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• Rififi | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  RIFIFI (ri-f -fi) n. French argot. 1. Quarrel, rumble, free-for-all, open hostilities between individuals or gangs, rough and tumble confrontation between two or more individuals. 2. A tense and chaotic situation involving violent confrontations between parties. A seminal work of crime filmmaking that lead the young critic François Truffaut to declare the best Film Noir I have ever seen , Jules Dassin s Rififi [Du rififi chez les hommes] has influenced films as diverse as Reservoir Dogs and Ocean s Eleven since its release. Following Tony, le Stéphanois (Jean Servais), a master thief fresh out of jail, wearing a harried look and suffering ill health he refuses to be involved with crime, until he finds his girlfriend shacked up with a rival gangster. With little reason to keep living he plans a final job. Tony sets about finding his crew and meticulously planning the job; a robbery of the jewellery store Mappin & Webb. Rififi revolves around the central heist, famed for its finite detail and incredible tension, but the drama does not end at the heist like so many other crime films. Dassin s film is a humanist tale that hinges on the loyalty among thieves and draws on the fatalistic, doom laden lives common to crooks and thieves in pulp literature. An instant commercial success in Paris and worldwide, the film was also very well received by the critics with Jules Dassin being awarded the best director prize at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

• Seabiscuit | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £8.25   |  Saving you £9.74 (118.06%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A half-blind ex-prizefighter and millionaire team up to take an undersized horse called Seabiscuit to the big time in this movie based on a true story.

• The Water Horse - Legend Of The Deep | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £5.14   |  Saving you £14.85 (288.91%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend that enchants and mystifies to this day.

• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Blu Ray | (10/04/2017) from £8.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As the private eye of private eyes, Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon. He s tough, rough and ready to take anything when Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward) appears on the scene with a case: her father, a noted scientist, philanthropist and cheese-maker has died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead to the Carlotta Lists . With a little help from his friends , Alan Ladd, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Laughton, etc, Reardon gets his man. An exciting, action-packed film the way 40s films used to be!

• A Clockwork Orange | Blu Ray | (04/10/2021) from £19.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap dancing, violating. Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time - at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anothony Burgess' novel. Controversial when first released, A Clockwork Orange won New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director awards and earned four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Its power still entices, shocks and holds us in its grasp. Special Features Commentary by Malcolm McDowell and Historian Nick Redman Channel Four Documentary Still Tickin': The Return of Clockwork Orange Featurette Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making A Clockwork Orange Featurette Turning Like Clockwork Featurette Malcolm McDowell Looks Back Theatrical Trailer Note: Only 4K Disc is Region Free

• Predator | Blu Ray | (06/08/2018) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Predators: Sneak Peek Predator: Evolution Of A Species: Hunters Of Extreme Perfection Commentary By Director John Mctiernan Text Commentary By Film Historian Eric Lichtenfeld If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It: The Making Of Predator Inside The Predator Special Effects Camouflage Tests Short Takes Deleted Scenes And Outtakes Theatrical Trailers Photo Gallery Predator Profiles Predator UHD: Commentary By Director John Mctiernan Text Commentary By Film Historian Eric Lichtenfeld

• Jesus Christ Superstar | Blu Ray | (20/05/2013) from £54.99   |  Saving you £-40.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Available for the first time on Blu-Ray, Jesus Christ Superstar (1973). Rock opera of the last week in the life of Jesus Christ. The Last Supper and Crucifixion are events which impel this mystical/musical translation of the famous Broadway rock opera. Special Features: An Exclusive Interview with Master Lyricist Tim Rice Photo Gallery Jesus Christ Superstar Theatrical Trailer Feature Commentary with Director Norman Jewison and Actor Ted Neely

• Boarding Gate | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £11.35   |  Saving you £1.64 (14.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sandra has a love affair with a former financial heavy weight in London. She also had a second lover a contract killer who has to kill the money guy. And it just so happens that the second lover's wife is behind the scenes pulling the strings.

• Hacks: Season 2 | Blu Ray | (09/10/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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• Stephen King's Doctor Sleep | DVD | (09/03/2020) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Doctor Sleep is the continuation of Danny Torrance's story 40 years after the terrifying events of Stephen King's The Shining. Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the shine. Instinctively recognizing that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers, The True Knot, who feed off the shine of innocents in their quest for immortality. Forming an unlikely alliance, Dan and Abra engage in a brutal life-or-death battle with Rose. Abra's innocence and fearless embrace of her shine compel Dan to call upon his own powers as never beforeat once facing his fears and reawakening the ghosts of the past.

