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• Ulysses | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An adaptation of James Joyce's monumental modernist novel. Dublin June 16 1904. Stephen Dedalus (Maurice Roves) embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom (Milo O'Shea). Meanwhile Bloom's day is illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen and ends with a rapprochment with Molly Bloom (Barbara Jefford) his unfaithful wife.

• The Big Man | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £29.95   |  Saving you £-19.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Liam Neeson plays an unemployed Scottish miner who trains for a one-off bare-knuckle fist fight to bring in some money for his family despite the disapproval of his wife (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer). As the fight date approaches The Big Man discovers that the fight is corrupt but the money keeps him in the running.

• Father Ted - Series 3 | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £9.20   |  Saving you £10.79 (117.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This set contains the final series of Father Ted, which ended abruptly in 1998 with the death of its talented comic star, Dermot Morgan. The eight episodes here are a little uneven, but the best stuff is classic, laugh-out-loud satire, including "Are You Right There, Father Ted", in which Morgan's titular Catholic priest is re-banished to Ireland's Craggy Island, a green rock replete with paranoid sheep, randy milkmen, Nazi memorabilia collectors and an inexplicably large community of Chinese immigrants. Outstanding, too, is "Speed 3", in which Ted discovers that a number of babies recently born on Craggy all look like a self-made swinger named Pat Mustard. "Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse" speaks for itself, and "The Mainland" gives supporting actor Ardal O'Hanlon (as idiotic fellow cleric Dougal) a great showcase. --Tom Keogh

• Monsignor Quixote | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their remote village to Madrid and back exploring their friendship the demands of belief and constancy of faith. This lavish production filmed entirely on location captures the wit warmth and vitality that make the original novel by Graham Greene a unique work of literature.

• Paranoiac | DVD | (06/12/2021) from £7.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Le Combat Dans L'Ile | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Clement (Trintignant) is part of a right-wing political movement. Although monied and comfortable he is an active terrorist. Betrayed he grabs his wife Anne (Schneider) and takes refuge in a friend's house while he plots his deadly revenge... As part of the French Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) explosion of young energetic brave and brilliant directors Alain Cavalier fashioned a superb story of love loyalty and betrayal with a backdrop of political upheaval. Scripted by Jean-Paul Ra

• Taxi / Taxi 2 | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Taxi 1: Former pizza delivery guy Daniel is speed crazy. Embarking on a new career as a taxi driver his specially modified car is so fast even police radar can't spot him! When he unwittingly gives a high-speed ride to police officer Emilien he is forced to accept a deal to keep his license: a stint as Emilien's police car driver. Now on the other side of the law Daniel becomes the unlikely mastermind behind an investigation into a gang of German bank robbers. Aided by his girlfriend Emilien's mother and a whole squad of pizza delivery boys Daniel and Emilien join forces with hilarious consequences to foil the robbers on foot on scooters and of course in Taxis. Taxi 2: The Japanese Secretary of State for Defence is visiting France on a special mission to invest in French anti terrorism expertise. At the end of his trip he will sign a contract worth several billion dollars to the French government. However he is kidnapped by a group of Yakusa. Against their better judgement Daniel the cab driver and Emilien his friend the policeman become involved in a string of adventures in order to rescue the diplomat and ensure the contract is signed. Packed with excitement and energy Taxi 2 follows Daniel and Emilien's adventures in this all action sequel to Taxi.

• Howard's Way - Series 1 | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The BBC's answer to the glossy soaps of 1980s America came with - a then - massive 1 000 000 budget and one of the catchiest theme tunes this side of Black Beauty (courtesy of Eastenders tune-smith Simon May)! Maurice Colborne (Gangsters) stars as Tom Howard recently made redundant as an aircraft designer who decides to ply his trade in the world of boats instead; taking the reigns at a run-down local construction yard. A family of considerable wealth and pre

• The Acid House | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Combing his characteristic savage humor with hard-talking drama Irvine Welsh has adapted three of his short stories into one powerful explicit and savagely funny film. The Acid House reaches into the hearts and minds of the 'chemical generation' and delves into the dark hidden corners of the human psyche. Get ready to take the trip. The Granton Star Cause: Boab Coyle is on a cushy number. He lives at home with his parents. He has a place in this beloved Granton Star football team and he's got a gorgeous girlfriend. But a chance meeting with God changes all that - for good! A Soft Touch: Meet Johnny - he's a soft touch who is all too easily manipulated by those around him. So what will he do when he comes up against his totally psychotic neighbor Larry who takes everything including his wife! The Acid House: Coco Bryce is a 'Hibs Boy' with passion for raves and chemical excess. But one night he takes one tab too many and an electrical storm trips his mind into that of middle-class couple Rory and Jenny's newly born baby. But what of the old Coco and how do you deal with a drunken foul-mouthed baby?

