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• Saturday Night Out | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Five sailors are on overnight leave in London. Lee (John Bonney 633 Squadron) a young Australian meets and falls in love with Penny (BAFTA Winner Heather Sears.) Arthur the old salt vanishes to see his regular ladyfriend in Docklands. Harry Jamie and Paddy decide to drink their evening away. Harry ends up at a clip joint where he is eventually thrown out penniless while Jamie falls in love with Jean (Francesca Annis Cranford Revolver) and next morning jumps ship to marry her. George Hudson (Bernard Lee M in 11 James Bond Films) is a businessman taking an extended cruise who finds himself with a seductive blackmailer. A wonderful piece of nostalgia with strong performances by all and terrific location footage of 60's London.

• Wisley - A Celebration | DVD | (11/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Whether you're a regular visitor to Wisley or you just love wonderful gardens this new programme offers the most evocative portrait yet of the jewel in the Royal Horticultural Society's crown. For one hundred years Wisley has inspired visitors with breathtaking plants and dazzling displays of horticultural technique. In this programme Nigel Colborn garden writer and broadcaster explores how the Garden emerged as a world centre of horticural excellence from a simple Surrey woodlan

• Boy Meets Girl - Series 2 | DVD | (15/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.49

  All six episodes from the second series of the British comedy drama starring Harry Hepple and Rebecca Root. When recently-fired 26-year-old Leo (Hepple) gets stood up on a blind date, he unexpectedly meets an interesting older, transgender woman called Judy (Root). After the pair form an immediate connection and win over the support of their families, they move in to Judy's mum Peggy (Janine Duvitski)'s house together. In this series, Leo is offered a job in London, Judy's sister Jackie (Lizzie Roper) and her new boyfriend join the family in living at Peggy's and Pam (Denise Welch) battles a pest infestation at her salon.

• A Bit of a Do - Complete DVD Box Set | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  All the episodes from both series of the TV comedy: 'The White Wedding' 'The Dentist Dinner Dance' 'The Angling Club Christmas Party' 'The Charity Horse Racing Evening' 'The Crowning of Miss Frozen Chicken UK' 'The Registry Office Wedding' 'The Church Wedding' 'The Christening' 'The Grand Opening Of Sillitoes' 'The Farewell Party' 'The Inauguration Of The Outer Inner Relief Ring Road' 'The Funeral' and 'The Civil Wedding'.

• SAS Black Ops | DVD | (21/04/2014) from £13.88   |  Saving you £2.11 (13.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Lexx - The Movies - Series 1 Vol.1 | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. The show's Canadian creators, "Supreme Beans" Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff, and Jeffrey Hirschfield--partnered with German money and studio facilities--intended every episode to be, in their words, "a nasty adventure". With flashes of nudity and surgical gore, and a collection of extreme hairstyles and accents, the overall look is often akin to a sci-fi Eurotrash. Aboard the stolen 10-kilometre-long spaceship Lexx (designed to look like a dragonfly) are the "Dirty Three-and-a-Half": insufferable coward Stanley H Tweedle (Brian Downey), the Edward Scissorhands clone and 2000 years-dead Kai (Michael McManus), decapitated and lovestruck robot head 790 (voiced by writer Hirschfield), and the skimpily wardrobed Zev (19-year-old Eva Habermann). It's with the last of these characters that the show generated its main audience and proved itself totally indifferent to regular boundaries of TV formatting. A disregard both for genre conventions and good taste makes the show a constant series of surprises. --Paul Tonks On the DVD: The jam-packed pilot "I Worship His Shadow" is full of startlingly graphic imagery, skimpily clad women, and literally wall-to-wall computer graphics. TV sci-fi has never been introduced so explosively. "Super Nova" has the crew of the Lexx hunting for Kai's homeworld, and drawn to a planet by a holographic message from Poetman (Tim Curry). Essentially, the story has little to do with the overall arc, but is an experiment in format and testing boundaries (the most obvious example being Zev's naked shower scene). There's also a nutty song and dance moment for Kai and Zev, a cameo of the director floating in space, and Curry chewing scenery with gusto. The first movie's disc features a Sci-fi Channel trailer of interviews for the series, a behind-the-scenes documentary introducing the show's creators and their irreverent sense of humour, plus DVD-ROM Screen Saver and Weblinks. The second movie's disc features a gallery of 12 stills, cast biographies, and another documentary which this time looks at the enormous CGI work put into the first season. This is where the digital transfer really pays off, and the FX-heavy show looks gorgeous in crisp definition as opposed to the general murkiness of TV broadcast or the VHS releases. --Paul Tonks

