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• The Man Who Knew Too Much | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £8.96   |  Saving you £1.03 (11.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Alfred Hitchcock himself called this 1934 British edition of his famous kidnapping story "the work of a talented amateur", while his 1956 Hollywood remake was the consummate act of a professional director. Be that as it may, this earlier movie still has its intense admirers who prefer it over the Jimmy Stewart--Doris Day version, and for some sound reasons. Tighter, wittier, more visually outrageous (back-screen projections of Swiss mountains, a whirly-facsimile of a fainting spell), the film even has a female protagonist (Edna Best in the mom part) unafraid to go after the bad guys herself with a gun. (Did Doris Day do that that? Uh-uh.) While the 1956 film has an intriguing undercurrent of unspoken tensions in nuclear family politics, the 1934 original has a crisp air of British optimism glummed up a bit when a married couple (Best and Leslie Banks) witness the murder of a spy and discover their daughter stolen away by the culprits. The chase leads to London and ultimately to the site of one of Hitch's most extraordinary pieces of suspense (though on this count, it must be said, the later version is superior). Take away distracting comparisons to the remake, and this Man Who Knew Too Much is a milestone in Hitchcock's early career. Peter Lorre makes his British debut as a scarred, scary villain. --Tom Keogh

• Down | DVD | (27/02/2004) from £12.95   |  Saving you £1.04 (8.03%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Something evil is about to wake up. The lift in a high rise block has suddenly become alive and dangerous...

• The Slim Shady Show | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The first time that the opening episode of Slim Shady Version II was shown to the public as a prelude to Eminem's live set on the Anger Management tour in America, it received critical acclaim. The point was clear, ran the consensus: by juxtaposing cartoon images of his split personality alongside South Park characters, Marshall Mathers was querying why their anti-social behaviour is satire and his is offensive. More episodes then turned up on the Web leading MTV to commission these nine five-minute shorts in which Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers run around taking drugs, swearing, attempting to have sex and beating up pop stars such as N'Stink and Pristina Gagulera. Sadly, those kind of lame puns are about as funny as it gets. A typical scene runs like this: the boys spot Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and they beat them up. That's it. Worse still, any sense of characterisation that places in context the anger and prejudice of Eminem's recorded work is lost here, leaving dumb and rather ugly misogyny to stand alone. A brief documentary about the making of the shorts is equally as grim and proves that cartoons really shouldn't be made by people with no sense of humour.--Ian Watson

• Peter Green - Live | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £14.83   |  Saving you £-1.84 (-14.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Official Peter Green Splinter Group were launched 6 years ago and have enjoyed massive critical success with their albums and legendary live shows. Includes performances of such classics as 'Albatross' 'Black Magic Woman' and 'Green Manalishi'. This DVD is divided into two parts: 90 minutes of an electric set and 30 minutes of an acoustic set.

• Solstice | DVD | (15/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Solstice is a touching story of a disillusioned young man who has lost touch with the true spirit of holidays. After an emotional epiphany Nick must reconcile issues within himself so that he will be able to face each new day.

• Winnie The Pooh's Most Grand Adventure | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £19.72   |  Saving you £0.27 (1.37%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On the last day of a golden summer Christopher Robin doesn't have the heart to tell Pooh he's leaving for school. Instead he writes a note that Pooh and friends misinterpret. Believing that their dearest friend has gone to skull Pooh Piglet Tigger Eeyore and Rabbit embark on the most grand adventure of their lives - the search to find Christopher Robin! Five delightful new songs enhance the film's charming message that even when friends are apart they're always together in each other's hearts.

• Starting From Scratch | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £8.43   |  Saving you £1.56 (15.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Expert advice on how to approach a bare-earth plot or renovate a derelict patch or area. Key steps regarding the planting maintaining and tending of a new garden with accessible instruction throughout as well as tips for all experience levels from the complete beginner to the advanced gardener.

• Captain Jack | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based loosely on a true story, Captain Jack is an Ealing-style whimsical comedy-drama about the triumph of everyday eccentrics. Captain Jack (Bob Hoskins) is a Whitby boat captain sick of hearing how the he wants to celebrate his predecessor's "discovery" of the Arctic by recreating his voyage on its 200th anniversary. Jack breaks harbour regulations and finds himself on the run from the Coastguard and Navy, accompanied by a crew of landlubbers including sisters played by Anna Massey and Gemma Jones. Sadie Frost is a passionate young stowaway who has her eye on Aussie Peter McDonald, while making up the party is David Troughton. Back on shore there are entertaining supporting roles for Patrick Malahide, Michelle Dotrice and Maureen Lipman, wife of writer Jack Rosenthal. Rosenthal screenplay isn't especially amusing, but he does manage to pack in all the expected feel-good developments, as well as including appropriate Dracula (1979) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) jokes. There's a whale, a pair of polar bears, a storm, lots of bonding and a gruff but warm-hearted sensibility throughout. Another winning piece of entertainment from Yorkshire, the county that gave the world The Full Monty. On the DVD: the only extra is a terribly British trailer, presented non-anamorphically. The main feature however is presented in an excellent 1.77:1 anamorphically enhanced widescreen transfer. The picture is crisp and detailed, with not a blemish anywhere. The stereo sound is everything this kind of film needs without being in anyway spectacular. --Gary S Dalkin

