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• Flags of our Fathers & Letters from Iwo Jima (4 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £25.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (57.71%)   |  RRP £40.99

  Thematically ambitious and emotionally complex, Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers is an intimate epic with much to say about war and the nature of heroism in America. Based on the non-fiction bestseller by James Bradley (with Ron Powers), and adapted by Million Dollar Baby screenwriter Paul Haggis (Jarhead screenwriter William Broyles Jr. wrote an earlier draft that was abandoned when Eastwood signed on to direct), this isn't so much a conventional war movie as it is a thought-provoking meditation on our collective need for heroes, even at the expense of those we deem heroic. In telling the story of the six men (five Marines, one Navy medic) who raised the American flag of victory on the battle-ravaged Japanese island of Iwo Jima on February 23rd, 1945, Eastwood takes us deep into the horror of war (in painstakingly authentic Iwo Jima battle scenes) while emphasizing how three of the surviving flag-raisers (played by Adam Beach, Ryan Phillippe, and Jesse Bradford) became reluctant celebrities - and resentful pawns in a wartime publicity campaign - after their flag-raising was immortalized by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal in the most famous photograph in military history. As the surviving flag-raisers reluctantly play their public roles as "the heroes of Iwo Jima" during an exhausting (but clearly necessary) wartime bond rally tour, Flags of Our Fathers evolves into a pointed study of battlefield valor and misplaced idolatry, incorporating subtle comment on the bogus nature of celebrity, the trauma of battle, and the true meaning of heroism in wartime. Wisely avoiding any direct parallels to contemporary history, Eastwood allows us to draw our own conclusions about the Iwo Jima flag-raisers and how their postwar histories (both noble and tragic) simultaneously illustrate the hazards of exploited celebrity and society's genuine need for admirable role models during times of national crisis. Flags of Our Fathers defies the expectations of those seeking a more straightforward war-action drama, but it's richly satisfying, impeccably crafted film that manages to be genuinely patriotic (in celebrating the camaraderie of soldiers in battle) while dramatising the ultimate futility of war. Eastwood's follow-up film, Letters from Iwo Jima, examines the Iwo Jima conflict from the Japanese perspective. Critically hailed as an instant classic, Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima is a masterwork of uncommon humanity and a harrowing, unforgettable indictment of the horrors of war. In an unprecedented demonstration of worldly citizenship, Eastwood (from a spare, tightly focused screenplay by first-time screenwriter Iris Yamashita) has crafted a truly Japanese film, with Japanese dialogue (with subtitles) and filmed in a contemplative Japanese style, serving as both complement and counterpoint to Eastwood's previously released companion film Flags of Our Fathers. Where the earlier film employed a complex non-linear structure and epic-scale production values to dramatise one of the bloodiest battles of World War II and its traumatic impact on American soldiers, Letters reveals the battle of Iwo Jima from the tunnel- and cave-dwelling perspective of the Japanese, hopelessly outnumbered, deprived of reinforcements, and doomed to die in inevitable defeat. While maintaining many of the traditions of the conventional war drama, Eastwood extends his sympathetic touch to humanise "the enemy," revealing the internal and external conflicts of soldiers and officers alike, forced by circumstance to sacrifice themselves or defend their honour against insurmountable odds. From the weary reluctance of a young recruit named Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya) to the dignified yet desperately anguished strategy of Japanese commander Tadamichi Kuribayashi (played by Oscar-nominated The Last Samurai costar Ken Watanabe), whose letters home inspired the film's title and present-day framing device, Letters from Iwo Jima (which conveys the bleakness of battle through a near-total absence of colour) steadfastly avoids the glorification of war while paying honorable tribute to ill-fated men who can only dream of the comforts of home. --Jeff Shannon

• Vampires Suck | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sink your teeth into the hysterically funny spoof Vampires Suck - it's positively dripping with outrageous humour and bloody good fun! Becca, an angst-ridden teenager at a new high school, finds herself torn between two supernatural suitors: a moody vampire and an extremely hairy werewolf. From two of the comedy masterminds who wrote Scary Movie and Co-starring Ken Jeong (The Hangover), this comedy will leave you howling for more! This edition also contains a Digital Copy of the film, now you can watch Vampires Suck when you want, where you want!

