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• Chewin' The Fat - Series 1 - Episodes 1 To 6 | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The smash hit Scottish sketch show now available on DVD. The best collection of Caledonian comic capers since 'Naked Video'. Episodes comprise: 1. Ford And Greg On The Couch 2. Jack And Vic Do Cybersex 3. Jack And Vic Do Changing Rooms 4. James Bond Parody 5. Kelso's Fate 6. Blow Below The Belt

• A Dandy in Aspic (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (21/03/2022) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The final film by the great Anthony Mann (Winchester '73, El Cid) A Dandy in Aspic is a stylish and complex cold-war thriller starring Laurence Harvey (Room at the Top, The Manchurian Candidate) as a Russian double-agent working for British Intelligence who is assigned to track down and kill an unusual target. Falling between the outlandish exploits of James Bond and the dour realism of John le Carré's ˜circus of spies', this paranoid thriller is a dark and refined affair, with a superb supporting cast headed by Mia Farrow (Rosemary's Baby, See No Evil) and Tom Courtenay (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Otley), wonderful cinematography by regular Powell and Pressburger cameraman Christopher Challis, and with a terrific score by Quincy Jones. Extras High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with author and critic Samm Deighan The BEHP Interview with Christopher Challis (1988, 107 mins): archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the cinematographer in conversation with Kevin Gough-Yates A Time to Die (2019, 10 mins): members of the crew recall aspects of the film's production Pulling Strings (2019, 22 mins): titles designer Michael Graham Smith and puppeteer Ronnie Le Drew discuss the distinctive opening credit sequence Inside Mann (2019, 12 mins): appreciation by critic and broadcaster Richard Combs London to Berlin (2019, 6 mins): exploration of A Dandy in Aspic's British and German locations Berlin: The Swinging City (1968, 5 mins): original promotional film produced by Columbia Pictures Isolated music & effects track Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Detour (1945) | Blu Ray | (01/04/2019) from £21.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Edgar G. Ulmer's legendary B movie, the quintessence of film noir, newly restored and on Bluray for the first time. From Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a downonhisluck nightclub pianist (Tom Neal) finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to runa waking nightmare that goes from bad to worse when he picks up the most vicious femme fatale in cinema history, Ann Savage's snarling, monstrously conniving drifter Vera. Working with noname stars on a bargain basement budget, B auteur Edgar G. Ulmer (People on Sunday) turned threadbare production values and seedy, lowrent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry. Long unavailable in a format in which its hardboiled beauty could be fully appreciated, Detour haunts anew in its first major restoration. Special Edition Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man OffScreen, a 2004 documentary featuring interviews with filmmakers Roger Corman, Joe Dante, and Wim Wenders and actor Ann Savage New interview with film scholar Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins New programme about the restoration of Detour Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic and poet Robert Polito

• Randall And Hopkirk Deceased - The Complete First Series | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer this re-make of the cult `60s detective show is terrific entertainment. Features the complete first series: Drop Dead: In the week before private detective Marty Hopkirk's wedding to waitress Jeannie Hurst he and his partner Jeff Randall get a job from famous artist Gordon Stylus to watch over his wife as he fears for her safety. In the course of the assignment Marty is killed and the grieving Jeff and Jeannie must investigate how he died which then endangers their lives. Fortunately Jeff begins to get help from Marty's ghost cursed to walk the earth for the duration of Jeff's life which only he can see... Mental Apparition Disorder: Jeannie joins the private detective agency and investigates the repeated disappearance of money from the till of a local casino. Meanwhile Jeff goes to a private psychiatric clinic run by Dr Lawyer to try to get over Marty's death and rid himself of the ghostly apparitions. The Best Years Of Your Death: When Jeannie senses that her nephew Daniel is unhappy at his boarding school she quizzes him about it and he lets on that he thinks a teacher was murdered. Jeff and Jeannie go undercover to get jobs there as teacher and nurse respectively to investigate and find that the headteacher is exerting a sinister influence on the boys... Paranoia: Douglas Milton is writing a book revealing matters relating to security and terrorism that many authorities and organisations would rather be kept secret. Jeff and Jeannie get an assignment to protect him from harm until he makes the revelations public at a prestigious international conference.. A Blast From The Past: Harry Wallis was once the partner in the police force of Marty's father Larry Hopkirk until Maurice Crabbe killed Larry and disabled Wallis in revenge for their killing of his brother the hardened criminal Sidney Crabbe. Now that Wallis is approaching the end of his life to salve his remorse he hires Jeff and Jeannie to locate Maurice Crabbe so that he can give him some of his savings to pay for his care. A Man of Substance: The enigmatically beautiful Lauren Dee hires Jeff to investigate the disappearance of her husband somewhere in rural England but it proves to be just a ploy to entice Jeff and Marty into the grip of a village that time has bypassed since the Middle Ages...

