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• Carry On Abroad | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £9.36   |  Saving you £3.63 (38.78%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the last decent Carry On movies, Carry On Abroad is a 1972 venture into the world of package holidays. After this, the series descended into unfunny coarseness as opposed to camply laboured double entendre, culminating in the dreadful Carry On Emanuelle. Here, publican Sid James and dutiful mother's son turned sex maniac Charles Hawtrey are among a brace of Brits heading for the "paradise island" of Elsbels. Kenneth Williams is the out-of-his-depth tour operator, reverting to the sort of effete types he played in the 1950s, Peter Butterworth a pre-Manuel-style manager of a half-built hotel. A series of disasters ensue, with the entire gang landing up in jail following a fracas in a brothel at one point, but everyone finds romantic and sexual fulfilment in a quaint disco finale. This includes a gay character who is "dissuaded" from his homosexuality in a typical example of the thoroughly reactionary subtext that constitutes the really naughty bit of most Carry On films. Nonetheless, this throwback to an imaginary time when the lewdest innuendo of a dirty old man was greeted by young females with a flirty "Ooh, saucy!" is enjoyable on condition that you enter into its seaside-postcard spirit. June Whitfield is fine as a sexually uptight wife, Kenneth Connor a model of red-faced frustration as her wimpish husband. On the DVD: Sadly, no extra features except scene selection. The picture is a 4:3 ratio full-screen presentation. --David Stubbs

• Hellfighters (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £8.00   |  Saving you £1.99 (24.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Paying tribute to oil field legend 'Red' Adair Wayne plays Chance Buckman a colourful Texan who tames out-of-control infernos in exotic locations around the world. Between blazes Chance carries the torch for Madelyn the wife who left him 20 years earlier because of his dangerous lifestyle and assistant Greg has his hands full at the poker table and in the bedroom with Chance's spunky daughter Tish.

• Carry On Spying | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and James Bind aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.

• Shivers | Blu Ray | (17/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  BEING TERRIFIED IS JUST THE BEGINNING... Initially reviled in its native land (some critics took exception to the fact the film was largely funded by the Canadian taxpayer), Shivers is an intensely claustrophobic, subversive masterpiece and an essential entry in the oeuvre of one of the horror genre s most gifted auteurs. Some 40 years after its release, it still retains its power to shock. Starliner Island is an idyllic community. Cut off from the rest of the world, the luxury apartment block affords its occupants the chance to escape from the hustle and bustle of the big city. But this isolation is to prove fatal when a new breed of parasite a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease which arouses sexual aggression in its hosts is let loose in the building, resulting in an orgy terror and mayhem. Known under a host of alternate titles such as The Parasite Murdersand They Came From Within!, Shivers is the startling debut full-length feature from director David Cronenberg which anticipates the body-horror concerns of his later films such as The Fly and Videodrome.

• Stateline Motel | Blu Ray | (29/09/2025) from £18.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ursula Andress - voted the No.1 Bond girl of all time, emerged from the sea in ˜Dr. No' - Bond's first outing - and into film history. Here she leads a heavyweight cast including a snarling Eli Wallach (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), and action hunk Fabio Testi (The Big Racket).A second Bond girl, the alluring Barbara Bach (The Spy Who Loved Me), completes this iconic ensemble.But this is no quip-filled Hollywood caper. Under the gritty direction of Maurizio Lucidi - a master of emotional tensions these cinema legends deliver powerful performances in a sleek psychological thriller elevated by a moody score from Oscar® winner Luis Bacalov (The Postman, Django).After a deadly heist and a breathtaking car chase, criminals Wallach and Testi split up to evade police. Testi is tasked with getting the stolen jewels across the U.S.-Canada border, where he holes up in a sleepy border-town motel. There, he meets Michelle (Andress), smouldering as the trophy wife of the motel owner. A twisted sexual game of cat and mouse ignites, charged by the genuine chemistry between Andress and Testi. In this edition's exclusive interview, Fabio Testi confirms that their long romance began on the set of this film.As the lovers plan their escape, the stolen jewels vanish An enraged Eli Wallach loads his gun and speeds toward the Stateline Motel for a final confrontation.This is the definitive, longest ever, uncut, 2K-restored version of this long-lost gem, presented for the first time in its English version, now fully overhauled.SPECIAL FEATURESInterview with Fabio Testi on filming with Ursula Andress and Eli WallachDiscovery of an Unsung Master: Director Lucidi, by Nocturno's Founder Davide PuliciHow STATELINE MOTEL got made, by Nocturno's Founder Davide PuliciTwo Separate Opening Sequences with seamless branchingRestored English Audio track & New English subtitles and SDHUncut, with additional footage. All Region.From Ursula Andress Heydays, Rediscovered Noir Thriller 2K-Restored world-1st in EnglishWorld-1st release of Fully 2K-Restored in original English, of this rediscoverd Star-studded thriller with Bond-Girls Ursula Andress, Barbara Bach, and Eli Wallach (The Good, The Bad, The Ugly) with Italian action star Fabio Testi. Music by ®Oscar Winner Bacalov

