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• The Mallen Saga | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A collection of four Catherine Cookson classics: The Mallen Streak: The story of Thomas the Squire of High Banks Hall who wasted his fortune and fathered many illegitimate children each marked with a flash of snowy white hair. Part 1 in the series. The Mallen Girls: The Squire of High Banks Hall has to move to a cottage with his two wards Barbara and Constance. The Squire's two bastards become regular visitors there and eventually Constance agrees to marry Donald. Then one night Barbara is savagely raped. Part 2 in the series. The Mallen Secret: Before the late Squire Thomas Mallen killed himself he left a trail of illegitimate children all over the hills of 19th Century Northumberland. One of them Miss Barbara is deaf and has been kept from the truth by her governess. Now a beautiful and wilful young woman she falls in love with her cousin Michael whose mother is also obsessed with keeping him ignorant of his own illegitimacy. Part 3 in the series. The Mallen Curse: Barbara has been rejected by her cousin Michael and enters into a loveless marriage with Dan whose family the Benshams have owned the Hall since her father Squire Mallen went bankrupt. The widowed Mr. Bensham proposes to Anna Brigmore fulfilling her ruthless ambition to be mistress of High Banks. But their happiness is soon shattered when they discover that Barbara and Michael have become lovers again. Part 4 in the series.

• The War Bride | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Marry in haste, repent at leisure, goes the old adage. Certainly, The War Bride sees the chirpy Cockney Lily (Anna Friel) with plenty of time to regret her lot. After a whirlwind romance in wartime Britain she marries her handsome Canadian hunk, Charlie (Aden Young). Finding herself pregnant and alone, Charlie having been sent back to the front, she jumps at the chance of a new life abroad when she receives a one-way ticket to Canada. Unfortunately Charlie's tales of his family ranch in Alberta are more fanciful than factual and when she gets there her natural ebullience is tested to the limit by a crumbling shack and a frostbite-inducing welcome from his widowed mother (Brenda Fricker, superbly dour) and his crippled sister (Molly Parker). They view her townie ways, her penchant for picture houses and scarlet lipstick, with deep suspicion. The only light in these dark days is derived from visits from her longstanding best friend Sophie (who also married a Canadian, but one with rather more to offer) and a burgeoning friendship with Joe, her sister-in-law's boyfriend. The film was inspired by the experiences of screenwriter Angela Workman's mother, one of 48,000 war brides who immigrated to Canada during World War II, and it vividly demonstrates that for the unlucky ones the future was far from rosy. The result could have been mawkish but it's saved by fine performances from Friel--who is increasingly showing herself to be an actress of some versatility--and the always splendid Brenda Fricker. --Harriet Smith

• Babymother | Blu Ray | (26/07/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Babymother follows young black woman Anita (Anjela Lauren Smith), who dreams of becoming a successful dancehall deejay, whilst juggling the difficulties of raising her two children on a Harlesden housing estate. Her ambitious babyfather Byron (Wil Johnson, Outlander) forges his own music career, unashamedly stealing lyrics from Anita in the process. Supported by her rude girl friends Anita is determined to make her mark, culminating in a dancehall battle against Byron. Widely considered to be the first truly black British musical, director Julian Henriques uses music to uncover the energetic culture beating at the heart of Harlesden's streets and estates. Featuring music by Beres Hammond and Carroll Thompson this 90's gem stars familiar faces from stage and screen including Corinne Skinner-Carter (Burning an Illusion, Pressure) as Anita's mum and Don Warrington (Rising Damp, Death in Paradise) as ruthless promoter Luther. Babymother is released here for the first time on Blu-ray, newly remastered by the BFI. Newly remastered in 2K by the BFI We the Ragamuffin (1992, 26 mins): Julian Henriques' urban musical showcases the style, vernacular and vibrancy of British Caribbean Dancehall culture Other extras TBC **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Fully illustrated booklet featuring new writing on the film

• The Corrs - All The Way Home / The Story Of The Corrs | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Disc 1: Documentary 'All The Way Home' tells the complete story of The Corrs rise to fame in the words of the band themselves plus long standing manager John Hughes. Illustrated with many unseen early snapshops from the family archive hilarious demo material and behind the scenes footage. Highlights include: The Corrs' first live gig ever. Behind the scenes recording sessions with legendary producer David Foster (Celine Dion Michael Jackson Michael Buble etc.) New in

