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• Metropolis/M - Ultimate Box | DVD | (22/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Metropolis: Set around the year 2000 a mammoth city is ruled by the super-efficient industrialist Jon Fredersen (Alfred Abel) and on the surface appears to be a utopian dream with wealthy inhabitants living in palatial apartments set in colossal glass and concrete spires. But underground it's a different story - armies of slaves work gruelling shifts to maintain the luxurious lifestyles of their masters. The workers a subhuman species of sluggish creatures are led by the saintly Maria (Brigitte Helm) who urges them not to rebel but to wait patiently for the arrival of the mediator. Fredersen kidnaps Maria and orders mad scientist Rotwang (Rudolf Klien-Rogge) to create a robot replica to take her place. His plan is doomed when the evil mechanical Maria incites the massed workers to revolt and destroy everything in sight... Taking 16 months to film with a cast of 37 383 and costing over million at 1920s prices everything about this epic German science-fiction film which was inspired by the towering Manhattan skyline is gigantic. Although director Fritz Lang hated the ending of his film it was an instant hit with Adolf Hitler and Goebbels who first saw it in a small German town. When they came to power in 1933 they asked Lang to make prestige pictures for the Nazi party. He packed his bags and left for Hollywood the same day. On its first release it was a box-office flop and nearly bankrupted its financiers UFA Germany's largest film production company. Metropolis is now a monument to Fritz Lang's artistic vision and film craftsmanship. M: Like a brand the letter M has made its mark on film history with its disturbing theme having lost none of its impact or relevance. Sinister dark and foreboding M tells the story of Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) - child molester and murderer. Tension builds - a child late home another child missing. Posters reveal the fate of earlier victims and the police seem to have few clues as to the perpetrator of the crimes. Gangsters beggars and petty criminals incensed by both the crimes and the police crackdown track the killer themselves. Cornered caught and dragged off to face an equally barbaric form of justice Beckert endures his own personal torment. As with his earlier classics Die Nibelungen and Metropolis Lang collaborated on the script with his wife Thea von Harbou in what was to become his most stark and uncompromising film. Allegedly based on the story of Peter K''rten the Monster of Dusseldorf M remains one of the most chilling serial-killer films ever produced.

• The Very Best Of Karate Clashes | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Karate tournaments had long been considered rather old-fashioned good for those competing but baffling to an audience reared on televised boxing. With International success as fighters and Karate in their blood Joe Long & Paul Alderson (Fighters Inc) modernised Karate tournaments for a mainstream audience and TV through a ground-breaking initiative known as 'The 3on3'. This electrifying team challenge took the hottest teams gave them only three men per team and made Karate fast thrilling and exciting right to the last second as the total points accumulated were all that counted. It was soon followed by the headline grabbing 10K Karate Clash due to the fact that the winner of the 32 man tournament walked away with a cool ''10 000 a prize unheard of in Traditional circles. Fighters Inc Karate now sell out high profile venues and fighter's queue up to be on the roster. Featuring the cream of Karate's elite the 10K was an instant winner and the event perceived as one of the highlights of the International calendar.

• Slipstream | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  He's got 10 minutes to change the past or his future is history. Stuart Conway (Sean Astin) invents a time-travel device that allows people to travel back in time for 10 minutes. Driven by his desire to get a date and make a success of himself he plans to commit a bank robbery. When Conway decides to test his time-travel gadget he stumbles upon a bank heist in progress led by malevolent Englishman Winston Briggs (Vinnie Jones). When the device falls into the hands of Briggs Conway must work together with FBI agent Sarah Tanner to prevent Briggs from creating havoc.

• Daydream Believer | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Nell (Miranda Otto) always loved horses more than she loved people until she meets a millionaire playboy (Martin Kemp). He's the kind of guy women always fall for she's the kind men fall over. Romatic fairytale comedy.

• Daydream Believer | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Daydream Believer: Nell (Miranda Otto) always loved horses more than she loved people until she meets a millionaire playboy (Martin Kemp). He's the kind of guy women always fall for she's the kind men fall over. Romatic fairytale comedy. Spotswood: Wallace is an efficiency expert managing the high profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernisation he advocates as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.

• Sadomania | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Previously banned in the UK! In all the annals of exploitation cinema there has never been anything quite like Sadomania: take a luscious young bride (former Playboy centrefold Ursula Buchfellner) thrust into a brutal prison camp run by a sadistic female warden (the stunning transsexual adult film star Ajita Wilson). Add generous helpings of lesbian lust bestial perversion and some extreme violence. Then mix in a jaw-dropping performance by the film's controversial direct

• Strictly Ballroom | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  DVD Buena Vista, 5037115032737, 1992 Region 2 PAL

• Jacques Offenbach; Walter Felsenstein: Ritter Blaubart | DVD | (01/03/2021) from £33.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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• The Tin Drum | Blu Ray | (11/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Tin Drum is the newest entry into Umbrella's sub-label 'World Cinema' directed by Volker Schlöndorff. This drama is an adaptation of the 1959 novel The Tin Drum by Günter Grass and was mostly shot in West Germany. The film also won the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and Best Foreign Language Film at the 1980 Academy Awards.When Oskar Matzerath (the extraordinary David Bennent, just twelve at the time) receives a tin drum for his third birthday, he vows to stop growing there and then and woe betide anyone who tries to take his beloved drum away from him, as he has a banshee shriek that can shatter glass.As a result, he retains a permanent child's-eye perspective on the rise of Nazism as experienced through petit-bourgeois life in his native Danzig, the ˜free city' claimed by both Germany and Poland whose invasion in 1939 helped kick-start World War II.With the help of Luis Buñuel's favourite screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, director Volker Schlöndoff turns Günter Grass' magical-realist masterpiece into a carnivalesque frenzy of bizarre, grotesque yet unnervingly compelling images as Oskar turns his increasingly jaded eye and caustic tongue on the insane follies of the adult world that he refuses to join.BANNED IN OKLAHOMA (2004) A film by Gary D. Rhodes: A documentary that covers the 1997 Oklahoma confiscation of the film The Tin Drum due to a judicial ruling of child pornography, and the six years of legal wranglings that ensuedAn Interview by Volker SchlondorffVolker Schlöndorff on the Director's CutVolker Schlöndorff on the Making of The Tin Drum, Cannes 2001 (French with English subtitles)Theatrical Trailer (English subtitles)