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• Great British Railway Journeys Series 5 | DVD | (19/01/2015) from £5.98   |  Saving you £31.00 (776.94%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Armed with his copy of Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook, Michael Portillo takes to the tracks and over a series of four journeys, he travels from coast to coast to see what of Bradshaw's Britain remains. This 4 DVD set features 20 episodes covering 4 different journeys: Manchester to Chesterfield London to Leeds Southampton to Wolverhampton Cheltenham to Wolverhampton On his first journey of this series, Michael Portillo goes from Manchester, birthplace of George Bradshaw, the publisher of his trusted guide, to Chesterfield, burial place of George Stephenson, the father of the railway. For the second journey Michael is guided by his Bradshaw's Handbook from London's Euston station to Leeds. He finds out what happened to the once proud Euston Arch and then alights at Cheddington, scene of the Great Train Robbery. On the third journey of the series, Michael begins at Southampton where he learns to set table aboard the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth before she sets sail. He finishes in Wolverhampton where he hears Queen Victoria made an emotional visit, which signalled the end of her exile from public life after mourning her husband, Prince Albert. The final journey takes Michael from one cathedral city, Norwich and a painful encounter with a polecat, through to another cathedral city, Chichester, from where he heads for a taste of life in the fast lane at Goodwood.

• Game On - The Complete First Series | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £6.13   |  Saving you £8.86 (144.54%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From the BAFTA award-winning producers of 'Father Ted' 'Have I Got News for You' and 'Dicing with Debt' comes the complete first series of the comedy series 'Game On'. See flat-sharing in an all new light... Join Matthew (the agoraphobic self obsessed macho man); Martin (the wimpish sex-starved underdog) and Mandy (the gorgeous blonde who always seems to end up dating the wrong men) in this outrageously funny flat-share comedy that is anything but politically correct! Epis

• Fear Itself - Season 1 | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £39.90   |  Saving you £-9.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A television series broken down into 13 separate 60-minute films from premiere horror writers and directors.

• Dark Star | Blu Ray | (28/02/2011) from £8.29   |  Saving you £7.70 (92.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The crew of the spaceship Dark Star are on a 20-year mission to destroy unstable planets and make way for future colonisation by using smart bombs which zoom off cheerfully to do their duty. But unlike the orderly inhabitants of Star Trek's Enterprise, the nerves of this crew are becoming frayed to the point of psychosis. Their captain has been killed by a radiation leak that also destroyed their toilet paper. "Don't give me any of that 'Intelligent Life' stuff", says Commander Doolittle when presented with the possibility of alien life, "Find me something I can blow up". When an asteroid storm causes a malfunction, Bomb Number 20 (the most cheerful character in the film) has to be repeatedly talked out of exploding prematurely, each time becoming more and more peevish, until they have to teach him phenomenology to make him doubt his existence. And the film's apocalyptic ending, lifted almost wholly from Ray Bradbury's short story "Kaleidoscope" has the remaining crew drifting away from each other in space, each to a suitably absurd end. Absurd, surreal and very funny. John Carpenter once described Dark Star as "Waiting for Godot in space". Made at a cost of practically nothing, the film's effects are nevertheless impressive and, along with the number of ideas crammed into its 83 minutes, ought to shame makers of science fiction films costing hundreds of times more. --Jim Gay

• When Trumpets Fade | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £5.54   |  Saving you £0.45 (8.12%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the post D-Day euphoria American troops fighting in Europe hoped to be home by Christmas but many wouldn't make it. Still to come was one of WWII's most senseless and savage conflicts - the largely forgotten Battle of Hurtgen Forest dubbed The Death Factory where three months of carnage left 24 000 American troops dead or wounded. After one particularly vicious skirmish a shattered and scared Private David Manning stumbles through the muddy forest carrying a critically wounded comrade. Promoted for his bravery and reluctantly put in charge of raw recruits Manning's troop is rapidly plunged into the horror and heroism of battle. Desperate to escape the slaughter of the front line Manning embarks on an almost suicidal death-or-glory mission. But will his luck hold out or will someone else trudge out of the forest carrying back his broken body? Directed by John Irvin and featuring a cast of hot young Hollywood talent When Trumpets Fade matches Saving Private Ryan in its passionate portrayal of the terrors and futility of warfare... and its reluctant heroes.

