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• Pauline And Paulette | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £8.09   |  Saving you £11.90 (147.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As a rule, Flemish-language films rarely make much of an international impact, but Pauline & Paulette is a refreshing exception. Director Lieven Debrauwer's debut is an affectionate coming-together of two sisters: the mentally-restricted Pauline, living in a world of flowers and fantasy, and Paulette, her life occupied with lingerie and operetta. The story focuses on the exasperation of Pauline as she is shunted between provincial Belgium and Brussels and the realisation of Paulette, having retired to the coast, that a sister in her life might not be a bad option after all. The interplay between veteran actresses Dora van der Groen and Ann Petersen is minutely observed in detail, with the remaining cast a triumph of ensemble acting, not least Rosemarie Bergmans as the sophisticated "other sister" Cecile and Idwig Stéphane as the pompous Albert. At just 72 minutes, the film is almost too taut for its own good, but if this was Debrauwer's way of avoiding the sentimental, so much the better. Witty and touching in equal measure, this is a film to savour. On the DVD: Pauline & Paulette has a 1.85:1 widescreen picture format that captures the flowers and clothing of Paulette's shop with gorgeous realism. There are subtitles in five languages. The original trailer is included, and there's an insightful running commentary from Debrauwer. --Richard Whitehouse

• Cat In The Brain | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chainsaw mayhem cannibalism lusty nazis steak tartar blood and gore - all rounded off with some highly amusing offbeat antics by the great man Lucio Fulci himself. What more could a horror fan ask for?

• Amen Island | DVD | (13/03/2017) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A city-dwelling couple and their friend are invited to the remote tidal island of Amen for a surprise birthday party. Husband Rick has been in cahoots with Corinne, an enigmatic Amen Island local who he believes holds the answers to his wife s long-buried family secrets. But the surprise birthday trip soon goes horribly wrong and the trio find themselves trapped by the tide and at the mercy of the unwelcoming island community. A growing sense of unease turns into a living nightmare for the visitors as the true horror of the situation unfolds. AMEN ISLAND is a deviant British thriller inspired by British Cult Classics such as The Wicker Man and Hammer House of Horror. Directed by Mark Harriott and Mike Matthews and with an all British cast including David Paisley (Holby City, Casualty), Jill Riddiford (Our Friends in the North) and trash horror legend David McGillivray, AMEN ISLAND is the birthday trip from hell.

• Call Northside 777 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When a classified ad grabs the attention of Chicago Times editor Brian Kelly (Lee J. Cobb) he sends ace reporter P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) to dig up new evidence in the 11-year-old case of a cop killer: It appears that Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) has taken a fall and been wrongly imprisoned for the murder. Although hard-nosed McNeal is initially skeptical he eventually believes that Wiecek was in fact a patsy. And although McNeal hits one dead end after another the avid newsma

• A Nous La Liberte (Freedom For Us) | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two prison inmates Louis (Raymond Cordy) and Emile (Henri Marchand) try to escape. Louis is caught and returns to his cell Emile escapes and becomes a successful businessman. On release Louis goes to work for Emile but finds the work no better than the prison regime. When Emile is recogised as an ex-convict both men take to the road a vagrants in this early classic of French cinema.

• Cannibal Apocalypse | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £6.15   |  Saving you £9.84 (160.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The horrors of war take on a whole new meaning for Vietnam vet Norman Hopper (John Saxon) whose quiet domestic life in Atlanta is shattered by the return of Charlie Bukowski a combat buddy who dredges up terrifying flashbacks of flesh eating and bloodshed in the war-torn jungles. Now on the run from the law Charlie begs Norman to help him get out of town with another fellow veteran Tom (Tony King). Soon the ragtag team of cannibals are fighting for their lives spreading a deadl

• Errol Flynn - Signature Collection Box Set | DVD | (17/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £45.99

  This fantastic box set features six of Errol Flynn's finest performances plus an insightful documentary into the life and man behind the screen. Features: 1. Captain Blood - 1935 2. Dodge City - 1939 3. The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex - 1939 4. The Sea Hawk - 1940 5. They Dies With Their Boots On - 1941 6. Dive Bomber - 1941 7. The Adventures Of Errol Flynn

• McLintock | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £8.01   |  Saving you £-4.02 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  He tames the Wild West....but can he tame her? Rancher G W McLintock has everything a man could want: wealth influence respect. Everything that is except his spirited wife Kate who fled the ranch for the rarified atmosphere of the East. When their daughter Becky returns from college Kate arrives too - determined to take Becky back to society again and a boisterous battle of the sexes develops.

