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• Jane Austen In Manhattan | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £20.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old...

• The Honeymooners | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £12.18   |  Saving you £7.81 (64.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Working class New York bus driver Ralph Kramden is still looking for a get rich quick scheme min this comedy.

• Slutty Summer | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A witty sexy comedy which cleverly balances gay cynicism with old-fashioned romance Slutty Summer tells of one young gay guy's adventures in steamy New York City. Lanky blond Marcus (writer-director Casper Andreas) gets a sudden reality check in gay fidelity after catching his lover in bed with another. Picking up the pieces Marcus gets a job at a restaurant where he is befriended by a group of lovelorn waiters who school him on re-entering the dating scene. Taking

• Fantomcat - Series 1 - Episodes 1 And 2 | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Two animated adventures from legendary British animation studio Cosgrove Hall the team behind 'Danger Mouse'.

• Just Before Dawn | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Don't camp in the woods... Just Don't! Despite the local Ranger's ominous warning a party of three boys and two girls take a camping trip to the mountain. In the steamy backwoods they sense an atmosphere of mounting tension. Soon they realise there is some deadly horror lurking in the woods. The Ranger had been right! They meet a strange girl and her equally strange family. Then one of them is murdered... then another... and another... Will any of them survive those dark hour

• Thriller - Episodes 1 To 10 | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Thriller is a fantastic British television series created and written by Brian Clemens (The Avengers). Designed as an anthology series of suspense thrillers it traversed a multitude of different ideas - and guest stars! Episodes comprise: 1. Lady Killer 2. Possession 3. Someone At The Top Of The Stairs 4. An Echo Of Theresa 5. The Colour Of Blood 6. Murder In Mind 7. A Place To Die 8. File It Under Fear 9. The Eyes Have It 10. Spell Of Evil

• Resurrecting the Street Walker | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £5.39   |  Saving you £7.60 (141.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An ambitious young filmmaker discovers an abandoned and incomplete horror movie from the 1980s and decides to finish it. . . . big mistake.

• Seven Brides For Seven Brothers / Wizard Of Oz / Annie Get Your Gun | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Seven Brides For Seven Brothers: When rugged frontiersman Adam (Howard Keel) sweeps local beauty Milly (Jane Powell) off her feet the whole town is turned upside-down. But no one's more shocked than Milly who discovers that she's now expected to cook and clean not only for Adam but for his six rowdy brothers too! Well Milly's no pushover and soon she has those boisterous boys whipped into groomhood and dancing for joy over six brides of their own! Wizard Of Oz: We click our heels in anticipation. There's no place like home and no movie like this one. From generation to generation The Wizard Of Oz brings us together - kids grown-ups families friends. The dazzling land of Oz a dream-come--true world of enchanted forests dancing scarecrows and singing lions wraps us in its magic with one great song-filled adventure after another. Annie Get Your Gun: Betty Hutton (as Annie Oakley) and Howard Keel (as Frank Butler) star in this sharpshootin' funfest based on the 1 147-performance Broadway smash boasting Irving Berlin's beloved score including Doin' What Comes Natur'lly I Got the Sun in the Morning and the anthemic There's No Business like Show Business. As produced by Arthur Freed directed by George Sidney and seen and heard in a new digital transfer from restored elements. This lavish spirited production showcases songs and performances with bull's-eye precision earning an Oscar for adaptation scoring. The story is brawling boy-meets-girl-meets-buckshot rivalry. But love finally triumphs when Annie proves that yes you can get a man with a gun!

• Comedy | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Mr Man Godfrey:In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as family butler. He finds the Bullocks to be the epitome of idle rich, and nutty as the proverbial fruitcake. Soon, the dramatizing Irene is in love with her 'protege'...who feels strongly that a romance between servant and employer is out of place, regardless of that servant's mysterious past... ; His Girl Fri...

