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• Newcastle - Australia | Blu Ray | (24/05/2010) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (-28.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring hot up and coming stars including Xavier Samuel from Twilight Saga: Eclipse a blistering soundtrack and stunning cinematography Newcastle is the perfect antidote should you feel that summer just doesn't last long enough... 17-year-old beach hunk Jesse and his brothers live in the small port town and surfing hot-spot that is Newcastle. A rising surf star he spends time chasing waves all the while living in the shadow of older brother Victor who insists he compete and win at the town's annual surfing competition. Younger brother and emo teen Fergus in the meantime has a major crush on Jesse's surf buddy Andy. When Jesse Fergus Andy and their beach bum friends go on a camping trip out on the dunes confrontations arise and the youngsters are forced to come to terms with burgeoning emotions life-changing decisions and a surf duel they didn't see coming. Taken as sheer sensory spectacle Dan Castle's colourful flick is a Top Gun with waves; a Rocky with board fins... - Film Threat

• Looney Tunes Baby Face Quad | DVD | (22/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Baby Bugs Bunny Baby Bugs is smarter than the average baby. He is curious, playful, and a prankster. The leader of the group, sweet, smart, he's a shining example to the others of how to get out of trouble. In this set of adventures you see Bugs lead his friends on adventures out of the nursery and into the great big world outside... come and join the gang. Baby Tweety Baby Tweety loves nothing more than swinging on his little perch and singing songs. But don't rattle his cage! He is adorable until he's threatened, and when that happens, he knows how to take care of himself. In these great fun episodes Baby Tweety and his Looney Tunes babes discover bath times, making music and even meet a mad Martian! Baby Sylvester Baby Sylvester needs all of his nine lives, as he's always letting his curiosity get him into trouble. It's fast and furious fun as he playfully attempts to catch Baby Tweety for a tasty toon snack. These light-hearted adventures see Baby Sylvester turn green at a new arrival; the babies mess with magic, toys, hairstyles and eventually make their own fairytale endings. Baby Taz Baby Taz is always on the move, running, spinning, and eager to try and eat whatever's put in front of him. He's easily the dirtiest of the Baby Looney Tunes, but just try catching him for a bath. Here we see Taz in high-speed action at the babies' birthday party, having fun with cardboard boxes, learning lessons at a pretend school and from Granny as he breaks his favourite toys.

• Rules Of Engagement | DVD | (28/09/2015) from £5.39   |  Saving you £7.60 (58.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Rules of Engagement opens strongly with a Vietnam battle sequence that sets the stage for the rest of the story. But then director William Friedkin knows a thing or two about staging harrowing action sequences, and if you don't believe that, you've never seen The French Connectionor To Live and Die in LA. Unfortunately, Friedkin can't do much about the implausible plot that follows, in which the Marine commander, played by the always-terrific Samuel L Jackson, is accused of slaughtering innocent civilians (who actually were shooting at him and his men). He must rely on an old Marine buddy--a lawyer played by Tommy Lee Jones--to get him through the jury-rigged court martial. But the central premise--that an evil presidential aide would perjure himself and destroy evidence simply to maintain good relations with US allies in the Middle East, rather than defending a highly decorated Marine colonel who risked his life--is inevitably hard to swallow. And the ending is even flimsier. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Slacker | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  SLACKER (slak'er) n. 1. A person who evades duties and responsibilities; 2. a new generation of young people primarily centered around college campuses that rejects the values of the generation before them; 3. the title of a film directed by Richard Linklater.

