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• Ground Force Dug Up! | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This DVD shows highlights from the BBC gardening series starring Alan Titchmarsh Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh. Highlights include Charlie and Tommy's first ever television appearance Alan receiving a 'Gotcha' from Noel Edmunds and all the best bits from the various garden makeovers the team have carried out always against the clock over three series. Includes previously unseen footage.

• Fortress | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The story of Fortress takes place in drastically overpopulated America of the year 2017, where each woman is allowed only one pregnancy. John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen (Loryn Locklin) flee to Mexico when she becomes pregnant after the death of their first child. They are captured by border police and sent to the Fortress, a subterranean high-security prison owned by the Men-Tel corporation and operated by "Zed-10", an omnipotent computer system, and a sadistic, genetically "enhanced" warden (Kurtwood Smith) who has nefarious plans involving Brennick's wife and unborn child. Along with his cellmates (including Jeffrey Combs, a favourite of director Stuart Gordon), Brennick plots a breakout and Fortress shifts into auto-pilot action mode. After making his reputation with such audacious horror films as From Beyond and Re-Animator, Stuart Gordon graduated to a bigger budget with Fortress but his penchant for exploitation remains deliriously intact. While borrowing elements from a variety of better sci-fi movies, Fortress indulges every prison-flick cliché, but does it with such enjoyable B-movie vigour that it qualifies as a bona-fide guilty pleasure (indeed, it deserves to be ranked with James Cameron's original Terminator in terms of its budgetary ingenuity). Featuring such giddy (and gory) devices as "intestinators" (deadly obedience devices implanted in prisoners' bodies) and a torturous "Mind Wipe Chamber", this is really just a drive-in action movie with lofty ambitions and the schlocky script hasn't a prayer of rising above the level of juvenile popcorn fodder. But there's no denying the energy and enthusiasm that Gordon brings to the film, which understandably became a global box-office hit and spawned a 1999 sequel starring Lambert and Pam Grier. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Nothing But The Best (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (26/08/2024) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Die Hard | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £10.89   |  Saving you £2.10 (19.28%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bruce Willis is John McClane, a New York cop who flies to L.A. on Christmas Eve to visit his wife at a party in her company’s lavish high-rise. Plans change once a group of terrorists, led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), seize the building and take everyone hostage. McClane slips away and becomes the only chance anyone has in this heart-stopping action thriller. Includes DVD bonus disc featuring over 90 minutes of all new content in the Decoding Die Hard.

• It Happened One Night | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic. Spoiled Ellie Andrews (Colbert) escapes from her millionaire father (Walter Connolly) who wants to stop her from marrying a worthless playboy. En route to New York Ellie gets involved with an out-of-work newsman Peter Warne (Gable). When their bus breaks down the bickering couple set off on a madcap hitchhiking expedition. Peter hopes to parlay the inside story of their

• Tim Burton 9-Film Collection | Blu Ray | (03/10/2022) from £45.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Pee-Wee's Big Adventure: When Pee-wee Herman's idyllic world is destroyed by the theft of his fire-engine red bicycle, the pre-pubescent adult sets out on a manic cross-country odyssey to recover his most valued possession. Director Tim Burton makes his feature-film debut with this comic masterpiece./p> Beetlejuice: A couple of home-loving ghosts need to be rid of a group of pretentious, trendsetting humans, who have taken over their house and made 'living' extremely difficult. They enlist the aid of a bio-exorcist in the hope that he can scare the unwanted guests away. Batman: After witnessing his parents brutal murder as a child, millionaire-philanthropist Bruce Wayne pledges his life to fighting crime disguised as Batman. His long-time nemesis, the Joker, has sinister plans for the citizens of Gotham City. His greed is matched by his obsession with photojournalist Vicki Vale. But Batman is there to counter the Joker's every move. With the fate of Gotham and Vicki in the balance, will good or evil prevail? Batman Returns: Batman the Caped Crusader is pitted against the demented, ravenous Penguin; a pitiful, orphaned psychopathic freak who once went on a baby-killing spree, and a 'power' hungry capitalist villain, Max Shreck. As the two criminals plot to gain domination over Gotham City, Batman must plot to stop them. In the highly stylized Batman Returns, Batman is thrown a third enemy, a terrible distraction: the slinky, sharp-clawed Cat Woman./p> Mars Attacks: When a shiny silver flying saucer lands in the Nevada desert, a group of skull-faced Martians exit the gleaming craft. Although they claim to be peaceful, they promptly vaporize a gathering of unfortunate Earthling s, kicking off a bizarre high-tech war with wild special effects. Sweeney Todd: Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) is living a simple life with his wife Lucy and his daughter when the lust of a judge (Alan Rickman) throws their lives into chaos. The judge has Barker deported to Australia, and many years later he returns to England with revenge in his heart. Corpse Bride: Set in a 19th century European village, this stop-motion, animated feature follows the story of Victor (voiced by JOHNNY DEPP), a young man who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride, while his real bride, Victoria, waits bereft in the land of the living. Though life in the Land of the Dead proves to be a lot more colorful than his strict Victorian upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world, or the next, that can keep him away from his one true love. Charlie & The Chocolate Factory: Acclaimed director Tim Burton brings his vividly imaginative style to the beloved Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, about eccentric candy-maker Willy Wonka and Charlie Bucket, a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory.

