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• Miss Marple - The Body In The Library | DVD | (24/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The suspense of Miss Marple: The Body in the Library isn't the edge-of-your-seat variety; it's simply a perplexing puzzle that keeps niggling at the back of your mind. Just as one piece of the puzzle falls into place, another gap opens up, thanks to one of Agatha Christie's most intricate plots. Considering what a long film this is (150 minutes, lengthier than most Christie adaptations), it's impressive how tightly the mystery grips the viewer's attention. And not a second of Joan Hickson's marvellous performance as Miss Marple should be missed (the other performances, alas, fall short, except for Gwen Watford as Dolly Bantry, in whose library the body is found). To people meeting her for the first time, Jane Marple appears to be a sweet old dear, whose comments on the murder investigation are more likely to involve an obscure recollection of a frog jumping out of someone's coat than to have any direct bearing on the case. But as Christie fans know, beneath that dithery exterior lies one of the shrewdest minds in England. Hickson's understated portrayal reveals the humour in her character without ever making a mockery of Miss Marple and the results are delightful to watch. --Larisa Lomacky Moore, Amazon.com

• Body Melt | DVD | (04/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Injected with an experimental drug the research chemist Ryan leaves a mysterious rural health farm and drives to the outer city suburb of Homesville. As Ryan's body starts to deteriorate and his driving becomes more erratic a cruising police car starts to chase him. Charging towards a group of houses in Pebble Court Ryan leaves a cryptic message on his dicataphone: 'The first phase is hallucination. The second phase is glandular. The third phase is...' Before he can finish the sent

• Chocky's Children | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chocky's Children the second part of the Chocky trilogy was created by Doctor Who writer Anthony Read based on the characters created by respected science fiction author John Wyndham (The Day Of The Triffids). A year has passed since Matthew said goodbye to his alien friend Chocky. With the arrival of the summer holidays Matthew goes to visit his aunt in the countryside. While exploring he meets Albertine a young mathematical prodigy. They soon become friends and discover they can communicate telepathically. One day Chocky returns to warn Matthew that they are both in danger. Matthew realises where the danger must lay - a scientist who wants to test Albertine's exceptional abilities. When he goes to warn her he finds she has disappeared. Matthew needs help but where is Chocky and will she return in time to help them?

• U.f.o. | DVD | (24/12/2012) from £5.21   |  Saving you £10.78 (206.91%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An explosive mix of Independance Day and District 9. A violent earthquake is followed by strange lights in the sky. All power has been cut across the planet. AS the clouds clear, a UFO appears, a UFO the size of a city. The attack has yet to begin but with no electricity, humanity is helpless in the face of a vast alien army. The battle for earth is drawn gear and everyone will need to fight not just for their own survival but for that of the human race. With a stunning cast that includes explosive new stars Bianca Bree and Sean Brosnan alongside Sean Pertwee (Event Horizon, Dog Solider), Julian Glover (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Empire Strikes Back), and action legend Jean Claude Van Damme (Expendables 2, Timecop), UFO is an action-packed sci-fi spectacular. Prepare for the invasion and try to remain calm... the fight against extinction is about to begin.

• Gimme Gimme Gimme - Complete Series | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gimme Gimme Gimme is quite simply the chaotic adventures of one over the top tart (Kathy Burke) and one perennially lonely gay guy (James Dreyfus) who happen to share both a flat in London and a yearning lust for whatever luckless man happens to cross their paths! This release includes all the episodes from the three series. Series 1: 1. Who's That Boy? 2. The Big Break 3. LEgs And Co. 4. Do They Take Sugar 5. Saturday Night Diva 6. I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do 7. Millennium Series 2: 1. Teacher's Pet 2. Stiff 3. Prison Visitor 4. Dirty 30 5. Glad To Be Gay 6. Sofa Man Series 3: 1. Down And Out 2. Lollipop Man 3. Secrets And Flies 4. Trauma 5. Singing In The Drain 6. Decoy

