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• The Man Who Knew Too Much | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.22   |  Saving you £3.77 (60.61%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of his own 1934 spy thriller is an exciting event in its own right, with several justifiably famous sequences. James Stewart and Doris Day play American tourists who discover more than they wanted to know about an assassination plot. When their son is kidnapped to keep them quiet, they are caught between concern for him and the terrible secret they hold. When asked about the difference between this version of the story and the one he made 22 years earlier, Hitchcock always said the first was the work of a talented amateur while the second was the act of a seasoned professional. Indeed, several extraordinary moments in this update represent consummate film-making, particularly a relentlessly exciting Albert Hall scene, with a blaring symphony, an assassin's gun, and Doris Day's scream. Along with Hitchcock's other films from the mid-1950s to 1960 (including Vertigo, Rear Window, and Psycho), The Man Who Knew Too Much is the work of a master in his prime. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Kingdom Hospital - Complete | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Kingdom Hospital is horror novelist Stephen King’s adaptation of Danish director Lars Von Trier’s cult mini-series The Kingdom, geared very much for an American audience. The story unfolds across 15 hours, telling the story of a hospital in Maine that’s been built on the site of a 19th Century mill fire that killed most of its young occupants--themes that King fans will be familiar with. In the present day, Kingdom Hospital is haunted by the ghost of ten-year-old child labourer Mary and, even more bizarrely, a fearsome giant anteater-like creature called Antubis. It falls to the ace doctor Hook (Andrew McCarthy), the paraplegic artist Jack Coleman (Peter Rickman) and the hypochondriac psychic Sally Druse (Diane Ladd) to enlist the help of a surreal assortment of hospital staff and patients to help Mary and save Kingdom Hospital itself from certain doom. Fans of Stephen King will probably enjoy the blend of black comedy, spectral horror and general weirdness, which owes a big debt to previous television series like Twin Peaks and even ER. But too often, Kingdom Hospital seems to be trying too hard to make itself into a cult series, something which King is just not a subtle enough writer to carry off. But Kingdom Hospital looks good, especially the CGI Antubis, who steals every scene in which he appears. Generally, though, the series is more of an entertaining experiment than a cult-in-the-making. --Ted Kord

• A River Runs Through It | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A River Runs Through It is a lyrical and nostalgic film from director Robert Redford (Quiz Show, Ordinary People), based on the popular autobiographical novel by Norman MacLean. The film chronicles two brothers' coming of age in early 20th-century Missoula, Montana, under the stern tutelage of their minister father (Tom Skerritt). He instils in them a love of fly fishing, which for one brother (Brad Pitt) becomes a lifelong passion even as he sets out to become a newspaperman and struggles with his addiction to gambling. The other brother, Norman (Craig Sheffer), dreams of exploring the world outside Missoula as he falls in love with a local girl (Emily Lloyd) who also dreams of broader horizons. Soon one brother must discover the true meaning of family loyalty when the other finds himself in deeper trouble than ever before. Redford, who also narrates the film, does a masterful job in re-creating the period and in drawing out affecting performances from his young cast. An Oscar winner for Philippe Rousselot's luminescent cinematography, this is a poignant and special film. --Robert Lane, Amazon.com

• Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Volume 1 & Volume 2 | DVD | (19/09/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Sooty - Holiday Fun Double Pack | DVD | (15/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

• The Sooty Show - Sweep Superdog | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  From the Sooty show comes a DVD based entirely on the adventures of Sweep. Not only is this the first time The Sooty show has been released on DVD it's also the first time Sweep has taken the limelight from Sooty! Contains 6 Special episodes. Superdog And The Comedian: Superdog has amazing powers he can fly faster that you could imagine and he can hear when someone is in distress. Will he be able to defeat his enemy 'The Comedian'. Bouncers: Spring greens have an effect

• Classic Children's Films - Swallows and Amazons/The Railway Children | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £8.45   |  Saving you £9.54 (112.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Railway Children: Three Edwardian children travel with their mother to live by a railway in Yorkshire when their father is wrongly imprisoned as a spy. Based on the novel by Edith Nesbit. (Dir. Lionel Jeffries 1971) Swallows And Amazons: Six young children experience a holiday in the Lake District during the peaceful summer of 1929.... Based on the novel by Arthur Ransome. (Dir. Claude Whatham 1974)

• Veronica Guerin | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £6.79   |  Saving you £9.20 (135.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The true story of Irish journalist Veronica Guerin who took on the drug dealers of Dublin in the mid-1990s and paid the ultimate price.

• Outside Edge - Series 1-3 - Complete | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cricket - the sport of gentlemen - takes on new dimensions in this cheeky British comedy about the foibles and follies of married life. Kevin and Maggie Costello live for the moment constantly expressing their affection for each other in outrageous ways. Roger and Mim Dervish on the other hand lead a quiet life reserving their passions for the seemingly more subdued activities of cricket and tea cakes. But when the Costellos and Dervishes meet at a cricket match the collision of opposing personalities serves as a prelude to a series of hilarious unpredictable adventures.

