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• Pelle The Conqueror | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £21.81   |  Saving you £-12.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Pelle the Conqueror is a Scandinavian drama which won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film and a Best Actor nomination for Max (The Exorcist) Von Sydow. Set at the end of the 19th century, it tells of a widowed Swedish farmer who goes looking for a better life in Denmark with his young son, Pelle (a fine Pelle Hvenegaard). Much like Life is Beautiful (1998) the heart of the film is the bond between father and son and their dreams for a better world. Although the photography brings an austere beauty to the bleak coastlands of Denmark, the story, a 150-minute intimate epic, is intense and harrowing; the antithesis of the feel-good father-son relationship of a movie like Billy Elliot.On the DVD: Unfortunately, rather than the subtitles of the cinema release, this DVD is dubbed for the American market, which significantly diminishes the performances and undermines the emotional impact. This is particularly regrettable given that both subtitled and dubbed versions could exist on the same disc. The only feature is a Photo Library of full-frame screen-grabs. The stated ratio of 1:1.85 is incorrect, the film being cropped from the original cinema 1:1.66 to 4:3 TV ratio. The sound is unremarkable stereo. The picture, transferred from an already imperfect print, is crawling with grain and littered with compression artefacts, making it no better than many videos. Without even a booklet, this release does no justice to a landmark film. --Gary S. Dalkin

• The Sea Wall | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £29.95   |  Saving you £-13.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Director Rithy Panh's celebrated period epic set in the rich landscape of French colonial Indochine is a highly successful adaptation of Marguerite Duras' acclaimed and semi-autobiographical novel "The Sea Wall", starring Isabelle Huppert.

• King Arthur - Legend of the Sword | Blu Ray | (12/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dimples | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £8.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (44.65%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Temple stars as a young singer who entertains the New York crowds providing the window of opportunity for her pick pocket of a grand father to carry out his work. A rich lady sees the young girl performing - and after discovering her grim existence with her grand father - offers her an opportunity to rise out of lifestyle...

• Pelle The Conqueror | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Winner of the Adademy Award for best Foreign Picture this epic drama about human resilience stars the hypnotic Max Von Sydow as a poor but never downtrodden widower who emigrates with his young son Pelle from the economically depressed Sweden to Denmark at the turn of the century. His illusory quest for the good life leads only to a straw bed in the cold barn of a brutally insensitive farmer. The story centres around the close relationship between the father and son as they attempt to live a happy life amid the oppression. As a hopeful Pelle grows older he wants to see more of the world and sets out on his own full of questions and a need to know and conquer..... Winner of the Palm d'Or at the 1988 Cannes film festival; an Oscar for the Best Foreign Language film in 1989; and a Golden Globe also in 1989.

• To Joy | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Ingmar Bergman's key early works - directed when he was just 30 years old - To Joy explores some of the themes that would come to chracterise many of his later films: the incompatibility of spouses and the responsibility of artists. Marta and Stig both play in an orchestra conducted by Sonderby. Their relationship is a happy one and they soon decide to get married and have children. However things begin to turn sour when Stig begins a sordid affair that threatens to dest

• Blood Feast | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A shocking drive-in sensation when released in 1963, Blood Feast remains a milestone in the exploitation genre. A serial killer is on the loose; women are being killed and body parts are being stolen; the police are stumped (so to speak). Meanwhile, Egyptmania seems to be gripping this small Florida town. Fuad Ramses' "exotic catering" shop is doing a booming business and his book, Ancient Weird Religious Rituals, is being studied by the local book club. Is there a connection between Ramses and the murders? Of course! In this film by the wizard of gore, Herschell Gordon Lewis, plot and suspense take a back seat to the gruesome and bloody murder scenes. The acting may not be very good, the script is weak at best and the effects don't hold up to later standards of Hollywood gore, but there is an infectious enthusiasm that comes through Lewis' desire to shock his audience. The exploitation elements may be dated but that only makes them all the more entertaining. Blood Feast was followed (in what would come to be known as Lewis' "blood trilogy") by Two Thousand Maniacs! and Color Me Blood Red. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com

• Master Of The House | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £14.59   |  Saving you £5.40 (37.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Since the failure of his small business Victor has become a household tyrant constantly complaining and criticising his long-suffering family. The saintly forbearance of his wife Ida (the enchanting Astrid Holm) seems only to drive Victor to ever more petty and vindictive acts of domestic tyranny. His behaviour is watched with increasing fury by his old nanny Mads who finally persuades Ida to go to her mother's for a much-needed rest. Left at the mercy of the formidable Mads Vi

• Antboy 3 | DVD | (24/07/2017) from £4.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Exofarm has a new CEO. The new CEO wants to control the world. Antboy tries to stop her with a new unnamed hero with skateboard.

