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• The Onedin Line - Series 1 - Part 2 | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Welcome to Liverpool in the late 19th century the hub of Great Britain's growing Atlantic trade. But for Captain James Onedin these waters are treacherous indeed. Can he keep his beloved Onedin Line out of the hands of Callon his rival enemy and ex-employer and enter the age of steam unhindered? Or will everything including the elements be against him? This release features Parts Three and Four of the classic BBC drama serial The Onedin Line.

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 1 - Part 2 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Empire Day on the Slag Heap. With the strike at an end the miners are back however an accident leaves Bill with a broken back. Jessie receives a marriage proposal whilst Jack receives some surprising news. Episodes titles: Empire Day On The Slagheap A First Time For Everything Paddy Boyle's Discharge and Angel On Horseback.

• Gator | DVD | (17/01/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Gator: come and get him! The Feds want Gator. Not for moon shining but to go undercover to expose Bama McCall Gator's boyhood pal who is now a local crime boss. Gator is reluctant at first but once he discovers Bama is involved in extortion prostitution and murder the suspense builds to an explosive climax as old friends become deadly enemies...

• 3 Classic Westerns Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 5 | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.20%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Hurricane Express: John Wayne stars as pilot Larry Baker who makes an unscheduled landing in a vain attempt to prevent a railway collision that kills his father and is fired for disobeying orders. Larry must find out the truth behind the wreck of the Hurricane Express! Rage At Dawn: A Special Agent is sent way out west to round up the norotious Reno gang. He stages a fake train robbery in order to attract the evil Reno brothers and their gang in this gritty and force

• Stolen Youth | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  He's handsome talented and half her age. But Nina Talbot always gets what she wants. Abby and Nina: they're the best of friends - until a forbidden passionate affair threatens to devastate their friendship. Abby Hewitt has high ambitions for her 18 year old son Paul and who better to give Paul advice than glamorous free spirit Nina a hugely talented designer. Abby sends Paul to stay with Nina in San Francisco in the hope that Nina will persuade him to take up a university place in the city. But the plan backfires. Instead Paul becomes totally infatuated with Nina a woman twice his age. And Nina finds Paul the perfect companion - passionate and irresistible. It seems like the perfect secret relationship - until a horrified Abby stumbles upon the affair...

• Oliver Twist | DVD | (11/10/1999) from £6.47   |  Saving you £3.52 (54.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  There have been many film and TV adaptations of Oliver Twist but this 1948 production from director David Lean remains the definitive screen interpretation of the Charles Dickens classic. From the ominous symbolism of its opening storm sequence (in which Oliver's pregnant, ill-fated mother struggles to reach shelter before childbirth) to the mob-scene climax that provokes Bill Sikes's dreadful comeuppance, this breathtaking black-and-white film remains loyal to Dickens while distilling the story into its purest cinematic essence.Every detail is perfect--Lean even includes a coffin-shaped snuffbox for the cruel Mr. Sowerberry--and as young Oliver, eight-year-old John Howard Davies (who would later produce Monty Python's Flying Circus for the BBC) perfectly expresses the orphan's boyish wonderment, stern determination and waifish vulnerability. Best of all is Alec Guinness as Fagin, so devious and yet so delightfully appealing under his beak-nosed (and, at the time, highly controversial) make-up. (Many complained that Fagin's huge nose and greedy demeanour presented an anti-Semitic stereotype, even though Lean never identifies Fagin as Jewish; for this reason, the film wasn't shown in the US until three years after its British release.) Likewise, young Anthony Newley is artfully dodgy as Fagin's loyal accomplice, the Artful Dodger. Guinness's performance would later provide strong inspiration for Ron Moody's equally splendid portrayal of Fagin in the Oscar-winning Oliver! and while that 1968 musical remains wonderfully entertaining, it is Lean's film that hews closest to Dickens' vision. The authentic recreation of 19th-century London is marvellous to behold; Guy Green's cinematography is so shadowy and stylised that it almost qualifies as Dickensian film noir. Lean is surprisingly blunt in conveying Dickens's theme of cruelty but his film never loses sight of the warmth and humanity that Oliver embodies. --Jeff Shannon

• Detention | DVD | (06/12/2010) from £4.00   |  Saving you £8.99 (224.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Substitute teacher Mr Walmsley (John S. Davies) has just started his first day at a new school and it's been a baptism of fire. His class of unruly rude arrogant and spoilt students have turned the school into a place of fear and intimidation. But Mr Walmsley has a few unusual teaching techniques and his pupils are about to learn the hard way that not listening to teacher has very serious consequences.

