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• 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

• Music For Montserrat | DVD | (02/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Various Artists - Music For Montserrat

• Smallville: The Complete Series (20th Anniversary Edition) | DVD | (19/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Mr Forbush And The Penguins | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Life for Richard Forbush brilliant biologist and conceited philanderer is one long round of eat drink and be merry. His enthusiasm for birds is more for the feather-cut kind than the feathered but when his tutor urges him to go in for research study of a penguin rookery in the Atlantic Forbush sees a chance to impress one ‘bird’ who so far hasn’t fallen for his charms. However on reaching the ice and Shackleton’s derelict hut Forbush is desperately alone w

• Fun With Dick And Jane | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni star in this remake of the 1977 comedy.

• John Barrymore Collection | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The John Barrymore Collection (3 Discs)

• The Naked Country | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £9.97   |  Saving you £-5.98 (-149.90%)   |  RRP £3.99

  BAsed on a novel by Morris West this is a classic American cowboy tale set in Australia's exotic outback with the aborigines pitted against a rancher Lance Dillon because he is on their land. After a renegade Aborigine Mundara kills one of Lance's Brahma bull's and a ranch hand who gets involved Mundara spears the fleeing Lance in the shoulder but does not catch up with him to finish the job. The story of Lance's survival is the focus of the film along with a parallel story of his wife Mary temporarily falling for Lance's opposite Sgt Neil Adams. The characters of the two men and Mundara arew contrasted against a setting of conflict that escalates out of control.

• Todd McFarlane's Spawn - Series 2 - Vol. 2.1 | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Avenging betrayal and murder fighting for good in a world steeped in evil. Award-winning llustrator of Spiderman Todd McFarlane brings a life's work to the screen in this dark stylish and brutal animated incarnation of his Spawn anti-hero. Double-crossed and murdered Al Simmon's is sent to the fires of Hell. He makes an ill-fated deal with the Devil to return to see his wife again. Disfigured and trapped in the body of a hell-spawn caught between life and death he roams New York looking for trouble. The cloak and chains of Spawn explode from the comic-book page onto the screen in a deadly tornado of untapped unwrapped merciless power! Episodes titles: Home Bitter Home Access Denied Colours Of Blood.

• Regan - The Movie | DVD | (06/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Regan is classic TV drama that will have you saying, "they don't make 'em like that any more". This is the feature-length pilot to what became the long-running TV series The Sweeney, starring John Thaw and Dennis Waterman as the hard-as-nails Flying Squad double act. The story opens in a south London pub decorated in shades of brown so manifold that it forms a patina on the screen more normally associated with a painterly artist. It's the early 1970s, and Thaw's Inspector Regan is a lone ranger fighting on several fronts including the imminent modernisation of the police force, which he describes as a vision of "hundreds of little grey men working on top of each other, pots of tea and committees". The dialogue is clever, rich and funny. When Regan tries to persuade Carter to work with him on the case he growls: "Mary darling, I'm not trying to start an affair with you." The heroes have thinning hair and bad habits: Regan drinks whiskey in the middle of the day and constantly smokes, he's lost his wife, let down his daughter, and then loses his girlfriend (Maureen Lipman). The filming is wonderfully crafted--shots taken from odd angles, action that surprises and gritty London locations. "You're a copper. You belong like me out in the cold," Regan says to Carter in the last scene as they go off to get a drink out of licensed hours. Not the end, but the start of a beautiful relationship. --Joan Byrne

• Futureworld | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sequel to Westworld where the robots have rebuilt the theme park. Not content with the simple aims of capitalism the robots led by the indomitable Duffy (Hill) are bent on complete global domination. When powerful leaders are invited to the park they uncover a sinister cloning plan to carry out the mission.

• Off Beat | DVD | (20/04/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (178.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The story of a wacky librarian who impersonates a New York city policeman during a dance contest. When he unexpectedly wins the competition the fast paced comedy begins.