• Horror Collection | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  A spine-chilling compendium of creepy horror movies comprising: Creep (Dir. Christopher Smith 2004): Trapped in a London subway station a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets. 28 Days Later (Dir. Danny Boyle 2002): Four weeks after a mysterious incurable virus spreads throughout the UK a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. Blair Witch Project (Dir. Daniel Myrick & Eduar

• STV CLASSICS: Rebus Series four With Ken Scott | DVD | (12/12/2011) from £20.23   |  Saving you £9.76 (48.25%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Rebus is a British Crime series based on the novels of Ian Rankin, the UK's number 1 bestselling crime author. Detective Inspector John Rebus of Edinburgh CID is played by Ken Stott. Rebus takes to the streets in search of the criminals committing murders.

• Creepozoids | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors one such group stumbles into an abandoned government research facility where the now dead scientists were working on making genetic mutations capable of creating their own amino acids. The group are attacked by one of the leftover experiments who tries to ensure that a horrible fate awaits them...

• Various Artists - Freshest Kids | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Freshest Kids combines rare archival footage with exclusive new interview material allowing legendary b-boy pioneers to bring their stories to the screen showing how the dance originated its evolution and its transformation throughout its 25+ year history. All the main players are featured here - Nigga Twins Spy - the man with 1000 moves Rock Steady Crew icons Crazy Legs and Ken Swift The New York City Breakers Mr Wiggles and Styelements.

• My Mother The Spy | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  This clever comedy gives an uproarious look at how a young woman who can't keep a steady boyfriend at home succeeds in snaring a small army of terrorists while on vacation.

• Collera Di Dio (La) (Restaurato In Hd) | DVD | (28/05/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Ultimate Fighting Championship 48 | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  The UFC is the World's premiere mixed martial arts sports company bringing together various disciplines including karate jiu-jitsu kickboxing boxing and sumo. 'UFC48: Payback' features Ken Shamrock vs. Kimo Leopoldo and Frank Mir vs. Tim Sylvia for the UFC Heavyweight Championship.

• Dockers | DVD | (01/08/2002) from £14.53   |  Saving you £-8.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dockers is a landmark one-off drama suspended somewhere between Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff. A striking Channel Four production Dockers dramatises the infamous struggle that developed when five Merseyside dockworkers were fired for refusing to work overtime with no pay, and gained the support of co-workers who wouldn't cross their picket line. As a result, those who stood in solidarity with the original five were sacked as well--500 in total--leading to a two-year stand-off. Co-written by award-winning screenwriters Jimmy McGovern (Cracker) and Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting), the two-year ordeal is brought home with startling reality, not least because of the contribution of the real-life Liverpool dockers who helped develop the script in extensive writing workshops, lending the film an authenticity it might have otherwise lacked. While the narrative hangs around the moving central story of one family in which both father and son are caught up in the strike, dramatic conflicts develop on multiple levels: between father and son; between the families of the sacked workers (this is particularly well realised as one long-time friend, played by The Royle Family's Ricky Tomlinson, turns scab); and between the workers and the union that betrays them. Ken Stott and Crissy Rock (Ladybird, Ladybird) are outstanding as the central working-class couple, old before their time at 47, and if nothing else, the film reveals one further reason why Liverpool loved Robbie Fowler quite so ferociously: during post-goal celebrations, Fowler lifts his jersey to reveal a T-shirt emblazoned with a message of support for the wronged dockers, ensuring national attention for the action at a time when all hope seemed lost. --Tricia Tuttle

• Separate Lives | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £5.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (33.39%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Linda Hamilton stars as a psychiatrist who herself has a split-personality problem: she keeps waking up in strange houses with odd clothes on and weapons. She hires a private detective James Belushi to follow her and he works out the problem quick enough. However the mystery deepens when some of her close friends are found dead. Is her other half the killer?

• Stealing Harvard | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £6.43   |  Saving you £14.82 (286.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A middle-class man turns to a life of crime in order to finance his niece's first year at Harvard University.

