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• And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself | DVD | (08/02/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £7.26 (107.88%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Antonio Banderas delivers a powerful performance as the title character of this incredible true story of how Mexican Revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle altering the course of film and military history in the process...

• The Three Fugitives | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £6.97   |  Saving you £8.02 (115.06%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Lucas a bank robber newly released from prison is given a lift to the bank by two local cops who are taking bets on how long they think he'll remain straight. Once inside the bank Lucas is taken hostage by an amateur thief and is forced into going on the run with the man and his six-year-old daughter...

• The Old Grey Whistle Test -- Two Disc Set | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £9.35   |  Saving you £15.64 (167.27%)   |  RRP £24.99

  For better and for worse, The Old Grey Whistle Test was probably the most resolutely serious music programme ever broadcast on television. During its 16-year run it showcased only the most earnest exponents of whichever musical style was currently popular, and given that the programme's heyday coincided with the early 70s, some of the footage included here will provide mirth as exquisite as only unintentional comedy can. The absurd prog noodlings of The Edgar Winter Group and the belief-beggaringly awful Focus now seem as unfathomable in retrospect as trench warfare or child labour. However, the good stuff collected here is very good, both in terms of performance (Tom Petty snarling "American Girl", a pre-irony U2 whooping up "I Will Follow") and historical interest, notably a shockingly youthful Elton John crooning "Tiny Dancer" and reminding us, in the process, of a time when he was regarded as a cool and hip singer-songwriter, rather than understudy to the Queen Mother. --Andrew Mueller On the DVD: Wonderful performances all captured in remarkably pristine picture and extraordinarily vivid sound, regardless of vintage (it doesn't even crackle during "Hocus Pocus"!). However, the menu is pretty clunky and won't allow direct access to the individual songs (other than selecting the "Random play" option). Instead, you can only jump into the programme year by year, not song by song. The track listing itself is unhelpfully hidden behind the discs in the gatefold packaging. --Mark Walker

• An Audience with Billy Connolly | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £6.58   |  Saving you £6.41 (97.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A leopard skin shirt long hair and the ultimate highland dance are some of the highlights you'll expect to see in this memorable performance from Billy Connolly. The Big Yin himself descends on London to entertain an audience of celebrities delivering an unswerving performance in front of a packed studio full of stars. Enjoy a unique performance of outrageous comedy in this hilarious once in a lifetime show. If you love Billy Connolly you'll see him here as you've never seen him before.

• M.A.S.H. - Season 8 | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  All the episodes from the eighth season of the award winning comedy series. Episodes comprise: 1. Too Many Cooks 2. Are You Now Margaret? 3. Guerilla My Dreams 4. Good-Bye Radar (Part 1) 5. Good-Bye Radar (Part 2) 6. Period Of Adjustment 7. Nurse Doctor 8. Private Finance 9. Mr. And Mrs. Who? 10. The Yalu Brick Road 11. Life Time 12. Dear Uncle Abdul 13. Captain's Outrageous 14. Stars And Stripes 15. Yessir That's Our Baby 16. Bottle Fatigue 17. Heal Thyself

• I, Robot | Blu Ray | (19/05/2008) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Will Smith stars in this sci-fi action thriller suggested by the classic short story collection by Isaac Asimov, and brought to the big screen by visionary director Alex Proyas ("The Crow").

• Tweenies - Let's All Make Music | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  More fun with the Tweenies in four individual episodes which look at the orchestra. Includes percussion instruments strings brass and woodwind.

