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• Dick Spanner, P.I.:The Complete Series | DVD | (04/09/2017) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Produced by legendary Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson, this tongue-in-cheek stop-motion animation series introduced the questionable talents of the world's strangest private investigator a Chandleresque robot detective who operates in a futuristic parallel universe! Anderson's long-term collaborator Shane Rimmer (who famously provided the voice of Thunderbird pilot Scott Tracy) voices the wisecracking puppet as he bungles his way through two intriguing cases over twenty-two episodes: The Case of the Maltese Parrot and The Case of the Human Cannonball. Alongside these two stories presented here as digital restorations in their as-transmitted format this set also includes: Compilation versions of both stories The Case of the Missing Episode Image gallery PDF material More TBC

• Eight Hours Don't Make A Day Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (25/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder had been making feature films for three years and already amassed a filmography that would satisfy most careers when he decided to take on a bigger challenge. Teaming up with West German television channel WDR, he conceived of Eight Hours Don t Make a Day, a series that would extend to five feature-length episodes to be broadcast at monthly intervals. Centring on the Krüger family, as well as their lovers, in-laws, friends and co-workers, the series takes a sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic look at domestic relationships and labour relationships, with particular focus on skilled worker Jochen (Gottfried John, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Goldeneye) and his new girlfriend, Marion (Hanna Schygulla, The Marriage of Maria Braun). Reminiscent of working-class soap operas such as Coronation Street and the family-based sitcoms of Carla Lane, Eight Hours Don t Make a Day has been a one of the more difficult to find entries of Fassbinder s extraordinarily prolific output, but is now presented here in full and newly restored by the Fassbinder Foundation. LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS: Brand new restoration of all five episodes by the Fassbinder Foundation High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations Original German mono soundtracks Optional English subtitles Fassbinder, a feature-length 2015 documentary on the director featuring interviews with Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Schlöndorff and others Brand-new retrospective featurette on Eight Hours Don t Make a Day, featuring interviews with Schygulla, Hermann, Wolfgang Schenck, Hans Hirschmüller and others, and directed by Juliane Lorenz, head of the Fassbinder Foundation 60-page booklet featuring new writing on the film by David Jenkins and a new interview with Juliane Lorenz, plus archival essays by Manuel Alvarado and Christian Braad Thomsen

• Shock Treatment "Cosmo" Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (11/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  FROM THE CREATORS OF THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW! It's not a sequel it's not a prequel it's an equal! Available on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere in the world, it is with absolute pleasure that Arrow Video presents Shock Treatment the criminally underrated sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show! Several years on from the events of the original Rocky, Brad and Janet Majors find their strained marriage put to the test on popular Denton TV show Marriage Maze. Poor Brad is heavily sedated and institutionalised, whilst Janet is given a radical makeover and primed for stardom. But what are the real motivations behind the kooky DTV crew and their enigmatic head-honcho, Farley Flavors? Featuring a host of familiar Rocky faces including Richard O'Brien and Patricia Quinn, alongside the likes of Jessica Harper, Barry Humphries and Rik Mayall not to mention a rocking, shocking score from Richard O'Brien and Richard Hartley Shock Treatment is the follow-up that's more than the equal of its predecessor. LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS: Digital transfer from original film elements High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation 5.1 and Mono audio options Isolated Music and Effects Track Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary by Shock Treatment Fan Club presidents Mad Man Mike and Bill Brennan 35 Years of Shock Treatment live panel filmed at British Film Insitute DTV Presents: A Shockumentary featurette Let's Rock 'n Roll: Shock Treatment's Super Score featurette Theatrical and International Trailers Exclusive Digipak Packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys Collector's Booklet featuring new writing on the film by festival programmer Michael Blyth Set of Exclusive Shock Treatment Mix ˜n' Match Cards! Exclusive double-sided DENTON poster

• Minions (4K UHD+BD+UV) | 4K UHD | (04/09/2017) from £22.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda direct this feature-length spin-off and prequel to the 2010 hit 'Despicable Me'. Throughout history, and before Gru, the Minions have served many a despicable master, including Genghis Khan, Napoleon and Dracula. But having contributed to their masters' downfalls through a series of mishaps, the Minions find themselves living in Antarctica with no one to serve. A number of years pass and it isn't until 1968 that dispirited Minions Kevin, Stuart and Bob (all voiced by Coffin) set off to New York City to attend a villain convention and find themselves a new master. Here they meet the ambitious and dastardly Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock), who, with the help of her husband Herb (Jon Hamm), plans to take over the world...

