| "The Ship That Died Of Shame DVD" |
| "After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves This may sound like a laudible scheme but the business they choose to go into is smuggling"
Price: 10.99 |
| "White Material DVD" |
| "In this drama directed and co-written by Claire Denis (TROUBLE EVERY DAY) Isabelle Huppert (THE PIANO TEACHER) plays Maria a white woman living in an African nation that has been falling into political chaos Maria owns a coffee plantation and regards her property as her personal domain; she would rather fight that give up her land though her stubborn attitude prevents her from admitting that she's putting those close to her in danger Maria has a young son with her former husband Andre and Andre is deeply concerned for the safety of both Maria and their child Andre lives in France with his new wife and has made plans for both Maria and their son to flee to Europe but Maria insists that the military will protect her and the other farmers in the area a belief that seems to be fueled by arrogance rather than fact"
Price: 9.49 |
| "The Impressions Show - Series 2 - Complete DVD" |
| "Culshaw and Stephenson return for their second series of their IMPRESSIONS SHOW"
Price: 15.99 |
| "It All Starts Today DVD" |
| "When a kindergarten teacher (Philippe Torreton) living in a rural town in France finds that the coal mines--the main source of income--have been closed down his community changes becoming increasingly poverty-stricken and decrepit One day when a drunken mother collapses in the school yard then abandons her children Daniel decides to take the kids into his own home That is the beginning of a critical reactionary stand he decides to take against the deterioration of his village A tough and endearing tale director Bertrand Tavernier (ROUND MIDNIGHT) has made a fine picture with this one"
Price: 10.99 |
| "West Bromwich Albion - United 3 Albion 5 - On The Fifth Day... Re-visited DVD" |
| "Ron Atkinsons West Bromwich Albion face the great Manchester United at their Old Trafford fortress as Britain faces treacherous snow falls in December 1978 What followed is an end to end football match featuring goals galore; a classic game still fondly remembered by both sets of fans Footballing talent on show includes the future United and England captain Bryan Robson Cyrille Regis Brendan Batson Laurie Cunningham and Tony Brown Sit back and enjoy the highlights of a game that defined the Albion side of that era"
Price: 12.49 |
| "Treme - Series 1 - Complete DVD 4-Disc Set" |
| "Much of the creative team responsible for HBO's revered series THE WIRE reunite to present the captivating series TREME set in New Orleans and following the musicians and citizens who still call the town home even in the brutal aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Like THE WIRE this remarkable drama follows the trials and tribulations of an ensemble (which includes familiar faces such as John Goodman Wendell Pierce Steve Zahn Kim Dickens Melissa Leo David Morse) but focuses on the characters as they come to terms with the senseless destruction that has decimated their beloved city This collection presents the entire first series"
Price: 16.49 |
| "Oyster Farmer DVD" |
| "After his sister is injured in an accident Jack Flange (Alex O'Lachlan) must leave Sydney for the small town of Brooklyn New South Wales to care for her Here on the winding Hawkesbury River a population of fishermen and eccentrics live a simple life Though he finds work with Brownie (David Field) an oyster farmer with a failing marriage Jack robs a fish market and mails himself the money to help with his sister's medical expenses--but in a freak accident the money falls into the river Instead of thinking the money is simply lost he theorises that it has gone to support the expensive shoe habit of sexy local cleaning woman Pearl (Diana Glenn)--but as he attempts to find out the truth he begins to fall in love with her With OYSTER FARMER first-time writerdirector Anna Reeves has crafted a story that may be safely placed in the fish-out-of-water genre but wisely sidesteps the genre's stereotypical cutesiness by writing characters made of true guts and grit and infusing the proceedings with atypical saltiness and sexiness Newcomers Lachlan and Glenn are appealing screen presences but character actors Field and Jim Norton (as Brownie's father Mumbles)--along with the stunning aerial shots of the Hawkesbury--are the true heart of the film"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Infernal Affairs 3 DVD" |
