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• Greetings | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £17.85   |  Saving you £-7.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Robert De Niro stars in this his second film for director Brian De Palma. 'Greetings' is a satirical comedy focusing on the lives of three New Yorkers each with his own personal fixation ranging from sex and voyeurism to Kennedy assassination theories. Their common interest is discussing the ways to dodge the draft board. De Palma's originalty captures perfectly the spirit of late sixties America. And De Niro even in this early performance displays all the hallmarks that has e

• Once Upon a Time in America (Limited Edition Steelbook--Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Once Upon a Time in America has a chequered history, having been chopped from its original 229-minute director's cut to 139 minutes for its theatrical release. The longer edition presented here benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in flashback by an ageing Jewish gangster named Noodles (Robert De Niro). On the other hand, it's almost four hours long, and this sometimes-indulgent Sergio Leone film is no Godfather. Still, it is notable for the contrast between Leone's elegiac take on the gangster film and his occasional explosive action, as well as for the mix of the stoic, inexpressive De Niro and the hyperactive James Woods as his lifelong friend and rival. --Marshall Fine

• Stargate S.G - 1: Season 5 (Vol. 23) | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £5.92   |  Saving you £14.07 (70.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stargate SG-1 is the TV spin-off from the 1994 big-screen movie. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the primary unit SG-1. With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Episodes on this DVD: "Summit", "Last Stand", "48 Hours" and "Proving Ground". In a daring Tok'ra mission, Daniel Jackson is sent to infiltrate and attend a Goa'uld "Summit" disguised as a manservant. With a lot of sneaking around and a little technobabble thrown in to explain how he isn't recognised, things come to a head with the unveiling of who the secret new baddies are and how they affect Daniel personally. In a direct continuation from "Summit", SG-1 make what they hope is a "Last Stand" against the System Lords. Similarly, the Tok'ra stand together on planet Revanna where O'Neill and Teal'c have a crash course in alien technology as they learn how to grow different types of tunnel from crystal. It's been a while since someone made the analogy of the Stargates operating like a telephone exchange. "48 Hours" traps Teal'c within the system, and the team have only two days to find a way to reconnect him. Unfortunately, this requires the aid of the Russians who are more than a little reluctant about giving up their private dialling device. This episode also features terrific cameos from the slithery Maybourne and Simmons (John de Lancie). Inevitably there needs to be a next generation of SG teams, so Jack and co take time out from their missions to train up some newbies. "Proving Ground" is all about who can make the grade, and in particular they have their eyes on the brilliant Jennifer and headstrong Elliot. The tension is really piled on in this show as layers of reality build to confuse the kids and the audience as to what's really happening to them. --Paul Tonks

• Scarface / Carlito's Way / Casino | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Scarface (Dir. Brian De Palma 1983): In the spring of 1980 the port at Mariel Harbour was opened and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami... wealth power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name - Scarface! Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana one of the most ruthless gangsters ever d

• Ma Vie Sexuelle | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ma Vie Sexuelle is a modern tale of Parisian romance. The film's originality and humour lie in its superb performances for which Mathieu Amalric won a Csar Award for Best Newcomer in his role as Paul. Paul is a fiercely intellectual woman-loving assistant professor at the university of Paris. He became a teacher but hasn't finished his doctorate that would make him a full professor. In this state on a modest salary he lives a half-life waiting to begin what he calls ""his life as a man"". Paul has been dating Esther for ten years. They don't get along in fact they are on the verge of splitting up. Two years ago he had an affair with his best friend's girlfriend. Since he considers it unthinkable to steal his friend's girl the state of his romantic affairs remain much the same way as his professional ones...

• My Dream Is Yours | DVD | (06/06/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• John From Cincinnati Season 1 (HBO) | DVD | (20/07/2009) from £14.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (100.07%)   |  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 £19.59   |  Saving you £-6.60 (N/A%)   |  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?

• Golden Balls | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  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 £18.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  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 £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  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 £6.92   |  Saving you £24.07 (347.83%)   |  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?