• Railways of The Great War with Michael Portillo | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £21.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this five part series for BBC2, Michael Portillo marks the centenary of the First World War by discovering the central role the railways played in securing victory, repatriating the dead and wounded, and feeding the insatiable appetite for weaponry and supplies that the theatre of war demanded. This is a story of how a British invention that brought trade, travel and prosperity in peacetime became an engine of war. Michael will track down the fascinating, emotional and sometimes tragic s.

• The Manchurian Candidate | Blu Ray | (23/02/2015) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-30.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You will never find a more chillingly suspenseful, perversely funny, or viciously satirical political thriller than The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon (author of Winter Kills). The film, withheld from distribution by star Frank Sinatra for almost a quarter-century after President Kennedy's assassination, has lost none of its potency over time. Former infantryman Bennet Marco (Sinatra) is haunted by nightmares about his platoon having been captured and brainwashed in Korea. The indecipherable dreams seem to centre on Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), a decorated war hero but a cold fish of a man whose own mother (Angela Lansbury, in one of the all-time great dragon-lady roles) describes him as looking like his head is "always about to come to a point". Mrs Bates has nothing on Lansbury's character, the manipulative queen behind her second husband, Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), a notoriously McCarthyesque demagogue. --Jim Emerson

• Dukes Of Hazzard - Season 4 | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £55.33   |  Saving you £-14.34 (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  The complete fourth season of the fast drivin' rubber burnin' adventures of the Duke boys of Hazzard County. Welcome to Hazzard County where cousins Bo and Luke Duke (John Schneider and Tom Wopat) spend their days eluding the crooked Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) and his dimwit Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane (James Best). Living with their uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle) and sexy cousin Daisy (Catherine Bach) Bo and Luke somehow find themselves entangled in mess after mess in this well-loved te

• Quirke | DVD | (09/06/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Quirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue - a charasmatic loner whose job takes him into fascinating places as he investigates sudden death in 1950s Dublin. His pleasures in life are raw and deep a drink a smoke good food a woman. One woman in particular - his adoptive brother's wife Sarah - and the forbidden love that has shaped and dominated Quirke's life. Adapted from the novels by John Banville writing as Benjamin Black the three feature length films - Christine Falls The Silver Swan and Elegy for April - reveal the tangled truth about Quirke's living family even as he uncovers the secrets of the Dublin dead.

• 12 O'Clock High/ 633 Squadron/ Blue Max | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Titles Comprise: Twelve O'Clock High: A Masterpiece...One Of The Finest Casts Put On A Motion Picture Screen. -Hollywood Reporter This gritty World War II action drama starring Gregory Peck Oscar'' winner Dean Jagger Hugh Marlow Gary Merrill and Millard Mitchell is seen as one of the most realistic portrayals of the heroics and perils of war. Convinced an Air Force commander is at the breaking point Brigadier General Savage (Peck) takes over his struggling bomber group. At first resentful and rebellious the flyers gradually change as Savage guides them to amazing feats. But the stress of command soon takes its toll and the weary general reaches his own breaking point. Authentic aerial battle footage and numerous acclaimed performances make Twelve O'Clock High a credible stirring tale of courage and sacrifice. 633 Squadron: With the fate of Europe still hanging in the balance a disparate bunch of brave Mosquito pilots are ordered on a near suicide low-level mission to destroy a Nazi rocket fuel depot in Norway... To make the film which was based on a true story a squadron of legendary de Havilland Mosquito fighter-bombers was resurrected from near extinction. Dazzling flying sequences bone-shaking sound and superb special effects help to make this one of the most realistic air combat films ever to reach the screen. The Blue Max: A raging war time thriller featuring spectacular aerial combat sequences. It's the story of Bruno Stachel (George Peppard) a cold ambitious German combat pilot in World War One. As brave as he is ruthlessa he excels in combat wins the highest medals The Blue Max and becomes a national hero... The Blue Max is among the best aviation films ever made with outstanding photography by Douglas Slocombe ('2001: Space Odyssey) spectacular dogfights and a dramatic score by Jerry Goldsmith.

