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• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 10 | DVD | (06/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, a season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. --Mark Walker

• Fame Academy - The Winner's Story | DVD | (20/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  David Sneddon was the super talented winner of Fame Academy and this is the extraordinary story of his journey from obscurity to super stardom! David's story reveals the blossoming of an unknown talent and follows him from his very first audition right through to the final live showdown watched by over 8 million people. Packed with footage unseen on BBC1 live performances exclusive interviews rehearsals and acoustic sessions David's Story documents all the tears excitement and laughs that happened on his amazing journey.

• The Time Of Your Life | DVD | (01/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When James Cagney starred in the movie adaptation of The Time of Your Life in 1948, it was hotly been debated whether William Saroyan’s stage play was really filmable at all. Because of its small cast, because all the action takes place on a single claustrophobic set, because the "plot" consists entirely of sub-plots, and because Saroyan’s "dirty sentimentality" isn’t to everyone’s taste, such doubts are still understandable today. However, accept the movie for what it is--a play in a box--and you’ll be captivated. The story revolves around a slightly down-at-heel bar-restaurant, where a group of disparate characters come and go as their stories gradually unfold. They include an ex-prostitute desperately seeking a new life, a dancer looking for a break into showbusiness, a down-and-out who discovers a vocation as a pianist, a beer-sodden cowboy and a villainous "stoolie" who, needless to say, gets his comeuppance. This gaggle of misfits is presided over by an enigmatic, champagne-drinking philanthropist (brilliantly played by Cagney) who gently nudges them towards their goals while indulging his own fascination with the minutiae of daily life. Throughout this quietly delightful picture the audience are not told why he’s this way, but it is possible to make an educated guess. On the DVD: The Time of Your Life might be a classic, but it apparently warrants no extra features. The black and white picture is 4:3. --Roger Thomas

• The Richard Pryor Collection | DVD | (18/09/2017) from £16.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An all new Richard Pryor DVD gifting set. The set features 4 DVDs in a slipcase and includes his 1976 comedy musical Car Wash also starring The Pointer Sisters. The 1978 fantasy musical adventure. The Wiz a film based on the classic Wizard of Oz, also starring Michael Jackson and Diana Ross. The 1978 farcical comedy Which Way is Up sees Pryor acting in three roles, which Eddie Murphy has so famously now made a career of. And finally one of Pryor s greatest commercial successes the 1985 smash hit comedy Brewster s Millions also starring John Candy.

• Thin Ice | DVD | (26/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Academy Award nominee Greg Kinnear, Academy Award winner Alan Arkin, and Billy Crudup lead a celebrated cast in the most critically acclaimed caper of the year. An insurance agent (Greg Kinnear) is looking for a way to jump-start his business, reunite with his estranged wife (Lea Thompson), and escape the dismal midwestern weather. This self-proclaimed master of duplicity believes that salesmanship is all about selling a story-all he needs is a sucker willing to buy it. He hits pay dirt with a lonely retired farmer (Alan Arkin), who is sitting on something much bigger than an insurance commission: a rare violin collecting dust in the corner of the farmhouse. His attempt to con the old man spins out of control, however, trapping him in a web of deceit and moral ambiguity.

• John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers - Live At The Bottom Line New York 1992 | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-1.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers: Live At The Bottom Line - New York Tracklist: 1. Chicago Line 2. Gimme One More Day 3. I Want To Go 4. Congo Square 5. All My Life 6. Send Me Down To Vicksburg 7. Sensitive Kind 8. John Henry 9. Black Cat Woman 10. You Don't Love Me 11. Room To More 12. The Last Time

• Silence Of The Lambs/Summer Of Sam | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £17.55   |  Saving you £-8.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  The Silence Of The Lambs (Dir. Jonathan Demme 1991): As Hannibal ""The Cannibal"" Lecter Anthony Hopkins is the archetypical antihero--cultured quick-witted uncontainable--a portrait of the sharpest human faculties gone diabolically wrong. His performance marked him as a major star in America and the movie swept the 1991 Academy Awards--Best Picture Director (Jonathan Demme) Actor (Hopkins) Actress (Foster) and Screenplay Adaptation (Ted Tally from the novel by Thomas Harris). Summer Of Sam (Dir. Spike Lee 1999): In the summer of 1977 Saturday night fever ruled and the first thrashings of punk were being heard. By day temperatures soared on the sweltering streets of Manhattan but by night a serial killer dubbed the Son of Sam stalked the suburbs indiscriminately shooting young brunettes and held New York City in a grip of terror. Trying to make sense of their lives in this overwhelming atmosphere of fear and suspicion are Vinny a streetwise Casanova indulging in affairs under the nose of his loving wife Dionna and Ritchie a punk musician moonlighting as a male stripper. As the murder's actions impact on all their lifestyles they start to suspect the killer might be someone from their own neighborhood - or even one of their own friends. From the controversial director Spike Lee comes his boldest and most ambitious film brilliantly capturing the sights sounds and sexual attitudes of the 1970s.

• John Miller - The Guitar Of Furry Lewis | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £37.23   |  Saving you £-10.24 (-37.90%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Furry Lewis was one of the most improvisatory of bluesmen. He was a two-finger picker with an unusually varied repertoire of right-hand attacks. In open tunings, he favored big brush strokes with his thumb on the upbeats. While playing in open E, he adopted a very complex, detail-oriented approach. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. NTSC all region. 89 minutes.

