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• Mine Own Executioner | Blu Ray | (09/03/2015) from £6.39   |  Saving you £8.60 (57.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  With compelling sympathetic performances from double Oscar nominee Burgess Meredith and accomplished Irish actor Kieron Moore this powerful psychological drama shows the almost super-human demands of a profession that ranks amongst the most challenging. Adapted from his own novel by BAFTA-winning author and screenwriter Nigel Balchin Mine Own Executioner is presented in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements. Meredith stars as Felix Milne a lay psychiatrist in post-war London who is enlisted to treat Adam Lucian a fighter pilot deeply traumatised by his experiences in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Beleaguered by emotional problems of his own Milne embodies the mixture of dedication self-distrust and self-criticism that characterises someone with a genuine vocation for the psychiatrist's work; but is he qualified to treat a patient as disturbed and potentially destructive as Adam? Special Features: Image Gallery Promotional Material PDFs

• Withnail and I + How to Get Ahead in Advertising | Blu Ray | (09/02/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Camden Town the arse-end of the sixties. Two struggling unemployed actors decide some respite is in order and so depart their miserable flat for a week in the Lake District – one that will involve rain booze minimal supplies a randy bull and an even randier Uncle Monty. Based on the real-life experiences of former actor turned writer/director Bruce Robinson WITHNAIL and I has become one of British cinema’s most fondly remembered comedies. A cult film in the truest sense that has also become a classic. Perfectly cast – with career-defining roles for Richard E. Grant Paul McGann Richard Griffiths and Ralph Brown – and crammed with irresistibly quotable dialogue WITHNAIL and I is a sheer delight even on the umpteenth viewing.

• A Fish Called Wanda | Blu Ray | (06/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An all-star comic cast featuring Kevin Kline, who won* an Oscar for his role, joins Monty Pythoners John Cleese and Michael Palin (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian) and sexy Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies ) in a film so stuffed to the gills with laughs, you'll fall for it hook, line and sinker! Four conniving jewel thieves, three Yorkshire terriers, two heaving bosoms and one proper British barrister. It all adds up to a nonstop barrage of...outrageous plot twists and over-the-top performances when a girl called Wanda (Curtis) tries to cheat her Nietzche-quoting boyfriend (Kline), an animal-loving hit man (Palin) and an embarrassment-prone counsellor (Cleese) out of a fortune in jewels in this hilariously funny farce!

• Initial D Movie Collection BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (06/01/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When an unplanned street duel launches tofu delivery driver Takumi Fujiwara into the world of high stakes street racing, the competition isn't going to know what hit them. The son of another legendary driver, the unassuming Takumi quickly becomes the downhill racing phenomenon to beat, with a line of challengers as long as the deadly Mt. Akina road itself! There's no time to blink. No chance to second guess your strategy. The streets of Japan become a deadly arena for an incredible battle where if you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough! Hold onto your breath as the legendary series that introduced the sport of drift racing to the west is reinvented in a series of new feature films that will strip the surface from the blacktops.

