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• The Cotton Club / Chaplin / Chorus Line | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Cotton Club: Welcome to the Cotton Club where crime lords rub shoulders with the rich and famous. Director Francis Ford Coppola and co-writers William Kennedy and Mario Puzo create a panorama of love crime and entertainment centered on the legendary Harlem Nightclub owned by Owney Madden (Bob Hoskins). Cornet player Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere) gets a job in Harlem's famous Cotton Club while his brother gets a job as Dutch Schultz's (James Remar) bodyguard. Dwyer falls for Schultz's mistress Vera Cicero (Diane Lane) and finds himself caught in the middle of mobster rivalry in this stylish gangster film. Chaplin: Directed by Sir Richard Attenborough and starring Robert Downey Jr and an extraordinary cast 'Chaplin' is a loving grand-scale portrait of the Little Tramp's amazing life and times. His poverty-stricken childhood in England comes to life along with his friendships with Mack Sennett (Dan Aykroyd) and Douglas Fairbanks (Kevin Kline) his many wives and scandalous affairs and his relentless pursuit by J. Edgar Hoover. Chaplin is the larger-than-life story of the actor behind the icon and a stunning depiction of a bygone era when Hollywood was at its most glamorous. Chorus Line: An adaptation of one of the most successful and unusual musicals of all time. A group of Broadway hopefuls auditioning for a place in the chorus line of a new show relate the stories of their lives -- their disappointments their dreams and the professional rejections and successes. Among the dancers trying to make the grade is the director's former lover a woman who once made it big and now would be grateful just to dance in the chorus.

• Studio Classic: Classic Encounters | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £16.15   |  Saving you £18.84 (116.66%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Anastasia (Dir. Anatole Litvak 1956): The world will never know if the real Russian princess Anastasia met her death at the hands of red Russian rebels or if she lived on. Based on fact this story is set against the mystery surrounding this elusive puzzle. Ingrid Bergman portrays the destitute woman who remarkably resembles the true Princess Anastasia. She is chosen by two Russian courtiers to masquerade as the princess in order to gain ten million pounds. Meeting scepticism

• Blood on the Moon | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Robert Mitchum stars in this atmospheric cowboy classic. Jim Gray (Mitchum) has been summoned by his old friend Tate Rilling (Robert Preston) who needs another set of guns to help in a dispute with his neighbour John Lufton (Tom Tully). But Tate's got more on his mind than a simple feud: his scheme is to drive Lufton off his land and he doesn't care how he does it. Jim reluctantly supports Tate at first but disgusted by his greed switches sides. Joining Lufton - and his feisty daughter Amy (Barbara Bel Geddes) - Jim finds himself squaring off to his old friend.

• Cannonball (Region 2) | DVD | (01/06/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Plunkett And Macleane | DVD | (24/12/2001) from £14.92   |  Saving you £-1.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  No-one will be neutral about Plunkett and Macleane. Either you go with its notion of cheeky, stylish fun or you want to grab first-time director Jake Scott by the ear and slap him silly. Your inclination may depend on whether you recall his dad Ridley's own directing debut, The Duellists (1977), and savour the correspondences. Dad took a Joseph Conrad tale of the Napoleonic Wars, cast it with the ultra-contemporary Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel, and filmed it with a swooping, mobile camera. Son Jake has made a feisty period piece about a pair of thieves (Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller) in 1748 London and filled it with blatant anachronisms. A decadent aristo (Alan Cumming), asked whether he "still swings both ways," replies, "I swing every way!" A ballroom full of revellers dances the minuet (or is it the gavotte?) while our ears--if not theirs--are filled with a trance ballad. And so forth. Is this sophomoric? Maybe. But it's also often fresh and inventive. Why shouldn't a filmmaker be allowed to speak directly to a contemporary consciousness, even flaunt it, as long as he also delivers startling imagery and convincing period detail? The solid cast includes Michael Gambon as a corrupt magistrate, Ken Stott as a very nasty enforcer named Mr Chance (who favours a thumb through the eye socket and into the brain as a mode of execution) and Terence Rigby as a philosophical jailer. Even Liv Tyler looks more interesting than usual. In the end pretty frivolous, Plunkett and Macleane is nonetheless a lively debut. --Richard T Jameson, Amazon.com

• D-Day The 6th Of June | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £6.48   |  Saving you £9.50 (272.21%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The great love story of the Great War. Hollywood once again looks back at the undeniably compelling story of D-Day this time through the device of two officers facing the coming battle one American and one British recalling their love for the same woman.

