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• The Sword In The Stone | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  As far as Disney is concerned, The Sword in the Stone was a portent of things to come, with slapstick upstaging storytelling, and cultural in-jokes substituting for wonder. Based on TH White's beloved novel The Once and Future King, this Disney version chronicles King Arthur's boyish adventures. There's much to enjoy here as coach Merlin the magician shows the young Arthur, nicknamed Wart, the skills that will help him become the future ruler of the Britons. The transformation sequences, where the boy is turned into a fish, a bird and a squirrel are vintage Disney. The oft-repeated scene of Merlin battling it out with mean old Madame Mim still is worth a few chuckles, but it underlines the problem with most of the film--most of its scenes are only played for laughs. References by Merlin to television and other items of modern life also mar the generally innocuous landscape. Younger children will like it, while older kids will find it slower compared with recent Disney films. --Keith Simanton, Amazon.com

• The Chase (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/05/2020) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Preceding Bonnie and Clyde by a year, Arthur Penn's (Mickey One) acclaimed film boasts enviable pedigree produced by the legendary Sam Spiegel, with a screenplay by Lillian Hellman from the novel by Horton Foote, a rousing score by John Barry, and a stellar cast of the hottest stars of the day (including Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Angie Dickinson and James Fox). The story of an escaped con making his way back to the corrupt Texas town and the people who sent him to prison, The Chase is a telling indictment of violence in American society. A seminal work which is ripe for rediscovery. Extras 4K restoration from the original negative Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman Step Back and Let Him Go: Arthur Penn on ˜The Chase' (1996, 26 mins): previously unseen interview footage from Paul Joyce's documentary Marlon Brando: The Wild One Cut to ˜The Chase' (2017, 24 mins): a new interview with renowned actor James Fox, conducted by Richard Ayoade Matthew Penn on ˜The Chase' (2017, 9 mins): a new interview with director Arthur Penn's son Super 8 version: original cut-down home cinema presentation Isolated Score: experience John Barry's original soundtrack music Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• Ghosts - Series 1-3 Boxset | DVD | (20/09/2021) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Includes all episodes from Series 1-3, plus the 2020 Christmas Special and Extra Features. The award-winning sitcom from the stars of Horrible Histories, Yonderland and the feature film Bill. The crumbling country pile of Button House is home to numerous restless spirits who have died there over the centuries - each ghost very much a product of their time, resigned to squabbling with each other for eternity over the most inane of daily gripes. But their lives - or, rather, afterlives - are thrown into turmoil when a young couple - Alison and Mike - surprisingly inherit the peaceful derelict house and make plans to turn it into a bustling family hotel. As the ghosts attempt to oust the newcomers from their home, and Mike and Alison discover the true scale of the project they've taken on, fate conspires to trap both sides in an impossible house share, where every day is, literally, a matter of life and death.

• The Sons Of Katie Elder | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Wayne recovered from his first bout of cancer to appear in 1965's The Sons of Katie Elder as the brother of Dean Martin, Earl Holliman and Michael Anderson Jr. All four characters are wandering souls prone to trouble, but after the funeral of their frontier mother, they set out to avenge her death. Directed by Henry Hathaway (Wayne's director on True Grit), the film moves like a conventional, latter-day Western, with good performances from Wayne and Martin, who'd already costarred with the Duke in Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo. There's also nice support from Dennis Hopper (who had a legendary conflict with Hathaway on this film), Strother Martin and George Kennedy. --Tom Keogh

• The Big Sleep | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made screen history together more than once, but they were never more popular than in this 1946 adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, directed by Howard Hawks (To Have and Have Not). Bogart plays private eye Philip Marlowe, who is hired by a wealthy socialite (Bacall) to look into troubles stirred up by her wild, young sister (Martha Vickers). Legendarily complicated (so much so that even Chandler had trouble following the plot), the film is nonetheless hugely entertaining and atmospheric, an electrifying plunge into the exotica of detective fiction. William Faulkner wrote the screenplay. --Tom Keogh

