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• Westworld (Steelbook--Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £21.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (25.01%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Welcome to Delos, the high-tech Disneyland for adults that Michael Crichton created for Westworld, a nifty science fiction thriller from 1973 that also marked the popular novelist's feature-film directorial debut. The movie is so named because the vacationing buddies who travel to Delos (James Brolin, Richard Benjamin) choose Westworld as their destination (the other choices being Roman World and Medieval World), where they are free to indulge their movie-inspired fantasies of the Wild West). The place is populated by perfectly humanlike robots programmed and monitored to cater to every guest's fancy, from brothel beauties to black-hatted gunslingers (such as the villain played by Yul Brynner). But fun turns into abject horror when the robots--particularly Brynner's villain--begin to malfunction and Delos turns into an amusement park that's anything but amusing. Westworld has moments of camp and the look of a low-budget back-lot production, but two decades before Crichton revamped his idea to create Jurassic Park, this movie made the most of its interesting and exciting premise. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• WITHNAIL and I Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (10/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £54.99

  The finest cult film known to humanity! Camden Town the arse-end of the sixties. Two struggling unemployed actors decide some respite is in order and so depart their miserable flat for a week in the Lake District – one that will involve rain booze minimal supplies a randy bull and an even randier Uncle Monty. Based on the real-life experiences of former actor turned writer/director Bruce Robinson Withnail & I has become one of British cinema’s most fondly remembered comedies. A cult film in the truest sense that has also become a classic. Perfectly cast – with career-defining roles for Richard E. Grant Paul McGann Richard Griffiths and Ralph Brown – and crammed with irresistibly quotable dialogue Withnail & I is a sheer delight even on the umpteenth viewing. Only 2 000 are being made available in this format – Please contact me to discuss a pre-order quantity allocation. Features: New 2K restoration of Withnail & I from the original camera negative supervised and approved by director of photography Peter Hannan High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD Presentation of both films -Original uncompressed mono 1.0 PCM audio for both films -Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing -Audio commentary by writer-director Bruce Robinson Audio commentary by critic and writer Kevin Jackson author of the BFI Modern Classic on Withnail & I Bruce Robinson’s follow-up feature How to Get Ahead in Advertising newly transferred from original film elements and approved by director of photography Peter Hannan All four original ‘Withnail Weekend’ documentaries first screened on Channel 4 in 1999 including The Peculiar Memories of Bruce Robinson which looks at the director’s career Withnail & Us which focuses on the film’s making and two shorter documentaries I Demand to Have Some Booze and Withnail on the Pier Newly filmed interviews with key members of Withnail & I’s behind-the-scenes team Theatrical trailers for both films Exclusive limited edition hardback book packaging (2 000 copies) containing new writing on the films reprints of key articles on Withnail & I deleted scenes and more across 200 pages illustrated with original production stills -More to be announced!

• Five Days of War | Blu Ray | (13/06/2011) from £13.45   |  Saving you £4.54 (33.75%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A drama set centered around the war between Russia and Georgia and focused on an American journalist his cameraman and a Georgian native who become caught in the crossfire.

• Western Classics Collection | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A collection of 7 classic westerns! Broken Arrow: By 1870 there has been ten years of a cruel war between settlers and Cochise's Apache Indians. Tom Jeffords an ex-soldier saves the life of a young Apache boy and starts to reassess his opinions of the Indians. As an ambassador of goodwill he enters Cochise's stronghold but is peace achievable? (Dir. Delmer Daves 1950 Cert. PG) Broken Lance: Tyrannical cattle baron Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) has raised his ol

• The Halls Of Montezuma | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £11.84   |  Saving you £1.15 (9.71%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Once again returning to the genre to which he was perhaps best-suited director Lewis Milestone traces the fate of a Marine platoon in the Pacific theater during WWII. The film stars Richard Widmark as the no-nonsense Lt. Carl Anderson an officer charged with the responibility of leading his unit on a scouting mission to capture prisoners from an experimental rocket-launching facility and bring them back for interrogation. Among his platoon are veterans Pidgeon Lane (Jack Palance) D

• Crimewave | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Extermination is not just a business. It's a way of life. Directed by Sam Raimi and written by the brothers Coen: Joel and Ethan. Ernest Tread called the exterminators. He had a rat in his place of business - his partner. Unfortunately the exterminators dispatched the wrong rat!

• Incredible Hulk Double Bill - The Incredible Hulk Returns / The Trial Of The Incredible Hulk | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Incredible Hulk Returns: Dr David Banner works hard on the Gamma Ray Transponder that he hopes will rid him forever of his unstoppable alter ego. The Trial Of The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk is wrongfully accused of the murder of a bystander after going to the aid of a defenceless woman who was being attacked.