• China Moon | DVD | (30/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  China Moon (1991) is a pleasing entertainment that assembles the dependable elements of film noir in the tradition of Body Heat (1981), The Last Seduction (1994) and, of course, the mother of all such films, Double Indemnity (1944). There's a femme fatale (the beautiful and talented Madeleine Stowe) and an honest cop (reliable Ed Harris) who soon becomes smitten. Her husband (Charles Dance) is a brute who beats her, so she murders him and inveigles Harris into helping her dispose of the body. That's when the complications begin, and Harris starts to sweat when his fellow cop keeps asking awkward questions. The acting is uniformly good, with Harris' partner played by Benicio Del Toro (Traffic) offering an excellent performance. Harris and Stowe strike sparks off each other, to the point where you almost believe he is being sucked into her schemes. On the DVD: The disc contains a theatrical trailer and several TV ads, with scroll-down filmographies of the major talents involved which are incomplete for some unknown reason. There's a brief and unenlightening five-minute documentary, with the principal cast plus the director, John Bailey, commenting on the film. Both image and sound are excellent quality, sound in Dolby Digital, picture in anamorphic widescreen ratio of 2.35:1 --Ed Buscombe

• Gladiators Of World War 2 - The Chindits | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was the start of a formidable campaign in the Pacific. Within a few months the Allies were driven out of Malaya and Burma. As the British survivors limped across the Chindwin River back into India they despaired of ever beating the Japanese - the masters of jungle warfare. But Lieutenant Colonel Orde Wingate had other ideas. He proposed a special force which would penetrate deep into Burma maintained entirely by air resupply and disrupt Japa

• Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe - Chapters 7 To 12 | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Ming The Merciless Emperor of Mongo has unleashed his latest terrible weapon for the destruction of Earth a 'purple dust' that is killing the population. Flash Gordon Dale Arden and Dr Zarkov take off for the planet of Mongo to confront Ming and destroy his deadly factory. Before Flash Gordon can 'conquer the universe' he must confront Ming the Rock Men and Annihilations and protect the mining for Polarite the only known antidote to the purple dust.

• Fantomcat - Series 1 - Episodes 3 And 4 | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Two animated adventures from legendary British animation studio Cosgrove Hall the team behind 'Danger Mouse'.

• Next Friday | UMD | (17/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• View Of Terror | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  On the face of it Celeste (Shannen Doherty) seems to have it all - a successful career a handsome boyfriend and a luxurious new apartment with a breathtaking view of the city. However Celeste's dream life becomes a nightmare when she's targeted by a menacing voyeur who terrorises her with anonymous packages and grim nocturnal phone calls. With no concrete evidence to his identity she suspects everyone especially David Jacobson (Charles Powell) her surly bar owner neighbour from across the street whose living room window just happens to face hers. As the film reaches its nail biting climax the least likely suspect is revealed to be the guilty party.

• Street Kings / Street Kings 2: Motor City | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Street Kings Street Kings is a pungent bouquet of corruption, violence, multi-ethnic mayhem, macho glee laced with macho angst, and fluorescently obscene dialogue from the mind of James Ellroy. Its hero, though he'd scarcely consent to be called one, is L.A. police detective Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves), for whom life is a wound that won't heal and dealing out retribution to scumbags is the ongoing treatment. Ludlow's the star player--"the tip of the [expletive] spear"--on a team of detectives headed by Capt. Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker). Coach Wander relies on his boys to keep breaking lurid cases, usually through deeply darkside underground work, and raising his profile with the media and the department. In pursuit of these goals, nothing is forbidden except failure, and the truth is what you make it look like. This is familiar Ellroy territory, most effectively translated to the screen in L.A. Confidential (which should have won the 1997 Oscar, and would have if Titanic hadn't launched that year). If you know Ellroy's ground game, you can pretty much guess where Street Kings is going, and where it's been. Still, the twists and torques of its urban road-rage course maintain the centrifugal force needed to hold us in our seats (a tactical highlight: refrigerator adapted as rolling barricade), and the movie keeps bopping us with oddball casting coups: comic Jay Mohr and Northern Exposure/Sex and the City veteran John Corbett as two members of Coach Warden's gonzo detective squad; Cedric the Entertainer doing a nicely nuanced turn as a street creature; Hugh Laurie doing a less-hyper version of House, if House worked Internal Affairs. The problem is that director David Ayer keeps everything intense. Dialogues are shot too close-up, line readings are too strident, the action is too nonstop slam. Recall Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential and the mind's eye summons up a whole spectrum of existence, mood, place, historical period, emotional investment; there's an amplitude to the picture and the sensibility bringing it to us, something besides the whodunit and the endless rap sheet of nasty what-they-done. Everything in Street Kings is one-note, and with Keanu Reeves playing it implosive and Forest Whitaker locked in crazier-than-an-outhouse-rat mode, that's no way to stay the course. --Richard T. Jameson

