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• Manglehorn BD | Blu Ray | (02/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Al Pacino stars as the titular character A.J. Manglehorn in this drama directed by David Gordon Green. Unable to recover from losing the love of his life, Clara Massey (Natalie Wilemon), 20 years previously, small-town Texas locksmith Manglehorn still writes her daily letters. Living a reclusive life alone with his cat Fanny, Manglehorn takes refuge in his job while only occasionally meeting his grown-up son Jacob (Chris Messina) and granddaughter Kylie (Skylar Gasper), and shunning the advances of friendly bank teller Dawn (Holly Hunter). Will he ever be able to escape his solitary existence and learn to love something other than his cat?

• Spoils of War | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Originally broadcast on ITV in 1980 The Spoils of War follows the fortunes of two north country families the Haywards and the Warringtons in post war Britain starring Alan Hunter (Dangerfield) James Bate (Auf Wiedersehen Pet) Ian Hastings (Prime Suspect) Malcolm Tierney (Dalziel and Pascoe) and Madeleine Newton (When the Boat Comes In)

• Rage Of Angels | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In 'Rage Of Angels' Jaclyn Smith plays determined young lawyer Jennifer Parker who fights against the odds to triumph as a top trial attorney in New York's tough world of power glamour and crime. Based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon this compelling drama switches from New York Acapulco and Paris as Jennifer finds herself in a highly-charged love triangle romantically pursued by two powerful men on opposite sides of the law. With the passion and tension in her life reaching boiling point Jennifer faces a terrifying confrontation that could destroy them all. As she moves from the law of the land to the law of the jungle the only case Jennifer can't seem to win is the trial for her heart.

• The Battle Of The River Plate | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It is the early years of World War II and the Royal Navy must fight a desperate battle to stop Germany's best battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, from sailing to the South Atlantic.

• Paradise | DVD | (14/09/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (61.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the writer of Juno comes the hilarious new comedy Paradise. Lamb Mannerheim's (Julianne Hough) faith is shaken after a plane crash burns two-thirds of her body and she shocks her small-town congregation when she publicly renounces God. As she sets out to experience the worldly pleasures of Las Vegas she meets a bartender William (Russell Brand) and a cynical lounge singer (Octavia Spencer) who help her check off as many dirty deeds as possible from her Napkin of Sin bucket list.

• Rage Of Angels | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In Rage Of Angels Jaclyn Smith plays determined young lawyer Jennifer Parker who fights against the odds to triumph as a top trial attorney in New York's tough world of power glamour and crime. Based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon this compelling drama switches from New York Acapulco and Paris as Jennifer finds herself in a highly-charged love triangle romantically pursued by two powerful men on opposite sides of the law. With the passion and tension in her l

• The Simple Life - Season 1 | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The hook of The Simple Life is irresistible: two wealthy, pampered young women go from upper-crust Los Angeles to an Arkansas farm to prove that they can survive without their mobile phones and credit cards. As hotel heiress Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie (daughter of pop star Lionel) blithely move in with a farm family, the Ledings, the culture clash immediately becomes a train wreck; when asked to pluck chickens, Richie declares, "I'm not plucking anything but my eyebrows." They try to work a series of jobs (at a dairy farm, a fast-food joint and a livestock auction), but they possess not a jot of work ethic, nor any sense of the consequences of failure. Like the girls themselves, this 2003 reality show becomes fascinating and repellent, comic and horrifying. It's like watching alien beings trying to masquerade as people. --Bret Fetzer

• American Cousins | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £14.28   |  Saving you £-1.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two American mafiosi take refuge in the Glasgow cafe owned by their cousin but find their relative isn't the tough guy they'd expected.

• Leprechaun In The Hood | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The evil Leprechaun is now in Da Hood!! When a gold medallion is stolen from an ugly statue the statue transforms into the Leprechaun who then goes on a killing spree looking for his gold.