• Kannibal | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Georgina Thereshkova (Linnea Quigley) is the beautiful head of a Mob crime family controlling drugs pornography and prostitution. The police are powerless to stop Georgina's criminal activities and to her family and rivals she appears all but untouchable. But a dark secret is catching up with Georgina which threatens to shatter the stability of her organisation. Quinn a figure from her past has arrived on her turf bent on revenge as he cuts a bloody swathe through Georgina's allies. Georgina's operation grows ever more vulnerable as the police investigation headed by Inspector Reed (Lucien Morgan) and Kavanagh (Steven Craine) starts to expose the full terrible nature of her crimes. KANNIBAL builds to shattering climax as the consequences of Georgina's past force a dramatic showdown between Georgina the police and the murderous Quinn.

• The League Of Gentlemen | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The League of Gentlemen is a sardonic crime drama in which Jack Hawkins plays an embittered retired army officer who recruits seven fellow ex-soldiers to carry out a bank raid with military precision. The film presents an England between post-war austerity and the more liberated 1960s where traditional moral certainties were rapidly being discarded; a London where ex-officers left on the scrapheap at war's end could justify turning their military experience to armed robbery. Unfortunately the tale is neither particularly amusing or thrilling, with an overlong central detour via an army camp prefacing the exciting heist and a largely anti-climactic ending. Nevertheless Hawkins effectively subverts his heroic officer type from The Cruel Sea (1953) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and there's excellent support from a great cast including Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough and Roger Livesey. Bryan Forbes not only wrote the cynical screenplay but costarred with wife Nanette Newman in her first significant screen role. More influential than truly classic, The League of Gentlemen has lent its name to a modern BBC comedy, an "Extraordinary" comic strip-turned-movie, and proved the template for heist films ever since, including both versions of The Italian Job (1969 and 2003). On the DVD:The League of Gentlemen is presented in an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 transfer from an excellent condition print and mostly looks and sounds fine. There's minimal print damage, though sadly Philip Green's ironically patriotic main title music suffers from significant distortion. The only extra is the original trailer, which is now something of a period piece itself. --Gary S Dalkin

• Soft Top, Hard Shoulder | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  All Gavin has to do is drive from London to Glasgow in time for his father's birthday. Easy. But nothing in Gavin's life is ever easy. First there is his car - it's slow temperamental and utterly infuriating. And then there is the hitch-hiker Yvonne - she's much the same. As they travel North they meet an extraordinary array of eccentric characters and find out a little about life... and each other.

• Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy - Limited Collector's Edition (Blu-ray + Digital Copies) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  On remote Isla Nuba entrepreneur John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) has built the ultimate theme-park, populated by genetically engineered dinosaurs painstakingly reconstructed from DNA extracted from prehistoric amber... and, of course, frogs! Adapted from Michael Crichton's novels, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park blockbusters became a cultural and commercial phenomenon thanks in part to the enduring appeal of all things prehistoric. But the films' extraordinarily realistic digital dinosaurs also showcased the spectacular computer-generated effects that have since become ubiquitous in Hollywood filmmaking. Indeed, in the years since 1993 it is debatable whether any films have revolutionised special effects to such an extent, and this DVD box set offers the perfect opportunity to relive both movies' visual and aural splendour (the original film was also the first to be released with a DTS soundtrack). Given their rather insipid human prey (including Dickie Attenborough and Jeff Goldblum) there is little doubt that the dinosaurs are the real stars, from the benign majesty of the towering brachiosaurus to the reptilian menace of the velociraptors. Most memorable of all is the T-rex, displaying a spine-chilling combination of physical ferocity and child-like bewilderment in the face of its reincarnation in the modern world. While Jurassic Park still retains a unique power and a seminal place in film history, Spielberg's The Lost World sequel exceeds its predecessor in almost every respect: the digital dinos are more populous, faster and meaner, the set-pieces have more bravura, and the special effects raise the benchmark even higher in blending CGI and live action spectacle. Overall, the first film's sense of awe and almost stately contemplation of its own visual splendour are replaced with a more visceral style and darker tone, as the raptors and rexes attack with a predatory ferociousness more reminiscent of Aliens than Godzilla. Highlights include the T-rexes' cliff-top assault on a trailer van, the trails of attacking raptors as they move silently through a field of tall grass, and the safari-style dinosaur round-up by the marauding hunters, led by a grizzled Pete Postlethwaite. --Steve Napleton

• Gladiator | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £5.00   |  Saving you £14.99 (299.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Upon the sudden death of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, his trusted and successful general Narcissus Meridas is unlawfully imprisoned and condemned to the gladiator games by Marcus's twisted son Commodus.

