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• The Early Bird | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £16.24   |  Saving you £-3.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Norman Wisdom reprises his best-loved character, the comically inept Pitkin, in 1965's The Early Bird, ably supported once again by Edward Chapman in his final appearance as Mr Grimsdale. This time around Wisdom is the only milkman working for Grimsdale's Dairy, a small business threatened by a menacing large corporation in the shape of Consolidated Dairies and their electric milk floats. Grimsdale and Pitkin must evoke the Dunkirk spirit to save their family firm from the grasp of the faceless giant. Of course, the wafer-thin plot is the merest excuse for a series of calamitous set pieces in which Wisdom wreaks havoc in his trademark bumbling manner. The best bits involve a disastrous game of golf, the usual shenanigans with a fire hose and a virtuoso tour de force opening sequence as the household struggles to wake up in the morning. Wisdom's own brand of Jerry Lewis-inspired clowning, with mugging and pratfalls aplenty, is all good clean fun with little or none of the smutty innuendo that characterised the contemporary Carry On series. He carries this film, as he does all his others, solely on the strength of his winningly naïve charm: this is innocent comedy from the days before supermarkets really did wreck all the local businesses, not to mention from the days before The Godfather gave a whole new spin on the comedy value of going to bed with your horse. On the DVD: There are no extra features on this disc at all. Given Wisdom's household-name status and the longevity of these much-loved movies, this seems like a sadly missed opportunity. The 4:3 picture has not been digitally remastered and shows its age, as does the muddy mono soundtrack. Only Ron Goodwin's wonderfully tongue-in-cheek music score comes across reasonably well. --Mark Walker

• Randall And Hopkirk Deceased - Complete | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  The twist of private-eye show Randall & Hopkirk Deceased is that in the first episode, gumshoe Marty Hopkirk (Kenneth Cope) is killed off by the villains, only to pop up in an immaculate white suit as a ghost visible only to his hardboiled partner Jeff Randall (Mike Pratt). In theory, the supernatural streak--which meant a complex set of rules about Marty's appearances and effects on the physical world--should lead the show into wilder territory, but most episodes squander the team's unique abilities on ordinary cases about blackmail and murder-for-profit. A persistent subplot has the living Jeff getting cosy with the dead Marty's widow Jean (Annette Andre) to the discomfort of her late husband. The elementary effects and the nice underplaying of the leads have a certain period charm, and the show could afford a high calibre of special guest villains and dolly birds. A 1990s remake with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer hasn't obliterated memories of the original. --Kim Newman

• Rush - Replay | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Live performances of all Rush classics plus 12 songs never previously available on DVD! Exit...Stage Left: (60 mins) 1. Limelight 2. Tom Sawyer 3. The Trees 4. Xanadu 5. Red Barchetta 6. Freewill 7. Closer To The Heart 8. YYZ 9. By-Tor And The Snow Dog / In The End* / In The Mood / 2112 Finale 10. YYZ Grace Under Pressure: (63 mins) 1. The Spirit Of Radio 2. The Enemy Within* 3. The Weapon* 4. Witch Hunt 5. New World Man 6. Distant Early Warning 7. Red Sector A 8. Closer To The Heart 9. YYZ / Temples Of Syrinx / Tom Sawyer 10. Finding My Way / In The Mood A Show Of Hands: (89 mins) 1. The Big Money 2. Marathon* 3. Turn The Page* 4. Prime Mover* 5. Manhattan Project* 6. Closer To The Heart 7. Red Sector A 8. Force Ten 9. Mission* 10. Territories* 11. The Rhythm Method 12. The Spirit Of Radio 13. Tom Sawyer 14. 2112 / The Temples Of Syrinx / La Villa Strangiato / In The Mood * - Indicates a live performance previously unreleased on DVD

• Modern Family - Season 2 | Blu Ray | (05/09/2011) from £35.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (-0.30%)   |  RRP £34.99

  It seems that today's families have embraced this particular modern family which is anything but cookie cutter and is just as honest and complex as their own. The Pritchett clan has Jay sitting at the head a true guys' guy experiencing a bit of mid-life crisis who has remarried a much younger wife Gloria whose passion and loyalty is matched by her 11-year-old son Manny a boy wise beyond his years. Blending together into this new family has quite the learning curve with some culture clashes a few awkward misunderstandings and plenty of sweet victories along the way. Modern Family returns for its second season already the recipient of a Peabody Award Writers Guild Awards Directors Guild Awards a Television Critics Award and six Emmy Awards including for Outstanding Comedy Series.

