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• The Dracula Legacy Collection | DVD | (06/10/2014) from £17.15   |  Saving you £-7.63 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.52

  A 6 movie boxset including the Dracula films from The 'Universal Classic Monster' era.

• The Devil's Brigade | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  During WWII a collection of Canadian soldiers and American misfits are brought together and promised that upon successful completion of a special mission their sentences will be struck off military records. The mission: a semi-suicidal charge to scale a well-fortified enemy emplacement on a steep hill...

• Goodness Gracious Me - Complete Series 3 | DVD | (17/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Goodness Gracious Me was never quite a classic comedy series, but it did achieve the goal of all such sketch shows: to make at least a couple of its characters part of the popular discourse. The show's best creations were those that served to let the rest of Britain in on a few of the in-jokes in British/Asian life. The bitterly competitive immigrant mothers boasting about the achievements of their first-generation children, the over-compensating, more-British-than-the-British Kapoor family and the obstinately patriotic Mr Everything Came from India. The sketch in which the latter passionately argues that Leonardo da Vinci was, in fact, Indian is a particular joy. Fine though these ideas were, Goodness Gracious Me also carried its share of padding. Hapless Romeo Mr Check Please is a less funny and less charming reading of The Fast Show's "I'll get me coat", and the kindest that can be said musical sketches is that they're not quite as lame as the ones on Smack the Pony. On the DVD: Goodness Gracious Me, Series 3 offers the standard episode selector, a song selector to direct the viewer to the unfunny musical parody of their choice, augmented by a simple yet brilliant idea that should be mandatory for all sketch show DVDs: another selector which allows you to watch all the sketches from the series featuring one particular character. The DVD also contains an interview with cast member Nina Wadia. No subtitles are available. --Andrew Mueller

• The Bridge On The River Kwai | Blu Ray | (04/12/2017) from £19.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (15.01%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Based on the true story of the building of a bridge on the Burma railway by British prisoners-of-war held under a savage Japanese regime in World War II, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) is one of the greatest war films ever made. The film received seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Performance (Alex Guinness), for Sir Malcolm Arnold's superb music, and for the screenplay from the novel by Pierre Boulle (who also wrote Monkey Planet, the inspiration for Planet of the Apes). The story does take considerable liberties with history, including the addition of an American saboteur played by William Holden, and an entirely fictitious but superbly constructed and thrilling finale. Made on a vast scale, the film reinvented the war movie as something truly epic, establishing the cinematic beachhead for The Longest Day (1962), Patton (1970) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). It also proved a turning-point in director David Lean's career. Before he made such classic but conventionally scaled films as In Which We Serve (1942) and Hobson's Choice (1953). Afterwards there would only be four more films, but their names are Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Dr Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970) and A Passage to India (1984). On the DVD: Too often the best extras come attached to films that don't really warrant them. Not so here, where a truly great film has been given the attention it deserves. The first disc presents the film in the original extra-wide CinemaScope ratio of 2.55:1, in an anamorphically enhanced transfer which does maximum justice to the film's superb cinematography. The sound has been transferred from the original six-track magnetic elements into 5.1 Dolby Digital and far surpasses what many would expect from a 1950s' feature. The main bonus on the first disc is an isolated presentation of Malcolm Arnold's great Oscar-winning music score, in addition to which there is a trivia game, and maps and historical information linked to appropriate clips. The second disc contains a new, specially produced 53-minute "making of" documentary featuring many of those involved in the production of the movie. This gives a rich insight into the physical problems of making such a complex epic on location in Ceylon. Also included are the original trailer and two short promotional films from the time of release, one of which is narrated by star William Holden. Finally there is an "appreciation" by director John Milius, an extensive archive of movie posters and artwork, and a booklet that reproduces the text of the film's original 1957 brochure. --Gary S Dalkin

• Born Yesterday | Blu Ray | (21/01/2019) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From one of the truly legendary directors of the Hollywood's golden era, George Cukor (My Fair Lady, The Philadelphia Story), comes the beloved comedy-classic Born Yesterday... Judy Holliday (Bells Are Ringing) gives an unforgettable, Oscar-winning performance as Billie Dawn, the ˜dumb blonde' girlfriend of corrupt millionaire junkyard tycoon Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford, All The Kings Men). A man with social ambitions, Harry is embarrassed by Billie's uncouth behaviour and lack of social refinement, so he sends her on on a crash course in culture with young journalist Paul Verrall (William Holden, Network, The Bridge on the River Kwai). Billie proves to be an able student in lessons of life and love, whilst also becoming all too aware of her partners crooked business dealings. Emboldened by her new education, she stands up to Harry and his bad ways. Acclaimed for its delectably witty screenplay (based on Garson Kanin's smash-hit Broadway production) Born Yesterday is a tour de force of comic acting, which boasts sizzling performances from its main players and pitch-perfect direction from Cukor. The film is presented here for the first time in stunning High Definition, with a selection of informative and entertaining extras. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation transferred from original film elements Uncompressed Mono 1.0 PCM audio soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Yesterday Today, a newly-filmed video appreciation by film critic Geoff Andrew Remembering Judy Holliday, the academic Richard Dyer celebrates the Oscar-winning actress Da na na... BUH-BOOM!, a new video essay on the film by critic David Cairns Image gallery Original trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ignatius Fitzpatrick FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by author Pamela Hutchinson

