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• The Strauss Family | DVD | (02/04/2018) from £24.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A lavish costume drama from the early 1970s, The Strauss Family dramatises the story of the remarkable musical dynasty. Spanning 75 years and encompassing both intimate human drama and political turmoil, it charts the rise of the elder Johann Strauss from humble beginnings to glittering success, through tragedy, intrigue, marriages and scandalous love affairs and intense rivalry between father and son. Conceived by world-famous tenor Murray Dickie and earning a BAFTA nomination for Anne Stallybrass, it features some of the composers' best-loved music as well as several rediscovered pieces, while authentic choreography and sumptuous reconstructions evoke the splendour of 19th-century Vienna. Recorded as eight episodes, on its original transmission in 1972 the opening two episodes were combined, losing half an hour in the process; this set presents the series as intended, with all eight episodes complete and uncut.

• Tim Burton 4 Movie Collection | Blu Ray | (26/10/2015) from £9.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (70.07%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Collection of four Tim Burton films. The stop-motion animated musical 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' (1993), produced and visualised by Tim Burton, is set in a parallel world where different lands represent different holiday periods. Skeleton Jack (voice of Chris Sarandon) from Halloween Town becomes converted to Christmas and sets out to spread joy in the world. However, when Jack's mission leads him to kidnap Santa (voice of Edward Ivory) it becomes clear that he is not really in tune with the Yuletide spirit. In 'Alice in Wonderland' (2010), based on the characters from the Lewis Carroll classics 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass', the 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns to the magical world of her childhood adventure to reunite with her friends the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), Tweedledum and Tweedledee (both played by Matt Lucas), the Dormouse (Barbara Windsor), the Caterpillar (Alan Rickman) and the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry). Alice discovers her true destiny as she joins forces with the colourful denizens of Wonderland to overthrow the wicked Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter). 'Frankenweenie' (2012), Burton's black and white stop-motion homage to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', is a remake of his 1984 short of the same name. The story follows a young boy called Victor (voice of Charlie Tahan), who harnesses the powers of science to bring his beloved pet dog Sparky back to life - with unexpected and alarming consequences. 'Ed Wood' (1994) is a biopic of one of Hollywood's worst film directors. Setting up shop in Tinseltown with plenty of enthusiasm but no discernible talent, Ed Wood (Depp) is undeterred when his debut feature, cross-dressing drama 'Glen Or Glenda' (in which he also stars) is a flop. He goes on to make 'Bride of the Monster', also a commercial and creative disaster, with ailing horror star Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau), before embarking on his most grandiose scheme yet: 'Plan 9 from Outer Space'...

• Awakenings | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £7.68   |  Saving you £5.31 (69.14%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the acclaimed book by neurologist Oliver Sacks, director Penny Marshall's hit 1990 drama Awakenings stars Robin Williams as Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Sayer is a neurologist who discovers that the drug L-Dopa can be used to "unlock" patients in a mental hospital from the mysterious sleeping sickness that has left them utterly immobilized. Leonard (Robert De Niro) is one such patient who awakens after being in a comatose state for 30 years, leaving Sayer to guide Leonard in adjusting to the world around him. Penelope Ann Miller costars as the daughter of another patient, with whom Leonard falls tenuously in love. Earning Oscar nominations for best picture, actor and screenplay, this moving fact-based drama was a hit with critics and audiences alike. --Jeff Shannon

• Jason King: The Complete Series (Repackaged) | DVD | (11/12/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  This spin-off from the earlier Department S continued the adventures of Jason King. After leaving Department S Jason settled down to a full-time career of writing Mark Caine novels. He philandered his way around the world doing research for his stories and solving a variety of odd cases usually involving beautiful women.

• Farewell My Lovely | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £16.95   |  Saving you £-6.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Phillip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a missing necklace and a missing hoodlum's moll named Velma. Sharply directed by Edward Dymytrk Murder My Sweet is film at its most noir creating a moody sense of a world that never plays on the level. Casting against type Dick Powell puts sunny crooner roles behind him dishing hardboiled patter and wearing five-going-on-six-o'clock stubble so well that source author Raymond Chandler called Powell his favorite screen Marlowe. ""I'm just a small businessman in a very messy business "" the PI observes. With wit and trendsetting style to burn it's never business as usual.

