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• Paradise Postponed - The Complete Series | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Why as a lifelong socialist did the Reverend Simeon Simcox Rector of Rapstone Fanner bequeath his fortune to a Conservative Minister the odious Leslie Titmuss? Henry Simcox his eldest son decides to find out. The award-winning series written by John Mortimer (Rumpole Of The Bailey) is a chronicle of English political and social life examining the warm and sweeping family saga spanning four decades. Episodes comprise: 1. Death Of A Saint 2. The Temptation Of Henry Simcox 3. Chez Titmuss 4. Living In The Past 5. The Wrongs Of Man 6. The Lost Leader 7. And A Happy New Year To You Too! 8. Enigma Variations 9. The God's Of The Copy Book Hearings 10. Faith Unfaithful 11. The Simcox Inheritance

• Searching for Bobby Fischer - Imprint Limited Edition Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (08/09/2023) from £28.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tulsa | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  At the start of the oil boom Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power...

• How To Marry A Millionaire / Seven Year Itch / Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  How To Marry A Millionaire: Three screen goddesses - Betty Grable Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe - star as golddigging models blessed with fabulous looks but limited brain power. The three blondes pool their resources and conspire to nab millionaire husbands renting an expensive penthouse to lure in their likely prey. But with Rory Calhoun Cameron Mitchell David Wayne Fred Clark Alex D'Arcy and William Powell playing the desired millionaires the ladies are pushed to

• Death Machine | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £6.75   |  Saving you £8.24 (122.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  2003: BattleTech Weapons Corporation the ruthless world leader in near-future weaponry has a new Chief Executive Hayden Cale (Ely Pouget) when her predecessor is horribly killed in suspicious circumstances. The board want to stop Cale firing their primary asset Jack Dante (Brad Dourif) but Cale indeed has a point: Dante is a child-like psychotic with a dark genius for exotic weapon design and he has created the ultimate security system. It protects. It destroys. It lives. Deep b

• State and Main | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (69.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A big-budget movie crew descends upon the sleepy town of Waterford Vermont. Soon money will change hands careers will be jeopardised and love will bloom. Pity the poor film director (William H. Macy) who's arrive only to discover that the local mill - a crucial location for his movie The Old Mill - burned down in 1960. On top of this he is faced with a problematic cast and crew. The idealistic screenwriter (Philip Seymour Hoffman) would rather pursue a pure-hearted local girl (Rebecca Pidgeon) than do a last-minute rewrite; the bimbo starlet (Sarah Jessica Parker) is now baulking at her contractual nude scene; and a local teenager (Julia Stiles) is only too willing to exploit the indiscretions of the film's skirt-chasing star (Alec Baldwin). And of course the power-wielding producer (David Paymer) is panicking about everything. David Mamet's State and Main is a hilarious screwball comedy and movie satire.

• Kermit's Swamp Years | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £5.69   |  Saving you £0.30 (5.27%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Kermit's Swamp Years is the full-length version of a one-off American cable television feature that sets out to show us the formative years of the future host of The Muppet Show. Its focus is a childhood adventure involving Kermit and his two best friends: a somewhat delinquent frog called Croaker, and a tremulous toad named Goggles. Though the film was, obviously, made some years after the death of Kermit's creator, Jim Henson, the wit, spirit and joy that informed Sesame Street and The Muppet Show are all discernible here. Henson's resounding genius was to understand that children can tell when they are being treated like idiots, and that they don't much care for it, which is why The Muppet Show is still enjoyed by adults who grew up with the programme, and why none of those adults will object to sitting through Kermit's Swamp Years with their children. On the DVD: Kermit's Swamp Years is presented anamorphically in 1.78:1 widescreen. Extras include behind-the-scenes footage, which reinforces the fact that the human magic necessary to animate the muppet characters is far more interesting and impressive than any amount of the computer wizardry now favoured by most similar films. There are also some quite well-done muppet pastiches of the common DVD special features, interviews with, and commentary from, the stars, and a collection of bloopers and out-takes. --Andrew Mueller

• Flight Of The Doves | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £49.00   |  Saving you £-43.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Based on the novel by Walter Macken. A boy and his little sister run away to Ireland to escape from their cruel stepfather. Their evil uncle is the next of kin and when he discovers that they are heirs to a fortune he chases after them with one wicked purpose in mind!

• The Indian Fighter | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £6.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (86.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Showing why he will forever rank among Hollywood's most virile leading men Kirk Douglas gallops fights and woos his way across the danger-filled prairie in this Western from director Andre DeToth. Douglas plays a frontier scout responsible for a wagon train of settlers headed for Oregon Territory. Though known as an Indian fighter he falls head over moccasins for a proud young Sioux girl. Thus sidetracked he's unaware of the bad blood caused by two gold hungry crooks who trade wh

• Kirikou And The Sorceress | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on a traditional West African folk tale the film tells the story of the 10cm Kirikou a small boy who delivers himself from his mother's womb to emerge walking and talking. Kirkou undertakes a perilous journey in order to discover the secret of the evil sorceress who has cursed his village eating up the men folk and drying up the spring.

