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• Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah & Her Sisters) | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Annie Hall: Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director ""Annie Hall"" is Woody Allen's supreme masterpiece. Coming between such early slapstick farces as ""Sleeper"" and ""Love and Death"" and darker more reflective comedies like ""Manhattan"" and ""Hannah and Her Sisters "" this endearing semi-autobiographical film put Woody in the league with the best directors we have. Starring Allen as New York comedian Alvy Singer and Diane Keaton (in a Best Actress Oscar-winning role) as Annie the film weaves flashbacks flash forwards monologues a parade of classic Allen one-liners and even animation into an alternately uproarious and wistful comedy about a witty and wacky on-again off-again romance. Manhattan: Nominated for two Academy Awards in 1979 and considered one of Allen's most enduring accomplishments Manhattan is a wry touching and finely-rendered portrait of modern relationships against the backdrop of urban alienation. Sumptuously photographed in black and white (Allen's first film in that format) and accompanied by a magnificent Gershwin score Woody Allen's aesthetic triumph is a ""prismatic portrait of a time and place that may be studied decades hence"" (Time Magazine). 42-year-old Manhattan native Isaac Davis (Allen) has a job he hates a seventeen-year-old girlfriend (Mariel Hemingway) he doesn't love and a lesbian ex-wife Jill (Meryl Streep) who's writing a tell-all book about their marriage... and whom he'd like to strangle. But when he meets his best friend's sexy intellectual mistress Mary (Diane Keaton) Isaac falls head over heels in lust! Leaving Tracy bedding Mary and quitting his job are just the beginning of Isaac's quest for romance and fulfillment in a city where sex is as intimate as a handshake - and the gate to true love... is a revolving door. Hannah And Her Sisters: Brimming with laughter tears and subtle beauty Hannah And Her Sisters is a magnificent ""summation of (Woody Allen's) career to date"" (The New York Times). Winner of three Oscars and featuring a brilliant all-star cast Hannah And Her Sisters spins a tale of three unforgettable women and showcases Allen ""at his most emotionally expansive working on his broadest canvas with masterly ease"" (Newsweek)! The eldest daughter of show-biz parents Hannah (Mia Farrow) is a devoted wife loving mother and successful actress. A loyal supporter of her two aimless sisters (Barbara Hershey) and Holly (Dianne Wiest) she's also the emotional backbone of a family that seems to resent her stability almost as much as they depend on it. But when Hannah's perfect world is quietly sabotaged by sibling rivalry she finally begins to see that she's as lost as everyone else and in order to find herself she'll have to choose - between the independence her family can't live with... and the family she can't live without.

• Brookside - Unfinished Business | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A high-octane feature-length special that reveals what happens when deadly enemies finally get to settle the score. Driven into hiding after the death of Tim O'Leary's wife Emily drug dealer Terry Gibson hatches a plan to deliver both Tim and Steve into his clutches...

• Carry On England | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1975's Carry On England, a mixed-sex anti-aircraft battery is set up during World War II by way of an experiment. The sex is indeed pretty mixed, although the drafting in of Patrick Mower and Judy Geeson rather demonstrates the need for at least some of the cast to be attractive in order to make this odd premise feasible. For the most part, of course, it's tits-out sex-comedy slapstick all the way, but there's a nicely ambivalent performance from Kenneth Connor, who portrays the wartime British officer class as being pretty much bonkers, a telling interpretation, which Stephen Fry was to perfect years later in Blackadder Goes Forth. The location is of course typically Carry On cheap-and-cheerful, but its inevitable drabness, together with the indistinguishable khaki uniforms, tends to put a bit of a dampener on the adult-panto atmosphere that the best Carry Ons deliver. The cast commendably manage to transcend this, though, so there's still plenty of fun to be had. --Roger Thomas

