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• The Darling Buds Of May - The Best Of | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £5.70   |  Saving you £4.29 (75.26%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Relax sit back and enjoy the adventures of Britain's best-loved family in the TV series that became the country's number one show. The Larkins are back and living life to the full in this glorious compilation of The Very Best Of The Darling Buds Of May. The Darling Buds Of May The taxman visits the idyllic rural Home Farm and in his futile efforts to investigate Pa's (David Jason) income he finds a way of life he thought could never exist and more importantly discovers the Larkin's beautiful daughter Mariette (Catherine Zeta Jones). Stranger At The Gates A dashing young stranger with a secret past arrives at Mariette's doorstep however Cedric (Philip Franks) becomes suspicious and causes a rife. The Happiest Days Of Your Life Love makes the world go around in the Larkin family but Mariette comes up with some money-making schemes that prove she has brains as well as beauty.

• Hammer Volume Four: Faces of Fear | Blu Ray | (25/11/2019) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Four classic Hammer chillers presented on Blu-ray for the very first time in the UK. Accompanied by a wealth of new and archival extras including exclusive new documentaries, audio commentaries, alternative versions, new and archival cast and crew interviews, a series of appreciations of their female stars, analyses of their composers' scores, and extensive booklets this stunning limited edition box set is strictly limited to 6,000 units. Extras: INDICATOR LIMITED BLU-RAY EDITION BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES: THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN New 4K restoration Original mono audio New and exclusive documentary about the film, produced by Hammer expert Marcus Hearn (2019) Audio commentary by celebrated horror and fantasy authors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (2019) A Frankenstein for the 20th Century (2019): video essay by film historian Kat Ellinger and Dima Ballin Hammer's Women Eunice Gayson (2019): profile of the Hammer star by critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson David Huckvale on Leonard Salzedo (2019): new appreciation of the renowned composer by the author of Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde Super 8 version: original cut-down home cinema presentation Original theatrical trailer Trailer commentary (2013): short critical appreciation by filmmaker Joe Dante Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition box set exclusive booklet with new essays by Marcus Hearn and Kieran Foster, archival interview materials, historical articles, contemporary reviews, and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL High Definition remaster Original mono audio New and exclusive documentary about the film, produced by Hammer expert Marcus Hearn (2019) Audio commentary by film historians Josephine Botting and Jonathan Rigby (2019) Interview with Paul Massie (1967): rare archival audio interview with the film's star Hammer's Women Dawn Addams (2019): British cinema expert Laura Mayne explores the life and career of the UK-born star David Huckvale on Monty Norman (2019): new appreciation of the renowned composer Original theatrical trailer Trailer commentary (2013): short critical appreciation by Josh Olson Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition box set exclusive booklet with a new essay by Kat Ellinger, archival interview materials, historical articles, contemporary reviews and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray TASTE OF FEAR High Definition remaster Original mono audio Alternative presentation with US Scream of Fear title sequence New and exclusive documentary about the film, produced by Hammer expert Marcus Hearn (2019) Audio commentary with Kevin Lyons, editor of The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television (2019) The BFI Interview with Jimmy Sangster (2008): archival audio recording of the celebrated filmmaker and screenwriter in conversation with Marcus Hearn at London's National Film Theatre The BEHP Video interview with Jimmy Sangster (2008): archival video recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring Sangster in conversation with Jonathan Rigby The BEHP Interview with Douglas Slocombe Part Two (1988): archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the renowned cinematographer in conversation with Sidney Cole Fear Makers (2019): interviews with camera operator Desmond Davis, assistant editor John Crome and clapper loader Ray Andrew Hammer's Women Ann Todd (2019): Melanie Williams, author of Female Stars of British Cinema profiles the English star and producer David Huckvale on Clifton Parker (2019): new appreciation of the renowned composer Super 8 version of Scream of Fear: original cut-down home cinema presentation Original theatrical trailer Trailer commentary (2013): short critical appreciation by Samm Hamm Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition box set exclusive booklet with an essay by Marcus Hearn, archival interview materials, historical articles, contemporary reviews and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray THE DAMNED: New 2K restoration Original mono audio Two presentations of the film: The Damned, the original UK theatrical release version; and These Are the Damned, the complete and uncut restoration which first premiered in 2007 New and exclusive documentary about the film, produced by Hammer expert Marcus Hearn (2019) Audio commentary by film historians Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger (2019) Beneath the Surface (2019): new interview with filmmaker Gavrik Losey, son of director Joseph Losey Interview with actor Shirley Anne Field (2019) Interview with screenwriter Evan Jones (2010) Children of 'The Damned' (2019): new interviews with actors Kit Williams, David Palmer and Christopher Witty Hammer's Women Viveca Lindfors (2019): profile of the renowned actor by critic and film historian Lindsay Hallam David Huckvale on James Bernard (2019): new appreciation of the celebrated composer Beyond Black Leather (2019): appreciation by film expert I Q Hunter No Future (2019): analysis by author and film historian Neil Sinyard Original theatrical trailer Trailer commentary (2013): a short critical appreciation by filmmaker Joe Dante Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition box set exclusive booklet with a new essay by Richard Combs, archival interview materials, historical articles, contemporary reviews and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition box set of 6,000 numbered units All extras subject to change

