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• Castle In The Sky | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An airship glides over a sea of clouds in the silvery light of a full moon. Muska a government secret agent is escorting a girl Sheeta to the Tedis Fortress. Suddenly the ship is attacked by sky pirates who like the government seek the secret of a magic levitation stone which Sheeta wears around her neck.The stone is the key that will unlock the hidden city of Laputa a floating island in the sky created by a mysterious race of people who long ago disappeared from the planet. A young boy Pazu befriends Sheeta helps her escape from her pursuers and joins her in the search to solve the mystery of the floating castle.As Sheeta and Pazu journey to Laputa they set in motion a chain of events that cannot be reversed. What they find in this strange and mysterious place is a treasure more valuable than the power to rule the world.

• The Fear | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When psychology graduate Richard (Bowz) invites a group of friends to join him for a weekend to take part in a psychological experiment there is only one subject on the agenda: fear!

• Medics - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A commendably realistic drama focusing on the everyday lives of the staff and patients at the Henry Park Hospital, a fictional teaching hospital in the north west of England, Medics ran for five highly successful series. Tom Baker, Sue Johnston, James Gaddas and Jimmi Harkishin are among the cast of this third series; Anna Friel, Robert Glenister and Jim Carter guest-star.The opening of a new cardiac unit is marred by tragedy, while the hospital continues to fight for funding for its transplant programme. Toby faces disciplinary action following a breach of confidence, Claire's baby is born amid complicated personal circumstances, and Jess's dreams of wedded bliss fail to materialise. Professor of Surgery Geoffrey Hoyt, meanwhile, deals stoically with the private agony of his wife's final days.

• La Traviata | DVD | (31/01/2003) from £21.30   |  Saving you £3.69 (17.32%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The role of Violetta in la Traviata is one which Verdi might well have composed with Anna Moffo in mind. Possessing a singular beauty of voice and appearance the soprano succeeds brilliantly in fulfilling the composer's difficult musical and dramatic demands. It is especially fortunate that Miss Moffo's celebrated portrayal has been captured in Mrio Lanfranchi's cinematic treatment a sumptuously beautiful and emotionally powerful film.

• Broken Bridges | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A fading country music star (Keith) returns to his hometown where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time.

• My Blind Date With Life | DVD | (27/11/2017) from £11.20   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the director of the Academy Award nominated film Sophie Scholl, comes the inspiring true story of Saliya (Kostja Ullman, A Most Wanted Man), a promising student who becomes nearly blind as a teenager. Keeping his condition a secret, Saliya lands an apprenticeship in the most prestigious hotel in Munich. Through sheer determination and resilience, he exceeds all expectations. But when Saliya falls in love with Laura (Anna Maria Mühe, Big Girls Don't Cry), the elaborate deception he so carefully put together begins to fall apart.

• Wes Craven's Carnival of Souls | DVD | (31/12/2001) from £6.10   |  Saving you £-3.11 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Twenty years ago Alex Grant witnessed the brutal murder of her mother. Ever since she has been haunted by hallucinations and nightmares of the horrible crime and the killer Louis Seagram. Now her vividly surreal visions become terrifyingly and unmistakably real as Louis is back in her life and out for revenge. Dressed as the carnival clown Alex once knew him to be Louis slowly torments her by playing a diabolical game. It's a game of life or death; a game Louis intends to win!

