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• Black Beauty | DVD | (21/08/2000) from £4.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (180.36%)   |  RRP £13.99

  When a girl is given the horse of her dreams the pair form a bond of love and trust that will last forever. Polly and her Black Beauty share wondrous adventures and face hardship and danger with brother Bertie Merry Legs the pony and the other residents of their lush country estate. All of the splendor and excitement of Anna Sewell's classic novel are thrilling to boys and girls.

• A Matter Of Life & Death Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (22/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk has English audio.

• Alive | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £6.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (91.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On the afternoon of Friday October 13 1972 one of the most controversial and inspirational tales of survival began when an airplane carrying a team of young rugby players from Uruguay crashed into the Andes Mountains. Several of the passengers died instantly but most survived. For eight days they sat and waited to be rescued. But help never came and they learnt from the radio that the search had been abandoned. Soon their food and drink were gone. Forced to exist in sub-zero wea

• A Matter Of Life And Death | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £6.38   |  Saving you £13.61 (213.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Legendary director Powell and Pressburger at their most imaginative - and controversial - with a film about a pilot who suffers strange hallucinations after surviving being shot down over the English Channel.

• Stir of Echoes | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tom's a regular guy, a utilities lineman, married, with a young son, his wife is pregnant; he hangs out with long-time pals in a Chicago neighborhood.

• The Watcher In The Woods | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An American family moves into a spooky manor house located within a wooded area in the English countryside. Before long they start to see some odd things like mirrors that don't reflect and the ghost of a blindfolded girl. The new tenants learn that 30 years ago a teenage girl who bears an uncanny resemblance to their daughter Jan disappeared nearby. Soon the supernatural presence starts contacting both sisters.

• Britannia - Series 2 | DVD | (10/02/2020) from £20.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Romans are here and set to stay. Two years on from his invasion of Britannia, General Aulus (David Morrissey, The City and the City) is romanising cooperative Celt tribes and crushing those who try to resist, with the help of his new ally, Celt Queen Amena (Annabel Scholey, The Split). The only form of hope for Veran's (Mackenzie Crook, Detectorists) Druids and Celts is Cait (Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Hetty Feather), a young girl who is being trained by outcast Druid Divis (Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Follow the Money) to fulfil a prophecy that would save Britannia from the Romans. But when a dead man wakes, two Druid brothers begin an epic battle of wills that divides the Druids and puts the prophecy in jeopardy.

• The Craft: Legacy | DVD | (08/03/2021) from £3.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Blumhouse's continuation of the cult hit The Craft, an eclectic foursome of aspiring teenage witches get more than they bargained for as they lean into their newfound powers.

• The Craft: Legacy | Blu Ray | (08/03/2021) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Blumhouse's continuation of the cult hit The Craft, an eclectic foursome of aspiring teenage witches get more than they bargained for as they lean into their newfound powers.

• Lucky / Chances | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jackie Collins' sweeping story of passion power greed and betrayal spans over 40 years from the tough streets of depression bit New York to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and Las Vegas.

• Rock And Roll's Greatest Failure: Otway The Movie | DVD | (29/09/2014) from £15.05   |  Saving you £2.94 (16.30%)   |  RRP £17.99

  UK’s cult legend John Otway returns to his old school to give a course on survival in the music industry. In the midst of Britain’s ‘70s punk revolution and after a momentous TV appearance where five and a half million viewers watched him land painfully on his testicles Otway was high in the charts. Too bad his next HIT was 25 years later.

• Rawhead Rex | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £9.96   |  Saving you £-3.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Rawhead Rex is a demon trapped in the depths of hell and waiting for release. He is held by an ancient seal imprisoned for centuries in a barren field near Rathmore in Ireland. He is about to be set free by accident and he is ravenous....

• The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: 8-Movie Collection | DVD | (02/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Starsky And Hutch - The Complete First Season | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In the rough-and-tumble, wildly entertaining world of Starsky & Hutch, impatient cops--anxious to join a foot race in pursuit of a villain--throw themselves out of moving vehicles and roll to a bruising stop. Undercover detectives Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Soul), hardly imbued with the powers of Spider-Man, routinely scale walls, hop from rooftop to rooftop, and fling themselves down steep hillsides to stop bad guys from doing what bad guys do. Years later Hill Street Blues would redefine the cop genre as a mesh of overlapping storylines and workaday frustrations, but Aaron Spelling's iconic 70s show portrays LA's finest as madly heroic creatures of reckless determination and physicality. This first season is also startlingly brutal for a primetime US show—it was later significantly toned down, much to the regret of fans—while maintaining a delightful, often incongruous, self-deprecating humour. From the series pilot on, partners and best pals Starsky and Hutch work a fine line between predator and prey, relentlessly pursuing suspects while also snared by crime chieftains or short-sighted superiors. In "The Fix", Hutch's secret romance with the former girlfriend of a mafia boss (Robert Loggia) results in the lawman's kidnapping and forced addiction to heroin. Similarly, in "A Coffin for Starsky", a mad chemist injects the wisecracking cop with a slow-acting but lethal poison. "Jo-Jo", written by Michael Mann, finds our guys at loggerheads with federal officers over a dumb deal the G-Men make with a serial rapist. The 23 episodes in this set are all fun, if sometimes shocking, viewing. Expect each character to take as much abuse as he dishes out. Still, the comic sight of Starsky and Hutch (in "Death Notice") trying to conduct business amid busy strippers is well worth the surrounding violence. --Tom Keogh

