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• Tootsie | DVD | (10/12/2001) from £8.67   |  Saving you £11.32 (130.57%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tootsie inevitably looks dated in some respects now, but it's still fabulous in others--the sexual politics look distinctly faded in their sniggering approach to sexual ambiguities, while the sardonic portrayal of a showbiz that loathes perfectionism is still both timely and hysterically funny. Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of Michael Dorsey is a memorable self-caricature--the man is so obsessed with the craft of acting that he refuses to sit down when playing a tomato in a commercial, and so producers run away rather than work with him. By playing Dorothy Michaels playing her soap character, Dorsey gives himself the freedom to be a bad and popular actor. He is so busy with the surface of being a woman--the voice, the hair, the frocks--and with all the bad faith of his and Dorothy's emotional lives, that he learns to relax into the pleasure of performance. This aspect of the film is far more interesting, ironic and funny than the corny New Man moralising about sexual roles that goes with it. Jessica Lange got, and earned, an Oscar for her sensitive straight woman performance as the colleague Michael falls for, and Bill Murray, Teri Garr, Geena Davis (momentarily) and Charles Durning all turn in reliable supporting roles. Sydney Pollack directs efficiently rather than inspiredly--oddly, he earns almost more credit for his well-observed performance as Michael's world-weary agent. On the DVD: The DVD is presented in crisp Dolby Digital sound and with the original theatrical visual ratio of 2.35:1; enhanced for 16:9 widescreen televisions. It is dubbed into French, German, Italian and Spanish and has subtitles in most European languages as well as Arabic, Hindi and Hebrew. The only special features are the theatrical trailer and filmographies for the leading performers and director. --Roz Kaveney

• Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid / The Hustler / The Verdict | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £35.99

  Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid The Sundance Kid is the fastest gun in the West his sidekick Butch is a dreamer always planning that bigger better bank raid. But things are getting tougher and soon the accident-prone anti-heroes decide it's time to head south and disappear into legend... Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Screenplay for William Goldman and Best Song ('Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head') and Best Score for Burt Bacharach. The Hustler Paul Newma

• Waterloo Road | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As World War Two rages Jim Colter (John Mills) finds himself called up to serve in the army - but he's soon to find himself at war on two fronts.While he's away his lovely wife Tillie (Joy Shelton) attracts the amorous attention of Ted Purvis (Stewart Granger) a vicious local spiv and self-acclaimed ladies man.When Jim's sister writes informing him of what is happening Jim decides that the Nazis can wait and that an even more insidious enemy needs to be dealt with first. He breaks out of camp goes AWOL and sets off to find his wife. With the military hot on his tail Jim must make his way through war torn London to settle things once and for all.

• The Watchmaker's Apprentice: Collector's Edition | DVD | (28/08/2017) from £15.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A compelling film about two of the world s greatest watchmakers their extraordinary craft, their touching relationship and their unique personalities. The Watchmaker's Apprentice tells the inspirational story of how Dr. George Daniels rose from Dickensian poverty to become the finest watchmaker of the modern era and how Roger Smith embarked on an obsessive, seven-year quest to become his apprentice and eventually, his equal. George Daniels CBE was perhaps the greatest horologist in the world before his death in 2011 and regarded as the best watch maker in 250 years some watches now sell for over a million pounds. Narrated by acclaimed British actor, John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones). Special Collector's Edition includes DVD, CD, booklet and art cards

• Small Time Crooks | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Woody Allen's latest comedy follows the misadventures of a couple who plan a daring robbery in New York.

• Happily N'ever After/Happily N'ever After 2 | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (40.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Happily N'Ever After - Double Pack

• Knock on Any Door | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £13.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Knock On Any Door

• Cross Of Fire | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £8.54   |  Saving you £-2.55 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  D.C. 'Steve' Stephenson is visiting Indiana and mounting a campaign to increase the membership of the Ku Klux Klan. There he meets schoolteacher Madge Oberholtzer and tries to seduce her but having no luck he abducts her rapes and tortures her and eventually kills her. The trial that follows marks the end of the Klan's popularity as Stephenson implicates them in the murder. Based on a true story.

• Robin Hood (1973) (Special Edition Artwork Sleeve) | DVD | (02/06/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Doctor At Large | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £11.84   |  Saving you £1.14 (12.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  'Doctor At Large' was the third entry in the long running 'Doctor' series of films. Directed by Ralph Thomas (brother of Gerald the director of the 'Carry On 'movies) it follows the further madcap exploits of Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) in particular his attempts at general practice.

