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• The Legendary Nat King Cole | DVD | (26/03/2004) from £31.89   |  Saving you £-21.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Nat King Cole - The Legendary [Spanish Import]

• Soul Power | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  "Soul Power" is a verite documentary, entirely composed of footage shot in 1974 at the legendary music festival (dubbed "Zaire '74"). It shows the experiences and performances of such musical luminaries as James Brown and BB King among others.

• Fatal Love | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An inspiring commercial artist Alison Gertz was young white and upwardly mobile from a strong upper middle class family. She was heterosexual not promiscuous had never used intravenous drugs and had never had a blood transfusion. Yet her life and the lives of her family and friends are changed radically by her diagnosis as having AIDS at the age of 22.

• Various Artists - the Small Black Groups | DVD | (23/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

• Daddy Day Care / The Nutty Professor / Liar Liar | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £15.13   |  Saving you £4.86 (32.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Daddy Day Care (Dir. Steve Carr 2003): In the hilarious comedy 'Daddy Day Care' two fathers (Murphy Jeff Garlin) lose their jobs in product development at a large food company and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon the two dads open their own day care facility Daddy Day Care and employ some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of caring for children. As Daddy Day Care starts to catch on it launches them into a highly comedic rivalry with Chapman Academy's tough-as-nails director (Anjelica Huston) who has driven all previous competitors out of business... The Nutty Professor (Dir. Tom Shadyac 1996): Eddie Murphy stars as Dr Sherman Klump a kind calorically challenged genetics professor who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of beautiful Jada Pinkett. So with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum Sherman becomes Buddy Love a fast-talking pumped-up plumped-down Don Juan. Can Sherman stop his buff alter ego before it's too late or will Buddy have the last laugh? Liar Liar (Dir. Tom Shadyac 1997): In this uproarious hit from the director and producers of the Nutty Professor comic genius Jim Carrey stars as a fast talking attorney and habitual liar who forced by his son's birthday wish must tell the truth for the next 24 hours. Co-starring Jennifer Tilly Swoosie Kurtz and Amanda Donohoe Siskel & Egbert give Liar Liar Two thumbs up!

• S.W.A.T. | Blu Ray | (19/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• S.W.A.T | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Joe 90 - Vol. 2 | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Joe 90 was Gerry Anderson's penultimate puppet show of the 1960s, following Captain Scarlet (1968) and preceding the little-known The Secret Service (1969). In 2112 professor Ian McClaine has invented the BIG RAT (Brain Impulse Galvanoscope, Record and Transfer), a machine for copying knowledge and experiences from person to person. WIN (World Intelligence Organisation) uses this to prime their top undercover agent before sending him into the field on missions which range from foiling international terrorists to recovering a nuclear weapon from beneath the polar ice. So far so good, but in perhaps the most mind-boggling concept ever to reach children's TV, that agent is McClaine's nine-year-old adopted son, Joe. Somehow even as it stays true to the Gerry Anderson techno-fantasy formula of secret organisations, gadgetry, and action-packed adventure full of spectacular explosions and violent death, Joe 90 remains blithely unconscious of its own implications. The missions are as globe-trotting as anything in Anderson's classic Thunderbirds series, and sometimes Joe does save lives, performing a risky brain operation or rescuing trapped astronauts. Yet even then his criminally irresponsible father brainwashes the lad each episode before placing him in a highly dangerous adult situation. Though the production values remain way ahead of anything else being done on British TV at the time, the question remains how did this ever seem like a good idea? On the DVD: Joe 90, Volume 2 contains the second set of six 25-minute episodes presented, as usual with Gerry Anderson DVDs, behind a lovingly crafted menu. As expected the 4:3 picture quality is superb and the mono sound is full, detailed and without a trace of distortion. There are also several pages of character biography and background information on the show, a photo gallery and a variety of other extras. --Gary S Dalkin

• Mark King - Live In Concert | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bandleader & Voice of Level 42. OHNE Filter- Musik Pur;The unparalleled TV music programme whose name literally translated means ""Without Filter-Sheer Unadulterated Music"" has been produced and broadcasted without a break continiously since 1983 a record for a programme of this kind. Over the years artist from the fields of blues country funk gospel jazz rock R'n B and soul have shaped the image of this incomparable live music happening. From Europe via the USA to Japan O

• Elizabeth - The Golden Age | HD DVD | (25/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Cate Blanchett returns as the Virgin Queen in this lavish sequel to 1998 smash "Elizabeth".

• Tupac Shakur - Thug Angel - The Life Of An Outlaw | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Ray | HD DVD | (04/06/2007) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jamie Foxx stars in this biopic of legendary soul and R&B singer Ray Charles. Skilfully edited and with a keen eye for period detail the narrative weaves in and out of the past in an interlocking tapestry of the man's rise to fame in the 1950s and '60s. Growing up poor black and blind in the rural south Charles learns under the tutelage of his tough-love mother (Sharon Warren) to turn these handicaps into assets. With this training Ray eventually plays his way into a major deal with Atlantic records and earns icon status as an American legend. Along the way the high cost of fame leads him to engage in abusive relationships manipulative behaviour and struggles with drug and alcohol problems. This is a dynamite film for the music alone (Charles's actual recordings are used in the film) but Foxx's career-benchmark performance transcends Ray's biopic roots turning this into a piercing full-on character study: unflinching sometimes harrowing and ultimately deeply moving. The sheer joy of Charles's music comes alive in Foxx's movements and his character matures convincingly and powerfully. A stellar supporting cast is on hand to back him up every step of the way including Larenz Tate as producer Quincy Jones and Kerry Washington as Ray's long-suffering wife Regina.

