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• Rumpole Of The Bailey: Series 4 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Leo McKern stars as the irrepressible Horace Rumpole in this classic series written by the barrister-playwright Sir John Mortimer.

• Grim | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The time is now; the place is Woodland Hills Virginia... and Death has come to town. A series of unexplained disappearances from this quiet suburban neighbourhood drive Penny Drake to call upon the specialist skills of her estranged boyfriend Rob Colder. For in the abandoned mines an ancient adversary has awakened - an evil from times long past. Fighting the natural dangers of a maze of underground caverns Penny Rob and a group of friends discover their own strengths and limits as they tackle an enemy more powerful than they could have imagined in their worst nightmares. As they explore deeper underground the peril becomes more acute; and when they decide to turn back they discover that the only way out...is onward. Stalked by terror driven by the dark... who will survive?

• Catweazle - 40th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Catweazle: 40th Anniversary Edition (5 Discs)

• Fletch / Sergeant Bilko / King Ralph | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  King Ralph: This heart warming comedy starring John Goodman as the unlikliest king ever.... A freak accident kills off the whole Royal Family and a new heir must be found. The last person anyone expects it to be is lounge singer Ralph Jones who goes from one disaster to another as he reluctantly becomes King Ralph.... Sgt. Bilko: Sgt. Bilko is back and up to his old tricks. The arrival of Major Thorn threatens to put a stop to the casino under-the-table deals and Bilko's other illicit businesses... Fletch: Chevy Chase is at his hilarious best in this suspense-packed comedy thriller based on Gregory McDonald's novel. Fletch is an investigative reporter who's constantly changing his identity. While working on a drug expose Fletch attracts the attention of a strange business man (Tim Matheson) who wants to be killed so his wife will inherit more insurance. The wily Fletch senses a scam and soon he's up to his byline in frame-ups murder police corruption and forbidden romance. It'll be the story of the year if he can stay alive to meet his deadline!

• Hoffman | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hoffman is an odd cross between There's a Girl in My Soup and The Collector and is clearly one of the few film projects Peter Sellers took seriously enough to work hard on, rather than one of the many he breezed through on a talent for funny voices and unleashed chaos. The set-up is that secretary Miss Smith (Sinead Cusack) is blackmailed by meek, middle-aged Mr Hoffman (Sellers) into spending a week of domesticity with him in his flat, while she tells her fiance (Jeremy "Boba Fett" Bulloch) that she's with her gran in Scarborough. At first, the tone is creepy as Cusack dreads the terrors of sharing a bed with Sellers and he mutters darkly about an absent wife in terms that recall Crippen and the brides-in-the-bath murderer, but it becomes more poignant as both characters learn to see each other as people. The worst Sellers does in bed is snore loudly, while the unattainably glamorous young woman suffers from minor ailments like a bruised heel and night-time constipation, and the at-first simple relationship between them deepens as the girl comes to understand the half-life Hoffman has been leading. The script gives Sellers a lot of funny business, acid lines and whimsical turns, but he plays Hoffman as a repressed soul half-ashamed of his attempts to be funny, telling genuinely good jokes as if he expects no one will laugh. Cusack, more interesting than the expected dolly bird, keeps up with her co-star, and almost makes the strangely upbeat last reel believable. On the DVD: Hoffman comes to disc in a nice widescreen print. Otherwise, nada. The film is also available as part of the four-disc Peter Sellers Collection.--Kim Newman

• Tales of the Unexpected Vol 1 | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Tales Of The Unexpected Vol 1

• Assault On Precinct 13 | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A classic head-to-head showdown ignites in Assault On Precinct 13, an all-new update of the 1976 action thriller of the same name.

• Wild Country | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-12.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  16 year-old Kelly Ann gives birth to a baby boy which is immediately given up for adoption. Six weeks later trying to get over the emotional upset she goes on an overnight hike with her church youth group. When they find a baby boy in a 'lair' they are stalked by a wild beast which begins to pick them off one by one. Lee Kelly Ann's ex-boyfriend sacrifices himself to give Kelly Ann a chance to escape and she begins a new life as mother to the baby.

