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• The Dark Half | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Although it lacks the creepy subtleties of Stephen King's celebrated novel, George Romero's underrated adaptation of The Dark Half is among the best films based on King's fiction, with Romero taking care to honour the central theme while serving up some gruesome gore in the film's much-criticised finale. Inspired by King's own admission that he wrote several novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, The Dark Half explores the duality of a writer's impulse, ranging from literary respectability to the viscerally cathartic thrills of exploitative pulp fiction. Author and teacher Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton) finds himself torn between those extremes when he "kills" his profitable alter ego, George Stark (the bestselling dark half to Thad's light), who then assumes evil, autonomous form (again played by Hutton) to defend lethally his role in Thad's creative endeavours. Forced to wrestle with this evil manifestation of his own unformed twin, Thad must fight to protect his wife (Amy Madigan), their twin babies and himself. While Romero skilfully develops the twin/duality theme to explore the writer's dilemma, Hutton is outstanding in his dual roles, playing Stark (in subtly fiendish makeup) as a redneck rebel with a knack for slashing throats. Julie Harris adds class in a supporting role, and horror fans will relish Romero's climactic showdown, in which swarms of sparrows seal Stark's fate. It favours a pulp sensibility with clunky exposition to explain Stark's existence, but The Dark Half is a laudable effort from everyone involved. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Pardon the Expression - The Complete Series | DVD | (12/12/2011) from £22.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (42.88%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A spin-off from Coronation Street, this sitcom follows the mixed fortunes of former Weatherfield boutique owner Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe). In his new position as assistant manager at a Dobson and Hawks chain store, the punctilious but ambitious Mr. Swindley seizes upon every opportunity to scale the social heights - arranging everything from intimate dinner parties to glittering charity galas and swinging teenage boutiques.Featuring scripts from an award-winning team that included Coronation Street contributors Harry Driver and Vince Powell, as well as noted playwright Jack Rosenthal, Pardon the Expression helped to define the type of comic role for which BAFTA winner Arthur Lowe would be most fondly remembered: that of the pompous, quietly floundering buffoon. Betty Driver - soon to be installed behind the bar of the Rover's Return - also stars as canteen manageress Mrs. Edgeley, with Dad's Army favourites John Le Mesurier and John Laurie, and Coronation Street stars Julie Goodyear and Amanda Barrie also making appearances.

• The Hills Have Eyes (2006) | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A road trip goes terrifyingly awry when a family become stranded in a government atomic zone.

• Amityville 3 | DVD | (16/10/2000) from £8.97   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.17%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The story highlights an investigation which unleashes the evil in the basement of the world's most haunted house. A magazine writer's investigation into a s''ance turns to horror when an abandoned well beneath the basement floor turns out to be the gateway to Hell.

• Amityville 3: The Demon | DVD | (18/06/2012) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  John Baxter (Tony Roberts), an investigator of psychic frauds for Reveal magazine, unmasks a fake medium racket operating in the Amityville house. Baxter then discovers the property is going cheap due to the house's reputation and buys it, sceptical of its history. But once moved in, he is hard pressed to find explanations for a series of supernatural events. Before long the evil in the basement awakens to claim even more innocent victims. Is the Amityville house really the gateway to hell?

• Verdi: Simon Boccanegra -- Metropolitan Opera/Levine | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A performance of the Verdi opera 'Simon Boccanegra'. Conducted by James Levine.

