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• Portrait Of A Lady | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £4.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nicole Kidman is Isabel Archer a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. But her headstrong innocence is no match for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle (Barbara Hershey in an Oscar-nominated performance) and the devious Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich). Adapted from the novel by Henry James.

• Old Bill and Son | DVD | (19/10/2015) from £7.29   |  Saving you £2.70 (37.04%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Some of British cinema's best-loved stars were enlisted for this endearing wartime comedy featuring 'Old Bill' the memorably cantankerous, grittily determined Great War soldier created by cartoonist Captain Bruce Bairnsfather. Starring Morland Graham and John Mills as Bills senior and junior, Old Bill and Son is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!SPECIAL FEATURE:Image Gallery

• Battlestar Galactica - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £16.99   |  Saving you £33.00 (194.23%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The world is over. The fight is just beginning. The Cylons were created by man. They rebelled. They evolved. They look and feel human. Some are programmed to think they are human. There are many copies. And they have a plan. Welcome to the radical re-imagining of 1970s sci-fi favourite Battlestar Galactica! Episodes comprise: 1. 33 2. Water 3. Bastille Day 4. Act of Contrition 5. You Can't Go Home Again 6. Litmus 7. Six Degrees Of Separation 8. Flesh and Bone 9. Tigh Me Up Tigh Me Down 10. The Hand Of God 11. Colonial Day 12. Kobol's Last Gleaming (Part 1) 13. Kobol's Last Gleaming (Part 2)

• Parenthood | Blu Ray | (20/06/2016) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ron Howard's 1989 hit, written by fellow family men Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (Splash, A League of Their Own), is an original comedy about contemporary life and the eternal responsibilities of raising children. Steve Martin has never been better than as a dedicated husband and father trying (and inevitably failing, as do most of us) to balance the demands of his kids and his job. The actor, like his character, throws himself into the part quite touchingly, particularly in a scene where a hired clown fails to show up at a children's party and Martin's character unabashedly provides the entertainment. Good as Martin is, this is actually an ensemble piece with numerous actors playing members of the same family, with cross-generational joys and disappointments in the air--and parents in conflict, children in love and so on. Jason Robards is very good as a patriarch who finally accepts the reality that the son he adores (Tom Hulce) is a major screw-up. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• The Waltons - Season 3 | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £28.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (37.94%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The television series that captured the American spirit of family loyalty returns for a third season on DVD. Episodes comprise: 1. The Conflict (Part 1) 2. The Conflict (Part 2) 3. The First Day 4. The Thoroughbred 5. The Runaway 6. The Romance 7. The Ring 8. The System 9. The Spoilers 10. The Marathon 11. The Book 12. The Job 13. The Departure 14. The Visitor 15. The Birthday 16. The Lie 17. The Matchmakers 18. The Beguiled 19. The Caretakers 20. The Shivaree 21. The Choice 22. The Statue 23. The Song 24. The Woman 25. The Venture

• Gulliver's Travels | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ebulliently imaginative and far more cleverly presented than you would expect from a TV miniseries, this adaptation of Gulliver's Travels succeeds by never pandering to the lowest common denominator. Closely based on Jonathan Swift's 1726 classic, it is enhanced by dazzling special effects from Jim Henson Productions and a superb, multi-ethnic cast. The biggest surprise is Ted Danson in the title role--one of his best performances, even if he is the only person in England with an American accent. He conveys amusement, amazement and intelligence as he travels from one strange country into another. Not that anyone back in Blighty believes Mr Gulliver's tales of little people or giants. The story is told in flashback from an insane asylum, where he is forcibly confined. This far outshines several previous adaptations of Swift's satirical novel. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• Smashed | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Kate and Charlie are a young married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter and drinking...especially the drinking. When Kate decides to sober up, her new lifestyle brings to the surface a troubling relationship with her mother, facing the lies she's told her employer and calls into question whether or not her relationship with Charlie is built on love or just a boozy diversion from adulthood.

• A Kiss Before Dying | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bud Corliss a darkly handsome college boy is so obsessed with wealth that he'll do anything to get it. When his rich girlfriend Dorothy gets pregnant and is threatened with disinheritance Bud stages her suicide sending her plummeting from the roof of a high-rise. It's the perfect crime; until Dorothy's sister Ellen begins to unravel Bud's deadly scheme...