• Rhythm Serenade | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £8.89   |  Saving you £4.09 (69.32%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Forces Sweetheart Vera Lynn stars in this splendid 1943 British musical romance. When the evacuee school at which she teaches closes down, Ann Martin (Vea Lynn) is torn between joining the Wrens and looking after her disabled father (Charles Victor). However, she is persuaded instead to establish a day-care centre for women doing war work in the local factory. While conveting a big empty house ready for the children, Ann stumbles upon John (Peter Murray-Hill) living secretly in the grounds. John is tormented with a secret and - whle big-hearted Ann tries to help him and slowly falls in love - others believe he's a conscientious objector or even, possibly a spy... The second of Vera Lynn's three wartime movies, RHYTHM SERENADE boasts an intruiging supporting cast that includes the comedy duo Jimmie Jewel & Ben Warriss, Irene Handl and Jimmy Clitheroe as a Hackney street urchin. The film also includes seven unforgettable songs performed by Vera Lynn - 'The Sunshine of Your Smile', 'Home Sweet Home Again', 'I Love to Sing', 'Bye and Bye', 'So It Goes On', 'With all my Heart' and 'It Doesn't Cost a Dime'. ABOUT THE DVD: The film is presented in BLACK & WHITE and FULL SCREEN format (4:3 Aspect Ratio) and runs for 83 minutes - the AUDIO is the original ENGLISH language and MONO - SUBTITLES are English (Hard of Hearing) only

• The Plane Makers - Volume 3 | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The prequel to ATV's celebrated boardroom drama The Power Game, The Plane Makers follows the fortunes of a leading airplane development company and its managing director, the ruthlessly ambitious John Wilder (Patrick Wymark). This series features guest appearances by, among others, Garfield Morgan, Geoffrey Chater, Anthony Newlands and Malcolm Tierney. Scott Furlong Ltd. is about to launch into the fiercely competitive world of government-backed military contracts, with the prototype develop...

• Toto The Hero | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Formerly a trained circus performer Jaco Van Dormael made his debut behind the camera in this wonderfully crafted drama about the human condition as a bitter old man looks back on his life. Toto was a fictional super-sleuth idolized by Thomas. All he ever wanted was to be just like him. Alfred was one of the few friends he had born around the same time. However a dramatic event in their lives sowed the seeds of bitterness that would remain with Thomas... A fire in their nursing h

• Horror Triple | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  A box set of three spine tingling horror tales: Masque Of The Red Death: As a deadly plague ravages Europe sadistic Prince Prospero hosts a lavish banquet for noble devil-worshippers in the sanctuary of his castle. But in the midst of their cruelly wanton revelry there is an uninvited masked guest; Death! Night Of The Eagle: Norman Taylor is hated by other university lecturers when rumours of a major promotion circulate. Hated so much in fact that someone pervades his life with sinister occult spells... Zoltan Hound Of Dracula: In the event of a bizarre find a group of Russian soldiers bring back to life the Dog of Dracula. The evil hound then travels to Los Angeles where the last descendants of the deadly clan still survive...

• Numb3rs Season 2 | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Numb3rs is a drama about an F.B.I agent who recruits his mathematical-genius brother to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. The two brothers take on the most confounding criminal cases from a very distinctive perspective. Inspired by actual cases the series depicts how the confluence of police work and mathematics provides unexpected revelations and answers to the most perplexing criminal questions. A dedicated FBI agent Don Eppes (Rob M

• Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen | Blu Ray | (19/10/2015) from £11.14   |  Saving you £6.11 (61.84%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In Hawaii, master sleuth Charlie Chan unmasks the Dragon Queen as a killer. Before she's arrested, she places a curse on Chan and his family. Years later in San Francisco, Chan is called out of retirement when the city of San Francisco finds itself in chaos over a series of weird murders. Chan is assisted by his blundering grandson, Lee Chan Jr, who is more of a hindrance than help. The shadow of the Dragon Queen still hangs over the Chan family when she becomes his number one suspect.

