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• Look Who's Talking / Look Who's Talking Too / Look Who's Talking Now | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• The Godfather Triology | Blu Ray | (12/08/2019) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Godfather Trilogy is the benchmark for all cinematic storytelling. Francis Ford Coppola's masterful adptation of Mario Puzo's novel chronicles the rise and fall of the Corleone family in this celebrated epic. Collectively nominated for a staggering 28 Academy Awards®, the films are the winner of 9, including 2 for the Best Picture for The Godfather and The Godfather Part II. To this day the saga is rightfully viewed as one of the greatest in the history of motion pictures. Now, for true cinmea lovers, comes The Godfather Trilogy with the Corleone Legacy Family Tree, Original Theatrical Art Cards, and Collectible Portraits with Frame to complete every fan's collection.

• Robocop 3 | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Early on in Robocop 3, an action figure of our metal hero on the nightstand in a little girl's room informs us that he's now become a children's toy. The image is right on the money; despite following up two of the most violent, hilarious sci-fi/action films ever made, Robocop 3 is strictly for the kiddies. It's not just that the gore has been toned down considerably to make for a PG-13 rating; also excised is the straight-faced portrait of a world run by corporate fascism. When evil corporation OCP, and its even more evil Japanese parent company, plan to raze a Detroit neighbourhood to put up the shining new Delta City, the residents (including the aforementioned adolescent, who conveniently happens to be a computer expert) gang up to fight back, just like the angry neighbours in Death Wish V. Robocop (played this time out by Robert John Burke, Peter Weller having wisely passed) could be a hindrance to the companies' plans, so a ninja android is sent in to deal with him. Even all this could have been enjoyable, in a campy sort of way, but nothing pays off as either comedy or action--tellingly, the two big showdowns with the ninja start exhilaratingly (Robocop's clunky movements hilariously counterpoised by the android's acrobatic leaps), only to end just when they're getting good. Director Fred Dekker has some nice stylistic touches scattered about, but not nearly enough to save the film. One high note, though: the animated "Johnny Rehab" spot may be the funniest ad in the whole series. --Bruce Reid, Amazon.com

• Dark Blue World | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £9.89   |  Saving you £10.10 (102.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  While imprisioned in a labour camp in Czechoslovakia 1950 Ex-Czech pilot Franta recalls how he and his young protege fled to Britain in 1940, where they joined the RAF and flew against the Nazis.

• Onyx-15 Years of History & Violence | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £11.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (37.25%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This one of a kind DVD showcases not only fifteen years of ONYX's music videos but never before seen footage of live shows studio sessions record signings music video shoots personal moments and general chaos. Special features include five solo videos audio commentary on all seventeen videos from Fredro Starr and Sticky Fingaz Slam karaoke an exclusive photo gallery and other madface goodies. All music videos are uncensored and have been re-mastered from their original reels. ONYX's energetic raspy hardcore style introduced rap to the mosh pit. They made you want to Throw Ya Gunz. They taught you how to SLAM. They made you feel Shiftee... now you can relive the madface invasion with ""Onyx: 15 Years of Videos History And Violence"".

• Lawrence of Arabia (60th Anniversary Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (07/06/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Summer With Monika | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Released in 1953, Summer with Monika, an early Ingmar Bergman-directed melodrama, did much to establish the reputation of Swedish cinema, and perhaps Swedish women in general, as leading the vanguard in sexual liberation. The film attracted the wrath of the censors and one scene of lovemaking had to be cut. While subsequent generations will look at the film and wonder whatever the fuss was about, it retains a vivid and frolicsome sensuality, before submitting to the inevitable, Bergmanesque bleakness. The film tells the story of a young couple, Harry (Lars Ekborg) and Monika (18-year-old Harriet Andersson, with whom Bergman would fall in love) stuck in lousy jobs in Stockholm. Harry is beset by parental responsibility--his mother died young and his father is ill--while Monika is fed up with her drunken, violent father. They escape in a motorboat and to spend a blissful summer on an island in the archipelago. Once Monika gets pregnant and they're forced to steal food, however, the idyll concludes and they return to Stockholm, where the relationship disintegrates. You realise that Monika, from a large and fractious family, yearns for escapism, while Harry, who has never known true family life, longs for domestic stability. It is he who is left holding the baby. But Bergman does not quite condemn Monika, giving her one of his best scenes: in a cafe, estranged from Harry, chatting up a stranger, she stares unwaveringly and directly to camera, as if defying us to judge her. Visually ravishing, this film would have a deep impact on French New Wave cinema. On the DVD: Summer with Monika on disc offers a fine restoration of the original film, and includes notes from Phillip Strick who points out that the film is in part hymn of praise to Stockholm's beauty and was influenced by the documentary "City Symphonies" made during World War II. --David Stubbs

• Dead End | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (126.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A family find themselves on a desolate, seemingly endless country road on Christmas Eve in this unnerving slice of surreal horror.

