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• Pursuit | DVD | (07/12/2015) from £6.09   |  Saving you £13.90 (228.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mr. King, the boss of the criminal underworld, dreams of going legit and attaining respectability. He kept his daughter Gráinne away from the street and groomed her for a career in show business. She was to be his ticket out of the ghetto until she went into meltdown and her career fell apart. Fionn runs Mr. King's drug smuggling operation. Fionn has a¨bodyguard Diarmuid, whom he saved from the street as a boy.¨Fionn takes care of everyone and everything. He is the people's true chief. Mr. King sees the threat, tries to have Fionn assassinated, but fails. To avoid a gang-war, Fionn agrees to marry the King's daughter. It looks as if peace will reign in the underworld, but Gráinne has other plans. Inspired by an Irish legend.

• Midsomer Murders - Bad Tidings | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £13.85   |  Saving you £3.14 (22.67%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Nothing is as it seems behind the well-trimmed hedges of the picturesque cottages in the idyllic English county of Midsomer. Beneath the tranquil surface of sleepy village life exist dark secrets scandals and downright evil. John Nettles stars as the humorous thoughtful and methodical Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby.

• The Principal | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  At a high school where the kids major in arson extortion and assault the new principal and the head of security might just be crazy enough to turn things around...

• F | Blu Ray | (10/01/2011) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Welcome to the school of hard knocks. Trapped, terrified and hunted. A group of teachers and students are locked inside a school after hours as a gang of hooded killers intent on murder set out on a blood soaked rampage.

• Gavin And Stacey - 2008 Christmas Special | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £8.49   |  Saving you £0.64 (7.00%)   |  RRP £9.13

  With two Baftas and three British Comedy awards under its belt the much-loved and rightly-praised Gavin and Stacey returned for a one-hour Christmas Special broadcast on Christmas Eve 2008. It's Christmas time and the Welsh contingent have been invited to celebrate the festive season with the Shipmans. So with the help of Dave and his coach; the West's head East. Dawn and Pete have come round for Christmas Eve drinks and Pete's brought his aged mum. Mick has an enormous turkey soaking in a bucket Bryn has his mistletoe on standby and Pam has a cracker of a present under the tree for Mick. But will the season still be jolly when Smithy sees how attached Dave is to baby Neil? Or when Bryn elaborates further on the fishing trip? But most importantly...will there still be tidings of comfort and joy when Gavin delivers a truly unexpected surprise to everyone in the room?

• L'Africaine - Meyerbeer | DVD | (02/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Meyerbeer - L'Africaine (Arena Orch/Chorus/Ballet SFO)

• Harold & Maude - Paramount Originals (includes Limited Edition reproduction film poster) | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A classic cult film that features one of the screen's most unlikely pairs. It will defy everything you've ever seen or known about screen lovers. Bud Cort is Harold a young man bored with wealth but interested in death. And Ruth Gordon is Maude a wonderful old rascal who can see nothing but good intentions in the world. Hal Ashby (Coming Home Being There) directed from Colin Higgin's (Foul Play) first script. An outrageously funny and affecting film that proves love has no boundari

• Basket Case | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Duane Bradley’s brother is very small very twisted very mad and he lives in a basket… until night comes! After a difficult birth which their mother didn’t survive Duane was born with a monstrously deformed conjoined twin Belial attached to his side. Embittered by the death of his wife and unable to accept his hideous son the boys’ father orders the twins to be separated surgically. Surviving the operation but deeply resentful of his enforced removal from his brother’s side Belial plans to get even with his father and the doctors responsible. Duane normal-looking but sympathetic to his brother’s plight moves to New York carrying with him a large basket in which his grotesque twin hides. Together they seek the surgeons responsible for their violent separation and Belial wreaks his gruesomely bloody revenge…

• Abe Lincoln In Illinois | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £13.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (-7.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The double Oscar nominated Abe Lincoln in Illinois portrays the story of Abraham Lincoln, from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as the 16th President of the United States. A stellar performance in the title role from Raymond Massey saw him nominated for the Best Actor award alongside James Wong Howe for Best black and white cinematography. After running livestock to New Orleans, Abe Lincoln settles in New Salem where he falls in love with Ann Rutledge (Mary Howard) and eventually becomes the postmaster. His popularity with the locals leads to him running for and being successfully elected to the State legislature but his victory is overshadowed by Ann's death. Overcome by a sense of doom and a lack of ambition, Lincoln leaves the legislature after his first term and returns to practising law. However, a fateful meeting with Mary Todd (Ruth Gordon), an extremely ambitious woman, changes the course of Abe's life and of America's destiny. By entering politics again Lincoln knows that his taking of a stand on slavery will mean the dissolution of the Union. In a series of electrifying debates with Stephen Douglas (Gene Lockhart), Lincoln is catapulted into the national consciousness of political America and leaves Illinois for Washington, never to return.

• Rosemary's Baby | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Possibly the best horror film ever made this brilliant adaptation of Ira Levin's best-selling novel is the story of a loving young New York city couple who are experiencing their first child. Like most first time mothers Rosemary experiences confusion and fear. Her husband an ambitious but unsuccessful actor makes a pact with the devil that promises to send his career skyward. Director Roman Polanski elicits uniformly extraordinary performances from the all-star cast. Ruth Gordon won an Oscar for her performance as an oversolicitous next-door neighbour in this classic chiller.