• Batman Begins (UHD/ BD) | Blu Ray | (08/01/2024) from £36.26   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After traveling the world seeking the means to fight injustice, Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter ego, Batman, who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.On-Disc Special Features BD: The Dark Knight IMAX Prologue Tankman Begins - A Batman Begins spoof Batman - The Journey Begins - Concept, design and development of the film as well as the casting of Batman himself Shaping Mind and Body - Observe Christian Bale's transformation into Batman Gotham City Rises - Witness the creation of Gotham City, the Batcave, Wayne Manor and more Cape and Cowl - The development of the Batsuit Batman - The Tumbler - The reinvention of the Batmobile Path to Discovery - A look at the first week filming on rugged and remote Iceland locations Saving Gotham City - The development of miniatures, CGI and effects for the monorail chase scene Genesis of the Bat - A look at the Dark Knight's incarnation and influences on the film Relections on Writing Batman Begins with David S. Goyer Digital Batman - The effects you may have missed Batman Begins Stunts Theatrical Trailer

• Housesitter | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A slick, smart vehicle for Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, Housesitter offers an acceptably daffy premise and enough inventive business to sustain it through to the, not unexpected, happy ending. Architect Martin builds a dream home for his childhood sweetheart (Dana Delaney) only to be rejected when he proposes marriage. After a one-night stand, Hawn--a daffy waitress with a gift for making up improbable but convincing lies--moves into Martin's house and tells his parents (Donald Moffatt, Julie Harris) and the whole community that she is his surprise new wife. When he sees how this impresses Delaney, Martin goes along with the charade, encouraging wilder and wilder fictions and doing his best to join in so that he can rush through to a divorce and move on to the woman he has always wanted. Hawn has to recruit a couple of winos to pose as her parents and impress Martin's boss into giving him a promotion, but we glimpse her real misery at his eventual intention to toss her out of the make-believe world she has created because her own real background is so grim. Its sit-com hi-jinx are manic enough not to be strangled by an inevitable dip in to sentiment towards the end, and Hawn, who always has to work hard, is better matched against the apparently effortless Martin than in their subsequent pairing in Out-of-Towners. Martin, often wasted in comparatively straight roles, has a few wild and crazy scenes as Hawn prompts him into joining her improvised fantasies. Director Frank Oz, a frequent Martin collaborator (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Shop of Horrors, Bowfinger), is the model of a proper, competent, professional craftsman when he sets out to put a comedy together--but the film misses streaks of lunacy or cruelty that might have made it funnier and more affecting. On the DVD: The disc offers a pristine widescreen non-anamorphic transfer, letterboxed to 1.85:1. There are no extra features to speak of, just text-based production notes, cast and director bios, plus a trailer and an assortment of language and subtitle options. --Kim Newman

• Death Note Vol.2 | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Episodes 9 - 16! A new Kira arrives! Genius detective L goes undercover as a university student in order to get closer to the enigmatic Light Yagami. The murders continue but with a difference - there appears to be a second Kira at work! Light agrees to help L in luring out the copycat and by doing so hoping to divert suspicion from himself. But Light is surprised to discover that this new Kira has an ability even he lacks...

• Rage Of Angels - The Final Revenge | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £5.35   |  Saving you £-0.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Having made the heartrending decision to break away from her one true love and father of her child ambitious and married politician Adam Warner Jennifer (Jaclyn Smith) sets about rebuilding her career and finding happiness again. Dangerous ghosts from her past come back to haunt her though in the shape of ruthless mobster James Moretti. His brother Michael had been obsessed with Jennifer and had died because of it. Now the vengeful James is out to blackmail both Jennifer and Adam over their illicit love - and ultimately wants Jennifer dead. But hell hath no fury like the 'Rage of Angels'... based on the Sidney Sheldon novel.

• Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns Fully Restored in High Definition DVD | DVD | (08/06/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Rock Steady | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A musical journey to Jamaica's Golden Age of music Rocksteady. The film features the music and stories of the legendary singers and musicians of the Rocksteady era. They come together after 40 years to record an album of Rocksteady hits to perform together again at an All-Stars reunion concert in Kingston Jamaica and to tell their story.

• Attack Of The Giant Leeches | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £5.96   |  Saving you £-0.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Unbeknown to the locals giant leeches live in caves under a swamp. The disappearance of a succession of trappers prompts the game warden to investigate matters with horrifying results.

• Joe Bullet | DVD | (11/09/2017) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a mysterious gangster starts sabotaging soccer team The Eagles' chance at winning the upcoming championship final, there is only one man who can save the day...Joe Bullet.