One last competition to draw for now - for a pair of Armchair Thriller DVDs.
Three winners, each receiving the first two volumes of this cult 70s TV series. They are:
Alex Baxter - London
Jane Bullough - Derby
Keri Vagges - Glasgow
A number of new competitions will be starting soon.
Another competition comes to an end - The London Nobody Knows (1967) / Les Bicyclettes de Belsize (1969) DVD. And we have five winners for the five DVDs. They are:
Darren Whitehead - Manchester
Mikki Francis - London
Kevin Barclay-Jay - Shanklin (Isle of Wight)
Cathy Littlejohn - London
Alison Brown - Newbury
All have been contacted and prizes will be sent out this week.
The much-anticipated Optimum DVD release of The London Nobody Knows (1967) / Les Bicyclettes de Belsize (1969) finally hit the shelves this week. But if you want to save yourself some cash, you can win one of the five DVD copies we are giving away in our latest competition.
Two widely differing mini-features, The London Nobody Knows is a fascinating snippet of the lesser-known side of London in 1967 - think decaying housing and theatres, street entertainers, down and outs and street markets. Not to mention the sites of jack The Ripper's murders and the obligatory shots of swinging London - all overseen by veteran actor James Mason. Les Bicyclettes de Belsize is the complete opposite - a frothy swinging love story set to music on the streets and parks of late 60s Hampstead. And yes - there are bikes involved.
You can check out our full review right here. Or you can just enter the competition, which is hosted on our Modculture website, at the link below.
Enter the London Nobody Knows / Les Bicyclettes de Belsize competition
Hopefully you read our reviews of the first two volumes of Armchair Thriller - Rachel In Danger and A Dog's Ransom. If you didn't, let's just say we very impressed.
Both are available to buy now for £12.99, but if money is still tight after Christmas, here's some good news - both are available to win in our latest competition, with three lucky people each receiving a copy of the first two Armchair Thriller DVDs.
To be in with a chance, all you have to do is enter your details on the competition page (hosted on our Modculture site). Good luck!
Just out in time for Christmas is a two-disc DVD set of The Who's finest moments coupled with rare footage of the band and band members - Amazing Journey: The Story Of The Who and Six Quick Ones. And we have three DVD sets to give away.
Directed by Paul Crowder, Amazing Journey tells the story of the band through the music, footage, new interviews with the band, celebrity fans and musicians, plus recently-discovered concert footage, kicking off with I Can't Explain and ending with the band's most recent tour and recordings. There's also an additional Six Quick Ones disc, which focuses on each individual band member, the mod scene, the pop art movement and more rare footage - including film of the band as the High Numbers at the Railway Hotel - the earliest footage of the band known to be in existence.
If you want to be in with a chance of winning a set, just enter your details at our sister site Modculture, following the link below. The winners will be drawn just before Christmas.
If you missed out on winning an Addams Family 2 DVD boxset, don't despair - we are now giving away Addams Family Volume Three DVD boxsets.
Yes, the finest gothic comedy series returns once more, with another 21 classic episodes featuring Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Wednesday, Pugsley, Grandmama, Cousin Itt, Thing and their manservant, Lurch. There's also extras and commentaries too, including select scene commentaries by Thing and Cousin Itt.
It's available from 29th October 2007 for £29.99, but we have four boxsets to give away. The competition is hosted on our sister site Modculture - just follow the link below, enter your details and you'll be in the draw.
Enter the Addams Family DVD boxset competition
And if you want some clips and downloads, check out the official website.
Slightly later than expected, here are the winners of the Jean-Luc Godard and Addams Family 2 DVD boxsets.
Godard winners:
Emily Hutchinson Harrogate
David Atkinson Brighton
Addams Family winners:
Nic Brady Leeds
Richard Meldrum Cardiff
Liza Brozdowski Portsmouth
Deana Toon Banbury
I will be in touch with you all soon about your prizes. A new competition for the Addams Family 3 DVD boxset will start soon, alongside several other new competitions across Modculture, Retro To Go and Cinedelica.
On the BBC and the cinema screens, we've been experiencing the Summer of British Film, showcasing classics and lesser-known gems from the British movie archives. And if you like what you have seen, you'll want to own the best of British film on DVD.
We've teamed up with ITV DVD and Optimum Home Entertainment to give away two sets of five key titles, each recently reissued - the controversial modern-day love story 9 Songs, Brit horror classic and must-own The Wicker Man, wartime blockbuster The Dam Busters, classic post-war thriller The Third Man and one of the finest British movies of the 1960s - Billy Liar. A great starting point for any budding movie collector.
