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• Early Doors - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £5.94   |  Saving you £2.05 (34.51%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This box set features both series 1 and 2 of Early Doors. Series 1: A gentle yet compelling story of life love loneliness and blocked urinals. Each evening the regulars bring their particular foibles and characteristics up to the bar. Overhearing their conversations and reliving the events in each of their lives is both moving and amusing. Series 2: The welcome return of the critically acclaimed comedy set entirely in The Grapes a small pub in the Nor

• Shirley's World | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Meeting would-be Soviet defectors interviewing fi lm stars and even becoming a circus clown - it all comes in a day's work for international photojournalist Shirley Logan (Shirley Maclaine - Steel Magnolias Terms of Endearment). Taking on assignments set by her boss 'World Illustrated' magazine's London editor Dennis Croft (John Gregson - Gideon's Way) the indomitable and highly resourceful Shirley meets more than her share of high drama and intrigue - with some impressive location scenery and a few hilarious moments along the way! Shirley's World represents Shirley Maclaine's only venture into the television-series format. A truly international ITC show the special guests featured a number of favourites including Brian Blessed Ron Moody Dandy Nichols Stuart Damon Joss Ackland Cyril Cusack and Bert Kwouk. This release comprises every episode of Shirley's World and is released here for the very first time on DVD.

• A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wes Craven was tempted back to the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, in partnership with writers Bruce Wagner (Wild Palms) and Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), to script this fun, action-oriented sequel directed by Chuck Russell (The Mask). Langenkamp (as the world's only teenage psychiatrist) and Saxon return, but the heroine is debuting Patricia Arquette, who has the power to pull her friends into her dreams and thus assemble an army to take on Freddy, who begins here to spout those post-death witticisms that became a trademark. A nun reveals the villain's backstory as "the bastard son of a hundred maniacs". It's full of wild images and effects, such as the sleepwalker turned into a puppet strung on his ripped-out veins, and pays homage to Ray Harryhausen with not only an animated Freddy puppet but also his evil, walking skeleton. --Kim Newman

• Key Largo | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £5.81   |  Saving you £12.18 (209.64%)   |  RRP £17.99

  John Huston (The Maltese Falcon) directed this smart thriller about a gangster (Edward G. Robinson) who holds a number of people hostage in a hotel on the Florida keys during a tropical storm. Humphrey Bogart is the returning war veteran who takes on the villains, and Lauren Bacall is on hand as one of the people on the wrong end of Robinson's gun. Somewhat similar in tone to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not (which also featured Bogart and Bacall), Key Largo is a moody movie which captures a certain despair offset by the bond between individuals united by common purpose. Claire Trevor won an Academy Award for her part as Robinson's alcoholic girlfriend. --Tom Keogh

• Wagons East! | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  They came they saw they changed their minds! A group of disillusioned townsfolk living in the West renounce their settlemen and decide to return to their homes in the East. Hiring a grizzled and eccentric wagonmaster (Candy) they set off on the trail...

• Class | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £19.39   |  Saving you £-6.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As rites-of-passage films featuring a young man's sexual initiation in the arms of a beautiful woman go, Class (1983) has plenty going for it, not least its attractive cast: Andrew McCarthy as Jonathan, Rob Lowe as Gatsby-ish best friend Skip and Jacqueline Bisset as the beautiful woman who is old enough to know better and just happens to be Skip's mother. Lewis John Carlino's film has moments of insight, taking a few well-aimed shots at the vaguely sinister network of American public school life. In the first reel it neatly subverts the bullying scenario that threatens when the geekish Jonathan arrives at the school, while offering the briefly intriguing sight of Lowe in scarlet bra and pants. And there's a subplot of deceit and complicity that both strengthens and threatens the friendship that rapidly forms between Skip and Jonathan. In many ways, though, the most interesting element of the picture--Skip's relationship with his dysfunctional family--is left unexplored. Jonathan's deflowering and subsequent interludes are merely titillating. And Bisset's Ellen, a desperately sad character, becomes superfluous once the revelation that she is the "teacher" sets the boys' friendship on the path to fraternal solidarity. On the DVD: Class is presented in widescreen anamorphic format and looks as good as its leading players, although the Dolby Digital mono soundtrack has odd moments of flatness that detract from the cinematic experience. Extras are limited to the cinema trailer that now looks like a red rag to the puritanical objectors who were appalled by the graphic scenes in which Jonathan loses his virginity to the predatory Ellen. --Piers Ford

