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• All The King's Men | DVD | (09/07/2001) from £9.54   |  Saving you £10.45 (109.54%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Best Picture Oscar in 1949 went to All the King's Men, a hard-hitting political melodrama that will strike any number of eerily familiar chords with audiences weaned on later American politics: from the Kennedys to Nixon, Bill Clinton and beyond, US politicians obviously haven't changed much in the intervening decades. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, this grittily realistic movie charts the rise and fall of Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford in an Oscar-winning role), a hick lawyer whose ideals are inexorably eroded by his relentless pursuit of power. When we first meet him, Stark is the people's champion, a struggling self-taught advocate who isn't afraid to speak out against "graft". Although inspired by the real-life story of Louisiana Governor Huey Pierce Long, All the King's Men also parallels the much later Primary Colors (1998), which is itself a thinly disguised portrait of Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. Like that movie, this one tells the tale from the point of view of a young idealist (John Ireland) who succumbs to the fledgling politician's charm and joins his campaign team. There he meets cynical aide Sadie Burke (Mercedes McCambridge, in another Oscar-winning role) and together they connive at and excuse every increasingly corrupt move made in the name of political expediency, until matters get dangerously out of hand after the governor's son kills his girlfriend in a drunk-driving incident (a spooky premonition of Chappaquidick?). The performances are all top-notch, as is the fast-paced screenplay and direction from Robert Rossen (later director of The Hustler in 1961). Less idealistic than Capra's Mr Smith Goes to Washington, this is a movie ahead of its time which still has plenty to say about the state of modern politics, American or otherwise. --Mark Walker

• Alien: The Director's Cut (Two Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Director Ridley Scott's new cut of his 1979 sci-fi classic about a lifeform that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. In space no-one can hear you scream.

• Teletubbies - Meet The Teletubbies | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Share the unique Teletubbies experience with this wonderful selection of Teletubbies footage designed to be you and your child's first steps into Teletubbyland. Discover more about Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa Laa and Po and why millions of children continue to love around the world. Also enclosed is a special guide for parents and carers created to provide a wide range of information about the rich content of Teletubbies and why it generates such a positive reaction from very young children.

• Ghosted | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £6.69   |  Saving you £6.30 (94.17%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jack (John Lynch) a model prisoner has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife leaves him on the anniversary of their son's death the only thing that keeps him from going under is the presence of a new prisoner Paul (Martin Compston). But when Paul falls under the influence of psychotic Baron Clay (Craig Parkinson) Jack soon finds he must risk his own life and sanity to help the newcomer. But can he save both himself and Paul in the process? A hard-hitting gritty prison drama starring a stellar cast of home-grown British talent and in your face violence Ghosted is a tough and powerful tale of loss survival salvation and life in a British prison.

• Shine of Rainbows | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A lonely orphan's life is transformed by an extraordinary woman who teaches him to conquer grief and discover the magic in nature and himself.

• Seven | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £4.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (261.24%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The most viscerally frightening and disturbing homicidal maniac picture since The Silence of the Lambs, Seven is based on an idea that's both gruesome and ingenious. A serial killer forces each of his victims to die by acting out one of the seven deadly sins. The murder scene is then artfully arranged into a grotesque tableau, a graphic illustration of each mortal vice. From the jittery opening credits to the horrifying (and seemingly inescapable) concluding twist, director David Fincher immerses us in a murky urban twilight where everything seems to be rotting, rusting, or moulding; the air is cold and heavy with dread. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are the detectives who skillfully track down the killer--all the while unaware that he has been closing in on them, as well. Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey are also featured, but it is director Fincher and the ominous, overwhelmingly oppressive atmosphere of doom that he creates that are the real stars of the film. It's a terrific date movie--for vampires. --Jim Emerson

• Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night | DVD | (22/11/2003) from £12.63   |  Saving you £3.62 (31.84%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Classic rock band Fleetwood Mac are literally one of the most successful rock acts of all time...Tango In The Night the video companion to their 1987 album was filmed at San Francisco's Cow Place in December 1987. After several years of turmoil and hiatuses the album and tour marked a stellar return to form for the band. Twelve tracks comprising: The Chain / Dreams / Seven Wonders / Isn't It Midnight / Standback / World Turning / Little Lies / Gold Dust Woman / Everywhere / Oh

• Bizet: Carmen -- film version | DVD | (13/03/2000) from £17.89   |  Saving you £2.10 (11.74%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This movie version of Bizet's popular opera Carmen was filmed on location, conveying a kind of atmosphere, a sense of space, movement, and presence that's hard to achieve in a staged performance. It takes the action out of doors for many scenes, with the opening titles superimposed on the bloody conclusion of a bullfight. Elsewhere the changing of the guard, the crowd scenes, the dance number that opens Act 2, and the panoramic scenery of the smugglers' mountain hideout all benefit from the freedom granted by movie cameras. It's an exciting Carmen, too, with a young-looking Placido Domingo in top form for a role he has sung hundreds of times. For Julia Migenes, though, it was her first performance in a role she would have trouble performing in an opera house. Her voice does not fit easily into Carmen's range, and she spent months training it, very successfully, before singing the role in a recording studio where the soundtrack was taped before the film was shot. Casting her in the role was a gamble, but it worked; she is a convincing actress. Unlike most opera-house performances this movie version uses the opera's original opera comique form with some spoken dialogue rather than recitatives.--Joe McLellan, Amazon.com