• Tin Man | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A tent-pole miniseries release from RHI Entertainment and SCI FI Channel Tin Man is a modern science fiction update of L. Frank Baum s timeless ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."" When a sorceress named Azkadellia scorches the once-beautiful land of OZ into a desolate wasteland the only hope lies in an ""outsider"" named DG a young Midwestern woman whose troubling dreams have summoned her to the doomed paradise. D.G. embarks on a journey to find the great mystic man to save the O.Z. and on her way she befriends a scarecrow named Glitch a tin cop named Cain and gentle manimal named Raw.

• Brighton Rock | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hard to imagine now but long before Richard Attenborough became Lord Dickie, benevolent patriarch of British moviedom, he specialised in playing weaselly little thugs and punks. Brighton Rock, adapted from Graham Greene's classic novel, offered him one of his best early roles as Pinkie, juvenile leader of a seedy gang of racetrack crooks in the Sussex seaside town. When it seems an innocent young waitress may know too much about one of their killings, Pinkie decides to keep her quiet by marrying her. But in Greene's world of guilt-ridden Catholicism and inexorable doom, it was never going to be that easy. Is the famous twist ending a cop-out? That depends just how much irony you read into it. But the Brighton atmosphere, all tawdry gaiety shot through with a crackling undercurrent of fear, is so vivid you can smell it. Made with a cool, dispassionate eye by the Boulting Brothers (before they turned jokey with the likes of I'm Alright Jack, for instance) and superbly shot by Harry Waxman, this is one of Britain's few great contributions to the noir thriller cycle. Young Dickie, twitchy, vicious and terrified, is a revelation--and don't miss William Hartnell, the original Dr Who, as his cynical sidekick. --Philip Kemp

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | DVD | (20/04/2020) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Harry returns for his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry along with his best friends Hermione and Ron. He ignores warning s not to go back to Hogwarts by a mysterious house elf named Dobby. Soon into the school year strange things start happening...

• Def-Con 4 | DVD | (17/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Three astronauts return to Earth two months after a nuclear holocaust and confront a new and terrifying reality. Civilisation has given way to barbarism. One of their number is eaten alive by the disease crazy mutants. The battle for freedom and the world's future has begun...

• Spy Kids | Blu Ray | (15/08/2011) from £10.78   |  Saving you £14.21 (131.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino were the world's two greatest spies before they retired to raise a family. Nine years later they are forced out of retirement to take on the techno wizard Fegan, but when they dissapear its left to their kids to save them

• DIE ZEITMASCHINE (1959) - VARI | DVD | (05/02/2010) from £11.33   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Young Guns 2 - Blaze Of Glory | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £8.51   |  Saving you £10.48 (123.15%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Billy Doc and Chavez find themselves jailed in the same place and plan an escape. Together with new recruits they head for the Mexican border not knowing that Billy The Kid's one-time friend now wears a badge and is leading the posse to get them...

