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• Carry On Up The Jungle | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Carry On Up the Jungle has worn less well than some of the others in the series, simply because the African exploration genre it parodies--with its cannibals, great white hunters and lost Amazon tribes--is so entirely out of fashion. Still, Frankie Howerd made so comparatively few films that one which has him as an ornithologist searching for rare birds in the company of Joan Sims and Sid James is not going to be entirely without interest; he has few great moments here, but runs through his usual repertoire of groans and horse-faced sorrowful expressions with brio. The idea of Terry Scott playing Tarzan is in itself such a good joke that it hardly matters that most of what follows is him swinging, on ropes, into obstacles. On the DVD: The DVD has no special features whatever. It is presented in 1.77:1 ratio with mono sound. --Roz Kaveney

• The Tunnel | DVD | (13/01/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK and France detectives Karl Roebuck (Stephen Dillane) and Elise Wassermann (Clémence Poésy) are sent to investigate on behalf of their respective countries. However as the case takes a surreal turn a series of elaborate killings force the French and British police into uneasy partnership. Despite cultural divides they find common ground in the race to stop a serial killer who has no boundaries. Using increasingly ingenious methods to highlight five 'truths' about our morally bankrupt society the murderer draws Karl and Elise ever deeper into a powerful personal and deadly agenda. A compelling and sophisticated thriller set against the backdrop of Europe in crisis from the makers of Broadchurch Spooks and Life on Mars.

• Doctor In Love | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Soon after qualifying as doctors from St. Swithins young Burke and Hare set up in practice and get involved in a number of amorous exploits...

• Doctor Dolittle Quadrilogy | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £17.53   |  Saving you £5.46 (23.70%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Dr Dolittle (Dir. Betty Thomas 1998): Treat yourself to a healthy dose of Eddie Murphy's untamed animal magnetism in the smash hit comedy that'll make you roar howl and hoot with laughter! A successful physician and devoted family man John Dolittle (Murphy) seems to have the world by the tail until a long-suppressed talent he possessed as a child - the ability to communicate with animals - is suddenly reawakened... with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down! Dr Dolittle 2 (Dir. Steve Carr 2001): Eddie Murphy returns as the doctor who has now garnered some measure of fame for his communication abilities at least among the animal kingdom. Dolittle is also dealing with his rebellious teenage daughter (Raven Symone). But he drops everything when he's summoned by The Beaver the Godfather figure of the local forest to help the animals preserve their home by stopping an overly aggressive lumber company. To save the forest Dolittle has to take a trained performing bear (also an endangered species who is endearingly voiced by Steve Zahn)--and introduce him to the wild to find a mate. Dr Dolittle 3 (Dir. Rich Thorne 2006): Lisa Dolittle sends her daughter to 'Durango' a Dude Ranch to find herself. While there she must use her talent to talk to the animals in order to save Durango from being taken over by an unscrupulous neighbouring ranch... Dr Dolittle (Dir. Craig Shapiro 2008): Just like her father Maya Dolittle has the amazing ability to talk to animals and together with her loyal dog pal Lucky she must go on a heartwarming adventure of presidential proportions! Maya's dream of going to vet school is put on hold when she gets a call from the president of the United States. It seems the First Dog is out of control and the president needs Maya's help. Now it's up to Maya and Lucky to stop a canine catastrophe from becoming a major national crisis!

• Carry On Loving | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £11.27   |  Saving you £1.72 (15.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Setting a Carry On film in a marriage bureau has a certain self-serving obviousness, so it's hardly surprising that Carry On Loving milks the idea for all it's worth. The Wedded Bliss Agency is of course a pretty dubious outfit, being run by Sid (James) and Sophie Bliss (Hattie Jacques), who together are the worst possible example for both marriage and their own profession: they constantly snipe at each other, they aren't actually married and their sophisticated computer matching system is in fact a complete fake. The remainder of the team are mostly cast as hapless clients, with predictable but often very funny situations arising from the various mismatches engineered by the agency, such as the inevitable misunderstanding over one client's interest in modelling. Yes, the humour is about as subtle as a flatulent elephant, but you can't help entering into the spirit of the thing. If there's an outstanding performance it has to be that of Imogen Hassall, who handles her transformation from round-shouldered frump to well-bred love goddess with considerable expertise and a genuine sense of fun. --Roger Thomas

• There Will Be Blood (2 Disc) | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century Texas prospector (Daniel Day-Lewis) in the early days of the business.

