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• Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card - Part One DVD/BD Combo | DVD | (11/02/2019) from £27.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The power of the Clow is back with a brand-new adventure! Join Cardcaptor Sakura as she faces a new power, new friends, and reunites with some familiar faces. As Sakura settles into a normal routine, she prepares to face her newest challenge junior high! While her classes are challenging, things start looking up when Syaoran reappears and says he'll be staying for good. But when she has a strange dream about a mysterious figure and wakes to find her Clow Cards completely clear, she must return to her duty as Cardcaptor. Ready to take on these cards with a new key and new wand, Sakura will face this mystery with the help of her friends and seriously cute outfits!

• Archipelago | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With her son Edward (Tom Hiddleston – star of the forthcoming Thor & The War Horse) about to embark on a volunteer trip to Africa, doting mother Patricia wants to give him a good send-off, and gathers her family together for a getaway to a holiday home on idyllic Tresco, one of the Isles of Scilly.Edward's father's attendance is eagerly anticipated, though sister Cynthia appears to be there under some duress, going through dutiful motions. Gradually, deep fractures within the family set-up begin to surface in this eagerly awaitied second feature from director Joanna Hogg.

• Only When I Laugh - Series 4 - Complete | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Only When I Laugh was written by Eric Chappell (Rising Damp Home to Roost) and directed by Vernon Lawrence (Duty Free The Bounder). The series starred James Bolam (Beiderbecke) Peter Bowles (To the Manor Born) and Christopher Strauli (Raffles) as three congenital hypochondriac layabouts forever haunting the ward patrolled by the droll Doctor Thorpe (Richard Wilson - One Foot in the Grave). Episodes Comprise: 1. Blood Brothers 2. Conduct Unbecoming 3. All in the Mind 4. In Sickness and in Health 5. Escape 6. When Did You Last See Your Father? 7. The Reunion

• The Accused | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £18.24   |  Saving you £1.75 (9.59%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Accused (2 Discs)

• The House On Sorority Row | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Seven graduating sorority sisters decide to throw a graduation party at their sorority house despite the objections of the resident house mother. Following an embarrassing altercation between the house mother and one of the girls a foolish prank is played that results in the old woman's death. Unable to cope with the accidental death the girls decide to temporarily hide the body and not inform the police until after the party. On the night of the party each girl is individually stalked and murdered in a grizzly fashion by an unknown assailant. There is only one girl left alive to tell the tale... and the one person who can reveal the truth may be the one who wants her dead.

• The Dead Zone | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One of the very best Stephen King film adaptations, The Dead Zone is imbued with an ever-present atmosphere of dread. Shot in a permanently wintry Canada (standing in for New England), the icy backdrops are subtly employed by director David Cronenberg to accentuate the story’s fatalistic tone. Cronenberg’s welcome emphasis for the most part on psychological terror over physical shocks (something of a change of direction for him after The Brood and Scanners) is further enhanced by composer Michael Kamen’s marvellously chilly music score and Christopher Walken’s understated yet dominating central performance as high school teacher Johnny Smith, who wakes from a coma following a car crash to learn that he has been cursed with the gift of second sight. That his uncanny ability is indeed a curse and definitely not a blessing is made abundantly clear: even when Johnny is able to save people’s lives, there is always a price to pay. The cosmic law of Karma is grimly unforgiving. Herbert Lom, as Johnny’s sympathetic doctor, sums up the character’s plight, "Some things just weren’t meant to be." And even when Johnny learns the terrible secret of future Presidential candidate Greg Stillson (a villainous Martin Sheen), he knows he cannot act without accepting the fatal consequences. Brooke Adams, as the love of Johnny’s life, and Tom Skerrit, as the quietly desperate sheriff on the trail of a serial killer, are excellent in support. On the DVD: this disc comes with a chunky accompanying booklet with background notes on the film, cast and director, as well as a script excerpt for the originally planned pre-credits sequence (in the finished film we assume Johnny’s second sight is a result of the car accident--this earlier screenplay follows the book more closely). The movie itself--which features the "scissor-suicide" scene uncut--is accompanied by a chatty and informative commentary from film critics Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (a regular Amazon.co.uk contributor). Both the 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen picture and the Dolby 5.1 sound are adequate if unexceptional. --Mark Walker

• The Whip And The Body | Blu Ray | (03/11/2014) from £16.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (46.70%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Italian horror maestro Mario Bava directs this gothic horror. Kurt Menliff (Christopher Lee) returns to his father’s castle to find that his servant (Harriet Medin) believes he is responsible for her daughter’s death. Meanwhile Kurt’s passion for sadism knows no borders as he subjects his sister (Daliah Lavi) to a horse-whip beating.

