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• Witchboard - Die Hexenfalle | Blu Ray | (11/12/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Element Of Crime | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Way, way before he dreamt up his famous Dogme manifesto, Lars von Trier launched his feature-film career with The Element of Crime and proved that, 400 years after Hamlet, the Danes can still do melancholy like nobody else. Less a film noir than a film jaune sale, this ultra-enigmatic thriller is shot entirely in tones of grimy sepia in a world where nightfall seems to be an unceasing condition. A police detective, Fisher (Michael Elphick), is summoned from Cairo to "Europe" (the location never gets any more specific than that) to investigate a series of gory child-murders. He comes to suspect that the killer may be a mysterious character called Harry Grey and sets out to retrace Grey's movements. The film takes its title from a treatise written by Fisher's old mentor Osborne (Welsh actor Esmond Knight, a veteran of Powell and Pressburger's films), but it might as well refer to water. Von Trier conjures up a world not only permanently benighted, but dank, sodden and dripping both indoors and out, cluttered with mouldy, antiquated industrial machinery. There are echoes (or pre-echoes) here of half-a-dozen other movies--Blade Runner, City of Lost Children, Tarkovsky's Stalker, Welles' The Trial--and at times it feels as though von Trier has just set out to show he can do art house as well as anybody and possibly better. The plot makes no sense whatever and clearly isn't meant to, and Elphick's bemused expression, one suspects, derives from the actor as much as from the character he's playing. As always with von Trier you can't help wondering if whole thing isn't an elaborate put-on, especially since the director himself shows up, epicene and shaven-headed, playing a personage called "Schmuck of Ages". But what it lacks in coherence (either narrative or visual) Element of Crime makes up for in atmosphere, which it has, literally, by the bucketful. This release, incidentally, is the English-language version. --Philip Kemp

• Humanity And Paper Balloons | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Widely regarded as Yamanaka's greatest achievement Humanity and Paper Balloons [Ninjo kami fusen] was tragically his last film and only one of three that survive today. In a short six year 22 film career Yamanaka quickly earned a reputation for exceptionally fluid editing and a beautiful visual form likened to the paintings of Japanese masters. The story develops in the Tokugawa era of the 18th century in a poor district of Tokyo where impoverished samurai live from hand to

• Rameau - Zoroastre (Rousset, Drottningholm Theatre) | Blu Ray | (01/09/2008) from £25.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (16.92%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Zoroastre by Jean-Philippe Rameau is captured live in vibrant High Definition Video and true surround sound. Stage director Pierre Audi creates a production of Zoroastre that completely accords with the spirit of Rameau.

• Bear In The Big Blue House - Sleepytime With Bear | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the most endearing aspects of Bear in the Big Blue House is everyone's habit of talking directly to the camera. This has been a part of Muppet practice for years, but when Bear is politely explaining the importance of brushing your teeth before bedtime, it makes children pay attention far more readily. Especially when everyone then breaks into song! That of course is the other delight about the show, when little bear Ojo, Tutter mouse, Pip and Pop, Treela the Lemur and Luna the Moon all join in one of the cute and catchy numbers. The songs featured across the three episodes here ("The Big Sleep", "And to All a Good Night" and "Friends for Life", all from the show's first two series) focus on the rituals of bedtime. The idea is that these each make an ideal comforter to send a child to bed happily. If this is your goal, the second episode--about getting to stay up late--may not be the best choice. On the DVD: Bear in the Big Blue House: Sleepytime with Bear gives karaoke treatment to six of the best songs, including the all-time classic "Brush Brush Bree". That's it apart from a few trailers. You do also get a couple of pages for colouring in attached to the booklet insert. The shows are presented in their original stereo sound and TV 4:3 ratio. --Paul Tonks

• Angel - The Vampire Anthology - Wesley | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £4.75   |  Saving you £8.24 (173.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This DVD release features 4 of Wesley's best episodes selected by series creator Joss Whedon. Episodes comprise: 1. Parting Gifts (Season 1) 2. Guise Will Be Guise (Season 2) 3. Loyalty (Season 3) 4. Sleep Tight (Season 3)

• The Klansman | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £6.42   |  Saving you £-0.43 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The civil rights movement is coming to Atoka County and the white residents don't like it they're prepared to commit assaults rape or murder to get their point across. In the middle of this powder keg County Sheriff Bascomb (Lee Marvin) endeavors to keep the peace as best he can together with Mayor Hardy who is the owner of the local lumber company and the bank on which most of the residents depend. Mayor Hardy employs most of the county and he wants a stable environment for business which includes keeping enough poor blacks around to do the most menial work for menial pay. After Nancy Poteet (Linda Evans) is apparently raped by a black man all hell breaks loose. Butt Cutt Cates (Cameron Mitchell) a loud mouth hardcore Klansman is arrested for raping a black woman prisoner while his sworn enemy Garth (O.J. Simpson) a young black man who witnesses a Klan murder gets a rifle and starts dishing out justice of his own. Before it's over the major part of the county is at war and bodies are falling everywhere.

• China White Serpentine | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £3.79   |  Saving you £7.46 (294.86%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The needle invades your vain. The seductress invades your heart. What waits in the shadows will invade your sanity. Dave a struggling writer is trying to unravel the mystery behind the death of his younger brother Trent. The door is opened for Dave when Trent's spirit appears and hands him a ghostly DVD. The video causes Dave to violently hallucinate which shows him that both Trent and his girlfriend Beth were seduced by Tracey - a malevolent drug-dealer with supernatur

• Combat Zone | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A tough realistic war film that centers around a small platoon at a remote firebase in Vietnam. The platoon are sent relentlessly on search and destroy missions. On one particular mission the Platoon move into a village catching and killing a band of Viet-Cong they then destroy the arms cache. As the Platoon moves out of the village they discover they are surrounded by a battalion. They make for a rendezvous point where they will be lifted out by helicopter they manage to fight their way to the helicopter pick-up point most of the platoon are now dead and the handful of men left become trapped at the bottom of the ravine.