• Whicker's World: The Best of Whicker | DVD | (16/10/2017) from £27.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A cultural icon, consummate interviewer and guiding light behind some of the most popular documentaries ever made, Alan Whicker's brand of charismatic, quietly incisive television journalism captivated audiences for six decades. Drawn from landmark series stretching from the late sixties to the early nineties, this set showcases the remarkable diversity of Whicker's output from encounters with modern Maharajahs to the bathroom billionaires of Palm Beach; from Europe's glittering aristocracy to the later twentieth century's most notorious dictators. Encompassing subjects ranging from Gay Lib to plastic surgery, Christian cults to cryonics, this collection represents factual television at its most compelling. Editions included are: Papa Doc the Black Sheep Whicker in Stroessner's Paraguay The Last Dictator Harold Robbins I'm the World's Best Writer I'd Like to Think I'm Nearer to God than Frankenstein I Haven't Taken My Own Shoes Off for 45 Years He's Been Hunted All His Life - Now He's Going to Rest in Peace I Wear a Uniform and Pack a Gun, But I'm Still a Woman If a Cop Walked Around With Pink Hair and a Limp Wrist, it Would Discredit the Department The Aristocracy Business Boat People Devil's Island Pixie-Dust on Goody-Goody Land Vienna Come in, Dr Freud, all is Forgiven You Stopped Being a Pigeon When You Got Your Throat Cut Charleston, South Carolina You Used to Call Me Boy , Now You Got to Call Me Mr Boy Anchorage, Alaska the Ultimate Dream, the Last Chance to do it Right Nothing is Utopia, this Comes Pretty Close The Absolute Monarch The Road from Rose Linda's Alan Whicker Meets the Cats' Eyes Man The American Lifestyle Immortality Inc. Prince Johannes Von Thurn Und Taxis Husbands Shy Clear of Me, Boy..! Tribes Lost and Found I Do My Duty When I Feel Like It God Forgive Me for What I've Done but it Was All Very Enjoyable The Lord is My Shepherd, and He Knows I'm Gay The Most Beautiful Brainwashing There Ever Was... Houston: a Gun is a Funny Animal Large Sums of Money Have a Very Fusty Smell Palm Beach, Florida: How Can I Lie About My Age When My Son Needs a Facelift..? Even Though You're a Maharajah, You're a Human Being First He'll Never Have to Divorce Me He Can Always Change Me...

• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As the private eye of private eyes Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon. He's tough rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest appears on the scene with a case: her father a noted scientist philanthropist and cheesemaker has died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead to the 'Carlotta Lists'. With a little help from his 'friends' Alan Ladd Barbara Stanwyck Ray Milland Burt Lancaster Humphrey Bogart Charles Laughton

• Complicity | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £17.29   |  Saving you £2.70 (15.62%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the Iain Banks novel this gripping thriller is set in Scotland with a strong cast including the brilliant Johnny Lee Miller. Cameron Colley is a journalist who writes articles that takes the underdog's viewpoint. His motives are shared by a serial killer who commits murder on behalf of the underdog. The two stories then begin to fuse together...

• Young Guns / Young Guns II | DVD | (06/08/2021) from £14.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Peter Nichols adapts his award-winning play to devastating effect in Peter Medak's powerful black comedy about an ordinary couple struggling to cope with a severely disabled child. School teacher Brian (Alan Bates - A kind of Loving, Georgy Girl) and his wide Sheila (Janet Suzman - Nicholas And Alexandra, The Draughtsman's Contract) are the parents of young Jo (Elizabeth Rabillard), a child afflicted with cerebral palsy. Caring for Jo threatens to overwhelm their loves, and to stay sane they rely on dark humour. But while Sheila tries to ensure that her daughter has some quality of life, Brian is increasingly obsessed with the idea that she might be better off dead...

• Women in Love | Blu Ray | (22/08/2016) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Before director Ken Russell's name became synonymous with cinematic extravagance and overkill, he actually directed what is one of the most passionate and involving adaptations of DH Lawrence in recent memory. Oliver Reed and Alan Bates star as friends who fall in love with a pair of sisters (Jennie Linden and Glenda Jackson, who won an Oscar for the role). But the relationships take markedly different directions, as Russell explores the nature of commitment and love. Bates and Linden learn to give themselves to each other; the more withdrawn Reed cannot, finally, connect with the demanding and challenging Jackson. Shot with great sensuality, Women in Love was surprisingly frank for its period (1970) and includes one of the most charged scenes in movie history: Bates and Reed as manly men, wrestling nude by firelight. --Marshall Fine

• Son Of The Mask | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £3.89   |  Saving you £16.10 (413.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jamie Kennedy finds himself having to cope with a baby with odd powers in this follow-up the Jim Carrey comedy.