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• The New Statesman - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The New Statesman is a multi-award winning masterpiece of political satire. Rik Mayall stars as the ruthless Alan B'Stard the egocentric MP who will stop at nothing to further his political career. Episodes comprise: Labour Of Love / The Party's Over / Let Them Sniff Cake / Keeping Mum / Natural Selection / Profit Of Boom

• Shaolin Vs Lama | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In search of a master, a kung fu obsessive named Ting rescues a young Shaolin monk from a group of local gangsters and decides to use the opportunity to his advantage, persuading the monk to sneak him into the Shaolin temple. Thrown out soon afterward, he engenders the hatred of the Golden Wheel Lama, leader of the notorious Flying Eagle Gang, by rescuing a girl from its thugs/members. Now that he's in the sights of the once peaceable monk gone bad, Ting's only chance for survival is to unloc...

• The Cranes Are Flying (Region 2) | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This moving WW2 drama deservedly won the 1958 Cannes Palme d'Or and reintroduced Soviet cinema to the outside world as well as being a huge domestic box office hit. Veronica (Tatiana Samoilova who won the Best Actress Award in Cannes for the role) is madly in love with her fianc Boris (Alexei Batalov) who departs for the front to do his patriotic duty for the war effort. The film looks at the impact of the war on the participants: the lovers who fail to say their farewells prior to Boris' departure through unfortunate circumstances; his surgeon father who has to continue caring for his patients; and the shifty cousin trying to avoid the conflict altogether. The story unravels to depict a poignant portrayal of blameless individuals doing their best to survive the travails of tragedy and hardship. The film's compelling narrative is complemented by brilliant cinematography which was way ahead of its time.

• Roberto Devereux - Donizetti | DVD | (27/07/2001) from £25.65   |  Saving you £-0.66 (-2.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In the summer of 1974 The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association began videotaping a number of live operatic and concert performances at the Filene Center in Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna Virginia for telecast in an innovative new series entitled 'In Performance at Wolf Trap'. The series met with overwhelming success and set the stage for the many live performance telecasts which have since followed.In 1975 'In Performance at Wold Trap' presented Beverly Sills in perhaps her most acclaimed portrayal that of Queen Elizabeth I in the Donizetti rarity Roberto Devereux. When Miss Sills first sang the role at the New York City Opera in 1970 Winthrop Sargeant wrote in the New Yorker She was Elizabeth from the extreme pallor of her makeup to the royal sweep of her train. It was a characterisation that I shall never forget. The combination of skills she brought to her role made this a historic moment. Daniel Webster wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer Miss Sills sang the towering role with such authority and portrayed Queen Elizabeth with such fervour that the opera unstaged (in New York) for more than 125 years now is one of the theatrical events of the year.

• Adventures Of Robin Hood - The - The Complete Series 4 | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £26.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Featuring all 26 episodes from the fourth series of The Adventures Of Robin Hood. Episodes comprise: 1. Sybella 2. The Flying Sorcerer 3. The Lady-Killer 4. A Touch Of Fever 5. The Devil You Don't Know 6. The Loaf 7. Six Strings To His Bow 8. Tuck's Love Day 9. A Bushel Of Apples 10. The Truce 11. The Debt 12. The Oath 13. The Charm Pedlar 14. Goodbye Little John 15. The Reluctant Rebel 16. The Bagpiper 17. The Parting Guest 18. Hostage For A Hangman 19. Hue And Cry 20. The C

• Crossing The Bridge - The Sound Of Istanbul | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A European musician and composer sets out to capture the musical diversity of Istanbul. A lover of experimenting with sound Alexander Hacke (of the German avantgarde band Einstrzende Neubauten) roams the streets of Istanbul with his mobile recording studio and ""magic mike"" to assemble an inspired portrait of Turkish music. His voyage leads to the discovery of a broad spectrum ranging from modern electronic rock and hip-hop to classical ""Arabesque"". As he wanders through this se

• Air Panic | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From a secret location a psychotic computer genius named Cain carries out a personal crusade of destruction. With group of innocent people in Cain's site a brilliant federal agent sets out to bring him down. Unfortunately time is running out!

• The Gilded Cage | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £12.13   |  Saving you £0.86 (6.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  American actor Alex Nicol heads the cast of this 1954 British crime melodrama The Gilded Cage. Steve (Alex Nicol) a US security officer finds that his brother in London is involved in a racket to smuggle a priceless painting out of the country. Things hot up a murder is committed and the brothers are caught up in the affair and have to fight hard to expose the gang behind the smuggling and murder. A Tempean production directed by John Gilling produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman responsible for the TV adventure series The Saint.

• Land of Promise: the British Documentary Movement 1930-1950 (4-disc set) | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £89.99   |  Saving you £-60.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Featuring 40 films by such luminaries as Humphrey Jennings Paul Rotha and Ruby Grierson this collection is a major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence. The diverse and compelling films contained here - many of which are made available for the first time since their original release - bear witness to the social and industrial transformations of a rapidly changing world. This unique collection captures the spirit and strength concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before during and immediately after the Second World War.

