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• Die Die Darling | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (93.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In her last film Tallulah Bankhead portrays the fanatically religious Mrs. Trefoile a psychotic woman who with the help of her gardener (Donald Sutherland) imprisons her dead son's fiancee (Stephanie Powers) in a tiny room in her home so that the girl's soul will be properly cleansed in order to be reunited with her dead husband in heaven... Legendary British studio Hammer produced a script by Richard Matheson (author of I Am Legend) based on the novel by Anne Blaisdell.

• Grand Canyon - The Hidden Secrets | DVD | (27/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• King Kong Lives | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £11.43   |  Saving you £3.55 (42.06%)   |  RRP £11.99

  This version of the classic story picks up from where the 1976 version left off. The mighty ape is resurrected through a miracle of modern medicine and brings him together with what will be the equally terrifying love of his life: Lady Kong...

• Classic Cuts Collection - Modern Epics | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Guns Of Navarone (Dir. J. Lee Thompson): One of the most exciting action films ever made! It's W.W. II and concealed deep within the solid rock of a cliff impregnable to assault by sea or air are the German Army's mighty guns of Navarone. Because they control a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea it's imperative that the guns are destroyed. A specialised commando team is assembled. Included are mountaineer Keith Mallory explosive expert Corporal Miller Greek resistance fighter Andrea Stravos and British Major Franklin. Led by Mallory the team's goal is to reach Navarone and sabotage the colossal guns. The tense down-to-the-wire ending is spellbinding. The Man Who Would Be King (Dir. John Huston): Two soldiers of fortune in 19th Century India carry out a plan to become rulers in the small isolated land of Kafiristan. The Bridge On The River Kwai (Dir. David Lean): Set in Burma during World War II the story tells of British P.O.Ws who are forced to build a large bridge for the Japanese while a British Commando team is sent to destroy it. Winner of seven Academy Awards. Lord Jim (Dir. Richard Brooks): Peter O'Toole stars in Joseph Conrad's compelling tale of an idealistic Marine officer betrayed by his own overactive imagination. Based on Joseph Conrad's classic novel Jim serves an apprenticeship on a tramp liner and graduates to first officer on a ship which is mercilessly lashed by a hurricane. In a moment of desperation the idealistic Jim abandons the ship and leaves its passengers to their fate. To redeem himself he agrees to take a shipment of dynamite and deliver it to a tribe who are located in uncharted territory.

• Jeffrey | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £21.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (-120.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Surprisingly light-hearted and witty, Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey (based on his off-Broadway play) was one of the first films to tackle the AIDS crisis without patting itself on the back or offering everything up in a sobering movie-of-the-week scenario. The titular Jeffrey (Steven Weber) is a happy-go-lucky gay man who suddenly comes face to face with the fact that AIDS has turned sex into something "radioactive". Paranoid in the extreme, he vows to become celibate--at just about the same time that hunky Steve (The Pretender's Michael T. Weiss) saunters into his life, eyes twinkling and hormones raging. The only problem is that Steve, for all his muscles and charm, is HIV-positive, thus setting Jeffrey's deepest fears into motion. When it was written in 1995, Jeffrey struck a nerve in mining the fear that a number of gay men felt during the height of the AIDS crisis. Even just a few years later, though, Jeffrey's paranoia (what, he's never heard of condoms?) seems dated, and his behaviour more self-damaging than self-aware--basically, he needs a slap upside the head as opposed to therapy. Still, Rudnick (who went on to pen the more mainstream In and Out) is never one to pass up a witty one-liner or an opportunity to poke fun at anyone, and Jeffrey now stands as a hilarious, sometimes poignant portrait of gay single life and the perils of dating in a paranoid time. Weber's Jeffrey is simultaneously open to the possibilities of life and fearful to embrace them, and Weiss is, well... gorgeous and funny and sexy beyond belief. Still, it's Patrick Stewart, as Jeffrey's interior decorator best friend, who effortlessly steals the film with his cutting wit; in his mouth, Rudnick's lines are priceless gems. With a host of amazing cameos, including Sigourney Weaver as a conceited New Age maven, Kathy Najimy as her sad-sack follower, Christine Baranski as a high-society hostess for a roundup-themed charity dinner, and a top-form Nathan Lane as a gay priest who seems to have discovered the meaning of life--literally. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

