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• Shane Meadows Collections | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Titles Comprise: Dead Man's Shoes: Two brothers return to the home town they left years previously. Richard the elder is strong and purposeful. Anthony is the younger more hesitant keen to mimic the actions of the sibling he reveres. As the brothers set up camp in the hills overlooking the town the local crew of small-time drug dealers begin to question their return. One by one they are tracked down by Richard as he embarks on a terrifying quest for revenge as a b

• Home Alone | Blu Ray | (08/11/2010) from £9.15   |  Saving you £10.84 (118.47%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Now and forever a favourite among kids, this 1990 comedy written by John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) and directed by Chris Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire) ushered Macaulay Culkin onto the screen as a troubled 8-year-old who doesn't comfortably mesh with his large family. He's forced to grow a little after being accidentally left behind when his folks and siblings fly off to Paris. A good-looking boy, Culkin lights up the screen during several funny sequences, the most famous of which finds him screaming for joy when he realises he's unsupervised in his own house. A bit wooden with dialogue, the then-little star's voice could grate on the nerves (especially in long, wise-child passages of pure bromide), but he unquestionably carries Home Alone. Billie Bird and John Candy show up as two of the interesting strangers Culkin's character meets. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern are entertainingly cartoonish as thieves, but the ensuing violence once the little hero decides to keep them out of his house is over-the-top. --Tom Keogh

• Zachariah | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Advertised in 1970 as "the first electric Western", Zachariah is an endearingly pretentious effort that prefigures such genre oddities as Jodorowsky's El Topo and Alex Cox's Straight to Hell. The story is the archetypal one about two friends who become gunslingers and must inevitably face off against each other in the finale, but it's treated here as if it Meant Something Deeper--which means that after enjoying 75 minutes of violence we can all agree that peace and love and harmony is on the whole better for children and other living things. Curly haired farmboy Zachariah (John Rubinstein) and eternally grinning apprentice blacksmith Matthew (Don Johnson) are the fast friends who run away from home to join up with a gang of outlaws known as the Crackers (played by hippie folk-rock collective Country Joe and the Fish). These apparent 19th-century Westerners tote electric guitars and are given to staging free festival freak-outs at one end of town to distract from the bank robbery at the other. The boys soon hook up with Job Cain (Elvin Jones), an all-in-black master gunfighter who is also an ace drummer (his solo is impressive), but then drift apart as Zachariah has a liaison with Old West madame Belle Starr (Pat Quinn) in a town that consists of fairground-style brightly painted wooden cut out buildings (a gag reused in Blazing Saddles), then gets rid of his outrageous all-white cowboy outfit to settle down on a homestead and grow his own dope and vegetables. Matthew, of course, goes for the black leather look after outdrawing Cain, and comes a gunning for the only man who might be faster than him, but the hippie-era message is once these kids have killed everyone else they can still make peace with each other and the desert or something, man. Aside from a Beatle-haired teenage Johnson making a fool of himself by over-emoting to contrast with Rubinstein's non-performance, the film offers a lot of beautiful "acid Western" scenery and excellent prog rock and bluegrass music from the James Gang, White Lightnin' and the New York Rock Ensemble. Comedy troupe the Firesign Theatre (huge on album in 1970) provided the script, which explains satirical touches like the horse-and-buggy salesman (Dick Van Patten) spieling like a used car dealer and the madame's claim to have had affairs with gunslingers from Billy the Kid to Marshal McLuhan. The DVD extras are skimpy, but the print quality is outstanding. --Kim Newman

• Chickens | DVD | (30/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1914. The Great War rages. Men in their millions have shipped off to join the fight. But in the village of Rittle-on-Sea three chaps have stayed behind: George (Joe Thomas) a conscientious objector; Cecil (Simon Bird) a reject from the army on health grounds; and then there's Bert (Jonny Sweet) an amoral philandering scaredy-cat. They couldn't be more different but in the eyes of their neighbours they're all the same: Chickens. So in a world of women children and the infirm these fellows have only each other for company and nothing else in common. Every day they live in fear of being labelled as cowards an argument they've already lost in the mere act of still being in England. With every other man abroad fighting for King and country can George Cecil and Bert claw themselves back into the good books of the ladies on the home front? Chickens is a sitcom about three men on the wrong side of history. It's about trying to be happy even when it's embarrassing to be seen to be happy; about starting with the assumption that you're going to hell and building from there. Featuring Barry Humphries Sally Phillips Emerald Fennell Sarah Daykin Eileen Davies Vicki Pepperdine Emma Fryer Amy Dawson Louise Ford and Dan Renton Skinner.

