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• Straw Dogs | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  According to critic Pauline Kael Straw Dogs was "the first American film that is a fascist work of art". Sam Peckinpah's only film shot in Britain is adapted from a novel by Gordon M Williams called The Siege of Trencher's Farm which Peckinpah described as a "lousy book with one good action-adventure sequence". The setting is Cornwall, where mild-mannered US academic David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) has bought a house with his young English wife Amy (Susan George) in the village where she grew up. David is mocked by the locals (one of whom is Amy's ex-boyfriend) and treated with growing contempt by his frustrated wife, but when his house comes under violent siege he finds unexpected reserves of resourcefulness and aggression. The movie, Peckinpah noted, was much influenced by Robert Ardrey's macho-anthropological tract, The Territorial Imperative. Its take on Cornish village life is fairly bizarre--this is a Western in all but name--and many critics balked at the transposition of Peckinpah's trademark blood-and-guts to the supposed peace of the British countryside. A scene where Amy is raped caused particular outrage, not least since it's hinted she consents to it. Not for the first time in Peckinpah's movies there are disquieting elements of misogyny, and it doesn't help that the chemistry between Hoffman and George is non-existent. (Impossible to believe these two would ever have clicked, let alone married.) But taken as a vision of irrational violence irrupting into a civilised way of life Straw Dogs is powerful and unsettling, and the action sequences are executed with all Peckinpah's unfailing flair and venom. Oh, and that title? A quote from Chinese sage Lao-Tze, it seems, "The wise man is ruthless and treats the people as straw dogs." The film was long withheld from home viewing in Britain by nervous censors, but this release presents it complete and uncut. --Philip KempOn the DVD: Straw Dogs is as jam-packed a disc as is possible for a film made before the days of obligatory "making of" features. Both the sound and visuals have transferred well, and, like the script, have aged well. There's a bumbling original interview in the style of Harry Enfield's Mr. Cholmondley-Warner, along with stills and original trailers. The new material includes a feature on the history of the film's censorship and commentaries by Peckinpah's biographers musing over interesting fan-facts (though none of the speakers have any first-hand experience of the making of the film). However, Katy Haber's commentary, and interviews with Susan George and Dan Melnick, offer a much more in-depth and intimate portrayal of the man and the making of the film. --Nikki Disney

• Empire: The Complete Sixth Season | DVD | (23/06/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Joyride | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Delta Force 2 - The Colombian Connection | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £6.80   |  Saving you £6.19 (91.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When notorious drug lord Ramon Cota captures a team of American narcotics agents as well as a member of Colonel Scott McCoy's elite Delta Force commando unit and imprisons them in his remote San Carlos compound the Delta Force charges into action waging war against Cota’s powerful cocaine empire. Against all odds McCoy and his squad must fight their way to a blistering final battle to free the hostages and destroy the ruthless criminal mastermind in this lightning-paced and

• Crimson Tide | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £29.68   |  Saving you £-11.69 (-65.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  No-nonsense combat veteran Captain Frank Ramsey (Hackman) and his newly instated first officer Ron Hunter (Washington) are caught in the middle of a global crisis. On board a nuclear submarine they're heading for Russia where radical nationalists are threatening to start World War III. But when they receive an unverified message to launch their missiles Ramsey and Hunter clash over the validity of the orders.

• Fame - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £29.99 (149.95%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Fame: Season 1 & 2 Box Set

• Hollywood Strangler Meets The Skidrow Slasher | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Hollywood Strangler has been so hurt by a former girlfriend that he sees all women as teases deserving of a sinister final lesson. His strangulation spree of beautiful models commences even though he's continually seeking that elusive different woman. At the same time Hollywood is experiencing a throat-cutting explosion of the local vagrant population hence the Slasher. What will happen when the two killers meet?

• Urban Two Pack | DVD | (11/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Blue Hill Avenue: Four friends, Tristan (Allen Payne), Simon (Michael Taliferro), E-Bone (William L. Johnson) and Money (Aaron D. Spears), are street smart kids growing up in the tough Mattapan section of Boston in the 1980s. Starting out as small-time dope dealers on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square, they eventually go to work for Benny (Clarence Williams III), a major player in the Boston crime scene. As the four friends grow up and become the biggest dealers in the city, things become.

• SPECIES 3 - RETAIL DVD | DVD | (01/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Beauty is only skin deep. The war between two species heats up in this thrilling third installment of the Species franchise. and this exclusive unrated edition boasts additional footage that's likely to cause a meltdown. Featuring a sex young cast led by newcomer Sunny Mabrey, this riveting film is the most jarring, action-packed chapter in the sci-fi series yet! In the ongoing fight for supremacy between mankind and human-alien hybrids, a fatal hybrid weakness has given humans the advant.

• Nights of Cabiria | DVD | (06/04/2020) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Later remade in Hollywood as Sweet Charity, Fellini's Nights of Cabiria is an often humorous, poignant, unflinching and vivid portrait of one woman's picaresque existence and her perseverance through adversity. Starring Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina, as the irrepressible protagonist who previously appeared in a brief scene in The White Sheik, Nights of Cabiria marked Fellini's last foray into gritty neo-realism before venturing into the surreal satire and dream logic of La Dolce Vita and Eight And A Half. Extras: Interview with film historian Phil Kemp Original Trailer

• Le Cercle Rouge | DVD | (23/11/2020) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ALAIN DELON, GIAN MARIA VOLONTÈ and YVES MONTAND star as the elegant, mis-matched trio, locked in an elaborate and dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the inscrutable police inspector (ANDRÉ BOURVIL), who is determined to foil their attempts to pull off the perfect crime, despite being drawn irresistibly to his prey. As the day of the heist dawns, the story unfolds, with all four players determined to cheat fate. Extras: The Perfect Circle Under the Name of Melville Interview with Bernard Stora Interview with José Giovanni Ginette Vincendeau Presentation of Le Cercle Rouge

• Persian Lessons | DVD | (08/02/2021) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by true events, Persian Lessons is a powerful and harrowing story of survival from director Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog) anchored by exceptional performances. Nazi-occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Beats per Minute, The Intruder) is arrested by SS soldiers alongside fellow Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch (Lars Eidinger, Personal Shopper, High Life). As the unusual relationship between the two men begins to incite jealousy and suspicion, Gilles becomes acutely aware that one false move could expose his swindle.

• Indivisible | Blu Ray | (29/01/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Il trittico - Giacomo Puccini | DVD | (28/07/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Vinyl: Season 1 | Blu Ray | (06/06/2016) from £36.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Vinyl is an exciting new drama series that explores the drug- and- sex fueled music business of the 1970s, played out through the story of a NYC record executive trying to revive his label and keep his personal life from spiraling out of control. A dizzying ride through America's music-business landscape at the dawn of punk, disco, and hip-hop, the story is seen through the eyes of Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale, Emmy winner for Boardwalk Empire), a major-label executive with a dark past and darker present. With his company, American Century Records, facing a number of client crises, and with his A&R team having trouble landing important new acts, Richie, newly sober after years of drug and alcohol abuse, looks to sell his label to a West German conglomerate. But the deal ends up being overshadowed by a front-page scandal involving the murder of a sleazy Long Island radio-company owner, a crime in with Richie was directly involved. Facing jail time, not to mention the loss of his disenchanted wife Devon (Olivia Wilde) and their two kids, Richie ends up reverting to his old vices, but has an epiphany during a punk-rock concert at a Greenwich Village theater where the roof caves in on him - literally.