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• High Plains Drifter | Blu Ray | (09/09/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Clint Eastwood's second film as a director (and his first Western) is a variation on the "man with no name" theme, starring Eastwood as the drifter known only as "the Stranger". He rides into the desert town of Lagos and is quickly attacked by three gunmen. Recovering with the aid of a local dwarf (a memorable role for Billy Curtis), the Stranger is hired by the intimidated townsfolk to fend off a band of violent ex-convicts. After teaching the citizens self-defence and instructing them to paint the entire town red and rename it "Hell", the Stranger vanishes. He reappears when the marauding criminals arrive, and delivers justice and teaches the townsfolk a harsh lesson about moral obligation. Is he a figure from their past or a kind of supernatural avenger? Combining humour with action, High Plains Drifter is both a serious and tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Westerns that made Eastwood a household name. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The Royle Family - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On paper, The Royle Family doesn't sound that promising: a working-class family from Manchester sit in their cluttered living room, watch the telly and argue over domestic details (the arrival of a telephone bill, for instance, provides the big dramatic event of the first episode, which aired in September 1998). But from such small everyday incidents, Royle Family creators Caroline Aherne and Dave Best (who play young couple Denise and Dave) have crafted one of the most successful shows on British television--a comedy about the joys and frustrations of family life that's warm, honest and very, very funny. It's Britain's answer to The Simpsons, whose success the show rivalled when it started broadcasting on BBC2 (the programme jumped channels to BBC1 for its second series). Now in its third series, The Royle Family has seen its characters develop like real folk. Denise and Dave got married and now have a little sprog; Barbara starts menopause (how many sit-coms are brave enough to use that for laughs?) and Denise's kid brother Anthony shakes off his surly adolescence when he turned 18 in series two. Unlike Oasis--who provide the shows theme song "Halfway Round the World"--this programme just keeps getting better. But no soap--not even Brookside in its dafter moments--has one-liners as brilliantly crafted as The Royle Family's. Slouched in his armchair, Jim's dour running commentary on the TV shows that are on at the time are particularly priceless. Changing Rooms, for instance, boils down to "a cockney knocking nails into plywood... Is this what it's come to?" Not quite; as long as the Royle Family are around, there is something worthwhile to watch. --Edward Lawrenson

• Worzel Gummidge - Worzel The Brave / Worzel's Wager / The Return Of Drafthead | DVD | (01/09/2001) from £8.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-49.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Episodes are: 'Worzel The Brave' 'Worzel's Wager' and 'The Return Of Dafthead'.

• The Devils Rejects - Special Edition | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Rob Zombie's horrific creations return for more blood-soaked mayhem.

• Keeping Up Appearances - The Essential Collection | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £32.88   |  Saving you £27.11 (82.45%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The lady of the house Hyacinth Bucket (Patricia Routledge) has turned being a snob into an art form. Her surname is pronounced ""Bouquet"" don't you know... Her long-suffering husband Richard (Clive Swift) keeps his head down and does his best to live with her domineering ways. But Hyacinth's a determined lady with one mission in life - to impress!

• The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £10.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (27.30%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Geoffrey Rush plays the famous actor and founding member of The Goons in this brave and unusual biopic.

• Mad Cows | DVD | (08/05/2000) from £6.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (196.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the best-selling novel, this adaptation about an Australian who has a baby with her aristocratic cad of a boyfriend is written and directed by newcomer Sara Suggarman, who has injected her own particular style into the film.

• Lost Christmas - BBC1 - Starring BAFTA, Olivier and two-time Emmy award-winner Eddie Izzard & Jason Flemyng | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Based on the classic novel Lost Christmas is an Urban Fairy Tale set in Manchester. The film tells the story of how a series of tragic events blighting a young boy's life one Christmas Eve take him on a journey where a chance meeting with a mysterious stranger may have the key to help and give him a perfect Christmas. 'Goose' is a ten year old boy who on Christmas Eve not thinking about his actions hides his father’s car keys in the hope that he won’t leave to attend an urgent emergency rescue. This is a decision Goose will always regret. As his mother gets her keys and drives his dad to work, Goose doesn't realize that this is the last time he will see his parents as ten minutes later his mother and father are killed in a car crash. Flash forward a year and its Christmas Eve once again, we see Goose is no longer the bright, energetic ten-year-old boy he once was, and is now a streetwise kid who is supporting his Nan through petty crime. Enter 'Anthony' a mysterious enigmatic man who appears, seemingly out of nowhere, on Manchester's snowy streets. Despite being lost himself, he has the compulsion and ability to find the lost, uncovering truths that will eventually transform the life of 'Goose' and those affected by his decision. But is 'Anthony's' ability to heal real, or just an illusion? Lost Christmas is a magical story about self-sacrifice and destiny, brimming with emotion and humour, this beautifully modern fairytale has all the ingredients of a classic Christmas film.

