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• Alexei Sayle's Stuff - Series 2 | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This DVD features complete second series of the popular Liverpudlian comedian in his pomp; a winning combination of Pythonesque surrealism and 'alternative' comedy philosophy honed with a satirical edge.

• The Captive | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £34.19   |  Saving you £-14.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chantal Akerman's La Captive is a deceptively simple story following the fascination of a wealthy young man for his apparently innocent and lovely girlfriend. Only loosely drawn from Proust's La Prisonniere, the Proustian elements are often largely submerged. Yet as a study in obsession it is balanced somewhere between Death in Venice and Vertigo. A chase through the streets of--an apparently timeless but actually contemporary--Paris, this is a picture of inexplicable obsession, moved along by fragments of whispered dialogue and a glimpse of bizarre daily ritual. With much of the story framed within the odd anti-hero Simon's grandiose apartment (which he appropriately shares with an ailing, rarely glimpsed grandmother), the film cleverly avoids suffocating its viewers by giving odd gasps of breath from the cheeky, light encounters between his girlfriend Ariane and the beautiful Andree--friends, or possibly sometime lovers. As a portrait of a relationship, La Captive will keep its viewers absorbed with its elegant tone and its intriguing and inexplicable story; but it might just as easily frustrate with its unresolved twists and turns.--Tricia Tuttle

• X-Men 3 - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (05/05/2014) from £23.98   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After a controversial 'cure' is discovered mutants can choose to give up their unique gifts and become 'normal.' But when peaceful mutant leader Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) clashes with his militant counterpart Magneto (Ian McKellen) their opposing viewpoints trigger the war to end all wars! Hugh Jackman Halle Berry Ellen Page and Anna Paquin co-star in the third chapter of the legendary X-Men saga.

• Mother Night | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Mother Night is the third movie from director Keith Gordon (The Chocolate War, A Midnight Clear). The 35-year-old director who started as an actor (Christine) has turned into one of the more assured directors working today. His films are ambitious in plot and tone. With Mother Night he works with his first major star, Nick Nolte. In 1961, the fictitious Howard W Campbell Jr., an American by birth, shares the same deserted prison with Adolph Eichmann. As he prepares to stand trial for war crimes, the former playwright scribes his memoirs. Now this is the same Howard W. Campbell Jr. who was a notorious voice on German radio during the war, tearing into American policy and spreading Nazi propaganda. Was he a wilful participant or an American spy? Campbell, who romanticises at the drop of a hat, tells his story of indifference, morality, and love. His days of notoriety in Berlin give way to anonymity back in the States. He purrs about his true love (Sheryl Lee) and tells truths with his shrewd neighbour in New York (Alan Arkin). The movie is based on Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 novel of the same name. Gordon and screenwriter Robert E. Weide have an uncommon insight into Vonnegut's material: the mesh of fact and fiction, the sweeping themes, the tragic goofiness. The movie is perfectly suited to Nolte's gruff style with a husky voice that pierces the night. The film is a cherished companion piece to Slaughterhouse Five. --Doug Thomas

• Java Head / Tiger Bay | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Titles Comprise: Java Head: The port city of Bristol England in the 1800s is home to Java Head a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One a handsome seafarer is in love with a local girl but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage he returns with a very exotic noble Chinese wife which scandalizes the conservative town. His other son a landlubber seeks to convert to steamships to the disgust of his father. Even worse he is secretly dealing in contraband. Tiger Bay: A young Englishman abroad Michael visits the local low-life spot of Tiger Bay to test his assertion that the spirit of human romance survives even in the most unpromising of circumstances. He intervenes when a local criminal protection racketeer targets a Chinese nightclub and falls in love with the owner's young English foster-sister. But Olaf's gang have only just started their campaign against Lui Chang the cultured elegant woman who owns the premises... and she is determined not to be intimidated or driven out of business under any circumstances...

• As I Lay Dying | DVD | (23/06/2014) from £5.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (65.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Adapted from the classic novel by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying is the story that chronicles the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased mother Addie to her hometown for burial. Addie's husband Anse (Tim Blake Nelson) and their children Cash (Jim Parrack) Darl (James Franco) and three of their siblings leave the farm with her coffin - each affected by Addie's death in a profound and different way. Their road trip to Jefferson forty miles away is disrupted by every antagonistic force of nature or man: flooded rivers injury and accident a raging barn fire and not least of all - each individual character's personal turmoil which threaten the fabric of the family more than any outside force.

