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• Hachi - A Dog's Tale | DVD | (05/07/2010) from £6.89   |  Saving you £13.10 (190.13%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hachi: A Dog's Tale is the heartwarming true story about an unbreakable bond between a University professor and his dog.

• Gorky Park | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £11.91   |  Saving you £1.08 (9.07%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Martin Cruz Smith's bestselling mystery novel seemed ideal material for a movie version, but in Gorky Park director Michael Apted and the usually reliable writer Dennis Potter couldn't quite solve the problem of taking the story from page to screen. William Hurt plays Renko, a Cold War-era Moscow police detective who must cope with both crooks and Communist party protocol as he tries to solve a murder case in the middle of one of Moscow's public parks that leaves three faceless corpses. The strands of the mystery involve corruption, American money and the fur trade and, ultimately, take Renko to New York. But the tension is never all there, despite a deliciously menacing performance by Lee Marvin as the bad guy and Brian Dennehy as an American cop who becomes Renko's ally. --Marshall Fine

• Hachi - A Dog's Tale | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £7.21   |  Saving you £17.78 (246.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Hachi: A Dog's Tale is the heartwarming true story about an unbreakable bond between a University professor and his dog.

• Curious George | DVD | (02/10/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  George, the inquisitive little guy with an insatiable taste for adventure, sets off in a brand new tale for the big screen.

• Bulldog Breed, The / One Good Turn | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1960, Norman Wisdom was left all at sea in The Bulldog Breed. He had already made a farce of the army in The Square Peg (1958), so what better than to join the navy? Back in the real world, the Russians had kick-started the space race putting Sputnik into orbit, so Norman rapidly finds himself selected to be the first Brit in space. Playing to type, the result is excellent physical comedy and copious tomfoolery at the expense of the upper ranks. With support from John Le Mesurier and Edward Chapman (the legendary "Mr Grimsdale") and uncredited appearances from Oliver Reed and Michael Caine, this is a notable British comedy, with an unusually direct reference to the risqué Carry On movies. For his second starring role Norman Wisdom played the oldest orphan of Greenwood Children's Home in 1954's One Good Turn. Not only does he have to find the money to buy one of the orphans a model car, but after a visit to Brighton he discovers Greenwood is due to be closed down by the home's own unscrupulous chairman, a property developer with plans to build a factory on the site. Also starring Thora Hird, One Good Turn was surely a film with a personal resonance for Wisdom who was himself brought-up in an orphanage after his mother died and his father was unable to raise him. As would become a tradition, he contributes a song, "Please Opportunity", and the movie, though produced by Rank, now sits easily in that classic Ealing era where the ordinary man took on the big guys and won. The innocent knockabout humour remains appealing. --Gary S Dalkin

• The New Avengers: The Complete Series - Episodes 1-26 | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Sometimes dismissed as a pale descendant of a great original, The New Avengers deserves a second look and is perhaps best considered as a largely successful attempt to re-imagine its predecessor for 1970s audiences. Patrick McNee was never the most convincing of action heroes, and the decision to make his John Steed the supervisor and mentor of two younger agents was a sensible one--Steed's virtues are style, wisdom and fortitude rather than physical prowess. Gareth Hunt's Gambit has an unattractively smug side, but has also a louche charm. Joanna Lumley's Purdey is one of the most attractive heroines of genre television, astonishingly leggy and beautiful. Those who only know her later incarnation as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous will understand now why such a fuss is made over her. The script team overlaps heavily with that of the original series; the new show has the same quirkiness, only occasionally varying it with a rather darker leCarrésque complexity or sudden outbreaks of Hammer Horror. If it lacks some of the sheer style of the original, that is a reflection of its period--the 1970s were less visually imaginative than the 60s. Tightly plotted, imaginatively cast with interesting guest stars, it is only with The Avengers that The New Avengers suffers by comparison. --Roz Kaveney

• Last Gasp | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-7.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Pray you never hear the last gasp! A wealthy real estate developer Leslie Chase runs a wild native tribe the Totec off their sacred land-and murders their chieftain. The dying chieftain breathes his last gasp into Chase's mouth. This last breath actually contains a curse in which Chase inherits a bloodthirsty need to kill humans and eat their flesh. After years of being tormented by these irresistible urges serial murderer Chase is pursued by a private investigator who was hired by the wife of one of her victims to locate her missing husband.

• King Of Fridges | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A busy bank holiday.... A ham fisted assistant.... Increasing paranoia.... All in a days work... Award winning playwrite Tim Firth (writer of Calendar Girls) creates a new comedy drama set in an electrical superstore. Alan assistant manager at 'Rocket' gets a chance to be the store manager on a busy bank holiday whilst his boss is away. However it seems his boss has laid a trap for Alan in the shape of Frank a mid-60's guy on a trainee scheme. Alan is forced to oversee a man who kn

• Rabbit Test | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The story of Lionel the first man ever to get pregnant who soon goes from unknown to celebrity when he is diagnosed! Soon everyone's trying to cash in on his act including the president! But will his fiancee and his mother EVER recover from the shock!

• Cry Of The Innocent | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Nightmaster | DVD | (26/09/2002) from £5.44   |  Saving you £0.55 (10.11%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Game Is Just Getting Good! By day Robbie (Tom Jennings) and Amy (Nicole Kidman) are ordinary students. By night they are the top contenders in a highly competitive simulated war game designed to test athletic prowess and intellectual superiority. Robbie remains champion of the dame pushed to the limit of his endurance by his extreme and obsessive martial arts instructor. When Robbie realizes the extent of his instructor's fanaticism the once friendly game has become real li

• Gorky Park | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £12.55   |  Saving you £0.44 (3.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Moscow a city of secrecy three bodies are discovered buried in the snow in Gorky Park. Leading the murder investigation is Chief Inspector Renko who untangles a web of violence and upper level KGB corruption. A wealthy American businessman a New York cop and a beautiful young woman are also involved... Adapted from Martin Cruz Smith's novel by Dennis Potter.

• Superman | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  17 classic episodes of Fleischer Studio's animated adventures of 'Superman'! The first cartoon cost 000 to make whilst the remaining 16 were given a 000 budget each!

• Man In the Saddle | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Man In The Saddle

• Going Underground | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A woman who manages to escape her brutal husband is forced to fight for the children she left behind...