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• The Entertainer | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £20.97   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Entertainer of the title is Archie Rice, a mediocre music hall artist upholding a dying tradition in an English seaside against a background of the 1956 Suez Crisis. Laurence Olivier stars and is supported by a superb cast including a young Alan Bates as his son, Roger Livesey as his kindly, now retired, always more talented and popular father, and Joan Plowright as his daughter (who, ironically given the story, married Olivier the following year). Albert Finney makes his screen debut in a tiny role and the remarkable cast also features Daniel Massey, Shirley Anne Field, Thora Hird and Charles Gray. Archie himself is a hollow man who brings pain to all around him, and while Olivier's brilliant performance reveals the layers of cynicism which disguise the emptiness inside, the emotional resonance lies with those forced to endure Rice's manipulations, adulteries and deceits. On stage John Osborne's play proved to be a signature part for Olivier, and director Tony Richardson--who filmed Osborne's equally sour Look Back In Anger (1958)--handles the material with unvarnished realism. Unfolding like a dark variation on Chaplin's Limelight (1952), the film equally casts a shadow over the less stellar Tony Hancock vehicle The Punch and Judy Man (1963), ultimately working as both family tragedy and allegory for a declining post-war England. Surprisingly an American 1976 TV movie remake starring Jack Lemmon held its own against this minor British classic. On the DVD: The Entertainer is presented letterboxed at 1.66:1, and sourced from an excellent print preserves the look of the original black and white cinematography very well. Even so a little material is clipped from either side of the image, though this is most notable on the left of the picture. The mono sound is very good. There are no features other than optional subtitles, including English for those hard of hearing. --Gary S Dalkin

• Love Actually | Blu Ray | (12/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An ensemble comedy from the makers of "Notting Hill" following a whole host of separate but intertwining stories of love in London.

• Die Hard | Blu Ray | (28/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bruce Willis is John McClane, a New York cop who flies to L.A. on Christmas Eve to visit his wife at a party in her company's lavish high-rise. Plans change once a group of terrorists, led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), seize the building and take everyone hostage. McClane slips away and becomes the only chance anyone has in this heart-stopping action thriller. Special Features: Commentary by Director John McTiernan and Jackson De Govia Scene Specific Commentary by Richard Edlund The Newscasts Interactive Still Gallery Trailers TV Spots Bonus Disc: Decoding Die Hard: Join the stars and filmmakers of the first four films for an unprecedented behind-the-scenes journey. Seven all-new featurettes take you so deep inside the world of Die Hard, you may have to shoot your way out. All-New Featurettes: Origins - Reinventing the Action Genre John McClane - Modern Day Hero Villains - Bad to the Bone Sidekicks - Along for the Ride Fight Sequences - Punishing Blows Action - Explosive Effects The Legacy - The Right Hero for the Right Time Die Hard Trailers - Die Hard - Die Hard 2 - Die Hard With a Vengeance - Die Hard 4.0 - A Good Day to Die Hard

• Wire In The Blood 3 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £6.48   |  Saving you £15.50 (345.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Robson Green plays Dr Tony Hill a clinical psychologist with empathy beyond the established boundaries of his science in Wire in the Blood - based on the best selling novels by Val McDermid. Intelligent and compassionate Tony has always researched convicted killers but is called to join in an ongoing case by ambitious DI Carol Jordan (Hermoine Norris). Until now the only serial killers Dr Tony Hill encountered were safely behind bars. Now the murderer is on the loose. When DI Jordan invites Hill onto the case they work together to hunt down a vicious serial killer...

• Blue Mountain State - The Rise Of Thadland | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With Blue Mountain State football star Thad Castle (Alan Ritchson; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) recently signing a multi-million dollar NFL contract, his teammates and college life seem like a distant memory. However, when a new school Principal threatens to clean up the Blue Mountain State image by auctioning off the infamous Goat House, Alex, Sammy and the boys must find a way to convince him to get involved. Despite his new fortune and fame, there is one small favour that Thad needs done before he saves the day: the biggest booze fest in BMS history. Welcome to Thadland!

