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• The Brokenwood Mysteries: Series 10 | DVD | (02/12/2024) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Miracle Club | DVD | (18/12/2023) from £6.80   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ballygar, Dublin, Ireland, 1968: close friends Lily (Maggie Smith), Eileen (Kathy Bates), and Dolly (Agnes O'Casey) win the trip of a lifetime - a pilgrimage to Lourdes. With each woman desperately in need of a personal miracle, the trip seems like an answer to all their prayers. But when they are joined by Chrissie (Laura Linney), returning to Dublin after decades in America, deep wounds from the past are re-opened and bitter truths exposed. As they confront one another and embrace their shared past, the group reckon with revelations that will change them forever. Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan, The Miracle Club is a heartfelt story of friendship, family, and forgiveness.

• The English | DVD | (19/12/2022) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eli Whipp, a retired Pawnee scout out to claim his birthright, meets Cornelia Locke, an Englishwoman hell-bent on revenge. Their paths fated to cross, they travel north together. Emily Blunt stars in an indelible revisionist Western written and directed by Hugo Blick, the mind behind Black Earth Rising, The Honourable Woman and The Shadow Line.

• A Little Princess | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (133.56%)   |  RRP £13.99

  After the critical success of 1993's The Secret Garden, Warner Bros returned to the novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett to create this 1995 adaptation of A Little Princess, which instantly ranked with The Secret Garden as one of the finest children's films of the 1990s. Neither film was a huge box-office success, but their quality speaks for itself, and A Little Princess has all the ingredients of a timeless classic. A marvel of production design, the film features lavish sets built almost entirely on a studio backlot in Burbank, California. The story opens in New York just before the outbreak of World War I, when young Sara (Liesel Matthews) is enrolled in private boarding school while her father goes off to war. Under the domineering scrutiny of the school's wicked headmistress, Miss Minchen (Eleanor Bron), Sara quickly becomes popular with her schoolmates, but fate intervenes and she soon faces a stern reversal of fortune, resorting to wild flights of fancy to cope with an unexpectedly harsh reality. Rather than label her fanciful tales as escapist fantasy, A Little Princess actively encourages a child's power of imagination--a power that can be used to learn, grow, and adapt to a world that is often cruel and difficult. It's also one of the most visually beautiful films of the 90s and creates a fully detailed world within the boarding school--a place where imagination is vital to survival. A first-class production in every respect, this is one family film that should (if it's not too stuffy to say it) be considered required viewing for parents and kids alike. --Jeff Shannon

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

  Michael Collins tells the powerful, turbulent story of one of Ireland's most controversial patriots and revolutionary heroes, known as ˜The Lion Of Ireland', who leads his countrymen in their fight for independence. Set in the early 20th century, when a monumental history of oppression and bloodshed had divided Ireland and its people, the film covers the bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, when Irish revolutionaries surrendered to the overwhelming military power of the British forces and Collins was arrested. Upon his release, he takes leadership of the Irish independence movement and strives to create a free and peaceful country.

• V for Vendetta | Blu Ray | (02/11/2020) from £19.61   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Who is the man who hides his scarred face behind a mask? Hero or madman? Liberator or oppressor? Who is V and who will join him in his daring plot to destroy the totalitarian regime that dominates his nation? From the creators of The Matrix trilogy comes V for Vendetta, an arresting and uncompromising vision of the future based on the powerfully subversive graphic novel. This 4K restoration contains two new pieces of extra content on the 4K disc (not 4K resolution). Special Features: NEW: Natalie Portman's Screen Test NEW: V for Vendetta Unmasked: Making-of with filmmakers and cast James McTeigue & Lana Wachowski in Conversation : Looking back on V for Vendetta Director's Notebook: Reimagining a Cult Classic for the 21st Century: Director James McTeigue (Joined by Stars Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving and Other Creative Team Members) Traces in Detail the V Saga from Graphic Novel Origin Through the Movie's Execution. Designing the Near Future Remember, Remember: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot England Prevails: V For Vendetta and the New Wave in Comics Freedom! Forever!: Making V For Vendetta Saturday Night Live Digital Short Cat Power Montage Theatrical Trailer

