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• Vertigo | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Dreamlike and nightmarishly surreal, Vertigo is Hitchcock's most personal film because it confronts many of the convoluted psychological issues that haunted and fascinated the director. The psychological complexity and the stark truthfulness of their rampant emotions keeps these strangely obsessive characters alive on screen, and Hitchcock understood better than most their barely repressed sexual compulsions, their fascination with death and their almost overwhelming desire for transcendent love. James Stewart finds profound and disturbing new depths in his psyche as Scotty, the tortured acrophobic detective on the trail of a suicidal woman apparently possessed by the ghost of someone long dead. Kim Novak is the classical Hitchcockian blonde whose icy exterior conceals a churning, volcanic emotional core. The agonised romance of Bernard Herrmann's score accompanies the two actors as a third and vitally important character, moving the film along to its culmination in an ecstasy of Wagnerian tragedy. Of course Hitch lavished especial care on every aspect of the production, from designer Edith Head's costumes (he, like Scotty, was most insistent on the grey dress), to the specific colour scheme of each location, to the famous reverse zoom "Vertigo" effect (much imitated, never bettered). The result is Hitch's greatest work and an undisputed landmark of cinema history. On the DVD: This disc presents the superb restored print of this film in a wonderful widescreen (1.85:1) anamorphic transfer, with remastered Dolby digital soundtrack. There's a half-hour documentary made in 1996 about the painstaking two-year restoration process, plus an informative commentary from the restorers Robert Harris and James Katz, who are joined by original producer Herbert Coleman. There are also text features on the production, cast and crew, plus a trailer for the theatrical release of the restoration. This is an undeniably essential requirement for every DVD collection. --Mark Walker

• Turner And Hooch | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £6.00   |  Saving you £8.99 (149.83%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Much better than your average cop-and-dog movie (such as K-9), Turner and Hooch is really a love story about a control freak (Tom Hanks) who gradually resigns to the messy chaos of a sweet hulk of a pooch named Hooch. The excuse for this relationship is that the dog can identify a murderer and Hanks needs him, but the film is really about such hilarious moments as Hanks bathing Hooch with a long brush, and a wild chase through the streets when the sharp-eyed mutt spots his suspect. Layered over this is a healthy love story between Hanks and animal vet Mare Winningham, who share a terribly sexy scene together--while fully clothed--doing no more than making breakfast. (Hanks directed this scene, though Roger Spottiswoode directed the rest of the movie.) --Tom Keogh

• Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies - Season One | DVD | (06/11/2023) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES is the high-spirited musical series that traces the origins of the classic hit movie. Four outcast high school girls - a brainiac student, a scandal-ridden cynic, a tomboy and a fashion maven - join together to form their own "girl gang" and trigger a rock'n'roll revolution at Rydell High. Of course, the adults are in a 1950s moral panic over the burgeoning new era, but the Pink Ladies are ready to get this party started.

• Billboard Dad | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £13.71   |  Saving you £0.28 (2.04%)   |  RRP £13.99

  One's a surfer. The other's a high diver. When these two sisters team up to find a new love for their newly single Dad it's a fun-loving eye-catching California adventure gone wild. Mary-Kate and Ashley star in this fabulously funny love-struck comedy filled with crazy schemes and cool surprises. Determined to find their Dad Max a new love the girls paint a personals ad on a giant billboard in the heart of Hollywood. After a few disastrous dates Max finally meets Brooke and it's love at first sight. There's just one hitch her unruly skateboarding son is the girls' arch rival. Now with the girls plotting every action-packed step of the way they've got to find out if love really does conquer all. Full of outrageous events mixed-up matches and lots of laughs Billboard Dad tops the charts as Mary-Kate and Ashley's coolest mischieve-making adventure ever.

• The Split - Series 2 | DVD | (23/03/2020) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Defoe's are back at newly merged law firm Noble Hale Defoe. And Hannah's latest case the divorce of the UK's most powerful celebrity couple is set to put NHD on the map. As Hannah fights one of the most public cases of her career, she's also fighting a private battle to save her own marriage. Following the devastating revelation of Nathan's betrayal, her formerly rock-solid marriage is beginning to crack. And, as she finds herself in a passionate affair with Christie, will she take a course that could end her marriage? Or can she have it all?

• Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back!) | DVD | (06/05/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  William can't take it any more. The futility of existence has become too much. However, after ten failed attempts to kill himself, from bridge-leaping to the old toaster-in-a-bath routine, the young writer (Aneurin Barnard) seems to be as bad at death as he is at life. So he decides to outsource his suicide to an elderly hitman called Leslie (Tom Wilkinson). Leslie seems very keen; he even has a brochure offering different demise options, from the deluxe 'hero's death' to the no-frills 'quick and painless'. What happens, though, if he changes his mind? Includes subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing

• Parasomnia | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £9.97   |  Saving you £9.01 (129.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Parasomnia

• Rear Window/The Birds/Vertigo | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rear Window (1954): Alfred Hitchcock amply demonstrates why he's been called ""The Master of Suspense"" with this both witty and macabre tale of voyeurism and murder starring two of cinema's all-time favourites James Stewart and Grace Kelly. L.B. Jeffries (Stewart) a photographer with a broken leg takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbours during a summer heat wave. But things really hot up when he suspects one neighbour of murdering his invalid wife and burying the body in a flower garden. The Birds (1963): Wealthy reformed party girl Melanie Daniels enjoys a brief flirtation with lawyer Mitch Brenner in a San Francisco pet shop and decides to follow him to his Bodega Bay home. Bearing a gift of two lovebirds Melanie quickly strikes up a romance with Mitch while contending with his possessive mother and boarding at his ex-girlfriend's house.One day during a birthday party for Mitch's younger sister a flock of birds attacks the children in what seems to be a random incident. In fact it signals the beginning of a massive and organized avian assault on the residents of the town--a mysterious assault that no one can explain...and from which no one might come out alive. Vertigo (1958): Set in San Francisco James Stewart portrays and acrophobic detective hired to trail a friend's suicidal wife (Novak). After he successfully rescues her from a leap into the bay he finds himself becoming obsessed with the beautiful and troubled woman...