• Betty Fisher And Other Stories | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £2.79   |  Saving you £17.20 (616.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With Betty Fisher and Other Stories, writer-director Claude Miller follows the examples of Claude Chabrol and Pedro Almodóvar in adapting a Ruth Rendell novel to the screen. In this case the original novel, The Tree of Hands, has been translated seamlessly and stylishly to a Parisian setting. The plot interweaves a complexity of characters and stories, but the central thread concerns the eponymous Betty, a novelist whose young son dies while her disturbed mother Margot is staying with her. Margot, with terrifying directness, calmly abducts another child of similar age to replace the dead boy. From this loopy act there stems a whole series of consequences and side-effects involving a widening and socially diverse circle of people across the city. Miller lucidly traces his way through the intricate story with cool, ironic humour and a sure touch for the different social milieus. Once or twice the plot strains credulity--bringing three major characters together by chance for the showdown at Charles de Gaulle airport is just a little too convenient--but most of the time the social and emotional cross-currents are deftly navigated. As Betty, Sandrine Kiberlain gives an almost painfully vulnerable performance, as if she lacks several layers of skin, while Nicole Garcia makes her mother Margot into a monster of overriding, self-pitying egomania. Their scenes together carry the weight of a whole lifetime of ill-suppressed mutual aversion. As with Rendell's novels, it's endlessly fascinating to watch these people, but you feel very glad you don’t know them. --Philip Kemp

• Robin Hood | DVD | (09/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This is the original screen version of Robin Hood prince of thieves. Recreating the chivalry of England in all it's glory as it unveils the conflicts and betrayals that threaten to destroy the Kingdom of Richard the lion-heart. Fairbanks epitomises the valiant loyal knight immortalised in Arthurian legend gently wooing the virtuous Lady Marian. When King Richard and a band of warriors embark on a crusade to Palestine Richard's conniving brother assumes the throne and turns the onc

• Hi Mom! | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in New York a youthful Robert De Niro stars in one of Director Brian De Palma's early successes. Returning to New York's Greenwich Village down and out filmmaker VIetnam Vet Jon Rubin takes his telephoto lens and becomes the ultimate peeping tom. Spying on a voluptuous young woman and a black revolutionary group his life turns into a comic nightmare as the line between the real world and the 'reel' world blurs. Hi Mom! combines urban violence and voyeurism to make it a prov

• Alien Contagion | DVD | (19/02/2018) from £13.11   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A group of misfits find themselves trapped together in an apartment room with no windows, no form of communication with the outside world and no one to hear their cries for help. Following a biological experiment, a shape-shifting creature has been unleashed. Holding them under siege the mutated specimen is beginning to seep inside. It's time to kill or be killed!

• George Frideric Handel - Acis and Galatea (The Royal Opera / The Royal Ballet, 2009) | Blu Ray | (01/03/2010) from £25.40   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Late Night Shopping | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In this Glasgow-set comedy, four twentysomethings - Sean, Vincent, Jody and Lenny - tackle those nagging issues, like growing up and being responsible.

• Dead Scared | DVD | (11/04/2005) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  'The Evil Dead' meets 'Scream' as an evil professor through an ancient staff and a book of incantation possesses the bodies of a group of fraterity and sorority pledges during a night of ""hazing"" activities in an abandoned mansion. When the students meet one grisly death after another the survivors finally realize it's the professor who is possessing their friends and killing them all off. Now none of them trust each other-- is it their friends or puppets of the professor that they

• Dealers | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £23.71   |  Saving you £-18.72 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Every morning Daniel Pascoe (McGann) pilots his seaplane from his luxury home to the Docklands - the financial capital of the world. Pascoe is a city high flier and high roller. A man used to winning. But when things go wrong he has to pay the price. That's when he discovers he's merely another pawn in the game that's far bigger than he could ever imagine. To stay in the game he decides to take the biggest gamble of his life. Dealers is a yuppie thriller that cleverly evokes the best and worst of the eighties boom and also stars Rebecca DeMornay as Maria Schuman who takes the coveted job of running the dollar block from under Daniel's nose.