• Better Off Dead | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £23.59   |  Saving you £-7.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In Better off Dead, Lane Myer (John Cusack) is stuck in a personal hell. A compulsive adolescent everyman growing up in Suburbia, USA; not only does he fail to make the prestigious high-school ski team (again), but his beloved sweetheart, Beth, also leaves him for Roy, the team's popular arrogant captain. If this isn't bad enough, he's stuck with a mother who frighteningly experiments--rather than cooks--with food, a brother who builds rockets out of models, and a best friend so desperate for drugs that he settles for snorting powdered snow. Faced with these prospects, Lane opts to end it all... until he comes up with a ridiculous plan to gain acceptance and win Beth back. Director Savage Steve Holland warps this simple, clichéd premise, letting his wacky imagination twist it into a fairly original, slightly dark, and completely hilarious 80s teen comedy. Not as serious a "suicide-attempt" movie as, say, Harold and Maude but just as funny, the film is more a collection of screwball sketches than a narrative. Holland enlivens the high jinks with surrealistic fantasy touches, including Jell-O that crawls, a hamburger that sings Van Halen, drawings that mock its creator, and a psychotic paperboy seeking blood over a missing two dollars. Cusack puts the whole thing on his shoulders and carries the insanity with another one of his touching, obsessively romantic performances, which along with Say Anything, The Sure Thing and One Crazy Summer, made him the quintessential (and appealing) personification of lovestruck adolescence and suffering. --Dave McCoy

• The Truth About Women | DVD | (16/11/2015) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Taking his son-in-law to one side for a quiet chat about marital strife, Sir Humphrey listens to the young man's tale of woe and offers reassurance that he is not the first to be baffled by the foibles of women ably illustrating his point by recounting some rather sticky moments when he too was on the verge of giving up all hope of comprehending the feminine sex... A lavishly designed, witty and touching film featuring a magnificent cast, The Truth About Women stars Laurence Harvey as Sir Humphrey, with Julie Harris, Eva Gabor, Mai Zetterling and Diane Cilento among the women he has loved and lost. Directed by Oscar winner Muriel Box, featuring sumptuous cinematography by Otto Heller and costume design by Cecil Beaton, the film is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. SPECIAL FEATURES: Original theatrical trailer Image gallery Original pressbook PDF

• Rebel Rousers | DVD | (31/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a small US costal town a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in town trying to reconnect with his pregnant girlfriend Karen is businessman Paul Collier. Paul and the leader of the gang J.J. knew each other years before so when menacing Bunny beats up Paul and begins a sexual assault on Karen J.J. tries to intervene. He suggests they hold cycle-riding contests where the winner can claim Karen (he promises to set her free if he wins). After the contests commence Paul crawls away to look for help. He meets with a shrug from a cowardly sheriff's deputy; where can he turn?

• The Truth About Women (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (14/08/2023) from £9.23   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMEN (1957), which Muriel Box called her most personal film, reveals the complex lives of women and the assertion that women can and should be ˜an equal partner in the business of life'. A witty and touching comedy with a great cast including Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris, Eva Gabor, Mai Zetterling and Diane Cilento, the film features striking cinematography from Otto Heller and sumptuous costume design by Cecil Beaton.Product Features An Equal Partner In The Business of Life: Muriel Box & The Truth About Women The Woman Behind the Picture: Archive interview with Muriel Box Part 2 Behind the Scenes stills gallery Original Trailer

• The Glass House | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An orphaned teenager is taken in by a Malibu couple but discovers they aren't the caring friends they seemed to be.

• Zack Snyder's Justice League | Blu Ray | (27/05/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Murder Of Quality | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When George Smiley receives a mysterious letter from Stella Rode a teacher's wife at Carne School intimating that her husband is out to murder her he decides to phone the school only to find that Stella was killed the previous evening... Based on a novel by John Le Carre.

• The Outsiders | Blu Ray | (31/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In 1960s Tulsa the right and wrong sides of the tracks are represented by rival gangs the upscale Socs and the underprivileged Greasers. Darrel Curtis (Patrick Swayze) is doing his best to raise his two younger brothers Sodapop (Rob Lowe in his first film role) and Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell). Sensitive Ponyboy is a budding writer in love with Cherry (Diane Lane) the unobtainable beauty from the enemy gang. When Ponyboy's buddy troubled Johnny Cade (Ralph Macchio) kills one of the Socs in self-defense their friend Dallas (Matt Dillon) helps the two youths hide out in an abandoned country church. There they live as exiles from a society that doesn't want them. But not all is lost when Ponyboy Johnny and Dallas save some children caught in a fire they become unlikely heroes. Francis Ford Coppola's stylized teen melodrama is based on the popular novel by S. E. Hinton.

