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• Anastasia | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £2.83   |  Saving you £3.16 (111.66%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Stomping out their usual cuteness and carbon copying Disney's grand animation style to a tee, directors Don Bluth and Gary Goldman (An American Tail) create a successful musical comedy from the story of the lost Russian princess. Adapting the story of imperialism and revolution is tricky, and subsequently the film's opening is weak. Once Anya (voiced by Meg Ryan, sung by Liz Callaway) is a teenager and on her own (suffering from some degree of amnesia), Anastasia is quite pleasing though never refreshingly new. 20th Century Fox's big-money gamble to horn in on Disney's realm is worthy. The songs, especially the recurrent "Once Upon a December" by Broadway team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, are better than Disney's recent efforts. It's worth picking up the soundtrack. The mix of cell animation and computer work is vivid. The collection of vocal talent is also strong, from John Cusack (as Dimitri, who wants to earn the reward by bringing Anya to Paris) to Hank Azaria as an amusing albino bat. Kelsey Grammer helps turn a roly-poly sidekick into a warm and strong supporting character. The biggest drawback is Bluth/Goldman's insistence on having a typical villain. Surprisingly, the story would be strong enough without one and the undead corpse of Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd) is unneeded and unoriginal. --Doug Thomas

• Macbeth | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Roman Polanski's adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth remains one of the most infamous for a number of reasons: the copious amounts of bloody gore, its expert use of location settings (filmed in North Wales) and Lady Macbeth's nude sleepwalking scene. Despite its notoriety, though, this does remain one of the more compelling film adaptations of the Scottish tragedy, if one of the more pessimistic takes on the story of Macbeth and his overreaching ambition. If you think the play is normally a bit of a downer, you haven't seen Polanski's bleak version of it, made in reaction to the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, by the Manson "family". Jon Finch (Hitchcock's Frenzy) is a forceful Macbeth, bringing out the Scot's warrior instincts, and Francesca Annis is a memorable Lady Macbeth but the main thrust of the film belongs to Polanski's and noted British playwright and critic Kenneth Tynan's take on the play: extremely violent, nihilistic and visceral; this is down-in-the-dirt, no-holds-barred Shakespeare, not fussy costume drama. Pay close attention to the end, a silent coda that puts a chilling twist on all the action that has come beforehand and foreshadows more tragedy to come. --Mark Englehart

• Hairspray (2007) | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.95   |  Saving you £15.04 (303.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  John Waters' 1988 cult classic gets a 21st century makeover in this update of the musical.

• Father Brown: Series 1,2,3,4,5 & 6 (BBC) | DVD | (12/02/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  All 70 episodes from series 1-6 of the TV drama starring Mark Williams as the eponymous character created by English writer G.K. Chesterton. Set in the 1950s in the fictional village of Kembleford, the series follows Roman Catholic priest Father Brown who has a knack for solving crimes. He is assisted by parish secretary Bridgette McCarthy (Sorcha Cusack) and is often a source of frustration for the local police. Includes Subtitles for the Hard of Hearing.

• Zathura | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two brothers are sent on an interstellar adventure while playing a mysterious board game.

• The Complete Yes Minister & Yes, Prime Minister | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £44.94   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brand New condition, Factory sealed. & disc set of "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister". -Box 1-

• Hairspray | Blu Ray | (29/08/2016) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Musical comedy starring John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer. Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky) is an overweight teenager with all the right moves who is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny (Amanda Bynes) run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin (Zac Efron), much to Tracy's mother Edna's (Travolta) dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Collins holds auditions to see who will be the next person on the Corny Collins show. With the help of her friend Seaweed (Elijah Kelly), Tracy makes it on the show, angering the evil dance queen Amber Von Tussle (Brittany Snow) and her mother Velma (Pfeiffer). Tracy then decides that it's not fair that the black kids can only dance on the Corny Collins Show once a month, and with the help of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle (Queen Latifah), her father (Christopher Walken) and Edna, she decides to take action.

• Unlocked | DVD | (28/08/2017) from £4.68   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOOMI RAPACE (Prometheus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) stars in the action-thriller UNLOCKED. Once one of the CIA's top interrogators, Alice Racine's (Rapace) career was sidelined when she failed to unlock a prisoner in time to save the lives of dozens of innocent people from a terrorist attack in Paris. Now leading a quiet life in London as a caseworker, Alice is unexpectedly called back into action when the CIA apprehends a suspect believed to have direct knowledge of another imminent attack. Turning to the few people she can trust as she seeks out the responsible parties as she races against the clock to prevent a deadly biological attack on the citizens of London. Alongside Rapace, the stellar cast of UNLOCKED features ORLANDO BLOOM (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, The Hobbit franchise) as enigmatic war veteran Jack Alcott, two-time Oscar-winner MICHAEL DOUGLAS (Ant-Man, Wall Street) as Alice's mentor Eric Lasch, along with Academy Award® nominees TONI COLLETTE (Little Miss Sunshine, The Sixth Sense) as MI5 Agent Emily Knowles, and JOHN MALKOVICH (Red 2, Transformers: Dark of the Moon) as Bob Hunter, the CIA's Director of European Operations. UNLOCKED is directed by BAFTA Award winner MICHAEL APTED (The World Is Not Enough, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the 7 Up series) based on a screenplay by PETER O'BRIEN (Halo: Reach). The film is produced by GEORGINA TOWNSLEY (Diameter of the Bomb), LORENZO DI BONAVENTURA (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Red, G.I. Joe: Retaliation), ERIK HOWSAM (G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Kidnap) and CLAUDIA BLUEMHUBER (Under the Skin, The Railway Man)

