg) K. Roth spends his final day...