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• Love (Szerelem) | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £29.10   |  Saving you £-16.11 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This tender black-and-white Hungarian drama takes place in the '50s. A woman's (Mari Torcsik) husband has been arrested by the Hungarian secret police and imprisoned as a dissident. The young wife lives with her mother-in-law (Lili Darvas) a sweet and magnetic woman appears to believe that her son has emigrated to America. Unable to do anything about her husband's imprisonment the daughter-in-law keeps the old woman's good cheer alive by concocting a series of letters from her husb

• Death And The Compass | DVD | (15/02/2005) from £14.91   |  Saving you £-5.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An adaptation of the José Luis Borges short story, Death and the Compass is a baroque murder mystery with a comic touch. Plagued by his involvement in a prior investigation, weary and embittered Police Commissioner Treviranus (played by Cox regular Miguel Sandoval, Straight to Hell, Three Businessmen) attempts to set a peculiar history straight. When his star detective Lonnrot (Peter Boyle), an intuitive, blue-suited Buddhist, is stumped as to the motive behind a series of unsolved psycho-geographical murders with Kabbalistic overtones, Treviranus suspects master criminal Scharlach (Christopher Eccleston), at large in the city. But Lonnrot rejects this thesis and, with the aide of enthusiastic, atheist journalist, Zunz (Chistopher Eccleston), he is lead to believe that the crimes are allied to points on the compass. Drawn fatefully to where he believes a final crime will be committed, Lonnrot and Zunz search for the solution within a mysterious deserted mansion to the South of the city. Shot with a comic book sensibility (like a 1930s movie serial) on richly coloured modernist sets with futurist flourishes, Cox's film looks sumptuous and follows the style of Borges' labryinthine scenario to the letter without losing the plot. The three leads all acquit themselves admirably. Boyle's mystical detective is awkward and aloof in contrast to Sandoval's cunning, career-minded police inspector, while Ecceleston shape-shifts between three roles with alarming ease. On the DVD: An audio commentary by Alex Cox and composer Dan Wool of Pray for Rain (who also scored Cox's Straight to Hell and Three Businessmen) primarily examines the relationship between sound and setting. Paul Miller's "Spiderweb", the featurette advertised on the sleeve and liner notes, does not appear on this disc. --Chris Campion

• In My Country | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A South African Story of Truth Love and Reconcilliation. In 1996 the South African Government established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate abuses of human rights under apartheid. These hearings would serve as a forum for those accused of murder and torture to be confronted by their victims and by admitting their guilt be granted amnesty under Ubuntu the native custom of forgiveness. Covering the sessions are Langston Whitfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and

• The Fairy Queen - Purcell | DVD | (25/05/2001) from £20.88   |  Saving you £7.10 (39.69%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Pountney and Quinny Sacks' production of Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen caused something of a sensation when it hit the ENO stage in 1995. It has the feel of a decadent 17th-century masque re-invented with late-20th-century energy: half the principals and chorus are in cross-dressing costumes, female characters are played by men (leading to some rather wonderful polymorphous perversity), and everything has an air of mad, hallucinogenic hipness about it. While Robert Israel's wild sets don't appear to their full advantage on the small screen, Dunya Ramicova's costumes look fantastic (the details are simply stunning). The very fine singing is recorded with excellent clarity: while this is obviously a live performance, there are remarkably few moments that go out of microphone range, and the balance with the orchestra is handled very sensitively. The ENO band, under the baton of Nicholas Kok, respond to Purcell's wiry lines and spiky harmonies with glee, and sound like they're having a ball, as do the singers. In particular Jonathan Best as The Drunken Poet is hilarious, and it is a wonderful testament to his acting skills that he is as funny close-up as he was from the auditorium stalls.--Warwick Thompson

• Freedomland | Blu Ray | (08/09/2008) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When her son disappears and is believed dead, a single mother blames an African-American man from the projects for the kidnapping.

• Grimsey | DVD | (25/06/2018) from £4.70   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bruno desperately wants to find Noberto,- who has ran away to Iceland after their break up. After making the trip north, he enlists Arnau, a local tour guide in Reykjavik, who promises to help locate his lost lover. Soon the trip evolves in to a transformative journey for both guide and searcher- and Bruno begins to finally discover what true love really means.

• Standard Operating Procedure | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (66.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With over two years of investigation including the collection of a million and a half words of interview transcript Standard Operating Procedure from director Errol Morris is a revealing look at the true story behind the notorious photographs taken by US soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison. The photos changed the world's image of the war in Iraq but what did they really reveal?

• Orson Welles' Othello | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A newly restored edition of Orson Welles's adaptation of the Shakespeare classic. The production began in 1948 but would not be completed untill four years later due to financial difficulties. Without full financing in place Welles would shoot until the money ran out shut down production while he tried to raise more in acting roles then reassemble the cast and crew months later. But typically the challenges presented by budgetary constraints only heightened Welles technical flair

• W. F. Bach: 300th Anniversary (Cantatas) | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £17.31   |  Saving you £2.68 (15.48%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Streetwise / Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (15/06/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Le Doulos | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £11.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (44.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Melville's own favourite films in which ambiguity is the name of the game as a convicted burglar completes his incarceration only to get himself straight back into trouble...

