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• MGM War Collection | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  This great DVD collection contains the following titles: 1. Attack! (dir. Robert Aldrich 1956) 2. 633 Squadron (dir. Walter Grauman 1964) 3. The Bridge At Remagen (dir. John Guillermin 1969) 4. A Bridge Too Far (dir. Richard Attenborough 1977) 5. The Great Escape (dir. John Sturges 1963) 6. Hart's War (dir. Gregory Hoblit 2002) 7. Platoon (dir. Oliver Stone 1986) 8. Windtalkers (dir. John Woo 2002) 9. The Dogs Of War (dir. John Irvin 1981) 10. Under Fire (dir. Roger Spottiswoode 1983)

• Aspen Extreme | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (64.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In this heart-pounding action-adventure two buddies abandon their blue-collar world to become ski instructors in glamorous Aspen Colorado. There they discover the electrifying playground of the rich and famous - experiencing firsthand extreme skiing wealth and seduction. Surrounded by temptation and Aspen's alluring lifestyle their friendship faces the ultimate test as they struggle to keep sight of the things that really matter. Featuring some of the most incredible ski foota

• The Black Sabbath Story - Vol. 2 - 1978-1992 | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This second instalment in The Black Sabbath Story covers the period between 1978 and 1992. These were the wilderness years after founding vocalist Ozzy Osbourne left the group and it often seemed as though Sabbath had fitted their tour bus with a revolving door--by 1986, guitarist Tony Iommi was the only founder member left in the group. Five different vocalists are featured in this programme: Ronnie James Dio (ex-Rainbow), Ian Gillan (ex-Deep Purple), Glenn Hughes, Geoff Nicholls and Tony Martin. The nine promo videos collected here are representatives of an era that all but the most die-hard of Sabbath fans have tried to forget. It is an ignominy that is richly merited. The kindest thing that can be said of this collection of awful 80s hair-metal soundtracking dreadful black-and-white videos of men with haircuts that not even German football players would be caught dead with is that it's an interesting period piece. On the DVD: The Black Sabbath Story is presented in widescreen. Sound is available in Dolby 5.1 Surround or Dolby Digital. The menu of extras is badly laid out, but includes a gallery of Sabbath albums and further interviews with band members--including an extraordinary and hilarious reminiscence from Ian Gillan, which confirms that that Black Sabbath's reality was far more preposterous than any of the satirical conceits offered by This Is Spinal Tap.--Andrew Mueller

• Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) Play Exclusive | DVD | (26/03/2010) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From Out Of Space... A Warning And An Ultimatum! A spacecraft lands in Washington D.C. and an alien emerges flanked by a menacing robot with destructive capabilities far beyond anyone's imagination. So begins the science-fiction thriller The Day The Earth Stood Still a classic atomic movie from the 50s that would go on to inspire alien-invasion films for decades to come. Rebuffed in his efforts to meet the world's leaders and warn them of the earth's impending doom the alien Klaatu (Michael Rennie) takes to the streets. Klaatu's plea for peace is embraced by a pretty young woman (Patricia Neal) and an eminent scientist (Sam Jaffe) but the rest of humanity reacts with mistrust fear and violence. With time running out Klaatu is forced to demonstrate his awesome powers in a mind-boggling display teaching all of mankind a lesson for the ages. Watch The Day The Earth Stood Still and and you will never forget these words - Klaatu barada nikto!

