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• A Sense Of Freedom | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the autobiography of former criminal Jimmy Boyle 1979's A SENSE OF FREEDOM was one of the most controversial and influential dramas of its time. Directed by John Mackenzie (The Long Good Friday) and featuring the camerawork of Oscar-winning cinematographer Chris Menges (The Mission; The Killing Fields) it was justifiably hailed by critics and the public alike for its unflinching depiction of prison life and criminal rehabilitation. A SENSE OF FREEDOM tells the moving and ultimately uplifting story of Jimmy Boyle. Born and bred on the tough streets of Glasgow's notorious Gorbals area Boyle followed in his criminal father's footsteps to become one of the city's most well-known and most violent racketeering hardmen. His life of crime came to a sudden end in the late 1960s when he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a rival gangster. Incarcerated in the controversial special rehabilitation unit of Glasgow's infamous Barlinnie Prison Boyle discovers the meaning of rough justice when full of rage and hostility he attempts to take on the prison system and the authority of the wardens in the only way he knows how. Slowly and painfully he comes to realise there is more to life than violence and crime as he begins the long process of turning his life around. An extremely powerful film A SENSE OF FREEDOM perfectly illustrates the futility and severe brutality of life behind bars. It is also a deeply moving testament to the strength of the human spirit and a reminder that in life it is never too late to change for the better. Starring David Hayman (Trial And Retribution) and Fulton Mackay (Porridge) the film features original music by legendary blues artists Frankie Miller and Rory Gallagher.

• Torchwood - Series 2 - Complete | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £21.00   |  Saving you £13.99 (66.62%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Separate from the government outside the police beyond the United Nations: Torchwood sets its own rules. With fearsome new aliens compelling new storylines and amazing guest stars the second series will take the close-knit Torchwood team through dare-devil action temptation heartache... and a life changing event for one of the team. The high-octane new episodes take Torchwood on journeys to the 51st Century and World War I. The team battle a rogue Time Agent investigate alien sleeper cells save a stranded creature from horrific abuse and come face to face with an entity that may well be Death itself. Joined for three episodes by Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones in Doctor Who) and with guest appearances from Richard Briers (Monarch of the Glen The Good Life) Alan Dale (Ugly Betty The OC) and James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Smallville) Captain Jack will have his work cut out as the stakes get higher and his team are stretched further than ever before.

• Common Threads | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (46.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This film recounts the lives and deaths of various victims of AIDS who are commemorated in the AIDS quilt. It is a massive cloth collecting each piece as a memorial for each victim of the disease to both show the death toll and to show the humanity of the victims to those who would rather demonize them

• Power Rangers: Jungle Fury Vol. 1: Into the Jungle | DVD | (09/03/2009) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-5.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Get ready for a seriously wild ride as the fury of an ancient evil is unleashed calling for three new teenage heroes to rise up and defend the world. The valiant skills of the Order Of The Claw have kept a 10 000-year-old evil spirit completely caged - until now. Dai Shi has escaped and three new warriors must find and destroy him. The earth's only hope against being taken over by an army of villainous animal spirits is a trio of courageous Power Rangers who still have a lot to learn about teamwork. Plunge Into The Jungle and this ultimate battle of the beasts!

• Escort Girls | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £8.75   |  Saving you £6.24 (71.31%)   |  RRP £14.99

  It's Christmas Eve in London, 1974 - and seven lonely people are on the town, looking to grab that elusive slice of enjoyment. So who better to contact than an escort agency- providing high-class ladies and gentlemen for anyone willing to pay the right price.But even in the saucy seventies, things weren't that easy- and our intrepid pleasure seekers have to face everything from inadequacy, rejection and catharsis to racism, violence and grand theft. Just goes to show how lonely a place the throbbing metropolis can be, especially during the holiday season...Donovan Winter's gritty, realist sex drama is a fascinating snapshot of a London long past, featuring an early performance from David Dixon (Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, The Legend Of Robin Hood) alongside notable cult film faces Veronica Doran (Haunted House Of Horror, Funny Man) Ken Gajadhar (Death May Be Your Santa Claus) Helen Christie (Lust For A Vampire) and Maria O' Brien (Adventures Of Barry McKenzie, When Dinsoaurs Ruled The Earth) It's glittering, it's grimy, and above all, it's guaranteed to make you say, now where have I seen them before? A night in with the Escort Girls (and boys) is like the night out you never thought you'd have... and you still might not!

