Classic Films

• The Seventh Seal | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As the Black Death continues to wipe out the population of Europe Knight Antonius Block (Max Von Sydow) returns from the crusades. Disillusioned and worn he encounters Death and makes a bargain - his fate will be determined by a game of chess. Taking a troupe of travelling players and a deaf girl under his protection the knight plays the game with Death who as the pieces fall exacts his toll. All the while the villages and towns about them fall into ruin and religion takes a stranglehold. This beautifully restored edition is presented here with previously unseen on-set footage shot during the film's production in late 1956 and is complimented by Bergman's powerful and evocative short film Karin's Face.

• The Bed Sitting Room | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Directed by Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night Superman II & III The Four Musketeers Robin and Marian The Knack) The Bed Sitting Room is based on a play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. Set in a post-apocalyptic London nine months after World War III (the Nuclear Misunderstanding) which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds - including the signing of the peace treaty. Nucelar fallout is producing strange mutations in people; the title refers to the character Lord Fortnum who finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room. The plot concerns the fate of the first child to be born after the war. The film can be compared to Milligan's work with The Goons but with a savage cynical and more surreal edge. This was probably the first time that Milligan let his creative dark side out into the light. The bizarre set design has been an influence on filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Jeunet and Caro (Delicatessen). The cast list includes the cream of British comedic and acting talent from the late 1960's: Rita Tushingham Ralph Richardson Peter Cook Harry Secombe Dudley Moore Spike Milligan Michael Horden Roy Kinnear Arthur Lowe Dandy Nichols and Marty Feldman. Lots of people talk about 'lost classics' but The Bed Sitting Room is a film that truly deserves that description. It was not particularly well received at the box office but that may be due to the profound strangeness of the film. However it's reputation has grown over the years and VHS copies taped from a BBC broadcast 25 years ago have been selling for ridiculous prices online. It beggars belief that such a startling piece of British cinema has remained in the vaults for so long. Over an hour of extras will include interviews from 1967 with Richard Lester Spike Milligan and Peter Cook.

• CHARLIE CHAN COLLECTION-1 - MO | DVD | (21/09/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Things to Come | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Things To Come

• The Hollywood Collection - Audrey Hepburn Remembered | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (48.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Audrey Hepburn was blessed with beauty talent an elegant sophistication and an enduring aura of youthful innocence. As Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF she spoke for the world's suffering children and families admiration that only increased with news of her untimely death. From the star herself we learn of her career and the family and friendships that were her priority. Directors Billy Wilder Blake Edwards and Stanley Donen composer Henry Mancini actors Gregory Peck Mel Ferrer George Peppard and Roger Moore fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy and others join Rob Wolders and Sean Ferrer to help complete this loving portrait. With clips from Roman Holiday Sabrina War And Peace Funny Face Breakfast At Tiffany's Charade My Fair Lady Two For the Road Robin And Marian and more.

• How to Play Blues Guitar 2 | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £29.14   |  Saving you £-2.15 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £26.99

• A Swedish Midsummer Sex Comedy | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £7.07   |  Saving you £8.92 (126.17%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This warm ensemble comedy that delivers all the charm and surprise of Swedish Midsummer! The wonderful Swedish-American cast includes Luke Perry (Beverley Hills 90210) Lisa Werlinder (Munich The Inheritance) and Olle Sarri (The Ape Together). Sumptuous food steaming saunas and midnight skinny dipping are the tradition on Swedish Midsummer a day when the sun never sets. This year friends have gathered at the country house of Emil and Susanne the perfect Swedish couple. In attendance are Eva who is looking for something (someone) to take her mind off of her recent split with Patrick. Anders and Maria the nude hipsters who are trying for their first child Micke and Katrina who are about to have their first any day and finally Sam the American friend who engages the proceedings with a twinkle and a smile. Expectations are exceeded when Emil's big planned surprise goes awry - leaving them all turned around for good!

• Love's A Luxury - What A Carry On | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £6.95   |  Saving you £6.04 (86.91%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Love's A Luxury is a lighthearted comedy in which a group of provincial actors unite and aim to teach their boss' jealous wife a lesson! The troupe assume a variety of bizarre disguises and allow the jealous woman to assume the worst; the actors then have ever so much fun proving her wrong! What A Carry On! is one of the Northern Comedy greats! Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss decide to enlist in the army!

• The Film Noir Collection - Trapped | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £6.92   |  Saving you £3.07 (44.36%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Convicted counterfeiter Tris Stewart (Lloyd Bridges) is offered early release from prison in return for helping the US Treasury Agents track down his former partners-in-crime. Unwilling to cooperate Stewart manages to escape unwittingly playing straight into the T-Men's hands. Directed with style and a documentary feel by Richard Fleischer no-one is quite what they seem. Trapped is superbly lit with crisp intelligent dialogue - a top notch Film Noir with an explosive ending.