• Billy Budd | DVD | (01/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Benjamin Britten's opera 'Billy Budd' in two acts tells of the sadism and injustice abroad a British man-of-war.

• Thomas And The Magic Railroad | DVD | (13/11/2000) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Thomas, as anyone familiar with the eponymous, wildly popular TV series knows, is a very useful engine, and never more so than in his first theatrical release, which was a modest box-office success. On a tank filled with little more than pluck, determination and goodwill, Thomas sets out full-steam ahead on a danger-fraught mission to help his friend Mr Conductor. The conductor's stash of magic gold dust has run out, leaving him stranded on the Island of Sodor with Junior, his flaky cousin, and Lily, a little girl enlisted to lift her grandfather out of a funk on nearby Muffle Mountain. When Thomas bravely chugs beyond his hometown tracks' buffers with Lily aboard, he's transported to Muffle Mountain's secret railway and to Lady, a long-lost steamer whose legendary engine makes her more powerful than Diesel, the train-yard bully. Together, Thomas and Lady lead Diesel on a chase that causes a bridge to collapse, taking the dastardly Diesel down with it. Most impressive about the movie is its marquee names: Alec Baldwin works magic as the dutiful worrywart Mr Conductor, Mara Wilson is Lily and Peter Fonda plays the cool-looking but lugubrious Grandpa. It's a cast that will keep put-upon parents watching, if half-heartedly. Thomas fans of five years and under, meanwhile, will wish the actors wouldn't blow so much hot air; they will want to see their hero a bigger part in steaming up the storyline. --Tammy La Gorce

• Disorganised Crime | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Frank Salazar has cooked up the perfect crime. Enlisting the help of four crooks he plans to rob a bank. But he didn't realise that he could be arrested before the crime over something completely different and neither did the rest of the gang...

• Circus | DVD | (09/10/2003) from £5.00   |  Saving you £0.99 (19.80%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Circus is a modern crime thriller of cross, double cross and triple cross.

• Saints And Soldiers | DVD | (09/01/2006) from £4.85   |  Saving you £11.14 (229.69%)   |  RRP £15.99

  There is a time for heroes... Belgium: December 1944 and German troops open fire on unarmed American prisoners of war provoking the historic Malmedy Massacre. Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines discover a stranded R.A.F. pilot who holds the key to German intelligence which could save thousands of American lives. The five men must battle through the bitter Winter landscape to smuggle their precious cargo from the clutches of the enemy.

• A Hazard Of Hearts | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A Hazard of Hearts, dramatised for television in 1987, could hardly be a better demonstration of Barbara Cartland's unique status as the most critically reviled, yet widely read, romantic novelist. The qualities which feed both points of view are present in abundance. There are the certainties of a wafer-thin plot: vulnerable but plucky young heiress falls on hard and tragic times, sails through mortal danger and escapes the clutches of lecherous older man, chastity intact, before claiming enigmatic and devastatingly handsome Lord for her own at the last minute. There are the pantomime characters, atrocious dialogue-by-numbers, set-piece scenes involving duels and smugglers, tight breeches and heaving bosoms. Produced by Lew Grade and the team behind The New Avengers and The Professionals, this is 90 minutes of camp hokum crammed to bursting point with stars clearly having the time of their lives. Helena Bonham Carter, her face like an earnest, worried raisin, is the heroine Serena, with Marcus Gilbert as her paramour. But Diana Rigg's evil Lady Harriet steals the show. To be watched without shame. On the DVD: A Hazard of Hearts is presented in 4:3 video format with a Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack which is splendid for Laurence Johnson's florid themes. The transfer has the appropriately soft-focus look and feel of a 1980s miniseries. The stately home settings certainly provide a sense of quality, but the disc has no extras. --Piers Ford

