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• The Pleasure Garden | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Patsy Brand works as a chorus girl at a music hall called The Pleasure Garden. She helps down on her luck Jill Cheyne to find a job and she subsequently meets Hugh Fielding who she becomes engaged to. Meanwhile Patsy has married Levett but he and Hugh have to leave for the English colonies in the tropics. With her husband away Jill starts to live the high life but Patsy remains loyal to Levett. When she hears that he is ill she makes the journey to the tropics only to find him living with a native with a severe alcohol problem.

• Mad Dogs | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £4.97   |  Saving you £15.02 (302.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Four friends Woody (Max Beesley) Quinn (Philip Glenister) Baxter (John Simm) and Rick (Marc Warren) arrive in Majorca to visit their old mate Alvo who is now a wealthy property tycoon enjoying the trappings of an ex-pat lifestyle. One by one Alvo asks his friends what they've done with their lives whether they're truly happy wouldn't they rather live like him? The hedonistic mood of the friends' soon turns sour when they realise Alvo isn't quite the man they thought he was. The luxury yacht they have borrowed turns out to be stolen; Alvo has dragged them into something dangerous. When murder is committed they realise their nightmare has only just begun...

• Set It Off | DVD | (30/01/2013) from £19.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Even when it misses a dramatic opportunity in favour of generic action, Set It Off benefits from a sharp understanding of its well-drawn central characters. They are a quartet of young African American women in Los Angeles (Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise), all struggling against a system that seems designed to prevent them from realising their dreams. The movie establishes their plight with credible attention to emotional detail, making their decision to rob banks believable enough to give the ensuing plot its inevitably tragic momentum. Co-written by the screenwriter of What's Love Got to Do With It?, the film conveys genuine compassion for its characters, and the ensemble cast is uniformly strong--especially Queen Latifah as a brash lesbian whose fate is as certain as her forceful attitude.Set It Off expresses a real sense that these women have been close friends for years, and that gives the film additional impact, even when their transition to crime and violence feels somewhat forced and superficial. A romantic subplot involving Pinkett and a social-climbing banker (Blair Underwood) is too contrived to be convincing, and director F. Gary Gray (Friday) tries too hard to combine hard-hitting action with social relevance (a weakness shared by Gray's following film, The Negotiator). Still, Set It Off effectively avoids passing judgement; its emotional complexity transcends simple notions of right and wrong, injecting vitality--and a kind of renegade integrity--into the traditions of a familiar plot. --Jeff Shannon

• The Sitter / Cyrus Double Pack | DVD | (17/06/2013) from £6.96   |  Saving you £9.02 (227.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The SitterThe Sitter may be the last movie featuring the "heavy" version of Jonah Hill. With the many pounds he's since lost, many movie-industry minds are wondering if the Jonah Hill-ness of his screen persona, flaunted so prodigiously in the likes of Knocked Up, Get Him to the Greek, and Superbad, has disappeared from the scales too. But until Jonah 2.0 gets his chance, The Sitter couldn't capture his trash-talking, man-child, king-of-comeback essence more boldly, more lovingly, or with such blatant vulgarity. Hill plays Noah, a jobless twentysomething layabout still living with his divorced mum along with the delusion that he has a hot girlfriend (she only keeps him around for oral talents that are unrelated to speech). As a favour that might help Mum with her own sad love life, he agrees to a one-night babysitting stand for the neighbours and their three wildly dissimilar but equally messed-up children. The night progresses through slapstick, farce, adventure, romance, danger, pathos, and eventual catharsis for everyone. (Unfortunately there's a touch of maudlin, sentimental corn in the mix too.) The children are as important to the escapades as Noah and are the primary source of his stupid/smooth shtick that mixes clever put-downs, terrified jabbering, and hilariously relentless patter of urban slang vernacular. Noah's spoiled charges are two boys--an anxiety-wracked 13-year-old and a 10-year-old Nicaraguan adoptee with severe anger and pyromania issues--and a precocious 8-year-old-girl who's heavily into make-up, hip-hop, and a score of other age-inappropriate behaviours. As the four of them hurtle deeper into the night, the situations become more antically treacherous with drug dealers, gangster thugs, police officers, and upper-crust snobs as part of the mix, along with their knives, cocaine, diamonds, alcohol, and guns. Director David Gordon Green, whose unusual career has gone from art house (George Washington, All the Real Girls) to raunchy bromance (Pineapple Express, Your Highness), supplants formal technique with the off-kilter and oft-unseemly style of Jonah Hill vs. the world. Green sometimes evokes the flow of surreality that Martin Scorsese took to unnatural ends in After Hours, only with more dirty bits and a lot more full-on crude laughs. Nearly everyone in the large supporting cast makes an excellent foil for the star's constant streetwise riffing, especially Sam Rockwell, who digs in to his role as a psychotic but emotionally conflicted drug dealer always on the lookout for new best friends. But it is Jonah Hill who sits firmly, even heavily in the driver's seat. It's a great place to flash his better-honed actorly chops along with his beloved version 1.0 comedic gift. --Ted Fry CyrusMumblecore auteurs the Duplass brothers (Baghead, The Puffy Chair) dip their toes in the precarious waters of Hollywood by casting well-known actors in Cyrus. But their devotion to clumsy, uncomfortable people remains: John (John C. Reilly, Step Brothers) has barely left his apartment in the seven years since Jamie (Catherine Keener, Lovely & Amazing) divorced him, so Jamie demands he come to a party--where, miraculously, he meets Molly (Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler), who seems like the woman of his dreams. Unfortunately, Molly comes with some baggage: her 22-year-old son, Cyrus (Jonah Hill, Superbad). To say Molly and Cyrus are close is an understatement, and John finds himself in a battle of wills with Molly as the prize. The Duplass brothers seek a kind of cinematic simplicity--to call it purity would be too highbrow for these aggressively pedestrian filmmakers--and when it works, it brings the viewer in intimate contact with life in its ordinary, essential glory. When it doesn't work, it's just dull. Despite its flatfooted plot, Cyrus works pretty well. The higher calibre of the cast helps--Reilly, Tomei, Hill, and Keener are all excellent, and much of the movie is genuinely funny. Don't expect elegance, but sometimes, something plain can please. --Bret Fetzer

