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• The Organization | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Organization was the second and final sequel to 1967's In the Heat of the Night and sees Sidney Poitier's homicide detective Virgil Tibbs called in to investigate the murder of a factory manager. In a lengthy, dialogue-free opening (the film's best sequence), it appears that we are witnessing the culprits in action. However, this group turns out to be a gang of idealistic young vigilantes who knew that the factory was a front for an international drugs cartel--the Organization of the title--and have made off with a haul of heroin secreted there. Suspected of the manager's murder, they meet Tibbs and seek his cooperation. He agrees to help them, pitting himself not only against the Organization but his own police department. Set in San Franscisco, The Organization invites invidious comparisons with Bullitt: its somewhat cheesy contemporary soundtrack, derived from Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, certainly marks it as a piece of its period, as do the occasionally less-than-convincing action sequences, risible acting and far-fetched plot. Poitier, as ever, lends the film a certain dignity and poise, worthy of better material to work with than this. The film is also notable for providing early showcases for two of Cop TV's most famous Captains: Daniel J Travanti (Hill Street Blues) and Bernie Hamilton (later Captain Dobey in Starsky & Hutch) are both assigned minor roles here. On the DVD: The Organization comes to disc in an adequate transfer, though still a little grainy. The sole extra is the original trailer. --David Stubbs

• Columbo - Series 1-7 - Complete | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £52.99

  Episodes Comprise: 1. Murder By The Book 2. Death Lends A Hand 3. Dead Weight 4. Suitable For Framing 5. Lady In Waiting 6. Short Fuse 7. Blueprint For Murder 8. tude in Black 9. The Greenhouse Jungle 10. The Most Crucial Game 11. Dagger of the Mind 12. Requiem for a Falling Star 13. A Stitch in Crime 14. The Most Dangerous Match 15. Double Shock 16. Lovely but Lethal 17. Any Old Port in a Storm 18. Candidate for Crime 19. Double Exposure 20. Publish or Perish 21. Mind over Mayhem 22. Swan Song 23. A Friend in Deed 24. An Exercise In Fatality 25. Negative Reaction 26. By Dawn's Early Light 27. Troubled Waters 28. Playback 29. A Deadly State Of Mind 30. A Case Of Immunity 31. Forgotten Lady 32. Identity Crisis 33. A Matter Of Honor 34. Now You See Him 35. Last Salut To The Commodore 36. Fade in to Murder 37. Old Fashioned Murder 38. The Bye-bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case 39. Try and Catch Me 40. Murder under Glass 41. Make Me a Perfect Murder 42. How to Dial a Murder 43. The Conspirators

• Tremors/Tremors 2 - Aftershocks/Tremors 3 - Back To Perfection | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tremors: They say there's nothing new under the sun. But under the ground... Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward star as two country handymen who lead a cast of zany characters to safety in this exciting sci-fi creature comedy. Just as Val McKee (Bacon) and Earl Basset (Ward) decide to leave Perfection Nevada strange rumblings prevent their departure. With the help of a shapely seismology student (Finn Carter) they discover their desolate town is infested with gigantic man-eating creatures that live below the ground. (Dir. Ron Underwood 1989) Tremors 2: The giant underground creatures that terrorized a desert town in Tremors are now plowing their way through Mexican oil fields gobbling up everything and everyone around - and only one man can stop them! In the style of its predecessor this comedy sci-fi creature-feature reunites Fred Ward as down-on-his-luck Earl Basset and Michael Gross as gung-ho survivalist Burt Gummer two desert desperados who take on the task of destroying the monsters. Partnered with them is Christopher Gartin a young guy in need of kicks cash and a career change and Helen Shaver a sexy and intrepid scientist who's seen it all...until now. Together they devise an ingenious plan for tracking and killing the creatures. Tremors 2 is filled with high speed action and plenty of laughs - until the predators wise up. (Dir. S. S. Wilson 1995) Tremors 3: Burt Grummer returns after travelling abroad killing carnivorous giant worms called 'Graboids' and their offspring to life in his home town and must deal with some crooked land developers a thrill-seeking guy named Jack Sawyer looking for wealth in this potential tourist town and a new strain of Graboids... (Dir. Brent Maddock 2001)

• Baby's Day Out / Dunston Checks In | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Baby's Day out The Cotwell family arrange a family portrait only to discover that the photographers are kidnappers! Dunston Checks In An orangutan called Dunston checks into a hotel which he proceeds to turn upside down. The manager's son Kyle is determined to help Dunston escape to a new life...

