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• Ripping Yarns | DVD | (21/04/2000) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969-74), and well before going Around the World in 80 Days (1989), Pole to Pole (1992) or even Full Circle (1997), Michael Palin starred in Ripping Yarns, co-written with Terry Jones. As the title suggests, these were spoofs, affectionate pastiche-come-homage Boy's Own-type adventures. Each was an individual short film, less bizarre than the Flying Circus, not so consistently hilarious as fellow ex-Python John Cleese's Fawlty Towers, but inventively surreal with a daffy, gloriously English eccentricity. "Tomkinson's Schooldays" was the 45-minute pilot (originally shown as a one-off programme in 1976) and the funniest of the three tales here. A parody of Tom Brown's Schooldays, the humour comes from the violence, cruelty and insane rules of Graybridge public school in which the unfortunate Tomkinson is incarcerated. Ian Ogilvy is a fine School Bully, terrifying even Terry Jones' useless headmaster. "Escape from Stalag Luft 112B" is a P.O.W. movie send-up (from the first series), and "Golden Gordon" (from Series 2) celebrates the man who won't give-up on an underdog northern football team. In 1983 Palin made The Missionary, essentially a feature-film Ripping Yarn. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Mean Machine/Coach Carter/Bad News Bears | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Titles Comprise: 1. Mean Machine 2. Coach Carter 3. Bad News Bears

• Infinity | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £9.97   |  Saving you £3.01 (43.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  He was no ordinary genius. Theirs was no ordinary love. In his stunning directorial debut Matthew Broderick stars in Infinity based on the true-life story of physicist Richard Feynman who as a young man fell madly in love with a beautiful young woman Arline Greenbaum (Patricia Arquette) with whom he shared a very special bond. In 1941 when the United States plunged into World War II Feynman was recruited to work at Los Alamos on the top-secret government project that was to develop the first atomic bomb - a job he accepted in part because it allowed him to resolve the crisis that he and Arline would face alone.

• Phoenix Rising | Blu Ray | (21/06/2013) from £11.56   |  Saving you £8.43 (72.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  What's left to be said about Deep Purple? Together with Led Zeppelin The Who and Black Sabbath they are considered the fathers of heavy rock and to some the creators of heavy metal. One of the symbols of the seventies or as they often say... a legend. The line up called MK2 (Blackmore-Lord-Paice-Gillan-Glover) released albums that are milestones of rock: In Rock Machine Head and Fireball. Gillan and Glover left after the release of Who Do We Think We Are. Deep Purple decided to continue and entered one of the most controversial exciting and extreme phases of their career. Back then unknown vocalist David Coverdale (later superstar of his own band Whitesnake) and bass player Glenn Hughes joined the band. The following albums Burn and Stormbringer showed they could maintain the same levels of the previous incarnation of the band and reached the classic album status. When Blackmore decided to leave the band they surprisingly decided to continue recruiting guitarist Tommy Bolin. They released the great album Come Taste The Band and played in front of immensely large audiences at the peak of their glamourous lives... until excesses affected the band and Bolin tragically died of a heroin overdose. Deep Purple were then officially split up. In 1984 Deep Purple reformed with the original line-up featuring Gillan and Glover yet although a lot had happened since then the band is still touring the world and remains one of the most important names in rock history. It would be a big mistake to ignore the great music that Deep Purple produced between 1972 and 1976. Rises Over Japan: 30 minute-long live footage filmed in 16mm in Japan restored in HD. Never before released not even on bootlegs. Originally planned to be included in a Deep Purple film the short movie was never released after Tommy Bolin's death. If it wasn't known the show is from 1976 the stunning video quality would make the viewer believe this is a production filmed with the most modern HD cameras. Getting Tighter: The full length 90 minute documentary of the story behind Deep Purple after Ian Gillan and Roger Glover's departures. Jon Lord and Glenn Hughes tell the story of the post Gillan years through never before seen live images backstage footage never before told stories and original video material collected through years of hard work. A real dream come true for all Deep Purple fans. New inside stories and the truths about the dark sides of Deep Purple with the rise and fall of their seventies years will really grab fans. CD: The original soundtrack and more. The best of Deep Purple MKIV (Bolin-Lord-Paice-Coverdale-Hughes) from the Rises Over Japan concert and more. Getting Tighter: 90 minute documentary of the story behind Deep Purple post Gillan years narrated by Lord and Hughes with never seen before live images backstage scenes rare visuals from the bands own archives. Rises Over Japan: Live:: 30 minute live concert in Japan including: 01.Burn/02.Love Child/03.Smoke On The Water (including Georgia)/04.You Keep On Moving 05.Highway Star Extra Bonus Material: Come Taste The Band 2010 Reissue EPK/Additional vintage material not used for the documentary Entire live CD with all 8 tracks as WAV files: 01.Burn 02.Getting Tighter 03.Love Child 04.Smoke On The Water (including Georgia) 05.Lazy 06.Homeward Strut 07.You Keep On Moving 08.Stormbringer

