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• Abbott And Costello - Hold That Ghost/In The Navy | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (60.22%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hold That Ghost: Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers. In The Navy: Russ Raymond America's number one crooner disappears and joins the Navy under the name Tommy Halstead. Dorothy Roberts a magazine journalist is intent on finding out what happened to Russ and she tries everything sh

• 101 Dalmatians - Live Action | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £19.33   |  Saving you £-1.34 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  It's hard to know who thought it would be a good idea to make a live-action version of Disney's animated classic. The one bright notion anyone had was casting Glenn Close as Disney Übervillainess Cruella de Vil; her flashing eyes and angular features are a perfect match and do credit to what is one of the most indelible animated characters Disney has ever created. The story remains essentially the same, focusing on Cruella's plot to kidnap the puppies of a young married couple (Jeff Daniels and Jolie Richardson) and make them into a coat. But the dreaded John Hughes, who wrote this script, fills it with sadistic slapstick and far too few genuine laughs. The human actors work hard, but to little avail; thankfully, there's a posse of puppies to regularly steal scenes when the going gets dreary--although there are only so many laughs to be had from inappropriate dog puddles. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• My Bodyguard | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Clifford Peach (Chris Makepeace) an easygoing teenager is finding it less than easy to fit in at his new high school where a tough-talking bully (Matt Dillon) terrorizes his classmates and extorts their lunch money. Refusing to pay up Clifford enlists the aid of an overgrown misfit whose mere presence intimidates students and teachers alike. But their ""business relationship"" soon turns personal as Clifford and the troubled loner forge a winning alliance against their intimidators -

• Arlington Road | DVD | (20/12/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's easy to understand why Arlington Road sat on the studio shelf for nearly a year. No, the film isn't awful; rather, it's an extremely edgy and ultimately bleak thriller that offers no clear-cut heroes or villains. In other words, Hollywood had no idea how to sell it. Director Mark Pellington's underrated directorial debut, Going All the Way, suffered the same fate, essentially because the film-maker's presentation of suburban America often shifts dramatically within the same film. Characters are usually miserable and bordering on meltdown, no situation is straightforward and things usually end badly. Arlington Road begins as an astute study of suburban paranoia. Michael Faraday (a face-pinched Jeff Bridges, who spends most of the film on the brink of tears) is a college professor who teaches American history courses on terrorism. He's been a conspiracy freak since his wife, an FBI agent, was killed during a botched raid that feels like a thinly fictionalised reference to the Waco tragedy. After saving the life of his next-door neighbour's child, he initially befriends the family (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack), but soon believes the husband is a terrorist. The first half of the film mocks Faraday: he has no real evidence and is not the most stable of protagonists. Despite the fact that it was government paranoia that got his wife killed, Faraday repeats the same type of behaviour. Pellington shifts gears in the second half, however, and for a while, it seems that the film has simultaneously sunk into a cheap, high-octane brand of Hollywood entertainment and undermined its own point. But Arlington Road possesses a stunning ending that's a real gut punch, one that may leave you needing a second viewing to catch all of its smartly executed setup. --Dave McCoy

• Bulldog Breed, The / One Good Turn | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1960, Norman Wisdom was left all at sea in The Bulldog Breed. He had already made a farce of the army in The Square Peg (1958), so what better than to join the navy? Back in the real world, the Russians had kick-started the space race putting Sputnik into orbit, so Norman rapidly finds himself selected to be the first Brit in space. Playing to type, the result is excellent physical comedy and copious tomfoolery at the expense of the upper ranks. With support from John Le Mesurier and Edward Chapman (the legendary "Mr Grimsdale") and uncredited appearances from Oliver Reed and Michael Caine, this is a notable British comedy, with an unusually direct reference to the risqué Carry On movies. For his second starring role Norman Wisdom played the oldest orphan of Greenwood Children's Home in 1954's One Good Turn. Not only does he have to find the money to buy one of the orphans a model car, but after a visit to Brighton he discovers Greenwood is due to be closed down by the home's own unscrupulous chairman, a property developer with plans to build a factory on the site. Also starring Thora Hird, One Good Turn was surely a film with a personal resonance for Wisdom who was himself brought-up in an orphanage after his mother died and his father was unable to raise him. As would become a tradition, he contributes a song, "Please Opportunity", and the movie, though produced by Rank, now sits easily in that classic Ealing era where the ordinary man took on the big guys and won. The innocent knockabout humour remains appealing. --Gary S Dalkin

• Young Wives' Tale | DVD | (05/07/2021) from £9.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Joan Greenwood reprises her hit stage performance as a frustrated housewife in the film adaptation of this popular West End farce. Co-starring Nigel Patrick and Derek Farr and showcasing a memorable early performance from Audrey Hepburn Young Wives' Tale is featured here as a brand-new remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Compelled to live together due to the post-war housing shortage, the Pennants and the Bannings just about get along... but add in a brace of babies, a succession of nannies and a shy-but-pretty lodger, and the situation very soon starts to unravel! Special Features: Image gallery Limited edition booklet written by Melanie Williams

• Feardotcom | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £5.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (264.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Four bodies are found in New York City and they all died 48 hours after logging on to a site named fear.com....