• All Quiet On The Western Front | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £5.48   |  Saving you £4.51 (82.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Taken from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front is a devastating portrait of a small group of German soldiers during World War I. In this 1979 made-for-TV version the star-studded cast is lead by Richard Thomas (The Waltons) as Paul Baumer, strongly supported by screen veterans Ernest Borgnine, Ian Holm and Patricia Neal. As both narrator and star, Thomas occasionally seems to reincarnate his familiar John-Boy persona, but does at least succeed in creating a character that has more levels than his television alter ego. After watching all of his high school buddies loose their lives, Paul returns home a changed man, conflicted in his feelings about the Army and war, and altered from an idealistic schoolboy into a fearful and humble veteran. Although Lewis Milestone's 1930 films remains the cinema's definitive version, director Delbert Mann (Desire Under the Elms, Marty) has done a workmanlike job bringing the novel to the screen. The scenery and costuming in this period piece are well done, and surely contributed to its winning the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Made for TV. Also exceptional are the cinematography and special effects that, while realistically gruesome, truly emphasise the horrors of war. --Zachary Lively, Amazon.com

• Simon Schama - A History of Britain : The Complete Series | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments, but Schama's way of telling it is a good deal more enthralling as a result. Schama successfully gives lie to the idea that the history of Britain has been moderate and temperate, passing down the generations as stately as a galleon, taking on board sensible ideas but steering clear of sillier, revolutionary ones. Nonsense. Schama retells British history the way it was--as bloody, convulsive, precarious, hot-blooded and several times within an inch of haring off onto an entirely different course. Schama seems almost to delight in the goriness of history. Themes returned to repeatedly include the wars between the Scots and the Irish and the Catholic/Protestant conflicts--only the Irish question remains unresolved by the new millennium. As Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy, Schama talks less of Kings and Queens but of poets and idea-makers like Orwell. Still, with his pungent, direct manner and against an evocative visual and aural backdrop, Schama makes history seem as though it happened yesterday, the bloodstains not yet dry. On the DVD: The Complete History of Britain extras are generously packaged on a separate disc and include the original score and a Simon Schama biography. There's an interesting "promotional message" to camera in which Schama explains the role of a cab driver, Wally, in inspiring the series, along with an interview with Mark Lawson in which Schama stresses the deliberate subjectivity of these programmes and an inaugural BBC History lecture in which he defends TV's ability to transpose history to camera. --David Stubbs

• Big School | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £9.25   |  Saving you £10.74 (116.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The hilarious new comedy from David Walliams about a dysfunctional staff room unrequited love and chess club! Deputy Head of Science Mr Church (David Walliams) has been at Greybridge School for 15 years. Disillusioned with teaching he is about to resign after a particularly dramatic experiment with liquid nitrogen and 1000 ping pong balls is met with apathy by his pupils. However the arrival of the new French teacher changes everything! Taking up her post following the tragic death of her predecessor Miss Postern (Catherine Tate) is determined to make a difference in the classroom with new teaching methods - anyone for Vocab Tennis? PE teacher and would-be lothario Mr Gunn (Philip Glenister) is also interested in the new French teacher and is determined to plough Miss Postern - probably on Friday night when his mum is at seniors' Zumba.

• Scream (1996) 4K UHD Steelbook (Repress) | Blu Ray | (27/02/2023) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Neve Campbell leads an all-star cast in this iconic slasher thriller that launched the Scream franchise and breathed new life into the horror genre. After a series of mysterious deaths befalls their small town, an offbeat group of friends led by Sidney Prescott (Campbell) becomes the target of a masked killer. As the body count rises, Sidney and her friends turn to the rules of horror films to help navigate the real-life terror they're living in. Also starring Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan and Drew Barrymore. Buckle up for an irresistible killer ride! Special Features A Bloody Legacy: Scream 25 Years Later Audio Commentary By Director Wes Craven And Writer Kevin Williamson Production Featurette Behind The Scenes Q&a With Cast And Crew Note: 4K Disc is Region Free, Blu-ray is Region B