• Doctor In Distress | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When the usually ranting and raving Sir Lancelot Spratt becomes gentle and considerate the hospital inhabitants become positively alarmed until Dr Simon Sparrow diagnoses the trouble: love!

• Horrible Histories: Scary Halloween Special | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £6.39   |  Saving you £1.60 (25.04%)   |  RRP £7.99

  To celebrate Halloween Death host of Stupid Deaths presents his favourite moments from Horrible Histories as a list of his Top 12 Scary Things. This special episode is a compilation of clips from the four series of the TV programme with the addition of an original sketch and song.

• Green Butchers | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £12.88   |  Saving you £-6.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  You never forget the taste of human flesh! In this multi-award winning Danish horror Academy award winning director Anders Thomas Jensen brings us a darkly funny story set in the cut throat world of small time butchers. In the vein of Delicatessen and Eating Raoul The Green Butchers features the dysfunctional duo of Bjarne and Svend two friends who decide to open their own butcher shop. While grappling with a competitive market and an evil ex-boss an accidental death occurs. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business is regularly serving up 'speciality' meat. But it's not long before the growing number of missing persons begins to draw town's attention...

• Rowan Atkinson | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £13.57   |  Saving you £4.42 (32.57%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Rowan Atkinson filmed live on stage in Boston supported by Angus Deayton in the 'straight man role'. This is Rowan's first stand up comedy and features his much loved trademark visual comedy including sketches known from Mr Bean and was written by Richard Curtis.

• Birds of a Feather - The Complete Eighth Series | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £8.39   |  Saving you £11.60 (58.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Everyone's favourite Essex girls return with this fifth series of Birds Of A Feather - one of the 1990s most successful long-running and memorable sitcoms. This release comprises all six episodes of Series Eight originally screened in 1998 alongside the 1997 Christmas Special also starring The Bill s Christopher Ellison. Created by the legendary comedy partnership of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (The New Statesman) the series chronicles the misadventures of Sharon and Tracy (Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson) - North London-born sisters left to fend for themselves financially and emotionally when their husbands are jailed for armed robbery. The girls have lived very different lives Tracey enjoying the neo-Georgian splendour of Dalentrace - the luxury home paid for by husband Darryl s criminal activities - while her sister had remained in an Edmonton tower block. Now Sharon lives with Tracey enjoying a few home comforts and offering much-needed moral support - even if some of her habits prove a tad annoying. And if life in Chigwell sometimes seems a little dull there are always the extra-marital antics of their man-eating Jewish neighbour Dorien (Lesley Joseph) to keep them entertained...

• Save The Last Dance/Save The Last Dance 2 | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Save The Last Dance: Sara (Julia Stiles) is a small-town girl with a big dream: to become a world-class ballerina. But when her mother suddenly dies Sara must abandon her plans and join her estranged father (Terry Kinney) on Chicago's gritty south side. A white girl in a predominately black neighbourhood Sara feels out of place - until she is befriended by a black classmate Chenile (Kerry Washington) and her handsome brother Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas). Sparks fly between Sara and Derek whose shared love for dance leads to romance. But as Sara and Derek's relationship grows so does opposition from their famillies and friends. Now Sara and Derek face the biggest challenge of their young lives - to stay true to their dreams.. and each other. Save The Last Dance 2: Continuing the story of the original film Sara (Izabella Miko) follows her dream and becomes a student at Juilliard. As she is excels and becomes a star pupil Sara becomes torn between her love for traditional ballet and her passion for the urban street rhythms of hip-hop complicated further by her new love hip-hop musician Miles (Columbus Short). When pushed to make a choice will she follow the path of the tried and true or will she take a risk and dance into uncharted territory?

• Carry On Cleo | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (183.64%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Ninth entry in the Carry On series. Ancient British slaves save Caesar (Kenneth Williams) from assassination in Rome 50 B.C. Meanwhile Mark Antony (Sid James) romances Egyptian Empress Cleopatra (Amanda Barrie). Revolting Britons include Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey while Warren Mitchell plays a partner in the slave-trading firm Markus & Spencius.

• The Hiding | DVD | (20/08/2012) from £4.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (25.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When Jo witnesses the gruesome murder of her parents, she becomes a key witness against a notorious crime boss. She is placed into the Witness Protection Program and is relocated thousands of miles away from her big city home to the rural countryside of Montana. Now she has a new name, a new look and a new family. Jo slowly begins to make new friends and builds a new life when her past catches up to her and the fight of her life has begun.

