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• Canadian Bacon | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The American President is behind in the polls and is looking to increase his popularity. His advisors launch an 'anti-Canadian' campaign which inadvertantly results in bumbling U.S. sheriff Boomer (John Candy) and his hair-trigger deputy Honey (Rhea Perlman) leading their troopers to invade Canada!

• The Wind In The Willows | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £19.69   |  Saving you £-3.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This wonderfully animated feature of The Wind In The Willows the charismatic band of friends Rat Mole Badger and the inimitable Toad are brought beautifully to the screen in this adaptation of the enchanting novel by Kenneth Grahame. The voices of Rik Mayall as Toad Michael Palin as Rat Alan Bennett as Mole and Michael Gambon as Badger are joined with the superb animation techniques of some of Britain's finest artists. Follow the adventures along the river bank and enjoy the thrill of the chase as a manic Mr Toad escapes from the police in a stolen car. Cheer on Badger and Rat as they lead the battle to reclaim Toad Hall from a band of evil weasels. Packed with comedy fun and high drama The Wind In The Willows is a true classic of animation - a universally loved tale brought to life. Poop Poop - The Making of The Wind In The Willows invites you into the intriguing world of the artists producers directors and of course the voices who breath life into all The Wind In The Willows characters. Award Winning producer John Coates explains how 40 000 separate pieces of artwork are used for each half hour of film every piece is done entirely by hand. Over 12 000 different colours and over 2 000 pencils were used by the animators. A fascinating insight into how this magnificent production was created.

• The Barchester Chronicles | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The first two episodes of this BBC miniseries only hint at the delights to come. A lawsuit aimed at church reform in the town of Barchester forces a decent middle-aged clergyman (Donald Pleasence) into a moral crisis and a conflict with his son-in-law, a pompous archdeacon (Nigel Hawthorne, The Madness of King George). The gracefully written and acted narrative shows glimpses of dry wit--but in episode 3, the arrival of a new bishop (Clive Swift, Keeping Up Appearances), his imperious wife (Geraldine McEwan, The Magdalene Sisters), and his devious chaplain (Alan Rickman, Truly Madly Deeply, the Harry Potter movies) launches The Barchester Chronicles into a satirical power struggle all the more mesmerizing because of the smallness of the territory. The scheming of the citizens and clergy of this British town is both Byzantine and wonderfully comic as the tempestuous personalities claw and dig at each other. Rickman, in one of his first film or television roles, turns in a tour de force of oily ambition. McEwan's ferocious machinations are downright terrifying, while the sputtering Hawthorne seems constantly in danger of bursting a vein. At the center of it all is Pleasence. Making goodness compelling has always been difficult, since wickedness is always more dramatic; but Pleasence brings a deep and stirring passion to his role that proves as engaging as all the back-biting that surrounds him. And these are just the more familiar faces; a host of lesser-known actors give equally superb performances. The final episode (of seven) will have you on pins and needles. The Barchester Chronicles, adapted from two novels by Anthony Trollope, is one of those marvels of British television, a skillful production that proves intelligent fare can be hugely entertaining. --Bret Fetzer

• The Smurfs | DVD | (05/12/2011) from £2.92   |  Saving you £18.33 (1,104.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Audiences everywhere are in for a Smurfy good time as the Smurfs make their first 3D trip to the big screen in Sony Pictures Animation's hybrid live-action and animated family comedy, The Smurfs.

• Edgar Wallace Mysteries - Volume 5 | DVD | (22/10/2012) from £15.98   |  Saving you £16.00 (114.37%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The thrillers of Edgar Wallace one of the twentieth century’s most successful crime novelists have been widely adapted for film and television – the most memorable of which being the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series made at Merton Park Studios during the first half of the 1960s. A noir-esque series it updates some of the author’s stories to more contemporary settings blending classic B-movie elements with a distinctly British feel. Unseen for decades these dramas have been freshly transferred from the original film elements specifically for this release.

• Inside I'm Dancing | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £7.39   |  Saving you £8.60 (116.37%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When a loud-mouthed soul moves in next door, Michael, a long-term resident of Dublin's Carrigmore Home for the Disabled, finds a new lease of life in this award-winning Irish movie.

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition) | DVD | (19/12/2001) from £27.82   |  Saving you £-7.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In a time before history, in a place named Middle-earth, a dark and powerful lord has brought together the forces of evil to destroy its cultures and enslave all life caught in his path.

• Castle Rock: Season 2 | Blu Ray | (27/07/2020) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock is an original story that combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. In Season 2, a feud between warring clans comes to a boil, just as budding psychopath Annie Wilkes, Stephen King's nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock.

• The Medusa Touch: Special Edition | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Richard Burton stars as successful novelist John Morlar who believes he has 'a gift for disaster' - the power to cause death and destruction through unconscious telekinesis. When Morlar is viciously assaulted and left for dead the night of the Moon Mission disaster and a jet crash police investigating the attack quickly turn to Morlar's mysterious therapist Zonfeld (Lee Remick) in the belief that there is a link between the assault and Morlar's disturbing complex...