• Singin' In The Rain / Seven Brides For Seven Brothers | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  SINGIN'IN THE RAIN:; With fame, fortune and fans galore, silent screen idol Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) thought he had it all. But one look at aspiring actress Kathy Seldon (Debbie Reynolds), and he knew exactly what he was missing. Now he's swinging from lampposts, singing in the raindrops and ready for love. With talking pictures on the rise, Don sets out to make musicals with the woman of his dreams...but one thing stands in his way: his jealous co-star (Jean Hagen), who wants Don--and the l...

• The Wolves Of Kromer | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £7.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (39.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a small British town Seth and Gabriel are gay in love and werewolves. While their lunar lycanthropic secret remains hidden the townspeople begin to sense that these two young men are very different in many ways indeed...

• Ray - Gospel/An Evening With/Ray | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (40.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An Evening With Ray Charles: Ray Charles in concert with the Edmonton Symphony in 1981. Tracklist: 1. Overture 2. Riding Thumb 3. Busted 4. Georgia On My Mind 5. Oh What A Beautiful Morning 6. Some Enchanted Evening 7. Hit The Road Jack 8. I Can't Stop Loving You 9. Take These Chains From My Heart 10. I Can See Clearly Now 11. What I'd Say 12. America The Beautiful Ray: The Movie (Dir. Taylor Hickford 2004): Jamie Foxx stars in this biopic of legendary soul and R&B singer Ray Charles. Riding high on a wave of Oscar buzz Foxx proved himself worthy of all the hype by portraying blind R&B legend Ray Charles in a warts-and-all performance that Charles approved shortly before his death in June 2004. Despite a few dramatic embellishments of actual incidents (such as the suggestion that the accidental drowning of Charles's younger brother caused all the inner demons that Charles would battle into adulthood) the film does a remarkable job of summarizing Charles's strengths as a musical innovator and his weaknesses as a philandering heroin addict who recorded some of his best songs while flying high as a kite. Foxx seems to be channeling Charles himself and as he did with the life of Ritchie Valens in La Bamba director Taylor Hackford gets most of the period details absolutely right as he chronicles Ray's rise from ""chitlin circuit"" performer in the early '50s to his much-deserved elevation to legendary status as one of the all-time great musicians. Foxx expertly lip-syncs to Ray Charles' classic recordings but you could swear he's the real deal in a film that honors Ray Charles without sanitizing his once-messy life. Jamie Foxx picked up a Best Actor gong for his efforts as 'The Genius'. Ray A Gospel Christmas: Legendary superstar Ray Charles was joined by the world famous 120 member Voices of Jubilation Gospel Choir of Newark New Jersey for his first ever Christmas Special. They combined their talents in this unprecedented musical showcase not only to entertain but also to spread positive messages to a wide audience. What makes this endeavor so special is that the twelve-time grammy winner Charles has never performed traditional holiday music in a live concert setting. And of course Ray Charles brings his own unique jazz/rhythm and blues interpretation to these traditional holiday favourities. Tracklist includes: The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) Little Drummer Boy Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Silent Night The First Noel Hark The Herald Angels Sing Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer and many more.

• Gladiators Of World War 2 - The Desert Rats | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The legend of the Desert Rats began with the destruction of the Italian 10th Army in 1940. When Nazi General Erwin Rommell arrived in Libya with his Afrika Korps the ebb and flow of desert warfare pitted the two great forces against each other. Later they would fight their way across Europe from D-Day to the surrender of Berlin with the spirit and determination that made them some of the most famous gladiators in the British army.