• Coraline -LAIKA Studios Edition | Blu Ray | (31/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Joan Crawford Signature Collection - Mildred Pierce/Grand Hotel/Humoresque/Possessed/The Damned Don't Cry | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Mildred Pierce:Joan Crawford delivers a critically acclaimed performance as Mildred Pierce a woman clawing her way to success to provide her daughter with everything she lacks. No sacrifice is too much - ending her middle class marriage climbing to the top of a male-dominated business world and marrying a man she doesn't love - but is murder a step too far? Grand Hotel:Oscar-winning drama with an all-star cast exploring the interwoven relationships of the residents of a plush Berlin hotel... Humoresque:Glamorous socialite Helen Wright (Joan Crawford) takes what she wants clothes alcohol men uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets brilliant young violinist Paul Boray (John Garfield). But this is one toy she can't break. Instead her love for Paul brings Helen to the breaking point. In this acclaimed and profound exploration of desire Crawford makes Helen a rich layered character torn between selfless love and selfish impulses. Garfield matches her as the driven genius. Possessed:She loves him when he goes away for months. She loves him when he refuses to marry her. But when callow David Sutton chooses to marry someone else Louise Howell's love for him takes a darker turn. Give her a gun and she'll love him to death. Joan Crawford reteams with producer Jerry Wald of her Academy Award winning 'Mildred Pierce' and claims a 1947 Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of tempestuous mentally unstable Louise. The Damned Don't Cry:It's a man's world. And Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in it: be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. In the first of three collaborations with director Vincent Sherman Joan Crawford brings hard-boiled glamour and simmering passion to the role of Ethel who moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion to high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one a high-rolling racketeer abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel's swanky living room she flees a sure murder rap right back to the poverty she thought she had escaped. And this time there may not be a man to pick up the pieces of her shattered life.

• The West Wing - Season 1 Part 2 | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing, set in The White House, has won innumerable awards--and rightly so. Its depiction of a well-meaning Democrat administration has warmed the hearts of countless Americans. However, The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funny and moving of recent American TV series. In its first series, The West Wing established the cast of characters who comprise the White House staff. There's Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (John Spencer), a recovering alcoholic whose efforts to be the cornerstone of the administration contribute to the break up of his marriage. CJ (Alison Janney) is the formidable press spokeswoman embroiled in a tentative on-off relationship with Timothy Busfield's reporter. Brilliant but grumpy communications deputy Toby Ziegler, Rob Lowe's brilliant but faintly nerdy Sam Seaborn and brilliant but smart-alecky Josh Lynam make up the rest of the inner circle. Initially, the series' creators had intended to keep the President off-screen. Wisely, however, they went with Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet, whose eccentric volatility, caution, humour and strength in a crisis make for such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. Handled incorrectly, The West Wing could have been turgid, didactic propaganda for The American Way. However, the writers are careful to show that, decent as this administration is, its achievements, though hard-won, are minimal. Moreover, the brisk, staccato-like, almost musical exchanges of dialogue, between Josh and his PA Donna, for instance, as they pace purposefully up and down the corridors are the show's abiding joy. --David Stubbs

• Cold Feet - Series 2 | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (50.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Award winning comedy about three young couples in the North of England who face very modern crises. Adam's life has descended into bachelor squalor. Desperate to get back on track he begins dating again. Jenny and Pete's marital problems have just taken a turn for the worse. Karen is shocked by David who wants to forget executive stress and become a house husband. Meanwhile Pete spots Rachel in the supermarket with a baby of unknown identity and gives chase armed with a camera...

• And A Nightingale Sang | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set in Newcastle towards the end of World War 2 this romantic drama chronicles the sacrifices made by a blue-collar woman and her family. This is the story of the Stotts an eccentric family waging their personal battles against the terrifying backdrop of Britain during WW2.