• Pusher | DVD | (31/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  To deal or not to deal: that is the question. Pusher is the story of Frank a small time drug pusher playing with the big boys. He loves the job the life and most of all the money. When a deal goes wrong Frank has 18 hours to come up with the cash or go on the run in fear of his life.

• Skinned Deep | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A flat tire in the middle of nowhere forces the Rockwell family to seek help at a nearby ramshackle diner. The diner is run by Granny who is actually the insane matriarch of a group of mutants led by the imposing and metal-faced Surgeon General as well as the demented Plates (Warwick Davis - Leprechaun Willow Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone]. The entire Rockwell family is murdered with the exception of the teenaged Tina who is chosen by Brain to be his future wife. When a gang of aging but still murderous motorcyclists enters the picture Tina has to choose sides to save her life - and clearly this is a tough choice to make.

• Pergolesi-Stabat Mater | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £3.30   |  Saving you £4.95 (242.65%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Giovanni Battista Pergolesi wrote his masterpiece STABAT MATER very late in his career. And although Pergolesi died of consumption only a year later the piece has survived for several centuries. This performance of the piece features Angharad Gruffyld Jones and their incredible voices.

• Minder - Series 3 - Part 2 Of 4 | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Looking For Micky When ""Mad Micky"" goes on the run Terry has to look after him and Arthur sees his chance of a scoop. Dream House When a super-star is away in Vegas Terry has to mind his empty house. Can Arthur break into showbusiness? Guest Stars: Wanda Ventham & Richard Griffiths. Another Bride Another Groom The last thing Arthur wants to do on his niece's wedding day is to shift a load of porno magazines. Guest Stars: Warren Clarke.

• 5 DVD Movies Action Pack 2 | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Who Dares Wins: A new candidate is needed to infiltrate the 'The People's Lobby' - a radical band of terrorists following the assassination of a British undercover agent. Captain Peter Skellen is welcomed into the group by its fanatical leader Frankie Leith and he gets closer to uncovering her plan to attack a major political target. When the terrorists storm the American Embassy in London it is down to Skellen to save the lives of the high-ranking hostages. Skeleton Coast: Col. Smith's son a CIA agent is captured by some bad guys involved in an African civil war. Smith puts together a group of military pros to save him. Return From The River Kwai: Return from the River Kwai is one of the last untold true stories of World War II in the Far East a story of soldiers who learnt about courage and used their courage for survival. The story begins at the end of the war when a group of starving British and Australian POW's have all but given up hope of escaping from the dreaded railway line that had already cost so many lives. As the wheels of war grind to a halt the Japanese decide to send their more able-bodied POW's over to Japan in a final attempt for victory. Crammed into cattle trucks they begin their journey through the Thai jungle destined to be imprisoned in the hull of a transport ship sailing through submarine infested waters. Amongst rebel raids and allied air attacks there seems a glimmer of hope of escaping... The Klansman: When a black man is arrested for the rape of a white woman a showdown between the law and the Klan is inevitable. Massacre In Rome: In the last days of the Nazi Occupation a group of partisans plan an attack on a German 'police' column.

• Prime Suspect 3 | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £6.46   |  Saving you £6.52 (187.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Chief Inspector Jane Tennison investigates the discovery of a male prostitute's charred body in the burnt-out flat of a trans-sexual...