• A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | DVD | (05/06/2000) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Scorsese's invigorating history of American movies avoids the straitjacket of chronology. Although he makes dutiful nods in the direction of Edwin S. Porter, D.W. Griffith and Orson Welles, he is equally interested in figures working at the margins, film-makers such as Andre De Toth, Ida Lupino, Sam Fuller and Edgar Ulmer, "who circumvented the system to get their vision onto the screen". He describes them as "illusionists", "smugglers", con artists who managed to hoodwink the money men into allowing them to make the films they wanted. Some worked in B-movies ("less money, more freedom") others (like Scorsese himself) struck their own Faustian bargains with the studios, making "one movie for them, one for yourself"His heroes are the outsiders, the film-makers who chafe against the assurances of the American dream. He offers a vivid, guilty vignette of himself as a four-year-old child, sitting in a darkened auditorium watching in amazement as Gregory Peck overpowers Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun, one of the first films his mother took him to. "The savage intensity of the music, the burning sun, the overt sexuality ... it seems that the two could only consummate their passion by killing each other". There's a certain irony in Scorsese, who once seriously considered becoming a priest, succumbing to a David O. Selznick Technicolor extravaganza which had already been condemned by the church.While often sounding like a serious-minded apprentice who watches old movies to pick up tips which will help him in his own work ("study the old masters, enrich your palette, expand the canvas-there's always so much more to learn") he never overlooks the illicit pleasure that cinema can bring. "I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane". --Geoffrey Macnab

• Rocky | DVD | (01/02/2000) from £5.46   |  Saving you £12.53 (229.49%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The 1976 Oscar winner for Best Picture, John G Avildsen's Rocky is the story of a down-and-out club fighter who gets his million-to-one shot at a world championship title. In the title role, Sylvester Stallone (who also penned the screenplay) draws a carefully etched portrait of a loser who, in Brando-esque fashion, "coulda been a contender". Rocky then becomes one thanks to a publicity stunt engineered by current champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), while finding love courtesy of timid wallflower Adrienne (Talia Shire) along the way. Burgess Meredith revives the spirit of 1940's genre pictures through his scenery-chewing performance as Rocky's trainer. An enormous entertainment, Rocky is irresistible in its depiction of an underachiever who has the courage to start all over again--a description that could have been applied to Stallone's own life at the time. --Kevin Mulhall

• Alias: Complete Season 2 | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £8.93   |  Saving you £36.06 (403.81%)   |  RRP £44.99

  It was a family affair in the second series of JJ Abrams' wonderfully inventive Alias, as super secret agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) came face-to-face with the mother of all super secret agents--her own mother, Irina Derevko (Lena Olin), a former KGB agent, presumed dead, and more dangerous than ever. After shooting poor Syd, Irina later shows up at the doorstep of the CIA, offering to turn herself in and work for the good guys. But can she be trusted? Alias set up so much duplicity in its second series that it might have been hard to keep track of who was doing what to whom, but thanks to a great ensemble cast, fast-paced writing and direction, and some cannily cast guest stars, the show rode a stunning emotional roller-coaster and never broke its momentum, even when halfway through the season, it reinvented itself. With episode 13, "Phase One" (which aired after the Super Bowl to the show's biggest audience), Syd's original nemesis (and employer) SD-6 changes forever, yet the kick-butt agent still finds herself going up against the malevolent leader Sloane (Ron Rifkin) and his ever-changing set of henchmen. Action fans got plenty of fighting, while romantic Alias watchers swooned as Syd and the dashing Vaughn (Michael Vartan) finally consummated their unrequited love. The critically acclaimed show owed a debt to Buffy the Vampire Slayer for its mix of action, romance, mystery, and moral quandaries, but in this series Alias truly came into its own--with a climax that came as a total shocker and prepped the show for an emotionally volatile third series. Guest stars included the phenomenal Amy Irving as Sloane's wife, Faye Dunaway as a nefarious bigwig, Christian Slater as a kidnapped scientist, and Ethan Hawke as a fellow CIA agent (or rather, two of them), but it was the dysfunctional nuclear family of Syd, Irina, and father Jack (Victor Garber) that gave Alias its heart and its strength, whether the three perfectly cast actors (all Emmy nominated) were just bickering or undertaking deadly hand-to-hand combat. --Mark Englehart

• Men Of Honour | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £4.60   |  Saving you £13.39 (291.09%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A military drama starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr that tells the true story of Carl Bashear who combated racism to become the US Navy's first African-American deep-sea diver.

• Possession (1981) (Beyond Genre #11) | Blu Ray | (15/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Alias 1-5 The Complete Set | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £52.49   |  Saving you £54.50 (103.83%)   |  RRP £106.99