• S.W.A.T. / Bad Boys / Striking Distance | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A triple bill of high-octane action adventures featuring S.W.A.T. Bad Boys and Striking Distance. S.W.A.T.: An imprisoned drug kingpin offers a huge cash reward to anyone that can break him out of police custody and only the LAPD's Special Weapons and Tactics team can prevent it. Bad Boys: When 0 million of seized heroin is stolen from the Miami Police lockup Detectives Lowrey (Will Smith) and Burnett (Martin Lawrence) Miami's most mismatched cops are called upon to solve the case before the FBI close their department. Julie (Tea Leoni) is their only lead to the case but will only speak to Lowrey. As he is not around when she calls Burnett impersonates his cool slick partner. A hilarious role reversal begins in order to retain her trust. From then on it's a race against time as the trio dodge the mob and retain their charade while putting pressure on every low-life in Miami's underworld to track down their man. Striking Distance: Tom Hardy (Bruce Willis) is a fifth generation Pittsburgh cop. Formerly a homicide detective he publicly challenged the police department including several of his family members about the identity of the serial killer who took his father's life. Convinced that a newly active serial killer is the same gunman who murdered his father - despite the fact that another man is already behind bars for that crime - Hardy is working out of his jurisdiction to catch the killer. The maverick cop finds himself at odds with his new partner (Sarah Jessica Parker) as he skirts around the system and defies his uncle (Dennis Farina) his father's successor as the Chief of Homicide.

• Aika And Aine | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  TIME & MATTER: Come see the utopia of plastic architecture. Discover the challenging world of Finnish scientist artist and philosopher Erkki Kureniemmi inventor of DIMI (Digital Musical Instruments) series. Witness mysterious scientific experiments enjoy a symphony for matrix-printers and see a team of robots challenge the reigning world champion football team. Enter the unique and futuristic world of Finnish filmmaker Mika Taanila.

• Happily Ever After - Collection 2 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Three animated adventures featuring the classic tales: Goldilocks And The Three Bears The Pied Piper The Fisherman And His Wife

• Pulp Fiction (Classic Collection) | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award 1995, this boldly inventive and expertly orchestrated crime saga is now available as a two disc DVD set that includes such extras as deleted scenes, interviews and a documentary.

• After Passion | DVD | (05/09/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Old Fashioned Way | Blu Ray | (09/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Love Tomorrow | DVD | (02/12/2013) from £4.59   |  Saving you £13.40 (74.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  After an ex-ballet dancer's life is turned upside down after receiving devastating news, a chance encounter with a charismatic dancer marks the start to a fragile friendship that might turn into something more profound.

• In My Country | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £31.99

  Noted filmmaker John Boorman (DELIVERANCE, THE GENERAL, THE TAILOR OF PANAMA) addresses the complex emotional scars leftover from Apartheid in South Africa in IN MY COUNTRY. The events of the film take place during hearings conducted in 1996 by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The purpose of the hearings was to shed light on the atrocities committed during the time of persecution. Anna Malan is a native Afrikaner poet whose is covering the hearings for state radio. During the proceedings, she meets Langston Whitfield an American covering the matter for the Washington Post. Initially, the two don't get along. He thinks she shares collective guilt for cruelty that was carried out; she thinks he's a stubborn and ignorant American. Getting past those unfounded first impressions, the two fall in love. Adapted from author Antjie Krog's memoirs COUNTRY OF MY SKULL, the film features strong performances from both leads and by Brendan Gleeson in a supporting role as Colonel De Jager. IN MY COUNTRY asks an intriguing question about who should take the blame for what happened; the leaders, the soldiers, or the people who watched it happen and never protested.

• Mad Max | UMD | (01/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The story of Mel Gibson's stately anti-hero begins in Mad Max, George Miller's low-budget debut, in which Max is a "Bronze" (cop) in an unspecified post-apocalyptic future with a buddy-partner and family. But, unlike most films set in the devastated future, Mad Max is notable because it is poised between our industrialised world and total regression to medieval conditions. The scale tips towards disintegration when the Glory Riders burn into town on their bikes like an overcharged cadre of Brando's Wild Ones. Representing the active chaos that will eventually overwhelm the dying vestiges of civil society they take everything dear to Max, who then has to exact due revenge. His flight into the same wilds that created the villains artfully sets up the morally ambiguous character of the subsequent films. --Alan E Rapp, Amazon.com

• World War Dead - Rise Of The Fallen | Blu Ray | (04/05/2015) from £8.01   |  Saving you £14.97 (298.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A TV documentary crew travel to the battlefields to unearth new mysteries surrounding one of history’s bloodiest battles. However what they unearth is far from a new story of those that died 100 years ago - but an army of the undead.