• She Done Him Wrong/My Little Chickadee | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £8.33   |  Saving you £5.92 (83.73%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lowell Sherman (Dir. Lowell Sherman 1933): New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. Unfortunately one of them is a vicious criminal who's escaped and is on the way to see ""his"" girl not realising she hasn't exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings a local temperance league leader though. My Little Chickadee (Dir. Edward F. Cline 1940): Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. On the train she meets con man Cuthbert J. Twillie and pretends to marry him for ""respectability."" Arrived in Greasewood City with his unkissed bride Twillie is named sheriff by town boss Jeff Badger...with an ulterior motive. Meanwhile both stars inimitably display their specialties as Twillie tends bar and plays cards and Flower Belle tames the town's rowdy schoolboys...

• Zombie Undead | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £7.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (113.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Having been re-directed to an Evacuation facility on the edge of town Steve an off-duty Paramedic is in a race against time fully aware that Marks chances of survival are rapidly slipping away. The scene that greets them on arrival is one of chaos. The floor awash with blood is covered with the bodies of the dying and injured doctors dart back and forth clearly overwhelmed. A violent convulsion causes Mark to lose consciousness heart stopped he slumps to the floor....

• Impulse | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When the demons of evil take over all powers of reason only Impulse remains! A paranoid leisure suit wearing gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women cons them out of their savings via and investment scam and then kills them. When he begins seeings an attractive widow her daughter Tina becomes suspicious of his motives..... An absolute must have for all you Shatner fans!!!

• The Child | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £11.92   |  Saving you £-2.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Let's play hide and go kill...! A newly-hired housekeeper in a remote area is alarmed to discover that her boss's eleven-year-old daughter is using supernatural powers to take revenge on the people she holds responsible for her mother's death with the aid of her flesh-eating zombie 'friends'...

• Wild About Harry | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £9.96   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Brendan Gleeson stars as Harry McKee, a TV celebrity, a drunk, and an unfaithful slob. But the night before his wife is to divorce him Harry is attacked and wakes up with no memory beyond being 18. Will Harry be able to get it right second time around?

• A Christmas Without Snow | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Jo Jenson moves to a big city leaving behind a broken marriage and a small son. Her only joy in life is music. A choirmaster inspires her to give the performance of a lifetime but her life is still empty without her son...

• Gavin And Stacey - Series 1 | Blu Ray | (19/10/2009) from £9.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (150.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Gavin's an ordinary boy from Essex. Stacey's an ordinary girl from Barry Island South Wales. They've spoken on the phone every day at work for months but they've never actually met... Will the course of true love run smoothly for our lovebirds or will their family friends and general hangers-on bring everything crashing down? Gavin & Stacey is a brand new comedy series written by and starring Ruth Jones (Nighty Night Little Britain) and James Corden (Fat Friends The History Boys). Gavin is played by Mathew Horne (The Catherine Tate Show Roman's Empire) and Joanna Page (Gideon's Daughter Love Actually) plays Stacey. A host of familiar faces also appear in the series with Rob Brydon Alison Steadman Larry Lamb and Melanie Walters leading the regular cast. Keep an eye open for Little Britain's Matt Lucas and Nighty Night's Julia Davis making guest appearances too...

• House of Wax | Blu Ray | (23/06/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Atlantic Records - The House That Ahmet Built - Various | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  ""The Atlantic Sound "" which sprang from the small record label Ertegun co-founded in 1947 was a revolutionary new genre single-handedly influencing the future direction of contemporary music. Ertegun wrote music produced music defined careers and changed lives. ""He found Ray Charles he introduced Eric Clapton to Aretha Franklin he fell asleep on Mick Jagger "" says Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner. 'Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built' follows Ertegun's remarkable career and its impact on the evolution of the world's most popular musical genre while offering an insider's look at the recording industry from its infancy to today. This two-hour DVD features rare private and classic clips performances and studio sessions of Atlantic recording artists including Solomon Burke Ray Charles Eric Clapton Phil Collins Aretha Franklin Mick Jagger Kid Rock Ben E. King Led Zeppelin & many more. It is narrated by award-winning singer/actress Bette Midler.

• Meyerbeer: L'Africaine | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Enormously popular and influential in its time, Meyerbeer's L'Africaine has become a rarity--the conventions of grand opera which it embodies so thoroughly are only familiar as adapted by Verdi and Wagner, so this work usefully reminds us of how radical they were. Meyerbeer and his librettist Scribe give us a five-act plot full of confrontations and threats of death, a shipwreck and the suicide of the Indian heroine Selika and her rejected suitor by inhaling the poisonous aromas of a deadly tree. The expedition of Vasco Da Gama round the Cape of Good Hope and up to the spice ports of India becomes less a story about the crusade for profit and more a matter of messy triangular love affairs. Heavy fathers, Brahmin priests and Grand Inquisitors are handled with much facility and no intensity. What L'Africaine really amounts to is a singers' display piece, and the two principals here--Shirley Verrett as Selika and Placido Domingo as Vasco--are entirely up to its demands. Domingo reminds us that Vasco's Act 4 aria "Oh Paradis" was for decades a standard tenor showstopper. The other principals, Ruth Ann Svenson and Justino Diaz, are entirely admirable and Marco Arena and the San Francisco Opera give the work as a whole both the grandeur it certainly possesses and rather more subtlety than one might have expected. On the DVD: The DVD, presented in 4:3 ratio, and in PCM stereo, has no features apart from instructions and subtitles in French, German, English and Spanish. This failure to provide extras, or even an especially informative leaflet, becomes especially regrettable with a work whose conventions are now far out of the operatic mainstream. --Roz Kaveney