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• Smallville: The Complete Series (20th Anniversary Edition) | Blu Ray | (19/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hide and Go Shriek (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (11/02/2019) from £16.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Close your eyes, count to ten, and run for your life... HIDE AND GO SHRIEK is one game you ll be dying to finish! Eight friends sneak into a furniture store for an all night graduation party. A game of hide-and-seek turns into a grisly nightmare as members of the group are murdered, one by one, leading the others to the chilling realisation that they could be next. In the terrifying tradition of FRIDAY THE 13TH and HALLOWEEN comes HIDE AND GO SHRIEK, a horrifying game of life and death.

• In Dreams | DVD | (29/01/2001) from £22.27   |  Saving you £-2.28 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Anyone who has seen and loved Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves should feel right at home in his offbeat psychological thriller In Dreams. A sexy, very adult take on "Little Red Riding Hood", Wolves unreeled as a series of surreal fairy tales interwoven within the heated dreams of a young girl verging on womanhood. The film's patron saints were Freud and Jung (as sifted through Jordan's wickedly fertile imagination), and the duo is very much aboard for In Dreams as well. Here's a film that takes place entirely in dreamtime, where the dark, violent fantasies of Claire Cooper (Annette Bening)--wife, mother and illustrator of children's books--play out unpoliced by superego, conscience or society. On the face of it, Claire's a clairvoyant whose mind becomes more and more possessed by child-killer Vivian Thompson (Robert Downey Jr.). Cops and shrinks refuse to take her seriously until she loses her own daughter and much, much more. Tapping into weird images of her soulmate's childhood, when he was abused by a hateful mother in a house now submerged in a nearby reservoir, Claire comes closer and closer to her gender-shifting bad boy (and his latest victim). From start to finish, In Dreams dwells in hyper-reality. Whether leeched of or drenched in colour, slipping eerily through an underwater world, rushing madly toward catastrophe--every hallucinatory shot is saturated with menace. It's the kind of potent, unresolved menace that haunts your waking day after a particularly unsettling nightmare. Watch this gorgeous film through Claire's mind, where she and her murderous doppelganger act out a terrible Oedipal drama driven by sex and jealousy. Bening and Downey deliver superb, risky performances, and Darius Khondji's cinematography, with almost every frame punctuated by blood-reds, is sensuously dreamlike. In Dreams is one of those great, flawed films that reaches for more than it ultimately achieves. --Kathleen Murphy, Amazon.com

• Babes In Toyland | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £18.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The happiest most delightful musical comedy of your lifetime! Tom the Piper's Son is about to marry Mary Quite Contrary. On the eve of their wedding evil miser Barnaby hires two henchmen to drown Tom and steal Mary's sheep cared for by Little Bo Peep thus depriving Mary and the children she lives with of their livelihood forcing her to marry Barnaby. The sheep are stolen but Gonzorgo and Roderigo Barnaby's henchmen double-cross him by selling Tom to a band of gypsies i

• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The words of the opening song pretty much describe the menu in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum--"Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone: a comedy tonight!"--a frantic adaptation of the stage musical by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove. The wild story, based on the Latin comedies of Plautus and set in ancient Rome, follows a slave named Pseudolus (Zero Mostel, snorting and gibbering) as he tries to extricate himself from an increasingly farcical situation; Mostel and a bevy of inspired clowns, including Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and Buster Keaton, keep the slapstick and the patter perking. The cast also includes the young Michael Crawford as a love-struck innocent. This project landed in the lap of Richard Lester, then one of the hottest directors in the world after his success with the Beatles' films. Lester telescoped the material through his own joke-a-second sensibility, and also ripped out some of the songs from Stephen Sondheim's Broadway score. The result is very close to the vaudeville spirit suggested by the title--though anyone with a low tolerance for Zero Mostel's overbearing buffoonery may be in trouble. Oddly enough, amid all the frenzy, Lester creates a grungy, earthy Rome that seems closer to the real thing than countless respectable historical films on the subject. Frankie Howerd, who played Pseudolus on the London stage, kept the tradition going with his Up Pompeii TV series. --Robert Horton

• Cutting It - Complete Series 1 To 4 | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £64.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Featuring all the episodes from series 1-4! Series 1: Allie Henshall and dependable husband Gavin Ferraday own a successful hairdressing business. They plan to expand to a second site accross the road but their dreams are shattered when Mia and her husband Finn beat them to it and open a rival salon... Series 2: After making her choice of Finn over her husband Gavin Allie returns to Manchester to find that Gavin is making the most of his newfound single life. As she