• The Nightmare On Elm Street 1-6 Collection (Six Disc Box Set) | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Nightmare On Elm Street Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) is having grisly nightmares. Meanwhile her high-school friends who are having the very same dreams are being slaughtered in their sleep by the hideous fiend of their shared nightmares. When the police ignore her explanation she herself must confront the killer in his shadowy realm. From modern horror master Wes Craven (Scream Scream 2) comes a timeless shocker that remains the standard bearer for terror. Featuring Jo

• Assassin for Hire | DVD | (02/03/2015) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A taut, noir-ish crime thriller produced by Primetime Emmy nominee and future Avengers lynchpin Julian Wintle, Assassin for Hire stars Sydney Tafler as a hitman who nurtures his younger brother's musical talent with blood money; Ronald Howard is the Scotland Yard inspector who doggedly pursues him using any means at his disposal. This early-fifties 'B'-movie gem is featured here in a brandnew transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of his gifted brother Giuseppe. To meet the expenses of Giuseppe's concert debut he accepts a further job, but his decision to do so provides Detective Inspector Carson, who has long hoped to ensnare Tony, with an opportunity hat might now enable him to bring about his downfall...SPECIAL FEATURE:Original Press Release PDF

• Berserker | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Berserker' is based upon an old Nordic legend. A 'Berserker' was a bloodthirsty warrior who was kept in chains and used as the first line of assult in Viking raids. Now in the present day America the 'Berserker' has risen out of hell to stalk a mixed group of college students camping in the woods. When the blood feast begins the screaming suspense starts clawing at the nerves. Can anything human destroy the Berserker? Or will the carnage continue over the centuries....?

• Unidentified Flying Oddball | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An astronaut and his robot companion inadvertantly enter a time-space warp and are hurled into the past where they find themselves in the court of King Arthur!

• Thieves Like Us | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £46.86   |  Saving you £-33.87 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Robbing 36 banks was easy. It's the 37th that you need to watch.... Classic romantic drama about three convicted killers Bowie Chicamaw and T-Dub who escape from prison in 1937 rural Mississippi. Bowie the youngest of the fugitives meets and falls for an ingenious farm girl Keechie. The gang quickly turns to the only thing they know bank robbery. The press closely follows the desperados notorious exploits which include a serious car accident another jail break and several killings. The acclaimed Louis Fletcher made her film debut playing Remsen's sister in law.

• The Opposite Of Sex | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Christina Ricci had a great year in 1998. The young actress continued to cast off her youthful image from the Addams Family movies and made a big splash on the independent movie scene, especially in this scathingly witty comedy in which Ricci has the central role. Here she plays Dedee, a buxom, sexually precocious teenager who's pregnant, cynical, and looking for a volunteer father for her unborn child. This takes her to the home of her gay half-brother (Martin Donovan) whose current lover (Ivan Sergei) becomes Dedee's latest target for seduction. That's just the start of the mischief that Dedee so masterfully orchestrates, and Lisa Kudrow (from TV's Friends) is also on hand to deliver some of the movie's most quotable dialogue while fending off the affection of a local policeman played by Lyle Lovett. If all this sounds rather sordid, rest assured that the movie's got a warm heart (well, sort of) beating beneath all of its sharp-edged sarcasm. Writer-director Don Roos (Single White Female) injects most of the movie's appeal and humour through Dedee's voice-over narration, which constantly reminds us that even the most familiar movie clichés can be cleverly overturned. As a result, The Opposite of Sex is the opposite of boring. --Jeff Shannon