• True Romance | UMD | (12/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• Van Helsing | UMD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Like a roller coaster ready to fly off its rails, Van Helsing rockets to maximum velocity and never slows down. Having earned blockbuster clout with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, writer-director Stephen Sommers once again plunders Universal's monster vault and pulls out all the stops for this mammoth $148-million action-adventure-horror-comedy, which opens (sans credits) with a terrific black-and-white prologue that pays homage to the Universal horror classics that inspired it. The plot pits legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) against Dracula (the deliciously campy Richard Roxburgh), his deadly blood-sucking brides, and the Wolfman (Will Kemp) in a two-hour parade of outstanding special effects (980 in all) that turn Sommers' juvenile plot into a triple-overtime bonus for CGI animators. In alliance with a Transylvanian princess (Kate Beckinsale) and the Frankenstein monster (Shuler Hensley), Van Helsing must prevent Dracula from hatching his bat-winged progeny, and there's so much good-humored action that you're guaranteed to be thrilled and exhausted by the time the 10-minute end-credits roll. It's loud, obnoxious, filled with revisionist horror folklore, and aimed at addicted gamers and eight-year-olds, but this colossal monster mash (including Mr. Hyde, just for kicks) will never, ever bore you. --Jeff Shannon

• 13 Going On 30 / Legally Blonde / Saved | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  13 Going On 30 (Dir. Gary Winick 2004): It is 1987 and Jenna is a 13-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood. The problem is that adulthood is just not arriving fast enough! She's suffocated by her dorky parents ignored by the hip kids in school and the cute guy she has a crush on barely knows her name. No longer content to spend time only with her best friend and neighbour Matt Flamhaff Jenna invites the cool kids to her 13th birthday party which turns into a disaster. Jenna is humiliated when she's locked in the closet for a game of 'Seven Minutes In Heaven' and everyone deserts her. Alone in the closet Jenna makes an earnest wish. If only she could be all grown up she'd have the life she's always wanted... The next day when Jenna emerges from the closet it's 2004 and she's 30 years old. What's more she is a gorgeous successful woman with a great job and a fabulous Fifth Avenue apartment. She is finally cool and popular. The only hitch? She has absolutely no idea how she got there! Initially frightened but gradually enchanted by her new life Jenna soon realizes there's something missing--Matt. When she looks him up she is horrified to discover that she and Matt are no longer in contact and furthermore he is engaged to be married. Jenna learns that 'having it all' is not enough and decides to take a second chance at first love... Legally Blonde (Dir. Robert Luketic 2001): Reese Witherspoon gives a glittering performance as Elle Woods the natural blonde sorority queen who enrolls at Harvard Law School. Expecting her boyfriend Warner Huntington III (Matthew Davis) to propose Elle is mortified when instead he says he needs somebody serious as his wife. When Elle discovers Warner's brother is engaged to a law student she discovers enrolling at Harvard might be the way to prove she is serious. She studies for the LSATs submits a video essay - in which she appears in a sequined bikini - and miraculously is accepted. At first Elle is rebuked by Professor Stromwell (Holland Taylor) and is the target of snide comments from other students. But gradually it becomes clear that Elle is no fish out of water; she is smarter more driven and more likely to survive in the rarefied Harvard atmosphere than anyone else. Witherspoon gets fine support from Selma Blair as Warner's new fiancee Jennifer Coolidge as a beautician Victor Garber as an unscrupulous professor Ali Larter as a client from Elle's sorority and Luke Wilson as a lawyer fascinated by Elle's unconventional approach. Saved (Dir. Brian Dannelly 2004): Mary a devout Christian girl with a seemingly perfect life is distraught when she finds out that her boyfriend Dean may be gay. Dean is sent to a 'degayification' centre and Mary ends up pregnant after seeing a vision of Jesus in her pool. It's during this time that she turns to the 'misfits' at her local school...

