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• The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £5.00   |  Saving you £3.99 (79.80%)   |  RRP £8.99

  A detailed gripping Crimewatch investigation into the mysteries of these heinous 19th century crimes. To coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Jack The Ripper killings a respected team of world-renowned forensic scientists criminologists and Ripper-ologists (including forensic pathologist Dr. William Eckert the Curator of Scotland Yard's Black Museum William Waddell FBI Special Agents Roy Hazelwood and John Douglas Queen's Counsel Ann Mallalieu Donald Rumbelow and Martin Fido) were gathered together for a live news-making television event with one purpose: to uncover The Secret Identity of Jack The Ripper. Presented by Peter Ustinov this documentary employs state-of-the-art methods of criminal analysis developed by the F.B.I. constructs vivid re-enactments of the crimes and presents profiles of each of the prime suspects as the experts attempt to positively identify Jack the Ripper.

• Taggart - Saints & Sinners | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Include: Saints & Sinners: When company lawyer Richard Flett is found shot to death the Taggart team investigate the dead man's business dealings in order to find the culprit. Suspicion soon falls on Flett's business partner who is discovered having an affair with the lawyer's widow but time becomes of the essence when he too is found murdered and it looks like the killer may strike again. Puppet On A String: The team are called to a hospital where a doctor has been attacked by an assailant carrying a lethal syringe of drugs. The doctor is adamant that one of his colleagues is responsible but the man has a cast iron alibi and it becomes clear that the two men are arch rivals. The situation is further complicated when the victim's wife is seen in conversation with a known hit-man. The Wages Of Sin: A taxi driver is found dead in his cab outside the premises of a jeweller - who denies all knowledge of him. The investigation uncovers a trail which leads to a local big-league criminal a cache of diamonds another murder and a politician running for the Scottish Parliament who is being funded by drug money. The Ties That Bind: DCI Matt Burke's professional life is left hanging in the balance when the body of a librarian is found behind the wheel of his car in the Clyde after an apparent hit and run. The detectives are baffled - it appears that the victim had been tied up and was already dead before the car hit the water. In Camera: DI Robbie Ross is in trouble when he discovers the body of a young man in a house along with his lady friend. However there's more trouble on the horizon when his past troubles come back to haunt him whilst trying to solve the death of the young man and subsequent deaths but what do they relate to and is the past of DI Robbie Ross actually linked to the present killings?

• Everybody Loves Sunshine | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two heavies from the wrong side of the tracks in London try to choose very different paths upon their release from prison; subdued Ray (Goth) wants to escape his previous lifestyle but his unhinged former partner and friend Terry (Goldie) sucks him back in...

• The Old Grey Whistle Test 2 | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £12.76   |  Saving you £7.23 (56.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In some ways The Old Grey Whistle Test Volume 2 is more interesting than its predecessor, as it covers the show's enjoyably uncomfortable period of transition from beard-rock to punk/new wave. Hence, the music ranges across the likes of Loggins and Messina (the frightful "The House at Pooh Corner"), the Who, Judee Sill, Argent (doing "God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You", which all Bill and Ted fans probably think is a Kiss original), Roy Harper, the Adverts, the Undertones (not playing "Teenage Kicks", sadly), Patti Smith and Siouxie and the Banshees. There's also some arty stuff that doesn't really fit into either camp, including Kevin Ayers and Roxy Music at their uncommercially weirdest. There are a few nicely revelatory moments, too, such as the realisation that Thomas Dolby's "Hyperactive" was in fact a nu-jazz masterpiece born 20 years too soon and that Robbie Williams should cover Aztec Camera's wonderful "Walk Out to Winter" immediately. This is an enjoyable and diverse collection of music from a fairly fraught period in the history of more-or-less popular music, so it's good to be reminded just how much good stuff was actually happening amidst the melée. On the DVD: The Old Grey Whistle Test 2 comes on only one disc (the first was a two-disc set), but you still get 30 or so excellent tracks plus all the trimmings, so that's hardly a fault. The layout features the same kind of horribly overdesigned menus as its predecessor: there's no obvious chapter sub-menu, believe it or not; instead, you have to access individual tracks through the artists' gallery in the extras section! Aargh! Other extras include contributor profiles, additional linking material and the wonderful Old Grey Squirrel Test animation, which mere words would only spoil for those who have yet to see it. --Roger Thomas

