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• Made For Each Other / James Stewart On Film | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Produced in a time when films were both literally and figuratively black and white, Made for Each Other was unique in its effective blending of the comedic, the dramatic and, as perhaps some would insensitively say, the melodramatic. Beautiful Carole Lombard and likeable James Stewart are Jane and John Mason, a couple who meet, fall madly in love, marry and quickly have a baby. But while they--and the audience--are confident that they are meant for each other, life intercedes and the couple must meet with disapproving in-laws, job stress, financial challenges and, finally, a devastating illness.Lombard and Stewart--and the genuinely good people they portray--are utterly compelling and charming. Say yawningly what you will about tradition but the Masons' path is one that many, if not most, go down. And unlike the wonderful but wholly fantasy world of peer Preston Sturges, director John Cromwell's universe is, like real life, full of ups and downs. It's an accessible, sensitive portrayal. He gives the audience characters they want to see succeed, and to see stay together in the process. It may be a tale of triumph of the human spirit but its ultimate sentiment--one that celebrates the kindness of strangers--is thoroughly sweet, though in no way saccharine. Look for a great supporting cast, including a blustery Charles Coburn as John Mason's boss and Lucile Watson as Mason's interfering mother. --N F Mendoza

• Hard Pill | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £8.07   |  Saving you £11.92 (59.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This thorny independent movie from writer/director John Baumgartner stars Jonathan Slavin, in a potential star-making tour-de-force performance, as Tim, an unhappy gay man who decides to volunteer for a pharmaceutical study of a pill that's said to turn homosexuals straight. With a gritty, low-budget appeal, thought-provoking subject matter, and occasional doses of humor, HARD PILL examines issues of sexuality, medical ethics, and relationships of all stripes.

• B Movie Campaign Digistak | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark: Meet Elvira the notorious American cult heroine! This wisecracking vamp wishes to open her own show in Las Vegas but needs 000. Suddenly her great aunt dies and Elvira goes to a conservative mid-west town to hear the reading of the will. Elvira discovers the evil force in the town and finds that only she has the power to stop it! Return of the Killer Tomatoes: 20 years on from the Great Tomato Wars and red skins are still banned. But Professor Gangreen has made a fiendish discovery - how to turn tomatoes into perfect replicas of people. These tomatoes are really stewed and dangerous! Night of the Living Dead: A spill of radiation causes the recently deceased to rise from the grave and feast on the flesh of the living in this chilling classic. Now the dead and the living must fight against each other in a struggle for survival. Hell Comes to Frogtown: Hell is a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war that leaves the human race in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader. Return to Horror High: Producer Harry Sleerik wants to recreate the notorious Crippen High killings for the big screen using some of the school's original employees to play themselves. But filming starts to go horribly wrong when one by one cast and crew begin to disappear. Crocodile: High school sweethearts Brady Claire and six of their college friends board a houseboat for a fun-filled spring break vacation. But when they discover a nest of large eggs in the marshlands -- and one of them can't resist taking one back to the party -- their weekend of fun-in-the-sun will turn into a weekend of terror! Creature: A family living around a naval research station experience shark attacks against their boat. When they investigate further they discover a half-man half-shark like creature. Based on the novel by Peter Benchley (Jaws). The Stuff: A satirical horror movie about a designer foodstuff that takes the public by storm... but are they eating it or is it eating them? Another cult classic from director Larry Cohen (It's Alive Black Caesar Q - The Winged Serpent). Slugs: An idyllic country community is shocked following the discovery of a mutilated corpse covered in slime. As the days go by more horrific deaths take place each one more repulsive than the last. They must discover the cause of these brutal murders before it's too late. Spiders: College newspaper reporter Marci and her colleagues head out to a restricted area of the desert to prove the existence of aliens. When the shuttle crash lands nearby they sneak into headquarters and stumble upon a secret unauthorized experiment that has gone wrong: a spider on board that was injected with alien DNA is now on the loose...and each time it kills it gets bigger and hungrier! Rats: The Brookdale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison it sits on top of a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret only known by one person. There is something living in the tunnels and it has developed a taste for human blood. Octopus: An unknown object attacks the US submarine Roosevelt with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength!

