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• Midnight Cowboy | DVD | (01/02/2000) from £7.19   |  Saving you £5.80 (80.67%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The first, and only, X-rated film to win a best picture Academy Award, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy seems a lot less daring today (and has been reclassified as an R), but remains a fascinating time capsule of late-1960s sexual decadence in mainstream American cinema. In a career-making performance, Jon Voight plays Joe Buck, a naive Texas dishwasher who goes to the big city (New York) to make his fortune as a sexual hustler. Although enthusiastic about selling himself to rich ladies for stud services, he quickly finds it hard to make a living and eventually crashes in a seedy dump with a crippled petty thief named Ratzo Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman, doing one of his more effective "stupid acting tricks," with a limp and a high-pitch rasp of a voice). Schlesinger's quick-cut, semi-psychedelic style has dated severely, as has his ruthlessly cynical approach to almost everybody but the lead characters. But at its heart the movie is a sad tale of friendship between a couple of losers lost in the big city, and with an ending no studio would approve today. It's a bit like an urban Of Mice and Men, but where both guys are Lenny. --Jim Emerson

• Treasure of the Ninja and the Films of William | Blu Ray | (18/07/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Part of the 101 Films x AGFA range. Meet your new favourite action hero. Throughout the 1980s, Black filmmaker and martial artist William Lee wrote, produced, directed, and starred in dozens of D.I.Y. action epics -- all shot on Super 8 in Ohio and New York City. From Treasure Of The Ninja (1987, Lee's most ambitious and beloved movie) to The New Chinese Connection (1980, an homage to Bruce Lee -- William Lee's idol), these inclusive and explosive works serve as an inspiration to anyone with a dream, pulse, or appreciation for spinning kicks. AGFA + Bleeding Skull! are elated to bring the best-of-the-best in William Lee's early filmography to a wider audience for the first time ever, complete with brand new transfers and a revelatory stack of previously unreleased films. NOTICE! Treasure Of The Ninja was shot on super 8 and edited on tape. Please approach the technical quality of the transfer with empathy. Product Features Bonus movie: DRAGON VS. NINJA (1984), previously unreleased and transferred in 2K from the original Super 8 elements Treasure Of The Ninja: New transfer from the original 3/4 master tape Treasure Of The Ninja: Commentary track with William Lee and Bleeding Skull's Annie Choi and Joseph A. Ziemba Short: The New Chinese Connection (1980), previously unreleased and transferred in 2K from the original Super 8 elements Shorts: the Willie Jack series, all previously unreleased and transferred in 2K from the original Super 8 elements Reversible cover artwork

• Perils Of Penelope Pitstop | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £8.70   |  Saving you £1.29 (14.83%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Pretty Penelope finds peril at every pit stop pursued by Sylvester Sneakly (alias The Hooded Claw and also alias the incomparable voice of peerless Paul Lynde) until the notorious Ant Hill Mob somehow bumble to her rescue. But don't let Penelope's girly Southern belle drawl fool you. This damsel in distress can fight back aided by her stylish retro-chic go-go boots! If you loved Wacky Races you'll love this spoofy spinoff with Penelope Pitstop the girl with beauty and brains (other than her inability to figure out Sneakly's dual identity). Enjoy all 17 fun-packed adventures in one racy package with a marvelous mob of DVD extras!

• The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop - The Complete Series | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Pretty Penelope finds peril at every pit stop pursued by Sylvester Sneakly (alias The Hooded Claw and also alias the incomparable voice of peerless Paul Lynde) until the notorious Ant Hill Mob somehow bumble to herrescue. But don't let Penelope's girly Southern belle drawl fool you. This damsel in distress can fight back aided by her stylish retro-chic go-go boots! If you loved Wacky Races you'll love this spoofy spinoff with Penelope Pitstop the girl with beauty and brains (other than her inability to figure out Sneakly's dual identity). Enjoy all 17 fun-packedadventures in one racy package with a marvelous mob of DVD extras!

• Angela's Ashes / Stepmom / Billy Elliott | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Angela's Ashes (Dir. Alan Parker 1999): Angela's Ashes the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir comes to life in this stirring film from acclaimed director Alan Parker (Evita) starring Academy Award-nominee Emily Watson (Breaking The Waves) and Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty). Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt the oldest son in a tightly knit family. Living by his wits cheered by his irrepressible spirit and sustained by his mother's fierce love Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America. Stepmom (Dir. Chris Columbus 1998): Jackie (Susan Sarandon) is a divorced mother of two. Isabel (Julia Roberts) is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie's ex-husband Luke (Ed Harris) forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. It is the universal dilemma of the 'non-traditional family' they all love the children but the complex interplay between parents step-parents step-children ex-spouses and significant others is decidedly tricky. But when Jackie discovers she is ill both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest while they have the chance. Billy Elliot (Dir. Stephen Daldry 1998): Starring Julie Walters and newcomer Jamie Bell the film (based on a real-life story) follows the progress of little Billy Elliot a motherless 11 year-old from a poor Durham pit village. When young Billy chooses ballet classes over boxing lessons his life is changed forever. He decides to keep the lessons secret from his father a coal miner but when his ballet instructor persuades him to try out for the Royal Ballet School in London Billy must make the choice between family responsibilities and his dreams...

• Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron | DVD | (18/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Cartoon Crazys - Roger Ramjet | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The internationally famous good guy! Renowned across the universe Roger protects law-abiding citizens from the dastardly plots of Noodles Romanoff and his evil crime organisation N.A.S.T.Y. Armed with his power-packed proton pill Roger has the strength of twenty atomic bombs and the charisma to become the favourite super-hero of kids all over the world.!

• A Midnight Clear | DVD | (31/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in 1944 France an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men isolated from the war at present put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight the other. Based on the novel by William Wharton