• Water | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  England wants the Island dumped.France wants it bombed America wants it wholesale And Michael Caine wants it.... on the rocks!

• Fritz The Cat / The Nine Lives Of Fritz The Cat | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fritz The Cat: A hilarious animated film following the sexual and other wild adventures of a ""long haired"" drop-out cat. A milestone in the world of cartoons - a huge critical and popular success. The Nine Lives Of Fritz: He's come a long way baby! Fritz now married and with a son is desperate to escape from the domestic hell in which he now finds himself... Lighting up a joint he begins to dream about his eight other lives hoping to find one that will provide a

• Roger and Me | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £19.95   |  Saving you £-5.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Made in 1989, Roger and Me is a loose, smart-alecky documentary directed and narrated by Michael Moore. Here for the first time, the man who won unexpected Oscar glory with Bowling for Columbine exposed audiences to his devastating wit and a working-class pose. When his hometown is devastated by the plant closure of an American corporate giant (making record profits, one should note), the hell-raising political commentator with a prankster streak tries to turn his camera on General Motors Chairman Roger B Smith, the elusive Roger of the title, and the film is loosely structured around Moore's odyssey to track down the bigwig for an interview. While Moore ambushes his corporate subjects like a blue-collar Geraldo Rivera, a guerrilla interviewer who treasures his comic rebuffs as much as his interviews, his portraits of the colourful characters he meets along the way can be patronising. The famous come off as absurdly out of touch (Anita Bryant appears for some can-do cheerleading, and hometown celebrity Bob Eubanks tells some boorish jokes), and the disenfranchised poor (notably an unemployed woman who sells rabbit meat to make ends meet) all too often appear as buffoons or hicks. But behind his loose play with the facts and snarky attitude is a devastating look at the victims of downsizing in the midst of the 1980s economic boom. This portrait of Reagan's America and the tarnish on the American dream comes down to a simple question: what is corporate America's responsibility to the country's citizens? That's a question no-one at GM wants to answer. --Sean Axmaker

• Rita Hayworth | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £32.43   |  Saving you £17.56 (54.15%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A bumper box set of classic films featuring 'The Love Goddess' herself Rita Hayworth! Gilda (Dir. Charles Vidor 1946): The legendary Rita Hayworth sizzles with sensuality and magnetism as she sings ""Put the blame on Mame"" and delivers a dazzling performance as the enticing temptress Gilda. In the story of Gilda Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) goes to work for Ballin Mundson (George MacReady) the proprietor of an illegal gambling casino in a South American city and quickly r

• The Christmas Star | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £5.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (150.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Disney gives families a gift full of the spirit of the season as Ed Asner plays Horace McNickle a counterfeiter who escapes prison through his extraordinary likeness to St. Nick. The Police are closing in but Christmas is near so there are redsuited ones everywhere. McNickle is desperate to recover loot from an earlier caper and can't make a move until he takes advantage of two neighborhood kids who really believe he is Santa. After the kids come through it dawns on him that he has always missed the true meaning of the holidays. rather than make good on his escape he tries to make good on his promises.

• Till Death Do Us Part - 1974 Series | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This release features the complete 1974 series of Johnny Speight's Till Death Us Do Part from 1972 featuring Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett. Episode titles: TV Licence The Royal Wedding Strikes And Blackouts Party Night Three Day Week Gran's Watch 'Paki-Paddy'.