• Sherlock Holmes - Valley of Fear | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  John Douglas an American who struck lucky prospecting for gold in California is found murdered in the study of Birlstone Manor his face blown away by a shotgun blast. Scotland Yard are forced to call in the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his able assistant Dr. Watson to help. Holmes examines the body finds a mysterious symbol branded on the dead man's arm and then inspects the house and questions all of it's occupants embarking on what will prove to be one of his most myste

• Mr Moto Takes A Chance | DVD | (14/05/2012) from £7.89   |  Saving you £5.10 (39.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Peter Lorre's world-famous detective, Mr. Moto. strikes again in his fourth spine-tingling adventure!On a mission to unmask the leader of a military uprising in Tong Moi. Mr. Moto finds himself deep in the darkest jungles of Asia posing as an archaeologist. But when his excavation of a local temple unearths a massive cache of weapons and explosives. Mr. Moto is compelled to join forces with a beautiful - but mysterious - adventurer whose interest in Tong Moi may not be as innocent as it seems...

• Will Hay - Ask A Policeman | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ask a Policeman is arguably Will Hay's all-round best film, not so much for the qualities of his familiar star performance but for the mix of laughs and thrills in the manner of The Ghost Train or The Cat and the Canary. Hay plays Sgt Doubtfoot, commander of the police station in the coastal hamlet of Turnbotham Round, who hasn't made an arrest in 10 years. This is not because of the area's low crime rate, but because most of the poaching, pilfering and swindling in the village is the responsibility of his own constables, the geriatric Harbottle (Moore Marriott) and literal wide-boy Albert (Graham Moffatt). When the Chief Constable threatens to close the station, the bumbling coppers set out to investigate some crimes and go after a smuggling squire who has been using a local legend as a cover story (and planting his signal light on top of the police station itself). Director Marcel Varnel, working from a script by Sidney Gilliatt and Val Guest, manage some fine semi-horror business with "the 'earse of the 'headless 'orseman", a flaming carriage which dashes about the landscape, and a risky venture into Devil's Cave to find the old smuggler's route that turns out to lead to the cellar of Harbottle's general stores. Hay and his sidekicks are in top form, squabbling surreally over every possible filched coin from the police outing fund box or trying to sort out the plot, and there's a sublime scene as they try to get a clue out of the impossibly ancient Harbottle's even more elderly Dad (also Marriott). --Kim Newman

• Carry On Henry | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £13.97   |  Saving you £-3.98 (-39.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Shot in the bright postal colours of a seaside postcard, Carry on Henry applies the usual Carry On sniggering to the married life of Henry VIII. Talbot Rothwell's script is standard bedroom farce and full of jokes about choppers, while the threat of beheading and the actuality of torture are constantly present but only as the terrible things that happen to cartoon characters who will be back next time. Sid James turns in one of his better performances as the endlessly lecherous and fickle Henry, married to Joan Sims and lusting after Barbara Windsor. There is a genuine sexual chemistry between James and Windsor which at times almost breaks open the farce formula. The usual regulars--Kenneth Williams as Thomas Cromwell, Terry Scott as Cardinal Wolsey, Charles Hawtrey as Sir Roger--do their usual turns; Williams is more subdued than usual, while Hawtrey hugely enjoys playing the Queen's secret lover. This was not one of the high points of the series, but it has its own curious charm. On the DVD: The DVD has no extras whatever, but is a good clean print in 1.77:1 ratio with crisp mono sound. --Roz Kaveney

• Copland | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £11.18   |  Saving you £6.81 (60.91%)   |  RRP £17.99

  After making a critically acclaimed debut with the low-budget independent drama Heavy, writer-director James Mangold took on this gritty crime drama, which was highly touted as Sylvester Stallone's long-awaited return to a serious dramatic role. With an illustrious cast of co-stars, including GoodFellas alumni Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, and Ray Liotta, Stallone plays Freddy Heflin, the ineffectual sheriff of a New Jersey suburb that a group of corrupt New York cops have turned into their own off-duty criminal empire. Deaf in one ear and desperate to prove his worth, the sheriff takes on the cops with standoffish assistance from an Internal Affairs cop (De Niro), resulting in an explosive climactic showdown. The stellar cast can't be beat, and Stallone is quite good as the overweight cop whose pride is on the line. Mangold's script is wildly uneven, but Cop Land still packs a white-knuckled punch. --Jeff Shannon

• Minder - On The Orient Express | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The first ever feature length Minder escapade. Terry and Arthur race through Europe on the Orient Express and become enmeshed in a tale of gangland revenge murder and mayhem. Terry has been given tickets for the Orient Express by a mysterious young woman but Arthur needs Terry for protection and Terry needs Arthur like a hole in the head. By devious means Arthur boards the train only to find Chisholm is aboard working with Interpol. A free-wheeling tale of comedy action