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• Buster Keaton Collection | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Buster Keaton Collection (3 Discs)

• Do You Know The Muffin Man? | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Roger Dollison his wife Kendra and their two children Teddy and Sandy are living the American dream. But their idyllic existence is irreparably changed when a classmate of Teddys is the apparent victim of sexual abuse at the respected neighbourhood daycare centre. But their devastation is complete when Teddy tells his own story - one he promised his abusers that he never would tell.

• Gavin And Stacey - Series 3 | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (68.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  All six episodes from the third series of the BBC comedy chronicling the ongoing romance between Essex boy Gavin (Mathew Horne) and Cardiff lass Stacey (Joanna Page). As Gavin starts his new job the move to Barry Island means big changes for the whole family. Pam (Alison Steadman) and Mick (Larry Lamb) have to adjust to an empty nest while Gwen (Melanie Walters) relishes having a full house again. Stacey (Joanna Page) is in her element but how will Gavin take to living in Wales?

• Journey Into Fear | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Joseph Cotten stars in Orson Welles' gripping RKO spy thriller as a US engineer in Turkey targeted for death by the Nazis. Fleeing the country by steamer he soon realises that any one of the ship's passengers could be a Nazi assassin. Orson Welles and Delores del Rio co-star.

• Phantasm II | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £16.07   |  Saving you £1.91 (14.60%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Tall Man is back with a vengance. Armed with his lethal band of flying silver spheres the deadly mortician who was thought to have killed his last victim nine years ago returns more dangerous than ever. Once again young Michael Pearson and his pal Reggie take on the master of the killer orbs as they race against time and risk their lives to thwart his murderous rampage forever...

• From The Life Of The Marionettes | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made in Munich while Bergman was in self-imposed exile from Sweden, From the Life of the Marionettes is not so much a "whodunit" as a "whydunnit". The film opens with the shockingly violent and senseless murder of a prostitute by Peter, a young, successful businessman. Through a series of non-chronological flashbacks to a time before the crime, we attempt to fathom just what impelled Peter to perpetrate this terrible murder. Along with wife Katarina, the character Peter also featured in Bergman's 1973 film Scenes from a Marriage. Here, as there, we see that they are wedded in the sense of being emotionally chained to each other, yet hating each other for their mutual dependency. There is also a perturbing scene in which they both appear to "get off" when he takes a knife to her throat. His cold and duplicitous psychiatrist glibly ascribes the murder to a repressed homosexuality resulting in a violent outburst, while Katarina's business partner, who is gay, appears to harbour a desire to sabotage the pair's marriage. This film has an airless, fake-lit quality about it, which reflects the conditions of the characters' lives but by the end, leaves you mesmerised and still uncertain as to why what happened has happened. A late but great Bergman work. On the DVD: This edition adequately enhances the stark monochrome in which most of the film is set. Bergman's notes reveal that his depictions of Peter in his psychiatric ward were based on his own behaviour during a recent spell in a similar institution following his arrest for tax evasion. Philip Strick's critical notes observe that the sparing use of colour at the beginning and end of the film signify what may have been the only times in Peter's life when he "experienced reality". --David Stubbs

• Wagon Master | Blu Ray | (13/08/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lucky Break / Very Annie Mary | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Lucky Break Small time villians Jimmy and Rudy are caught doing a bank raid and are put in HM Prison Long Rudford. Whilst there they hatch an escape plan which involves them staging the prison governor's musical 'Nelson'. Very Annie Mary Tells the story of Annie Mary a woman in her early thirties living in the Rhondda Valley South Wales who is forced to make changes in her life when her father suffers a major stroke. The future of the family business is left in her hands and so she hatches a plan to raise money the only way she can.