• The Nutty Professor | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lucky for Eddie Murphy he got hold of the rights to this 1963 Jerry Lewis classic before Jim Carrey did. Murphy had a comeback of sorts with his Jeckyll-and-Hyde-derived fable of awkward chemistry professor Sherman Klump (Murphy), who discovers a potion that transforms him into the suave, cocky lady-killer Buddy Love (also Murphy). The big difference between the two versions is that Murphy's Sherman is not only a nerdy intellectual but is also grossly obese, which provides the opportunity for some hilarious digital transformation effects, as well as some gentle satire of our culture's attitudes toward fat people. As he did in the hit Coming to America, Murphy plays multiple roles, and the scenes at the Klump family dinner table, in which he plays everybody, are brilliantly funny. (Murphy won the National Society of Film Critics' award for best actor of 1996 for these performances.) Lewis based his Buddy Love on the 1960s ideal of cool exemplified by Sinatra and the Rat Pack; Murphy stumbles a bit by playing up the oily phoniness of his latter-day Love a little too soon, but for the most part The Nutty Professor represents a welcome return to form for Eddie Murphy. --Jim Emerson

• Do You Know The Muffin Man? | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Roger Dollison his wife Kendra and their two children Teddy and Sandy are living the American dream. But their idyllic existence is irreparably changed when a classmate of Teddys is the apparent victim of sexual abuse at the respected neighbourhood daycare centre. But their devastation is complete when Teddy tells his own story - one he promised his abusers that he never would tell.

• Quatermass And The Pit | DVD | (29/08/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  We have met the enemy, and it is us: when a Martian spacecraft with a terrifying link to the origins of humanity is unearthed beneath a London tube station, only the esteemed Professor Bernard Quatermass (a very British--and possibly mad--precursor to Mulder and Scully) can save London's suddenly murderous population from itself. One of the most intelligently paranoid science fiction films ever produced, this pessimistic masterpiece functions as a dark flip side to the relatively optimistic alien-induced evolution theory presented in the later 2001: A Space Odyssey. Nigel Kneale's brilliant script (which posits a surprisingly plausible, otherworldly rationale for the existence of the supernatural) was later appropriated by acknowledged fan John Carpenter for his underrated Prince of Darkness. A must-see for horror and science-fiction aficionados. --Andrew Wright, Amazon.com

• The Great American Songbook By Mantovani | DVD | (31/07/2017) from £4.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Pretty Poison | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £13.07   |  Saving you £6.92 (52.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Did you ever see two kids like Dennis and Sue Ann? We think not... Dennis Pitt (Anthony Perkins) is released from prison following a sentence for his complicity in a suspicious death. Wandering through a small town he befriends and deceives straight-A student Sue Ann (Tuesday Weld). Convincing her that he is in fact a secret agent she decides to joins him. However is Sue Ann using Dennis' own weaknesses for her own evil ends?

• WWE: Straight To The Top: The Money In the Bank Ladder Match Anthology | Blu Ray | (04/11/2013) from £12.49   |  Saving you £22.50 (180.14%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Hosted by The Miz the compilation features every Money in the Bank Ladder Match in history. The match debuted at WrestleMania 21 in 2005 quickly becoming a WrestleMania tradition and in 2010 proved so popular that it was given its own annual PPV event. Several top Superstars have been Money in the Bank winners including John Cena Kane Edge CM Punk (twice!) Rob Van Dam and many more. 11 of the first 12 winners have used the match as a springboard to winning a championship and several times the match has helped a Superstar who has never win a World Championship break through to claim their first. Much like the Royal Rumble Match the Money in the Bank match represents a golden opportunity for a Superstar to achieve immortality and its entire lineage is presented here.

• Driftwood | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Searching a desolate area of the Irish coast for driftwood lonely sculptor Sarah (Brochet) discovers an injured man (Spader) lying unconscious on the shore. She rescues the stranger and takes him to her cottage where she begins nursing him back to health. When she learns the man is suffering from amnesia with no knowledge of who or where he is she decides to tell him they are isolated on a remote island visited only by a supply boat every few months. Totally dependent on Sarah the man believes her story and slowly comes to trust and even love her. But when his hunger for more information and a desire to return to civilisation threaten to draw him away the obsessed and seriously disturbed Sarah must take increasingly drastic measures to keep her lover...

• Lady From Louisiana / Flame Of The Barbary Coast | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £10.75   |  Saving you £-0.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Lady From Louisiana (Dir. Bernard Vorhaus 1941): Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution. Flame Of Barbary Coast (Dir. Joseph Kane 1945): A cowboy competes with a gambling tycoon on the Barbary Coast for the hand of a beautiful dance-hall queen. However the 1906 San Francisco earthquake provides a climactic twist though...

• Wwe: Royal Rumble 2015 | Blu Ray | (06/04/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  30 WWE SUPERSTARS - 1 RING - 1 CHANCE AT IMMORTALITY! The road to WrestleMania begins at Royal Rumble. “The Beast Incarnate” Brock Lesnar has destroyed every obstacle in his path and will put his WWE World Heavyweight Championship on the line against challengers John Cena and Seth Rollins in a Triple Threat Match. And 30 WWE Superstars will enter the Royal Rumble Match for the opportunity to compete for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship on the grandest stage of them all. Which Superstar will survive and headline WrestleMania? Find out at WWE’s most unpredictable event of the year…. Royal Rumble.