• The Point Men | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £5.35   |  Saving you £14.64 (273.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In any war there are covert groups whose moral flexibility makes them ideal for intelligence and assassination duties: they are The Point Men. Tony Eckhart (Christopher Lambert) heads up one such team protecting the Middle East peace process. In what seems to be a bungled operation, he's the only one who believes they've killed the wrong man. When the other members of his team start dropping dead, the matter becomes a personal vendetta. Unfortunately, that's exactly what the master of disguise Amar (Vincent Regan) is hoping for (aided by some fast-healing plastic surgery). Personal back stories become clear as the plot ranges all over the world from Luxembourg to Jerusalem, Zurich, Tel Aviv, New York and Monaco. There's lots of espionage intrigue and assassins' technology in this adaptation of the novel The Heat of Ramadan by Steven Hartov. Director John Glen, who helmed the James Bond films during the Roger Moore-to-Timothy Dalton era, knows how to choreograph action, and with Maryam d'Abo (from The Living Daylights) plus the fiery Kerry Fox as Maddy he also maintains a believable pair of love interests. A cross between Ronin and Face/Off, The Point Men inhabits familiar film territory, but as always Lambert is eminently watchable.On the DVD: A crisp 1.85:1 anamorphic transfer and 5.1 Surround makes this as clean a presentation of a modern film as possible. One trailer and page-long filmographies of Christopher Lambert and director John Glen also make it a cheap one. --Paul Tonks

• Murder Most English | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Flaxborough Chronicles. Murder Most English contains four terrific tales of detective sleuthing based on the Flaxborough novels of Colin Watson. Starring Anton Rodgers as Detective Inspector Purbright and Christopher Timothy as Detective Sergeant Love the series was filmed in 1977 and is a glowing tribute to an England long-gone of heavy tweed jackets dial telephones typewriter ribbons and old-fashioned investigation and deduction. Told over 7 episodes: Hopjoy Was Here Lonelyheart 4122 The Flaxborough Crab and Coffin Scarcely Used tell tales of mysterious murders dire disappearances and conniving conspiracy that are designed to keep the local investigators at bay but their layers of intrigue simply draw the detectives in deeper. One surprising and prescient tale considers the effects of an early variation on Viagra that sets the small town astir in some most unexpected ways. But whatever the crime and whoever the culprit one thing you can be sure of is a case or two of Murder Most English.

• Back To The Future Trilogy | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £15.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (87.55%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Back To The Future (1985): 17 year old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early. Michael J. Fox stars as Marty McFly a typical American teenager accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean ""time machine"" invented by slightly mad scientist Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). During his often hysterical always amazing trip back in time Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love otherwise he'll never be bor

• Fortress 2 | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  7 years on from the original Fortress movie, Brennick and his family are still on the run from the Mental corporation.

• The Sound Of Music/ South Pacific/ West Side Story | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £9.27   |  Saving you £0.72 (7.77%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sound Of Music (Dir. Robert Wise 1965): Share the magical heartwarming true-life story that has become the most popular family film of all time - Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'The Sound Of Music'. Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or merriment. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture this timeless classic features some of the world''s best-loved songs. South Pacific (Dir. Joshua Logan 1958): Blessed with a treasure of timeless songs South Pacific combines the passionate heartwarming romance of a naive young Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) and an older French plantation owner (Rossano Brazzi) with South Seas splendour and a world at war while the breathtaking score is highlighted by some of the most romantic songs ever written. West Side Story (Dir. Robert Wise Jerome Robbins 1961): Garnering a total of ten Academy Awards - including Best Picture of 1961 - West Side Story set a brilliant standard for movie musicals that remains unsurpassed to this day. Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins from Ernest Lehman's spectacular screenplay the film combines the unforgettable score of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim with Robbins' exuberant choreography to create a transcendent fusion of realism and fantasy that will forever be a feast for the eye the ear and ultimately the heart. A triumph on every level this electrifying musical sets the ageless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in the slums of 1950's New York.

• Cracker | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £49.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (40.01%)   |  RRP £69.99

  First screened in 1993, Jimmy McGovern's Cracker was at once a variation on a familiar theme and a daring new departure from the run-of-the-mill cop show. Robbie Coltrane's Fitz is an independent criminal psychologist called in by the police to help them crack intractable cases, usually involving grisly serial murders. But like its Granada TV stablemate Prime Suspect, Cracker also delves deep into the main characters' personal lives, revealing a chaos of emotional entanglements that become increasingly inseparable from their professional duties. Robbie Coltrane's charismatic presence dominates: the contrast between Fitz's professionalism and his complete inability to diagnose his own psychological failings provides much of the show's dramatic impetus. His frequent interrogations of murder suspects are tour de force demonstrations of coolly analytical method shot through with biting humour. But his drunken, intemperate behaviour towards his wife and everyone else is a telling contrast of extremes, and one that creates dangerous resentment among his colleagues. Coltrane is supported by a strong cast that includes Barbara Flynn, Geraldine Somerville, Lorcan Cranitch (as the terrifyingly unstable DS Jimmy Beck), Christopher Eccleston, and a pre-Royle Family Ricky Tomlinson. McGovern's screenplays balance gritty, Manchester-based realism with splendidly mordant wit, making Cracker simply riveting viewing. On the DVD: This complete Cracker 10-disc box set contains all three series that ran from 1993-95. The feature-length episodes are: "The Mad Woman in the Attic", "Say I Love You", "One Day a Lemming Will Fly" (Series 1); "Be a Somebody", "The Big Crunch", "Men Should Weep" (Series 2); "Brotherly Love", "Best Boys", "True Romance" (Series 3); "White Ghost" (1996 special). --Mark Walker

• Transformers - Beast Machines - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £69.93   |  Saving you £-59.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The struggle for Cybertron continues in Transformers: Beast Machines Season 2! Mysteriously transported back to their home planet of Cybertron with no memory of how or why they are there the Maximals find themselves pitched in a life-or-death battle with the evil Vehicons ruthless minions of the Decepticon Megatron. With a war now being waged the Maximals led by the awesome Optimus Primal must free Cybertron from Megatron and restore it to its former glory before all life is doomed. With animals replacing the vehicular forms of the Autobots Transformers: Beast Machines takes the age-old battle to a new level.