• License to Kill | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £2.96   |  Saving you £7.03 (237.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Celebrating her high school graduation young student Lynne Peterson is killed by drunk driver Tom Fiske a successful businessman. Her father vowing to see his daughter's killer punished must face a slow-moving legal system and a high-priced defense lawyer...

• Fly, The / The Fly 2 | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £9.43   |  Saving you £5.56 (37.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  'The Fly' is a remake of the 1958 horror classic about a brilliant scientist who develops a machine that molecularly transports objects in seconds but inadvertently turns him into a fly incredibly agile super strong and driven to insanity by appetites he cannot control. In 'The Fly 2' Martin Brundle son of 'The Fly' continues his father's work on the teleporters for Bartok Industries. He is ignorant of his father's true identity and believes himself to have a growth disease. Wh

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Adventure Of The Clapham Cook / Murder In The Mews | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Adventure Of The Clapham Cook: Mrs Todd from Clapham comes to ask Poirot if he will help her to find her cook Eliza who has disappeared. Poirot is at first insulted by such a trivial request for his talents but then decides the case could be intriguing. Murder In The Mews: Chief Inspector Japp calls on Poirot to assist in the investigation of the suicide of a young woman Mrs Allen who has been found in her London mews home on Guy Fawkes night. Poirot soon suspects that Mrs Allen is the victim of foul play.

• Horror Pack - 5 Films | DVD | (14/01/2008) from £8.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Titles Comprise: Curfew: After breaking her curfew yet another time a rebellious teenage girl hurries home only to find that her family have been taken hostage by two escaped convicts. Axe: They seem to have it all: fame fortune and the hottest club act across the USA. But the price of fame is about to cost them dearly.... When two members decide to quit the future of the band hangs in the balance. Emotions are running high as they are booked for a final gig into an old meat packing factory now the notorious Club 905. When the mutilated body of one of their groupies turns up in a meat locker the band start to panic. Is it possible that the envy and anger amongst the band have spawned an uncontrolled psychopath who won't be happy until he or she is playing solo? Bachelor Party Massacre: A group of friends decide to throw a bachelor party in the mountains; little do they know an escaped killer is on the loose ready to kill the party... Pieces: Thirty five years after the death of a young boy's mother mutilated corpses are discovered on a university campus. Each body forms part of a huge jigsaw puzzle that the police have to piece together. Sickle: Blood will flow... Marty Sickle was a loner who lived and worked in the old slaughterhouse where a young woman was once murdered. Marty was the prime suspect but a lack of evidence kept him free. However the girl's boyfriend and his friends broke into the old slaughterhouse and left Marty for dead. Little did they know that Marty didn't die..

• I Didn't Do It | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £2.76   |  Saving you £7.23 (261.96%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Gormless George Trotter (George Formby) moves down from Manchester to the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune on the stage - only to find himself the prime suspect in a bizarre murder mystery! While staying at Ma Tubbs' theatrical boarding house, a man is murdered in the room right next door to George. When George tries to solve the mystery, he ends up presenting the police with a whole load of clues - all of which point to him as the culprit! Now George must uncover the real murderer himself, which the help of his showbiz friends, his little Ukulele and a fiendishly cunning song! This delightful comedy musical includes three full-length musical numbers - The Darling Young Man, She's Got Two of Everything and I'd Like a Dream Like That.

• Dreamscape | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (-100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The President of the United States is about to be assassinated in a dream where there is no morning after. Only one man can save him - a man who must plunge himself into the President's horrendous nightmare. Dennis Quaid stars as Alex Gardner a psychically gifted young man recruited to help Dr. Paul Novotny (Max Von Sydow) and the beautiful Dr. Jane DeVries (Kate Capshaw) in an experiment to help patients disturbed by menacing nocturnal illusions. But corrupt high-ranking government official Bob Blair (Christopher Plummer) has darker plans for Alex's unusual powers. Soon Alex is propelled inside the President's nightmare a frightening wasteland of nuclear holocaust and locked in a fantastic battle that could only happen in a dream.

