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• Oliver Twist | DVD | (11/10/1999) from £6.51   |  Saving you £3.48 (53.46%)   |  RRP £9.99

  There have been many film and TV adaptations of Oliver Twist but this 1948 production from director David Lean remains the definitive screen interpretation of the Charles Dickens classic. From the ominous symbolism of its opening storm sequence (in which Oliver's pregnant, ill-fated mother struggles to reach shelter before childbirth) to the mob-scene climax that provokes Bill Sikes's dreadful comeuppance, this breathtaking black-and-white film remains loyal to Dickens while distilling the story into its purest cinematic essence.Every detail is perfect--Lean even includes a coffin-shaped snuffbox for the cruel Mr. Sowerberry--and as young Oliver, eight-year-old John Howard Davies (who would later produce Monty Python's Flying Circus for the BBC) perfectly expresses the orphan's boyish wonderment, stern determination and waifish vulnerability. Best of all is Alec Guinness as Fagin, so devious and yet so delightfully appealing under his beak-nosed (and, at the time, highly controversial) make-up. (Many complained that Fagin's huge nose and greedy demeanour presented an anti-Semitic stereotype, even though Lean never identifies Fagin as Jewish; for this reason, the film wasn't shown in the US until three years after its British release.) Likewise, young Anthony Newley is artfully dodgy as Fagin's loyal accomplice, the Artful Dodger. Guinness's performance would later provide strong inspiration for Ron Moody's equally splendid portrayal of Fagin in the Oscar-winning Oliver! and while that 1968 musical remains wonderfully entertaining, it is Lean's film that hews closest to Dickens' vision. The authentic recreation of 19th-century London is marvellous to behold; Guy Green's cinematography is so shadowy and stylised that it almost qualifies as Dickensian film noir. Lean is surprisingly blunt in conveying Dickens's theme of cruelty but his film never loses sight of the warmth and humanity that Oliver embodies. --Jeff Shannon

• The Champions - Vol. 4 - Dark Island / Fanatics / Twelve Hours / The Search | DVD | (16/07/2001) from £15.90   |  Saving you £0.09 (0.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Craig Sterling (Damon) Sharron Macready (Bastedo) and Richard Barrett (Gaunt) are agents for an international intelligence organisation called NEMESIS. After a plane crash and being rescued by an unknown civilisation the trio make their way back Geneva to continue their work only to discover they have mysteriously developed super-human abilities like telepathy amazing memories and abnormal strengths. Instead of telling anyone about these developments they keep their secret quiet but use their new powers to help complete a range of dangerous assignments... The Dark Island: When three agents fail to return from a tropical island the Champions are sent to investigate. The Fanatics: When Richard Barrett infiltrates a gang of fanatical assassins he learns that Tremayne is to be their next victim. Will he be able to stop the killers in time? Twelve Hours: Richard and Sharron accompany a visiting President and his wife on a submarine journey but an assassination attempt means that they will require all of their powers to save him... The Search: After stealing an atomic submarine loaded with four nuclear weapons a neo Nazi regime holds London hostage...

• Tenebrae Steelbook | Blu Ray | (16/12/2013) from £21.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (25.01%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A notorious horror classic returns in all its depraved glory. This infamous video nasty updated the classic Giallo blueprint for the gorified 80s, courting controversy and drenching the viewer in crimson arterial spray. A razor-wielding psycho is stalking the horror writer Peter Neal, in Rome to promote his latest work, Tenebre. But the author isn t the obsessive killer s only target, the beautiful women who surround him are doomed as one by one, they fall victim to the murderer s slashing blade... Will fiction and reality blur as fear and madness take hold? Watch in terror as by turns the cast fall victim to the sadistic imagination of Dario Argento, Italy s master of horror. Special Features: • Brand new High Definition transfer of the film (1080p) • Optional English & Italian Audio • Original uncompressed Mono Audio • Optional English subtitles • Audio Commentary with Argento experts, journalists and writers Kim Newman and Alan Jones • Audio Commentary with Argento expert Thomas Rostock • Introduction by star Daria Nicolodi • Screaming Queen! Daria Nicolodi remembers Tenebrae • The Unsane World of Tenebrae: An interview with director Dario Argento • A Composition for Carnage: Composer Claudio Simonetti on Tenebrae • Goblin: Tenebrae and Phenomena Live from the Glasgow Arches • Original Trailer • Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Rick Melton • Exclusive collector s booklet featuring brand new writing by Alan Jones, author of Profondo Argento

• El Chupacabra | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After his capture in the wilderness the legendary bloodthirsty creature 'Chupacabra' escapes into the city creating mayhem and panic. As they pursue the deadly beast an animal control officer and scientist realize that a vigilante with his own suspicious motive is also tracking the elusive killer for a mysterious research facility run by Dr. Goodspeed...

• The Professionals - Vol. 1 | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (100.05%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Thrown together to join George Cowley's new C15 organisation....Hard men no patience nor time for subtleties. Charged with combating terrorists criminals and corruption wherever they find it. Capable of using any means necessary. The only people they can trust are themselves... Features all 14 episodes from the first series broadcast in 1977 uncut and digitally remastered!