• World War II Classics - Above Us The Waves / In Which We Serve | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Even if all written and documentary evidence were to disappear, you could still get a real insight into Britain's involvement in the Second World War through feature films such as Above Us the Waves (1955) and In Which We Serve (1942). Directed by Ralph Thomas, Above Us the Waves tells of a Royal Navy mission to sink the "invincible" German battleship Tirpitz off the Norwegian coast. John Mills is calm and confident as the mission commander, with strong support from John Gregson and Donald Sinden--all treated by the German personnel as fellow gentlemen when captured. Despite stirring music from Arthur Benjamin, the action sequences are visually no more than adequate, and the film is only a partial success compared with the naval and domestic drama of the earlier In Which We Serve. Noël Coward wrote the screenplay and musical score, co-directed (with David Lean) and gave possibly his finest screen performance as the commander of HMS Torrin. His speech to the survivors of the sunken ship, as they prepare for reassignment, is just the highlight of a film packed with memorable visuals and perceptive dialogue. On the DVD: Though there are no additional features the black-and-white prints have come up excellently in the 4:3 video aspect ratio. There are 15 access points for each film, though the lack of subtitles is an unfortunate omission. These are period pieces that capture the mood of an era.--Richard Whitehouse

• Big - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (12/05/2014) from £24.90   |  Saving you £-2.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Two-time Oscar Winner Tom Hanks received his Best Actor Nomination for his disarming turn as a 12-year-old man-child in Penny Marshall's timeless 'hilarious' (Newsweek) delight. Josh wishes he was big. When he wakes up the next day he's an adult! Now Josh must hold down a job please a new boss (Robert Loggia) and navigate a relationship with a beautiful woman (Elizabeth Perkins). Soon Josh just wants to be a kid again but can he?

• Hour Of The Gun | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In Tombstone justice is settled with a gun. Guns don't stay in their holsters long when vigilantes Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday meet outlaws in the Wild West. James Garner (Maverick) and Oscar winner* Jason Robards (All the President's Men) saddle up as the legendary gunslingers in this riveting fact-based story that is the closest filmmakers have ever come to the truth of the OK Corral gunfight. With the dust barely settling at the OK Corral the notorious Clanton brothers unleash their revenge. One by one they gun down Wyatt Earp's brothers - but they won't have the last shot. Using his US Marshal's badge as his authority and Doc Holliday (Robards) as his deputized right-hand man Earp begins a zealous pursuit of vengeance that the west will never forget.

• Eaten Alive | DVD | (13/11/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Meet The Maniac & His Freinds. 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).

• Rear Window | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £12.58   |  Saving you £-6.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Jason Kemp a successful architect (Christopher Reeve) is left quadriplegic after a car accident and to pass the time begins to 'spy' on his neighbours in the apartment block opposite. One day he believes he has evidence that a murder has taken place: that sculptor Jason Thorpe a violent philanderer has killed his wife Ilene. Kemp confides in his co-worker Claudia (Daryl Hannah) and then Detective Moore (Robert Forster) who is sceptical about this theory especially after Ilene reappears in the apartment! Kemp knows she is not the same woman but cannot prove it. Who is she and why is she pretending to be Ilene? A psychological thriller that will keep you guessing till the very end.

• Godsend | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When a couple bring their dead child back to life through an experimental cloning process, they're not prepared for their new, much altered son. Chilling horror starring Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos.

• The Exterminator | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Christopher George Robert Ginty and Samantha Eggar star in filmmaker James Glickenhaus' riveting story of a Vietnam vet gone berserk after a New York street gang leaves his best friend paralysed. Driven by revenge John Eastland becomes a one-man task force who annihilates his buddy's attackers then sets out to bring down the city's entire dark underworld. To the public he's a hero but to law enforcement officials The Exterminator is a psychopath capable of dangerously underminin