• A Street Cat Named Bob (DVD + Book Limited Edition) | DVD | (27/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the true life story and international best-selling book, A STREET CAT NAMED BOB is a moving and uplifting film that will touch the heart of everyone. When London busker and recovering drug addict James Bowen finds injured ginger street cat Bob in his sheltered accommodation, he has no idea just how much his life is about to change.Click Images to Enlarge

• Quantum Leap - Season 3 | DVD | (12/12/2005) from £34.89   |  Saving you £0.10 (0.29%)   |  RRP £34.99

  ""Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and Vanished...He woke to find himself trapped in the past facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al an observer from his own time who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to lif

• Sabrina The Teenage Witch - Series 3 | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £18.56   |  Saving you £6.43 (34.64%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When Sabrina Spellman is informed by her aunts Hilda and Zelda that she is a witch on her 16th birthday she is hesitant to believe them. Having been sent to live with them in Massachusetts by her Warlock father and mortal mother Sabrina has to learn the tricks of magic in order to receive her witch's license. Along the way she gets into many scrapes while figuring out how certain spells work. She also has to keep the secret from her boyfriend Harvey friends Jenny and later Valerie stuck-up nemesis Libby and her ever-suspicious vice-principal Mr. Kraft.

• The Last Horror Film | DVD | (14/03/2016) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-3.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A grossly underrated slasher gem! The infamous Joe Spinell, best known for his iconic role in Maniac, delivers his 'career defining performance' (Bill Gibon, DVD Talk) as an depraved, obsessed fanatic. Vinny Durand (Spinell) trails beautiful actress Jana Bates (fellow Maniac-alum Caroline Munro), to the Cannes Film Festival determined to have her star in his first film. As Durand's disturbing fascination grows, a mysterious killer begins slaughtering all people in Jana's entourage. Is the obsessed fanatic and the psychotic killer one in the same? Will this be Jenna's Last Horror Film? This stellar treatment of this forgotten classic, includes engaging Spinell-memorializing supplemental material, and is a must-own for any horror film enthusiast.

• The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1965 (Box Set 1) | DVD | (01/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Swingingly stylish adventures with super spies John Steed and Mrs Peel! Flashback to the Sixties with the coolest duo in crimefighting! The Town of No Return: Steed finds a town full of ghosts and Emma gets into a harness. The Gravediggers: Steed drives a train and Emma is tied to the tracks... The Cybernauts: Steed receives a deadly gift and Emma pockets it. Death at Bargain Prices: Steed fights in ladies underwear and Emma tries feinting. Castle De'ath: Steed becomes a strapping Jock and Emma lays a ghost. The Master Minds: Steed becomes a genius and Emma loses her mind.

• Sabrina The Teenage Witch - Series 5 | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £17.96   |  Saving you £20.02 (133.73%)   |  RRP £34.99

  When Sabrina Spellman is informed by her aunts Hilda and Zelda that she is a witch on her 16th birthday she is hesitant to believe them. Having been sent to live with them in Massachusetts by her Warlock father and mortal mother Sabrina has to learn the tricks of magic in order to receive her witch's license. Along the way she gets into many scrapes while figuring out how certain spells work. She also has to keep the secret from her boyfriend Harvey friends Jenny and later Valerie stuck-up nemesis Libby and her ever-suspicious vice-principal Mr. Kraft.

• Life of Riley Complete Boxed Set | DVD | (18/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  It’s all go in the hit sit-com where Maddy and Jim, both remarried, head-up a modern day extended family - children, step children, step siblings and half siblings with a few ex-partners and in-laws thrown in. Maddy and Jim continue to find themselves outwitted at every turn by their children: Danny is dealing with the perils of dating, Katy learns to drive but then can't remember where she parked the car and Ted loses his pet snake. With the neighbours, facing marital issues of their own, forever threatening to engulf them all, life continues to swerve perilously and hilariously out of control as they live the Life of Riley. Special Features: Outtakes Behind the Scenes Riley House Tour Cast Interviews Cast Filmographies Picture Galleries Subtitles

• Shark Attack 2 | DVD | (29/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Will those crazy scientists ever learn that it's not nice to mess with Mother Nature? Once again a biological experiment goes bad this time releasing a gaggle of mutated great white sharks with a taste for human flesh. Soon enough shark expert Nick West is on the case leading a crew to study them and eventually bring them back into captivity. West's plans hit a snag however when Australian shark hunter Roy Bishop is called in to wipe out the fishy menace.

