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• Krull | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  There's something inescapably appealing about Krull, a camp Star Wars-meets-The Lord of the Rings knock-off, that encourages the viewer to overlook it's very many silly shortcomings and simply enjoy the fun. James Horner's rollicking music score--written soon after his similarly memorable contribution to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan--certainly helps, as does the epic-scale CinemaScope photography of the breathtaking Italian landscapes. The costumes and extravagant production design are also great to look at, and much of Derek Meddings' visual effects work still looks striking if not exactly state-of-the-art. Of the cast, Freddie Jones stands head and shoulders above all others as the Obi Wan Kenobi-meets-Gandalf character Ynyr: his trip to the centre of the spider's web is both genuinely scary and genuinely touching. The two romantic leads, Ken Marshall as the Luke Skywalker-meets-King Arthur clone Prince Colwyn and Lysette Anthony (with an overdubbed American voice) as his Leia-Guinevere Princess Lyssa, are mere formalities on which to hang the plot. Ironic fun can be had with the all-British supporting cast, which includes Todd Carty of Eastenders fame and Carry On's Bernard Bresslaw, as well as Robbie Coltrane, Liam Neeson and the gorgeous Francesca Annis. On the DVD: Krull comes to DVD in an anamorphic widescreen print, preserving the luscious CinemaScope look of the theatrical release. The Dolby 5.1 sound lives up to the picture. There are two commentary tracks: on the first, director Peter Yates talks through the movie, with contributions from other crew members and leads Ken Marshall and Lysette Anthony. Oddly, the second audio track is just a reading of an article that originally appeared in the November 1982 issue of Cinefantastique magazine. There's also a half-hour "making-of" featurette originally produced to promote the movie at the time, the usual trailer, stills gallery and three talent profiles. --Mark Walker

• That's Your Funeral | DVD | (17/04/2017) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bill Fraser and Raymond Huntley star in the raucous British farce That's Your Funeral based on the hugely successful 1970's TV series. Holroyd's are a long established firm of funeral directors run by Emmanuel Holroyd (Raymond Huntley) and Basil Bulstrode (Bill Fraser). Business is good for Holroyd's until a new firm of undertakers comes to town with new ideas and an attractive female employee (Sue Lloyd). Plenty of laughs follow as the two rival firms compete with each other for business. The competition between the two firms mounts when there is a mix up over two coffins delivered to the local railway station with hilarious consequences. But are the new firm all that they seem and what are they really transporting in their coffins?

• The Beiderbecke Tapes | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £19.17   |  Saving you £-9.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinborne the reluctant heroes from the TV series 'The Beiderbecke Affair' return in this feature length mystery. Trevor is given some jazz tapes from a fellow Bix Beiderbecke fan the barman at the local pub but he receives far more than music compilations. One of the tapes turns out to be a recording of a sinister conversation about dumping nuclear waste in the Yorkshire Dales. When Trevor and Jill go to the pub to confront the barman they discover he has gone missing and a mystery ensues....

• Danny, The Champion Of The World / The Witches / Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  Danny Champion Of The World (Dir. Gavin Millar 1989): In a small English town a widowed father and his son own and operate a gas station that rests on land coveted by a local developer. They must fight to keep their land and retain the traditional values they have come to live by against harsh government inspectors who are privately in league with the developer. The Witches (Dir. Nicolas Roeg 1990): Saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy they've turn

• Out Of Depth | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Out of Depth" tells the tragic story of misguided good intentions, of family love and of the personal hopes and fears that lay behind several gangland killings.

• Mr Bean Vol.3 | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £7.77   |  Saving you £5.21 (109.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Mr Bean: Vol.3