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• Get Carter | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £6.97   |  Saving you £7.02 (100.72%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Released in 1971 (the same year Straw Dogs and A Clockwork Orange hit the screens, which must make 71 the annus mirabilis for violent films set in Britain), Get Carter opens with gangsters leering over pornographic slides and ends on a filthy, slag-stained beach in Newcastle. It's a low-down and dirty movie from beginning to end, and possibly the grittiest and best film of its kind to come out of Britain. The granddaddy of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and all its ilk, director Mike Hodges' Get Carter offers revenge tragedy swinging-60s style, all nicotine-stained cinematography, shabby locations and the kind of killer catchphrases Vinnie Jones would die for ("You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me, it's a full-time job. Now behave yourself", says Michael Caine's deadpan anti-hero Carter before inflicting a few choice punches on Brian Mosley, aka Coronation Street's Alf Roberts, to name but one example from Hodges and Ted Lewis' exquisitely laconic script). Presenting the dark horse in his family of loveable Cockney geezer roles (Alfie, The Italian Job), Michael Caine plays the title role of Jack Carter, a man so hard he barely registers a flicker of regret watching a woman he's just had sex with plunge to her death. After taking the train up to Newcastle as the credits roll and Roy Budd's chunky bass-heavy theme tune plays, Carter returns to his hometown to attend his brother's funeral and investigate the circumstances of his death. Not that he's all that sentimental about family: he shaves nonchalantly over the open coffin, and shows affection to his niece Doreen (Petra Markham) by cramming a few notes in her hand and telling her to "be good and don't trust boys". Gradually, Carter unravels the skein of drugs, pornography and corruption tangled around his brother's death, which brings him up against supremely oleaginous kingpin Kinnear (played by the author of Look Back in Anger John Osborne) among others. A remake starring Sylvester Stallone is in the offing, but quite frankly it will be a 30-degree (Celsius) Christmas night in Newcastle before Hollywood could ever make something as assured, raw and immortal as this. --Leslie Felperin

• Get Carter (2-Disc Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (02/12/2024) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Michael Caine is Jack Carter, the London gangland enforcer who returns to his hometown of Newcastle to investigate his brother's death. Rarely has the criminal underworld been so realistically portrayed as in this 1971 masterpiece. Shot on location, resulting in a devastatingly authentic snapshot of life in the north east of England, Get Carter remains arguably the grittiest and greatest of all British crime films. Newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative by the BFI, and approved by director Mike Hodges, Get Carter is back, and looking and sounding better than ever.Extras ¢ Presented in High Definition ¢ Introduction by Michael Caine (2022, 3 mins) ¢ Audio commentary featuring Mike Hodges, Michael Caine and Wolfgang Suschitzky (2000) ¢ Audio commentary featuring Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw (2022) ¢ Isolated score by Roy Budd ¢ Mike Hodges in Conversation (2022, 60 mins): the director discusses his long career ¢ Klinger on Klinger (2022, 24 mins): Tony Klinger recalls and evaluates the career of his father, Michael Klinger ¢ Don't Trust Boys (2022, 22 mins): actor Petra Markham reflects upon her career on stage and screen, and recalls her role in Get Carter ¢ The Sound of Roy Budd (2022, 17 mins): Jonny Trunk explores the varied career of Roy Budd, and revisits his iconic score for Get Carter ¢ BBC Look North location report (1970, 5 mins) ¢ Roy Budd Plays ˜Get Carter' (1971, 4 mins) ¢ Michael Caine's message to premiere attendees (1971, 1 min) ¢ The Ship Hotel Tyne Main (1967, 33 mins): Philip Trevelyan's evocative documentary ¢ International trailer (1971) ¢ Rerelease trailer (2022) ¢ Script gallery ¢ Audio description track (feature only)