| "Following the murder of Yan Ming's life is starting to crumble beneath him Not only is his marriage on the rocks but it looks as though his career is going the same way too In order to save his livelihood he decides to investigate his new colleague Yeung"
Price: 12.49 |
| "The Rocket Post DVD" |
| "Set during in the Outer Hebrides during the 1930s THE ROCKET POST is the story a German scientist Gerhard Zucher that has been charged with creating a device to propel the mail from island to island Arriving on the island Zucher must overcome the locals technophobia and their hostility bourn out of the loss of countless islanders during World War I"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Yes DVD" |
| "Oscar nominee Joan Allen gives a remarkable performance in Sally Potter's 'Yes' an extraordinary look at love and politics set in London Belfast Beirut and Havana Allen stars as an unnamed Irish-American scientist disillusioned with her marriage to Anthony who is more interested in his political job - and other women Fed up with his affairs she falls for an unnamed Arab cook and begins a torrid sexual relationship with him A successful molecular biologist she also puts her life under a microscope but she is afraid to go after what she really wants Meanwhile her lover is much more open about the things he used to have when he was in Lebanon reduced now to working in a British kitchen in order to barely survive; he comes to resent that she pays for everything in their romance leading to tension and extreme situations Writer-director Potter ('Orlando') shows a sharp eye for the human condition and the fragility of love in this unusual and extraordinary film in which all of the characters speak in iambic pentameter In addition to mixing in different styles including slow motion grainy shots and freeze frames Potter has a series of maids especially the one played by Shirley Henderson face the camera reacting to what is going on around them Henderson often addresses the audience humorously pointing out that no matter how thorough people are there is still always a little dirt to be cleaned up"
Price: 11.99 |
| "Mad Money DVD" |
| "Diane Keaton Katie Holmes and Queen Latifah headline director Callie Khouri's (DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD) second feature film Nina (Latifah) and Jackie (Holmes) are two of many employees with mundane jobs at the high-security Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank Their lives change forever when career mom Bridget (Diane Keaton) takes a job there as a cleaning woman after learning that she and her downsized husband Don (Ted Danson) are hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt Being surrounded by stacks and stacks of money is too much for Bridget to bear and she corrals Nina and Jackie into taking the biggest risk of their lives sneaking out of the bank money that is removed from circulation and about to be shredded Amazingly their scheme works and soon the three are fast friends and the cash is piling up But will they ever have enough 'mad money'or will greed be their downfall?The fun here is in how three average women pull off a remarkably low-tech scam in the midst of super-high security levels hidden cameras and constant monitoring Keaton Latifah and Holmes make a nice team playing very different women with very different needs Keaton's Bridget is trying to maintain her family's comfortable upper-middle-class lifestyle when her husband no longer can Meanwhile the sole concern of Latifah's single mom Nina is keeping her sons out of trouble despite their surroundings And Holmes's Jackie is a one-of-a-kind free spirit dancing to the beat of her own drummer Danson has some of the film's best lines as he tries to put his wife's actions into perspective"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Bangkok Dangerous DVD" |
| "Twin brothers Oxide and Danny Pang make their first feature together with this raw attack on the senses BANGKOK DANGEROUS is like Pop Rocks candy it leaves a funny taste in your mouth and the stinging pop is strangely alluring It's a unique mixture of kinetic editing textured visual sensuality and aural assault It's so incredibly gory and fantastic it literally vibrates Kong (Pawalit Mongkolpisit) is a killer Because he is deaf and mute he isn't scared of the sound of gunfire Working as a professional hit man he stalks the seedy streets of Bangkok carrying out orders or drinking at the nightclub where the boss's mole Aom (Pisek Intrakanchit) moonlights as a stripper Joe (Pisek Intrakanchit) is Kong's best friend (and Aom's ex) who retired from working as a hit man when his hand was injured in a shoot out With nothing to do Joe is always drunk and depressed One day Kong meets Fon (Premsinee Ratanasopha) a sweet innocent who works in a drugstore He falls in love and begins to question the life he leads But it happens too late When Joe is murdered Kong decides to seek redemption by turning against his crime bosses and assaulting the Thai underworld"
