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• Prick Up Your Ears | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £9.18   |  Saving you £-1.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Based on John Lahr's biography of the same name and co-written by Alan Bennett, Prick Up Your Ears charts the 16-year relationship between the monstrously talented but deeply selfish playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman), author of West End farces such as Loot and What the Butler Saw, and his neurotic but nevertheless wronged lover and collaborator Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina). Halliwell introduced Orton to art, literature and gay sex only to see his protégeacute; outstrip his mentor with innate and rampant talent for sexual conquest. By turns hilarious and excoriatingly painful, it's as much a tribute to an anti-hero of our times-Orton's ruthless frankness and anarchic mindset helped form the basis of what's called the "queer" sensibility today--as it is a portrait of the Swinging 60s just after the reform of anti-homosexuality laws irrevocably changed society. The modern-day framing device has Lahr (Wallace Shawn) researching his book through interviews with Peggy Ramsay (Vanessa Redgrave), Orton's agent and the diary he wrote, a nimble device which ends up drawing a provocative parallel between Orton and Halliwell's relationship and that of Lahr and his wife (Lindsay Duncan). Director Stephen Frears, fresh off the back of the also-gay-themed My Beautiful Laundrette, nimbly balances our sympathies for both the protagonists while the leads give what may in retrospect look like the standout performances of their careers: Oldman was never more feral and charming, while Molina, foppishingly fretting over his wig and decrying that his lover "even sleeps better than I do" is simply heartbreaking. --Leslie Felperin

• Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Series 3 | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £19.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the best-selling novels of Elizabeth George The Inspector Lynley Mysteries find Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley (also known as the 8th Earl of Asherton) and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers solving cases of murder that would challenge the savviest of detectives. Divided by class barriers both real and imagined but united in their efforts to uncover the truth Lynley and Havers form an unlikely yet successful sleuthing duo. Episodes Comprise: 1. In Pursuit Of The Proper Sinner: Lynley's assigned to a double murder and persuades DCI Webberley to allow Havers onto the case. Young and attractive Nicola Maiden has been bludgeoned to death whilst her apparent camping companion Gerry Cole has been stabbed. 2. A Traitor To Memory: Lynley and Havers are called away from DCI Webberley's silver wedding anniversary party when a woman is killed on a quiet London street. 3. A Cry For Justice: DC Havers and DC Billy Slaven discover a woman's body. It appears she's committed suicide but Havers feels something is wrong and calls for assistance from Scenes of Crime Officers. 4. If Wishes Were Horses: Lynley and his pregnant wife Helen attend the funeral of Professor Dermot Finnegan. A forensic psychologist and Helen's former mentor Finnegan has been murdered by a car bomb.

• The Lady Vanishes | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £19.81   |  Saving you £-9.82 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Hitchcock's masterful film about intrigue and espionage is filled with suspense and excitement.

• Gods And Monsters | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Oscar nominated Sir Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave star in an Oscar-winning tribute to the controversial life of an eccentric genius. He was the father of Frankenstein and his eerie images shocked the world. So did his private life. Director James Whale (Ian McKellen - Lord of The Rings X-Men) flew in the face of Hollywood convention and his glittering career became tarnished by scandal and sexual excess. Alone with only his loyal housekeeper (Lynn Redgrave - Shine) in his declining years and suffering from bad health his unusual friendship with hunky gardener Clayton Boone (Brendan Fraser - The Mummy) started Tinseltown tongues wagging again. A riviting and poignant salute to a tragic pioneer of motion pictures Sir Ian McKellen gives the performance of a lifetime in this critically acclaimed masterpiece.

• Anita & Me | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (180.36%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Set in 1972 this new comedy tells of the friendship that develops between twelve-year-old Meena and her new neighbour, the fourteen-year-old outrageous Anita.

• Like Father Like Son | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Dee Stanton's life is on the up. At work she is being encouraged to study to become a solicitor and at home Dominic Milne has just proposed. But things take a turn for the worse when a fit of conscience Dee confesses that the father of her son Jamie whose memory he idolises is not actually dead but is the most heinous of criminals convicted of murdering four teenage girls.... When a female schoolmate of Jamie's is murdered an attempt is made on another girl's life and both Jam

• Jack And The Beanstalk | DVD | (11/06/2012) from £6.34   |  Saving you £4.91 (96.65%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Reworking of the classic fairytale featuring an all star cast.

• A Picture of Katherine Mansfield | DVD | (05/10/2015) from £14.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (66.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Katherine Mansfield was a rebel. A modernist writer known for her short stories, she counted Virginia Woolf and DH Lawrence amongst her friends. Brought up in New Zealand, Mansfield left for London when she was 15 angry at her homeland for its repression of the Māori people. Settled in England, the writer recorded romantic relationships with both men and women in her journals and married John Middleton-Murray (Jeremy Brett) when she was 23, though their marriage was not without troubles… Mansfield’s life was tragically cut short when she died of tuberculosis aged just 34. This is her story. Each hour-long episode in this magnetic series features a dramatization of a moment in Mansfield’s fascinating life, and an adaptation of one of her short stories.

• How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | DVD | (01/01/1980) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Life Is All About Making A Scene. In the midst of writing a new play Peter McGowen's world is one crazy scene after another. He has a wife who desperately wants to start a family a stalker who's assuming his identity and a crisis which is a scribe's worst nightmare: writer's block. To top it all off he's pushed to the edge by the barking dog next door. Peter only has time for his writing until a special new neighbour teaches the cynical playwright that life is a work in progress.

