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• The Mission - Two Disc Special Edition | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) directs this fuzzy effort at a David Lean-like epic without David Lean's sense of emotional proportion. Lean's most important screenwriting collaborator, Robert Bolt, in fact wrote The Mission, which concerns a Jesuit missionary (Jeremy Irons) who establishes a church in the hostile jungles of Brazil and then finds his work threatened by greed and political forces among his superiors. Robert De Niro is briefly effective as a callous soldier who kills his own brother and then turns to Irons's character to oversee his penance and conversion to the clergy. The narrative and dramatic forces at work in this movie should be more stirring and powerful than they are--the problem being that Joffé is too removed from them to allow us in. --Tom Keogh

• Farewell My Lovely | DVD | (12/11/2012) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The first of two Raymond Chandler adaptations starring the mighty Robert Mitchum, Farewell, My Lovely put a capital M (for Marlowe, menace and murder) back in the Los Angeles neo-noir. It's 1941 in the city of angels - the police are corrupt, the hotel rooms are cheap and criminality infuses every transaction. Private detective Philip Marlowe (Mitchum) has been hired by an ex-convict looking for his old girlfriend. He's also investigating the murder of a jewellry-loving client. The two cases start to connect while Marlowe develops an attraction to the married but seductive Helen Grayle (Charlotte Rampling). The body count mounts and it looks like Marlowe is next. Dick Richards' unflinching and deadly serious adaptation (the third) of Chandler's novel glistens with a suitably pulpy sheen courtesy of Chinatown and Scarface cinematographer John A. Alonzo's lens work and David Shire's ice cool score, while Mitchum dominates as the rheumatic, world-weary Marlowe.

• Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This lavish two-hour concert special, originally produced for HBO, offers ample proof of Janet Jackson's fierce ambitions. Whitney, Celine and Mariah can run circles around her small, sweet voice, but Janet brings a tough, muscular power to her live performances that none of those peers can approach, storming through myriad set and costume changes, and sustaining an aerobic pace through elaborate dance routines. As captured during this Madison Square Garden presentation of her Velvet Rope tour, Janet Jackson is, ahem, very buff indeed, not just in her well-toned physical health, but in her vocal attack.The Velvet Rope tosses up rappers, hard-rock heroism, melting romantic pop and Jackson's own brand of soft-core erotica, but the show transcends those components in its broad sense of spectacle. The star fronts a formidable battalion of dancers, singers and musicians to make her points, and while it's obvious that the musical performances have been nipped, tucked and polished to an acceptable sheen, Janet earns her props through sheer willpower.Ranging across Jackson's best-known songs from the last decade, the production is noteworthy for its intricate choreography and massive settings, in which the star seeks to match the big-budget sweep of her music videos. The live troupe is formidable, composed of a crack band and a large cast of nimble dancers, and Janet keeps pace with her aerobic presence. We'll leave it to social scientists to ponder the significance of the "Rope Burn" sequence, in which an ecstatic male fan is lashed to a chair and gets to watch his favourite sex object pole-dance. If this stalwart is any indication, Janet has already won the hearts (and more) of her faithful. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Eaten Alive | Blu Ray | (13/11/2017) from £14.84   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Meet The Maniac & His Freind. Nearly a decade before he donned Freddy Krueger's famous red and green sweater, horror icon Robert Englund delivered a supremely sleazy performance in Eaten Alive another essay in taut Southern terror from Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Deep in the Louisiana bayou sits the ramshackle Starlight Hotel, destination of choice for those who like to check in but not check out! Bumbling Judd, the patron of this particular establishment, may seem like a good-natured ol' Southern gent but he has a mean temper on him, and a mighty large scythe to boot Oozing atmosphere from its every pore (the entire film was shot on a sound-stage which lends it a queasy, claustrophobic feel), Eaten Alive matches The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for sheer insanity helped in no small part by some marvellous histrionics from Chain Saw star Marilyn Burns and William Finley (Phantom of the Paradise).