• Gothika | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Halle Berry stars as a successful criminal psychologist who wakes up to find herself a patient in her own mental institution with no memory of the murder she's apparently committed.

• The Acrobat | DVD | (28/09/2020) from £8.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Canadian gay-themed drama written and directed by Rodrigue Jean. Hoping to buy a new apartment, businessman Christophe (Sebastien Ricard) meets Russian acrobat Micha (Yury Paulau), who has been sleeping rough in one of the unfinished apartments. As a sexual relationship develops between the two men, Micha attempts to prove that the acrobatic incident in which he broke his leg was not an accident.

• Harold And Kumar Get The Munchies | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £6.87   |  Saving you £9.12 (132.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From the makers of "Hey Dude Where's My Car?" comes the story of two twenty-something stoner room mates who set out on a quest for the perfect hamburger that turns into the trip of their lives.

• Secret Window | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £5.12   |  Saving you £4.87 (95.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp) is a best-selling author with hundreds of fans. But one of his stories holds a secret that comes to life; a secret that even he can't imagine.

• The Alamo | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £9.15   |  Saving you £5.84 (63.83%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Davy Crockett and co return to the big screen in another film version of their famous stand against the Mexican army at a fort in San Antonio, Texas in 1836.

• Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2004 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Colour, spectacle and excitement were assured ingredients at this year's 55th Edinburgh Tattoo when the largest single gathering of military musicians in the United Kingdom came together against the famous backdrop of Edinburgh Castle for Scotland's traditional showcase of music, theatre and dance.
  
  This 90-minute film contains highlights from the recordbreaking RAF themed event, including wonderful displays by the world-famous Massed Pipes & Drums and Massed Military Bands.
  
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• Black Snake Moan | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £7.54   |  Saving you £8.45 (112.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A disillusioned blues musician sets out to save a wayward youngster in this comedy romance.

• Criminal Lovers | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this French thriller from Francois Ozon Alice (Natacha Regnier) and her boyfriend Luc (Jeremie Renier) find themselves in a terrifying trap when they sneak out into the woods to cover up a crime they committed together and then cannot find their way back out. Compared to 'The Blair Witch Project' and to 'Shallow Grave' the tale is creepy and twisting involving rape murder burying dead bodies and perhaps the worst of all: getting lost in the woods...

• Agatha Christie's Death On The Nile | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £19.44   |  Saving you £-5.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Poirot (Peter Ustinov) has a set of murder suspects on a boat in the Nile after a rich heiress is killed. Can he find the culprit before they reach port?

• Alien 3 | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £4.94   |  Saving you £15.05 (304.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Directed by stylemaster David Fincher, who went on to greater things with Seven and Fight Club, Alien 3 was the least successful of the Alien series at the box-office. Ripley, the only survivor of her past mission, awakens on a prison planet in the far corners of the solar system. As she tries to recover, she realises that not only has an alien got loose on the planet, the alien has implanted one of its own within her. As she battles the prison authorities (and is aided by the prisoners) in trying to kill the alien, she must also cope with a distinctly shortened life span that awaits her. But the striking imagery makes for muddled action and the script confuses it further. The ending looks startling but it takes a long time--and a not particularly satisfying journey--to get there. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com On the DVD: The clarity of the digital picture throws light into some of Fincher's darker recesses, but is unkind to the primitive computer animation (the CGI alien is never convincing). Compared to the Alien DVD there are few extras, although a "making of" featurette that covers all three movies is included.

• Ulysses 31 - Vol. 2 | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This fantastic Japanese-French co-production was first broadcast in the 80's on Channel 4. The series is a modern retelling of Homer's 'The Odyssey' set in the 31st century. Fresh from the battle of Troy Ulysses journeys home to reunite with his wife Penelope. En route his son Telemechus is snatched by a mysterious vapour cloud and transported to the White Planet; there children are sacrificed by the natives to their lord The Cyclops. Whilst rescuing Telemachus the Cyclops is

• The Raven | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £9.78   |  Saving you £0.21 (2.15%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi star in this macabre horror classic inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Dr. Richard Vollin (Lugosi) is a brilliant but unstable surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture. He saves the life of Jean Thatcher (Irene Ware) a beautiful young socialite injured in an automobile accident and becomes increasingly attracted to her. But the girl is frightened by his advances and complains to her father Judge Thatcher (Samuel S. Hinds) who tells Vollin to leave the girl alone. When escaped killer Edmund Bateman (Karloff) approaches the surgeon for a new face Vollin agrees only after convincing Bateman to assist him in his sinister plan of revenge. The doctor ultimately becomes the victim of his own wicked schemes when Bateman realizes Vollin has no intention of remaking his disfigured countenance in this elaborately produced shocker.