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• Beyond The Call | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £3.66   |  Saving you £-0.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Inspired by actual events and featuring superb performances from Oscar-winner Sissy Spacek David Strathairn and Arliss Howard 'Beyond The Call' is a riveting drama that takes a no-holds-barred look at the effect of Death Row both on the condemned and on those closest to them. Although happily married to Keith and the mother of two children Pam O'Brien cannot forget Russell Cates a childhood sweetheart now on Death Row for the murder of a cop. Despite Keith's misgivings she makes contact with Cates and starts to visit him on Death Row re-establishing a close rapport. But this growing relationship begins to put a strain on her marriage. For Keith like Cates is a veteran of Vietnam and returned home profoundly damaged by his experiences. But unlike Cates he has suppressed a memory that only a man with Cates's experience can help him to confront.

• The Perfect Storm | DVD | (25/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  In October 1991 the fishing community of Gloucester Massachusetts experienced the full wrath of Mother Nature when a freak meteorological event produced the fiercest storm in modern history. Director Wolfgang Petersen has fashioned this heroic true story (as chronicled in Sebastian Junger's bestseller) into a star-laden blockbuster employing computer power to whip up the terrifying titular storm. George Clooney plays Billy Tyne captain of the Andrea Gail who has been plagued by bad luck at sea and is on a poor run of catches. Frustrated by the huge hauls of the Hannah Boden captained by Linda Greenlaw (Mary Ann Mastrantonio) Tyne decides to head back out to sea for the Flemish Cap a remote area renowned for its rich fishing prospects. He is joined by a number of his regular crew including Billy Shatford (Mark Wahlberg) Dale Murphy (John C Reilly) David Sullivan (William Fichtner) Alfred Pierre (Allen Payne) and Michael Moran (John Hawkes). Sure enough Tyne's luck changes for the better at the Flemish Cap and the Andrea Gail catches a full haul. Buoyed by the money that awaits them back home the crew sets off back to Gloucester but disturbing weather patterns hamper their progress and they soon find themselves battling against 100ft waves and 120mph winds that threaten to tear the boat apart. Includes the Novel and the HBO 20 minute documentary 'Creating the Storm' highlighting the groundbreaking special effects and story behind the movie.

• Joan Crawford - Always The Star | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This glamorous and hugely popular actress raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her fifty-year career, she made over eighty films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of sty...

• Babymother | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  From ragga to riches: a single mother (Anjela Lauren Smith) determined to make it as a singer puts together an all girl reggae group...

• Oliver Twisted | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £16.16   |  Saving you £-6.17 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Oliver has been confined at a private institution for many years living naked in a padded cell with only a stainless steel slab for a bed. When he escapes he wreaks havoc on the institution and staff before being subdued with massive doses of tranquilisers. Now in a coma and requiring 24 hour care his family cannot afford the medical bills and he is brought home where at first everything is normal. His cousin Jeff takes an interest in nursing him and soon those around him and his sister start dying in horrible ways...

• The Third Secret (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (27/06/2022) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The apparent suicide of an eminent psychologist prompts his teenage daughter (Pamela Franklin The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Legend of Hell House) and one of his patients (Stephen Boyd Ben-Hur, Fantastic Voyage) to investigate. Convinced he was murdered, the two begin a journey into the lives and twisted psychoses of the doctor's disturbed patients. Directed by the great Charles Crichton (Dead of Night, The Lavender Hill Mob, A Fish Called Wanda), stunningly photographed by Douglas Slocombe (The Italian Job, Raiders of the Lost Ark), and starring an incredible cast which includes Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento and Judi Dench in one of her earliest screen roles, The Third Secret is a dark and elegant psychological thriller which has long been overlooked, but is now ripe for rediscovery. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historians Dean Brandum and Eloise Ross The BEHP Interview with Charles Crichton (1988, 103 mins): an archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the celebrated filmmaker in conversation with Sidney Cole The BEHP Interview with Douglas Slocombe Part One, The Early Years (1988, 103 mins): an archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the renowned cinematographer in conversation with Sidney Cole Crichton on Crichton (2019, 8 mins): a personal account by third assistant director David Crichton of working on his father's film An Unconscionable Thing (2019, 5 mins): second assistant director Kits Browning recalls the making of The Third Secret Mr Slocombe's Mattress (2019, 7 mins): focus puller Robin Vidgeon discusses the work of Douglas Slocombe Lost Souls (2019, 23 mins): an in-depth appreciation by author and film historian Neil Sinyard Theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• The Cuckoo Waltz - The Complete Fourth Series | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  David Roper and Diane Keen return in this hit Granada sitcom which follows the fortunes of local news reporter Chris Hawthorne and his wife Fliss. The young couple have always enjoyed life's more modest pleasures but face an uphill struggle to make ends meet on Chris's meagre salary especially now the twins have reached school age and lodger Gavin Rumsey has left. Enter suave new lodger Adrian Lockett; Fliss and Chris have just lost a life-long friend and gained a total stranger!

