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• Mccullin | Blu Ray | (25/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Celebrated photographer Don McCullin worked for The Sunday Times from 1966 to 1983, at a time when the newspaper was widely recognised as being at the cutting edge of international investigative photo-journalism. During that period he covered wars and humanitarian disasters on virtually every continent: from civil war in Cyprus, the war in Vietnam and the man-made famine in Biafra to the plight of the homeless in swinging sixties London. This new documentary from the producers of the award-winning Senna uses rich, detailed archive footage and incredible in-depth interviews to reveal the truth behind McCullin's hard-hitting and controversial images, piecing together his remarkable story in truly breathtaking style.

• Porterhouse Blue | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on Tom Sharpe’s satirical novel and set in a fictional, all-male Cambridge College, 1987’s Porterhouse Blue is a crusty delight. Ian Richardson stars as the austere moderniser who takes over as master of Porterhouse with a view to bringing in radical changes; David Jason is Skullion, head porter for 45 years and a bulldog-style traditionalist.Porterhouse Blue is a wonderfully grotesque and not inaccurate depiction of an Oxbridge college that has set itself resolutely and decadently against the modern world. Crammed with hoggish, port-swilling dons who are more concerned that the college stay "head of the river" than with academic achievement, the highlight of Porterhouse’s year is the Founder’s Feast, in which students and tutors gorge debauchedly on roast swan stuffed with widgeon, to the horror of the new vegetarian master. Jason’s Skullion looks on approvingly: he’s a stickler for Porterhouse’s inverted values, disapproving, for instance, of student Zipser (John Sessions), the only fellow at the college actually there to work. When the master eventually fires Skullion, the forces of traditionalism gather in sympathy and attempt their revenge.Unfolding over 190 leisurely minutes, Porterhouse Blue is an elegantly turned comedy in which practically every morsel of dialogue is to be savoured for its delicious tang. Jason and Richardson are reliably excellent in what is an overall exhibition of British TV thespianism at its finest. --David Stubbs

• Hemoglobin | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the middle of the 17th Century Eva Van Damme a Dutch aristocrat left Holland for the reckless spoils of the New World. She and her clan built a great mansion in New England cut themselves off from the rest of society and eventually disappeared from view altogether. It was here she revealed in her dark obsession one that had driven the Van Damme's from their Dutch home her insatiable sexual appetite for her twin brother.. More than three centuries later a ferry carries ailing John Strauss and his wife Kathleen to an eerie New England community. He is dying from a mysterious blood disease and has traced his roots to this enclosed island in the vain hope he may discover some key to his condition. Strauss knows he was born here but as a baby he was sent to Paris and subsequently adopted if he can find his relatives he may be saved. However as he will soon discover death can sometimes be a sweet release.