• Modern Family - Season 1 | Blu Ray | (05/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Filmed in a mockumentary style Modern Family attempts to document the lives of three families who couldn't be more different. These bizarre broods are anything but normal as you'll discover in this hilarious look at unconventional families trying to survive in a conventional world. When the Pritchett Delgado and Dunphy families agree to be interviewed by a documentary crew they have no idea just how much they're about to reveal about themselves. Jay Pritchett met the stunning Columbian Gloria when she bartended in a bikini at the pool party he threw for himself the day his wife left him. Now Jay and Gloria are married and Jay tries hard to keep up with his much younger and hotter wife and her passionate teenage son Manny. Claire Claire Dunphy (Julie Bowen) is having a hard time raising her own family. Her husband Phil is great except for the fact that he thinks he's down with their teenage kids much to their embarrassment. Mitchell Pritchett and his enthusiastic partner Cameron have just adopted Lily a precious little baby girl from Vietnam. This engaging new comedy offers a 'mockumentary' view into the complicated messy loving life of three unique families. Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd invite you into the sometimes warm and sometimes twisted embrace of modern day families.

• Brian Wilson - On Tour | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Brian Wilson On Tour is a documentary film celebrating the music of Beach Boy legend Brian Wilson. Following Brian through the U.S. and Japan on his first-ever solo tour this is an intimate portrait not of Brian ""the genius"" but of Brian ""the working musician "" choosing songs teaching them to his 10-piece band and ultimately performing them live for the first time ever in front of electrified audiences. Includes 24 live performances interviews and guest musicians like Neil Youn

• The Day The World Ended | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (66.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A far-fetched combination of psychological thriller and over-the-top horror movie, The Day the World Ended is a brash, rather ham-fisted piece of work. With Nastassja Kinski leading the cast, the odds were never on this being an example of great cinema, but Terence Gross's film is exceptionally ridiculous in parts.The director manages to pull a range of clichés out of the bag, from the Lynchian small-town American weirdos to the handy thunder storm during moments of high drama. The premise of a lonely, gifted child hiding a dark secret has been explored before but never quite to such a bizarre extent--the events involved here leading to a gory, tasteless finale. Kinski sleepwalks her way through her role with little conviction, matched by Randy Quaid's caricature villain. Much is made of the special effects skills of Stan Winston (Jurassic Park, Terminator 2), but without any degree of budget, his efforts are merely terrifyingly ordinary. On the DVD: one thing becomes clear from the DVD version of the film--despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the makers of The Day the World Ended consider it a fine example of the genre. The audio commentary from producers Winston and Shane Mahan is especially self-reverential, even going so far at one point as to praise the film's great character acting. A hectic visual style and suitably monstrous sound effects it may have (all admittedly enhanced by the digital format), but great character acting it does not. Likewise, there is an in-depth feature on the rather shoddy special effects. The last thing anybody wanted, the earnest voiceover tells us, was for the monster to look like some guy in a rubber suit. --Phil Udell

• For Hire | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This 1997 thriller For Hire ponders the question of what terrible things a person might be persuaded to do, given the right circumstances and the right price. Rob Lowe plays Mitch, a Chicago cab driver trying to make it as an actor, married to the pregnant Faye. Among his clients are bestselling writer Lou Weber (Joe Mantegna), who befriends Mitch and confides in him that a drug dealer is trying to kill him. Over the next few days, Mitch begins to suffer severe stomach pains, collapsing in Weber's apartment after a fare and is diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer. With only a short time to live, he decides to take up Weber's offer to rub out his drug dealer stalker for $50,000, a nest egg for his family after he's gone. A not entirely unpredictable twist follows, hinted at by the Lucifer-like beard sported by Mantegna and the film alights only briefly to meditate on the potential for evil in all of us before resuming its journey along conventional, though certainly passable Hollywood thriller lines. An intriguing precept--it's just a slight shame that neither the players nor director's hearts seem really to be in this movie. On the DVD: Features a trailer. --David Stubbs