• Breaking Glass | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An old, old story as told circa 1980, Breaking Glass, written and directed by Brian Gibson, follows the path of Stardust not to mention A Star is Born and most other films about showbusiness, by following the rise of a talented young hopeful who learns that success comes with strings. Kate Crowley (Hazel O'Connor) begins as a bleached New Wave ranter, fly-posting on the tube and yelling songs about dehumanisation over fascist chants in rowdy pubs, but ends up a stoned glam zombie dressed as a robot, packaging her anger for the benefit of corporate music biz baddies and retreating to a sanatorium. The plot may be familiar, but the film still works, thanks to persuasive central performances from O'Connor, who wrote her own songs and shows real acting muscle that sadly didn't lead to anything like a film career, and Phil Daniels as her hustling manager/boyfriend/conscience. The fine supporting cast includes Jon Finch and Jonathan Pryce as a Bond villain-style record producer and a deaf junkie sax player, with glimpses of later perennials such as Jim Broadbent and Richard Griffiths. Made and set at the start of the 1980s, it catches its times exactly: a "Rock Against 1984" outdoor gig that turns into a riot, a routine police harrassment of a band rehearsal, a power cut that transforms a concert into a before-its-time "unplugged" session. Credits trivia: the executive producer was Dodi al Fayed. On the DVD: A nice letterboxed transfer looks a bit soft and grainy--but that's the way it's supposed to be. The only extras are cribbed-from-the-IMDB filmographies, a trailer with a wonderfully unconvincing narration and an image gallery (posters, ads and stills). --Kim Newman

• Farewell to the King | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £7.29   |  Saving you £8.70 (119.34%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With echoes of his script for Apocalypse Now, director John Milius takes a similar journey to the 'heart of darkness' with the epic Farewell to the King.Renegade American soldier Learoyd escapes the Second World War by venturing deep into the jungle of Borneo where he is found staggering and half-deranged by a local tribe who adopt the stranger and make him king. British commandos discover Learoyd and try to enlist his help to fight the Japanese. He is reluctant at first but when his own people are attacked he agrees and vows to wreak revenge.

• The Last Polar Bears | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £6.24   |  Saving you £3.75 (60.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An eccentric Grandfather and his dog Roo embark on an expedition to the North Pole. Also includes 'Roo Reveals All' which is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film.

• Three Legendary Tenors | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £11.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The story of the singers who defined an art. Before Domingo Carreras and Pavarotti caught the public's imagination three other legendary tenors defined the art form. Enrico Caruso Beniamino Gigli and Jussi Bjrling each had a distinctive sound and strong emotional appeal. Presented by internationally renowned British tenor Nigel Douglas this fascinating documentary examines the lives and musical legacies of these celebrated tenors. Through rare archive footage including

• The Hound Of The Baskervilles | DVD | (30/05/2016) from £7.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (125.44%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Sir Basil Rathbone stars as the inimitable Detective Sherlock Holmes in The thrilling mystery of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead in mysterious circumstances, with the locals ascribing his demise to the ancient family curse a paranormal hellhound, said to roam the moors searching for its prey. With the trusty aid of Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce), Holmes sets out to uncover the truth and solve the mystery of the terrifying hound before another Baskerville falls victim to the family curse. Extras: Interview with Sir Christopher Frayling, writer and presenter of Nightmare, The Birth of Horror Interview with Basil Rathbone biographer Michael Druxman

• Action Man - Explosive Situation | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £6.46   |  Saving you £2.53 (28.10%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Action Man is the head of an elite multinational task force - the Action Team whose mandate is to oppose and capture the global super-criminal known only as Doctor X. This release contains 3 high octane action packed adventures where Action Man must save the world from a nuclear warhead a Soviet cybernetic soldier and rescue an ethnobotany team from the Amazon.

• Encore | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £8.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Three short films based on stories by W. Somerset Maugham. Titles Comprise: The Ant and the Grasshopper Winter Cruise The Gigolo and the Gigolette

• Chiller Theatre Features | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's difficult sometimes to fathom how compilers think. This Chiller Theatre threesome consists of two classic silent horror films, plus a low-budget B-movie from the early 1960s. The connection? You decide! Yet these are films that belong in any self-respecting collection, and this package is a good way of acquiring them. Of those featuring Lon Chaney, it's the original 1923 The Hunchback of Notre Dame that comes across best. Chaney's grotesquerie is shot-through with pathos, and Patsy Ruth Miller's Esmeralda has enduring freshness. Wallace Worsley handles crowd scenes and cathedral stunts with aplomb, and there's an atmospheric "posthumous" soundtrack, though anyone looking for accuracy in the depiction of medieval French society is in for a shock. 1925's The Phantom of the Opera is slow-moving and uneventful by comparison, with Rupert Julian's direction never escaping the narrow Gothic trappings of the novel. Chaney cranks (or is that camps?) up his range of gestures to the limit, and Mary Philbin is an eye-catching heroine, but the denouement in the Paris sewers seems endless--with looped extracts of Schubert and Brahms as a hardly appropriate soundtrack. Cut to 1962, and The Carnival of Souls--made in Kansas for under $100,000--is an undeniable cult classic. Herk Harvey sustains the increasingly surreal narrative with ease, Candace Hilligoss is striking (if a tad gauche) as the young organist caught on the cusp of this world and the next, and Gene Moore's organ soundtrack is a masterly backdrop for the motley assemblage of ghouls who pursue her around the seaside pier in a memorable closing sequence. On the DVD: Chiller Theatre is very acceptably remastered--with 1.33:1 aspect ratio and 12 chapter headings per film--and decently if minimally packaged. --Richard Whitehouse

• Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Collection | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This box set is a collection of 14 classic Sherlock Holmes adventures dating from 1939-46 on seven discs. Stars include Basil Rathbone as the great detective and Nigel Bruce as Dr Watson. Titles included are: 1. The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1939) 2. The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (1939) 3. Sherlock Holmes and the Voice Of Terror (1942) 4. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) 5. Sherlock Holmes In Washington (1943) 6. Sherlock Holmes Faces Of Death (1943) 7. Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman (1944) 8. The Scarlet Claw (1944) 9. The Pearl Of Death (1944) 10. Sherlock Holmes and the House Of Fear (1945) 11. The Woman In Green (1945) 12. Pursuit To Algiers (1945) 13. Terror By Night (1946) and 14. Dressed To Kill (1946).

• The Supergrass | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Who is Dennis Carter? Well Dennis is a moron. His mum knows it his friends know it and even he knows it. But the police don't. So when Dennis tries to impress Andrea with his fantasies about multi-million pound drug deals Dennis gets nabbed and finds himself a supergrass. The trouble is Dennis doesn't know anything; or does he?

• Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This magnificent series is based on Lord Louis Mountbatten's life during his years as Viceroy of India - the final years of the British Raj. Until the Second World War Mountbatten was no more than a name to the British public. He was the grandson of Queen Victoria nephew of the Tsar and cousin to the Prince of Wales. He became the chief British planner of the invasion of Normandy and then the supreme allied commander in Southeast Asia. Known as Mountbatten of Burma because he could

• Cockroaches | DVD | (23/02/2015) from £13.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £14.99

  It's the end of the world, and humanity is on the verge of self-destruction as nuclear war erupts. Faced with imminent destruction friends Tom and Suze unite for one last passionate moment, except they don't die, which makes things a little uncomfortable the next day. Eight years on, they are stuck with each other and wander the post-apocalyptic landscape that used to be England with Laura, their daughter from that fateful night. Along their travels they meet clusters of survivors trying to decide which bits of civilisation to reintroduce to their new world. Hilarious, touching and totally original, Cockroaches asks what it means to be human, and its answer is seriously funny. The series features a first class ensemble of iconic and next generation comedy actors including Daniel Lawrence Taylor (Hunderby) and Esther Smith (Cuckoo), Jack Whitehall (Fresh Meat), Alexander Armstrong (Pointless), Nigel Planer (The Young Ones), Jaime Winstone (Made in Dagenham), Caroline Quentin (Men Behaving Badly), Robert Bathurst (Downton Abbey), Dan Renton-Skinner (House Of Fools) and comedians Rich Hall and Tom Davis (Plebs).

• EDWARD II (DVD) **GERMAN IMPORT** REGION 2 **ENGLISH OR GERMAN SOUND** NEW & SEALED | DVD | (23/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tarzan (1999) Disney - Collector's Edition (2 Disc) | DVD | (04/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  After viewing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote to Walt Disney about adapting his novel of an ape-man into a feature animated cartoon. Sixty odd years later, the tale is finally told with brilliant design work that looks unlike any previous animated film. The story is a natural for Disney since the themes of misunderstood central figures have been at the heart of most of its recent hits. Disney's Tarzan doesn't wander far from the familiar story of a shipwrecked baby who is brought up by apes in Africa. What gives the film its zing is its clever use of music (the songs are sung by Phil Collins himself rather than onscreen characters) and the remarkable animation. Deep Canvas, a 3-D technology, was developed for the film, creating a jungle that comes alive as Tarzan swings through the trees, often looking like a modern skateboarder racing down giant tree limbs. The usual foray of sidekicks, including a rambunctious ape voiced by Rosie O'Donnell, should keep the little ones aptly entertained. The two lead voices, Tony Goldwyn as Tarzan and Minnie Driver as Jane, are inspired choices. Their chemistry helps the story through the weakest points (the last third) and makes Tarzan's initial connection with all things human (including Jane) delicious entertainment. Disney still is not taking risks in its animated films, but as cookie-cutter entertainment, Tarzan makes a pretty good treat. On the DVD: It's the dish--mistakes, unused footage, creative differences, embarrassing behind-the-scene stories--that makes collector's editions so much fun. Unfortunately, this goes against the Disney philosophy of picture-perfection, and this two-set disc shows it; only half of the new material is engaging. The other half of this second disc, the "Tarzan Archives," is a slickly produced filler--more publicity fluff than real insight on the development of the film and the animation process. Much better are the three abandoned scenes (with voices and storyboards), including a much fiercer opening and ending, plus dozens of sketches made over the years as the designers pursued the luscious look of the film. The original audio demos Phil Collins made for the film are also intriguing (mostly filled with dummy or place-holding lyrics). The new audio commentary (by the producer and two directors) is a "fireside chat" variety, hardly worth more than one listen. Two side-by-side comparisons of storyboards to final film are a great tool to show youngsters how the animated process works, as is animator Glen Keane's talks on animating Tarzan. Also for kids: a read-along book and trivia game. --Doug Thomas