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• 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 £18.75   |  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 Bates and Linden learn to give themselves to each other; the more withdrawn Reed cannot, finally, connect with the demanding and challenging Jackson.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 £6.69   |  Saving you £13.30 (198.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

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

• The In-Laws | Blu Ray | (15/08/2016) from £21.26   |  Saving you £8.49 (43.54%)   |  RRP £27.99

  PETER FALK (A Woman Under the Influence) and ALAN ARKIN (Little Miss Sunshine) make for a hilarious dream team in this beloved American side-splitter. Directed by ARTHUR HILLER (Love Story) from an ingenious script by ANDREW BERGMAN (Blazing Saddles), The In-Laws may at first seem like a generic meet-the-parents comedy, as Arkin's mild-mannered dentist suspiciously eyes Falk's volatile mystery man, whose son is engaged to his daughter. But soon, through a series of events too serpentine and surprising to spoil, the two men are brought together by a dangerous mission that takes them from suburban New Jersey to Honduras. Fuelled by elaborate stunt work and the laconic, naturalistic charms of its two stars, The In-Laws deserves its status as a madcap classicand has continued to draw ardent fans in the years since its release SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary from 2003 featuring director Arthur Hiller, actors Alan Arkin and Peter Falk, and writer Andrew Bergman New interview with Arkin In Support of The In-Laws, a new interview program featuring actors Ed Begley Jr., Nancy Dussault, James Hong, and David Paymer Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by comedy writer Stephen Winer and a 2011 recollection of the making of the film by Hiller Click Images to Enlarge

• The Playbirds | Blu Ray | (22/08/2022) from £12.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Britain's most famous erotic actress, Mary Millington, stars as a policewoman who goes undercover in the secret world of porn to find out who is stalking and killing glamour models. Expect nothing to stay undercover for very long in this raunchy British classic! Product Features: Ten Million Dirty Words (brand new featurette about Harry Knights, the Nottingham-based porn writer who helped create Mary s image). Confessions of a Photographer (new interview with George Richardson, the photographer who snapped Mary topless at 10 Downing Street) Response (8mm softcore short film, 1974) New The Playbirds audio commentary by biographer Simon Sheridan and director Willy Roe.

• Class | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £19.39   |  Saving you £-6.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As rites-of-passage films featuring a young man's sexual initiation in the arms of a beautiful woman go, Class (1983) has plenty going for it, not least its attractive cast: Andrew McCarthy as Jonathan, Rob Lowe as Gatsby-ish best friend Skip and Jacqueline Bisset as the beautiful woman who is old enough to know better and just happens to be Skip's mother. Lewis John Carlino's film has moments of insight, taking a few well-aimed shots at the vaguely sinister network of American public school life. In the first reel it neatly subverts the bullying scenario that threatens when the geekish Jonathan arrives at the school, while offering the briefly intriguing sight of Lowe in scarlet bra and pants. And there's a subplot of deceit and complicity that both strengthens and threatens the friendship that rapidly forms between Skip and Jonathan. In many ways, though, the most interesting element of the picture--Skip's relationship with his dysfunctional family--is left unexplored. Jonathan's deflowering and subsequent interludes are merely titillating. And Bisset's Ellen, a desperately sad character, becomes superfluous once the revelation that she is the "teacher" sets the boys' friendship on the path to fraternal solidarity. On the DVD: Class is presented in widescreen anamorphic format and looks as good as its leading players, although the Dolby Digital mono soundtrack has odd moments of flatness that detract from the cinematic experience. Extras are limited to the cinema trailer that now looks like a red rag to the puritanical objectors who were appalled by the graphic scenes in which Jonathan loses his virginity to the predatory Ellen. --Piers Ford

• Quigley Down Under DVD & Blu-Ray Mediabook | Blu Ray | (11/12/2023) from £18.66   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  American sniper Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) is known for his exceptional shooting skills. With his custom-made Sharps buffalo rifle, he hits targets at long range like no other. A new job takes him to Australia, where he is employed to hunt dingoes for the greedy landowner Elliot Marston (Alan Rickman). But Marston has only one goal: to claim even more areas of the largely uninhabited continent for himself, and he does not shrink away from the murder of the natives. When Quigley realizes that he is not supposed to kill wild dogs, but Aborigines, he refuses to start the job - and as a result gets himself into the line of fire of the unscrupulous rancher. The action-packed adventure western appears for the first time in the UK on Blu-ray in a Limited Collector's Edition Mediabook with DVD, extensive bonus material, 24-page booklet and restored PCM 2.0 soundtrack.

• Little Man, What Now? (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (21/04/2025) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From director Frank Borzage (Desire) comes Little Man, What Now?, a romantic drama starring Margaret Sullavan (The Shop Around the Corner) and Douglass Montgomery (Little Women).In depression-era Germany, Hans (Montgomery) and his pregnant wife Emma (Sullavan) affectionately known as ˜Lammchen' struggle to keep their heads above water. Their situation is complicated when Hans' boss, who believes him to be a bachelor, demands that he marry his daughter.Based on the best-selling novel by Hans Fallada (Alone in Berlin) that has been adapted on numerous occasions in its native Germany, Little Man, What Now? is a heart-rending tale of life on the margins.