• Romeo Is Bleeding | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Romeo Is Bleeding is the flawed black comedy from director Peter Medak (The Krays) about a bad cop who slowly gets his due. Gary Oldman plays yet another quirky character, this time a New York detective on the take. His life goes haywire as he squares off with a Russian hit woman. Despite an intriguing cast and great dialogue, the movie becomes a bit too eccentric for its own good as several actors have nothing to do. The high point is Lena Olin, who finally has a role she can sink her teeth into: her zesty, monstrous assassin, Mona Demarkov, is one of the great movie villains. --Doug Thomas

• Raging Bull | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Raging Bull is arguably the finest work produced from the Scorsese and De Niro partnership. De Niro gives an amazing portrayal of real-life boxer, Jake LaMotta, whose animal side lurks just beneath the surface, ever ready to erupt. Vivid and unremitting in its uncompromising brutality and honesty, the fight sequences are famed for their realism. Jake LaMotta is a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty ar...

• Magic Mike XXL | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £9.75   |  Saving you £17.24 (176.82%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Picking up the story three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life, the film finds the Kings of Tampa likewise ready to throw in the towel. But they want to do it their way: burning down the house in one last blowout performance in Myrtle Beach.

• Standing In The Shadows Of Motown | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £10.09   |  Saving you £9.90 (98.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on Allan Slutsky's award-winning book of the same name 'Standing In The Shadows Of Motown' tells the Funk Brothers' story for the first time by combining exclusive interviews archival footage and re-enactments. Completing this fantastic musical and social journey is a live concert which saw the Funk Brothers reunited on stage in Detroit with the help of contemporary vocalists Ben Harper Joan Osborne Meshell Ndegeocello and Montell Jordan and R&B greats Chaka Khan Gerald L

• Unknown | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £5.57   |  Saving you £10.42 (187.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse, none of them able to remember how they got there or even who they are.

• The Best Of Superstars | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £7.92   |  Saving you £5.07 (64.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The best of the cult BBC TV sport series which began in 1973 in which top sportsmen and women past and present compete in a variety of different sporting disciplines. The events tested the stars' abilities at running swimming shooting canoeing cycling and their strengths in the gym. Presented each week by David Vine and Ron Pickering the nation tuned in to see the chosen few do battle for the famous Superstars trophy. The winner of each show would meet at the end of the series in the final to decide who was the Superstar. This documentary will feature highlights from nearly a decade of Superstars and will feature contributions from some of Superstars most famous participants such as Kevin Keegan Daley Thompson and David Vine.

• The Good Shepherd | DVD | (05/07/2010) from £5.27   |  Saving you £14.72 (279.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.

• Abbott And Costello - The Collection | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-19.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.00

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• The Two Jakes | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jack Nicholson returns as private eye Jake Gittes in this atmospheric 'Chinatown' follow-up that's hit upon ""the elusive sequel formula for somehow enhancing a great original"". Much has changed since we last saw Jake. The war has come and gone 1948 Los Angeles teems with optimism and fast bucks. But there's one thing Jake knows hasn't changed: ""Nine times out of ten if you follow the money you will get to the truth"". And that's the trail he follows when a routine case of marital

