"Director: John Roberts"

• Doctor Who - The Five Doctors | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (90.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Someone is taking the Doctor's past selves out of time and space placing them in a vast wilderness - a battle arena with a sinister tower at its centre. As the various incarnations of the doctor join forces they learn they are in the Death Zone on their home world of Gallifrey fighting Daleks Cybermen Yeti...and a devious Time Lord traitor who is using the Doctor and his companions to discover the ancient secrets of Rassilon the first and most powerful ruler of Gallifrey. The Five Doctors was originally broadcast to celebrate the Twentieth Anniversary of Doctor Who in 1983. This new version of the story features extended scenes previously unseen sequences new visual effects and a stereo soundtrack. Not intended as a replacement for the original edition of the story this is an alternative version which uses state-of-the-art technology to embellish and enlarge one of the greatest Dr Who adventures ever...

• War Of The Buttons | DVD | (29/09/1995) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This 1994 Irish classic is a great movie for all the family.Rival gangs of young Irish kids engage in constantly escalating battles that ultimately entails the removal of the buttons from the clothes of captured losers. While the shenanigans cause obvious problems, the two leaders of the groups nonetheless develop a grudging admiration of the other and an estranged friendship. This film it examines issues of war, the actions and consequences that it always carries, and how it can divide and oppose people that can be friends as easy as they can be enemies.

• Paulie | DVD | (02/07/2006) from £8.83   |  Saving you £9.16 (103.74%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The human beings are almost as interesting as the title character in the surprisingly subtle and engaging Paulie, a film about the cross-country adventures of a smart-mouthed parrot. As director John Roberts deploys the footage, the bird becomes a vivid personality; every quizzical twist of his head is oddly expressive. The people who interact with Paulie are a quirky and interesting bunch as well, and the casting is topnotch: Tony Shalhoub (The Siege) as a Russian immigrant janitor, Cheech Marin as an open-hearted mariachi musician, and Gena Rowlands as a widowed painter in a footloose Winnebago--all are vividly eccentric individuals, memorable in their own right. There are some tired swipes at the cold-blooded meanies of Big Science (beady-eyed researcher Bruce Davison has Paulie clapped in irons), but for the most part the film respects the complexity of everyone's motivations, and that's virtually unheard of in today's Hollywood, even in films supposedly designed for grownups. --David Chute

• Disney Classics Complete Collection (57 Disc Collection) - DVD | DVD | (16/11/2020) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1937, the Walt Disney Studios released its first fully animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and pioneered a new form of family entertainment. More than seven decades later, Walt Disney Animation Studios continues to honour its heritage through animated films that combine beautiful artistry, masterful storytelling and ground-breaking technology. Relive & own forever 57 Disney Classics from 1937-2019 with this special collection celebrating the output of the Walt Disney Animation Studios. The boxset contains an 80-page book ˜A Celebration Of The Walt Disney Animated Studios', alongside the layflat book containing the 57 discs. Collectable poster art for each Disney classic is featured alongside the discs 1 Snow White 1937 2 Pinocchio 1940 3 Fantasia 1940 4 Dumbo 1941 5 Bambi 1942 6 Saludos Amigos* 1942 7 The Three Caballeros* 1944 8 Make Mine Music* 1946 9 Fun & Fancy Free 1947 10 Melody Time* 1948 11 Ichabod & Mr Toad 1949 12 Cinderella 1950 13 Alice In Wonderland 1951 14 Peter Pan 1953 15 Lady & The Tramp 1955 16 Sleeping Beauty 1959 17 101 Dalmatians 1961 18 The Sword in the Stone 1963 19 The Jungle Book 1967 20 The Aristocats 1970 21 Robin Hood 1973 22 The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh 1977 23 The Rescuers 1977 24 The Fox & The Hound 1981 25 The Black Cauldron* 1985 *DVD disc 26 Basil The Great Mouse Detective 1986 27 Oliver & Company 1988 28 The Little Mermaid 1989 29 Rescuers Down Under 1990 30 Beauty & the Beast 1991 31 Aladdin 1992 32 The Lion King 1994 Signature edition disc (previously available) 33 Pocahontas 1995 34 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1996 35 Hercules 1997 36 Mulan 1998 37 Tarzan 1999 38 Fantasia 2000 1999 39 The Emperor's New Groove 2000 40 Atlantis 2001 41 Lilo & Stitch 2002 42 Treasure Planet 2002 43 Brother Bear 2003 44 Home On The Range 2004 45 Chicken Little 2005 46 The Wild 2006 47 Meet The Robinsons 2007 48 Bolt 2008 49 The Princess & the Frog 2009 50 Tangled 2010 51 Wreck-It Ralph 2012 52 Frozen 2013 53 Big Hero 6 2014 54 Zootropolis 2016 55 Moana 2016 56 Wreck-It Ralph 2 2018 57 Frozen 2 2019

• Shirley Temple: The Collection | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.39