• Dire Straits - on the Night | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £7.86   |  Saving you £2.13 (27.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tracklisting: 1. Calling Elvis 2. Walk Of Life 3. Heavy Fuel 4. Romeo And Juliet 5. The Bug 6. Private Investigations 7. Your Latest Trick 8. On Every Street 9. You And Your Friend 10. Money For Nothing 11. Brothers In Arms 12. Solid Rock 13. Local Hero - Wild Theme

• Tosh | DVD | (20/06/2022) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings Of Sherlock Holmes (1999) | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Orson Welles' Macbeth | DVD | (17/07/2000) from £21.37   |  Saving you £-1.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Orson Welles' Macbeth is an expressionist masterpiece about a doomed man of ordinary ambition who believes an evil prophecy that he will become King. The shortest of Shakespeare's tragedies, Welles long considered Macbeth to be the most filmable of the Bard's work. Produced on a slim budget over a mere 32 days, the results are consistently impressive. As depicted by Welles, the title character is not a warrior king or conscience-stricken, poetic soul on a par with Hamlet; rather, he is revealed to be a facile, superstitious man consigned to fate even as the character does not trust to fate. For her part, Lady Macbeth (Jeanette Nolan) is merely obsessed with the unimpeded exercise of her will to power, viewing her husband's life as a tale told by an idiot (she is particularly effective during the "out, damned spot" scene from Act V). Welles has also created some new scenes here, conflating several characters into a "Holy Father" (Alan Napier) while eliciting strong supporting turns from actors such as Dan O'Herlihy (Macduff) and Roddy McDowall (Malcolm). All of this unfolds within a highly disordered state in which nature itself is on the rant ("Fair is foul and foul is fair"). Though the technically poor soundtrack and the occasional indecipherable Scottish brogue make the film seem a trifle compromised at times, each moment feels preternaturally alive. There is an almost Brechtian quality here, with Welles giving us splendid pieces then leaving it to us to fit them into a theatrically coherent puzzle. Refusing to believe that Birnham Wood could ever travel to Dunsinane, Macbeth is finally exposed as a man of insufficient character. As such, some might suggest that this Macbeth is more accurately described as the story of how Malcolm became King. --Kevin Mulhall

• Bob The Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesberg Winter Games | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £13.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this all new feature length special never seen on TV Bob the Builder and his team of machines travel to the Winter Games in snowy Bobblesberg. Their job is to build a log cabin for the Bobsville Mayoress but a huge snow storm hits and leaves the event building machines stranded en route. There's lots to do and the clock is ticking: can they build it? Team Leader Scoop is joined by brand new characters Benny and Zoomer for their biggest ever challenge. This star studded adventu

• The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Complete Series | DVD | (23/09/2019) from £57.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Richard Greene stars as television s most famous Robin Hood in ITV's first smash-hit series from the very early days of British commercial television. First seen in 1955, The Adventures of Robin Hood ran for 143 episodes and its worldwide success gave rise to a whole strand of swashbuckling heroes, including Sir Lancelot, William Tell and The Buccaneers. Still shown around the world and highly regarded more than 50 years later, this series more than any other established a tone and style for the half-hour adventure format series, influencing every series that came after. This set contains the complete run of 143 episodes over 18 discs.

• Escape From Sobibor | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £12.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (4.93%)   |  RRP £12.99

  True Life Escape from a Nazi Death Camp Sobibor was one of the Nazi's death camps during World War II. The 600 Jewish laborers enslaved there yearned for their freedom and hoped to escape. The Nazi commandant had a standing order that any prisoner escapes would result in the execution of the same number of remaining prisoners. Against this terrifying backdrop the prisoners plan a daring mass escape. They will all go or die trying! Featuring strong performances from Rutger Hauer Alan Arkin and Joanna Pacula Escape from Sobibor is based on a true story of heroism and courage that is guaranteed to move and inspire the viewer.

• Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The escapades of Peter Rabbit and Mrs. Tittlemouse and other favourite characters come to life on screen in these stunning animated stories. Features the following stories: 1. The Tale of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny 2. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse 3. The Tale of Tom Kitten & Jemima Puddle-Duck

• Georgy Girl | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! The wildest thing to hit the world since the mini-skirt! Lynn Redgrave stars as the homely girl who takes on the role of mother to her beautiful roommate's unwanted baby. With her father's employer trying to take her on as a mistress and her roommate's husband taking her on as an easy lover Redgrave's Georgy navigates the narrows between prostitution and purity as she tries to hang on to the baby she has grown to love...

• Three Cases of Murder and Orson Welles Ghost Story | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Unseen for many years Three Cases Of Murder and Return To Glennascaul are something of a treat for lovers of British film. The main feature is an excellent portmanteau in which the viewers' imagination is challenged by the bizarre and macabre. A notable supporting cast of British actors includes John Gregson Elizabeth Sellars Andre Morell Hugh Pryse Eddie Byrne and Alan Badel.

• The Abominable Dr. Phibes | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-17.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Abominable Dr Phibes is an unusually beautiful horror classic in which Vincent Price stars as the titular genius who specialises in organ music, theology and concocting bizarre deaths for anyone who wrongs him. Discovering why is half the fun, so for now let's just say that Phibes is a little mad and very, very angry. Aided by his assistant, the lovely, silent Vulnavia, Phibes begins cutting a gory swathe through London's medical community, with the dogged Inspector Trout hot on his tail. The film contains many pleasures--exquisite art direction and a dark sense of humour among them--but the real treat is in watching an old pro such as Price at work. Whether he's playing his organ, staring down a victim or drinking through his neck, Price is at the top of his game. He mixes dark menace with wry comic touches, revealing both Phibes' maniacal obsession and offhanded confidence in his own genius. Settle in for an evening of elegant gore--and if an attractive, mute deliverywoman comes to the door, whatever you do, don't answer! --Ali Davis

• Not Only But Always | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £11.89   |  Saving you £-3.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A biopic of the relationship between Peter Cook (Ifans) and Dudley Moore (MacArdle) who became one of the best loved British comedy double acts... Credited as the inventors of modern British satire 'Not Only But Always' charts the searing highs and lows of these two extraordinary and different comedians whose careers and private lives often swung in as uncontrolled and anarchic turns as their wit. From their first meeting as Cambridge undergraduates in 1960 through their begi