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• Robin Hood - Men In Tights | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £14.77   |  Saving you £-8.78 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Can this one-joke spoof possibly be from the same man who gave us The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein? Sadly, the answer is yes. Mel Brooks treads water shamelessly with Robin Hood: Men in Tights and the few laughs to be had depend almost entirely on mocking Kevin Costner's earnest blockbuster Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves from two years earlier ("Unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent", boasts Cary Elwes' Robin). Not only is this far too easy a target for a skit, but the single-film parody concept is stretched way too thin over an entire movie (Brooks elected to repeat the trick with 1995's Dracula: Dead and Loving It). Elwes models his portrayal on Errol Flynn, but only infrequently gets to have fun with the legend: in the climactic sword fight, for example, the shadow play of Flynn and Basil Rathbone's sheriff is affectionately parodied, but such moments are few and far between. Brooks regular Dom DeLuise chips in with a Marlon Brando impersonation, but everyone else is simply taking off characters from the Costner movie: Patrick Stewart even gives us his best Sean Connery impression as a Scottish Richard I. Brooks himself does his stock Jewish act, this time as Rabbi Tuckman; Isaac Hayes has a small cameo in the Morgan Freeman part but seems to think Jerusalem is in Africa; while his on-screen son (David Chappelle) makes the mistake of reminding the audience of what they are missing: "A black sheriff? Why not, it worked in Blazing Saddles". Indeed it did. On the DVD: Precious few extras here, just a small behind the scenes feature and trailer. But the anamorphic picture looks good. --Mark Walker

• The Champ | DVD | (05/05/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Z Nation Season 5 | Blu Ray | (28/01/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An unlikely group of survivors become reluctant heroes in thE Zombie Apocalypse when they find themselves on a mission to save humanity. In Season Five of Z Nation, Warren has survived the drone crash but our heroes soon learn the Black Rain had a totally unexpected side effect. Instead of melting Zombies for a reset, post-Black Rain Zombies are conscious, some newly dead can even talk, giving rise to a new kind of Zombie, TALKERS. Depending on the condition of their body, a TALKER might pass for human--as long as they have plenty of bizkits (is the secret ingredient really brains?) to keep them from going rabid Z.

• Z Nation: Season One, Two & Three | Blu Ray | (09/10/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £21.51 (215.32%)   |  RRP £31.50

  All 43 episodes from Seasons One, Two & Three of the hit Zombie series, Z Nation - in a 12 disc set. SEASON ONE Three years after the devastating ZN1 virus gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of a zombie attack and humanity s last hope to develop a vaccine from New York to California. However, he s hiding a secret that could endanger the mission. Z Nation: Season 1 is a rollercoaster of non-stop thrills, chills, and blood-splattering fun. EXTRAS: Race for The Cure: The Making of Z Nation Preparing for the ZN1 Virus Behind the Gore Music of The Apocalypse Zombie Kill Reel Z-Nation Gag Reel and more SEASON TWO While the heroes barely surviving the nuclear blasts search for Murphy, Citizen Z broadcasts Murphy's identity and offers a bounty from the CDC to get him to California safely. Suddenly everyone wants a piece of The Murphy, including a mysterious and deadly bounty hunter, Vasquez. EXTRAS: Making Of Season 2 Behind The Effects Zombie Kill Reel SEASON THREE With Operation Bite Mark in shambles and our heroes again on the hunt for Murphy, the mission has changed, the team makeup has changed, and even the threats have changed. With all new horrors like Wolf-Z's, Electro-Shock Z's, and the deadly but surprisingly feral humans called 'Enders', the Apocalypse has gotten worse, and the stakes have gotten higher.

• The Breach | DVD | (10/07/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Niagara | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In this sinister and dark portrait of human sexuality, Marilyn Monroe portrays a sexy and scheming wife who seduces her lover into helping with the murder of her husband during a romantic weekend at Niagara Falls.