• Home Alone Collection (4 Titles) DVD | DVD | (16/09/2013) from £5.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Big | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A perfect marriage of novel but incisive writing, acting and direction, Big is the story of a 12-year-old boy who wishes he were older, and wakes up one morning as a30-year-old man (Tom Hanks). The script by Gary Ross(Dave) and Anne Spielberg finds some unexpected ways of attacking obvious issues of sex, work, and childhood friendships, and in all of these things the accent is on classy humour and great sensitivity. Hanks is remarkable in the lead, at times hilarious (reacting to caviar just as a 12-year-old would) and at others deeply tender. Penny Marshall became a first-rate filmmaker with this 1988 work. --Tom Keogh

• Match Of The Day - 60s, 70s, And 80s | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £13.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (81.75%)   |  RRP £24.99

  On August 22nd 1964 the BBC launched a new weekly football series called Match of the Day: Liverpool played Arsenal Kenneth Wolstenholme was the commentator and television viewers entered a brave new football world. No one could predict that the fledgling programme watched by 20 000 people would ultimately attract millions of viewers and would run for over a quarter of a century. The 60's charts the development of the series when the game was blessed with true characters and ou

• Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £6.95   |  Saving you £16.03 (404.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The most unlikeliest herd are back and this time they're having to face up to some pretty terrifying interlopers!

• Quantum Leap: The Complete Collection | Blu Ray | (29/01/2018) from £112.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All the episodes from the award-winning time-travel series. Scientist Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) gets trapped inside his own 'Quantum Leap' experiment, and leaps into the bodies of people whose problems only he can solve. Joined by the hologram projection of his wise-cracking adviser Al (Dean Stockwell), Sam has to help each person he leaps into before he can leave, all the while hoping that the next leap will get him home. Season 1 episodes are: 'Genesis: Part 1', 'Genesis: Part 2', 'Star-Crossed', 'The Right Hand of God', 'How the Tess Was Won', 'Double Identity', 'The Color of Truth', 'Camikazi Kid', and 'Play It Again Seymour'. Season 2 episodes are: 'Honeymoon Express', 'Disco Inferno', 'The Americanization of Machiko', 'What Price Gloria?', 'Blind Faith', 'Good Morning, Peoria', 'Thou Shalt Not', 'Jimmy', 'So Help Me God', 'Catch a Falling Star', 'A Portrait For Troian', 'Animal Frat', 'Another Mother', 'All Americans', 'Her Charm', 'Freedom', 'Good Night Dear Heart', 'Pool Hall Blues', 'Leaping in Without a Net', 'Maybe Baby', 'Sea Bride' and 'MIA'. Season 3 episodes are: 'The Leap Home: Part 1', 'The Leap Home: Part 2', 'Leap of Faith', 'One Strobe Over the Line', 'The Boogieman', 'Miss Deep South', 'Black On White On Fire', 'The Great Spontini', 'Rebel Without a Clue', 'A Little Miracle', 'Runaway', 'Eight and a Half Months', 'Future Boy', 'Private Dancer', 'Piano Man', 'Southern Comforts', 'Glitter Rock', 'A Hunting We Will Go', 'Last Dance Before an Execution', 'Heart of a Champion', 'Nuclear Family' and 'Shock Theatre'. Season 4 episodes are: 'The Leap Back', 'Play Ball', 'Hurricane', 'Justice', 'Permanent', 'Raped', 'The Wrong Stuff', 'Dreams', 'A Single Drop of Rain', 'Unchained', 'The Play's the Thing', 'Running for Honor', 'Temptation Eyes', 'The Last Gunfighter', 'A Song for the Soul', 'Ghost Ship', 'Roberto!', 'It's a Wonderful Leap', 'Moments to Live', 'The Curse of Ptah-Hotep', 'Stand Up', 'A Leap for Lisa'. Season 5 episodes are: 'Lee Harvey Oswald: Part 1', 'Lee Harvey Oswald: Part 2', 'Leaping of the Shrew', 'Nowhere to Run', 'Killin' Time', 'Star Light, Star Bright', 'Deliver Us from Evil', 'Trilogy: Part 1', 'Trilogy: Part 2', 'Trilogy: Part 3', 'Promised Land', 'A Tale of Two Sweeties', 'Liberation', 'Dr. Ruth', 'Blood Moon', 'Return', 'Revenge', 'Goodbye Norma Jean', 'The Beast Within', 'The Leap Between the States', 'Memphis Melody' and 'Mirror Image'.

