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• Under The Volcano | Blu Ray | (20/07/2015) from £29.68   |  Saving you £-7.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Double Oscar nominated film including Best Actor for Albert Finney. Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney) British Consul to Mexico has quit his job after divorcing Yvonne (Jacqueline Bisset) and takes solace with a bottle of booze. However Yvonne decides to return to Cuernavaca along with Geoffrey’s half-brother (Anthony Andrews) in order to get Geoffrey sober again. But a self-destructive drunk is not an easy man to reclaim…

• Smash-Up | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £7.43   |  Saving you £-2.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Nightclub singer Angie Evans (Susan Hayward) marries struggling songwriter Ken Conway (Lee Bowman) and retires to raise a family. He has a change of luck and his star begins to rise but is tempered by her growing dependence on alcohol. The role earned Susan Hayward her first Oscar nomination.

• The World At War - Special Collectors Edition | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  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. Each 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

• Devil In A Blue Dress | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Despite rave reviews as one of the most stylish and intelligent detective pictures in a number of years, this 1995 adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel never found a mass audience. Too bad, because Carl Franklin's film is nearly perfect in every way, from its rich, shadowy look to its depiction of life in post-World War II black America (LA-style) to the acting of Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle and others. Washington plays Easy Rawlins, an aircraft factory worker who is laid off only to find his true calling: as a private eye, albeit an unlicensed one. Hired to find a missing woman, he becomes entangled in a complex but satisfying case involving sex, corruption, racism and, of course, money. Devil In A Blue Dress is top-notch from top to bottom--and Cheadle is dangerously funny as Easy's best friend, a killer named Mouse. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• The Lorax/How The Grinch Stole Christmas Double Pack | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Lorax A ruined industrialist tells his tale of his environmentally self destructive greed despite the warnings of an old forest creature. How The Grinch Stole Christmas A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.

• Anna Karenina (DVD) 2010 | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £34.14   |  Saving you £-21.15 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Anna Karenina

• Mr Holland's Opus/Broadcast News/Pushing Tin | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (-92.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mr. Holland's Opus: In an Academy Award-nominated performance Richard Dreyfuss stars as Glenn Holland in this uplifting story about a musician/composer who reluctantly accepts a day job as a teacher. But soon the job becomes his true passion as he strives to inspire his students to love music as much as he does. Broadcast News: Tom (Hurt) is the station's golden boy. Handsome and irresistible he's got everything going for him. Aaron (Brooks) is a brilliant reporter desperate to be a star but destined to fail. Jane (Hunter) is the youngest and most talented producer around. Loved by both men she has to choose between them and her career... Pushing Tin: In the tradition of Grosse Point Blank comes an unconventional comedy about two air traffic controllers whose intense rivalry and penchant for one-upmanship causes hilarious havoc with their careers their marriages - and the planes in their airspace. Nick Falzone (John Cusack) is the busiest and the best air traffic controller on Long Island - until Russell Bell (Billy Bob Thornton) roars into town like a motorcycle - riding cowboy. Fueled by caffeine and machismo the two men embark upon an uproarious contest of wit and wills that can ultimately only have one winner...

• Dead & Buried | Blu Ray | (27/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Simpatico | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £8.66   |  Saving you £4.33 (50.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  At first glance, Lyle Carter seems to have it all. A handsome millionaire with a beautiful wife and a sprawling estate in Lexington, Kentucky, Carter has built his empire on breeding and training thoroughbreds.

• John Mayall&The Bluesbreake/In The Shadow Of Legends | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The story of this vibrant night of Blues, filmed over a decade after the so-called Blues Boom in the UK stimulated a worldwide rediscovery of the roots of Rock 'N' Roll, is the story of John Mayall, the pioneer of British Blues, and roving global ambassador fro the genre. Memphis and Chicago Blues legends joined British Blues icon John Mayall and his Bluesbreakers on stage, one special night in June 1982 at New Jersey's Capitol Theater. The concert turned out to be a summit gathering of some of the greatest names in Blues music, when guitarists Albert King and Buddy Guy, harmonica player Junior Wells and singers Etta James and Sippie Wallace, all showed up to sit in with the band.

