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• The Old Grey Whistle Test - Vol. 3 | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £21.97   |  Saving you £-1.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Playing all 31 tracks on The Old Grey Whistle Test Volume 3 will make some viewers believe the producers are now beginning to scrape the bottom of the barrel; others will think that finally they're getting around to the good stuff. Given that the series somehow managed to take an enormous range of music on board while at the same time seeming entirely consistent (surely the secret of its success), there's evidence for both points of view. The case for the prosecution might cite Janis Ian (her melancholic self-obsession now seems indulgent to the point of prissiness), Al Stewart ("Year of the Cat" is simply a dreary song) or Orange Juice (did they ever really mean anything much to anyone?). The case for the defence, however, is pretty strong overall, with highlights such as Bowie doing "Oh You Pretty Things", Johnny Winter covering "Jumping Jack Flash" as if he was its rightful owner, and Kings BB and Freddie bringing it all back home with two excellent performances. There's something for everyone along the way. Proggers get Discipline-era King Crimson, which saw Adrian Belew saving the band from disappearing up its own fundament; folkies get an unplugged Fairport Convention; punks get John Cooper Clarke and the Jam; somebody or other gets the Bangles. However, if there's one track that justifies the existence of this disc all by itself, it has to be "In a Hole" from the Jesus and Mary Chain, whose glorious nihilism made the Pistols seem like a folk group. On the DVD: The Old Grey Whistle Test Volume 3 DVD is presented in old-telly 4:3 ratio and offers numerous extras, including contributor profiles and links, a commentary and an artists' gallery. --Roger Thomas

• Porterhouse Blue | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £15.60   |  Saving you £-5.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on Tom Sharpe’s satirical novel and set in a fictional, all-male Cambridge College, 1987’s Porterhouse Blue is a crusty delight. Ian Richardson stars as the austere moderniser who takes over as master of Porterhouse with a view to bringing in radical changes; David Jason is Skullion, head porter for 45 years and a bulldog-style traditionalist.Porterhouse Blue is a wonderfully grotesque and not inaccurate depiction of an Oxbridge college that has set itself resolutely and decadently against the modern world. Crammed with hoggish, port-swilling dons who are more concerned that the college stay "head of the river" than with academic achievement, the highlight of Porterhouse’s year is the Founder’s Feast, in which students and tutors gorge debauchedly on roast swan stuffed with widgeon, to the horror of the new vegetarian master. Jason’s Skullion looks on approvingly: he’s a stickler for Porterhouse’s inverted values, disapproving, for instance, of student Zipser (John Sessions), the only fellow at the college actually there to work. When the master eventually fires Skullion, the forces of traditionalism gather in sympathy and attempt their revenge.Unfolding over 190 leisurely minutes, Porterhouse Blue is an elegantly turned comedy in which practically every morsel of dialogue is to be savoured for its delicious tang. Jason and Richardson are reliably excellent in what is an overall exhibition of British TV thespianism at its finest. --David Stubbs

• Arrow: S1-5 (BD/S) | Blu Ray | (18/09/2017) from £44.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.

• The Librarian | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  To be a librarian you must master the Dewey Decimal System ace internet research and if you're new librarian Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle) save the world! Wyle (E.R.) heads a sterling cast in a fun fantastical special effects-laden adventure that soars around the world from the Metropolitan Library to the Amazon jungle to the Himalayas. Geeky Carsen lands a job as the Librarian keeper of such top-secret Met treasures as Excalibur and Pandora's Box. Then the Serpent Brothe

• The Wackness | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £5.82   |  Saving you £10.17 (174.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  1994, a psychiatrist (Ben Kingsley) is put into a moral quandary when a young drug dealer supplies him with pot in exchange for clinical treatment.

