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• Lost: Season 1 - Part 1 | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £26.00 (521.04%)   |  RRP £30.99

  From J.J. Abrams the creator of Alias comes an action-packed adventure that will bring out the very best and the very worst in the people who are lost on a faraway desert island... Out of the blackness the first thing Jack (Matthew Fox) senses is pain. Then burning sun. A Bamboo forest. Smoke. Screams. With a rush comes the horrible awareness that the plane he was on tore apart in mid-air and crashed on a Pacific island. From there it's a blur as his doctor's instinct kic

• Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen | Blu Ray | (01/11/2010) from £76.94   |  Saving you £13.05 (16.96%)   |  RRP £89.99

  Anello Del Nibelungo (L') / Der Ring Des Nibelungen (4 Blu-Ray)

• The Mark Of Zorro | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £12.80   |  Saving you £-6.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This swashbuckling remake of the silent classic stars Tyrone Power as the dashing masked avenger who must single-handedly save Los Angeles from Spanish despots. Don Diego Vega (Power) is summoned home from his elite training corps in Spain to California where he finds his father the Alcalde deposed and the people living in tyranny. Disguised as Zorro a sword-wielding mystery man dressed in black he works to restore his father to power and return tax money stolen by the villains.

• Private Peaceful | Blu Ray | (05/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted from the best-selling novel by children's laureate and writer of 'War Horse' Michael Morpurgo, 'Private Peaceful' is an emotional and uplifting film about the journey of two devoted brothers through their childhood and adolescence in rural Devon to enlisting in the military for the First World War. On the home front, 'Private Peaceful' is a story of fierce family loyalties and brothers divided by their love for the same girl. At war, it encompasses heroism, cowardice, brutality and th...

• The Flower Of My Secret | Blu Ray | (20/02/2017) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Leo Macias writes sentimental novels with great success but hidden under a pseudonym, Amanda Gris. She is unhappy with her professional life and with her husband, a soldier working in Brussels and Bosnia that is never at home. She will try anything to change her life.

• Naked Fury/Mark Of The Phoenix | DVD | (21/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Naked FuryWhilst robbing a bank four men kill a night watchman and take his daughter hostage - they hold her in an old warehouse. One of the robbers (Kenneth Cope) of 'Randall and Hopkirk' and 'Coronation St' Fame falls for the girl (Leigh Madison) but that only causes squabbles and fighting between the four. Produced in 1959 by Guido Coen one time Executive Director of Twickenham Studios. Mark of the PhoenixDirected by Maclean Rogers this 1957 Butchers production is a great little Crime Drama. A sample of an advanced new metal is stolen and made into a cigarette case for smuggling to the East. Caught up in the plot international Jewell thief (Sheldon Lawrence) who is then pursued by East and West...

• A Farewell To Arms | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This dense adaption of Ernest Hemingway's novel features Rock Hudson as American soldier Lt. Henry and his ill-fated love affair with British Nurse Catherine portrayed by Jennifer Jones during World War I. The two lovers will stop at nothing to be together but Lt. Henry's internal struggles ultimately threaten the relationship. Hemingway's theme of questioning the nature of war and fighting is fully recognised under Charles Vidor's direction.

• The Seven Little Foys | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (32.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Eddie Foy a vaudeville entertainer marries Madeleine a ballerina and soon their family grows... Eddie realises that his children could help him out of a tight spot....

• The Kid with the Bike | Blu Ray | (23/07/2012) from £15.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cyril, almost 12, has only one plan: to find the father who left him temporarily in a children's home. By chance he meets Samantha, who runs a hairdressing salon and agrees to let him stay with her at weekends. Cyril doesn't recognize the love Samantha feels for him, a love he desperately needs to calm his rage.This affecting and gripping drama is one of the finest films from the directors of 'The Child', 'Rosetta' & 'The Silence of Lorna'.