• Losing Isaiah | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £11.45   |  Saving you £7.53 (89.01%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An African-American baby abandoned by his crack addicted mother is adopted by a white social worker and her husband. When the mother struggles through rehab to kick her habit she then seeks to reclaim her lost son...

• Green Ice | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Electronics expert Wiley (Ryan O'Neal) flees responsibility and New York city for Mexican adventure in this spectacular action romance. On the way he meets the beautiful Holbrook (Anne Archer) and joins up with her south of the border. But a meeting with the sinister Argenti (Omar Sharif) and the discovery of a sparkling collection of Green Ice in his hotel room lead to Wiley and Holbrook becoming embroiled in the deadly world of emerald smuggling...

• Blade Runner 2049 3D, 2 Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (15/02/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• When Husbands Cheat | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tess McCall had better be careful or she might find what she's looking for when she starts spying on cheating husbands. What starts out strictly as amateur sluething quickly turns into a full-time profession for this middleaged mother of two. Using logic intuition and numerous high-tech surveillance gadgets Tess succeeds in helping jilted wives such as Sally Russell find out about their wandering husbands. But catching unsuspected philanderers in the act is one thing; getting the goods on one that is a police officer is another - especially when he is married to her. When evidence starts pointing to her husband Craig's infidelity Tess is faced with a difficult decision - whether to spy on his afterhours activities or believe that all those incriminating clues are the result of his own undercover police work. Like any good detective Tess goes with her instincts. But she soon finds out more than she bargained for. Her work uncovers a long history of incessant womanising that she had been blind to for years. This is the tale of a woman whose new calling empowers and liberates her and enables her to assist other women who have become victims of their husbands' deception. Based on a true story...

• Oliver Twist | DVD | (11/10/1999) from £3.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (150.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  There have been many film and TV adaptations of Oliver Twist but this 1948 production from director David Lean remains the definitive screen interpretation of the Charles Dickens classic. From the ominous symbolism of its opening storm sequence (in which Oliver's pregnant, ill-fated mother struggles to reach shelter before childbirth) to the mob-scene climax that provokes Bill Sikes's dreadful comeuppance, this breathtaking black-and-white film remains loyal to Dickens while distilling the story into its purest cinematic essence.Every detail is perfect--Lean even includes a coffin-shaped snuffbox for the cruel Mr. Sowerberry--and as young Oliver, eight-year-old John Howard Davies (who would later produce Monty Python's Flying Circus for the BBC) perfectly expresses the orphan's boyish wonderment, stern determination and waifish vulnerability. Best of all is Alec Guinness as Fagin, so devious and yet so delightfully appealing under his beak-nosed (and, at the time, highly controversial) make-up. (Many complained that Fagin's huge nose and greedy demeanour presented an anti-Semitic stereotype, even though Lean never identifies Fagin as Jewish; for this reason, the film wasn't shown in the US until three years after its British release.) Likewise, young Anthony Newley is artfully dodgy as Fagin's loyal accomplice, the Artful Dodger. Guinness's performance would later provide strong inspiration for Ron Moody's equally splendid portrayal of Fagin in the Oscar-winning Oliver! and while that 1968 musical remains wonderfully entertaining, it is Lean's film that hews closest to Dickens' vision. The authentic recreation of 19th-century London is marvellous to behold; Guy Green's cinematography is so shadowy and stylised that it almost qualifies as Dickensian film noir. Lean is surprisingly blunt in conveying Dickens's theme of cruelty but his film never loses sight of the warmth and humanity that Oliver embodies. --Jeff Shannon

• Pulp Fiction | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award 1995, this boldly inventive and expertly orchestrated crime saga is now available as a two disc DVD set that includes such extras as deleted scenes, interviews and a documentary.

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Complete Season 7 Box Set | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  C.S.I: Complete Season 7 (Crime Scene Investigation)

• Rameau - Les Boréades / Robert Carsen, La La La Human Steps, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, Opéra National de Paris | DVD | (20/06/2004) from £5.62   |  Saving you £25.63 (587.84%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A performance of the Rameau opera which follows the tale of Queen Alphise who is contemplating abdication rather that an arranged marriage.

• Lost And Delirious | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paulie (Piper Perabo) Tori (Jessica Par) and Mouse (Mischa Barton) share a relationship deeper than sexuality and a love that is intensified in the hothouse atmosphere of an all-girl boarding school. Mouse leaves a small-town upbringing to attend Perkins Girl's College. Her two senior roommates the striking sharp-witted Paulie and the charming beautiful Tori quickly adopt her. The girls become inseperable but although they are the closest friends Mouse has ever had she is confused by the depth of the emotional and sexual relationship between Paulie and Tori. Their world shatters when Tori and Paulie are caught in bed together. Terrified that her family will find out Tori distances herself from Paulie and her own feelings. Defiantly refusing to submit Paulie battles to keep Tori. And Mouse is left torn between her friends. Through this sensual and violent struggle Mouse glimpses how powerful love can be and how impossible it is to define.