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• Odysseus | DVD | (31/08/2015) from £7.48   |  Saving you £8.51 (113.77%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Troy has been defeated and Odysseus has begun his 10 year journey to return home to Ithaca. Accompanying Odysseus and his small team is the poet Homer who is acting as the scribe and recording Odysseus’ adventures as they travel along. The story about to unfold is so horrifying that Homer decided to leave it out of his Odyssey. During their travels they become lost in a deep fog and encounter horrific winged creatures that kill several men and drink their blood. In disarray the crew lands at the Isle of the Mists a terrible place where death is in the very air. Eventually they become imprisoned by Persephone Queen of the Underworld who was banished to the Isle of the Mists and sealed there by the Hellfire. Now the men must find a way of killing her and escape the island before she is freed to enslave humanity.

• Minder - the Specials | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With a unique blend of raw edged humour and gritty realism these Specials present comedy drama at its finest and are a perfect companion to the Minder Series releases. Also included is the two-hour feature-length episode Minder On the Orient Express.

• Lovejoy - Complete Series 2 | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Ian McShane stars as lovable rogue antiques dealer Lovejoy in the second season of the much loved BBC TV series. Comprising of ten new episodes plus the feature length story the series once again features Lovejoy with his associates Tinker Dill Eric Catchpole and Lady Jane Felsham. Includes appearances from special guests Anthony Valentine Celia Imrie Warren Clarke Maggie Stead Frank Windsor and Brian Blessed.

• Coogan's Bluff | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £5.19   |  Saving you £0.80 (15.41%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Clint Eastwood is Walt Coogan, a deputy sheriff from Arizona on the loose in the urban jungle of New York. Searching for a violent prisoner he has let slip ("It's got kinda personal now"), Coogan, in Stetson and cowboy boots, runs up against hippies, social workers and a bluntly hostile New York police chief played by Lee J. Cobb. It's a key film in the Eastwood oeuvre, the one in which his definitive persona first emerges, marrying the cool, laid-back westerner of the Rawhide TV series and the Italian westerns to the street-wise, kick-ass toughness which would be further developed in the Dirty Harryfilms. Directed by Eastwood's mentor, Don Siegel, Coogan's Bluff has pace, style and its share of typical Eastwood one-liners (to a hoodlum: "You better drop that blade or you won't believe what happens next"). Like all Eastwood's successful movies, it cunningly plays it both ways. Coogan represents the old-fashioned conservatism of the west in conflict with the decadence of city life. Yet he's the perennial outsider, hostile to authority, a radical loner who gets the job done where bureaucracy and legal niceties fail. The film was to be the inspiration behind the TV series McCloud, in which Dennis Weaver took the Eastwood role. --Edward Buscombe

• Spring Meeting | DVD | (15/02/2016) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Hitchcock heroine Nova Pilbeam demonstrates her considerable flair for comedy in this incredibly popular wartime adaptation of the hit play by Irish author Molly Keane (a.k.a. M.J. Farrell) and John Perry. Co-starring Michael Wilding, Basil Sydney and Margaret Rutherford, Spring Meeting released in America as Three Wise Brides is featured here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements, in its original aspect ratio.Tiny Fox-Collier and her son, Tony, are broke. A cheery and handsome young man about town, Tony knows he can rely on his mother for a brainwave to save them from utter destitution. This she has: a visit is scheduled to the Irish country estate of her old flame Sir Richard Furze, now a wealthy widower with two daughters. But while Tiny is determined to see her son marry the beautiful but haughty Joan, it seems Tony only has eyes for Joan's spirited younger sister, Baby...SPECIAL FEATURES:Image galleryOriginal script PDFOriginal theatre programme PDF

• The Lighthouse | DVD | (31/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Surrounded only by the Irish Sea, two men posted to Smalls Island Lighthouse in 1801 are left to ˜keep the light' 25 miles from the land. But when a freak storm hits, the men are stranded for months before any relief can be sent to them. They gradually succumb to their tiny living quarters, spending their time drinking and arguing, pushing each other's psyche to the limit.

• Burke And Hare | Blu Ray | (04/05/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Vernon Sewell (The Blood Beast Terror) directs this Hammeresque horror on the early days of anatomy when the need for fresh corpses led to a series of murders in Edinburgh. When Burke and Hare realise that demand for corpses is outstripping supply they decide to take matters into their own hands and prey on drunken prostitutes. Derren Nesbit Glynn Edwards Yootha Joyce and Francoise Pascal star in this seminal British shocker.