• Martin Scorsese Presents: World Cinema Foundation: Volume One - Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) | Blu Ray | (25/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Dry Summer A brutal naturalist melodrama Metin Erksan's masterful Dry Summer [Susuz yaz] which won the Golden Bear at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival returns to the spotlight in a new restoration after decades of suppression by Turkish authorities: an arid fate for one of the most exciting films of the 1960s. Viscerally tactile unsparing and even on occasion outright lurid Dry Summer has been described by filmmaker Fatih Akin as one of the most important legacies of Turkish cinema. During a particularly dry rural Turkish summer a group of local workers enter into a dispute with a landowner when he decides the construction of new irrigation infrastructure must first and foremost service his own property. Wholly rapacious the landowner foments a private war with his own kin after the brother takes a bewitching young wife. The battle between the factions plays out in stunning set-pieces: a pursuit with pistols amidst grass-stalks and dam-water before the setting sun evokes elements of Renoir (Toni) Ford (The World Moves On) Bergman (The Virgin Spring) and Shindô (Onibaba) while a scene set in a brush thicket wherein the landowner and his aggressors fight it out hatchet-and-club provides drama at least as exciting and gasp-inducing as the climax of Seven Samurai. Dry Summer's sweat-dappled tone and baked images of promenade and labour recall Mexican-period Buñuel as much as aspects of mid-'50s Italian commercial melodrama and via the film's backdrop of agrarian agitation and its low angles - which effect a figural relief against blazing albeit greyish mid-contrast summer skies - post-montage Soviet agitprop. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the World Cinema Foundation's restoration of Metin Erksan's classic on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. Trances The inaugural film of the World Cinema Foundation's efforts Trances [Transes] is a picture unlike any other: a poetic roving documentary-portrait performance-film based around the Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane. In this rare transformational work Nass El Ghiwane perform their music at concerts at once fervidly rally-like and suffused with the spontaneity of a mass happening; recount their time working alongside the great chaâbi musician Boudjemaâ El Ankis in the 1970s; and generally philosophise and reflect upon life. As Martin Scorsese expressed at the time of the film's re-presentation in 2007: I became passionate about this music that I heard and I saw also the way the film was made the concert that was photographed and the effect of the music on the audience at the concert. I tracked down the music and eventually it became my inspiration for many of the designs and construction of my film The Last Temptation of Christ. [...] And I think the group was singing damnation: their people their beliefs their sufferings and their prayers all came through their singing. And I think the film is beautifully made by Ahmed El Maanouni; it's been an obsession of mine since 1981. True to its title Trances is an hypnotic exhilarating masterwork. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Ahmed El Maanouni's film restored from the original 16mm camera and sound negatives on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. Revenge Set largely in Korea and China and spanning the 1910s to 1940s Ermek Shinarbaev's epic masterpiece unites the resonant pictoriality of certain Far Eastern cinema with a mysticism rooted in the Russian tradition: a fitting and harmonic convergence for this collaboration (one of three) between the Kazakh director and Korean-Russian writer Anatoli Kim. A rural schoolteacher Jan murders a pupil the young daughter of a family under whom he had previously been a tenant. The father Caj [pronounced Tsaiya] tracks him to China to exact revenge - but at at the moment of vengeance Caj cannot act. He returns home only to take a concubine who in turn bears him a son: Sungu a prodigious composer of verse. At Caj's deathbed the boy is informed he has been brought into the world purely for the sake of vengeance; he takes an oath to annihilate Jan. Tonally Revenge exhibits an extraordinary use of natural light that lends the figures an almost ethereal incandescence in the picture's first half; the second half of the film shifts into a no-less-impressive palate that is ally to late-Tarkovskyan naturalism. A narrative broken into seven chapters and constructed in a full-circle that creates a visual and spoken summary of Sungu's poetic universe Revenge is to quote the critic Kent Jones a true odyssey geographically and psychologically. One of the greatest films to emerge from the Kazakh New Wave and also one of the toughest. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Revenge restored from the original camera negative with the involvement of Ermek Shinarbaev on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. Special Features: Glorious new restorations of three neglected masterworks of world cinema all presented in 1080p HD Exclusive video introductions to each film by Martin Scorsese 80-page book featuring writing by Kent Jones on Revenge Bilge Ebiri on Trances archival documentation and imagery and more to be announced Optional English subtitles on each film More features to be announced closer to release date

• Delibes: Coppelia | Blu Ray | (12/04/2019) from £20.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Mozart:3 Operas Box Set | Blu Ray | (02/03/2018) from £29.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Stormy Monday | Blu Ray | (10/07/2017) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1988, Mike Figgis (Internal Affairs, Leaving Las Vegas) made his feature directorial debut with Stormy Monday, a taut, noir-influenced gangster movie that drew on his key formative influences, including his youth in the Newcastle of the late '50s and early '60s, and the city's vibrant jazz scene. Sean Bean (Ronin) plays Brendan, a young loafer taken under the wing of jazz club owner Finney (Sting, Quadrophenia), who's under pressure from American mobster Cosmo (Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive) to sell up in exchange for a cut of a local land development deal. Brendan just wants to earn an honest crust, but his burgeoning relationship with Cosmo's ex-lover Kate (Melanie Griffith, Body Double) threatens to drag him into the middle of the impending showdown A romantic crime thriller with genuine heart, Stormy Monday features striking, rain-drenched cinematography by Roger Deakins (The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men) and a seductive jazz score provided by the director himself. Presented here for the first time in high definition in the UK, there has never been a better time to discover one of this iconic filmmaker's most assured and uniquely haunting efforts. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations Original stereo audio (uncompressed on the Blu-ray Disc) Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary with Mike Figgis, moderated by critic Damon Wise New video appreciation by critic Neil Young, and a then and now tour of the film's Newcastle locations Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jacey FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Booklet featuring new writing by critic Mark Cunliffe