• Krakatoa East Of Java | DVD | (01/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Captain Chris Hanson has recruited an over-the-hill deep-sea diver a claustrophobic inventor and a troop of beautiful Polynesian pearl divers to plunder the sunken wreck of the Arianna. But their mission seems doomed even before they leave the dock! The local government orders Hanson to transport 30 criminals to a prison on a nearby island. As they sail towards the treasure they encounter strange lights on the horizon bizarre sounds from the darkness intense heat and thousands of dead fish littering the ocean surface. Are they bad omens or merely freaks of nature?

• The Cuckoo Waltz - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Local news reporter Chris Hawthorne (David Roper - Eastenders) and his wife Fliss (Diane Keen - The Sandbaggers) had lived a frugal but contented life with their twin babies and few material possessions punctuated by occasional visits from Fliss' mum Connie and eccentric neighbour Austen Tweedale. All that changed however when they took in newly single lodger Gavin Rumsey (Lewis Collins - The Professionals). Having filled the house with expensive furniture flashy gadgets and a succession of decorative young temps his flamboyant lifestyle has left the hard-up Hawthornes feeling distinctly squeezed out...

• Easy Rider/Wild At Heart/Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Easy Rider: Originally released in 1969 Easy Rider is widely regarded as the original ""road movie"" and based on the cult following it developed it was soon copied by other Hollywood studios. Written by Dennis Hopper Peter Fonda and Terry Southern (Dr Strangelove) Fonda produced the low-budget production whilst Hopper took on directing duties receiving an award at Cannes for his first work. Since its release Easy Rider has been regarded as a symbol of free-spirited reaction against society and even for those too young to remember its original release it maintains its status as a classic film which characterises the attitude of a decade. Now after 30 years Easy Rider has been remastered and is presented here in High Definition with both clearer picture and sound quality. (Dir. Dennis Hopper 1969) Wild At Heart: ""This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top."" Barry Gifford's cult novel gets the David Lynch treatment eliciting outstanding performances from an incredible cast of character-actors. An erotic violent disturbing blackly-humorous road movie that confirmed David Lynch as one of the most startling and original film-maker of his generation. This twisted homage to The Wizard Of Oz takes Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern on one of the most bizarre journeys of all time as they escape from the clutches of her evil mother and a bunch of hired assassins... Diane Ladd (mother of co-star Laura Dern) was Oscar Nominated for her maniacal supporting turn as Marietta Fortune but sadly she missed out to Whoopi Goldberg's performance in Ghost. However Lynch did pick up the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival for his efforts. (Dir. David Lynch 1990) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: ""We were somewhere around Barstow when the drugs began to take hold."" It is 1971: journalist Raoul Duke barrels towards Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney Dr. Gonzo. But what is ostensibly a cut-and-dry journalistic endeavor quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey and an excoriating dissection of the American way of life. Director Terry Gilliam and an all star cast (headed by Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Torro) show no mercy bringing Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's legendary Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to the screen creating a film both hilarious and savage. Gilliam took over the reigns as director after Alex Cox (Repo Man) left the production due to creative differences. Gilliam quickly re-wrote the screenplay in its entirety to fit his unique creative vision and style while staying true to Thompson's writings. (Dir. Terry Gilliam 1998)

• Wild Bill | Blu Ray | (20/12/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Magic Bubble | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £6.53   |  Saving you £-3.54 (-118.40%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Julia a unhappily married mother is magically transformed into a dynamic younger woman and falls in love with handsome Mac. Will her family survive?

• Street Of Dreams | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Some men would die for her love. He may have to kill for it.... Private eye Tom Kyd rescues a distressed woman and lets her stay in his apartment for the night. The following morning she disappears and now Tom is in serious trouble.....

• The Atrocity Exhibition | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £25.76   |  Saving you £-3.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Adapted from J.G. Ballard's infamous 1968 novel The Atrocity Exhibition is a brave unsettling and unconventional film. In a mental research institution things have gone terribly wrong. A doctor has enlisted patients and staff in staging a series of bizarre micro-dramas. Is it a record of his own mental breakdown or a collapse between the outer world of reality and the inner world of the psychopathologies which inhabit us all?

