UK Charity Shop Finds

[CelestialAgent]

Oxfam Magdalen St has the Severin release of Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein in the glass case for £20

[BudBaxter]

Never find a bargain in Oxfam. Too many busybodies looking things up on ebay...

[BudBaxter]

July's goodies:

Charity Shops:

Apocalypto - £1
The Phantom of the Opera (Gerry Butler) - £1
The Artist (SEALED) - 33p
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - 33p
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - 33p
War for the Planet of the Apes - 33p
Pulp Fiction (w/slip) - £1
The Warriors: Ultimate Director's Cut - £1
Fantastic Beast & Where To Find Them 3D (w/slip) - 25p
Jack The Giant Slayer 3D (w/slip) - 25p
South Pacific (2 disc) - 25p
The Newsroom: Season Three (w/slip) - £2
The Boy - £1


Boot Sale:

True Things (SEALED) - £1
Men in Black 1 & 2 - 66p
The Tournament - 66p
Trance - 66p
The Tourist - 66p
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer - 66p
Lockout - 66p
The World's End (w/slip) - £1

[IanSchultz23]

Found Willow on Blu-Ray for 50p today!

[CelestialAgent]

£1.99 from Oxfam



TranSylvania is a blind buy but I trust in Peccadillo/Petit Peche

not seen much Greek Weird Wave outside of Dogtooth (advertised on the front cover!) - looking forward to Harvest

£1 from Cancer Research - they also have other Disney Classics on BD on the bottom shelf behind the boxsets



RSPCA has some BFI Ozus for £2 each - but missing the BD, so only useful if you only want the bonus film and booklet.

[BudBaxter]

August's finds:

Charity Shops:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 50p
City of Ember - 50p
Jurassic World 3D (sealed) - 50p
Shoot Em Up - £2
Cult of Chucky - £2
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (w/slip) - 50p
Batman: The Long Halloween - 99p

& a mint Panasonic blu-ray player for £6.50 (always handy to have a backup)


Boot Sale:

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Seasons 1-4 - £5
Star Wars Rebels: Seasons 1-4 - £5
Harry Potter Complete boxset - £4
The Mask - £2
The Victim (Michael Biehn) - £1
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (w/slip) - £1
The Midnight Meat Train - £1
Clive Barker's Books of Blood - £1
Taking Lives - £1
Alita: Battle Angel (w/slip) - £1
Focus (sealed) - £1
Pacific Rim: Uprising (w/slip) - 50p
Lucy (w/slip) - 50p
Red Tails (w/slip) - 50p
Clash of the Titans (remake) - 50p
47 Ronin (w/slip) - 50p
We Were Soldiers - 50p


ps. I hope whoever put the We Were Soldiers disc together at Icon was fired. The opening credits are missing, there's no location titles throughout the film, & the bonus documentary plays in a tiny window on the menu rather than full frame…

[Jabbitt]

As I travel the country for work, I visit the charity shops when I get the chance, but I never find anything amazing like you lucky buggers. It always seems to be the same mainstream film's in every shop that I own or that I'm not interested in.

Anyway, managed to get a nice little haul today, all Blu-rays.

• The Pacific (Cardboard box edition) £4

• Step Brothers £1 — This blind buy I bought because of a recent podcast that made it sound interesting. It can always be re-donated.

• Le Mans '66 £1

• All The President's Men £1 — Interestingly, this a US copy. This box was sealed, and the faded barcode sticker mentioned that it was an import copy

[pumpkihn]

Never much in the blu-ray department in my locals but snagged these 3 for a quid recently. The Fallen Ones was predictably terrible and is already winging its way to a new home via ebay. Evil Dead I grabbed for the extras that I don't have on other releases and Jesse James was sealed with a £24.99 HMV price tag still attached

[ZombieTwin2]

Picked up 4K Tenet (with slip) for 25p in a local charity shop.

Kev W

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by ZombieTwin2

Picked up 4K Tenet (with slip) for 25p in a local charity shop.

Kev W

Because of the cut status that's about what the UK version is worth as far as I am concerned but I'd still have picked it up just to have a spare case I can use for Frankensteining.

[CompleteCount]

Originally Posted by ZombieTwin2

Picked up 4K Tenet (with slip) for 25p in a local charity shop.

Once I told Clare that the UK edition was missing a woman getting booted in the head, she didn't want it - just remember that The Toolbox Murders contains her favourite cinematic one-punch tw*tting.

She picked up the US version of Tenet instead.

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by CompleteCount

Once I told Clare that the UK edition was missing a woman getting booted in the head, she didn't want it - just remember that The Toolbox Murders contains her favourite cinematic one-punch tw*tting.

She picked up the US version of Tenet instead.

I picked up the Spanish one.

[CompleteCount]

Originally Posted by the13thman

I picked up the Spanish one.

I think the wife paid £8 for it in total.

[CelestialAgent]

£5.99 and £1.99 from Oxfam - though will still hold onto the DVD of The Illusionist for the lengthy extras, but I’m sure it will look better in HD. US release is BD25 rather than BD50 and Region A locked. I know some French releases from this era suffer from disc rot, but this plays fine and while it’s pretty vanilla, the character design/animatics featurette is very interesting. Site/user review for the transfer on Encounters seems negative but other sites are more positive but there are limitations to early digital HD cameras and it’s not interlaced as the US disc is.

[leafan]

I found these today for £1 each.

[rapta]

Coffee & Cigarettes for a quid! Bargain. Shame that hasn't had a UK Blu-ray, I'd buy it immediately.

[bleedandtrim]

Was back home to Ireland recently, took a spin around a few some Dublin charity shops while passing through and got this in an Oxfam for a quid;



From the local BHF, not much turnover in the discs section lately but the occasional finds. Wasn't familiar with Wholphin prior to finding this (neat magazine/DVD anthology series McSweeneys published in the 2000s collecting short films that otherwise fell off the festival circuits);



£2 and £1.50 in two Oxfams. No BD of the Second Run title;



And from today for a quid, a Parker I haven't seen yet;

[rapta]

Only really been finding 50p DVD titles recently (Oxfam):




But then found this today for £2 (BHF):

[fatboyslim142]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

£5.99 and £1.99 from Oxfam - though will still hold onto the DVD of The Illusionist for the lengthy extras, but I’m sure it will look better in HD. US release is BD25 rather than BD50 and Region A locked. I know some French releases from this era suffer from disc rot, but this plays fine and while it’s pretty vanilla, the character design/animatics featurette is very interesting. Site/user review for the transfer on Encounters seems negative but other sites are more positive but there are limitations to early digital HD cameras and it’s not interlaced as the US disc is.

What extras does the BD of the Tati related film have?

[ZombieTwin2]

My stepson picked up the MCU Phase Three box set for 99p. Sealed. In 4K.

Kev W