• Campbell's Kingdom | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

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• It Came From Outer Space | DVD | (14/12/2020) from £8.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Under The Cherry Moon | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Prince takes on his first director's job and provides the score! Two brothers from Miami on holiday in the Mediterranian are enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day they read about a young woman set to inherit $50 million from her father. At first Tricky (Jerome Benton) has Christopher Tracy (Prince) talked into romancing her for her money but as he gets to know her Christopher falls in love with her. This love comes between the brothers and Tricky tells all

• The Bill - Volume 7 | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £24.63   |  Saving you £25.36 (102.96%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Bill went from strength to strength in 1988 when it was restructured into the half-hour format that stormed to the top of the ITV ratings, and the show remained a Top Ten UK drama for over two decades - becoming the longest-running police procedural drama ever screened on British television. Starring fan favourites Sgt. Cryer (Eric Richard), WPC Ackland (Trudie Goodwin), DS Ted Roach (Tony Scannell), DC Lines (Kevin Lloyd) and the ever irascible DI Burnside (Christopher Ellison), this se...

• Dr Finlay's Casebook: The Complete BBC Series 1 | DVD | (11/03/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £35.99

  United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: 3-DVD Set, Black & White, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Two doctors and their unflappable housekeeper take the daily pulse of a bustling Scottish village in the aftermath of WWI. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella, Country Doctor, the series centres on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s. Dr Alan Finlay is a young medical student working in a country practice in the Scottish village of Tannochbrae, under the tutelage of the experienced Dr Cameron. First broadcast in 1962 the drama had become a TV sensation by 1965. A Bill Simpson Fan Club was set up, Andy Stewart's Dr Finlay was in the Hit Parade for five weeks, and Andrew Cruikshank was invited to the British Medical Association's annual dinner to speak on medical matters as if he were a real GP! The show's success was down to the compelling storylines, and excellent casting. The young and forward-looking Dr Finlay was played by the dapper Bill Simpson, while his senior medical partner, the slightly staid but highly pragmatic Dr Cameron, was portrayed by the veteran actor Andrew Cruickshank. Housekeeper Janet was played to stiff perfection by Barbara Mullen. ...Dr. Finlay's Casebook (Series 1) - 3-DVD Set ( Dr. Finlay's Casebook - Series One )

• Lust For A Vampire | Blu Ray | (12/08/2019) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Through the unholy rites of black magic, the notorious female vampire Carmilla Karnstein is reincarnated as a luscious young debutante (stunning Swedish starlet Yutte Stensgaard). But when the depraved seductress is enrolled at an exclusive girls' school, she begins to inflame the desires of her fellow students as well as her weak-willed teacher (Ralph Bates). Can these perverse hungers be quenched by the mere taste of blood or will an entire village be unwittingly consumed by their LUST FOR A VAMPIRE? Directed by Jimmy Sangster (THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN, DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS)