• The Jack Bull | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-44.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Jack Bull was produced for and premiered on American television network HBO, but it's easily the most respectable job that feature director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, WarGames) has done in the past two decades. The title refers to a metaphorical Jack Russell terrier that, once it's annoyed enough to close its jaws on something, will hang on to the point of death. This terrier is Myrl Redding (John Cusack), a horse breeder of limited means who has a deeply entrenched sense of justice. His independence galls Henry Ballard (L Q Jones), the crusty land baron out to set his brand on most of the countryside. Ballard insults and cheats Redding several times over and his men beat Redding's Indian horse trainer and friend (Rodney A Grant). When Redding seeks redress from the law, its agents can't be bothered as the local magistrate is in Ballard's pocket. So Redding musters a vigilante army to enforce his own law. Scratch this handsome but rigorously unromanticised Western—a full hour passes without a shot being fired--and you find the classic Heinrich von Kleist book Michael Kohlhaas transposed to Wyoming Territory on the eve of statehood. The script--by the star/producer's dad, Dick Cusack--is sturdy and uncompromising and willing to engage the knotty ambiguities of embracing vigilantism even in a just cause. Badham's decision to treat the authorities (Scott Wilson, Jay O Sanders, John Goodman) as period caricatures is regrettable but John Cusack is solid as a figure of utterly matter-of-fact integrity. --Richard T. Jameson, Amazon.com

• Berserker | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (-3.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based upon an old Nordic legend a Berserker was a bloodthirsty warrior kept in chains and used as the first line of assault in Viking raids. Because they ate human flesh they were cursed by the God Odin forbidden a restful death and fated to be reincarnated in their blood kin. Now in present day America the Berserker has risen out of hell to stalk a mixed group of college students camping in the woods. When the blood feast begins the screaming suspense starts clawing at the nerves can anything human destroy the Berserker or will the carnage continue over the centuries?

• Documentary Essentials | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £12.35   |  Saving you £0.64 (4.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Mayor Of Sunset Strip: (Dir. George Hickenlooper 2003) A wildly entertaining ride through rock-and-roll history as seen through the eyes of one supremely distinct figure Rodney Bingenheimer. Directed by acclaimed documentarian George Hickenlooper ('Hearts Of Darkness') the film examines the life of Los Angeles' Mayor of Sunset Strip. Coming of age in LA in the 1960s just as rock-and-roll was bursting onto the scene Bingenheimer was obsessed with all things musical. Though not a successful musician himself he nonetheless befriended rock's elite. In the 1970s he opened up his own club Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco which played host to luminaries such as David Bowie Iggy Pop and Marc Bolan. It was in 1976 however when Rodney found his true calling. On his weekly radio show on KROQ Bingenheimer introduced several of popular music's most celebrated voices to America - Blondie The Ramones The Sex Pistols The Smiths and Coldplay. The Devil And Daniel Johnston (Dir. Jeff Feuerzeig 2005): The Devil and Daniel Johnston is a stunning portrait of a musical and artistic genius who nearly slipped away. Director Jeff Feuerzeig exquisitely depicts a perfect example of brilliance and madness going hand in hand with subject Daniel Johnston. As an artist suffering from manic depression with delusions of grandeur Daniel Johnston's wild fluctuations numerous downward spirals and periodic respites are exposed in this deeply moving documentary. The Devil and Daniel Johnston artfully melds current footage vintage performances home movies and dozens of recorded audiotapes from Daniel's life. Testimony from supportive friends and a deeply committed family adds a rich layer to his personal history but it is Daniel's poetic songs interwoven through out the film that tell their own passionate haunting and truly unforgettable story. Now in his mid-40s Daniel Johnston has grown into a prolific visual artist. His expressions have earned him worldwide recognition and critical praise producing international exhibits where he continues to sell his vibrant and intimate sketches. He has recorded over ten full-length albums and his supporters have included Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain who was often seen wearing a Daniel Johnston t shirt Matt Groening The Butthole Suffers Sonic Youth noted Minutemen/FIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt David Bowie Tom Waits Beck The Flaming Lips and an ever-growing international cult audience. The Ramones: End Of The Century (Dir. Michael Gramaglia Jim Fields 2002): 'End of The Century' is a documentary about the Ramones and their career to date. Tracing the history of the band from its unlikely origins through its star-crossed career bitter demise and the sad fates of Joey and Dee Dee End of the Century is a vibrant candid document of one of the most influential groups in the history of rock.