• Pride & Prejudice | Blu Ray | (26/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Connie - The Complete Series | DVD | (31/12/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Connie: The Complete Series (4 Discs)

• Piccadilly Jim | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £8.76   |  Saving you £4.23 (48.29%)   |  RRP £12.99

  What's wrong with love? Piccadilly Jim was adapted from P.G. Wodehouse's novel by Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and directed by John McKay (Crush). London the 1930's: Following a string of scandalous incidents bad-boy American Jimmy Crocker - now labelled ""Piccadilly Jim"" by the gossip pages - proves to be a liability to his stepmother Eugenia's social climbing and his put-on father's dreams of returning to New York. Nesta Eugenia's sister and archriv

• Sonny | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  New Orleans 1981: Sonny Phillips just discharged from the Army returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo working for his mother but he wants to leave that behind. Unfortunately with employment prospects slim his past threatens to catch up with him...

• Secrets & Lies | Blu Ray | (02/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If a film fan had never heard of director Mike Leigh, one might explain him as a British Woody Allen. Not that Leigh's films are whimsical or neurotic; they are tough-love examinations of British life--funny, outlandish and biting. His films share a real immediacy with Allen's work: they feel as if they are happening now. Leigh works with actors--real actors--on ideas and language. There is no script at the start (and sometimes not at the end). Secrets and Lies involves Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), an elegant black woman wanting to learn her birth mother's identity. She will find it's Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), who is one of the saddest creatures we've seen in film. She's also one of the most real and, ultimately, one of the most loveable. Timothy Spall is Cynthia's brother, a giant man full of love who is being slowly defeated by his fastidious wife (Phyllis Logan). There is a great exuberance of life in Secrets & Lies, winner of the Palme D'Or and best actress (Blethyn) at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival--not Zorba-type life but the little battles fought and won every day. Leigh's honest interpretation of daily life is usually found only on the stage. Secrets & Lies is more realistic than a stage production, however, especially when Leigh shows us uninterrupted scenes. Critic David Denby states that Leigh has "made an Ingmar Bergman film without an instant of heaviness or pretension." If that sounds like your cup of tea, see Secrets & Lies. --Doug Thomas

• Midnight Cowboy | Blu Ray | (02/05/2011) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When Joe Buck (Jon Voight) a good-looking naively charming Texas Cowboy makes his way to the big apple to seek his fortune the only wealth he finds is in the friendship of Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) a scrounging sleazy small-time con man with big dreams. Living on the tattered fringe of society these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond - one that transcends their broken dreams and get-rich-quick schemes. Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.

• Slither | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £6.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (196.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Something unnamed and evil threatens the sleepy town of Wheelsy in this comedy horror.

• Atonement | Blu Ray | (17/05/2010) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Keira Knightley and James McAvoy headline this lavish adaptation of Ian McEwan's award-winning novel.

• Capricorn One | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £13.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £14.99

  As the whole world watches the first manned flight to Mars, its three astronauts are plunged into a nightmarish battle for survival. Elliot Gould, James Brolin, Sam Waterston, Brenda Vaccaro, O.J. Simpson and Telly Savalas star in this classic sci-fi conspiracy thriller, featured here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements. Minutes before the launch of their mission, the Capricorn One crew are told to exit their capsule and are secretly taken to an abandoned d.

• Inside I'm Dancing | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £7.39   |  Saving you £8.60 (116.37%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When a loud-mouthed soul moves in next door, Michael, a long-term resident of Dublin's Carrigmore Home for the Disabled, finds a new lease of life in this award-winning Irish movie.

• From Dusk Till Dawn | DVD | (05/01/2001) from £8.73   |  Saving you £14.25 (248.26%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From a match made in heaven comes a movie spawned in hell! Young hotshot director Robert Rodriquez (El Mariachi, Desperado) teamed up with Pulp Fiction auteur Quentin Tarantino (offering his services as writer and co-star) to make this outrageous, no-holds-barred hybrid of high-octane crime and gruesome horror, From Dusk Till Dawn. QT plays Richard Gecko, a borderline psychopath who breaks his career-criminal brother, Seth (George Clooney), out of prison, after which they rob a bank and leave a trail of dead and wounded in their bloody wake. Then they hijack a mobile home driven by a former Baptist minister (Harvey Keitel) who quit the church after his wife's death and hit the road with his two children (played by Juliette Lewis and Ernest Liu). Heading to Mexico with their hostages, the infamous Gecko brothers arrive at the Titty Twister bar to rendezvous for a money drop, but they don't realise that they've just entered the nocturnal lair of a bloodthirsty gang of vampires! With not-so-subtle aplomb, Rodriguez and Tarantino shift into high gear with a non-stop parade of gore, gunfire and pointy-fanged mayhem featuring Salma Hayek as a snake-charming dancer whose bite is much worse than her bark. If you're a fan of Tarantino's lyrical dialogue and pop-cultural wit, you'll have fun with the road-movie half of this supernatural horror-comedy, but if your taste runs more to exploding heads and eyeballs, sloppy entrails and morphing monsters, the second half provides a connoisseur's feast of gross-out excess. Bon appétit! --Jeff Shannon