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• Waiting For God - The Complete Collection | DVD | (15/10/2018) from £26.25   |  Saving you £8.74 (33.30%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Includes all 5 series and Christmas Specials At the Bayview Retirement Village the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully, enjoying their final years in peace, quiet and comfort but not if Tom (Graham Crowden) and Diana (Stephanie Cole) have anything to do with it! Meet two elderly eccentrics who refuse to put up with the appalling food and condescending staff; in the hilariously cynical BAFTA-nominated comedy series that won Stephanie Cole a British Comedy Award in 1992.

• Out Of Africa | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £6.90   |  Saving you £9.09 (131.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Out of Africa seems to have slipped more readily from public memory than other comparably lauded films. Yet Sidney Pollack's panoramic treatment of Karen Blixen's novel has retained its atmosphere and slow-burning emotion, and deserves reassessment. Meryl Streep is in her possibly most involving starring role as Baroness Karen Blixen, Danish free spirit whose ill-fated venture at the beginning of World War One to run a coffee plantation in Kenya is overlaid by her intimate yet distant relationship with adventurer and idealist Denys Finch Hatton, unselfconsciously portrayed by Robert Redford. Klaus Maria Brandauer puts in a rare and convincing English-language appearance as the amoral but charming womaniser Baron Bror Blixen. The film is tellingly held together by Kurt Luedke's finely honed screenplay, and John Barry's sumptuously expressive score. On the DVD: The anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen format reproduces superbly, as does the 4.1 discrete audio. 18 access points are provided, with printed and aural subtitles in English only. Pollack's feature commentary is amusing enough on a single run-through, but an on-location documentary would have been preferable. Production notes and biographies are very adequate, though the theatrical trailer reproduction is notably inferior. No matter, this is a major film, well worth the transfer to DVD.--Richard Whitehouse

• All Passion Spent: The Complete Series | DVD | (10/10/2016) from £5.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (150.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Oscar-winning stage and screen veteran Wendy Hiller brings characteristic subtlety, grace and quiet determination to the role of a recently widowed woman who intends to relish her newfound freedom in this acclaimed three-part drama. Adapting Vita Sackville-West's classic story, All Passion Spent received four BAFTA nominations and co-stars Harry Andrews, Maurice Denham, Phyllis Calvert, Graham Crowden and Geoffrey Bayldon. Lady Slane sits beside the body of her husband in a bedroom of their elegant home. The handsome, distinguished Henry Holland, Prime Minister, Viceroy of India and Earl of Slane, has died at the age of 94. As her children ponder what is to be done with mother, 85-year-old Lady Slane realises that for the first time in her life, she is free to live where, and how, she chooses. And after more than half a century as a dutiful and loving wife, she revels in her new-found independence and the company of new friends... despite the wishes of her family.

• Calendar Girls | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £4.96   |  Saving you £13.03 (262.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The real-life story of the North Yorksire lasses of Rylstone Women's Institute who decided to show a little WI skin to sell a calendar in aid of cancer.

• A Very Peculiar Practice - The Complete Series | DVD | (10/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Lowlands University is a swamp of fear and loathing. A showpiece Sixties campus looking increasingly anachronistic in the paranoid, profit-driven Eighties, it is staffed by angst-ridden academics desperate to hang onto their privileged status amid swingeing cutbacks. It also houses what may well be the worst medical practice in the British Isles.Stephen Daker sees his new job at the Medical Centre as a chance to pursue excellence among a dedicated team and he's somewhat shaken when his colleagues turn out to be a wildly unpredictable dipsomaniac, a public school-educated fascist and an uber-feminist who sees illness as something men do to women. Dark secrets, sinister experiments, demented academics, STD epidemics, the Yankee Dollar, a desperate Creative with writer's block and a couple of nuns all conspire to make life on campus a hair-raising experience for Stephen!Andrew Davies' surreal, searingly funny look at sexual politics, medical malpractice and academic rivalry at the height of the Thatcher era won huge acclaim and a BAFTA nomination for Best Drama Series. This set comprises both series and A Very Polish Practice, the 1992 sequel film which finds Stephen coping with life in post-Communism Warsaw.

• The Company Of Wolves | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Director Neil Jordan's gothic outing is a unique excursion into horror.

• The Missionary | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fallen women? Does it mean they've hurt their knees? After a decade of soul-saving in Africa Charles Fortescue is asked to minister to the ladies of the night in 1906 London. So Fortescue feeds them shelters them and not infrequently provides them a bed: his! A naive man of the cloth becomes a man of the sheets in this playfully naughty yet always tasteful comedy that stars Monty Python's Michael Palin (who also wrote the script) as Fortescue and features a colourful array of cockeyed characters: a blissful airhead (Phoebe Nicholls) a lusty mission sponsor (Maggie Smith) a bewildered butler (Michael Hordern) an earthy bishop (Denholm Elliott) a cantankerous John Bull (Trevor Howard) and more. Jolly good fun!

