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• John Wayne - Shadow Of The Eagle | DVD | (09/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Shadow of the Eagle is a real treat for John Wayne fans. The action and adventure the mystery and suspense is non stop in this original 12 part serial. John Wayne plays Craig McCoy a stunt pilot who's part of a traveling fair. When a mysterious pilot known as 'The Eagle' starts making murderous threats with sky-writing our guy jumps into action to try and find this villain. All the performers of the traveling fair get involved in one way or another! Some are prime suspects others like the strong man and the ventriloquist use their talents to help catch the criminal.

• The Stranger | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture. I did it to prove that I could put out a movie as well as anyone else." True, set beside Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, or even The Trial, The Stranger is as close to production-line stuff as the great Orson ever came. But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. The shadow of the Second World War hangs heavy over the plot. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi, Franz Kindler, to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. The script, credited to Anthony Veiller but with uncredited input from Welles and John Huston, is riddled with implausibilities: we're asked to believe, for a start, that there'd be no extant photos of a top Nazi leader. The casting's badly skewed, too. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as Kindler, but his producer, Sam Spiegel, wouldn't wear it. So Welles himself plays the supposedly cautious and self-effacing fugitive--and if there was one thing Welles could never play, it was unobtrusive. What's more, Spiegel chopped out most of the two opening reels set in South America, in Welles' view, "the best stuff in the picture". Still, the film's far from a write-off. Welles' eye for stunning visuals rarely deserted him and, aided by Russell Metty's skewed, shadowy photography, The Stranger builds to a doomy grand guignol climax in a clock tower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: not much in the way of extras, except a waffly full-length commentary from Russell Cawthorne that tells us about the history of clock-making and where Edward G was buried, but precious little about the making of the film. Print and sound are acceptable, but though remastering is claimed, there's little evidence of it. --Philip Kemp

• Verdi: Stiffelio | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £3.06   |  Saving you £30.19 (1,677.22%)   |  RRP £31.99

  A performance of Verdi's three-act opera recorded live at The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Celebrated tenor Carreras performs the title role as Verdi's cuckolded minister confronting his wife's adultery.

• Down (aka The Shaft) (Limited Edition Combo) | Blu Ray | (31/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Reservoir Dogs Limited Edition DVD Box Set | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e. a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them colour-coded aliases (Mr Orange, Mr Pink, Mr White) to conceal their identities even from each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception and betrayal.As many critics have observed, it is a movie about "honor among thieves" (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful and even--in the end--unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. --Jim Emerson

• Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World / Braveheart | DVD | (31/05/2005) from £11.30   |  Saving you £4.69 (29.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Master And Commander: Russell Crowe is Lucky Jack Aubrey the Navy's greatest fighting captain and Paul Bettany is ship's doctor Stephen Maturin. The ship the Surprise is suddenly attacked by a superior enemy. With the Surprise badly damaged and much of his crew injured Aubrey - the ""Master"" of the Surprise and ""Commander"" of his men - is torn between duty and friendship as he sets sail in a high-stakes chase across two oceans to the far side of the world to intercept and capture their foe. It's a mission that can decide the fate of a nation - or destroy Lucky Jack and his crew. The film is based on the narrative outline of the tenth book in Patrick O'Brien's legendary ""Aubrey/Maturin"" series of high seas novels about the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Braveheart: Mel Gibson stars on both sides of the camera playing the lead role plus directing and producing this brawling richly detailed saga of fierce combat tender love and the will to risk all that's precious: freedom. In an emotionally charged performance Gibson is William Wallace a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation. Filled with sword-clanging spectacle Braveheart is a tumultuous tapestry of history come alive ""the most sumptuous and involving historical epic since Lawrence Of Arabia."" (Rod Lurie Los Angeles Magazine.)

• Better Living | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Fearless Tiger: After his brother dies of a drug overdose Lyle heads to Hong Kong and becomes a Kung Fu expert. Using his newfound martial arts skills Lyle seeks revenge on the Chinese gang that supplied the deadly drug. Dragon Fighter: After having his hands smashed young Kang becomes determined to develop the 'Heaven Legs' kung fu technique in an effort to gain revenge.

• Century Of Motoring | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Driving a great car remains one of the finest experiences of the 20th century and in those 100 years the great car manufacturers have become bywords for speed luxury affordability or design- from Ford to Ferrari and from MG to McLaren. Love them or hate them cars have fundamentally changed the way we live work and play over the last 100 years. The mobility created by the car has brought freedom that must have seemed an impossible dream at the beginning of the century. 100 years ago the car industry such has it was had only just got over the scratchy problem of making an engine turn the wheels. Just 30 years later virtually everything we know about the car today had already been tried. But the story still has a long way to run. Century of Motoring tells the story of the last 100 years by featuring particular cars that represent the different motoring genres. The featured cars are those that set a new benchmark against which all others were judged. All those cars have been newly filmed in colour especially for this programme.