• Bachelor Party | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £5.19   |  Saving you £0.80 (15.41%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bachelor Party may not be the first trashy sex comedy but it is perhaps the definitive trashy sex comedy. The movie makes its first breast joke before the opening credits have even finished. A cheerful school bus driver (Tom Hanks) has somehow got himself engaged to a lovely young heiress, much to the chagrin of her family and vengeful ex-boyfriend. The bus driver's roustabout friends decide to throw him a bachelor party--and you can pretty much guess the rest: scantily clad hookers, rampant drug use, bad 1980s new-wave music, really bad 1980s fashions, full frontal nudity (curiously, due to a scene in a Chippendales strip club, there's almost as much male flesh on display as female), bestiality, racial stereotypes, blackmail, attempted suicide, all played for unrepentant cheap laughs. Throughout, Tom Hanks floats along with a carefree (if slightly sheepish) grin, projecting such an air of impish innocence that it's hard to be offended by any of it. And it all ends in a wedding, just like a Shakespearean comedy. Also featuring the blinding white teeth and big hair of Tawny Kitaen (playing the good girl Hanks marries), buxom scream queen Monique Gabrielle and Adrian Zmed, whose career has not fared as well as Hanks's. --Bret Fetzer

• Family At War: Complete Set | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Right Stuff | DVD | (21/09/1998) from £12.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (7.70%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 1980s. It surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the success that Apollo 13 would later become; The Right Stuff is not only just as thrilling, but it is also a bigger and better movie. Combining history (both established and revisionist), grand mythmaking (and myth puncturing), adventure, melodrama, behind-the-scenes dish, spectacular visuals, and a down-to-earth sense of humour, The Right Stuff chronicles NASA's efforts to put a man in orbit. Such an achievement would be the first step toward President Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon, and, perhaps most important of all, would win a crucial public relations/morale victory over the Soviets, who had delivered a stunning blow to American pride by launching Sputnik, the first satellite. The movie contrasts the daring feats of the unsung test pilots--one of whom, Chuck Yeager, embodied more than anyone else the skill and spirit of Wolfe's title--against the heavily publicised (and sanitised) accomplishments of the Mercury astronauts. Through no fault of their own, the spacemen became prisoners of the heroic images the government created for them in order to capture the public's imagination. The casting is inspired; the film features Sam Shepard as the legendary Yeager, Ed Harris as John Glenn, Dennis Quaid as "Gordo" Cooper, Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, Fred Ward as Gus Grissom, Scott Wilson as Scott Crossfield, and Pamela Reed and Veronica Cartwright are superb in their thankless roles as astronauts' wives. --Jim Emerson

• Walking Tall | DVD | (17/01/2005) from £5.82   |  Saving you £10.17 (174.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When a former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces (The Rock) returns to his small hometown and finds it besieged by drugs and violence, he becomes the sheriff to put things right.

• Space: 1999: Super Space Theater | Blu Ray | (12/08/2024) from £25.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Space: 1999: Super Space Theater Blu-Ray:Capitalising on the success of the first two Space:1999 movies (episodes edited together as cinema features in the wake of Star Wars) ITC created what would ultimately become thirteen full-length movies for cable and home video under the banner Super Space Theater. Four of these were made from episodes of Space:1999, though they included new music in places and (for Alien Attack) additional scenes. Each of these four movies has been rebuilt from the High-Definition restorations created for the series episodes - they are presented here in their original 4:3 full screen aspect ratio alongside new 16:9 widescreen special editions, with both Alien Attack and Destination Moonbase-Alpha featuring enhanced special effects. All four special editions have been re-edited, restoring scenes and adding material not in the original presentation. Also included in this set is a rebuild of the Italian theatrical movie Spazio:1999 - debuting several months before TV transmissions began and featuring an idiosyncratic score from the legendary Ennio Morricone, it was the first time Space:1999 was seen anywhere in the world.

• One Tree Hill - Season 1 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £61.99