• Haxan - Witchcraft Through The Ages | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A documentary history of witchcraft.

• The Element Of Crime | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Way, way before he dreamt up his famous Dogme manifesto, Lars von Trier launched his feature-film career with The Element of Crime and proved that, 400 years after Hamlet, the Danes can still do melancholy like nobody else. Less a film noir than a film jaune sale, this ultra-enigmatic thriller is shot entirely in tones of grimy sepia in a world where nightfall seems to be an unceasing condition. A police detective, Fisher (Michael Elphick), is summoned from Cairo to "Europe" (the location never gets any more specific than that) to investigate a series of gory child-murders. He comes to suspect that the killer may be a mysterious character called Harry Grey and sets out to retrace Grey's movements. The film takes its title from a treatise written by Fisher's old mentor Osborne (Welsh actor Esmond Knight, a veteran of Powell and Pressburger's films), but it might as well refer to water. Von Trier conjures up a world not only permanently benighted, but dank, sodden and dripping both indoors and out, cluttered with mouldy, antiquated industrial machinery. There are echoes (or pre-echoes) here of half-a-dozen other movies--Blade Runner, City of Lost Children, Tarkovsky's Stalker, Welles' The Trial--and at times it feels as though von Trier has just set out to show he can do art house as well as anybody and possibly better. The plot makes no sense whatever and clearly isn't meant to, and Elphick's bemused expression, one suspects, derives from the actor as much as from the character he's playing. As always with von Trier you can't help wondering if whole thing isn't an elaborate put-on, especially since the director himself shows up, epicene and shaven-headed, playing a personage called "Schmuck of Ages". But what it lacks in coherence (either narrative or visual) Element of Crime makes up for in atmosphere, which it has, literally, by the bucketful. This release, incidentally, is the English-language version. --Philip Kemp

• Stowaway | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £3.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (226.38%)   |  RRP £12.99

  While rubbing elbows with millionaires in Shanghai Shirley inadvertently lands on a ship to America with two new parents who just happen to love to hate each other.

• Silent Night, Bloody Night | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The new owner of a mansion discovers it was once a mental home. When he visits his inheritance he sets about investigating some old crimes that took place at the mansion scaring the local populace in the process.

• Pete Best - Pete Best Of The Beatles | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The untold story of the world's most famous band as seen through the eyes of their original drummer Pete Best. The DVD includes a number of video extras which mainly take the form of short story vignettes. The program includes copious archive footage & photographs much of it unseen and early Beatles music including rare early live performance footage.

• Legend Of The Soldier | Blu Ray | (10/10/2011) from £8.59   |  Saving you £11.40 (132.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a military drummer who used the Montserrat mountains to echo his drums and send the enemy troops into a panicked retreat. When the news reaches Napoleon he furiously orders the captain of the imperial guard to bring back the head of the young hero responsible for his army's defeat. The captain gathers together a band of his best and most deadly men and so begins a hunt to the death of the soldier who was to become a legend.

• Stuart Sutcliffe - The Lost Beatle | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  He was a shadow that lurked behind the world's greatest pop group. Before the screaming teenage girls the international fame and before Ringo the Beatles were five. With a line-up of John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe the Beatles began touring Germany in 1960. There they found their first tastes of fame and Sutcliffe found an all-consuming love with artist Astrid Kircherr. After the band's second trip to Hamburg Sutcliffe stayed with K

• Shirley Temple Triple Pack 2 | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Baby Take A Bow: Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry have both gone straight and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in ""once a criminal always a criminal."" Then when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent tim

• Silent Night Bloody Night | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Maniacs have taken over the asylum! The new owner of a mansion discovers it was once a mental home. When he visits his inheritance he sets about investigating some old crimes that took place at the mansion scaring the local populance in the process.

• Silent Night, Bloody Night | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The mansion... the madness... the maniac... no escape. Starring Warhol Factory favourite Mary Woronov as well as cameos by other Superstars SILENT NIGHT BLOODY NIGHT is a bizarre tale of an escaped lunatic who terrorizes a small New England town and has strange dealings with the inhabitants of an old mansion which is up for sale.

• Puccini - Manon Lescaut (Berg, Weber) | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £18.08   |  Saving you £3.17 (18.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Manon Lewcaut - Puccini