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• I'm Alan Partridge--The Complete Series | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £8.04   |  Saving you £11.95 (148.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  I'm Alan Partridge finds Steve Coogan's media creation back in his native Norwich, having lost his beloved chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You, and now reduced to the pre-Breakfast slot playing old T'Pau and Soft Cell singles to an audience of farmers and all-night bakery workers. He's also lodged at the Linton Travel tavern, whose permanently smiling manageress, bland decor and themed buffets are redolent of what vast tracts of England have become. He's very much at home there. While there's much media satire in Partridge's pitiful pitches of programme ideas to the BBC ("Inner city sumo? Monkey tennis?"), I'm Alan Partridge is more a bleakly hilarious take on Modern Middle English Man, irascible and profoundly bored. Between innumerable moments of high, wild comedy, such as a disastrous video Partridge does for a boating agency and an encounter with his one (insane) fan, the most telling moments of the series come with his efforts to fill his dismally empty days, taking a trouser press to pieces, staring at the astro turf at an owl sanctuary or walking to a service station to buy windscreen cleaning fluid just for something to do. All this proved a little too darkly uncomfortable for mainstream audiences--yet Alan Partridge was probably the finest British comic creation of the 1990s. --David Stubbs

• Yo Yo Ma - Cello Suites No. 3 And No. 4 | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The sound of the Carceri: featuring Yo Yo Ma and Suite No. 2 for Unaccompanied Cello by Bach. Falling Down Satirs: Although he knew the music well Mark Morris had never thought to choreograph a dance based on Bach's Third Suite. He felt the music was complete in itself. But through a close collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma an astonishing dance emerges - a true three-way collaboration between musician dancers and filmmaker Barbara Willis Sweete. Sarabande: A great mu

• The Bushwackers | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £6.46   |  Saving you £-4.47 (-224.60%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence Missouri shortly after the Civil War intending never again to use a gun. He finds that rancher Artemus Taylor and his gang are forcing out the settlers in order to claim their land for the incoming railroad.

• Norman Wisdom - Man of the Moment | DVD | (21/10/2009) from £6.00   |  Saving you £-1.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  NORMAN WISDOM'S IMMENSE POPULARITY STEMS FROM HIS HILARIOUS PORTRAYAL OF THE LITTLE GUY WHO ALWAYS SEEMS TO WIN OUT IN THE END. THE CLOTH-CAPPED BUMBLER IS ONE OF THE GREAT CREATIONS OF BRITISH COMEDY.

• Lifeforce | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the blink of an eye the terror begins. A mission to investigate Halley's Comet discovers an even more fascinating phenomenon: an alien spacecraft! After a deadly confrontation the aliens travel to Earth where their seductive leader begins a terrifying campaign to drain the lifeforce of everyone she encounters. Her victims in turn continue the cycle and soon the entire planet is in mortal danger. And when the mission's sole survivor sets out to destroy her he comes face to face with the most charming - and horrifying - being he's ever known. Will he be able to destroy the lovely vampiress... or will he become yet another victim of her fatal charm?

• Breakin' All the Rules | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £8.44   |  Saving you £1.55 (15.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Breakin' All The Rules is a romantic comedy about Quincy Watson (Jamie Foxx) - a man who after being unceremoniously dumped by his fianc''e pens a how-to book on breaking up and becomes a best-selling author on the subject. Not wanting his male friends to suffer the same fate he gives them advice on dumping their mates. What ensues is a hilarious comedy of errors!

• Aerial Gunner | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £7.09   |  Saving you £-1.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Lieutenant Davis and his striken aircraft return to base following a successful bombing mission over Japan only to discover members of his crew are either missing or dead. Recounting in flashbacks the events leading up to the fatal mission Davis tells of his rivalry with his aerial gunner Sgt Foxy Pattis. A dramatic story of envy revenge and comradship set against the background of World War Two.

• Boyz 'n The Hood - The Reel Collection | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Boyz N The Hood is the critically acclaimed story about three friends growing up in a South Central Los Angeles neighborhood and of street life where friendship pain danger and love combine to form reality. ""The Hood"" is a place where drive-by shootings and unemployment are rampant. But it is also a place where harmony co-exists with adversity especially for the three young men growing up there: Doughboy (Ice Cube) an unambitious drug dealer; his brother Ricky (Morris Chestnut) a college-bound teenage father; and Ricky's best friend Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.) who aspires to a brighter future beyond the ""The Hood."" In a world where a trip to the store can end in death the friends have diverse reactions to their bleak surroundings. Tre's resolve is strengthened by a strong father (Larry Fishburne) who keeps him on the right track. But the lessons Tre learns are put to the ultimate test when tragedy strikes close to home and violence seems like the only recourse. This powerful portrait of black urban America is ""a film of enormous relevance and importance."" --Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times.