• Alan Shearer's Pro Training Skill Factor | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £6.46   |  Saving you £3.53 (35.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Join Alan Shearer and a team of prefessional football players as they show you all the moves and technical skills to help you improve your game. Packed full of helpful tips and advice the Pro-Training Skill Factor puts you through your paces with a series of training modules covering: Warm Up Winning The Ball Back Defending As Group/Team Attacking Play Possession And Movement Motivation Change Of Mode Attacking And Scoring. Exclusive live action match footage and exciting gra

• Death Goes To School/Night Of The Prowler | DVD | (24/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Death Goes to SchoolPolice Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) investigates the death of a school teacher in the grounds of the school. He establishes she was murdered and there are many suspects; jealous colleagues a married man she had been having an affair with among others. Also stars Barbara Murray and Sam Kydd. Produced in 1953 by Independent Artists and filmed at Merton Park Studios. Night of the ProwlerThe director of a successful motor racing company is shot dead. His fellow directors fear for their lives as they were all involved in a trail where their evidence sent a past employee down. Detective Inspector Cameron ( John Horsley) must find the killer before he strikes again. Directed by Francis Searle who directed over 40 films throughout his career a 1962 Butchers production filmed at Shepperton Studios. Picture and sound of good quality following restoration.

• Tin Man | DVD | (04/08/2014) from £9.79   |  Saving you £3.20 (32.69%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The once-beautiful 'Outer Zone' has become a decaying wasteland and its subjects imprisoned under the control of the evil Azkadellia. While the witch hatches a nefarious plot to suck the souls out of her minions, it seems only one person can stop her. DG (Zooey Deschannel, Elf, New Girl) a rebellious young woman sets out to save O.Z. and those captured from her wicked sister. Enlisting the help of Glitch (Alan Cumming, X-Men 2) who has half a brain, Cain who has no heart and the gentle Raw.

• The Six Million Dollar Man - Vol. 2 | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £12.42   |  Saving you £-2.43 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Steve Austin returns for three more exhilarating action-packed adventures: ""Day of the Robot"" ""Run Steve Run"" and ""Return of the Robot Maker"".

• Alan Smith - Player Profile | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A player profile of Alan Smith a Leeds United legend in the making... From the people who knew him best step back on an unforgettable start to his career his commitment to his club and what the future holds. Featuring: Exclusive interviews with Alan. His favourite premiership goals and moments. Highlights from his England appearances. ..and much more!

• Larger Than Life | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £11.47   |  Saving you £-2.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A man inherits his dead father's estate in the shape of an elephant. To sell his inheritance he must first cross America taking his oversized companion along for the ride...

• Gambit | Blu Ray | (04/03/2013) from £10.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (63.69%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Harry Deane (Colin Firth) is a man with a plan. Art curator for media tycoon Lord Lionel Shahbandar (Alan Rickman), Harry devises an elaborate plot to con Shahbandar into purchasing a fake Monet painting.

• Jimi Hendrix Story | DVD | (11/09/2000) from £8.60   |  Saving you £5.39 (62.67%)   |  RRP £13.99

  If any artist deserved a hagiography it was Hendrix, and Joe Boyd's 1973 "authorised" tribute The Jimi Hendrix Story adequately sanctifies the legend. Perversely for a documentary, it achieves this simply by well-chosen concert footage rather than through the insights of the various talking heads. Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed and Germaine Greer are all wheeled out to wax lyrical about their days with Jimi--but nothing is more eloquent than watching and listening to him play. From "Hey Joe" in grainy black and white on Ready Steady Go, classic footage of Monterey, Woodstock (yes, "The Star-Spangled Banner") and the Isle of White festivals, to an acoustic 12-string rendition of "Hear My Train a' Comin'", Hendrix the musician speaks for himself. But if Hendrix the musician shines through, this is not the most insightful profile of Hendrix the man: the circumstances surrounding his death, for example, are hardly touched upon (girlfriend at the time Monika Dannemann gets only a few seconds screen time). Interview footage with Hendrix himself plus some occasionally rambling and incoherent comments from such intimates as his father, army buddies, ex-girlfriends (including Linda Keith, who "discovered" him in New York and brought him to England) and fellow musicians all take second place to the music itself. The most sensible quote comes from Little Richard, who proves once and for all that he's utterly bonkers, when he says of Jimi's music: "At times he made my big toes shoot up into my boot." On the DVD: This is a dual-layer disc, with a widescreen (1.85:1) print on one side and a standard (4:3) ratio version on the other--although watching in widescreen is redundant, as the film is shot in 4:3 anyway. There are no extras other than a theatrical trailer (despite being advertised as such a menu and scene access surely don't count as "special features": what use is a disc without them?) --Mark Walker