• 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.

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Series 5 (Standard plastic case packaging) | DVD | (01/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

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• Manon | DVD | (01/07/2000) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Kenneth MacMillan's tragic lyric ballet to sumptuous music by Jules Massenet orchestrated for the ballet by Leighton Lucas is a Royal Opera House favourite returning season after season. The story of Manon Lescaut is a moving tale of corrupted innocence in early 18th century Paris in which the lovely girl finds both happiness and grief at the hands of men who love and abuse her. Manon is one of MacMillan's most highly regarded works featuring several passionate and moving pas

• Crimes Of Passion | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in the midst of a steamy red light district this compelling drama focuses on China Blue a stunningly beautiful fashion designer by day and a prostitute keenly adept at playing erotic power games by night.

• Wayne At War | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A collection of war films starring the iconic John Wayne. Films comprise: 1. Sands of Iwo Jima 2. The Fighting Seabees 3. The Flying Tigers 4. Back to Bataan 5. Jet Pilot 6. The Flying Leathernecks

• 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...

• A Father's Revenge | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £9.75   |  Saving you £-5.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  It's a parent's worst nightmare a kidnapped child. Paul and Anne Hobart (Brian Dennehy and Joanna Cassidy) watch their television screen in disbelief as their only daughter reads a prepared statement saying that she is a prisoner of war. Karin Hobart is being used as a pawn between a terrorist group and the government that has arrested their comrades. The terrorists promise that she and her fellow captives will be executed if their demands are not met. As the terrorists' deadline approaches Paul Hobart becomes desperate to rescue Karin. When he receives word from the State Department that the United States will not interfere Paul takes matters into his own hands. Securing the information that helps him locate his daughter Paul plans his assault refusing to become a hostage of terror.

• The Dead Zone - Season 2 (5 Discs, Multibox) | DVD | (02/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Thunderbirds Are Go - The Movie / Small Soldiers / We're Back - A Dinosaur's Story | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Betsy's Wedding | DVD | (13/07/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (178.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The wedding picture doesn't always tell the whole story... Anxious to throw a lavish wedding for his not so keen daughter a father falls foul of his depleted finances and has to enlist the help of his brother in law who has mob connections!

• Complete John Wayne Collection | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £149.99

  Set Comprises: Angel And The Badman (1947) Back To Bataan (1945) Dakota (1945) Dark Command (1940) Flame Of The Barbary Coast (1945) Flying Tigers (1942) Fort Apache (1948) In Old California (1942) Lady From Louisiana (1941) Rio Grande (1950) Sands Of Iwo Jima (1949) She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) Tall In The Saddle (1944) The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) The Fighting Seabees (1944) The First Rebel (aka Allegheny Uprising) (1939) Flying Leathernecks (1951) The Quiet Man (1952) Three Faces West (1940) Tycoon (1947) Wake Of The Red Witch (1948) War Of The Wildcats (aka In Old Oklahoma) (1943) Stagecoach (1939) The Hellfighters (1968) Pittsburgh (1941) Reap The Wild Wind (1942) Rooster Cogburn (1975) Seven Sinners (1940) The Spoilers (1942) The War Wagon (1967) Jet Pilot (1957) The Conqueror (1956) Lady For A Night (1942) Shepherd Of The Hills (1941)

• Primal Species | DVD | (01/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A group of terrorists thought they were stealing a few pounds of uranium. But they were wrong... dead wrong! It turns out they've stolen something much bigger but just as deadly - ten tons of fierce man-eating Velociraptor a species presumed extinct but now well and truly alive and kicking! This costly mistake proves to be their last and only a Special Forces elite team have any hope of stopping these prehistoric animals with an attitude. Unfortunately these dinosuars of destruction are on a mission of their own... the extinction of the human race. The future of mankind is now in the hands of this crack division led by squad leader Rance (Scott Valentine) who must now take out the velociraptor before a new generation has a chance to be born...

• Spotswood | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £30.06   |  Saving you £-24.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Spotswood (Aka The Efficiency Expert)

• Neither The Sea Nor The Sand | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Anna (Susan Hampshire) arrives in Jersey determined to escape her personal troubles and meets Hugh (Michael Petrovitch). Hugh has a tremendous affinity with the sea and as he shows Anna round the island they begin to fall in love. Hugh persuades Anna not to return to her husband and they go to the old house that Hugh shares with his brother George (Frank Finlay). George resents the intrusion of a woman and the brothers fall out when he discovers them in bed. They flee to a remote part of Scotland and life is bliss until one day Hugh is found dead on the beach. Anna however believes that their love can overcome death. One morning Anna is proved right...

• Bram Stoker's Way Of The Vampire | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (281.33%)   |  RRP £18.99

  After defeating Dracula Van Helsing is granted immortality by the church to pursue and eradicate vampires from the face of the earth. His hunt leads him through time across continents to a bloody showdown between his slayers and an army of demons led by Sebastian the vampire who took away the only woman Van Helsing ever loved.