• Company of Wolves | Blu Ray | (18/10/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Neil Jordan's gothic outing is a unique excursion into horror.

• Doctor Who - The Collection - Season 17 - Limited Edition Packaging | Blu Ray | (20/12/2021) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Build your own Doctor Who archive with this collectors' set. Destiny Of The Daleks City Of Death The Creature From The Pit Nightmare Of Eden The Horns Of Nimon Shada With all episodes newly remastered from the best available sources, this Blu-ray box set also includes extensive and exclusive Special Features including: Brand New Documentaries: Including a Making-Of documentary for Destiny Of The Daleks, and new featurette for The Creature From The Pit. Tom Talks: A candid interview with Tom Baker as he gives us his unique take on life, the universe and everything. Douglas Adams Tribute: Friends and colleagues remember the Doctor Who writer/script editor and creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. In Conversation: Matthew Sweet chats to Bob Baker, writer of Nightmare Of Eden, co-creator of K9 and one of the creative forces behind Wallace & Gromit. Behind The Sofa: New episodes with actors Colin Baker, Katy Manning, Matthew Waterhouse, Nicola Bryant, June Hudson, Graeme Harper & Mat Irvine Lalla Ward Interview: An extensive interview discussing her first year on the programme Updated Special Effects: View Nightmare Of Eden with optional new effects Shada: An updated version of the ˜lost' story, completed with enhanced animation and presented in six episodes for the very first time, alongside the original 1992 VHS and 2017 versions Exclusive New Audio Commentaries: With Tom Baker on episodes of Destiny Of The Daleks and City Of Death, and Lalla Ward & Catherine Schell on City Of Death Extended Episode: An early cut of The Creature From The Pit Part Three Blu-ray Trailer: A familiar face returns in a brand new mini-episode of classic Doctor Who Immersive 5.1 Surround Sound: On Destiny Of The Daleks and Shada Rare Gems From The Archives: BBC archive material covering the promotion of this season Convention Footage: A triumphant 1997 appearance from Tom Baker HD Photo Galleries: Including many previously unseen images Production Subtitles: Behind-the-scenes information and trivia on every episode Scripts, Costume Designs, Rare BBC Production Files And Other Rarities From Our PDF Archive And Lots More! The seven-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD.

• Father Brown Boxed Set | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £32.99

  Featuring all 13 episodes in the 1974 TV series starring Kenneth More Father Brown is the creation of the great British novelist G.K. Chesterton appearing in over fifty short stories. This Catholic Priest turned detective is both a rival and a partner in crime to such great sleuths as Hercule Poirot Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple further enlivening the English appetite for a little murder and mystery with its afternoon tea.

• The Amazing Mr Blunden | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A mysterious very old solicitor Mr. Blunden (Naismith) visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in her squalid Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitor. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years previously and start to look into the mystery surrounding a fire that destroyed the house and claimed the lives of the two children...

• Love On A Branch Line | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Leslie Phillips and Michael Maloney star in this BBC adaptation of John Hadfield's 1959 comic novel Love On A Branch Line. The series concerns a civil servant Jasper Pye (Maloney) who is sent by the government to dismantle a forgotten research unit housed in an old country mansion Arcady Hall. The owner Lord Flamborough (Phillips) an eccentric double amputee lives in an old train on his own otherwise closed 'branch line' while the government pay for the upkeep of his ancestral home. Flamborough's equally eccentric family his wife and three daughters all live in Arcady Hall. When Pye arrives he is intent on producing an efficient report regarding the unit however within days he falls under the spell of the stately home and its inhabitants...

• Soul Music From Terry Pratchett's Discworld | DVD | (13/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• The Final Programme (Cult Classics) | Blu Ray | (20/02/2023) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jon Finch heads an impressive cast as the flamboyant anti-hero in this dystopian, darkly humorous sci-fi thriller from cult director Robert Fuest. The Final Programme is based on Michael Moorcock's acclaimed 1968 novel of the same name and has been newly restored.In a far-off future, mankind is in a state of decay. But a group of scientists believe they have found the means to move humanity on to its next level in the creation of an ideal, self-replicating - and thus immortal - human being. Jerry Cornelius, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and playboy adventurer, is vital to the project's success: his recently deceased father devised the formula of this 'final programme'. However, the formula is captured on a microfilm hidden in the vaults of the family's mansion, and jealously guarded by Jerry's drug-addicted, psychopathic brother, Frank...Part of the STUDIOCANAL Cult Classics collection and featuring an exclusive set of art cards.Product FeaturesNEW Interview with Jenny RunacreNEW Kim Newman on Fuest & The Final ProgrammeItalian title sequenceTrailers