• Life And Death of Colonel Blimp, The / A Matter Of Life And Death | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two masterpieces of British cinema are paired here--Powell and Pressburger's first Technicolor triumph, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and their even more ambitious A Matter of Life and Death (1946). Both pictures are transcendent examples of the filmmakers' craft, and remain models of great cinema long after their original wartime propaganda brief has expired. Based on a famously satirical cartoon strip that mocked outmoded attitudes of fair play at a time of "total war", Blimp subsequently became notorious as the film Churchill tried to have banned. Because the War Office objected to the screenplay, they refused to allow P&P's first choice for the role, Laurence Olivier, and the duo cast unknown stage actor Roger Livesey in his place. It is Livesey's sympathetic performance that transforms Clive "Sugar" Candy from an object of satire to one of warm affection, effectively reversing the film's intended message about old-fashioned decency versus wartime pragmatism. Anton Walbrook is a profound presence in a role that mirrored the actor's own plight as a German in Britain, while Deborah Kerr is a living leitmotif in the film, playing no fewer than three distinct but deliberately related roles. Briefed by the Ministry of Information to make a film that would foster Anglo-American relations in the post-war period, the duo, known as "the Archers", came up with A Matter of Life and Death, an extravagant and extraordinary fantasy in which David Niven's downed pilot must justify his continuing existence to a heavenly panel because he has made the mistake of falling in love with an American girl (Kim Hunter) when he really should have been dead. National stereotypes are lampooned as the angelic judges squabble over his fate. In a neat reversal of expectations, the heaven sequences are black and white, while earth is seen in Technicolor. Daring cinematography mixes monochrome and colour, incorporates time-lapse images, and even toys with background "time freezes" 50 years before The Matrix. Roger Livesey and Raymond Massey lead the fine supporting cast. On the DVD: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and A Matter of Life and Death are presented in reasonably sharp 4:3 ratio with good mono sound. Blimp comes with a 25-minute documentary feature that tells us nothing revelatory about making the film, but has good new interviews with cinematographer Jack Cardiff (then an apprentice) and eloquent admirer Stephen Fry. Text biographies and stills are also included. Life and Death has no extras. --Mark Walker

• All Or Nothing | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £7.38   |  Saving you £12.61 (170.87%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A 2002 Mike Leigh drama, All or Nothing is at times almost unbearably bleak and poignant, yet funny, truthful and richly rewarding. The film's revolves around Timothy Spall's mini-cab driver, his family and the various characters and acquaintances on the South-east London estate where he lives. It's perhaps even better than Secrets and Lies, in which Spall also starred, which was marred a little by some of the tearful excesses of Brenda Blethyn's bravura performance. It's evidence that Leigh has matured and improved with age, rather than mellowed and softened. He's developed into a highly distinctive but rounded and humane filmmaker. Spall's cabbie is too gentle and thoughtful to be described as a slob, but his lack of even the most basic ambition and stoic non-resistance to life has created an unspoken rift between him and wife Penny (Lesley Manville). Working on a supermarket checkout, she must cook dinner and fend off insults from her fat, frustrated, obnoxious 18-year-old son Rory. She receives only passive sympathy from her older daughter Rachel. Only when Rory is taken ill is Phil snapped out of his torpor as the family pull together. A host of minor characters also feature; fatuous cabbie Ron (Paul Jesson) his alcoholic wife and sluttish daughter, as well as the wonderfully good-humoured and resilient Maureen, Penny's best friend, concerned at her daughter's relationship with a violent boyfriend. Once accused of caricaturing his "lower class" characters, here Leigh (with the collaborative assistance of his actors) exhibits them in all their authentic complexity, neither idealising nor sentimentalising them. On the DVD: All or Nothing's extras include the original trailer, as well as interviews with several members of the cast. Timothy Spall is interesting on the unnerving process of collaboration favoured by Leigh, whereby characters are "built from zero" by the actors. The smart and rather posh Lesley Manville strikes quite a contrast in real life with her mousey, put-upon character. There's also a meticulous and absorbing commentary from Mike Leigh, who talks about filming in Greenwich and how he has moved away from some of the more dogmatic ideas about filmmaking of his earlier, avant-garde days. --David Stubbs

• For No Good Reason | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Made over the course of fifteen years For No Good Reason explores the connection between life and art through the eyes of seminal British artist Ralph Steadman. Insightful humorous and visually stunning this is a study in honestly friendship and the ambition that drives an artist. Ralph's rise to prominence began in the early 1970's during the fallout from the love and hope that had swept the western world during the 1960's. This legendary time for music literature art and philosophy was the catalyst along with his developing relationship with writer Hunter S Thompson for Ralph to express and chart the wreckage that followed; a large-scale disintegration of a demoralised counter-culture. His art gained recognition in the press and popular-culture publications both in the UK and US for its bold comment on his fiercely heartfelt politics. The film is a richly creative visual feast about the power and importance of art to achieve Steadman's aim I learnt to draw... to try to change the world. Director Charlie Paul spent 15 years meticulously amassing the footage and creating the remarkable animations for the film to match the same anarchic energy anger and free spirit of Steadman's pictures. Through Johnny Depp's lead in this intimate portrait we are able to reach to the heart of what make this artist tick his friendships and fallings out his love for art and his passion for civil liberties. For No Good Reason is a riot of stories and images as we take a trip through the wild and dark days of Steadman's time with Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas writer Thompson the Rumble In The Jungle; gunfights with literary giant William S Burroughs and his fiercely heartfelt politics. This is an invention energetic occasionally harrowing but inspiring and uplifting film with contributions from Terry Gilliam Richard E. Grant and music from Slash All American Rejects Jason Mraz James Blake Ed Harcourt and Crystal Castles.