• National Geographic - Beyond The Movie - The Lord Of The Rings | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The connection between National Geographic and The Lord of the Rings may seem tentative, but the illuminating TV special Beyond the Movie proves otherwise. While incorporating cast and crew interviews and film clips from director Peter Jackson's 2001 blockbuster The Fellowship of the Ring, this hour-long documentary transcends timely opportunism to explore the myriad inspirations for JRR Tolkien's Middle-Earth fantasy classic, beginning with the influence of Tolkien's idyllic childhood in rural England, which served as the model for his threatened Hobbit paradise. Equally fascinating are the influences of Tolkien's experience in World War I and the "evil" of industrial development on his work, and more directly those of Anglo-Saxon poetry (notably Beowulf) and the mythology of the Finnish Kalevala, which formed the basis of Tolkien's elvish culture. The author's passion for nature conservancy and cultural preservation are what ultimately serve the National Geographic agenda, but eloquent testimonials by archaeologists, anthropologists, and filmmakers make this a most agreeable hour of justified propaganda. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Da | DVD | (17/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The Da in 'Da' is the recently deceased foster father of 40 year old Irish playwright Charlie who now lives in New York and has returned to Ireland for his father's funeral. Da in typical Irish style can't bear to miss his own funeral! As Charlie sorts through the old man's papers burning most of them who strolls in but Da himself. Shocked Charlie reminds him that he is dead and tells him to 'get out of my head'... Most of the action takes place in Charlie's mind and memory moving from present reality to the past and back again as the two struggle to understand each other. In the process other significant and colourful characters of Charlie's early life are resurrected including his mother the family dog and his tyrannical employer. His reverie is interrupted by Mr. Drumm who was entrusted with Da's will which much to Charlie's dismay bequeaths everything to him including all of the money Charlie ever sent his Da. Charlie learns that he cannot exorcise the past. Like all mankind he is part of a human chain and to reject his father even in memory is to deny himself... Based on the highly acclaimed Broadway play and written by Hugh Leonard Da features Barnard Hughes recreating his Tony award winning performance for the screen Martin Sheen as Charlie and William Hickey as Drumm.

• Love Actually | DVD | (01/01/1980) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An ensemble comedy from the makers of "Notting Hill" following a whole host of separate but intertwining stories of love in London.

• The Sore Losers | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set in present day Memphis and Mississippi alien Blackie returns to earth after 42 years to complete his original mission to kill 12 chosen victims (lowlife scum such as hillbillies hippies chartered accountants etc...). He soon hooks up with his old friend - Mike who has been locked in a Memphis time warp asylum for the last 42 years and the memorable Kerine - a young lady straight out of the big house with a penchant for black leather 45 magnums AMC Pacers and killing hippies. On a visit to her folks Kerine blows away her mother and father - unfortunately these kills exceed the quota of 12 stranding Blackie and Mike on Earth. The they have to drag Kerine's dead mother around with them until they figure out how to re-animate her and replace her with a victim of the supreme elders choosing. The replacement victim turns out to be the delectable D'Lana who unfortunately has mistakenly been captured by the FBI from outer space and sentenced to death for the murders committed by the gang. She can only die by Blackie's hand in order that they can return home winners and not get stuck on earth as sore losers!

• Riders To The Sea | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  They are all gone now and there is nothing more the sea can do to me Riders to the Sea is Vaughan Williams' most successful operatic achievement. It is short but the music is written on a grand scale and it is emotionally powerful. He based his opera on J.M. Synge's great tragic one-act play about Aran fisherfolk. The Irish dramatist spent several summers on the stormy West Coast of Ireland and the primitive life of the islanders whose existence depended almost entirely on the sea provided him with the material for his play. Vaughan Williams was inspired by the theme of human endurance in the face of the natural elements and his opera is absolutely faithful to Synge's original play almost word for word. The tautly structured music is integrated perfectly with Synge's dialogue and at the end it opens out into a great dignified lament sometimes compared to the lament from Dido and Aeneas. This film made in the studio in 1988 by the Irish broadcaster Radio Telefis ''‰ireann is unique because it is the only audio-visual representation of any of Vaughan Williams' operatic and stage works currently available. The opera stars Sarah Walker in the central role of the mother Maurya who has already lost six men in her family to the sea and fears for the safety of her two remaining sons. Her daughters Cathleen and Nora are played by Yvonne Brennan and Kathleen Tynan and her son Bartley is sung by Hugh Mackey. Martin Murphy portrays J.M. Synge. The Radio Telefis ''‰ireann Chamber Choir and Concert Orchestra is conducted by Bryden Thomson. It is produced and directed by Louis Lentin. A new production of Riders to the Sea is being staged at English National Opera this November to mark the 50th anniversary of Vaughan Williams' death.

