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• Up Jumped a Swagman | DVD | (30/06/2014) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This marvellously entertaining, tongue-in-cheek musical romp stars Frank Ifield as a talented young Australian singer who moves to London in search of his big break, tries to woo a top model while seemingly overlooking the beautiful publican s daughter who truly loves him and gets tangled up with a gang of thieves! Featuring Coventry-born Ifield s only feature-film appearance and made at the height of his international fame in 1965, Up Jumped a Swagman was inspired by the phenomenal success.

• Dr Finlay the Complete Collect | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £46.99   |  Saving you £23.00 (48.95%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Based on the characters created by Scots author A.J. Cronin Doctor Finlay updates the popular series of the 1960s - Doctor Finlay's Casebook. Set in the 1940s the series chronicles life in the town of Tannochbrae as people come to terms with post-war problems and Doctor Finlay prepares to cope with upheaval in his personal and professional life. Episodes Comprise: Series 1: 1. The Return 2. Working Together 3. Winning the Peace 4. A Bitter Pill 5. Forbidden Fruit 6. The Good Doctor Series 2: 1. A Delicate Balance 2. Childsplay 3. Stolen Lives 4. Burning Bridges 5. Secrecy 6. In Arcadia Series 3: 1. Old Flames 2. Time Will Tell 3. Private Lives 4. The Earth's Sweet Being 5. A Natural Mistake 6. The Greatness and the Power 7. No Time For Heroes Series 4 1. Home Truths 2. All Jock Tamson's Bairns 3. Days of Grace 4. A Simple Operation 5. Mercury 6. The Life of Men 7. Still Waters 8. Snowblind

• Hawk The Slayer | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £12.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (36.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Once upon a time long ago but perhaps not far away there were two brothers. Hawk (John Terry) the younger brother destined for greatness possessing gifts of strength honour duty and justice. Voltan (Jack Palance) the elder a man of cruel perversion who bore the mark of Cain. Hideously deformed Voltan roamed the land under a black mask so none could look on his ghastly face. When their father is killed at the hands of his firstborn Voltan Hawk swears vengeance. Into Hawk's hand his dying father places the magic mind-sword and Hawk has not only his death to avenge...

• Eddie Murphy Collection | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £13.99   |  Saving you £0.29 (2.07%)   |  RRP £14.28

  48 Hours: Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy make one of the most unusual and entertaining teams ever in Walter Hill's roller-coaster thriller 48 HRS. Nolte is a roughedged cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Murphy who is serving time for a half-million dollar robbery. This unlikely partnership trades laughs as often as punches as both pursue their separate goals: Nolte wants the villains; Murphy wants his money and some much-needed female companionship. Watch for Murphy's hilarious scene in a redneck country-western bar - you'll want to see it again and again. Beverly Hills Cop: The heat is on in this fast paced action-comedy starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley a street smart Detroit cop tracing down his best friend's killer in Beverly Hills. Axel quickly learns that his wild style doesn't fit in with the Beverly Hills Police Department which assigns two officers (Judge Reinhold & John Ashton) to make sure things don't get out of hand. Dragging the stuffy detectives along for the ride Axel smashes through a huge culture clash in his hilarious high-speed pursuit of justice. Coming to America: Eddie Murphy is a king of comedy and in John Landis' Coming To America Murphy is also the Prince of Comedy - a very wealthy and pampered African prince who comes to America in search of a bride. Accompanied by his closest companion (Arsenio Hall) Murphy quickly finds a job new friends new digs new enemies - and lots of trouble. Keep an eye out for both Murphy and Hall in some unforgettable cameo roles! The Golden Child: As The Chosen One Eddie Murphy's on a madcap mission to save The Golden Child a youth with mystical powers who's been abducted by an evil cult. He battles a band of super-nasties scrambles through a booby-trapped chamber of horrors and traverses Tibet to obtain a sacred dagger. But it's Murphy's wit that turns out to be his sharpest weapon in this 24-karat comedy adventure. Trading Places: Eddie Murphy established himself as a comedy superstar in his role as streetwise hustler Billy Ray Valentine. Fellow Saturday Night Live alumnus Dan Aykroyd co-stars as Louis Winthorpe III a wealthy investment executive at Duke Brothers a Wall Street firm. The fun begins when the rich and greedy Duke Brothers (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) wager a bet over whether born loser Valentine could become as successful as the priggish Winthorpe if circumstances are reversed. The Dukes have the money to make this happen but when Valentine and Winthorpe catch on they arrange for a rich and riotous payback! Norbit: Norbit (Eddie Murphy) has never had it easy. As a baby he was abandoned on the steps of a Chinese restaurant/orphanage and raised by Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy). Things get worse when he's forced into marriage by the mean junk food-chugging queen Rasputia (Eddie Murphy). Just when Norbit's hanging by his last thread his childhood sweetheart Kate (Thandie Newton) moves back to town...