• Monsters & Men | DVD | (04/02/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The aftermath of a police killing of a black man, told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.

• The BBC Sherlock Holmes Collection | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £31.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (25.16%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A collection of BBC adaptations featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's celebrated super-sleuth. A Study In Scarlet: Peter Cushing stars as the intrepid private eye Sherlock Holmes and has to perform a little forensic investigation. The Boscombe Valley Mystery: Peter Cushing stars as Sherlock Holmes in another unfathomable mystery story with Nigel Stock as his faithful sidekick. The Hound Of The Baskervilles: Classic two-part story starring Peter Cushing and Nigel Sto

• The Teckman Mystery (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (21/11/2022) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Teckman Mystery is a 1954 British crime mystery, directed by Wendy Toye and starring Margaret Leighton, John Justin, Roland Culver and Michael Medwin. Philip Chance is commissioned by his publisher to write the biography of Martin Teckman, a young airman who crashed and died whilst testing a new plane. But from the moment he arrives home, Philip Chance is beset by a series of 'accidents' which indicate strongly that there are people who do not want to see Teckman's past investigated. Product Features The Extraordinary Career of Wendy Toye Pt 1 feat. interviews with Jo Botting & Pamela Hutchinson The Stranger Left No Card (1952) On the Twelfth Day... (1955)

• Clifford The Big Red Dog | Blu Ray | (14/03/2022) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young girl's love for a tiny puppy named Clifford makes the dog grow to an enormous size.

• The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £6.36   |  Saving you £9.63 (151.42%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Boasting a virtuoso comic performance from Leonard Rossiter The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976-79) remains one of the greatest of all television sitcoms. Writer David Nobbs combined the surrealist absurdity of Monty Python with an on-going story line that unfolded through each of the three seasons with a clear beginning, middle and end; a ground-breaking development in 70s TV comedy. The first and best season charts middle-aged, middle-management executive Reginald Perrin as he breaks-down under the stress of middle-class life until he informs the world that half the parking meters in London have Dutch Parking Meter Disease. He fakes suicide and returns to court his wife Elizabeth (Pauline Yates) in disguise, a plot development that formed the entire basis of Mrs Doubtfire (1993). Series Two is broader, the rapid-fire dialogue still razor sharp and loaded with caustic wit and ingenious silliness, as a now sane Reggie takes on the madness of the business world by opening a chain of shops selling rubbish. The third season, set in a health farm, is routine, the edge blunted by routine sitcom conventions. At its best The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is hilarious and moving, its depiction of English middle-class life spot on, its satire prophetic. Reggie's visual fantasies hark back to The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and Billy Liar (1963), and look forward to Ally McBeal (1997-2002) and are the icing on the cake of a fine, original and highly imaginative show. On the DVD: Reginald Perrin's discs contain one complete seven episode season. There are no extras. The sound is good mono and the 4:3 picture is generally fine, though some of the exterior shot-on-film scenes have deteriorated and there are occasional signs of minor damage to the original video masters. Even so, for a 1970s sitcom shot on video the picture is excellent and far superior to the original broadcasts. --Gary S Dalkin

