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• Doctor Who - The Collection - Season 19 | Blu Ray | (31/05/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  BUILD YOUR OWN DOCTOR WHO ARCHIVE WITH THIS 8-DISC COLLECTORS' SET! The Fifth Doctor's classic first season all 26 episodes newly restored for Blu-ray, packed with bonus material. CASTROVALVA FOUR TO DOOMSDAY KINDA THE VISITATION BLACK ORCHID EARTHSHOCK TIME-FLIGHT Special Features PETER DAVISON IN CONVERSATION - A candid one-hour interview with the Fifth Doctor FIVE NEW MAKING-OF DOCUMENTARIES For Castrovalva, Four To Doomsday, Black Orchid, Earthshock and Time-Flight BEHIND THE SOFA - Classic clips viewed by Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Matthew Waterhouse, Mark Strickson & Sophie Aldred IMMERSIVE 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIXES For Kinda and Earthshock EXCLUSIVE EXTENDED EPISODE Black Orchid Part One EXTENSIVE STUDIO RECORDING TAPES - Raw studio footage from Castrovalva, Four To Doomsday, Earthshock and Time-Flight OPTIONAL UPDATED SPECIAL EFFECTS FOR CASTROVALVA PRODUCTION ARCHIVE MATERIAL Also contains extensive Special Features previously released on DVD including: TIME CRASH MINI-EPISODE, MAKING OF DOCUMENTARIES, FEATURETTES, OPTIONAL CGI EFFECTS, AUDIO COMMENTARIES, RARE FOOTAGE, PRODUCTION INFORMATION SUBTITLES, ISOLATED MUSIC SCORES AND MUCH MORE.

• Oppenheimer | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  ""I am become Death destroyer of worlds..."" - J. Robert Oppenheimer A thrilling miniseries biopic of American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer who led the U.S efforts during World War II to develop the atomic bomb only to find himself suspected as a risk to national security from Communist sympathies stemming from an increasing ambivalence toward's his life's work... Nominated for a Golden Globe for Sam Waterston in the title role.

• Absolutely - Absolutely Everything | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The legenary Absolutely finally makes its debut on DVD after Absolutely Productions finally re-aquired the rights to all 4 series of Absolutely. Written by and starring Moray Hunter Morwenna Banks Jack Docherty Peter Baikie Gordon Kennedy & John Sparkes the late 80s early 90s sketch show has been described as 'one of Channel 4's best-kept secrets' This box set finally collects together all four seasons - a total of 28 episodes with over 12 hours of material!

• Crash | DVD | (10/04/2000) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted from the controversial novel by J.G. Ballard, Crash will either repel or amaze you, with little or no room for a neutral reaction. The film is perfectly matched to the artistic and intellectual proclivities of director David Cronenberg, who has used the inspiration of Ballard's novel to create what critic Roger Ebert has described as "a dissection of the mechanics of pornography". Filmed with a metallic colour scheme and a dominant tone of emotional detachment, the story focuses on a close-knit group of people who have developed a sexual fetish around the collision of automobiles. They use cars as a tool of arousal, in which orgasm is directly connected to death-defying temptations of fate at high speeds. Ballard wrote his book to illustrate the connections between sex and technology--the ultimate postmodern melding of flesh and machine--and Cronenberg takes this theme to the final frontier of sexual expression. Holly Hunter, James Spader and Deborah Unger are utterly fearless in roles that few actors would dare to play, and their surrender to Cronenberg's vision makes Crash an utterly unique and challenging film experience. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Tuxedo, The | DVD | (02/07/2006) from £4.59   |  Saving you £13.40 (291.94%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Jackie Chan stars as a hapless chauffer who must take the place of a secret agent with his special gadget-laden tuxedo!

