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• Between The Lines - Season 1 | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  When the police force can't be trusted... CIB: the police for the police. Loathed by fellow officers and treated with suspicion by the public their's is a grey world of corruption and one that leaves rising star Superintendent Tony Clark cold. Reluctantly involved in the beginning he finds that now there is no going back. As the taste of his promotion turns sour he finds himself well and truly caught between the lines...

• Second In Command | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as an official appointed second-in command to the US ambassador to a tumultuous Eastern European country. When the ambassador is murdered in an attempted coup it's down to JC and a small group of US marines to fend off the attackers!

• Lantana | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £7.25   |  Saving you £8.74 (120.55%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A woman disappears. Four marriages are drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex and death. Not all of them will survive.

• The Smallest Show On Earth | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £20.37   |  Saving you £-7.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An amiable knock-off of the Ealing comedy style, The Smallest Show on Earth starts with aspiring novelist Bill Travers and his "nice gel" wife Virginia McKenna inheriting a cinema from a hitherto unknown uncle and discovering that it isn't the sumptuous modern Grand, which specialises in those "smash 'em in the face, knock 'em over the waterfront" pictures, but the decrepit Bijou, known locally as "the fleapit". The initial plan, set up by lawyer Leslie Phillips, is to sell off the cinema to the owner of the Grand so he can knock it down to make a car park, but our heroes are put off by the arrogant bullying of the rival manager (Francis De Wolff) and succumb to the inept charms of the crazed, aged staff--drunken projectionist Peter Sellers, doddery commissionaire Bernard Miles and dotty ticket lady Margaret Rutherford (who joined the team as a piano accompanist). In the 1950s, there was a run of gentle British comedies in which outmoded and broken-down local institutions (steam trains, tugboats, vintage cars) were saved by collections of committed eccentrics who despised the new-fangled bus services or soulless council bureaucracies and were willing to resort to a little larceny (in this case, arson). The Smallest Show slots in perfectly with the cycle, getting laughs from the Bijou's already outmoded programme of scratchy Westerns and desert dramas (which increase ice cream sales) and sentiment over the staff's midnight screenings of silent movies that remind them of better days. It's likeable rather than hilarious, with Sellers and Miles buried under crepe hair and fake wrinkles competing to out-dodder each other and losing the picture to the inimitable Rutherford, who doesn't have to fake her eccentricity. Pin-up, June Cunningham, is the glamorous usherette and Sid James plays her annoyed Dad. On the DVD: The Smallest Show on Earth is presented in a decent print, but with no extras. The film is also available as part of the four-disc Peter Sellers Collection. --Kim Newman

• Cats - Ultimate Edition | DVD | (13/10/2000) from £20.49   |  Saving you £-14.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Cats is a pop-cultural phenomenon that has been performed on stage for more than 50 million patrons in 26 countries for almost 18 years, resulting in more than two billion dollars in ticket sales. Now that Cats has finally made it to the small screen, attention must be paid not just by fans of this critic-proof show, but also by those entertainment mavens who have somehow avoided it until now. This video version has been restaged but, alas, not really reconceived for its new medium. Most of the cast--assembled from London, Amsterdam and New York productions--are competent. Ken Page as Old Deuteronomy, Jacob Brent as Mr Mistoffelees and Elaine Paige--the original London Grizabella, the Glamour Cat well past her prime--are a great deal more than that. Paige has toned down her theatrical belting of her big number, "Memory", and allowed the faded ruin of her character's soul to prevail in close-up. For all the covers of her signature song, Paige's version remains definitive. The video is, by definition, more intimate, which is not always a good thing: costumes are even more Halloweeny in garish close-up, the cats less cuddly without that all-important interaction, the stage's appropriately midnight lighting transmuted to a Las Vegas neon. And the chorus of cats in production numbers is even clunkier and more amorphous in two- and three-shots. The one complete newcomer to the cast is the 90-year-old icon among English actors, John Mills, a delight as Gus the Theatrical Cat. Sir John and his character show the youngsters how it's done in close-up, largely behind the eyes, abetted by a heart-tugging delivery of his one song. Yet virtually all of the songs are lip-synched, further robbing the video Cats of its onstage spontaneity. It's clearer than ever that Lloyd Webber's music is mostly twaddle, with the important exception of "Memory", which instantly and rightly became one of the genuine theatre standards not dependent on context, in the vein of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns". On the plus side, most of the characters and lyrics, from TS Eliot's 14-poem Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, are far better defined and understood from the video version. --Robert Windeler, Amazon.com