• Farewell | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £4.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (261.24%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on a true story Farewell (aka L'Affaire Farewell) documents one of the most astounding tales of espionage to come out of the Cold War. Directed by Academy Award nominated Christian Carion (Merry Christmas) Farewell features a stellar cast including award-winning actor/director Emir Kusturica (Black Cat White Cat The Good Thief) award-winning actor/director Guillaume Canet (Tell No One Little White Lies) and award-winning actress Alexandra Maria Lara (The Reader Control). The film also stars Willem Dafoe (Antichrist Spiderman 3) David Soul (Jerry Springer: The Opera) and Fred Ward (Short Cuts Management). In 1981 Colonel Grigoriev (Emir Kusturica) of the KGB (real name Vladimir Vetrov) disenchanted with what the communist ideal has become under Brezhnev decides he is going to change the world. Discreetly he makes contact with a French engineer working for Thompson in Moscow Pierre (Guillaume Canet) and little by little passes on documents to him - mainly concerning the United States - information which would constitute the most important Cold War espionage operation known to date. During a period of two years French President Francois Mitterrand (Philippe Magnan) was to personally vet the documents supplied by this source in Moscow to whom the French Secret Service gave the codename 'Farewell'.

• Classic Dibnah | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £28.11   |  Saving you £-13.12 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  FRED DIBNAH S World of Steam, Steel & Stone - This series looks at the many sides of Fred engineer, steeplejack, artist, craftsman, steam enthusiast, inventor and story teller and celebrates his contribution to our knowledge and appreciation of Britain s architectural, industrial and engineering heritage. CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE: As Fred was growing up his house was surrounded by canals, railway lines, bridges and tunnels and he was captivated by such great civil engineering projects and the lives of the men who changed the landscape of Britain. GREAT BRITISH BUILDERS: The steeplejack shares his appreciation for the skills of the men who built Britain s great castles, palaces and country houses. He draws on his experiences as an apprentice joiner to offer demonstrations of building techniques, including the hilarious falling-down arch. MASTERS OF THEIR TRADE: An insight into the steeplejack s appreciation for the craftsmanship of men and women of the past and for the work of those people who have carried on the traditions. A GOOD DAYS WORK: A look at the steeplejack s admiration for ordinary workers. From the labourers and stonemasons who built great medieval castles, to 20thcentury coal miners and mill workers, Fred recognised that without hard graft nothing would have been possible. FRED DIBNAH S Industrial Age - Fred Dibnah takes a nostalgic look at Britain s Industrial Heritage. In this series he recounts Britain s industrial history, bringing to life landmark events from the eighteenth century up to the early twentieth century in his typically anecdotal and engaging manner. WIND, WATER & STEAM: Fred traces the development of the steam engine and visits a man who has built a windmill in his own back garden. He then sets off in search of early beam engines that are still functioning today. MILLS & FACTORIES: This programme traces the development of Britain s textile industry from the picturesque Scottish countryside of New Lanark to the urban mill town of Burnley. Fred talks to ex-weavers about life in the mills, and meets a group of volunteers who have spent 30 years saving mill engines from the scrapheap. IRON & STEEL: Fred comes across a rolling mill which he remembers once operating in Bolton, tries his hand at chain making, and then it s eyes-on-stalks time as Fred drives the biggest steam rolling mill engine he has ever seen.

• Best Men | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £5.27   |  Saving you £0.72 (13.66%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tamra Davis' Best Men must have seemed a better idea on paper than it ends up being in practice, in spite of some snappy dialogue and good central performances. A group of male friends meet Jesse (Luke Wilson) out of prison to take him to his wedding to Hope (Drew Barrymore); along the way, their friend David pops into the bank for some money and turns out to be the Shakespeare-spouting bandit Hamlet. Suddenly all of them are his unwilling accessories in a hostage situation with David's sheriff father and murderous FBI men besieging them and a crowd cheering their every move. Each of the young men has a trauma and it is not only David who gets a soliloquy: gay Green Beret Buzz (Dean Cain) has an extended period of bonding with one of the hostages, demented Vietnam vet Gonzo (Brad Dourif). The eventual action sequences are curiously perfunctory and uninteresting and the obsessive FBI man, Hoover, has little motivation. This is a likable film which goes nowhere, but has quite a lot of gentle charm along the way to its tragic ending. On the DVD: the DVD is presented in a widescreen video aspect of 2.35:1 and has Dolby surround sound; the special features are a slightly self-congratulatory "making of" featurette and the film's theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney

• 3 Classic Westerns Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 1 - Fighting Caravans / Randy Rides Alone | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Fighting Caravans: One of the first big-budget Westerns based on a Zane Grey novel. Cooper convinces a fellow traveller on a west-bound caravan to pose as his wife to help disguise him then saves the caravan from an Indian attack. And falls in love of course. Randy Rides Alone: The territory has been invaded by a gang of renegades threatening the town and its people. Wyne shows up takes control and single-handedly rides them out of town. Man Of The Frontier:

• The Right Stuff (Special Edition) | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £14.89   |  Saving you £-0.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Based on Tom Wolfe's novel of the same name, The Right Stuff is a spectacular and thrilling epic that chronicles the fledgling years of the American space programme, from breaking the sound barrier to putting the first man into orbit. Rather than focusing on the technological advances that made this possible, writer-director Philip Kaufman pays tribute to the daring and heroic air-force test-pilots, most notably Chuck Yeager, John Glenn and "Gordo" Cooper , whose competitive desire to be the fastest and the highest drives them to keep "pushing the outside of the envelope". Despite its grand historical scale, the movie is grounded in the emotional highs and lows of these men and their long-suffering wives, delicately balancing their personal achievements and failures with the invasive media frenzy surrounding NASA's attempts to better the rival Soviet space effort. The Right Stuff has a coherence and pace that belies its sprawling plot, wide array of main characters and a running time of over three hours. This is thanks to an exciting script, a superb cast, Caleb Deschanel's stunning cinematography and--given the dramatic subject matter--a surprisingly humorous edge. Parts of the gruelling astronaut selection process make complete monkeys of the pilots, NASA's unsuccessful first attempts to launch a rocket are shown in all their explosive glory, and Jeff Goldblum and Harry Shearer steal the show as two oddball recruitment officials. On the DVD: The Right Stuff Special Edition comes with a sizeable, if somewhat superficial, second disc of extra features. There are two separate commentary tracks pieced together from a selection of soundbites--one from the cast (including an introduction from technical advisor Yeager) and the other from the production team. Both are played out over an identical, 25-minute sequence of scenes from the film, but only refer occasionally to the action on screen and yield little insight into the film's production. There are also four separate documentaries. The largest of these is John Glenn: American Hero, a 90-minute PBS special charting the legendary astronaut's life and including some great documentary footage of his appearance on Name That Tune (recreated in the film). Realising the Right Stuff (21 mins) and T-20 Years and Counting (10 mins) are both standard selections of cast and crew interviews. The Real Men with the Right Stuff (15 mins) features documentary footage and interviews with the surviving members of the Mercury team (Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter and Walter Schirra). Deleted scenes, the theatrical trailer and an "Interactive Timeline to Space" make up the remainder. --Paul Philpott

• The Notorious Landlady | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  "Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire star in this wonderfully entertaining 1960s comedy mystery set in London. When young William Gridley (Jack Lemmon) arrives in London to work under diplomat Franklyn Ambruster (Fred Astaire), he rents an apartment from the lovely Carly Hardwicke (Kim Novak) - unaware that the police suspect her having poisoned her husband. When Carly's missing husband mysteriously reappears... and then is murdered... a neighbour helps her escape a murder charge. But then the trouble really starts...

• The New Barbarians | DVD | (08/11/2010) from £13.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (8.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The year is 2019 and a nuclear war has reduced humanity to small groups of starving survivors. Living in makeshift hamlets these defenceless communities have become the prey of a band of psychotic sadists known as the Templars who intend to purge the earth by exterminating what is left of the human race. The only hope for the survivors lies with a former Templar known as Scorpion and his band of allies who are prepared to fight the Templars in one final action-filled showdown.

• Kelly's Heroes & Where Eagles Dare | Blu Ray | (01/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• My Name Is Modesty | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  My Name Is Modesty is a thrilling adventure about a sexy spy who's skilled in the art of deception and revenge! Orphaned as a child and raised by a casino owner Modesty Blaise learned early on how to fight steal and spy. Once grown she becomes the casino owner's bodyguard but is ultimately unable to protect him from a murderous old enemy. Now it's payback time! Based on the Modesty Blaise graphic novel series this stylish big-screen adaptation teems with action and suspense!

• Ziegfeld Follies (1946) | DVD | (26/02/2015) from £15.21   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A