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• Black Book | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paul Verhoeven returns to his native Netherlands for this gripping WW2 thriller about a young Jewish woman out for revenge following her family's murders.

• Brush Strokes - The Complete Boxed Set | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £19.93   |  Saving you £-2.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.44

  Now available for the first time complete all six series of the much-loved comedy series Brush Strokes starring Karl Howman are now available in one DVD collection. From John Esmonde and Bob Larbey the creators of hit series Please Sir! And The Good Life Karl Howman stars as Jacko painter decorator and all-round charmer never happier than when he is in the company of the opposite sex. Somewhat naughty always good-natured Jacko lives with his married sister Jean and hangs out with the eccentric publican and wine bar owner Elmo Putney while working for Bainbridge Decorators with his side-kick Eric under the watchful and distrustful eye of his boss Lionel. Working and flirting with Lionel's secretary Sandra his daughter Lesley his wife Veronica and just about anyone else he comes into contact with from policewomen to nuns and a very persuasive italian daughter with a very protective family it's a recipe for a little love lot of laughter and forty episodes of great comedy television that feels as fresh and funny today as when it first hit the screen.

• Black Book (Dual Format Limited Edition) 101 Black Label | Blu Ray | (20/08/2018) from £18.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Title number 004 in the 101 Films Black Label range. This Limited Edition version is limited to 3000 copies and includes a slipcase and a booklet. From internationally acclaimed director Paul Verhoeven (Soldier of Orange, Elle), Black Book (Zwartboek) is an epic and moving wartime tale, in which the distinctions between good and evil become blurred by human nature. Starring Carice van Houten (Valkyrie, Game of Thrones) and Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others, Bridge of Spies), the film chronicles one woman's fight for survival and revenge as the Second World War enters its final, bloody months. September 1944. Rachel Stein (van Houten), a Dutch-Jewish woman in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, joins fellow refugees in their attempt to reach Allied territory by boat after her safehouse is destroyed by a bomb. The voyage ends in disaster when the escape is discovered by a Nazi patrol, with Rachel the sole survivor as her fellow refugees, including her own family, are ruthlessly killed. Set on revenge, Rachel joins the Resistance, adopting the identity of Ellis de Vries to mask her heritage, and infiltrating the German Security Service by seducing senior officer Müntze (Koch). As the war enters its final stages and the fight for survival intensifies, Rachel becomes entangled in a deadly web of deceit and betrayal. Brand New Extras: The Book of Verhoeven: Paul Verhoeven on Black Book Diary of a Cinematographer: Karl Walter Lindenlaub on Black Book ¢ Limited Edition Booklet: Includes Return to the Homefront: Paul Verhoeven's Black Book by Shelagh Rowan-Legg, and Scoring Black Book: A Conversation with Anne Dudley by Charlie Brigden Additional Extras: Interview with Carice van Houten (2006) Interview with Paul Verhoeven (2006) Original theatrical trailer

• Black Book | Blu Ray | (25/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Paul Verhoeven returns to his native Netherlands for this gripping WW2 thriller about a young Jewish woman out for revenge following her family's murders.

• Mission Impossible 1-5 Boxset (4K UHD) | 4K UHD | (02/07/2018) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A mission almost two decades in the making. Tom Cruise is IMF Agent Ethan Hunt, one of the greatest action heroes of all time, in the adrenaline-pumping, suspense filled blockbuster franchise MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. Filmed in the most exotic locations around the world by the biggest directors in Hollywood, this must-have 5-fi lm set will thrill any action fan. Your mission, should you choose to accept it experience the most action-packed 4K Ultra HD collection ever!

• CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND: ANNIVERSARY ED - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND: ANNIVERSARY ED (2 Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (01/01/2024) from £16.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Brush Strokes Series Three and Four | DVD | (16/04/2012) from £16.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jacko is still working at Bainbridge’s, but he’s beginning to find the flirtatious lifestyle that he’s been leading is wearing a bit thin – and Lionel’s secretary Sandra is starting to look like the one that got away… almost. There may be marriage in the air – or maybe not; and Jacko may discover that the independence he truly needs is in business, not pleasure. But where will that leave him in love and in life? Will he ever be able to shake off Lionel’s daughter Lesley? And what about good old reliable Elmo’s? Life doesn’t stand still and Jacko can’t afford to as these episodes build to an unexpected climax.

• Brush Strokes | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The fondly remembered sitcom starring Karl Howman as painter/decorator Jacko who drinks in his favourite pub run by Elmo Putney (Howard Lew Lewis) always with an eye on the ladies...

• The Fourth Man | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Only two years separate The Fourth Man, the final Dutch language movie by director Paul Verhoeven, and the explosive commencement of his Hollywood career. Controversy raged about violence in Flesh + Blood, RoboCop and everything else he made thereafter. Yet controversy has always been a part of the filmmaker's work. This savage comedy shocker could well be seen as a trial run for Basic Instinct, since it features an ice-cold seductress (Renee Soutendijk) with mysterious motivations and sexual preferences. The hallucinatory tale follows a novelist (Jeroen Krabbé) first falling for her, and then feverishly investigating whether she's a serial husband killer. The film is full of what would soon be recognised as Verhoeven trademarks: a little blasphemy, a lot of nudity, dispassionate characters and hidden agendas. One of the aspects that caught the eye of international audiences was the film's colourful lighting and camerawork. This was from Jan de Bont, who, thanks in large part to Verhoeven, would go on to direct Speed and others. Many prints of the movie were edited around the world, but it's presented here uncut. Full of symbolic flourishes and allegorical plot points, this is a dizzying display of the type of black comedy that not even Verhoeven can get away with in today's politically aware industry. --Paul Tonks

