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• Les Diaboliques | Blu Ray | (25/04/2011) from £16.18   |  Saving you £8.81 (54.45%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Legend has it that Henri-Georges Clouzot beat out Alfred Hitchcock to secure the rights to this novel, which proved to be a veritable blueprint for an icy masterpiece of murder, mystery and suspense. Véra Clouzot plays the sickly wife of a callous headmaster of a provincial boarding school going to seed, and the commanding Simone Signoret is the headmaster's mistreated mistress. Together they plot and carry out his murder, a brutal drowning that director Clouzot documents in chilly detail, but the corpse disappears and a nosy detective starts sniffing around the grounds as threatening notes taunt the women. Clouzot's thriller is as precise and accomplished a work as anything in Hitchcock's canon, a film of gruelling suspense and startling shocks in an overcast, grey world of decay, but his icy manipulations lack the human dimension and emotional resonance of the master of suspense. Many critics have accused the film of being misanthropic, and Clouzot's attitude toward his characters is bitter at best, contemptuous at worst. The viewer is left on the outside looking in, but the razor precision and terrifying twists deliver a sleek, bleak spectacle worthy of attention. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Going Postal (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A Tale of Love and Revenge... and Stamps. Moist von Lipwig is a con artist of the highest degree: polite charming and skillful in his work. Nevertheless as the story begins he is confined to a cell in Ankh Morpork and scheduled to die within half an hour after having stolen AM0 000. He is saved when Lord Vetinari offers him a choice: he can walk out of the door (and fall to his death) or he can become Postmaster of the city's run down Post Office. Lipwig chooses the latter hoping for a chance to escape. Unfortunately for him Lipwig's first and last attempt at escape is thwarted by a golem named Mr Pump who delivers Lipwig back to the office of the Patrician...

• Carry on | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £199.99

  This box set features a veritable campsite of bawdy comedic treats from the Carry On crew! Includes: 1. Carry On Abroad (1972) 2. Carry On Again Doctor (1972) 3. Carry On Doctor (1967) 4. Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1966) 5. Carry On England (1976) 6. Carry On Follow That Camel (1967) 7. Carry On Matron (1972) 8. Carry On at Your Convenience (1971) 9. Carry On Behind (1975) 10. Carry On Camping (1969) 11. Carry On Dick (1974) 12. Carry On Emmanuelle (1978) 13. Carry On Girls (1973) 14. Carry On Henry (1971) 15. Carry On Holiday 16. Carry On Loving (1970) 17. Carry On Up The Jungle (1970) 18. Carry On up the Khyber (1968) 19. Carry On Sergeant (1958) 20. Carry On Nurse (1959) 21. Carry On Teacher (1959) 22. Carry On Constable (1960) 23. Carry On Regardless (1961) 24. Carry On Cruising (1962) 25. Carry On Cabby (1963) 26. Carry On Jack (1963) 27. Carry On Spying (1964) 28. Carry On Cleo (1964) 29. Carry On Cowboy (1965) 30. Carry On Screaming! (1966)

• 3 Classic Boris Karloff Films | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £6.95   |  Saving you £-1.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This collection of films stars one the of the true originals when it comes to horror 'The Uncanny' Boris Karloff! The Ape: An evil doctor obsessed with curing a young woman of a dreadful disease goes around injecting people with spinal fluid resulting in a killer ape being let loose! Doomed to Die: Mr. James Lee Wong (Boris Karloff) uncovers a murderous plot of saboteurs. The Fatal Hour: Boris Karloff is the famous sleuth Mr. Wong on the trail of murder.

• Jack Reed - One Of Our Own | DVD | (09/06/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Golden Globe-winner Brian Dennehy is back as star director and co-writer of a hard-hitting crime-thriller featuring Jack Reed Chicago's toughest and most incorruptible cop. Reed's partner is slain protecting Sarah Landry a young woman who is the victim of attempted murder. Sarah is entrusted to Reed's care and he takes her into his own home where she lives as part of his family. Reed will stop at nothing to catch the person who is threatening Sarah's life and who killed his former partner.