• Dracula | Blu Ray | (06/10/2014) from £12.94   |  Saving you £5.05 (28.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Although there have been numerous screen versions of Bram Stoker's classic tale Dracula none is more enduring than this 1931 movie. Towering ominously among the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains Castle Dracula strikes fear in the hearts of the Transylvanian villagers below. With the superb Bela Lugosi starring as the screen's most popular vampire Count Dracula the film's eerie and chilling mood is enhanced by specialist horror director Tod Browning. Dracula remains a masterpiece not only of the genre but for all time. Special Features: Centennial Trailer Dracula (1931) Spanish Version Dracula: The Restoration Feature Commentary by Film Historian David J. Skal Dracula Trailer House of Dracula Trailer Monster Tracks Pop-Up Facts (subtitle file) Dracula Archives

• That Old Feeling | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It was the perfect wedding except for two things ...the bride's parents The wedding from hell just sparked a match madeiin heaven! Happily divorced for 14 years Lilly and Dan still have one thing in common they hate each other with nuclear capacity. But after a knock-down drag-out fight at their daughter's wedding their pent-up hostility suddenly turns to unbridled passion! Now the two unlikely lovebirds are on the run - with their frantic daughter her new stuffed-shirt

• The Gondoliers - Gilbert And Sullivan | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £6.65   |  Saving you £8.34 (125.41%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Gilbert And Sullivan: Gondoliers

• Stalky and Co. | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £6.99   |  Saving you £18.00 (257.51%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Behind the doors of Study No. 5 in Mr. Prout's house, you will find a typical group of private schoolboys. You'll also find revenge, hatred, violence and passion. A stunning adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name, this series follows a group of boys in an unnamed school known as the ˜Coll'. Meet Stalky, the charming but ruthless leader of the pack, M'Turk, a comic John Ruskin devotee, and Beetle, the literary brains of the group, widely known to be based on Kipling himself. The boys are determined to make their mark on the world, defend the honour of their house and leave the school as men of valour and achievement.

• Frasier - Series 11 | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Frasier returns with Season 11 - the final season of the smash hit comedy! Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer is Frasier - the hilarious psychiatrist first seen on TV's Cheers and subsequently the star of this smash-hit comedy series.

• Ring of Spies | Blu Ray | (21/09/2020) from £10.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  There have always been spies men and women who have pried for patriotism, for religion, for love... or for money. This tense drama is based on the true story of the Portland spy ring an unlikely Soviet operation that took place in southern England and which was active during the late 1950s/early '60s. Directed by Robert Tronson and starring Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack and David Kossoff, Ring of Spies is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. An antiquarian bookseller and his wife; a disgruntled, hard-drinking naval clerk and the lonely secretary he recruits; a polished Soviet agent who assumes the identity of a dead Canadian citizen... the players in a familiar Cold War duel between Soviet intelligence and British counter-espionage and a trade in deadly secrets directed from a bungalow in suburban Ruislip, hidden for years from unsuspecting neighbours and British spycatchers.

• Slap Shot 2 - Breaking The Ice | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Get set for more hard-charging action and laughs than you can shake a stick at in this uproarious sequel to the original 1977 Slap Shot. Sean Linden (Stephen Baldwin) is the long-suffering captain and coach of the Charlestown Chiefs. The Chiefs are a team whose glory days are a distant memory. However the team's new millionaire owner (Gary Busey) has a new game plan: to turn the Chiefs into the bumbling underdog losers in a bogus made-for-TV hockey league! And to add insult to injury

• The Water Babies | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £15.96   |  Saving you £-13.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The Water Babies tells the story of Tom, a chimney sweep who gets framed for theft in 1850s England. Even though a young girl named Ellie knows the real thieves' identities and tries to clear Tom's name, Tom's desperate escape run lands him right in the middle of Dead Man's Pool. Assumed to have met certain death, Tom gets sucked into a magical underwater world. Tom befriends the creatures he meets beneath the sea, and they accompany him on a journey to the land of Water Babies, where he intends to ask the all-powerful Cracken to help him return to the world above the water. However, when Tom finally does manage to return to land, life is far from idyllic as he must set out clear his name and trap the real thieves. Many adults possess fond memories of seeing this 1978 movie as children. The land portions of this musical feature live-action footage, while the water sequence is fully animated. To a fresh, modern audience, the abrupt change from one format to the other is somewhat disconcerting, as is the choppy, older animation style. The story, based on the classic children's book of the same name by Charles Kingsley, is an intriguing look at both Victorian culture and the fantasy world. (Ages 4-8) --Tami Horiuchi, Amazon.com