• Audrey Hepburn | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £13.95   |  Saving you £6.04 (43.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For almost 20 years Audrey Hepburn's pixie-like features lit up Hollywood's silver screens with hit after hit and she became not only a screen icon, but also a style icon (with a little help from Givenchy), and still features high in polls of the world's most beautiful women. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that Paramount have chosen to honour her with a box set of some of her best-known films. However, this is only "some of", with the absence of her dazzling performances in Roman Holiday and My Fair Lady, leaving three out of the four films included here lacking in comparison. Breakfast at Tiffany's is the strongest and certainly the best-loved Hepburn film in this collection, offering beautifully comic performances by both Hepburn and her leading man, George Peppard. Funny Face also makes a welcome entry, if only for the wonderful performance by Fred Astaire; Hepburn, though, was not a strong enough dancer to hold her own against Astaire's brilliance. Sabrina holds its own as the Cinderella story of a chauffeur's daughter who turns into a beautiful society girl, but it was clearly a quick and easy vehicle for Paramount to produce in the wake of Hepburn's success in Roman Holiday. The mysterious entry of the collection is Paris When It Sizzles, probably one of Hepburn's least-known and most quirky films, with two parallel love stories played out on the screen. Although not an obvious hit and hard work in places it offers an interesting screwball performance by Hepburn, even if the sparks did not fly with her screen partner William Holden. On the DVD: The Audrey Hepburn Collection offers a nice clean widescreen transfer for three of its movies, but Sabrina is a full-frame transfer that lacks something in comparison. All but Breakfast at Tiffany's (which has a 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack) are mono sound transfers, which is only a real disappointment in Funny Face because of George and Ira Gershwin's score. The special features are also lacking, with only a trailer offered on two of the films and a mildly interesting documentary on Sabrina. The best is the featurette on Funny Face, which charts the success of Paramount in the 1950s, but offers nothing a film fan would not have known already. All in all this is an attractive box set, but perhaps one for the die-hard Hepburn fan only. --Nikki Disney

• Al Capone (Import) (Dvd) (2013) Rod Steiger; Fay Spain; James Gregory; Martin Ba | DVD | (21/12/2010) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Carnegie Hall (1947 Feature Film) | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The only version with all the musical selections.A feature film shot in Carnegie Hall in 1947.The basic plot: A Carnegie Hall employee played by Marsha Hunt wants her son to be a musician and raises him in the hall. They attend performances by many of the greats of the day.

• Ugetsu Monogatari | Blu Ray | (23/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari [Tales of the Rain and Moon, aka Ugetsu] is a highly acclaimed masterwork of Japanese cinema. Based on a pair of 18th century ghost stories by Ueda Akinari, the film's release continued Mizoguchi's introduction to the West, where it was nominated for an Oscar and won the the Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion award (for Best Direction). In 16th century Japan, amidst the pandemonium of civil war, potter Genjuro (Mori Masayuki) and samurai-aspirant Tobei (Ozawa Sakae) set out with their wives in search of wealth and military glory respectively. Two parallel tales ensue when the men are lured from their wives: Genjuro by the ghostly charm of Lady Wakasa (Kyo Machiko); Tobei by the dream of military glory. Famed for its meticulously orchestrated long takes and its subtle blending of realistic period reconstruction and lyrical supernaturalism, Ugetsu Monogatari is an intensely poetic tragedy that consistently features on polls of the best films ever made.

• The Great Moment | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The story of Dr. W.T Morgan the 19th century dentist who discovered anesthesia.

• Vengeance Valley | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• John Barbirolli Conducts Elizabethan Suite | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £22.62   |  Saving you £-0.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• The Savage Innocents | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Anthony Quinn stars as Inuk an Eskimo whose daily routine is a constant struggle to survive in one of the most hostile and hauntingly beautiful of climates. As Inuk's family grows in number (and corresponding mouths to feed) new societies of white trappers with new weaponry begin to infringe Inuit land making it harder for Inuk to live. When the clash of cultures results in the accidental death of a missionary Inuk must use all his skills to keep one step ahead of the two Mounties (Peter O'Toole and Carlo Giustini) determined to bring the killer to justice...

• John Wayne 10-Movie Collection | DVD | (06/02/2018) from £27.23   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• John Barrymore Collection | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The John Barrymore Collection (3 Discs)

• Rain | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99