• The Hand That Rocks The Cradle | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £6.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A potboiler featuring a demented caretaker and a seemingly hapless suburban family, this is The Nanny of the 1990s. However, it is much more predictable than that 1965 Bette Davis psychodrama, and more graphic. It works only because Rebecca De Mornay makes us intensely uncomfortable as the disturbed au pair who wants to take care of much more than her employer's well-being. Annabella Sciorra plays the perfect mother of a flawless family. Her obstetrician, however, is less than wonderful, having enjoyed her examination much more than he should have. When she files sexual harassment charges against the repugnant doctor, he loses face--literally--after shooting himself in the head. Several months later, an ideal nanny shows up at her home. You guessed it--she's the doc's widow. The movie follows a tried and trusted formula, with the audience in on everything. However, the story does surprise us in intense and intimate ways. The visit to the obstetrician is one of the creepiest moments in the film. You definitely hear the voice of writer Amanda Silver in a plot concerned with the vulnerabilities of a family, a newborn, a marriage. Since we know so much up front, there is an overall lack of inventiveness in the plot machinations. It may not jolt us, but De Mornay does. It's unsettling to watch someone who appears so attractive and who behaves so kindly suddenly reveal hideous psychopathic tendencies. Restraining herself from going over the top, she instead oozes such malevolence you'll want to shudder. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• The Green Green Grass - Series 1-4 Box Set | DVD | (10/03/2014) from £19.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (50.03%)   |  RRP £29.99

  When Peckham’s finest second-hand car trader Boycie learns that the dreaded Driscoll Brothers have ‘Somehow’ got it into their heads that he grassed them up to the police he has little choice but to go on the run. Fancying himself in the role of country squire he drags long suffering wife Marlene and teenage son Tyler to the wilds of Shropshire and their new home Winterdown Farm.;But any notion of their new life being all country fairs and fox hunts quickly evaporates when they realise that they have also taken on the local yokels that are the farm’s staff: Elgin “farm manager” Sparrowhawk unlucky- in-love herdsman Bryan simple minded crops man Jed and housekeeper and village gossip Mrs Cakeworthy. On top of this things get off to a less than perfect start with their new neighbour patriotic Welshman Llewellyn. Will Boycie ever fit in with the landed gentry? Will Marlene ever get used to the ‘unnaturally’ quiet country nights? Will the Driscoll Brothers ever catch up with them? And will Mrs Cakeworthy ever actually do any housework?

• Hobson's Choice | DVD | (05/05/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Henry Horatio Hobson (Academy Award -Winner Charles Laughton) is the owner of a well-established boot shop in nineteenth century Salford Lancashire and the father of three daughters. The oldest Maggie (Brenda De Banzie) shoulders both home and business responsibilities while Hobson whiles the time away at the local pub. The younger sisters are both being courted by neighbours but Hobson refuses to give the couples settlements. Maggie becomes tired of his oafish behaviour and decides to take matters into her hands by seeking a husband. Much to the hilarity and consternation of her father aged spinster Maggie sets her sights on shy Will Mossop (John Mills) Hobson's master boot-maker. Mossop is at first stunned by the suggestion but eventually agrees to Maggie's authoritative persuasion and together they set up a rival boot shop. A timeless masterpiece that marked a temporary return to David Lean's period adaptations of Dickens (Great Expectations Oliver Twist). The film went on to win multiple awards. This film has been digitally restored to its former glory. Special Features: New and exclusive interviews with Prunella Scales and screenwriter Norman Spencer

• Life on Mars: Series 2 | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £8.93   |  Saving you £31.06 (347.82%)   |  RRP £39.99

  John Simm continues into a second thrilling series as Sam Tyler a driven and ambitious young detective determined to keep the streets of 21st Century Manchester safe. But after a near fatal car accident he has waken up dazed and confused in 1973. Has he gone back in time? Is he in a coma? Or has he simply gone insane? In an archaic CID unit he still must adapt to their old-fashioned technologies and etiquettes while working on some of the hardest cases in which he's ever been involved....

• Thoroughly Modern Millie | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £8.28   |  Saving you £1.71 (20.65%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Julie Andrews stars as Millie an innocent country girl who comes to the big city in search of a husband. Along the way she becomes the secretary of the rich and famous Trevor Graydon (John Gavin) befriends the sweet Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore) fights off white slaver Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie) and hooks up with a lively paper clip salesman Jimmy (James Fox). In the end it takes a rich and nutty jazz baby like Muzzy (Carol Channing) to unravel all these complications give

• The Aviator | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £5.40   |  Saving you £15.59 (288.70%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Leonardo DiCaprio stars as the eccentric industrialist and Hollywood film mogul Howard Hughes in this glamorous biopic from Martin Scorsese.

• Alien | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £8.64   |  Saving you £3.35 (38.77%)   |  RRP £11.99

  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.