• A Touch Of Frost - Mistaken Identity | DVD | (04/04/2007) from £10.93   |  Saving you £-5.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  David Cronenberg's signature obsessions flower in Eastern Promises, a stunning look at violence, responsibility, and skin. Near Christmas time in London, a baby is born to a teenage junkie--an event that leads a midwife (Naomi Watts) into the world of the Russian mob. Central to this world is an ambitious enforcer (Viggo Mortensen) who's lately buddied up with the reckless son (Vincent Cassel) of a mob boss (Armin Mueller-Stahl, doing his benign-sinister thing). Screenwriter Steve Knight also wrote Dirty Pretty Things, and in some ways this is a companion piece to that film, though utterly different in style. The plot is classical to the point of being familiar, but Cronenberg doesn't allow anything to become sentimental; he and his peerless cinematographer Peter Suschitzky take a cool, controlled approach to this story. Because of that, when the movie erupts in its (relatively brief) violence, it's genuinely shocking. Cronenberg really puts the viewer through it, as though to shame the easy purveyors of pulp violence--nobody will cheer when the blood runs in this film. Still, Eastern Promises has a furtive humour, nicely conveyed in Viggo Mortensen's highly original performance. Covered in tattoos, his body a scroll depicting his personal history of violence, Mortensen conveys a subtle blend of resolve and lost-ness. He's a true, haunting mystery man. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com Stills from Eastern Promises (click for larger image). Photos by Peter Mountain. Vincent Cassel (left) and Viggo Mortensen (right). Armin Mueller-Stahl. Viggo Mortensen (left) and Naomi Watts (right) Viggo Mortensen (left) and Naomi Watts (right). Naomi Watts. Armin Mueller-Stahl (left) and Naomi Watts (right). Mina E. Mina (left), Vincent Cassel (center) and Viggo Mortensen (right). Vincent Cassel. Viggo Mortensen.

• Sanditon: Season Two (Masterpiece) | Blu Ray | (19/09/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Romance of Seville | DVD | (07/09/2015) from £4.96   |  Saving you £5.03 (50.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Featuring gorgeous cinematography from Claude Friese-Greene, this stirring drama of romance and derring-do features an early film role for debonair Egyptian-born actor Alexandre D'Arcy, playing opposite Russian-British star Marguerite Allan. Initially released as a silent film with Pathecolor sequences in May 1929, A Romance of Seville was re-released in July 1930 without the stencil colouring but with new titles and a soundtrack showcasing a feature-length medley of colourful Spanish music. The Pathecolor version no longer exists, but the re-release is presented here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Dolores and Ramon celebrate their arranged betrothal with little enthusiasm: Dolores has a lover, and Ramon wants his freedom so that he can pursue Pepita. Having heard of Ramon's betrothal, Pepita gives her heart to another but when bandits accost her and try to rob her father, they give the dashing Ramon just the chance he needs to prove the gallant lover!

• Mimic 1 & 2 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A double bill of terrifying creature features including Mimic and the sequel Mimic 2. Mimic: A team of scientists discover a miracle cure that stops the spread of a deadly disease only to find out three years later that something has gone terribly wrong. Their creation has taken on a horrifying life of its own able to mimic and destroy its every predator - even man! And now it threatens to wipe out an entire city...unless they stop it in time... Mimic 2: Just when they were all thought to be dead the giant cockroaches are back and this time they've mutated to take on human form!

• The Zone | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles (Davi) is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp (Gazzara). As the price of his freedom Welles is ordered to undertake a deadly mission to destroy a nuclear processing plant in a foreign nation owned by dangerous tyrant Lothar Krasna (Godunov)...

• Rabbit Test | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The story of Lionel the first man ever to get pregnant who soon goes from unknown to celebrity when he is diagnosed! Soon everyone's trying to cash in on his act including the president! But will his fiancee and his mother EVER recover from the shock!

• Hangmen Also Die | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The shot heard 'round the world! Fritz Lang one of the masters of the German expressionist cinema turns his sinister imagination and shadowy techniques to a web like take of wartime espionage in Hangmen Also Die. Set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation the film depicts an Eastern Europe populated by spies traitors and revolutionaries' a deadly funhouse of political intrigue in which every personal encounter brings with it the threat of betrayal. Pur

• Cry Of The Innocent | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• On The Beat | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £8.96   |  Saving you £1.03 (11.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Having proved himself a war hero in The Square Peg (1958), Norman Pitkin, Norman Wisdom's most famous incarnation of his riotous buffoon character, is here demobbed and, as usual for a Wisdom movie, dreaming of something better. Norman wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a policeman, but being decidedly on the short side, has to settle for washing police cars. Of course it's not long before Norman is impersonating an officer of the law. As in The Square Peg, Wisdom also plays his nemesis here, the German General Schreiber, as well as the chief suspect in a series of jewel robberies which only Pitkin's chaotic antics can solve. In fact, as if emphasising that On the Beat really is The Square Peg with different uniforms, Terence Alexander, who later found fame as Charlie Hungerford in the long running BBC series Bergerac, also returns, albeit playing a different character. Wisdom film-regular David Lodge, previously seen co-starring in The Bulldog Breed (1960) is also on hand, though otherwise the supporting cast is less stellar than before. Solid if very predictable feel-good entertainment, Wisdom's particular brand of charming anarchy proves again his box-office formula could withstand endless variations. --Gary S Dalkin

• The New Statesman - The Complete Fourth Series | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The New Statesman is a multi-award winning masterpiece of political satire. Rik Mayall stars as the ruthless Alan B'Stard the egocentric MP who will stop at nothing to further his political career. Episodes comprise: Back From The Mort / H*A*S*H / Speaking In Tongues / Heil And Farewell / A Bigger Splash / The Irresistible Rise Of Alan B'Stard

• Cats & Dogs | Blu Ray | (26/07/2010) from £9.15   |  Saving you £8.84 (49.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Things Are Gonna Get Hairy! They're cunning. They're stealthy. They're waging a top-secret ultra-high-tech struggle for global domination right under our noses. They're Cats & Dogs! Witness this epic tail of what happens when an eccentric professor (Jeff Goldblum) makes a discovery that could tip the age-old balance of pet power. Now an inexperienced young beagle pup named Lou (voiced by Tobey Maguire) is about to begin the ultimate mission im-paws-ible: to save humanity from a total cat-tastrophe!