• The Stranger | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture. I did it to prove that I could put out a movie as well as anyone else." True, set beside Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, or even The Trial, The Stranger is as close to production-line stuff as the great Orson ever came. But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. The shadow of the Second World War hangs heavy over the plot. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi, Franz Kindler, to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. The script, credited to Anthony Veiller but with uncredited input from Welles and John Huston, is riddled with implausibilities: we're asked to believe, for a start, that there'd be no extant photos of a top Nazi leader. The casting's badly skewed, too. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as Kindler, but his producer, Sam Spiegel, wouldn't wear it. So Welles himself plays the supposedly cautious and self-effacing fugitive--and if there was one thing Welles could never play, it was unobtrusive. What's more, Spiegel chopped out most of the two opening reels set in South America, in Welles' view, "the best stuff in the picture". Still, the film's far from a write-off. Welles' eye for stunning visuals rarely deserted him and, aided by Russell Metty's skewed, shadowy photography, The Stranger builds to a doomy grand guignol climax in a clock tower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: not much in the way of extras, except a waffly full-length commentary from Russell Cawthorne that tells us about the history of clock-making and where Edward G was buried, but precious little about the making of the film. Print and sound are acceptable, but though remastering is claimed, there's little evidence of it. --Philip Kemp

• Welcome To The Jungle | Blu Ray | (14/04/2008) from £12.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (66.58%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1961 Michael Rockefeller - son of one of the most powerful men in the world - was lost during an expedition just off the shore of New Guinea. At first presumed drowned or eaten by cannibals reports of a lone white man living among the natives have led to the speculation that Rockefeller survived. Hearing of one such recent sighting - and intent on recording a million-dollar interview - two adventurous young couples set off into the remote jungle to find this man. What they meet instead is sheer absolute horror. Captured in grisly self-shot video footage their nightmare journey into the heart of evil will shock and forever haunt you.

• Expect no Mercy | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £11.19   |  Saving you £-7.20 (-180.50%)   |  RRP £3.99

• The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends Complete Box Set | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Contains all 3 volumes from this classic family program. Disc One: 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny' 'The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies & Mrs. Tittlemouse' and 'The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddleduck'. Disc Two: 'Tale of Pigling Bland' 'Tale of Samuel Whiskers' and 'The Tailor of Gloucester'. Disc Three: 'The Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle & Jeremy Fisher' 'The Tale of Mr Tod & The Further Adventures of Peter Rabbit' and 'The Tale of 2 Bad Mice & Johnny Town Mouse'.

• George Gently - Series One, Two & Three Boxed Set | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £113.38   |  Saving you £-43.39 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Award winning BBC drama set in 1960s England. Martin Shaw plays one of the unsung heroes of detective fiction Inspector George Gently whose passionate investigations reveal the dark underbelly of a society on the cusp of change. This nine disc set contains all nine feature length films from Series One Two and Three along with fascinating behind the scenes interviews and footage filmed on set.

• Casper - A Spirited Beginning / Casper Meets Wendy | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A Spirited Beginning Casper gets caught up in adventure at Ghost Central Station... Casper Meets Wendy An evil warlord discovers that a witch called Wendy is more powerful then he so he sends his minions to capture her and send her to a magical abyss but he doesn't count on the intervention of Casper...

• The Sand Pebbles | DVD | (06/05/2002) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Director Robert Wise chose to film Robert McKenna's award-winning novel The Sand Pebbles as his follow-up to the success of The Sound of Music. Shot in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the film combines historical sweep and intimate human drama in several parallel stories, all revolving around US Navy machinist's mate Jake Holman (Steve McQueen), a skilful but fiercely independent sailor who joins the "sand pebble" crew of the USS San Pablo, a Navy gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River on the eve of the Chinese revolution in 1926. The San Pablo's inexperienced captain (Richard Crenna) obsessively defends the Navy's mission-however unnecessary or unwanted--to protect American missionaries and businessmen, blind to the more dangerous implications of American involvement with China's opposing political factions. Holman is a defiant voice of humanity in this clash between outmoded values and inevitable change; his final line of dialogue ("What the hell happened?") is a tragic summation of misguided policy, expressing the film's criticism of the Vietnam War. Rather than preach, however, Wise lets McKenna's potent drama emerge from finely drawn relationships: between Holman and a young American teacher (19-year-old Candice Bergen, in her second film); between Holman and the Chinese "coolie" (Mako), whose heart-breaking fate transcends all issues of racial or political difference; and between crewmate "Frenchy" Burgoyne (Richard Attenborough) and the Chinese woman he's sworn to love and protect at all costs. Combined with the film's colourful supporting cast, adventurous scope, and climactic battle scenes, these personal dynamics bring substance and spirit to a complex story of good intentions gone awry. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Blue Collar | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Whatever became of the American dream? In Blue Collar Paul Schrader's strong directorial debut three assembly-line auto workers (Richard Pryor in one of his only serious dramatic roles Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto) are equally angry and disenchanted at factory management and their own union. They are also as the film reveals in long detailed vignettes struggling just to make ends meet. As they ruminate together on their dead-end jobs and the fears of a de