• Firestarter | DVD | (17/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Stephen King wasn't exactly in peak form when he wrote Firestarter, so this 1984 movie adaptation was at a disadvantage even before the cameras rolled. There were so many King movies being made at the time the weaknesses of this one became even more apparent. In her first film role after her memorable appearance in E.T., Drew Barrymore stars as a little girl whose parents acquired strange mental powers after participating in a secret government experiment. From this genetic background she has developed the mysterious ability to set anything on fire at will, especially when she's angry. That makes her very interesting to government officials seeking to exploit her skill as a secret weapon. Her father tries to protect her by using his powers of mind-control, while George C. Scott plays an Indian who believes the girl must be destroyed. There is a routine climax involving a lot of impressive pyrotechnics, but none of this is grounded in a dramatically solid foundation, and none of the characters are developed enough for us to care about them. Director Mark L. Lester, who the following year made Commando with Schwarzenegger, keeps the pace cracking along, but nevertheless the movie gradually turns into a laughable thriller with no suspense whatsoever. It's a movie only a pyromaniac could love. --Jeff ShannonOn the DVD: This is a largely no-frills presentation, albeit with a decent anamorphic print. The only extras are the original theatrical trailer and a nicely presented menu. A fold-out booklet has informative liner notes and a reproduction of the film poster.

• Criterion Collection: John Cassavetes - Five Films | Blu Ray | (22/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Big School: Series 2 | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £10.97   |  Saving you £9.02 (82.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The hilarious smash hit comedy returns starring an award winning cast; David Walliams (Gangsta Granny Mr Stink Come Fly With Me Little Britain) Catherine Tate (Catherine Tate’s Nan The Catherine Tate Show Doctor Who) Philip Glenister (Mad Dogs Ashes to Ashes Life on Mars) and Frances da la Tour (Harry Potter Rising Damp Vicious). It may be start of a new year at Greybridge School but the teaching staff is as dysfunctional as ever. Series 2 features the arrival of Dr Dalton (Jimmy Akingbola; Rev Holby City Silk) an unwelcome visit from Offsted a challenging parents evening and a member of staff goes to meet his maker…

• Cube / Cube 2 / Cube Zero | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Cube: Six Strangers awaken from their daily lives to find themselves trapped in a surreal prison - a seemingly endless maze of interlocking cubical chambers armed with lethal booby traps. None of these people knows why or how they were imprisoned. But it soon emerges that each of them has a skill that could contribute to their escape. Who created this diabolical maze and why? There are unanswered questions on every side whilst personality conflicts and struggles for power em

• The New World | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £12.45   |  Saving you £2.54 (20.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This epic adventure is set amid the encounter of European and American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Settlement in 1607.

• My Girl 2 | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £8.31   |  Saving you £-2.32 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After her adventures in 'My Girl' Vada is now thirteen years-old and living with her father and pregnant step-mother. A school project leads to a stay in Los Angeles and a holiday with Uncle Phil. There she discovers a lot about herself the uncertainties of first love and her role in a changing family...

• Child's Play (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A single mother who gifts her son Andy a Buddi doll, unaware of its more sinister nature.

• Reeker 2 | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When three fugitives fresh off a casino heist stop for gas at the Six Corners Cafe in Death Valley they encounter an unexpectedly hostile breakfast crowd. Gunshots erupt. An explosion destroys the gas station. As the fire burns down people are missing. Only six seem to have survived - a sheriff and his son two of the criminals a female doctor and a young waitress. It's a volatile and eclectic combination of survivors - the Godd the Bad and the Cute. The fire department never arrives. The highway is deserted. No one comes to help. No one living that is. The survivors discover they are trapped in an in between world in a supernatural plane between night and day light and dark the living and the dead. And they are not alone. Horribly mutilated dead people mysteriously appear and warn of an inescapable killer - an evil trailing a sickening force of decay and rot. In order to see another day the survivors must unite set their differences aside and combine their skills and resources to fight off the source of these deaths - the soul collecting terrifying killing machine known as the Reeker.

• Queen & Country DVD | DVD | (24/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.

• Behind Enemy Lines / Tigerland / Thin Red Line | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Behind Enemy Lines On a reconnaissance flight over eastern Europe disillusioned naval pilot Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and his partner Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht) photograph a scene they were not meant to see. When their plane is shot down and Stackhouse is quickly captured and executed Burnett must struggle to survive in unfamiliar hostile territory with a cold-blooded assassin and hundreds of enemy troops on his heels. Meanwhile on an American battleship in the Adriatic Sea Burnett's commanding officer Admiral Reigart (Gene Hackman) attempts to negotiate his soldier's return amidst tense political and military maneuvers. Soon Burnett discovers exactly why he's being hunted making his situation and Reigert's actions even more perilous... Tigerland Roland Bozz after being conscripted into the US army joins a platoon of other young soldiers preparing to fight in Vietnam. He has no interest in fighting for his country and tries to get sent home as a trouble maker but his superiors mistake his defiance as intelligence and he soon gets a chance to try his hand at leadership... The Thin Red Line A powerful front line cast including Sean Penn Nick Nolte Woody Harrelson and George Clooney explodes into action in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director (Terrence Malick) 'The Thin Red Line' is an unparalleled cinematic masterpiece.

