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• Don Henley - Live Inside Job | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £11.39   |  Saving you £3.60 (31.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Don Henley helped define the 70's as a member of the enormously successful rock band the Eagles before launching an impressive solo career that includes such hits as 'Dirty Laundry' 'The Boys Of Summer' and 'All She Wants To Do Is Dance'. On May 25 2000 he returned to his Texas roots for a remarkable concert recorded before an enthusiastic audience at Fair Park Music Hall in Dallas. This rock legends live performance captures all the passion satire and originality that fans around the world most treasure in his influential music. Track listing:- Dirty Laundry; Sunset Grill; Workin' It; Taking You Home; The Boys Of Summer; Lilah; Everything Is Different Now; The End Of The Innocence; All She Wants To Do Is Dance; New York Minute; Talking To The Moon; They're Not Here They're Not Coming; The Heart Of The Matter; Desperado; The Long Run; My Thanksgiving; Hotel California

• Band Of Brothers | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £37.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (5.29%)   |  RRP £39.99

  From this day to the ending of the world we in it shall be remembered. We few we happy few we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. Based on the book by historian Stephen Ambrose this ten part series at '87 million the most expensive TV production ever follows the US 101st Airborne Division's E 'Easy' Company from initial training through operations involving D-Day Market Garden and the Battle Of The Bulge across Holland Belgium Germany and Austria until the end of the war. Episodes Comprise: 1. Currahee 2. Day Of Days 3. Carentan 4. Replacements 5. Crossroads 6. Bastogne 7. The Breaking Point 8. The Last Patrol 9. Why We Fight 10. Points

• Spooks: The Greater Good | Blu Ray | (28/09/2015) from £13.09   |  Saving you £9.90 (75.63%)   |  RRP £22.99

  When charismatic terrorist Adem Qasim (Elyes Gabel) escapes from MI5 custody during a high profile handover legendary operative Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) Head of Counter-terrorism is blamed. Disgraced and forced to resign Harry disappears without a trace. With MI5 on its knees in the wake of the Qasim debacle and facing controversial reform former agent Will Holloway (Kit Harington) is brought back from Moscow to discover the truth about Harry’s disappearance and in doing so uncovers a shocking revelation; Harry is still alive has gone rogue and desperately needs Will’s help. Will must decide whether to turn Harry in - or risk everything by trusting the damaged dangerous master spy who betrayed him once before…

• Hell Night | Blu Ray | (13/12/2021) from £18.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  101 Films presents haunted house hazing horror Hell Night (1981), released on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK and title 020 on the 101 Films Black Label. Directed by Tom DeSimone (Reform School Girls, Angel III: The Final Chapter), this slasher classic benefits from a talented young cast including Linda Blair (The Exorcist), Vincent Van Patten (Rock ˜N' Roll High School), Peter Barton (Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter) and Kevin Brophy (The Seduction). As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family. Two of the pledges, Marti and Jeff ignore the rumors that the now-deserted mansion is haunted by a crazed killer, until one by one, members of their group mysteriously disappear. Could this be a part of a fraternity prank ... or is a demented former tenant seeking revenge? When this seemingly innocent night turns deadly, these college students will do anything to survive Hell Night. Special Features Transfer from a 4K scan of the best surviving archival 35mm film print with minor SD inserts to replace missing footage Linda Blair: The Beauty of Horror Hell Nights with Tom DeSimone Peter Barton: Facing Fear Producing Hell with Bruce Cohn Curtis Writing Hell with Randy Feldman Vincent Van Patten and Suki Goodwin in conversation Kevin Brophy and Jenny Neumann in conversation Gothic Design in Hell Night Anatomy of the Death Scenes On Location at Kimberly Crest Theatrical Trailer TV Spots Radio Spot Photo Gallery

• Grease 2 | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £10.34   |  Saving you £6.91 (76.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's 1961 two years after the original gang graduated from Rydell High and there's a new crop of seniors. The Pink Ladies and the T-Birds are still the epitome of cool except that over the summer something's happened to Stephanie the sorority leader. She feels she's outgrown Johnny the head T-Bird and is looking for a new love - one who's even more cool and whose bike is even hotter. Meanwhile newcomer Michael is smitten with Stephanie who won't even notice him... The conflict is on and the Rydell High fun takes off to new heights.

• Spooks - Series 3 - Complete | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £18.49   |  Saving you £21.50 (116.28%)   |  RRP £39.99

  MI5; not 9 to 5! MI5. The Spooks. They don't exist. You will never know their names where they come from who they are. And they're all that stand between you and those who watch this country with terror on their minds. This release features all the episodes from Season 3. Episodes comprise: 1. Project Friendly Fire 2. The Sleeper 3. Who Guards The Guards? 4. A Prayer For My Daughter 5. Love And Death 6. Persephone 7. Outsiders 8. Celebrity 9. Frequently Asked Questions

• H.M.S. Defiant | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £7.60   |  Saving you £12.39 (163.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in 1797 at the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars, HMS Defiant is an enthralling British naval drama made to capitalise upon MGM's epic remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, also released in 1962. Based on the novel Mutiny by Frank Tilsey and starring Alex Guinness as a fair-minded captain locked in psychological conflict with Dirk Bogarde, his manipulative, coldly malicious first officer, the parallels with the famous true story are clear. However there were many naval mutinies at this period and this large-scale saga, which includes some spectacularly staged widescreen naval battles, offers a realistic depiction of life in the British navy at the time--from the press gangs and floggings, to the appalling food and living conditions. Director Lewis Gilbert--who previously helmed Sink the Bismarck! (1960)--strikes a good balance between the personal drama and sweeping maritime adventure. Guinness successfully varies his firm-but-fair officer from The Bridge on the River Kwai, Bogarde is chillingly hateful and Anthony Quayle gives strong support. ITV's recent Hornblower cumulatively offers a more detailed portrait of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars, though the TV series cannot match the visual scale of this big-screen production. On the DVD: HMS Defiant is presented anamorphically enhanced at 2.35:1, though a little of the original CinemaScope frame is still cropped at the sides. The image is generally very good, though a handful of scenes near the end show considerable print damage and there is an inconstancy of colour grading between some shots. Grain is variable, but not generally a problem, though some unattractive "ringing" from edge enhancement is noticeable, particularly around Alex Guinness when he stands against a bright sky. The sound is in very clear mono with just occasional distortion on the music score. The disc offers the option of watching with dubbed French, German, Italian or Spanish soundtracks. The original trailer is included--under the American title of Damn the Defiant!--as are trailers for three other classic war films. The only other extra features are a small gallery of original publicity materials and three very basic filmographies. --Gary S Dalkin

• Wallace And Gromit - A Matter Of Loaf And Death | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.74   |  Saving you £5.25 (67.83%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Log line: Wallace and Gromit''s new bakery business faces danger when a mysterious killer starts targeting all the bakers in town. Two liner: Wallace and Gromit have opened a new bakery business - Top Bun - but a deadly murderer is targeting all the bakers in town. Wallace couldn''t care - he''s found true love in the shape of Piella Bakewell former star of the Bake-O-Lite bread commercials. Can Gromit discover the identity of the Cereal Killer before Wallace becomes the next victim? Two para: Wallace and Gromit have opened a new bakery - Top Bun - and business is booming not least because a deadly Cereal Killer has murdered all the other bakers in town. Gromit is worried that they may be the next victims but Wallace couldn''t care - he''s fallen head over heels in love with Piella Bakewell former star of the Bake-O-Lite bread commercials. So Gromit is left to run things on his own when he''d much rather be getting better acquainted with Piella''s lovely pet poodle Fluffles. But then Gromit makes a shocking discovery which points to the killer''s true identity. Can he save his master from becoming the next baker to be butchered? And does Fluffles know more than she is saying? It''s a classic 'who-doughnut'' mystery as four-time Academy Award winning director Nick Park creates a hilarious new masterpiece in the tradition of 'master of suspense'' Alfred Hitchcock.

• Charlie Brown - I Want A Dog For Christmas / A Charlie Brown Christmas | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Peanuts: a cartoon institution that has affected everyone at some point of their life! The brand is probably one of the most recognised images in the world - a regular Emmy winner and mascot of NASA! Created in 1950 by Charles Schulz his characters have become household names and the stories touched many hearts. I Want A Dog For Christmas Charlie Brown: Rerun is the loveable but ever-skeptical younger brother of Linus and Lucy and his big sister is stressing him out

• Aces High | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An intense drama of life and death amongst fighter pilots in World War I. A moving story of comradeship and bravery loneliness and fear from award winning director Jack Gold 'Aces High' contains some of the most magnificent aerial battles ever staged leading to a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography and Best Film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards.

• The Evil Of Frankenstein | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £9.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (30.16%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Once hounded from his castle for creating a monstrous living creature Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) returns to his ancestral home in Karlstaad determined to continue his experiments into the creation of life. High in the mountains Frankenstein and his faithful assistant Hans stumble on the body of the creature perfectly preserved in ice. He is brought back to life but Frankenstein is forced to employ a hypnotist Zoltan to complete the process. Unbeknown to Frankenstein Zoltan now controls the creature and has plans to use him to rob and pillage the local villages. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?

• Birds Of A Feather: Christmas Specials | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.48   |  Saving you £-1.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.00

  One of the nineties’ most successful sitcoms Birds of a Feather stars Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson as Sharon and Tracey North London-born sisters left to fend for themselves both financially and emotionally when their husbands are jailed for armed robbery. Doing their best to hang onto Tracey’s smart home the sisters also enjoy regular visits from waspish-yet-sympathetic neighbour Dorien (Lesley Joseph) whose high-grade gossip and extra-marital antics liven up many a dull day in Chigwell… A new series in 2014 was a smash hit proving that the girls are still loved by the British public! A particular highlight of the original series were the fondly remembered Christmas Specials - this special release includes the first four.

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Tracey receives two tickets for a cruise - a romantic surprise planned by Darryl before being sent to prison. Dorien does her best to encourage her to use the tickets; just think about all the available men! That fails miserably but there’s always Plan B… Falling in Love Again 
Chris is in trouble - the McCarthy brothers who have bought his debts are threatening grievous bodily rearrangement. But there’s a simple and obvious solution! It involves a TV quiz show a trip to Berlin and a Messerschmitt bubble car… We’ll Always Have Majorca 
Darryl has been kind to Abel Kane a former rock star imprisoned for drug offences. Now Kane offers Darryl a favour. It concerns Kane’s Majorcan villa a prison breakout and an unexpected Christmas holiday for Sharon Tracey and Dorien… The Chigwell Connection 
When doubt is cast on the integrity of the officer who arrested Chris and Darryl the sisters start a campaign to Free the Chigwell Two. Dorien meanwhile suffers humiliation at the hands of tennis-club gossip queen Melanie Fishman when Marcus is accused of drug-running…

• Men Behaving Badly - Series 5 | DVD | (03/07/2000) from £4.05   |  Saving you £15.94 (393.58%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The ultimate small-screen representation of Loaded-era lad culture--albeit a culture constantly being undermined by its usually sharper female counterpart--there seems little argument that Men Behaving Badly was one of 1990s' definitive sitcoms. Certainly the booze-oriented, birds-obsessed antics of Martin Clunes' Gary and Neil Morrissey's Tony have become every bit as connected to Britain's collective funny bone as Basil Fawlty's inept hostelry or Ernie Wise's short, hairy legs. Yet, the series could easily have been cancelled when ITV viewers failed to respond to the original version, which featured Clunes sharing his flat with someone named Dermot, played by Harry Enfield. Indeed, it was only when the third series moved to the BBC and was then broadcast in a post-watershed slot--allowing writer Simon Nye greater freedom to explore his characters' saucier ruminations--that the show began to gain a significant audience. By then, of course, Morrissey had become firmly ensconced on the collective pizza-stained sofa, while more screen time was allocated to the boys' respective foils, Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash. Often glibly dismissed as a lame-brained succession of gags about sex and flatulence, the later series not only featured great performances and sharp-as-nails writing but also sported a contemporary attitude that dared to go where angels, and certainly most other sitcoms, feared to tread. Or, as Gary was once moved to comment about soft-porn lesbian epic Love in a Women's Prison: "It's a serious study of repressed sexuality in a pressure-cooker environment." Series 5 includes: "Hair" in which Tony returns from holiday to discover Dorothy has convinced Gary she should move in. And that Tony should move out; "The Good Pub Guide" in which our heroes are dismayed when The Crown gets a new look and new landlord (The Fast Show's John Thomson). Tony rescues the pub's old condom machine as a present for Deborah ("I thought it was something we could enjoy together."); "Cowardice" in which Tony becomes convinced Deborah is going through a lesbian phase; "Your Mate Vs Your Bird" in which increased tension in the household persuades Dorothy to reconsider her living arrangements; "Cardigan" in which Gary, concerned he's becoming middle-aged, suggests they go to a rave; "Rich and Fat" in which Tony goes on a diet after Gary accuses him of being "a bit of a podgemeister"; "Home Made Sauna" in which temptation comes Gary's way when Dorothy and Deborah go away for a sailing weekend. The DVD version also features aquiz.

• Dragonslayer | Blu Ray | (21/03/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• At Home With the Braithwaites: The Complete Series | DVD | (06/04/2020) from £40.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Originally transmitted in the early 2000s, At Home with the Braithwaites received a number of award nominations, including ones at BAFTA, the British Comedy Awards and the International Emmys, and won the TV Quick Award in 2000 for the Best New Drama. This complete set brings all four series together.

• Mozart In Turkey | DVD | (22/12/2003) from £10.30   |  Saving you £9.69 (94.08%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mozart in Turkey is a feature-length 88-minute hybrid BBC co-production which interleaves making-of documentary footage (24 minutes) and filmed highlights (64 minutes) from Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("The Abduction from the Seraglio"). Working to their pre-recorded performance of the complete opera conducted by leading Mozartian Sir Charles Mackerras with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Choir, we see the cast mime to playback key arias, duets and quartets from Mozart's gorgeous work. The story of a Spanish noble woman, Konstanze (soprano Yelda Kodalli), her English maid, Blonde (soprano Désirée Rancatore), fiancé, Belmonte (tenor Paul Groves) and his servant, Pedrillo (tenor Lynton Atkinson) in the Turkish Harem of Pasha Selim (Oliver Tobias in a speaking role) is beautifully filmed in the famous Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. The documentary sections offer a brief, rather superficial look at Mozart's writing of the opera and the ideas that influenced it and are expressed within the drama. The music-making is hardly to be faulted and the staging is ravishing. Unfortunately the whole seems like an over-length DVD extra that should accompany a complete film of the opera--the very thing that is mysteriously missing from this release. On the DVD Mozart in Turkey is presented anamorphically, enhanced at 16:9 for widescreen televisions, with a virtually flawless picture taken, presumably, from digital tape. If the programme is watched complete the sound is stereo only and the music sometimes sounds harsh. If music highlights are selected, sound is available in stereo or a much fuller and more rounded Dolby Digital 5.1. There are optional subtitles in English, German, Spanish, French and Dutch, but if any of these is selected it is imposed over the English-language documentary sections as well as the German-language opera scenes. When playing music highlights there are rather abrupt and unmusical fades in and out between scenes. The menu is awful, offering the option either to play all or select a given track, but not to play from a particular scene onwards. Switching subtitles on or off, or changing audio tracks, entails returning to the main menu then starting the programme afresh. There is no resume play facility and there are no extras. --Gary S Dalkin