• The Eden Project | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £6.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (196.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alan Titchmarsh narrates two 60 minutes specials: The Gardeners of Eden and Growing Pains. The third largest tourist attraction in the UK The Eden Project is famous for its huge botanical biomes which house plants from all over the world. In The Gardens Of Eden we follow the team of 60 botanists gardeners and architects as they go about their daily work managing the project and the visitors that enjoy it. Growing Pains looks at the long term impact of t

• Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased): The Complete Series | Blu Ray | (02/10/2017) from £56.12   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The twist of private-eye show Randall & Hopkirk Deceased is that in the first episode, gumshoe Marty Hopkirk (Kenneth Cope) is killed off by the villains, only to pop up in an immaculate white suit as a ghost visible only to his hardboiled partner Jeff Randall (Mike Pratt). In theory, the supernatural streak--which meant a complex set of rules about Marty's appearances and effects on the physical world--should lead the show into wilder territory, but most episodes squander the team's unique abilities on ordinary cases about blackmail and murder-for-profit. A persistent subplot has the living Jeff getting cosy with the dead Marty's widow Jean (Annette Andre) to the discomfort of her late husband. The elementary effects and the nice underplaying of the leads have a certain period charm, and the show could afford a high calibre of special guest villains and dolly birds. A 1990s remake with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer hasn't obliterated memories of the original. --Kim Newman

• Breaker Morant | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £11.60   |  Saving you £-1.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Before coming to America to make such acclaimed films as Tender Mercies and Driving Miss Daisy, Australian director Bruce Beresford made a lasting impression with this compelling courtroom drama, considered one the finest films of the Australian new wave of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Based on a true story about three soldiers in the Boer War who are served up as political scapegoats of the British Empire, the film uses a flashback structure to dramatise the courtroom testimony. It begins when the three Australian soldiers are railroaded for the justified killing of a German missionary and placed on trial for court-martial not as a matter of justice, but to mollify the German government for the sake of political expediency. Burdened with a competent but inexperienced and hopelessly disadvantaged lawyer, the soldiers realise that their fate has been sealed and the outcome of their trial is a fait accompli. Unfolding with urgent precision and a riveting focus on its well-drawn characters, Breaker Morant was the all-time box-office hit in Australia at the time of its release in 1980, and it remains one of the very best historical dramas ever made. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Die Hard / Die Hard 2 / Die Hard With A Vengeance | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Exceptionally well-directed by John McTiernan, Die Hard made Bruce Willis a star back in 1988 and established a new template for action stories. Here the bad guys, led by the velvet-voiced Alan Rickman, assume control of a Los Angeles high-rise with Willis's visiting New York cop inside. The attraction of the film has as much to do with the sight of a barefoot mortal running around the guts of a modern office tower as it has with the plentiful fight sequences and the bond the hero establishes with an LA beat cop. Bonnie Bedelia plays Willis's wife, Hart Bochner is good as a brash hostage who tries negotiating his way to freedom, Alexander Godunov makes for a believable killer with lethal feet and William Atherton is slimy as a busybody reporter. Director Renny Harlin took the reins for the 1990 sequel, Die Harder, which places Willis's New York City cop in harm's way again with a gaggle of terrorists. This time, Willis awaits his wife's arrival at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC when he gets wind of a plot to blow up the facility. Noisy, overbearing and forgettable, the film has none of the purity of its predecessor's simple story; and it makes a huge miscalculation in allowing a terrible tragedy to occur rather than stretch out the tension. Where Die Hard set new precedents in action movies, Die Hard 2 is just an anything-goes spectacle --Tom Keogh The second sequel, Die Hard with a Vengeance brings Detective John McClane to New York City to face a better villain than in Die Hard 2. Jeremy Irons is the brother of Alan Rickman's Germanic terrorist-thief from the original film. But this bad guy has his sights set higher: on the Federal Reserve's cache of gold. As a distraction, he sets McClane running fool's errands all over New York--and eventually, McClane attracts an unintentional partner, a Harlem dry cleaner (Samuel L Jackson) with a chip on his shoulder. Some great action sequences can't obscure the rather large plot holes in the film's final 45 minutes. --Marshall Fine

• Eye In The Sky | Blu Ray | (15/08/2016) from £8.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (156.01%)   |  RRP £22.99

  London-based military intelligence officer Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) is remotely commanding a top secret drone operation to capture a group of dangerous terrorists in Nairobi, Kenya. When the mission suddenly escalates from a capture to a kill operation and innocent lives are put at risk, the impossible decision of whether to strike gets passed up the chain of command. With the clock ticking, the brutal realities of modern warfare play out among the military, politicians and lawyers thousands of miles away from the front line. Also starring Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman and Barkhad Abdi, Eye in the Sky is one of the best reviewed films of the year, thrilling audiences and critics alike.

• Neighbours - Best Of Neighbours | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £7.93   |  Saving you £5.06 (63.81%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This release features 15 of the most memorable Neighbours episodes including: Scott and Charlene's wedding Brad and Beth's wedding and the tragic demise of Helen Daniels. Witness early screen appearances by such future megastars as Kylie Minogue Jason Donovan Natalie Imbruglia and Craig McLachlan. Shed a tear at the raw emotional power of the song 'Suddenly' by Angry Anderson.

• Something The Lord Made | DVD | (01/02/2006) from £24.95   |  Saving you £-16.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A breakthrough that changed the face of medicine. A unique partnership that broke the rules. Something The Lord Made tells the true story of two men who defied the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South. Working in the 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on ""blue babies"" Dr. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) and lab technician Vivien Thomas (Mos Def) form an impressive

• Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £7.64   |  Saving you £7.35 (96.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Herbie the VW with a heart adds some international flair to his lovable personality! Upon entering a Paris-to-Monte Carlo road race Herbie falls hood over wheels in love when he encounters a sleek sporty light-blue Lancia. Also vying for Herbie's attention is a gang of jewel thieves - who've ingeniously hidden a stolen gem in Herbie's gas tank! Thus begins a madcap chase across the French countryside that only The Love Bug could create!

• SHOGUN MB - MOVIE | DVD | (07/03/2013) from £12.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Burlesque | Blu Ray | (25/04/2011) from £21.12   |  Saving you £1.87 (8.85%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Ali (Christina Aguilera making her feature film debut) is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship and an uncertain future to follow her dreams to LA.

• Armour of God (Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD) | Blu Ray | (07/03/2016) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A