• The Great Escape/Attack | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £9.97   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  The Great Escape (Dir. John Sturges 1963): In 1943 the Germans opened Stalag Luft North a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp designed to hold even the craftiest escape artist. In doing so however the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history - brilliantly portrayed here by Steve McQueen James Garner Charles Bronson and James Coburn - who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted. One of the most ingenious and suspenseful adventure films of all time The Great Escape is a masterful collaboration between director John Sturges screenwriters James Clavell and W.R. Burnett and composer Elmer Bernstein. Attack (Dir. Robert Aldrich 1956): With a company of American soldiers trapped by the Germans during The Battle of the Bulge their captain is an abject psychopathic coward who has a record of exposing his men to danger. When his cowardice turns to sheer panic during combat it becomes necessary for the enlisted men to take things into their own hands...

• Roy Rogers - Vol. 2 | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The 'King Of Cowboys' stars in volume 2 of the Roy Rogers show.

• United 3 Albion 5; On the 5th Day....Revisited | DVD | (27/12/2010) from £12.45   |  Saving you £0.54 (4.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On the 30th December 1978 with Britain suffering its worst snowfalls for 15 years Ron Atkinson's West Bromwich Albion travelled to Old Trafford to face the mighty Manchester United . The game that followed is remembered as one of the greatest ever with both sides attacking at will and scoring for fun. 32 years on it is still referred to by both sets of supporters as the 5-3 game. Albion's side contained the future United and England captain Bryan Robson the affectionately titled 'Three Degrees' of Cyrille Regis Brendan Batson and Laurie Cunningham plus goal-scoring legend Tony Brown. Robson Regis Brown Len Cantello and Big Ron look back on the highlights of the game that defined the Albion side of that era. A side agonisingly close to claiming the league title that season had the bad weather not intervened.

• Day of the Locust - Paramount Originals (includes Limited Edition reproduction film poster) | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  From Academy award-winning British director John Schlesinger comes a harrowing Hollywood fable about delusion and the dangers of power and lust. Starring Donald Sutherland as the estranged and deeply religious Homer Simpson The Day Of The Locust delves into the murky underbelly of the glamorous lifestyle of pre-war Hollywood telling the story of a young actress and her attempts to become a movie star. Schlesinger's art direction and cinematography (Oscar(tm) nominated) are superbly

• Platoon Of The Dead | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Marine platoon is ambushed during a mission leaving only three soldiers alive to fend off the growing army of the living dead. En route to their pickup point they come across an abandoned house with three mysterious women hiding out inside. If they can make it through the night they're home free...or so they think because someone is hiding a dark secret that may alter the course of this gore-drenched war...

• Writer's Block | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £9.70   |  Saving you £3.29 (25.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Good Night And Good Luck/Hamburger Hill/Pierrepoint | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set Comprises: Good Night And Good Luck (2005): Good Night And Good Luck George Clooney's second film as director takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America chronicling the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow (Strathairn) and Senator Joseph McCarthy with the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public Murrow and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly (Clooney) and Joe Wershba (Downey Jr.) in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist 'witch-hunts'. A very public feud develops when the Senator responds by accusing the anchor of being a communist. In this climate of fear and reprisal the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity will prove historic and monumental. Hamburger Hill (1987): The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill... up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was the way it really was. It's a raw gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. Dodge the gunfire. Get caught behind enemy lines. Go into battle beside the brave young men who fought and died. Feel their desperation and futility. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst men at their best. Pierrepoint (2005): Pierrepoint is the gripping and dramatic true-life story of Albert Pierrepoint Britain's most notorious hangman. Following in the footsteps of his father and uncle before him Albert joins the 'family business' in 1934. Living a secret life as a master hangman as well as a humble grocery deliveryman and loyal husband Pierrepoint's reputation as the most highly regarded executioner in the land results in him executing some of Britain's most infamous murderers including Derek Bentley and Ruth Ellis and also the Nazi war criminals convicted at the Nuremberg Trials. But the media coverage from these shatters Pierrepoint's closely guarded anonymity turning him into a minor celebrity. As his two lives collide and public opinion turns against capital punishment Pierrepoint troubled by his notoriety is ready to give it all up but fate has other plans in store for him...

• Club Reps Box Set | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The complete second season of the popular US series.Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary) is a lifesaver. Whether he's pulling survivors from fiery high-rise infernos or the twisted steel of a subway collision, Gavin takes great pride in leading the heroic but often overwhelmed firefighters of New York City's Truck Company 62. He is also a man drifting between sorrow and anger over a recent separation from his wife (Andrea Roth) and three kids, and recurring memories of comrades and other New Yorkers who...