• Totally Jedward - Comedy Sketchbook | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £11.35   |  Saving you £-1.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Totally Jedward - Sketchbook

• My Boyfriend's Back | DVD | (10/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  DVD My Boyfriend's Back

• Battlestar Galactica: Season 4 (2004) | Blu Ray | (25/08/2014) from £55.33   |  Saving you £-15.34 (-38.40%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Last season Starbuck returned. As did the President's Cancer. Baltar was freed but not forgiven. Four Cylons were revealed. One remains unknown. Relive the events in all 10 episodes of Season Four of Battlestar Galactica with this 3 disc Blu-Ray box set in 5.1 Surround Sound. It includes the feature length Razor deleted scenes and a sneak peek into the Final Season. Watch as humanity's last survivors struggle to be free as the end of the race to find earth is drawing ever closer. Special Features: The Look of Battlestar Galactica My Favorite Episodes So Far David Eick's Video Blogs The Journey Cylons: The Twelve Season 4.5 The Untold Story - Untold The Music of Battlestar Galactica Audio Commentaries Deleted Scenes Battlestar Razor bonus: minisodes

• Pecker/Hairspray (1988)/A Dirty Shame | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Pecker (1998): Pecker, a sandwich shop clerk, takes photos of his rather odd family and friends and nobody thinks anything of them until one day a New York art dealer discovers his work and makes him famous. Is this what Pecker really wants? Another quirky entry from cult director John Waters. Hairspray (1987): It's 1962 and Tracy Turnblad has the largest bouffant on the block. She also has all the right moves to be on the local dance show and win the crown of Miss Auto Show, a...

• Dead Awake | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Evil Never Sleeps. He's a sleepwalker in a deadly dreamland a murder witness turned suspect a man without an alibi. Stephen Baldwin (The Usual Suspects) is brilliant marketing executive Desmond Caine a tortured soul stricken with bizarre insomnia that keeps him walking the city's dangerous streets at all hours of the night. During one of his hallucinogenic journeys he witnesses a brutal murder. Upon finding the victim's watch he goes to the police and quickly becomes the main suspect in a twisted tale of cruel corruption big money and cold-blooded killing. How can you stop the nightmare when you're already awake?

• The Wicker Man (Classic Collection) | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  It must be stressed that despite the fact that it was produced in 1973 and stars both Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland, The Wicker Man is not a Hammer Horror film. There is no blood, very little gore and the titular Wicker Man is not a monster made out of sticks that runs around killing people by weaving them into raffia work. Edward Woodward plays Sergeant Howie, a virginal, Christian policeman sent from the Scottish mainland to investigate the disappearance of young girl on the remote island of Summer Isle. The intelligent script by Anthony Schaffer, who also wrote the detective mystery Sleuth (a film with which The Wicker Man shares many traits), derives its horror from the increasing isolation, confusion and humiliation experienced by the naïve Howie as he encounters the island community's hostility and sexual pagan rituals, manifested most immediately in the enthusiastic advances of local landlord's daughter Willow (Britt Ekland). Howie's intriguing search, made all the more authentic by the film's atmospheric locations and folkish soundtrack, gradually takes us deeper and deeper into the bizarre pagan community living under the guidance of the charming Laird of Summer Isle (Lee, minus fangs) as the film builds to a terrifying climax with a twist to rival that of The Sixth Sense or Fight Club. --Paul Philpott

• Talent For The Game | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Some men are born with a gift; some are born to discover it... A baseball scout for the Californian Angels travels America for new talent only to find that the new team owner has decided to do away with his job!

• The Last Line Of Defense 2 | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-12.01 (-150.30%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Decorated Lieutenant and Navy SEAL John Kennedy Brascoe is a broken man having been stripped of his position within the mighty US military machine. While operating undercover during a botched mission for the CIA his partner Cody has named him as a traitor and thief. Thrown out of the military and faced with the insurmountable medical fees for the care of his sick young son John is reunited with an ex-navy SEAL buddy Sparks (Michael Madsen). Together they embark on the mission of a lifetime: to penetrate the fortress home of a multi-billionaire.

• You Did What | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When his free-spirited brother proposes to a woman hes known less than 24 hours marriage-phobic Charlie Porter tries anything to avoid popping the question to his girlfriend of two years. Starring Jason Winston George A.J. Buckley Ed Kerr and Ian Gomez.

• Fight Club | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Every weekend in the basements and car parks of bars across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to.

• Stepping Razor - Red X | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A profile on reggae artist Peter Tosh who died in 1987. This tragic documentary tells the tale of the all too short life of one of the greatest country men in the world Peter Tosh. Told through interviews with his mother father and friends it charts the meteoric rise to fame of Peter from The Wailing Wailer to The Wailers his disillusionment with Bob Marley and the pro Christian stance that Marley took in his music to his solo career and his fights with various record labels.

• Jolly Boys Last Stand | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When ""El Presidente"" of the Jolly Boys Spider (Serkis) gets engaged his oldest friend confirmed bachelor and appointed best man Des (Twomey) sees the end of the legendary drinking club. Des decides to film the run up to the wedding as a gift to the betrothed - hoping the on-screen carnage will de-rail the marriage. Instead he learns about true love and friendship - but maybe too late to repair the damage he's done! His wedding video is the Jolly Boys Last Stand from proposal to