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• David Oistrakh - Artist Of The People? | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £28.53   |  Saving you £-10.54 (-58.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Bruno Monsaingeon's David Oistrakh: Artist of the People? is a probing portrait of perhaps the most thought-provoking of modern violin virtuosi, and a good companion to his similarly revealing documentary on pianist Sviatoslav Richter. Although conversation with the man himself is minimal (Oistrakh died in 1974), Monsaingeon is able to draw upon the priceless reminiscences of those who worked with him, including his son Igor, conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, protegé Gidon Kremer, and the late Yehudi Menuhin: their frank and sincere comments on Soviet society make for sobering listening. Equally important, the range of Oistrakh's repertoire is covered, from Bach to Shostakovich, in footage covering half a century of performance. The musicianship and humanity of a life dedicated to music in the face of an often ruthless establishment is powerfully and movingly evoked. This is a documentary that no-one interested in great music-making or 20th-century culture should miss. On the DVD: David Oistrakh: Artist of the People? reproduces its disparate sources with remarkable consistency in a 4:3 picture, and if the high level transfer of the musical extracts gives a harder edge to Oistrakh's sound than was the case, the Linear PCM Stereo itself is fine. There are subtitles in five European languages, and a useful background article by Monsaingeon, similarly translated, in the booklet. --Richard Whitehouse

• Newsbreak | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  John McNamara (Michael Rooker) is a reporter working for the notorious tabloid The Metro Examiner. His arrogant and reckless reporting has recently landed him in deep trouble with his editor and his job is on the line. After a fellow reporter goes missing John stumbles into a web of deceit corruption and murder. With the help of rival reporter Linda Callaway (Kelly Miller) they begin to dig the dirt on senior politicians who are involved in serious corruption with organised crime. Can they get the story into tomorrow's headlines or will they live to see tomorrow themselves?

• The Forgotten | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  October 1950 and UN forces have crossed the 38th Parallel marking the beginning of the invasion of North Korea from the South. During a particularly vicious enemy assault a decimated U.S. Army tank platoon fleas in retreat and two tanks find themselves isolated from the rest of the company. Corporal William Bryne a young idealistic enlistee is thrown into command of the stranded tanks after the death of his platoon officers. Hopelessly outnumbered and fighting against unseen enemies and diminishing morale he leads the stricken tanks across an unfamiliar landscape in search of hope and allies. Death dissention and a wounded North Korean P.O.W. test William's resolve to breaking point but he must find it within himself to lead the beleaguered crew of Cowboy 2 back into battle.

• Monique | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Made at the end of the sixties Monique benefited from the increased liberalism of the time and dealt freely with the issues of bisexuality, and lesbianism. Mixing a tight script with a strong cast and a believable plot in which a newly arrived au pair girl (Sibylla Kay - Vampire Circus) livens up a tired marriage by simultaneously beginning affairs with both the husband (David Sumner) and the wife (Joan Alcorn - The Love Box).This was to be the director John Bown's only film as he moved on to acting fulltime starring in a number of features including Vampire Circus (1972), Fear in the Night (1972) and most recently Dark Waters (2006) with Thora Birch of American Beauty fame.

• England Skills Uncovered | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £7.96   |  Saving you £15.02 (302.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Improve your game with the England team: tips from the very top! Revealing never before seen footage 'England Skills Uncovered' is a unique step-by-step guide through 19 key football skills and techniques. The programme features player interviews special archive match highlights enhanced by 3D computer graphics plus rare training ground footage - analysing and explaining just what it takes to play the game like your heroes. See Captain Beckham dazzle and delight listen to M

• Dawn of the Dead | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this remake of George Romero's classic horror, a ragtag group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall as bloodthirsty zombies walk the earth.

