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• The Marx Brothers Collection | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £35.16   |  Saving you £-0.17 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Contains the titles: Duck Soup: captures some of the Marx Brothers' zaniest routines and funniest quips creating a laugh-out-loud spectacle of politics gone haywire. Backed by wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale Groucho becomes the leader of Freedonia quickly frustrating his cabinet and offending the aggressive neighboring country to the point of war. Chico and Harpo sent by the rival country spy on Groucho and try to steal his battle plans but when war does come loyalties beco

• Marx Brothers Boxset: A Girl in Every Port/The Cocoanuts/Love Happy/Room Service/Animal Crackers/Monkey Business/Horse Feathers/Duck Soup | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A fantastic collection of timeless works from the Marx Brothers. Films comprise: A Girl In Every Port (1952): This was Groucho Marx's second solo outing for RKO and his third feature without Chico and Harpo. Groucho and William Bendix play a couple of scheming sailors who spend most of their time in the ship's brig. Bendix receives a small inheritance and decides to spend it on a clapped-out racehorse. When Groucho learns that the animal has a much more successful twin

• Hannie Caulder | DVD | (20/05/2024) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Coen Brothers Collection | DVD | (13/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A collection of films from acclaimed Oscar-winning siblings Joel and Ethan Coen. The Big Lebowski: The Dude Jeff Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is unemployed and laid-back. That is until he becomes a victim of mistaken identity two thugs breaking into his apartment in the errant belief that they are accosting Jeff Lebowski the Pasadena millionaire. In hope of getting a replacement for soiled carpet the Dude visits his wealthy namesake and with buddy ex `Nam' veteran Walter (Joh

• Hannie Caulder | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £12.85   |  Saving you £0.14 (1.09%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fleeing the scene of a botched bank robbery the Clements brothers come across an isolated homestead. In an attempt to steal fresh horses the trigger-happy youngest brother who blew the bank job bungles again this time murdering Caulder the landowner. His wife Hannie (Welch) is unable to fend off the three Clements alone. They rape her steal her horses and burn her home to the ground. Bent on revenge Hannie teams up with Thomas Price (Robert Culp) a ruthless bounty hunter. She implores him to teach her how to kill. Reluctantly he agrees and together they set off in pursuit of the outlaws...

• The Worst Witch: The Mists Of Time | DVD | (18/09/2017) from £5.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Worst Witch is a fantastic and ambitious re-imagining of the much loved Jill Murphy books about Mildred Hubble, who is catapulted quite literally head first into Miss Cackle s Academy For Witches. Mildred, who doesn t come from a family of witches, is enjoying a normal day when a witch called Maud Spellbody lands on her apartment balcony on her way to the selection day at Cackle s Academy. Persuaded by Maud to go along too, Mildred is introduced to a whole new world of magic and her life is changed forever. Although she tries her best, Mildred's lack of magical knowledge means that she is constantly getting things wrong, and the series follows her adventures as she strives not to be The Worst Witch. Full of flying, magic and plenty of laughs, the show brings Jill Murphy s books to life for a contemporary audience.

• Raquel Welch Collection | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-20.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.29

  Fathom: From exploding earrings to dances with bulls to leaps from a plane at 10 000 feet there isn't much Fathom can't handle in this wildly entertaining espionage spoof! Voluptuous dental hygienist-turned-skydiver Fathom Harvill (Raquel Welch) is recruited by a top-secret government agency to parachute into Spain in search of an elusive war defector (Tony Franciosa) and a missing H-bomb detonator he is believed to possess. But the super sexy spy may expose more than she bargained for as she unravels the truth behind her employer's motives - with hilarious results! (Dir. Leslie H. Martinson 1967) Fantastic Voyage: A Fantastic and spectacular voyage... Through the human body... Into the brain. Shrunk to microscopic size an elite scientific and medical team enters the bloodstream of an ailing scientist in a desperate effort to save his life. Battling the body's incredible defenses the crew must complete their mission before time runs out. The film was to win Oscars for Best Visual Effects (by Art Cruikschank) and Art Direction. The legacy of the film was to continue as 'Fantastic Voyage' later received an animated spin-off show. (Dir. Richard Fleischer 1966) Bandolero: It's a Wild West clash of personalities in Val Verde Texas for the warring Bishop brothers (Dean Martin and James Stewart) who must now join forces to escape a death sentence. Featuring an all-star cast including Raquel Welch and George Kennedy and exploding with action Bandolero! packs a smoking six-gun wallop from its first tense show-down to its last exciting shootout. (Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen 1968) Lady In Cement: The suave sleuth Tony Rome makes a shocking discovery while diving for treasure: a beautiful blonde woman anchored in a block of cement. When a local hood hires him to find his missing girlfriend his investigation begins with the mysterious ""Lady in Cement."" But everyone he talks to either is killed or trying to kill him... (Dir. Gordon Douglas 1968)