• Tales Out of School - Four Plays by David Leland | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  These four television films originally screened by Channel 4 in 1983 brought the emerging writing talent of former actor David Leland to national attention. He would subsequently win a BAFTA Award for his directorial debut Wish You Were Here and an Emmy Award for his contribution to Band of Brothers and work on screenplays for Mona Lisa and Personal Services. Featuring early roles for Tim Roth and Jim Broadbent the plays form a scathing portrait of British society in the early 1980s focusing in particular on the polarisation of attitudes towards the role and methods of education in an increasingly fragmented society. Without overtly offering solutions Leland s plays depict - often with unnerving acuity and foresight - the experience of individuals within systems that have become inadequate in dealing with the fallout of social breakdown. Of the four plays presented here Made in Britain directed by Alan Clarke (Scum) inevitably aroused the strongest controversy with Tim Roth s astonishing portrayal of a nihilistic racist teenage skinhead captured by Chris Menges innovative cinematography; the screenplay won Leland the Prix Italia in 1983. Birth Of A Nation: Featuring Jim Broadbent the play dramatises the conflict between old authoritarian teaching methods and the more relaxed approach of progressive educationalists. Flying Into The Wind: Graham Crowden stars in a play depicting the battle between parents who want to home-educate their children and the local education authority. R.H.I.N.O.: The harrowing story of Angela a disenfranchised young black girl living in 1980s London and her encounters with a well-meaning but often ineffectual social system. Made In Britain: Directed by Alan Clarke Tim Roth makes his TV debut as a hate-filled teenage skinhead on a self-destructive campaign destined to lead to permanent incarceration.

• Monsignor Quixote | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their remote village to Madrid and back exploring their friendship the demands of belief and constancy of faith. This lavish production filmed entirely on location captures the wit warmth and vitality that make the original novel by Graham Greene a unique work of literature.

• Out Of Africa (Special Edition) | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £7.94   |  Saving you £13.04 (263.43%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Sydney Pollack's 1985 multiple-Oscar winner is a sumptuous and emotionally satisfying film about the life of Danish writer Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), better known as Isak Dinesen, who travels to Kenya to be with her German husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) but falls for an English adventurer (Robert Redford). The film is slow in developing the relationship, but it is rich in beautiful images of Africa and in the romantic tone surrounding Blixen's gradual discovery of her life and voice. One downside: while we may all love Redford, he is as convincingly British as Kevin Costner is in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. --Tom Keogh

• Waiting For God - Series 1 | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £5.03   |  Saving you £10.96 (217.89%)   |  RRP £15.99

  'If you're angry you know you're still alive!' The fondly remembered BBC sitcom Waiting for God finally makes its way to DVD. Former photo-journalist Diana Trent (Stephanie Cole) and Tom Ballard (Graham Crowden) are a pair of geriatric delinquents residing in the Bayview Retirement Village under the ambitious eye of Harvey Bains manager and proprietor. The declining duo spend their time sniping at a world where the young are revered and the elderly are held in cont

• Britannia Hospital (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (29/06/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The concluding instalment to Lindsay Anderson's Mick Travis Trilogy, following If . and O Lucky Man!, Britannia Hospital finds the filmmaker taking a sourly satirical eye to Thatcher's Britain. With a phenomenal cast at his disposal everyone from Alan Bates (Georgy Girl) and Joan Plowright (Time Without Pity) to Robin Askwith (Confessions of a Window Cleaner) and Mark Hamill (Star Wars) to Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) reprising the role of Travis Anderson trains his sights on royalty, the media, the trade unions, civil disobedience, and the NHS in typically uncompromising and extremely funny fashion. Features: High Definition remaster Original mono audio The BEHP Interview with Lindsay Anderson (1991): an archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the celebrated director in conversation with Alan Lawson and Norman Swallow Healthy Reputation (2020): actor Robin Askwith discusses working with Lindsay Anderson on If . and Britannia Hospital Biles Apart (2020): actor Brian Pettifer recalls reprising the role of Biles A Cut Above (2020): editor Michael Ellis reflects the film's production Image gallery: publicity and promotional material Original theatrical trailer Teaser trailer New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive 40-page booklet with a new essay by Peter Cowie, an archival interview with Lindsay Anderson, extracts from the diaries of Anderson and screenwriter David Sherwin, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits World premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies

• Love on a Branch Line | DVD | (17/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the John Hadfield best-seller, this quintessentially British comedy follows the trials and tribulations of respectable, if somewhat boring civil servant Jasper Pye. Desperate for a radical change and some excitement in his life, the chance arises when he is sent to dismantle an old government research unit in the country. He soon finds himself seduced by life in the idyllic village and is beguiled by the charms of local eccentric Lord Flamborough and his three beautiful daughters.