• Rage At Dawn | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £8.96   |  Saving you £1.03 (10.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A Special Agent is sent way out west to round up the norotious Reno gang. He stages a fake train robbery in order to attract the evil Reno brothers and their gang in this gritty and forceful western....

• Pandora's Promise | DVD | (09/12/2013) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-3.19 (-24.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Impact Partners in association with Vulcan Productions and CNN Films present Pandora's Promise the groundbreaking new film by Academy-Award -nominated director Robert Stone. The atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima have made nuclear power synonymous with global disaster. But what if we've got nuclear power wrong? An audience favorite at the Sundance Film Festival Pandora's Promise asks whether the one technology we fear most could save our planet from a climate catastrophe while providing the energy needed to lift billions of people in the developing world out of poverty. In his controversial new film Stone tells the intensely personal stories of environmentalists and energy experts who have undergone a radical conversion from being fiercely anti to strongly pro-nuclear energy risking their careers and reputations in the process.

• 101 Dalmatians/101 Dalmatians 2: Patch's London Adventure (Disney) | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  101 Dalmations (Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman) (1961): When Pongo and Perdita a pair of adorable Dalmatians play Cupid for their human pets wedding bells soon ring! In a short time the dogs become the proud parents of 15 winsome puppies but their happiness is short-lived. The wicked Cruella De Vil wants to buy the all puppies - to make a coat! When her dastardly offer is turned down she orders her bumbling henchmen Horace and Jasper to abscond with the puppies as well as every other Dalmatian puppy in London. Pongo and Perdita must rally a network of animals across England with the 'twilight bark' to help find Cruella's secret hideaway and rescue 99 precious puppies. Patch's London Adventure (Dir. Jim Kammerud & Brian Smith) (2001): Roger Anita and their canine clan are packing for the big move to Dalmatian Plantation a home in the country with plenty of room for the 101 pups and far from the clutches of Cruella DeVil. The feistiest pup Patch feels lost in a sea of spots and longs to be a one-of-a-kind wonderdog like his TV hero Thunderbolt. While watching the Thunderbolt Adventure Hour Patch hears about a chance to appear on the show while it's filming in London. However the family move will interfere with Patch's opportunity - until he's accidentally left behind in the commotion. Patch heads for the audition to meet his hero...

• One Christmas | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-16.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Eight-year-old Buddy has been living an idyllic existence in rural Alabama with his young-hearted cousin Sook. But all that is about to change when he's sent to New Orleans to spend Christmas with the father he barely knows. Though realizing his dad has some terrible problems to overcome, Buddy and his father take the first steps towards becoming a real family during this one Christmas they'll never forget.

• Stowaway | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £10.46   |  Saving you £2.53 (24.19%)   |  RRP £12.99

  While rubbing elbows with millionaires in Shanghai Shirley inadvertently lands on a ship to America with two new parents who just happen to love to hate each other.

• They Call It Murder | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £2.77   |  Saving you £1.22 (44.04%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Columbus Day | DVD | (31/03/2009) from £5.72   |  Saving you £8.53 (191.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• The Bone Snatcher | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £22.05   |  Saving you £-5.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Alex a laboratory scientist who hates field work finds himself in a fuel tanker truck surrounded by sand flies and blowing dirt bouncing across the Namib Desert. With his project compromised for lack of funds Alex must go on site to 'press the flesh' to keep development money flowing. What is probably the worst day in Alex's life is about to get worse...as he clings to his seat a radio call comes through four diamond prospectors have disappeared in the middle of the desert. As

• Phenomenal - The Best Of A.J. Styles Vol.2 | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £13.48   |  Saving you £1.51 (10.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  There are professional wrestlers and then there is ""The Phenomenal"" AJ Styles. This is the story of TNA Wrestling's most decorated star the chronicle of an amazing athlete who single-handedly changed the face of our sport forever- in his own words! ""Phenomenal: The Best Of AJ Styles Volume 2"" is packed with nearly four hours of footage including matches exclusive interviews rare footage and so much more featuring the triple-crown champion and three-time TNA MVP award winner. From his childhood to his private life to his meteoric rise in wrestling you'll get a complete look at one of the sport's greatest stars - all on one DVD!

• Nightmare At Bitter Creek | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £11.63   |  Saving you £-4.65 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Four vacationing women back-packing in the Sierra Mountains unwittingly stumble upon a hide-out and are terrorized by a ruthless group of Neo-Nazis in a dealy game of cat and mouse. Surrounded and out-armed the women must fight for their lives.

• Yogi Bear (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Copy | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Everyone's favorite pic-a-nic basket stealing bear brings his meal-mooching ways to movies in this live-action/CG-animated adventure starring Dan Aykroyd as the voice of Jellystone Park's famed troublemaker Yogi Bear and Justin Timberlake as the voice of Yogi's faithful pal Boo Boo. Jellystone has been losing business, so conniving Mayor Brown has decided to shut it down and sell the land. Faced with the loss of his home, Yogi must prove he really is smarter than the average bear as he and Boo Boo join forces with Ranger Smith to find a way to save the park from closing forever. Anna Faris, Tom Cavanagh, T.J. Miller and Andrew Daly costar in this wonderful new incarnation of Hanna-Barbera's classic cartoon.