• Pennies From Heaven | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £19.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (50.33%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Dennis Potter's astonishing six-part miniseries Pennies from Heaven remains one of the edgiest, most audacious things ever conceived for television. The story tells of one Arthur Parker (Bob Hoskins), a sheet-music salesman in 1930s England. Beaten down by economic hard times and the sexual indifference of his proper wife (Gemma Craven), Arthur cannot understand why his life can't be like the beautiful songs he loves. On a sales trip through the Forest of Dean, he meets a virginal rural woman (Cheryl Campbell) he suspects may be his ideal. Ruination follows. Punctuating virtually every scene is a vintage pop song--lip-synched and sometimes danced out by the characters. This startling innovation makes the contrast between Arthur's brutish life and his bourgeois dreams even more dramatic. Potter's dark vision digs into British stoicism, sexual repression, the class system and even the coming of fascism in Europe. But it is especially poignant on the subject of the divide between art and reality. Piers Haggard directs the long piece with deft transitions between songs and story. (It was shot partly on multi-camera video, partly on film.) The cast is fine, especially the extraordinary Cheryl Campbell, who imbues her character with keen intelligence and no small measure of perversity. Bob Hoskins triumphs in his star-making part, bringing a demonic energy to his small-time Cockney, nearly bursting his button-down vests with frustration and appetite. Pennies from Heaven was remade in 1981 for the big screen (with Steve Martin), in an interesting, Potter-scripted adaptation; it's one of the reasons the original has been unavailable on home video for so long. --Robert Horton

• Yes - Their Fully Authorised Story | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £13.72   |  Saving you £-3.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The definitive fully authorised story of Yes is as controversial as their music and is now told in a series of exclusive interviews with Yes members past and present. Tracing the musical journey from their debut album yes 1969 up until Magnification 2001 and beyond. As told by Jon Anderson Chris Squire Steve Howe Rick Wakeman Alan White Bill Bruford Peter Banks Trevor Horn Geoff Downes Keith Emerson and many more.

• Yesspeak - Yes 35th Anniversary | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shot during the group's 35th Anniversary European Tour, Yesspeak offers a 169-minute documentary about the classic progressive rock band Yes, together with an audio-only presentation of their 2003 set. The feature, narrated by Roger Daltrey, is a refreshingly straightforward affair, with a near three-hour running time allowing rather more depth than the usual rockumentary. Divided into 10 chapters the programme systematically covers the background, history and outlook of the group before an extended interview with each of the five members of the classic line-up: Jon Anderson (vocals), Steve Howe (guitar), Chris Squire (bass), Alan White (drums), and Rick Wakeman (keys). Finally there are more general sections on touring and the band's music. Archive material and glimpses of the 2003 tour are interwoven with the interviews, but this is very much a documentary, not a concert (to see Yes at their modern best watch Yes: Symphonic Live, 2002). The documentary puts a positive spin on a sometimes chequered past, and it's clearly aimed at long-term fans, but for those who have followed Yes through the decades this is satisfyingly comprehensive and thoroughly enjoyable; from Steve Howe's famous but still entertaining guitar/Concord story, to Rick Wakeman's tea break during a typically expansive prog-rock solo. On the DVD: Yesspeak comes as a two-disc set. Disc 1 offers the first five chapters and 89 minutes of the documentary, while the remaining 80 minutes are featured on Disc 2. The picture is an excellent amamorphically enhanced 16:9 widescreen presentation, though by necessity the archive material is of variable quality. Switches into black and white and slow motion are a typically unnecessary distraction of the rock documentary format, but the DVD handles them well. There are excellent Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS soundtracks and optional French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish subtitles. Disc 2 also showcases 126 minutes of concert audio. This is accompanied by concert photos but the sound is only Dolby Digital 5.1, without a DTS option. Although the sound is good it does not match the crystal clear quality of the same music as heard in fragments during the documentary itself. Presumably a DVD of the concerts will follow with much better sound, and the audio here will simply serve as a trailer for that release? --Gary S Dalkin

• Magpie | DVD | (29/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Mary-Kate And Ashley Collection - Vol. 1 | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Billboard Dad: One's a surfer. The other's a high diver. When these two sisters team up to find a new love for their newly single Dad it's a fun-loving eye-catching California adventure gone wild. Mary-Kate and Ashley star in this fabulously funny love-struck comedy filled with crazy schemes and cool surprises. Determined to find their Dad Max a new love the girls paint a personals ad on a giant billboard in the heart of Hollywood. After a few disastrous dates Max finally

• Happy Campers | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £3.22   |  Saving you £18.03 (919.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After the camp director is injured a group of freshman counsellors take charge and make radical and rude changes to the everyday routine...

• 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 Man Who Knew Too Much | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Man Who Knew Too Much is American doctor Ben McKenna. On holiday in Morocco with his wife Jo and his eight-year-old son Hank he inadvertently witnesses a murder in a market and becomes privy to a plot of political assassination. This being masterminded by the Draytons an English couple they have met in a restaurant and is due to take place in London in a few days' time. In order to prevent McKenna from going to the police the couple kidnap Hank. Ben is warned not to tell the police what he knows. Hank's life depends on his silence.