• The Dark Past (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/06/2023) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  William Holden (The Wild Bunch) and Lee J Cobb (The Garment Jungle, The Exorcist) lead the cast of The Dark Past, a psychological film noir thriller focusing on the art of criminal psychoanalysis. Dr Collins, a police psychiatrist, is held hostage along with his family by escaped gang boss Al Walker and his accomplices. When Collins learns that Walker is plagued by nightmares, he begins to analyse his captor, and a battle of wills ensues... Co-starring Nina Foch (Escape in the Fog), co-written by Marvin Wald (The Naked City), and directed by Rudolph Maté (D.O.A.), The Dark Past is a powerful tale of home invasion and hostages. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with academic and curator Eloise Ross (2021) The Poised Performance (2021, 14 mins): critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson assesses the career of actor Nina Foch The Gulf Screen Guild Theater: 'Blind Alley' (1940, 23 mins): radio adaptation of the James Warwick play upon which The Dark Past is based, starring Edward G Robinson, Joseph Calleia and Isabel Jewell Shivering Sherlocks (1948, 18 mins): the Three Stooges get mixed up with a dangerous gang of criminals hiding out at an isolated mansion Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Wild at Heart - Series Two | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £6.08   |  Saving you £20.17 (418.46%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Starring Stephen Tomkinson (Ballykissangel) and Amanda Holden (Cutting It) Wild At Heart is the story of an English vet and his extended family who move to the South African bush to set up and run a game reserve.

• Fantastic Four | UMD | (02/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Fantastic Four is a light-hearted and funny take on Marvel Comics' first family of superheroes. It begins when down-on-his-luck genius Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd) has to enlist the financial and intellectual help of former schoolmate and rival Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon) in order to pursue outer-space research involving human DNA. Also on the trip are Reed's best friend, Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis); his former lover, Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), who's now Doom's employee and love interest; and her hotshot-pilot brother, Johnny Storm (Chris Evans). Things don't go as planned, of course, and the quartet becomes blessed--or is it cursed--with superhuman powers: flexibility, brute strength, invisibility and projecting force fields, and bursting into flame. Meanwhile, Doom himself is undergoing a transformation. Among the many entries in the comic-book-movie frenzy, Fantastic Four is refreshing because it doesn't take itself too seriously. Characterisation isn't too deep, and the action is a bit sparse until the final reel (like most "first" superhero movies, it has to go through the "how did we get these powers and what we will do with them?" churn). But it's a good-looking cast, and original comic-book co-creator Stan Lee makes his most significant Marvel-movie cameo yet, in a speaking role as the FF's steadfast postal carrier, Willie Lumpkin. Newcomers to superhero movies might find the idea of a family with flexibility, strength, invisibility, and force fields a retread of The Incredibles, but Pixar's animated film was very much a tribute to the FF and other heroes of the last 40 years. The irony is that while Fantastic Four is an enjoyable B-grade movie, it's the tribute, The Incredibles, that turned out to be a film for the ages. --David Horiuchi

• Memento (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Guy Pearce stars in this innovative thriller that begins with a crime and then goes back through time to trace its origins.

• Peckinpah's West | Blu Ray | (27/02/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Alvarez Kelly | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £6.78   |  Saving you £6.21 (91.59%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Alvarez Kelly (1966) doesn't really justify the description of "Western Classic" which Columbia Tristar attach to it, but it's a pleasant enough Western directed by Edward Dmytryk. The rather convoluted plot (adventurer plays one side off against the other on a cattle drive from Mexico during the Civil War) relies heavily on the charm of the two stars, William Holden and Richard Widmark, but the two prove as reliable as ever. There are some so-so action scenes, but it's the battle of wits between the two principals that supplies all the fireworks. By contrast Janice Rule is just adequate as the love interest. On the DVD: It's a good-looking DVD transfer, with a 1:2.35 aspect ratio and Dolby Digital sound. Subtitles are available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch and Polish with dubbing into French, German, Italian and Spanish. For extras there are trailers and some filmographies, so partial as to be not much use. --Ed Buscombe

• The Walking Dead - Season 1-2 | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £56.68   |  Saving you £-1.69 (-3.10%)   |  RRP £54.99

  Season 1:The Walking Dead is an epic, survival adventure series from the director of 'The Shawshank Redemption' and the producer of 'The Terminator' and 'Aliens'.After waking from a coma in an abandoned hospital, police officer Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) finds the world he knew gone - ravaged by a zombie epidemic of apocalyptic proportions. Nearby, on the outskirts of Atlanta, a small encampment struggles to survive as 'the dead' stalk them at every turn. Can Rick and the others hold onto their humanity as they fight to live in this terrifying new world? And, amidst dire conditions and personal rivalries, will they ultimately survive one another?Season 2:The end of civilization was just the beginning for Rick Grimes and the other survivors. As the fight to stay alive intensifies and personal rivalries continue to fuel, the group struggles to hold on to their humanity in a time where slim chances are all that is left.Based on Robert Kirkman's hugely successful and popular comic book series.

