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• My Favorite Martian | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tired but watchable adaptation of the popular 60s TV show of a friendly Martian who lives with an agreeable earthling. Like Disney's other live-action remakes 101 Dalmatians and Flubber, the emphasis is on quick-moving scenes and special effects--not character. Jeff Daniels is the bemused earthling who gets to know Christopher Lloyd's alien ways. Much of the film feels like a retread borrowing heavily from other sci-fi comedies (and "fish out of water" films), including Lloyd's own Back to the Future. Lloyd and his talking space suit (voiced by Wayne Knight who brings the same personality as his Newman role on Seinfeld) don't know simple Earth customs but inexplicably know every pop culture reference in the last 10 years. Daryl Hannah and Elizabeth Hurley are along for the ride as Daniels' good-girl and bad-girl flames. TV's Martian, Ray Waltson, shows up as a secret agent alien hunter--and pours more emotion into his scenes than the rest of the movie combined. Ages 6 and up. --Doug Thomas

• The Way to the Stars | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £7.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1940 a deserted airfield somewhere in the heart of England becomes a bustling bomber command station. In 1942 advance units of the American Air Force arrive to join The Royal Air Force and help turn the tide of World War II. So unfolds the story of a group of flyers and their 'missions'. Peter Penrose (John Mills) a young RAF pilot is sent to Halfpenny Field close to the small town of Shepley. His Squadron Leader Flight Lieutenant David Archdale (Michael Redgrave) gives him inspiration and encouragement and they fast become friends. They are joined by a young American pilot Johnny (Douglas Montgomery) which complicates the friendship. This is the story of the group's private lives - particularly their loves during war-time.

• Clockwork Orange | DVD | (13/11/2000) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The controversy that surrounded Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange while the film was out of circulation suggested that it was like Romper Stomper: a glamorisation of the violent, virile lifestyle of its teenage protagonist, with a hypocritical gloss of condemnation to mask delight in rape and ultra-violence. Actually, it is as fable-like and abstract as The Pilgrim's Progress, with characters deliberately played as goonish sitcom creations. The anarchic rampage of Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a bowler-hatted juvenile delinquent of the future, is all over at the end of the first act. Apprehended by equally brutal authorities, he changes from defiant thug to cringing bootlicker, volunteering for a behaviourist experiment that removes his capacity to do evil.It's all stylised: from Burgess' invented pidgin Russian (snarled unforgettably by McDowell) to 2001-style slow tracks through sculpturally perfect sets (as with many Kubrick movies, the story could be told through decor alone) and exaggerated, grotesque performances on a par with those of Dr Strangelove (especially from Patrick Magee and Aubrey Morris). Made in 1971, based on a novel from 1962, A Clockwork Orange resonates across the years. Its future is now quaint, with Magee pecking out "subversive literature" on a giant IBM typewriter and "lovely, lovely Ludwig Van" on mini-cassette tapes. However, the world of "Municipal Flat Block 18A, Linear North" is very much with us: a housing estate where classical murals are obscenely vandalised, passers-by are rare and yobs loll about with nothing better to do than hurt people. On the DVD: The extras are skimpy, with just an impressionist trailer in the style of the film used to brainwash Alex and a list of awards for which Clockwork Orange was nominated and awarded. The box promises soundtracks in English, French and Italian and subtitles in ten languages, but the disc just has two English soundtracks (mono and Dolby Surround 5.1) and two sets of English subtitles. The terrific-looking "digitally restored and remastered" print is letterboxed at 1.66:1 and on a widescreen TV plays best at 14:9. The film looks as good as it ever has, with rich stable colours (especially and appropriately the orangey-red of the credits and the blood) and a clarity that highlights previously unnoticed details such as Alex's gouged eyeball cufflinks and enables you to read the newspaper articles which flash by. The 5.1 soundtrack option is amazingly rich, benefiting the nuances of performance as much as the classical/electronic music score and the subtly unsettling sound effects. --Kim Newman

• Alice's Adventures In Wonderland | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £35.99   |  Saving you £-19.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A young Fiona Fullerton heads an all-star British cast in this double BAFTA-winning musical comedy; widely regarded as the most lavish and faithful adaptations of Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy novel. Filmed to mark the centenary of the completion of the Alice novels this extravagant British spectacle which brings to life Sir Tenniel's famous illustrations with a bewitching score from James Bond composer John Barry and BAFTA-winning cinematography by Geoffrey unsworth (2001: A Sp

• Path To War | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £15.17   |  Saving you £-9.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As the successor to a martyred president Lyndon B. Johnson sought to transform America into a 'Great Society' of equal opportunity. Instead he became the symbol for the most unpopular war in U.S. history. Michael Gambon (as President Johnson) Donald Sutherland (as Clark Gifford) and Alec Baldwin (as Robert McNamara) star in a compelling drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams set inside the LBJ White House in the volatile years leading up to and during Vietnam. This HBO production was decorated director John Frankenheimer's final film.