• The Littlest Hobo - Series 1 | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  For a generation of kids which are now young adults The Littlest Hobo was the iconic TV series that ran throughout their childhood. It was the 'Lassie' for the 80's generation and with one of the most memorable theme tunes ever recorded it takes people back as only nostalgia can to when life was simpler and happier. London is an extremely intelligent wandering German Shepherd who walks into a different place in each episode of this long-running television series and helps people down on their luck or in trouble. Then when his job is done London declines to be the pet of the people he has helped and goes on his way. Enjoy for the first time on DVD the complete first season of 'The Littlest Hobo'.

• Edge Of Darkness - Part 1: Into The Shadows / Part 2: Northmoor | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £15.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (92.38%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This is the twilight world of half-truths and half-lives where the obsessive apparatus of state security interlocks with sinister and furtive forces from big business. It is the hidden battleground where private grief and individual suffering and death are dwarfed by the struggle for absolute power and the nightmare of nuclear catastrophe. Part One - 'Into The Shadows': His investigation into his daughter's murder reveals to Ronald Craven her involvement in nuclear power politics terrorism and death. Despite the agonies of his grief Craven finds himself drawn into Emma's secret world. Part Two - 'Northmoor': Craven and renegade US agent Jedburgh pursue their mission to discover the deadly secret of an underworld nuclear facility and begin a desperate race to avert catastrophe with mysterious wisdom of GAIA.

• Churchill's Secret | DVD | (07/03/2016) from £5.29   |  Saving you £17.70 (334.59%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Set during the summer of 1953, Churchill's Secret tells a little-known part of Winston Churchill's great life story. Prime Minister for the second time and in his late 70's, Churchill suffers a life-threatening stroke, which his inner circle conspired to hide from the public, the film charts the course of Winston's remarkable recovery and investigates the strain that his great public service wrought upon his private life. Told from the point of view of his family, his doctor, the men he championed and, most touchingly, his young nurse, Churchill's Secret follows Winston's extraordinary battle to recover, casting an honest light on the tensions within his brilliant and dysfunctional family.

• Dry Wind | DVD | (23/11/2020) from £11.62   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brazilian gay-themed drama written and directed by Daniel Nolasco. While engaged in a passionate affair with his colleague Ricardo (Allan Jacinto Santana), middle-aged factory worker Sandro (Leandro Faria Lelo) develops an attraction to Maicon (Rafael Teophilo), a new arrival in their rural Goias town. However, Sandro is left sidelined after Ricardo also shows an interest in Maicon.

• Baghead | DVD | (08/04/2024) from £6.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Snows Of Kilimanjaro | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £9.60   |  Saving you £-4.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Based on the Ernest Hemigway novel of the same name Peck plays the part of a wounded hunter who is accompanied by two young women in the African wilds. Each of them tries to analyse his or her past life.

• East Of Ipswich | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £19.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• The Book Of Gabrielle | DVD | (12/02/2018) from £5.27   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gabrielle is writing an illustrated guide book on sex called 'How To Do It.' At a book signing she meets Saul, an established male writer who is straight. She both loves and hates his work which has seeped into her secular Jewish life from childhood. The more Gabrielle tells him about her book the more he wants to know about her life; the relationship with her younger girlfriend Olivia and her determination to stop using my penis in sex . As her book takes form, is Saul jealous or desirous? Their friendship is tested as is Gabrielle's relationship with Olivia. The film muses on how we write, how we draw. And the nature of story and what it makes us do.

• Fun With Dick And Jane | DVD | (09/01/2006) from £9.02   |  Saving you £3.97 (44.01%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bonnie and Clyde they ain't. George Segal and Jane Fonda star in this hilarious send-up of upper middle-class mores and the price people are willing to pay to maintain a comfortable lifestyle. Just as they're putting in a new pool at the house that has sunk them deep into debt Dick is fired from his high-paying job as an executive. Housewife Jane isn't too worried at first figuring she'll go to work and they'll just tighten their belts for awhile but it quickly becomes appa

• Slap Shot | DVD | (03/10/2002) from £16.16   |  Saving you £-6.17 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Paul Newman and his Butch Cassidy director, George Roy Hill, made a very original comedy in this 1977 story of an over-the-hill player/coach (Newman) for a lousy hockey team who gets results when he teaches his players to get dirty. One of the most hilariously profane movies ever to come out of Hollywood, this is the kind of film that makes its own rules as it goes along. Newman is very good, and while Hill goes for the gusto in terms of capturing the violence of this world, his instinct for comedy has never been sharper. Great support from Strother Martin, Paul Dooley, and the rest. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• He Snoops to Conquer | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £3.29   |  Saving you £6.70 (203.65%)   |  RRP £9.99

