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• Ulee's Gold | DVD | (30/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Victor Nunez's richly photographed Ulee's Gold drew critical acclaim for Peter Fonda's and Patricia Richardson's subtle performances--and premiered as the Festival Centrepiece in 1997's Sundance Film Festival. Vividly photographed and set amid southern Florida's tupelo swamps, the film's narrative hinges on the evolution of a more-than-platonic connection between neighbours Ulysses, "Ulee" for short (Fonda), and Connie (Richardson). Best-known for her role on TV's Home Improvement, Richardson makes a satisfying foray into film with this appropriately smaller role where she manages to hatch out of potential typecasting. Fonda is independent, stubborn, and reserved Ulee anchors the narrative. He is a beekeeper whose struggling small business is all that keeps him focused in the wake of his wife Penelope's death, his daughter-in-law Helen's (Christine Dunford) drug addiction, and the de facto single-parent obligations he takes on to his adolescent granddaughters (notice the Homeric references). Soon the plot twists, however, in the sociopathy of Eddie and Ferris, friends of Ulee's jailed son--a sociopathy that is also the impetus for the family to confront its dysfunction and for Connie and Ulee to see more in each other than mere neighbourliness. Thankfully, Nunez foregoes the bathos of a Hollywood ending and leaves us satisfied on one hand with Helen's healing and Eddie's justice but uncertain, though hopeful, about Ulee's next step. --Erik Macki, Amazon.com

• Der Letzte Haufen der 7. Division | DVD | (03/09/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• In Till You Die | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Once yopu're in.... You can't get out.... Joney's a low level hired gun going nowhere fast. So when a smooth-talking criminal named Cowboy tells him that he wants to use him for a heist the eager theif jumps at the chance. There's only one problem the mark is the most viscious of all mobsters Sam the owner of Sam's Club.....

• Double Deuce | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £6.65   |  Saving you £6.34 (95.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When a young gang robs a pawnshop they discover it's a front for a mob money laundering operation and they've now become number one on the mobs and the cops ""Most Wanted"" lists

• Wild/Brother Bear | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Robin Hood:The legend of Robin Hood one of the most popular stories of all time is brought magically to life in this full length animated Disney classic. The spirit of fun and romance abounds as Robin Hood the swashbuckling hero of Sherwood Forest and his valiant sidekick Little John plot one daring adventure over another. The Sword In The Stone:A young scullery boy named Wart is taught amazing lessons by the wizard Merlin who turns him into a fish a bird and a squirrel so that he might understand the mysteries of life. Such lessons help the boy succeed where for centuries thousands of might men had failed. Whoever removes the wondrous golden sword embedded in a large stone will be crowned Arthur King of England! Brilliantly executed and peopled with unforgettable characters The Sword in the Stone is the best of both worlds: a legend and a Disney Classic!

• Casablanca -- Two-disc Special Edition | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  World War II Morocco springs to life in Michael Curtiz's classic love story. Colourful characters abound in "Casablanca", a waiting room for Europeans trying to escape Hitler's war-torn Europe.

• Au Revoir Les Enfants | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Film detailing the Nazi occupation of France during WWII and a catholic boarding school's mission to protect Jewish children. Based on the director's own experiences during the period the film tells the story of a bright young French boy who shares a room with a new arrival who is hiding from German soldiers

• 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

• Puppet Master 1 And 2 | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Puppet Master': Five psychics hear rumours that the secret of life has been discovered by Andre Toulon a puppeteer and decide to investigate. What they find are five puppets which have been specially designed to kill. 'Puppet Master 2': The group of deadly puppets are back to create more murder and mayhem. This time the victims are a team of researchers.

• The Bridge on the River Kwai (65th Anniversary Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (07/06/2022) from £79.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Summer Magic / Moon Spinner | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-4.29 (-21.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Summer Magic: Hayley Mills brings a joyful enthusiasm to this nostalgic musical and bighearted adventure. When a close-knit Boston family loses their fortune they find a wealth of family secrets young love and charming summer nights in Beulah Maine. A good-natured postmaster pretentious cousin Julia and the mysterious absentee landlord Mr. Hamilton populate their new life in a charming old yellow house. Featuring an all-star supporting cast including Burl Ives Dorothy McGuire and Deborah Walley this classic and wondrous tale will delight the entire family and belongs in every Disney collection. The Moon-Spinners: When Nikki Ferris and her aunt took a trip to a small Greek island they never expected to get involved in jewel theft and murder. A strangely reluctant innkeeper a handsome Englishmen a missing boy and a mysterious yacht all play a part in this mystery / romance based on a Mary Stewart novel.

• Freebird | Blu Ray | (02/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Three motorcycle couriers take an impromptu road trip out of the city and in to rural Wales.

• Entertaining Mr Sloane | DVD | (28/08/2017) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Adaptation of the risqué play by Joe Orton. Kath (Beryl Reid) and Ed (Harry Andrews) are a lonely middle-aged brother and sister who live together. When Kath meets Mr Sloane (Peter McEnery) in a cemetery and falls for his charms, she invites him to become a lodger. Before long, Ed has fallen for Sloane's charms also and hires him to be his chauffeur, taking an unwholesome interest in Sloane's tight leather uniform. While Kath and Ed rival for Sloane's affections, their invalid father becomes increasingly convinced that he has some connection to an old unsolved murder. Trapped between the three of them, Sloane makes a shocking decision which has unexpected results.

• Winter in Wartime | Blu Ray | (26/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• KARL DER GROSSE-CHARLEMAG - MO | DVD | (27/06/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A