  A collection of classic Shirley Temple films! Heidi (1937) When her aunt tires of caring for her orphan Heidi is taken into the Swiss mountains to live with her gruff grandfather (Jean Hersholt) a hermit who comes to adore her. But the aunt returns to steal Heidi away selling her to a family whose invalid daughter (Marcia Mae Jones) needs a companion. Bullied by an evil governess (Mary Nash) Heidi still charms the entire household and never stops trying to returnito her

• Doctor Who - The Five Doctors | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £6.22   |  Saving you £13.77 (221.38%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Yes, The Five Doctors is the one that gathers together Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Baker and Davison, dumps them on some moorland and lets some of the Doctor's greatest enemies take potshots at them. Except, of course, that William Hartnell had sadly passed on by the time this series was made in 1983 (although his replacement Richard Hurndall does an excellent job) and Tom Baker was only featured as a patched-in cameo, apparently prevented from joining in by a temporal thingummy. However, this kind of creakiness comes with the territory and is soon forgotten. The assorted incarnations of the Doctor (together with a scattering of assistants) are drawn together through time and space to battle Daleks, Cybermen, Yeti--those weird androids which keep jumping into the air and disappearing--and many other old foes. They realise that they're on their home planet of Gallifrey and must eventually deal with the legacy of Rassilon, founder of the Time Lords. It's all great fun, of course, and the excellent chapter points on this DVD compensate for the rather self-indulgent lack of editing. --Roger Thomas

• Charlotte's Web/Lassie/Paulie | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £10.78   |  Saving you £2.21 (20.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Titles Comprise: Charlotte's Web: Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season because he knows that come that time he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte a spider that lives in his pen to ensure that this will never happen. Lassie: Based on Eric Knight's 1938 novel about the most trustworthy of pooches Lassie Come Home the film is set on the eve of World War II in a Yorkshire mining town in northern England. The Carraclough family fall on hard times and have to sell Lassie to the Duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole). Transported to the Duke's remote castle in the north of Scotland Lassie is determined to escape from the clutches of the Duke and his evil trainer in an effort to make her way home for Christmas and return to the family she loves... Paulie: When a little bird with a big personality sets out to find the loving girl who raised him he discovers his way with words has a way of landing him in big trouble. But as fast as he can talk himself into a fix he finds his gift of gab a heart full of hope and an odd menagerie of human friends can help him realize his most important dream - to be home at last!

• Day Of The Flowers | DVD | (21/07/2014) from £5.48   |  Saving you £13.50 (542.17%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Roberts directs this romantic comedy following a pair of sisters who head to Cuba to scatter the ashes of their deceased father. Rosa (Eva Birthistle), a committed socialist, is determined to rescue the memory of her father from the fate her stepmother has planned: using his ashes to make a golf trophy. In tribute to her father's glamorous past as a revolutionary who once visited Cuba, she steals the ashes and heads to the Caribbean island in the company of her more materialistic sister ...

• Our Little Girl | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £12.46   |  Saving you £0.53 (4.25%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A little girl is so badly affected by her parents' divorce she decides to run away from home...

• Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this 1920 silent version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, John Barrymore is dignified and virtuous as Dr Henry Jekyll, and transforms into Id incarnate as the lascivious Mr. Hyde with almost no make-up beyond his gnarled, knobby fingers and greasy hair, relying almost solely on a bug-eyed grimace, a spidery body language and pure theatrical flourish. He tends to be hammy as the leering beast of a thug but brings a tortured struggle to the repressed doctor, horrified at the demon he's unleashed, guilty that he enjoys Hyde's unrestrained life of drinking and whoring and terrified that he can no longer control the transformations. Martha Mansfield co-stars as his pure and innocent sweetheart, and Nita Naldi (the vamp of Blood and Sand) has a small but memorable role as the world-weary dance-hall darling who first "wakens" Jekyll's "baser nature". --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Classic Horror Volume 2 (Frankenstein, The Wasp Women, The Ghoul, Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde) | DVD | (31/03/2014) from £14.83   |  Saving you £-1.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Frankenstein (1931): Henry Frankenstein is a brilliant scientist who has been conducting experiments on the re-animation of lifeless bodies. He has conducted experiments on small animals and is now ready to create life in a man he has assembled from body parts he has been collecting from various sites such as graveyards or the gallows. His fianc�e Elizabeth and friend Victor Moritz are worried about his health as he spends far too many hours in his laboratory on his experiments. He's ...

• Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Silent Classics) | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £8.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Classic silent adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novel about a doctor who conducts experiments that are intended to reveal the dark hidden nature of man and unwittingly ends up developing a murderous alter ego.

• 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)

• Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In this one of the original versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde silent matinee idol John Barrymore is Henry Jekyll a clean living cultured doctor who helps the poor and who is in love with the beautiful Millicent Carew. But Jekyll is open to temptation particularly by Millicent's father Sir George who corrupts the saintly Jekyll by introducing him to the fleshpots of Victorian London. Considered in his day as the Screen's greatest actor this film is regarded as many as the bench mark from which all others are judged. A true classic film.

• Our Little Girl | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A little girl is so badly affected by her parents' divorce she decides to run away from home...

• Tess of the Storm Country | DVD | (14/12/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.46