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• Crossworlds | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £8.63   |  Saving you £-2.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Star Wars meets A Wrinkle in Time in this adventure of an intergalactic war where one unassuming young man holds the key to dimensional travel and the legacy of his mysterious adventurer father. Boyish Josh Charles is the lucky Luke Skywalker stand-in, a good-natured underachiever shocked out of his lovelorn moping when gorgeous guerrilla fighter Andrea Roth takes the battle to his bedroom. Rutger Hauer is the coffee-chugging freedom fighter who is roused from retirement to fill out the trio and face dimensional mob boss Stuart Wilson. This obviously low budget picture makes the most of limited special effects and striking settings--notably an elevator ride that turns into a free-floating mind game hanging in space and a knock-down, drag-out finale that sends our hapless hero popping up all over the universe. Hauer makes for a surprisingly charismatic mercenary turned father figure and Charles is modestly charming, once he loses the smart-ass wisecracks. Though it reaches for a scope that's beyond its means, Crossworlds is an entertaining bit of sci-fi fluff. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Kennedy | DVD | (25/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

• Princes of the Palace - From Prince Philip to Prince George | DVD | (07/03/2016) from £5.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Princes of the Palace charts the lives of the princes within the House of Windsor. Profi ling Princes Phillip, Charles, William, Harry and the new arrival Prince George, this HD programme features exclusive interviews with royal biographers, correspondents and exclusive access to those who have worked with the royal family to give an inside view of how the royal Princes will shape the British monarchy, Contributors include Penny Junor, Nicholas Owen, Robert Lacy, Jenny Bond, Gyles Brandreth, Tim Heald, Arthur Edwards, Ingrid Seward and many more.

• The Game | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's not quite as clever as it tries to be, but The Game does a tremendous job of presenting the story of a rigid control freak trapped in circumstances that are increasingly beyond his control. Michael Douglas plays a rich, divorced, and dreadful investment banker whose 48th birthday reminds him of his father's suicide at the same age. He's locked in the cage of his own misery until his rebellious younger brother (Sean Penn) presents him with a birthday invitation to play "The Game" (described as "an experiential Book of the Month Club")--a mysterious offering from a company called Consumer Recreation Services. Before he knows the game has even begun, Douglas is caught up in a series of unexplained events designed to strip him of his tenuous security and cast him into a maelstrom of chaos. How do you play a game that hasn't any rules? That's what Douglas has to figure out, and he can't always rely on his intelligence to form logic out of what's happening to him. Seemingly cast as the fall guy in a conspiracy thriller, he encounters a waitress (Deborah Unger) who may or may not be trustworthy, and nothing can be taken at face value in a world turned upside down. Douglas is great at conveying the sheer panic of his character's dilemma, and despite some lapses in credibility and an anticlimactic ending, The Game remains a thinking person's thriller that grabs and holds your attention. Thematic resonance abounds between this and Seven and Fight Club, two of the other films by The Game 's director David Fincher. -- Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The Thief Of Bagdad | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dating from 1924 this Thief of Bagdad is justifiably billed here as "one of the truly great silent films of the 1920s." As the forerunner of generations of magical, effect-laden fantasy epics, its importance is practically immeasurable. And still, after eight decades, it has startling, thrilling qualities which the finest computer graphics would struggle to surpass. Douglas Fairbanks, co-founder of United Artists, is the eponymous hero, swindling, fighting and leaping his way to true love through a series of adventures which take him from a magnificently surreal Bagdad to enchanted forests, ocean bottoms and magic carpet rides. "Happiness must be earned," is the motto; Fairbanks and his director Raoul Walsh certainly don't short-change their audience in bringing it to life. The effects are stunning, with a particularly gruesome slaying of a monster. Every scene is crammed with detail and incident. Fairbanks is a whirlwind of muscular, balletic flamboyance. And while his princess (Julanne Johnson) is a stereotype of vapidity, there's gleamingly malevolent support from Anna May Wong as the evil Mongol Slave Girl. Over two hours of sheer enjoyment belie the notion that cinematic sophistication is a modern achievement. On the DVD: The Thief of Bagdad disc presents the restored and remastered print (the tints have a luminous quality) complete with a 1975 score by master organist Gaylord Carter--you can almost feel the Wurlitzer rising from the pit of your entertainment centre. The audio essay, written by film historian R Dixon Smith, is an invaluable extra, providing essential information on how the picture was made and how the art designers played with proportion to create many of the visual tricks and a fantastical atmosphere. --Piers Ford

• Gothika | Blu Ray | (18/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A criminal psychologist awakens to find herself a patient in the very same mental institution in which she works with no memory of the murder of her husband that she's accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her coworkers of her innocence a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn... which only further convinces all involved of both her guilt and her increasingly stead descent into madness and delusion.