• The Woody Allen Collection | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £24.97   |  Saving you £-14.58 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.39

  Annie Hall Considered to be the movie that kick-started Woody Allen's long and inspiring career, Annie Hall won four Oscars including Best Picture and established Allen as the premier auteur filmmaker. Alvy Singer (Allen) is one of Manhattan's most brilliant comedians, but when it comes to romance, his delivery needs a little work. When he falls in love with the ditzy but delightful nightclub singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), his own insecurities sabotage the affair, and Annie is forced to leave Alvy for a new life - and lover (Paul Simon) - in Los Angeles. Knowing he may have lost Annie forever, Alvy's willing to go to any lengths to recapture the only thing that ever mattered... true love. Manhattan Nominated for two Academy Awards, and widely considered as one of the greatest movies ever made, Manhattan is a wry, touching and finely rendered portrait of modern relationships set against the backdrop of urban alienation. Forty-two-year-old Manhattan native Isaac Davis (Allen) has a job he hates, a seventeen-year-old girlfriend, Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), he doesn't love, and a lesbian ex-wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), whom he'd like to strangle. But when he meets his best friend's sexy intellectual mistress, Mary (Diane Keaton), Isaac falls head over heels in lust! Leaving Tracy, bedding Mary and quitting his job is just the beginning of Isaac's quest for romance in a city where sex is as intimate as a handshake - and the gateway to true love... is a revolving door. Hannah And Her Sisters Hannah and Her Sisters spins a tale of three unforgettable women and showcases Woody Allen with his most emotionally charged film to date. The eldest daughter of show-biz parents, Hannah (Mia Farrow) is a devoted wife, loving mother and successful actress. A loyal supporter of her two aimless sisters Lee (Barbara Hershey) and Holly (Dianne Wiest), she's also the emotional backbone of a family that seems to resent her stability almost as much as they depend on it. But when Hannah's world is sabotaged by sibling rivalry, she finally begins to see that she's as lost as everyone else, and in order to find herself, she'll have to choose - between the independence her family can't live with... and the family she can't live without. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex* But Were Afraid To Ask Woody Allen pushes the frontiers of comedy by consolidating his madcap sensibility and wickedly funny irreverence with his developing penchant for visually arresting humour. Giving complete indulgence to the zany eccentricity of his medium, Allen reveals himself as a filmmaker of true wit and sophistication. Allen rises to the occasion with aphrodisiacs that prove effective for a court jester (Allen) who finds the key to the Queen's (Lynn Redgrave) heart. Unnatural acts get wild and woolly when a good doctor (Gene Wilder) falls for a fickle sheep. Jack Barry gives fetishism 20 questions on a wacky TV show called What's My Perversion? Sex research goes under the microscope when a mad scientist (John Carradine) unleashes a marauding breast. And the absurdity comes to a frenzied climax with Tony Randall, Burt Reynolds and Allen as sperm... having second thoughts about ejaculation!

• The Silence Of The Lambs | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on Thomas Harris's novel, Jonathan Demme's terrifying adaptation of Silence of the Lambs contains only a couple of genuinely shocking moments (one involving an autopsy, the other a prison break). The rest of the film is a splatter-free visual and psychological descent into the hell of madness, redeemed astonishingly by an unlikely connection between a monster and a haunted young woman. Anthony Hopkins is extraordinary as the cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr Hannibal Lecter, virtually entombed in a subterranean prison for the criminally insane. At the behest of the FBI, agent-in-training Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) approaches Lecter, requesting his insights into the identity and methods of a serial killer named Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine). In exchange, Lecter demands the right to penetrate Starling's most painful memories, creating a bizarre but palpable intimacy that liberates them both under separate but equally horrific circumstances. Demme, a filmmaker with a uniquely populist vision (Melvin and Howard, Something Wild), also spent his early years making pulp for Roger Corman (Caged Heat) and he hasn't forgotten the significance of tone, atmosphere and the unsettling nature of a crudely effective close-up. Much of the film, in fact, consists of actors staring straight into the camera (usually from Clarice's point of view), making every bridge between one set of eyes to another seem terribly dangerous. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com On the DVD: On disc one, the film itself looks clinically sharp in a faultless widescreen (1.85:1) anamorphic transfer, while the Dolby 5.1 soundtrack makes the most of the chilling sound effects and Howard Shore's masterfully understated score. Unlike the Region 1 Criterion Collection, however, there is no audio commentary at all. On the second disc, the all-new hour-long "making-of" documentary features contributions from the screenwriter, producer, composer, costume designer, make-up effects people and even the moth wrangler ("There were no moths harmed in the filming!") as well as Ted Levine (Buffalo Bill) and Anthony Hopkins, who talks at length about creating Lecter. Conspicuous by their absence are Jonathan Demme and Jodie Foster. Aside from the usual trailers and stills gallery there are 21 deleted scenes, many of which are not whole scenes but deleted excerpts, a promotional featurette made in 1991 and an outtakes reel that proves the cast really did have fun making this scary picture. For those who want to scare all their friends, there's also an answerphone message from Anthony Hopkins "in character". --Mark Walker

• 300 Spartans | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £7.91   |  Saving you £5.08 (64.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Released just a few years before a similar British film ZULU this 1962 English gladiator film depicts the tiny army of Sparta and their efforts to stave off an attack by Persian forces which greatly outnumbered the Spartans. Led by King Leonidis (Richard Egan) the Spartans army consisted primarily of a security force who guarded the palace. This rousing gladiator epic boasts an incredible cast including Diane Baker Ralph Richardson and Kieron Moore.