• Bride Of Re-Animator | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £10.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator (1990) was one of the last hurrahs for special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor, Re-Animator, Bride is very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum--now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first. Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers and an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements--the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun. On the DVD: Bride of Re-Animator is presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its Dolby 2.0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. --Roz Kaveney

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

  WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE REALLY SCARED!!!? From Dario Argento, maestro of the macabre and the man behind some the greatest excursions in Italian horror (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), comes Deep Red arguably the ultimate giallo movie. One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow Up), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator... or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems... Aided by a throbbing score from regular Argento-collaborators Goblin, Deep Red (aka Profondo Rossoand The Hatchet Murders) is a hallucinatory fever dream of a giallo punctuated by some of the most astonishing set-pieces the sub-genre has to offer.

• Agatha Christie's Poirot - Mrs. McGinty Dead | DVD | (25/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  David Suchet stars as Agatha Christie's enigmatic eccentric and extremely intelligent detective Hercule Poirot.

• The Other Boleyn Girl | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history.

• Frasier - Series 10 | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £19.95   |  Saving you £15.04 (75.39%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Frasier returns with Season 10 of the smash hit comedy! Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer is Frasier - the hilarious psychiatrist first seen on TV's Cheers and subsequently the star of this smash-hit comedy series.

• Edge Of Sanity | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The lead role or roles is performed perfectly by the talented horror actor ANTHONY PERKINS of Psycho fame. His delightfully insane dual performance brings the film to life. While experimenting with anaesthetics Dr. Henry Jekyll accidentally inhales fumes from an altered drug and creates his alter ego Jack Hyde. This unleashes not only ability to act out his inhibitions and sexual desires; it unleashes a need to kill!

• The World At War - Vol. 3 | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £16.16   |  Saving you £8.83 (35.30%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When this epic series was first broadcast in 1973 it redefined the gold standard for television documentary; it remains the benchmark by which all factual programming must judge itself. Originally shown as 26 one-hour programmes, The World at War set out to tell the story of the Second World War through the testimony of key participants. The result is a unique and unrepeatable event, since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long left to live. Each hour-long programme is carefully structured to focus on a key theme or campaign, from the rise of Nazi Germany to Hitler's downfall and the onset of the Cold War. There are no academic "talking heads" here to spell out an official version of history; the narration, delivered with wonderful gravitas by Sir Laurence Olivier, is kept to a minimum. The show's great coup was to allow the participants to speak for themselves. Painstaking research in the archives of the Imperial War Museum also unearthed a vast quantity of newsreel footage, including on occasion the cameraman's original raw rushes which present an unvarnished and never-before-seen picture of important events. Carl Davis' portentous main title theme and score underlines the grand scale of the enterprise. The original 26 episodes were supplemented three years later by six special programmes (narrated by Eric Porter), bringing the total running-time to a truly epic 32 hours. Now digitally remastered The World at War looks even more of an impressive achievement on DVD. Available in five volumes, each handsomely packaged double-disc set comes with a detailed menu that places the individual programmes along a chronological timeline. Better yet, chapter access is laid out to allow you to select key speeches or maps or newsreel footage. The World at War was a landmark television event; its DVD incarnation underlines its importance as an historical document. --Mark Walker