• Offenbach: La Belle Helene -- Zurich/Harnoncourt | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £34.31   |  Saving you £-9.32 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Offenbach's operetta La Belle Hélene, which pokes fun at the Parisian upper class of a century and a half ago through tales of ancient Greece, requires a leap of imagination on behalf of today's audience that this production only partly succeeds in reconciling. On musical grounds we're on sure footing. Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the chorus and orchestra of the Zurich Opera House with his customary flair for precise and taut rhythms and an appreciation of the composer's wit and the good tunes that are a-plenty. His multi-national cast headed by Vesselina Kasarova as Helen of Troy and Deon van der Walt as her lover Paris are excellent and among the smaller parts there's a lively and stylish performance from Liliana Nichiteanus as Oreste. The video direction by Hartmut Schroder and the superb sound obtained from the relatively intimate Zurich Opera House, a delightful setting for this operetta, are further assets. The production alas is unenlightening and perpetrates an over-the-top style that seems to be synonymous with Offenbach. The backdrop, a pink concave awning is hideous. The costumes by designer Jean-Charles de Castelibajac are silly: Paris is dressed in lederhosen and looks a twerp, Calchac, the high priest wears a Ku Klux Klan hat and Helen at one point looks as though she'll take to absailing. Kasarova suggests the lure of Helen in her voice but a beauty she's not. So it's left to Harnoncourt who joins the company at the curtain call with a twinkle in his eye and a nifty side step and his superb orchestra to remind us what might have been. --Adrian Edwards

• High Hopes | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The legendary Mike Leigh's slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London introduces us to Shirley and Cyril Cyril's mother who is in the grip of her declining years mother's ghastly upper-middle class neighbours and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. In due course Shirley wants a baby but Cyril who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect is reluctant. Then Cyril's mother finds herself stranded forced to turn to her snooty neighbours for help. And when Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for her Mum's 70th birthday the stage is set for a disaster from start to finish. With Shirley barely holding it all together she may be able to put Cyril's protestations aside after all.

• Love And Human Remains | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Welcome to love in the 90's. Love And Human Remains is a dark comedy about people searching for love and family in the '90s. The film focuses on roommates/ex-lovers: David (Thomas Gibson) a cynical actor-turned-waiter: and Candy (Ruth Marshall) an ever-hopeful book reviewer and their hilarious often poignant entanglements with a psychic dominatrix (Mia Kirshner) a bartender (Rick Roberts) a lesbian schoolteacher (Joanne Vannicola) a seventeen-year-old busboy (Mat

• Run & Jump | DVD | (22/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Directed by Academy Award® nominee Steph Green and featuring acclaimed actress Maxine Peake and Saturday Night Live star Will Forte this life-affirming film embraces the healing power of love and family in all of its idiosyncratic forms. After a stroke leaves her husband mentally disabled and fundamentally changed spirited Irish housewife Vanetia (Peake) struggles to keep her family together in the wake of tragedy. A research grant from American doctor Ted Fielding (Forte) interested in documenting the father's recovery process allows them to get by. Though Vanetia initially resents living under Ted's microscope she soon finds comfort in his calming presence while Ted responds to Vanetia's dynamic unpredictable personality. As the two explore their bond within their unique situation a new family begins to emerge. Run and Jump is an unexpected unconventional romance intimate family portrait and emotional journey of recovery that ultimately uplifts through its heartfelt message of human connection and the power of acceptance.

• PAs | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Following the fortunes of four fabulous personal assistants in the city the series is set against an emotional backdrop of friendship ambition sex and filing. The lead roles in P.A.s are played by Laura Aikman (Dis/Connected Teenage Kicks) as the beautiful and brainy Lucy; Annabel Scholey (Jane Eyre) as fame-hungry Midge; Ruth Negga (Breakfast On Pluto Colour Me Kubrick) as intellectual outsider Sid; and Maimie McCoy (Little Devil) as the money-obsessed Nicole. P.A.s also stars Mark Benton (Hughie Green Most Sincerely Northern Lights); Joe Absolom (EastEnders Vincent); American actor Robert Gant (Queer As Folk US Nip/Tuck); Archie Panjabi (A Mighty Heart Yasmin); Olivia Grant (Larkrise To Candleford Stardust); Darren Boyd (Saxondale Smack The Pony); Emily Bruni (Catherine The Great Miss Marple); and Jamie Davis (The Sarah Jane Adventures Footballers' Wives) among others. Bringing together many of the elements which make up office life through the characters of Lucy Midge Sid and Nicole P.A.s explores the secrets and lies the women hold the men they date and work for and the balance of power between them and their highly paid hugely privileged bosses.