• Cheech And Chong - Get Out Of My Room | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A mock documentary filmed mostly in and around LA with interviews of Cheech and Chong interspersed between four videos of songs from their last album. Songs include: 'Get outta my room' and 'Born in East LA'.

• The Maltese Falcon Steelbook | Blu Ray | (03/04/2023) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder. An all-star cast (including Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr.) joins Bogart in this crackling mystery masterwork written for the screen (from Dashiell Hammett's novel) and directed by John Huston. This nominee for 3 Academy Awards®* - Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Greenstreet) and Screenplay (Huston) - catapulted Bogart to stardom and launched Huston's directorial career. Product Features Commentary by Bogart Biographer Eric Lax Featurette The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird Breakdowns of 1941: Studio Blooper Reel Makeup Tests Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Humphrey Bogart Warner Night at the Movies 1941 Short Subjects Gallery Newsreel Musical Short The Gay Parisian 2 Classic Cartoons: Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt and Meet John Doughboy Trailers of This Movie, 1941's Sergeant York and 1936's Previous Falcon Movie Adaptation Satan Met a Lady Audio-Only Bonus: 3 Radio Show Adaptations - 2 Featuring the Movie's Original Stars, Plus Another Starring Edward G. Robinson

• Meet The Romans Presented by Mary Beard As Seen On BBC2 | DVD | (13/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  We still live in the shadow of ancient Rome - a city at the heart of a vast empire that stretched from the North of England to Afghanistan, dominating the West for over 700 years. This fascinating history series, as seen on the BBC and presented by Professor Mary Beard, puts aside the stories of emperors and armies, guts and gore, to meet the real Romans living at the heart of it all.

• Christmas Horror Boxset | DVD | (13/11/2017) from £14.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• All Creatures Great and Small - Series 1, Part 2 | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £8.25   |  Saving you £18.00 (257.51%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based on James Herriot's autobiographical best sellers 'If Only They Could Talk' and 'It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet' the long running TV series 'All Creatures Great and Small' continued to satisfy the Herriot hysteria of the British public.

• National Lampoon's Animal House (1979) | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £9.93   |  Saving you £6.06 (37.90%)   |  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

• The Romans Triple DVD Box Set Presented by Mary Beard - Caligula, Pompeii Life & Death in a Roman Town & Meet the Romans BBC2 | DVD | (21/10/2013) from £11.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  CaligulaTwo thousand years ago one of history s most notorious individuals was born. Historian Mary Beard embarks on an investigative journey to explore the life and times of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus better known to us as Caligula. Known as Romes most capricious tyrant he was said to have made his horse a consul proclaimed himself a living God and indulged in scandalous orgies and thats before building vast bridges across land and sea prostituting senators wives and killing half the Roman elite on a whim. All that in just four short years in power before a violent and speedy assassination at just 28 years old. Mary explores the real Caligula in an array of unexpected places. From Germany to Capri from Rome to Lake Nemi she exposes and analyses historical accounts and assembles tantalising fragments of evidence. Mary reveals an astonishing story of murder intrigue and dynastic family power. Above all shell explain why Caligula has ended up with such a reputation and in the process reveal a more intriguing portrait of not just the monster but the man. Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman TownPompeii: one of the most famous volcanic eruptions in history. We know how its victims died but this film sets out to answer another question - how did they live? Gleaning evidence from an extraordinary find Cambridge professor and Pompeii expert Mary Beard provides new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption. In a dark cellar in Oplontis just three miles from the centre of Pompeii 54 skeletons who didn't succumb to the torrent of volcanic ash are about to be put under the microscope. The remains will be submitted to a barrage of tests that will unlock one of the most comprehensive scientific snapshots of Pompeian life ever produced - and there are some big surprises in store. Using the latest forensic techniques it is now possible to determine what those who perished in the disaster ate and drank where they came from what diseases they suffered how rich they were and perhaps even more astonishingly the details of their sex lives. The way the remains were found in the cellar already provides an invaluable clue about the lives of the people they belonged to. On one side of the room were individuals buried with one of the most stunning hauls of gold jewellery and coins ever found in Pompeii. On the other were people buried with nothing. It looked the stark dividing line of a polarised ancient society: a room partitioned between super rich and abject poor. But on closer examination the skeletons reveal some surprises about life in Pompeii. Meet the RomansWe still live in the shadow of ancient Rome - a city at the heart of a vast empire that stretched from the North of England to Afghanistan dominating the West for over 700 years. This fascinating history series as seen on the BBC and presented by Professor Mary Beard puts aside the stories of emperors and armies guts and gore to meet the real Romans living at the heart of it all. Episode Comprise: Episode 1Mary asks not what the Romans did for us but what the empire did for Rome. She rides the Via Appia climbs up to the top seats of the Colosseum takes a boat to Rome's port Ostia and takes us into the bowels of Monte Testaccio. She also meets some extraordinary Romans: Baricha Zabda and Achiba three prisoners of war who became Roman citizens; and Pupius Amicus the purple dye seller making imperial dye from shellfish imported from Tunisia. This is Rome from the bottom up. Episode 2Mary descends into the city streets to discover the dirt crime sex and slum conditions in the world's first high-rise city. This Rome is not the marble Rome we know but a vast messy metropolis with little urban planning where most Romans lived in high-rise apartment blocks with little space light or even sanitation. Forced outdoors into the city streets she reveals where they went to hang out get drunk have sex and get clean. Episode 3 In the final episode Mary delves even deeper into ordinary Roman life by going behind the closed doors of their homes. She meets an extraordinary cast of characters - drunken housewives teenage brides bullied children and runaway slaves - and paints a more dynamic lusty picture of Roman family life. Finally Mary paints a more nuanced picture of Roman slavery and asks why if it was such a brutal institution did many Romans choose to be buried with their servants - living cheek by jowl in death as in life.