• The New Avengers: The Complete Series - Episodes 1-26 | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Sometimes dismissed as a pale descendant of a great original, The New Avengers deserves a second look and is perhaps best considered as a largely successful attempt to re-imagine its predecessor for 1970s audiences. Patrick McNee was never the most convincing of action heroes, and the decision to make his John Steed the supervisor and mentor of two younger agents was a sensible one--Steed's virtues are style, wisdom and fortitude rather than physical prowess. Gareth Hunt's Gambit has an unattractively smug side, but has also a louche charm. Joanna Lumley's Purdey is one of the most attractive heroines of genre television, astonishingly leggy and beautiful. Those who only know her later incarnation as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous will understand now why such a fuss is made over her. The script team overlaps heavily with that of the original series; the new show has the same quirkiness, only occasionally varying it with a rather darker leCarrésque complexity or sudden outbreaks of Hammer Horror. If it lacks some of the sheer style of the original, that is a reflection of its period--the 1970s were less visually imaginative than the 60s. Tightly plotted, imaginatively cast with interesting guest stars, it is only with The Avengers that The New Avengers suffers by comparison. --Roz Kaveney

• Stargate SG-1: Season 6 (Vol. 27) | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £6.50   |  Saving you £-1.51 (-30.30%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Nightwalkers: Carter Teal'c and Jonas investigate the death of a scientist named Fleming who was working with Immunotech and find a small town whose inhabitants are part of a secret experiment. Abyss: Jack is blended with a Tok'Ra who gets him captured by the Gou'ald. The Tok'Ra commits suicide to prevent its knowledge from falling into enemy hands and Jack is tortured for the information by the System Lord Ba'al. Shadow Play: A diplomatic party from Kelowna (Quinn's home nation) come to SG Command and want to negotiate. The two other nations on the planet have united against them and they want military support in return for n'quadria... The Other Guys: While escorting physicists off-world SG-1 is taken captive by Jaffa working for the Gou'ald Kon'su an ally of Anubis. Two of the meek physicists who revere SG-1 Felger and Coombs must rescue them!

• Doing Life | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Convicted of cop-killing Jerry Rosenberg seemed destined to die in the electric chair. The remarkable and inspirational story of how he turned his life around and fought a very personal battle to get his sentence commuted is told in this compelling drama starring Tony Danza of Taxi fame.In the early 1960s Brooklyn-born career criminal Rosenberg faced the death penalty for a double cop-killing. But Rosenberg swore he was innocent and set about squashing his conviction. Through a correspondence course in law Rosenberg even gained a degree and he went on to establish a considerable reputation for counselling and defending his fellow inmates and to earn the title 'America's Greatest Jailhouse Lawyer'.

• Three Silent Men/Inquest | DVD | (16/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Three Silent MenAn inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot. The next day the inventor is found dead. Could it be the surgeon? A 1940 Butchers production stars Derrick De Marney and Patricia Roc. InquestDirected by Roy Boulting this Charter production was made in 1939. It was Boultings second film on the way to; Twisted Nerve The Family Way and Seagulls Over Sorrento. Inquest is a whodunit played out through the coroners inquest. Filmed at Highbury Studios and starring Elizabeth Allan and Herbert Lomas.

• The Survivors | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At the height of urban paranoia and the birth of survivalist movement in the 1980s, director Michael Ritchie decided to team Robin Williams and Walter Matthau in The Survivors. Talk about an odd couple; yet it actually might have worked, with Matthau's hang-dog deadpan and Williams' manic energy, were it not for a limp script by Michael Leeson. Williams and Matthau play two victims of Reaganomics, unemployed acquaintances who witness a robbery and identify one of the participants to the police, an act that turns them into targets for the robber in question who comes looking for them. Williams' response: become a one-man arsenal and join a training camp for militant survivalists. But the comedy is neither sharp enough nor sufficiently smart to pull it off; Matthau is the calm centre while Williams' comedy rockets all around him, to surprisingly little effect. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Van Helsing / Bram Stoker's Dracula / Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Van Helsing (Dir. Stephen Sommers 2004): Hunted as a murderer by those who do not understand his calling Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) travels the globe as a fugitive. Accompanied only by Carl (David Wenham) a friar entrusted with providing Van Helsing's safety and a weapons arsenal to rival James Bond Van Helsing is despatched to the shadowy world of Transylvania. Home to the ravishing Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale) one of the last remaining descendents of a powerful royal family Van Helsing has been sent to terminate the evil and undefeatable Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) and his alluring bloodthirsty vampire brides. Herself a fearless hunter Anna joins forces with Van Helsing to confront her family's life long adversary and avenge the deaths of her predecessors. In a stunning showdown Van Helsing comes face to face with his mortal enemy but is also forced to confront his past... Bram Stoker's Dracula (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola 1992): Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula to create a modern masterpiece. It follows the tortured journey of the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian Prince (Gary Oldman) as he moves from Eastern Europe to 19th century London in search of his long lost Elisabeta who is reincarnated as the beautiful Mina (Winona Ryder)... Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Dir. Kenneth Branagh 1994): It is the late 18th Century. After the death of his beloved mother young Victor Frankenstein leaves his father and Elizabeth the adopted sister he passionately loves to attend university. Here he becomes obsessed with the teachings of Professor Walman who believes that living creatures can actually be created from dead matter. One electrifying night Frankenstein's efforts are rewarded as his Creature struggles to life. Alone despised and driven by a rage of emotional agony it sets off to find its maker. And so begins the nightmare that will engulf Victor Frankenstein...

