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• How Green Was My Valley | Blu Ray | (28/01/2013) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-17.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp), this Hollywood milestone (Halliwell's Film Guide) from producer Darryl F. Zanuck and director John Ford is one of the finest pictures ever made (Variety). Seen through the eyes of a boy (Roddy McDowall), How Green Was My Valley is the inspiring yet heart breaking story of young parents (Donald Crisp and Sara Allgood) struggling to keep their family together as they endure severe hardship in a small Welsh mining town. Co-starring Maureen O'Hara and Walter Pidgeon, this acclaimed classic captures the sentiments and issues of its time while reminding us of the dreams, struggles and triumphs that can touch every family.

• Hearts And Bones - Series 1-2 - Complete | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £25.46   |  Saving you £4.53 (17.79%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Hearts And Bones follows the lives and loves of a group of friends searching for happiness and fulfilment in London. Mark is a teacher Rich is a butcher and Michael works in the City. Their search for happiness and fulfilment is turned upside down by the reckless actions of Emma Mark's long-term girlfriend. Hearts And Bones tells gripping stories about the dilemmas of everyday life as lived by a close group of friends. It's about lying on your CV to get your dream job and paying the consequences; coping with the death of a parent; feeling jealous of your brother; feeling lonely and finding love in unexpected places. But above all it's about the power of friendship. The cast includes stars Hugo Speer (The Full Monty) Damien Lewis (Warriors) and Dervla Kirwan (Ballykissangel). Others include Amanda Holden (Kiss Me Kate Now You See Her) Andrew Scarborough (Touching Evil) Sarah Parish (Peak Practice) and Kieran O'Brien (Cracker).

• The Hallelujah Trail | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £13.97   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Director John Sturges turns the west upside down in this rip-roaring Western comedy about the year Denver was nearly devastated by a drought (of whiskey) and had to have forty wagonloads imported through very harsh (and very thirsty) territory!

• French Connection 2 | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £12.97   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gene Hackman reprises his Oscar-winning role as Popeye Doyle the hard-nosed New York detective determined to break a French narcotics ring. Kidnapped by heroin Kingpin Alain Charier (Fernando Rey) in Marseilles Doyle is mercilessly forced to become a junkie himself. Upon his release Doyle must kick his habit and join forces with his French police counterpart (Bernard Fresson) to hunt down Charnier. Gritty action riveting performances and a vividly realistic setting make French Con

• Darling | Blu Ray | (30/03/2015) from £10.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (109.19%)   |  RRP £22.99

  "It's far too pleased with itself. I wince when I see it now", director John Schlesinger observes of his 1965 film, Darling. You can tell why he's embarrassed. Looking back, his swinging 60s' satire about a model (Julie Christie) so keen to get ahead that she ditches her husband and betrays a succession of boyfriends looks hideously dated. With its self-consciously hip dialogue and unnecessary voice-over, the screenplay by Frederic Raphael (who also wrote Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut) doesn't help. Most of the men Christie encounters, whether Laurence Harvey's slick businessman (who can't pass a mirror without preening himself in it) or Dirk Bogarde's neurotic TV pundit (who has delusions of literary grandeur), are as narcissistic as she is. Although this seems to be a cautionary tale about slick, superficial London media and fashion folk, it's obvious that the filmmakers are half in love with the world they're pretending to lampoon. The visual gags--rich, society matrons at a charity event gorging themselves on food or Christie's poster being plastered over an image of a starving child--are heavy-handed in the extreme. Still, Christie is tremendous in the role which established her as an international star (she won an Oscar). However shallow and selfish her character seems, we can't help but warm to her. --Geoffrey Macnab