• Manchester United - Beyond the Promised Land | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  It may be stating the obvious, but if you are a fan or in any way interested in Manchester United the football team or global brand then you will love this video and any critical appraisal is largely an irrelevance. If, however, you share the antipathy of most other football fans and see them only through a red mist, it is unlikely to bring much joy. After an opening celebration of the last-minute treble-winning triumph in the Champions League and a brief tribute to the victims of the Munich air crash, the film settles into a fairly sedate account of the 1999/2000 championship season. Scenes from the United backroom are interspersed with various supporters providing a more passionate perspective on following the team for whom success has become almost a given in recent years. These include the bartenders who travel all the way from New York to attend the game in which Real Madrid ended United's hopes of successive European titles (which is not in the least bit hilarious).Among the more corporate elements of the club's set-up on display are a forum encouraging sponsors to develop traditional and new markets (China will be huge) and various meetings with Vodafone to explore their newly agreed partnership (look out for ringing tones based on your favourite terrace chants). Given the inherent excitement usually generated by what happens on the pitch, the overall tone of the film is surprisingly flat with what little action that remains being reduced to very brief goal highlights and largely divested of its significance. Such episodes as Beckham's supposed fracas with the manager, the mysterious disappearance of Mark Bosnich, and the press conference fiasco that marked the non-arrival of Ruud Van Nistelroy are touched upon, but potential controversy is subsumed into the general glorification of the club's march for glory. One memorable scene where successive players' teams fail to answer any questions correctly at a pub-style quiz and are trounced by the management, will not do anything to reverse the common perception of footballers' acumen off the pitch. Bitter and twisted? Not this reviewer: altogether now "1-0 to the Arsenal, 1-0 to the Arsenal". --Steve Napleton

• Ordinary Decent Criminal | DVD | (06/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Dublin. An enigmatic, leather-clad figure weaves its way through traffic on a powerful motorbike. This is Michael Lynch (KEVIN SPACEY): family man, liar, criminal mastermind and our hero.

• Tattoo | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £5.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (72.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A new police graduate is forced to take a superior detective into the world of clubs and drugs to solve a series of brutal killings.

• The Order - Cremaster 3 | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Performance art with Matthew Barney as the entered apprentice racing to the top of the Guggenheim Museum.

• Transformers - Original Series - Vol. 1 | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £6.44   |  Saving you £9.55 (148.29%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Back in the 1980s, there were few phenomena bigger than the Transformers. A hugely popular toy line, it also spawned a long-running comic book, a hit feature film and successful animated television series. Transformers--Original Series, Volume One collects five episodes of the hit television series: the epic, three-part "The Ultimate Doom", plus two episodes that have never before been available in the UK ("Fire on the Mountain" and "War of the Dinobots"). Epic in scope, the story of the Transformers was a timeless, if unsophisticated, tale of good versus evil: the heroic Autobots battled to prevent the evil Decepticons from realising their goal of universal conquest. The resulting civil war raged for millions of years, draining the energy resources from their home planet Cybertron and leading the two robotic races to earth. Here, they continue their war, using their unique ability to alter their bodies to take on the form of earthly vehicles, weapons and creatures. In the morass of bad 80s' cartoons, the Transformers shone like a beacon on Saturday mornings--excellent animation (for many in the US and UK, it was their first introduction to Japanese manga, albeit basic) and characters with real personalities and depth (for most children of the 80s, Autobot leader Optimus Prime was a very real hero). For the ever-growing legions of Transformers fans out there, as well as any 80s' nostalgia buffs, Transformers--Original Series, Volume One is required viewing.--Robert Burrow

• Flame And Citron | DVD | (29/06/2009) from £11.45   |  Saving you £7.53 (89.01%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Copenhagen 1944. While the Danish population hopes for a swift end to the war, freedom fighters Bent Flame and Citron secretly put their lives at stake fighting for the Holger Danske resistance group.

• Sunset Heights | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Law and order is enforced in the city by the rival punishment squads of the Boilerman and the Westies. When Luke Bradley's son is found murdered rumour leads the squads to Sam Magee The Preacher who protests his innocence. Despite this he is taken to Sunset Heights where Luke Bradley is chosen to become his reluctant executioner. But another child goes missing and terror sweeps the city. It is said that the Preacher has risen from his grave seeking vengeance...