• Down By Law | DVD | (31/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law is in the same minimalist, oddball, black-and-white groove as his classic of American independent cinema, Stranger than Paradise (1984). The setting is Louisiana, where two losers (musicians Tom Waits and John Lurie) find themselves stuck in a jail cell together. One day they are joined by a boisterous Italian (Roberto Benigni), and the chemistry changes--suddenly an escape attempt is on the horizon. Conventional drama is not Jarmusch's intention; one of the emotional high points of this film is the three guys marching around their prison cell shouting, "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Yet the deadpan style creates its own humorous mood, underscored by melancholy (also underscored by the music of Lurie and the gravel-voiced songs of Waits). This was the first American film for Italian comedian Benigni, (Life is Beautiful), and he lights it up with his effervescent clowning. Jarmusch has said that Down by Law forms a loose trilogy with Stranger than Paradise and the subsequent Mystery Train (1989)--a triptych of disaffected, drifting life in the United States. Few filmmakers have ever surveyed ennui so entertainingly. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Bullfighter and the Lady (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (01/08/2022) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Product Features American sportsman Johnny Regan (Robert Stack, Written on the Wind) goes to a bullfight while holidaying in Mexico and witnesses the great matador Manolo Estrada (Gilbert Roland, She Done Him Wrong) in action. The two men meet later that evening, and Johnny becomes entranced by Anita (Joy Page, Casablanca), a friend of Manolo's. Impressed by the world of bullfighting, and seeking to impress Anita, Johnny becomes Manolo's pupil so that he, too, may become a champion torero. Produced by John Wayne, and based in part on Budd Boetticher's experiences as a novice bullfighter, Bullfighter and the Lady was initially released in a shorter 87-minute cut, reputedly edited by John Ford. In 1986, with the aid of Boetticher and Stack, the complete 124-minute version was restored, revealing the film to be a true masterpiece. Both cuts are presented on this edition, alongside Boetticher's final work as a director, the 1985 documentary My Kingdom For which is part autobiography, part history of the bullfighting art of rejoneo. Product Features High Definition presentation Two presentations of the film: the complete 124-minute version, restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive; and the original 87-minute theatrical cut Original mono audio Audio commentary with critics and authors Glenn Kenny and Farran Smith Nehme (2022) My Kingdom For (1985): Boetticher's final film as director, a partly autobiographical documentary about bullfighting, featuring Bullfighter and the Lady actor Robert Stack Interview with Mary Boetticher (2022) An Evening with Budd Boetticher (2001): audio recording of the great director in conversation with film preservationist Robert Gitt New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Limited edition booklet featuring a new essay by Matthew Thrift, an archival letter from Budd Boetticher discussing his love of bullfighting, archival profiles of Katy Jurado, an overview of contemporary critical responses, new writing on My Kingdom For , and full film credits. UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies for the UK All extras subject to change

• Sex Traffic | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (32.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Elena and Vara believe they are leaving their home in Moldova one of the poorest countries in Europe for a better life in London. However they soon realise that they have in fact been sold to traffickers and are being taken to the dark and seedy side of the capital to work as sex slaves. Daniel Appleton (Simm) is a researcher and investigator for London-based charity Speak For Freedom investigating the plight of girls sold into sexual slavery. A chance meeting with Elena changes Daniel's life forever as he uncovers a potentially explosive corruption scandal involving Kernwell a private US contractor supplying troops to the international peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. When the girls' story reaches Madeleine Harlsburgh (Wendy Crewson) the wife of Kernwell's chief she starts to suspect that Kernwell employees may themselves be trafficking women. As she seeks out the truth she finds herself forced to choose between her husband's reputation and her family's happiness. The interweaving strands of this story combine in a single explosive narrative that exposes the shocking and all too real network of sex trafficking. Winner of 8 BAFTAs including Best Drama Serial and Best Actress for Anamaria Marinca.

• Haven | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £4.95   |  Saving you £-2.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  For 1000 survivors of the Holocaust Ruth Gruber was their only hope. During WW2 in Nazi occupied Europe Ruth risked her life to help the Jewish victims escape to the United States. Based on a true story.

• Atlantic City | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  French New Wave director Louis Malle made two pieces of memorable Americana in mid-career, Atlantic City (1980) and Pretty Baby (1978). Atlantic City stars Burt Lancaster in one of his greatest screen performances: as an ageing crook now working the numbers racket from a seedy apartment in the casino town of Atlantic City. Susan Sarandon is a waitress whose brother is on the run from the mob, having stolen a cache of drugs. She and Lancaster form an odd but engaging couple and hatch a plot to beat the odds stacked against them. Atmospheric, bittersweet, with lots of character and some neat action: it all adds up to a pretty classy offering. On the DVD: Unfortunately, the picture and sound quality on the DVD are only average. The image is 14:9 ratio and has been taken from a print of variable quality in which some reels are barely adequate. There are no additional features. --Ed Buscombe

• Switching Parents | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'Gregory K' is a 12-year old boy who made history. Abused and neglected by his parents he became a celebrity when he took them to court and pleaded to be ""divorced"" from them so that he could be adopted by his loving foster parents. We see the emotional pressure put on Gregory himself as he is torn between his loyalty to his loving but alcoholic mother and his own need for happiness and security.

• H.R. Pufnstuf - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 To 7 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £9.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  H.R. Puff 'n' Stuff stars Jack Wild as Jimmy a young boy who comes into the possession of a magical talking flute named Freddy. When Jimmy is kidnapped and taken off to Living Island by the evil witch Witchiepoo (Billie Hayes) it is down to the local town mayor a six-foot tall dragon named H.R. Pufnstuf (Roberto Gamonet) and his deputies Cling and Clang to save the day. This release features episodes 1 to 7 of Sid and Marty Krofft's much loved and phenomenally successful TV sho

• The 70s | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £15.80   |  Saving you £-9.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• 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...