• The White People's Fountain | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The story of a black woman who at 110 tells a New York reporter about her life as a slave and how she became a member of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

• Predator Deluxe Head - Limited Edition Box Set | DVD | (11/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £149.99

  Predator: The Special Edition (Dir. John McTiernan 1987): If it bleeds we can kill it... It sees the heat of their bodies. It smells their fears. It hunts for sport. It kills for pleasure. In a place without rules - the hunter has become the hunted. Deep inside the jungles of Latin America Schwarzenegger's team of elite commandos are being slaughtered by a mysterious predator. No longer are they hunters - they are the prey... of an alien whose only instinct is to kill. One by one it strikes with inhuman ferocity. Now to survive with the jungle as their only ally they face their greatest challenge: to stay alive. Predator 2: The Special Edition (Dir. Stephen Hopkins 1990): Last time it landed in the jungle. This time it's chosen Los Angeles. Ravaged by open warfare between rival drug gangs L.A. is the perfect killing ground for the Predator who is drawn by heat and conflict. When the police find mutilated bodies Lieutenant Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) thinks it's the work of the feuding gangs. Then a mysterious government agent (Gary Busey) arrives and orders him to stay off the case. Instead Harrigan sets out to learn what is really going on and comes face to face with the savage alien in a climatic electrifying confrontation... Alien Vs Predator: The Special Edition (Dir. Paul W.S. Anderson 2004): Whoever wins...we lose. It may be our planet but it's their war! The deadliest creatures from the scariest sci-fi movies ever made face off for the first time on film beginning when the discovery of an ancient pyramid buried in Antarctica sends a team of scientists and adventurers to the frozen continent. There they make an even more terrifying discovery: two unstoppable alien races engaged in the ultimate battle...

• Steve McQueen Collection - The Great Escape/The Magnificent Seven/The Thomas Crown Affair/The Sand Pebbles | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Great Escape (Dir. John Sturges 1963): One of the most ingenious and suspenseful adventure films of all time The Great Escape is a masterful collaboration between director John Sturges screenwriters James Clavell (Shogun) and W.R. Burnett and composer Elmer Bernstein. Based on a true story this film also stars Steve McQueen James Garner Charles Bronson and James Coburn. The Thomas Crown Affair (Dir. Norman Jewson 1968): Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a lone wolf in chic clothing. He's a Boston tycoon who masterminds a daring bank job even though he doesn't need the money. What he needs is the thrill of the heist the adrenaline rush of not getting caught. Catching crooks is where insurance investigator Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway) comes in. She always gets her man. But this time she may be too much in love to give him up. McQueen and Dunaway are lovers and adversaries in a stylish cat-and-mouse thriller written by Alan R. Trustman and directed by Norman Jewison. Jewsion makes exciting use of split screen images as the action leaps from the boardroom to the boudoir the polo field to a glider cockpit. The Oscar winning Best Song (1968) ""The Windmills of Your Mind"" sets the perfect tone for the swirl of romance and intrigue... The Magnificent Seven (Dir. John Sturges 1960): Yul Brynner stars as one of seven master gunmen who aid the helpless farmers of an isolated village pitted against an army of marauding bandits in this rousing action tale based on Akira Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai. Released in 1960 John Sturges' masterpiece garnered an Oscar nomination for Elmer Bernstein (for Best Score) and launched the film careers of Steve McQueen Charles Bronson Robert Vaughn and James Coburn. Sand Pebbles (Dir. Robert Wise 1966): It's the story of China a slumbering giant that rouses itself to the cries of its people - and of the Americans who are caught in its bloody awakening. It's the story of Frenchy (Richard Attenborough) a crewman on the USS San Pablo who kidnaps his Chinese bride from the auction block. Most of all it's the story of Jake Holman (Steve McQueen) a sailor who had given up trying to make peace with anything: including himself.