• Patton (two-disc set) | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the greatest screen biographies ever produced, Patton is a monumental film that won seven Academy Awards and gave George C Scott the greatest role of his career. It was released in 1970 when protest against the Vietnam War still raged in the States and abroad. Inevitably, many critics and filmgoers struggled to reconcile the events of the day with the film's glorification of US General George S Patton as a crazy-brave genius of World War II; how could a film so huge in scope and so fascinated by its subject be considered an anti-war film? The simple truth is that it's not--Patton is less about World War II than about the rise and fall of a man whose life was literally defined by war and who felt lost and lonely without the grand-scale pursuit of an enemy. George C Scott embodies his role so fully, so convincingly, that we can't help but be drawn to and fascinated by Patton as a man who is simultaneously bound for hell and glory. The film's opening monologue alone is a masterful display of acting and character analysis and everything that follows is sheer brilliance on the part of Scott and director Franklin J Schaffner, aided in no small part by composer Jerry Goldsmith's masterfully understated score. Filmed on an epic scale at literally dozens of European locations, Patton does not embrace war as a noble pursuit, nor does it deny the reality of war as a breeding ground for heroes. Through the awesome achievement of Scott's performance and the film's grand ambition, General Patton shows all the complexities of a man who accepted his role in life and (like Scott) played it to the hilt. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.comOn the DVD: The widescreen print of the movie (which was originally filmed using a super-wide 70mm process called "Dimension 150") is handsomely presented on the first disc, with a remastered Dolby 5.1 soundtrack. It is accompanied by a rather dry "Audio essay on the historical Patton" read by the president and founder of the General George S. Patton Jr. historical society. The second, supplementary disc carries a new and impressive 50-minute "making-of" documentary, with significant contributions from Fox president Richard Zanuck, as well as composer Jerry Goldsmith and Oliver Stone. Director Franklin J. Schaffner (who died in 1989) and star George C. Scott are heard in interviews from 1970. In the documentary, Stone provocatively complains that Patton glorified war and that President Nixon's enthusiasm for the movie was directly responsible for his decision to invade Cambodia. Also on this disc, in a separate audio-only track, is Jerry Goldsmith's magnificent music score--one of his greatest achievements--heard complete with studio session takes for the famous "Echoplex" trumpet figures. --Mark Walker

• Ivor the Engine: The Colour Series (Restored) | Blu Ray | (20/11/2023) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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• Clockwork Mice | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The special relationship between a boy with a troubled past and a young teacher. Based on a screenplay by Rod Woodruff.

• P2 | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £11.66   |  Saving you £4.32 (49.83%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Angela bridges (Rachel Nichols) an ambitious and gorgeous young lawyer hurries out her upscale Manhatten office on the way to see her family. She descends to parking level P2 she tries to start her car. The engine won't turn. She tries again. It won't start. She is trapped in a haunting underground world - a world which is inhabited by a dark and forgotten soul who is watching her every move. Brooding in his subterranean office Thomas (Wes Bently) spends his days alone isolated underground. watching people come and go with little contact with or interest in the outside world. Except for Angela. Thomas develops a disturbing obsession for Angela. As the prospect of spending another Christmas alone becomes all but certain something seething inside Thomas snaps.

• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - The Best Of | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £17.23   |  Saving you £-1.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A classic collection of 5 episodes from one of the BBC's great sitcoms. Includes legendary moments such as Frank hanging from his car over the edge of a cliff and rollerskating behind a bus. Episodes comprise: Cliffhanger / The RAF Reunion / Father's Clinic / Moving House / King Of The Road

• By The Sword Divided | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £46.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (6.38%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Contains By The Sword Divided - parts one and two. This classic BBC period drama series follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Lacey family living peacefully in their Arnescote castle until the onset of the English Civil War in 1640. The head of the family Sir Martin Lacey is unswervingly loyal to the King. However the family is torn apart when his eldest daughter Anne weds John Fletcher son of a merchant family who support the forces of Cromwell. Episodes comprise: Gathe

• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - The Complete Second Series | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £15.68   |  Saving you £0.31 (1.98%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Although Britain has changed almost beyond recognition since Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was first broadcast in the early 1970s, the show's simple slapstick humour has an ageless quality that makes it enduringly hilarious. Michael Crawford found fame as Frank Spencer, still probably television's most accident-prone man, and still Britain's most mimicked sitcom character, having inspired thousands of wannabe entertainers to don black berets and Humphrey Bogart-style rain coats and feebly exclaim "Mmm, Betty!". Crawford's great insight was to portray Frank as both a figure of fun and an endearingly sympathetic character: we laugh at him but never cease liking him, and we always admire his plucky never-say-die spirit. Most of the episodes share the common theme of Frank attempting to find a job (ranging from a holiday camp entertainer to an RAF cadet), but because of his clumsy demeanour and lack of common sense, losing the positions within a matter of hours. Pitted against a variety of middle-aged, male professionals (his GP, a psychiatrist and a public relations consultant for example), Spencer's stupidity reduces these "experts" to nervous wrecks. His long-suffering, doting wife Betty (Michelle Dotrice) features throughout, but despite his wild behaviour and idiocy she appears only mildly flustered by her husband's actions. On the DVD: Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was one of the first comedy series to be recorded by the BBC in colour, but the sound and vision of the episodes transfer perfectly satisfactorily to DVD format. At times the production values of some of the episodes are decidedly ropey (watch out for stray boom microphones and the skewed opening and closing credit). Apart from the episode and scene selection menus, which incorporate sound extracts from the show, no extras are included. --John Galilee

• The Little Mermaid | DVD | (24/03/2000) from £14.97   |  Saving you £5.02 (33.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the moment that Prince Eric's ship emerged from the fog in the opening credits of The Little Mermaid in 1989 it was apparent that Disney had somehow, suddenly recaptured a "magic" that had been dormant for 30 years. In the tale of a headstrong young mermaid who yearns to "spend a day, warm on the sand", Ariel trades her voice to Ursula, the Sea Witch (classically voiced by Pat Carroll), for a pair of legs. Ariel can only succeed if she receives true love's kiss in a few day's time and she needs all the help she can from a singing crab named Sebastian, a loudmouth seagull and a flounder. The lyrics and music by song-writing team Howard Ashman and Alan Menken are top form: witty and relevant, and they advance the story (go on, hum a few bars of "Under the Sea"). Mermaid put animation back on the studio's "to do" list and was responsible for ushering 1991's Beauty and the Beast into cinemas. A modern Disney classic. --Keith Simanton

• Three Men In A Boat (Vintage Classics) | DVD | (19/08/2024) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Main Chance - The Complete Series 4 | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  John Stride (The Wilde Alliance) is David Main - a dynamic, highly capable, occasionally impetuous young solicitor who has built up a successful practice in his native Leeds. Although driven by a thirst for success, Main is a man with a conscience who often represents society's most vulnerable and underprivileged - sometimes to the disapproval of his more reserved and cautious partner, Henry Castleton.This fourth series begins with Main at the top of his professional world. A successful future - despite hard economic times - seems assured. Somewhere, however, there is a lorry driver drinking just one pint too many... and in one terrible instant, David Main's life is changed forever, his entire future put at stake.

• His Girl Friday | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £9.88   |  Saving you £-4.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  His Girl Friday is one of the five greatest dialogue comedies ever made. Howard Hawks had his cast play it at breakneck speed, and audiences hyperventilate trying to finish with one laugh so they can do justice to the four that have accumulated in the meantime. Rosalind Russell, not Hawks' first choice to play Hildy Johnson--the ace newsperson whom demonic editor Walter Burns is trying to keep from quitting and getting married--is triumphant in the part, holding her own as "one of the guys" and creating an enduring feminist icon. Cary Grant's Walter Burns is a force of nature, giving a performance of such concentrated frenzy and diamond brilliance that you owe it to yourself to devote at least one viewing of the movie to watching him alone. But then you have to go back (lucky you) and watch it again for the sake of the press-room gang--Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards, Regis Toomey, Frank Jenks, and others--the kind of ensemble work that gets character actors onto Parnassus. --Richard T Jameson, Amazon.com

• Rhubarb Rhubarb / Mr H Is Late | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £22.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two hilarious short films from British funny man Erik Sykes: 'Rhubarb Rhubarb' concerns a mad game of golf and in 'Mr H Is Late' a coffin is late for a funeral...

• The Phantom Of The Opera | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £12.32   |  Saving you £-2.33 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The original and best version of Gaston Leroux's legendary book The Phantom Of The Opera is an awesome monument to the Golden Age of Hollywood starring ""The Man of a Thousand Faces"" Lon Chaney. In the film Chaney is Erik the horribly disfigured Phantom who leads a menacing existence in the catacombs and dungeons beneath the Paris Opera. When Erik falls in love with a beautiful prima donna (Mary Philbin) he kidnaps her and holds her hostage in his lair where he is destined to have