• Lovely Molly | DVD | (22/10/2012) from £2.29   |  Saving you £13.70 (85.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From the director of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT comes Lovely Molly, a hauntingly terrifying account of one woman's struggle to overcome a dark presence that haunts her. When newlywed Molly returns to her long-abandoned family home, she is plagued by a series of disturbing events that leave her shaken and defenceless. Reminders of a nightmarish childhood lead her to the shocking conclusion that, somewhere in the house, lies an supernatural spirit that will pull Molly and all those around h...

• Saints & Soldiers / Days of Glory 2 disc Bluray Boxset | Blu Ray | (25/10/2010) from £9.09   |  Saving you £10.90 (119.91%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise: Saints And Soldiers: December 1944. The German army rampages trough the frozen wastes of Belgium's Ardennes Forest. Among the many Allied prisoners taken en route a small band of American soldiers manages to escape. Without weapons and without food ravaged by the cold the men are determined to make it back to their own frontline... but as their perilous journey takes its toll loyalties become divided and lives hang in the balance. A mesmerising hallucinatory journey through the hellish landscape of war ravaged Europe based on real life events Saints And Soldiers tells the story of ordinary men and the mission that made them heroes. Days Of Glory: 1943. The young North Africans had never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war Sa''d Abdelkader Messaoud and Yassir enlisted in the French Army along with 130 000 other indigenous soldiers to liberate the fatherland from the Nazi enemy. These heroes that history forgot won battles in Italy Provence and the Vosges before finding themselves alone to defend an Alsatian village against a German battalion.

• We Know Where You Live | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Award winning Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz) and Sanjeev Bhaskar OBE (The Kumars at No 42) star in this fast paced sketch show that was originally broadcast in 2000. Although the sketches have no overall theme they are for the time very cutting edge using such devices as security-camera footage and hidden miniaturised cameras. The show also features other UK comedic talents: Fiona Allen (Smack the Pony) Ella Kenion (The Catherine Tate Show) Amanda Holden (Wild at Heart) and Jeremy Fowlds. We Know Where You Love Remix is the seven episode highlights compilation series taken from the original 13 part series.

• Butterfly Effect/Butterfly Effect 2 | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Butterfly Effect: A young man struggling to access sublimated childhood memories finds a technique that allows him to travel back to the past. Occupying his childhood body he is able to change history. But every change he makes has unexpected consequences... The Butterfly Effect 2: Sequel to the 2004 cult movie in which Nick (Eric Lively) discovers he can change the past via remembering forgotten memories due to blackouts. As he changes past events though they have unexpected consequences in the present.

• The Levelling | Blu Ray | (17/07/2017) from £7.01   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following the sudden death of her brother, Clover (Ellie Kendrick) returns to her family farm in Somerset. Shocked to find it still devastated from the aftermath of the 2014 floods, Clover confronts her ill-tempered father Aubrey (David Troughton) from whom she is as distant as ever. But Clover s absence has paid a price and Aubrey, refusing to accept what has happened to his son and the farm, pushes Clover further away. As Clover retreats into the daily farming routine, the murky cloud of uncertainty hanging over what happened to her brother further fuels her intent on discovering the truth. She embarks on a rocky and emotional journey of discovery and a reckoning with the land, her father and ultimately herself. But will Clovers findings allow her the solace that she longs for and can she and Aubrey rectify their differences and leave the past behind them?

• Dracula's Daughter | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £11.40   |  Saving you £-1.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Hungarian countess Marya Zaleska seeks the aid of a noted psychiatrist in hopes of freeing herself of a mysterious evil influence.

• The Horse Soldiers | Blu Ray | (02/09/2013) from £14.83   |  Saving you £-4.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  John Wayne teams with William Holden and eminent Western director John Ford for this frontier actioner packed with laughter romance and thrills (The Hollywood Reporter). Based on one of the most daring cavalry exploits in history The Horse Soldiers is both a moving tribute to the men who fought and died in that bloody war and a powerful action-packed drama. In command is hard bitten Colonel Marlowe (Wayne) a man who is strikingly contrasted by the company's gentle surgeon (Holden) and the beautiful but crafty Southern belle (Constance Towers) who's forced to accompany the Union raiders as they force their way deep into Southern territory to destroy a rebel stronghold at Newton Station.

• Under The Bed | DVD | (06/01/2014) from £4.55   |  Saving you £9.70 (294.83%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a 'suburban nightmare' tale.