Price: 12.49 |
| "The Singer Not The Song DVD" |
| "This unusual western concerns the conflict between a priest and a Mexican bandito from A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1958) director Roy Baker Father Keogh (John Mills) is a Catholic priest who arrives in the remote Mexican village of Quantano to build a congregation unaware that the town is terrorized by the ruthless criminal Anacleto (Dirk Bogarde) An atheist Anacleto has forbidden worship so when Keogh holds services Anacleto retaliates by murdering the locals in alphabetical order Keogh refuses to back down Impressed by his valor Anacleto calls his men off and makes the priest an offer -- he'll spare him if he determines which inspires greater good 'the singer' (the priest) or 'the song' (religion)"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Buffet Froid DVD" |
| "Murder committed by various people for various reasons is the subject of Bertrand Blier's dark and penetrating comedy Alphonse Tram is a little surprised when he finds his switchblade embedded in the body of a total stranger--after all he's sure he didn't put it there But others who have killed remember their actions very well And Alphonse befriends one of those guilty parties one whose victim just happened to be Alphonse Tram's wife Tram is pulled into a surrealistic darkly comic web of murder and deceit that all leads back to his almost vacant prefabricated high-rise apartment building and the police inspector upstairs Grim off-putting stuff from iconoclast Blier"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Detective DVD" |
| "Set in a run-down hotel in Paris a house detective is investigating a murder which took place two years ago Meanwhile a struggling couple attempt to collect a debt from a boxing manager but he himself owes money to the Mafia"
Price: 11.99 |
| "Girl Most Likely DVD" |
| "Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman's comedy stars Kristen Wiig as the title character a quirky once-promising playwright living in New York who fakes a suicide attempt in order to get the attention of her ex-boyfriend She winds up in the care of her New Jersey mother (Annette Bening) a widower currently shacked up with an oddball boyfriend (Matt Dillon) who claims to be a CIA agent Imogene reconnects with her mollusk-obsessed brother and clashes with a boarder who is living in her old room However when she discovers a secret her mother has been keeping from her she travels back to the Big Apple to confront her past"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Hannah Arendt DVD" |
| "Director Margarethe von Trotta collaborates with screenwriter Pamela Katz to explore a key chapter in the life of GermanJewish political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt (Barbara Sukowa) who coined the phrase 'banality of evil' while covering the 1961 trial of former Nazi Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker As the high-profile trial gets underway Sukowa's astute observations on both Eichmann and the Jewish councils prove to be highly thought-provoking and deeply controversial"
Price: 11.99 |
| "Greg Davies Live - The Back Of My Mum's Head DVD" |
| "INBETWEENERS star and stand-up comedy giant Greg Davies provides more of his shameless self-deprecating wit for a sell out crowd at The Lowry Theatre in Salford Manchester in 2013"
Price: 12.49 |
| "The Complete Denis Leary DVD 2-Disc Set" |
| "Although he is primarily known for his acting work Denis Leary began life in the entertainment industry as a stand-up comic of some repute His show 'No Cure For Cancer' won him plaudits across the globe and saw Leary attacking such contemporary phenomena as fitness freaks parenthood drug taking smoking vegetarians and a lot more besides Leary works himself into a frenzy as he storms across the stage while also taunting nonsmokers in the audience by constantly billowing smoke into the air from a constant chain of cigarettes 'Lock and Load' follows similar themes and originally played to over 16 million people on cable channel HBO For fans of Leary's inimitable schtick this is an awesome collection For newcomers--hold onto your hats this is quite a ride!"