• National Treasure 2 - Book Of Secrets | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (-50.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  National Treasure: Book Of Secrets is the follow up to the box-office hit National Treasure and features Nicholas Cage as Ben Gates - the treasure hunter who once again sets out on an exhilarating action-packed new global quest to unearth hidden history and treasures! When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces Ben's great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's death. Determined to prove his ancestor's innocence Ben follows an international chain of clues that takes him on a chase from Paris to London and ultimately back to America. This journey leads Ben and his crew not only to surprising revelations - but to the trail of the world's most treasured secrets.

• Grave of the Vampire (Beyond Terror) | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In a dark deserted graveyard populated almost exclusively by rotting corpses lies a 400 year old creature more undead than alive. It's been some time since he last fed and now he's hungry again... but this time he wants something more than blood! Disturbed by an amorous couple he ventures from the grave to bequeath his horrific legacy; killing the boyfriend and planting the seed for his son and heir - a half-breed doomed to live in purgatory. Years later understanding his true nature the half-human vampire seeks to wreak his vengeance against his blood-sucking father culminating in a bloodthirsty and apocalyptic confrontation that goes straight for the jugular!

• Wagner: Die Walkure -- Metropolitan/Levine | DVD | (12/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The 1990 Metropolitan Opera performance of Die Walkure ("The Valkyrie") with James Levine conducting is a solid, four-square performance with few frills and no gimmicks, just extraordinarily fine singing and orchestral playing. There is no point in this where you find yourself asking why the director did something: this is the sort of production which could be criticised as unimaginative but defended as serving Wagner's intentions for this instalment of his Ring cycle. Levine and his orchestra give the music an emotional intensity that never overwhelms its grandeur, though perhaps in Wotan's farewell to Brunnhilde, we feel him more as father than as god. James Morris as Wotan has real stature, making us feel that he has finally created the free agents he needs to avoid the curse he has unleashed on the world, but he has broken his heart in the process. Jessye Norman is surprisingly good and erotically self-assured as Sieglinde; the Act 1 love duet with Gary Lake as Siegmund has an ardour that makes the incestuous aspect less a matter of perversity than of the conduct of heroes. Kurt Moll makes Sieglinde's rapist and husband Hunding, a three-dimensional sinister villain; and Christa Ludwig almost manages to sell us Fricka's interminable paean to family values. The most impressive performance here, though, is Hildegard Behrens as Brunnhilde, the steely godling who sacrifices everything because she learns to feel and to know what is right. On the DVD Die Walkure on disc comes with menus and subtitles in German, French, English, Spanish and Chinese and with a picture gallery of the production. Awkwardly it is presented in (American) NTSC format not PAL, with a visual aspect of standard TV 4:3. More impressive is the choice of PCM stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 6.1; the sound is admirably clear and well-balanced. --Roz Kaveney

• Frankie | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fabienne Berthaud's psychodrama Frankie probes the events that led to emotional crisis mental breakdown and psychiatric hospitization for a fashion model. Nearing the age of 30 the titular ex cover girl (Diane Kruger) is neither particularly young nor thin. She instead resides in an asylum in Blois France drugged out and in a semi catatonic state. In flashback Berthaud dramatizes the events that led to this predicament. Once active before the cameras and highly sought after by agents frankie experienced a series of minor calamaties including an on set fight with a fashion photographer and the experience of accidentally hearing agents make disparaging remarks about her appearance that collectively propelled her over the edge. Amid this world of grotesque artifice the one bright spot seemed to be her ever evolving friendship with the kindly driver of the modeling agency. For now Frankie contents herself with institutional life and resists the thought of leaving and returning to the scabrousness of the real world...

• Black Patch | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The story revolves around one-eyed marshal Clay Black Patch Morgan (Montgomery). The marshal is delighted to find out that his old buddy Hank Danner (Leo Gordon) is riding into town, but less than thrilled to learn that Danner is now a wanted outlaw. Reluctantly throwing his friend into jail, Morgan sets off a chain reaction of terror, beginning with a jailbreak engineered by crooked saloonkeeper Frenchy De Vere (a particularly vicious performance by Sebastian Cabot) and culminating in a showdown between the marshal and Danner's young protg Flytrap (Tom Pittman).

• Rings on Their Fingers Complete | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Take a step back in time to 1970s England. The full force of Women's Lib hadn't quite filtered through to suburbia; Margaret Thatcher had yet to take over Number 10; and while living together wasn't the sin it once was - and women were free to both work and run the home - a girl still wanted a ring on her finger. At least this girl did.Sandy has started dropping hints to Oliver that she would rather be married than go on living together, and thus begins a hit comedy series that would run for three hilarious series.From birthdays and anniversaries, through wedding plans - both on or off - old flats that need repair, new flats that need furnishing, holidays away and dinners at home; for Sandy and Oliver nothing is as simple as it should be when a couple living happily together suddenly find themselves with Rings on their Fingers.This release features the Complete Series One to Three and the 1978 Christmas Special.