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• Akenfield (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (25/07/2016) from £12.89   |  Saving you £7.10 (55.08%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Loosely based on Ronald Blythe's acclaimed book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, this unassuming yet powerful film traces three generations of one Suffolk family and their lives in the farming industry. Described as a work of rural realism, and shot in sumptuous widescreen, Akenfield features a cast of non-professional actors drawn from the communities of several Suffolk villages. Featuring improvised dialogue and shot mostly at weekends over the course of a year, the film offers an authentic depiction of country life over the changing seasons. With all three generations grandfather, father and son performed by the same actor (local famer Garrow Shand), the film paints a compelling picture of a traditional way of life facing a period of great change, brought about by the industrialisation of the twentieth century. Extras: 2K restoration by the BFI National Archive Original trailer Akenfield Revisited (Rex Pyke, 2004, 40 mins): a documentary looking back at the making of Akenfield Behind the scenes footage of the filming of Akenfield Akenfield at the NFT (Audio only, 2004): onstage interview with Sir Peter Hall, Ronald Blythe and Garrow Shand On-set interview with Ronald Blyth (1974) Interview with actor Garrow Shand (2004) Interview with writer Ronald Blythe (2004) Interview with director Sir Peter Hall (2004) New interview with Rex Pyke, producer of Akenfield (2016) Stills Gallery Fully illustrated booklet with contributions from Sir Peter Hall and Ronald Blythe

• Films at War 1 | DVD | (12/11/2018) from £9.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  WARN THAT MAN At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is due to stay at Lord Buckley's country estate. They devise a cunning plan of subterfuge and brute force wherein they intend kidnap Lord Buckley's guest and take him back to Germany... THE HASTY HEART Burma, 1945: a group of Allied soldiers languish in a military hospital, each man longing for the day he can return home. When told they will be joined by a young Scot who unbeknown to him has only weeks to live, they react with a mixture of compassion and trepidation. SO LITTLE TIME When war clouds burst over Europe for the second time in a generation, the Belgians again suffer the humiliation of occupation; Madam de Malvines and her daughter Nicole find their chateau outside Brussels partially requisitioned by Colonel von Hohensee, the local German commander. THE MAN FROM MOROCCO With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seek refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier the band is disarmed, detained and sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans.

• Jason King - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 And 2 - Wanna Buy A TV Series? / A Page Before Dying | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Although crime-writer-turned-detective Jason King, as played by the deep-voiced Peter Wyngarde, was the star supporting character of the 1969-70 series Department S, he seemed rather diminished when given a show of his own, thus robbing him of the straight characters necessary to show off his flamboyance. Jason King also ditched the impossible mysteries of the parent series in favour of more ordinary puzzles that the Saint or any other two-fisted hero could have solved without having to spend so much on fabulous fashion gear. That said, Wyngarde is well-matched by his foils, the value-for-money hams Dennis Price and Ronald Lacey, as the government agents who forced Jason to catch villains for them by threatening to turn him in for failing to pay his back taxes on the earnings of his bestsellers. Jason King was also the only hero on television who would take any brutal beating from the bad guys and shrug it off, only to become quite agitated when they threatened to slice his suits to bits. Volume One includes: "Wanna Buy a Television Series", in which Jason pitches a series based on his books, with guest star Anna Palk; and "A Page Before Dying" wherein Jason's latest book gives away spy secrets, and he's kidnapped to East Germany. --Kim Newman

• I Am Waiting No More | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-2.55 (-63.90%)   |  RRP £3.99

  This is a hilarious comedy about a man who suffers from a severe identity crisis as his 30th birthday apparoaches.