• Police Story 2 | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £16.02   |  Saving you £6.96 (53.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Police Story 2 (1989) is one of those rare sequels that's more fun than its predecessor. Jackie Chan plays his usual rule-breaking cop, loyal to superiors that carp at the destruction he leaves in his wake but are prepared to take credit for every success he has. Here he finds himself up against vengeful gangsters whose plans he frustrated in the first of the series; but he also has to combat a ruthless team of extortionists with a taste for explosions both large and small--blowing up large buildings, turning people into human bombs and torturing people with firecrackers are all part of their repertoire. He has girlfriend trouble, too, since his fiancée is worried that he always puts the job first. Like its predecessor and the quasi-sequel First Strike (1996), Police Story 2 is transitional between Chan's early more fight-orientated Hong Kong movies and his later, blander Hollywood films. The fights and stunts here are most of the point of what is essentially a very good generic Jackie Chan vehicle; he takes on progressively larger groups of opponents, coping, for example, with a dozen gangsters armed with swords in a terraced garden by leaping from level to level and paying each opponent individual attention. The final fight in a fireworks factory is a Chan classic, depending as it does as much on the comedy of frustrating repetition as on daring stunts. --Roz Kaveney

• John Mayer-Where the Light Is | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  John Mayer Where The Light Is captures the multi-Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter in the element where fans love him the most: live on stage. The special concert includes three sets: an acoustic performance a rare set with John Mayer Trio (John Mayer Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino) as well as a set featuring Mayer''s full-band all recorded during the night of December 8 2007 at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. This will be the first new release since Continuum (9/06) and incorporates each of the elements that the five-time Grammy-winner is known for - acoustic songwriter electric guitar slinger bluesman and vocalist. The 22-song DVD features a one of a kind song list made up of the three distinct performances. Highlights include many of Mayer''s biggest hits (''Waiting On The World To Change '' ''Daughters '' and ''Why Georgia'') new interpretations of cover songs (''Free Fallin'' '' ''Bold As Love '' and ''I Don''t Need No Doctor'') and a previously unreleased Mayer gem (''In Your Atmosphere''). Acoustic Set: 1. Neon 2. Stop This Train 3. LA Song 4. Daughters 5. Free Fallin'' Trio Set: 6. Everyday I Have The Blues 7. Wait Til Tomorrow 8. Who Did You Think I Was? 9. Come When I Call 10. Good Love Is On The Way 11. Out Of My Mind 12. Vultures 13. Bold As Love Band Set: 14. Waiting On The World To Change 15. Slow Dancing In A Burning Room 16. Why Georgia 17. Heart Of Life 18. I Don''t Need No Doctor 19. Gravity 20. I Don''t Trust Myself (With Loving You) 21. Belief 22. I''m Gonna Find Another You

• Chicago P.D. Season 1-6 | DVD | (11/11/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Not On Our Watch! From Primetime Emmy Award Winner Dick Wolf (Law & Order) Comes The Riveting Drama About The Men And Women Of The Chicago Police Department'S Elite Intelligence Unit. Combatting The City'S Most Heinous Crimes, These Detectives Put It All On The Line To Serve And Protect Their Community. At The Helm Of The Intelligence Unit Is Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe), A Man Not Against Crossing Legal And Ethical Lines To Ensure The Safety And Security Of The City He Loves. Filled With Hard-Hitting Drama And Heartpounding Action, Watch All 128 Episodes From All Six Thrilling Seasons Of Chicago P.D. Back-To-Back And Uninterrupted. Over Seven Hours Of Bonus Features Including Behind The Scenes And Major Crossover Episodes With Chicago Fire, Law & Order: Svu, Chicago Justice And Chicago Med.

• The Twilight Zone - Series 2 | DVD | (12/12/2005) from £18.15   |  Saving you £21.84 (120.33%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A collection of the colour episodes from season 2 of The Twilight Zone.

• Third Rock From The Sun - Series 1-6 - Complete | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  The multi-award winning comedy series stars John Lithgow as the High Commander of an investigative team of aliens sent to Earth on a mission to learn everything about humans and their so-called advanced civilisation.

