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• Dennis Potter: Karaoke & Cold Lazarus Boxed Set | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Karaoke and Cold Lazarus were two television dramas written by the acclaimed TV playwright Dennis Potter. Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer and with less than six months to live Potter undertook a race against mortality to complete two television dramas which were uniquely to be shared between Channel 4 and the BBC. In a televised interview with Melvyn Bragg he said My only regret is if I die four pages too soon. He didn't - and the result is a fitting tribute to a life committed to the creation of some of the finest television drama ever written. Titles Comprise: Karaoke: Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney) is working on a fictional play for television. The play entitled Karaoke concerns a beautiful young woman working in a sleazy karaoke bar run by Arthur Pig Mallion. Fiction and reality begin to intertwine when Feeld overhears snatches of his dialogue in the world around him - and encounters real people bearing his character's names. The lines between the world he has created and the world in which he lives begin to blur - and a desperate struggle to control both becomes enmeshed in his evolving sickness and a terminal diagnosis. Re-writing his will to right wrongs leaving his body to a cryogenics laboratory and plotting to go out with a bang Daniel Feeld is about to write an ending for one world that will have great repercussions in the next. Cold Lazarus: In Cold Lazarus we find the cryogenically stored brain of Daniel Freed trapped in a future world where scientists gather to watch his projected memories. Under pressure from rival corporate interests the scientists fall victim to the tricks that memory can play picking at threads as they try to comprehend how personal histories are written - and can be rewritten. As elements of truth and fiction explosively intertwine will the mind of Daniel Feeld finally be set free?

• Madame De... | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It was her vanity that destroyed her... In the Paris of the early 20th century Louise wife of a general sells the earrings his husband gave her: she desperately needs money for a gambling debt. As the general should not know during an opera she acts as she had lost them. When the resulting fuss in Paris frightens the local jeweler he tells the truth to the general. The general secretly buys the earrings back and with disdain for his wife gives them to his mistress Lola. Lola sells the trinket to an Italian diplomat Baron Donati who buys them to impress his mistress back in Paris Louise... Ophuls camera glides with seemingly effortless elegance in this visually dazzling masterpiece which renowned film critic Andrew Sarris described as ""the most perfect film ever made.""

• Northern Exposure - Season 1-6 Complete (2011 Repackage) | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £43.28   |  Saving you £-2.03 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Joel Fleischmann is a quintessential New Yorker who has never been west of the Mississippi. Intent on becoming a doctor but lacking the financial backing he mailed out seventy-five scholarship applications in the hope of fulfilling his dream. Regardless of all his effort Joel receives just one reply from the State of Alaska and in return for his scholarship has to agree to be their indentured slave for the following years in the small middle-of-nowhere town Cicely. Recipient of countless Emmy nominations and winner of the Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Outstanding Drama Series Northern Exposure comes to an offbeat and inspirational conclusion. This must-own complete set includes all episodes of all six series. Now available to own as a complete box set for the first time the humorous heartwarming and still slightly bizarre Northern Exposure. Take an offbeat trip to the eccentric small town with a big heart.

• Zombie High | Blu Ray | (22/11/2021) from £13.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The incredible story of a hard-working student and the warped way of life that made her go wacky! Virginia Madsen (Candyman, Sideways) and Richard Cox (Cruising) star in this humorous thriller about the bizarre happenings that occur in a prestigious boarding school. It seems to Andrea Miller (Madsen) that the upperclassmen act like robots. They're the perfect students dedicated, involved and loyal. Their clothes are perfectly pressed and their hair is perfectly styled. It seems that the teachers have something to do with this ingratiating behaviour. And when Andrea, the new kid at school, sees her friends turning into clones, she starts to suspect the worst. The film features a great supporting cast including Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks, Ray Donovan), Scott Coffey (Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway) and Paul Feig, who would go on to create the TV series Freaks And Geeks and direct such films as Spy, Bridsmaids and the 2016 remake of Ghostbusters.

• DEATH OF A UNICORN BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (14/07/2025) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A father (Paul Rudd) and daughter (Jenna Ortega) accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss (Richard E. Grant) seeks to exploit the creature's miraculous curative properties.