• Dickensian | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  All 20 episodes of the original drama inspired by the works of Charles Dickens. Featuring Charles Dickens' most iconic characters as their paths cross in Victorian London. Dickensian is a world of love, romance and intrigue with secrets lurking round every corner and a murder story at its heart. Discover the events that lead up to Miss Havisham's wedding day, the truth behind the death of Jacob Marley and the sacrifices made by a young Lady Dedlock. You don't have to know Dickens novels to fall in love with these characters or these stories packed with action, humour and suspense. With an all-star cast including Stephen Rea, Pauline Collins, Caroline Quentin, Omid Djalili and Peter Firth, Dickensian is period drama as we've never seen it before... EXTRAS: Behind the Scenes Featurettes

• V for Vendetta | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £5.18   |  Saving you £15.81 (305.21%)   |  RRP £20.99

  From the acclaimed graphic novel comes the tale of a masked vigilante in a Fascist Britain and the young woman he takes under his wing.

• Black 47 | DVD | (26/12/2018) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to return home and reunite with his family. He's seen more than his share of horrors, but nothing prepares him for the famine's hopeless destruction of his homeland that has brutalised his people and there seems to be no law and order. He discovers his mother starved to death and his brother hanged by the brutal hand of the English. With little else to live for, he sets out on a destructive path to avenge his family.

• The English | Blu Ray | (19/12/2022) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Follows a woman as she seeks revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.

• The Worst Witch | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Mildred is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch academy. She can't seem to do anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers. The headmistress of the school Agatha has an evil twin sister who plans to destroy the school. Can Mildred foil the plan before the Grand Wizard comes to the Academy for the Halloween celebration you'll never forget?!

• Dukes of Hazzard: Complete Season 1 | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £11.99   |  Saving you £19.00 (158.47%)   |  RRP £30.99

  The Dukes of Hazzard was part of America's redneck fetish in the mid-to-late 1970s, otherwise evident in popular songs, movies, and television shows highlighting fast cars, truckers, citizens' band radio, moonshine, irreverent hicks, and clueless lawmen. Created by writer-producer Gy Waldron and inspired by his own 1975 bootlegging comedy, Moonrunners, Dukes milked seven seasons of material from the tale of a Deep South family of reformed whiskey-makers and their running feud with a greedy impresario and his chief lackey, a buffoonish, venal sheriff. This three-disc set includes all 13 initial episodes of Dukes from 1979, a period fans fondly recall because some of the programs were shot on location in Covington, Georgia, rather than a Burbank backlot. Also noteworthy is that a couple of key characters, particularly Hazzard County's corrupt lawman, Roscoe P. Coltrane (James Best), hadn't gelled yet into permanent hayseed stereotypes and were arguably more interesting at the beginning. At the center of the action are Sheriff Coltrane's nemeses, cousins Bo Duke (John Schneider) and Luke Duke (Tom Wopat), a couple of wild boys buzzing through the backwoods in the "General Lee," a souped-up Dodge Charger. Bo and Luke are good at heart but have to behave themselves while on indefinite probation, complicating but not halting their efforts to vex Roscoe and his patron, diminutive bigwig Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke). The enmity runs both ways: Roscoe and Boss Hogg, with the aid of witless Deputy Enos Strate (Sonny Shroyer), dream up ways of eliminating the Dukes--including their wise old Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle)--but their efforts always backfire. While every episode is a variation on the previous one, predictability is a virtue in Dukes. The series pilot, "One Armed Bandits," finds Luke and Bo, with help from their sexy cousin, Daisy (Catherine Bach), diverting slot machines (smuggled into Hazzard County by Roscoe and Boss Hogg) to sundry watering holes where they can raise money for Bo's girlfriend's charity. In "Money to Burn," Boss Hogg tries to frame Bo and Luke for robbing an armored truck, while in "Deputy Dukes," the unarmed guys are forced by Roscoe to escort a deadly prisoner from one town to another. The Dukes hit back in "Daisy's Song," investigating a scam that took Daisy for $50 and implicates, of course, Boss Hogg and Roscoe. Yes, it's a show about rubes, car stunts, and a legacy of moonshine, but there's something comforting about it, in a tongue-in-cheek way. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Inspector De Luca | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £15.55   |  Saving you £4.44 (28.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Between 1938 and 1948, from the height of Italy's Fascist regime to the end of the tumultuous post-war period, Chief Detective De Luca investigates and solves crimes in the City of Bologna and along the Adriatic coast. With little or no regard for those in power, whoever they happen to be, his solitary, uncompromising character often lands him in trouble, but his respect is reserved for the truth and justice alone. In the four TV movies of the series Unauthorized Investigation , Carte Blanche , The Damned Season and Via Della Oche each taken from a novel by best-selling mystery Carlo Lucarelli Chief Detective De Luca always ultimately gets to the bottom of his cases, though what he finds leaves a bitter aftertaste.