• Serenity/The One/Stealth | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Serenity: Can't stop the signal... Beloved television cult director Joss Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer Angel) makes a spectacular first foray onto the big screen with Serenity the cinematic adaptation of his wildly popular but short-lived sci-fi series Firefly. A mix of space western comedy and drama Serenity follows captain Malcolm ""Mal"" Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and his ragtag crew as they trade their way around the edges of civilized society. Of particular interest are two passengers they take on Simon and River Tam (Sean Maher and Summer Glau) a brother and his telepathic sister on the run from the corrupt governing Alliance. As notorious former members of the anti-Alliance opposition Mal and his crew make it difficult for Simon and River to stay hidden. Everything goes completely awry when a government assassin is sent to retrieve River. As Mal is forced to choose between his close-knit crew and the brother and sister newcomers it becomes apparent that River harbors both a dangerous secret and astounding fighting powers and Mal decides that discovering the truth about what she knows might just be worth his time. Many of the film's action sequences revolve around Summer Glau's martial arts skills in her portrayal of River. Glau prepared for her role with Hong Kong stuntwoman Ming Lu as well as stunt coordinators Chad Stahelski and Hiro Koda and as a result performed nearly all the stuntwork herself. In addition to the stellar stunts realistic graphics and an often haunting score the film's actors display a rare chemistry that brings viewers both into their lives and into a possible version of humanity's future. (Dir. Joss Wheldon 2005) The One: In order to save the universe he will have to fight the fiercest enemy he has ever faced: himself! A sheriff's deputy fights a diabolical and deadly mirror image of himself that has escaped from an alternate and parallel universe. Sometimes the difference between good and evil is only a matter of degrees... (Dir. James Wong 2001) Stealth: Fear the sky... A trio of stealth bomber pilots (Jamie Foxx Jessica Biel Josh Lucas) are forced to fly with EDI (Extreme Deep Invader) a computer-manned prototype plane that specializes in extra-precision bombing. The brainchild of a programming wunderkind (Richard Roxburgh) EDI has the ability to learn at a fantastic rate but before long a freak accident causes it to question authority and launch an attack on Russia. In a top-secret military operation the three pilots struggle to bring the artificial intelligence program under control before it initiates the next world war... (Dir. Rob Cohen 2005)

• Various Artists - the Psychedelic Stars | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Track Listing: 1.Introduction 2.Space Oddity - David Bowie 3.Saucerful Of Secrets - Pink Floyd 4.Fie! - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown 5.Eight Miles High - The Byrds 6.White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane 7.We Know What We Mean - Soft Machine 8.The End - The Doors 9.Sugar Magnolia - Grateful Dead 10.Mardi Gras Day - Dr. John 11.The Wheel's On Fire - Julie Driscoll & The Brian Auger Trinity 12.Space Cowboy - The Steve Miller Band 13.Intersteller Overdrive - Pink Floyd 14.Sunshine Of Your Love - Jimi Hendrix 15.I Feel Free - The Cream 16.Psychedelic Reaction - The Introverted

• Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture | DVD | (06/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.35

• The Sore Losers | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set in present day Memphis and Mississippi alien Blackie returns to earth after 42 years to complete his original mission to kill 12 chosen victims (lowlife scum such as hillbillies hippies chartered accountants etc...). He soon hooks up with his old friend - Mike who has been locked in a Memphis time warp asylum for the last 42 years and the memorable Kerine - a young lady straight out of the big house with a penchant for black leather 45 magnums AMC Pacers and killing hippies. On a visit to her folks Kerine blows away her mother and father - unfortunately these kills exceed the quota of 12 stranding Blackie and Mike on Earth. The they have to drag Kerine's dead mother around with them until they figure out how to re-animate her and replace her with a victim of the supreme elders choosing. The replacement victim turns out to be the delectable D'Lana who unfortunately has mistakenly been captured by the FBI from outer space and sentenced to death for the murders committed by the gang. She can only die by Blackie's hand in order that they can return home winners and not get stuck on earth as sore losers!

