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• Party At The Palace | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £11.30   |  Saving you £8.69 (76.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Party At The Palace starts with Queen Guitarist Brian May--who looks more than ever like a haircut with a person growing from beneath it--playing "God Save The Queen" on the roof of Buckingham Palace; seemingly missing the point of his obvious inspiration, Jimi Hendrix's apocalyptic subversion of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock. Unbelievably, and theoretically impossibly, it goes downhill from there. It can only be assumed that the bill for the Queen's Jubilee was assembled by an ardent republican. The concert is a motley assortment of has-beens and time-wasters, a curious number of whom felt it proper to celebrate the monarch's 50 years by singing old Motown songs badly. The concert also features an extended plug for Queen's (that's the Band) risible musical We Will Rock You and Lenny Henry shouting. Bewilderingly Party At The Palace is not only redeemed, but made worth owning, by the four-song set by Brian Wilson with his version of "God Only Knows"--accompanied by Andrea Corr—-offering a heartbreakingly earnest performance. The concert ends with a pantomime version of "All You Need Is Love". Party At The Palace is the night rock & roll gave up. On the DVD: Party at the Palace is presented in 16:9 format. Songs can be selected by title or by artist. There are subtitles in French, German and Spanish. Proceeds from the sale of the DVD, "after the deduction of costs and expenses in relation to its production and distribution", will be donated to the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Trust. --Andrew Muller

• U.F.O. - The Movie | DVD | (19/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A spoof sci-fi story in which blue comedian Roy Chubby Brown is kidnapped by two female aliens and taken aboard a spacecraft where he is found guilty of moral turpitude. His sentence - he will become pregnant every year for the next thirty years...

• Carry On Nurse | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £6.74   |  Saving you £6.25 (92.73%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Carry On which caused a national sensation when a daffodil replaced a thermometer - you know where! The Carry On team have picked up their stethoscopes and bed pans for a strong dose of hospital humour. Hattie Jacques is the infamous matron doing battle with the patients in the second series of the world famous Carry On series.

• House Of Bamboo (Masters of Cinema) Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (07/12/2020) from £20.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release HOUSE OF BAMBOO; Samuel Fuller's sharp detective thriller set in post-World War II Tokyo; presented on Blu-ray from a 2K restoration as a part of The Masters of Cinema Series from 7 December 2020. The release will be limited to 1000 copies only. What about Japan? asked Zanuck. Would you like to shoot a picture there? Holy mackerel, Darryl, now you're talking! When offered the opportunity to film an entire movie in Japan, (Fox would be the first major American studio to do so) Samuel Fuller jumped at the opportunity and the result is House of Bamboo, a lushly photographed, cold-as-ice film noir like no other. Japan, 1954. A military train is robbed of its cargo by a ruthless gang of professionals led by the sadistic, but brilliant, Sandy Dawson (the incomparable Robert Ryan). Weeks later, one of the thieves lies dying in a Tokyo hospital, shot by his own accomplices. Recently released convict Eddie Spanier (Robert Stack) arrives in Tokyo, and joins up with the gang, impressing Sandy so much he quickly becomes his ichiban (number one man), greatly displeasing the former favourite, Griff (Cameron Mitchell). But is Eddie all he seems? Also starring the beautiful Shirley Yamaguchi, House of Bamboo is a stunning, brutal masterpiece, featuring incredible widescreen photography by Joe MacDonald, and hard-boiled dialogue and action that is the Fuller trademark. Special Edition Contains: 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from Fox's 2K restoration. Original, uncompressed, monaural soundtrack Optional English SDH Audio commentary with Film Historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman Audio commentary with Film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini Fuller at Fox a video essay by David Cairns looking at Samuel Fuller's films produced for Twentieth Century Fox. Original theatrical trailer PLUS: A collector's booklet featuring an essay by film critic Richard Combs and the words of Samuel Fuller.

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (DVD +Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This movie, that made Albert Finney a star, is a UK cinematic gem. At the time of release it hit the audience like a bombshell due to its frank portrayal of life, sex and double standards in the late 1950's. It tells the story of Arthur (Finney) a factory worker who is seeing two women at the same time. When one of them falls pregnant he finds himself having to choose...It was the first of the cinematic 'kitchen sink drama's' of the 1960's and was a huge box office hit. This film has been unavailable for almost three years. This version is restored and remastered with new extra's including interviews with Albert Finney and Shirley Anne Field. This will be the definitive release of this classic of British cinema.

