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• Asylum | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One of the patients in an institution for the incurably insane was once its director, and a young psychiatrist (Robert Powell) has to figure out which one as they all tell him their stories. What better setting for a horror anthology? It's an inspired framing device, making this one of the better examples of the genre, even if screenwriter Robert Bloch at times resorts to gimmicks rather than invention. The first two stories are less than brilliant (the first is highlighted by dismembered body parts neatly wrapped in butcher paper wriggling back to life for revenge), but Charlotte Rampling and Britt Ekland are marvellous in the third tale, about a mentally unbalanced young woman and her dangerous best friend. Herbert Lom is also excellent in the final story as a scientist who carves an army of dolls he claims he can bring to life by sheer willpower. Director Roy Ward Baker (Quatermas and the Pit) builds momentum with each story until the dark and deliciously bloody climax. This Amicus Studios production looks visually dull compared to Hammer's gothic gloss, but it features a great British cast (including Patrick Magee and Hammer stalwart Peter Cushing), and ultimately Baker makes that gloomy look work for his increasingly creepy production. Amicus produced a series of horror anthologies, including the original 1972 Tales from the Crypt and The Torture Garden (also scripted by Bloch). --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Starlet | DVD | (10/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Starlet explores the unlikely friendship between a 21-year-old aspiring actress Jane (Dree Hemingway) and elderly widow Sadie (Besedka Johnson) after their worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her time getting high with her dysfunctional roommates and taking care of her Chihuahua Starlet while Sadie passes her days alone tending to her garden. After a confrontation at a yard sale Jane finds something unexpected in a relic from Sadie's past. Her curiosity piqued she tries to befriend the caustic older woman. Secrets emerge as their relationship grows revealing that nothing is ever as it seems.

• Cinema Of Vengeance | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £9.87   |  Saving you £-3.88 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Cinema Of Vengeance is the essential history of Martial Arts and the movies covering 50 years of Chinese action cinema from the late forties through to today's high-tec bullet ridden blockbusters from John Woo. The man who brought Martial Arts movies the most recognition was the legendary Bruce Lee who introduced Kung Fu to western audiences. There is still no comparison to his lightning quick abilities and screen charisma. However his untimely death in July 1973 left the Martia

• True Colors | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £12.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (23.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Cusack and James Spader star in this dramatic absorbing story of two friends who move from law school to Washington's corridors of power. Cusack plays Peter a lower-class go-getter who climbs to the position of congressman by betraying everyone who ever trusted him including his idealistic blue-blood pal Tim. Tim of course would never cross a friend. Unless it was to avenge his own betrayal...

• Doomwatch | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A remote island village... A team of intrepid scientists... A terrifying secret... The mysterious island village of Balfe is experiencing unexplainable phenomena... from grossly oversized sea-life to half-buried bodies in the dark woods to strange Neanderthal like men suffering from a rare disfiguring disease. Is this town afflicted by radioactive waste contaminating their water? Is there a vengeful mutant monster lurking in the woods? Or worse are the townsfolk being punished by an act of God for their past sins? It is up to Dr. Del Shaw and the dedicated scientists at Doomwatch headquarters to discover the cause of these horrific mutations. Infuriating local villagers who cling to their secluded island's survival Dr. Shaw (Ian Bannen) and local school teacher Victoria Brown (Judy Geeson) risk their lives to uncover the truth behind the strange happenings no matter how frightening or dangerous it may be. Based on the British television series of the same name Doomwatch is a haunting telltale film that just might be hazardous to your health!

• The Whistle Blower | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Frank Jones (Michael Caine) is an ordinary law abiding businessman. He served his country during the war and he is very proud of his son Bob (Nigel Havers) a Russian linguist and translator. Frank's world is shattered by the arrival of the police to tell him his son is dead. The plot thickens when the inquest verdict is 'Accidental Death'. Frank embarks on his own investigation into his son's death and discovers that there are no limits to what the government will do to protec

• Prime Suspect 2 | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £9.70   |  Saving you £0.29 (2.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the first Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren's ballsy woman Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennyson battled the boys club and their sexist barbs to prove herself in a chauvinist department. In Prime Suspect 2, she's assigned to head a racially charged murder investigation in a largely African/Caribbean neighbourhood. It's politics as usual in the image-conscious organization, so the superintendent adds to the team black Detective Robert Oswalde (Colin Salma), a sharp but hot-headed investigator who has just broken off an affair with Tennyson. Now Tennyson grapples with her own conflicted feelings while fighting political and public-relations battles both in the media and within the police system itself in the midst of investigating the labyrinthine case. Between the scant clues left to sift, a prime suspect on the verge of death himself and divisions in her own team that result in a devastating death, Tennyson soon begins to suspect she's been hung out to dry by the department. Screenwriter Allan Cubitt dives into the murky waters of volatile racial and social relations to create an even more complex and compelling mystery in Tennyson's second appearance and Mirren rises to the challenge to explore the contradictions of an uncompromising cop in a compromising position. --Sean Axmaker

• Sam - Series 2 - Part 3 | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £21.67   |  Saving you £-1.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sam returns from the sea and finds many things in Skellerton have changed. He is upset about the loss of his grandfather. His mind strays back to his boyhood and he relives the actual day his father left and his last words. Arthur Corby in desperation asks Sam for help. Episode titles include: Land Half A Loaf Tow Steps Forward One Step Back Moving On

• To Serve Them All My Days - Part 3 | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  John Duttine stars as David Powlett-Jones who has been invalided out of the army during the First World War and is sent to work in a large public school in Devon....