• Sabrina | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £3.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Audrey Hepburn is the delightful, young, eponymous Sabrina, the daughter of a chauffeur who is hopelessly in love with David Larrabee (William Holden), the playboy younger son in the rich Long Island household her father works for. In order to help her forget her woes, Sabrina is shipped off to cooking school in Paris. While there, she befriends a baron who provides a bit of culture--and the encouragement to snip off her childlike ponytail. Upon her return to New York, Sabrina is transformed into a sophisticated woman, and David is entranced by her. However, his older brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart) has arranged David's marriage to Elizabeth Tyson in order to seal a business merger and thus must steer David away from Sabrina. To do this, Linus takes on the task of wooing her for himself. Full of great dialogue ("A woman happy in love, she burns the soufflé; a woman unhappy in love, she forgets to turn on the oven") and wonderful performances, this film is a romantic masterpiece. Also enjoyable is the 1995 remake, starring Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford. --Jenny Brown

• Horrible Histories - Horrible Christmas | DVD | (02/11/2015) from £5.84   |  Saving you £2.15 (36.82%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Christmas is a time for charity, hope and goodwill to all men... or if it’s Horrible Histories: Horrible Christmas it’s a time for farting jesters, finding bacon in your Christmas card and having your dinner confiscated by Oliver Cromwell. This one-off Christmas special from the hugely popular comedy show dives headlong into showcasing bizarre Yuletide absurdities over the centuries with the programme’s unique blend of sketches, pastiches and song. Horrible Histories: Horrible Christmas is a foul and festive treat – come and revel in the smelliest, silliest and goriest stories about everyone’s favourite time of year.

• The Bogart And Bacall Collection | DVD | (17/09/2012) from £11.99   |  Saving you £18.00 (150.12%)   |  RRP £29.99

  FOUR DISC DVD SET (To Have and Have Not / The Big Sleep / Dark Passage / Key Largo) TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT - "Anybody got a match?" The match for film fans is Bogart and Bacall in their incendiary (and legendary) first pairing. THE BIG SLEEP - In this unequaled masterpiece, the two stars are embroiled in suspense in this landmark hard-boiled Raymond Chandler whodunit. DARK PASSAGE - San Quentin escapee Bogart emerges from plastic surgery with a new face and with Bacall at his side as he tries to clear his name in this stylish film noir. KEY LARGO - Trapped by a storm and a killer! Bogart and Bacall ride out a hurricane while facing the business end of Edward G. Robinson's gun

• Yonderland: Series 2 | DVD | (14/12/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Written by and starring the cast of Horrible Histories, Yonderland is a wonderful and weird comedy for adults and kids alike. Yonderland follows 33-year old mum Debbie Maddox (Martha Howe-Douglas) who is bored of being an unappreciated stay-at-home mum. Little does she know this is all about to change when she unexpectedly finds herself on a quest through Yonderland, with only an Elf by her side. This extraordinary world is only accessible via her kitchen cupboard that is inhabited by a collection of eccentric (and usually idiotic) characters, some of whom happen to be puppets. Through Debbie's eyes, we're exported to a strange but spectacular getaway packed full of mayhem, Monty Python-esque silliness and humour that will have mum and dad in stiches too, guaranteeing giggles for the whole family. In Series Two, Debbie, The Chosen One is thrown back into the fantastical world of Yonderland, constantly called upon by the Council of Elders to overcome their latest challenge. But bigger issues are at stake now that Debbie's nemesis Imperatrix has determined to capture her, fulfil the prophecy and destroy Yonderland. Meanwhile Debbie's husband Peter starts to fixate on the strange goings on in the kitchen cupboard as he becomes increasingly suspicious about her absences from home.

• Real Michael Jackson, the | DVD | (31/10/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Producer & television star David Gest presents a feature length definitive portrait of his best friend Michael Jackson through the eyes of family friends and music legends including Smokey Robinson Dionne Warwick Whitney Houston Nick Ashford & Valerie Simpson Holland-Dozier-Holland Gamble & Huff Freda Payne The Temptations' Dennis Edwards Martha Reeves Paul Anka Petula Clark Jimmy Ruffin Percy Sledge Brenda Holloway Kim Weston Bobby Taylor Russell Thompkins Jr. plus many more. Includes never before seen footage and unprecedented interviews with Michael's Mum Katherine and siblings Tito and Rebbie Jackson covering all the highs and also the lows in the King of Pop's extraordinary life story uniquely told by those who knew him best. Plus fantastic music from The Jackson 5 and other Motown Legends.