• Gregory Peck Collection - The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit/Twelve O'Clock High/Gentleman's Agreement/The Bravados/The Gunfighter | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Titles Comprises: The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit (Dir. Nunnally Johnson) (1956): An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well. Twelve O'Clock High (Dir. Henry King) (1949): Convinced an Air Force Commander is at breaking point Brigadier General Savage (Gregory 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. Gentleman's Agreement (Dir. Elia Kazan) (1947): One of the first films to directly tackle racial prejudice this acclaimed adaptation of Laura Z. Hobson's bestseller stars Gregory Peck as a journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism. Searching for an angle he finally decides to pose as a Jew - and soon discovers what it is like to be a victim of religious intolerance. The Bravados (Dir. Henry King) (1958): When four men who Jim Douglas (Gregory Peck) believes raped and killed his wife escape from their death sentences Jim sets out to track the men down and enact his own vengeance. An honest man Jim sees his actions as just and brave but as he crisscrosses Mexico to exact an eye for an eye he comes to realize that he has lost something of himself in his self-absorbed quest for revenge. The Gunfighter (Dir. Henry King) ()1950: Gregory Peck stars as Jimmy Ringo one of the fastest draws in the West but desperately sick of killing and lonely traveling. This gripping tale surrounds Ringo's efforts to build a new life. Throughout encounters with old friends new enemies his estranged wife and his first meeting with his only child Peck offers an intricate portrait of a man harboring deep regrets about his own past.

• Le Rossignol - Stravinsky | DVD | (03/01/2005) from £11.88   |  Saving you £4.11 (34.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This DVD is a stunning film adaptation of Stravinsky's Rossignol with Natalie Dessay in the title role. Inspired by Stravinsky's words: ""I said somewhere that it wasn't enough to hear the music you had to see it too..."" the firlm-maker Christian Chaudet made an innovative and ambitious animated film illustrating the opera score with 3 dimensial images into which the singers have been inserted. The film offers superb narrative and visual ingredients following Stravinsky's own st

• Cold Lazarus | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Cold Lazarus we find the cryogenically stored brain of Daniel Freed trapped in a future world where scientists gather to watch his projected memories. Under pressure from rival corporate interests the scientists fall victim to the tricks that memory can play picking at threads as they try to comprehend how personal histories are written - and can be rewritten. As elements of truth and fiction explosively intertwine will the mind of Daniel Feeld finally be set free?

• Meet Joe Black / Mona Lisa Smile / Erin Brockovich | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Meet Joe Black (Dir. Martin Brest 1998): Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) has it all success wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger Joe Black (Brad Pitt) who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time Bill agrees to serve as Joe's earthly guide. But will he regret his choice when Joe unexpectedly falls in love with Bill's beautiful daughter Susan (Claire Forlani)? Mona Lisa Smile (Dir. Mike Newell 2003): Set in 1953 Katherine Watson (Roberts) is a free-spirited graduate of UC Berkeley who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom. Erin Brockovich (Dir. Steven Soderbergh 2003): She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees. A research assistant (Roberts) helps an attorney (Finney) in a lawsuit against a large utility company blamed for causing an outbreak of cancer and other illnesses in a small community.

• John Mayall and the Bluebreakers - Live at Capitol Nj | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  John Mayall is known as the White King of Black Blues. His way of singing his harmonica playing and his typical Hammond organ sound reigned supreme in the realm of the blues during the sixties and seventies. I never made commercial compromises; everything I did I did for myself and nobody else Mayall confessed - words that are as honest and credible as his music. In 1982 Mayall decided to reunite the Bluesbreakers in the original line-up for a tour. In June of that year there was a spectacular extravaganza at New Jersey's Capitol Theatre when John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers open a concert night titled Jammin' With The Blues Greats: white blues from Britain meets Chicago and Memphis blues. The audience paid homage to the Bluesbreakers who accompanied five blues immortals through the night. Tracklist: 1. An Eye For An Eye 2. Baby What Ya Want Me To Do feat. Etta James 3. Messin With The Kid feat. Buddy Guy & Junior Wells 4. Dont Start Me Talkin feat. Buddy Guy & Junior Wells 5. My Time After A while 6. Shorty George feat. Sippie Wallace 7. The Dark Side Of Midnight 8. Why Are You So Mean To Me? feat. Albert King 9. Born Under A Bad 10. Sign feat. Albert King 11. Call It Stormy Monday feat. Albert King 12. C. C. Rider Jam Allstars 13. Room To Move