• Fires on the Plain (Dual Format DVD/Bluray) | Blu Ray | (11/09/2017) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the final stages of WWII, the occupying Japanese army in the Philippines is rapidly losing ground, facing local resistance combined with an American offensive. The final few Japanese survivors, having almost been wiped out, have crossed the threshold into a realm where there are no friends, no enemies and no God. Special Features: Dual format DVD & BLURAY 1 hour extensive making of New audio commentary by Tom Mes, author of Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto First 1000 copies come with LIMITED EDITION slipcase

• The Worst Witch: The Mists Of Time | DVD | (18/09/2017) from £5.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Worst Witch is a fantastic and ambitious re-imagining of the much loved Jill Murphy books about Mildred Hubble, who is catapulted quite literally head first into Miss Cackle s Academy For Witches. Mildred, who doesn t come from a family of witches, is enjoying a normal day when a witch called Maud Spellbody lands on her apartment balcony on her way to the selection day at Cackle s Academy. Persuaded by Maud to go along too, Mildred is introduced to a whole new world of magic and her life is changed forever. Although she tries her best, Mildred's lack of magical knowledge means that she is constantly getting things wrong, and the series follows her adventures as she strives not to be The Worst Witch. Full of flying, magic and plenty of laughs, the show brings Jill Murphy s books to life for a contemporary audience.

• Porky Pig: 101 Classic Warner Bros. Animated Shorts | DVD | (19/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle | DVD | (25/09/2017) from £6.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle suffers from a problem common among live-action movies that are based on beloved cartoon characters--the humans are never as flexible, unpredictable, or just plain goofy as their animated counterparts. In this blend of animation and live action, Rocky and Bullwinkle remain animated characters (trapped in our reality), while Boris and Natasha (Jason Alexander and Rene Russo), along with their boss, Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro), are transformed from cartoons to human reproductions when they escape from rerun land. They've come to our world to take it over; the FBI springs Rocky and Bullwinkle from the second dimension to stop them. But the writing in Kenneth Lonergan's script lacks the throw-away flair of the jokes that characterised Jay Ward's much-beloved animated series of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Part of the problem is that Russo, Alexander and De Niro are so obviously working at acting cartoonish, instead of simply being cartoons. And part is that the script rarely comes up with the kind of wonderful wordplay in which Ward specialised. The moose, as usual, gets all the best lines, but they're too few and far between to salvage this underachieving summer film. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Frank Sinatra: Live From Caesars Palace/The First 40 Years | DVD | (08/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Mountaintop Motel Massacre (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (25/09/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A True Slasher Classic is remastered in 2K for Blu-ray!!!! By 1984, many fear-fans were probably under the impression that the slasher genre had run out of surprises. However, MOUNTAINTOP MOTEL MASSACRE indicates that nothing could be further from the truth. Unlike so many of its contemporaries, this positively sleazy, and sanguine-stained, sickie features an older antagonist in the seriously psychotic Evelyn (Anna Chappell) - an elderly and absolutely insane off-road hotel owner that might well give Norman Bates some sleepless nights. When Evelyn is not taking a sickle to the faces of those stupid enough to rent a room at her one-star establishment, she is planting poisonous snakes under their beds or hiding in an underground bunker that gives her plenty of time to plan her next bout of shockingly brutal slaughter. One of the most maniacal of all the 80s slasher pictures, the seriously sinister MOUNTAINTOP MOTEL MASSACRE has been in high-demand from horror fans for a Blu-Ray appraisal. So it is, then, that 88 Films offers this underrated and unfairly under-seen bout of bloody brilliance in a worldwide HD exclusive bow. Sit back and prepare for the plasma to flow...