• Just Ask My Children | DVD | (13/05/2002) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-15.98 (-803.00%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A family are falsley accused of child abuse and find themselves guilty until proven innocent while their lives fall apart around them.

• Land Of The Dead | HD DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An all-new chapter of horror is about to begin... George A. Romero's Land of the Dead is the acclaimed director's long-awaited return to the genre he invented beginning with the seminal Night of the Living Dead followed by Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead. In Romero's harrowing newest vision the world (as humankind has known it) is merely a memory. In its place is the never-ending nightmare existence of us-the living-versus them-the walkers. What's left of mankind is cordoned off behind the walls of a fortified city while the walking dead roam the vast wasteland beyond. The few wealthy and powerful try to maintain an illusion of life as it was dwelling high above the city in the exclusive towers of Fiddler's Green the last bastion of the ruling class. On the streets below however the remaining less fortunate of the city's inhabitants eke out a hard-scrabble life seeking what little solace they can in the vices available-gambling flesh trade drugs-anything that offers even a fleeting respite from the hell their lives have become. Both the lofty heights of Fiddler's Green and the demoralizing lows of the city below are lorded over by a handful of ruthless opportunists led by Kaufman (Dennis Hopper) who keeps his hands in everything from real estate to less above-board pursuits. To bring food and other essential supplies to the occupants of the city and to allow the Green's well-to-do to acquire the scarce luxury items to which they were once accustomed a hardened group of mercenaries-headed by Riley (Simon Baker) and his second-in-command Cholo (John Leguizamo)-run retrieval missions outside the city protected by their massive armored vehicle Dead Reckoning. Riley and Cholo like Kaufman are in it for the money which they hope to use for their own escapes- Riley to the North with promises of a world without fences and freedom and Cholo to the luxury of Fiddler's Green far away from the violent life he has known. While Kaufman and his employees concern themselves with commerce life is changing both within and beyond the walls of the city. Unrest and anarchy are on the rise among the city's disenfranchised and outside the army of the dead is changing evolving learning to organize and communicate. When Cholo commandeers Dead Reckoning intent on extorting millions out of Kaufman and his cronies Riley and his ragtag group-including Slack (Asia Argento) and Charlie (Robert Joy)-are called into action to stop Cholo and in the process protect the city and its population from the growing army of evolving zombies storming its weakening perimeter.

• Pootie Tang | DVD | (23/12/2002) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Women can't resist him. Evil can't withstand him. He's the too-hip hero with a style and a language all his own! Based on the hilariously unintelligible character who first appeared on ""The Chris Rock Show "" Pootie Tang (Lance Crouther) is a hit-record-singing criminal-empire-busting rabbit-fur-shirt-wearing superhero idolized by kids and love-starved women everywhere. But when Pootie's one-man war against greed injustice and unwholesome consumer products starts cutting into pro

• K9 Complete Box Set | DVD | (11/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  K9 The Complete Collection is TV's Most loved Robot dog K9 blasts back into action via a Space Time Manipulator and arrives in the late 21st Century in a London scarred by Alien Intrusion and Government rule through a Cybernetic Police Force.K9 is a cybernetic construct from the 50th Century and has the appearance of an earth dog both in shape and size. He arrives at the home of Professor Gryffen, a renowned cybernetics and temporal dynamics expert who is working on the Alien Space-Time-Manipulator (STM) which opens a portal to anywhere in space and time. K9 is following a group of rogue Aliens, Jixen Warriors who attack Gryffen and a couple of teenagers; Starkey a homeless rebel and Jorjie, a very capable intelligent young girl. To save them K9 sacrifices himself and explodes, soon followed by his regeneration thanks to a strange alien device implanted in his mainframe. The new look K9 can now hover and fly and has more capabilities than ever before. K9 loses his long term memory and begins a quest to not only protect humanity but to discover more about his time and Space travelling past. The year is 2059 and the Earth has suffered at the hands of natural disasters and the world governments have developed cybernetic technology and replaced human police and security forces with Cybernetic Civil Pacification Corps (The CCPC) who are controlled by the sinister Department .The Department have divisions run by Inspectors who control Public Order and Alien and Paranormal activity.Alongside Gryffens errand boy, Darius the teens are destined to become K9's companions in the battle against repression by the Department and the ongoing intrusion by Alien Life forms.The series features many new and bizarre Alien menaces from beyond Time and Space as well as some evil home grown human adversaries.

• Pardon The Expression - Series 1 | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £8.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (55.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pardon The Expression is the spin-off from Coronation Street which follows Leonard Swindley after his run of bad luck in Weatherfield as he moves on to become assistant manager of a branch of Dobson and Hawks stores.