• Their Finest | Blu Ray | (21/08/2017) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  1940, London, the Blitz; with the country's morale at stake, Catrin (Gemma Arterton; Gemma Bovery), an untried screenwriter, and a makeshift cast and crew, work under fire to make a film to lift the nation's flagging spirits; and inspire America to join the war. Partnered alongside fellow screenwriter, Buckley (Sam Claflin; Me Before You), the pair set off to make a film that will warm the hearts of the nation and capture the imagination of the American population. Alongside Gemma Arterton and Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy (Love Actually) stars as fading matinee idol Ambrose Hilliard, who reluctantly joins their production in a supporting role. Based on Lissa Evans' novel, ˜Their Finest Hour and a Half', THEIR FINEST is a witty, romantic and moving portrayal of a young woman finding her way, and her voice, in the mayhem of war and the movies!

• Withnail and I | Blu Ray | (09/02/2015) from £10.59   |  Saving you £7.40 (69.88%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in 1969, the year in which the hippy dreams of so many young Englishmen went sour, 1986's Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I is an enduring British cult. Fellow enthusiasts cry immortal phrases from the endlessly brilliant script to one another like mating calls; "Scrubbers!", "We want the finest wines known to humanity and we want them now!" Withnail is played by the emaciated but defiantly effete Richard E Grant, "I" (i.e., Marwood) by Paul McGann. Out-of-work actors living in desperate penury in a rancid London flat, their lives are a continual struggle to keep warm, alive and in Marwood's case sane, until the pubs open. A sojourn in the country cottage of Withnail's gay Uncle Monty only redoubles their privations--they have to kill a live chicken to eat. The arrival of Monty spells further misery for Marwood as he must fend off his attentions. This borderline homophobic interlude apart, Withnail and I is a delight, enhanced by an aimless but appallingly eventful plot. Popular among students, it strikes a chord with anyone who has undergone a period of debauchery and impoverished squalor prior to finding their way onto life's straight and narrow.--David Stubbs

• Sign O' The Times | Blu Ray | (20/01/2020) from £18.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Prince and his band bring his Grammy Nominated Album of the Year Sign O' The Times to life in one of the greatest concert films ever made. This ground-breaking movie is punctuated with specially-filmed, dramatic vignettes and captures Prince at the peak of his musical powers.

• Jackie | DVD | (29/05/2017) from £3.38   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  JACKIE is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). JACKIE places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of Camelot that they created and loved so well.

• Dune - 3D (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (23/12/2021) from £22.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tora! Tora! Tora! | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.70   |  Saving you £13.29 (198.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Here is just one of the many mishaps chronicled in Tora! Tora! Tora!: "Sir, there's a large formation of planes coming in from the north, 140 miles, 3 degrees east." "Yeah? Don't worry about it." The epic film shows the bombing of Pearl Harbour from both sides in the historic first American-Japanese coproduction: American director Richard Fleischer oversaw the complicated production (the Japanese sequences were directed by Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, after Akira Kurosawa withdrew from the film), wrestling a sprawling story with dozens of characters into a manageable, fairly easy-to-follow film. The first half maps out the collapse of diplomacy between the nations and the military blunders that left naval and air forces sitting ducks for the impending attack, while the second half is an amazing re-creation of the devastating battle. While Tora! Tora! Tora! lacks the strong central characters that anchor the best war films, the real star of the film is the climactic 30-minute battle, a massive feat of cinematic engineering that expertly conveys the surprise, the chaos and the immense destruction of the only attack by a foreign power on American soil since the Revolutionary war. The special effects won a well-deserved Oscar, but the film was shut out of every other category by, ironically, the other epic war picture of the year, Patton. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Patriot Games | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £6.98   |  Saving you £10.27 (179.55%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Let's see--he has been Han Solo in three films and Indiana Jones in three more. So why shouldn't Harrison Ford take on a new continuing character in Tom Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan? In this film, directed by Phillip Noyce, Ford picked up the baton when Alec Baldwin, who played Ryan in The Hunt for Red October, opted for a Broadway role instead. In this film, Ryan and his family are on vacation when Ryan saves a member of the British royal family from attack by Irish terrorists. The next thing he knows, the Ryan clan has been targeted by the same terrorists, who invade his Maryland home. The film can't shed all of Clancy's lumbering prose, or his techno-dweeb fascination with spy satellites and the like. But no one is better than Ford at righteous heroism--and Sean Bean makes a suitably snakey villain. --Marshall Fine

• Munich | Blu Ray | (27/02/2023) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by real events, Munich reveals the intense story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate the 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it. Hailed as tremendously exciting (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), Steven Spielberg's explosive suspense thriller garnered five Academy Award® nominations*, including Best Picture and Best Director. Product Features Introduction by Steven Spielberg Munich: The Team, The Mission The On-Set Experience Portrait of an Era The International Cast Editing, Sound and Music Memories of the Event

• Above Us The Waves | DVD | (19/06/2007) from £6.23   |  Saving you £0.76 (12.20%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Directed by Ralph Thomas, Above Us the Waves (1955) tells of a Royal Navy mission to sink the "invincible" German battleship Tirpitz, off the Norwegian coast. John Mills is calm and confident as the mission commander, with strong support from John Gregson and Donald Sinden--all treated by the German personnel as fellow gentlemen when captured. Despite stirring music from Arthur Benjamin, the action sequences are visually no more than adequate, and the film is only a partial success.--Richard Whitehouse

• Logan | 4K UHD | (10/07/2017) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.

• I Was Monty's Double | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In World War II North Africa an actor is set the task of posing as Field Marshal Montgomery in an effort to confuse the Nazis. Based on a true story.

• Piccadilly Incident | DVD | (26/05/2014) from £3.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (150.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A massive box-office hit this romantic drama set in World War Two and its aftermath is an emotional tour de force that marked the first screen pairing of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding who would become one of Britain's best-loved film couples throughout the later 1940s. Directed by Herbert Wilcox Neagle's then husband and featuring inventive dance sequences by renowned choreographer Wendy Toye Piccadilly Incident is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Alan Pearson a Naval Intelligence Captain and WREN Diana Fraser meet by chance in Piccadilly during an air raid. They fall in love and after a brief courtship marry just hours before Diana is due to be sent to Singapore; theirs is one of many hasty wartime romances. But their love story is cut short when Diana is reported missing believed drowned after the fall of Singapore. In time Alan finds love again and remarries. But Fate is to bring about an impossible situation which can only be resolved by considerable self-sacrifice... Special Features: Image Gallery Original Pressbook PDF

• Planet Of The Apes - The Television Series | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £17.05   |  Saving you £-6.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.24

  Set around a dozen years after the 1967 Charlton Heston-starring Oscar winner of the same name, this Planet of the Apes is a 1974 TV spin-off that attempts to recapture the appeal of the original apes films. A second spaceship arrives on the planet, the basic plot being the same as in 67, as two surviving humans go on the run with a renegade chimpanzee, Galen (Roddy McDowell essentially reprising his Cornelius character under another name). The actor provides the strongest lead, while Booth Colman as Zaius (replacing Maurice Evans from the original film), offers fine support. The humans Ron Harper and James Naughton are relatively bland, a buddy duo very much anticipating Starsky and Hutch, while the stories, in which our heroes have a new adventure each week and then move on, fall very much into the formula that dominated earlier shows such as The Fugitive, Star Trek and Alias Smith and Jones. This is a post-apocalyptic world where everyone has perfect hair and make-up. But if the action and effects are limited, at least that gives the stories room to concentrate on some moral debates about the nature of human violence. A show finally hamstrung by the tight limitations of its formula, Planet of the Apes: The Television Series lasted only 14 episodes and was cancelled so abruptly it lacks any resolution. Nevertheless its reappearance offers a welcome chance to reassess it in context with the classic movies it apes. On the DVD: Planet of the Apes: The Television Series is presented on four discs, including all 14 episodes. The sound is good mono and the 4:3 colour picture is excellent considering the show's age. Print damage is minor though occasionally quite noticeable, and there is some fading in a few shots. Otherwise this is the best these shows have ever looked. The only extras are trailers for the movie box set and for Tim Burton's 2001 cinema "reimagining". --Gary S Dalkin

• Scarlet Pimpernel - The Complete Series 1 & 2 | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Scarlet Pimpernel: The Complete Series 1 & 2 (4 Discs)

• Don Giovanni - Mozart | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  The Opera Don Giovanni drama in two acts.