  One Tree Hill: Season 1 marks the beginning of a genuinely engrossing series that maintains, for a long while, an unusual focus on a single, powerful conflict defining the destinies of two characters. Adolescent half-brothers Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan (James Lafferty) Scott have lived parallel lives in One Tree, North Carolina. They share a common father, Dan Scott (Paul Johansson), who has disregarded the existence of Lucas, his son by a one-time flame, Karen (Moira Kelly), whom he dumped years before to accept a basketball scholarship to college. While neglecting Lucas, Dan--whose hoop dreams never materialized--has spent his time almost perversely micro-managing every one of Nathan's moves on and off the court at his old high school, where the lad is currently an arrogant superstar under gruff-but-wise coach Whitey Durham (Barry Corbin). Nathan (whose mother is separated from Dan) is a child of privilege and has been raised to disregard teamwork, compromise, or the feelings of others. He regards Lucas, a basketball sensation on neighborhood playgrounds, as trash, and his own girlfriend, Peyton (Hilarie Burton), as a pretty bauble he can abuse and dismiss at will. Still, he's sympathetic; one can see glimpses of the human being struggling to emerge from under Dan's control. Meanwhile, Lucas helps Karen run her café, hangs out with platonic best friend Haley (Bethany Joy Lenz), and pines for Peyton (herself a punky misfit at heart). He also turns to surrogate dad Keith Scott (Craig Sheffer)--actually his uncle and Dan's older brother--for support, and sees himself as a perpetual and doomed outsider in One Tree. All that changes when Whitey invites Lucas to join the b-ball team that Nathan dominates, a move that challenges the status quo of multiple relationships in a small community. For about a third of its episodes, this series from creator Mark Schwahn (who wrote the hit film Coach Carter) stays true to the suspense surrounding Lucas's and Nathan's changes in fortune. Then a bit of padding follows to the end of the season; there are 22 episodes to fill out, after all. But even as various distractions (a kidnapping subplot, a car accident and coma for a major character) and random events creep in (Dan, rather incredibly, takes over the team from Whitey at one point, thus coaching both his sons), One Tree Hill remains highly watchable. The writing is shaped well and organic, while performances are consistently excellent. (It's especially good to see Sheffer, perhaps best known for A River Runs Through It, again.) --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Hill Street Blues - Season 1 | DVD | (25/03/2013) from £17.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (56.29%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From legendary creator/writer Steven Bochco the multi award-winning Hill Street Blues is the original pioneering ‘ TV cop show’ that blazed the trail for later ensemble hits such as NYPD Blue and L.A. Law. One of the most innovative and critically acclaimed series of its time this is the story of an overworked under-staffed police precinct in an anonymous inner city patterned after Chicago. ‘Let’s be careful out there.’ So ends each roll-call session at the Hill Street station house. As the cops and detectives head out onto the streets Captain Frank Furillo juggles the delicate balancing act of providing enough protection for the law-abiding citizens without inciting the neighbourhood gangs and local criminal elements who are openly hostile towards any police presence. Yet as dangerous as his inner city precinct can be Furillo's biggest battles often involve protecting his own cops from the Public Defender's office self-serving bureaucrats and even each other. Breathtakingly fast paced mature tough brutal and uncompromising Hill Street Blues is a triumph of intelligence and substance. It is quite simply the most ground-breaking show in recent memory and is essential viewing for all lovers of quality entertainment.

• 9 Movie Western Collection - Vol. 3 | Blu Ray | (19/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dead Ringers | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-19.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Like many other films by Canadian director David Cronenberg (especially Crash), Dead Ringers presents the cinematic and psychological equivalent of an automobile accident--you dare not look, but you can't turn away. The film marked a directorial breakthrough for Cronenberg, who was able to continue some of the themes explored in his earlier horror films while graduating to a higher, more critically "respectable" level of artistic sophistication. The film is loosely based, amazingly enough, on a true story about twin gynaecologists who routinely traded each others' identities, lives and even lovers. Utilizing innovative split-screen technology (years before computer manipulation made such trickery much easier), the film stars Jeremy Irons in flawless dual roles as the identical brothers Beverly and Elliot Mantle. Their ability to instantly switch identities leads them to a shared relationship with a well-known actress (Genevieve Bujold) and, ultimately, a physical and psychological tailspin that sends them both to the brink of madness and death. The scenario suggests that both men are halves of a whole, and that one cannot exist without the other. But when Beverly pursues a kinky, drug-addicted affair with the actress, his more self-controlled brother is helpless to prevent their mutual decline. In this way Dead Ringers becomes a fascinating and stylistically clinical study of duality, and Cronenberg doesn't shy away from the dark and unpleasant aspects of the story. (One look at the movie's display of bizarre gynaecological instruments and you'll know why women find this film particularly--and unforgettably--disturbing.) The Criterion Collection DVD includes illuminating commentary by Cronenberg, Irons, production designer Carol Spier and others; extensive production information; interviews with the principal cast; and a detailed examination of the film's groundbreaking use of invisible special effects. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com --This text refers to the DVD edition of this video.