• One Million Years BC | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  One Million Years B.C. might be about as palaeontologically accurate as The Flintstones, but it's still a lasting kitsch masterpiece, as much for Raquel Welch’s Amazonian presence in an abbreviated fur bikini as for Ray Harryhausen’s wonderful stop-motion dinosaurs. A rare big-budget venture from Hammer Films, this 1966 version of the 1940 Victor Mature classic One Million B.C. is set in a fantasised prehistory where Caucasian cavemen coexist with dinosaurs. Loana (Welch) of the Shell People teaches Tumak (John Richardson) of the Rock Tribe that harmonious cooperation on the beach is a better way of life than rule-of-the-mightiest savagery in caves. Every quarter of an hour, the gibberish-spouting ("Akita akita"), skin-wearing, remarkably clean cave folk are inconvenienced by special effects: a giant sea turtle, a hungry Allosaur, a Triceratops/Iguanodon battle, a Pterodactyl that wants to feed Raquel to its chicks, a major volcanic upheaval. Poster icon Welch gets stiff competition from a lithe Martine Beswick in a cat fight, and the camp goings-on are given real screen presence by gorgeous, primitive Canary Isles locations and an epic score from Mario Nascimbene. On the DVD: One Million Years B.C. arrives on DVD with minimal extras: a wonderfully ballyhoo-intensive trailer, plus nice little retrospective chats with Welch and Harryhausen. The picture is an anamorphic print of the original 1.85:1 ratio, and sound is Dolby mono.--Kim Newman

• Boys And Girls | DVD | (13/05/2002) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Behind the generic title of Boys and Girls lies a surprisingly enjoyable and nuanced romantic comedy. Teen heartthrob Freddie Prinze Jr plays Ryan, a dorky, emotionally sincere young guy who keeps crossing paths with Jennifer (Claire Forlani), an independent and wilfully unattached young woman. Their chance meetings coincide with relationship traumas and they start to confide in each other, which leads to a more genuine friendship and, in the midst of their college years, a romance. It's a bit of a stock plot line to have their friendship threatened by sexual attraction, but Boys and Girls has just enough genuine feeling to make it compelling. Meanwhile, Jason Biggs (from American Pie) plays Ryan's roommate, a compulsive liar and would-be scam artist, who carries off some pretty funny scenes. Forlani and Prinze work together quite well. Their performances hearken back to the classic screwball comedies of the 1930s, with the repressed male simultaneously attracted and horrified by a footloose dame. Some kooky moments are a little strained, but at other times the movie has a refreshing realism about human emotions. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Blood Simple: Director's Cut | DVD | (15/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Breaking up is hard. Deep in the heart of Texas a jealous bar owner hires a private eye to kill his wife and her lover. The sleazy hitman double-crosses the husband killing him instead and pocketing the cash. The perfect crime or so it seems but disposing of the corpse is not so simple.... Blood Simple uncoils its film noir plot with audacious style dense atmosphere and blood-curdling twists. The razor-sharp debut of Oscar-nominated Joel and Ethan Coen will have you on the very edge of your seat!

• Lead Balloon Series 1 | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £7.20   |  Saving you £12.79 (64.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rick Spleen - disillusioned stand-up comedian and writer. Rick's career has not gone the way he had planned hosting corporate events and appearing on second-rate daytime chat shows was not meant to be part of the plan. Worse still he's stuck with a lousy stage name that he chose twenty years ago. Along for the ride is his quick-talking American co-writer Marty his unflappable partner Mel feckless daughter Sam and Magda an unenthusiastic Eastern European home help. The series is written by and stars Jack Dee

• Bizarre | DVD | (10/10/2016) from £8.85   |  Saving you £7.14 (80.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Maurice is a French teenager who escaped France and begins working at a hype club in Brooklyn called BIZARRE. He quickly becomes a sort of 'mascot' of this incredible club. The owner and the artists that perform there love him, but Maurice can't love...because of the past...and his secrets.

• Hannie Caulder | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A classic revenge western Hannie Caulder stars Raquel Welch as the eponymous heroine who enlists the aid of a ruthless bounty hunter to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the three men responsible for raping her and murdering her husband.

