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• Mind Your Language - The Best Of Mind Your Language - Vol. 4 | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £15.15   |  Saving you £-5.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  All Present If Not Correct: It's the new term at the language school and there are two new students. But Jeremy soon catches up with his previous students as they failed their exam and must return for another term! Queen For A Day: Miss Courtney is delighted to hear the Queen is due to visit the college so much so she makes the students wear their national costumes to class! Brief Re-Encounter: Jeremy and the class come to the rescue after the steely Miss Courtney falls for a confidence trickster set on stealing not only her heart but her savings too.

• Mind Your Language - The Best Of Mind Your Language | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Featuring the best episodes from series 1 and 2. One of the most successful TV shows of its era featuring the star of the infamous 'Doctor' series Barry Evans 'Mind Your Language' is comedy at its best. Evans plays Jeremy Brown a mild mannered English teacher keen and ready to take on the world of English language teaching! That is untill he meets his new students of course who can hardly speak a word of English between them! The First Lesson: When Jeremy Brown arrives at the Southbank College of Further Education little does he realise how stressful teaching can be - until he meets the students! An Inspector Calls: Jeremy causes confusion whilst mistaking the school inspector for a new student. Worse still after expounding his theory on the old-fashioned teaching practices of inspectors he then insults the inspector's wife! A Fate Worse Than Death: Wedding bells are in the air when Ranjeet asks Jeremy for help in ditching his bride to be. Jeremy could be walking up the aisle sooner than he thinks! All Through The Night: Working late takes on a whole new meaning when Jeremy and his class are locked in the classroom. Songs and gags ensue but the night can only get worse when Miss Courtney turns up. The Best Things In Life: Students to the rescue when Jeremy and the gang assist Jamila who has been detained at the police station for shoplifting. Will Jeremy's donation to the police help free her? Come Back All Is Forgiven: A birthday to remember for Jeremy as Ranjeet Max Taro and Juan all buy him the same gift. More importantly he has a battle on his hands to keep his job from the clutches of Miss Hardacre. The Cheating Game: When the gang must pass exams in order to keep the class going cheating becomes the name of the game with Jeremy lending a helping hand. Better To Have Loved And Lost: Love blossoms when Ali and Chung plan to marry. However there is one small problem Jeremy must deal with first and that is... Ali is already married! Hello Sailor: Everyone loves a sailor especially a Russian one! Jeremy tries to help Juan's friend Boris defect to the UK but all does not go according to plan when Boris' Captain Ivan falls for Miss Courtney. A Point Of Honour: Sexy French student Danielle soon causes havoc in Jeremy's life when she needs to borrow a fiance to protect her honour. Unfortunately thanks to Miss Courtney's interference Jeremy must box his way out of trouble. The Examination: Thanks to Jeremy's temper a quick drink in the pub leads to a violent dispute with the new examiner. Can Ali Ranjeet Juan and the gang pass their test or will it be the end of the road for the English class? All Present If Not Correct: It's the new term at the language school and there are two new students... Also includes the episodes 'Queen For A Day' and 'Brief Re-Encounter'.

• Suddenly, Last Summer | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £8.94   |  Saving you £4.05 (45.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn each received Oscar nominations for best actress in this gripping adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play filmed at Shepperton Studios by director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Beautiful Catherine Holly (Taylor) is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the strange and horrible death of her cousin. Catherine's aunt Violet Venable (Hepburn) tries to influence Dr Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Cather

• The Lorax | DVD | (13/07/2012) from £8.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A ruined industrialist tells his tale of his environmentally self destructive greed despite the warnings of an old forest creature.

• Shoot The Pianist | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Francois Truffaut portrays a film noir world of gangsters and intrigue with Charles Aznavour as a famous concert pianist who leaves his former life behind to play in a sleazy Parisian bar. He gradually becomes involved in the criminal activities of the big-city underworld.

• Roger Waters - The Wall - Live In Berlin | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £30.00   |  Saving you £-15.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Time: In 1989 the Berlin Wall for so long the symbol of the cold war came crashing down. 12 months later this defining moment was marked by one of the greatest rock concerts of all time. The Place: Postdamer Platz sat between the two Berlin walls which divided the city. For decades people had died trying to escape Communism to Capitalism. In 1990 this extraordinary concert would open up this historic landmark. The Performances: Special Guests: Bryan Adams The Band: Rick Danko Gareth Hudson Levon Helm Paul Carrack Thomas Dolby James Galway Jerry Hall The Hooters Cyndi Lauper Ute Lemper Paddy Maloney Joni Mitchell Van Morrison Sinead O'Connor and Scorpions.