• Blade Runner Steelbook | Blu Ray | (13/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous and redundant voice-over narration and the phoney happy ending) rather than what's been added (a bit more character development and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros. executives who thought the story needed further "explanation"; he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't use it. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, another worldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates. The cast also includes Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah Rutger Hauer and M. Emmet Walsh. --Jim Emerson

• The Last American Virgin | Blu Ray | (16/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gary Rick and David are American teens with one thing on their mind. They move from party to party trying out their latest chat-up lines which usually ends in miserable failure for Gary as he's more interested in finding true romance than a quick fumble in someone's parents' bedroom. So when Karen arrives at their school Gary falls head over heels in love but Rick's baser intentions towards her threaten to break up their friendship for good. Championed by Eli Roth (Hostel) as one of the most underrated films of its era The Last American Virgin is a raucous but also surprisingly intelligent and sobering look at the hideousness of growing up peer pressures misplaced expectations and unforeseen consequences. It's also a superb snapshot of the early Eighties music scene with the soundtrack featuring Blondie Devo The Human League KC and the Sunshine Band The Police U2 and many others. Special Features: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the film available in the UK for the first time! Original uncompressed PCM Stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray Optional Isolated Music & Effects track Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new interview with director Boaz Davidson Brand new interviews with stars Lawrence Monoson and Diane Franklin Brand new interview with cinematographer Adam Greenberg Original Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by The Red Dress Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic and publisher Robin Bougie and an interview with The Last American Virgin super fan Eli Roth conducted by Calum Waddell illustrated with original archive stills and posters “Slyly entertaining stuff.” - TimeOut

• Blue Oyster Cult - A Long Day's Night (Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (04/12/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Terror in Resonance | Blu Ray | (04/07/2016) from £26.89   |  Saving you £13.10 (48.72%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Legendary director Shinichiro Watanabe and famed composer Yoko Kanno are back with a suspense-filled intellectual thriller! In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to stop the paranoia spreading across the population. While the world searches for a criminal mastermind to blame for this tragedy, two mysterious children children who shouldn't even exist masterfully carry out their heinous plan. Cursed to walk through this world with the names Nine and Twelve, the two combine to form Sphinx, a clandestine entity determine to wake the people from their slumber and pull the trigger on this world.

• Eden Lake Uncut Uhd Mediabook | Blu Ray | (04/08/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fantasia | Blu Ray | (29/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Groundbreaking on several counts, not the least of which was an innovative use of animation and stereophonic sound, this ambitious Disney feature has lost nothing to time since its release in 1940. Classical music was interpreted by Disney animators, resulting in surreal fantasy and playful escapism. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra provided the music for eight segments by the composers Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Ponchielli, Bach, Dukas and Schubert. Not all the sequences were created equally, but a few are simply glorious, such as "Night on Bald Mountain", "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "The Nutcracker Suite". The animation ranges from subtly delicate to fiercely bold. The screen bursts with colour and action as creatures transmute and convention is thrust aside. The painstaking detail and saturated hues are unique to this film, unmatched even by more advanced technology. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• Miles Ahead | Blu Ray | (22/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  All Rolling Stone reporter Dave Braden wants is an exclusive interview with the jazz legend himself, Miles Davis. hat he gets instead is a wild and dangerous ride-along with a recording artist living at his edge.

• Bee Movie | Blu Ray | (17/11/2008) from £12.85   |  Saving you £5.14 (40.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A bee sets out to sue the human race after discovering they've been stealing precious honey for years.