  Jennifer Garner stars as Sydney Bristow a 26 year-old grad-student working for a secret division of the CIA. The mission of this group is to combat SD-6 a secret terrorist organization whose agents believe that they in fact work for a secret section of the CIA that combats terrorism! Featuring all the episodes from Seasons 1 to 5! Season 1: 1. Truth Be Told 2. So It Begins... 3. Parity 4. A Broken Heart 5. Doppelganger 6. Reckoning 7. Color-Blind 8. Time Will Tell 9. Mea Culpa 10. Spirit 11. The Confession 12. The Box - Part 1 13. The Box - Part 2 14. The Coup 15. Page 47 16. The Prophecy 17. Q and A 18. Masquerade 19. Snowman 20. The Solution 21. Rendezvous 22. Almost Thirty Years Season 2: 1. The Enemy Walks In 2. Trust Me 3. Cipher 4. Dead Drop 5. The Indicator 6. Salvation 7. The Counteragent 8. Passage - Part 1 9. Passage - Part 2 10. The Abduction 11. A Higher Echelon 12. The Getaway 13. Phase One 14. Double Agent 15. A Free Agent 16. Firebomb 17. A Dark Turn 18. Truth Takes Time 19. Endgame 20. Countdown 21. Second Double 22. The Telling Season 3: 1. The Two 2. Succession 3. Reunion 4. A Missing Link 5. Repercussions 6. The Nemesis 7. Prelude 8. Breaking Point 9. Conscious 10. Remnants 11. Full Disclosure 12. Crossings 13. After Six 14. Blowback 15. Facade 16. Taken 17. The Frame 18. Unveiled 19. Hourglass 20. Blood Ties 21. Legacy 22. Resurrection Season 4: 1. Authorised Personnel Only (Part 1) 2. Authorised Personnel Only (Part 2) 3. The Awful Truth 4. Ice 5. Welcome To Liberty Village 6. Nocturne 7. Detente 8. Echoes 9. A Man Of His Word 10. The Index 11. The Road Home 12. The Orphan 13. Tuesday 14. Nightingale 15. Pandora 16. Another Mister Sloane 17. A Clean Conscience 18. Mirage 19. In Dreams 20. The Descent 21. Search And Rescue 22. Before The Flood Season 5: 1. Prophet Five 2. ...1... 3. The Shed 4. Mockingbird 5. Out Of The Box 6. Solo 7. Fait Accompli 8. Bob 9. The Horizon 10. S.O.S. 11. Maternal Instinct 12. There's Only One Sydney Bristow 13. 30 Seconds 14. I See Dead People 15. No Hard Feelings 16. Reprisal 17. All The Time In The World

• Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £1.95   |  Saving you £18.04 (925.13%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom celebrates Nelson Mandela's extraordinary journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his election as President of South Africa. It explores the Mandela unknown to most of the world - the lover of fancy cars a lady's man the boxing enthusiast and playboy the skilful lawyer and a freedom fighter. The film is an intimate portrait of the making of a modern icon.

• The Bermuda Depths | Blu Ray | (13/01/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Jaws | DVD | (24/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jaws revolutionised Hollywood, single-handedly invented the summer blockbuster, spawned three increasingly poor sequels, and became the first film to gross more than 100 million dollars. Unlike many recent blockbusters, however, in Jaws the audience really cares about the fate of the men engaged in their duel with the monster. Granted the shark looks fake, but we willingly suspend our disbelief as storytelling and character development count for far more than mere special effects, adding enormously to the movie's suspense, excitement and sheer terror. The cast and screenplay are exemplary, but it was Steven Spielberg who emerged as the film's true star, while John Williams' unforgettable Oscar-winning score made him almost as much of as household name as the young director.On the DVD: For a Steven Spielberg movie and an all-time classic, this 25th Anniversary Edition release is impressive, but not all it could be. The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 ratio picture is superb, as is the re-mixed Dolby Digital 5.1 sound (the film was originally released in mono). It is a joy to see the film's picture and sound quality rescued from years of television and VHS screenings, offering a reminder of what all the fuss was about in the first place. The deleted scenes are quite interesting, offering more background on Brody, Hooper and Quint, including the latter's bizarre vocal duel with a boy playing the recorder! The four photo galleries are good, but some captions would have helped enormously. Disappointingly, there's no director's commentary, the best extra being a 50-minute documentary, "The Making of Jaws". This is excellent, and quite different from the BBC television production, "In the Teeth of Jaws". Even if you've seen that, there's much more to learn here. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Der Golem | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A relic certainly, but a fascinating one, Der Golem is perhaps the screen's first great monster movie. Though it was actually the third time director-star Paul Wegener had played the eponymous creation, the earlier efforts (sadly lost) were rough drafts for this elaborate dramatisation of the Jewish legend. When the Emperor decrees that the Jews of mediaeval Prague should be evicted from the ghetto, a mystical rabbi creates a clay giant and summons the demon Astaroth who breathes out in smoky letters the magic word that will animate the golem. Intended as a protector and avenger, the golem is twisted by the machinations of a lovelorn assistant and, like many a monster to come, runs riot, terrorising guilty and innocent alike until a little girl innocently ends his rampage. Wegener's golem is an impressively solid figure, the Frankenstein monster with a slightly comical girly clay-wig. The wonderfully grotesque Prague sets and the alchemical atmosphere remain potent. On the DVD: Der Golem on disc has an imaginative menu involving the rabbi opening a book of spells that leads to alternate versions of the film with German or English inter-titles. The print is cobbled from several sources and tinted to the original specifications, with an especially impressive crimson glow as the ghetto burns. The extras are an audio essay, illustrated with clips, on Der Golem and German Expressionist cinema in general, plus a gallery of stills and other illustrations. --Kim Newman