• Mutant X - Season 2 - Vol. 3 | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £10.27   |  Saving you £12.71 (174.59%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'The X-Men'-like half human/half mutants are back for a second series of tongue-in-cheek adventures as they battle to protect their race against the shadowy forces of evil. The Grift:Brennan's ex-girlfriend enlists his help when a scheme to blackmail a prominent politician turns nasty. Within These Walls:When a dangerous mutant prisoner escapes an armoured convoy it sets in progress a deadly chase leading to a mysterious assassin - the prisoner's next target. At D

• Maybe Baby | DVD | (15/01/2001) from £6.65   |  Saving you £7.34 (110.38%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Ben Elton adapts his own novel for the big screen in this comedy about a couple (Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson) who become more & more desperate as they try to conceive a child.

• A Private War Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (10/06/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is one of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time. Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless, while constantly testing the limits between bravery and bravado. After being hit by a grenade in Sri Lanka, she wears a distinctive eye patch and is still as comfortable sipping martinis with London's elite as she is confronting dictators. Colvin sacrifices loving relationships, and over time, her personal life starts to unravel as the trauma she's witnessed takes its toll. Yet, her mission to show the true cost of war leads her along with renowned war photographer Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan) to embark on the most dangerous assignment of their lives in the besieged Syrian city of Homs. Based on the extraordinary life of Marie Colvin, A PRIVATE WAR is brought to the screen by Academy Award nominee and critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman in his pulse-pounding narrative feature debut.

• Plebs - Series 1-4 Box Set | DVD | (04/06/2018) from £44.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Plebs follows three desperate young men from the suburbs as they try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city... of Ancient Rome! Marcus (Tom Rosenthal), Stylax (Joel Fry) and their lazy slave Grumio (Ryan Sampson) live in a grotty apartment block run by a dodgy Landlord (Karl Theobald) and work in dead end jobs for a ruthless boss Flavia (Doon Mackichan). But when a couple of fit Britons Cynthia (Sophie Colquhoun) and Metella (Lydia Rose Bewley) arrive in the neighbourhood things start to look up. Also featuring cameo stars including Danny Dyer, from orgy etiquette to being bashful down the bathhouse, this is Ancient Rome like you've never seen before. Other Guest Stars include Simon Callow, Shaun Williamson, Lauren Socha, Tim Key, and James Fleet.

• Nuns On The Run | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £19.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  You'll finding yourself rooting for this movie to take off in a sustained flight of comic inspiration, but it seldom does. It's too bad that it doesn't, given the casting, because both leads (Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane) are capable of extreme funniness. Idle and Coltrane play a couple of low-level crooks who decide to get a piece of the action for themselves and abscond with the loot from a big score. But they're discovered before they can getaway and their only avenue of egress is into a convent. So they don habits and hide out by pretending to be nuns, teaching parochial school to budding young girls. Now think about the possibilities in that premise and anything you can think of is in the film (though Coltrane remains one of the funniest men alive). --Marshall Fine

• Invasion Of The Body Snatchers | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In San Francisco everyone can hear Veronica (Alien) Cartwright scream. In the ultimate urban nightmare, to sleep is to die, to be replaced by a soulless alien duplicate. Less a remake of the 1956 classic of the same name, more a fresh vision of Jack Finney's source novel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is the archetypal story of humans supplanted by unemotional "vegetable pods". A masterstroke is the introduction of SF icon Leonard Nimoy as a very West Coast relationships guru determined to explain everything in terms of urban psychological alienation, and the story does prove more unsettling on the big city's forbidding streets. This is very much an ensemble movie, with outstanding performances from Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams, and what proved to be the first of several key genre roles for Jeff (The Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day) Goldblum. With minimal effects and very little gore, but filled with unnerving camera angles and a underpinned by a chillingly effective score, the film is relentlessly suspenseful, culminating in a sequence of terrifying set-pieces and a truly spine-tingling finale. More resonant with each passing year, the story was reworked in 1993 as Body Snatchers. On the DVD: While the print is more than acceptable there is a loss of detail and some shimmering artefacts in the very dark scenes. The disc is not anamorphically enhanced, which really should be a standard DVD feature. Still, the picture is considerably ahead of VHS and the stereo sound is highly unsettling. An eight-page booklet gives an intelligent overview of all three Body Snatchers movies, and director Phil Kaufman's commentary is packed with information. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Mcbusted: Live At The O2/Tour Play | DVD | (24/11/2014) from £2.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (85.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  McBusted never do anything by halves and their first DVD proves just that, featuring not one but two DVDs - TourPlay and McBusted Live at the 02. TourPlay is a movie in its own right, offering unrestricted access to the band throughout one crazy summer on the road, as they packed out UK arenas. James, Matt, Tom, Danny, Dougie and Harry allow a behind the scenes view of one of the biggest musical events of recent years and a chance to get up close and personal in a series of endearingly honest.