• 100° Below Zero | DVD | (25/09/2017) from £5.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  While vacationing in Alaska with his family, scientist Roger Summers begins investigating bird migrations and stumbles upon several flash-frozen animals in the woods. Confused, Roger confronts reclusive environmentalist Tim Hughes whose warnings of severe global freezing were rebuffed by the scientific community. Roger then convinces Tim to come out of retirement to study the phenomenon. Together, they realise that Tim s predictions are happening right now and a flash freezing storm is gaining strength and will soon cover the entire planet. With people freezing to death after being outside for only four minutes, it s up to Roger to save his family, the community, and the world. The clock is ticking and it s dead cold out there.

• Here's Harry - The Complete Surviving Episodes | DVD | (11/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Harry Worth forged an award-winning stage and screen persona as a bumbling fusspot out of sync with a fast-changing society. After many years on the variety circuit, his first TV series, The Trouble with Harry (1960), cast him as a would-be novelist failing to make any sense of the world around him. But his second show Here's Harry (1960-65), and a writing team led by Vince Powell and Harry Driver (Love Thy Neighbour, Bless This House), went back to basics to cast an indelible mould and cement his popularity. In each episode Worth is pitted against figures of petty authority such as customs officers, railway staff, doctors, lawyers or policemen, who are increasingly exasperated by his unfathomable babbling. His amiable but bewildered persona paved the way for the equally hapless Frank Spencer (Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em), and an altogether angrier Victor Meldrew (One Foot in the Grave). Of 60 episodes broadcast, only ten from 1961 have been recovered from the BBC archives, with story lines ranging from comical attempts to book a holiday, celebrate a birthday or arrange an overdraft, to the accidental theft of a policeman's bicycle. The supporting cast includes character actors and sitcom stalwarts Gerald Anderson, Deryck Guyler, Reginald Marsh, Vi Stevens, Pat Wallworth, Leonard Williams and Jack Woolgar. Gentle, genial comedy gold from the original meddlesome muddler.

• Butterfly Collectors | DVD | (04/09/2017) from £8.71   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Feature length thriller from the writer of Shameless and starring Pete Postlethwaite and Jamie Draven. Whilst the plot centers around a policeman, this is not a police story. In fact John McKeown emphatically dislikes being a policeman. Two teenage boys discover a murdered man at a breakers yard they had intended to rob. They are arrested on suspicion of murder, but it becomes obvious to McKeown that these were just two amateur burglars who got more than they bargained for. During the course of the investigation, McKeown discovers that one of the boys, Dex, 17, a parks and gardens laborer, is bringing up his younger brother and sister alone. An unlikely friendship develops as McKeown becomes impressed by what Dex is making of his life. Although living on a council estate on the fringes of Manchester, Dex has created a beautiful garden (mainly from materials he has lifted from work). McKeown and his girlfriend Sandra become regular visitors to Dex's home, inspired by this young family who seem so determined to survive. The situation changes radically when McKeown suddenly has reason to question Dex's involvement in the original murder, which raises question about the way Dex and his brother and sister came to be parentless. McKeown starts unpeeling discrepancies and lies, gleaned mainly from personal conversations. As McKeown unravels the secrets of Dex's life, he begins to take stock of his own.

• The Promise | Blu Ray | (04/09/2017) from £6.74   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It is 1914. As the Great War looms, the mighty Ottoman Empire is crumbling. Constantinople, the once vibrant, multicultural capital on the shores of the Bosporus, is about to be consumed by chaos. Michael Boghosian (Oscar Isaac), arrives in the cosmopolitan hub as a medical student determined to bring modern medicine back to Siroun, his ancestral village in Southern Turkey where Turkish Muslims and Armenian Christians have lived side by side for centuries. Photo-journalist Chris Myers (Christian Bale), has come here only partly to cover geo-politics. He is mesmerized by his love for Ana (Charlotte le Bon), an Armenian artist he has accompanied from Paris after the sudden death of her father. When Michael meets Ana, their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between the two men. As the Turks form an alliance with Germany and the Empire turns violently against its own ethnic minorities, their conflicting passions must be deferred while they join forces to survive even as events threaten to overwhelm them. The one promise that must be kept is to live on and tell the story.