• Underworld 1 and 2/Blood and Chocolate | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £9.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This box set features the following films: Underworld (Dir. Len Wiseman) (2003): Vampires and lycans an ancient form of werewolf are at war. While the vampires inhabit a gigantic castle that houses their ancestor's tombs the lycans live underground in a dilapidated sewer cave. Both teams are equipped with big guns and they are constantly innovating deadlier bullets to gain advantage over each other. On the vampire side the leather-clad death agent Selene (Kate Beckinsale) delegates teams of vamps to attack the lycans. But when she discovers that the lycans have kidnapped a human medical student Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman) she knows the worst is on its way. Against the orders of her superior Kraven (Shane Brolly) who is obsessively in love with Selene she awakens the most powerful vampire of all time Viktor (Bill Nighy) and prepares for a massive feud against lycan leader Lucian (Michael Sheen)... Underworld Evolution (Dir. Len Wiseman) (2006): Bloodthirsty vengeance is measured out in buckets not spoonfuls for this hard-hitting vampire movie sequel. The story picks up right where the first Underworld left off in the midst of a war between Lycans (werewolves) and vampires with the gorgeous death-dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) on the run with her vamp-wolf hybrid lover Michael (Scott Speedman). Blood And Chocolate (Dir. Katja von Garnier) (2007): Ten years ago in the remote mountains of Colorado a young girl watched helplessly as her family was murdered by a pack of angry men for the secret they carried in their blood. Now though she lives half a world away Vivian Gandillon is still running. Living in relative safety in Bucharest Vivian spends her days working at a chocolate shop and nights trawling the city's underground clubs fending off the reckless antics of her cousin Rafe and his gang of delinquents he calls ""The Five."" Aiden Galvin is an artist researching Bucharest's ancient art and relics for his next graphic novel based on the mythology of the loup garoux -shapeshifters whose power to change effortlessly into the forms of both human and wolf was once considered holy among men. Wrestling demons of his own Aiden hopes to explore the inner lives of these outsiders that he believes were persecuted to extinction - labeled monsters murderers werewolves. What he doesn't know is that the loup garoux are not only very real they're far from extinct. During a chance encounter in an abandoned church celebrating the loup garoux Aiden unknowingly comes face-to-face with the real thing Vivian. Others may have secrets but none as extraordinary as hers for Vivian is among the last of her kind leading a tenuous existence under the protection and control of Gabriel the powerful and enigmatic leader of one of the last packs of loup garoux on earth. After their brief exchange in the church Aiden can't get Vivian out of his mind nor can she forget him. He pursues her until she relents a

• Love Actually/Wimbledon | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £15.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (56.29%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Love Actually: From the new bachelor Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) instantly falling in love with a refreshingly real member of the staff (Martine McCutcheon) moments after entering 10 Downing Street... To a writer (Colin Firth) escaping to the south of France to nurse his re-broken heart who finds love in a lake... From a comfortably married woman (Emma Thompson) suspecting that her husband (Alan Rickman) is slipping away... To a new bride (Keira Knightly) mistaking the distance of her husband's best friend for something it's not... From a schoolboy seeking to win the attention of the most unattainable girl in school... To a widowed stepfather (Liam Nesson) trying to connect with a son he suddenly barely knows... From a lovelorn junior manager seizing a chance with her long-tended unspoken office crush... To an ageing ""seen it all remember very little of it"" rock star (Bill Nighy ) jonesing for an end-of-career comeback in his own uncompromising way... Love the equal-opportunity mischief-maker is causing chaos for all. These London lives and loves collide mingle and climax on Christmas Eve-again and again and again-with romantic hilarious and bittersweet consequences for anyone lucky (or unlucky) enough to be under love's spell. Wimbledon: She's the golden girl. He's the longshot. It's a match made in... A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him he meets a young female player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon at the cost of losing hers...

• The Titfield Thunderbolt | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  When an antiquated railway line is threatened with closure the villagers decide to run it themselves and enter into frenzied competition with the local bus route with hilarious consequences! Director Charles Crichton and writer Tibby Clarke team up again for the first Ealing comedy to be produced in Technicolor. The defiance of authority by local inhabitants was a favourite topic in the 40's and 50's and embellishes the characteristic Ealing theme - 'small is beautiful and big is bad'.

• The Pirates! Band of Misfits | Blu Ray | (10/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hugh Grant stars as Pirate Captain - a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. And he has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award.

• The Pirates! Band of Misfits | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hugh Grant stars as Pirate Captain - a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. And he has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award.

• The Pirates! Band of Misfits | Blu Ray | (10/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set sail for a fun-filled voyage of hilarious pirate antics with the biggest Band of Misfits on the seven seas! When the infamous Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) is shunned once again by his rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Liz Cutlass (Salma Hayek), he sets his sights to win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award! With his trusted parrot Polly and rag-tag crew at his side, Pirate Captain will need to battle Queen Victoria, save a young Charles Darwin and never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: Adventure!