• Zorro - The Collection | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-7.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Originally created for in 1919 Zorro (the name is Spanish for fox) has become one of the endearing characters of the West with a mission to 'avenge the helpless to punish cruel politicians ' and 'to aid the oppressed.' This collection features the first three film series made of the Zorro legend - Zorro Rides Again with John Carroll Zorro's Fighting Legion with Reed Hadley and Zorro's Black Whip in which Linda Sterling plays an 1880s female descendant The Black Whip. Films Comprise: Disc 1: Black Whip - Vol. 1 Disc 2: Black Whip - Vol. 2 Disc 3: Fighting Legion - Vol. 1 Disc 4: Fighting Legion - Vol. 2 Disc 5: Rides Again - Vol. 1 Disc 6: Rides Again - Vol. 2

• Public Access | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Into the idyllic town of Brewster comes Whiley Pritcher an intense and enigmatic stranger who begins a public access show that asks the question 'What's wrong with Brewster?' The question soon has neighbour turning on neighbour and before long there are some that are ready to confide in Whiley and reveal the town's darker secrets. But is it wise to talk to strangers?

• WWE - Hell In A Cell 2011 | Blu Ray | (16/01/2012) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's over 20 feet high. It's more than five tons of solid steel. It's Hell In A Cell.The record-breaking, 10-time Champion John Cena must defend the coveted title against not just one, but two former WWE Champions, Alberto Del Rio and CM Punk. All three men battle in a career threatening, history making, first-ever Triple Threat Hell in a Cell Match. Plus, after 15 years, Mark Henry is finally the World Heavyweight Champion. Now the most destructive champion's Hall of Pain leads straight to Hell where the Viper awaits. Randy Orton challenges Mark Henry for the World Heavyweight title in WWE's most diabolical structure. Who will survive the Devil's playground? Find out when the Superstars of Raw and SmackDown present Hell In A Cell.

• Dawn Rider / Texas Terror | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Dawn Rider: John Mason is hit with a bullet. Alice who nurses him turns out to be the sister of the man Mason is looking for; the man who gunned down his father... Texas Terror: Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in a shoot-out with robbers...

• The Lord of the Rings -- Limited Edition Box Set | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the film's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives what is surely the definitive Gollum (he revived his portrayal a couple of years later for BBC Radio's exhaustive 13-hour dramatisation). The film's other outstanding virtue is avant-garde composer Leonard Rosenman's magnificent score in which chaotic musical fragments gradually coalesce to produce the triumphant march theme that closes the picture. None of which makes up for the incompleteness of the movie, nor the severe abridging of the story actually filmed. Add to that some oddities--such as intermittently referring to Saruman as "Aruman"--and the final verdict must be that this is a brave yet ultimately unsatisfying work, noteworthy as the first attempt at transferring Tolkien to the big screen but one whose virtues are overshadowed by incompleteness. --Mark Walker

• Steps Across the Border | DVD | (29/04/2016) from £20.15   |  Saving you £2.84 (12.40%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In STEP ACROSS THE BORDER two forms of artistic expression improvised music and cinema direct are interrelated. In both forms it is the moment that counts the intuitive sense for what is happening in a space. Music and film come into existence out of an intense perception of the moment not from the transformation of a preordained plan. In improvisation the plan is revealed only at the end. One finds it. The other connection concerns the work method: the film team as band. Much as musicians communicate via the music our work too was realized within a very small and flexible team of equals. What mattered was exchange. And movement. Sometimes we started filming in the middle of the night responding to a new idea that had arisen only minutes before. We had a fundamental feeling for what we wanted to do for what kind of film this should be. And we followed that feeling. It was all very instinctive.

• Just Before Dawn | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Don't camp in the woods... Just Don't! Despite the local Ranger's ominous warning a party of three boys and two girls take a camping trip to the mountain. In the steamy backwoods they sense an atmosphere of mounting tension. Soon they realise there is some deadly horror lurking in the woods. The Ranger had been right! They meet a strange girl and her equally strange family. Then one of them is murdered... then another... and another... Will any of them survive those dark hour

• WWE - Summerslam 2010 (Steelbook) | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  WWE: Summerslam 2010 (Steelbook Edition)

• Airwolf - Vol. 4 | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £7.85   |  Saving you £2.14 (27.26%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The ultimate in Eighties action! Stringfellow Hawke (Vincent) and his irascible mentor Dominic Santini (Borgnine) continue their fight for freedom justice and liberty with the mighty Airwolf experimental helicopter at their disposal... Includes the episodes Dambreakers Random Target and The American Dream.