• Hallelujah - Series 1 | DVD | (01/01/1900) from £8.34   |  Saving you £6.65 (79.74%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Dame Thora Hird stars in one of her own personal favourite roles as the balmiest woman in the Salvation Army! The Sally Army are in need of some salvation themselves - salvation that is from their own dotty Captain Emily Ridley (Thora Hird). For over forty-two years Captain Emily has been in the forefront of the Army's battle against sin and sinners in that modern Sodom and Gomorrah - Yorkshire. She's all fired up with a wild enthusiasm that regular members finda little embarrassing. Now the top brass at the Salvation Army want her to retire but Captain Emily isn't quite ready to hang up her tambourine just yet! First broadcast on Yorkshire Television in 1983 you can now enjoy the entire first series (seven hilarious episodes) of Hallelujah! in one complete collection.

• Stagefright | Blu Ray | (23/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Zombies Of War | DVD | (11/01/2010) from £7.96   |  Saving you £7.03 (46.90%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In war death is not the only thing to fear... Hitler's desperation to win World War II at all costs combined with his obsession with science and the paranormal give rise to a deadly type of warfare. Hitler unleashes his secret weapons - Unstoppable Nazi supersoldiers - onto the advancing Allied army. After suffering great losses the American army reassigns soldiers to a mission to destroy Hitler's weapons labs. After they are shot down in occupied France the soldiers find themselves caught between the German army and a creature that cannot be destroyed.

• The Shaw Brothers Collection - The Heroic Ones | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  No screen team was more triumphant than in the 'golden age' of kung-fu cinema than the 'iron triangle' of director Chang Cheh and his protgs David Chiang and Ti Lung. This is their quintessential historical epic set during the waning Tang Dynasty it's literally brother against brother as Chiang and Lung display their remarkable martial arts prowess!

• The Hit Collection | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Tracklisting: Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime / Shocking Blue - Venus / Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile / T.Rex - Get It On / 10cc - I'm Not In Love / The Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love / Down Down - Status Quo / Rod Stewart - Maggie May / Alice Cooper - School's Out / Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights / 10cc - Dreadlock Holiday / Abba - Take A Chance On Me / David Bowie - Space Oddity

• Angel Blade | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Teenage prostitutes are being killed and no one knows why. The streets of Las Vegas loom with an undercurrent of lust fantasy power passion and addiction. Enter detective Bradley Cooper an on the edge cop who is slowly unraveling the secret behind the murdered prostitutes... they were all pregnant. Dr. Martin Gites a renowned author and psychologist who is linked to each killing is let off the hook by Commissioner Shank. He leads Cooper to lingerie shop owner Frida the only shop owner in town selling the angel panties found on each victim at the scene. Everyone has a dark secret. A secret that kills anyone who tries to uncover it's wicked truth. A truth that is about to unveil it's wrath on Bradley Cooper or it's next victim!

• Farewell | Blu Ray | (29/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Based on a true story Farewell (aka L'Affaire Farewell) documents one of the most astounding tales of espionage to come out of the Cold War. Directed by Academy Award nominated Christian Carion (Merry Christmas) Farewell features a stellar cast including award-winning actor/director Emir Kusturica (Black Cat White Cat The Good Thief) award-winning actor/director Guillaume Canet (Tell No One Little White Lies) and award-winning actress Alexandra Maria Lara (The Reader Control). The film also stars Willem Dafoe (Antichrist Spiderman 3) David Soul (Jerry Springer: The Opera) and Fred Ward (Short Cuts Management). In 1981 Colonel Grigoriev (Emir Kusturica) of the KGB (real name Vladimir Vetrov) disenchanted with what the communist ideal has become under Brezhnev decides he is going to change the world. Discreetly he makes contact with a French engineer working for Thompson in Moscow Pierre (Guillaume Canet) and little by little passes on documents to him - mainly concerning the United States - information which would constitute the most important Cold War espionage operation known to date. During a period of two years French President Francois Mitterrand (Philippe Magnan) was to personally vet the documents supplied by this source in Moscow to whom the French Secret Service gave the codename 'Farewell'.

• Absolution | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  confessions turn from a practical joke to a real murder mystery Father Goddard (Richard Burton) hears confessions at a catholic school. In confession student Benjamin Stanfield tells Goddard that he has accidentally murdered his friend (Billy Connolly) and buried him in the forest. Goddard investigates the matter and finds a buried scarecrow. Shortly after Stanfield once again enters the confession booth telling Goddard that what before was a practical joke he has now made hap

• Jurassic Croc (DVD) | DVD | (04/02/2013) from £6.01   |  Saving you £8.98 (149.42%)   |  RRP £14.99

  It's 50 feet long and 25 feet tall... An elite military unit must stop a giant Reptilian creature from reaching Los Angeles and causing the total Destruction of L.A.

