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• The Longest Day (Classic Collection Box Set) | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  On June 6 1944 the Allied Invasion of France marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination over Europe. The attack involved 3 000 000 men 11 000 planes and 4 000 ships comprising the largest armada the world has ever seen. The Longest Day is a vivid hour-by-hour re-creation of this historic event. Featuring a stellar international cast and told from the perspectives of both sides it is a fascinating look at the massive preparations mistakes and random events that determined the outcome of one of the biggest battles in history. Winner of two Oscars (Special Effects and Cinematography) The Longest Day ranks as one of Hollywood's truly great war films.

• Mutant X, Series 1 Vol. 3 | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mutant X takes the useful SF trope of the mutant minority persecuted by the state and adds potentially interesting spins on which it rarely delivers. After a couple of pilot episodes that pushed into OTT visual stylishness, the show has settled into mildly repetitive though watchable blandness: for the most part it avoids story arcs and a large cast of regulars in favour of plugging its characters into the stock plots of television SF, such as doubles, vengeance crusades and untrustworthy lovers. On the DVD: Mutant X Series 1, Volume 3 contains the following episodes: "A Whiter Shade of Pale". Adam's invisible ex-lover Danielle needs stabilising by a gene resequencer which has been stolen from him by Eckhart's agents. "Double Vision". New mutant Maddie splits Emma into two--one Emma is completely ruthless and prepared to destroy Eckhart and the GSA at huge cost in life. "Blood Ties". Jesse meets his father again and is recruited by him to a vengeance crusade that may be a cover for industrial espionage. "Altered Ego". A mutant's power changes Adam into a ruthless villain determined to destroy his friends. The DVDs also contain trailers, a file on Genomex, interviews with the makeup artists and with Lauren Lee Smith (Emma). --Roz Kaveney

• Heavy Metal | UMD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• The Searchers | HD DVD | (18/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  With The Searchers John Wayne and director John Ford forged an indelible saga of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays Ethan Edwards an ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger thirst the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive quest Ethan finds something unexpected: his own humanity. One of the most influential movies ever made.

• Shirley Temple Collection - Captain January/Dimples/Littlest Rebel/The Little Colonel/Baby Take A Bow/Bright Eyes/Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm/Just Around The Corner/Susannah Of The Mounties | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  9 Classic Shirley movies starring America's favourite sweetheart. This special edition collectors tin includes the following films; Captain January Dimples Little Colonel Little Rebel Baby Take A Bow Bright Eyes Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm Just around the Corner Susannah Of the Mounties

• Brenda Starr | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mike (Tony Peck) is a struggling artist who draws the 'Brenda Starr' strip for the papers. When Brenda (Brooke Shields) magically comes to life she realises how unappreciated she is by Mike and leaves the strip. To get her back Mike draws himself into the cartoon. In the meantime Brenda ace reporter for the New York Flash heads to the Amazon jungle to find a missing scientist and his formula so she can scoop the story of the century for her paper...

• Neath The Arizona Skies | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An Indian princess has to be protected from a gang of outlaws...

• Lenniet Tristano - The Copenhagen Concert | DVD | (09/10/2002) from £8.13   |  Saving you £0.86 (9.60%)   |  RRP £8.99

  JAZZ LEGENDS:This video of Lennie Tristano playing a solo concert in Copenhagen is a unique and priceless document. Not only is the music wondrously beautiful and the piano playing spectacular but the personal nature of this solo performance gives the viewer a chance to experience what it was like to spend some time visiting with Lennie - Lennie Popkin New York June 2000.LENNIE TRISTANO - The Copenhagen Concert (Performed and Recorded on October 31 1965 in The Tivoli Gardens Concert Hall Copenhagen Denmark).Opening Applause - 0:431. DARN THAT DREAM - 4:492. LULLABY OF HE LEAVES 2:473. EXPRESSIONS 3:444. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS 5:355. TIVOLI GARDENS SWING 2:466. GHOST OF CHANCE 3:157. IT'S YOU OR NO ONE 3:038. IMAGINATION 5:569. TANGERINE 4:31

• Masters of Jazz - Session 2 | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £13.49   |  Saving you £2.50 (18.53%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Their History Their Music Their Words! Masters of Jazz tells the epic story of 20th Century Jazz. This DVD features three documentaries: Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker The World According To Coltrane John Thelonious Monk: American Composer

• Edison/The Contract/Under Suspicion | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set Comprises: Edison (2005): Academy Award winners Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey lead an all-star cast in Edison Force a story of a corrupt city where the cops are above the law and the truth can get you killed. When rookie reporter Josh Pollack (Justin Timberlake) overhears a puzzling exchange between an accused murderer and arresting officer Raf Deed (LL Cool J) he begins to conduct his own investigation. What he finds is a lawless corps of police officers who confiscate dirty money and split it between the most powerful men in the city. And now only Deed a conscience-stricken cop torn between honor and duty can put an end to the corruption that infests the city of Edison. The Contract (2006): Ray Keene (Cusack) a father who wants to redeem himself in the eyes of his son is trying to bring Cordell (Freeman) a world-class assassin to justice. All the while he must protect his son and evade an assassin's team who are methodically hunting them down in the wilderness. Under Suspicion (2000): Two men. One night. The police captain on the island of Puerto Rico (Morgan Freeman) interviews a prominent tax attorney and old friend (Gene Hackman) - the witness to one of a shocking series of brutal crimes. But what begins as a cooperative conversation between peers descends into a night of intense interrogation between fierce adversaries.