• Ned Kelly | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £6.24   |  Saving you £13.01 (261.24%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Australia, 1880s. After a brutal childhood at the hands of the police and the death of his father, 16 year old Ned Kelly is imprisoned on the trumped up charge of stealing a horse.

• Worzel Gummidge - The Scarecrow Hop / Worzel And The Saucy Nancy / Worzel's Nephew | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When Aunt Sally turns up at Worzel's barn the two decide to go to the local village dance. Deciding to have some fun they astound guests by dressing in period costume borrowed from the museum...

• Swimming Upstream | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The inspirational life story of Australian swimmer, Tony Fingleton.

• Cry, The Beloved Country (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (09/10/2023) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Cry, the Beloved Country is the BAFTA nominated film of the acclaimed novel by Alan Paton. A black minister, Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) lives a quiet life as a parish priest in the back country of South Africa. When his son, Absolom, leaves the small valley where he grew up for the bright lights of the city, he goes missing. After several months of silence, the minister goes to search for him and comes face to face with the squalor and poverty of the Johannesburg slums. Reverend Msimangu (Sidney Poitier) is a young clergyman who joins him in his search, but neither are prepared for what they will discover.

• Made In Britain | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Written by David Leland and directed by Alan Clarke, Made in Britain is a slice of horrible but not inaccurate life from 1982. It holds a terrific early performance from Tim Roth as a skinhead with a swastika caste-mark tattoo, who constantly bares shark-like teeth as he spits embittered, articulate defiance at caring social workers and truncheon-wielding policemen alike. Sixteen-year-old Trevor (Roth) is remanded to an assessment centre before sentencing, but remains determined to disobey the rules imposed on him by any authority figures and spends the whole 73-minute play challenging the system to smack him back down, by vandalising the Job Centre, using his case-file as a toilet, stealing cars, victimising members of the "immigrant community" and shouting bile at people. The cycle that will lead him to an adult life in prison is explained to him with blackboard diagrams, but he believes he's better off keeping his hatred burning than toeing the line to end up as a no-hoper in a society that prizes obedience over conscience. It was originally televised as one of four Leland-filmed dramas about different aspects of the British education system, which made it seem less monomaniacal in its focus on an extreme case. There's no denying that it's an honest portrait of a monster calculated to terrify even the most concerned liberals which still manages to celebrate his self-destructive defiance. A film for television rather than a TV play, it has very strong language but the violence is all in Roth's face.On the DVD: No extra features here, but it does come with optional English sub-titles, and the theme song by the Exploited over the menu. --Kim Newman

• 10 To Midnight | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £11.74   |  Saving you £4.24 (48.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The clock is ticking and time is running out as ace detectives Leo Kessler and Paul McAnn track down a psychotic killer who is brutally slaying young women. Caught in a web of red tape they seem unable to bring the murderer to justice until Kessler's daughter becomes the next victim and revenge becomes the most powerful of motives...

• The Warrior's Way | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.59   |  Saving you £13.40 (203.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The world's greatest swordsman abandons his warrior clan to start a new life in the American Badlands in The Warrior's Way a visually dazzling modern martial arts adventure with stunningly choreographed fight sequences and gravity-defying stunts. In an original gorgeously realised journey into a mythical past writer and director Sngmoo Lee seamlessly marries the cinematic traditions of East and West. Korean superstar Jang Dong Gun Kate Bosworth Danny Huston and Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush star in this epic story of revenge and redemption. Yang (Jang Dong Gun) must betray his clan to save his final enemy - a young baby girl. He travels from Asia to a dying gold rush town in the American West where he goes into hiding by working as a lowly laundryman. Yang attempts to put his past behind him while befriending the local eccentrics of the once-thriving town the fiery tempered knife-thrower Lynne (Bosworth) and Ron (Rush) the town drunk with a secret past. When Lynne is threatened by a gang led by a Colonel (Danny Huston) Yang comes out of hiding to protect her and the town with his sword skills and finds himself forced to face the past he was hoping to put behind him.

• Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £8.96   |  Saving you £9.03 (100.78%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When a doctor is killed at a mental asylum the evil Baron Frankenstein seizes the chance to transplant his brain into the meek body of Doctor Richter. But the bloody operation creates an entity of evil which shatters the lives of everyone...