• Gideon's Way: The Complete Series | Blu Ray | (20/03/2023) from £84.92   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  John Gregson stars as Commander George Gideon, CID, in Gideon's Way - the hard-hitting ITC crime series based on the popular books by John Creasey. Made by the same production team that brought you The Saint and extensively shot on location in and around London, these fast-paced thrillers feature notable guest stars Gerald Harper, Alfie Bass, George Cole, Ray McAnally, Rosemary Leach, George Baker and Gordon Jackson, amongst others. Restored in High Definition from original 35mm film elements for this Blu-ray release, this complete series set features all 26 episodes - and has never looked better! Deluxe, limited edition packaging Brand-new book on the making of the series by archive television historian Andrew Pixley Brand-new interview with cast member Giles Watling US Titles Clean Titles Ad Bumper Textless Episode Openings To Catch a Tiger - short ending Image Gallery

• Follow Me | Blu Ray | (19/08/2019) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar-winning director Carol Reed's final film, Follow Me stars Mia Farrow and Topol - fresh from his global success in Fiddler on the Roof - alongside Michael Jayston in Peter Shaffer's adaptation of his own highly popular and much-revived theatre play, The Public Eye. Featuring a sumptuously haunting score from John Barry, this much sought-after film is presented here in High Definition in its original Panavision widescreen aspect ratio. A jealous businessman suspects that his wife is having an affair and hires an eccentric private detective to investigate. The suspected infidelity, however, is the tip of the iceberg and an elaborate game of cat and mouse ensues... Special Features: Original Music Score US Trailer Image Gallery

• Randall And Hopkirk Deceased - Vol. 5 - Episodes 15-18 | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Episodes include: The Man From Nowhere: A stranger enters Jean's flat and claims to be her husband... When The Spirit Moves You: Marty demonstrates how a ghost detective can sometimes do better than his mortal counterparts... Somebody Just Walked Over My Grave: Marty finds himself accusing his partner of seeing things! Could You Recognise the Man Again? Jeff and Jean are non-plussed to find a dead body in the back seat of their car...

• The Shaggy Dog | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £28.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The first live action movie ever produced by Walt Disney. Fred MacMurray heads an all-star cast that includes Jean Hagen Tim Considine Kevin Corcoran and Annette Funicello in her big screen debut. After years of on-the-job clashes with cranky canines mail carrier Wilson Daniels (MacMurray) sees man's best friend as his worst enemy. This makes for one hairy situation when a magical ring accidentally transforms his teenage son Wilby (Kirk) into a lumbering sheepdog! Can Wilby break

• My Wife Is An Actress | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £3.85   |  Saving you £16.14 (419.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  My Wife Is an Actress ("Ma Femme Est une Actrice") stars Charlotte Gainsbourg--ex-child star, daughter of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, beautiful and accomplished actress--alongside her real-life husband Yvan Attal, who also directs. Attal is a humble sports journalist married to a famous international star (played by Gainsbourg) and uncomfortable with her celebrity. His first film as a director plays knowingly with off-screen reality: the two leads even use their own names, Charlotte and Yvan, for the characters they play. In the film, Charlotte goes to London to appear in a romantic drama opposite British movie icon John (Terence Stamp, sending himself up with some luvvie-ish posturing). Left at home, Yvan torments himself with thoughts of his wife playing sex scenes with John and his jealousy puts their marriage at risk. His visits to her on the set in London only make things worse. There's scope here for some good comedy, as well as an interesting exploration of how, in an actor's life, reality and artifice can snarl each other up. But Attal, who also scripted, makes his characters so shallow and two-dimensional that it's hard to believe in them, let alone care about them. A sub-plot about the squabbling between Yvan's sister and her husband over whether their unborn son should be circumcised (she's Jewish, he's not) feels tacked-on and tiresome. In aspiring to script and star in his directorial debut, Attal may have overstretched himself. Given a stronger script, this could have been a funnier or more searching film, or both. On the DVD: My Wife Is an Actress comes to disc in a clear full-screen transfer, although the dialogue's a little muffled here and there--a fault of the original, not the transfer. By way of extras we get the theatrical trailer, a likeably relaxed 16-minute "making of" featurette and a handful of not very interesting deleted scenes. --Philip Kemp

• One foot In the Grave - The Christmas Specials | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One Foot In The Grave returns for the final series. Long-suffering wife Margaret (Annette Crosby) looks on as Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) the uber-grump continues his run of rudeness and misfortune. Retirement isn't the walk in the park he thought it would be and the grim reaper's calls are growing ever louder... This release features the 1996 and 1997 christmas specials...

• Dr Finlay The Complete Collection | DVD | (15/02/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  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. Starring David Rintoul, Annette Crosbie, Jason Flemyng and Ian Bannen.Produced by STV Productions for ITV1. The Complete Collection Series 1 - 4 on 12 Discs.