• Carry On Up The Jungle | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £4.88   |  Saving you £8.11 (166.19%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Carry On Up the Jungle has worn less well than some of the others in the series, simply because the African exploration genre it parodies--with its cannibals, great white hunters and lost Amazon tribes--is so entirely out of fashion. Still, Frankie Howerd made so comparatively few films that in one which has him as an ornithologist searching for rare birds in the company of Joan Sims and Sid James is not going to be entirely without interest. He has few great moments here, but runs through his usual repertoire of groans and horse-faced sorrowful expressions with brio. The idea of Terry Scott playing Tarzan is in itself such a good joke that it hardly matters that most of what follows is him swinging, on ropes, into obstacles. --Roz Kaveney

• Carry On England | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1975's Carry On England, a mixed-sex anti-aircraft battery is set up during World War II by way of an experiment. The sex is indeed pretty mixed, although the drafting in of Patrick Mower and Judy Geeson rather demonstrates the need for at least some of the cast to be attractive in order to make this odd premise feasible. For the most part, of course, it's tits-out sex-comedy slapstick all the way, but there's a nicely ambivalent performance from Kenneth Connor, who portrays the wartime British officer class as being pretty much bonkers, a telling interpretation, which Stephen Fry was to perfect years later in Blackadder Goes Forth. The location is of course typically Carry On cheap-and-cheerful, but its inevitable drabness, together with the indistinguishable khaki uniforms, tends to put a bit of a dampener on the adult-panto atmosphere that the best Carry Ons deliver. The cast commendably manage to transcend this, though, so there's still plenty of fun to be had. --Roger Thomas

• Hot Enough for June | Blu Ray | (02/03/2015) from £54.99   |  Saving you £-40.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  British film legend Dirk Bogarde gives a whimsical performance as the unwitting replacement agent in director Ralph Thomas's frantically funny early '60s spy comedy. Also starring screen siren Sylva Koscina and key character actors Robert Morley Leo McKern and John Le Mesurier Hot Enough for June is presented here in a High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Out-of-work author Nicholas Whistler is happy to accept the offer of a luxurious all-expenses-paid business trip behind the Iron Curtain. On his arrival in Prague everyone – including his beautiful and seductive chauffeuse Vlasta – assumes the Czech-speaking Nicholas to be a spy and it doesn't take long before he's alone and on the run from the Czech secret police! Special Features: Original theatrical trailer Extensive image galleries Original promotional material PDFs

• Shopkins: Wild Style | DVD | (26/03/2018) from £4.85   |  Saving you £5.14 (105.98%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Find your Wild Style and come on a totally Pawesome adventure to Pawville to meet the Shoppets! When famous movie stars, Scarletta Gateau and Rubie Blaze recruit the Shopville gang to save the Shoppets, they journey through the jungle and find the amazing world of Pawville. But Pawville and the Shoppets definitely don't need saving and suddenly nothing Scarletta says is as it seems! What's going on? Can the Shopkins, Shoppies and Shoppets rally together to solve the mystery? Find your tribe and get ready for a Wild adventure like no other!

• Babies | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £6.43   |  Saving you £9.56 (148.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A look at one year in the life of four babies from around the world from Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo.

• Spookies (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/04/2021) from £20.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  101 Films presents cult 80s horror Spookies (1986), released on Bluray for the first time in the UK, and title 019 on the 101 Films Black Label. Produced by Michael Lee, founder of legendary video distributor VIPCO, the film's tumultuous production history saw original cowriters/directors Brendan Faulkner and Thomas Doran and cowriter/producer Frank M. Farel fired, and Eugenie Joseph brought on board to shoot new scenes and reedit the existing footage. The chaotic and deranged result has gone on to amass an army of devotees in the intervening years, attaining genuine cult status among horror fans. Among the additional content is a new version of featurelength documentary VIPCO: The Untold Story. After their car breaks down, a group of travelers find themselves stranded in a remote part of New England. After taking shelter in a spooky old mansion, complete with a graveyard, they discover a ouija board and decide to spend the night attempting to summon some spirits. But the group soon learns that playing with the forces of black magic isn't fun and games, and it's not long before they're headtohead with all sorts of demonic creatures, shape shifters, and other forms of evil, all of whom are more than happy to pick them off in the most gruesome of ways.