• Time Bandits | Blu Ray | (05/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Born from the brilliant minds of Monthy Python's Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin Time Bandits is a British masterstroke in fantasy adventure. When a young boy's wardrobe shapeshifts into the gateway of another world he finds himself embroiled in a series eccentric encounters with legend's most random figures; Napoleon Robin Hood and ancient Greek leader Agamemnon. There backed by an arsenal of guerrilla dwarves he must overcome evil forces quantum leaps in time and 1980s suburban conditioning in order to save history the present and the future. Loaded with astutely observed rapid-fire humour this critically acclaimed smash-hit remains one of Britain's most-enduring ensemble comedies. Boasting music by George Harrison who co-produced the film alongside writer/director Gilliam it stars Academy Award-winners Sean Connery John Cleese and Jim Broadbent plus co-writer Palin in a classic - and timeless - comic clinic.

• Waltz Of The Toreadors | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £6.97   |  Saving you £3.02 (43.33%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The immortal Peter Sellers is hilarious as a pompous retired general who still has a taste for the ladies in French playwright Jean Anouilh's philosophical farce. A lusty comedy of manners 'Waltz of the Toreadors' tempers its treatment of an old rake's delusions with generous dollops of wit and compassion.

• We Remember Marilyn | DVD | (01/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A sex symbol becomes a thing", says Marilyn Monroe, her voice being approximated by Trudi Jo Marie Keck, who also doubles as the editor of We Remember Marilyn, an historical appreciation of the life of the much-vaunted sex goddess. "I always thought symbols were things you clashed together", she continues to muse, "but if I'm going to be a symbol of anything, I'd rather it be sex than some other things there are symbols for. I know how they'll remember me: 'Here lies Marilyn Monroe, 34-24-36'. But, anyway, they'll remember me." And remember her they do, in this concoction written and directed by Ted Newsom (Ed Wood--Look Back in Angora). Newsom doesn't bother to cite the source for the above words ascribed to Ms. Monroe so it's hard to say where they came from, but they pointedly set the tone for any discussion of sex-symbol iconography. And how better to sum up a career that moved between celebrity and the highest seats of power on a vehicle of sex, and ended early and abruptly. Film clips, photos (where Marilyn the icon truly shone), and a rich array of stock footage form the backdrop for the proceedings. At one point, the voice of director John Huston enriches the soundtrack. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com

• Faces Of Death 2 | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Banned in 46 countries! A 'mockumentary' hosted by Dr. Francis B. Gross a coroner. He is trying to show you the different 'faces' of people while dying. There are faked scenes of people getting killed intermixed with footage of real accidents. There are executions by decapitation (in an Arab country) and the electric chair. One scene shows a group of tourists in Egypt smashing a monkey's head while still alive and eating its brains. There are shots of animals eating people and satanic orgies using dead bodies. There is a segment that deals with an alligator that accidentally entered 'residential' waters. The local warden goes in his boat to get the crocodile back into the sea when he accidentally falls over and becomes gator bait. The film ends with news clippings of people jumping off buildings and major accidents. This movie continues in the same vein as F.O.D. 1 &2 with short scenes of death related material. Mortuarys accidents police work are filmed by TV crews and home video cameras. Some of the material are most likely fake some not as likely

• Boys | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fleeing from a horrifically traumatic event Patty Vare (Winona Ryder) is on the run but is suddenly thrown from her horse and loses consciousness. When prep school rebel John Baker (Lukas Haas) discovers her he decides to help the beautiful and mysterious girl by hiding her in his dorm. Mutual attraction soon turns to romance and they explore the realms of young love. But time is against them as the police hunt her down to reveal the dark secret of her past.

• 21st Century Bach - Vol. 1 | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The indisputable master of Baroque music Johann Sebastian Bach's reputation is greater now than ever before. He wrote a huge number of works both for secular and religious purposes and was particularly famous in his time as a brilliant organist. Now his entire organ works are being made available on DVD for the first time through the release of this highly acclaimed BBC2 series. Played by the organist of York Minister John Scott Whiteley one of the world's foremost accomplished

• Wayne At War | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A collection of war films starring the iconic John Wayne. Films comprise: 1. Sands of Iwo Jima 2. The Fighting Seabees 3. The Flying Tigers 4. Back to Bataan 5. Jet Pilot 6. The Flying Leathernecks

• Shadowmakers | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the true events surrounding the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built Shadow Makers is the story of brilliant scientist Robert Oppenheimer who supervised the work on the now infamous ""Manhattan Project"". Directed by Oscar-nominated Roland Joffe the film focuses on the link between the progress of science at all costs deep moral ambiguities and the effects of the project on the individuals involved. Paul Newman plays th