• Arkoff - Vol. 1 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A unique collection of some of the seminal 1950's monster and sci-fi movies made by the greatest director of the time including Roger Corman Bruno VeSota and Edward L Cahn. Featuring Monsters vampires delinquent school girls and giant arachnids along with the earliest performances of some of Hollywood's greatest stars. How To Make A Monster: Peter Drummond has been chief of make up at a Hollywood studio for 25 years. When his services are abruptly dispensed with Drummond takes his revenge on the callous heads of the studio by hypnotising a couple of actors and bringing his murderous creations Teenage Frankenstein and Teenage Werewolf to life! The Spider: When a man doesn't return home one night his daughter Carol and her boyfriend Mike go out to search for him. On finding Carol's father's wrecked car by a cave they decide to investigate further. Before they know it the kids have been enmeshed in a giant spider's web woven of course by a giant spider! After finally escaping the eight legged beast's clutches and raising the alarm the spider is seemingly killed and brought back to town. However.... is the spider really dead? War Of The Colossal Beast: A frightened young man races his truck down a dirt road constantly looking back in terror. He is being pursued by some unseen menace! Undoubtedly it is this menace that is responsible for a series of mysterious food truck robberies and the main suspect is the 60-foot tall Colossal Man! Previously presumed dead he is discovered living in a desolate mountain range in Mexico insane and horribly disfigured his face covered in scar tissue and missing an eye. Every effort of communicating with the giant fails and the military drugs him and transports him back to America where he promptly escapes to wreak havoc on an unfortunate city! The Brain Eaters: Strange things are happening in Riverdale Illinois. A huge seemingly alien structure has been found jutting out of the Earth. A bizarre Earth-drilling craft discharges a horde of fuzzy parasitic creatures that fasten themselves to the necks of the townsfolk and control their brains. Sent to investigate the origin of the mysterious object Senator Walter Powers and scientist Dr.Paul Kettering are responsible for stopping the invasion when it becomes clear that the whole town is under the control of the invaders. The Blood Of Dracula: Six weeks after her mother dies Nancy Perkins' father remarries. The stepmother then sends Nancy off to a school for girls where the innocent girl falls under the spell of evil chemistry teacher Miss Branding. Putting Nancy under hypnosis Miss Branding converts the poor damsel to vampirism causing her to commit murders and then forget about them. The villainess recieves her comeuppance when Nancy refuses to snap out of her spell transforming into a slavering vampiric beast.

• A Special Day | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbour Mastroianni. As the day segues into night Loreon and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life.

• Jazz Legends | DVD | (18/12/2006) from £5.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (38.00%)   |  RRP £7.99

  These are the legendary jazz names that commanded the ultimate respect - Dizzy Gillespie John Lee Art Blakey Willie Dixon Stan Getz. They were living legends in their own lifetimes. On this DVD you can experience them playing live at their best with the very people who brought out the best in them.

• Full Of It | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (97.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Best Of Jazz Open 1998 | DVD | (20/04/2001) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Best of Jazz Open 1998 is not, as the title suggests, highlights from the entire "jazzopen" music festival which took place in Stuttgart in July 1998, but performances taken from the closing evening concert dedicated to the so-called "pope of jazz", presenter, festival organiser and producer Joachim-Ernst Berendt. The musicians were chosen in collaboration with Berendt, resulting in some remarkable music-making from the haunting solo trombone of Albert Mangelsdorff, to the breathtaking duel/duet between Robert Majewski's trumpet and Hendryk Miskiewicz's saxophone which forms the climax of "Night Time Day Time-Requiem". Though obviously improvised one might argue whether the virtuoso digitally processed performance by Urszula Dudziak is jazz at all, while saxophonist John Handy joins forces with traditional Indian musicians the Maharaj Brothers moving eloquently in the world/fusion/crossover territory more famously explored by John McLaughlin. Appropriately they give way to the John McLaughlin Group itself, "Social Climate" offering an atmospheric mood piece for Gary Thomas' fine flute playing, leading to a rousing electric guitar climax by McLaughlin. A mixed bag from which some tracks will appeal more than others, it is regrettable that the complete concert was not included; this 57-minute collection looks as if it was originally edited to fill a one-hour TV slot. On the DVD: There are no special features except two trailers for classical DVDs. The programme is presented in standard TV 4:3 and is sharp and detailed, though there are occasional compression artefacts. The sound is stereo and while full and clear the mixes sometimes so favour the lead instrument that other details such as cymbal hits can be seen but barely heard. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Tales Of The Macabre - Love Object / King Of The Ants / May | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Love Object: Kenneth is socially insecure. But when he buys 'Nikki' a silicone sex doll over the internet. Because of his experience with his new toy Kenneth's life takes a turn for the better when he attracts the attention of a real girl Lisa. But when the doll's jealous personality invades his consciousness Kenneth becomes trapped in a perverse triangle torn between the silicone Nikki and the flesh and blood Lisa. King Of The Ants: Sean is a painter with no direct

• No Smoking | DVD | (27/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.69

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• Th13teen | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £5.03   |  Saving you £12.22 (324.14%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Gripped by fear the town of Emeryville is terrorized by a crazed serial killer with a penchant for carving the number 13 into the chests of his victims before burying them. Needless to say the local community are a mite perturbed that a killer is on the loose and the media only heighten their ensuing sense of doom by reporting his latest kills...

• Led Zeppelin - The Origin Of The Species - A Critical Review | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £6.35   |  Saving you £-0.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An independent critical review of Led Zeppelin's The Origin Of The Species album; featuring analysis from leading figures in the music industry and interviews with those close to the band.

• Welcome Back John Sebastion | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From Iowa State University John Sebastina performs his greatest hits.