• Dickens In America | DVD | (30/07/2012) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-24.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Illustrious author Charles Dickens is renowned for bringing the Victorian era to life, yet he also had a long held fascination with America, and made a substantial journey there in the mid-19th Century. This culminated in his book American Notes a comic, critical and satirical recording of the countrys manners, morals, flaws and fashions.Acclaimed British actress, and life-long Dickens enthusiast, Miriam Margolyes embarks on a literary road movie to tell the largely unknown story of Charles Dickens passionate and controversial relationship with America and Canada.From The White House to West Point, Dickens visited and wrote about all of American life, money and manners, press and prisons, slavery, corruption, greed, politics and religion in 1842. Margolyes takes the 4,000 mile odyssey to find out how much - and how little - has changed in North America in the intervening 160 years.Miriam's adventure takes her across the Atlantic to New York on the Queen Mary 2. She then follows the route of Dickens from state prisons to city courtrooms; from the tobacco plantations of the South, via the last of the great Mississippi River Boats to the Dickens - themed tea-parties in New England. After a number of fascinating encounters, she arrives in Philadelphia to find a city unnaturally obsessed with the great author before venturing over America's northern border to meet Canadian Victoriana collectors.Finally, she returns to New York to perform a little part of her adventure to an audience at the Lincoln Centre. Interspersing history, travelogue and interviews, Dickens in America offers a fascinating and witty insight into Charles Dickens love/hate relationship with North America and paints a personal and revealing portrait of modern day USA.

• Isle Of Man From The Air | DVD | (01/04/2002) from £12.35   |  Saving you £7.64 (61.86%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Isle of Man has one of the world's most fascinating landscapes shaped by the last ice age weathered by time and coloured by human history. But much of this beautiful and dramatic scenery is rarely seen to its full advantage and can only be hinted at from a ground-level view. Join presenter Charles Guard as he leads you through the story of the landscape unfolding beneath including a unique perspective of ancient earthworks coastal erosion and Ice Age formations. Explore the

• The Sting Limited Edition Digibook | Blu Ray | (11/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Winner of seven Academy Awards (1973) including Best Picture, The Sting is one of the most popular and critically-acclaimed films of all time. Set in the 1930s, this intricate comedy caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook (Robert Redford) and veteran con man (Paul Newman) who seek revenge on the vicious crime lord (Robert Shaw) who murdered one of their gang. How this group of charlatans puts the sting on their enemy makes for the greatest double-cross in movie history.

• Moskito-Bomber greifen an (Mosquito Squadron) 1970 | Blu Ray | (26/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Screamers | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After 10 years of devastating warfare on Planet Sirius 6B a distant mining planet Commander Joseph Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is assigned to protect his outpost from the New Economic Block. His scientists have created a perfect weapon designed to destroy all enemy life - a blade wielding self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers. But something has gone wrong - the Screamers continue to evolve without any human guidance cloning themselves into human form and obliterating all forms of human life. Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of the endless war Hendricksson decides he must negotiate peace with the enemy. But to do so he must first destroy the very weapon he helped to create - the Screamers!

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £15.13   |  Saving you £-10.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

• Chino | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £17.93   |  Saving you £-4.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  They Took His Land...His Horses...His Woman...But...They Couldn't Take Chino! Set in 1880 in New Mexico. Chino an American of Indian/Mexican descent breaks horses on his smallholding. When a youth turns up one night seeking work he takes him in teaching the ropes. When Chino falls in love with the sister of Maral his wealthy Mexican rancher neighbour Maral will stop at nothing to ensure the two don't marry.

• The Couch Trip | DVD | (13/06/2016) from £13.69   |  Saving you £4.30 (31.41%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Dan Aykroyd (Ghostbusters) is running the asylum - and ruling the airwaves - as a mental patient turned talk-radio shrink in this comedy of loony proportions co-starring Charles Grodin (Midnight Run), Donna Dixon (Spies Like Us), Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple) and Chevy Chase (Fletch). When asylum inmate John Burns (Aykroyd) intercepts a call to his psychiatrist, he brashly impersonates the good doctor. And he does such a good job that he's given an offer to fill in for a stressed-out Beverly Hills celebrity psychologist (Grodin) as the host of a call-in radio advice show. Escaping the hospital, Burns is soon gleefully crossing swords with his predecessor's beautiful colleague (Dixon), crossing paths with a crafty crackpot (Matthau) and crossing the line into complete hilarity as his offbeat psychobabble takes ultra-trendy La-La Land by storm!

• Second Chorus | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A marvelously delightful 1930's style song and dance spectacular the likes of which would be wiped away by the December bombing of Pearl Harbor Second Chorus finds Fred Astaire as a struggling bandleader chased by a collection agent - Paulette. She serves the papers he chases her. She wangles him an audition with Artie Shaw which Burgess Meredith hilariously sabotages. A rich sugar daddy (the marvelous Charles Butterworth) smoothes things over with Artie and through it all Fred and Paulette dance and sing. For what more could you ask?