• My Favourite Broadway - Love Songs | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tracklisting: 'Overture' 'Love Is Sweeping The Country/'Til There Was You/ Lover/ So In Love' - Adam Pascal Brent Spiner Rebecca Luker Peter Gallagher and Marin Mazzie 'Music Is Better Than Words' 'Lullaby Of Broadway' - Tom Wopat and dancers 'Sue Me' - Nathan Lane and Doo Wop Trio 'He Touched Me' - Heather Headley 'La Donna E Mobile/ Let The Good Times Roll/ Standing On The Corner' - Three Mo' Tenors 'Gigi' - Ron Raines 'No Longer Shy' 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' - Jeffrey Denman a

• Spare Parts | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £12.93   |  Saving you £7.06 (35.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Krsko a small industrial town near the southern Slovenian border with Croatia. The only Slovenian nuclear power plant is based at the outskirts of the city. Ludvik a former national speedway champion and widower transports illegal immigrants every night from Croatia to the Italian border. His boss employs the young and inexperienced Rudi to serve as his assistant. On the first drive Ludvik challenges Rudi a few times; a beautiful Macedonian girl is only one of their victims. Rud

• The Roger Corman Horror Collection | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Siren DVD's three-disc Roger Corman Collection contains The Little Shop of Horrors and The Terror, which Corman directed, as well as Dementia 13, which he produced. Though he has a reputation as one of the craftiest businessmen in Hollywood, Corman was too cheapskate in the 1960s to bother copyrighting a bunch of his films and so the same titles have been showing up on video and now DVD from many different distributors. All these films were thrown together in odd circumstances to take advantage of leftover sets, contracted performers or tied-up production funds. Little Shop of Horrors (a disguised remake of A Bucket of Blood) was famously made over a three-day weekend "because it was raining and we couldn't play tennis". The Terror exists because Boris Karloff owed a few days' work after completing The Raven and castle sets were still standing. Dementia 13 was written and directed by a young Francis Coppola in Ireland to take advantage of a European trip made for Corman's The Young Racers. All the films are interesting, in themselves and as footnotes to distinguished filmographies. Little Shop of Horrors has a lasting cult reputation for its blackly comic tale of codependency between a skid-row botanist (Jonathan Haze, relying a bit too much on a Jerry Lewis impersonation) and a blood-drinking, flesh-hungry mutant plant voiced by screenwriter Chuck Griffith ("feed meeee!"), with a creepy cameo from a young Jack Nicholson as a masochist who loves to visit the dentist. The Terror, which has Nicholson as the bewildered lead, is a wilfully incomprehensible Gothic picture made up on the spot by Corman and a handful of other directors (including Coppola and Monte Hellman), climaxing with Karloff's bogus baron and a decaying spectre woman swept away by a flood in the dungeons. Dementia 13, a saga of axe murders and mad sculptors, is brisk grand guignol with a lot of creepy imagery to do with drowned children and family rituals. On the DVD: The Roger Corman Collection limply claims the films are "digitally mastered" (note, not "remastered") as they are simply copies of low-quality video onto disc. Because these titles are public domain no one seems willing to take any care with transfers, and all three films are in terrible state. The Terror, the only colour film, looks especially atrocious (Vistascope cropped to full-frame) but the black-and-white films also suffer all manner of damage. The packaging is classy, but it's a shame more work wasn't done on the films themselves.--Kim Newman

• Adventures Of The Lost World | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Travelling through the uncharted Amazon Jungle professor Edward Challenger and his companions must defend themselves against incredible dangers. Trapped between the present and the past their attackers are from an age unknown and long forgotten: ape man immense crocodiles and flesh devouring dinosaurs.

• Love For Lydia - Episodes 1 To 5 | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first five episodes of the lavish ITV costume drama series set in the late 1920s as Lydia Aspen a provincial heiress who develops from an awkward teenager into a wild flapper toys with the affections of the men around her...

• Return To The Lost World | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Lost World is in danger of extinction. Through bribes and brute force a greedy industrialist in search of oil is raping the land and slaughtering its wondrous dinosaurs. The Lost World natives urgently summon their friends and the old explorers reconvene in an effort to save the land they had once promised to protect. Upon their return the rescuers discover that man's greed has brought in this enchanted land to the brink of apocalyptic destruction. Bountiful trees are levelled the land is ravaged and the natives are being enslaved. The relentless hammering of oil drills has thrown this fragile ecosystem out of balance and a dormant volcano awakens in anger. The group must outwit man and nature in a desperate attempt to save themselves the land and the vulnerable inhabitants of The Lost World.