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• Get Carter | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £6.97   |  Saving you £7.02 (100.72%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Released in 1971 (the same year Straw Dogs and A Clockwork Orange hit the screens, which must make 71 the annus mirabilis for violent films set in Britain), Get Carter opens with gangsters leering over pornographic slides and ends on a filthy, slag-stained beach in Newcastle. It's a low-down and dirty movie from beginning to end, and possibly the grittiest and best film of its kind to come out of Britain. The granddaddy of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and all its ilk, director Mike Hodges' Get Carter offers revenge tragedy swinging-60s style, all nicotine-stained cinematography, shabby locations and the kind of killer catchphrases Vinnie Jones would die for ("You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me, it's a full-time job. Now behave yourself", says Michael Caine's deadpan anti-hero Carter before inflicting a few choice punches on Brian Mosley, aka Coronation Street's Alf Roberts, to name but one example from Hodges and Ted Lewis' exquisitely laconic script). Presenting the dark horse in his family of loveable Cockney geezer roles (Alfie, The Italian Job), Michael Caine plays the title role of Jack Carter, a man so hard he barely registers a flicker of regret watching a woman he's just had sex with plunge to her death. After taking the train up to Newcastle as the credits roll and Roy Budd's chunky bass-heavy theme tune plays, Carter returns to his hometown to attend his brother's funeral and investigate the circumstances of his death. Not that he's all that sentimental about family: he shaves nonchalantly over the open coffin, and shows affection to his niece Doreen (Petra Markham) by cramming a few notes in her hand and telling her to "be good and don't trust boys". Gradually, Carter unravels the skein of drugs, pornography and corruption tangled around his brother's death, which brings him up against supremely oleaginous kingpin Kinnear (played by the author of Look Back in Anger John Osborne) among others. A remake starring Sylvester Stallone is in the offing, but quite frankly it will be a 30-degree (Celsius) Christmas night in Newcastle before Hollywood could ever make something as assured, raw and immortal as this. --Leslie Felperin

• Reefer Madness | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A U.S. governement funded propaganda docu-drama film from 1938 designed to inform the public of the perils of smoking marijuana but ironically now worth seeing for its laughable historical and scientific innaccuracy...

• Sam - Series 1 - Part 3 | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It is 1934 and Sam Wilson is ten years old when his mother Dora leaves her husband and brings Sam to Skellerton the Yorkshire mining village where she grew up. Her father jack has been unemployed for more than eight years and her family has little enough money to support themselves. Will they manage with another two mouths to feed and how will Sam's boyhood change? Episodes Featured Where The Heart Is Home From Home No Going Back Breadwinners

• Sam - Series 3 - Part 1 | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The third series of Sam comes to DVD this release features part one of the series. In series two Sam went to Germany in search of his father. When he returned to Skellerton many things had changed. His grandmother had died and he moved in with his grandfather. Despite moving on his mind Sam continued to be drawn back to his childhood and the day his father left.

• Sam - Series 1 - Part 1 | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It is 1934 and Sam Wilson is ten years old when his mother Dora leaves her husband and brings Sam to Skellerton the Yorkshire mining village where she grew up. Her father jack has been unemployed for more than eight years and her family has little enough money to support themselves. Will they manage with another two mouths to feed and how will Sam's boyhood change? Episodes Featured A Way of Life Poor Law Leaving Home For Ever and Ever and Ever and Ever A Day To Reme

• Sam Complete Series 1-3 boxset | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £89.99

  From the 1930s to the 1960s Samfollows the life of a young boy growing up in a Yorkshire mining village. But Sam reflects more than just one man's life it captures the qualities and textures of the time weaving and exploring the fabric of a nation. It is 1934 and Sam Wilson is ten years old when his mother Dora leaves her husband and brings Sam to Skellerton the Yorkshire mining village where she grew up. Her father Jack has been unemployed for more than eight years and her family has little enough money to support themselves. Will they manage with another two mouths to feed and how will Sam s childhood change? What happens in Sam s life through post-war Britain the search for his father the passing of people he loves the ever-changing industrial world and a life of austerity that found itself in the 1960s as a country that has never had it so good make this a both compelling and engaging drama. Some stories can take a lifetime - and some lifetimes can tell a story. This is Sam s.

• Sam Complete series 1 | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  It is 1934 and Sam Wilson is ten years old when his mother Dora leaves her husband and brings Sam to Skellerton the Yorkshire mining village where she grew up. Her father Jack has been unemployed for more than eight years and her family has little enough money to support themselves. Will they manage with another two mouths to feed and how will Sam's boyhood change?

• Sam - Series 3 - Part 2 | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The third series of Sam comes to DVD this release features part two of the series. In series two Sam went to Germany in search of his father. When he returned to Skellerton many things had changed. His grandmother had died and he moved in with his grandfather. Despite moving on his mind Sam continued to be drawn back to his childhood and the day his father left.

• Sam Complete Series 2 | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From the 1930s to the 1960s Sam follows the life of a young boy growing up in a Yorkshire mining village. But Sam reflects more than just one man's life it captures the qualities and textures of the time weaving and exploring the fabric of a nation. The war is over and Sam is a young man. He is unhappy working in the pit and has no respect for Alan Dakin his mother's ex-lover whose house he lives in. When his Grandfather dies he leaves Sam some property and appoints him Trustee for his father. Nobody knows Sam's father Harry's whereabouts or even if he is still alive. Sam goes to sea and in Germany finds people who actually knew his father. But when Sam returns from sea he finds many things in Skellerton have changed. His mind strays back to his childhood and he relives the actual day his father left and his last words.

• Sam Complete Series 3 | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From the 1930s to the 1960s Sam follows the life of a young boy growing up in a Yorkshire mining village. But Sam reflects more than just one man s life it captures the qualities and textures of the time weaving and exploring the fabric of a nation. It's 1960. Harold MacMillan is Prime Minister and Britain has never had it so good. Sam is offered promotion at work but isn't interested. George suffers a fatal accident at the foundry and Pat returns to uncover the truth about her father s accident. Cassie returns from Australia and Sam's long lost father Harry returns from South Africa after more than 20 years absence. Sam attends a seminar in Norway and decides to take his family including Granddad and Ethel along with him for a trip. The seriousness of Sarah's illness becomes apparent to all the family and Tom discovers the truth about his father.

• The Parent Trap/Summer Magic | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Parent Trap: (Dir. Nancy Meyers) (1998): Hallie is a cool girl from California. Annie is a fair rose from London. When the two accidentally meet at a summer camp they think they have nothing in common except they're identical twins (Lindsay Lohan). Now they're up to their freckles in schemes and dreams to switch places get their parents (Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson) back together and have the family they've wished for! Summer Magic: (Dir. James Neilson) (1963): When a close-knit Boston family loses their fortune they find a wealth of family secrets young love and charming summer nights in Beulah Maine. A good-natured postmaster pretentious cousin Julia and the mysterious absentee landlord Mr. Hamilton populate their new life in a charming old yellow house. Featuring an all-star supporting cast including Burl Ives Dorothy McGuire and Deborah Walley this classic and wondrous tale will delight the entire family and belongs in every Disney collection.