• Paradise Postponed | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Written by barrister and playwright Sir John Mortimer Paradise Postponed takes in all of the upheavals of post-war British society. Why does the left-wing cleric Rev. Simeon Simcox leave the Simcox brewery millions to the morally loathsome Leslie 'The Toad' Titmuss? Titmuss is a city developer and Conservative cabinet minister who has wheeled and dealed his way through life. Simeon's sons set out to unravel the truth behind the will. Episodes comprise: 1. Death Of A Saint

• Chuck And Buck | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-3.55 (-118.70%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Once upon a time, in a childhood land of lollipops and sleepovers, Chuck and Buck were the best of friends; their days marked out with "fun, fun, fun". The trouble is that Chuck grew up and Buck did not. When the pair are reunited at a family funeral, Chuck (now a thrusting music exec with a pert girlfriend and an apartment in the Hollywood hills) finds himself bothered and bewildered by the creepy lost boy he thought he'd left behind. "I like your house," mumbles Buck, sticking out like a sore thumb at an uptight yuppie party. "It's very old person-y." Shot on a shoestring budget by Miguel Arteta, Chuck and Buck offers a uniquely rich and strange comedy of retarded childhood. Think of this as a Peter Pan for modern-day America, or the Tom Hanks film Big viewed through a glass darkly. The slender premise contains deep pockets of ambiguity. After all, who's the real victim here? The harassed Chuck (played by American Pie co-creator Chris Weitz) or the spurned, saucer-eyed Buck (Mike White, who also wrote the script)? And who is the hero: the successful, status-conscious professional or the dopey, tearful wild card? Throughout the tale, you find your sympathies swinging back and forth between them. Make no mistake, Chuck and Buck is alive with hilarious, often horrific set-pieces. Yet Arteta's direction keeps it on a tight leash, prevents it from descending to the level of a simple freak-show. Instead his film blossoms from an odd-couple farce into a drolly provocative (and oddly humane) portrait of that shadow period between infancy and adolescence. White's character comes across as a very human kind of movie monster. Resplendent in stripy T-shirt, Buck is Chuck's conscience, his id, the ghost of childhood come back to haunt him. --Xan Brooks

• 2 Point 4 Children | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £29.69   |  Saving you £-12.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The complete first series of familial mishaps with the dysfunctional Porter family! On the Surface the Porters are a normal family - indeed even the series' title 2 Point 4 Children the fabled average family size alludes to their normality (as well as the fact that the husband/father is still a bit of a child himself). Yet though the individual members - central-heating engineer Ben; his wife catering worker Bill; and their teenage children David and Jenny - are unexceptional t

• One Foot In The Grave - Series 3 | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £6.71   |  Saving you £9.28 (58.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  They say I might as well face the truth. That I am just too long in the tooth. So I'm an OAP and weak knee'd. But I'm not yet quite gone to seed. I may be over the hill now that I am retired. Fading away but I'm not yet expired. Clapped out rundown too old to save. One foot in the grave. ""I don't believe it!"" yet more One Foot In The Grave featuring the famously impatient Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) and his long-suffering wife Margaret (Annette Crosby)

• Regarding Henry | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ruthless lawyer Henry Turner is left an amnesiac after being shot when caught up in a store robbery. Trying to rebuild his life Henry must learn to walk again tie his shoelaces and become a better husband...

• Follow Me | DVD | (19/08/2019) from £12.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar-winning director Carol Reed's final film, Follow Me stars Mia Farrow and Topol - fresh from his global success in Fiddler on the Roof - alongside Michael Jayston in Peter Shaffer's adaptation of his own highly popular and much-revived theatre play, The Public Eye. Featuring a sumptuously haunting score from John Barry, this much sought-after film is presented here in its original Panavision widescreen aspect ratio. A jealous businessman suspects that his wife is having an affair and hires an eccentric private detective to investigate. The suspected infidelity, however, is the tip of the iceberg and an elaborate game of cat and mouse ensues... Special Features: Original Music Score US Trailer Image Gallery

• Paradise Postponed - The Complete Series | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Why as a lifelong socialist did the Reverend Simeon Simcox Rector of Rapstone Fanner bequeath his fortune to a Conservative Minister the odious Leslie Titmuss? Henry Simcox his eldest son decides to find out. The award-winning series written by John Mortimer (Rumpole Of The Bailey) is a chronicle of English political and social life examining the warm and sweeping family saga spanning four decades. Episodes comprise: 1. Death Of A Saint 2. The Temptation Of Henry Simcox 3. Chez Titmuss 4. Living In The Past 5. The Wrongs Of Man 6. The Lost Leader 7. And A Happy New Year To You Too! 8. Enigma Variations 9. The God's Of The Copy Book Hearings 10. Faith Unfaithful 11. The Simcox Inheritance