• Alice's Adventures In Wonderland | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £35.99   |  Saving you £-19.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A young Fiona Fullerton heads an all-star British cast in this double BAFTA-winning musical comedy; widely regarded as the most lavish and faithful adaptations of Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy novel. Filmed to mark the centenary of the completion of the Alice novels this extravagant British spectacle which brings to life Sir Tenniel's famous illustrations with a bewitching score from James Bond composer John Barry and BAFTA-winning cinematography by Geoffrey unsworth (2001: A Sp

• Star Trek Voyager - Complete | DVD | (01/08/2011) from £169.99   |  Saving you £30.00 (17.65%)   |  RRP £199.99

  The much anticipated release of the first season of Star Trek Voyager saw the franchise boldly do what it does best and provide fans with fantastically scripted highly entertaining science-fiction. Star Trek: Voyager made sci-fi history when it became the first Star Trek series to feature a female Captain.

• Scrooged | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Most critics couldn't get behind Bill Murray's modern retelling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, finding it too unfocused at times and not nearly wicked enough. Still, if you are a Murray fan, you have to enjoy his deliciously nasty portrayal of the world's meanest TV executive, who has his cathartic moment one cold Christmas night in New York City. The various ghosts lead him on a ghost-town tour of Manhattan, with stops at holidays past, present and future and a Kumbaya moment when Al Green and Annie Lennox sing "Put a Little Love in Your Heart". The effects are otherworldly, but one wishes the writing were as sharp as Murray's edgy portrayal. --Marshall Fine

• Manhattan Project | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The switch is set... The clock has started... Time's running out! A 16 year old student Paul Stephens (Chris Collet) has high hopes of winning first prize at a science fair with his fully-operational A-bomb! Needless to say the army are not happy and set out to disarm the prospective 'terrorist' before he can harm the good people of America. When the bomb is activated only Dr. Mathewson (Lithgow) can save Paul... and prevent Armageddon.

• The Devil's Due | DVD | (16/06/2014) from £3.29   |  Saving you £16.70 (83.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After a mysterious lost night on their honeymoon a newlywed couple finds themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy. While recording everything for posterity the husband begins to notice odd behaviour in his wife that they initially write off to nerves but as the months pass it becomes evident that the dark changes to her body and mind have a much more sinister origin.

• Stalky and Co. | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £6.99   |  Saving you £18.00 (257.51%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Behind the doors of Study No. 5 in Mr. Prout's house, you will find a typical group of private schoolboys. You'll also find revenge, hatred, violence and passion. A stunning adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name, this series follows a group of boys in an unnamed school known as the ˜Coll'. Meet Stalky, the charming but ruthless leader of the pack, M'Turk, a comic John Ruskin devotee, and Beetle, the literary brains of the group, widely known to be based on Kipling himself. The boys are determined to make their mark on the world, defend the honour of their house and leave the school as men of valour and achievement.

• Forty Guns | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An authoritarian rancher (Stanwyck) rules an Arizona county with a private posse of her hired guns. However when a new lawman arrives to settle the disturbances in the State the cattle queen finds her emotions interfering with her business for the first time...

• Island of Death | Blu Ray | (25/05/2015) from £15.59   |  Saving you £9.40 (60.30%)   |  RRP £24.99

  THE LUCKY ONES GOT THEIR BRAINS BLOWN OUT!! Welcome to Mykonos the holiday destination of choice for sun sea and slaughter! From cult director Nico Mastorakis Island of Death is a travelogue of atrocities with scenes so strong that the British Government was once compelled to ban it as a “video nasty”. Arriving on the idyllic Greek island Christopher and Celia appear to be every inch the perfect handsome young couple. Little do the welcoming locals realise that they are in fact a pair of murderous degenerates determined to spread their own particular brand of perversion across the island. DIY crucifixions opportunistic bestiality sexual peeing and murder by all conceivable forms ensue – including death by makeshift blowtorch samurai sword dump truck and more! Shocking brutal and totally politically incorrect in its outlook Island of Death is a gruelling cinematic experience devised by director Mastorakis to out-do the excesses of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre which he was hugely inspired by. Now fully uncut and newly-restored from the original negative fans can enjoy Island of Death in all its sleazy lurid glory. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Brand new restoration from the original negative High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new interview with director Nico Mastorakis The Films of Nico Mastorakis – the director hosts this documentary covering his varied career in cinema including a look at Island of Death Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film illustrated with original archive stills and posters