• Get Carter (UHD) | Blu Ray | (29/01/2024) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Michael Caine is Jack Carter, the London gangland enforcer who returns to his hometown of Newcastle to investigate his brother's death. Rarely has the criminal underworld been so realistically portrayed as in this 1971 masterpiece. Shot on location, resulting in a devastatingly authentic snapshot of life in the north east of England, Get Carter remains arguably the grittiest and greatest of all British crime films. Restored in 4K from the original camera negative by the BFI, and approved by director Mike Hodges, Get Carter is back, and looking and sounding better than ever.Product FeaturesExtras4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)Introduction by Michael Caine (2022, 3 mins)Audio commentary featuring Mike Hodges, Michael Caine and Wolfgang Suschitzky (2000)Audio commentary featuring Kim Newman and Barry ForshawIsolated score by Roy BuddMike Hodges in Conversation (2022, 60 mins): the director discusses his career in this interview recorded at BFI SouthbankThe Sound of Roy Budd (2022, 17 mins): film music expert Jonny Trunk explores the varied career of Roy Budd, and revisits Budd's iconic, minimalist score for Get CarterRoy Budd Plays 'Get Carter' (1971, 4 mins)BBC Look North location report (1970, 5 mins): surviving footage of a 1971 report on Get Carter's making, from the BBC's regional news programmeDon't Trust Boys(2022, 22 mins): actor Petra Markham reflects upon her career on stage and screen, and recalls her role in Get CarterKlinger on Klinger (2022, 24 mins): Tony Klinger recalls and evaluates the career of his father, Michael Klinger, Producer of Get CarterThe Ship Hotel - Tyne Main (1967, 33 mins): Philip Trevelyan's evocative documentary film about a pub on the banks of the River TyneInternational trailer (1971)Rerelease trailer (2022)Michael Caine's message to premiere attendees (1971, 1 min)Script galleryEnglish language with optional descriptive subtitlesAudio description track

• Michael Flatley's Feet Of Flames | DVD | (04/05/1999) from £8.93   |  Saving you £7.06 (79.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An expanded and more polished version of Lord of the Dance, Feet of Flames was recorded at an outdoor performance in London's Hyde Park. While much of the material is familiar to Flatley fans, the production is superior in every way. It's better photographed and the editing is less frenetic. The individual segments are sharper, more self-assured, as is Flatley, who also produced and directed this version. (He also demonstrates his talents as a flutist--maybe he should call himself Lord of the Renaissance.) The outdoor setting also makes the show feel less like a Vegas act, though the proceedings have about as much relation to their Celtic folk roots as the Broadway musical Cats has to the TS Eliot children's poems on which it was based. --Richard Natale

• The Pemini Organisation (1972-1974) (UK Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (30/05/2022) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the early 1970s, three ambitious friends Peter Crane, Michael Sloan and Nigel Hodgson combined the first letters of each of their names and set up the Pemini Organisation, a young and vital independent British film production company. Active between 1972 and 1974, Pemini produced one mid-length film, Hunted, a high-suspense thriller starring Edward Woodward and June Ritchie, and two feature films: Assassin, a grimly realistic spy film starring Ian Hendry, Edward Judd, Frank Windsor, Ray Brooks and Mike Pratt; and Moments, an enigmatic romantic mystery starring Keith Michell and Angharad Rees. When Pemini disbanded, the films disappeared into the ether... Now, these three lost works, made by one of the most vibrant independent production companies of the era, have been rescued from the archives to be given their first ever home entertainment release in this deluxe, individually numbered Limited Edition Blu-ray set, accompanied by a wealth of newly produced extras, including feature-length director commentaries, cast and crew interviews, and an 80-page book. Product Features New 2K restorations of Hunted, Assassin, and Moments from the only surviving film elements Original mono audio Audio commentaries on Hunted, Assassin, and Moments with director Peter Crane and film historian Sam Dunn (2022) Interview with Peter Crane, director of Hunted, Assassin, and Moments (2022) Interview with Michael Sloan, writer of Hunted, Assassin, and Moments (2022) Interview with Bruce Atkins, production designer Hunted, Assassin, and Moments (2022) Interview with Pemini Organisation co-founder Nigel Hodgson (2022) Interview with June Ritchie, star of Hunted (2022) Interview with Hunted composer Graham Dee (2022) Interview with Martyn Chillmaid, assistant director of Assassin (2022) Interview with Moments actor Valerie Minifie (2022) Interview with Moments composer John Cameron (2022) Interview with Bill Summers, electrician on Moments (2022) ˜Moments' in Cannes (2022): Peter Crane recounts a memorable story from an exhibitor screening Film historian Vic Pratt charts the history of the Pemini Organisation (2022) Ian Hendry biographer Gabriel Hershman looks at the actor's role in Assassin (2022) Moments: deleted sex scene (1974): sequence removed from release prints at the behest of the distributor In Search of Lebanon (1970): student film directed by Peter Crane and Nigel Hodgson exploring present day Lebanon as the living source of the Adonis myth Original theatrical trailers Image galleries: extensive promotional and publicity materials from the Pemini Organisation's archives New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Limited edition exclusive 80-page book featuring extensive extracts from Peter Crane's ˜Memories of Pemini', detailing the rise and fall of the Pemini Organisation and the production of their three films, extracts from the films' original press materials, archival news articles on Pemini's activities, new writing on In Search of Lebanon, and full film credits World premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 6,000 copies for the UK and US All extras subject to change