• How To Change The World | DVD | (11/01/2016) from £13.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (8.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1971, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone, and their protest captures the world's imagination. Using never before seen archive footage, 'How To Change The World' is the story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace.

• WWE - Royal Rumble 1995/96 | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £69.96   |  Saving you £-49.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1995 Bout Listing: Buck Quartermaine vs Brooklyn Brawler WWF I-C Title: Jeff Jarrett vs Razor Ramon WWF World Championship match: Diesel vs Bret Hart WWF Tag title match: The 1-2-3 Kid & Bob Holly vs Bam Bam Bigelow & Tatanka Royal Rumble: Shawn Michaels Bob Backlund The Blue Brothers Adam Bomb British Bulldog King Kong Bundy The Bushwhackers Crush Doink (Fall) Duke Droese Fatu Henry Godwinn Owen Hart The Heavenly Bodies (Pritchard & Del Rey) Kwang Lex Luger

• Callan - Series 1 Box Set | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Introduced in "A Magnum for Schneider", the hour-long 1967 Armchair Theatre episode of Callan written by James Mitchell about a disillusioned British secret agent of the same name (starring Edward Woodward), went on to offer four popular (if downbeat) series, a spin-off movie remaking the original story and a some-years-later wrap-up play "Wet Job". Remembered for its very distinctive opening titles, with a swinging broken-light bulb and a memorable theme tune, the series adopted a Deighton-LeCarré approach to the grim, treacherous, grubby business of Cold War espionage and made a TV star of the intense Woodward as the sweaty, sometimes conscience-stricken, sometimes robotic Callan. Even in the 21st century this still seems as strong, its complex stories and impressive performances outweighing a low-budget mix of video and film in the production that makes it seem less "professional" than other shows of the time. A great deal of the series opener is devoted to bringing on new regulars. There's a fresh Mr Hunter who, like Number Two on The Prisoner--with which Callan shares series editor George Markstein--was a title not a name, so several actors held the position over the course of the show. There's also the trendily mulleted thug Cross (Patrick Mower), who would go spectacularly off the rails in the next series and a half. In a dramatic device that has long since fallen out of fashion in television, Callan episodes tend to wind up by leaving the audience to work out all the connections of the plot while Callan himself sits gloomily and ponders the wretchedness of his squalid world. --Kim Newman

• Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961) DVD | DVD | (18/08/2014) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-2.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In a deep and disused Cornish tin mine young biochemist Peter Blood (Kieron Moore)is carrying out grisly experiments designed to re-animate corpses giving life to the dead. The fiendish doctor digs up the dead husband of his nurse Linda Parker (Hazel Court) a woman he is attracted to and re-animates the corpse with horrific consequences.

• Polyester | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (-38.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Meet Francine Fishpaw (Divine) tortured suburban housewife. With a pornographer husband a pregnant teenage daughter and a son with a foot-stomping fetish Francine smells trouble around every corner. That is until she meets and falls madly in love with Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter). Also starring Edith Massey as Cuddles Francine's best friend and Mink Stole as the husband's mistress.

• The Young Stranger | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £4.24   |  Saving you £5.75 (135.61%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A story of teenage tearing-away in 1950s America, The Young Stranger fails to make a serious, gripping narrative of the events that follow the somewhat innocuous pivotal moment when 16-year-old Harold "Hal" Ditmar (James MacArthur) punches a cinema manager. Adapted from a TV play and released two years after the benchmark for delinquency movies, Rebel Without a Cause, it has none of that film's raw urgency, seeming staid and inconsequential in comparison. The primary problem is that Hal makes an unconvincing hoodlum. His misdemeanour is less an act of rebellion than a brief misunderstanding. Far from articulating the angst of a generation, his angry tirades against his parents (Kim Hunter and James Daly) and the police set him apart from his peers and feel more like the self-pitying whines of a privileged individual. This sensation is further exacerbated by the fact that all of his problems are swiftly resolved in an all-too-neat ending. Still, The Young Stranger is an interesting period piece, not least for an amusingly tame car chase from first-time feature director John Frankenheimer. --Paul Philpott

• Doctor Who: Tom Baker Complete Season Three (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (04/08/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Shirley Temple - A Little Princess In Colour | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Shirley Temple: A Little Princess In Colour