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• Full Metal Jacket - Special Edition | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  One of a series of revisionist Vietnam cinema released in the late 1980s, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket is essentially split into two stories linked by a number of characters. The film follows new recruit Joker (Matthew Modine) and his fellow soldiers through their basic training and into combat in Vietnam. The first half is a chilling portrayal of military brutality and de-humanisation, mainly at the hands of Sgt Hartman (played at a level of staggering intensity by ex-Marine Lee Ermey), that centres around the tragic character of Private Pyle, a young man pushed to the edge of his endurance. The tone of the film is no less harsh when transported to the combat zone as we see the results of the training process in action: the young men turned into unquestioning killing machines. Joker is perhaps the one exception, a soldier with "Born to Kill" written on his helmet who also sports a peace sign on his lapel. But the film finds itself caught in the trap of many of the war movies of the time--how to create audience empathy with characters who are essentially in the wrong. It's a dilemma that Full Metal Jacket never really solves, although as a spectacle the film is a masterpiece. Made in the days before CGI became the norm, the battle sequences--filmed, rather bizarrely, in London's Docklands before its redevelopment--are hugely realistic and are perhaps the key moments of the movie, heightening the disorientation and fear felt by the soldiers. By offering no more than a snapshot of the Vietnam conflict (the action deals with one individual skirmish), Kubrick cleverly leaves any judgement on the war to the audience, although clearly attempting to influence them. The fate of the characters who survive is also left in the balance, but we can perhaps imagine what awaits them. On the DVD: Part of a series of Kubrick DVD reissues, Full Metal Jacket has been treated to the full remastering and restoration treatment. The battle sequences have benefited the most, gaining a new audio and visual crispness and clarity that adds to their already impressive sense of realism--you can almost feel the heat searing from the screen and the explosions detonating around you. Maybe not the best war film ever made, as some may claim, but certainly one to take you right to the heart of the action. --Phil Udell

• Murder Once Removed | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £-3.39 (-170.40%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A doctor and the wife of one of his wealthy patients hatch a plot to get rid of her husband so they can be together and get his money.

• The Italian Job - DVD and Flag World Cup Edition | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Michael Caine stars in this 60s classic as the leader of a team of thieves who plan to use minis to help them perform the heist of the century.

• Thomas And Sarah - Episodes 8 To 13 | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £11.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (31.15%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The continuation of the Upstairs Downstairs saga which follows the lives of the two servants Thomas and Sarah. Episodes included: The Poor Young Widow Of Peckham There Is A Happy Land Return To Gethyn Putting On The Ritz The New Rich and Love Into Three Won't Go.

• Cracker - Best Boys | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £7.48   |  Saving you £2.51 (33.56%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sex and love and eternity are things we all want and need but when they lead to murder it can only bring tragedy to Stuart Grady and Bill Nash. Fitz is soon pitched against two people who superficially survive as father and son when all the time they need more that ever to admit they love each other. In the background the legacy of Jimmy Beck continues to twist the knife in Fitz's relationship with the traumatised Penhaligon while Fitz's wife Judith desperately tries to cling to the wreckage of her marriage as she realises with awesome clarity the full impact of a new baby on their lives.

• Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-20.64 (-413.60%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal is the story of a struggling football club; Southall United. The team has no stars no sponsors no spectators and most importantly no coach. Yet it nurtures the hope that it will win the cup this time. But with opposition from the city council and a local sports commentator - is there really any future for this small football club?

• Shelter | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £6.55   |  Saving you £1.44 (18.00%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Government corruption makes strange bedfellows when a straight-arrow Treasury Agent partners with a weapons-trading Greek Mafioso for protection from his agency colleagues all of whom are on the take and aiming to bump the Mafioso off. Add to the mix the Mafioso's lovely wife and soon there's no loyalty that can't be rent asunder.

• The Lawless Frontier | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  John Wayne plays a wrongly accused cowboy who must prove his innocence by taking on the real criminals...

• Insaniac | DVD | (20/01/2003) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-4.03 (-23.70%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A deranged young woman with amnesia is hynoptised so that she may explore her own mind. Whilst trying to recover lost memories she discovers that her mind is a nightmare landscape of violence and horror...

• THE QUESTOR TAPES-EIN COM - MO | DVD | (27/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Take | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Crime Was Only The Beginning... Living in gang-infested Boyle Heights in East L.A. loving family-man Felix Delgado (Leguizamo) does the best he can to provide for his wife Marina (Perez) and two kids. He reports every day to his blue-collar job as an armored truck driver. One morning while driving his route his life is tragically altered when men hijack his truck and force him to participate in a heist of the day's cash. After murdering his co-workers in cold blood the thieves shoot Felix in the head and leave him for dead with the incriminating gun placed in his hand. Felix miraculously survives the close-range blast and after a struggle on the operating table regains consciousness with minimal but permanent damage to his brain's right frontal lobe but leaving him with a changed personality and paranoid emotions as he remembers the incident. Felix soon begins to piece together the elements of the crime and descends into the underbelly of East LA to exact revenge on the man he suspects took his life away.

• King Kong Lives | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This version of the classic story picks up from where the 1976 version left off. The mighty ape is resurrected through a miracle of modern medicine and brings him together with what will be the love of his life: Lady Kong...