• DNA | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £13.48   |  Saving you £2.51 (18.62%)   |  RRP £15.99

  DNA (2 Disc)

• The Hitchcock Collection, Volume 2 | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A welcome second volume of classics from the Master of Suspense, this seven-disc Hitchcock Collection box-set consists of the following: The Birds: Based on a Daphne Du Maurier short story, The Birds (1963) is Hitchcock at his most terrifying, as the residents of a small town are attacked by thousands of apparently homicidal birds. Marnie: Tippi Hedren and newly Bonded Sean Connery star in this excellent 1964 thriller, which finds a calculating thief who robs her employers pursued by a her new boss, who is desperate to unlock her secrets Torn Curtain: This 1966 spy thriller, pairing Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, finds Newman as a world-famous physicist intent on defecting to East Berlin in order to obtain funding for his latest project. Topaz: Based on the Leon Uris novel, Hitch's 51st film, made in 1969, concerns a CIA agent who learns of Russian missiles in Cuba. With the aid of a French agent, they negotiate a plethora of corruption and murder. Frenzy: This critically acclaimed 1972 film was Hitch's first British-made film for more than 20 years. A classic Hitch story of an innocent man accused of being the "necktie murderer"--a vicious sex criminal terrorising London--he eludes the authorities and seeks the real killer. Family Plot: Hitchcock's final film, made in 1976, is a blackly funny mix of murder, theft and kidnapping as a cab-driver and a psychic team up to find a dead man--not actually dead--in exchange for a $10,000 reward. Bonus Disc--Vertigo: An irreducible masterpiece, this 1958 double-identity thriller finds Hitch serving aces, as Jimmy Stewart's detective is drawn in to a complex plot when the girl he loves apparently falls to her death. On the DVD: Like the first volume, this is an equally impressive package that will satisfy the rotund fright-master's fans. Along with the standard selection of trailers, production notes and picture galleries, each disc houses an impressive "making of" documentary, each expertly detailing Hitch's meticulous work. The Birds features Tippi Hedren's screen test and--in storyboard form--deleted scenes and the alternative ending. Topaz has no less that three alternative endings, while Torn Curtain includes scenes scored by composer Bernard Herrmann before his music was rejected by Hitch. The Vertigo disc features an excellent group commentary from producer Herbert Coleman and restoration experts Robert A Harris and James Katz, as well as a documentary, "Obsessed with Vertigo". Housed in attractive fold-out packaging, this is an excellent opportunity to obtain a rich slice of Hitchcock's dark magic.--Danny Graydon

• Blue Gender - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 To 3 | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  One Day In The Western Year 2031... It's unknown how long the Blue have actually existed. The first confirmed sighting came in 2017. That was fourteen years ago. At first we thought they were a biological weapon that some rogue nation had developed but we soon learned they were very different. One Day: It is the year 2031. Humankind has been replaced as the dominant species by a race of monstrous insect-like creatures known as Blue. Sleeper Yuji Kaido finds himself thrust in

• Blue Gender - Vol. 3 - Episodes 7 To 9 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £8.85   |  Saving you £12.13 (207.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Sympath: Still en route to Baikonur Marlene and Yuji cross paths with a rough-mannered stranger named Dice. With the Blue lurking dangerously close he offers them shelter for the night and Yuji is given a glimpse into his seemingly carefree life. But as Yuji soon discovers no one left on Earth is without their demons... Not even Dice. Oasis: Yuji is separated from Marlene and Dice amidst the confusion of a sandstorm. He is rescued from the desert by a band of noma

• Blue Gender - Vol. 2 - Episodes 4 To 6 | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Agony: Yuji disobeys Marlene's orders by saving a little girl's life and discovers a group of survivors hidden among the ruins of the city. Yuji makes a promise to the little girl Yung that he will protect her from the Blue. But this new cause is threatened when he learns a shocking truth about his rescuers from Second Earth. Priority: The surviving members of the Sleeper Recovery Team must enter an abandoned communications tower that is now a Blue nest in a desper

• Thompson Twins - Sidekicks The Movie | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Thompson Twins - Tom Bailey Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway - were one of the most successful pop groups of the 1980's - consistently hitting the charts both here in the UK and in the US. Three years of almost unbroken singles chart success in the mid-80's bought the band an extremely sizeable fanbase and their 1984 album Into The Gap went on to sell five million units worldwide. Leeway left the band in 1986 but Bailey and Currie continued to record and perform sell out tours worldwide until 1991. Sidekicks The Movie captures the band live at The Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool in 1983 just as they exploded into wider fame and embarked on their remarkable 1980's success. Included are UK hit singles 'Lies' 'In The Name Of Love' 'We Are Detective' and 'Love On Your Side'. Tracklist: 1. Kamikaze 2. Love Lies Bleeding 3. Judy Do 4. Tears 5. Watching 6. If You Were Here 7. All Fall Out 8. Lucky Day 9. Lies 10. We Are Detective 11. In The Name Of Love 12. Beach Culture 13. Love On Your Side

• Nasty Neighbours | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99