• Born And Bred - Series 4 | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The complete fourth series of the popular BBC drama series starring Richard Wilson and Maggie Stead. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Great Leap Forward 2. Flying Home 3. Community Spirit 4. Never Seek To Tell 5. Apple Day 6. The Milk Of Human Kindness 7. Love Is Where It Falls 8. The Element Of Surprise 9. A Wrathful God 10. Someone To Watch Over Me

• Mausoleum | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £14.97   |  Saving you £-8.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Susan (Bobby Bresee) was ten when her mother died. Now thirty passionate and beautiful she is heiress to the family fortune. But for the women of the Nomed family there is another legacy - an ancient and terrible curse. Possessed by powers she cannot control Susans life becomes a nightmare of lust terror and murder until even her husband finds himself confronting the face of hell. Susans only salvation lies within the Mausoleum... but dare she return?

• Get Smart Again | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The free world's secret weapon dormant for 20 years has been called up for active duty. He's the bumbling addle brained master spy extrodinaire Maxwell Smart aka Agent 86. Smart is primed again to do battle against the sinister forces of KAOS. His wife 99 wants to get involved too however she's already more involved than she thinks...

• 1941 | DVD | (28/12/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Now, some 30 years after it bowed at cinemas, Steven Spielberg's wartime comedy "1941" is at last making its way to DVD in a superlative anniversary edition.

• Teaching Mrs Tingle | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £17.65   |  Saving you £-2.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  ""Lots of Fun!"" - Los Angeles Times. Written and directed by Kevin Williamson (Scream Scream 2 TV's Dawson's Creek) Teaching Mrs. Tingle is a cool cutting-edge comedy starring Hollywood's hottest young talent! Leigh Ann Watson (Katie Holmes - TV's Dawson's Creek Go Disturbing Behavior) is the brightest girl at Grandsboro High...but her dreams of a much-needed college scholarship are sabotaged when her history teacher the dreaded Mrs. Tingle (Helen Mirren - The Madness of King

• The Matrix Revisited | DVD | (24/12/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (180.36%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Matrix Revisited is a two-hour documentary that covers each and every aspect of the making of this ground-breaking movie in enough detail to satisfy even the most demanding of fans. There are contributions from all the principal cast and crew, who guide us from the story's inception in the minds of the Wachowski brothers right through to the preparatory work for the next two instalments. Also on the disc are: a teaser montage of behind-the-scenes footage for the follow-up movies, a section on the newly commissioned Japanimation "Animatrix" features, fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping's blocking tapes, a piece about the fans, a breakdown of the bathroom fight and wet-wall sequence, a plug for the Web site and DVD-ROM extras. If that's not enough, there are even hidden extra "Easter eggs", including one about the woman in the red dress. Plenty, in fact, to keep fans satisfied until the second instalment arrives in cinemas. --Mark Walker

• Time Bandits SteelBook | Blu Ray | (26/08/2013) from £49.95   |  Saving you £-24.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The film that established Terry Gilliam as more than just Monty Python’s resident animator this delightfully inventive children’s fantasy is about young Kevin (Craig Warnock) who finds himself travelling through holes in the space-time continuum in the company of half a dozen fractious dwarfs. Along the way he encounters Agamemnon (Sean Connery) Robin Hood (John Cleese) Napoleon (Ian Holm) and winds up as a passenger on the Titanic although not necessarily in that order. But is this just random entertainment laid on for history fan Kevin’s benefit or part of a wider struggle between the forces of good (Ralph Richardson) and evil (David Warner)? At the time this was a rare example of a small-budget British film successfully taking on American blockbusters. Now it's a much-loved fantasy classic bursting with inspired images and ideas: Gilliam and co-writer Michael Palin (who also appears) are clearly enjoying themselves as much as their audience. Special Features: Limited Edition SteelBookTM packaging Brand new 2k-resolution restoration of the film from the original camera negative approved by director and co-writer Terry Gilliam High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation Original Stereo 2.0 and 5.1 Dolby Surround options (uncompressed PCM and DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray) Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Chasing Time Bandits: A new interview with Terry Gilliam Writing the Film that Dares Not Speak its Name: A new interview in which Michael Palin discusses co-writing and acting in Time Bandits The Effects of Time Bandits: A new interview in which Kent Houston founder of the Peerless Camera Company discusses Time Bandits’ optical effects Playing Evil: A new featurette in which actor David Warner remembers producer George Harrison and playing Evil in Time Bandits The Costumes of Time Bandits: A new interview with costume designer James Acheson The Look of Time Bandits: A new interview with production designer Milly Burns From Script to Screen – A new animated featurette in which Milly Burns takes us through her production notebooks locations photographs and storyboards revealing how twentieth century Morocco was transformed into Ancient Greece Original Trailer Restoration Demonstration Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic James Oliver “An extraordinarily inventive fantasy” - Time Out