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• John From Cincinnati Season 1 (HBO) | DVD | (20/07/2009) from £16.90   |  Saving you £16.08 (115.60%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Just north of the border in the tired coastal town of Imperial Beach CA live three generations of Yosts: surfing royalty turned society misfits. The Yost's reign and reputation once defined in the curl of a perfect wave has been eroded by years of bad luck addiction and hubris. But just as things are looking like they can't get worse a stranger named John arrives - and the Yost's banal existence is lifted into something profound miraculous and possibly universal.

• Francofonia | Blu Ray | (23/01/2017) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.

• Tom Clancy DVD Box Set (Special Edition) | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This box set contains all four of the films based on Tom Clancy's hugely popular Jack Ryan books: The Hunt for Red October (starring Alec Baldwin as Ryan), Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger (both starring Harrison Ford) and The Sum of all Fears (starring Ben Affleck).

• Jailbirds | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (-1.10%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Jailbirds:Four women escape from prison, and in a dramatic reversal of roles, kidnap a minibus full of female tennis players who they keep hostage in the cellar of an isolated villa. Soon all the pent up sexuality of their former imprisonment bursts into a violent explosion of desire and depravity...When the need looms again, who will escape from whom? Which are the captives and which are the captors now? In the light of day, even the law cannot distinguish.Scene Selection:1. The Escape2. Journey By Coach3. Hidden Dangers4. Getting Out5. Cleaning Up6. Wake Up Call7. Hostages8. Wanting9. Questions10. Last Chance

• Nurse | Blu Ray | (05/01/2015) from £16.18   |  Saving you £3.81 (23.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paz de la Huerta (“Boardwalk Empire”) turns up the body heat in this wickedly entertaining story of a fatal attraction. By day nurse Abby Russell (de la Huerta) lovingly attends to the patients at All Saints Memorial Hospital; by night Abby prowls nightclubs luring unfaithful men into dangerous liaisons. After Danni – a young sensitive nurse – joins the hospital staff Abby pursues her friendship. However when the friendship turns to obsession Danni spurns Abby unleashing Abby’s fury and a rampage of terror.

• Chiller Theatre Features | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's difficult sometimes to fathom how compilers think. This Chiller Theatre threesome consists of two classic silent horror films, plus a low-budget B-movie from the early 1960s. The connection? You decide! Yet these are films that belong in any self-respecting collection, and this package is a good way of acquiring them. Of those featuring Lon Chaney, it's the original 1923 The Hunchback of Notre Dame that comes across best. Chaney's grotesquerie is shot-through with pathos, and Patsy Ruth Miller's Esmeralda has enduring freshness. Wallace Worsley handles crowd scenes and cathedral stunts with aplomb, and there's an atmospheric "posthumous" soundtrack, though anyone looking for accuracy in the depiction of medieval French society is in for a shock. 1925's The Phantom of the Opera is slow-moving and uneventful by comparison, with Rupert Julian's direction never escaping the narrow Gothic trappings of the novel. Chaney cranks (or is that camps?) up his range of gestures to the limit, and Mary Philbin is an eye-catching heroine, but the denouement in the Paris sewers seems endless--with looped extracts of Schubert and Brahms as a hardly appropriate soundtrack. Cut to 1962, and The Carnival of Souls--made in Kansas for under $100,000--is an undeniable cult classic. Herk Harvey sustains the increasingly surreal narrative with ease, Candace Hilligoss is striking (if a tad gauche) as the young organist caught on the cusp of this world and the next, and Gene Moore's organ soundtrack is a masterly backdrop for the motley assemblage of ghouls who pursue her around the seaside pier in a memorable closing sequence. On the DVD: Chiller Theatre is very acceptably remastered--with 1.33:1 aspect ratio and 12 chapter headings per film--and decently if minimally packaged. --Richard Whitehouse

• The Purple Plain | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £9.91   |  Saving you £3.08 (31.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set during the Burma Campaign, Peck stars as a pilot whose life has already been shattered by the loss of his wife during an air raid on London. Shot down after a dogfight with a Japanese fighter, he finds himself marooned in the Burmese jungle with a badly-injured navigator and a traumatised passenger. How will they make it to safety?

• Atlantis, The Lost Continent | DVD | (23/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Golden Balls | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ruthless stud Benito Gonzalez (Javier Bardem wants wealth women and to erect a skyscraper in his own honour. In order to achieve this he marries a sophisticated daughter of a rich banker Marta (Maria De Medeiros) but keeps mistress Claudia (Maribel Verdu) on the side. When Marta and Claudia realise they are both victims of Benito's greed things for Benito begin to crumble. Has Benito's luck finally left him?