• The Hills Have Eyes | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £7.84   |  Saving you £-1.85 (-30.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Carter family taken a wrong turn when crossing the desert for California and are attacked by a savage group of cannibals. For the Carters who have to revert to their own primitive instincts it is a battle for survival: the lucky ones died first...

• Donnie Brasco | DVD | (12/02/2018) from £13.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Posing as jewel broker Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone (Johnny Depp) is granted entrance into the violent mob family of aging hit man Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino). When his personal and professional lives collide, Pistone jeopardizes his marriage, his job life and, ultimately, the gangster mentor he has come to respect and admire. From acclaimed director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral), and featuring an extraordinary supporting cast including Michael Madsen, Anne Heche, Bruno Kirby and James Russo.

• Macbeth | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-6.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Andrea Gruber Roberto Aronica and Lado Ataneli star in Verdi's early operatic masterpiece Macbeth - filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in High-definition. EMI Classics continues its collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera with a new production of Verdi's richly haunting opera Macbeth as part of this season's 'Metropolitan Opera : Live in High-Definition series'. For the first time in 20-years the Metropolitan Opera presents the first of Verdi's three operas based on Shakespeare in a stylistically eclectic grimly effective and at times intriguingly playful production (New York Times) by English director Adrian Noble making his Met debut. At the time of composition Macbeth was unique. Not only was it considered both musically and dramatically bold but it was the first opera that can truly be described as Shakespearean. It was the first that altered operatic conventions to serve the play rather than converting the play into traditional operatic formulas. After 35 highly successful years as Music director of the Metropolitan Opera a relationship unparalleled and unique in the musical world today James Levine conducts Verdi's haunting score with tension and a type of brutality that this chilling work commands.

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 3 - Part 1 | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  James Bolam stars as the ambitious Jack Ford in the third series of this classic drama series. This release features episiodes from the third series of When The Boat Comes In which continues to follow the fortunes of Jack Ford. Jack has earned a reputation as someone to be feared and respected in Gallowshields. Realising his ambition to get on he lives well and doesn't seem to want for money. Continuing to mix with aristocracy while maintaining his Seaton family ties he also looks

• The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Mazarin Stone / The Cardboard Box | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Two more enthralling investigations for Sherlock Holmes ever assisted by his sturdy sidekick Dr Watson.

• Silver City | Blu Ray | (29/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Criterion Collection: Thin Blue Line | Blu Ray | (24/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Evil Dead / Hills Have Eyes | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Evil Dead (Dir. Sam Raimi 1982): In the literary tradition of Stephen King and the cinematic mode of George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) The Evil Dead is a visual and aural attack on the senses which requires a strong stomach and a healthy sense of humour! Whilst holidaying in the Tennessee woodlands five innocent teenagers unwittingly unleash the spirit of the evil dead. One by one the teenagers fall victim to the frenzied flesh-eating monsters amidst a tour-de-force display of stunning special effects. The Hills Have Eyes (Dir. Wes Craven 1977): The Carter family taken a wrong turn when crossing the desert for California and are attacked by a savage group of cannibals. For the Carters who have to revert to their own primitive instincts it is a battle for survival: the lucky ones died first...

• Luciano Pavarotti And Joan Sutherland - An Evening With Pavarotti And Sutherland | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-3.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A gala performance from the Metropolitan Opera, New York with the great operatic pairing of Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti in fully staged scenes from their classic stage roles. The evening includes the final acts of Verdi's La Traviata and Rigoletto, as well as scenes from Donizetti's bel canto masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor.

• The Plague Dogs | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An animated adventure from the artistic team behind Watership Down. A pair of dogs Rowf (Christopher Benjamin) and Snitter (John Hurt) escape from an animal research facility situated in a remote part of the English countryside. Rowf is cynical and mistrusting of humans having only known the tortured existence of being a laboratory animal. Snitter on the other hand had previously enjoyed life as a domestic pet and longs to be loved and cared for by a human master once again. Unprepared for life in the wild the pair befriend a fox The Tod (James Bolam) who helps them learn to survive in the bleak environment by feeding on the area's livestock. As the authorities attempt to track down the escapees things take a turn for the worse when a deliberately leaked story suggests the dogs may be infected with the bubonic plague...

• Inspector Morse - The Dead Of Jericho / Mystery Of Morse | DVD | (14/09/1998) from £6.38   |  Saving you £13.61 (213.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  John Thaw created one of Britain's most-loved TV detectives in this pilot episode that started the long-running Inspector Morse series, based on the novels by Colin Dexter. The brilliant, somewhat elitist police inspector who loves crosswords, classical music and the more-than-occasional pint of ale clumsily romances a woman (Gemma Jones) from his choir. When he finds her hanged in her apartment on the eve of their big recital, he suspects murder and muscles his way in on the investigation. The assigned investigators are convinced it's suicide except for the eager Sergeant Lewis (Kevin Whately), and they reluctantly team up to sort out a mystery tangled in blackmail, adultery, peeping neighbours (former Doctor Who Patrick Troughton) and mistaken identities. With his snooty temperament and lone-wolf lifestyle, the white-haired, Oxford-educated bachelor is a wonderful mismatch with the younger Lewis, a married man with a family and a rather less classical background (Whatley is a Geordie, though Lewis was a Brummie in the book). There's a quiet undercurrent of affection and respect almost from their first meeting that builds with each continuing Inspector Morse mystery, as well as an air of melancholia and loneliness beautifully developed in the script by future Oscar-winning writer/director Anthony Minghella (The English Patient). Morse's initial theories may be washouts (a series hallmark), but his relentless sleuthing, eye for clues and mind for puzzles dredges up the answer in the end, even as he loses the girl. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com