• Dragonslayer | Blu Ray | (21/03/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Under The Volcano by John Huston | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £10.65   |  Saving you £2.34 (21.97%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Under the Volcano follows the final day in the life of a self destructive British Consul Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney in an Oscar nominated tour de force) on the eve of World War II. Withering from alcoholism Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amid the 'day of the dead' festival. Attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife (Jacqueline Bisset) and set against the ominous background of war breaking out in Europe coupled with the unsettling fiesta we are taken through one day in a life of alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in the small town in 1939. Firmin's self-destructive behaviour (perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization) is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic idealistic half-brother Hugh and his ex-wife Yvonne. John Huston's ambitious tackling of Malcolm Lory's towering novel was compared with his greatest works such as the Maltese Falcon The African Queen The Asphalt Jungle and Key Largo. This film also gave the incomparable Finney on of his most legendary roles.

• Irreversible | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £11.29   |  Saving you £-4.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Irreversible begins with the closing credits running backwards before the film begins (or ends) with Marcus (Vincent Cassell) and Pierre (Albert Dupontel) being escorted out of a gay s/m club by the cops, Marcus with his arm broken and Pierre in handcuffs. The "story" proceeds to unwind in a series of single-take scenes that unfold Memento-style, with each scene giving more context to what we have seen previously. Each scenario depicts actions, dialogue, incident, behaviour and circumstance that the lead characters might have wished didn't happen, ranging from extreme violence through awkward social situations to mild embarrassment. The central character (and possible dreamer of this whole what-if story) emerges as Alex (Monica Bellucci), who suffers the worst in a very hard-to-watch rape sequence in an underpass. Semi-improvised, the scenes all have attack and power as themes, with later/earlier conversational sequences that suggest life isn't all sexual assaults in the dark, showing equal cinematic imagination with the horrors. Arguably, this is not a film most would subject themselves to twice, but it is something that stays in the mind for days after viewing, sparking far more ideas and emotions than most wallow-in-nastiness pictures. --Kim Newman

• Agatha Christie DVD Collection | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £24.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (60.02%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The four films in this Agatha Christie Murder Mystery Collection demonstrate exactly why Christie's reassuringly formulaic whodunits have been extraordinarily resilient source material. In each we find a corpse (or several), an assorted group of suspects gathered in a self-contained location, all with a motive to commit murder, and the coincidental presence of the totem detective (Poirot or Miss Marple). Between 1974 and 1981, producers John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin mined the Christie seam for some of its ripest riches. Murder on the Orient Express (1974), directed by Sidney Lumet, features a cavalcade of stars including Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, John Gielgud and Sean Connery; while Christie herself gave Albert Finney's Poirot her blessing. The Art Deco setting exudes glamour; the plot is preposterously diverting; the lighting, silvery and washed-out, giving the suspects an appropriately grim and ghoulish air. With a superior Anthony Shaffer screenplay Death on the Nile (1978) saw Peter Ustinov taking over as Poirot. The backdrop of ancient Egyptian monuments helps bring this adaptation a touch of class, complemented by composer Nino Rota's epic theme tune. The Mirror Crack'd (1980) features Elizabeth Taylor and Kim Novak as rival Hollywood legends descending on a quaint English village to make a film, with Rock Hudson as Taylor's husband and Angela Lansbury as a rather unconvincingly robust Miss Marple. Shaffer returned to the fray, adapting Evil Under the Sun (1981) and moving Poirot from the Cornish Riviera to an island off the coast of Albania. Ustinov reprises his role and Maggie Smith returns, camper than ever, as the hotel owner inconvenienced by murder. On the DVD: It's a pity that the sound quality hasn't been sharpened up, though: Murder on the Orient Express sometimes evokes memories of the muffled incoherence of an old fleapit. Apart from trailers, extras are few and far between. There are no cast lists or filmographies. But Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun both feature interesting short promotional "'making of"' documentaries in 4:3 format. --Piers Ford

• Ally McBeal - Season 3 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  What's a girl to do when she's about to turn 30? If you're Ally you'll have a sexual encounter with a stranger kiss Ling get sued defend Santa date a homeless guy and then decide that John Cage is ""the one"". Meanwhile John loses touch with his inner Barry White. Billy goes blonde and dumps Georgia. Ling gets arrested for pimping Richard and Ling breakup Nelle and John kiss and make up while Elaine tries to adopt a baby. Features the entire collection of Season 3 episodes.