• Lion Of The Desert | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Destined to remain a dubious footnote in books of movie trivia, Lion of the Desert--an occasionally impressive epic from 1981--was financed with a budget of $35 million by Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, who previously attempted the role of movie producer with the critically roasted Mohammad: Messenger of God. This effort didn't fare much better (it grossed approximately $1 million worldwide), and although some of its wartime action sequences are intelligently filmed, it's not likely to gain much more of a reputation on home video. Under a shaggy Muslim beard, Anthony Quinn stars as Omar Mukhtar, the Arab hero and guerrilla fighter who defended Libya against Benito Mussolini and Italy's attempted conquests during World War II. As straightforward biography, the movie's got an admirable epic sweep, but a cliché-ridden script and uniformly bad performances (from a cast that includes John Gielgud, Oliver Reed and Rod Steiger) make this little more than a curiosity for those wanting to learn more about Libyan history. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• A Return to Salem's Lot | Blu Ray | (24/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• King and Castle - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (16/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Devised by Sweeney creator Ian Kennedy Martin, this grittily humorous series stars Derek Martin and Nigel Planer as rather unlikely business partners...Having hastily left the Met before his dubious activities finally caught up with him, ex-detective Ronald King has formed the Manor Debt Collection Agency with David Castle, a young, somewhat nave martial arts expert and part-time genealogist. Castle's skills come in handy in his new line of work, as do King's old police contacts, and in their dealings with a range of duplicitous, sometimes dangerous clients the chalk-and-cheese duo somehow manages to survive on the right side of the law.In this series they face dramas both personal and professional, with King experiencing cashflow problems and Castle's love life remaining as tangled as ever; and, as tales of Castle's debt-collecting activities reach the Aikido Foundation, he finds himself facing expulsion...

• The Forgotten Toys | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A tale of love and friendship. Annie the rag doll and Teddy Bear are in search of a child who will love them. Their search takes them on an incredible adventure through an overwhelming city. Based on the book 'The Night After Christmas'by James Stevenson. Contains all four seperate stories: The Night After Christmas: This beautifully animated special from Hibbert Ralph entertainment is a heart-rending tale of love and friendship whick follows Annie a refinded rag doll and Teddy a rather gruff teddy bear in search of a new home after being thrown out in favour of the latest high tech toys. They set out into the cold of the big city on an adventure which brings an unexpected friendship between the two toys as they search for the love of a child. Forgotten Again: Teddy and Annie think they are going on holiday and are most annoyed at being squashed into a holdall bag. Unfortunately they've been forgotten again this time left at the airport! When they find the luggage label attached to the bag their hopes rise as they plan to find their way home. Toy Boy: When Annie falls into a drain Teddy finds himself pushed aside by a toy soldier in his frantic attempts to rescue her. Annie falls in love with her rescuer who is handsome with a battery of high-tech devices. Teddy is not very impressed with Annie's new-found love and soon finds the chance to prove that her hero is not quite as magnificent as she first thought... Toy Stars: Teddy and Annie stumble into a puppet theatre. They are dressed up to be the main stars for that night's show but finds it hard to move freely with strings attached! Is a life in theatre for them?

• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | DVD | (04/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Returning to the sketch-show format of their earlier days, Monty Python' s The Meaning of Life was always going to feel less ambitious and less coherent than their cinematic masterpiece, The Life of Brian. And inevitably given the format, some sketches are better than others. But, for a movie that has been much-maligned, The Meaning of Life actually features some of the Pythons' most memorable set-pieces: the exploding Mr Creosote has to be the most wonderfully grotesque creation of a team whose speciality was the grotesque; while the sublime "Sperm Song" mixes satire and lavish visual humour in a musical skit of breathtaking audacity. Elsewhere, Eric Idle produces another musical gem with "The Universe Song" ("Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space / 'Cause there's bugger all down here on earth!"), while the Grim Reaper's appearance at an achingly tedious dinner party is the Pythons doing what they do best: mocking their own middle-class origins. Best of all, perhaps, is Terry Gilliam's modest introductory feature, "The Crimson Permanent Assurance", a 20-minute epic tale of the little men rebelling against the corporate system, a theme and a visual style that foreshadows his own masterwork, Brazil. Admittedly too many sketches sacrifice subtlety for shock tactics (the organ donation scene in particular requires a strong stomach), but when this film works it's nothing less than vintage Python. --Mark Walker