• The Goonies | Blu Ray | (31/08/2020) from £18.72   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A decade-defining classic from the imagination of Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus, The Goonies follows a tight-knit group of young friends desperate to save their homes from a greedy real-estate developer. After discovering a mysterious treasure map, they find themselves being chased by a family of fugitives through an underground realm full of twisting passages ad booby traps. Their quest: to find the hidden gold of legendary pirate One-Eye'd Willy. When all seems lost, the Goonies never say die in the beloved, generation-crossing adventure. Special Features: Commentary (with Hidden Video Treasures) by director Richard Donner and Select Cast Members The Making of The Goonies Featurette Cyndi Lauper The Goonies 'r' Good Enough Music Video Deleted Scenes Theatrical Trailer

• To Catch A Thief | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £5.18   |  Saving you £7.81 (150.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  To Catch a Thief is not one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest, but it's arguably his most stylish thriller, loved as much for the elegantly erotic banter between Grace Kelly and Cary Grant as for the suspense that ensues when retired burglar Grant attempts to net the copycat diamond thief. The action, much of it shot on location, hugs the coast of the French Riviera; John Michael Hayes' screenplay crackles with doubles entendres; and Edith Head's dresses define the aloof poise of one of cinema's more enigmatic icons. If anything is missing, it's the undertow of black humour which snags the unsuspecting viewer in so many of Hitchcock's greater films. Here, the edge is supplied by the splendid Jessie Royce Landis as Kelly's vulgar, worldly mother; her special way with a fried egg is one of those cinematic moments which linger in the mind with almost pornographic disgust. History, of course, delivered its own ironic blow years later when the then Princess Grace of Monaco died in an accident on the very road where Kelly and Grant shot their exhilarating car chase. Portents aside, she remains Hitchcock's most alluring and sophisticated heroine. On the DVD: To Catch a Thief is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, which distils the distinctive qualities of the VistaVision cinematography, and with a mono Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. Interesting extras include several mini-documentaries in which Hitchcock's daughter and granddaughter, among others, reminisce about the great director, censor problems over the risqué dialogue, the talents of costume designer Edith Head, and the peculiar difficulties of shooting in VistaVision. An original theatrical trailer is another bonus. --Piers Ford

• The Sons of Katie Elder (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (15/09/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Horrible Histories - Series 1-5 | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £28.95   |  Saving you £6.04 (20.86%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Bringing together all 5 series of the award winning Horrible Histories in one collection. Based on the best-selling books for kids (and for adults but they just won't admit it) Horrible Histories is an energetic surprising and unconventional take on history's most gruesome unpleasant yet funniest moments. From the woeful World Wars the miserable Middle Ages and the savage Stone Age to cut-throat Celts groovy Greeks rotten Romans vile Vikings and awful Egyptians history has never been so naughty. These are the stories from history that your mischievous uncle told you about; the gory smelly bits that your teacher wouldn't approve of. Get ready for the funniest fastest nastiest and daftest ride through history you're ever likely to see.

• Yonderland - Season 1 | DVD | (17/02/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Written by and starring the cast of Horrible Histories Yonderland is a naughty comedy for adults and kids. Mum Debbie is bored of being an unappreciated stay at home mum and heads on the gap year she never had. But forget a gap year in South East Asia; she's heading to Yonderland - another realm accessible via her kitchen cupboard that hosts the most unusual and ridiculous of characters. Comic puppet elves dark lords weird looking blue people and the most stupid of Elders who fail miserably to rule the land. Through mum's eyes we're exported to a weird and wonderful getaway full of mayhem Monty Python-esque silliness packed full of jokes and peppered with adult humour that will get people of all ages laughing. Special Features: Behind the Scenes

• Pufnstuf 'Zaps The World' The Movie | DVD | (01/01/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After a bad day at school Jimmy (Jack Wild - Oliver!) runs to the shore where he can play his flute in solitude. But when he lays the flute down it suddenly comes to life! Jimmy is lured aboard a magical talking boat sent by an evil witch named Witchiepoo (Billie Hayes). Soon Jimmy uncovers the truth. He is to be made Witchiepoo's prisoner and the flute now made of gold and diamond studded will be hers! But the entire escapade is seen by a dragon named H.R.Pufnstuf. When he and his friends Cling and Clang come to the rescue Jimmy's adventures on Living Island (where everything is alive) are about to begin. Now Pufnstuf and his friends have to get Jimmy safely off the island before Witchiepoo snags the flute to impress Boss Witch (Martha Raye) and her friend Witch Hazel (Mama Cass). Pufnstuf is a family comedy filled with mirth magic and music for all ages and now for the first time available fully restored on DVD!