• Festival | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £7.79   |  Saving you £12.20 (156.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The hopes, dreams and fears of performers at the Edinburgh festival are captured in this drama.

• Duck Soup | Blu Ray | (01/04/2019) from £16.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With the advent of the talkies, The Marx Brothers - Chico, Groucho, Harpo and Zeppo - signed to Paramount Pictures and brought their stage act to cinema audience. They made five films in five years, all of which have become cornerstones of American comedy. In their last film for Paramount the four brothers gave us what many regard to be one of the greatest comedies of all time, Duck Soup. Directed by one of the most exceptional of all Hollywood comedy directors, Leo McCarey, Duck Soup sees the Marx clan spinning a satirical tale of war and war-makers as Groucho's Rufus Firefly declares war on the neighbouring state of Sylvania. The Paramount era represents the Marx Brothers at their absolute finest, retaining all of the energy and controlled chaos of their stage shows. Plots are unimportant, it's the gags, set-pieces and one-liners that matter! Special Cotents: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation, scanned and restored in 4K from original film elements by Universal Original 1.0 mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Commentary by Marx Brothers historian Robert S Bader and film critic Leonard Maltin Sibling Revelry, an introduction to the Marx Brothers by critic David Cairns MONKEYNUTCRACKERDUCKFEATHERS, a new video essay about the films David Cairns

• Party Animals | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £19.20   |  Saving you £10.79 (56.20%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Like most twenty-somethings Scott Danny Ashika and Kirsty spend much of their day worrying about love sex friendship and paying the rent. Unlike most twenty-somethings the rest of the time they're worrying about running the country. Party Animals takes a look at Westminster from the ground up - the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic high-stakes world. It's no wonder their personal lives are so messy...

• The Last of Sheila (blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (09/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Teachers: Series 3 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £5.92   |  Saving you £24.07 (406.59%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Kurt Brian Penny Matt and Lindsay are the teachers no parent would want teaching their kids and they're back for a new 13 part series that sees them making friends falling out trying to figure out the opposite sex smoking in the playground and dealing with lippy pupils. It's business as usual for the young teachers specialising in immaturity rather than the traditional subjects. Brian and Kurt are still dreaming of getting laid and they've met their match with new biology teacher Lindsay - she can drink a pint in 1.3 seconds she likes curry and she can out-blunt any of the boys! Back in the photocopier room Matt (married with kids) and Penny have managed to find the perfect work/play balance and are enjoying some extra curricular activity of their own. And what of everyone's favourite teacher who quit teaching to go travelling in the last series? Andrew Lincoln returns as Simon and he doesn't receive the welcome he had hoped for when he surprises his old mates.

• Al Berto | DVD | (11/06/2018) from £7.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It s 1975 and when the winds of change are blowing over post-revolutionary Portugal. Al Berto returns to his small village after several years in Brussels, where he was trained as a painter. Settling illegally in a mansion that had been expropriated from his family during the revolution, young Al Berto begins to hang out with locals who share his interest in the arts and dream of a different life. Among them is the handsome João Maria -who will soon become Al Berto s lover. Soon Al Berto begins a counter-culture revolution that bewitches the towns youngsters but threatens the ideals of the most conservative locals.

• Teachers: Series 1 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Depending on where you get your recommendations, you'll see Teachers described as a comedy, a drama, an irresponsible depiction of the teaching profession and a (fairly) sympathetic reminder of how teachers are expected to be morally unimpeachable despite being ordinary human beings like the rest of us. In fact, it's all of the above, which perhaps does more for the show's realism than all its supposedly controversial elements put together. The series stars Andrew (This Life) Lincoln as the feckless Simon, who, like several of his colleagues, is no more mature or advanced in terms of his ability to manage his own life than his pupils. The staff at the fictitious Bristol school are given to in-fighting, petty factionalism, bad behaviour, inappropriate nookie and dishonesty, both on and off-duty. That said, they also have to wrestle with professional and moral dilemmas and deal with their dysfunctional relationships: sometimes they succeed, often they don't. It makes for a superb, bittersweet concoction. If you want yet more social comment, it's worth noting that the series was filmed in a disused, empty LEA school. On the DVD: Teachers, Series 1 bucks the take-it-or-leave-it convention of many television series releases by actually providing some interview material as part of this two-disc set. Simple extras such as this cost little enough to include and do at least add some value to the package. --Roger Thomas