• Sweet Dreams | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £101.98   |  Saving you £-81.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A biopic directed by Karel Reisz, Sweet Dreams charts how country music star Patsy Cline came by the torchy emotions in her songs honestly; rising from poor surroundings, literally forcing her talent on the Nashville establishment, all the while trying to survive an abusive marriage to a drinker. Though the script by Robert Getchell is standard Hollywood biography, the movie is more than watchable, thanks to a bone-deep performance by the always astonishing Jessica Lange and the counterpoint by Ed Harris as her loving but unreliable husband. The soundtrack features a basketful of Cline's hits, which Lange convincingly lip-synchs. --Marshall Fine

• Beyond The Break - Series 1 Vol.1 | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Beyond The Break is a teen drama series which follows the ups and downs of four girls; Lacey Kai Birdie and Dawn as they join the competitive surfing circuit known as Wave Sync. Under the eye of their coach the ocean waves have as much excitement challenge and danger as the unpredictable waves of their lives. They will each experience challenges of new relationships with each other their new ""family"" as well as their old ones and the twists and turns of romance.

• La Boheme | Blu Ray | (26/07/2010) from £20.85   |  Saving you £9.14 (43.84%)   |  RRP £29.99

  La Boheme is based on the masterwork by Giacomo Puccini itself based on a novel by Henri Murger. This latest production and direction by Jonathan Millar for the English National Opera was filmed at the London Coliseum in early 2009 and features a brand new English translation by Amanda Holden. Taken to Paris's depression era of the 1930's by Miller and designer Isabella Bywater a vision of realism as depicted in the films and photos of the peroid is captured.

• Prime Suspect 4: Scent of Darkness | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Det. Superintendent Jane Tennison's (Helen Mirren) relationship with psychologist Patrick Schofield (Stuart Wilson) has developed into a promisingly happy affair. When a series of murders take place which resemble those investigated in the first Prime Suspect she is faced with a possible miscarriage of justice and promptly suspended. Are they copy-cat crimes or is George Marlow (Tim Woodward) innocent as he always insisted? Prevented from working possibly betrayed by her lover and haunted by the past Tennison is forced to re-examine her most fundamental beliefs about her life and work.

• Beast Wars - Transformers - Vol. 1 | DVD | (13/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Sex and the City: Series 1 (Region 2 NTSC Format) | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A series that's as much about one as the other, the wonderfully funny, touching and utterly genuine Sex and the City dares to portray real adults in a thoroughly realistic environment. Filmed in and around the streets of Manhattan, the show brings New York life--and specifically singles life--alive as no other has done before. Like its HBO stablemate The Sopranos, this is TV for grown-ups: frank and non-patronising, dizzyingly well written and devastatingly accurate in its characterisations. Sarah Jessica Parker plays Carrie Bradshaw, Manhattan's "sexual anthropologist" whose weekly newspaper column gives the series its title. Kristen Davis, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon are her acerbic, cynical, thirtysomething singleton pals: gossip, sex, men, shoes, shopping, sex, designer clothes, fashion and sex dominate their affluent yet incomprehensibly empty lifestyles as they move from swanky restaurant opening to night club to art exhibition in the relentless pursuit of fulfilment and validation. Conspicuously, the men in their lives--from "toxic bachelors" to "modelisers" and beyond--fail to provide either, leaving the women to pick up the pieces after each shattered relationship. Adapted from Candace Bushnell's bestseller, in the first season Carrie embarks on her long and tortuous liaison with "Mr Big" and watches wryly as her pals seek solace with various members of the male sex, electric appliances and even, disastrously yet briefly, celibacy. On the DVD: Fortunately, 12 outstanding episodes are their own selling point here, since the presentation of these two discs leaves something to be desired. Although Region 2 encoded, inexcusably the broadcast format is American NTSC not PAL, so if you don't have a reasonably modern TV you'll have trouble playing the discs in the first place; there's a tiny promo feature and teaser trailers, plus cast biographies and synopses that pop up at the beginning of every episode. The interface lacks a "Play All" facility, forcing you to skip back and forth from the main menu after each episode. Add to that some pretty nasty packaging and this set won't win any prizes for presentation. But the shows themselves are a constant delight: anyone who's ever dated or been dumped should own this set. --Mark Walker

• Primer | DVD | (03/02/2014) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Everything you think you know about modern science is about to unravel in this critically acclaimed film about two young engineers and the consequences they face when they invent a machine that enables them to travel back in time. Primer won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and has drawn repeat viewers eager to crack writer-director-star Shane Carruth's puzzler of a time-travel drama. Carruth, an engineer by training, plays inventor Aaron, whose entrepreneurial partners...