• Small Time Obsession | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Erroneously labelled a "gangster film", the independently made British film Small Time Obsession is in fact a thought-provoking essay on generation gaps and loyalties. London's Polish District is the setting, where four long-term friends are used to filling time and their pockets with petty crime. Michael (Alex King) has come to realise he has increasingly less in common with the others, and also with his parents who own a delicatessen. Life's big decisions elude Michael. His exclusively Polish-speaking father wants him to take over the family business, his greyhound Bullitt is starting to win prizes at the track and he's also secretly in love with Ali (Juliette Caton). Unfortunately she's already spoken for by tough guy Chris (Jason Merrells). This love triangle hardly has time to sort itself out since Chris is inadvertently embroiling them all in more Big Time crime. Although the circumstances inevitably lead to bouts of violence , what's refreshing here is that character relationships genuinely resonate with believability. First time writer/director Piotr Szkopiak tells the story with several shades of sympathetic subtlety, sensitively portraying the problems of a generation torn between inheriting their parents' displaced traditions and "fitting in".On the DVD: In this anamorphic widescreen presentation the dirty grey backdrop of London seems to rise up and swamp the characters. A 14-minute documentary ("Behind the Obsession") talks about those locales and how the director and distributor marketed the film. As well as a trailer, the extras package includes numerous text pages devoted to: cast and crew biographies, Production Notes, Locations, Media Reviews and the Polish Community. --Paul Tonks

• Desirables - Such A Crime / Goodbye Emma Joe / Desire | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Such A Crime: It's not an easy life being a covert secret agent but it does have it advantages - the glamour the fast cars multi-national corporate espionage technological devices at your fingertips big guns and of course they're also girls! And that's Skip's problem - if only she could leave her libido and have more discretion with her sexual conquests she would be the best agent that 'the generation' could ever have. But libido can also be put to good use. Her boss is aware of that fact and this might just be the one situation where Skip's insatiable indiscreet appetite could pay dividends. Goodbye Emma Jo: An unabashed story of erotic love and passion. One year on Alex is still mourning the loss of her beautiful lover Emma Jo and she has never felt more angry or alone. The anniversary of Emma Jo's death turns into a nightmare for Alex and then she meets Haley the local dyke motor mechanic who knows only too well that rampant raunchy sex is the only way to mend a broken heart. Desire - An Erotic Fantasyplay: A slick and sensual erotic tale of three young women a diary a dream and a weekend of exploration. Three women and three different paths of exploration. Adrienne is the mystifying friend whose journey in time changes all their lives. Cori confronts her fears by embracing passion in an exotic dream. In the meantime Fiona delves into her intimate diary and begins to explore her own fantasies.

• Hoodlum And Son | DVD | (19/01/2003) from £3.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (50.13%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Set in 1933 when a naughty ten year old named Archie finds himself being looked after by his inattentive father Charlie who is in debt to mob bosses. The pair flee with a suitcase of money to a town where Charlie gets a job as a teacher but a beautiful widowed mother Ellen decides she wants Charlie to get out of town. Archi realises they are really in love and with the help of his new friends tries to bring them together and save them from the mob!

• Giants Of Rock And Roll | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Not since the legendary London Rock N' Roll show of 1973 have so many peerless masters of classic rock been gathered together on one stage. The Giants Of Rock n' Roll is just that - the gathering together of the main movers of the music that shook and continues to shake the world. From the primal shrieks of the over-explosive Little Richard to the metronomic rock riffs of Bo Diddley the fluid emotive blues of B.B.King the funky New Orleans melting pot gumbo of Fats Domino the st

• Slingshot | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From acclaimed and prolific Filipino bad-boy director Brillante Mendoza (The Masseur Kinatay Serbis) comes Slingshot a gripping and exhilarating portrayal of teenage thugs slippery chancers and petty thieves all out to get what they can and pocket a profit in the teeming slums of Asias notorious city of sin Manila. Starring Nathan Lopez from The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros Slingshot is a riveting expos of life on the other side of the tracks.

• Cecil B. De Mille's Carmen | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £23.50   |  Saving you £-4.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Cecil B. De Mille's Carmen

• Antone's Home Of The Blues | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This critically acclaimed documentary celebrates the illustrious history of the club as well as its founder/owner lifetime blues devotee Clifford Antone. Antone who passed away in 2006 was one of the pioneers of showcasing the blues and this film gives a valuable insight into the many iconic performances that graced his stage. Taking an unprecedented look at the musical heart and soul of a nation Antone's Home of the Blues lovingly chronicles the man the place and the musicians that have made Antone's ""the nation's best blues club"". Packed with vintage performances the film is highlighted by onstage footage of Albert Collins Sue Foley Buddy Guy Pinetop Perkins Hubert Sumlin Jimmie Vaughan Stevie Ray Vaughan and Kim Wilson. In addition to the music Antone's Home of the Blues also features interviews with Clifford Antone B.B. King Marcia Ball Joe Ely ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and Willie Nelson.

• Ray | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A biopic telling the life story of legendary music performer Ray Charles, as played by Jamie Foxx.