Price: 11.99 |
| "Denis Leary - Lock 'N' Load DVD" |
| "Although he is primarily known for his acting work Denis Leary began life in the entertainment industry as a stand-up comic of some repute His show NO CURE FOR CANCER won him plaudits across the globe and saw Leary attacking sacred cows such as fitness freaks parenthood drug taking smoking vegetarians and a lot more besides Leary works himself into a frenzy as he storms across the stage while also taunting non-smokers in the audience by constantly billowing smoke into the air from a constant chain of cigarettes LOCK 'N' LOAD follows similar themes and originally played to over 16 million people For fans of Leary's inimitable schtick this is an awesome collection for newcomers--hold onto your hats this is quite a ride!"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Dead Of Night Special Edition DVD" |
| "Considered the greatest horror anthology film the classic British chiller DEAD OF NIGHT features five stories of supernatural terror from four different directors yet it ultimately feels like a unified whole The framing device is simple but unsettling as a group of strangers find themselves inexplicably gathered at an isolated country estate uncertain why they have come The topic of conversation soon turns to the world of dreams and nightmares and each guest shares a frightening event from hisher own past Many of these tales have become famous including Basil Dearden&39;s opening vignette about a ghostly driver with "room for one more" in the back of his hearse Equally eerie are Robert Hamer&39;s look at a haunted antique mirror that gradually begins to possess its owner&39;s soul and Alberto Cavalcanti&39;s ghost story about a mysterious young girl during a Christmas party Legendary Ealing comedy director Charles Crichton lightens the mood with an amusing interlude about the spirit of a deceased golfer haunting his former partner leaving viewers vulnerable to Cavalcanti&39;s superb and much-imitated closing segment about a ventriloquist (Michael Redgrave) slowly driven mad when his dummy appears to come to life"
Price: 11.99 |
| "The Best of WCW Clash of The Champions DVD 3-Disc Set" |
| "CLASH OF THE CHAMPIONS is the spectacle featuring the biggest and brightest stars of the NWA and WCW Over the course of 35 events from 1988-1997 over six hours of action from legendary performers such as ''Nature Boy'' Ric Flair Ricky ''The Dragon'' Steamboat Sting the nWo and many more"
Price: 12.99 |
| "Wales Grand Slam - RBS 6 Nations Review DVD" |
| "Relive Wales' third Grand Slam in eight years in the annual rugby union championship This comprehensive review looks at every match in the tournament with expert analysis and highlights"
Price: 12.99 |
| "Simba DVD" |
| "White farmer Dirk Bogarde and his neighbors are targeted for extermination by the zealously nationalistic Mau Maus Native doctor Joseph Tomelty whose brother had earlier been killed under questionable circumstances endeavors to help the whites escape the hordes only to discover that his own father is the local leader of the insurrectionists"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Clo Clo DVD" |
| "This release is the story of Claude Francois aka Clo Clo He was a complex character who became a legend in his country while England was being rocked by The Beatles Jeremie Rennier plays Clo Clo in this fascinating story of a man whose ambition drove him straight to the top but ultimately led him to a tragic end"
Price: 11.99 |
| "The Spy In Black DVD" |
| "A World War I spy story of a German submarine captain who with the help of a Royal Navy traitor attempts to sink the British Fleet"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Best Of The Impressions Show DVD" |
| "The impressions come thick fast and funny with Jon Culshaw (DEAD RINGERS) and Debra Stephenson at the helm of this TV sketch show Up for the lampooning treatment in this BEST OF release are celebs such as Ross Kemp Anne Robinson Davina McCall Amy Winehouse and many more!"
Price: 13.49 |
| "The History Of Heavyweight Boxing DVD" |
| "This hard hitting programme chronicles the history of heavy weight boxing one of the most dangerous exhilarating and often controversial sports To name a few Muhammad Ali Joe Frazer Rocky Marciano Floyd Patterson and Jack Dempsey are some of the big names and characters to have graced the spotlight in the ultimate physical contest Covering the origins of the sport and profiling the glorious careers and epic bouts including titanic clashes between Muhammad Ali and Cassius ClayJoe Frazer this DVD is jam packed with fighting footage An absolute must have for all boxing fans"
Price: 13.49 |
| "Quest For Love DVD" |
| "This science fictionfantasy is loosely based on a story by John Wyndham (best known for THE DAY OP THE TRIFFIDS) Scientist Collin (Tom Bell) stumbles across a parallel world in which President Kennedy is not shot Vietnam hasn't happened and Ottilie (Joan Collins) the woman he loves dies unexpectedly of a heart condition While he is happy enough with the rest of his new world he can't stand by and let his true love die in his original world and he determines to return to his own place and time to save her"
Price: 14.49 |
| "Spanish Gardener DVD" |
| "Unusual drama story of a lonely boy whose only friend is his father's hired manthe Spanish gardener"
Price: 8.49 |