• Top Cat Vol.5 | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Top Cat remains a favourite cartoon of many for its slyly subversive yet comically light-hearted anti-authoritarian themes. Set in the trash-strewn alleyways of New York City the animated series centres around charismatic con-man Top Cat and his gang of lowlife felines as they dodge nemesis Officer Dibble in their eternal quest for get-rich schemes.

• Hallam Foe | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £9.06   |  Saving you £6.93 (76.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jamie Bell stars in this darkly funny coming of age story about a misfit who likes to watch the world from a tree house in the grounds of his father's house.

• The Dark | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £5.95   |  Saving you £13.04 (219.16%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Grieving parents are haunted by visions of their missing child in this chilling thriller.

• Danielle Steel's Vanished | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £12.17   |  Saving you £-6.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Marielle Delauney (Lisa Rinna) and her adoring husband Charles are enjoying the romance of Paris when suddenly a tragic accident claims the life of their young son. Their marriage cannot survive their misery and Marielle plagued by guilt and despair is hospitalised.Eighteen months later she moves back to New York to forget her past and start her life over. A wealthy steel magnate Malcolm Patterson (George Hamilton) hires Marielle as curator of his art collection and it's not long before business leads to pleasure. They marry and very soon they are blessed with a beautiful baby boy. But then just as Marielle is sure her future is finally coming together her son goes missing and memories of her past flood back with a vengeance.To her horror Marielle's ex-husband is charged with kidnapping and in disbelief she searches for another possible answer. With the help of FBI Agent John Taylor Marielle is about to discover the unexpected true fate of her son.

• Vampyr | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first sound-film by one of the greatest of all filmmakers Vampyr offers a sensual immediacy that few if any works of cinema can claim to match. Legendary director Carl Theodor Dreyer leads the viewer as though guided in a trance through a realm akin to a wakingdream a zone positioned somewhere between reality and the supernatural. Traveller Allan Gray (arrestingly depicted by Julian West aka the secretive real-life Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg) arrives at a countryside inn seemingly beckoned by haunted forces. His growing acquaintance with the family who reside there soon opens up a network of uncanny associations between the dead and the living of ghostly lore and demonology which pull Gray ever deeper into an unsettling and upsetting mystery. At its core: troubled Gisle chaste daughter and sexual incarnation portrayed by the great cursed Sybille Schmitz (Diary of a Lost Girl and inspiration for Fassbinder's Veronika Voss.) Before the candles of Vampyr exhaust themselves Allan Gray and the viewer alike come eye-to-eye with Fate - in the face of dear dying Sybille in the blasphemed bodies of horrific bat-men in the charged and mortal act of asphyxiation - eye-to-eye then with Death the supreme vampire. Deemed by Alfred Hitchcock 'the only film worth watching... twice' Vampyr's influence has become by now incalculable. Long out of circulation in an acceptable transfer The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Dreyer's truly terrifying film in its film restored form for the first time in the UK on DVD.

• POA | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £7.09   |  Saving you £1.90 (21.10%)   |  RRP £8.99

  The Planet Of The Apes (Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner 1968): Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall star in this legendary science fiction masterpiece. Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist. Winner of an Honorary Academy Award for Outstanding Make-up Achievement and nominated for two Oscars (1968 Best Costume Design and Best Original Score) Planet of the Apes is grand entertainment from its visually arresting beginning to the chilling last moment. The Planet Of The Apes (Dir. Tim Burton 2001): In the year 2029 interstellar reconnaissance missions are relegated to chimpanzee pilots from the Space Station Oberon in deep space. On such a mission a chimp loses communication and vanishes from the radar. Fearless astronaut Leo Davidson launches a rescue mission and following a malfunction lands on a jungle-like planet not unlike the Earth. To Leo's astonishment English-speaking apes and primitive humans inhabit the planet. Following his capture by the apes and subsequent escape Leo assembles a small band of defiant humans and empathetic apes in an attempt to re-establish contact with Oberon but his focus changes following an unexpected discovery. Armed with this new information Leo leads a rebellion against an overpowering ape force that will result in freedom or complete annihilation.

• H.M.S. Defiant | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in 1797 at the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars, HMS Defiant is an enthralling British naval drama made to capitalise upon MGM's epic remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, also released in 1962. Based on the novel Mutiny by Frank Tilsey and starring Alex Guinness as a fair-minded captain locked in psychological conflict with Dirk Bogarde, his manipulative, coldly malicious first officer, the parallels with the famous true story are clear. However there were many naval mutinies at this period and this large-scale saga, which includes some spectacularly staged widescreen naval battles, offers a realistic depiction of life in the British navy at the time--from the press gangs and floggings, to the appalling food and living conditions. Director Lewis Gilbert--who previously helmed Sink the Bismarck! (1960)--strikes a good balance between the personal drama and sweeping maritime adventure. Guinness successfully varies his firm-but-fair officer from The Bridge on the River Kwai, Bogarde is chillingly hateful and Anthony Quayle gives strong support. ITV's recent Hornblower cumulatively offers a more detailed portrait of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars, though the TV series cannot match the visual scale of this big-screen production. On the DVD: HMS Defiant is presented anamorphically enhanced at 2.35:1, though a little of the original CinemaScope frame is still cropped at the sides. The image is generally very good, though a handful of scenes near the end show considerable print damage and there is an inconstancy of colour grading between some shots. Grain is variable, but not generally a problem, though some unattractive "ringing" from edge enhancement is noticeable, particularly around Alex Guinness when he stands against a bright sky. The sound is in very clear mono with just occasional distortion on the music score. The disc offers the option of watching with dubbed French, German, Italian or Spanish soundtracks. The original trailer is included--under the American title of Damn the Defiant!--as are trailers for three other classic war films. The only other extra features are a small gallery of original publicity materials and three very basic filmographies. --Gary S Dalkin

• Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (25/04/2022) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Make Way for Tomorrow, by LEO McCAREY (An Affair to Remember), is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. BEULAH BONDI (It's a Wonderful Life) and VICTOR MOORE (Swing Time) headline a cast of incomparable character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and subject to their offspring's selfish whims. An inspiration for Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, this is among American cinema's purest tearjerkers, all the way to its unflinching ending, which McCarey refused to change despite studio pressure. Special Features High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today, an interview from 2009 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich discussing the career of director Leo McCarey and Make Way for Tomorrow Video interview from 2009 with critic Gary Giddins, in which he talks about McCarey's artistry and the political and social context of the film PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Tag Gallagher and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, and an excerpt from film scholar Robin Wood's 1998 piece Leo McCarey and Family Values

• Futurama: Season 4 | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £6.93   |  Saving you £33.06 (477.06%)   |  RRP £39.99

  No more good news everybody--this fourth series of Futurama is the show's last. By turns frenetic and far-sighted, Matt Groening's futuristic comedy provided belly-laughs for self-confessed SF nerds, but somehow failed to connect with a broader audience, even though it was often funnier and sharper than stablemate The Simpsons. So now bid farewell to the Planet Express team--Fry, Leela, Zoidberg, Bender, Amy, Hermes, Prof Farnsworth--as well as to kindly Kif, cloned Cubert, megalomaniac Mom, mutants in the sewer, the cast of robo-sitcom All My Circuits, swashbuckling space lothario and William Shatner wannabe Zapp Brannigan, Elzar the four-armed chef, and all the other characters that made Futurama such a unique experience. This fourth and final year has all the elements that fans enjoyed so much--but also those elements that partially explain its cancellation. Recurring characters are great if you've watched the show before, as are the in-jokes; and the many parodies of classic science fiction are fine for the initiated, but risk leaving other viewers out in the cold. The show's strengths and perceived weaknesses are exemplified in the episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", in which the original cast of Star Trek play themselves: hilarious for Trekkers, but not really for anyone else. Elsewhere we find Leela discovering her real parents aren't aliens at all but in fact live in the sewers; Kif getting pregnant; Fry discovering the fossilised remains of his faithful pet dog; and Bender being converted to steam power. Despite some ups and downs, it's still the funniest animated show on TV. Those responsible for cancelling it can bite my shiny metal … On the DVD: Futurama, Series 4 DVD box set includes a "Play All" function on each disc. Multifarious extras include cast and crew commentaries, deleted scenes, animatics, galleries and Easter eggs. --Mark Walker

• Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £24.89   |  Saving you £10.10 (40.58%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This box set contains the following films: The Last Holiday (Dir: Henry Cass) (1950): Alec Guinness plays a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. He decides to enjoy his last months to the fullest. Kind Hearts And Coronets (Dir: Robert Hamer) (1949): Dennis Price plays Louis D'Ascoyne the would-be Duke of Chalfont whose mother was spurned by her noble family for marrying an Italian singer for love. Louis resolves to avenge his mother by murdering the relatives ahead of him in line for the dukedom all of whom are played by Alec Guinness! The Man In The White Suite (Dir: Alexander Mackendrick) (1951): Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness) invents a new strong fibre which repels dirt and never wears out! He uses this material to make a brilliant white suit and attempts to sell his product to the textile industry. However all is not as it seems when those in the industry realise that Stratton's new fibre could mean the end of their livelihood - the race is on to catch Stratton! Captain's Paradise (Dir: Anthony Kimmins) (1953): Henry St. James is the Captain of an international ferry. He enjoys his life at Sea especially as he has a loving English wife waiting for him in Gibraltar and another in Tangiers! A perfect life - so long as neither woman decide to travel with him! Barnacle Bill (1957) A British Naval Captain who is plagued by incurable seasickness retires from service and buys a decrepit amusement pier in a small coastal town. After discovering the local commissioners seek to condemn and seize his pier Captain Ambrose must do all in his power to save his pier.

• Quatermass And The Pit | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £10.35   |  Saving you £2.64 (25.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Workmen unearth prehistoric skulls while carrying out excavations on the London Underground. Very soon a strange and malevolent force is unleashed.