• Women Of Courage - Nurse Edith Cavell / Carve Her Name With Pride / A Town Like Alice | DVD | (12/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nurse Edith Cavell: Starring Anna Neagle and directed by Herbert Wilcox this is the gripping true story of an English nurse caught up in the horrors of the First World War. Working tirelessly to save lives in a Brussels hospital Edith Cavell makes no distinction between the civilian casualties Allied troops and the German soldiers brought in for treatment. However her sympathy for the plight of the Belgians and the rapacious behavior of their German conquerors soon leads her to become involved with a secret underground resistance movement. Carve Her Name With Pride The moving and dramatic story of Violette Szabo (McKenna) a courageous WW2 secret agent who was captured in northern France... Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as a secret agent to aid a Resistance group. Her mission successful she joins the Resistance where she stays until captured by the Germans. Tortured by the Gestapo for information she refuses to betray her comrades... Directed by Lewis Gilbert Carve Her Name With Pride is a moving tale about the endurance of the human spirit in even the most adverse circumstances. A Town Like Alice Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch star in this moving story about a party of women compelled to trek through the Malayan jungle during World War II as no Japanese office will take responsibility for their care. Based on Nevil Shute's best selling novel the film tells how the women come to terms with their hardships and how they are befriended by a tough Australian prisoner of war who dreams of returning to his home town of Alice Springs...

• Scary Movie | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £6.89   |  Saving you £13.10 (65.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The sleeper hit of the summer in the US, this is an outrageous & funny spoof of the rash of recent teenage 'slasher' movies!

• A Bay of Blood | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The waters ran red with the blood of young women, See the film that set the Slasher movie blueprint! Can you handle the terror of Mario Bava’s Giallo classic A Bay of Blood?When a rich countess is murdered, it’s a race to see who’ll inherit her estate and you can bet that the body count is going to rise rapidly in the process as the plot twists spin wildly out of control. The pile of bloodied corpses is going to get higher and higher as one by one the mangled victims are hung, speared, stabbed and macheted.Thirteen horrific murders turn the screen crimson with blood. Thirteen corpses float in the Bay of Blood... Special Features:Includes interviews with Director Joe Dante, Cameraman Gianlorenzo Battaglia, commentary with Bava expert Tim Lucas, Trailers with commentary by Edgar Wright and Radio spots, and also included is an amazing Collector's Booklet!

• X-Men - Limited Edition Steelbook (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (01/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The evolutionary next step in explosive action spectaculars is here! Loaded with hours of special features including deleted/extended scenes, behind-the-scenes featurettes and more, this Blu-ray edition of the smart, sleek (Newsweek) and striking (Time Out London) first chapter in the X-Men saga has never been more powerful!

• King Lear | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt toadying daughters and rejects his one loving but honest one... The most revered actor of the 20th century stars in 'King Lear' Shakespeare's greatest tragedy. Laurence Olivier gives an outstanding performance portraying drama's most celebrated octogenarian with spirit and pathos. This internationally acclaimed production boasts Olivier in his first appearance in a Shakespeare play filmed exclusively for television.

• Ermione - Glyndebourne Festival Opera | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £68.99   |  Saving you £-51.00 (-283.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Rossini's rarely performed 'opera series' Ermione was a surprise hit when it was first performed at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995. Set in Troy after the fall of the city to the Greeks this tragedy of great histrionic force concentrates on the bitter struggle for the love of Pyrrhus between Hector's widow Andromache and the jealous Ermione sister of Helen of Troy. Graham Vick sets this highly effective production in the classically-inspired auditorium of an

• Hangmen Also Die | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £19.94   |  Saving you £-4.95 (-33.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Triple Oscar winner Walter Brennan stars alongside Brian Donlevy and Anna Lee in Fritz Lang's masterful 1943 epic of suspense. Prague 1942. Czechoslovakia is occupied by the Nazis and suffering under a brutal regime controlled by SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich - the vicious sadist the Czech's call 'The Hangman'. When Heydrich is gunned down by a Czech patriot the fleeing resistance fighter (Brian Donlevy) finds temporary refuge in the apartment of Nasha Novotny (Anna Lee) and her family before escaping. In retaliation the Nazis take hundreds of hostages - including Nasha's father (Walter Brennan) - and threaten to shoot them if Heydrich's assassin is not handed over. Nasha Novotny is left with the most terrible decision of her life. Should she save her father - by betraying Heydrich's killer to the Gestapo? Nominated for two Oscars and co-written by the legendary playwright Bertholt Brecht Hangmen Also Die is a gripping war story given a stunning Film Noir edge. Digitally restored and remastered it is now available to own on DVD for the very first time.