• A Touch of Frost: Series 6 - 10 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £27.98   |  Saving you £42.01 (150.14%)   |  RRP £69.99

  A must for all fans of BAFTA winning David Jason detective series, A Touch of Frost. This 10-disc set features all the episodes from series six to ten.

• Bo Selecta | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £5.78   |  Saving you £17.20 (616.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring Avid Merrion as the Scandinavian stalker/host and sketches in which he plays the parts of pop stars like Craig David and Britney Spears in lurid, latex masks, Bo' Selecta! is a brilliantly surreal take on celebrity culture. This first series (originally broadcast in 2002) features a number of cameos and guest appearances from minor celebs: Boyzone's Keith Duffy, Davina McCall, Vanessa Feltz and the hapless Christine Hamilton, one of numerous guests to be interviewed by a puppet bear played by Merrion whose feverish line of questioning invariably results in him sprouting a little erection. Another character is hauled up in a neckbrace (following an altercation with Lisa Tarbuck), but Merrion's innocent broken English can't conceal the fact that he's a psychotic sex maniac who explicitly lusts after celebs who "make me do a sex wee", keeps Craig from Big Brother locked in a cupboard and his dead mother in a wardrobe. Merrion's pop spoofs are also masterly: rather than mimic the stars, he reinvents them--Mel B and Britney Spears--as farting, hairy-chested Northerners, slobbing out on fry-up breakfasts washed down with lager and, most improbably, Michael Jackson as a cussing, jive-talking black dude à la Huggy Bear. Bo' Selecta! doesn't so much satirise celebrities as debase them, exposing their humiliating none-dimensionality by drawing them into a vortex of vulgar absurdity, not unlike Vic Reeves' Shooting Stars. Of course, they play along--they're on television. Although initially off-putting to some, once you get into Bo' Selecta! there is, as for Big Brother's Craig, no escape. On the DVD: Bo' Selecta! on disc features numerous extras, including a behind the scenes feature in which the production team discuss making the show ("like directing a squirrel on roller-skates"), deleted scenes including Gareth Gates as a Tourette's victim, which was deemed a little beyond the pale, some unfunny bloopers and a feature on the life story of "Craig David" with Kate Thornton, including an unmissable nativity scene in which the infant Craig plays Jesus. There's also a commentary, with Merrion as his stalker self watching himself with consternation (It's strange seeing yourself on TV"). It's a pity we don't get to hear from the "real" Merrion. --David Stubbs

• The Blackout | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £4.03   |  Saving you £5.96 (147.89%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's Christmas Eve the city goes dark and the few remaining tenants of The Ravenwood find themselves trapped in their building. And they are not alone.

• Sharpe - Sharpe's Justice | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Sean Bean returns as swashbuckling British officer Richard Sharpe in the visually stunning and action-packed film Sharpe's Justice.The Peninsular War is over and Sharpe returns to England with his reputation fully restored. He is soon ordered to the North of England to take command of a local militia force in his home town as it is troubled with unrest and machine-breakers.Sharpe finds that he is torn between two sides - that of the corrupt gentry and that of his own people the rough the tough and spirited masses who are kept down by their superiors. He finds himself faced with one of the hardest decisions of his life...