• Frank Herbert's Dune--TV series | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Frank Herbert's Dune is a three-part, four-and-a-half-hour television adaptation of the author's bestselling science fiction novel, telling a more complete version of the Dune saga than David Lynch's 1984 cinema film. The novel is a massive political space-opera so filled with characters, cultures, intrigues and battles that even a production twice this length would have trouble fitting everything in. While television is good at setting a scene, it loses the novel's capacity to explain how the future works, and as with Lynch's film, Frank Herbert's Dune focuses on Paul Atreides, the young noble betrayed who becomes a rebel leader--an archetypal story reworked everywhere from Star Wars (1977) to Gladiator (2000). Top-billed William Hurt is only in the first of the three 90-minute episodes, and while he gives a commanding performance, carrying the show falls to the less charismatic Alec Newman. This version is at its strongest in the ravishing Renaissance-inspired production and costume design and gorgeous lighting of Vittorio Storaro (The Last Emperor). The TV budget special effects range from awful painted backdrops to excellent CGI spaceships and sandworms. The performances are variable, from the theatrical camp of Ian McNeice as Baron Harkonnen to the subtlety of Julie Cox's Princess Iruelan. John Harrison's direction is less visionary than Lynch's, but he tells the story more coherently and ultimately the tale's the thing. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Sex and The City: The Complete Series | Blu Ray | (29/11/2021) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Own the ground-breaking HBO series on Blu-ray for the very first time, and experience the friendships and fashion in gorgeous high-definition. Sex and the City stars Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, a New York-based writer who explores and experiences the unique world of Manhattan's dating scene, chronicling the mating habits of single New Yorkers. The series also stars cast regulars Kim Cattrall as PR executive Samantha Jones, who's seen -- and done -- it all; Kristin Davis as Charlotte York, still trying to hold on to the idea of happily ever after; and Cynthia Nixon as corporate lawyer and mother Miranda Hobbes, a pragmatist trying to balance the idea of love with the realities of life.

• Far From The Madding Crowd | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £14.27   |  Saving you £-1.28 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel set in the 19th century of Bathsheba Everdene and the three very different men who come to love her...

• The Fog | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £10.22   |  Saving you £5.76 (79.67%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A thick fog rolls into the sleepy town of Antonio Bay concealing the ghosts of murdered sailors desperate to seek revenge on the descendants of their killers. In one night the inhabitants of this town will pay the ultimate price for their forefathers' murderous greed...

• Exile | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Simm and Jim Broadbent give compelling performances in this Paul Abbott-created Danny Brocklehurst-written claustrophobic drama about father-son relationships and many other things. The marvellous Olivia Colman provides fine support proving she does drama as brilliantly as comedy.

• Clive Barker's Book Of Blood | Blu Ray | (26/10/2009) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  John Harrison directs this British horror based on two short stories by Clive Barker: 'The Book of Blood' and 'On Jerusalem Street'. Jonas Armstrong stars as Simon McNeal a college student known for his psychic powers who is employed by paranormal researcher Mary Florescu (Sophie Ward) to investigate a haunted house where a gruesome murder has taken place. As the pair uncover the house's dark and shocking secret the divide between the living and the dead becomes dangerously blurred - with brutal and bloody consequences.

• Monteverdi: Vespers Of The Blessed Virgin | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £13.28   |  Saving you £0.71 (5.10%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Monteverdi's 'Vespers Of The Blessed Virgin' performed by the Monteverdi Chior and The English Baroque Soloists. Standing out among the excellent soloists like Ann Monoyious Michael Chance Mark Tucker and Alistaire Miles is the young Bryn Terfel. The archiecture of St. Mark's Venice is used to spectacular advantage with singers and their accompanists isolated at some distance from the main chior and orchestra.

