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• Conspirators of Pleasure | DVD | (25/06/2012) from £9.05   |  Saving you £6.94 (76.69%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Svankmajer, the Czech genius of surrealism, explores the bizarre erotic impulses of various individuals in modern Prague. One man collects porn magazines, chickens and umbrellas to fashion himself a weird creature. His neighbour does similar things with straw. And then they meet up...Their newsagent tinkers with anatomical additions to his hi-tech TV set so he can gloat over the beautiful newsreader. But the newsreader keeps carp in a bowl in her bedroom for bizarre reasons, while her neglectful husband hears operatic climaxes in his head whenever he encounters saucepan lids, fur, nails and latex fingers. Finally, there's the postwoman, who rolls bread into doughballs for very odd purposes, after delivering to the first man an ominous note simply saying 'Sunday'.

• Cowboy | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cowboy is both a sturdy Delmer Daves picture--his third with Glenn Ford, following Jubal and 3:10 to Yuma--and also one of the most offbeat Westerns ever. It must be the most true to form too, with Frank Harris's memoirs as the source and a picaresque screenplay by Edmund H. North and Dalton Trumbo (a blacklistee, credited only posthumously). There's a pileup of oddities and complications at the outset, with Chicago hotel clerk Harris (Jack Lemmon) already in mid-romance with a daughter of the Mexican aristocracy (Anna Kashfi--Mrs Marlon Brando at the time), and Texas cattleman Tom Reese (Ford) storming in to commandeer an entire floor of the hotel for him and his drovers so they can party 'till, well, the cows come home. Partying is curtailed when Reese loses big at cards; Harris bails him out with his savings, and Reese finds he's taken on not only an unwanted partner but a tenderfoot besides. Soon everyone is headed south. Cowboy merits its bedrock title. This is a rare Western in which the job of breaking horses, trail herding, and so on, figures as a dynamic aspect of the storytelling. The film also has a blunt and original way of looking at death, not as a genre convention but as something abrupt, ungainly, and often absurd, in both senses of the word. (This applies equally to men and cattle, by the way.) The camerawork is trim, angular, and somehow precarious, and the jagged editing hustles the very eventful proceedings to a close in barely an hour and a half. Saddle up. --Richard T. Jameson, Amazon.com

• Vivre sa vie (DVD) | DVD | (24/08/2015) from £12.60   |  Saving you £10.38 (108.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  To say that Jean-Luc Godard's fourth feature, Vivre sa vie (1962), is about a young Parisian woman who drifts into prostitution would be roughly as useful as saying that Taxi Driver is about the problems facing the Manhattan transportation system. It's true that Godard did, in the 60s, seem to have a bee in his bonnet about the oldest profession, and it went on to buzz ever more angrily the more he cuddled up to the doctrines of Marx, who instructed him that under late capitalism we are all prostitutes. It's also true that one section of Vivre sa vie, which is divided up into a dozen tableaux, offers a bland, documentary-style account of the French sex industry that could have been made for a news and current affairs slot. Even so, it's clear--especially four decades on--that whoredom is only one of the many topics on Godard's hyperactive brain. The scenes which you take away from the film aren't the sexy bits (which are few, and almost glacially offhand) but the exasperating, perverse or anguished bits: Nana, the heroine (Anna Karina) alone in a cinema, silently weeping at and for the silent vision of Maria Falconetti in Carl Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc; Nana in a pool hall, improvising an artlessly peppy dance routine; Nana in a café, endlessly talking Plato, Hegel and Kant with the grizzled, real-life philosopher Brice Parain. In short, the truest subject of Vivre sa vie--and it is a rich one--is nothing other than its star, Anna Karina, the piercingly beautiful model who had married her director just a year before, and who obviously inspired him to perplexity, rapture and despair. Technically, the film is insouciant to the point of arrogance--Godard constantly fiddles around with the soundtrack, the camera movements and framing as if all the usual rules of cinema were a pair of itchy underpants--and yet the film aches with melancholy. It's unlikely that the video will make many new converts, but for those willing to pay the price of admission to Godard's world (and the price includes boredom), the reward is one of the strangest and most troubling love letters in the history of cinema--apart from Godard's half-dozen other films about his wife, that is. --Kevin Jackson

• The Pack | DVD | (07/03/2016) from £9.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  On a remote farm in Southern Australia, hardened farmer Adam Wilson, discovers the last of his livestock have been mauled to death by a pack of wild dogs. His dreams of keeping the family business going are shattered, but nothing can prepare him for what will happen next. As night falls the feral pack of dogs begin to circle the farmhouse. With a taste for fresh blood, they launch their attack, stopping at nothing to get inside the house. Will Adam and his family make it out alive? Or will they fall victim to THE PACK!