• Eaten Alive | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £13.60   |  Saving you £-7.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The renowned Italian director Umberto Lenzi tells a tale of cannibals at play in the Jungles of New Guinea starring Robert Kerman Janet Agren and Mel Ferrer. When a young woman's sister disappears the only clue to her whereabouts is a glimpsed appearance in a bizarre film showing scenes of cannibalism left behind by a hitman murdered on the streets of New York. The trail soon leads to New Guinea where the subject of the film the self-styled spiritual leader ""Mr Jonas"" is te

• All Creatures Great And Small : Complete BBC Series 5 | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £7.95   |  Saving you £20.03 (403.83%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based on James Herriot's autobiographical best sellers 'If Only They Could Talk' and 'It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet' the long running TV series All Creatures Great and Small continued to satisfy the Herriot hysteria of the British public.

• R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten -- Salzburg Festival/Solti | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  A performance of Richard Strauss' opera 'Die Frau Ohne Schatten' performed at the Salzburg Festival in 1992.

• The Picture Of Dorian Gray | Blu Ray | (18/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• False Arrest | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £7.26   |  Saving you £-1.27 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Accused of murders she did not commit a woman fights desperately to prove her innocence and hold her family together in this gripping true story of passion and betrayal. Joyce Lukesic seems to have it all: luxurious lifestyle loving husband terrific children. But a triple mafia-style murder brings this secure world of privilege to an abrupt end as an ambitious state investigator links Joyce to the crimess. Despite her pleas of innocence she is brought to trial. Her dream life now a living nightmare Joyce finds herself incarcerated alongside hardened criminals - and unable to trust even those closest to her. Somehow she must find the inner strength to survive the ordeal take on a hostile justice system and reunite her shattered family. Based on a true story...

• Meet the Parents / Meet the Fockers / Little Fockers | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Titles Comprise:Meet The Parents: First comes love. Then comes the interrogation!Male nurse Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) is poised to propose to his girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo) during a weekend stay at her parents' home. But here's the catch... he needs to ask her father first. Alas, the fur flies as Jack Byrnes, Pam's cat-crazy, ex-CIA father (Robert De Niro), takes an immediate dislike to her less-than-truthful beau. Greg's quest for approval gets seriously sidetracked as Murphy's Law takes over and a hilarious string of mishaps turn him into a master of disaster and total pariah in the eyes of the entire family... all except for his shell-shocked girlfriend, who can't believe she still loves her one-man wreaking crew.'Meet The Parents', from the director of Austin Powers, is an uproarious blockbuster hit that bombards you with one laugh after another, as true love tries to conquer all, against all the odds!Meet The Fockers: And you thought your parents were embarrassing.Domestic disaster looms for male nurse 'Greg' Focker (Stiller) when his straight-laced, ex-CIA father-in-law (De Niro) asks to meet his wildly unconventional mom (Streisand) and dad (Hoffman). It's family bonding gone hysterically haywire in this must-see comedy!Little Fockers: Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) has finally begun to earn the respect of his ex-CIA father-in-law, Jack Byrnes (Robert DeNiro) but one important test still lies ahead: will Greg prove that he has what it takes to be the family's next Godfocker ... or will the circle of trust be broken for good?Returning co-stars Owen Wilson, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand are joined by newcomers Jessica Alba, Laura Dern and Harvey Keitel in this hysterical family affair.

• The Hireling | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An insightful examination of class barriers in England in the 1920s, following the romance between a wealthy young widow and her hired chauffeur. While recovering from a nervous breakdown, she starts a love affair with the chauffeur, but after she begins to recover her mental stability, the barriers rise once again.

• All Creatures Great And Small - Series 7 - Complete | DVD | (26/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based on James Herriot's autobiographical best sellers If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet the long running TV series All Creatures Great and Small is back with Series 7!