• My Beautiful Laundrette | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £10.43   |  Saving you £-0.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In case you'd forgotten, My Beautiful Laundrette will remind you of those mid-80s days when Thatcherism ruled the earth (or so it seemed) and money was king. Stephen Frears' low-budget realisation of Hanif Kureishi's subversively critical play captures the contradictions of that time in a way that's as fresh today as when it was new. Omar's wheeler-dealer uncle, Nasser (Saeed Jaffrey), sums it up when he says, "In this damn country, which we hate and love, you can get anything you want". He sets up Omar (Gordon Warnecke) with a rundown laundrette and the instruction to make it a success, which Omar temporarily does, with the help of his childhood friend Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis). When the film first came out, it was the gay content that dominated the column inches, whereas now it seems a sensitive and multi-faceted summation of its decade, exploring social, ethnic and sexual issues and contradictions. Bringing together two such different characters as Omar--Asian, ambitious, for whom success is defined by wealth--and former childhood friend Johnny--white trash, ex-National Front--was inspired. Watching their friendship develop into love, and the ensuing bitterness and misunderstanding that they suffer from friends and family is very poignant. All the lead roles are well taken, the contradictory character of Nasser in particular. By turns, funny, touching and anger-inducing, this is a movie that wears its age lightly and its era proudly. On the DVD: the picture is in 4:3 ratio with a Dolby Digital soundtrack. There's an original trailer and filmographies of the four main characters, with an additional biography for Day-Lewis. --Harriet Smith

• The Moth Diaries | DVD | (16/09/2013) from £3.77   |  Saving you £10.98 (546.27%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Led by British talent Lily Cole (Snow White and the Huntsman The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) Moth Diaries is a modern gothic coming of age story set in a world of obsessive teenage girl friendship. Rebecca (Sarah Bolger) a young girl haunted by her father's suicide begins a new year at an elite girls' boarding school. Before long Rebecca's close friendship with the popular Lucy (Sarah Gadon) is tested by the arrival of the dark and mysterious Ernessa (Lily Cole). Lucy quickly falls under the glamorous Ernessa's spell and becomes emotionally and physically consumed by their intense friendship. Hurt and confused Rebecca develops a crush on her English teacher Mr. Davies (Scott Speedman) who is teaching a class in Gothic fiction. As she immerses herself in their assigned reading the vampire novel Carmilla Rebecca becomes convinced that Ernessa is a vampire. Mysterious deaths begin to occur and Rebecca is convinced Ernessa is to blame but when her warnings are dismissed as the result of obsessive jealousy she decides that she must take drastic action to save herself and those around her.

• Upstairs Downstairs - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £15.92   |  Saving you £14.07 (88.38%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The complete third series of the outstanding Emmy Award-winning Upstairs Downstairs. Episodes Comprise: 1. Miss Forrest 2. A House Divided 3. A Change Of Scene 4. A Family Secret 5. Rose's Pigeon 6. Desirous Of Change 7. Word Of Honour 8. The Bolter 9. Goodwill To All Men 10. What The Footman Saw 11. A Perfect Stranger 12. Distant Thunder 13. The Sudden Storm

• Narrow Margin - 12 Stunden Angst | Blu Ray | (08/04/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Matrix Reloaded | DVD | (11/10/2003) from £4.07   |  Saving you £9.92 (243.73%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to battle a war against the A.I.s and free more minds from the Matrix.

• Upstairs Downstairs - Series 1 - The Colour Edition | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Landmark British drama series' first season set in turn-of-the-century England chronicles life among the residents of 165 Eaton Place. This is the first series of the classic British drama 'Upstairs Downstairs'. It is obvious in this first season that the budgets are low with the sets sparse and 'bloopers' often not being edited out. This season and the next (which was shown as two series in Britain) were combined into 13 episodes and shown in the US to great acclaim; it won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series and an Emmy nomination for Jean Marsh as Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

• The Master Of Bankdam | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £15.70   |  Saving you £-2.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An epic film drama on the lives of three generations of Yorkshire mill-owners during Britain's turbulent Industrial Revolution. Simeon Crowther (Tom Walls) decides to hand over the family textile mill of Bankdam to his two sons Joshua (Dennis Price) and Zebediah (Stephen Murray). But Zebediah's reckless attitude endangers the whole survival of the family business and as catastrophe strikes the mill and they clash with the emerging trade union movement; who will save the mill and earn the title of The Master of Bankdam? First ever DVD release of this period Northern drama set amongst the dark satanic mills of Yorkshire. Renowned for coining the phrase 'there's trouble at t'mill.' An all-star cast with many small first-time appearances from stars such as Nicolas Parsons Part of the Odeon series 'Best of British' which showcases lost or unreleased films from the heyday of British cinema.

