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• Muriel's Wedding | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ever since the late 1970s when the Australian New Wave was in full surge, Down Under directors have delivered movies that often hit you like news from another planet. Offbeat characters, weird narrative twists and a tart mixture of laughs and catastrophe--this is the juice that fuels such flicks as Proof, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Strictly Ballroom, Heavenly Creatures and, most certainly, Muriel's Wedding. Directed by PJ Hogan (who would go on to helm the Hollywood hit My Best Friend's Wedding), this little gem follows tradition by featuring an authentic misfit: Muriel (Toni Collette), a great, overweight horse of a girl obsessed with getting married and the music of ABBA. Appropriately, we first meet Muriel at a wedding, all trussed up in a leopardskin number she's boosted for the occasion. When her snotty peers insist that she give up the bridal bouquet to someone who might actually get hitched, when one of the guests turns out to be a clerk in the very store where Muriel ripped off her outfit, you've just got to laugh, she's such an unmitigated mess. A loser, her philandering politician father (Bill Hunter) calls her--along with his doormat wife and his other couch-potato offspring. But this movie's no exercise in geek-bashing. As Muriel takes up with feisty Rhonda (Rachel Griffiths) and moves from Porpoise Spit to the big city, her good-hearted grin and zest for life draw us in despite hilarious gaffes and mishaps. (Making out with a boy for the first time, Muriel suddenly finds herself awash in styrofoam: the oaf has unzipped the beanbag chair instead of her skin-tight leather pants.) Muriel's Wedding covers territory Hollywood would banish from a comedy--Rhonda's cancer, the suicide of Muriel's mother, a marriage of convenience to an arrogant athlete--yet, like its heroine, it never loses its sense of humour, its will to move on to whatever good thing might happen next. Everyone in the idiosyncratic cast is terrific, but it's Toni Collette's Dancing Queen who makes Muriel's Wedding a cinematic celebration you won't forget. --Kathleen Murphy

• The Searchers | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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• The Brittas Empire (The Complete Brittas Empire - Series One to Seven) (DVD) | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £24.98   |  Saving you £25.01 (100.12%)   |  RRP £49.99

  In this classic TV sitcom Gordon Brittas (Chris Barrie) is the manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. He means well wants to do well and desperately wants to be a good manager. Unfortunately his best talent is to continually create recipes for total disaster. Deep down Brittas cares for his staff but all he ever seems to do is to make their lives more difficult. Trying to rise above this and to keep the Centre running smoothly is his assistant Laura (Julia St. John) and of course Colin complete with boil! Behind every good man so the saying goes is a good woman and behind every maniac is a good woman losing her sanity! Helen Brittas (Pippa Haywood) is no different as she struggles to cope with her husband's misplaced enthusiasm. Special Features: Brittas Fitness Quiz Royal Variety Performance 1996 Brittas Management Quiz Star Profile Good Morning Interview Christmas Special 1994 Christmas Special 24th December 1996 Brittas Empire Series 4 Out-takes Where's Ben Game Wogan Interview Stills Gallery

• Green Wing: Series 1-2 + Special (Repackage) | DVD | (24/08/2020) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The complete first and second series plus feature length special of the award-winning Channel 4 comedy. Green Wing is the BAFTA® award-winning series that is part surreal soap, part innovative comedy drama--and largely set, despite a bizarre lack of medical content, in a hospital. Devised and produced by Victoria Pile, the show stars Tamsin Greig as the idiosyncratic Dr Caroline Todd; Julian Rhind-Tutt the fop-haired, wise-cracking heartthrob Dr Macartney; Steve Mangan the lustful love god Guy Secretan; Mark Heap the stammering, neurotic Statham; Pippa Haywood the tyrannical, age-obsessed Joanna Clore; Michelle Gomez the terrifyingly unpredictable staff liaison officer Sue White; Karl Theobald the endearing failure Martin Dear; and Oli Chris, Dr Statham's nemesis student, Boyce. Also stars Sally Philips as Mac s ex-girlfriend and Olivia Coleman as an overworked mother of four. Special Features Series 1: deleted scenes, audio commentary with cast & crew, behind-the-scenes featurette, cast & crew biogs Series 2: deleted scenes, audio commentary with cast & crew, behind-the-scenes featurette Special: deleted scenes, alternative ending, audio commentary with cast & crew, behind-the-scenes featurette

• Green Wing Series 1 | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £24.28   |  Saving you £0.71 (2.92%)   |  RRP £24.99

  At last! One of the funniest comedy shows in recent memory finally makes its way to DVD. An offbeat comedy set in a hospital Green Wing throws in a bit of soap opera and a dose of the sketch-show to create something unique and absolutely hilarious! Created by the team behind Smack the Pony the series features some of the finest comedy cats to adorn our screens in quite some time. Green Wing follows new surgical registrar Dr Caroline Todd (T

• The Vampire Lovers Blu-Ray Remastered | Blu Ray | (01/12/2014) from £11.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (91.74%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The arrival of the exotic Marcilla (Ingrid Pitt) causes a stir in the Austrian province of Styria. Women seek Marcilla's friendship and men are entranced by her beauty. When she stays at the home of General Spielsdorf (Peter Cushing) and his niece Laura (Pippa Steele) the only clue to Laura's subsequent death is an unusual wound on one of her breasts. Now calling herself Carmilla the enigmatic stranger moves in with a nearby English family. Like Laura the naïve Emma Morton (Madeline Smith) soon falls ill. As her life hangs by a thread the terrible truth about Carmilla is finally revealed... Special Features: New Blood: Hammer Enters the 70s Audio Commentary with Marcus Hearn and Jonathan Rigby Stills Gallery Original Trailer Restoration Comparisons

• Mapp and Lucia | DVD | (05/01/2015) from £8.25   |  Saving you £-1.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.00

  Based on the novels by E.F Benson, this bitingly funny comic drama, adapted by Steve Pemberton, celebrates and lampoons the snobberies and pretensions of small-town life. Starring an acclaimed ensemble cast led by Miranda Richardson and Anna Chancellor in the title roles. Over the course of a 1930s summer the sly, scheming Miss Elizabeth Mapp and the gloriously haughty Mrs Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas jockey for social supremacy in Tilling. This quaint English town may seem tranquil on the surface, but its eccentric inhabitants exist in a world seething with gossip, faddishness and petty one upmanship... As Mapp and Lucia go into battle, friends and neighbours rally to the flags. When the smoke clears which of the ladies will have won the dangerously well-mannered fight to be Tilling's finest?

• Prisoners' Wives: Series 2 | DVD | (06/05/2013) from £9.92   |  Saving you £6.07 (61.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The return of the drama about women struggling to cope while the men in their lives are on the inside. Career criminal's wife Francesca finds herself at the heart of an escalating gangland war, while Harriet is delighted that son Gavin appears to have forged a friendship with a group of Muslims. But it seems they are not all they appear to be. There are also two new characters - Kim, whose perfect world is turned upside down when her loving husband and the father of her three boys is accused of a terrible crime - and bride-to-be Aisling, exasperated that her repeat offender father is back in jail. Starring Polly Walker, Pippa Haywood, Iain Glen, Nicola Walker, Sally Carman, Karla Crome and Anne Reid.

• The Searchers | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £6.46   |  Saving you £9.53 (147.52%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With The Searchers John Wayne and director John Ford forged an indelible saga of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays Ethan Edwards an ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger thirst the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive quest Ethan finds something unexpected: his own humanity. One of the most influential movies ever made.

• Wakefield | DVD | (31/07/2017) from £3.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.

• Supernova | Blu Ray | (27/09/2021) from £6.87   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Academy Award Winner Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci, Supernova is a heartwrenching modern love story about a couple struggling with a diagnosis of early-onset dementia who take a road trip together to reconnect with friends, family and places from their past.

• Bodyguard | DVD | (01/10/2018) from £12.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in and around the corridors of power, Bodyguard tells the story of David Budd (Richard Madden), a heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch (RaSP) of London's Metropolitan Police Service. When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague (Keeley Hawes), Budd finds himself torn between his duty and his beliefs. Responsible for her safety, could he become her biggest threat?

• Westerns Collection | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  The Searchers: John Wayne plays Ethan Edwards an ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger thirst the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive quest Ethan finds something unexpected: his own humanity. One of the most influential movies ever made. Unforgiven: an exciting modern classic that rode off with four 1992 Academy Awards. Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey: Richard Harris is an ill-fated interloper a colourful killer-for-hire called English Bob. Gene Hackman is the sly and brutal local sheriff whose brand of Law enforcement ranges from unconventional to ruthless. Big trouble is coming to Big Whiskey...

• The Brittas Empire - The Complete Series 6 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The complete sixth series of mirthful mismanagement mishaps from the hapless Gordon Brittas! After being crushed to death at the end of the last series Gordon Brittas spent a short time in Heaven which only served to annoy St Peter so much that he sent him back to earth to finish his mission. Gordon has spent the last six months being rebuilt in a Swiss clinic and returns to Whitbury Leisure Centre fighting fit after training runs in the Alps. Unfortunately in true Brittas fashio

• Flipside Of Dominick Hide, The / Another Flip For Dominick | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Flipside Of Dominic Hide: Peter Firth is the eponymous hero of this double BANFF winner an entertaining tale of time travel romance comedy and suspense flipping between 2130 and 1980 with an ingenious twist in the tail. Another Flip For Dominic: A sequel to the outstandingly successful Flipside of Dominick Hide. Peter Firth is a time-traveller from the year 2132 visiting London 1982 and coming face to face with his past.

• Green Wing Series 2 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £5.98   |  Saving you £19.01 (317.89%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An offbeat comedy set in a hospital The Green Wing throws in a bit of soap opera and a dose of the sketch-show to create something unique and hilarious! Following the sordid revelations and cliffhanging drama of series 1 the staff of Green Wing Hospital have reached unfathomable levels of perversity! Caroline finds herself back to square one with Mac while Sue White prepares to dig her Scottish claws into his mane-like ginger 'do; Joanna Claw has to come to terms with the fact that she accidentally slept with her son; Martin tries his hand at pimping; and Dr Statham enters politics under the proviso that his manifesto will be grammatically correct! Created by the team behind Smack the Pony be prepared for one of the most surreal journeys you're ever likely to take as you dive into the anarchic world of Green Wing Hospital!

• The Riff Raff Element: The Complete Series | DVD | (21/08/2017) from £19.67   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Down-on-their luck, upper-class family rent out a wing of their stately home to a lower-class family.

• A Midsummer Night's Dream | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £15.35   |  Saving you £-2.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the best known Shakespeare comedies which blends romance fun confusion and fairies.

• The Brittas Empire - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The ultimate depiction of workplace perdition has to be Whitbury Leisure Centre in The Brittas Empire, despite the later claim of The Office to the title. And while David Brent seems all too uncomfortably real, Chris Barrie's Gordon Brittas carried the gung-ho officiousness of mediocre middle-management to its surreal conclusion. The Brittas Empire could never quite make up its mind if it was a quasi-realistic sitcom or a fantasy comedy, and it's this uneasy mixture that invites you to question whether there's anything terribly funny about unplanned single parenthood, childcare problems, assault in the workplace and women who are addicted to prescription drugs (see also Waiting for God) because of their partners' behaviour. Then, just as you're pondering all this, Brittas comes out with another mouthful of managerial psychobabble that makes you realise that only this kind of tragi-comic exaggeration is robust enough to stand up to Barrie's monstrous creation. This second series treads a fine line between the merely bleak and the really rather nasty with exquisite precision. It opens with the news that Brittas has been killed abroad in an industrial accident, prompting his tranquillizer-addled wife to mourn him for less time than it takes her to remarry--except, of course, that Brittas is alive and well. Along the way, receptionist Carole attempts to murder Brittas with a JCB when she mistakenly thinks he's assaulted her baby, which she keeps in a cupboard under her desk. On the DVD: The Brittas Empire, Series 2 carries all seven episodes on two discs, together with several extras including a gallery, a profile and a Brittas Management Quiz (don't ask!). --Roger Thomas

• Backs to the Land - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This popular Anglia sitcom focuses on the experiences of three very different Women's Land Army volunteers who find themselves in the Norfolk village of Clayfield, sharing a hasty education in agricultural matters, more than a few mishaps, and a little romance along the way. First screened in 1978, Backs to the Land features a memorable theme sung by Anne Shelton, one of Britain's most cherished wartime entertainers.In this series, official busybody Miss Rainbow sets out to prove that farmer Tom is prone to uncontrolled animal passions, while an archaeologist is convinced that Crabtree Farm holds the secret of Boudicca's missing treasure. Jenny has a visit from her pickpocket father, Tom's long-lost sister-in-law suddenly re-appears, and there's excitement when an escaped Italian prisoner of war ends up hiding out on the farm...