• Still Crazy | DVD | (11/10/1999) from £12.12   |  Saving you £2.13 (19.61%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This gently satirical British comedy chronicles the quixotic reunion of a late, arguably not-so-great and unlamented 70s rock band, Strange Fruit, with a winning mix of humour and poignancy. The "Fruits", as the survivors call themselves without irony, had disbanded after the tragic loss of one member, the mysterious disappearance of another and the aftershocks of internal rivalries, but 20 years later they warily reassemble for a Dutch club tour, a warm-up for a proposed festival appearance. Between that seemingly hare-brained proposal and the fateful festival, director Brian Gibson, working from a sharp script by Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais, captures the absurdities of middle-aged rockers trying to recapture that lost cockiness.Breathing life into the band is a terrific cast, including Stephen Rea, Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall and Bill Nighy, each managing to juggle deft archetype with believable character traits: Spall's cheerfully crass, flatulent drummer and Nighy's preening, slow-witted lead singer exemplify the approach, grabbing chuckles yet making you actually care about them. Equally impressive is Billy Connolly as the wily roadie, Hughie, at once pragmatic and devoted to his charges. All are well-served by production details and script points that get the group's lost world of late 60s and early 70s rock exactly right, from costuming and stage moves to the long-forgotten bands they name-check--Blodwyn Pig, anybody?The band's music likewise benefits from inspired insiders, cowriters Mick Jones (Spooky Tooth, Foreigner) and Chris Difford (Squeeze), who hit a nifty combination of bombast (for the silly scenes) and earnestness. When Gibson and his cast risk the story's amiable glow on a darker, more dramatic final act, the music rises to the challenge and the whole project, like its fictional subject, achieves an unexpectedly touching victory. --Sam Sutherland

• Underworld: Awakening (Blu-ray 3D) | Blu Ray | (14/05/2012) from £8.34   |  Saving you £16.65 (199.64%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans...

• The End of the Affair | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £7.63   |  Saving you £-1.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  On a rainy night in 1946 novelist Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) has a meeting with Henry Miles (Stephen Rea) husband of his ex-mistress Sarah (Julianne Moore) who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled as he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed. As the investigation progresses Bendrix relives his passionate memories of their affair during The Blitz in London. He discovers her diary and reads her account of the affair. It is as different from his as night is from day. He re-enters her life and confronts once more the consuming love they had for each other and the reason for its annihilation

• The Brokenwood Mysteries: Series 1-9 Boxset | DVD | (09/10/2023) from £75.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Brokenwood Mysteries: Series 9 | DVD | (09/10/2023) from £22.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Brokenwood Mysteries - Series 7 | DVD | (18/10/2021) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The small New Zealand town of Brokenwood has charming landscapes, quirky inhabitants•and an alarming murder rate. Eccentric Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea) is on the case, along with straitlaced Detective Kristin Sims (Fern Sutherland) and ambitious DC Sam Breen (Nic Sampson). They are joined by newcomer DC Daniel Chalmers (Jarod Rawiri), who gets a crash course in the town's lethal idiosyncrasies. In Series 7, Mike and his team contend with the murder of a superstar TV host, a death in the sauna of a health retreat, a fatal bank robbery, a stabbing with a pitchfork at a farmers' market, a deadly fire at the cinema, and a 1970s-themed party gone wrong. With droll humour and intriguing whodunits, this murder mystery series is New Zealand's tongue-in-cheek answer to Midsomer Murders  (The New Zealand Herald).

• The Company Of Wolves | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Director Neil Jordan's gothic outing is a unique excursion into horror.