• The Game | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's not quite as clever as it tries to be, but The Game does a tremendous job of presenting the story of a rigid control freak trapped in circumstances that are increasingly beyond his control. Michael Douglas plays a rich, divorced, and dreadful investment banker whose 48th birthday reminds him of his father's suicide at the same age. He's locked in the cage of his own misery until his rebellious younger brother (Sean Penn) presents him with a birthday invitation to play "The Game" (described as "an experiential Book of the Month Club")--a mysterious offering from a company called Consumer Recreation Services. Before he knows the game has even begun, Douglas is caught up in a series of unexplained events designed to strip him of his tenuous security and cast him into a maelstrom of chaos. How do you play a game that hasn't any rules? That's what Douglas has to figure out, and he can't always rely on his intelligence to form logic out of what's happening to him. Seemingly cast as the fall guy in a conspiracy thriller, he encounters a waitress (Deborah Unger) who may or may not be trustworthy, and nothing can be taken at face value in a world turned upside down. Douglas is great at conveying the sheer panic of his character's dilemma, and despite some lapses in credibility and an anticlimactic ending, The Game remains a thinking person's thriller that grabs and holds your attention. Thematic resonance abounds between this and Seven and Fight Club, two of the other films by The Game 's director David Fincher. -- Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The Thief Of Bagdad | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dating from 1924 this Thief of Bagdad is justifiably billed here as "one of the truly great silent films of the 1920s." As the forerunner of generations of magical, effect-laden fantasy epics, its importance is practically immeasurable. And still, after eight decades, it has startling, thrilling qualities which the finest computer graphics would struggle to surpass. Douglas Fairbanks, co-founder of United Artists, is the eponymous hero, swindling, fighting and leaping his way to true love through a series of adventures which take him from a magnificently surreal Bagdad to enchanted forests, ocean bottoms and magic carpet rides. "Happiness must be earned," is the motto; Fairbanks and his director Raoul Walsh certainly don't short-change their audience in bringing it to life. The effects are stunning, with a particularly gruesome slaying of a monster. Every scene is crammed with detail and incident. Fairbanks is a whirlwind of muscular, balletic flamboyance. And while his princess (Julanne Johnson) is a stereotype of vapidity, there's gleamingly malevolent support from Anna May Wong as the evil Mongol Slave Girl. Over two hours of sheer enjoyment belie the notion that cinematic sophistication is a modern achievement. On the DVD: The Thief of Bagdad disc presents the restored and remastered print (the tints have a luminous quality) complete with a 1975 score by master organist Gaylord Carter--you can almost feel the Wurlitzer rising from the pit of your entertainment centre. The audio essay, written by film historian R Dixon Smith, is an invaluable extra, providing essential information on how the picture was made and how the art designers played with proportion to create many of the visual tricks and a fantastical atmosphere. --Piers Ford