• Yellow Submarine | DVD | (01/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This restored, animated valentine to the Beatles offers viewers the rare chance to see a work that's been substantially improved by its technical facelift, not just super-sized with extra footage. Recognising that its song-studded soundtrack alone makes Yellow Submarine a video annuity, United Artists has lavished a frame-by-frame refurbishment of the original feature, while replacing its original monaural audio tracks with a meticulously reconstructed stereo mix that actually refines legendary original album versions. What emerges is a vivid time capsule of the late 1960s and a minor milestone in animation. The music represents the quartet's zenith--Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The story line, cobbled together by producer Al Brodax and a committee of writers, is a broad, feather-light allegory set in idyllic Pepperland, where the gentle citizens are threatened by the nasty, music-hating Blue Meanies and their surreal arsenal of henchmen, with the Beatles enlisted to thwart the bad guys. Visually, designer Heinz Edelmann mixes the biomorphic squiggles, day-glo palette and Beardsley-esque portraits of Peter Max with rotoscoped still photographs and film; Edelmann's animated collages also nod to Andy Warhol and Magritte in properly psychedelic fashion, which works wonderfully with such terrific songs. High-orthodox Beatlemaniacs can still grouse that the animated Fab Four are (literally) flat archetypes, but that's missing the sheer bloom of the music or the giddy, campy fun of the visuals. Making sense of the story is second to submerging blissfully in the sights and sounds of this video treat. --Sam Sutherland

• The Troubleshooters - Mogul | DVD | (31/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For the first time on DVD one of the most successful drama series shown by the BBC in the 1960s/1970s with a huge worldwide audience. Stars Ray Barrett (The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Something in the Air), Barry Foster (Van Der Valk, Frenzy), Geoffrey Keen (Doctor Zhivago, Born Free) This 50th Anniversary release is a digitally Remastered Edition Broadcast for over 7 years and 130 episodes.The Troubleshooters Mogul Is the 1960 s BBC drama series which portrayed the boardroom battles and frontline dangers of a fictional British oil company, Mogul Oil. The series, one of the BBC s most successful ever, ran for 7 years and attracted a huge audience worldwide. These digitally remastered episodes, including the very first one transmitted, are those that survive from the pioneering first series.Episodes included: KELLY S EYE: Company secrecy is compromised when news of a Mogul oil strike in the North Sea is leaked to the Press. Director of Operations Brian Stead (Geoffrey Keen) wants the culprit sacked and knows that only Head of the North Sea Operations Peter Thornton (Ray Barrett) is tough enough to investigate the breach among the hard men on the rig. YOUNG TURK: Robert Driscoll (Barry Foster) is a marketing man sent to take over negotiations for an important Middle East oil concession...after the local Mogul representative is killed in the desert. TOSH AND NORA: Tosh Brinkwater (John Tate) is a hard-living middle aged seaman. When he marries and becomes a father, he decides to change his ways and take a shore job. But when you re a cog in the Mogul machine, good intentions don t always pay off. OUT OF RANGE: The desert is like the sea. It takes possession of a man s soul. For a young geologist (Terence Edmond) seeking to prove himself it is exciting. But like the sea, the desert is dangerous. STONEFACE: Driscoll is working under highly charged circumstances in northern Canada. When Mogul hires an Iroquois Indian for an important job, deep seated prejudices boil to the surface. Includes English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Review ..style and brilliance which sets this series miles ahead of its nearest rivals. -Peter Knight, Daily Telegraph --Peter Knight, Daily Telegraph

• Dear Ladies - Series 3 | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dear Ladies: Series 3 (Hinge And Bracket) (2 Disc)

• The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Boasting a virtuoso comic performance from Leonard Rossiter The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976-79) remains one of the greatest of all television sitcoms. Writer David Nobbs combined the surrealist absurdity of Monty Python with an on-going story line that unfolded through each of the three seasons with a clear beginning, middle and end; a ground-breaking development in 70s TV comedy. The first and best season charts middle-aged, middle-management executive Reginald Perrin as he breaks-down under the stress of middle-class life until he informs the world that half the parking meters in London have Dutch Parking Meter Disease. He fakes suicide and returns to court his wife Elizabeth (Pauline Yates) in disguise, a plot development that formed the entire basis of Mrs Doubtfire (1993). Series Two is broader, the rapid-fire dialogue still razor sharp and loaded with caustic wit and ingenious silliness, as a now sane Reggie takes on the madness of the business world by opening a chain of shops selling rubbish. The third season, set in a health farm, is routine, the edge blunted by routine sitcom conventions. At its best The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is hilarious and moving, its depiction of English middle-class life spot on, its satire prophetic. Reggie's visual fantasies hark back to The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and Billy Liar (1963), and look forward to Ally McBeal (1997-2002) and are the icing on the cake of a fine, original and highly imaginative show. On the DVD: Reginald Perrin's discs contain one complete seven episode season. There are no extras. The sound is good mono and the 4:3 picture is generally fine, though some of the exterior shot-on-film scenes have deteriorated and there are occasional signs of minor damage to the original video masters. Even so, for a 1970s sitcom shot on video the picture is excellent and far superior to the original broadcasts. --Gary S Dalkin