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• The Man With The Severed Head | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £4.84   |  Saving you £5.15 (51.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When a jewel robbery goes horribly wrong and their leader Jack is shot in the head a group of criminals go to extreme measures to save their friends life... With the help of a local doctor the gang devise a uniquely gruesome plan - to kill their worst enemy throw his body in front of an oncoming train and use the brain from the severed head as a transplant! The operation is a success all seems well...that is until the brains former owner starts living out his murderous past thro

• McBain | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When a group of U.S. Rangers save McBain from execution during the Vietnam War he vows to repay them. Years later when his saviour Santos is killed on a mission to reclaim Colombia for its people he finds himself called into action and regroups his army platoon to lead Santos rebel army...

• Hip Hop Time Capsule | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £15.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-23.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1994 Hip Hop experienced an incredible rebirth and many historians refer to it as ""Hip Hop's Last Great Year"". There was much heart and camaraderie within the industry plus records took longer than a week to create and didn't contain a zillion cameos. It was the year Nas stepped on the scene with his now classic LP ""Illmatic"". Snoop was still the leader in record sales and the Wu-Tang Clan was unstoppable. This DVD takes a look back at the videos interviews performances and freestyles of 1994 and features over 20 artists including Nas Wu Tang Clan Snoop Dogg Notorius B.I.G. Gang Starr A Tribe Called Quest The Roots and many more!

• Street Of Joy | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This slice of powerful eastern erotica takes place over one day in a house of pleasure in 1950's Tokyo on the eve of a new law which will ban prostitution. With an observant and perceptive eye director Kumashiro depicts the sometimes sad sometimes funny but always highly engaging lives of the girls who work on this 'street of joy'. This is one of the most successful of Nikkotsu's famous 'romantic porno' movies. Many critics consider it amongst the best Japanese films of the 1970's.

• Bolshoi Ballet - Cinderella | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The famous story of Perrault becomes a wonderful ballet thanks to the genius of Serguei Prokofiev. This DVD offers this major piece interpreted by The Marinsky Theatre in a mind-blowing direction. An abundance of characters and mythical scenes (poetic duet with the Prince remarkable adagios languourous waltzs...). A succession of very famous scenes among which the presentation of the slipper to Cinderella who is either dreamy or nervous but always pure. A moment of grace and emotion lived through the magic of Dance. The popular Bolshoi Ballet series continues bringing ballet lovers some of the finest performances by the world's most acknowledged dance company.

• Enemies Within | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £7.74   |  Saving you £2.25 (22.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When Ryan Corey a hard nosed investigative reporter starts his investigation of the harmful after-effects of chemical and biological warfare he has no idea what he will uncover. His sources lead him toan Army Hospital where he discovers 'North West 3' a top secret wing. Corey is determined to learn what goes on behind the closed doors of this secret wing and when he gets too close is mysteriously injected with a deadly virus. As his own life is slipping away he is caught up in a frenzied effort to track down the perpetrators of his own murder and expose the truth...

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. But this time around, all three characters have moved several notches down the ethical scale. Robinson, who in the earlier film played a college professor who kills by accident, here becomes a downtrodden clerk with a nagging, shrewish wife and unfilled ambitions as an artist, a man who murders in a jealous rage. Bennett is a mercenary vamp, none too bright, and Duryea brutal and heartless. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. When it was made the film hit censorship problems, since at the time it was unacceptable to show a murder going unpunished. Lang went out of his way to show the killer plunged into the mental hell of his own guilt, but for some authorities this still wasn't enough, and the film was banned in New York State for being "immoral, indecent and corrupt". Not that this did its box-office returns any harm at all. On the DVD: sparse pickings. There's an interactive menu that zips past too fast to be of much use. The full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne adds the occasional insight, but it's repetitive and not always reliable. (He gets actors' names wrong, for a start.) The box claims the print's been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

• The Warriors | UMD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Edward G. Robinson - Scarlet Street / The Stranger | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture". But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as the Nazi Franz 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. 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 clocktower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: sparse pickings. Both films have a full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne which adds the occasional insight, but is repetitive and not always reliable. The box claims both print have been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