• The Secret Life of Us : Series 1, Part 1 | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Secret Life of Us follows eight twentysomethings sharing three apartments in a Melbourne residential block, and may well be Channel 4's best-kept secret. Buried in a mid-week late-night slot the show has nevertheless developed a cult following as an antipodean answer to This Life, though one mercifully free of amateurish shaky photography. This is actually a good-looking soap spiced with post-watershed language, sex, nudity and a refreshing dose of humour--think Sex and the City meets Coupling, or Dawson's Creek goes to The Book Group. The show takes a while to get going, introducing too many characters too quickly in disorientating fashion, but becomes engrossing entertainment filled with realistically young, aimless and confused, if not very likeable characters. Central to the show is Alex (Claudia Karvan, soon to become much more famous in Star Wars: Episode III) giving a strong performance as an emotional insecure doctor who sets things rolling by having a fling with her best friend's boyfriend. Samuel Johnson meanwhile is the highly sexed struggling novelist whose work in progress, the titular Secret Life of Us offers commentary on the ever more tangled web of romance, deception and friendship. It's Australian drama for those who have outgrown Melbourne's Neighbours. On the DVD: The Secret Life of Us comes to DVD in an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 transfer which looks fine, showing just a little graininess in the darker scenes. The sound is Dolby Prologic and is more than adequate given the small-scale, intimate nature of the production. There are optional subtitles. --Gary S Dalkin

• Primitive London | DVD | (22/06/2015) from £8.83   |  Saving you £9.16 (103.74%)   |  RRP £17.99

  First released in 1965 Primitive London is a once shocking mondo-style documentary that sets out to reflect societal decay through the sideshow spectacle of 1960's London depravity. Here the camera finds mods rockers and beatniks an obscure band called The Zephyrs seedy Jack the Ripper enactments flabby men in the sauna sordid wife-swapping parties and more. Shot just as the sixties was really starting Primitive London shows a Britain trying to find a way of transiting from the post war depression of the 1950''s and the shiny brave new world of the mid 1960''s. Miller''s companion piece London in the Raw is also released this month.

• Stargate: Atlantis (Vol. 1) | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £6.93   |  Saving you £13.06 (65.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rising (Part 1): The discovery of an amazing city left behind by the Ancients in the most unlikely of places leads a new Stargate team to the distant Pegasus galaxy. Once there the new team encounters a planet of primitive humans being decimated by a terrible alien race - the Wraith. Rising (Part 2): Sheppard tries to convince Weir to mount a rescue mission to free Colonel Sumner Teyla and the others captured by the Wraith. Meanwhile Sumner faces the Wraith themselves. Hide And Seek:An alien intruder has found it's way into the city threatening the security of the base. Dr McKay's experiments with alien technology lands him in trouble. 38 Minutes: The Atlantis team's 'puddle jumper' becomes trapped in the Stargate.

• Pretty Persuasion | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £6.92   |  Saving you £12.06 (306.87%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Revenge knows no mercy. Seeing the world as an orchestra Kimberly manipulates those around her like the master conductor she believes herself to be. Convincing her two best friends to join her in a devastating campaign of character assassination against their befuddled teacher Mr Anderson Kimberly entangles the entire Bevery Hills community in her carefully woven web of seduction and deceit.

• The Island Of Dr Moreau | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Though this graphic 1996 version of HG Wells' The Island of Dr Moreau was roasted by critics, it's an utterly fascinating failure, largely due to the performances of David Thewlis, Val Kilmer and especially Marlon Brando in the title role as a mad (and in this case outrageously bizarre) scientist whose experiments in crossbreeding humans with animals have gone terribly awry. Thewlis plays the wayward scholar who is rescued at sea by Kilmer and brought to Moreau's island to discover the doctor's unnatural "children". Fairuza Balk plays Moreau's half-cat daughter, but it's Brando and Kilmer (in one scene doing a killer Brando impersonation) who steal the show, along with the astounding make-up effects created by Stan Winston. A guilty pleasure by any measure, this movie has definite cult-favourite potential. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The World At War - Vol. 1 | DVD | (28/08/2000) from £5.52   |  Saving you £4.47 (80.98%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When this epic series was first broadcast in 1973 it redefined the gold standard for television documentary; it remains the benchmark by which all factual programming must judge itself. Originally shown as 26 one-hour programmes, The World at War set out to tell the story of the Second World War through the testimony of key participants. The result is a unique and unrepeatable event, since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long left to live. Each hour-long programme is carefully structured to focus on a key theme or campaign, from the rise of Nazi Germany to Hitler's downfall and the onset of the Cold War. There are no academic "talking heads" here to spell out an official version of history; the narration, delivered with wonderful gravitas by Sir Laurence Olivier, is kept to a minimum. The show's great coup was to allow the participants to speak for themselves. Painstaking research in the archives of the Imperial War Museum also unearthed a vast quantity of newsreel footage, including on occasion the cameraman's original raw rushes which present an unvarnished and never-before-seen picture of important events. Carl Davis' portentous main title theme and score underlines the grand scale of the enterprise. The original 26 episodes were supplemented three years later by six special programmes (narrated by Eric Porter), bringing the total running-time to a truly epic 32 hours. Now digitally remastered The World at War looks even more of an impressive achievement on DVD. Available in five volumes, each handsomely packaged double-disc set comes with a detailed menu that places the individual programmes along a chronological timeline. Better yet, chapter access is laid out to allow you to select key speeches or maps or newsreel footage. The World at War was a landmark television event; its DVD incarnation underlines its importance as an historical document. --Mark Walker

• Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 3 | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Saved from the brink of cancellation by its loyal fanbase, Star Trek's third and final season rewarded them with a number of memorable episodes. Tight budgets and slipping creative control, however, made it the most uneven, though it did have some of the coolest episode titles ("For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", "Is There in Truth No Beauty", "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"). Some of the best moments involved a gunfight at the OK Corral ("Spectre of the Gun"), a knock-down drag-out sword battle with the Klingons aboard the Enterprise ("Day of the Dove"), the ship getting caught in an ever-tightening spacial net ("The Tholian Web"), TV's first interracial kiss ("Plato's Stepchildren"), Sulu taking command ("The Savage Curtain"), and Kirk's switching bodies with an ex-love interest ("Turnabout Intruder"). Also appearing in the set as a coda are two versions of the series pilot, "The Cage", a restored color version and the original, never-aired version that alternates between color and black and white. Starring Jeffery Hunter as Captain Pike, Leonard Nimoy as a relatively emotional Spock, and Majel Barrett (the future Nurse Chapel and Mrs. Gene Roddenberry) as a frosty Number One, this pilot was rejected, but a second was commissioned, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", now considered the "official" beginning of the series. But "The Cage" is very recognizably Star Trek with its far-out concepts (telepathic aliens collecting species samples), sexy humanoid women, character development, and of course cheesy costumes and special effects. Footage was later reused in the season 1 two-parter, "The Menagerie". The best of the 63 minutes of bonus material focuses on three of the actors: Walter Koenig, George Takei, and James Doohan. Koenig discusses how he was cast and shows off his various collections, one consisting of Chekov figurines. Takei speaks movingly about the Japanese American internment and, in what is probably his last Star Trek appearance, Doohan, slowed by Alzheimer's but still with a twinkle in his eye, recalls his voiceover roles and his favorite episodes. The Easter eggs are amusingly called "Red Shirt Files" in tribute to those poor saps who everyone knew were only in the landing party so they could die. --David Horiuchi

• The Last Leprechaun | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Ethel and Tommy Barrick don't particularly enjoy boarding school and normally look forward to their holidays with excitement. This summer however they face the long break with a real feeling of unease. Their father a powerful business man (Jack Calia from Tall Dark & Deadly and The Silencers) is to remarry and sends the children to Ireland to spend the summer with his intended a woman they have never met. Once in Ireland the children quickly grow to dislike the woman Laura Duvann (played by Veronica Hamel of Hill Street Blues and Filofax fame). Their worst nightmare is realized when they discover her to actually be an evil power seeking water banshee with real magical powers and a hatred for all things green. With the aid of her loyal butler (David Warner from Titanic and Time Bandits) Laura plans to flood the forest and drown its Keeper Fin Rigan McCool the last King of the Leprechauns. Ethel and Tommy find an ally in Mary (Laura's housekeeper) and so they join forces with the Leprechaun to defeat Laura's evil scheme. As they unite in their fight against this evil witch the children come to understand their father his aloofness and the reason for their abcenses. In the process they even manage to cultivate a romance between Mary and their father and so create a chance to have a normal family life. This is an enchanting story of magic and family loyalty good over evil and most importantly of the dreams and determination of lonely children who want to be loved.