• Blindfold (Dual Format) | Blu Ray | (18/09/2017) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Behind the blindfold is the greatest security trap ever devised! For the first time on Blu-Ray in the UK comes Blindfold, a 1966 American motion picture by Universal Pictures, starring Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale and Jack Warden, that was based on Lucille Fletcher's 1960 novel of the same name. It was the last film directed by Philip Dunne, a successful Hollywood screenwriter of pictures such as How Green Was My Valley and The Robe. The soundtrack was created produced by the legendary Lalo Schiffrin. Dr. Bartholomew Snow, a psychiatrist, is treating a man with emotional problems who, it turns out, is a brilliant scientist being pursued by different international powers and their operatives. Snow soon finds himself caught in the middle and out of desperation; he falls in with a mysterious and beautiful woman named Vicky Vincenti. But is she helping him, or is she yet another sinister figure out to manipulate him?

• The Entity (1982) Limited Edition Dual Format (DVD & Blu-ray) Steelbook | Blu Ray | (11/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Available for the first time on Blu Ray in the UK. Oscar nominee Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother who, one terrible night is raped in her bedroom by someone or something that she cannot see. Met with sceptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children. Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma, or something even more horrific? Now, with a group of daring parapsychologists, Carla will attempt an unthinkable experiment: to seduce, trap and ultimately capture the depraved spectral fury that is The Entity. Eureka Entertainment is proud to present this groundbreaking horror in a special Dual-Format edition. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: Gorgeous 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Trailer

• Visiting Hours (Dual Format) | Blu Ray | (18/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Deborah Ballin is a controversial middle-aged TV journalist, who is campaigning on air on behalf of a battered woman who murdered her abusive husband, claiming justifiable defence against the so-called victim. But her outspoken views championing women's rights incense one of the studio's cleaning staff, closet homicidal psycho (and misogynist) Colt Hawker whose deep seated despising all all things female occurred from seeing his Mother throwing boiling oil in the face of his abusive Father when he was a small child (and who's M.O. is to photograph victims he stabs as they're dying ). So much so that he decides there and then to shut her up...PERMANENTLY! Managing to beat her home, he soon dispatches her maid Francine, before turning his rage onto her as she come home (greeting her in only wearing her jewellery and make-up). Despite the brutal injuries he lashes out on her, she manages to survive and is rushed off to hospital. But undaunted he catches up to her in hospital and disguised as a florist... he enter the building to continue his mission to finish her off...along with anyone else who gets under his skin. Extras: Interview with Actress Lind Purl (9 mins) Interview with Director Jean Claude Lord (15mins) Interview with Writer Brian Taggert (15 mins) Interview with Producer Pierre David (17mins)

• The Midwife | DVD | (11/09/2017) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Midwife centers around the newly resurfaced relationship between Claire (Catherine Frot), a talented but tightly wound midwife and single mother, and Beatrice (Catherine Deneuve), the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's deceased father.

• Minutes Past Midnight | DVD | (11/09/2017) from £5.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As midnight falls, all manner of terror invades the Earth. Demons, cannibals, killers, ghosts and monsters swarm the world in these tales of the supernatural, the fantastic, and the just plain horrific. Featuring nine stories of horror.

• Being Charlie | DVD | (04/09/2017) from £6.31   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As he fights his way in and out of rehab, the son of an actor turned politician is forced to face himself. Through a series of disappointments and ultimately a tragic event, Charlie begins the journey to self-discovery and acceptance Charlie Mills has just turned 18 and is running away from rehab - again. He wants to come home but is met by a family intervention. His father, a former movie star, is running for Governor of California and would like to keep Charlie locked away until the campaign is over. Charlie reluctantly returns to a new adult facility where he meets a troubled young woman, Eva. Through his strained relationship with his father, his tortured relationship with Eva and the misguided envy he has for his best friend Adam, Charlie is forced to face himself and begin the journey to self -discovery.