• Swallows And Amazons | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £6.10   |  Saving you £6.89 (112.95%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Six young children experience a holiday in the Lake District during the peaceful summer of 1929.... Based on the novel by Arthur Ransome.

• Wilderness | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £6.02   |  Saving you £9.97 (165.61%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A group of violent prisoners find themselves being hunted by an unknown man and a pack of killer dogs.

• A Touch of Frost: Series 10 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A tenth series of investigations featuring gruff detective Frost (David Jason). Includes Hidden Truth Close Encounters and Held In Trust.

• Don't Eat The Neighbours - A Rabbit For All Seasons | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This DVD features four of the best episodes from the first series of the critically acclaimed animated comedy. Episodes include: 'A Rabbit For All Seasons' 'Colin Pays A Visit' 'Lucy The Adventurer' 'Lucy Blows Her Top

• Monty Python Movies Box Set | DVD | (10/04/2017) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Monty Python goes to the movies in this DVD boxset packed with three of their classic cinematic adventures. Enjoy ˜And Now For Something Completely Different', ˜Monty Python and the Holy Grail' and ˜Life of Brian'. And Now For Something Completely Different Monty Python's Flying Circus is regarded as a milestone In British Comedy, This, their first feature film, is an anthology of the funniest sketches from the legendary BBC television series. Pick one of your favourites from among many, including the famous Say No More, Nudge, Nudge sequence, the Hell's Grannies and The Dead Parrot. Monty Python and the Holy Grail After a chance meeting with a rather irate God, King Arthur and his Knights of The Round Table are set the sacred task of retrieving the all powerful Holy Grail. On their long quest they encounter a number of terrifying hazards the taunts of the abusive French Knight, disgruntled peasants, the Knights who say ˜Ni' and the deadly rabbit with the big pointy teeth. (Double Disc Set) Life of Brian The Pythons deliver a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood's depiction of all things biblical with their third film. The setting is Judea 33 A.D., a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in them, and exasperated Romans trying to impose some order. (Double Disc Set)

• Dark House | DVD | (05/01/2015) from £4.15   |  Saving you £11.84 (74.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jeepers Creepers director Victor Salva returns to the realm of horror with this tale of a haunted psychic who seeks the truth about his origins, but finds only terror while visiting the mysterious house that he's dreamt of since childhood. The moment Nick Di Santo (Luke Kleintank) lays his hands on you he sees exactly how you will die. Although some may call it a gift, Nick considers it more of a curse. When Nick turns 23, he receives an invitation to visit his mother (Lesley-Anne Down) in th.

• Margarita | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  To the outside Gail and Ben have it all - two successful careers a beautiful house lots of vacations and an amazing nanny for their teenage daughter Mali (Finn's Girl star Maya Ritter). However behind the facade bad investments have the family disconnected resentful and just about broke. At the centre of this drama is Mali's young lesbian Mexican nanny Margarita. Unknown to her employers Margarita has been working for the family illegally for the past six years but despite all this she is passionate resourceful and devoted to them. She is the nanny the housekeeper the cook the maid and even the repair woman. Margarita is well aware of their financial issues and has been stretching resources in creative ways. But life is not all work for Margarita the shy law student Jane is clearly in love with her but is hesitant to bring their relationship out from the closet. When Gail and Ben decide that the best way for them to save money is by firing Margarita they set off a chain of events that lead to her deportation. Heart broken Mali withdraws from her parents forcing them to take an honest look at themselves. The well-meaning couple now desperate to keep Margarita in the country come up with a scheme to keep her around. But on the eve of her departure Jane arrives with one proposition that could change everything. The closing film of the 2013 BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and from the directors of Finn's Girl comes this warm funny and loving family drama looking at issues around race class and immigration.

