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• CBS Salutes Lucy - The First 25 Years | DVD | (23/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  CBS Salutes Lucy, a 1976 tribute to Lucille Ball, captures prize moments from her three television series (most notably I Love Lucy), highlights from her movie career, and excerpts from numerous other TV appearances. Each segment of the 97-minute special is introduced by famous cohorts, from series regulars such as ex-husband Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and Gale Gordon to sometime co-workers like John Wayne, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dick Van Dyke. Although she lived another 13 years after this special was made and had a fourth go at a TV series, this programme captures the most brilliant moments of her trademark physical comedy. The red-haired queen of American comedy appears at the end when Jimmy Stewart gives her an honorary plaque, making for a nostalgic moment. A short time later the credits roll, revealing that Ball's production company was behind the tribute, reminding viewers that she wasn't a bad businesswoman either. --Kimberly Heinrichs, Amazon.com

• Looking on the Bright Side | DVD | (08/06/2020) from £4.70   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Basil Dean, Beloved by the British public for her string of hit pre-war films, Gracie Fields' Lancastrian earthiness, impish humour and memorable songs have endeared her to many generations of fans. Looking on the Bright Side sees Gracie starring opposite romantic lead Richard Dolman in this joyous, early '30s musical romance. It is presented here as a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Gracie and Laurie are an item, both onstage and off - he writes the songs and she sings them. Then Laurie has a taste of fame when he gets his first song published and spurns Gracie in pursuit of a glamorous actress. SPECIAL FEATURE: Image gallery

• Tauber - Waltz Time | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A charming joyous expertly crafted bon-bon of old Vienna full of fluffy cuddly girls of a bygone era gypsies romance gallantry and of course waltzing. The old guard views and waltz as immoral but at the end of the film it is adopted as the official court dance. Tauber is a shepherd and sings 'Break of Day' twice (mostly on camera). The others sing operetta-style arias and duets. Caressing violins punctuate the deft script.

• Snide And Prejudice | DVD | (01/12/2009) from £8.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  He Couldn't Tell Reich From Wrong Angus MacFayden (Miracles Braveheart Cradle Will Rock) stars as Michael a mentally deranged patient who believes he's Adolf Hitler in this outrageous sharply satirical black comedy. Rene Auberjonois (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine M*A*S*H) is Dr. Cohen the misguided Jewish psychiatrist who attempts a radical new cure by encouraging Michael to pretend he is the dictator. Cohen hilariously enlists Michael's fellow patients (among them Mena Suvari Richard Moll and Brion James) as major figures in Hitler's life including Eva Braun Hermann Georging and Joseph Goebbels. Adding to the craziness are the other patients who've got their own delusional complexes.

• Bodyguard | DVD | (08/06/2009) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With protection comes loyalty... With honour comes betrayal. Bodyguard: A New Beginning tells the story of Leung (Vincent Sze) the bodyguard of a Hong Kong Triad boss Wong (Richard Ng) who is sent to the UK to protect a woman (Stephanie Langton) whose identity is known only by his boss. Even the boss'' own errant son Yuen (Carl Ng) is kept in the dark. The efforts of a rival boss Kai (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) to take over Wong''s territory leads Yuen to a betrayal that threatens to destroy all that his father has worked hard to protect.

• Alice In Wonderland Special Edition DVD | DVD | (30/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Island Of The Damned | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Isolated on a secluded island the four inhabitants find their idyllic existence shattered by a series of sinister and strange events... Focused upon her painting of the island's old lighthouse Tess' solitude is disturbed by the emergence from the sea of two men carrying a peculiar wooden box. She offers to assist them but it is not long before she realises their evil intentions. However nothing is as it first seems and as her struggle for survival intensifies Tess reveals her own deadly secret...

• Stolen Innocence | DVD | (18/12/2003) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a criminal who attempts to extract money from her parents...

• Subhuman | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Monsters. Zombies. Chainsaws. Somebody doesn't love Lucy. Testing an experimental implant that gives people complete control over their environment a secret agency assemble five strangers. According to profiling of reading habits employment histories and shopping records they are five of the most balanced people in England. These five are offered an opportunity to spend a week in a specially designed house in which they will have ultimate power during set hours of the day

• So You Want To Be A Ghost Hunter? | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Twelve years ago Steve Parsons and Ann Winsper established Parascience to examine paranormal activity using proper methods of study. Where most paranormal groups visit locations for 24 hours Parascience have just completed 750 hours in one location (Cammell Lairds) and they still haven't finished. Join Richard Felix as he takes a few lessons in how to be a ghost hunter.

• Beauty And The Beast / Beauty And The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Own both of Disney's hit Beauty & The Beast films in 1 handy set.

• Perpetrators Of The Crime | DVD | (01/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Three university guys plan on not joining the dole queue. In their last Spring holiday they kidnap a wealthy developer's daughter and demand a ransom of a million dollars. But they haven't realised yet just what a handful their victim is going to be.

• Absence of Light | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When scientists discover how to create life, two competing organizations bent on world dominance attempt to steal the secret and create a race of inhuman super soldiers that will make slaves of the world.