• Ally McBeal - Season 1 Part 1 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Much lighter in tone than creator, producer and writer David E Kelley's other forays into legal drama LA Law, and The Practice, the slick thirtysomething series Ally McBeal has never been out-and-out comedy but it spikes its exploration of emotional territory with sharp funny lines. Ally (Calista Flockhart) is a kookie cutie, a ditzy, skinny, single lawyer and we are privy to scenes from her overactive imagination (courtesy of CGI), surrounded by larger-than-life peripheral characters--almost grotesques--like outspoken boss Richard Fish (Greg Germann), nervy courtroom wizz John "The Biscuit" Cage (Peter MacNicol) and nosy secretary Elaine Vassal (Jane Krakowski). In later series these characters (including popular newcomers Lucy Lui and Portia de Rossi as frosty law babes Ling and Nelle) would edge towards one-dimensional caricatures as the same ground was retrodden relentlessly, but in this first series there is something compelling about the intrusive dynamics of this group of oddballs. The point is you don't have to like them to find them entertaining. Ally herself can be extremely irritating in a love-to-hate-her kind of a way. She is a curious dichotomy, a 1990s woman with a go-getting career and a penchant for her own way and yet with the romantic ideals of someone from another generation. Basically still hung up on ex-boyfriend Billy (Gil Bellows) who works for same Boston practice, alongside wife Georgia (Courtney Thorne-Smith), Ally is on the look out for her Prince Charming. The first series and its lead both garnered Golden Globes, a lot of gossip and a healthy audience for the Fox television network in America. Channel 4 snapped it up for British audiences who were intrigued, not least by the unisex toilets and sophisticated afterwork bar soirées where chanteuse Vonda Shepherd was always to be found crooning away in the corner. All in all, Ally McBeal leaves you with the conundrum of wanting more but not being able to say why. --Emma Perry

• The World At War - Vol. 5 | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £11.52   |  Saving you £13.47 (116.93%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When this epic series was first broadcast in 1973 it redefined the gold standard for television documentary; it remains the benchmark by which all factual programming must judge itself. Originally shown as 26 one-hour programmes, The World at War set out to tell the story of the Second World War through the testimony of key participants. The result is a unique and unrepeatable event, since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long left to live. Each hour-long programme is carefully structured to focus on a key theme or campaign, from the rise of Nazi Germany to Hitler's downfall and the onset of the Cold War. There are no academic "talking heads" here to spell out an official version of history; the narration, delivered with wonderful gravitas by Sir Laurence Olivier, is kept to a minimum. The show's great coup was to allow the participants to speak for themselves. Painstaking research in the archives of the Imperial War Museum also unearthed a vast quantity of newsreel footage, including on occasion the cameraman's original raw rushes which present an unvarnished and never-before-seen picture of important events. Carl Davis' portentous main title theme and score underlines the grand scale of the enterprise. The original 26 episodes were supplemented three years later by six special programmes (narrated by Eric Porter), bringing the total running-time to a truly epic 32 hours. Now digitally remastered The World at War looks even more of an impressive achievement on DVD. Available in five volumes, each handsomely packaged double-disc set comes with a detailed menu that places the individual programmes along a chronological timeline. Better yet, chapter access is laid out to allow you to select key speeches or maps or newsreel footage. The World at War was a landmark television event; its DVD incarnation underlines its importance as an historical document. --Mark Walker

• Katharine Hepburn | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £40.00 (400.40%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A bumper box set of classic films featuring 'The First Lady of Cinema' Katharine Hepburn! State Of The Union (Dir. Frank Capra 1948): The Flamboyant businessman Grant Matthews (Spencer Tracy) is persuaded by his mistress the powerful publishing heiress Kay Thorndyke (Angela Lansbury) to seek the Republican nomination in the forthcoming elections. Mary Matthews (Katharine Hepburn) joins her estranged husband to present a public portrait of a happy family for the voters