• Agatha Christie's Partners In Crime | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  First broadcast in the early 1980s, Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime stars James Warwick and Francesca Annis as the husband-and-wife team of detectives Tommy and "Tuppence" Beresford. Together they zoom around 1920's England in a very posh car and solve all kinds of high-society crimes, from forgery at an exclusive nightclub to the mysterious disappearance of an Arctic explorer's fiancée. The show benefits from two charming lead performances and some wonderful period details--Annis seems to change her hat and her dress every 30 seconds--but it is at best only moderately entertaining. The years have not been kind to this type of mystery, in which murder is the equivalent of an especially tricky crossword puzzle, offering the amateur sleuths an opportunity to avoid boredom and have a terribly thrilling time. Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple survive both in print and on film, because the central characters are interesting enough to make us forgive weak plotting and a lack of depth, but Tommy and Tuppence don't have the staying power of Christie's more famous creations. Their adventures are fun in small doses, and if you're in the mood for some witty repartee, but otherwise this series is little more than a quaint relic of a bygone age. --Simon Leake

• The Thing Steelbook | Blu Ray | (23/10/2017) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director John Carpenter and special makeup effects master Rob Bottin teamed up for this 1982 remake of the 1951 science fiction classic The Thing from Another World, and the result is a mixed blessing. It's got moments of highly effective terror and spine-tingling suspense, but it's mostly a showcase for some of the goriest and most horrifically grotesque makeup effects ever created for a movie. With such highlights as a dog that splits open and blossoms into something indescribably gruesome, this is the kind of movie for die-hard horror fans and anyone who slows down to stare at fatal traffic accidents. On those terms, however, it's hard not to be impressed by the movie's wild and wacky freak show. It all begins when scientists at an arctic research station discover an alien spacecraft under the thick ice, and thaw out the alien body found aboard. What they don't know is that the alien can assume any human form, and before long the scientists can't tell who's real and who's a deadly alien threat. Kurt Russell leads the battle against the terrifying intruder, and the supporting cast includes Richard Masur, Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat, and Wilford Brimley. They're all playing standard characters who are neglected by the mechanistic screenplay (based on the classic sci-fi story "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell), but Carpenter's emphasis is clearly on the gross-out effects and escalating tension. If you've got the stomach for it (and let's face it, there's a big audience for eerie gore), this is a thrill ride you won't want to miss. --Jeff Shannon

• Kung Fu Panda/Kung Fu Panda 2 | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £10.48   |  Saving you £14.51 (58.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Kung Fu Panda: Prepare for awesomeness with DreamWorks Animation's KUNG FU PANDA. Jack Black is perfect as the voice of Po, a noodle slurping dreamer who must embrace his true self - fuzzy flaws and all - in order to become the legendary Dragon Warrior. With high-kicking humour, tons of kung fu action, and groundbreaking animation, KUNG FU PANDA is a heart-warming story of courage for the whole family! Kung Fu Panda 2: Jack Black is back as Po in DreamWork...

• The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin - The Complete Collection | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £32.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (21.37%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Follow the trials and tribulations of one of TV comedy's greatest creations in this complete collection of all three series. All the episodes over 10 hours of classic comedy. From his days at Sunshine Desserts with boss C.J. through the rise and fall of his Grot empire where everything sold was guaranteed completely useless to the creation of a commune that saw him reunited with all his old workmates (including C.J.) this is the complete 22 episode story of Reginald Iolanthe Per

• Collection | DVD | (09/02/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sylvester Stallone (The Expendables) heads up one of the greatest casts ever assembles, including Kelsey Grammer (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Kevin Connolly (Entourage), Thomas Jane (Face/Off), Lauren Cohan (TV s The Walking Dead), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Terry Crews (Bridesmaids), Danny Trejo (Machete) and many more. This is a high octane and highly entertaining story of a diverse group of people all making big changes on the advice of a reclusive and mysterious writer.

• Columbia Classics Collection Vol. 3 UHD (14 Discs - UHD & BD) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2022) from £94.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Six classic films with unforgettable performances. Experience these landmark films from Columbia Pictures like never before, now fully remastered and debuting on 4K Ultra HD. With movies that fearlessly portray the scope of human emotion and actors that memorably embody iconic characters and with hours of special features and an exclusive 80-page book with unique insights and production detail about each of the included films this third volume of the Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection is truly the best way to watch these treasured cinematic favourites.