• Fly Away Home | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  There are some filmmaking teams that invariably bring out the best in each other, and that's definitely the case with director Carroll Ballard and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel. They previously collaborated on The Black Stallion and Never Cry Wolf, and Fly Away Home is their third family film that deserves to be called a classic. Inspired by Bill Lishman's autobiography, the movie tells the story of a 13-year-old girl (Anna Paquin) who goes to live with her estranged, eccentric father (Jeff Daniels) following the death of her mother. At first she's withdrawn and reclusive, but finds renewed happiness when she adopts an orphaned flock of baby geese and, later, teaches them to migrate using an ultralight. Sensitively directed and stunningly photographed, the movie has flying sequences that are nothing short of astonishing, and Daniels and Paquin (Oscar winner for The Piano) make a delightful father-daughter duo. --Jeff Shannon

• Black Angel (Senso '45) | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £9.72   |  Saving you £10.27 (105.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Italy - 1945: The war and Fascism is coming to and end. Livia, the wife of a high-ranking ministry official is on her way to Venice in order to meet Helmut Schultz, an SS Lieutenant with whom she is having an affair. During the trip she relives the high points of the torrid sexual abandonment that has shaped her destiny.Once in Venice she finds the city in chaos, but amongst the madness, a surprise awaits Livia... a surprise that sees her personal setbacks reflected in historic and political events.

• Divided We Fall | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Oscar nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category and the winner of five prestigious Czech Lions Awards 'Divided We Fall' is a delicious black comedy which deftly deals with the compromises forced upon ordinary people during wartime. Based on real life events in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia Divided We Fall tells the tale of childless couple josef and Marie Cizek who offer refuge to David a young Jew fleeing from his persecutors. However when a Nazi official also ta

• Merci pour le Chocolat | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Claude Chabrol's nervy and nasty little 2001 thriller Merci Pour le Chocolat is based on Charlotte Armstrong's novel The Chocolate Cobweb. In Chabrol's hands it becomes a vehicle of considerable power for the unsettling, disturbed qualities of actress Isabelle Huppert, who has been one of his most important muses over the years (their other collaborations include La Cérémonie and Rien ne va Plus). Huppert plays Mika, the owner of a Swiss chocolate factory, now married to a world-class concert pianist (Jacques Dutronc) and with a stepson who is obsessive about making the family's drinking chocolate every day. As the clues unravel, it soon becomes clear that Mika is damaged goods. When Dutronc acquires a piano student (Anna Mougalis) in curious circumstances, Mika is forced to escalate her secret agenda. Huppert is fascinating throughout and the film is sinewy and, for the most part, rather clever, evoking shades of Hitchcock and Clouzot. Liszt's Les Funérailles is the ominous leitmotif, worked on by Dutronc and his protégé, and the Lausanne setting creates an other-worldliness which seems almost sterile. Only at the end does the picture dwindle into an almost Strindbergian inertia as Mika's motivation seems to evaporate in a rather unsatisfactory way. Until then it is spellbinding. --Piers Ford

• Hurly Burly | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £4.31   |  Saving you £7.68 (178.19%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Welcome to Eddie's world. It exists at the very juncture where Hollywood meets the mountains, where the almost-rich and not-yet-famous live on cheap thrills and heady ambition while searching for true love and redemption.

• Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier -- Vienna/Von Karajan | DVD | (09/07/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A production of Strauss' opera 'Der Rosenkavalier' performed at the Saltzburg Festival in 1984. Includes the Vienna State Opera Choir the Philharmonic Orchestra with singers Wilma Lipp Anna Tomowa-Sintow and Agnes Baltsa. Conducted by Herbert Von Karajan.

• The Foreigner | DVD | (09/06/2003) from £5.60   |  Saving you £0.39 (6.96%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jon Cold is a freelance secret agent who's as cunning as he is deadly. When Cold is hired to deliver a mysterious package from France to Germany some very dangerous people will stop at nothing to stop him. But getting in his way is a decision they might not live to regret... With exotic locations and blistering action The Foreigner is heart-pounding entertainment that'll keep you on the edge of your seat!

• The Witching | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A strange and sinister man Mr Cato (Orson Welles) wields extraordinary power in the small town of Lilith. Almost supernatural power. The townsfolk indulge in weird ritual in their pursuit of necromancy... bringing the dead back to life. Against this disturbing background it is a young beautiful girl Lori (Pamela Franklin) who becomes the human catalyst between life and death...