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (DVD +Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This movie, that made Albert Finney a star, is a UK cinematic gem. At the time of release it hit the audience like a bombshell due to its frank portrayal of life, sex and double standards in the late 1950's. It tells the story of Arthur (Finney) a factory worker who is seeing two women at the same time. When one of them falls pregnant he finds himself having to choose...It was the first of the cinematic 'kitchen sink drama's' of the 1960's and was a huge box office hit. This film has been unavailable for almost three years. This version is restored and remastered with new extra's including interviews with Albert Finney and Shirley Anne Field. This will be the definitive release of this classic of British cinema.

• The Kid Stays In The Picture | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted from his own tell-all autobiography, this acclaimed documentary traces the meteoric rise, fall, and rise again of legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans, and takes the audience on an intimate journey into the mind of this Hollywood legend.

• Portrait Of Jennie | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Artist Eben Adams has never been able to impress dealer Henry Matthews with his work - until he draws a sketch of a young girl he meets in the park one day.She says she is only twelve and is dressed in clothes of a bygone era. The next time the couple meet Adams has become a success and Jennie a beautiful young woman whom he persuades to sit for a portrait. Adams learns that Jennie was raised in a convent in New England and died when a tidal wave hit the town. Hoping to be reunited w

• Miller's Crossing | Blu Ray | (29/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Arguably the best film by Joel and Ethan Coen, the 1990 Miller's Crossing stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom, a loyal lieutenant of a crime boss named Leo (Albert Finney) who is in a Prohibition-era turf war with his major rival, Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito). A man of principle, Tom nevertheless is romantically involved with Leo's lover (Marcia Gay Harden), whose screwy brother (John Turturro) escapes a hit ordered by Caspar only to become Tom's problem. Making matters worse, Tom has outstanding gambling debts he can't pay, which keeps him in regular touch with a punishing enforcer. With all the energy the Coens put into their films, and all their focused appreciation of genre conventions and rules, and all their efforts to turn their movies into ironic appreciations of archetypes in American fiction, they never got their formula so right as with Miller's Crossing. With its Hammett-like dialogue and Byzantine plot and moral chaos mitigated by one hero's personal code, the film so transcends its self-scrutiny as a retro-crime thriller that it is a deserved classic in its own right. --Tom Keogh

• Napoleon (4-Disc DVD Set) | DVD | (21/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The measure of all other films, forever' LA Times Marking a new chapter in the history of one of the world's greatest films, the release of Abel Gance's Napoleon is the culmination of a project spanning 50 years. Academy Award-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow and the BFI National Archive have completed a new digitally restored version of this cinematic triumph, and audiences will be able to experience this extraordinary film complete with Carl Davis's magnificent score when the film is released on DVD & Blu-ray in November. Originally conceived by its director as the first of 6 films about Napoleon, this five and a half hour epic features full scale historical recreations of episodes from his personal and political life, from the French Revolution to the heroic arrival of French troops in Italy that marked the beginning of the First Italian campaign of 1796. Utilizing a number of groundbreaking camera and editing techniques, Abel Gance's Napoleon offers one of the most richly rewarding and thrilling experiences in the history of cinema, a brilliant pairing of music and film, comparable to grand opera in its intensity, offering dazzling scenes of unparalleled brilliance. Extras Abel Gance: Charm of Dynamite (Kevin Brownlow, 1968, 50 mins): Documentary on the life and work of Abel Gance, narrated by director Lindsay Anderson (If ., This Sporting Life) Interview with composer Carl Davis on the recording of the score for Napoleon 60 page illustrated book including new essays on the film and music plus full film credits

• The Root of Heaven | DVD | (23/04/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  John Huston directs this 1950s drama starring Errol Flynn, Juliette Gréco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert and Orson Welles. Based on the novel by Romain Gary, the film follows crusading environmentalist Morel (Howard), who is determined to protect elephants from the threat of extinction. Though Morel initially struggles to gain traction for his project in French Equatorial Africa, he wins over Minna (Gréco), a local tavern worker, and Forsyth (Flynn), a former member of the British Army looking to correct past wrongs. Can the intrepid trio make a difference to the future of elephants?