• The Tough Guys Collection - Bullets Or Ballots/San Quentin/A Slight Case Of Murder | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Bullets Or Ballots: After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner former detective Johnny Blake knocks him down convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. ""Buggs"" Fenner thinks Blake is a police agent. San Quentin: Do the crime do the time. But what happens during the long years spent behind the walls of San Quentin? The penitentiary's new yard captain wants to make those years a time of rehabilitation rather than punishment. But not everyone's buying it. Humphrey Bogart portrays Red continuing his climb to stardom in this brisk film that's one of a string of Depression-era works combining gangster-movie elements with a Big House setting. Studio mainstay Pat O'Brien plays Steve Jameson whose carrot-and-stick reforms begin to change Red's thinking. An inmates' strike and a scripture-quoting con who swipes a rifle are among the troubles Jameson faces- and Red is another as he reverts to his old ways and makes a violent break for freedom. A Slight Case Of Murder: A breakneck-paced comedy starring Edward G. Robinson as a tough but good-hearted bootlegger. When Prohibition is repealed Robinson faces a financial crisis: His beer tastes so awful that no one wants to drink it legally. As an additional headache Robinson is under scrutiny from the Law which is waiting to slip the cuffs on him for the slightest infraction. He arrives at his rented Saratoga mansion with his wife (Ruth Donnelly) daughter (Jane Bryan) and adopted son (Bobby Jordan) only to discover that a killer has left four corpses in his bedroom. Robinson and his stooges are forced to hide the bodies before his future son-in-law (Willard Parker) who happens to be a cop tumbles to the dilemma. Based on a stage play by Howard Lindsay and Damon Runyon.

• G.I. Joe - Bumper Special | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As part of its never ending mission to stop the evil COBRA organisation the GI Joe team of crack soldiers must face danger drama and death on a daily basis to rid the world of the threat of terror and destruction. Without the use of super powers the Joe's use intellect teamwork courage and cutting edge gear to defeat the ruthless villains of COBRA

• VIY | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Acclaimed Russian horror tale based on a theology student made to recite a scripture for a young woman who has died; unknown to him she was one of the Devil's agents on Earth.... Based on the novel of Nikolai Gogol.

• Erkel - Hunyadi Laszlo (Medveczky, Simandy, Horvath) | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Sadak | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A man falls in love with a young prostitute...

• The Laughing Dead | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A futuristic thriller set in a crime-plagued urban area. Hunter (Patrick Gleason) weak from his drug addiction arrives in a city of junkies and attempts to survive. Making matters worse is menacing billionaire Vincent (John Hammond) who creates chaos in the city.

• The Vault | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £22.96   |  Saving you £-3.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The tables are turned when jewel thief Kennedy Kaludes (Laci Szabo) decides to take his daughter for a day out at an art museum only to find himself caught up in a heist by a bunch of crooks who want to steal the museum's priceless star attraction. Locking his daughter in the vault for her own safety Kennedy takes on the criminals himself but it's a race against time as the air in the vault starts to run out. Some impressive martial arts battles play out as The Vault reaches

• Suite 16 | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Glover (Pete Postlethwaite) is a shadow of the man he was. Once a handsome playboy he is now confined to the luxurious prison of his hotel suite trapped in a useless body tormented by the memory of how it used to be. Chris (Antoine Kamerling) is an irresistible young hustler with a sideline in casual violence. On the run from the latest crime he stumbles into Glover's suite to take refuge. Both men realise the other has something to offer but slowly the balance shifts as Glover manipulates Chris into acting out his long-held sexual fantasies. What begins as a game soon becomes a dangerous battle as Glover pushes Chris into ever more bizarre challenges culminating in a murder attempt on a young woman (Geraldine Pailhas) who has plans to turn the tables on both of them. 'Suite 16' is a dark and erotic thriller about manipulation and deceit the first film from writer Charlie 'The Fast Show' Higson.

• Welt am Draht | DVD | (18/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Stranger, The / Orson Welles On Film | DVD | (01/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  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

• Dogs of Chinatown | DVD | (02/01/2017) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99