• Anatomy | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £9.77   |  Saving you £10.22 (104.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A medical horror movie from Germany, Anatomy is every bit as slick as its Hollywood equivalents (most notably Coma) but cuts a lot deeper thanks to its connections with a Gothic past. Brilliant medical student Paula Haller (Franka Potente) is accepted into a prestigious summer anatomy course at Heidelberg University and gradually learns that many of her teachers and classmates are members of the Antihippocratic League. This secret society carries out unethical vivisection experiments on live human specimens and has been active in the medical profession since the 16th century with a special peak during the Third Reich. Director-writer Stefan Ruzowitsky plays some distinctive and personal games as the heroine uncovers the conspiracy, then learns that her own family is intimately connected with the League. In gruesome but delicate horror scenes, kidnapped human specimens awake anaesthetised to the sound of easy-listening music as masked students dissect them alive to create the impressive, grotesque and beautifully preserved cutaway specimens used in the anatomy classes. Potente, the star of Run, Lola Run, has a very different role as the serious but passionate heroine and her character is affected by the revelations of the plot in a way that deepens the movie beyond the terrific suspense mechanisms of its lady-in-peril climax, in which Paula's medical knowledge and personal grit enable her to fight back. A great moment has the heroine forced to instruct her non-medical student boyfriend (Sebastian Blomberg) how to administer a simple but crucial intravenous injection to save her life, while the plausible villain turns out to be a renegade even by the standards of his secret society. On the DVD: An extremely high-quality DVD, this offers a pristine widescreen transfer (1:2.35) of the film (enhanced for 16:9 TVs); soundtracks in German, Spanish and English with optional subtitles in English, German and a dozen other languages; a full-length commentary in German by Ruzovitsky, with English subtitles; a couple of deleted scenes, with director commentary; on-set interviews with the cast and crew and a snippets of behind-the-scenes footage; a music video by co-star Anna Loos, shot on the set of the film; trailers; filmographies; and a neat animated menu. --Kim Newman

• Classic Bergman - 5 Disc Set | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £24.95   |  Saving you £25.04 (100.36%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Legendary auteur Ingmar Bergman emerged in the late '40s as an art-house icon and remained one for more than four decades.This set includes four early masterpieces on DVDIt Rains On Our Love (1946)A Ship Bound For India (1947)Sawdust And Tinsel (1953)Dreams (1955)So Close To Life (1958)

• The Fourth Angel | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  They took all he had. Revenge is all that's left... Respected journalist Jack Elgin (Jeremy Irons) watches his life is destroyed before his very eyes when his wife and daughters perish during a botched terrorist hijacking then forced to watch helpless in disbelief as the perpetrators are caught before being set free. Jack comes to the conclusion that he is the one person that must bring these killers to a cold kind of justice...

• Skyscraper | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A group of mercenaries set out to steal a futuristic weapons system. But a vivacious helicopter pilot becomes involved in the terrorist attack.

• Agent Cody Banks / Agent Cody Banks 2 - Destination London | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £14.60   |  Saving you £5.39 (36.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Agent Cody Banks Cody Banks (Muniz) seems like a typical teenager - he loves skateboarding hates maths his mum drives him crazy and he feels like a complete idiot around girls. But Cody has a really big secret even his family and best friends don't know: he's actually an elite undercover agent for the CIA. Cody is living every kid's dream. Specially trained at a top secret facility disguised as summer camp Cody can drive like a stuntman jump kick like a pro and has an ar

• The Creature From Below | DVD | (26/06/2017) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  During a traumatic accident whilst on a deep-sea dive in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, Olive, a gifted, young marine-biologist discovers an unearthly creature. Loosing her dream job, Olive smuggles the creature home, intent on studying it in her basement, unbeknownst to her devoted boyfriend Matt. Whilst struggling to re-adjust to landlocked life and recover from her recent trauma, Olive begins to realize that she and the creature share a symbiotic bond that drives her to carry out its sinister will. Plagued by gruesome nightmares, her fractured memories of what happened during the accident in the depths of the ocean begin to unravel and reveal an eldritch horror far older and malevolent than she could ever imagine, one which she has unwittingly set free. Olive's obsession leads to madness as her discovery consumes her entire humanity, with deadly results for those around her.