• Ally McBeal - Season 4 Box Set 2 | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £10.87   |  Saving you £12.11 (153.68%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Too mainstream to be a cult, yet too odd to be totally conventional, Ally McBeal has become one of televisions curios. While its early days saw the show become something of a victim of its own self-conscious stylising, the episodes included on series 4 volume 2 are far stronger in terms of characterisation and plot and the storylines are easy to pick up. Not that the quirks have been exiled--the first programme features McBeal hallucinating about Barry Manilow--rather they have now become part of the overall feel of the show. Despite the attention lavished on both the lead character and the actress who plays her, the show is a real ensemble piece and works best when all the players are together. One of the collection's weakest moments is the episode that sends the usually excellent Richard and John off to LA on their own, an episode which lays threat to a dreaded spin off. While there are annoying moments--could they not have edited out the "previously on Ally McBeal" parts for retail release and why do they never go out with anyone other than work colleagues--with guest appearances from the likes of Sting this is a must for any fan of the series. On the DVD: Sadly, the DVD collection betrays very little thought or effort. The pace of the show is certainly brisk (especially when shorn of the adverts) and the picture quality is equally dynamic, instilling real depth to the many aerial shots of Boston itself. Given that music is such an integral part in the show, it is no surprise that the soundtrack has been given a boost by its recreation in Dolby digital stereo. The interactive menu, however, is clumsy to use and having to work back through the options at the end of each episode quickly becomes tiresome. The complete lack of any extras whatsoever is also a definite minus point.--Phil Udell

• Wild River | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An outstanding but obscure film from classic director Elia Kazan detailing the difficulties in building a dam on the Tennessee river with opposition from locals across the colour divide...

• My Dad's The Prime Minister | DVD | (11/06/2004) from £5.52   |  Saving you £9.47 (171.56%)   |  RRP £14.99

  You have to feel sorry for Dillon Phillips (Joe Prospero). It's hard enough being twelve years old -but when your dad's the Prime Minister (Robert Bathurst) and has just been voted Naffest Man in Britain by your favourite pop magazine life is just one long embarrassment. You get escorted everywhere by your crazy ex-SAS bodyguard your dad's Spin Doctor interferes with everything and the slightest bit of bad behaviour may trigger an international crisis! This release features all six episode from Series One of Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's My Dad's The Prime Minister. Episode titles: Sport's Day The Party Ghosts The School Play The Project Homework.

• Longest Day, The / Von Ryan's Express / Tora! Tora! Tora! | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Longest Day: On June 6 1944 the Allied Invasion of France marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination over Europe. The attack involved 3 000 000 men 11 000 planes and 4 000 ships comprising the largest armada the world has ever seen. Presented in its original black & white version 'The Longest Day' is a vivid hour-by-hour re-creation of this historic event. Featuring a stellar international cast and told from the perspectives of both sides it is a fascinating look at the massive preparations mistakes and random events that determined the outcome of one of the biggest battles in history. Von Ryan's Express: As the Allies begin to push the Nazis back toward Germany U.S. combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) is shot down and placed in a prison camp. Initially he's more concerned with surviving than escaping earning him the insulting nickname Von Ryan. But in time Ryan takes over from the commanding British officer (Trevor Howard) and masterminds a daredevil race for freedom that involves commandeering a train and getting it across Italy to Switzerland with the Nazis in hot pursuit. Then it's all blazing action hair-raising chases and spectacular Italian scenery in this Oscar-nominated adventure that runs full speed until the nail-biting finale! Tora! Tora! Tora! is the Japanese signal to attack - and this movie meticulously recreates the attack on Pearl Harbor and the events leading up to it. Opening scenes contrast the American and Japanese positions. Japanese imperialists decide to stage the attack. Top U.S. brass ignore its possibility. Intercepted Japanese messages warn of it - but never reach F.D.R.'s desk. Radar warnings are disregarded. Even the entrapment of a Japanese submarine in Pearl Harbor before the attack goes unreported. Ultimately the Day of Infamy arrives - in the most spectacular gut-wrenching cavalcade of action.

• Strauss: Elektra | Blu Ray | (01/11/2010) from £4.85   |  Saving you £25.14 (518.35%)   |  RRP £29.99

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