• M.A.S.H. - Season 6 | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £18.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (58.01%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The sixth season of the award winning comedy series featuring all 24 classic episodes. Episodes comprise: 1. Fade Out Fade In 2. Fallen Idol 3. Last Laugh 4. War Of Nerves 5. The Winchester Tapes 6. The Light That Failed 7. In Love And War 8. Change Day 9. Images 10. The M*A*S*H Olympics 11. The Grim Reaper 12. Comrades In Arms (Part 1) 13. Comrades In Arms (Part 2) 14. The Merchant Of Korea 15. The Smell Of Music 16. Patient 4077 17. Tea And Empathy 18. Your Hit

• Jonathan Creek - The Grinning Man | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (146.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jonathan Creek returns to explain a series of baffling disappearances in a haunted room at the house of a master illusionist... At midnnight on Midsummer's Day 1938 a famous Harvard geneticist Eli Mencken accepts a challenge to spend the night inside a gloomy old attic room... where the ghost of a madman is said to prey upon human flesh. Next morning he has impossibly vanished from the hermetically sealed chamber. The only clue to his disappearance is traces of grisly ectoplasm on the bed. Seventy years on the vast Gothic house known as Metropolis has passed into the hands of the original owner's daughter and her son but the strange unexplained events in The Nightmare Room continue... When two young women take shelter there one night from a raging thunderstorm it is not long before the ominius presence has claimed another victim. Determined to get to the truth about what has happened to her friend the fearlessly sceptical Joey Ross finds herself working alongside veteran lateral thinker Jonathan Creek as together they embark on a complex often dangerous investigation into a mystery which only continues to deepen...

• Star Trek Next Generation Series 4 | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £17.98   |  Saving you £19.00 (118.82%)   |  RRP £34.99

  ""Space... The final frontier... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds... To seek out new life; new civilisations... To boldly go where no one has gone before!"" - Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) The complete fourth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation one of the finest sci-fi shows of all-time. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Best Of Both Worlds (Part 2) 2. Family 3. Brothers 4. Suddenly Human

• The Mouse That Roared | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £22.90   |  Saving you £-9.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Mouse That Roared, originally released in 1959, is mostly remembered as a tour-de-force from peerless comic actor Peter Sellers, playing all three of the principal roles. It's worth seeing for that alone, but the film is also one of the most memorable satires of nuclear geopolitics produced during the Cold War and, along with another Sellers vehicle, Dr Strangelove, provides an unbeatable illustration of the paranoia and helplessness engendered by that period. The Mouse That Roared tells the story of the fictional European principality of Grand Fenwick. Finding itself on the wrong end of a trade dispute with the United States, and noting America's generosity in rebuilding the countries it had fought in World War II, Grand Fenwick's rulers hit upon the idea of declaring war on the US, losing, and then reaping a Marshall Plan-style hand-out. The plan, proposed by Grand Fenwick's prime minister (played by Peter Sellers), is approved by the monarch (also played by Peter Sellers), who dispatches an invasion force of chain mail-clad archers under the command of Grand Fenwick's hapless Field Marshal (also played by Peter Sellers). Due to a series of happenstances and misunderstandings, Grand Fenwick's plan goes terribly wrong, and they inflict a surprising defeat on America, with curious consequences. On the DVD: The Mouse That Roared is presented in 1.85:1 widescreen; sound is mono. Soundtracks are available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, and subtitles in all those as well as most other major European languages, Hebrew and Arabic. Special features include a scene selector, and three theatrical trailers: one for this film (English audiences will get a kick out of the 1950s American announcer raving about "an hilarious new personality, Peter Sellers"), one for Sellers' much bleaker (and much funnier) Cold War satire Dr Strangelove, and one for his slight horror spoof Murder By Death. --Andrew Mueller

• Lord Of The Flies | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £23.93   |  Saving you £-7.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this classic 1963 adaptation of William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, a planeload of schoolboys are stranded on a tropical island. They've got food and water; all that's left is to govern themselves peacefully until they are rescued. "After all", says choir leader Jack, "We're English. We're the best in the world at everything!" Unfortunately, living peacefully is not as easy as it seems. Though Ralph is named chief, Jack and the choristers quickly form a clique of their own, using the ever-effective political promise of fun rather than responsibility to draw converts. Director Peter Brook draws some excellent performances out of his young cast: the moment when Ralph realises that even if he blows the conch for a meeting people might not come is an excruciating one. Well acted and faithfully executed, Lord of the Flies is as compelling today as when first released. --Ali Davis