• Orphan Black - Series 2 | Blu Ray | (20/04/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Back for another gripping season, Sarah (Golden Globe® nominee Tatiana Maslany) is now in a desperate race to find her missing daughter Kira. Her scorched earth tactics have sparked a war with the pro-clone Rachel, dividing and endangering all the clones. With Alison's carefully crafted suburban world spinning out of control, and the genetic illness affecting Cosima threatening them all, Sarah must negotiate a dangerous world of new enemies and shifting allegiances to get to the bottom of the experiment that made them who they are. As Sarah discovers more about her past, mysterious newcomers appear, but can they be trusted? "Heart-stoppingly addictive television" Guardian

• My Darling Clementine + Frontier Marshall | Blu Ray | (17/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Wyatt Earp has long fascinated filmmakers. Actors from Burt Lancaster and James Stewart to Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner have played the legendary gunfighter but no portrayal is more definitive that Henry Fonda’s in My Darling Clementine. John Ford’s first Western since his seminal Stagecoach My Darling Clementine ranks among the director’s finest. Telling the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the friendship between Earp and Doc Holliday Ford renders this famous tale into a lyrical masterpiece filmed in his beloved Monument Valley and full of iconic moments. This limited edition contains two versions of the Western classic – the version that premiered in cinemas in December 1946 and the longer ‘pre-release’ cut that had played to preview audiences earlier that year – as well as another Wyatt Earp movie from 20th Century Fox Allan Dwan’s Frontier Marshal starring Randolph Scott and Cesar Romero. LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of My Darling Clementine’s theatrical and ‘pre-release’ versions and Frontier Marshal Original uncompressed PCM mono 1.0 sound Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jay Shaw. BLU-RAY DISC 1: MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (THEATRICAL VERSION) 4K digital film restoration Commentary on the theatrical version by author Scott Eyman and Earp’s grandson Wyatt Earp III John Ford and Monument Valley - a 2013 documentary on the director’s lifelong association with Utah’s Monument Valley containing interviews with Peter Cowie (author of John Ford and the American West) John Ford John Wayne Henry Fonda James Stewart and Martin Scorsese Lost and Gone Forever - a visual essay by Tag Gallagher on the themes that run through My Darling Clementine and the film’s relationship with John Ford’s other works Stills gallery Theatrical Trailer BLU-RAY DISC 2: MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (‘PRE-RELEASE’ VERSION) FRONTIER MARSHAL AND OTHER WYATT EARP TALES 2K digital film restoration of the ‘pre-release’ version of My Darling Clementine What is the Pre-Release Version? - a documentary by Robert Gitt Senior Film Preservation Officer at the UCLA Film and Television Archive comparing the two versions of My Darling Clementine High Definition digital film transfer of Frontier Marshal Allan Dwan’s 1939 Wyatt Earp film starring Randolph Scott Two radio plays inspired by Wyatt Earp - a 1947 adaptation of My Darling Clementine starring Henry Fonda as Earp and Richard Conte as Doc Holliday and a 1949 Hallmark Playhouse production in which Conte played the role of Earp Frontier Marshall Theatrical Trailer 40-PAGE BOOKLET Booklet containing new writing on My Darling Clementine by Kim Newman (author of Wild West Movies) and on Frontier Marshal by Glenn Kenny plus an extensive archive interview with screenwriter Winston Miller illustrated with original archive stills and posters

• King Kong | DVD | (27/02/2017) from £8.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange and Charles Grodin star in this remake of the adventure classic from director John Guillermin. Oil executive Fred Wilson (Grodin) sees the chance to make his fortune when he stumbles upon a remote island whose inhabitants worship a giant ape-god named Kong. Capturing the mighty beast, Wilson brings Kong back to New York, earmarking him as the greatest attraction to come to Broadway. The ape has other ideas, however, as he looks to escape and goes on the rampage through the streets of the Big Apple.