• Snowflake | Blu Ray | (07/10/2013) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Watch out! A white gorilla a red panda and a cunning little girl are on the run! Snowflake unites a star studded David Spade (The Emperor's New Groove) Ariana Grande Nathan Kress Christopher Lloyd and Janette McCurdy. voice cast of Snowflake knows what it's like to be different. His snow-white fur has set him apart from other gorillas since the day he was born. Now far away from his homeland of Guinea he lives in Barcelona Zoo where he's the most popular attraction; with everyone except the other gorillas that is. They can't see what's so special about this snow-white weirdo!

• The Guns Of Navarone | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An impenetrable fortress an invicible army... and an unstoppable commando team. One of the most exciting action films ever made! It's W.W. II and concealed deep within the solid rock of a cliff impregnable to assault by sea or air are the German Army's mighty guns of Navarone. Because they control a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea it's imperative that the guns are destroyed. A specialised commando team is assembled. Included are mountaineer Keith Mallory explosive ex

• Ancient Aliens: Season 6 Volume 1 | Blu Ray | (07/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dilemma | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A little girl lies in hospital dying of cancer. Death row inmate Rudy Salazar has the bone marrow that could save her life. When Salazar dissapears en route to the hospital and begins another reign of terror Quin sets out to hunt him down but is under strict orders to keep him alive.

• Kids Pack - The BFG / Gulliver's Travels / Titanic / A Kid Called Danger / Home Team | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The BFG: When little Sophie is taken from her orphanage bed one night it's just the beginning of a thrilling adventure with The Big Friendly Giant. As they catch dreams together in Dream Country and blow them into children's bedrooms trouble appears in the shape of The Bloodbottler and Fleshlumpeater - big bad giants who like to gobble children for breakfast! It's up to Sophie and The BFG to persuade the Queen of England to help them stop the giants and thwart their fiendish plans. Gulliver's Travels: Based on Jonathan Swift's literary classic this was one of the first feature films to combine live action with animation. Titanic (Animated): Southampton - April 1912: The Titanic is ready to sail. Early that morning the first passengers begin to board and stare in amazement at the huge ship. Excited children create mischief while the First Second and Third class passengers line up at their respective gangplanks. But out of sight of human eyes all the animals that populate the Titanic will tell their own story. Geoffrey the cat a family of mice the ducks and squirrels and the two Dalmations belonging to the famous singer Molly Harte. Together they embark on the real adventures on board the Titanic. A Kid Called Danger: 13 year old Dano wants to be a cop like his dad and is ready to plunge head first into the case of a wanted jewel thief... a crime even the police cannot solve. Home Team: A former soccer hero is forced into community service at a children's home. He must train a bunch of no-hopers into winning an almost impossible game.

• Pranks / God Told Me To | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Pranks (Dir. Jeffrey Obrow 1981): When the kidding stops the killing starts! Morgan Meadows Hall has been condemned and soon will be torn down. Five college students volunteer to close the structure during Christmas holiday. What ensues are bone chilling events and narrow escapes from a murderer wielding a spiked baseball bat. Everyone is not successful in escaping from the horror of this terrifying insane killer. Just when you are convinced the reign of terror is over... you realize it has only begun... God Told Me To (Dir. Larry Cohen 1976): Was he a god? The Devil? Or something even more terrifying... A rooftop sniper guns down 14 pedestrians on the streets of New York City. A mild-mannered dad takes a shotgun and blows away his wife and children.A cop goes on a sudden shooting spree at the St. Patrick's Day Parade. Each of these unlikely killers makes the same dying confession: 'God told me to.' Now a repressed Catholic NYPD detective must uncover a netherworld of deranged faith alien insemination and his own unholy connection to a homicidal messiah with a perverse plan for the soul of mankind.

• Transporter 2 | UMD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Mercenary Frank Martin, who specializes in moving goods of all kinds, heads home to the United States.