• Baron Blood | Blu Ray | (29/01/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  HE SOUGHT THE ULTIMATE IN HUMAN AGONY... One of the horror giant Mario Bava's biggest hits, Baron Blood returns to the all-stops-out Gothic atmosphere and the central theme of a witch's curse that fuelled his breakthrough film Black Sunday twelve years later. This time, the curse was placed on Baron Otto von Kleist, Austria's legendarily murderous 'Baron Blood', whose corpse is inadvertently revived when an ancient incantation is read out as a joke by a descendant and his girlfriend. Naturally, the Baron decides to carry on where he originally left off, with the help of an entire vault of elaborate torture devices. Jospeh Cotten (Citizen Kane, The Third Man) has a whale of a time as the deceptively charming Baron, and is given sterling support from Elke Sommer (Lisa and the Devil), who is chased through fog-shrouded alleyways in one of Bava's modst memorably atmospheric set-pieces.

• Wedding Weekend | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £4.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (162.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A group of guys who sang together in a popular university a cappella group reunite 15 years later to perform at a friend's wedding in the upmarket Long Island Hamptons. Soon they begin to reminisce about their heyday and about where they are now (or aren't) how much they've progressed - and in some cases regressed - and how life just hasn't turned out as expected. One bar-room brawl nostalgic skinny dip near-death experience surprising sex fantasy and miraculously salvaged wedding later these lifelong friends manage to readjust their perspective.

• The Six Million Dollar Man | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £9.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Jonathan Creek - Series 1 and 2 Box Set | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £49.93   |  Saving you £-9.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin star in this highly successful murder mystery drama series. Jonathan magic expert and amateur sleuth extraordinaire turns out to be less successful in his relationship with investigative crimewriter Maddy Magellen.... Episodes from Series 1 are: 'The Wrestler's Tomb' 'Jack In The Box' 'The Reconstituted Corpse' 'No Trace of Tracey' and 'The House Of Monkeys' and from Series 2 are: 'Danse Macabre' 'Time Waits For Norman' 'The Scented Room' '

• Harley Quinn: The Complete Second Season (DVD) | DVD | (16/02/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Atonement/Sense And Sensibility | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Atonement: On the hottest day of the summer of 1935 thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia (Kiera Knightley) strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) a childhood friend who along with Briony's sister has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination and Briony will have committed a dreadful crime the guilt for which will colour her entire life. Sense And Sensibility: The story of two sisters; pragmatic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionate wilful Marianne (Kate Winslet). When their father Henry Dashwood dies by law his estate must pass to the eldest son from his first marriage. Suddenly homeless and impoverished his current wife and daughters find themselves living in a simple country cottage. The two sisters are soon accepted into their new society. Marianne becomes swept up in a passionate love affair with the dashing Willoughby (Greg Wise) while Elinor struggles to keep a tight rein on the family purse strings and to keep her feelings for Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant) whom she left behind hidden from her family. Despite their different personalities they both experience great sorrow in their affairs but they learn to mix sense with sensibility in a society that is obsessed with both financial and social status.

• Alan Carr's Now That's What I Call A Ding Dong | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Alan Carr can't wait to prove once and for all that celebs are no better than ordinary folk! Alan Carr award-winning comedian and one half of the irrepressible Friday Night Project team hosts a showbiz bash with a difference! With tongue firmly in cheek Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong is the only show on television that pits members of the public against famous faces where both teams can win a slice of the high life!