• Toy Story 3 DoublePlay BD Customer Spec | Blu Ray | (22/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  There comes a time to put away childhood things, but some things won't stay put as Woody, Buzz and co. return for their greatest adventure yet! Packed to the gills with thrills, spills and chills, plus a lot of laughs and a little romance, Toy Story 3 is the family favourite that has it all! The creative minds behind Disney/Pixar's groundbreaking animated blockbusters invite you back inside the toy box for a heartwarming and hilarious movie experience you'll never forget. In Toy Story 3, Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen) and the rest of the Toy Story gang return for an all-new adventure, along with a few new faces - some plastic, some plush - including Barbie's counterpart Ken (voiced by Michael Keaton), a thespian hedgehog named Mr. Pricklepants (voiced by Timothy Dalton) and a strawberry-scented bear named Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear (voiced by Ned Beatty). As Andy prepares to depart for college, Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the rest of Andy's faithful toys wonder what will become of them. But, when a mix-up lands them at Sunnyside Daycare, they meet a host of new toys and soon discover a wild new adventure is just beginning. Buzzing with hours of bonus features, including the Pixar short film Day & Night, Toy Story 3 goes to infinity and beyond!

• Master P - MP Da Last Don - The Movie | DVD | (01/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  MP Da Last Don is the latest film from one of the most creative minds in rap music today. Master P is Nino Corleone and he takes you into the darkest shadows of the Cuban mob. Nino never wanted the life of a gangster but when his father Don Corleone is gunned down in the street he must answer the call for revenge. Now deceit back room deals and crooked cops threaten to destroy everything Nino loves.

• Follow My Voice | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig is a documentary following the creation of a tribute album by a host of top indie-rock musicians. This powerful film showcases not only a series of top artists in studio sessions but also follows the story of four students as they struggle through a year at the school which the album which will be dedicated to: the Hetrick-Martin Institute home of the Harvey Milk School which is the first high school in the US to be aimed at LGBTQ youth.

• Strangers - Series 3 - Complete | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When three experienced detectives are drafted into the police force of a northern city to infiltrate areas of crime where the local police might be recognised it becomes a baptism of fire for the strangers... An extraordinary success for ITV (five series over five years and a sequel) Strangers was a tough quirky police series that was certainly a breed apart from the other cop shows of the seventies and eighties. Written by celebrated author and scriptwriter Murray Smith (Dempsey and Makepeace) Strangers features Don Henderson (Star Wars The Paradise Club) as the idiosyncratic D.S. Bulman (created in The XYY Man) who was never to be seen without his trademark string gloves Vicks inhaler and plastic bag. Episodes Comprise: 1. Retribution 2. You Can't Win 'Em All 3. Armed and Dangerous 4. Racing Certainty 5. Clowns Don't Cry 6. Tom Thumb and Other Stories 7. No Orchids for Missing Blandisch

• The Witching / After Darkness / Blood Sabbath | DVD | (06/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Withcing: A strange and sinister man Mr Cato (Orson Welles) wields extraordinary power in the small town of Lilith. Almost supernatural power. The townsfolk indulge in weird ritual in their pursuit of necromancy... bringing the dead back to life. Against this disturbing background it is a young beautiful girl Lori (Pamela Franklin) who becomes the human catalyst between life and death... After Darkness: Lawrence Hunningford (Julian Sands) becomes insane when as a child he witnesses the tragic drowning of his twin brother in the sands. He becomes gradually schizophrenic and is committed to the clinic. His elder brother Peter (John Hurt) accepts an invitation to teach at the University near the clinic. After Lawrence attempts to end his life Peter discharges his brother from the clinic and moves with him into a huge run down apartment and commits to take care of his brother. But the strain begins to show as more and more he neglects his family and work. Pascale (Victoria Abril) Peter's young assistant at the University worries about the strange changes she noticed in him. She follows him to his apartment and encounters Lawrence. Not suspecting anything and in spite of Peter's violent jealousy she interferes in the brother's relationship by answering Lawrence's desires. But more and more Lawrence's illness spreads to Peter whose jealousy and eventual madness end in tragedy and Lawrence is freed from his darkness. Blood Sabbath: When travelling through the woods young David is captured by a members of a witches' coven. Soon he is involved in a bizarre power struggle with a beautiful witch and the coven's evil queen...

• Fingerstyle Guitar - New Dimensions And Explorations - Vol. 2 | DVD | (23/10/2003) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-12.50%)   |  RRP £23.99

  A showcase performance by the greats demonstrating new dimensions and explorations: 20 tracks featuring performances from Marcel Dadi Duck Baker John Knowles Joe Miller Dave Evans and others.

• Coast to Coast | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  City by city mile by mile a married couple on the verge of a breakup travel across the country to revisit their tumultuous past and re-discover what it means to fall in and out of love - and maybe back again. With each new stop comes a new revelation for the couple - a chance to expose their weaknesses fears and betrayals with an edgy mix of acrid humour biting cruelty and extraordinary moments of heartfelt emotion. Where they're heading is up to them.

• Star Wars: Die letzten Jedi - Steelbook Edition | Blu Ray | (06/05/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A