• Theatre of Blood | Blu Ray | (19/05/2014) from £12.16   |  Saving you £12.83 (105.51%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Vincent Price has reserved a seat for you in the 'Theatre of Blood'. It's never been tougher to be a critic than in Theatre of Blood one of the greatest horror comedies of all time. Vincent Price gives a career best performance as Edward Lionhart a veteran Shakespearean actor who when passed over for the coveted Critic's Circle award for Best Actor takes deadly revenge on the critics who snubbed him. With one of the greatest ensemble casts ever assembled for a horror film including Diana Rigg Harry Andrews Jack Hawkins and Arthur Lowe Theatre of Blood is an dementedly funny and deliciously macabre cult classic. Special Features: High Definition digital transfer Newly created exclusive content Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film archive content and more! More to be announced closer to the release date

• Jemima Shore Investigates - The Complete Series | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £34.92   |  Saving you £-4.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Patricia Hodge stars as the investigative journalist TV presenter writer and amateur sleuth first encountered in the famously chilling Armchair Thriller strand Quiet as a Nun. This enormously popular series - based on the novels by Antonia Fraser - also features appearances by Tom Baker Don Henderson Bill Nighy Brian Cox and Lysette Anthony. Poised determined and possessed of a sharp intellect and a keen eye Jemima presents Megalith Television's Jemima Shore Investigates. But in her spare time she uses her connections to pursue her own investigations - and her relentlessly inquiring mind uncovers crime and intrigue of every sort particularly within the rarefied world of the wealthy and the privileged...

• Get Carter | Blu Ray | (05/05/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Released in 1971 (the same year Straw Dogs and A Clockwork Orange hit the screens, which must make 71 the annus mirabilis for violent films set in Britain), Get Carter opens with gangsters leering over pornographic slides and ends on a filthy, slag-stained beach in Newcastle. It's a low-down and dirty movie from beginning to end, and possibly the grittiest and best film of its kind to come out of Britain. The granddaddy of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and all its ilk, director Mike Hodges' Get Carter offers revenge tragedy swinging-60s style, all nicotine-stained cinematography, shabby locations and the kind of killer catchphrases Vinnie Jones would die for ("You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me, it's a full-time job. Now behave yourself", says Michael Caine's deadpan anti-hero Carter before inflicting a few choice punches on Brian Mosley, aka Coronation Street's Alf Roberts, to name but one example from Hodges and Ted Lewis' exquisitely laconic script). Presenting the dark horse in his family of loveable Cockney geezer roles (Alfie, The Italian Job), Michael Caine plays the title role of Jack Carter, a man so hard he barely registers a flicker of regret watching a woman he's just had sex with plunge to her death. After taking the train up to Newcastle as the credits roll and Roy Budd's chunky bass-heavy theme tune plays, Carter returns to his hometown to attend his brother's funeral and investigate the circumstances of his death. Not that he's all that sentimental about family: he shaves nonchalantly over the open coffin, and shows affection to his niece Doreen (Petra Markham) by cramming a few notes in her hand and telling her to "be good and don't trust boys". Gradually, Carter unravels the skein of drugs, pornography and corruption tangled around his brother's death, which brings him up against supremely oleaginous kingpin Kinnear (played by the author of Look Back in Anger John Osborne) among others. A remake starring Sylvester Stallone is in the offing, but quite frankly it will be a 30-degree (Celsius) Christmas night in Newcastle before Hollywood could ever make something as assured, raw and immortal as this. --Leslie Felperin