• The Old Mother Riley Collection | DVD | (20/11/2015) from £21.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (36.63%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Bridget's Night Out (1936) This was the first appearance of Lucan and McShane on film. Arthur wrote the sketch shortly before the couple's appearance at the Royal Command Performance in May 1934; it was filmed by Butchers late in 1935 and released in 1936. Old Mother Riley(1937) Previously Lost Film. The first of a series of fifteen of the most successful comedies in the history of British film. Old Mother Riley In Paris (1938) Con West's second script for Butcher's Films, produced and directed this time with far greater assurance, by Oswald Mitchell. Filming took place far from Paris, at Nettlefold Studios, Walton-on-Thames, and on location at Gatwick airport. Old Mother Riley MP (1939) "Early in 1939 the Lucans made their third and last Riley film for Butcher's, Old Mother Riley MP. The film was released in August and was a huge box-office success, with Mother Riley taking the Mother Of Parliaments"" by storm." Old Mother Riley Headmistress (1950) "Old Mother Riley Headmistress, was produced for Grand National Pictures by Harry Reynolds. John Harlow directed with John Gilling, and old faithful Con West was back on the script. Here, Mother Riley makes the transition from washerwoman to headmistress with the usual hilarious results. Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure (1951) The last film in which Lucan and McShane appeared together or rather appeared to" appear" together because in reality their interminable quarrels had by this time become so intolerable that George Minter decided to film all their scenes separately and edit them later, a fact that accounts for the rather strange atmosphere in many scenes in which Mother and Kitty seem to be talking not to each other but to someone just over each other's shoulder. Old Mother Riley's New Venture (1949) By 1949 it seemed clear that the series of films by music hall to cinema crossover comedians had run its course. Made by Harry Reynolds Productions and the Renown Pictures Corporation, directed by John Harlow with John Gilling. Mother Riley Meets The Vampire (1952) Mother Riley was scheduled to meet a Vampire to be played by Bela Lugosi. As Richard Anthony Baker wickedly put it, "One horrific figure was replaced by another." Bonus Feature - Documentary "Arthur And Kitty" A real treat for Old Mother Riley Fans as a collection of Lucan specialists give an insight into the lives of Arthur and Kitty in this EXCLUSIVE documentary brought to you by Talking Pictures TV

• Finding Vivian Maier | DVD | (10/11/2014) from £7.00   |  Saving you £12.99 (185.57%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• How To Talk To Girls At Parties | Blu Ray | (03/09/2018) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the visionary minds of writer Neil Gaiman and director John Cameron Mitchell comes a story of the birth of punk, the exuberance of first love, and the universe's greatest mystery of all: HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES.

• Cars 2 - Double Play (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (21/11/2011) from £3.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (76.96%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Star racecar Lightning McQueen and the incomparable tow truck Mater take their friendship to exciting new places in Cars 2 when they head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world's fastest car.

• A Quiet Place Part II 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (30/08/2021) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path in this terrifyingly suspenseful thriller written and directed by John Krasinski.

• Utopia | DVD | (02/12/2013) from £11.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Documentary directed by award-winning film-maker and journalist John Pilger. Aiming to uncover the truth about Australia's treatment of its Aboriginal people, Pilger travels to a remote region in the West dubbed 'Utopia' where the reality is far removed from the perfection suggested by its title. Home to a large population of indigenous people, the area is a telling example of the way in which Australia's first inhabitants are being forced into poverty while the white ruling classes benefit f...

• Assault On Precinct 13 | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £19.50   |  Saving you £-1.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  John Carpenter's Assault On Precinct 13 is a riveting low-budget thriller from 1976, in which a nearly abandoned police station is held under siege by a heavily armed gang called Street Thunder. Inside the station, cut off from contact and isolated, convicts heading for death row and the cops must now join forces or die. That's the basic plot, but what Carpenter does with it is remarkable. Drawing specific inspiration from the classic Howard Hawks Western Rio Bravo (which included a similar siege on disadvantaged heroes), Carpenter used his simple setting for a tense, tightly constructed series of action sequences, emphasising low-key character development and escalating tension. Few who've seen the film can forget the "ice cream cone" scene in which a young girl is caught up in the action by patronising a seemingly harmless ice cream van. It's here, and in other equally memorable scenes, that Carpenter demonstrates his knack for injecting terror into the mundane details of daily life, propelling this potent thriller to cult favourite status and long-standing critical acclaim. From this Carpenter went on to make the original Halloween, one of the most profitable independent films of all time. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The Ultimate Pixar Collection: The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., A Bug's Life (Disney Pixar) | DVD | (18/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Four Pixar animated features including 'The Incredibles', 'Monsters Inc.', 'A Bug's Life' and 'Finding Nemo'