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• Everything - The Real Thing Story | Blu Ray | (26/10/2020) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The national press dubbed them The Black Beatles , four working class boys from one of Liverpool s toughest neighbourhoods who became Britain s most enduring black soul and funk act ever. With a string of hits, they dominated the international charts throughout the 1970s with iconic songs like You to Me Are Everything, Can t Get By Without You and Can You Feel the Force. But The Real Thing s meteoric success was also tempered with personal tragedy, drug addiction and racial prejudice. Simon Sheridan s widely acclaimed documentary tells the incredible true story of Britain s first black music revolution, and features illuminating interviews with the band, plus Billy Ocean, Kim Wilde, David Essex, Trevor Nelson, Paul Barber, Denise Pearson and Louis Emerick. Narrated by Jacob Anderson (from TV s Game of Thrones). Extras Full uncut theatrical version Audio commentary by director/producer Simon Sheridan and Dr Abigail Gardner New animated video for 'You To Me Are Everything' Three exclusive new films: Real Love A Fan s Perspective; Eddy Amoo Child of the Ghetto and A Night at the Café The Real Thing Concert Live in London.

• Saturday Morning Pictures - The Best Of The Children's Film Foundation - Vol. 1 | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Adventures Of Hal 5: Hal 5 is a very old Austin with great character owned by the Hayward family. A wicked garage owner plots to steal the car to sell for a great deal of money but the Hayward children are out to stop him... Egghead's Robot: 'Eggheaed' Wentworth adapts his father's robot to perform the chores but forgets to programme him to stay out of trouble...

• Revelation | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £5.74   |  Saving you £-2.75 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Three months ago the unthinkable happened. The buttons had been pushed and missiles filled the skies. Within moments it was over - the entire population of the world could only wait. Then it happened. The nuclear missiles simply vanished along with 187 million people. The world had changed. The reign of the Messiah had begun. Or so it seemed... Is this new supreme leader of the Earth the true Messiah or is he the Antichrist?

• The Eiger Sanction | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £5.48   |  Saving you £4.51 (82.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Clint Eastwood held the dual role of director and star of this 1975 spy thriller, which makes up for sluggish pacing with a breathtaking climax on a treacherous peak in the Swiss Alps. The plot kicks into gear when Eastwood, playing a retired assassin, is recruited back into a secret organisation to avenge the murder of an old friend. He's then blackmailed into making a second "hit"; this time his target is one of three men who will be attempting to conquer the Eiger, a dangerous peak in Switzerland. An accomplished climber, Eastwood's character joins the expedition with George Kennedy as leader of the ground crew. Shifting loyalties, apparent betrayals, and paranoid suspicion factor into the suspenseful climax on the sheer face of the mountain. This memorable sequence--for which Eastwood performed his own mountain-climbing stunts--is effectively intense, built on a standard plot of double-cross and intrigue that was intended to combine Eastwood's screen persona with the global adventure of the James Bond films. For the most part it works--it's not one of Eastwood's better films, but it's got some first-class thrills (and a sly performance by Jack Cassidy) to grab and hold your interest. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £12.90   |  Saving you £-10.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Starring Steve McQueen as the getaway driver this 1959 film tells the story of a thwarted bank robbery at the Southwest Bank in St. Louis in 1953. Many St. Louis residents bank employees and police who were on duty during the actual robbery attempt either played themselves or were cast as extras in the film.

• Sam - Series 2 - Part 2 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stay Single And Live Forever.... Series Two of Sam adapted from the book by John Finch. Mark McManus stars as Sam in this fondly remembered TV series.... Episodes comprise: Stay Single And Live Forever / Credit / Sins Of The Father / The World As It Is

• Class Of 1984 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-1.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  We are the future!... and nothing can stop us. Andy Norris the new music teacher at a high school from hell faces an assortment of adolescent thugs eager to haze him on a daily basis. But brutality and unruliness aren't uncommon at Abraham Lincoln High where drugs prostitution and violent classrooms are controlled by gangs. Initially Norris isn't intimidated by the hoodlums harassing him but when they start threatening his wife he'll have to take them on one by one...

