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• A Soldier's Story | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Charles Fuller adapted his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play for the big screen in 1984. The film version, A Soldier's Story is essentially a murder mystery, played out against a background of inter and intra-racial conflict at a Second World War training camp. To the consternation of his white opposite number at the camp, a black captain (Howard W Rollins) arrives to investigate the death of a black sergeant (Adolph Caesar). Suspicion immediately falls on a pair of bigoted white officers but as the tale unfolds in a series of flashbacks, it soon becomes clear that a different kind of prejudice is also at work. Assisted by some excellent performances, director Norman Jewison opens the story out from its stage roots. There's a wonderful baseball scene (filmed on location at Little Rock) in which the double standards of Dennis Lipscomb's fidgety white captain are exposed with neat irony; he'll cheer his successful black team all the way home in the name of sport. His gradual, forced liberalisation provides the film with an important comic element. A Soldier's Story wears its heart on its sleeve without being superficial in any way. It's a compelling tale, well told and often highly entertaining, in which nobody gets off lightly, least of all the good guy. On the DVD: The widescreen presentation helps give an epic feel to what could, in other hands, have been a claustrophobic production. The picture quality is fine. But the monaural sound track is often rather muffled, leaving you straining to catch some of the dialogue. This is also a shame because the blues music--an inspired job by Herbie Hancock, assisted by Patti Labelle singing her lungs out as bar owner Big Mary--is an important element of the film's underlying theme and deserves to be better heard. The extras are valuable. Norman Jewison's commentary is detailed and sensitive. As he says, the film deals with "ideas in racism never seen on screen before", and he acknowledges the strength of his actors in getting those ideas across. "March to Freedom" is an excellent short documentary which features the moving testimonies of black servicemen on the insufferable prejudices they encountered while attempting to defend their country during the Second World War; A Soldier's Story is thus put sharply into context. --Piers Ford

• Blackball | DVD | (30/09/2013) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (11.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

  United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Mel Smith directs a very English cast in this light-comedy based loosely on the story of Bowler Cliff Starkey (Paul Kaye). Starkey dreams of playing for England however, he just can't keep out of trouble and has always preferred following his own rules - much to the disapproval of the stuck-up local bowls club in Torquay. But when Rick Schwartz (Vince Vaughn), an American sports agent, takes Cliff under his wing he becomes a national hero... ...Blackball ( Black ball )

• That Mitchell and Web Look: Series 4 | DVD | (20/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  David Mitchell and Robert Webb are back with their fourth series, featuring a raft of brand-new ideas including the invention of the jet-pack; a sneaky robot; the correct (but confusing) way to talk to Caesar; a very old Sherlock Holmes and Watson; and a heavily armed man who's very keen on grammar. There's also a return of some old favourites including the post-apocalyptic quiz show; accident-prone Hennimore; and Ted and Peter presenting Late Night Dog Poker. Exclusive extras include out-takes, extended sketches and more.

• Before Dawn | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £14.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (10.35%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An estranged couple's vacation to save their troubled relationship goes awry when they find themselves under attack from the walking dead.

• The Little House | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £28.66   |  Saving you £-8.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Bob The Builder - A Christmas To Remember | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £11.01   |  Saving you £5.98 (54.31%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Includes: 'A Christmas to Remember' and 'Bob's White Christmas'. Featuring a festive feature length adventure with Bob The Builder. Includes the music videos 'Can We Fix It?' and 'Mambo No 5'.

• Hellboy | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Channel 4's Comedy Gala 2012 | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £5.82   |  Saving you £1.17 (20.10%)   |  RRP £6.99

  On Friday 11th May 2012, Jesse J and over 25 of the nation’s best known and most loved comedians and TV stars came together for the UK’s biggest stand-up show ever! For the third year running they performed at this exclusive comedy event in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital at the world famous 02 Arena. Filmed in front of 15,000 screaming fans Channel 4’s Comedy Gala features the entire comedy extravaganza, including the all those bits they didn’t show on TV. This is the must have comedy DVD for 2012!

• My Favorite Martian | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tired but watchable adaptation of the popular 60s TV show of a friendly Martian who lives with an agreeable earthling. Like Disney's other live-action remakes 101 Dalmatians and Flubber, the emphasis is on quick-moving scenes and special effects--not character. Jeff Daniels is the bemused earthling who gets to know Christopher Lloyd's alien ways. Much of the film feels like a retread borrowing heavily from other sci-fi comedies (and "fish out of water" films), including Lloyd's own Back to the Future. Lloyd and his talking space suit (voiced by Wayne Knight who brings the same personality as his Newman role on Seinfeld) don't know simple Earth customs but inexplicably know every pop culture reference in the last 10 years. Daryl Hannah and Elizabeth Hurley are along for the ride as Daniels' good-girl and bad-girl flames. TV's Martian, Ray Waltson, shows up as a secret agent alien hunter--and pours more emotion into his scenes than the rest of the movie combined. Ages 6 and up. --Doug Thomas

• A 4 X 4 Is Born | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £19.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Nevada Smith | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This classic Western adapted from the novel by Harold Robbins and starring STEVE MCQUEEN in the title role is an edgy and gripping story of revenge that interweaves a number of different stories together in one mans quest to track down the killers of his parents. NEVADA SMITH sees a return to form for McQueen in a genre that he excelled in and with a supporting cast including Karl Malden Martin Landau and Arthur Kennedy the film sparkles with great performances and breathtaking s

• Tour de France 2012: Bradley Wiggins & The British Invasion - Extended Highlights | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  On Sunday 22nd July 2012, watched by a UK audience of nearly 4 million viewers, Bradley Wiggins crossed the finish line of the world's greatest race wearing the famous 'maillot jaune' to become the first British winner of Le Tour de France.