• Sirens | DVD | (20/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Night On Earth | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jim Jarmusch's 1991 ensemble comedy Night on Earth turns a gimmick into a revelation. The story begins in Los Angeles one evening at 7:07 pm A talent agent (Gena Rowlands) gets into the back of a taxi driven by a sullen, chain-smoking young woman (Winona Ryder), and over the course of their bumpy conversation, Rowlands' character becomes convinced that the cabby would be perfect for a particular part in a movie. Meanwhile, at that very moment, taxi drivers in New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki are all having unique encounters with a variety of fares, breaking through that invisible social barrier between the front and back seats of their cars, often to absurd or touching effect. Among them are cabby Roberto Benigni's ranting confessions to a priest, Armin Mueller-Stahl's relinquishing of the wheel to a stunned Giancarlo Esposito and Isaach De Bankolé's relentless discussion of sight and sex with an angry blind woman (Beatrice Dalle). What emerges is a chain of brief intimacies (not always welcomed by the characters), like a number of matches lit simultaneously across the globe, flickering brightly for a few short moments. This popular work by Jarmusch helped confirm his reputation as a fiercely independent filmmaker of rare perception, rigour and classical sensibility matched with original thinking. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Gun Shy | DVD | (25/05/2001) from £7.97   |  Saving you £9.01 (180.92%)   |  RRP £13.99

  An undercover DEA agent (Liam Neeson) finds himself working with a nurse (Sandra Bullock) he meets during therapy to bring down a trigger happy Mafia leader (Oliver Platt)

• Cursed | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• The Threepenny Opera | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £7.66   |  Saving you £12.33 (160.97%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The original French and German versions of this Brecht-Weill musical are included with subtitles - 'Die Dreigroschenoper' and 'L'Opera De Quat' Sous'. Set in a dreamlike Victorian London this musical tells the story of Mack the Knife and Polly Peachum.

• Lost - Series 2 - Part 2 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  By the second half of the second series of Lost, the debates are really hotting up. Is it the most cleverly plotted, densely packed television programme of recent times, cunningly working on many levels and lacing lots of hidden clues as it moves along? Or is it pretentious, slow-moving tosh, that's desperately trying to stretch out a simple concept to fill as many seasons as possible?

• Scarface/Carlito's Way/Casino | DVD | (18/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

• The Wait (L'Attesa) | DVD | (14/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the vast rooms of a beautiful Sicilian villa, Anna (Academy-Award winner Juliette Binoche, The English Patient) receives an unexpected guest. Twenty-something Jeanne (Lou de Laage, The Innocents) has arrived from France, declaring herself to be the girlfriend of Anna's son, Giuseppe, who has invited her to the house to spend Easter together. But this is news to Anna, and Giuseppe is not yet there. Despite the disruption to her routine, Anna invites her young guest to stay, and as the two women await Giuseppe's arrival, they slowly begin to form a connection. Jeanne, dislocated and a little mystified at first, gradually gives in to the charms of the volcanic island. She swims in the nearby lake and makes new friends, while Anna watched over by a long-time family friend comes out of her shell. Yet still, her son's absence remains unexplained Spectacularly shot, measured and contemplative, THE WAIT navigates a complex range of emotions in the telling of this stirring encounter between two women from different generations.

• Soul Keeper | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The unsettled souls of evil afterlife rise up when two small time thieves steal an ancient relic. Unknowingly they unleash a demon leader of pagans who prays upon depraved lost souls. With the help of a mysterious dark angel the two wage war with fire-breathing monstersand tempting sirens to salvage the relic and save humanity. Gripping suspense and stunning visual effects deliver an amazing thrill-ride for fans of both action and horror alike.

• Let's Talk About The Rain | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £10.86   |  Saving you £6.39 (66.56%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The multi-talented writer-director-actress Agn''s Jaoui stars as an aspiring politician who reluctantly revisits her roots in this witty intelligent and superbly performed comedy. When she returns to her childhood home in the South of France for an election rally and help her sister with her late mother's affairs Agathe Villanova (Jaoui) is asked to take part in a documentary about successful women. But the ineptitude of the comically amateurish filmmakers (Jamael Debbouze and Jean-Pierre Bacri) manages to exacerbate the tensions of all those around them forcing Agathe to confront the consequences of her own ambitions. Once again collaborating with Jean-Pierre Bacri co-writer and star of Look At Me and Le Go''t des Autres Agnes Jaoui's entertaining film takes a humorous and perceptive look at relationships.

• Old Gringo | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An American spinster (Fonda) travels to Mexico to teach the children of a wealthy landowner and to find a new life for herself. What she finds is a general in Pancho Villa's army who is the bastard son of the landowner and a journalist out for adventure...