• Beethoven's Christmas Adventure | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tis the season to celebrate with everyone's favourite St. Bernard, Beethoven, in an all-new, heartwarming holiday adventure where the hilarious canine speaks for the first time! When Henry the elf (Kyle Massey, TV's That's So Raven) flees the North Pole with Santa's sleigh and his magical bag of toys, he crash-lands the precious cargo in a suburban neighbourhood tree. But when the bag ends up in the wrong hands, it's up to heroic Beethoven and his teenage pal, Mason (Munro Chambers, TV's Degrassi: The Next Generation), to rescue Henry, fetch Santa's toys and save Christmas for children everywhere. Featuring an all-star cast, including Tom Arnold as the voice of Beethoven, it's a barking good time for the whole family!

• National Lampoon's Animal House (1979) | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £9.93   |  Saving you £6.06 (37.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A groundbreaking screwball caper, 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House was in its own way a rite of passage for Hollywood. Set in 1962 at Faber College, it follows the riotous carryings-on of the Delta Fraternity, into which are initiated freshmen Tom Hulce and Stephen Furst. Among the established house members are Tim Matheson, Peter Riegert and the late John Belushi as Bluto, a belching, lecherous, Jack Daniels guzzling maniac. A debauched house of pranksters (culminating in the famous Deathmobile sequence), Delta stands as a fun alternative to the more strait-laced, crew-cut, unpleasantly repressive norm personified by Omega House. As cowriter the late Doug Kenney puts it, "better to be an animal than a vegetable". Animal House is deliberately set in the pre-JFK assassination, pre-Vietnam era, something not made much of here, but which would have been implicitly understood by its American audience. The film was an enormous success, a rude, liberating catharsis for the latter-day frathousers who watched it. However, decades on, a lot of the humour seems broad, predictable, boorish, oafishly sexist and less witty than Airplane!, made two years later in the same anarchic spirit. Indeed, although it launched the Hollywood careers of several of its players and makers, including Kevin Bacon, director John Landis, Harold Ramis and Tom Hulce, who went on to do fine things, it might well have been inadvertently responsible for the infantilisation of much subsequent Hollywood comedy. Still, there's an undeniable energy that gusts throughout the film and Belushi, whether eating garbage or trying to reinvoke the spirit of America "After the Germans bombed Pearl Harbour" is a joy. On the DVD: Animal House comes to disc in a good transfer, presented in 1.85:1. The main extra is a featurette in which director John Landis, writer Chris Miller and some of the actors talk about the making of the movie. Interestingly, 23 years on, most of those interviewed look better than they did back in 1978, especially Stephen "Flounder" Furst. --David Stubbs

• Alien Quadrilogy | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £20.99   |  Saving you £39.00 (185.80%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The Alien Quadrilogy is a nine-disc box set devoted to the four Alien films. Although previously available on DVD as the Alien Legacy, here the films have been repackaged with vastly more extras and with upgraded sound and vision. For anyone who hasn't been in hypersleep for the last 25 years this series needs no introduction, though for the first time each film now comes in both original and "Special Edition" form. Alien (1979) was so perfect it didn't need fixing, and Ridley Scott's 2003 Director's Cut is fiddling for the sake of it. Watch once then return to the majestic, perfectly paced original. Conversely the Special Edition of James Cameron's Aliens (1986) is the definitive version, though it's nice finally to have the theatrical cut on DVD for comparison. Most interesting is the alternative Alien3 (1992). This isn't a "director's cut"--David Fincher refused to have any involvement with this release--but a 1991 work-print that runs 29 minutes longer than the theatrical version, and has now been restored, remastered and finished-off with (unfortunately) cheap new CGI. Still, it's truly fascinating, offering a different insight into a flawed masterpiece. The expanded opening is visually breathtaking, the central firestorm is much longer, and a subplot involving Paul McGann's character adds considerable depth to the story. The ending is also subtly but significantly different. Alien Resurrection (1997) was always a mess with a handful of brilliant scenes, and the Special Edition just makes it eight minutes longer. On the DVD: Alien Quadrilogy offers all films except Alien3 with DTS soundtracks, the latter having still fine Dolby Digital 5.1 presentation. All four films sound fantastic, with much low-level detail revealed for the first time. Each is anamorphically enhanced at the correct original aspect ratio, and the prints and transfers are superlative. Every film offers a commentary that lends insight into the creative process--though the Scott-only commentary and isolated music score from the first Alien DVD release are missing here--and there are subtitles for hard of hearing both for the films and the commentaries. Each movie is complemented by a separate disc packed with hours of seriously detailed documentaries (all presented at 4:3 with clips letterboxed), thousands of photos, production stills and storyboards, giving a level of inside information for the dedicated buff only surpassed by the Lord of the Rings extended DVD sets. A ninth DVD compiles miscellaneous material, including a Channel 4 hour-long documentary and even all the extras from the old Alien laserdisc. Exhaustive hardly beings to describe the Alien Quadrilogy, a set which establishes the new DVD benchmark for retrospective releases and which looks unlikely to be surpassed for some time. --Gary S Dalkin