• Blue Lamp, The / The Nanny | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £14.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (6.67%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This is a double-feature of two British crime classics, The Blue Lamp (1949) and The Nanny (1965). The Blue Lamp is the film that introduced PC George Dixon, played by Jack Warner, later immortalised in the BBC's long-running Dixon of Dock Green (1955-76). Here Dixon's murder is the catalyst for an exciting London manhunt, shot largely on location in a fast-moving, starkly efficient style showing the influence of The Naked City (1948). The war-damaged East End and the car chases through almost vehicle-free streets offer a documentary-like vision of a London now long gone, and a young Dirk Bogarde makes a serious impact in an early starring role. In contrast, The Nanny has a superstar, the imported Hollywood legend Bette Davis, in the declining years of her career. Just one of three psychological thrillers Hammer produced in 1965 (the others were Frantic and Hysteria), the film capitalises on the popularity of Davis's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) with a comparable mix of hateful insanity and paranoia. The screenplay skilfully juggles the audience's sympathies between a superb Davis and the dysfunctional family of which she becomes a part, developing a powerful sense of dread which shows such clichéd later fare as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) how to do this sort of thing with real class. On the DVD: The Blue Lamp and The Nanny are presented in black and white with adequate mono sound. The Blue Lamp is in its original 4:3 ratio; The Nanny is cropped from its theatrical 1.85:1 to 4:3, though it's only in a few shots that it becomes obvious that information is missing at the sides of the screen. The print of The Blue Lamp is soft and grainy, while The Nanny is grainy with a considerable amount of flicker. There are no extras. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Vantage Point | Blu Ray | (04/08/2008) from £8.98   |  Saving you £16.01 (178.29%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide. With a "Rashomon" narrative style, the attempted assassination is told from five different perspectives.

• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | DVD | (05/10/2020) from £4.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald escapes from custody, Magizoologist Newt Scamander is called upon by Hogwarts professor Albus Dumbledore once again. Facing unforeseen dangers, Newt must find a way to stop Grindelwald, whose plan for pure-blood wizards to rule over non-magical beings threatens to divide the entire wizarding world.

• The Demonic Toys | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £9.97   |  Saving you £6.02 (37.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Gypsy Woman | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £11.91   |  Saving you £-5.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Whilst attending the inquest surrounding the death of one his workers property developer Leon Hawthorne meets the deceased man's widow Natalie. Enchanted he sets about tracking her down...

• Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier (remastered) | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £5.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (33.39%)   |  RRP £7.99

  It's Stardate 8454.130 and a vacationing Captain Kirk faces two challenges: Climbing Yosemite's El Capitan and teaching campfire songs to Spock. But vacations are cut short when a renegade Vulcan hijacks the Enterprise and pilots it on a journey to uncover the universe's innermost secrets. The Star Trek stars are back for one of their most astonishing voyages ever with all the fun and excitement fans have come to love. So buckle up for a thrilling leap into the unknown that's as much a spiritual odyssey as a space adventure and it's all the richer for it says Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times.

• Prophet Of Evil | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £8.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-49.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The true story of Ervil LeBaron a fanatical cult leader who ordered the death of anyone who dared to challenge his beliefs. Investigator Dan Fields is determined to bring this figure of pure evil to justice even with a price on his own head...

• A Soldier's Story | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Charles Fuller adapted his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play for the big screen in 1984. The film version, A Soldier's Story is essentially a murder mystery, played out against a background of inter and intra-racial conflict at a Second World War training camp. To the consternation of his white opposite number at the camp, a black captain (Howard W Rollins) arrives to investigate the death of a black sergeant (Adolph Caesar). Suspicion immediately falls on a pair of bigoted white officers but as the tale unfolds in a series of flashbacks, it soon becomes clear that a different kind of prejudice is also at work. Assisted by some excellent performances, director Norman Jewison opens the story out from its stage roots. There's a wonderful baseball scene (filmed on location at Little Rock) in which the double standards of Dennis Lipscomb's fidgety white captain are exposed with neat irony; he'll cheer his successful black team all the way home in the name of sport. His gradual, forced liberalisation provides the film with an important comic element. A Soldier's Story wears its heart on its sleeve without being superficial in any way. It's a compelling tale, well told and often highly entertaining, in which nobody gets off lightly, least of all the good guy. On the DVD: The widescreen presentation helps give an epic feel to what could, in other hands, have been a claustrophobic production. The picture quality is fine. But the monaural sound track is often rather muffled, leaving you straining to catch some of the dialogue. This is also a shame because the blues music--an inspired job by Herbie Hancock, assisted by Patti Labelle singing her lungs out as bar owner Big Mary--is an important element of the film's underlying theme and deserves to be better heard. The extras are valuable. Norman Jewison's commentary is detailed and sensitive. As he says, the film deals with "ideas in racism never seen on screen before", and he acknowledges the strength of his actors in getting those ideas across. "March to Freedom" is an excellent short documentary which features the moving testimonies of black servicemen on the insufferable prejudices they encountered while attempting to defend their country during the Second World War; A Soldier's Story is thus put sharply into context. --Piers Ford

• Christine | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-12.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hell hath no Fury...like Christine. She was born in Detroit on an automobile assembly line. But she is no ordinary automobile. Deep within her chassis lives an unholy presence. She is Christine a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury whose unique standard equipment includes an evil indestructible vengeance that will destroy anyone in her way. She seduces 17-year old Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) who becomes consumed with passion for her sleek rounded chrome-laden body. She demands

• Planet 51 | Blu Ray | (29/03/2010) from £8.75   |  Saving you £16.24 (185.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion and their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship to try and return home.