• Around The World With Willy Fog - Vol. 1 | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £4.96   |  Saving you £-1.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When Willy Fog accepts a wager from four fellow members of the Reform Club to travel around the world in 80 days he cannot have forseen what lies in store for him. Travelling with his valet Rigodon and the tiny Tico Fog believes that his journey against the clock is possible using only scheduled train and shipping services. But two unknown enemies are determined to stop him. One enemy is the disguise artist Transfer who has been hired by Sullivan - one of the club members who bet

• Le Doulos | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £11.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (44.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Melville's own favourite films in which ambiguity is the name of the game as a convicted burglar completes his incarceration only to get himself straight back into trouble...

• Great Expectations | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £7.97   |  Saving you £2.02 (20.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The key ingredient in this modern-day version of Charles Dickens's classic is director Alfonso Cuarón, who made the glowing, estimable A Little Princess. If you saw that (and you should), understand that Expectations has those ingredients (great sense of time, place, and timing) but adds modern music and sex appeal; the latter personified by the long-legged Gwyneth Paltrow. Finnegan Bell (Ethan Hawke as an adult, Jeremy James Kissner at age 10) is the new version of Dickens's Pip. He's a child wise beyond his years, befriending an escaped convict (Robert De Niro) in the warm waters of Florida's Gulf Coast. Finn is also the plaything for Estella (Paltrow as an adult, Raquel Beaudene at age 10), the niece of the coast's richest and most eccentric lady, Ms. Dinsmoor (a fun and flamboyant Anne Bancroft). The prudish Estella likes Finn (catch the best first kiss scene in many a moon) but has been brought up to disdain men; she'll break hearts. As the object of Finn's desires, Estella unfortunately is a one-dimensional character, yet what a dimension! Clad in Donna Karan dresses and her long, sun-kissed hair, Paltrow is luminous. She and Hawke make a very sexy couple. Mitch Glazer's script does better by Finn. He's a blue-collar worker with a gift for drawing (artwork by Francesco Clemente). Following his Uncle Joe's (Chris Cooper) honest ways, Finn grows up as a fisherman, thoughts of Estella and art drifting away in the hard work. When a mysterious benefactor allows him to follow his dream, Finn finds himself in New York, preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime art exhibit--and in the arms of the engaged Estella. Filled with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki's golden-drenched light, the film has an irresistible, wildly romantic look. Dinsmoor's place is certainly gothic, Estella and Finn's longing encounters glamorous. Cuarón uses an MTV-friendly soundtrack with a confident touch. Songs by Tori Amos and the band Pulp--along with Patrick Doyle's silky score--create passionate scenes. It all ends far too swiftly with a seemingly tacked-on ending (reflecting the book, as it happens) but the film is splendid storytelling. It's a stylish, sweet valentine. --Doug Thomas

• I'm Going Home | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of France's greatest screen stars Michel Piccoli plays Gilbert Valence a grand old theatre actor who is given the shocking news that his wife daughter and son-in-law have been tragically killed in a car accident. Some time later and over the worst of his grief Valence busies himself with his daily life in Paris turning down unsuitable roles in low brow television productions and caring for his nine-year old grandson. But when an American filmmaker (John Malkovich) absurdly

• Behind The Sun | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set in 1910 this Brazilian drama tells of a young man who begins to question an age-old family feud over the ownership of his family's land, a feud that has already cost his brother his life.