• Murder By Decree | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Murder by Decree has the distinction of being not only one of the best Sherlock Holmes films, but one of the best pastiches (i.e., a Holmes fiction created by someone other than author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) featuring the late-Victorian detective. Christopher Plummer is very good as Holmes, and James Mason redeems the many mishandled screen portrayals of Dr John Watson with a rare, insightful performance. The story may not be unique in post-Doyle Holmes adventures--the private investigator pursues Jack the Ripper during the latter's murderous reign in foggy London--but the script by John Hopkins (Thunderball) is keenly intelligent, developing concentric circles of power and evil with great subtlety. Before losing himself in Porky's, director Bob Clark did a masterful job of surprising audiences with Murder by Decree, convincing viewers they were watching one kind of drama but then unleashing something very different, very unsettling. --Tom Keogh

• East Of Ipswich | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £19.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Candy | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Young Candy is a college girl who seeks truth and meaning in life encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process... Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel a sendup of Voltaire's 'Candide'.

• The Sure Thing | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A sure thing comes once in a lifetime... but the real thing lasts forever. Rob Reiner directs this enchanting romantic comedy about a boy who wants a girl and a girl who wants a man. The boy is Gib (John Cusack) who is out to find 'The Sure Thing'. A no questions asked no strings attached no guilt involved 100% safe bet. The girl is Alison (Daphne Zuniga) who likes her men to be mature prefers an early night to a party and wants to go and see her tea drinking fiance. This disparate couple are off to LA - together. Both in search of romance but not with each other until...

• Mad Men - Complete Season 2 | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £4.98   |  Saving you £25.01 (502.21%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Set in 1960s New York the sexy and provocative drama Mad Men follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising an ego-driven world where key players make an art of the sell. Returning for its second season the Golden Globe''-winning series continues to blur the lines between truth and lies perception and reality. The world of Mad Men is moving in a new direction - can Sterling Cooper keep up? Meanwhile the private life of Don Draper becomes complicated in a new way. What is the cost of his secret identity?

• Maniac Cop 2 | Blu Ray | (19/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Only The Lonely | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Man The Woman The Mother. Middle aged all-round good guy Danny (John Candy) is in love for the first time - with Theresa (Ally Sheedy). But as their love blossoms his overbearing mother the fiery Rose Muldoon (Maureen O'Hara) plots to stop her ""baby"" flying the nest and uses every trick possible to keep Danny tied firmly to her apron strings with hilarious results!

• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This Nicholas Nickleby is not one of Hollywood's condensed versions, it's the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic eight-and-a-half-hour adaptation of the life and times of the eponymous school-teacher. The 1982 production (originally staged in two parts) won worldwide acclaim and was such a success that Britain's then-newest TV station, Channel 4, launched a joint venture with independent production company Primetime to bring Nicholas Nickleby to a television audience. The result is this wonderfully theatrical version, filmed at the Old Vic and starring much of the original stage cast. It manages to stay true to Trevor Nunn's original artistic vision of Dickens's damning incitement of England's educational system. The ensemble cast are superb: Roger Rees as Nicholas is a bright-eyed idealist, every inch the young romantic hero whose principles are often his downfall, but ultimately his salvation; Fulton Mackay's twisted, embittered Squeers is every inch the Dickensian villain; and David Threlfall is transformed as Smike, Squeers' piteously subjugated, crippled servant and gives the most moving performances of his career. This enthralling TV adaptation recreates the magic of the stage version for all those who were unable to catch it on its pitifully short run. It doesn't pull any punches as the humour and inspiring storyline are tempered with real dark and tragic episodes. Forget the Hollywood fluff, this is the version you should watch if you want a faithful retelling of Dickens's story. --Kristen Bowditch

• American Gangster (Blu-Ray & 4K) | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  "INCLUDES THEATRICAL FILM PLUS EXTENDED VERSION WITH 18 MINUTES OF ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE Academy Awardwinners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team with director Ridley Scott (Gladiator) in this powerful, epic story. Armed with ruthless tactics and a strict sense of honour, crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts (Crowe) sets out to bring down Lucas's multi-million dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation.Disc One4K ULTRA HD MOVIE BLU-RAY MOVIE + BONUS FEATURES FOR THE ULTIMATE MOVIE WATCHING EXPERIENCE, THIS DISC FEATURES:4X sharper picture than HDHDR (High Dynamic Range) for brilliant brights and deepest darksImmersive Audio for a multi-dimensional sound experienceFeature Commentary with director Ridley Scott and writter Steven ZaillianDisc TwoBlu-Ray Movie + Bonus FeaturesFeature Commentary with director Ridley Scott and Writer Steven ZaillianDeleted ScenesThe Bet Special: The Making of Amcerican GangsterDateline NBC: American Gangster First LookHip-Hop Infusion Featuring Common and T.I.Fallen Empire: Making American GangsterAnd more! "

• Red Curtain Trilogy - Romeo And Juliet / Moulin Rouge / Strictly Ballroom | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy comes to DVD in this exciting box set. The term 'Red Curtain' refers to the style of film-making devised by Luhrmann to promote audience participation featuring an emphasis on heightened worlds musical elements and comic tragedy. Romeo & Juliet: Special Edition (1996): Baz Luhrmann's dazzling and unconventional adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic love story is spellbinding. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes portray Ro

• WWE - Backlash 2003 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (-66.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The ultimate dream match between The Rock and Goldberg plus Brock Lesnar vs John Cena and more....

• Wolf Creek | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on true events, "Wolf Creek" tells the chilling story of three backpackers travelling in remote Outback Australia.