• A Fine Romance - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £8.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (30.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the vaults of British television comes a comedy gem starring two consummate actors who were also a couple in real life: Dame Judi Dench and her husband Michael Williams. They play a pair of middle-aged dating-game dropouts as wary of romance as they are perfect for each other. Laura a brainy translator and Mike a shy landscape gardener are introduced by Laura's glamorous younger sister who is intent on finding a mate for her spinsterish sibling. Awkward and rumpled Mike drives an old wreck and fails to impress the prickly Laura. Still Mike senses an opportunity if only he can find the courage to pursue it. From this unpromising beginning the pair lurch and swerve their way to companionship friendship and finally love. Featuring all the episodes from series 3. Episodes Comprise: 1. Missing 2. The Hotel 3. The Dinner Party 4. Business Problems 5. Parenthood 6. Extreme Measures

• Austin Powers - International Man Of Mystery | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £11.41   |  Saving you £6.58 (57.67%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A 1960's hipster secret agent is brought out of cryofreeze to oppose his greatest enemy into the 1990's where his social attitudes are glaringly out of place.

• Lego Ninjago - Masters Of Spinjitzu: Season 3 - Part 1 | DVD | (31/08/2015) from £5.70   |  Saving you £5.28 (194.83%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Victory in the Final Battle between the Gold Ninja and the Overlord has ushered in a new era of peace and begun a technological renaissance. Time has passed and the Ninja have become obsolete in this new hi-tech world. Just when they think all is safe in Ninjago, they're called back into action when the reclusive inventor Cyrus Borg warns them the Overlord has survived as a digital virus and is trapped within the Digiverse. The Ninja will learn the Overlord seeks to steal Lloyd's golden power to enable him to escape his digital prison and reign as the great prophesized destructor, The Golden Master. And to aid his villainous plot, he's created a new technological menace more powerful than any foe the Ninja have ever faced Nindroids.

• Rentaghost | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £34.98   |  Saving you £-14.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If your mansion house needs haunting Just call Rentaghost We've got spooks and ghouls and freaks and fools At Rentaghost Hear the phantom of the opera Sing a haunting melody Remember what you see is not a mystery It’s Rentaghost… Episode 1: Fred Mumford returns to Earth from the spirit world to open a business called 'Rentaghost' which offers ghosts and poltergeists on a daily or weekly rental basis. He is sometimes helped but more often hindered by Davenport a fussy Victorian ghost and Claypole a mischievous medieval poltergeist. Episode 2: Fred Mumford and his fellow ghosts set out to exorcise a ghost which has been terrorising London's Heathrow Airport. Episode 3: Mumford and his colleagues decide to tell their landlord Mr Meaker that they are really ghosts. The shock of this lands Mr Meaker in the local hospital where the Rentaghost team offer to provide a conjuring act for the centenary celebrations. As a ghost they find it easy to vanish - but Mumford has some difficulty becoming visible again. Episode 4: The Rentaghost team are engaged by a security firm to patrol a large department store and stop shoplifting. But Claypole is going through a mischievous phase when his poltergeist powers are at their strongest.

• The Lighthouse | DVD | (31/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Surrounded only by the Irish Sea, two men posted to Smalls Island Lighthouse in 1801 are left to ˜keep the light' 25 miles from the land. But when a freak storm hits, the men are stranded for months before any relief can be sent to them. They gradually succumb to their tiny living quarters, spending their time drinking and arguing, pushing each other's psyche to the limit.

• Vampire Hunters | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £4.87   |  Saving you £15.12 (310.47%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 19th century China an evil monk awakens a nest of ghoulish vampires hell-bent on devouring human life. Now a quartet of heroes trained in the Taoist Mao Shan school of magic and their master must use their unique powers to destroy the Vampire King and its lethal coven before its too late.

• A Woman Scorned | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Sometimes revenge is the only option! Shannon Tweed stars as the loving but deranged wife who sets out to destroy the family she wrongly blames for the suicide of her failed businessman husband. Ingenious and deadly she innocently poses as a tutor to the family's teenage son to ease her wicked way into their unsuspecting home. Cunning and slippery she gradually becomes a voluptuous cuckoo in their cosy lovenest using her wild sexuality to torture them for her own terrible revenge. And as the fear and torment mount so her list of conquests grows longer. No evil is too great no sin beyond her imagination...