• Nicholas Cage Collection - The Rock / Face/Off / Gone In 60 Seconds - Special Edition | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Gone In 60 Seconds - Director's Cut:Fasten your seatbelts for the extended ride of your life in this high-performance fuel-injected Gone In 60 Seconds Director's Cut from producer Jerry Bruckheimer (National Treasure Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl). Never-before-seen footage and amped-up sound add fuel to this already high-octane action hit starring Nicolas Cage Robert Duvall and sexy Angelina Jolie. A legendary car booster (Cage) thought he left the fast lane behind him - until he's forced out of retirement to save his kid brother from the wrath of an evil mobster. It's nothing less than a full-throttle race to pull off the ultimate car heist: 50 exotic beauties in 24 hours - and the cops are already onto them!The Rock:Academy Award winners Sean Connery (Entrapment) and Nicolas Cage (Gone in 60 Seconds Face/Off Con Air) star in this action-adventure blockbuster. Millions of lives hang in the balance after a military madman (Ed Harris - Apollo 13) seizes control of the island prison Alcatraz and threatens to launch deadly poison gas missiles at San Francisco. With time ticking away a chemical weapons expert (Cage) and a cunning federal prisoner (Connery) who happens to be the only man to have broken out of Alcatraz must now break in and disarm the missiles.Face/OffOscar winning superstar Nicolas Cage (Con Air) and screen icon John Travolta (Pulp Fiction) battle head to head in Face/Off... the ultimate cat and mouse thriller directed by the world's most acclaimed action film director John Woo (Mission Impossible 2). To avenge the senseless murder of his son FBI agent Sean Archer (Travolta) undergoes radical new surgery allowing him to switch faces with the comatose terrorist Castor Troy (Cage) and assume his identity. But when Castor awakes and assumes Sean's identity the real Sean is thrust into an unimaginable nightmare fighting not only for his life but also those of his wife (Joan Allen) and daughter. Brilliant performances and mind-numbing visual effects make Face/Off the explosive action thriller you've got to see to believe.

• Pink Floyd - The Wall | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  By any rational measure, Alan Parker's cinematic interpretation of Pink Floyd's The Wall is a glorious failure. Glorious because its imagery is hypnotically striking, frequently resonant and superbly photographed by the gifted cinematographer Peter Biziou. And a failure because the entire exercise is hopelessly dour, loyal to the bleak themes and psychological torment of Roger Waters' great musical opus, and yet utterly devoid of the humour that Waters certainly found in his own material. Any attempt to visualise The Wall would be fraught with artistic danger, and Parker succumbs to his own self-importance, creating a film that's as fascinating as it is flawed. The film is, for better and worse, the fruit of three artists in conflict--Parker indulging himself, and Waters in league with designer Gerald Scarfe, whose brilliant animated sequences suggest that he should have directed and animated this film in its entirety. Fortunately, this clash of talent and ego does not prevent The Wall from being a mesmerising film. Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof (in his screen debut) is a fine choice to play Waters's alter ego--an alienated, "comfortably numb" rock star whose psychosis manifests itself as an emotional (and symbolically physical) wall between himself and the cold, cruel world. Weaving Waters's autobiographical details into his own jumbled vision, Parker ultimately fails to combine a narrative thread with experimental structure. It's a rich, bizarre, and often astonishing film that will continue to draw a following, but the real source of genius remains the music of Roger Waters. --Jeff Shannon

• Tough Enough | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Fifteen-year-old Michael Polischka is thrown into the gritty urban world of a rough ethnic neighbourhood far from the posh suburbs he's used to. Beatings and extortion by a gang of violent bullies makes public high school miserable for Michael. Life at home isn't much better since he has to put up with the guys his pretty young mum entertains in her desperate search for a new man. Michael's life turns around when urban crime lord Hamal takes him under his wing. Michael's honest face makes him the perfect guy for drug deliveries to local dealers. The teenager handles the tension of these dangerous missions like a pro. Michael proves he's tough enough but finds out eventually he's actually in way over his head.