• Role Models | Blu Ray | (11/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Danny and Wheeler (Rudd and Scott) are two salesmen who trash a company truck on an energy drink-fuelled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship programme.

• My Dog Tulip | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Beautifully animated and featuring an all-star cast voiced by Christopher Plummer the late Lynn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini My Dog Tulip is a touching bittersweet adaptation of the late British author J. R. Ackerley's enduring memoir exploring the 16-year relationship with his adopted Alsatian bitch Tulip. A profound and subtle mediation on the strangeness that lies at the heart of all relationships My Dog Tulip was written and directed by the award-winning filmmakers Paul and Sandra Fierlinger.

• My Hero Academia: Two Heroes SteelBook | Blu Ray | (08/04/2019) from £24.24   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Our favourite young hero-in-training is in for a wild ride when villains threaten the artificial moving city, I-Island. Deku and All Might receive an invitation to I-Expo, the world's leading exhibition of Quirk abilities and hero item innovations! Amid the excitement, sponsors, and pros from all over, Deku meets Melissa, a girl who is Quirkless just like he once was. Suddenly, I-Expo's top-of-the-line security system gets hacked by villains, and a sinister plan is set in motion. It's a serious threat to hero society, and one man holds the key to it all the symbol of peace, All Might.

• Poulenc - Stabat Mater | DVD | (27/03/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Francis Poulenc was a tantalising character, part-monk and part-rascal according to the critic Claude Rostand. As in Stabat mater his music reflects this Janus-like persona, tears never far beneath the surface of even his most jovial offerings. Early on he had renounced the devout Catholicism of his family but rediscovered his faith after the premature death of a close friend, the composer and patron Pierre-Octave Ferroud. It was this event that prompted Poulenc's pilgrimage to the Black Madonna of Rocamadour, who nestles benevolently, high up in the rock face. An important body of sacred works ensued, not least his Stabat mater, a personal memorial to Ferroud. This is performed here by the combined Cambridge choirs of St John's, Clare and Gonville, and Caius; they're pleasingly mellifluous and disciplined but sound utterly un-French. The work can take it, but this is not the most tender performance. The strange and haunting Motets (Claire and Gonville and Caius Choirs) are dramatically the high point of this concert, while the otherworldly beauty of the ethereal (female-voice) Litanies tugs at the heart-strings. As a visual experience, we get two different locations but there's not a great deal you can do with a bunch of singers. The best things are the close-ups of a fabulous Chagall window (which comes from another church entirely, but who cares?). On the DVD: The remastering of these 1996 recordings has been reasonably well done though disconcertingly, picture and sound aren't always immaculately synchronised. Extra features are a virtual (four-and-a-half minute) visit to Rocamadour which has an appropriate sense of drama, if visually it's a bit crude; and a more substantial (18-minute) documentary on the phenomenon of Black Madonnas which is interesting but you may find the piety cloying, and more editing would have tidied up some of the rough edges that may irritate on repeated viewing. Sound is Dolby Digital 4.0, and picture is anamorphic 16:9 with both PAL and NTSC formats. The disc is region-free. The booklet is informative, though more for its madonnas than its music. --Harriet Smith

• Orson Welles - Screen Legends | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  What more is there to say about Orson Welles? One of the most talented and enigmatic artists that Hollywood has ever seen this box set gathers several films in his oeuvre for your viewing pleasure. Citizen Kane (Dir. Orson Welles 1941): In May of 1941 RKO Radio Pictures released a controversial film by a 25-year-old first-time director. That premier of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was to have a profound and lasting effect of the art of motion pictures. It has been hai

• Sleepy Hollow 20th Anniversary Digibook | Blu Ray | (06/01/2020) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  20th Anniversary Limited Collector's Edition On Blu-Ray INCLUDES 40-PAGE BOOK OF THE WASHINGTON IRVING CLASSIC STORY, THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. Master storyteller Tim Burton (Batman, Edward Scissorhands) weaves an eerie, enchanting version of this classic tale of horror. Johnny Depp is Ichabod Crane, an eccentric investigator determined to stop the murderous Headless Horseman. Christina Ricci is Katrina Van Tassel, the beautiful and mysterious girl with secret ties to the supernatural terror. This release includes Special Features never before available on Blu-ray in the UK: Commentary by Director Tim Burton Sleepy Hollow - Behind the Legend Reflections on Sleepy Hollow