The competition is running over on our sister site Modculture. If you want to enter, just follow the link below to find out more and to get your name in the draw.
Over at our sister site Modculture, we're giving things away again - in this case, three sets of 60s Beat Classics DVDs.
There are three titles in the series - Catch Us If You Can, Pop Gear and Gonks Go Beat.
Catch Us If You Can is a band vehicle for the Dave Clark Five, but a decent one directed by John Boorman (who later directed Deliverance). Pop Gear is a band showcase from 1964/65, highlighting some of the leading bands of the day, while the real lost gem in the series is Gonks Go Beat - a tale of two warring musical islands - Beatsville and Ballad Isle. And with a guest appearance from hip 60s band The Graham Bond Organisation.
All three are released on June 4th 2007, but if you want to get three for nothing, head over to Modculture, enter your email address and you'll be in the draw.
Over at our sister site Modculture, you can win one of three DVD boxsets of the controversial 60s Brit gangster series Big Breadwinner Hog.
The series is about a young 'Mod' gangster called Hogarth - out to make big money - but having to take on London's established crime scene to do it. It was banned when first shown in the 60s for its violence, so this is probably your first chance to see the entire series. Also included in the DVD set is Spindoe - another vintage crime drama, this time about a South London crime boss back out of prison - and in the firing line from his old enemies.
We have three of the five-DVD sets to give away. If you want one, enter your details at the page below.
As we previously reported, cult classic Quadrophenia is getting the reissue treatment in August, re-released as a two-disc set, with the movie digitally remastered and featuring a brand new stereo audio track. Its also packed with extras and unseen documentaries, along with an audio commentary from director Franc Roddam and actors Phil Daniels and Leslie Ash.
If you don't want to buy one, you can win one. Head over to our sister site Modculture, where, by simply entering your name and email address, you can get in the draw to win one of three copies. Good luck!
He's yet to achieve the crossover success of Jet Li or Jackie Chan, and while that's a mighty shame as far as deserved exposure goes, it might also explain why the rather awesome Donnie Yen remains a solid guarantee of martial arts cool rather than a tarnished legend.
With his stern demeanour, take-no-shit frown and a tendency to specialise in tough bastards and angry anti-heroes, he's always reminded me of a high-kicking Clint Eastwood, a comparison that should help explain just why his movies are worth seeking out.
He can currently be found as the standout star of Tsui Hark's epic swordplay adventure, Seven Swords, a visually glorious (if not always entirely coherent) melange of tragic lovers, evil dictators and clashing steel. For fans of top notch martial arts cinema, it's an essential purchase.
We've got two copies to give away, along with two copies of The Donnie Yen Collection, which boasts modern kung fu classics Iron Monkey, New Dragon Gate Inn and Once Upon A Time In China 3 - a trio of superb period movies that complement Seven Swords like a fine red wine with a sizzling steak.
To be in with a chance of winning some of this bodacious booty, just click the link and send us the answer to the following question, along with your name and address.
Iron Monkey was directed by which legendary martial arts choreographer?
Click HERE to enter!
Feed is the new movie from Brett Leonard, the man who brought us Jeff Fahey as a retarded supervillain in The Lawnmower Man and a prancing Russell Crowe in Virtuosity. Normally this would be the cue for most sane moviegoers to run for the hills, but Feed is actually pretty good - and a far cry from the shiny CGI bluster of Leonard's earlier movies.
Admittedly, it does continue the director's thematic hard-on for all things cyberspace, but in far less silly way. A grim killer thriller laced with online voyeurism, Feed is set in the world of feeders and gainers, a real life fetish where men fatten up willing women to obese levels - the ultimate in co-dependency. Mmmm, tasty.
Featuring scenes of flab, blubber, plastic bags full of human fat and more naked penises than you might expect, Feed is worth catching if you like to see just how much sick stuff you can stomach. It's been described as "one of the most thought-provoking thrillers of 2006" by that renowned journal of cinema, the Daily Sport, so you know you're in for something uniquely sleazy.
To celebrate the release of Feed on DVD, we've got two prize bundles to give away each comprising a copy of the film on DVD and an achingly ironic Feed placemat with which to alarm Granny next Sunday. To be in with a chance of winning, just click yonder link and send us the answer to the following question:
Which famously porky singer sang Lip Up Fatty?