• Men Behaving Badly - Series 2 | DVD | (05/06/2000) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The ultimate small-screen representation of Loaded-era lad culture--albeit a culture constantly being undermined by its usually sharper female counterpart--there seems little argument that Men Behaving Badly was one of 1990s' definitive sitcoms. Certainly the booze-oriented, birds-obsessed antics of Martin Clunes' Gary and Neil Morrissey' Tony have become every bit as connected to Britain's collective funny bone as Basil Fawlty's inept hostelry or Ernie Wise's short, hairy legs. Yet, the series could easily have been cancelled when ITV viewers failed to respond to the original version, which featured Clunes sharing his flat with someone named Dermot, played by Harry Enfield. Indeed, it was only when the third series moved to the BBC and was then broadcast in a post-watershed slot--allowing writer Simon Nye greater freedom to explore his characters' saucier ruminations--that the show began to gain a significant audience. By then, of course, Morrissey had become firmly ensconced on the collective pizza-stained sofa, while more screen time was allocated to the boys' respective foils, Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash. Often glibly dismissed as a lame-brained succession of gags about sex and flatulence, the later series not only featured great performances and sharp-as-nails writing but also sported a contemporary attitude that dared to go where angels, and certainly most other sitcoms, feared to tread. Or, as Gary was once moved to comment about soft-porn lesbian epic Love in a Women's Prison: "It's a serious study of repressed sexuality in a pressure-cooker environment." Series 2 includes: "Gary and Tony", in which Tony moves into the Gary's flat and makes his first disastrous attempt to woo upstairs-neighbour Deborah; "Rent Boy" in which Gary thinks Tony is gay; "How to Bump Your Girlfriend" in which no sooner has Tony got back together with his old girlfriend and filled her in about Gary ("nice bloke, ears like the FA Cup") than he decides to give her the shove; "Troublesome Twelve Inch" in which Gary tries to sell a rare record belonging to Dorothy without her knowing; "Going Nowhere" in which Tony buys a van to impress Deborah who in turn gets stuck in a lift with Gary; and "People Behaving Irritatingly" in which Tony's brother and missus visit the flat much to Gary's annoyance ("It's not enough that they were at it all last night, now they're trying to set up a national sperm bank in my bath.) --Clark Collis

• The Royle Family - The Complete First Series | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On paper, The Royle Family doesn't sound that promising: a working-class family from Manchester sit in their cluttered living room, watch the telly and argue over domestic details (the arrival of a telephone bill, for instance, provides the big dramatic event of the first episode, which aired in September 1998). But from such small everyday incidents, Royle Family creators Caroline Aherne and Dave Best (who play young couple Denise and Dave) have crafted one of the most successful shows on British television: a comedy about the joys and frustrations of family life that's warm, honest and very, very funny--Britain's answer to The Simpsons, whose success the show rivalled when it started broadcasting on BBC2 (the programme jumped channels to BBC1 for its second series).The Royle Family marked an on-screen reunion for Brookside-actors Ricky Tomlinson (who plays bearded, big-hearted, banjo-playing Jim Royle) and Sue Johnston as his wife Barbara, the driving force behind the Royle household. It is smart casting because The Royle Family is as much a soap opera as a situation comedy. Now in its third series, The Royle Family has seen its characters develop like real folk. Denise and Dave got married and now have a little sprog; Barbara starts menopause (how many sitcoms are brave enough to use that for laughs?) and Denise's kid brother Anthony shakes off his surly adolescence when he turned 18 in series two. Unlike Oasis, who provide the shows theme song "Halfway Round the World", this programme just keeps getting better.But no soap--not even Brookside in its dafter moments--has one-liners as brilliantly crafted as The Royle Family. (The scripts from the series are available to buy.) Slouched in his armchair, Jim's dour running commentary on the TV shows that are on at the time are particularly priceless: Changing Rooms, for instance, boils down to "a Cockney knocking nails into plywood... Is this what its come to?" Not quite: because as long as the Royle Family are around, there is something worthwhile to watch. --Edward Lawrenson

• Cross Of Fire | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £8.54   |  Saving you £-2.55 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  D.C. 'Steve' Stephenson is visiting Indiana and mounting a campaign to increase the membership of the Ku Klux Klan. There he meets schoolteacher Madge Oberholtzer and tries to seduce her but having no luck he abducts her rapes and tortures her and eventually kills her. The trial that follows marks the end of the Klan's popularity as Stephenson implicates them in the murder. Based on a true story.

• Sabrina, the Teenage Witch - The Sixth Season | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £13.99   |  Saving you £21.00 (150.11%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Sabrina The Teenage Witch: Season 6