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• Conspiracy Theory | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £12.94   |  Saving you £1.05 (8.11%)   |  RRP £13.99

  What is it about director Richard Donner that Mel Gibson enjoys so much that he's appeared in five of Donner's films? Is it the on-set pranks? Could it be the big-budget perks and $20 million paychecks? Or is it just a well-stocked catering table? Whatever the case, the Lethal Weapon star and director teamed up again, along with fellow superstar Julia Roberts, for this typically glossy, entertaining but ultimately hokey thriller. Gibson plays New York cab driver Jerry Fletcher, whose wacky belief in conspiracies finally hits on a coincidental truth involving an evil figure named Jonas (Patrick Stewart) and a secret program of government-funded mind control. Roberts plays the Justice Department attorney who finally believes in Jerry's paranoid ramblings. With a plot (from LA Confidential co-writer Brian Helgeland) that's a lot of fun as long as you don't think about it too critically, Conspiracy Theory benefits immeasurably from the charisma of its high-magnitude stars. --Jeff Shannon

• One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After being shot down over Nazi occupied Holland an RAF bomber crew attempt to make their way back to England with the help of the Dutch resistance.

• Christmas Horror Boxset | DVD | (13/11/2017) from £14.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Scorpio | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £15.23   |  Saving you £-2.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Though not quite a classic, director Michael Winner's Scorpio is still an underrated espionage thriller that was well attuned to the political cynicism of its time. Burt Lancaster plays Cross, a CIA operative who dates back to the agency's earliest days as the OSS. Scorpio (Alain Delon) is a protégé of Cross, and one of Cross's best friends in a netherworld where everyone's allegiances, personal and political, are in question. Higher-ups within the intelligence agency decide that Cross knows too much and is better off eliminated; at first, Scorpio refuses the job until the CIA frames him on a phoney narcotics bust and coerces him into the assignment. The two men play a game of global cat-and-mouse as Cross consorts with his Russian counterparts--fellow ageing dinosaurs in a young man's game. Cross's links with the Russians go back to the days of the Spanish Civil War and the time when Cross was given the ironic label of "premature anti-Fascist" by the House Unamerican Activities Committee. The incredibly convoluted plot is rife with double-crosses and reverse double-crosses, in an environment in which nothing is quite as it seems and no one is to be trusted. Winner infuses enough energy and excitement into the film's many action segments to make Scorpio worthy of comparison to John Frankenheimer's best political thrillers. The director also throws in several curveballs, such as the zither music during a meeting in a Vienna café (shades of The Third Man) and the preposterous device of disguising Lancaster as an African-American priest. The best line must be "I want Cross, and I want him burned!" --Jerry Renshaw

• The Mandela Freedom Concert - Trafalgar Square 2001 | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £33.00   |  Saving you £-23.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 2001 Nelson Mandela joined the people of London in Trafalgar Square to celebrate the 7th anniversary of free elections in South Africa. Mandela along with R.E.M The Corrs Ladysmith Black Mambazo Dave Stewart Hugh Masekela and Baaba Maal took part in an unforgettable night. This television special directed and produced by Tony Gregory has now been re-mastered for a 2013 release with net profits going to The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and The Prince's Trust. Mandela returns to Trafalgar Square after 40 years... Track Listing: Mbawula feat . Manhattan Bros -The Lion Sleeps Tonight The Corrs - What Can I Do So Young Breathless Lisa Roxanne - Got No Flow Billy Ocean - Going Gets Tough Baaba Maal - Fanta Commonwealth - That's the Way It Goes Lebo Mathosa - Lord Dave Stewart Feat . Gary Mudbone Cooper - One Love Beverley Knight - Greatest Day Of My Life Hugh Masekela - Tonight Atomic Kitten - Whole Again Mel B - Feels So Good Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Long Walk To Freedom R.E.M - Imitation of Life Losing My Religion Man on The Moon Labi Siffre - Something Inside So Strong Special Features: Includes Backstage Footage: Sir Trevor McDonald Andy Kershaw Sharon Corr Richard E. Grant Sara Cox Graham Norton Michael Stipe Hugh Masekela Beverley Knight The Corrs

• The Gaelic King | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £5.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in the war-torn dark ages of 800AD Scotland, this is the story of a young Warrior-King named Alpin. When his family is murdered by a rival Pict King, Alpin and his infant brother Finn, are the sole escapees. Alpin swears to one day return, seeking vengeance and regain his rightful claim to the throne. Ten years later Alpin and Finn, return and come across a community whose children are being kidnapped by the mysterious dark ˜Shadow Warriors'. When Finn gets captured, Alpin sets out to rescue him, accompanied by a Druid-monk called Lachlan. What ensues is a gripping adventure, culminating in a final epic battle between Alpin and Nathara, the sorceress who awoke and controls the Shadow Warriors.