• Doctor Who - Series 4 Vol.3 | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £6.24   |  Saving you £11.75 (188.30%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Hot on the heels of the acclaimed third series Doctor Who returns for a fourth instalment with a familiar face alongside the Doctor. Award-winning comedienne Catherine Tate returns as the Doctor's new companion revisiting her role as Donna Noble who featured in the 2006 Christmas special The Runaway Bride. Set Comprises: 1. Silence In The Library 2. Forest Of the Dead 3. Midnight

• Sylvia | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £7.36   |  Saving you £8.63 (117.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Starring Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow, "Sylvia" is a story of the love, passion, wit and despair between two of the 20th century's most brilliant minds, the American poet Sylvia Plath and the British poet Ted Hughes.

• Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi ("life out of balance") and Powaqqatsi ("life in transformation") are the first two parts of a trilogy of experimental documentaries whose titles derive from Hopi compound nouns (2002's Naqoyqatsi, or "life in war", is the third). Both feature indispensable musical contributions from minimalist composer Philip Glass. Made in 1983, Koyaanisqatsi was shot mostly in the desert southwest USA and New York City on a tiny budget with no script. But it then attracted the support of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas and reached a much wider audience. Its techniques, merging cinematographer Ron Fricke's time-lapse shots (alternately peripatetic and hyperspeed) with Glass' reiterative music (from the meditative to the orgiastic)--as well as its ecology minded imagery--crept into the consciousness of popular culture. The influence of Koyaanisqatsi has by now become unmistakable in television advertisements, music videos and, of course, similar movies. Dating from 1988, Powaqqatsi finds the director somewhat more directly polemical than before, with Glass's score stretching to embrace world music. Reggio reuses techniques familiar from the previous film (slow motion, time-lapse, superposition) to dramatise the effects of the so-called First World on the Third: displacement, pollution, alienation. But he spends as much time beautifully depicting what various cultures have lost--cooperative living, a sense of joy in labour and religious values--as he does confronting viewers with trains, airliners, coal cars and loneliness. What had been a more or less peaceful, slow-moving, spiritually fulfilling rural existence for these "silent" people (all we hear is music and sound effects) becomes a crowded, suffocating, accelerating industrial urban hell, from Peru to Pakistan. Reggio frames Powaqqatsi with a telling image: the Serra Pelada gold mines, where thousands of men, their clothes and skin imbued with the earth they're moving, carry wet bags up steep slopes in a Sisyphean effort to provide wealth for their employers. While Glass juxtaposes his strangely joyful music, which includes the voices of South American children, a number of these men carry one of their exhausted comrades out of the pit, his head back and arms outstretched--one more sacrifice to Caesar. Nevertheless, Reggio, a former member of the Christian Brothers, seems to maintain hope for renewal. --Robert Burns Neveldine

• Sleepwalker (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £16.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When wealthy couple Richard and Angela visit Marion and Alex in their decaying family home their differing social and moral attitudes create uneasy tensions. An inharmonious evening of drunkenness and sexual rivalry soon turns bloody as the guests fall victim to an unhinged attacker. Featuring a rare performance from Bill Douglas (Bill Douglas Trilogy Comrades) and starring British screen greats Joanna David and Heather Page (both of whom would go on to work with Douglas in Comrades) Sleepwalker is an outrageous and incendiary mix of biting satire and bloody horror that is at once reminiscent of otherwise unlikely bedfellows Lindsay Anderson and Dario Argento. The stellar cast also includes Nikolas Grace and features cameos by Fulton MacKay Michael Medwin (O Lucky Man) and Raymond Huntely. Remastered from the only surviving print this long-unseen mid-length film is presented here for the first time on any home video format along with two shorts by its director Saxon Logan and the rare 1971 mid-length fantasy The Insomniac directed by Rodney Giesler. Special Features: Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition The Insomniac (Rodney Giesler 1971 45 mins): a man experiences a night-time world that is part foreboding nightmare part sexual fantasy Stepping Out (Saxon Logan 1977 10 mins): a couple’s untraditional early morning ritual is observed in a short drama which originally supported Polanski’s The Tenant in UK cinemas Working Surface: A Short Study (with Actors) in the ‘Ways’ of a Bourgeois Writer (Saxon Logan 1979 15 mins): Bill Douglas plays a writer struggling with a script about the interior lives of two women (playing by Joanna David and Heather Page) Extensive booklet with essays and complete credits