• Porterhouse Blue | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on Tom Sharpe’s satirical novel and set in a fictional, all-male Cambridge College, 1987’s Porterhouse Blue is a crusty delight. Ian Richardson stars as the austere moderniser who takes over as master of Porterhouse with a view to bringing in radical changes; David Jason is Skullion, head porter for 45 years and a bulldog-style traditionalist.Porterhouse Blue is a wonderfully grotesque and not inaccurate depiction of an Oxbridge college that has set itself resolutely and decadently against the modern world. Crammed with hoggish, port-swilling dons who are more concerned that the college stay "head of the river" than with academic achievement, the highlight of Porterhouse’s year is the Founder’s Feast, in which students and tutors gorge debauchedly on roast swan stuffed with widgeon, to the horror of the new vegetarian master. Jason’s Skullion looks on approvingly: he’s a stickler for Porterhouse’s inverted values, disapproving, for instance, of student Zipser (John Sessions), the only fellow at the college actually there to work. When the master eventually fires Skullion, the forces of traditionalism gather in sympathy and attempt their revenge.Unfolding over 190 leisurely minutes, Porterhouse Blue is an elegantly turned comedy in which practically every morsel of dialogue is to be savoured for its delicious tang. Jason and Richardson are reliably excellent in what is an overall exhibition of British TV thespianism at its finest. --David Stubbs

• Fantastic Four | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £3.29   |  Saving you £6.70 (203.65%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Fantastic Four are back and this time they find themselves having to deal with the powerful Silver Surfer and the planet-eating Galactus.

• Ourselves Alone | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland, Ourselves Alone is a powerful story of love and conflicting loyalties set against the battle for Ireland's independence. It is featured here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements.Co-directed by Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst one of the twentieth century's most prolific and acclaimed directors Ourselves Alone (a translation of 'Sinn Fein') was banned in Northern Ireland on its release in 1936, but with sympathetic performances from a strong cast the focus remains firmly on the human cost of conflict in uncertain times.1921: as nationalists battle with loyalist police and British Black and Tans, a young girl finds herself under terrible pressures; she is torn between loyalty to her brother, an IRA leader, her lover, a police inspector, and his rival, a British Army captain...SPECIAL FEATURES:[] Image gallery[] Commemorative booklet by Allan Esler Smith

• Hemoglobin | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the middle of the 17th Century Eva Van Damme a Dutch aristocrat left Holland for the reckless spoils of the New World. She and her clan built a great mansion in New England cut themselves off from the rest of society and eventually disappeared from view altogether. It was here she revealed in her dark obsession one that had driven the Van Damme's from their Dutch home her insatiable sexual appetite for her twin brother.. More than three centuries later a ferry carries ailing John Strauss and his wife Kathleen to an eerie New England community. He is dying from a mysterious blood disease and has traced his roots to this enclosed island in the vain hope he may discover some key to his condition. Strauss knows he was born here but as a baby he was sent to Paris and subsequently adopted if he can find his relatives he may be saved. However as he will soon discover death can sometimes be a sweet release.

• The Flemish Farm | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £5.42   |  Saving you £4.57 (84.32%)   |  RRP £9.99

  As Hitlers Blitzkrieg sweeps across the Low Countries in early 1940, a squadron of Belgian pilots take temporary shelter with their aircraft on a Flemish Farm. Here, farmers daughter Trescha tends the wounded pilot Matagne and the two fall in love. When the decision comes to evacuate to RAF bases in England, Matagne secretly buries the Regimental Flag rather than destroy it as ordered. As the time comes to leave, Matagne has to be forced to go and leave his beloved Trescha. Now safe in England, he dreams of retrieving the Regimental Flag from underneath the noses of the invading Germans.

• Hellboy | DVD | (09/01/2006) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The mythical world starts a rebellion against the human realm in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy and his team must save the world from the myriad creatures.

• A Simple Twist Of Fate | DVD | (27/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A recluse who lives his life making furniture discovers a two year old orphan on his doorstep. Making a new life together their relationship is threatened when the natural father appears... Based around the George Elliot novel 'Silas Marner'.

• Love on the Dole (Dual Format Edition) | DVD | (18/01/2016) from £7.29   |  Saving you £12.70 (174.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Originally banned by the British Board of Film Censors for being a ˜very sordid story in very sordid surroundings', Love on the Dole, was made in 1941 at a time when social conditions had been radically changed by the Second World War. Set in 1930s Salford, at the height of the Great Depression, young Harry Hardcastle (Geoffrey Hibbert, In Which We Serve) and his sister Sally (Deborah Kerr, The King and I) fall victim to poverty and unemployment, meaning they need to make difficult decisions to survive. Although the film deals with the Depression, mass unemployment, poverty and riots, the film retains positivity by reinforcing the view that Britain and its working classes had survived incredible hardships and would conquer anything which faced them. Peppered with references to a new start and a better future, where everybody lends a hand the film is optimistic in its nod to the liberal democracy Britain had retained despite the war. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Walter Greenwood the film was much-praised by critics upon its release. Extras: New High Definition transfer Our Film (Harold French, 1942): Enthralling propaganda film contrasting the Russian home front with the British The Call for Arms (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1940): Government sponsored film about life at a munitions factory Island People (Paul Rotha, 1940): a film surveying of aspects of the British way of life, as seen through French eyes Illustrated booklet with new writing and full film credits