• Conan the Barbarian (Blu-ray 3D) | Blu Ray | (12/12/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The legendary Conan The Barbarian stars 'Game of Thrones's Jason Momoa and Avatar's Stephen Lang. From the producers of The Expendables comes a visual spectacular that brings the fabled action hero Conan to life like never before! Based on the character created by Robert E. Howard, Conan was born on the battlefield. From those bloodsoaked beginnings, Conan is destined to venture into an unforgiving world after his father is brutally murdered and his village destroyed. As Conan battles his way through a treacherous world of monsters, sorceresses' and bloodthirsty enemies, he chances upon Khalar Zym - the warlord responsible for his tribe's destruction. And so Conan's quest for true revenge begins... Also starring Ron Perlman and Rose McGowan. Conan The Barbarian Blu-ray includes the feature as both 2D and 3D formats. To watch the 3D version you must have a fully capable 3D HDTV, a 3D compatible blu-ray player, and 3D glasses (not included).

• The Living Daylights | Blu Ray | (04/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Living Daylights, new boy Timothy Dalton's first Bond outing, gets off to a rocking start with a pre-credits sequence on Gibraltar, and culminates in a witty final showdown with Joe Don Baker's arms dealer, set on a model battlefield full of toy soldiers. While the Aston Martin model whizzing through the car chase has been updated for the late 1980s--including lethal lasers and other deadly gizmos--the plot is pretty standard issue, maybe a little more cluttered and unfocused than usual, involving arms, drugs and diamond smuggling. Nevertheless, the action-formula firmly in place, this one rehearses the moves with ease and throws in some fine acting. Maryam d'Abo, playing a cellist-cum-spy, is the classy main squeeze for 007 (uncharacteristically chaste for once). Dalton, with his wolfish, intelligent features, was a perfectly serviceable secret agent, but never caught on with the viewers, perhaps because everyone was hoping for a presence as charismatic as Sean Connery's in the franchise's glory days.--Leslie Felperin On the DVD: Casting the new Bond takes up much of the "making-of" documentary: first Sam Neill was in the running, but vetoed by Cubby Broccoli, who wanted Timothy Dalton and had considered him as far back as On Her Majesty's Secret Service (but Dalton felt he was just too young at the time). When Dalton proved unavailable, Pierce Brosnan was hired. Then, at the last minute, Brosnan's Remington Steele contract was renewed and he had to drop out. Dalton came back in, on the proviso that he could give Bond a harder, more realistic edge after the action-lite of the Roger Moore years. The second documentary attempts to profile the enigmatic Ian Fleming, who was apparently as mysterious and chameleon-like as his alter ego. The commentary is a miscellaneous selection of edited interviews from various members of the cast and crew. There's also Ah-Ha's "Living Daylights" video, and a "making-of" featurette about it. A brief deleted scene (comic relief--wisely dropped) and trailers complete another strong package. --Mark Walker

• Dione Warwick: Don't Make Me Over | Blu Ray | (07/11/2022) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Follows the life and career of Dionne Warwick. Featuring: Quincy Jones Burt Bacharach Bill Clinton Clive Davis Gladys Knight Cissy Houston Elton John Damon Elliott Kenneth Cole Berry Gordy Jerry Blavat Snoop Dogg Smokey Robinson

• Twin Star Exorcists - Part 2 with Limited Edition Booklet | Blu Ray | (27/05/2019) from £29.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The battle between good and evil continues as the two star-crossed rivals take on their biggest challenge yet parental responsibilities. Meddling in the mirroring world of Magano, Yuto s experiments cause the deaths of more loved ones. Taking matters into their own hands, the Twin Stars confront him in a battle that will cost an arm and a leg...or two. But even after the dust settles, the war against Kegare is far from over. Dragon Spots are opening up throughout the world, destroying entire towns at once, and only Rokuro and Benio have the power to close them. There s just one roadblock before they can begin their journey to save the world: A mysterious little girl has appeared in Magano, and she s taken to calling Rokuro, Papa. Contains episodes 14-26 on Blu-Ray with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles. Presented with a limited edition collectors booklet. Extras/Episodes: Episodes 14-26 on Blu-Ray 20 Page Booklet Hanae Natsuki & Han Megumi's Twin Star Room Vol. 4-6 Textless Opening & Closing Songs Trailers