• Shattered Trust | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £4.94   |  Saving you £1.05 (21.26%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A terrific cast headed by Melissa Gilbert Kate Nelligan (BAFTA-winner for Frankie and Johnny and Oscar nominee for The Prince of Tides) and Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore The Exorcist) come together for a compelling true story that tells how one young woman faced up to her nightmares to force a change in the law for the benefit of others. Gilbert plays Shari Karney a promising young attorney with a bright career ahead. But one da

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• Conspiracy Theory / Payback | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Conspiracy Theory: New York cab driver and conspiracy buff Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) knows about the secret movers shakers and assassins who really control things. Trying to put Justice Department attorney Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts) in the know he's run out of her of office. Soon both will run for their lives. The two stars conspire for suspense romance and twists that click like a rush-hour taximeter. (Dir. Richard Donner 1997 Cert. 15) Payback: Mel Gibson po

• Bride Of Re-Animator | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £10.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator (1990) was one of the last hurrahs for special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor, Re-Animator, Bride is very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum--now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first. Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers and an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements--the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun. On the DVD: Bride of Re-Animator is presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its Dolby 2.0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. --Roz Kaveney

• That Certain Age | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £6.48   |  Saving you £8.50 (189.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Fullerton's an affluent middle class American family have the balance of their lifestyle upset when young Alice Fullerton falls in love with a talented news reporter invited to lodge in their house. Despite the efforts of her mother father boyfriend and even the reporter himself nothing can deter the girl of a certain age from her heart's desire.

• Richard III | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The third and final entry in Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare triptych, Richard III is an audacious portrait of a man determined to prove himself a villain. A pure master of the political stage, Richard deploys a barrage of odious, unscrupulous traps in an attempt to exercise complete control over his rivals. As the personification of evil impudence, Olivier portrays the Duke of Gloucester with such aplomb that he even lures the audience on to his side. This is true even as Richard engineers plots to murder his brother Clarence (John Gielgud), betray his cousin Buckingham (Ralph Richardson) and seduce his niece Lady Anne (Claire Bloom). From the play's famous opening lines ("Now is the winter of our discontent"), Olivier delivers every speech with truly Machiavellian splendour. As usual, his voice is a force of nature--a full-bodied coloratura at one moment, an earthy baritone cello a few beats later. As a director, Olivier fully realises but underplays the corners of the script that most directors would hinge their dramatisation on. But he can also play it large: Olivier's superb staging of the climactic battle rivals his work on Henry V. Though Richard is finally brought down by the whispered curses of Queen Margaret, the audience exits feeling that the journey has been both entertaining and complete. Regrettably, this would be Olivier's last Shakespeare film, as a planned adaptation of Macbeth was abandoned for financial reasons. Olivier justly received an Oscar nomination for his performance; and believe it or not, this film was the inspiration for the original Blackadder! --Kevin Mulhall

• Bride of Re-Animator | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £8.45   |  Saving you £1.54 (18.22%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's been eight months since the Miskatonic Massacre stained the halls with blood - and Dr. West and Dr. Cain's experiments have taken a bizarre turn. Now they have gone beyond re-animating the dead...into the realm of creating new life. The legs of a hooker and the womb of a virgin are joined to the heart of Dr. Cain's dead girlfriend - and the bride is unleashed upon her mate in a climax of sensual horror.

• Shattered Trust | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £19.98   |  Saving you £-13.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young attorney cracks under the strain of her current case and re-discovers the trauma of incest.

• Bride Of Re-Animator | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £29.95   |  Saving you £-9.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator (1990) was one of the last hurrahs for special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor, Re-Animator, Bride is very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum--now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first. Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers and an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements--the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun. On the DVD: Bride of Re-Animator is presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its Dolby 2.0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. --Roz Kaveney

• Anna And The King / Ever After | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Anna And The King: Academy Award winner Jodie Foster and international sensation Chow Yun-Fat star in this epic retelling of a classic true-life story. When English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens arrives in the exotic land of Siam to teach the children of King Mongkut her Western sensibilities clash with the ruler's Eastern ways. The tension builds as Mongkut learns that outside forces are conspiring against his regime. With the political intrigue set to explode Anna and th

• The Mel Gibson DVD Legacy | DVD | (09/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £61.99

  Includes the following 8 great films: Lethal Weapon Lethal Weapon 2 Mad Max Maverick Payback Tequila Sunrise What Women Want Conspiracy Theory

• Mills And Boon - Broken Lullaby | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Across the great cities of Europe genealogist Jordan Kirkland attempts to solve the riddle of her aunt's mysterious past. Cosmetics magnate Kitty Ridgewood was separated from her family almost seventy years ago during the Russian Revolution and she enlists her niece's help to find her family. Aided by handsome art dealer Nick Rostov Jordan's only clue is an old photograph of a child posed beside a music box which is adorned with a priceless Faberg'' egg...

• Various Artists - South African Freedom Concert | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £7.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (11.20%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Marking the seventh anniversary of South Africa's free elections, the 2001 South Africa Freedom Day Concert was celebrated in London's Trafalgar Square. More than 20,000 people joined Dr. Nelson Mandela for an incredible day of music and solidarity. ; ; Tracklist: The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Mbawula featuring The Manhattan Brothers), What Can I Do to Make You Love Me?, So Young, Breathless (The Corrs), Got No Flow (Lisa Roxanne), Fanta (Baaba Maal), That's the Way It Goes (Commonwealth), Lord (L...

• Serial Killers - The Real Life Hannibal Lecters | DVD | (06/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The world's fascination with serial killers has spawned hundreds of fictional madmen in novels and feature films such as Silence of the Lambs Seven Kiss the Girls and The Bone Collector. None are more notorious than Thomas Harris' diabolical creation Dr Hannibal Lecter. However before Lecter there were a select group of real life monsters that terrorized our neighbourhoods; Albert Fish Andrei Chikatilo Jeffrey Dahmer Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. Between them they claimed over 150 lives. Serial Killer - The Real Life Hannibal Lecters will take you into a world that is rarely shown on television such as the grotesque and macabre world that these monsters lived in. With never before seen footage including interviews with world renowned experts on serial killers and exclusive footage of these real life cannibals you will experience the holocaust these animals created. These killers were the models for Hannibal Lecter.