• The Lotus Eaters - Complete Series 2 | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  The story of mysterious couple Erik Shepherd and his wife Ann continues in the second series of this classic BBC drama. Erik comes back to his bar in Crete when he discovers that Ann has lost her memory. The couple return to face death deception and intrigue - a new game is being played out and Police Chief Michael Krasakis warns Erik that no one can be trusted. Who is Gerald Mace and why is he so interested in the Shepherds? Is Erik right to place his trust in Sam Webber? And why is the Shepherds' old friend Dr Dartington behaving so strangely? Erik comes to realise that nothing is what it seems as the saga of The Lotus Eaters reaches its shattering conclusion... The second series of this classic BBC drama has been unseen on network television for over 30 years and is now available on DVD for the first time.

• The Avengers - Series 2 | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £27.99   |  Saving you £52.00 (185.78%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Extraordinary crimes against the people and the state must be avenged by agents extraordinary. See the crime solving capers of the eponymous 60s secret agents for the first time restored and packed with extras.

• The Lotus Eaters - Complete Series 1 | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £9.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (63.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  To eat the fruit of the lotus is to lose the desire to return home. But everyone who does has a reason. Shepherd's bar is a focal point for a group of expatriates living in and around a small town on the isle of Crete. Run and owned by reformed Alcoholic Erik Shepherd the bar is a temptation that is never far from Erik's mind and his faltering marriage to Ann (Wanda Ventham) provides little respite from his addiction. When Donald Culley (James Kerry) arrives on the island the populace are drawn to this charming handsome stranger. However Culley knows something about Ann that could prove far more devastating that Erik's drinking. Featuring the complete series 1 of the BBC's The Lotus Eaters.

• Village of the Damned / Children of the Damned | DVD | (01/06/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (333.89%)   |  RRP £25.99

  This release contains two suspenseful horror films from the 1960s: VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED and CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED.

• Repulsion | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £13.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (50.04%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Oscar winning and controversial director Roman Polanski's critically acclaimed masterpiece depicting a young girl's descent into madness. Starring Catherine Deneuve (Belle de Jour). Repulsion won best director at the 1965 Berlin Film Festival and was BAFTA nominated.

• The Avengers - Complete Series + Bonus Disc | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Patrick Macnee stars as the indomitable spy John Steed alongside his glamorous sidekicks Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman), Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) and Tara King (Linda Thorson) in extraordinary mystery solving adventures and criminal defeating escapades.

• Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £9.78   |  Saving you £3.20 (47.13%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When scientists a hundred years into the future discover a "duplicate" Earth on the other side of the sun, the stage is set for tense science fiction adventure and suspense. Determined to find out what this new world is like, the Western nations of Earth set up an expedition headed by former astronauts Roy Thinnes and Ian Hendry to reach the new planet. All goes according to plan until the spaceship makes a crash landing on a planet some three weeks earlier than expected. Have the space travelers actually returned to Earth or are they on some strange mirror-imageworld where they must prove who they really are or die trying? This imaginative space adventure offers a journey few will ever forget.

• Theatre Of Blood | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A brilliant, bizarre 1973 comedy-horror, Theatre of Blood pitches somewhere between a Hammer horror and the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Vincent Price stars as the hammy, self-important and thoroughly psychotic Edward Lionheart, a veteran thespian who refuses to play anything other than Shakespeare. Piqued by a circle of critics, whom he feels were disrespectful in their notices and denied him his rightful Best Actor of the Year Award, he decides to murder them one by one in parodies of some of Shakespeare's grislier scenes. He's aided by his daughter Edwina (played by Diana Rigg, often in fake moustache and male drag) and a ghoulish company of dosshouse zombies. Some of the murders are quite extraordinarily gruesome, despite their camp, comedic overtones. Arthur Lowe's henpecked critic has his head sawn off while asleep (in a parody of Cymbeline) and Robert Morley's plumply effete dandy is force-fed a pie made from his beloved poodles, choking him to death (cf Titus Andronicus). Jack Hawkins and Michael Horden also meet unpleasant ends. Theatre of Blood is a genuine and underrated oddity in the annals of British cinema and especially uncomfortable for those who happen to be in the reviewing trade. On the DVD: Theatre of Blood on disc is not a triumph of digital enhancement, with sound blemishes unamended and hazy, faded visuals in places. The only extra is the original trailer. --David Stubbs

• Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun | Blu Ray | (20/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  There's a sense of awe to the special effects work of animation specialists Gerry and Sylvia Anderson (Thunderbirds Are Go)--the slow, lovingly detailed introduction of a massive spaceship creeping out of dock and struggling against its bulk while trapped on the ground, and the almost balletic spectacle of the ship elegantly floating against an impressive star field or dramatically flying against the rugged landscape. These moments are the highlights of this sober science fiction thriller about the discovery of a planet on the far side of the sun in Earth's orbit. A mission is hastily put together, with British astrophysicist Ian Hendry teamed with hotshot American astronaut Roy Thinnes for the three-week trip, but when they suddenly crash-land the strange creatures that surround them are revealed to be human. Against all rational explanations they're back on Earth, but Thinnes suddenly discovers that everything is a mirror image of his existence: Through the Looking Glass by way of The Twilight Zone. Though it begins as a paranoid spy thriller set in the near future (the opening details an ingenious espionage caper featuring a very special eyepiece), it quickly turns into a serious and oddly unsettling space-race drama with a heady twist. Robert Parrish's direction is unusually aloof, but the film is always intriguing and well acted with gorgeous special effects that may rank second only to Stanley Kubrick's 2001 as the most elegant vision of outer space flight on film. --Sean Axmaker

• Roman Polanski Boxset | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Cul-De-Sac: A mismatched couple (he effeminate and petulant she sensual and enigmatic) share a bizarre sexual relationship living in a remote castle. Their very isolation from the world prevents their eccentric partnership from foundering. Only an outsider can disrupt their make-believe lifestyle. That disruption arrives in the belligerent form of Richard and Albert two oddball gangsters straight out of a 1940's film noir wounded desperate and on the run. They demand s

• This is My Street | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ian Hendry June Ritchie John Hurt and future Randall and Hopkirk stars Annette Andre and Mike Pratt feature among an outstanding cast in this mid-sixties realist drama from noted director Sidney Hayers. This Is My Street is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Jubilee Close a drab street of decaying houses in London's Battersea is home to a cross-section of working-class families. Yearning to escape from this depressing environment is the pretty ambitious Margery Graham; the victim of an enforced marriage she is tied to a lazy boorish husband and young daughter Cindy. Margery lives next door to her widowed mother who in order to make ends meet has taken in a lodger Harry - a slick unscrupulous salesman with a roving eye and a more-than-neighbourly interest in Margery... Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Original Pressbook PDF  

• Supernatural (DVD) | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £22.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (12.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Werewolves vampires and ghosts haunt the living in this long-awaited double-disc presentation of the much sought-after BBC horror series Supernatural. Originally broadcast on BBC 1 in 1977 and rarely seen since this classic series ran for eight terrifying episodes. In each a different prospective member of the Club of the Damned is required to tell a story that will chill the blood of the club’s members and their application for membership would be judged on how frightening the story was. Failure to induce terror in all who attend would lead to the death of the storyteller… A timeless example of British Gothic horror at its best Supernatural boasts a superb cast of acting talent including Billie Whitelaw Jeremy Brett Robert Hardy Gordon Jackson Sinead Cusack Denholm Elliott and Ian Hendry. Content First ever DVD release of this much sought-after and highly acclaimed BBC TV series Disc One includes: 1. ‘Ghosts of Venice’ – with Robert Hardy and Sinead Cusack 2. ‘Countess Ilona’ – with Billie Whitelaw Ian Hendry and Edward Hardwicke 3. ‘The Werewolf Reunion’ – with Billie Whitelaw Ian Hendry and Edward Hardwicke 4. ‘Mr Nightingale’ – with Jeremy Brett and Lesley-Anne Down Disc two includes: 5. ‘Lady Sybil’ – with Denholm Elliott 6. ‘Viktoria’ – with Catherine Schell and Judy Cornwell 7. ‘Night of the Marionettes’ – with Gordon Jackson Kathleen Byron and Vladek Sheybal 8.’Dorabella’ – with Jeremy Clyde