• French Lieutenant's Woman (Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (30/03/2020) from £21.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An astounding array of talent came together for the big-screen adaptation of John Fowles's novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, a postmodern masterpiece that had been considered unfilmable. With an ingenious script by the Nobel Prizewinning playwright HAROLD PINTER (Betrayal), British New Wave trailblazer KAREL REISZ (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) transforms Fowles's tale of scandalous romance into an arresting, hugely entertaining movie about cinema. In Pinter's reimagining, JEREMY IRONS (Dead Ringers) and MERYL STREEP (Sophie's Choice) star in parallel narratives, as a Victorian-era gentleman and the social outcast he risks everything to love, and as the contemporary actors cast in those roles and immersed in their own forbidden affair. The French Lieutenant's Woman, shot by the consummate cinematographer FREDDIE FRANCIS (Glory) and scored by the venerated composer and conductor CARL DAVIS, is a beguiling, intellectually nimble feat of filmmaking, starring a pair of legendary actors in early leading roles. Special Edition Features New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray New introduction by film scholar Ian Christie New interviews with actors Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep, editor John Bloom, and composer Carl Davis Episode of The South Bank Show from 1981 featuring director Karel Reisz, novelist John Fowles, and screenwriter Harold Pinter Trailer PLUS: An essay by film scholar Lucy Bolton

• Dragons' Den - Series 2 | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £17.90   |  Saving you £5.08 (34.07%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Budding entrepreneurs inventors and small businessmen (and women) pitch their ideas to the five ""dragons"" - real-life business leaders and millionaires with real cash to invest in the companies they feel will make it. Each 'contestant' must convince the 'dragons' to part with thousands of pounds to make their dreams a reality.

• The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Hammer Horror! Dragon Thrills! The First Kung Fu Horror Spectacular! Count Dracula journies to a remote Chinese village in the guise of a warlord to support six vampires who are dispirited after the loss of a seventh member of their cult. At the same time vampire hunter Prof. Van Helsing happens to be lecturing in the country and is persuaded by villagers to help them fight this curse of the ages... Possibly the only film to combine the traditions of a vampire story with Kung Fu!

• Short Sharp Shocks Vol.3 (Flipside #47) (2 x Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (09/10/2023) from £21.63   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The third in the critically acclaimed BFI Flipside series continuing its ongoing mission to curate an alternative Brit-screen history of overlooked rarities in deluxe home-entertainment editions is a further compelling compendium of strange, striking, thrilling, horrific, eerie and eccentric short subjects from the heyday of the British cinematic supporting programme. Settle down for another strange cinematic journey through uncanny stories, twists in the tale, low-budget weirdness, stylish spectacle, avant-garde art, peculiar public information, monstrous music and provocative experiment many ultra-rare and all with oodles of atmosphere and in High Definition. The Films: Return to Glennascaul (Hilton Edwards, 1951, 22 mins) Strange Stories (John Guillermin and Don Chaffey, 1953, 45 mins) Strange Experiences (1955, 10 mins) Maze (Bob Bentley, 1970, 15 mins) Skinflicker (Tony Bicât, 1973, 41 mins) Beach Litter: Broken Bottle (1 min) Firework: Chick (1 min) Wings of Death (Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson, 1985, 20 mins) The Terminal Game (Geoff Lowe, 1982, 40 mins) Product Features Interview with filmmaker and artist Bob Bentley, director of Maze (2023) Interview with Tony Bicât, director of Skinflicker (2023) Interview with Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson, directors of Wings of Death (2023) Interview with Colin Towns, composer of the music for The Terminal Game (2022) The Strange Stories Scrapbook (2023): video essay on 1950s British film producer Roger Proudlock by Vic Pratt Interview with Geoff Lowe, director of The Terminal Game (TBC) Rare scripts, stills, images and behind-the-scenes footage (TBC) **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet including new writing by directors Bob Bentley, Nichola Bruce and Tony Bicât