• How To Steal A Million | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• The Eyes Of Tammy Faye | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This unique documentary charts the incredible real-life story of the spectacular rise fall and resurrection of Tammy Faye Bakker one of the most loved - and hated - women of our time. Through extensive and revealing interviews we are taken on a journey through the headline-grabbing scandals and million dollar lies that devastated the televangelical empire that she and her husband Jim Bakker built together and which consequently destroyed her family. Featuring RuPaul in the role

• Hilary And Jackie | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It earned Oscar nods, yet this cinematic look at a genius--that of English cellist Jacqueline du Pré, who enraptured audiences with her bold, emblazoned and wholly unconventional playing style, and who died at age 42--was criticised for its "lapses" in truth by people who purportedly knew du Pré. Some of the controversy revolved around the other main character in Anand Tucker's gorgeous, involving movie--du Pré's sister, Hilary, whose book,A Genius in the Family (cowritten with brother Piers), dished some dirt on Jackie's sleeping with Hilary's husband. But don't let that deter you from this ebullient movie experience. Hilary and Jackie is a bisected story (each sister's tale is told in the same amount of screen time) teeming with heartfelt drama that belies the cheap shots it received from its detractors. It's stirring, reckless, loving, involving, and rife with unconventional passion; passion for music, life, art, and the delicate relationship between these two synchronous, extraordinary sisters as played by brilliant actors Emily Watson and Rachel Griffiths (both of whom earned Oscar nods). Though Watson got the juicy, showy role as Jackie, it's Griffiths who provides the heart, soul, and spine of the film. And director Tucker has that gift of being able to explain through the visual medium what is happening inside of his character's heads. He's helped by a fine screenplay by Frank Boyce Cottrell. No matter what the truth of Hilary and Jackie might really be, this is an exceptional, rare film that is defined and graced by fine acting and writing. --Paula Nechak

• Great Composers - Bach / Mozart | DVD | (01/07/2001) from £24.07   |  Saving you £-6.08 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The BBC TV series Great Composers, broadcast in 1997, takes an introductory look at key figures of European classical music. Bach (1685-1750) is a difficult composer to survey historically, partly because his life as a professional musician was restricted to several provincial German towns. Yet the vast body of music he produced is well covered, with a representative sample performed mainly on instruments of Bach's day. There's also consideration of his cultural importance as the effective progenitor of modern European music and enough anecdotal evidence to suggest a lively, combative personality in his own right. The life of Mozart (1756-1791) is easier to document, with his years as a child prodigy travelling the European cultural circuit, the difficult adolescent years in Salzburg and Paris and the rise and fall of his freelance career in Vienna all amply illustrated here. Again, a well-chosen selection of music, accompanied by thought-provoking comments from a range of musicians and historians, gently exploding the myth of the Amadeus film in the process. This is informal, informing, and worth acquiring. On the DVD: The disc offers crisp Dolby 2.0 stereo and 4:3 ratio, with generous and well-chosen access points--13 for Bach, 16 for Mozart. Subtitles are offered in five languages, and you'll need to select the English option so that the German and Italian speaking contributors come with translation. Those with DVD-ROM can additionally access up-to-date articles on these composers. --Richard Whitehouse

• Farewell Friend | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Years after serving together in the French Foreign Legion American soldier of fortune Franz Propp (Charles Bronson) and French doctor Dino Barron (Alain Delon) are unexpectedly reunited under the most extraordinary circumstances. Hoping to help a friend who has embezzled some bonds Barron tries to break into a safe in the dead of night. Sneaking into an underground vault he is surprised to discover that his old pal Propp is also on the premises likewise intending to crack the saf