• A Matter of Life and Death (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (24/07/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Deathsport (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (17/10/2022) from £14.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the year 3000 there'll be no more Olympic Games, World Series, or Superbowl, there'll be only Deathsport! One thousand years in the future, following the Great Neutron Wars, the world is divided into desert wastelands and isolated city states. Lord Zirpola captures the notorious death ranger Kaz (David Carradine) to fight to the death in his game, Deathsport. Now Kaz must face his past, fight for his future, and save the city from the war that Lord Zirpola is getting ready to wage. Product Features Commentary with Co-Director Allan Arkush and Editor Larry Bock Theatrical trailer TV Spot Radio Spot Still Gallery English subtitles

• Life And Death of Colonel Blimp, The / A Matter Of Life And Death | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two masterpieces of British cinema are paired here--Powell and Pressburger's first Technicolor triumph, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and their even more ambitious A Matter of Life and Death (1946). Both pictures are transcendent examples of the filmmakers' craft, and remain models of great cinema long after their original wartime propaganda brief has expired. Based on a famously satirical cartoon strip that mocked outmoded attitudes of fair play at a time of "total war", Blimp subsequently became notorious as the film Churchill tried to have banned. Because the War Office objected to the screenplay, they refused to allow P&P's first choice for the role, Laurence Olivier, and the duo cast unknown stage actor Roger Livesey in his place. It is Livesey's sympathetic performance that transforms Clive "Sugar" Candy from an object of satire to one of warm affection, effectively reversing the film's intended message about old-fashioned decency versus wartime pragmatism. Anton Walbrook is a profound presence in a role that mirrored the actor's own plight as a German in Britain, while Deborah Kerr is a living leitmotif in the film, playing no fewer than three distinct but deliberately related roles. Briefed by the Ministry of Information to make a film that would foster Anglo-American relations in the post-war period, the duo, known as "the Archers", came up with A Matter of Life and Death, an extravagant and extraordinary fantasy in which David Niven's downed pilot must justify his continuing existence to a heavenly panel because he has made the mistake of falling in love with an American girl (Kim Hunter) when he really should have been dead. National stereotypes are lampooned as the angelic judges squabble over his fate. In a neat reversal of expectations, the heaven sequences are black and white, while earth is seen in Technicolor. Daring cinematography mixes monochrome and colour, incorporates time-lapse images, and even toys with background "time freezes" 50 years before The Matrix. Roger Livesey and Raymond Massey lead the fine supporting cast. On the DVD: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and A Matter of Life and Death are presented in reasonably sharp 4:3 ratio with good mono sound. Blimp comes with a 25-minute documentary feature that tells us nothing revelatory about making the film, but has good new interviews with cinematographer Jack Cardiff (then an apprentice) and eloquent admirer Stephen Fry. Text biographies and stills are also included. Life and Death has no extras. --Mark Walker

• Deathsport | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-9.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Earth. Post-Apocalypse. 1000 years after the Neutron Wars. Lord Zirpola the dictator of Helix City captures Range Guides Kaz Oshay (David Carradine) and Deneer. Range Guides are mystical nomads who have strange powers and who choose to fight for good in the bleak wastelands. Lord Zirpola forces them to take part in his favourite entertainment; the Death Sport - an arena where they must fight to the death on special motorcycles like Roman Gladiators. But Kaz Deneer and others break out and make their escape on the strange motorcycles trying to cross the lethal desert to freedom. Ankar Moor a former Range Guide who now serves the evil Zirpola hotly pursues the fleeing group and now wants their blood!

• On The Beat / Man Of The Moment | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1962's On the Beat, Norman Wisdom's Pitkin, the most famous incarnation of his riotous buffoon character, is dreaming of something better as usual. Pitkin wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a policeman, but being decidedly on the short side, has to settle for washing police cars. Of course it's not long before Norman is impersonating an officer of the law. Wisdom also plays his nemesis here, the German General Schreiber, as well as the chief suspect in a series of jewel robberies which only Pitkin's chaotic antics can solve. Terence Alexander effectively reprises his character from The Square Peg (1958), and Wisdom regular David Lodge, previously seen costarring in The Bulldog Breed (1960), is also on hand, though otherwise the supporting cast is less stellar than before. By the time of 1955's Man of the Moment, Wisdom was firmly established as Britain's favourite movie comedian, his shy, helpful and good-natured "gump" character forever unintentionally causing catastrophe in the great tradition of Charlie Chaplin. However, while Chaplin ventured into politics in Modern Times (1936) for satirical purposes, when Norman's minor civil servant here accidentally becomes the UK delegate at a conference in Geneva the emphasis is on farce and pratfalls. The plot sees Norman sticking up for the rights of the fictional kingdom of Tawaki against less-than-honest government interests, while his new-found status brings the attention of the ladies, including the return of his Trouble in Store (1953) costar Lana Morris. Continuing his collaboration with veteran director John Paddy Carstairs, the film is a polished laughter machine that continues to entertain. --Gary S Dalkin

• Lucky Chances 2 | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the novels ""Chances"" and ""Lucky"" by Jackie Collins this miniseries features the rise of Gino Santangelo in the Las Vegas casino industry... After the brutal murder of her mother the wild teenage Lucky Santangelo is packed off to an elite Swiss finishing school by her heavy-handed father Gino. Frustrated by her over-protective father the self-destructive Lucky soon skips school to go thrill-seeking in Europe's glittering hot spots. The exasperated Gino is not to be denied