• Simba | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  White farmer Dirk Bogarde and his neighbors are targeted for extermination by the zealously nationalistic Mau Maus. Native doctor Joseph Tomelty whose brother had earlier been killed under questionable circumstances endeavors to help the whites escape the hordes only to discover that his own father is the local leader of the insurrectionists. Given the cruelties of colonial rule in Africa it is hard for any film to make the Mau Mau total villains despite their own well-documented brutal treatment of their enemies. Simba downplays side-taking and ideology choosing instead to concentrate on the adventure and suspense elements.

• Bill Douglas Trilogy | Blu Ray | (27/02/2012) from £15.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (43.78%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Douglas's magnificent, award-winning Trilogy is the product of an assured, formidable artistic vision. These are some of the most compelling films about childhood ever made. Presented here in a High-Definition restoration, the Trilogy follows Jamie (played with heart-breaking conviction by Stephen Archibald) as he grows up in a poverty-stricken mining village in post-war Scotland. This is cinematic poetry: Douglas contracted his subject matter to the barest essentials - dialogue is kept to a minimum, and fields, slag heaps and cobbled streets are shot in bleak monochrome. Yet with its unexpected humour and warmth, the Trilogy brims with clear-eyed humanity, and affection for an ultimately triumphant young boy.

• A Touch of Frost: Series 6 | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £12.10   |  Saving you £12.89 (106.53%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Jason is the gritty and dogged Detective Inspector Jack Frost a man who has little time for paperwork or the orthodox approach. Featuring the complete series 6 of A Touch Of Frost. Episodes include: Appendix Man One Man's Meat Private Lives Keys To The Car.

• Silver Dream Racer | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Two professional motorcycle racers (a cossetted professional and a hotheaded privateer) competing in the world motorcycle championships find themselves at odds in a more personal type of competition: they both love the same woman...

• A Touch of Frost: Series 2 | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £11.39   |  Saving you £13.60 (119.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The second series of investigations featuring the gruff detective. Episodes comprise: 'A Minority Of One' 'Widows And Orphans' 'Nothing To Hide' and 'Stranger In The House'.

• Rosamunde Pilcher's September | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £11.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (50.04%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Whose lifeless body has been found in the loch and how did it get there? We all have secrets, and the aristocratic families living in the Scottish village of Strathcoy are no exception.The beautiful, carefree Pandora disappeared from the village twenty years ago under a cloud of suspicion. She is returning at the invitation of Verena Steynton who is having a dance and wants everyone to be there… whatever the priceWhat past history is Edmund hiding from his wife Virginia? What does Mad Lottie know and how much more will she discover? Why did the down at heel Lord of the Manor Archie drive his sister away? And what price will they all pay for the secrets and lies that must have their consequences? The questions arrive with Pandora. The answers may prove more challenging.

• Species - Special Edition | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £6.29   |  Saving you £13.70 (217.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  There's a kind of perverse marketing genius at work in Species, a cheesy sci-fi hit from 1995 in which scientists create a half-human, half-alien woman named Sil (Natasha Henstridge) who's capable of morphing from a slimy, tentacled creature into a blonde babe with the body of a Playboy centerfold. This makes it easy for Sil to lure gullible guys who are only too willing to indulge her voracious mating urge, realizing too late that sex with Sil is anything but safe. As the body count rises, a handpicked team of specialists tracks the alien's killing spree, but their diverse expertise is barely a match for the ever-morphing Sil. Borrowing elements of the Alien movies (including bizarre alien designs by Swedish artist H.R. Giger) and spicing them up with some tantalizing nudity, Species is a wet dream for creature-feature fans--kind of like watching a sci-fi vampire fantasy while browsing through the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. --Jeff Shannon

• A Touch of Frost: Series 5 | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £19.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (25.01%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Jason is the gritty and dogged Detective Inspector Jack Frost a man who has little time for paperwork or the orthodox approach. This release features all the episodes from Series Five of A Touch of Frost. Episode titles: Penny For The Guy House Calls True Confessions No Other Love.