• Remember The 70s - Vol. 2 | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Track Listing: 1.Aphrodite's Child - It's Five O'clock 2.Cats - Magical Mystery Morning 3.Dave Dee - Wedding Bells 4.Middle Of The Road - Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum 5.Tremeloes - Hello Buddy 6.Joe Dolan - Sometimes A Man Just Has To Cry 7.Demis Roussos - We Shall Dance 8.Tremeloes - Too Late (To Be Saved) 9.Donny Osmond - Puppy Love 10.Mac & Katie Kissoon - Freedom 11.Mouth & MacNeal - Hello-A 12.Hollies - Magic Woman Touch 13.Roy Wood - Dear Elaine 14.Demis Roussos - I'll Be Your Friend 15.Righteous Bros. - Dream On 16.Guy's 'N' Dolls - There's A Whole Lot Of Loving 17.Olivia Newton John - Sam 18.Hollis - Amnesty

• John Motson's World Cup Heroes And Villains | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £3.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  British broadcasting legend and all-round football buff John Motson takes us through his definitive list of World Cup Heroes And Villains ahead of next years World Cup in South Africa. Oh I say!

• The Strangers - Series 5 - Complete | DVD | (14/01/2009) from £19.42   |  Saving you £0.57 (2.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An extraordinary success for ITV, Strangers was a tough, quirky police series that was certainly a breed apart from the other cop shows of the eighties. Strangers features Don Henderson as the idiosyncratic DCI Bulman who was never to be seen without his trademark string gloves, Vicks inhaler and plastic bag. This is the first time that this complete fifth series has been released in any format

• As I Lay Dying | Blu Ray | (23/06/2014) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (46.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted from the classic novel by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying is the story that chronicles the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased mother Addie to her hometown for burial. Addie's husband Anse (Tim Blake Nelson) and their children Cash (Jim Parrack) Darl (James Franco) and three of their siblings leave the farm with her coffin - each affected by Addie's death in a profound and different way. Their road trip to Jefferson forty miles away is disrupted by every antagonistic force of nature or man: flooded rivers injury and accident a raging barn fire and not least of all - each individual character's personal turmoil which threaten the fabric of the family more than any outside force.

• Rusalka - Dvorak | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Pountney's landmark English National Opera staging of Dvorak's haunting fairy tale opera left critics and audiences spellbound. The production is set in a Victorian nursery where an adolescent girl on the brink of sensual awakening dreams of first love. Her story is that of Rusalka the wood nymph who like Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid sacrifices all for love destined to be betrayed. High above the stage Rusalka dreamily swings as the picturesque gives way to the surreal.

• Lucky Texan, The / Randy Rides Alone / Man From Utah | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 'The Lucky Texan' Jerry and Jake are betrayed when they hand in their gold to a local assayer but the 'officials' follow them back to the mine. In 'Randy Rides Alone' a man enters a saloon filled with murdered patrons where he finds himself accused of being the killer. 'Man From Utah' finds John Weston who is sent to investigate the killings of rodeo riders and enters the local competition. When it appears that John will win the contest one of the other riders tries to fix

• Pelleas Et Melisande | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £17.43   |  Saving you £1.82 (11.26%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Debussy's haunting opera Pelleas et Melisande based on a tragic fairy tale recounts the ill fated love of half brothers Golaud and Pelleas for the same woman the enigmatic Melisande. Graham Vick's beautiful fin-de-siecle production for Glyndebourne Festival Opera filmed in 1999 stars Christiane Oelze as Melisande Richard Croft as Pelleas and John Tomlinson as Golaud.

• House Of Blues Guitar Level 2 | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  House of Blues and The Rock House Method created this blues guitar program to take you from beginner to an intermediate-level of play in no time. The 90+ minutes of one-on-one lessons with instructor and guitarist John McCarthy help you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing techniques needed for creative playing. Learn advanced techniques such as full-form blues chords blues scales triplet lead patterns shuffle feel and swing effect. Learn challenging riffs turnarounds and techniques made famous by blues legends.

• Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - the Magic Sun | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  A film by Phill Niblock featuring Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra. Composer photographer and filmmaker Phill Niblock's classic of experimental underground filmmaking with a sensational soundtrack by pianist Sun Ra and the members of his Solar Arkestra! Shot in the mid '60s when the Arkestra was based in New York this film was produced using a unique negative process andultra-tight close-ups on the moving hands and mouths of the musicians. The result is a virtually abstract music film mastered from a new print in all its incredibly sharp black & white glory.

• Walk Hard -The Dewey Cox Story | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A wild and wicked send-up of every musical biopic ever made Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story stars John C. Reilly as one of the most iconic figures in rock history - Dewey Cox! America loves Cox! But behind the music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a musician whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral Cox sleeps with 411 women marries three times has 22 kids and 14 stepkids stars in his own 70's TV show collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp and gets addicted to - and then kicks - every drug known to man... but despite it all Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman.

• Rio Bravo | Blu Ray | (01/08/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World - The Hanging Gardens Of Babylon | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Explore with host John Romer the influence of ancient eastern civilisations. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon in what now is Iraq were rumoured to be part of the palace of Nebuchadnezzar. Today scientists believe that the exotic gardens were actually more fable than fact. The Temple of Artemist at Ephesus in modern day Turkey was built to honour the mother goddess. She was a powerful voice for many different people - the Romans knew her as Diana the Anatolians as Kybele - and her