• The Seagull | Blu Ray | (21/01/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Every summer aristocratic actress Irina (ANNETTE BENING, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool), her brother Sorin (BRIAN DENNEHY, First Blood) and her son Konstantin (BILLY HOWLE, On Chesil Beach) entertain family and friends at their lakeside estate. When Irina's lover, the successful novelist Boris Trigorin (COREY STOLL, House of Cards), accompanies her one year, Nina (SAOIRSE RONAN, Lady Bird), a naïve girl who lives on a neighbouring estate, falls in love with the older Boris. He basks in her adulation, while Masha (ELISABETH MOSS, The Handmaid's Tale) is obsessed with Konstantin, who loves Nina. While everyone is caught up in passionately loving someone who loves somebody else, a tragicomedy unfolds about art, fame, human folly, and the eternal desire to live a purposeful life.

• What We Did On Our Holiday | Blu Ray | (26/01/2015) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY is a hilarious journey through an unforgettable family holiday as a couple attempt to keep their impending divorce secret from their extended family. Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party, where it's soon clear that when it comes to keeping their secret under wraps, their children are their biggest liability. From 9 year old Lottie's notebook to keep track of the lies so she remembers which ones to tell, to 4 year old Jess's perverse attachment to a brick named Norman signalling her maladjustment a mile off, the parents are kept on tenterhooks and a week has never seemed such a long time. But it's middle child Mickey and his granddad's shared passion for Vikings which gives rise to the most far-reaching and unexpected consequences, when a day at the beach turns to tragedy and the children take matters into their own hands.

• The Women | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £4.19   |  Saving you £15.80 (377.09%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A wealthy New Yorker leaves her cheating husband and bonds with other society women at a resort. A remake of George Cukor's 1939 film "The Women."

• 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

• Cutting It - Complete Series 4 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £9.84   |  Saving you £15.15 (153.96%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Salon's thriving and Allie wants to expand and open her own hairdressing academy bringing on a new generation of hairdressers. The venture has financial backing from Liam Carney (James Murray) an ex-boy-band member who's trying to shake off the trappings of his past life with mixed success. Allie's dreams are the least of her concern when she finds out that she has Ovarian cancer but how will Gavin react? Featuring all the episodes of series 4.

• Richard III (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (20/06/2016) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This film adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage production of Shakespeare's historical drama stars Ian McKellen in the title role. The setting is a comic-book vision of 1930s London: part art deco, part Third Reich, part industrial-age rust and rot. The play's force is turned into a synthetic high by art directors and storyboard sketchers, all of whom have a field day condensing the material into disposable pop imagery. Richard III is a fun film, more than anything, so infatuated with its own monstrous stitchery that even the most awkward casting (Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr) seems a part of the ridiculous design. McKellen is the best thing about the movie, his mesmerising portrayal of freakish despotism and poisoned desire a thing to behold. --Tom Keogh

• A History Of Scotland | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £37.09   |  Saving you £-7.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• One Foot In The Grave - Series 1 - Complete Collection | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £8.29   |  Saving you £7.70 (92.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Who would have thought retirement could be so chaotic? Certainly not querulous Victor Meldrew one of tree-lined suburbia's perennial complainers or his long suffering wife Margaret. When he's forced to take early retirement Victor suddenly has plenty of time on his hands to rage against the petty annoyances of life. But there's one thing to remember in the Meldrew household - whatever can go wrong always does and it usually spells disaster for Victor... Alive and Buried:

• Bugsy | DVD | (09/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bugsy represents an almost miraculous combination of director, writer and star on a project that represents a career highlight for everyone involved. It's one of the best American gangster movies ever made--as good in its own way as any of the Godfather films--and it's impossible to imagine anyone better than Beatty in the movie's flashy title role. As notorious mobster and Las Vegas visionary "Bugsy" Siegel, Beatty is perfectly cast as a man whose dreams are greater than his ability to realise them--or at least, greater than his ability to stay alive while making those dreams come true. With a glamorous Hollywood mistress (Annette Bening) who shares Bugsy's dream while pursuing her own upwardly mobile agenda, Bugsy seems oblivious to threats when he begins to spend too much of the mob's money on the creation of the Flamingo casino. Meyer Lansky (Ben Kingsley) and Mickey Cohen (Harvey Keitel) will support Bugsy's wild ambition to a point, after which all bets are off, and Bugsy's life hangs in the balance. From the obvious chemistry of Beatty and Bening (who met and later married off-screen) to the sumptuous reproduction of 1940s Hollywood, every detail in this movie feels impeccably right. Beatty is simply mesmerising as the man who invented Las Vegas but never saw it thrive, moving from infectious idealism to brutal violence in the blink of an eye. Director Barry Levinson is also in peak form here, guiding the stylish story with a subtle balance of admiration and horror; we can catch Bugsy's Vegas fever and root for the gangster's success, but we know he'll get what he deserves. We might wish that Bugsy had lived to see his dream turn into a booming oasis, but the movie doesn't suggest that we should shed any tears. --Jeff Shannon

• 20th Century Women | DVD | (26/06/2017) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The story of three women who explore love and freedom in Southern California during the late 1970s.