• In the Heart of the Sea | Blu Ray | (02/05/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £19.00 (237.80%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Oscar winner Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) directs the action adventure In the Heart of the Sea, based on Nathaniel Philbrick's best-selling book about the dramatic true journey of the Essex. In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. In the Heart of the Sea reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive. Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down. Click Images to Enlarge

• Generation War | Blu Ray | (12/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Career-soldier Wilhelm his pacifist younger brother Friedhelm and their friends Charlotte Viktor and Greta say farewell in the summer of 1941 in Berlin with the promise to meet again after the war. Wilhelm and his brother have been ordered to the eastern front; Charlotte will join them as a nurse in a field hospital there. In Berlin Greta makes a name for herself as a singer with the help of a high-ranking party official. Her Jewish boyfriend Viktor is despatched to a concentration camp in the east. Little do they know how much the unfathomable experiences deprivations and terrors of the war will change them. It is the experiences of friendship and betrayal belief and disappointment illusion and insight guilt and responsibility that will change their lives forever.

• Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 4K UHD | (03/07/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Big budget sci-fi action based on the original film series of the late 1960s and early 1970s. James Franco stars as Will Rodman, a genetic engineer working in present-day San Francisco who is performing scientific tests on apes in his attempt to find a cure for Alzheimer's. His first test subject is Caesar (Andy Serkis), the prototype of a new breed of apes with human-like intelligence. But when Caesar breaks free, a revolution is triggered and an epic war for supremacy breaks out between humankind and the primates of the world.

• Hollywood Homicide | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £4.78   |  Saving you £15.21 (318.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two LAPD homicide detectives investigate the slaying of a rap group that might have been set up by the president of their record label.

• The Take / The Runaway Double Pack | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £13.35   |  Saving you £11.64 (87.19%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise:The Take: An exciting and uncompromising four-part adaptation of the best-selling crime thriller by Martina Cole, The Take stars Tom Hardy (RocknRolla) as Freddie Jackson, and Brian Cox (The Escapist) as Ozzy. Freddie is a free man after spending a considerable stretch at Her Majesty's Pleasure, and now he plans to take the underworld by storm. As events unfold, his wife Jackie (Kierston Wareing - Leaving) becomes increasingly unstable, not helped by the actions of her younger sister, Maggie (Charlotte Riley - Easy Virtue), who is in love with Freddie's cousin, Jimmy (Shaun Evans - Boy A). If you are a Jackson then you trust no one, because everyone in this criminal world is on The Take.The Runaway: From the makers of the hit series the The Take, the latest tale from best-selling crime writer Martina Cole follows the lives of two childhood sweethearts. Set in the seedy East London and sleazy London's Soho in the 1960's plus the mean streets of New york ion the 1970's, The Runaway has an outstanding cast including Keith Allen (Robin Hood), Alan Cumming (The Good Wife), Ken Stott (Rebus) and a host of hot new talent.Cathy Connor and Eamonnn Docherty were brought up together in the heart of gangland East London. Separated by violent circumstances their lives take strikingly different directions until they meet together again as adults...

• Chemical Brothers - Singles 1993-2003 | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £7.28   |  Saving you £10.71 (147.12%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Tracks Include:01. Life Is Sweet02. Setting Sun03. Elektrobank04. Block Rockin' Beats05. Hey Boy Hey Girl06. Let Forever Be07. Out Of Control08. Star Guitar09. The Test10. The Golden Path11. Hey Boy Hey Girl (Live)12. Hoops / Setting Sun (Live)13. Temptation / Star Guitar (Live)14. Chemical Beats (Live)15. The Private Psychedelic Reel (Live)