• Hard Times | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £12.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (36.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

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• Transformers Season 1 - Re-Release | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (66.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Episodes Comprise: 1. More Than Meets The Eye (Part 1) 2. More Than Meets The Eye (Part 2) 3. More Than Meets The Eye (Part 3) 4. Transport To Oblivion 5. Roll For It 6. Divide And Conquer 7. Fire In The Sky 8. S.O.S. Dinobots 9. Fire On The Mountain 10. War Of The Dinobots 11. The Ultimate Doom: Brainwash (Part 1 of 3) 12. The Ultimate Doom: Search (Part 2 of 3) 13. The Ultimate Doom: Revival (Part 3 of 3) 14. Countdown To Extinction 15. A Plague Of Insecticons 16. Heavy Metal War

• The Rare Breed | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £8.73   |  Saving you £-2.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the 1880s Englishwoman Martha Price (Maureen O'Hara) and her daughter Hilary (Juliet Mills) come to America to sell their prize Hereford bull at an auction. When he is purchased by Bowen a wild Scotsman (Brian Keith) the women hire a footloose cowhand named Burnett (James Stewart) to help them transport the animal to its new owner. So begins an adventure that tests the mettle of all involved as they battle killers cattle stampedes and each other. But when they reach Bowen's ran

• The Butcher Boy | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £14.46   |  Saving you £-1.47 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A classic Irish movie, The Butcher Boy is set in a small town in Ireland in the mid part of the twentieth century. It tells the story of Francis 'Francie' Brady, a schoolboy who lives with his mother and alcoholic father. In the early part of the book it becomes apparent that Francie's mother is abused both verbally and physically by her belligerent husband, on a frequent basis. Francie's father, Benny, was raised in a tough religious school in Belfast, and it is suggested that this experience left him mentally traumatised. This mental trauma has left Benny bitter and angry, and he takes this anger out on his wife, his fury fuelled by alcohol. Francie's mother considers suicide and is committed for a time to a mental health facility.

• Argo | DVD | (04/03/2013) from £3.65   |  Saving you £12.34 (338.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dramatic thriller Argo chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis, the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades.

• Speed | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Hold on tight for a rush of pulse-pounding thrills breathtaking stunts and unexpected romance in a film you'll want to see again and again. Keanu Reeves stars as Jack Traven an LAPD Swat team specialist who is sent to defuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (Dennis Hopper) has planted on a bus. But until he does Jack and passenger Sandra Bullock must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles an hour - or the bomb will explode! A high-o

• The Spoils Of War: The Complete Series | DVD | (06/06/2016) from £24.92   |  Saving you £15.07 (60.47%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Almost a decade after creating the phenomenally successful drama A Family at War, acclaimed writer John Finch explored the peacetime consequences of the Second World War's aftermath for two very different families in this major series from Granada Television. The Spoils of War ran for three series all twenty episodes are included in this set.The war in Europe is over and Germany lies devastated. Though there is hope for a brighter future, six years of conflict has changed life considerably for both the Warringtons, owners of the ironworks in the town of Whitstanton, and for the working-class Haywards. As both families come to terms with the uncertain, fragmented world that emerges during peacetime, they share joys and disappointments as the future unfolds both in Britain, and in Germany...

• The Kings And Queens Of England - The Stuarts - 1603 To 1649 And 1660 To 1714 | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  As seen on the UK History Channel. With the death of Elizabeth I came the end of the Tudor Reign and the beginning of the Stuarts' rule. Here was a period of great unrest that would see amongst other events; civil war plague the Great Fire of London the abolition and re-introduction of the monarchy and the gunpowder plot. With expert analysis from Alan Ereira and atmospheric reconstructions this programme is an interesting and informative record of the Stuart years.