• Under Pressure | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A decorated firefighter (Charlie Sheen) has his wife and son leave him because of his violent tendencies. Believing that the loving neighbour couple (Mare Winningham David Andrews) and their two children (Noah Fleiss Chelsea Russo) are to blame for them leaving by filling his wife's head with nonsense he sets out to discipline the family for their failings...

• Dynamo: Magician Impossible | Blu Ray | (17/10/2011) from £5.76   |  Saving you £19.23 (333.85%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Tipped as the most exciting British magician to emerge in decades and with a list of celebrity fans that reads like a 'who's who' of the Hollywood elite, Dynamo: Magician Impossible is the story of an ordinary boy from Bradford living an extraordinary life. Like his dear grandfather before him, Dynamo grew up practicing precision card-handling and developing powerful magical skills.The series sees the 28-year-old travelling the globe as the unassuming anti-hero who just happens to astound everyone he meets, whether it's an international footballer or Hollywood actor.In episode one, Dynamo performs his spectacular matrix style levitation, physically moves a girl's tan line on the glamorous Miami Beach and performs magic with Manchester rock legend Ian Brown.Other highlights in this mind blowing series include; transporting a mobile phone into a glass beer bottle, magically transforming snow into diamonds in the Austrian mountains and bringing a flutter of butterflies to life in Hollywood's famous Chateau Marmont.Throughout the series, Dynamo: Magician Impossible will take viewers on his magical journey before stunning them with incredible, headline-grabbing stunts beyond the realms of possibility.

• District 13 - Ultimatum | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £5.35   |  Saving you £10.64 (198.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The authorities are closing in and life in District 13 is growing more uncertain. But for Damien and Leito, the real games are about to begin in "Ultimatum" - a free running epic of an action film!

• Snow White - A Tale Of Terror | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £8.47   |  Saving you £1.52 (17.95%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The fairy tale is over. If you thought Snow White was only a fairy tale you're about to discover the truth but lock up your children first. The real tale of Snow White is a tale of relentless terror and unimaginable horror. When young Lillian's mother dies during childbirth the father soon remarries the well-intentioned Lady Claudia. However Claudia's heart is ruled not by her husband but by an evil mirror with the power to make Claudia Queen over all living things until

• Teenage Caveman | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When mankind is reduced to a handful of scared cave dwellers a rebellious group of teenagers are cast out of their tribe and search the land for a new paradise reminiscent of their lost civilization. During their travels the teens encounter two immortal super-humans Judith and Neil who appear at first to be the answer to their prayers. However the couple's true motives soon become clear when they cleverly seduce each teenager in an attempt to pass on a super-human virus. When o

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Poirot's dentist Morley is found dead in surgery. It appears to be a simple case of suicide but why has Morley's secretary received a hoax phone call claiming her Aunt was ill? And who is the woman with the broken shoe buckle masquerading as Miss Sainsbury Seale? When a Mr Amberiotis is found dead in his hotel room with an overdose of Novocaine Poirot begins to assemble the evidence...

• The Sex Thief | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Audacious cat burglar Grant Henry (David Warbeck Hammer's Twins of Evil) steals more than just wealthy women's diamonds in this riotous 1973 British sex comedy. The dashing gentleman thief becomes the talk of London but a pretty insurance investigator (Diane Keen) and breast-obsessed policeman (Michael Armstrong) are hot on his heels. The Sex Thief was the directorial debut of New Zealand-born Martin Campbell - who would later graduate to Hollywood blockbusters like Goldeneye and Casino Royale - but the film gained notoriety after being released in a hardcore porn version in America in 1976.