• Matewan | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A little-known chapter of American labour history is brought vividly to life in this period drama from writer-director John Sayles. It's a fictional story about labour wars among West Virginia coal miners during the 1920s, but every detail is so right that the film has the unmistakable ring of truth. The tension begins when the Stone Mountain Coal Company of Matewan, West Virginia, announces a lower pay rate for miners, who respond by calling a strike under the leadership of a United Mine Workers representative (Chris Cooper). Proving strength in numbers, the miners are joined by black and Italian miners who initially resist the strike, and a fateful battle ensues when detectives hired by the coal company attempt to evict miners from company housing. Violence erupts in a sequence of astonishing, cathartic intensity, and Matewan achieves a rare degree of moral complexity combined with gut-wrenching tragedy. The film salutes a pacifist ideal while recognising that personal and political convictions often must be defended with violence. To illustrate this point, Sayles enlisted master cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who creates the film's authentic visual texture--a triumph of artistry over limited resources. The result is a milestone of independent filmmaking, and Matewan remains one of Sayles's finest achievements. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Tweety's High-Flying Adventure | DVD | (05/07/2021) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Everyone's favourite widdle canary goes around the world in 80 looney, laugh-packed days. The far-flung frolic begins when Granny places a wager with the Colonel that Tweety can circle the globe in 80 days and collect no fewer than 80 cat paw prints along the way. With the bumbling Sylvester hot on his trail, our little yellow hero hang glides, rollerblades and snowboards his way from London to Africa to the Himalayas and beyond. Along the way, he meets up with a dazzling cast of Warner Bros. cartoon celebrities including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian and the Tasmanian Devil. So fasten your seat belts for world-class action, sky-high hilarity and puddy tats galore!

• SATCHURATED: Live in Montreal | Blu Ray | (23/04/2012) from £12.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (27.80%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Tracklist - Disc 1:1. Ice 92. Hordes Of Locusts3. Flying In A Blue Dream4. Light Years Away5. Memories6. War7. Premonition8. Satch Boogie9. Revelation10. Pyrrhic Victoria11. Crystal Planet12. The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing13. Dream SongTracklist - Disc 2:1. God Is Crying2. Andalusia3. Solitude4. Littleworth Lane5. Why6. Wind In The Trees7. Always With Me, Always With You8. Big Bad Moon

• American Gangster (Blu-Ray & 4K) | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  "INCLUDES THEATRICAL FILM PLUS EXTENDED VERSION WITH 18 MINUTES OF ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE Academy Awardwinners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team with director Ridley Scott (Gladiator) in this powerful, epic story. Armed with ruthless tactics and a strict sense of honour, crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts (Crowe) sets out to bring down Lucas's multi-million dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation.Disc One4K ULTRA HD MOVIE BLU-RAY MOVIE + BONUS FEATURES FOR THE ULTIMATE MOVIE WATCHING EXPERIENCE, THIS DISC FEATURES:4X sharper picture than HDHDR (High Dynamic Range) for brilliant brights and deepest darksImmersive Audio for a multi-dimensional sound experienceFeature Commentary with director Ridley Scott and writter Steven ZaillianDisc TwoBlu-Ray Movie + Bonus FeaturesFeature Commentary with director Ridley Scott and Writer Steven ZaillianDeleted ScenesThe Bet Special: The Making of Amcerican GangsterDateline NBC: American Gangster First LookHip-Hop Infusion Featuring Common and T.I.Fallen Empire: Making American GangsterAnd more! "

• Talk To Me | Blu Ray | (23/10/2023) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living.

• Chicago Fire: Seasons 1-5 | DVD | (04/12/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  "From Primetime Emmy® Award-winning executive producer Dick Wolf (Law & Order) comes five compelling seasons of the hit-series CHICAGO FIRE - the adrenaline-fuelled view of e veryday heroes whose teamwork, courage and sacrifice mean the diff erence between life and dea th. Step inside Chicago' s Firehouse 51, where firefighters, rescue squads and par amedics push their abilities to the limit, and put their personal f eelings in the firing line , to save lives at any cost. Watch conflicts and emotions flare as this extended family, led by the hot-headed firefighter Lt. Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer, House) and the brash Lt. Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney, The Vampire Diaries) brave challenges, tensions and complications that threaten their focus and prove more dangerous than the fires they're paid to put out. The firehouse crew includes Battalion Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker, Oz), Paramedic Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymund, The Good Wife), and Paramedic Sylvie Brett (Kara Kilmer, If I Can Dream). Also returning for SEASON FIVE are Firefighters Joe Cruz (Joe Minoso, Boss), Brian "Otis" Zvonecek (Yuri Sardarov, Argo), Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo, Pretty Little Liars), and seasoned veterans Randy "Mouch" McHolland (Christian Stolte, Prison Break) and Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg, Sex & The City)." 2 hours of bonus features

• Home Alone 2 - Lost In New York | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £6.18   |  Saving you £-0.78 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.40

  Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is back. But this time he's in New York City - with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his own playground! But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are bound for New York too, plotting a huge holiday heist.