• Dr. Finlay's Casebook - A Questionable Practice | DVD | (30/04/2020) from £9.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Unseen for over 50 years and thought lost forever, the missing episode of beloved classic BBC drama Dr. Finlay's Casebook has now been fully restored and made available for fans to cherish for the first time. Simply Media is delighted to announce the first ever Home Entertainment release of BBC's Dr. Finlay's Casebook A Questionable Practice: The Lost Classic, on DVD and available to download on Vimeo OD 17th April 2017. Believed lost forever from the BBC's archives, this piece of television history was miraculously recovered by Kaleidoscope and, at the request of our fans, made available to see again for the first time in over 50 years. The episode has been fully restored by the Doctor Who restoration team in time for the show's 55th anniversary this year. Based on A. J. Cronin's semi-autobiographical novella Country Doctor, the much-loved and memorable, long-running drama series Dr. Finlay's Casebook was aired by the BBC between 1962 and 1971, and very soon after it premiered in 1962, it quickly became one of the cornerstones of BBC drama at the time, amassing around 12 million viewers during its first series. Unfortunately, many of its episodes remain missing, although Simply Media have released what remains of this TV landmark on DVD. Set in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae, the stories centre around the town's pre-NHS general medical practice, its residents, and the fascinating relationship between the young and forward thinking Dr. Finlay (Bill Simpson) and his traditional but highly pragmatic mentor and boss Dr. Cameron (Andrew Cruickshank). One of the most interesting aspects of the series was the ongoing friction between the two doctors and the disagreements they had. Finlay would propose new modern medical treatments to try, which Cameron would be sceptical of using on their patients, and the series looked at the consequences such treatment would have. The series is also remembered for not shying away from controversial issues at the time, such as abortion and poverty. The tension between Finlay and Cameron reaches crisis point in this dramatic episode A Questionable Practice. Dr. Finlay is exhausted after a lengthy flu epidemic, but when he requests a holiday Dr. Cameron declares that a break from work is a sign of Finlay's questionable dedication to the profession. Argument ensues, and the long hours of running the doctor's surgery and managing the health and wellbeing of the village's challenging patients causes Finlay to consider his future.... This DVD also contains a fascinating promo where you can view the un-restored and restored versions of this television classic side-by-side, giving an excellent insight as to the vast improvements restoration work has made to this lost television gem.

• Alan Bleasdale Presents - Self-Catering - Ch4 | DVD | (04/06/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the play by Jim Morris. Blood on the Dole follows the lives of four teenagers, two boys and two girls, struggling to cope after being thrust into the real world for the first time after leaving school. Living in deprived Merseyside, the four youths' bright-eyed optimism for their futures and new-found freedom is soon crushed by the realities of unemployment, poverty, and the brutal reality of living and trying to find work in a city in decline. They all soon find themselves in the hopeless situation of facing complete dependence on state handouts, the dole . The four teenagers instead find themselves turning to each other to find the strength to survive. An impressively fresh social commentary and portrayal of teenage love set within a disturbingly authentic account of disenfranchised youth. With austerity still very much a part of our political climate, and recent films such as I, Daniel Blake continuing to challenge such government policy, Blood on the Dole is still a hugely relevant watch today. Produced by BAFTA-winner Alan Bleasdale as a part of the Alan Bleasdale Presents series, a Channel 4 anthology showcasing and given a platform to new, up-and-coming talent young writers. After his successes in landmark dramas including Boys from the Black Stuff, The Monocled Mutineer and GBH, in 1994 Channel 4 gave Alan Bleasdale the opportunity to find and mentor new TV writers. Four big-budget, standalone films were made as a result, with top casts and experimental storylines.

• Cracker: Cracker | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £5.34   |  Saving you £7.65 (143.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Written by Paul Abbott and Jimmy McGovern Cracker makes a long-awaited return to the small screen and DVD. Nine years on and Fitz is still married and visiting the UK for a family event. Since moving to Australia he has immersed himself in the academic world and has begun to doubt whether he still has what it takes to track down a killer. But when a high profile murder is committed Fitz discovers his ability to delve into the mind of a murderer is as strong as ever.