• Meantime | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Meantime, made in 1983, was only Mike Leigh's second film to reach the big screen, though by now he was far from a novice director. Yet 10 years after his first movie, Bleak Moments (1971), he couldn't get funding for a single cinematic feature and was obliged to make films for television. Meantime, first shown on Channel 4, was given a limited theatrical release, heralding his eventual return to the cinema. The title is a double-edged pun. It suggests the waiting-around no-time-in-particular that the characters inhabit, but it's also Leigh's barbed comment on the mean-spirited politics of the Thatcher era, when millions of people were tossed on the scrapheap of unemployment. Leigh has sometimes been accused of caricaturing and being condescending to his characters, but Meantime is notable for wry compassion in its portrayal of a bunch of no-hopers stuck in their East End limbo. Not a lot happens. Mark (Phil Daniels) and his retarded brother Colin (Tim Roth) hang about the streets and pubs, banter with their skinhead mate Coxy (Gary Oldman), half-heartedly chat up local girls, bicker with their parents. Their aunt Barbara--who bettered herself and moved to the relative poshness of Chigwell--offers Colin a job helping her decorate, but he backs out of it. Nobody's going anywhere much. But the view's not totally forlorn. Leigh leaves us with a brief, unexpected moment of warmth and solidarity between the two brothers. On the DVD: It's paltry stuff. A so-called "trailer" proves to be a plug for other DVD releases in the same series. Otherwise it's just a scene menu, and English subtitles for the hard of hearing. The early 80s TV-quality images are badly shown up by the DVD's visual acuity. --Philip Kemp

• Most Wanted | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Comic actor Keenen Ivory Wayans made a creditable effort to expand his career horizons by writing the script for this action thriller, in which he also stars. Wayans plays US Marine Sgt James Dunn, a military hero who refuses an order to shoot a young shepherd during the Gulf War. His insubordination leads to a lethal struggle with a superior officer and a subsequent murder conviction against Dunn.Plucked from his death sentence by a covert unit of Marines, however, Dunn soon finds himself in a shadowy world of undercover wars under the command of one Lt Col. Grant Casey (Jon Voight). Offered freedom in exchange for aiding a mission against a corrupt industrialist (Robert Culp), Dunn agrees and then discovers he has actually been set up to take the fall for an assassination. Suddenly, he's the most wanted man in the world, with police, the military, the Secret Service and legions of reward seekers chasing him around Los Angeles. Jill Hennessy stars as an eyewitness who happened to catch the killing on videotape and can clear Dunn if she would only cooperate with him--a problem, since he has kidnapped her. Directed by David Glenn Hogan, Most Wanted works just fine as a well-oiled action piece with a capable star and competent action sequences. The story ideas (especially Dunn's Rambo-esque flight through the city and his reliance on esoteric survival skills) feel overly familiar, but that only makes Most Wanted all the more enjoyable as a pot-boiler instead of a serious original. --Tom Keogh

• Once Upon a Time in America (Limited Edition Steelbook--Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Once Upon a Time in America has a chequered history, having been chopped from its original 229-minute director's cut to 139 minutes for its theatrical release. The longer edition presented here benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in flashback by an ageing Jewish gangster named Noodles (Robert De Niro). On the other hand, it's almost four hours long, and this sometimes-indulgent Sergio Leone film is no Godfather. Still, it is notable for the contrast between Leone's elegiac take on the gangster film and his occasional explosive action, as well as for the mix of the stoic, inexpressive De Niro and the hyperactive James Woods as his lifelong friend and rival. --Marshall Fine

• The Square Ring | DVD | (27/01/2020) from £6.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Boxing drama following the lives of five different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

• Criterion Collection: Red Shoes | Blu Ray | (20/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Two For The Seesaw | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jerry Ryan an unhappily married laywer is going through a messy divorce from his wife in Omaha and moves to New York for a fresh start. Lonely during his first month's stay he then meets a liberal young woman named Gittel an impoverished dancer from Greenwich village. Nature takes its course as the unlikely relationship develops between the conservative lawyer and the liberal free-spirited dancer. Based on the two character play by William Gibson and with wonderful black and white

• Prom Night | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If you're not back by midnight... you won't be coming home! A little girl is accidently killed playing a game with other kids in an old deserted schoolhouse. The kids swear to silence but someone saw them do it. Six years later the same kids are anticipating the senior Prom and the night of their life. However that shadow from the tress - the one who saw their deed - has chosen this night to seek revenge. It is going to be a Prom no one will forget...