• Shirley Valentine/First Wives Club/Terms Of Endearment | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £22.72   |  Saving you £-6.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Titles Comprise: Shirley Valentine: Shirley Bradshaw has always been able to see the funny side of any situation. She was a high-school rebel and now she's a housewife and mother who one day looks back at her life and realises that she has lost touch with her dreams. When her best friend wins a magazine contest and asks Shirley to accompany her on a fortnight's holiday in Greece Shirley begins a voyage of self-discovery. On the island of Mykonos as Shirley luxuriates among sun sand and taramasalata she encounters islander Costas Caldes and falls in love...with life! First Wives Club: Marriage has turned into a crash dive for Brenda Cushman Elise Atchison and Annie Paradise. These three well-heeled Manhattan women chums during their college days all took different paths. Now they're reunited by catastrophe--each has just been callously dumped by her husband for a younger sexier trophy wife. Smarting from the pain Brenda Elise and Annie join forces and concoct a plan to exact the most exquisitely bitter vengeance upon their exes. War has been declared Terms of Endearment: This Oscar-winning film is both eccentrically funny and an old-fashioned tearjerker. The story centers around the volatile relationship between a mother and daughter spanning 30 years. The various permutations of their lives are examined including the daughter's bout with terminal cancer.

• Carousel | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £4.96   |  Saving you £8.03 (161.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2006 Carousel tells the story of Billy Bigelow a smooth-talking carnival baker who falls in love with a mill-worker on the colourful coast of Maine. But right before the birth of his daughter Billy is killed while committing a robbery. Now in heaven years later he returns to earth for one day to attend his daughter's high school graduation and teach her one very important lesson... Featuring classics like 'If I Loved You' and the inspi

• Downton Abbey - Series 3 - Limited Edition with 2013 Diary (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

• Lunch Hour (DVD) | DVD | (22/06/2015) from £6.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (157.74%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In this inventive and gripping drama written by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey) and directed by James Hill (Black Beauty Born Free) Shirley Anne Field (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alfie) gives an unforgettable fiery performance as a young designer on the brink of an affair with a married male executive (Robert Stephens – The Shout Comrades). With its tightly-focused plot telling the story of an illicit rendezvous in real time Lunch Hour is presented here in a stunning digitally remastered transfer and is accompanied by a selection of director James Hill’s colourful and award-winning short films. Extras: Skyhook (1958 17 mins): the adventure of oil exploration deep in the tropics of Papua New Guinea Giuseppina (1959 32 mins): a young girl observes different characters at her father’s rural petrol station The Home-Made Car (1963 28 mins): a man restores his dilapidated car as a curious young neighbour watches

• Sailor Beware! | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Peggy Mount stars as the world's most terrifying mother in law in this British Comedy favourite based on the hugely successful stage farce!

• Ten Little Indians | Blu Ray | (15/03/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An all-star cast feature in this stylish adaptation of Agatha Christie's quintessential murder mystery, produced and co-written by legendary B-movie mogul Harry Alan Towers. Directed by George Pollock (who had previously won great acclaim with the Miss Marple films starring Margaret Rutherford) and sporting the ultimate gimmick of a 60-second Whodunnit Break prior to the final reveal, Ten Little Indians is featured here as a High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Ten strangers arrive at a snowbound mansion invited by their host, the shadowy Mr U.N. Owen. During dinner, an audio tape of Owen's voice is played, revealing that each guest has a scandalous secret a secret that each would be willing to kill to protect. It's not long before the first guest is murdered. It won't be the last. Special Features Theatrical trailer Image gallery

• T2 Trainspotting | Blu Ray | (01/07/2019) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  First there was an opportunity... then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.

• Honeymoon Killers | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Honeymoon Killers is based on the true story of American serial killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck who went on a spree of murder and mayhem in the late 1940's.Posing as brother and sister the pair befriend and ultimately murder lonely women for their savings.This chilling movie is a cult classic and features fine performances from the two leads in the roles of the real life 'lonely hearts killers'.

• The Honeymoon Killers | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £5.00   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Though it was pre-produced by Martin Scorsese, who left the project after arguments with the producers, The Honeymoon Killers wound up being written and directed by Leonard Kastle, one of cinema's great one-hit wonders. The Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer of 1969, The Honeymoon Killers follows hefty nurse Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler, who looks like a humourlessly malevolent Roseanne) and her low-rent gigolo lover Raymond Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) as they take up serial murder for profit and passion, luring middle-aged women into marriage through lonely-hearts ads, then killing them and raiding their savings. Based on a genuine crime case history, it is filmed in the candid-camera style of a Frederick Wiseman documentary. The intense scenes (such as the couple's frightening love-play: escalating arguments that end in awkward killings) unfold with a fly-on-the-wall dryness, showcasing the extraordinary acting of the leads and their cameo victims. A rare film in which genuine romantic love does not excuse the central couple's amoral behaviour, this still manages to generate some sympathy for the truly monstrous Martha. The washed-out black and white photography and sometimes scratchy soundtrack (the score is sampled from Mahler) have a deliberately amateurish feel which adds to the film's chilling power, lodging it into the memory. On the DVD: Along with a lurid trailer and gallery of images are filmographies for Stoler, Lo Bianco and (redundantly) Kastle. The widescreen transfer is excellent, representing perfectly the film's rough-hewn look but also bringing out a lot of detail--like Stoler's freckles, which have looked like grain on video releases. --Kim Newman

• Goldfinger | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £5.94   |  Saving you £7.05 (118.69%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Heralded by many as the quintessential Bond movie, Goldfinger features some of the most iconic moments in the series to-date. Who could forget Oddjob and his killer hat or Shirley Eaton doused in gold?Special Agent 007 (Sean Connery) has just come face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time. And now he'll have to outwit and outgun this powerful tycoon to prevent him form cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox - and obliterate the world economy!