• Black Book | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £9.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (30.16%)   |  RRP £12.99

  September 1944 - Nazi Occupied Holland. When her temporary safe house is destroyed the beautiful young Jewish chanteuse Rachel Steinn and her family attempt to reach Allied territory by boat. However tragedy strikes when a Nazi patrol kills everybody onboard leaving Rachel as sole survivor. Desperate for revenge she joins the Resistance charged with infiltrating the German Security Service by seducing senior officer Muntze and soon becomes entangled in a deadly web of double-dealing and betrayal... Twenty years in the making this stunning sexy war film from the acclaimed blockbuster director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct Total Recall Starship Troopers) is an epic and moving tale of courage and emotion - played out against the dying explosive months of WWII.

• Shock Head Soul | DVD | (24/12/2012) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-2.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This brilliant study of psychosis, religious freedom and deluded fanaticism is a moving and unique film based on a real story. In 1903, Daniel Paul Schreber published a shocking and celebrated autobiography about 'madness from within'. Up until middle age he was a highly respected judge until one morning he awoke having had a dream that would eventually lead to his long confinement in an asylum. Shock Head Soul follows Schreber from respectability to madness mixing reconstruction, live-action drama and comments from contemporary pyschiatrists to plot this mesmerising real-life event.

• Soul Assassin | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £4.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (189.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Kevin Burke a young executive for a multinational investment bank is a rising star in the Rotterdam office. Rewarded for his perceptive eye and mastery of foreign languages Kevin receives the promotion he has been working for - a coveted spot on the company's internal security team. However when his girlfriend is mysteriously killed he embarks on a quest for revenge in which nothing is what it seems...

• Deep Blue Sea / Space Cowboys / Sphere | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  With a voracious trio of mako sharks wreaking havoc, Deep Blue Sea dares to up the ante on Jaws, but director Renny Harlin trades the nuanced suspense of Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster for the trickery of the digital age. In other words, why build genuine terror when you can show ill-fated humans getting torn into bloody chunks? It's inevitable that Saffron Burrows should end up in her underwear like Sigourney Weaver in Alien, but even then the movie offers a credible reason for the strip-down; that Deep Blue Sea can be simultaneously ridiculous and sensible is just another one of its shlocky charms. Space Cowboys is a slice of cornball Americana that's so much fun you'll be tempted to stand up and salute. Director and costar Clint Eastwood manages to turn what might have been ludicrous into a jubilant tribute to age and experience, and Space Cowboys succeeds as two movies in one--a comedy about retired pilots given one last shot at glory and an Apollo 13-like thriller with all the requisite heroics. Space Cowboys earns its wings, once again demonstrating Eastwood's comfort with any genre he chooses. From yet another derivative science fiction novel by Michael Crichton comes the equally derivative and flaccid movie Sphere, in which three top Hollywood stars struggle to squeeze tension and excitement out of material that doesn't match their talents. There are moments of high intensity and psychological suspense, and the stellar cast works hard to boost the talky screenplay. But it's clear that this was a hurried production (Hoffman and director Barry Levinson made Wag the Dog during an extended production delay), and as a result Sphere's look and feel is like a film that wasn't quite ready for the cameras. Though it's by no means a waste of time, it's undeniably disappointing. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Drama Blu-Ray Pack | Blu Ray | (10/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £68.99

  Into The Blue (2005): Treasure has its price in this gripping underwater thriller set off the tropical shores of the Bahamas. Four young divers discover a legendary shipwreck rumoured to contain millions in gold at the bottom of the sea. But nearby on the ocean floor a plane full of illegal cargo threatens their find and with their loyalties tested the treasure hunters soon find themselves as the hunted... All The Kings men (2006): Absolute power corrupts absolutely in writer-director Steven Zaillian's (Schindler's List) adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's classic novel All the King's Men featuring an all-star cast led by Sean Penn Jude Law Kate Winslet Patricia Clarkson James Gandolfini Mark Ruffalo Anthony Hopkins. All the King's Men charts the spectacular rise and fall of a charismatic Southern politician Boss Willie Stark (Penn). Law co-stars as Jack Burden the once idealistic now embittered ex-reporter who unwittingly fuels Stark's corrupt political ambitions. Stranger Than Fiction: Stranger Than Fiction is an inventive comedy about a novelist (Emma Thompson) struggling to complete her latest and potentially finest book - she only has to find a way to kill off her main character Harold Crick and she'll be done. Little does she know that Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is inexplicably alive and well in the real world and suddenly aware of her words. Fiction and reality collide when the bewildered and hilariously resistant Harold hears what she has in mind and realizes he must find a way to change her (and his) ending. The Pursuit Of Happyness (2006): Chris Gardner is a bright and talented but marginally employed salesman. Struggling to make ends meet Gardner finds himself and his five-year-old son evicted from their San Francisco apartment with nowhere to go. When Gardner lands an internship at a prestigious stock brokerage firm he and his son endure many hardships including living in shelters in pursuit of his dream of a better life for the two of them. Reign Over Me (2007): Adam Sandler Don Cheadle Jada Pinkett Smith and Liv Tyler star in this heart-rending story about Charlie Fineman (Sandler) who has slipped away from reality after the sudden loss of his wife and children. But Charlie's life takes a turn for the better when he runs into his old college roommate Alan Johnson (Cheadle) whose life is torn between the demands of career and family. Their renewed friendship rekindles their long-forgotten bond and both men emerge enriched and enlightened.