• Odd Balls | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Welcome to Camp Bottomout where boys will be boys and girls will be chased in the craziest ways possible! Not even the prim Miss Kitten can curb the instincts of these teenagers on the rampage who are after anything they can get their hands on in or around! Take a chunk of 'Porkys' add a touch of 'Bachelor Party' and sprinkle liberally with 'Screwballs' and the result is this very funny and outrageous movie: 'Oddballs'!

• Rat | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (10.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Pete Postlethwaite is Hubert Flynn Dublin bread deliveryman who loves his pint of Guinness his bet on the horses and his wife Conchita in that order. So when he comes home from the pub one evening and changes into a rat Conchita is slow to forgive. Conchita (played to perfection by Imelda Staunton) at first resists her family's eccentric plans for Hubert but when an opportunistic ghost-writer knocks on the door and proposes to put their story in a book and then a film of the book and a book of the film and riches beyond her dreams... she is tempted. So setting the stage for a series of bizarre and comical adventures for Hubert the rat and his family. Rat is the tale of family values little furry folk and one man's struggle to regain his humanity... literally! Special effects by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

• The Bunker - The Evil Is Within | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Thriller/horror set during World War II. A group of German soldiers in the Ardennes in 1944 take refuge from the advancing Allied troops in an underground bunker system. However during the night a series of strange and horrifying events occur.

• El Cid | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sumptuous in every way, visually magnificent, with grandiose sets, panoramic Spanish vistas and intricately detailed costumes, possessor of one of cinema's greatest music scores, boasting vast and astonishingly kinetic battles, and breathing heroic virtue in every scene, El Cid is the very epitome of epic. For this reworking of the medieval legend of the Cid (Arabic for "Lord") who united warring factions and saved 11th-century Spain from invasion, producer Samuel Bronston and director Anthony Mann insisted every set had to be created from scratch, every costume specially made for this movie alone; they also shot entirely on location in La Mancha and along the Mediterranean coast of Spain to enhance the film's authenticity. The cinematography is saturated with the burnished hues of the Spanish landscape, as are the palatial sets and rich costumes; Miklos Rozsa's resplendent score is also the result of painstaking research into medieval Spanish sources. The screenplay is imbued with knightly gravitas and more than a little salvation imagery, from the opening scene of the young Rodrigo rescuing a cross from a burning church, to the movie's indelible finale as The Cid rides "out of the gates of history into legend". Charlton Heston is at his most indomitable as Rodrigo, "The Cid", a natural leader of men and the embodiment of every manly virtue (note that he fathers twins--a sure token of his virility); Sophie Loren is ravishing as Chimene, the woman whose love for Rodrigo conflicts with her filial instincts after he kills her father, the king's champion, over a point of honour. Their scenes together create a humane warmth at the heart of this vast movie: the moment when Chimene finally declares her love (beneath a shrine of three crosses--more symbolism) to the exiled Rodrigo forms a pivotal and very intimate centrepiece. Shortly thereafter he must rise from their rural marriage bed to lead his followers into battle, and the tension between his public and private lives adds a piquancy to the film's stunning battle sequences. The international supporting cast sometimes look like makeweights, especially when chewing on the occasionally stilted dialogue, but any such faults are easily forgiven as the scale and spectacle of El Cid carries the viewer away on a tide of chivalry. --Mark Walker

• The Commitments (Special Edition) | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• The Sullivans Season 1 Volume 1 | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £99.99   |  Saving you £-60.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This epic story of a typical Melbourne family torn by the terror and uncertainty of World War II, is one of the most highly awarded and widely seen cornerstones of Australian television. The Sullivans is the story of a typical family in 1939 and follows the lives of the family members and friends during the years of the Second World War. With painstaking attention to historical detail from critically-acclaimed writers and starring some of the country's most revered and enduring stars such as Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Kylie Minogue and Sigrid Thornton. Available for the first time on DVD, enjoy the first fifty episodes of this much loved series.

• Spiders | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  The future of the human race hangs by a thread! Assigned to cover the space shuttle landing college newspaper reporter Marci and her colleagues head out to a restricted area of the desert where they are also attempting to prove the existence of aliens they believe have landed there. When the shuttle crash lands nearby they sneak into headquarters and stumble upon a secret unauthorized experiment that has gone wrong: a spider on board that was injected with alien DNA is now on the loose...and each time it kills it gets bigger and hungrier!