• K.D. Lang - Live By Request | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Live by Request is, most certainly, a live recording of KD Lang, though nobody in the audience seems to do much requesting. Taped in December 2000 in New York, it shows Lang and her band before a smallish audience, rattling out a few of her better-known songs and some of Lang's generally creditable readings of standards, in between interruptions from a host who walks Lang through brief discussions of her career and influences. Listening to Lang sing is, of course, no hardship: few indeed are the vocalists who can mix it with the legacies of Roy Orbison ("Crying") and Patsy Cline ("Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray") and emerge with dignity intact, never mind reputation enhanced. That said, whatever intensity there may have been about the show on the night has not translated to this recording, and this is little more than a succession of polite performances greeted by polite applause. On the DVD: The picture format is the 4:3 television standard, and there are three sound modes to choose from (Dolby Digital Surround, DTS Surround, PCM Stereo). The menu of songs is easily navigable, but there are disappointingly no bonus features. --Andrew Mueller

• Lord Peter Wimsey - Five Red Herrings ) | DVD | (27/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the series of novels written by Dorothy L Sayers in the 1920s and 30s, Lord Peter Wimsey was dramatised for TV by the BBC between 1972-5. Ian Carmichael, veteran of British film comedy, played the genial, aristocratic sleuth; Glyn Houston was his manservant Bunter. The pair are similar to PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Bertie Wooster (whom Carmichael played in an earlier TV adaptation) though here the duo are equal in intelligence, breezing about the country together in Wimsey's Bentley and stumbling with morbid regularity upon baffling murder mysteries to test their wits. Those for whom this series forms hazy memories of childhood might be surprised at its somewhat stagy, lingering interior shots, the spartan paucity of music, the miserly attitude towards locations, especially foreign ones, and the rather genteel, leisurely pace of these programmes, besides which Inspector Morse seems like Quentin Tarantino in comparison. It seems that initially the BBC was reluctant to commission the series and ventured on production with a wary eye on the budget. The Britain depicted by Sayers is, by and large, populated by either the upper classes or heavily accented, rum-do-and-no-mistake lower orders, which some might find consoling. However, the acting is generally excellent and the murder mysteries are sophisticated parlour games, the televisual equivalent of a good, absorbing jigsaw puzzle. There were five feature-length adaptations in all. "Five Red Herrings" is the last and perhaps the least of the series, involving a trout fishing holiday interrupted by the death of a local artist. --David Stubbs

• Coraline -LAIKA Studios Edition | Blu Ray | (31/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Best Defense | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy star in this anti-establishment comedy about a disenchanted military scientist whose shortcomings have a knock-on effect on a hapless soldier caught-up in a war he has no place being in. With some classic Murphy dialogue and screwball antics Best Defence is an alternative look at the dynamics of modern warfare.

• Top Of The World | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  It all begins like the perfect day for ex-cop now ex-con Ray Mercer (Peter Weller). He finally gets out of jail is met by his stunningly beautiful wife visits a Las Vegas casino and wins a massive jackpot. But having gently tapped him on the shoulder Lady Luck is now about to punch Ray very hard in the face. Still on parole he shouldn’t even be in the casino his unfaithful wife wants a divorce and suddenly he’s caught up in a brutal heist that’s gone catastrophically wrong. And as the bodies start piling up higher that the casino’s chips the trouble really starts when mysterious gangster ‘The Butcher’ arrives...

• 9.1/2 Weeks / Showgirls / Body Of Evidence | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  9 1/2 Weeks: Elizabeth (Basinger) is a Soho gallery worker romantically uninvolved since a painful divorce. John (Rourke) is a wealthy commodities broker emotionally alone no matter who he's with. A chance meeting draws them into each other's worlds. Obsession takes them further into a mutual world of eroticism and emotional awakenings. Showgirls: Leave your inhibitions at the door and experience the sensation of Showgirls Las Vegas the pleasure capital of the world where stardom can be found..at a price. Fuelled by naked ambition Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) is willing to pay that price working as a stripper and lap-dancer in the seedy back room of the Cheetah Club. She is soon discovered by Cristal (Gina Gershon) the seductive star of the biggest sexiest show in Vegas who together with her lover Zack (Kyle MacLachlan) gives her the chance to fulfil her wildest dreams. Behind the glamour lies the sordid side to the nightlife full of traps set with lust and jealousy. Body Of Evidence: Seductive gallery owner Rebecca Carlson (Madonna) is accused of a unique crime - using violent sex to murder a wealthy businessman. Frank Dulaney (Willem Dafoe) is the lawyer trying to defend her helpless to resist her extraordinary brand of lovemaking...