• Maria's Lovers | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Desired By All But Loved By Only One. When her teenage sweetheart Ivan (Savage) returns home from WWII Maria (Kinski) eagerly accepts his marriage proposal looking forward to a lifetime of happiness. But her joy is short-lived when Ivan's dark past shrouds their wedding night in misery driving a wedge between them that neither knows how to remove. Confused and depressed Maria attempts to mend her true love's heart despite the advances of other suitors. But when a traveling musician (Carradine) hits the right note Maria struggles to justify her unfulfilling life. Is her passion too powerful to be contained within the sanctity of marriage?

• Wagner: Die Walkure -- Metropolitan/Levine | DVD | (12/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The 1990 Metropolitan Opera performance of Die Walkure ("The Valkyrie") with James Levine conducting is a solid, four-square performance with few frills and no gimmicks, just extraordinarily fine singing and orchestral playing. There is no point in this where you find yourself asking why the director did something: this is the sort of production which could be criticised as unimaginative but defended as serving Wagner's intentions for this instalment of his Ring cycle. Levine and his orchestra give the music an emotional intensity that never overwhelms its grandeur, though perhaps in Wotan's farewell to Brunnhilde, we feel him more as father than as god. James Morris as Wotan has real stature, making us feel that he has finally created the free agents he needs to avoid the curse he has unleashed on the world, but he has broken his heart in the process. Jessye Norman is surprisingly good and erotically self-assured as Sieglinde; the Act 1 love duet with Gary Lake as Siegmund has an ardour that makes the incestuous aspect less a matter of perversity than of the conduct of heroes. Kurt Moll makes Sieglinde's rapist and husband Hunding, a three-dimensional sinister villain; and Christa Ludwig almost manages to sell us Fricka's interminable paean to family values. The most impressive performance here, though, is Hildegard Behrens as Brunnhilde, the steely godling who sacrifices everything because she learns to feel and to know what is right. On the DVD Die Walkure on disc comes with menus and subtitles in German, French, English, Spanish and Chinese and with a picture gallery of the production. Awkwardly it is presented in (American) NTSC format not PAL, with a visual aspect of standard TV 4:3. More impressive is the choice of PCM stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 6.1; the sound is admirably clear and well-balanced. --Roz Kaveney

• Box of Blood | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Near Dark (1987): Near Dark is a vampire movie with a western backdrop. Caleb (Adrian Pasdar) is a farmboy living in the midwest of America. One Friday night he gets involved with Mae (Jenny Wright), one of a group of vampires who have been roaming America since the Civil War. Trapped by Mae's vampire family, Caleb is forcibly initiated into their horrific lifestyle as he tries desperately to save Mae and save himself. Dracula (2002): Dracula is an Italian-produce...

• Adrenaline Rush-The Science of Risk | Blu Ray | (11/04/2011) from £5.98   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adrenaline Rush: The Science Of Risk takes a look at the world of sky diving and base jumping-parachuting from buildings bridges or cliffs. While providing breath taking views of sky diving over the Florida Keys the Mojave Desert and in the magnificent Ffjordsof Norway this giant screen experience explores the psychological and physiological forces behind risk-taking and the physics involved in these activities. In doing so it also shows how risk-taking is part of every day life.

• Bloodletting | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Serena Stalin (Albright) wanted to learn from the best. So she tracked down Butch Harlow (Edwards) one of the wold's most notorious serial killers and blackmailed him into teaching her the fine art of murder. As the lessons begin teacher and student leaving a trail of horribly mutilated victims in their wake the couple are about to uncover the terible secrets that bind them together the unspeakable passion that compells them to kill again and again...

• The Time Of Your Life | DVD | (01/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When James Cagney starred in the movie adaptation of The Time of Your Life in 1948, it was hotly been debated whether William Saroyan’s stage play was really filmable at all. Because of its small cast, because all the action takes place on a single claustrophobic set, because the "plot" consists entirely of sub-plots, and because Saroyan’s "dirty sentimentality" isn’t to everyone’s taste, such doubts are still understandable today. However, accept the movie for what it is--a play in a box--and you’ll be captivated. The story revolves around a slightly down-at-heel bar-restaurant, where a group of disparate characters come and go as their stories gradually unfold. They include an ex-prostitute desperately seeking a new life, a dancer looking for a break into showbusiness, a down-and-out who discovers a vocation as a pianist, a beer-sodden cowboy and a villainous "stoolie" who, needless to say, gets his comeuppance. This gaggle of misfits is presided over by an enigmatic, champagne-drinking philanthropist (brilliantly played by Cagney) who gently nudges them towards their goals while indulging his own fascination with the minutiae of daily life. Throughout this quietly delightful picture the audience are not told why he’s this way, but it is possible to make an educated guess. On the DVD: The Time of Your Life might be a classic, but it apparently warrants no extra features. The black and white picture is 4:3. --Roger Thomas

