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• Frankenstein: The True Story | DVD | (10/03/2014) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jack Smight directs this 1973 adaptation of the classic novel by Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting) is training to become a doctor when his younger brother tragically drowns. Unable to understand why God would take away his brother, Frankenstein declares his allegiance with the devil and his determination to bring his sibling back to life. While studying anatomy Frankenstein learns how to preserve dead matter and restore life. He sets out, working with Dr Henry Clerval (David...

• Dance to the Music of Time | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time dramatised for television.

• Mulan (Two Disc Special Edition) (Disney) | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £3.85   |  Saving you £14.14 (367.27%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Embraced for her loveable spirited nature Mulan is a young girl who doesn't quite fit into her tradition bound society. When the invading Hun army comes charging over China's Great Wall Mulan's ageing father is ordered into battle! To spare him from harm Mulan disguises herself as a soldier and secretly takes his place in the Imperial army training with a comical ragtag troop led by the courageous Captain Shang. Never far away are Mulan's hilarious guardian dragon Mushu an

• The Bonfire Of The Vanities (1990) | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £7.09   |  Saving you £6.90 (97.32%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Is it time, after the anonymous disaster of Mission to Mars, to give Brian De Palma's famously doomed film of Tom Wolfe's bulky novel Bonfire of the Vanities another chance? The uproarious ins and outs of the film's troubled production have become well-known via Julie Salamon's account of its making, The Devil's Candy, and fans of that might want to flick between page and screen to see just when Melanie Griffith caused untold continuity problems by having her breasts inflated. Techno buffs will surely appreciate the pointless but somehow wonderful trickery of an extended tracking shot at the outset that exists only to last a few seconds longer than the one in Orson Welles Touch of Evil (1958). Tom Hanks was rather better cast than was generally allowed, as "master of the universe" Sherman McCoy, who comes a cropper after a hit-and-run accident, since his nice-guy act shows intriguing cracks. And even Bruce Willis does his best on a hiding to nothing as the drunken writer. It is funny in parts, agonising in others, and misses Wolfe's tone--but somehow its failures might make it as symptomatic of the long-gone excesses of the early 90s as the novel was of the 80s. --Kim Newman

• Friends: Complete Series 6 - New Edition | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £6.09   |  Saving you £43.90 (720.85%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Always there for you, the hit sitcom Friends has matured and blossomed over the years. The beginning of the sixth series finds the sextet back from Las Vegas where Ross and Rachel managed to get married in a state of pronounced intoxication, thus upstaging the intended nuptials of Chandler and Monica. The first half of the season follows Ross' failure to arrange the annulment, while Monica and Chandler move in together and Rachel sets up house with Phoebe. Joey gets a shapely new roommate in the shape of Elle Macpherson. Halfway through the series, we are given a wonderful fantasy peak at a parallel universe where Rachel married Barry after all, Ross' wife Carol never realised she was gay, Monica is still fat, Chandler is a writer, Joey is starring as Dr Drake Remoray on Days of Our Lives and Phoebe is a stockbroker. The closing arc of the series features a guest appearance from Bruce Willis in two episodes as the father of Ross' new girlfriend Elizabeth--who ends up romancing Rachel. --Leslie Felperin

• Big Momma's House 2 | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £6.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (208.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  FBI agent Malcolm Turner goes undercover as Big Momma in this hit comedy sequel.

• Renaissance Man | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When advertising executive Bill Rago gets the chop he soon realises that he can't do anything else and is talked into teaching English grammar to a bunch of army recruits. The army wants him to be disciplined and do everything at the double; his pupils just want him to leave them alone...