• King's Rhapsody | DVD | (21/04/2014) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Adapting Ivor Novello's long-running musical play for the big screen this enchanting Ruritanian romance marked the second pairing of Errol Flynn and British film heroine Anna Neagle under the direction of Herbert Wilcox. Blending sumptuous pageantry and richly varied music and choreography King's Rhapsody echoed the abdication crises that enthralled pre-War Europe with Flynn starring as the prince who falls for a commoner (Neagle) and his wife Patrice Wymore as the princess whom he is finally persuaded to marry. The film is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. For some years Richard carefree heir to the throne of Laurentia has been contentedly living in exile with his love Marta Karillos. On the death of his father however the Queen Mother persuades him to return to Laurentia to claim the throne and accept marriage to Princess Cristiane of Norseland - the 'Snow Princess'... Special Features: Image Gallery Original Promotional PDF

• Fringe - Season 1 | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £50.00 (500.50%)   |  RRP £59.99

  From J.J. Abrams (Lost) Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman - the team that brought you Star Trek Mission Impossible: III and Alias - and executive producers Jeff Pinkner and Bryan Burk comes a new drama that will thrill terrify and explore the blurring line between science fiction and reality. When an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport and the passengers and crew have all died grisly deaths FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is called in to investigate. When the search nearly kills her partner Special Agent John Scott a desperate Olivia searches frantically for someone to help leading her to Dr. Walter Bishop our generation's Einstein. There's only one catch: He's been institutionalized for the last 20 years and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son Peter (Joshua Jackson) in to help. Under Special Agent Phillip Broyles our trio will discover that what happened on that fatal flight is only a small piece of a larger more shocking truth.

• Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (27/05/2013) from £10.59   |  Saving you £5.40 (50.99%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the bestselling videogame Franchise, Halo. UNSC Cadet Thomas Lasky must conquer his inner fears and join forces with super-soldier John-117 to take down a massive faction of the Covenant. Includes bonus features.

• Cinderfella | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £10.48   |  Saving you £5.51 (52.58%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An absolutely hilarious twist on the popular Cinderella fairytale sees Jerry Lewis playing a bumbling no-hoper called Fowler who is granted his heart's desire by a good spirit and wins the love of a beautiful princess. Cinderfella is the story of downtrodden Fowler who lives his life through various fantasies to escape the mundane existence of looking after his step-mother and two evil step-brothers Maximilian and Rupert. When his fairy Godfather appears to him in the form

• Frivolous Lola | DVD | (05/06/2017) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the sunniest of Tinto Brass's erotic comedies, this sets its breezy tone from the opening scene in which Lola (Anna Ammirati) cycles around a small Po Valley town in a flapping skirt that leaves nothing to the imagination. But it's the 1950s, and her baker fiancée Masetto (Max Parodi) is determined that Lola remains a virgin until their wedding night. However, she is equally set on establishing whether or not he's a good lover before they tie the knot. His dough-kneading technique seems promising, but how can she be sure without an expert to compare him with? In short, can Masetto live up to the erotic ideals professed by Lola's mother's lover (Patrick Mower)? Fortunately, the outwardly innocent town turns out to be a hotbed of licentiousness, with opportunities for voyeurism and maybe more around every corner - all in the interests of self-improving research, of course.

• My Favourite Broadway - The Leading Ladies | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Live At Carnegie Hall Tracklisting / Performer 1. Overture 2. 'The Beauty That Drives A Man Mad'- Robert Morse and Tony Roberts 3. Welcome - Tony Roberts Robert Morse & Julie Andrews 4. Monologue - Julie Andrews 5. 'Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag' - Karen Ziemba & Bebe Neuwirth 6. 'Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered' - Marin Mazzie 7. 'Man Of La Mancha' - Linda Eder 8. 'Look For The Silver Lining/Tomorrow' - Andrea McArdle 9. 'And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going' - Jennifer Ho

• Mother Joan of the Angels - Restored Version | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 17th Century Poland, a group of nuns are possessed by the devil, a situation allegedly caused by a clergyman who sexually enticed the women. Among the group who arrive to do an exorcism is a young and innocent priest - and he has a strange and unorthodox plan to free Satan's victims...