• House Of Darkness | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £6.63   |  Saving you £3.36 (50.68%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A family riddled with resentment avarice and fear; a house haunted by the victim of a cold-blooded murder... Featuring the cinema debut of Oscar nominee Laurence Harvey and boasting a haunting score by George Melachrino House of Darkness is a rare atmospheric chiller presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Hatred is always close to the surface in an old country house in Dorset at the beginning of the century as Elaine Merrimer soon discovers when she goes to live there with her husband Francis. Sharing the house with his stepbrothers Noel and John Francis is resentful that his dead mother did not leave him her property. John considering Francis a wastrel resents having to support him and his wife. Noel meanwhile nurtures a neurotic hatred and fear of his stepbrother... SPECIAL FEATURE: Original Paperwork PDF

• Starman | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Starman is easily director John Carpenter's warmest and most beguiling film, and the only one that ever earned him an Oscar nomination. While most movie buffs are likely to call Halloween the best movie from Carpenter, die-hard romantics and anyone who cried while watching E.T. will vote in favour of the director's 1984 hit. Jeff Bridges is the alien visitor to Earth who is knocked off course and must take an interstate road trip to rendezvous with a mothership from his home planet. To complete this journey he assumes the physical form of the dead husband of a Wisconsin widow (Karen Allen) who responds first with fear, then sympathy, and finally love. Carpenter's graceful strategy is to switch the focus of this E.T.-like film from science fiction to a gentle road-movie love story, made believable by the memorable performances of Bridges and Allen. It's a bit heavy-handed with tenacious government agents who view the Starman as an alien threat (don't they always?), but Carpenter handles the action with intelligent flair, sensitivity and lighthearted humour. If you're not choked up during the final scene, well, you just might not be human. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com On the DVD: Starman on disc is presented in anamorphic widescreen transferred from NTSC and letterboxed at 2.35.1. The picture is clear and sharp with very little grain. The soundtrack is crisp, perfectly complementing the romantic nature of this film. The overriding reason to shell out on this special edition is the commentary from John Carpenter and Jeff Bridges, in which director and actor show a genuine affection for the film. Other extras are a featurette filmed around the original release in 1884, a music video starring Bridges and costar Karen Allen covering The Everly Brothers classic "All I Have to Do is Dream", and a trailer for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. --Kristen Bowditch

• Avenging Angelo | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-2.97 (-29.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Frankie Delano is the trusted right-hand man and loyal bodyguard of mafia kingpin Angelo Allieghieri. When Angelo is assassinated by an old gangland foe Frankie vows to protect the life of his boss's only daughter Jennifer. Having been adopted at an early age in order to hide her existence from Angelo's murderous enemies Jennifer has no idea she is really the daughter of the late mobster. Despite the assurances of Frankie and her step-parents Jennifer refuses to believe Angelo was her father. Her reluctance to accept the truth soon changes however when an attempt is made on her life while she is shopping in a busy department store.

• Killers Collection - Summer Of Sam/The Boston Strangler/Kalifornia | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Summer Of Sam (Dir. Spike Lee 1999): In the summer of 1977 Saturday night fever ruled and the first thrashings of punk were being heard. By day temperatures soared on the sweltering streets of Manhattan but by night a serial killer dubbed the Son of Sam stalked the suburbs indiscriminately shooting young brunettes and held New York City in a grip of terror. Trying to make sense of their lives in this overwhelming atmosphere of fear and suspicion are Vinny a streetwise Casanova indulging in affairs under the nose of his loving wife Dionna and Ritchie a punk musician moonlighting as a male stripper. As the murder's actions impact on all their lifestyles they start to suspect the killer might be someone from their own neighborhood - or even one of their own friends. From the controversial director Spike Lee comes his boldest and most ambitious film brilliantly capturing the sights sounds and sexual attitudes of the 1970s. Boston Strangler (Dir. Richard Fleischer 1968): With 13 women murdered Boston is held under siege by a madman. One by one they fall each death more gruesome than the last. The actual murders that rocked Boston in the 60's are the gripping subject of this unforgettable police thriller. The Boston Strangler is one of the most powerful films in its genre with possibly Tony Curtis' finest performance. Kalifornia (Dir. Dominic Sena 1993): Excitement adventure... and unimaginable terror await on the road to Kalifornia. Brad Pitt is outstanding and Juliette Lewis is utterly heartbreakingly convincing in this chilling psychological thriller co-starring David Duchovny and Michelle Forbes. When urban intellectuals Brian (Duchovny) and Carrie (Forbes) set out a cross-country trip to research a book about serial killers they share the ride with a couple they barely know - Early Grayce (Pitt) and his girlfriend Adele (Lewis). Locked in a car hurtling westword the four travelers struggle to find some common ground. But when they finally do connect Early's violent nature abruptly emerges and the petrified Brian and Carrie realise they don't need to go very far to learn about ruthless killers... because they're already face to face with one!