• Star Trek Voyager: The Complete Collection | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-5.08 (N/A%)   |  RRP £54.91

  The much anticipated release of the first season of Star Trek: Voyager saw the franchise boldly do what it does best and provide fans with fantastically scripted, highly entertaining science-fiction. Star Trek: Voyager made sci-fi history when it became the first Star Trek series to feature a female Captain.

• National Lampoon's Animal House | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £4.94   |  Saving you £11.05 (223.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A groundbreaking screwball caper, 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House was in its own way a rite of passage for Hollywood. Set in 1962 at Faber College, it follows the riotous carryings-on of the Delta Fraternity, into which are initiated freshmen Tom Hulce and Stephen Furst. Among the established house members are Tim Matheson, Peter Riegert and the late John Belushi as Bluto, a belching, lecherous, Jack Daniels guzzling maniac. A debauched house of pranksters (culminating in the famous Deathmobile sequence), Delta stands as a fun alternative to the more strait-laced, crew-cut, unpleasantly repressive norm personified by Omega House. As cowriter the late Doug Kenney puts it, "better to be an animal than a vegetable". Animal House is deliberately set in the pre-JFK assassination, pre-Vietnam era, something not made much of here, but which would have been implicitly understood by its American audience. The film was an enormous success, a rude, liberating catharsis for the latter-day frathousers who watched it. However, decades on, a lot of the humour seems broad, predictable, boorish, oafishly sexist and less witty than Airplane!, made two years later in the same anarchic spirit. Indeed, although it launched the Hollywood careers of several of its players and makers, including Kevin Bacon, director John Landis, Harold Ramis and Tom Hulce, who went on to do fine things, it might well have been inadvertently responsible for the infantilisation of much subsequent Hollywood comedy. Still, there's an undeniable energy that gusts throughout the film and Belushi, whether eating garbage or trying to reinvoke the spirit of America "After the Germans bombed Pearl Harbour" is a joy. On the DVD: Animal House comes to disc in a good transfer, presented in 1.85:1. The main extra is a featurette in which director John Landis, writer Chris Miller and some of the actors talk about the making of the movie. Interestingly, 23 years on, most of those interviewed look better than they did back in 1978, especially Stephen "Flounder" Furst. --David Stubbs

• Sons of Katie Elder | Blu Ray | (27/02/2023) from £8.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Katie Elder Bore Four Sons...and the day she is buried they all return home to Clearwater, Texas, to pay their last respects. John Wayne is the eldest and toughest son, the gunslinger. Tom (Dean Martin) is the gambler and good with a gun when he has to be. Matt (Earl Holliman) is the quiet one nobody ever called him yellow twice. Bud (Michael Anderson, Jr.) is the youngest. Any hope for respectability lies with him. Directed by Henry Hathaway (True Grit ), an acknowledged master of the Western, the story has a dual theme; not only is this a he-man's story, but it is also a drama of the maternal influence of Katie Elder, movingly portrayed from beginning to conclusion.

• Ghosts - Series 3 | DVD | (20/09/2021) from £9.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The hugely successful supernatural sitcom is back, following the comedy chaos of a houseshare between the living and the restless dead. Written and created by the stars of Horrible Histories and the creators, writers and stars of fantasy comedy Yonderland and feature film Bill, this latest series sees Alison and Mike working hard to bring their new guest house dreams to life. But when an unexpected visitor arrives at Button House with a shattering revelation, Alison questions everything she thought she knew. The resident ghosts react with varying degrees of fear, mistrust, and - in some cases - delight. Meanwhile, Mike is more intent than ever to put Button House on the map.