• Babe/The Borrowers/Matilda | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-3.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Babe (Dir. Chris Noonan 1995): Introducing a barnyard full of captivating characters unlike any you've ever met! There's Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell); Fly the sheep dog; Rex her shepherding partner; Ferdinanad the quacky duck; Maa the elderly ewe; and the newest addition to Hoggett Farm Babe a most unusual Yorkshire piglet. It's a delightful story the whole family will love! The Borrowers (Dir. Peter Hewit 1998): Follows the adventures of the dauntless tiny Clock family parents Pod (Jim Broadbent) Homily (Celia Imrie) and their kids Peagreen and Arrietty - a family of tiny four inch tall people who live under the floorboards of a big house surviving by borrowing from the Human Bean family upstairs. The Borrowers turn dental floss into tightropes toaster handles into catapults socks into beds stamps into wall posters and when their world is facing extinction - in the form of Ocious P. Potter (John Goodman) their resourcefulness knows no bounds. Matilda: Unfortunately for Matilda her father Harry (Danny DeVito) is a used car salesman who bamboozles innocent customers and her mother Zinnia (Rhea Perlman) lives for bingo and soap operas. Far from noticing what a special child Matilda is they barely notice her at all! They bundle Matilda off to Cruncham Hall a bleak school where students cower before the whip hand and fist of a hulking monster headmistress Miss Trunchball (Pam Ferris). But amid Crunchem's darkness Matilda discovers remarkable skills - including a very special talent that allows her to turn the table on the wicked grown ups in her world!

• Rolling Thunder | DVD | (25/09/2023) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Major Charles Rane and his friend Johnny Vohden returns home to San Antonio after eight years of physical and mental torture in a Vietnam POW camp they are treated as heroes. But Rane cannot know his experiences are nothing compared to the ordeal he must still face. A gang of thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service and mangle his hand leaving him and his family for dead. Whilst recovering in hospital Rane becomes more distant and cold. Aided by his loyal friend and now wielding a hook for a hand he sets out on a mission of vengeance with the ice cold determination of a man who has suffered too much and has nothing else to live for but revenge.

• Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (2004) | Blu Ray | (24/03/2025) from £56.66   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Barbara Taylor Bradford's Voice Of The Heart | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £5.72   |  Saving you £-3.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Two ambitious women have their friendship destroyed by jealousy. Based on a novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford.

• Up Close And Personal | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £11.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer) has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice (Robert Redford) is a brilliant hard edged veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet each breaking story ev

• Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 5 | DVD | (18/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The fifth season of Joss Whedon's hit series started out in excellent form as slayer extraordinaire Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) did battle with the most famous of vampires (that Dracula guy) and then went on to spar with another nemesis, little sister Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg). Wait--Buffy has a teenage sister? Where has she been the past four years? And why is everyone acting like she's always been around? Turns out that young Dawn is actually "The Key," a form of pure energy that, true to its name, helps open the gates between different dimensions. To protect said key from falling into the wrong hands, a group of monks gave it human form and sent it to the fiercely protective Buffy for safekeeping, creating new memories of Dawn for everyone as if she'd existed... well, always. Why all the super secrecy? There's this very, very, very bad girl named Glory (Clare Kramer) who wants the key very badly, and will do anything to get it. Oh, and by the way, Glory isn't just a run-of-the-mill demon... she's way worse. Some fans will tell you that Buffy "jumped the shark" with the introduction of Dawn, when in actuality this season was the pinnacle of the show's achievement, as there was superb comedy to be had ("Buffy Vs. Dracula," the double-Xander episode "The Replacement," the introduction of the "Buffybot" in "Intervention") as well as some of television's best drama. The Whedon-scripted and -directed "The Body" remains one of Buffy's best episodes, when the young woman who faces down supernatural death on a daily basis finds herself powerless in the wake of her mother's sudden passing. The first third or so of the season was a bit choppy, but once the evil Glory came into her own, Buffy was a television force to be reckoned with. Kramer was the show's best villain (after the evil Angel, natch), and the supporting cast was never better. But as always, it was the superb Gellar who was the powerful centre of the show, sparking opposite lovelorn vampire Spike (James Marsters) and wrestling with moral dilemmas rarely seen on television. With this season, Buffy Summers became, like Tony Soprano, one of television's true greats. --Mark Englehart

• Top Gear: The Challenges 2 | DVD | (02/06/2008) from £5.47   |  Saving you £10.52 (192.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A selection of the best challenges from the latest series. Includes The Channel Crossing The 24 Hour Race The Greatest Driving Road Bugatti Veyron Vs Eurofighter Motorhome Racing Fiat 500 vs BMX and Race Across London.

• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £5.97   |  Saving you £7.02 (117.59%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a late film from the long career of director John Ford that tells of the civilising of an Old West town, Shinbone, through the sad memories of settlers looking back. Ford's nostalgia for the past is tempered by his stark approach, unusual for the visual poet of Stagecoach and The Searchers. The two heavyweights, John Wayne and James Stewart, are good together, with Wayne the embodiment of rugged individualism and Stewart the idealistic prophet of the civilisation that will eventually tame the Wild West. This may be the saddest Western ever made, closer to an elegy than an action movie, and as cleanly beautiful as its central symbol, the cactus rose. --Robert Horton

• It's A Wonderful Life | Blu Ray | (07/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.00

  Now perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Life was largely forgotten for years, due to a copyright quirk. Only in the late 1970s did it find its audience through repeated TV showings. Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian density. George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born. The sequence is a vivid depiction of the American Dream gone bad, and probably the wildest thing Capra ever shot (the director's optimistic vision may have darkened during his experiences making military films in World War II). Capra's triumph is to acknowledge the difficulties and disappointments of life, while affirming--in the teary-eyed final reel--his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement. It's a Wonderful Life was not a big hit on its initial release, and it won no Oscars (Capra and Stewart were nominated); but it continues to weave a special magic. --Robert Horton

• The Mechanic | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £11.92   |  Saving you £1.07 (8.98%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Arthur Bishop (Bronson) is a mob hit man who operates in a world of his own an uncompromising world where conventional rules of morality don't apply and where one wrong move could cost him his life! He's always worked alone but as age catches up with him Bishop takes on a competent and ruthless apprentice (Jan-Michael Vincent) and teaches him everything he knows. Together they become an unmatchable team of globetrotting killers until the pupil's ruthlessness puts him on a colli

• Tango And Cash | Blu Ray | (18/05/2009) from £9.75   |  Saving you £10.24 (105.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ray Tango (Sylvester Stallone) and Gabe Cash (Kurt Russell) are rival L.A. policemen with one thing in common: each thinks he is the best. Team them and they're like oil and water. But frame them for a crime and they're like a match and kerosene. Stallone and Russell deliver sweaty excitement sex appeal and outrageous laughs in this action-comedy from the director of Runaway Train. The two stage a prison breakout that's a breathless rush of weapons and wisecracks then roar after the shadowy crimelord (Jack Palance) who set them up. Tango & Cash are out to clear their names. Join them and feel the rush.

• Classic Taggart - The Mark McManus Collection | DVD | (20/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This unforgettable collection includes seven vintage episode starring Mark McManus, the actor who remains synonymous with DCI Jim Taggart. So sit back and enjoy 15 hours of Taggart at its very best. They just don't make them like this anymore.

• Ghost In The Water | DVD | (05/02/2018) from £7.24   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  First shown on BBC One on New Year's Eve 1982, Ghost in the Water is a suspenseful and thrilling tale for the whole family to enjoy. A young woman drowns in 1860. Although it was an accident her death was recorded as suicide, considered to be a mortal sin at the time. Consequently her spirit lives on in a state of torment. Over a century later Tess, a teenager, experiences memories that aren't her own. These nightmarish visions of a drowning woman become too real for comfort and Tess convinces her friend David, a fellow history buff, to help her investigate the mysterious death. The pair must prove that the historical suicide was in fact a ˜death by accident', in order to free Tess of her horrifying flashbacks. Little do they realise that their findings could also release the tormented spirit and finally let her soul rest in peace. Directed by BAFTA-winner Renny Rye, who went on to direct episodes of Midsomer Murders, Agatha Christie's Poirot, and the supernatural thriller Box of Delights. Features: Based on the novel by Edward Chitham, adapted for screen by BAFTA-winner Geoffrey Case (The Accountant) Directed by BAFTA-winner Renny Rye (Midsommer Murders / Agatha Christie's Poirot). Director also of the fondly remembered fantasy series Box of Delights Starring Jane Freeman (Last of the Summer Wine), Paul Copley (Downton Abbey), Ralph Lawton ( Z Cars) and Hilary Mason who starred in another supernatural thriller Don't Look Now