• The Piano (Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (25/01/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World | Blu Ray | (04/08/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Scott Pilgrim vs. the WorldScott Pilgrim vs. the World is a finger-blistering time capsule of right now, yet in a hundred years it will still be so crammed with charm, wit, brio, and exuberance it will still be irresistible. Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera, Superbad) is an accidental heartbreaker, a Canadian slacker who obsesses over the girls who've dumped him but hardly realizes how he's dumped other girls. But everything else in his life (including playing bass in a band) fades to insignificance when he lays eyes on Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Live Free or Die Hard), his deadpan pixie dream girl. Unfortunately, Ramona has some serious baggage: seven deadly exes, and Scott must battle them all if he wants to date Ramona. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is saturated in pop culture, particularly video games. Many events make almost no sense, but it doesn't matter--sheer narrative ferocity and glee of invention sweep the viewer along. Cera pushes his geek/dork dreamboat persona to new heights of sweet twee-ness; if this movie doesn't shoot him into the stratosphere, we live in a cold, unfeeling universe, bereft of justice. The whole supporting cast (including Kieran Culkin, Jason Schwartzman, Anna Kendrick, Chris Evans, Brandon Routh, and a host of less familiar but excellent young actors) plays every moment for all it's worth. This movie is supremely uncool and passionate, which makes it essential viewing. --Bret FetzerHot FuzzA major British hit, a lorryload of laughs and some sparkling action? We’ll have some of that. It’s fair to say that Hot Fuzz proves that Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s brilliant Shaun Of The Dead was no one-off, serving up a superbly crafted British homage to the Hollywood action movie. Deliberately set in the midst of a sleepy, quaint English village of Sandford, Pegg’s Nicholas Angel is sent there because, bluntly, he’s too good at his job, and he’s making his city colleagues look bad. The proverbial fish out of water, Angel soon discovers that not everything in Sandford is quite as it seems, and joins forces with Nick Frost’s lumbering Danny Butterman to find out what’s what. Hot Fuzz then proceeds to have a rollicking good time in both tipping its hat to the genre films that are clearly its loving inspiration, and coming up with a few tricks of its own. It does comedy better than action, with plenty of genuine laugh-out-loud moments, but it’s no slouch either when the tempo needs raising. One of the many strong cards it plays is its terrific cast, which includes former 007 Timothy Dalton, Bill Nighy, Bill Bailey, Paddy Considine, Edward Woodward and Jim Broadbent. Hot Fuzz, ultimately, just falls short of Shaun Of The Dead, but more than does enough to warrant many, many repeat viewings. It’s terrific fun, and in the true hit action movie style, all-but-demands some form of sequel. That said, with Pegg and Wright now with two excellent, and suitably different, genres ticked off, it’ll be interesting to see what they do next. A period drama, perhaps…? --Simon Brew Shaun of the DeadIt's no disparagement to describe Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s zombie-rom-com Shaun of the Dead as playing like an extended episode of Spaced. Not only does the movie have the rather modest scope of a TV production, it also boasts the snappy editing, smart camera moves, and deliciously post-modern dialogue familiar from the sitcom, as well as using many of the same cast: Pegg’s Shaun and Nick Frost’s Ed are doppelgangers of their Spaced characters, while Jessica Stevenson and Peter Serafinowicz appear in smaller roles. Unlike the TV series, it’s less important for the audience to be in on the movie in-jokes, though it won’t hurt if you know George Romero’s famous Dawn of the Dead trilogy, which is liberally plundered for zombie behaviour and mythology. Shaun is a loser, stuck in a dead-end job and held back by his slacker pal Ed. Girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) is exasperated by his lack of ambition and unceremoniously dumps him. As a result, Shaun misses out on what is apparently the end of the world. In a series of beautifully choreographed and edited scenes, including hilarious tracking shots to and from the local shop, he spectacularly fails to notice the death toll and subsequent zombie plague. Only when one appears in their back garden do Shaun and Ed take notice, hurling sundry kitchen appliances at the undead before breaking out the cricket bat. The catastrophe proves to be the catalyst for Shaun to take charge of his life, sort out his relations with his dotty mum (Penelope Wilton) and distant stepdad (Bill Nighy), and fight to win back his ex-girlfriend. Lucy Davis from The Office and Dylan Moran of Black Books fame head the excellent supporting cast. --Mark Walker

• Iron Man: Armoured Adventures - Season 2 Volume 2 | DVD | (22/07/2013) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tony Stark is not your typical teenager. He's a brilliant billionaire inventor and he's IRON MAN! Tony's adventures as Iron Man include nonstop action as he takes on the mutant menace, Magneto and the villainous Mandarin, who has returned and wants nothing more than to eliminate Iron Man for good. Tony, Pepper and James must also do battle against Justin Hammer, who will stop at nothing to get his hands on the weapons at Stark International. Anything can happen in the high-tech world of Iron ...

• Rameau - Les Boréades / Robert Carsen, La La La Human Steps, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, Opéra National de Paris | DVD | (20/06/2004) from £5.62   |  Saving you £25.63 (587.84%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A performance of the Rameau opera which follows the tale of Queen Alphise who is contemplating abdication rather that an arranged marriage.