• The Firm | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  These days people are dangerously nostalgic about the sinister tackiness of the 1980s, but there's no stiffer antidote to such delusion than Alan Clarke's The Firm. This unforgettable film was made as a one-off drama for the BBC in 1988, but its cult following has grown steadily through video, thanks to a startling central performance from a young Gary Oldman, and the riveting manner in which Clarke captures the lethal, mindless energy of football hooliganism. Oldman plays Clive "Bexy" Bissell, working-class East London boy done good: a prosperous estate agent, proud homeowner, happy husband and doting father. But his chief pleasure is to be team leader ("top boy") of a bunch of overgrown yobs who attend football matches in order to cause violence. At weekends Bexy leads his "Inter City Crew" into rucks with rival warlords such as Yeti (Phil Davis) and Oboe (Andrew Wilde), in search of what he calls "the buzz", no matter the cost to his young family and his future prospects. The Firm was entirely shot on SteadiCam, enabling Clarke to drop the viewer right into the thick of the action and exploit some hair-raisingly authentic rowdiness from his talented cast. Among these thugs, soap fans will spot Eastenders' Steve McFadden and Charlie Lawson of Coronation Street. The Firm is a masterpiece of social-realist drama, and one of the most virulently anti-Thatcherite films of its time. An avid supporter of Everton FC, Clarke responded to Al Hunter's script because he felt that the vicious idiots spoiling football were a new breed of disgrace. The tabloids raised a stink about the film's violence, and the BBC delayed its broadcast until 1989. A year later, Alan Clarke died of cancer, But The Firm is a tremendous last testament from the finest English director of his generation. --Richard Kelly

• 3 Leading Ladies Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 1 - Father's Little Dividend / Nothing Sacred | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Father's Little Dividend: Reprising his role from the 1950 release 'Father Of The Bride' Spencer Tracy rejoins Joan Bennett Elizabeth Taylor and Don Taylor in a charming sequel. Tracy portrays Elizabeth Taylor's father Stanley Banks who is still recovering from the effects of giving up his ""little girl"" Kay to Buckley Dunstan played by Don Taylor. Upon hearing the news that the newlyweds are expecting Tracy opposes the new arrival feeling the stresses of middle ag

• Night Of The Living Dead | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (11.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

  George Romero's classic 1968 zombie-fest Night of the Living Dead (shot in black and white) offers some disturbing images, even decades later. In a Pittsburgh suburb people are being stalked by zombies ravenous for human flesh. In a house whose occupant has already been slain, two separate groups of people unite and board themselves in, hoping to fend off the advancing ghouls. Through radio and TV reports they learn that radiation from outer space is thought to be responsible for the wave of zombie attacks all over the eastern United States. Once the humans are trapped, Romero shifts the focus to the internal feuding between them as they decide how to handle their dreadful situation. What unfolds is an examination of human nature, and of the fear and selfishness that keep many citizens from getting involved in the world's problems. Appropriately, both the zombies, and the authorities who later hunt them, are equally soulless. This film could also be read as a criticism of white males--it is not merely a coincidence that the film's two most rational, constructive characters are a woman and a black man. It is also no coincidence that the sequel Dawn of the Dead (1978) takes place in a mall infested by the undead--a perfect analogy for consumer culture. --Bryan Reeseman, Amazon.com

• Bukowski - Born Into This | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Bukowski: Born Into This is the first comprehensive documentary of Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) - international celebrity poet novelist and underground cult icon. Director John Dullaghan spent seven years researching and shooting conducting dozens of interviews with relatives girlfriends and other poets as well as better-known friends like Bono Sean Penn Harry Dean Stanton Barbet Schroeder and Taylor Hackford.

• Comic Book Confidential | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Hey gang! Check out this comic book movie!!! The only movie with your favourite artists and writers. See Marvel Master Stan Lee brings Spiderman's money worries to life! Hear underground artist Robert Crumb confess why he killed Fritz the Cat! Wonder at congressional hearings from the 1950s ""proving"" the link between comic books and juvenile delinquency! Comic Book Confidential is a funny smart eye popping history that finally gives comic books the respect they deserve.

• Nighthawks | DVD | (24/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99