• X - The Unheard Music | Blu Ray | (26/12/2011) from £18.35   |  Saving you £-0.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  X: The Unheard Music takes long, detailed, and often funny look at the LA music scene of the late 70s and 80s and focuses on the group that critics had singled out as the leader of the underground pack. The Unheard Music is a documentary that combines live footage of the band and interviews with the four members (as well as their friends and families) with surreal music videos and montages of newsreel footage and vintage television commercials which help to illustrate X's uphill struggle against the music industry. Their story rings true even today. Bonus interviews and more. First time ever on Blu-ray!

• Gung Ho | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a Japanese car company buys an American plant the American liason (Keaton) must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labour...

• F.T.W. | DVD | (17/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  F.T.W. is a love story revovling around the violent worlds of a wild and beautiful young woman who is unable to give up her criminal past and a rodeo cowboy just out of prison and trying to fit back into a society he didn't belong to in the beginning.

• Passing | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-0.55 (-9.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dying is a punishment to some to some a gift and to some a favour.... Ernie and his best friend Rose buddies since World War II have outlived their youth outlived their families and outlived all hopes for the future. Yet despite their austere existence a gentle whimsy and affection for each other fills their days. With humour and courage they face the increasing vulnerability in a world that moves faster than they can. Wade is a drifter and a loner who meets and falls in lov

• The Master Of Gore Collection | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This 4 DVD Box Set contains 4 of Herschell Gordon Lewis' greatest films! 2000 Maniacs: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Civil War the inhabitants of a small Southern US town organise the festival to end all festivals. With a captured audience of North Americans the townsfolk amuse themselves by playing roll-the-man-in-the-nail-lined-barrel and compete at target practice using a pretty girl and a boulder. With all this chaos erupting around them a young couple make a desperate attempt to leave the town before they too fall victim to Two Thousand Maniacs! Wizard of Gore: With his unique stage show small-time illusionist Montag the Magnificent becomes an overnight success. As crowds flock to witness his incredible and fantastical act Montag recruits pretty ladies from his audience publicly disembowels hacks tortures and otherwise mutilates their bodies only to have them return unmarked and unscathed to their seats. But not all is as it seems. When as if by magic these female participants start turning up as the victims of horrific crimes that exactly imitate his on-stage violations Montag finds it necessary to conceive of a grander illusion to keep suspicion at bay. Art imitates life imitates death in this fine slice of blood-soaked shock cinema. And it ain''t done with mirrors! Gruesome Twosome: Mrs Pringle's Little Wig Shop is a family business specialising in hairpieces crafted from human hair. Located on a college campus the shop is well served by the number of young women eager to change their style. But the laws of supply and demand are such that the Pringles are forced to make a few sacrifices... human sacrifices. Wielding his trusty electric carving knife Mrs Pringle's son Ronald helps his Mom out by scalping those unfortunate enough to enquire about the room that the old lady has to rent. This outrageous and blackly comic movie features a truly surreal opening sequence that has to be seen to be believed. You'll flip your wig! Colour Me Blood Red:When temperamental artist Adam Sorg's latest paintings fail to impress his critics he finds himself unable to change his style using the materials at his disposal. Searching in vein for the perfect pigment he discovers that it is the deep red of his girlfriends's blood that has the shade he has been looking for. However when his supply runs dry Sorg is forced to look elsewhere for the colour he needs...