• Fish Tank | Blu Ray | (22/03/2010) from £10.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In "Fish Tank", 15 year old Mia's life is turned on its head when her mum brings home a new boyfriend. Starring Michael Fassbender ("300", "Inglourious Basterds") and talented newcomer Katie Jarvis.

• Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia | Blu Ray | (11/11/2013) from £14.75   |  Saving you £15.24 (103.32%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A notorious femme fatale renowned for her ruthless pursuit of power reveals poignant vulnerability when she comes face to face with her long-lost son in this captivating, elegant production from San Francisco Opera.

• I See a Dark Stranger | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Directed by Frank Launder and written by Sidney Gilliat, I See A Dark Stranger is a suspense-filled, highly entertaining spy drama about a highly-strung Irish girl, Bridie Quilty (Deborah Kerr) whose father delights in spinning tall tales about his role in the 1916 uprising against the English. When Bridie comes of age she decides to leave her rural home and seek out the IRA, but she unwittingly falls in with a German spy called Miller (Raymond Huntley), believing that he is part of the IRA. Miller recruits Bridie and finds her a job working in a sleepy village pub near a British military prison. But when British Army Officer David Byrne (Trevor Howard) arrives in the village to recuperate, he falls in love with the quarrelsome Bridie. Suspicious that Byrne is an intelligence officer Miller decides that Byrne needs to be eliminated and asks Bridie to help him.

• The Shield - Series 1-7 | DVD | (08/06/2009) from £94.99   |  Saving you £35.00 (36.85%)   |  RRP £129.99

  The complete collection of the drama series set in an inner city L.A. police precinct where detective Vic Mackey leads a corrupt but highly effective strike team in a tough morally ambiguous world in which the line between good and bad is crossed every day...

• Tyson | DVD | (16/06/2008) from £5.49   |  Saving you £2.50 (31.30%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Bigger they are... The harder they fall

• Patton (two-disc set) | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the greatest screen biographies ever produced, Patton is a monumental film that won seven Academy Awards and gave George C Scott the greatest role of his career. It was released in 1970 when protest against the Vietnam War still raged in the States and abroad. Inevitably, many critics and filmgoers struggled to reconcile the events of the day with the film's glorification of US General George S Patton as a crazy-brave genius of World War II; how could a film so huge in scope and so fascinated by its subject be considered an anti-war film? The simple truth is that it's not--Patton is less about World War II than about the rise and fall of a man whose life was literally defined by war and who felt lost and lonely without the grand-scale pursuit of an enemy. George C Scott embodies his role so fully, so convincingly, that we can't help but be drawn to and fascinated by Patton as a man who is simultaneously bound for hell and glory. The film's opening monologue alone is a masterful display of acting and character analysis and everything that follows is sheer brilliance on the part of Scott and director Franklin J Schaffner, aided in no small part by composer Jerry Goldsmith's masterfully understated score. Filmed on an epic scale at literally dozens of European locations, Patton does not embrace war as a noble pursuit, nor does it deny the reality of war as a breeding ground for heroes. Through the awesome achievement of Scott's performance and the film's grand ambition, General Patton shows all the complexities of a man who accepted his role in life and (like Scott) played it to the hilt. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.comOn the DVD: The widescreen print of the movie (which was originally filmed using a super-wide 70mm process called "Dimension 150") is handsomely presented on the first disc, with a remastered Dolby 5.1 soundtrack. It is accompanied by a rather dry "Audio essay on the historical Patton" read by the president and founder of the General George S. Patton Jr. historical society. The second, supplementary disc carries a new and impressive 50-minute "making-of" documentary, with significant contributions from Fox president Richard Zanuck, as well as composer Jerry Goldsmith and Oliver Stone. Director Franklin J. Schaffner (who died in 1989) and star George C. Scott are heard in interviews from 1970. In the documentary, Stone provocatively complains that Patton glorified war and that President Nixon's enthusiasm for the movie was directly responsible for his decision to invade Cambodia. Also on this disc, in a separate audio-only track, is Jerry Goldsmith's magnificent music score--one of his greatest achievements--heard complete with studio session takes for the famous "Echoplex" trumpet figures. --Mark Walker

• My Brother Jonathan | DVD | (09/03/2015) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This powerful drama recounts a love story amid the malice professional jealousy and deprivation of a small industrial town. Marking another major box-office success for husband and wife Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray – one of post-war Britain's best-loved screen couples – My Brother Jonathan is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But on the death of his father he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother Harold who is killed in the Great War and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another... Special Features: Image Gallery Promotional Material PDFs

• McBain | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £4.03   |  Saving you £-0.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When a group of U.S. Rangers save McBain from execution during the Vietnam War he vows to repay them. Years later when his saviour Santos is killed on a mission to reclaim Colombia for its people he finds himself called into action and regroups his army platoon to lead Santos rebel army...