• Edward G. Robinson - Scarlet Street / The Stranger | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a way, Scarlet Street is a remake. It's taken from a French novel, La Chienne (literally, "The Bitch") that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. Renoir brought to the sordid tale all the colour and vitality of Montmartre; Fritz Lang's version shows us a far harsher and bleaker world. The film replays the triangle set-up from Lang's previous picture, The Woman in the Window, with the same three actors. Once again, Edward G Robinson plays a respectable middle-aged citizen snared by the charms of Joan Bennett's streetwalker, with Dan Duryea as her low-life pimp. The plot closes around the three of them like a steel trap. This is Lang at his most dispassionate. Scarlet Street is a tour de force of noir filmmaking, brilliant but ice-cold. The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture". But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as the Nazi Franz Kindler, but his producer, Sam Spiegel, wouldn't wear it. So Welles himself plays the supposedly cautious and self-effacing fugitive--and if there was one thing Welles could never play, it was unobtrusive. Still, the film's far from a write-off. Welles' eye for stunning visuals rarely deserted him and, aided by Russell Metty's skewed, shadowy photography, The Stranger builds to a doomy grand guignol climax in a clocktower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: sparse pickings. Both films have a full-length commentary by Russell Cawthorne which adds the occasional insight, but is repetitive and not always reliable. The box claims both print have been "fully restored and digitally remastered", but you'd never guess. --Philip Kemp

• Stargate S.G -1: Season 2 (Vol. 3) | DVD | (24/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. Since neither Kurt Russell nor James Spader would be able to commit, it gave the producers licence to tinker with the cast and the universe they'd explore. Replacing the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr. Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's pet primary unit SG-1 With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" pharaohnic Goa'uld--the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. The welcome notion of a continued plot thread sees offshoots that follow the reincarnation of Daniel's wife, Sam's father literally joining a renegade faction of the Goa'uld, and Jack in an unending quest to out-sarcasm everyone. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but amid a dearth of derivative look-a-likes, Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. One of many romances for the supposedly grief-stricken Jackson puts SG-1 in jeopardy again. "Need" refers to several aspects of the plot, but someone should do something about Daniel's libido! A return to planet Cimmeria tests their battle savvy as "Thor's Chariot" links the Asgard race to the plot once more. There's a rather unfriendly "Message in a Bottle" delivered to O'Neill in the form of a spear through his shoulder. This fantastic episode demonstrates every aspect of the show's appeal. Finally in "Family", Teal'c's son Rya'c performs a role reversal on his father that puts the Goa'uld's motivations in question. --Paul Tonks

• Alice at the Palace | DVD | (15/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This 'music hall' version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass was adapted for television from Elizabeth Swados' Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Festival production entitled Alice in Concert for which Swados also composed the score, adapted the book and directed for the stage. Starring Meryl Streep and featuring Debbie Allen and Betty Aberlin, Alice At The Palace is an entertaining and shrewdly conceived retelling of the Carroll classics with all of the belo...

• Pacific Inferno | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Starring Jim Brown (Dirty Dozen Running Man Any Given Sunday) as an American POW Pacific Inferno is inspired by the true story of the recovery of million of silver pesos dumped into Manila Bay by the Allied Forces during WW2. Abandoned to prevent its capture by the invading Japanese Allied General MacArthur intends to return and salvage the treasure later. But aware of the operation the Japanese quickly employ POW American divers including Brown to seek out the bounty. Faced with an impossible choice between dying at the hands of their Japanese captors or aiding the enemy''s war efforts the POWs hatch an ingenious plan to smuggle the coins along the sea bed to the local resistance. Featuring genuine footage of Pearl Harbour and shot entirely on location in the Phillipines Pacific Inferno is an exciting re-telling of one of WW2's best kept secrets.

• Angela Anaconda - Series 1 - Episodes 14 To 20 | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Volume 3 of Angela Anaconda following eight-year-old Angela through life as she plots revenge against her archenemy Nanette Manoir a smug blonde with an annoying habit of sprinkling her conversation with French. Nanette always finds a deserving fate when Angela's active imagination invents one of her outlandish daydreams in this 2-dimensional cut-and-paste style animated series filled with cheeky characters and clever storylines.

• Loser | Blu Ray | (23/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An improvisational comedy using a handful of actors playing characters competing in an actual poker tournament.

• Rocky Horror Tribute Show | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Rocky Horror Show with music and lyrics by Richard O'Brien was born at the Royal Court's tiny Theatre Upstairs on June 16 1973 and went on to become an international stage smash hit and a major film. Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Tribute Show is a concert featuring the music from The Rocky Horror Show and was recorded at the Royal Court London in May 2006 to an audience of faithful Rocky Horror fans. Richard O'Brien rewrote the narration for the show and a cast of performers was put together some from the original show and others who have appeared in productions during its 33-year history. Richard O'Brien Patricia Quinn Little Nell and Rayner Bourton members of the original stage cast and are back together for the first time. They are joined by one of the best Frank-N-Furters ever Anthony Head as well as original Transylvanians from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Also featured are a host of famous names as singers and narrators including Michael Ball Adrian Edmondson Sophie Lawrence Toyah Wilcox Stephen Gately Tony Slattery Robin Cousins Christopher Biggins and Jamie Theakston. The Rocky Horror Show is a magical phenomenon unlike anything ever seen before on stage or screen. Borrowing largely from cinema's horror conventions the story begins as an innocent young couple Brad and Janet are stranded at the castle of a mad scientist who is building the perfect man. The castle is filled with a most bizarre group of characters who worship their master Dr. Frank-N-Furter in leather jacket pearls fishnet stockings and heavy makeup. Brad and Janet are forced to examine their own sexuality as the voluptuous doctor releases the hidden desires in each of them. The show features unforgettable song-and-dance numbers such as 'Time Warp' and 'Sweet Transvestite' which have come to represent the sexual liberation of the 1970s. Contributions from the sale of this DVD will go to Amnesty International.