• Buffy Season 3 | DVD | (18/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Action-packed Season Three develops major characters and plot lines brewing over the last couple of years. The Mayor, this season's major baddie, wants to become an invincible demon by slaughtering everyone at Sunnydale High's graduation ceremony but he's going to torture them all by giving his speech first. Bad-girl vampire-slayer Faith wants to get one over on Buffy and becomes even more rotten. Angel comes back from hell but isn't sure what to do about his girlfriend. Willow meets her evil gay vampire duplicate from another dimension. Xander loses his virginity but still has to contemplate his essential uselessness. Cordelia gets less whiny and has to work in a dress-shop when her father becomes bankrupt. Giles wears tweed and drinks tea, though it is revealed that he used to be a warlock and in a punk band. Besides the soap opera, there are monsters, curses and vampires (inevitably). --Kim Newman On the DVD: The DVDs are presented in a standard television 4:3 picture ratio and in a clear Dolby sound that does full justice both to the sparkling dialogue and to the always impressive indie-rock and orchestral scores. Special features include an overview of Season Three by its creator Joss Whedon, and by writers Marti Noxon, David Fury, Doug Petrie and Jane Espenson and documentaries on the weapons, clothes special effects of the show and the speech/verbal tone which makes it what it is-"Buffyspeak". The episodes "Helpless", "Bad Girls", "Consequences" and "Earshot" have commentaries by, Fury, Petrie, director James Gershman and Espenson, in which we find out some fascinating details about the way the scripts mutate and about the particular illuminations added to scripts by actors' performances. After complaints about the Season 2 DVD packaging, the disc envelopes include a protective coating. --Roz Kaveney

• Hilary And Jackie | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It earned Oscar nods, yet this cinematic look at a genius--that of English cellist Jacqueline du Pré, who enraptured audiences with her bold, emblazoned and wholly unconventional playing style, and who died at age 42--was criticised for its "lapses" in truth by people who purportedly knew du Pré. Some of the controversy revolved around the other main character in Anand Tucker's gorgeous, involving movie--du Pré's sister, Hilary, whose book,A Genius in the Family (cowritten with brother Piers), dished some dirt on Jackie's sleeping with Hilary's husband. But don't let that deter you from this ebullient movie experience. Hilary and Jackie is a bisected story (each sister's tale is told in the same amount of screen time) teeming with heartfelt drama that belies the cheap shots it received from its detractors. It's stirring, reckless, loving, involving, and rife with unconventional passion; passion for music, life, art, and the delicate relationship between these two synchronous, extraordinary sisters as played by brilliant actors Emily Watson and Rachel Griffiths (both of whom earned Oscar nods). Though Watson got the juicy, showy role as Jackie, it's Griffiths who provides the heart, soul, and spine of the film. And director Tucker has that gift of being able to explain through the visual medium what is happening inside of his character's heads. He's helped by a fine screenplay by Frank Boyce Cottrell. No matter what the truth of Hilary and Jackie might really be, this is an exceptional, rare film that is defined and graced by fine acting and writing. --Paula Nechak

• Calamity Jane | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £10.71   |  Saving you £5.28 (49.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The TV movie remake of the classic 1953 Oscar winning western this tells the story of the famous cowgirl who could outshoot and top any man at everything in the west along with her up-and down romance with Wild Bill Hickok...

• Pitch Black - Steelbook - Universal 100th Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (18/02/2013) from £21.95   |  Saving you £-1.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the survivors are forced to turn to Riddick and his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.

• Blade Runner 2049 3D, 2 Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (15/02/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Brotherhood of the Rose | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

• Count Duckula - The Complete Second Series | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In the heart of Transylvan-ia In the Vampire Hall of Fame-yeah There's not a vampire zanier than...DUCKULA!He won't bite beast or man 'Cos he's a vegetari-an.And things never run to plan for...DUCKULA!If you're looking for some fun You can always count upon Come and find the one they call...DUCKULA!Heh heh. Count Duckula!Heh heh heh heh heh heh! From the genius' at Cosgrove Hall Count Duckula recalls the spirit of their earlier master-work Dangermouse and is indeed a spin-off from an episode where Dangermouse must retrieve a feather from a vampire duck! David Jason a favourite voice-over artist at the animation studio provides the voice behind the pacifist vampire duck. The complete second series of this cult cartoon. Episodes Comprise: 1. Ghostly Gold 2. Ducknapped 3. The Lost Valley 4. Incredible Shrinking Duck 5. Hi-Duck 6. Prime Time Duck 7. Bloodsucking Fruit Bats Of The Lower Amazon 8. The Count And Pauper 9. In Arctic Circles 10. Transylvanian Take Away 11. Who Dunnit? 12. No Yaks Please We're Tibetian 13. Beau Duckula 14. Mississippi Duck 15. Amnesiac Duck 16. Mysteries Of The Wax Museum 17. Return Of The Curse Of The Secret Of The Mummy's Tomb Meets Franken Duckua's Monster 18. Lost City Of Atlantis 19. Bad Luck Duck