• The Legacy | DVD | (16/07/2012) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After travelling to England at the request of a mysterious patron, Maggie Walsh (Katharine Ross, The Graduate) and her boyfriend Pete (Sam Elliott, The Big Lebowski) are involved in an accident. They're invited to recuperate at a huge country mansion, but they are not the only guests.Five others have gathered, some of the most powerful people in the world. Soon they will start dying, killed by an unknown power. An ancient evil is stirring and Maggie will uncover a dreadful truth.Directed by Richard Marquand (Return of the Jedi) and co-starring Roger Daltrey of The Who, The Legacy is a classic modern-day gothic chiller, richly atmospheric and deliciously creepy.

• Third Time Lucky | DVD | (01/05/2017) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl as well... First time ever released on DVD.

• The X Files: Season 6 | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The sixth series of The X-Files picks up after the events of the big-screen movie. So it is that "The Beginning" attempts to fit the film into the TV chronology before moving on to tackle plot points left dangling from series five's "The End" (note the guard asleep at the nuclear power plant console is named Homer!). Between story arc threads are several pleasing one-off excursions: time travel to a Bermuda Triangle boatload of Nazis ("Triangle"); further temporal escapades akin to Groundhog Day ("Monday"); a demonic baby case featuring genre stalwart Bruce Campbell ("Terms of Endearment"); and "The Dreamland, Parts 1 and 2", in which David Duchovny gets to play someone else via personality switching. Back in the conspiracy scheme of things, Mulder chases "S.R. 819", a Senate resolution tying conspiracies together; "Two Fathers" and "One Son" indicates that the abductee experiments are intended to cure the black oil disease; and the year finishes with "BioGenesis", in which a beach-buried UFO has Scully and the audience wondering if we are from Mars. --Paul Tonks

• Norma Jean And Marilyn | DVD | (20/04/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £8.26 (122.73%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd deliver stunning performances in this acclaimed psychological drama that takes a revealing look at the two personalities of Marilyn Monroe.

• All Dogs Go To Heaven | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the same kennel as An American Tail ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN was a favourite for all children (and adults) when it was first released in 1989 and now it's destined to attract a whole new generation of fans. Burt Reynolds provides the voice for Charlie B. Barkin a loveable canine rogue who's been doing time in the dog-pound for his sins. With the help of his faithful friend Itchy (Dom De Luise) he escapes and discovers that his previous partner-in-crime Carface (Vic Tayback) is now incredibly wealthy. Not only that but Carface has decided that Charlie is now superfluous and wipes him out. At the pearly gates he's refused entry to heaven by the Heavenly Whippet (Melba Moore) as it seems that there is no evidence of Charlie doing any good deeds during his lifetime. Charlie returns to earth where he discovers Carface's secret - a little orphan girl with the remarkable ability to talk to animals who Carface uses to predict racing winners. Charlie kidnaps Ann-Marie hoping to ruin Carface and make a fortune at the races but Ann-Marie believes she has found a good pal. The pair are united in a delightful musical adventure through the animated-animal population of the underworld of New Orleans. All manner of rascally criminals are pursuing Ann-Marie but with the help of reformed German shepherd Charlie she defeats them. This is a classic childrens' fantasy adventure film packed with thrills laughter and puppy love.

• Hitchcock - Rebecca / Spellbound / The Paradine Case / Notorious | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The four classic films included in this Box Set are: 'Rebecca' 'Spellbound' 'The Paradine Case' 'Notorious

• Man Of The Frontier | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £3.49   |  Saving you £0.50 (14.33%)   |  RRP £3.99

• I.Q. | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by momentarily pretending to be a great physicist...

• Spaceship | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £4.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Alien Abduction, Unicorns, Teenage BDSM role play and Nordic Metal. Acclaimed British director Alex Taylor unleashes his debut feature, a visually daring, thought-provoking exploration of British teenage life. Rising star Alexa Davies (Harlots, Raised By Wolves) shines as the ethereal Lucidia, who spends her days with her misfit community of cyber goths. After her sudden and mysterious disappearance, her friends journey deep into the unknown to find her. Special Features: ˜Kids Might Fly' ˜Spaceship' ˜Tank Dance' Cast & Director Commentary Audio Descriptions Official UK Trailer