• Guardian | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

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• Bulletproof / The Preppie Murder / Oil | DVD | (06/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bulletproof: An unstoppable force is about to meet an immovable object as tough LA cop Frank 'Bulletproof' McBain embarks on a dangerous mission to retrieve a top secret attack vehicle. The vehicle code named Thunderblast can withstand the impact of just about any weapon imaginable. Cuban Libayan and Russian terrorists plan to seize the much coveted battle machine at a Mexican village near the Texan border. A convoy led by the beautiful Lt. Devon Shepard is escorting Thunderblast when it is ambushed by the terrorists led by the Mexican General Brogardo and the Libayan Col. Kartiff. The ruthless Brogardo and Kartiff want Devon to show them how to operate Thunderblast. The corageous Devon initially resists but is finally forced to cooperate when members of her convoy begin to be systematically executed. Only one man has the skills and knowledge of the area to rescue the hostages and Thunderblast: ex-government agent now LA cop Frank McBain better known as 'Bulletproof'. The Preppie Murder: Based on a true story The Preppie Murder begins on August 26 1986. This was the day that eighteen year old Jennifer Levin was strangled to death in New York's Central Park. The prime suspect Jennifer's nineteen year old boyfriend Robert confesses to the crime. The well to do young man insists that the killing was accidental he claims that it occured during a 'rough sex' session that Jennifer had initiated. The ensuing media frenzy forces the old 'she asked for it' defence to rear its ugly head. Oil: In a world reliant on fuel machinery oil fields mean wealth and fortune and the competition is fierce. Several oil wells in Abu Lambeth have caught fire and rival groups of fire-fighters have not been sent to control the flames. They'll end up battling more than just the blaze. It won't take much to turn the small flames into a billion dollar fire.

• Mutant X - Series 2 | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  'The X-Men'-like half human/half mutants are back for a second series of tongue-in-cheek adventures as they battle to protect their race against the shadowy forces of evil. Episodes comprise: 1. Past As Prologue 2. Power Play 3. Time Squared 4. Whose Woods Are These? 5. The Future Revealed 6. No Man Left Behind 7. Crossroads Of The Soul 8. Sign From Above 9. Body And Soul 10. Understudy 11. The Grift 12. At Destiny's End 13. Within These Walls 14. Hard Time 15. Under The Cloak Of War 16. Once Around 17. Final Judgment 18. Inferno 19. One Step Closer 20. Reality Check 21. Reawakening 22. Lest He Become

• Hollywood DVD Horror | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mutant Run off the road while on their vacation brothers Josh and Mike (Wings Hauser Lee Montgomery) discover a hideously maimed human corpse. When they take Sheriff Will Stewart (Sam Peckinpah regular Bo Hopkins) to the body all that remains are a few drops of an amber toxin that kills by devouring red blood cells. A nearby chemical plant has been illegally dumping toxic waste outside of town. When Mike is attacked and taken from his bed Josh and local girl Holly Pierce (Jody Medford) search for him. Instead they find more bodies. Not all the victims are dead. Contaminated and needing human blood to live crazed mutants attack Josh and Holly... The Grim Reaper A group of young tourists take an unexpected side trip to a mysterious Greek Island. When they arrive they find the island's village deserted except for a strange woman who wanders the streets and disappears as quickly as she is seen. Attempting to return to their ship they find it has drifted away from the shore. Waiting for the tide to come in again the group must spend the night on the island. In the house they decide to use they find a young blind girl swinging a knife in panic. She tells them of a madman who stalks the island and smells of death and blood. Beyond The Door 2 (aka Shock) Several years after her first husband's death Dora (Daria Nicolodi) returns to her country home with her son (David Colin Jr.) and her second husband (John Steiner). However she finds that the house is occupied by a mysterious evil presence that begins to torment her with terrifying nightmares and strange occurrences. Even her young son Mark is grasped by the evil and undergoes hideous transformation as though possessed by a supernatural force. As Dora is driven closer to the edge of madness the truth behind her first husband's death is revealed. The terror grows as the game of supernatural revenge is played to its chilling conclusion. The final theatrical film from Italian horror maestro Mario Bava.

• The Oklahoma Cyclone | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-6.08 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Jimmy Henderson is looking for his missing father and believes McKim's gang might know something about his disappearance. He joins up with McKim's gang looking for clues but soon makes enemies among the gang.

• Rick Nelson - Live At The Universal Amphitheatre | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  On August 22 1985 in LA California Rick Nelson showed a sold out Universal Amphitheatre crowd why he was one of Rock 'n' Roll's most vital and energetic showman. An instant success at seventeen with his 1955 hit 'I'm Walkin'' and a Rock 'n' Roll legend before he was old enough to vote. Nelson proceeded to hit the pop charts 53 more times spanning three different decades. On this DVD Rick is captured just prior to his death it's a historic concert by an immortal Rock 'n' Roll star.