• Rosemary's Baby | Blu Ray | (27/05/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• I'm Going Home | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of France's greatest screen stars Michel Piccoli plays Gilbert Valence a grand old theatre actor who is given the shocking news that his wife daughter and son-in-law have been tragically killed in a car accident. Some time later and over the worst of his grief Valence busies himself with his daily life in Paris turning down unsuitable roles in low brow television productions and caring for his nine-year old grandson. But when an American filmmaker (John Malkovich) absurdly

• The Voyage Of The Rock Aliens | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No its a Rock Alien! The leader of a High School rock band Frankie falls in love with singer Dee Dee. Their happiness comes under threat from a guitar-shaped space ship which lands on Earth intent on destroying everything. Can Frankie and Dee Dee save the world..? A rock 'n roll sci-fi comedy adventure with a special appearance by Jermaine Jackson and Jimmy and The Mustangs.

• Dean Martin - Memories | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £4.20   |  Saving you £11.79 (280.71%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This special DVD and audio collection looks at the incredible career of a true super star featuring 20 superb songs and the full length feature film 'At War With The Army'. At War with the Army is a zany comedy starring the irrepressible Dean Martin and his long time film partner Jerry Lewis set in a WWII army training camp. The guys are the best of buddies in civvy street but it just isn't the same when they enlist in the army. The smart and streetwise Vic Puccinelli (Dean Martin) is given an elevated rank of 1st Sergeant whereas the 'challenged' Alvin Korwin (Jerry Lewis) has to settle for the lesser rank of private. The object of the training camp is to beef up be ready for combat and be able to take orders without question. Alvin is not going to be good at this as he soon discovers. His best friend Vic is no longer the guy to share a joke...he doesn't laugh any more he only shouts! Will Alvin ever get the hang of this 'soldier' thing - will he ever see his friend Vic again? A great knockabout comedy in typical Lewis style with the added laid back humour of the brilliant Dean Martin...marvellous! DVD tracklisting: 1.Santa Lucia 2.Oh Maria 3.Everybody Loves Somebody 4.If I Knew Then 5.If You Were The Only Girl In The World 6.I Wonder Whose Kissing Her Now 7.My Lady Loves To Dance 8.Because You're Mine 9.On A Slow Boat To China 10.Rambling Rose 11.About A Quarter To Nine 12.Somewhere Along The Way 13.Takes Two To Tango 14.The Glow Worm 15.The Night Is Young And You're so Beautiful 16.Till Then 17.Which Way Did My Heart Go 18.Why Don't You Believe Me 19.Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye 20.Deep Purple

• Arch of Triumph | DVD | (25/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgement, they become involved in a doomed affair; matters come to a crisis on the day war is declared

• Nosferatu | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nosferatu ... the name alone can chill the blood!". F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, released in 1922, was the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Nearly 80 years on, it remains among the most potent and disturbing horror films ever made. The sight of Max Schreck's hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire rising creakily from his coffin still has the ability to chill the blood. Nor has the film dated. Murnau's elision of sex and disease lends it a surprisingly contemporary resonance. The director and his screenwriter Henrik Gaalen are true to the source material, but where most subsequent screen Draculas (whether Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella or Gary Oldman) were portrayed as cultured and aristocratic, Nosferatu is verminous and evil. (Whenever he appears, rats follow in his wake.)The film's full title--Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror)--reveals something of Murnau's intentions. Supremely stylised, it differs from Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919) or Ernst Lubitsch's films of the period in that it was not shot entirely in the studio. Murnau went out on location in his native Westphalia. As a counterpoint to the nightmarish world inhabited by Nosferatu, he used imagery of hills, clouds, trees and mountains (it is, after all, sunlight that destroys the vampire). It's not hard to spot the similarity between the gangsters in film noir hugging doorways or creeping up staircases with the image of Schreck's diabolic Nosferatu, bathed in shadow, sidling his way toward a new victim. Heavy chiaroscuro, oblique camera angles and jarring close-ups--the devices that crank up the tension in Val Lewton horror movies and edgy, urban thrillers such as Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice--were all to be found first in Murnau's chilling masterpiece. --Geoffrey Macnab

• Passed Away | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A crazy bunch of family members must spend the weekend together when their dear old dad suddenly passes away. Dealing with the grief is easy... dealing with each other isn't...