• Jean-Luc Godard Box Set - Alphaville/Le Petit Soldat/Une Femme Est Une Femme | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Contains three films by Jean Luc Godard: ALPHAVILLE UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME and LE PETIT SOLDAT.ALPHAVILLE:With 1965's ALPHAVILLE--part sci-fi action film part noir thriller--the acclaimed French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard achieves a stunningly clinical futurism using absolutely no special visual effects. The result is a moving original film that with its abstract political and intellectual themes essentially redefines the apocalyptic science fiction genre. ALPHAVILLE clearly the product of one of cinema's greatest contributors is nothing less than a bona fide cult classic.UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME:Godard pays tribute to American musicals in much the same way that his debut feature A BOUT DE SOUFFLE did to American gangster films. The story follows the beautiful Angela (Anna Karina) a strip-tease artist who wants nothing more than to have a baby. Her live-in boyfriend Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy) doesn't want to refuse and risk sparking major friction between the two. However fed up with her constant pleading Emile finally suggests that she shack up with his best friend Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and much to Emile's dismay she eventually takes his advice. Godard's second feature employs jump cuts and jarring sound mixing--most notably during Karina's strip-tease performances. Godard is at his most affectionate and good-natured here. He also makes several cinematic in-jokes including one in which Belmondo's character mentions that he wants to hurry home to watch A BOUT DE SOUFFLE the film that turned Belmondo into a megastar just one year before. Featuring a magnetically cute performance from Karina who soon after the film became Godard's wife this loving romantic comedy is a dazzler.LE PETIT SOLDAT (1960):Michel Subor stars as Bruno a hitman under contract by the French government who suddenly develops a conscience and a philosophy when he is ordered to kill a left wing Arab leader. His newfound ideals are provoked by the stunning Veronica (Karina) a young woman who is secretly employed by the Arabs. The two fall in love and not surprisingly Bruno finds it impossible to carry out his mission bringing down the wrath of the French government on both he and Veronica. Beautifully filmed by Raoul Coutard LES PETIT SOLDAT is less interested in the mechanics of plot as it is in providing Godard a voice for thoughts and musings on the politics and horrors of the Algerian War. It was originally banned in France because of its frank depiction of torture during Algeria's war of Independence which was tearing France apart at the time of the film's completion.

• Johnny Stecchino | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Marx Brothers meet The Godfather when the bumbling Dante (Roberto Benigni) discovers that there's nothing organized about organized crime in this hilarious tale of mistaken identity that reveals why Benigni has become Italy's most popular film comedian. A naive schoolbus driver Dante finally meets the passionate woman of his dreams. Unfortunately she only wants him for his body; his dead body. Dante doesn't realize he looks just like mobster Johnny Stecchino and that femme fatale Maria (Nicoletta Braschi) is setting him up to be the victim of a hit so that she and husband Johnny can escape the crime world. The dim-witted innocent doesn't catch on fast; every time a round of gunfire goes off Dante thinks he's being hunted for shoplifting a banana! 'Johnny Stecchino' .

• L'Occasione Fa Il Ladro - Rossini | DVD | (28/04/2006) from £16.00   |  Saving you £8.99 (56.19%)   |  RRP £24.99

  L'occasione fa il ladro is one of the five one-act operas - farsa giocosa - in which the teenage Rossini first demonstrated his operatic genius and in musical terms is by far the most riotous one This sparkling production continues the Rossini one-act opera series emerging from the Schwetzingen Festival.

• The Wedding Party | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £12.47   |  Saving you £-0.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Filmed in 1963 but not released until 1969 this is the film that launched Robert de Niro's prolific motion picture career and one which will be a delight for any of his fans. De Niro's is one of two friends who first try to prevent another friends marriage when they meet what appear to be potentially disastrous in-laws only to later chase him down to force him into it.