• Last Will and Testament | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Shakespeare authorship mystery. It's the greatest literary mystery of all time: Who wrote the works of William Shakespeare? Although the official story of a gifted merchant from Stratford has held sway for centuries questions over the authorship of the plays and poems has persisted. Mark Twain Sigmund Freud Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles are among the many famous figures who doubt that a grain-dealer from Stratford-Upon-Avon was England's 'Star of Poets'. Sir Derek Jacobi leads an impressive cast featuring Oscar- winning actress Vanessa Redgrave and Tony Award-winning actor Mark Rylance on a quest to uncover the truth behind the world's most elusive author while discovering a forgotten nobleman whose story could rewrite history.

• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (the Merchant Ivory Collection) | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £9.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on the novella by Carson McCullers 'The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe' is both a grotesque black comedy and a prime slice of 'Southern Gothic' set in a poverty-stricken rural community dominated by the curious androgynous character of 'Miss Amelia'. A forceful personality with a mysterious past she runs the town's only cafe and controls the locals through the careful distribution of her own secretly brewed 'hooch'. But Miss Amelia's eccentric existence comes under threat from the unheralded arrival of a hunchbacked dwarf who claims kinship with her and by the reappearance of the husband she rejected on their wedding night and who has come back to wreak vengeance on the woman he once tried to love.

• Crime And Punishment | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's masterpiece...

• The Lady Vanishes | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Hitchcock's masterful film about intrigue and espionage is filled with suspense and excitement.

• The Seven Per Cent Solution | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna in order to place him in the care of Sigmund Freud after his abuse of cocaine starts to spiral out of control. While Holmes believes he is solving a kidnapping Freud delves into his subconscious.

• The Christmas Mouse/the Curious Case of Santa Clause | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Magical Christmas Stories;*The Christmas Mouse:A beautiful production of the enchanting story of the Christmas Carol SILENT NIGHT. Set in a picturesque Austrian village 'The Christmas Mouse' is a magical tale of mice who mend church organs and a small boy whose wish is to create a very special tune for Christmas Day is granted with the assistance of his tiny friend A. Nonny Mouse.'A very memorable children's tale' - The Guardian'The acting is delightful and the photography gives all the scenes the ambience of an antique Christmas Card' - The Seattle Times*The Curious Case of Santa Claus:Santa Claus is having an identity crisis. Everywhere he goes he sees look-a-likes. He seeks help from a New York psychiatrist and together they trace the legend of St. Nicholas through the ages and across foreign lands (including Turkey Italy Holland Siberia Israel Britain and America). How he first worked miracles why he started giving gifts and how he managed to fly with his reindeers through the night skies and come down chimneys.This blend of seasonal comedy drama and facts has guaranteed this film its place as a perennial TV Christmas favourite all over the world - great entertainment for all the family!

• Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £13.13   |  Saving you £3.85 (37.97%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The first of several lavish Christie adaptations from producers John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin introducing Albert Finney as the first screen Hercule Poirot. This 1974 production of Agatha Christie's 1934 classic is a judicious mixture of mystery murder and nostalgia. Which member of the all-star cast onboard the luxurious train perforated the no-good American tycoon with a dagger twelve times? Was it Ingrid Bergman's shy Swedish missionary; or Vanessa Redgrave's English rose; Sean Connery as an Indian Army Colonel: Michael York or Jacqueline Bisset; perhaps Lauren Bacall; Anthony Perkins or John Gielgud as the victim's impassive butler. Finney spreads unease among them with subdued wit and finesse. Arguably the most successful screen adaptation of a Christie novel in addition to Bergman's Oscar for Best Supporting Actress 'Murder On The Orient Express' achieved nominations for Best Actor Screenplay Photography Costume Design and Music Score.

• The Complete War Collection (12 Discs) | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £59.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (33.34%)   |  RRP £79.99

  A complete collection of the best of British war movies! Films comprise: 1. The Colditz Story (Dir. Guy Hamilton 1955) 2. The Cruel Sea (Dir. Charles Frend 1953) 3. The Dam Busters (Dir. Michael Anderson 1954) 4. I Was Monty's Double (Dir. John Guillermin 1958) 5. Ice Cold In Alex (Dir. J. Lee Thompson 1958) 6. Went The Day Well? (Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti 1942) 7. The Wooden Horse (Dir. Jack Lee 1950) 8. They Who Dare (Dir. Lewis Milestone 1954) 9. Cross Of Iron (Dir. Sam Peckinpah 1977) 10. The Way Ahead (Dir. Carol Reed 1944) 11. In Which We Serve (Dir. Noel Coward/David Lean 1942) 12. The Battle Of The River Plate (Dir. Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger 1956)

• The Captive Heart | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £10.78   |  Saving you £2.21 (20.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1940 a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer only to become a prisoner of war.

• Time Without Pity | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £10.44   |  Saving you £2.55 (24.43%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Following his blacklisting in the McCarthy witch hunts the American director Joseph Losey worked in England and fashioned this gritty noir thriller about David Graham (Michael Redgrave) an alcoholic father who has 24 hours to prove that his son is not guilty of murder and save him from the gallows. Robert Stanford (Leo McKern) is a car dealer who knows the truth but continues to keep Graham on the defensive. As the clock ticks mercilessly Graham fights a battle against both Stanford as he tries to save his sons life. Time Without Pity was Losey's first film under his own name and retains the director's striking blend of drama and social commentary. The film was also photographed by the legendary Freddie Francis of Elephant Man fame.

• The Years Between | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £6.24   |  Saving you £6.75 (108.17%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Michael Redgrave Valerie Hobson Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne Du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all...