• Batman and Robin Blu-ray 4K | Blu Ray | (03/06/2019) from £23.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk has English audio.

• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £8.39   |  Saving you £0.59 (10.93%)   |  RRP £5.99

  I'm Gonna Git You Sucka comes from Keenan Ivory Wayans--the man who brought us Jim Carrey (initially just one of the bunch on Wayans' US television comedy-sketch show, In Living Color)-- and is a comedy spoof on the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. Wayans plays Jack Spade, an army private just returning from the service. He comes home to find his younger brother June Bug dead of an overdose of gold chains (an "OG") He vows revenge, and with the help of some of the neighbourhood's old-skool heroes including Flyguy (Antonio Fargas), Kung Fu Joe (Steve James), Hammer (Isaac Hayes), Slammer (football star Jim Brown) and John Slade (Bernie Casey), Spade wages a war against Mr Big, the neighbourhood crime lord. In the tradition of Airplane! and Naked Gun, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka pokes fun through satire and offensive comedy. The film also features appearances from such varied actors as Clarence Williams III, Eve Plumb (better known to most as Jan Brady), and Chris Rock as a rib-joint customer. --Shannon Gee, Amazon.com

• Torso | Blu Ray | (25/09/2017) from £15.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sergio Martino directs this Italian horror starring Suzy Kendall and Tina Aumont. Two college girls are butchered by a masked killer who leaves a scarf at the scene. A classmate of the dead girls has seen the scarf before - but where? Her attempts to track down the culprit become more urgent as the hacksaw-wielding maniac sets about a killing spree across the Italian countryside.

• Drive | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £8.83   |  Saving you £-2.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Drive takes the standard American mismatched-buddies action comedy formula and turbo-charges it with furious Hong Kong wirework and martial arts. The result is a three-and-a-half million dollar "B" picture which looks like it cost 10 times more. The perfunctory story crosses Universal Solider (1992) with Rush Hour (1997) as a biologically enhanced Mark Dacascos flees a small army of Hong Kong assassins through California, teaming up with comedian Kadeem Hardison and delivering an almost unbelievable amount of bang per buck. Director Steve Wang stages the action with flair and clarity, the stunts, wirework and fights being exceptionally well-choreographed and shot. With Hardison's patter, two offbeat redneck assassins and a TV show about a frog with Einstein's brain there's abundant surprisingly genial humour, aided by Brittany Murphy's ditzy performance as a Twin Peaks-like teenager with hormones in overdrive. The cyborg aspect simply justifies the superhuman combat, but nevertheless a huge showdown in a retro-space age club is clearly styled after the "Tech Noir" bar sequence in The Terminator (1984), adding motorcycle killersstraight out of Rollerball (1975). Drive captures the rush of Hong Kong action movies yet almost has the feel of a musical, the mayhem replacing song and dance and offering more popcorn entertainment than many a bloated summer blockbuster.On the DVD: For such a low budget movie the 2.35:1 anamorphically enhanced image puts many far bigger features to shame, being pin-sharp throughout, with strong and accurate colours and minimal grain. The Dolby Digital 5.1 sound is equally strong, with sound-effects and music both having considerable impact, explosions ripping thorough the room like the latest Arnie shoot 'em up. There is a 47-minute retrospective documentary which is particularly interesting on the way the film was cut and restored for American release--this DVD presenting the director's cut which runs over 16 minutes longer than the US version. Six deleted/extended scenes are presented in a variety of formats, and it's easy to see why they were deleted. Also included are the original theatrical trailer, three photo galleries, cast and crew biographies and interview galleries with director Steve Wang and four of the main stars totalling about 20 minutes of material. The informative commentary track has Wang, Dacascos, Hardison and stunt co-ordinator Koichi Sakamoto revelling in their sheer enthusiasm for the movie and for Hong Kong action in general. --Gary S Dalkin

• Footballers' Wives - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £17.53   |  Saving you £7.46 (42.56%)   |  RRP £24.99

  It's glamorous sexy and totally unmissable - it's the all-new Footballer's Wives Complete Series 1 and 2 DVD boxset! Available for the very first time the set contains all 14 hours of the gloriously over-the-top first and second series together with a whole host of equally flashy DVD special features. No self-respecting 'Footie Wives' fan can do without this boxset!

• Miami Vice (Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx) | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £3.95   |  Saving you £16.04 (406.08%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Eighties icons Crockett and Tubbs come to the big screen in this Michael Mann-directed adventure.