• Murder One - Season 2 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (48.22%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The second season of Murder One this time with a new lead investigator (LaPaglia) and 18 chapters in the casebook.

• The Duchess Of Duke Street - Series 1 - Part 2 | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £10.86   |  Saving you £9.13 (84.07%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gemma Jones stars as Louisa Trotter a cook for the upperclass at a fancy hotel. Very similar in style to 'Upstairs Downstairs' this classic British TV series first aired in 1976.

• Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Originally broadcast in 1981 this five-part story has Turpin and his highway companion Swiftnick encountering treachery and danger at every turn as they try to help an American lady Jane Harding who is on a mission to depose the corrupt governer of Maryland. Written by the legendary Richard Carpenter Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure is a fast-paced action story with strong support from a number of guest stars such as: Patrick MacNee Michael Deeks Susan Hampshire Oli

• Parents | Blu Ray | (25/02/2019) from £11.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Meet the Laemles. Dad's got a great job, mom has all the modern conveniences a happy homemaker could ask for, and ten-year-old Michael has neat new friends and two parents who kill him with kindness. They're all the all-American family or are they? Michael can't figure out why his family serves leftovers every night. Leftovers? Well, what were they before they were leftovers? questions young Michael. Leftovers-to-be, smiles dad. Dad's bringing home the bacon .and a whole lot more! Michael's parents are getting away with murder making home where the horror is! Special Features: Audio Commentary with Director Bob Balaban and Producer Bonnie Palef Isolated Score Selections and Audio Interview with Composer Jonathan Elias Leftovers To Be with Screenwriter Christopher Hawthorne Mother's Day with Actress Mary Beth Hurt Inside Out An interview with Director of Photography Robin Vidgeon Vintage Tastes with Decorative Consultant Yolanda Cuomo Theatrical trailer Radio Spots Still Gallery

• City Girl - Dual Format (Blu-ray+DVD) | Blu Ray | (19/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After the visual fireworks of Sunrise and the now-lost splendour of 4 Devils, F. W. Murnau turned his attention to this vivid, painterly study of an impulsive and fragile marriage among the wheatfields of Minnesota. During a brief stay in Chicago, innocent farmer's son Lem falls for and weds Kate, a hard-bitten but lonely waitress. Upon bringing her home at the start of harvest time, the honeymoon soon turns into a claustrophobic struggle as they contend with the bitter scorn of his father and the invasive, leering jealousy of the farm's labouring community.Tenderly romantic and tough-minded in equal measure, City Girl is one of cinema's great pastorals, featuring some of the most delicate performances Murnau ever filmed and influencing directors such as Terrence Malick and Jean Vigo. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Murnau's penultimate film in a glorious HD transfer.