• Smallville - The Complete Season 5 | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £74.23   |  Saving you £-19.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £54.99

  The complete fifth series of Smallville as a teenage Clark Kent must come to terms with his super powers.... Episodes Comprise: 1. Arrival 2. Mortal 3. Hidden 4. Aqua 5. Thirst 6. Exposed 7. Splinter 8. Solitude 9. Lexmas 10. Fanatic 11. Lockdown 12. Reckoning 13. Vengeance 14. Tomb 15. Cyborg 16. Hypnotic 17. Void 18. Fragile 19. Mercy 20. Fade 21. Oracle 22. Vessel

• Holding On | DVD | (09/11/2015) from £13.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (108.42%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Award-winning BBC drama series, following the interconnected lives of several characters in 1990s London, starring David Morrissey and Phil Daniels. After a beautiful young woman is found brutally murdered, a diverse group of Londoners, connected to her in some way, are all forced to confront the way they live their lives in contemporary London. While some make the choice to fight injustice, others begin to sink even further into despair and degradation. This is a tapestry of interwoven personal stories featuring more than 25 characters. All are united by their efforts to survive in London in the 1990s. Starkly contemporary, fast-paced and unsentimental, occasionally shocking and often funny, the tales build towards climaxes that are sometimes cataclysmic, sometimes healing. RTS award winner for Best Drama Serial and Best Writer (Tony Marchant) 1998 BAFTA award winner for Best Drama Serial 7.7 IMDB Rating Stars David Morrissey (The Walking Dead)

• The Grifters | Blu Ray | (02/11/2020) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend--both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

• The Slipper And The Rose | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  You know the story: Cinderella rides in a magical pumpkin to the ball, enchants the prince and flees at midnight. He finds her slipper and tracks her down, and they live happily ever after. But wait! In The Slipper and the Rose, it turns out there's more to the life of a prince than being charming. The king prefers to choose the prince's wife, one of proper social station who would provide a strong political alliance to ward off the kingdom's enemies. That's one of the twists in this 1976 British take on the classic fairy tale, one of a long line of musical versions. The disgruntled prince, who's as much of a focal point here as the lady with the footwear, is played by Richard Chamberlain, during the years when he was taking on the classics and had not yet been crowned king of the TV mini-series. He displays a pleasant voice opposite Gemma Craven as Cinderella, and veteran character actor Michael Hordern as the king leads the supporting ensemble. Add lavish sets and lush scenery (partially filmed in Austria), humour, fun choreography, and an Oscar-nominated score full of charming songs by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman (veterans of such Disney movies as Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book, and who also co-wrote the script with director Bryan Forbes), and you have a grand, engaging family musical. The 143-minute running time and dreamy, deliberate pace might test the patience of antsy viewers, but The Slipper and the Rose's legion of fans wouldn't have it any other way. --David Horiuchi, Amazon.com

• Postcards From The Edge | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £4.19   |  Saving you £1.80 (30.10%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A film by Mike Nichols of Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel, Postcards from the Edge is an intermittently hilarious, occasionally tear-stained account of an actress' struggle with addiction and with her competitive star mother. Meryl Streep turns in yet another flawlessly perfect performance as Suzanne, who is coping with cleaning up while making yet another idiot cop film. Shirley Maclaine is effective and overpowering as her hard-drinking Old Hollywood star mother perpetually trying to remould her daughter, singing Sondheim songs at parties, showing off her still-perfect legs and occasionally driving into trees. Among the many guest stars, Dennis Quaid is self-effacingly unpleasant as an unreliable boyfriend, Gene Hackman charismatic as a fatherly director and Annette Benning impressive in a cameo as a starlet rival. Nichols' standard slickness is very much on display here; this is perhaps too obviously manipulative a film in which the emotional detail is never quite as impressive as the central performances and script deserve. On the DVD: The DVD takes the rather subversive risk of giving the commentary role to Carrie Fisher, who discusses entertainingly how the screenplay evolved from her original novel, occasionally making clear that certain sentimentalisations of the characters were not her idea; she argues coherently that the film makes Meryl Streep's character a little too much the martyr. She also gives us a lot of faintly scurrilous Hollywood and family gossip. It also provides the theatrical trailer and filmographies for the director and major players. --Roz Kaveney

• Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Blu Ray | (19/03/2018) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on Peter Turner's memoir, FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award®-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Bening). Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.