• The Honeymoon Killers | Blu Ray | (09/11/2015) from £13.29   |  Saving you £11.70 (46.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Though it was pre-produced by Martin Scorsese, who left the project after arguments with the producers, The Honeymoon Killers wound up being written and directed by Leonard Kastle, one of cinema's great one-hit wonders. The Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer of 1969, The Honeymoon Killers follows hefty nurse Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler, who looks like a humourlessly malevolent Roseanne) and her low-rent gigolo lover Raymond Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) as they take up serial murder for profit and passion, luring middle-aged women into marriage through lonely-hearts ads, then killing them and raiding their savings. Based on a genuine crime case history, it is filmed in the candid-camera style of a Frederick Wiseman documentary. The intense scenes (such as the couple's frightening love-play: escalating arguments that end in awkward killings) unfold with a fly-on-the-wall dryness, showcasing the extraordinary acting of the leads and their cameo victims. A rare film in which genuine romantic love does not excuse the central couple's amoral behaviour, this still manages to generate some sympathy for the truly monstrous Martha. The washed-out black and white photography and sometimes scratchy soundtrack (the score is sampled from Mahler) have a deliberately amateurish feel which adds to the film's chilling power, lodging it into the memory. On the DVD: Along with a lurid trailer and gallery of images are filmographies for Stoler, Lo Bianco and (redundantly) Kastle. The widescreen transfer is excellent, representing perfectly the film's rough-hewn look but also bringing out a lot of detail--like Stoler's freckles, which have looked like grain on video releases. --Kim Newman

• Peeping Tom | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £6.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (100.43%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Michael Powell lays bare the cinema's dark voyeuristic underside in this disturbing 1960 psychodrama thriller. Handsome young Carl Boehm is Mark Lewis, a shy, socially clumsy young man shaped by the psychic scars of an emotionally abusive parent, in this case a psychologist father (the director in a perverse cameo) who subjected his son to nightmarish experiments in fear and recorded every interaction with a movie camera. Now Mark continues his father's work, sadistically killing young women with a phallic-like blade attached to his movie camera and filming their final, terrified moments for his definitive documentary on fear. Set in contemporary London, which Powell evokes in a lush, colourful seediness, this film presents Mark as much victim as villain and implicates the audience in his scopophilic activities as we become the spectators to his snuff film screenings. Comparisons to Hitchcock's Psycho, released the same year, are inevitable. Powell's film was reviled upon release, and it practically destroyed his career, ironic in light of the acclaim and success that greeted Psycho, but Powell's picture hit a little too close to home with its urban setting, full colour photography, documentary techniques and especially its uneasy connections between sex, violence and the cinema. We can thank Martin Scorsese for sponsoring its 1979 re-release, which presented the complete, uncut version to appreciative audiences for the first time. This powerfully perverse film was years ahead of its time and remains one of the most disturbing and psychologically complex horror films ever made. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter | Blu Ray | (29/06/2015) from £13.15   |  Saving you £8.84 (67.22%)   |  RRP £21.99

  The haunting and funny story of a young woman set on fulfilling the wildest of dreams. A lonely woman (Oscar-nominee Rinko Kikuchi) becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried in a cult Hollywood film is in fact real. Abandoning her structured life in Tokyo she heads for the frozen Minnesota wilderness armed with only a hand-embroidered map. Ill prepared but determined she encounters unexpected help along the way as she searches for her lost mythical fortune.

• Happy Valley - Series 2 | Blu Ray | (28/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Sarah Lancashire returns in the acclaimed BBC thriller written by Sally Wainwright. No-nonsense police sergeant Catherine Cawood is back heading up her team of dedicated police officers in the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. While on duty, she makes a gruesome discovery - a body. The victim's injuries bear a striking similarity to a string of other murders over the previous few months, suggesting a serial killer is on the loose. But the case becomes even more shocking when it emerges that Catherine knows the victim - something that could have serious repercussions for both herself and her family.

• London's Burning - The Complete Second Series | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £19.89   |  Saving you £0.10 (0.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The complete second series of ITV's London's Burning which followed the lives and tribulations of Blackwall Fire Station's Blue Watch. Viewers loved the quirky but human characters that put their lives on the line with every episode and this set features some of the most fondly remembered including female fire-fighter Josie Ingham 'Bayleaf' 'Sicknote' and 'Charisma'. This set features all eight episodes of the second series originally transmitted in 1989.