• Sympathy For The Devil | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jean-Luc Godard's Sympathy For The Devil is an exhilarating provocative pastiche of a motion picture. While the focus of the film is on The Rolling Stones song after which the film is titled a series of abstract fictional vignettes in the second half of the film allows Godard to probe topics as diverse as Black Power pornography and the irony of interviewing celebrities. These extended sequences elevate the film above a simple portrait of the English rockers constructing a

• Children Of The Bride | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'Children Of The Bride' weds comedy with heartfelt drama in a story of love relationships and frayed family ties. It's not easy to get married - it's nearly impossible when grown children are called home to attend their mother's wedding. In this romantic comedy Margaret Becker learns that starting over is a process filed with potholes pathos and the promise that life not only goes on.... but it also gets better.

• Zeder aka Revenge of the Dead - Deluxe Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (25/04/2022) from £29.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Italian director Pupi Avati (The House With Laughing Windows) Zeder combines the aesthetics and atmospherics of the Giallo feature with those of the zombie movie in a slickly presented horror thriller. When Stefano, a young novelist is given a vintage typewriter as a birthday present, he discovers that the machine's ribbon contains the writings of a scientist proposing the existence of ˜K-Zones', places where the dead can actually rise from their graves. Stylish, creepy and downright chilling, Zeder is the perfect movie for lovers of 80s Italian exploitation Product Features Audio Commentary by Kim Newman Audio Commentary by Barry Forshaw and Eugenio Ercolani Eugenio Ercolani Featurettes

• Guest In The House | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £4.14   |  Saving you £5.85 (141.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Anne Baxter plays a manipulative young woman who moves in with the family of her betrothed - who also happens to be her psychiatrist. She gradually turns the house full of happy loving people against each other and they are powerless to stop her.

• The Fairy King Of Ar | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £4.34   |  Saving you £1.65 (38.02%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Kyle and Evie Preston had always been told stories by their grandmother about battling giants who trapped the last of the world's fairies underground many thousands of years ago. When their grandmother dies they inherit a family house overseas and discover an old gold mine in the grounds. The children soon realise that the old lady's fairy tales weren't stories after all and that if not freed from the gloomy mine the fairies will be lost from the world forever! When their father (Corbin Bersen) is taken seriously ill a frantic struggle ensues to free the fairies and try to cure him with their magic. Unfortunately the children are hampered by the fears of their mother (Glynis Barber) about the mine and by the hostility of the local community particularly Ian the caretaker (Malcolm McDowell). The Fairy King Of Ar is a magical story of fairies goblins and two children who dare to believe the unbelievable...

• Taking Care of Business | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Jimmy Dworski is a happy-go-lucky convict who breaks out of prison and finally gets a life - somebody else's! When Dworski finds the daily planner that literally runs the life of ultra-organized executive Spencer Barnes (Charles Grodin) all hell breaks loose! With newfound cash credit cards and the keys to a Malibu mansion the imposter Dworski embarks on an all-expenses-paid trip to ""Easy Street"" while posing as the high-powered Barnes. Meanwhile Spencer's life is turned upside down as he hunts through the jungles of Los Angeles for his beloved book: when these oddball opposites finally meet it's a comedic collision you won't soon forget!

• The Love Lottery | Blu Ray | (26/10/2020) from £10.60   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Cinema legend David Niven stars in this classic Ealing satire on celebrity and the Hollywood star system. Directed by multiple-award-winning director Charles Crichton and also featuring Peggy Cummins and Herbert Lom (and Humphrey Bogart!), The Love Lottery is featured here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. When film-star heartthrob Rex Allerton jokingly suggests that he'll marry the winner of a competition to win a week as his guest, he sets in motion a train of events that threaten to turn his life upside down!

• Unconditional Love | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £7.97   |  Saving you £12.02 (150.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After her husband leaves her an American woman travels to London for the funeral of Victor Fox the pop star she's adored all her life. There she meets Fox's gay lover and convinces him to come back to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer...