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• Children's Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol.3 | DVD | (23/08/2021) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For over 30 years, The Children's Film Foundation produced quality entertainment for young audiences, employing the cream of British filmmaking talent. Unavailable for years, these much-loved films finally make a welcome return to out screens. The Bumper Box Collection Vol.3 includes the following the following CFF adventures; The Clue of the Missing Ape, Adventure in the Hopfields, Tim Driscoll's Donkey, Runaway Railway, Calamity the Cow, Cry Wolf, Big Wheels and Sailor, Breakout and Our Exploits at West Poley. As always the films feature a plethora of familiar faces, including George Cole, Melvyn Hayes, John Moulder-Brown, Ronnie Barker, Shelia Reid, Brenda Fricker and of course last but not least, the one and only Phil Collins!

• Ali G - Aiii | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £10.25   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  By the time Ali G--the inspired creation of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen who debuted on the lame satirical series The 11 O'Clock Show--first got his own series, the gangsta rapper from Berkshire was already one of the biggest things on TV. Ali G--Aiiii is a compilation of the best bits from his own series, Da Ali G Show. Part chat show (Paul Daniels makes a memorably awful appearance; Gail Porter turns up and Ali dims the house lights and gets all soppy), and part saucy variety show (Ali's duet with Jarvis Cocker is fun, but no-where near as good as his improvised rap with Mohammed Al Fayed "from Arrods"), the material here is richer and more varied than his 11 O'Clock appearances, which more or less depended on his interviewees not knowing he was stitching them up. At various points, Ali reports from the States--the Staines rapper's spiritual home, you suspect--and the bemused reactions of the unsuspecting people he meets there makes for some of the video's funniest moments ("Has anyone ever been killed by a gun?" he asks someone from the National Rifle Association).Ali G--Aiii also features Cohen's newest character Borat, a reporter from Kazakhstani television who is producing a guide to Britain for his viewers back home. Amazingly, Cohen ran into trouble with the Kazakhstani embassy in Britain over his portrait of the bumbling reporter with only the faintest grasp of English, but in fact it's the Brits he interviews who patronise Borat who come off a lot worse. (See, for example, the embarrassed silence which greets Borat's attempt at introductory small talk at a society dinner party: "My wife, she is dead"!) Like the rest of the show, there is a smart satiric edge to the comedy but it's also very, very funny. Ali introduces the compilation, keepin' it real with a promise that profits from the sale of the video will be channelled back into the Staines ghetto. --Edward Lawrenson

• Invasion Earth | DVD | (03/10/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (68.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Four friends hike into the Pinewood forest to find evidence of the Chupacabra, a creature believed to be responsible for the disappearance of a group of experienced hikers a year earlier. As they journey deeper into the forest, they are introduced to a darkness that leaves these four victims fighting for their lives. One by one these friends are faced with the reality of survival.

• Living With Monkeys - Tales From The Treetops | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Living With Monkeys: Tales From The Treetops. From a treehouse set 120 feet above the Gabon jungle a zoologist an outdoorsman and a team of wildlife filmmakers set out to uncover the secrets of this coastal rainforest. For primatologist Dr Julie Anderson writer Guy Grieve and wildlife cameraman Gavin Thurston the treehouse with its 20-metre long rope bridge leading to an observation platform will be home for six weeks. A safe haven from the dangers of elephants and buffaloes on the forest floor it is the perfect base to go in search of the little known monkey the red-capped mangabey. Seeking out this rare primate the team stake out the jungle deploying an array of wildlife film-making gadgets - camera traps thermal imaging and infra-red cameras - while their forays into the jungle reveal more fascinating wildlife such as wallowing hippos elephants on the beach and in the swamps and marshland the elusive lowland gorilla. Each day the team returns to the treehouse where they cook eat wash and sleep high above the forest floor. Here they must endure the tropical storms searing heat venomous creatures and of course each other. Combining beautiful photography and a totally-immersed wildlife adventure Living with Monkeys - Tales from the Treetops presents an exciting and different view of life in the rainforest.