• Dead Creatures | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £4.92   |  Saving you £15.07 (306.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story of a group of zombie girls living in London who must feed on human flesh to survive whilst trying to avoid the zombie hunter.

• Evil Aliens | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £5.19   |  Saving you £4.80 (48.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In an attempt to rescue their falling ratings, Weird Worlde presenter Michelle Fox (Emily Booth) takes a film crew to deepest darkest Wales to investigate claims of alien abduction. The television crew don't believe a word of the story until the real stars arrive. They're aliens and they're not friendly. To survive, the crew will have to arm themselves with whatever weapons they can find, ranging from hammers to machetes, chainsaws to rotary tillers and even a combine harvester! Will they survive the alien threat? Who will be abducted, mutilated, probed and decapitated?

• The Michael Haneke Trilogy | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Seventh Continent (1989): Described by Haneke as a reflection on ""the progressive emotional glaciation of Austria "" The Seventh Continent focuses on George (Dieter Berner) a middling engineer and his sardonic wife Anna (Birgit Doll). Unable to empathize with their daughter's compulsion for lying and uninterested in each other's emotional well-being the couple turns their pedestrian way of life into a vortex of subjective malaise. And while a recurring ad for an Australian vacation stands as a signal of potential blissfulness the couple's perfunctory melancholy eventually materialized into barbarism. Based on a true story and filmed as a succession of beautifully composed and yet mundane tableaux this unsentimental depiction of individual and family collapse ""ranks among the most truly terrifying in modern cinema"" (Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune). More than a metaphor of hope and escape The Seventh Continent is a meticulous dive into the postmodern disregard of affect - and a stark look at lives severed from feelings. Benny's Video (1993): Winner of the FIPRESCI award given by the International Federation of Film Critics in 1993 Benny's Video is the second installment of Michael Haneke's (The Piano Teacher Cache) ""emotional glaciation"" trilogy. Written and directed by Haneke the bone-chilling story opens with the amateur footage of a pig being slaughtered with a butcher gun. This unceremonious recording is owned by 14-year-old Benny (Arno Frisch; Haneke's Funny Gamers) a boy whose preferred mediums of experience are video cameras action movies and the surveillance monitors placed in his room. Accustomed to a trite routine of school activities daily visits to a local video store and hours in front of his bedroom TV Benny finds himself enthralled by his tape of a slaughtered swing. Staying alone is his parents' apartment Benny eventually brings home an unknown girl immediately exposing her to the rapturous videotaping. Then after revealing that he stole the gun that took the pig's life Benny coldly shoots his guest and turns his unwrought curiosity into a slaughter video franchise. ""I once saw a TV program about the tricks they use in action films "" says Benny. ""It's all ketchup and plastic."" By colliding the differences between frames and flesh Haneke's sophomore theatrical release offers a lucid depiction of human beings deprived of their capacity to empathize with - and be hurt by - others. 71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance (1994): With his signature cold cerebral style his long slow takes and meticulous action Austrian director Michael Haneke presents a series of isolated scenes of unrelated people that culminates in an act of sudden and senseless violence in a bank. 71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance delves into some of the prevalent themes of Haneke's earlier films The Seventh Continent and Benny's Video: existential isolation the oppressive force of contemporary western civilization the effects of television on human experience and sudden inscrutable violence. Similar to Antonioni Haneke has become one of the contemporary cinema's greatest provocateurs deliberately withholding crucial information and denying any audience expectation. The eerie and beautiful 71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance hovers between a terrible nihilism and a tenuous humanism.