• Embryo | DVD | (09/08/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (-1.10%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Rock Hudson portrays Dr. Paul Holliston a scientist who is deeply involved in experimental work on human foetuses. During a flash storm he accidentally runs down and kills a pregnant dog and whilst attempting to save the dog's unborn pups he inadvertently discovers how to accelerate the growing process of a foetus into a mature adult in just a few days. Driven by curiosity he tries the same process on a human female foetus the result is Victoria who grows rapidly into a 25 year old voluptuous woman. Dr Holliston soon falls in love with Victoria but her drugs start to cause side effects and she begins to kill in order to survive. The race is now on... for a kill or cure solution.

• Murder At 1600 | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The discovery of a dead female staffer in a White House restroom galvanizes a D.C. homicide cop (Wesley Snipes), but the results aren't hard to predict: the crime implicates the Oval Office, the presidential bureaucracy impedes the investigation, and so on. What isn't so predictable is that the whole thing leads to an improbable climax involving secret tunnels created by Abraham Lincoln. (Snipes's character, by the way, is a Civil War buff.) The creaky mystery feels a little anachronistic from the get-go, with some particularly corny and laughable dialogue. --Tom Keogh

• Goodbye Bafana | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (75.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

• Frayed: Season 1 | DVD | (02/12/2019) from £9.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fabulously wealthy London housewife Sammy (Sarah Kendall), is forced to return to the town in Australia she grew up in. But in coming home, Sammy must revisit her past and the events that led her to flee as a teenager years ago.

• The Robert De Niro Collection | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £50.99

  Includes the following five great movies starring two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro: Heat: Val Kilmer Jon Voight Tom Sizemore and Ashley Judd are among the memorable supporting players in this tale of a brilliant LA cop (Pacino) following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by an equally brilliant master thief (De Niro). 'Heat' goes way beyond the expectations of the cops-and-criminals genre - and into the realm of movie masterpieces. The Mission: Set in the quasi-mystical rain forests of South America 'The Mission' presents each man with his greatest challenge. The priest (Irons) has come to spread the word of God amongst the Guarani Indians; the mercenary (De Niro) has come to enslave them. With the passing of time their destinies become entwined... This Boy's Life: In 1957 Toby (DiCaprio) and his divorced mother Caroline (Barkin) travel across America looking for a place where life will be better. Desperate to make a decent home life for her son Caroline agrees to marry her ardent suitor Dwight (De Niro). Dwight might look walk and talk like the perfect father but to Caroline's horror he soon turns out to be an evil bullying tyrant who is determined to make Toby's life as painful and miserable as possible... Goodfellas: Robert De Niro received wide recognition for his performance as veteran criminal Jimmy The Gent Conway. And as the volatile Tommy DeVito Joe Pesci walked off with the Best Supporting Actor Oscar Academy Award nominee Lorraine Bracco Ray Liotta and Paul Sorvino also turned in electrifying performances. You have to see it to believe it. City By The Sea: New York City homicide detective Vincent La Marca has forged a long and distinguished career in law enforcement making a name for himself as a man intensely committed to his work. But on his latest case the stakes are higher for Vincent: the suspect he's investigating is his own son...

• The Diary Of Anne Frank | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £8.86   |  Saving you £4.13 (46.61%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An extraordinary portrayal of humanity set during one of history's most inhumane periods 'The Diary Of Anne Frank' features Millie Perkins as the insightful 13-year-old biographer of her family's two year hiding in an Amsterdam attic. At first the strong-willed teenager embraces her fugitive lifestyle as an adventure but in time the ever-increasing fear of discovery and close quarters prove nearly unbearableifor the eight personalities in hiding which include Mr. Dussell (Ed Wynn) the abrasive Mrs. Van Daan (the Oscar-winning Shelley Winters) her husband (Lou Jacobi) and their son Peter (Richard Beymer) for whom Anne develops an impossible love...