• The Metamorphosis | Blu Ray | (03/02/2014) from £4.85   |  Saving you £25.14 (518.35%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• Trapped / Identity / The Bone Collector | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Trapped: When Will and Karen Jennings are held hostage and their daughter is abducted a relentless 24-hour plan is set in motion that will challenge everything they took for granted. Joe Hickley (Kevin Bacon) has orchestrated and mastered the foolproof plan to extort money from wealthy families. As the plan escalates and unravels Will and Karen who are trapped in different cities are pushed to the limit to get their daughter back alive... Identity: Caught in a savage rainstorm ten travellers are forced to seek refuge at a strange desert motel. They soon realize they've found anything but shelter. There is a killer among them and one by one they are murdered. As the storm rages on and the dead begin to outnumber the living one thing becomes clear: each of them was drawn to the motel not by accident or circumstance but by forces beyond imagination forces that promise anyone who survives a mind-bending and terrifying destiny. Bone Collector: He takes his victims' lives and leaves behind mysterious pieces of a bizarre puzzle. And the only person who may be able to make sense of the serial killer's deranged plan is Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) once a top homicide investigator. After a tragic accident changes his life forever Rhyme can only watch as other cops bungle the case until he teams up with a young rookie Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) but as the killer senses the cops closing in Rhyme realizes that he and his partner are on the trail of a vicious sadistic murderer who will stop at nothing on his deadly mission. At any moment Rhyme and Amelia could become his next targets; their first case together could become their last...

• Batman - The Movie | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Philanthropic entrepreneur Bruce Wayne (Adam West) and his youthful ward Dick Grayson (Burt Ward) lead a double life: they are the Caped Crusaders crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave where Police Commissioner Gordon calls the fearless duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile Batman and Robin must (with the help of trusty Bat-Gadgets) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals. The dastardly deeds begin when The Penguin (Burgess Meredith) uses his flipper-powered submarine to steal a super-dehydrator which extracts all moisture from humans and reduces them to particles of dust. But the Antarctic Anarchist is not working alone gentle reader! No a plot this size requires the combined evil thinking caps of four costumed criminals: The Penguin himself The Riddler (Frank Gorshin) The Joker (Cesar Romero) and Catwoman (Lee Meriwether). And as Commissioner Gordon (Neil Hamilton) puts it The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate! Using the super dehydrator the United Underworld (as they dub themselves) suck the moisture out of the nine-member United Nations Security Council leaving nine multicolored piles of dust. Can no one stop this blueprint of badness? This design of devilry? Two men can (well one man and one boy wonder) with the help of their trusty butler Alfred (Alan Napier). But first they'll have to defeat a ticking time bomb an exploding octopus and a shark with a six-foot vertical leap. Can the Dynamic Duo stop the fearsome foursome in time? Will Bruce Wayne fall under the spell of lovely Miss Kitka exotic correspondent for the Moscow Bugle who happens to be Catwoman in disguise? Can the man-eating shark be stopped with Batman's Shark-Repellent Bat-Spray? Will Commissioner Gordon decipher the Riddler's criminal conundrums?

• Nobody's Baby | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £12.28   |  Saving you £-6.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Two prisoners escape from jail and end up causing a car accident where the only survivor is a little baby. Upon rescuing the child these simple rednecks embark on parenthood in a journey of robbery blackmail and nappies.

• Penny Points To Paradise/Let's Go Crazy | Blu Ray | (03/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Two valuable early Peter Sellers performances rescued from obscurity and restored by the BFI National Archive. Penny Points to Paradise sees all the Goons beside the seaside in a cheap and cheerful comic escapade climaxing in a Brighton waxworks. Shot around the same time Lets Go Crazy is a madcap selection of variety turns with memorable performances from Spike Milligan and Sellers in multiple roles. Both films provide an important insight into British comedy history and specifically chart the beginnings of Sellers' rise to stardom. A must-have for all Goons fans.

• Scallywagga - Series 1 | DVD | (04/01/2010) from £4.57   |  Saving you £15.42 (337.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A heady mix of the best fresh and familiar funny voices - straight out of the north - have combined to play Scallywagga's host of wrongheaded new characters.