• The Brothers Grimm | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £11.35   |  Saving you £8.64 (76.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Will and Jake Grimm are travelling con-artists who find themselves up against a genuine fairy-tale curse.

• 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.

• Kamikaze Girls | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Kamikaze Girls (Special Edition)

• Happy Feet 2/Yogi Bear/Legend Of The Guardians Triple Pack (Blu-Ray 3D | Blu Ray | (08/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £31.40

  Happy Feet 2 The sequel to Happy Feet, the Academy Award-winning animated smash hit, Happy Feet Two returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica. Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven - a penguin who can fly! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces...

• True Blood - Season 1-4 Complete (HBO) | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £29.99   |  Saving you £50.00 (166.72%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Vampires have come out of the coffin and are now living among us. Surviving on synthetic blood, they no longer need human blood to survive. Or so it seems...The small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, boasts a wide array of colourful locals. Meet Sookie Stackhouse (Academy Award winner Anna Paquin, a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds; Bill Compton (British actor Stephen Moyer), a 173-year-old vampire who's just moved back to town; Sookie's brother Jason (Aussie hearthrob Ryan Kwanten - Vinnie Patterson from Home And Away), a ladies' man who can't seem to stay out of trouble; tough-as-nails Tara, Sookie's loyal best friend; Sam, the owner of Merlotte's who tries to keep his feelings for Sookie to himself; Lafayette, a man about town who's always cooking up something illicit and off the menu, and a quirky cast of characters who each hide their dark secrets in the shadows of night in this series that's like no other.

• The Brothers Grimm | Blu Ray | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Director Terry Gilliam who brought his magical storytelling talents to such films as Time Bandits and The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen sets his sights on the Brothers Grimm turning their life into a playfully grim fairy tale all its own. Set in early 18th century French-occupied Germany The Brothers Grimm stars Matt Damon as Will Grimm and Heath Ledger as Jake Grimm siblings who travel the countryside as snake-oil salesmen convincing unsuspecting towns that they are haunted and agreeing to get rid of the demons--for a price. In the meantime they set their tales down in writing creating a wealth of oddball offbeat and frightening characters. But after they are caught by General Delatombe (Jonathan Pryce) and his sidekick Cavaldi (Peter Stormare) they are sent to the tiny village of Marbaden to solve the mysterious disappearance of a number of young girls placing them in the middle of a fantasy world unlike any they'd ever invented. They enlist the help of a peasant woman Angelika (Lena Headey) and they set off for the evil forest to save the lives of the girls--and themselves. Gilliam has once again built a unique entertaining land where anything can happen and he throws in references to such Grimm tales as Little Red Riding Hood Hansel and Gretel Cinderella Rapunzel and the Frog Prince for good measure. The movie also features Mackenzie Crook and Richard Ridings as the Grimms' cohorts Monica Bellucci as the Mirror Queen and Julian Bleach and Bruce McEwan as two of Cavaldi's henchmen.

• Adventures With Iczer 3 | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Marvellous manga sci-fi anime from Japan. From the director of 'Vampire Princess Miyu'! Nagisa's a typical high school student on an Earth overrun by alien monsters. Iczer 3 is the youngest member of a race fighting robot girls sworn to protect humanity. Together they're a combat team with spunk style and charm but will it be enough to defeat an invading army of killer shape-shifters?

• A Touch of Cloth - Series 2 | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The award-winning detective comedy sees DI Jack Cloth (John Hannah) and DC Anne Oldman (Suranne Jones) reunited as Cloth goes undercover. The City of Town is being menaced by a vicious gang of armed robbers. After one brutal robbery in which Todd Carty (Todd Carty) is savagely murdered, Cloth assumes the identity of a hardened criminal to gain access to the gang and its twisted leader MacRatty (Stephen Dillane). Meanwhile Oldman is being wooed by Hope Goodgirl (Anna Chancellor), a charismatic.

• The War Bride | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £4.23   |  Saving you £2.76 (65.25%)   |  RRP £6.99

  With all the men away to war Lily falls madly in love and married a handsome Canadian soldier Charlie Travis. But Charlie is shipped off to the front and Lily discovers she's expecting his baby not knowing if she will ever see him alive again.