• Friday The 13th 8-Movie Collection Steelbook | Blu Ray | (11/10/2021) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Journey back to Camp Crystal Lake and re-experience the screams, the terror, and the blood of the screen's unstoppable bad guy, Jason Voorhees, and his horrifying legacy in this killer collection of eight Friday the 13th movies! It begins with Friday the 13th and some unwary campers ignoring the locals' warnings about Camp Crystal Lake's tragic past. It culminates when Jason's murderous rampage moves from wilderness camp to the streets of New York City in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. It's hockey-masked mayhem unleashed in this heart-stopping, unforgettable 8-movie set on limited edition SteelBook! FRIDAY THE 13TH UNCUT The film that started it all... Unwary campers ignore the locals' warnings and one by one they find out how unlucky Friday the 13th can be. FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 Five years after the massacre at Camp Crystal Lake, the legend of Jason Voorhees lives on. Despite ominous warnings, a group of counsellors encounter horrors of their own. FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 A carefree summer becomes a deadly nightmare for a group of teenagers who choose to ignore Camp Crystal Lake's gruesome legacy. FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER After the Crystal Lake Massacres, Jason is pronounced dead but the diabolical killing spree continues at the camp where the gruesome slaughter began. FRIDAY THE 13TH PART V: A NEW BEGINNING Young Tommy Jarvis may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he's still haunted by his nemesis, the maniacal serial killer Jason Voorhees. FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES Jason rises from the grave to wreak havoc upon a new group of unsuspecting campers in an ultra-bloody rampage. FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD What chance does a telekinetic teenage girl have against a maniacal serial killer with a machete? Return to Crystal Lake to find out if you dare! FRIDAY THE 13TH, PART VIII: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN High school senior Rennie Wickham is in for the ride of her life and possibly her death when she and her classmates take a graduation cruise bound for New York City. Little do they know that crazed serial killer Jason is a stowaway who quickly transforms the teen-filled 'love boat' celebration into the ultimate voyage of the damned! Only a few survivors reach New York, where the bloody rampage spills into the gritty streets and subways of Manhattan in a deadly game of hide-and-seek leading to a toxic confrontation with Jason for one final time Special Features Journey to camp Crystal Lake for 8xs the terrors, 8xs the scares and 8xs the horrors! FRIDAY THE 13TH UNCUT Commentary by Director Sean S. Cunningham with Cast and Crew ¢ Featurette Return to Crystal Lake: The Making of Friday the 13th, A Friday the 13th Reunion, Fresh Cuts: New Tales from Friday the 13th, The Man Behind the Legacy: Sean S. Cunningham, Lost Tales from Camp Blood Part 1, Vintage Featurettes The Friday the 13th Chronicles, Secrets Galore Behind the Gore FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 Inside Crystal Lake Memories, Friday's Legacy: Horror Conventions, Lost Tales from Camp Blood - Part 2, Jason Forever FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 Fresh Cuts: 3D Terror, Legacy of the Mask, Slasher Films: Going for the Jugular, Lost Tales from Camp Blood - Part III FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER Commentary by Director Joe Zito, Screenwriter Barney Cohen and Editor Joel Goodman, Fan Commentary by Adam Green and Joe Lynch, The Friday the 13th Chronicles: Friday the 13th Part IV, Secrets Galore Behind the Gore - Tom Savini on Part IV, Lost Tales from Camp Blood - Part 4, Slashed Scenes with Commentary by Director Joseph Zito, Jason's Unlucky Day: 25 Years After Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, The Lost Ending, The Crystal Lake Massacres Revisited Part I, Jimmy's Dead Dance Moves FRIDAY THE 13TH PART V: A NEW BEGINNING Commentary by Director/Co-Screenwriter Danny Steinmann with Cast and Crew, The Friday the 13th Chronicles, Part V, Lost Tales from Camp Blood - Part 5, The Crystal Lake Massacres Revisited Part II, The Making of Friday the 13th Part V - A New Beginning FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES Commentary by Writer/Director Tom McLoughlin, Commentary by Writer/Director Tom McLoughlin with Cast and Crew, The Friday the 13th Chronicles, Part VI, Lost Tales from Camp Blood - Part 6, The Crystal Lake Massacres Revisited Part III, Jason Lives: The Making of Friday the 13th: Part VI, Meeting Mr. Voorhees, Slashed Scenes FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD Killer Commentary by Director John Carl Buechler and Actors Lar Park Lincoln and Kane Hodder, The Friday the 13th Chronicles, Part VII, Secrets Galore Behind the Gore - John Carl Beuchler on Part VII, Jason's Destroyer: The Making of Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood, Mind Over Matter: The Truth About Telekinesis, Makeover by Maddy: Need A Little Touch-Up Work, My Ass, Slashed Scenes FRIDAY THE 13TH, PART VIII: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN Commentary by Director Rob Hedden, Killer Commentary by Actors Scott Reeves, Jensen Daggett and Kane Hodder, The Friday the 13th Chronicles, Part VIII, New York Has A New Problem The Making of Friday the 13th, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Slashed Scenes, Gag Reel