• Dead Hate The Living | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Dead Hate the Living is a love letter to the nightmarish scenarios and visual freakouts of Italian horror pictures, although it also echoes with such American genre classics as Phantasm, The Evil Dead, and Scream. What could be better than a bunch of Italian horror buffs making their own zombie flick in a spooky abandoned hospital? Being attacked by the real thing, of course. The hapless crew discover a creepy black altar (complete with its own decorative corpse) and incorporate it into their film. When their scripted ceremony opens a portal from another dimension and unleashes an army of rampaging zombies, the hallways become flooded in red and blue and green pools of light for no good reason other than it looks cool. The hospital is suddenly adrift in an alternative reality because... well, just because. Writer-director Dave Parker never tries to explain the madness (a zombie's exclamation, "Hate the living! Love the dead!" is as much motive as we're offered), choosing instead simply to plunge viewers into the inspired mayhem. What makes it all work is a love of the genre, a cast of energetic, likable performers, cool zombie makeup, and a sure, stylish hand. Horror movie mavens will pick up on oodles of clever references (a bumper sticker that reads "Fulci lives"; a zombie king commanding, "Make them die... slowly"), but these are merely asides in an accomplished, clever, and remarkably entertaining indie horror riff. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Trouble In Store | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Perhaps surprisingly, the British comedy legend Norman Wisdom has made just 20 films, from his debut in Date With a Dream (1948) to the thriller Double-X (1992). From 1948 on he had his own TV series, Wit and Wisdom, but 1953 was the real turning point. Not only was his son Nicholas born, but he became an instant movie star with the release of Trouble in Store. Playing a character called Norman he brought his familiar stage and television personality to the big screen as a young man with the ambition to become a window dresser in a major department store. Ever loveable victim of his own clumsiness, all Norman's efforts to improve himself result in chaos. That is, until he meets Sally (Lana Morris), the girl of his dreams. Then things turn disastrous. Co-starring Margaret Rutherford, Trouble in Store introduced Wisdom's self-penned song which would become his theme, "Don't laugh at Me ('Cause I'm a Fool)". The film became a massive box-office hit and won Wisdom a BAFTA Award. Very much of its time, yet still highly entertaining, this video release provides the opportunity to nostalgically revisit and reassess one of Britain's greatest stars. Wisdom's follow-up was another substantial hit, One Good Turn (1954). --Gary S. Dalkin

• The Dead Want Women | DVD | (30/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Roaring Twenties end in a SCREAM when the first talking movie debuts. The world's biggest female silent movie star, Rose Pettigrew, goes on a killing spree when she loses her studio contract, murdering her friends and co-stars - Tubby Fitzgerald, the comedian, Erik Burke, the horror icon and Sonny Barnes (Eric Roberts), the cowboy - before taking her own life. Rose's mansion has stood empty for decades, but when two realtors Reese (Jessica Morris) and Dani (Ariana Madix) finally buy the house to remodel and sell it, they discover that there are more than skeletons in the closets. Haunted by the ghosts of a time long ago, the girls quickly find that they have been cast in a nightmare that will never end. Get ready for your close-up and its lights... Camera... DIE!!!

• Not Easily Broken | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £13.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Not Easily Broken chronicles the story of one couple's love, loss and ultimate faith in one another. It follows the lives of Dave and Clarice Johnson in their second decade of marriage. Dave's dreams of baseball success were dashed by injury and he settled for a steady but unfulfilling job as head of a construction company. Meanwhile Clarice's career really took off but in the process she has become blind to his needs and desires to start a family.Their lives are suddenly disrupted when a car crash seriously injures Clarice. During her recovery she realises how far away she has pushed Dave. Not Easily Broken is an uplifting drama focusing on their relationship and whether they can pull it back from the brink.

• The Cave | UMD | (28/11/2005) from £7.30   |  Saving you £12.69 (63.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Beyond | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £5.47   |  Saving you £13.51 (544.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Oscar winner Jon Voight (Ali, Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy) stars in this chilling supernatural thriller as John Koski, a detective on a mission to find the kidnapped granddaughter of the Chief of Police. The straight laced Koski is unwillingly paired up to solve the case with Farley, a famous psychic claiming to have had visions of Amy. The investigation grows stranger as they get deeper into it, revealing a troubled family and their haunted house. Koski begins to question his sanity and is forced to confront a dark secret of his own.