  George Fomby is joined by Robertson Hare in this fabulous 194s British Musical comedy, available for the very first time on DVD. The war is over and it's time to build a better Britain - but not if the crooks on Tangleton Town Council have their way! Knocking down Tangleton's slums will ruin their business interests. When Council tea boy George Gribble (George Formby) is employed to go door-to-door filing in a council survey, he uncovers just how poor and unhappy the townspeople are - and the Council have to bury the results. He also gets to meet the eccentric and reclusive inventor Sir Timothy Stawbridge (Robertson Hare) - a meeting that results in wanton destruction with a mechanised road sweeper, a spot of house breaking and a furious police chase! When news gets out that the survey has been hushed up, the townspeople want George's blood - and the only way he can set things right is to team up with Sir Timothy's beautiful daughter and take on all the bigwigs from the council!

• People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan | Blu Ray | (22/11/2021) from £11.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Since the end of their pirate radio station, life has been quiet for the Kurupt FM boys, but everything is about to change. News reaches them that one of their songs has been used on a popular game show in Japan. They've made it! Their music is reaching hundreds of thousands of people! It's finally time for them to enjoy the fame and fortune that they've always known they deserved. Chabuddy G steps excitedly back into his management role as Grindah, Beats, Steves and Decoy begin their journey to international stardom... But is Japan really ready for Kurupt FM?

• Southern Comfort (Limited Edition packaging) | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £13.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Southern Comfort is more than merely Deliverance in the Louisiana Bayou. Walter Hill's taut little tale of weekend warrior National Guardsman on swamp exercises reverberates with echoes of Vietnam. Powers Booth brings a hard pragmatism to the "new guy" in the unit, a Texas transplant less than thrilled with his new unit. "They're just Louisiana versions of the same rednecks I served with in El Paso", he tells level-headed Keith Carradine. The barely functional unit of city boys and macho rednecks invade the environs of the local Cajun trappers and poachers, "borrowing" the locals' boats and sending bursts of blank rounds over their heads in a show of contempt. Before they know it the dysfunctional strangers in a strange land are on the losing end of guerrilla war. The swamp rats kill their commanding officer (Peter Coyote) and terrorise the bickering bunch as they flee blindly through the jungle without a map, a compass, or a leader to speak of. Hill directs with a clean simplicity, creating tension as much from the primal landscape and the Cajuns' unsettling reign of terror as from the dynamics of a platoon of battle virgins tearing itself apart from rage and fear. Ry Cooder's eerie and haunting score and the primal, claustrophobic landscape only intensifies the paranoia as the city boys splinter with infighting (sparked by a bullying Fred Ward), blunder through booby traps and ambushes, and finally turn just as savage as their pursuers in their drive to survive. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Ice Cold In Alex | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £6.59   |  Saving you £7.40 (112.29%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The title Ice Cold in Alex refers to the beer the heroes of this 1958 British World War Two classic plan to drink in Alexandria, once they have escaped from the Germans, negotiated minefields and survived both mechanical failure and the killing heat of the North African sands. The setting is Libya in 1942, at the height of the campaigns featured in The Desert Fox (1951) and The Desert Rats (1953), and a disparate group in a military ambulance--which include a Nazi agent to add tension of one kind and a beautiful nurse to add tension of another--must make an epic journey to safety. Staring John Mills, Sylvia Sims, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews the terror and poignancy comes from our certainty that not everyone will survive, such that the suspense sometimes reaches near unbearable levels. Director J Lee-Thomson was clearly inspired by the then recent French masterpiece, The Wages of Fear (1952) and handles both the character drama and set-pieces with great skill. He would go on to make another great war adventure, The Guns of Navarone (1961), also starring Anthony Quayle, who then returned to the desert for the ultimate British war classic, Lawrence of Arabia (1962). --Gary S. Dalkin