• Death And The Compass | DVD | (15/02/2005) from £14.91   |  Saving you £-5.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An adaptation of the José Luis Borges short story, Death and the Compass is a baroque murder mystery with a comic touch. Plagued by his involvement in a prior investigation, weary and embittered Police Commissioner Treviranus (played by Cox regular Miguel Sandoval, Straight to Hell, Three Businessmen) attempts to set a peculiar history straight. When his star detective Lonnrot (Peter Boyle), an intuitive, blue-suited Buddhist, is stumped as to the motive behind a series of unsolved psycho-geographical murders with Kabbalistic overtones, Treviranus suspects master criminal Scharlach (Christopher Eccleston), at large in the city. But Lonnrot rejects this thesis and, with the aide of enthusiastic, atheist journalist, Zunz (Chistopher Eccleston), he is lead to believe that the crimes are allied to points on the compass. Drawn fatefully to where he believes a final crime will be committed, Lonnrot and Zunz search for the solution within a mysterious deserted mansion to the South of the city. Shot with a comic book sensibility (like a 1930s movie serial) on richly coloured modernist sets with futurist flourishes, Cox's film looks sumptuous and follows the style of Borges' labryinthine scenario to the letter without losing the plot. The three leads all acquit themselves admirably. Boyle's mystical detective is awkward and aloof in contrast to Sandoval's cunning, career-minded police inspector, while Ecceleston shape-shifts between three roles with alarming ease. On the DVD: An audio commentary by Alex Cox and composer Dan Wool of Pray for Rain (who also scored Cox's Straight to Hell and Three Businessmen) primarily examines the relationship between sound and setting. Paul Miller's "Spiderweb", the featurette advertised on the sleeve and liner notes, does not appear on this disc. --Chris Campion

• The Onedin Line - Series 1 - Part 2 | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Welcome to Liverpool in the late 19th century the hub of Great Britain's growing Atlantic trade. But for Captain James Onedin these waters are treacherous indeed. Can he keep his beloved Onedin Line out of the hands of Callon his rival enemy and ex-employer and enter the age of steam unhindered? Or will everything including the elements be against him? This release features Parts Three and Four of the classic BBC drama serial The Onedin Line.

• Flesh And Blood | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Who you really are can be hard to face Written by Peter Bowker Christopher Eccleston and Emma Cunniffe star in Flesh and Blood which tells the story of a father whose world is turned upside down when he discovers the truth about his origins. Adopted at birth Joe Broughton (Christopher Eccleston) is overwhelmed by an obsessive desire to trace his real parents after the birth of his daughter Marie. When he discovers that his mother and father have learning disabilities and never knew they had a child his world is blown apart. For Joe as well as his wife Cath (Emma Cunniffe) it's the beginning of a rollercoaster journey which challenges not only his preconceptions about disability but also his sense of his own identity.

• Barbie in the Nutcracker (Includes Tree Decoration Set) | DVD | (24/11/2014) from £11.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  This modern apaptation of the Christmas classic sees Barbie starring as both Clara and the Sugarplum Princess. the magical adventure begins when Clara recieves a fine Nutcracker as a gift from her aunt. That night shes awakes to find the Nutcracker has come to life and is battling the sinister Mouse King. The Mouse King casts a spell over Clara that causes her to shrink and she and the Nutcracker set out on a fantastic adventure to find the Sugarplum Princess who has the power to undo the evil spell. This enchanting tale is enhanced with spectacular dance scenes created by acclaimed choreographer Peter Martins and features the beloved music by Tchaikovsky. The real-life movements of five dancers from New York City Ballet bring to the screen in a way never seen before. Barbie in the Nutcracker shows girls that with self reliance and confidence anything is possible... Bonus Features: Living a Ballet Dream Act With Barbie Moving Menus Includes an exclusive felt Barbie stocking to decorate the tree

• Mission: Impossible Season 2 | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  An elite covert operations unit known as the Impossible Mission Taskforce (IMF) carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure capture or death. Their mission should they choose to accept it is given by the unseen figure known only as the 'Secretary' who instructions are relaid on a tape guaranteed to self-destruct in five seconds... The complete second season of the cult favourite Mission Impossible. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Window 2. Trek 3. The Survivors 4. The Bank 5. The Slave: Part 1 6. The Slave: Part 2 7. Operation 'Heart' 8. The Money Machine 9. The Seal 10. Charity 11. The Council: Part 1 12. The Council: Part 2 13. The Astrologer 14. Echo Of Yesterday 15. The Photographer 16. The Spy 17. A Game Of Chess 18. The Emerald 19. The Condemned 20. The Counterfeiter 21. The Town 22. The Killing 23. The Phoenix 24. Trial By Fury 25. Recovery

• House Of Pain | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Eric Carson is searching for his brother an athlete who came to the secret hospital of the legendary Dr Moreau to help him with a rare blood disease. The boy was subjected to Moreau's radical transplant techniques an operation that turned him into half man/ half panther. Eric finds his brother more animal than man when he is captured and subjected to a similar operation. Before his animal side can take over completely Eric rallies the other manimal experiments to revolt against Mo

• The Fenn Street Gang - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This sitcom was a spin-off from Please Sir it follows the activities of the pupils of Form 5C after leaving Fenn Street School.

• Bees In Paradise | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-59.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Askey plays a pilot who bales out over Paradise Island not knowing that he is about to land in a bee-worshipping colony of women and that he is about to become a drone for the queen bee! When he finds out that as custom demands he is due to be sacrificed two months after the honeymoon he soon starts thinking about escape. The women of course have other ideas.