• Sabrina The Teenage Witch - Series 3 | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £18.56   |  Saving you £6.43 (34.64%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When Sabrina Spellman is informed by her aunts Hilda and Zelda that she is a witch on her 16th birthday she is hesitant to believe them. Having been sent to live with them in Massachusetts by her Warlock father and mortal mother Sabrina has to learn the tricks of magic in order to receive her witch's license. Along the way she gets into many scrapes while figuring out how certain spells work. She also has to keep the secret from her boyfriend Harvey friends Jenny and later Valerie stuck-up nemesis Libby and her ever-suspicious vice-principal Mr. Kraft.

• I Saw What You Did | DVD | (23/07/2018) from £7.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The tale begins upon a dark and foggy night as two teenage girls, bored with their baby-sitting job, decide to have a little fun and make some prank phone calls. Every time some hapless person answers, they whisper conspiratorially 'I saw what you did. I know who you are.' Unfortunately, they happen to call a man who has just murdered his wife - in the shower no less! He takes the call seriously and so sets off into the night to find the girls and silence them forever.

• Sabrina The Teenage Witch - Series 5 | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £17.96   |  Saving you £20.02 (133.73%)   |  RRP £34.99

  When Sabrina Spellman is informed by her aunts Hilda and Zelda that she is a witch on her 16th birthday she is hesitant to believe them. Having been sent to live with them in Massachusetts by her Warlock father and mortal mother Sabrina has to learn the tricks of magic in order to receive her witch's license. Along the way she gets into many scrapes while figuring out how certain spells work. She also has to keep the secret from her boyfriend Harvey friends Jenny and later Valerie stuck-up nemesis Libby and her ever-suspicious vice-principal Mr. Kraft.

• The Magnificent 7 Deadly Sins | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £13.72   |  Saving you £-7.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A British comedy with seven short stories based on the deadly sins... The seven sinful segments include Harry H. Corbett as a bachelor desperate to get a date chauffeur Bruce Forsyth searching through London's sewers for this boss' lost 50p and Spike Milligan in a wacky homage to silent film. (Pride) of place goes to Ian Carmichael and Alfie Bass in a Galton and Simpson penned episode illustrating class warfare when a Bentley and a clapped out Morris meet head on in a narrow lane and both drivers refuse to back down.

• Doctor In Clover | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £12.22   |  Saving you £-2.23 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  More comical situations at St. Swithins Hospital when Dr. Grimsdyke returns for a course and develops a rejuvenating drug...

• Affliction | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Wade Whitehouse is frightened to death of following in his father's footsteps. Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is at a turning point in his life. People order him around everywhere he turns from his demanding boss to his ex-wife who won't let him see his daughter to his ageing violent alcoholic father (Academy Award winner James Coburn). For Wade the future looks bleak until his quiet New Hampshire town is shattered by the death of a Boston union official in a deer hunt led by Wade's friend Jack. The incident is written off as an accident but Wade suspects that Jack is guilty of murder. Solving the crime becomes Wade's obsession and his last opportunity to redeem himself in the eyes of the town his ex-wife his father and - most of all - himself. Featuring an impressive star cast 'Affliction' is a tense and compelling psycho-drama from Paul Schrader screenwriter of 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull' and director of 'American Gigolo'.

• Miss Jones and Son - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Paula Wilcox (Man About the House) stars in this comedy series depicting the complicated life of Elizabeth Jones, a young woman bringing up her baby alone at a time when single mothers faced widespread disapproval and prejudice. Written by Richard Waring (And Mother Makes Three) and produced and directed by Peter Frazer-Jones (Man About the House, Robin's Nest), Miss Jones and Son was the first British sitcom to depict a single mother.In this second series, Elizabeth and former neighbour Geoffrey say their sad farewells, with new tenant David Laurence a thirty-something widower taking on the empty flat. Elizabeth takes an instant liking to her new neighbour, but the necessities of making ends meet threaten to sabotage the budding relationship; the moneymaking schemes that Elizabeth and her equally cash-strapped friend Rose try to implement include setting up a crche in Liz's flat, leaving David noticeably unimpressed...

• Hollow Triumph | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £1.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (402.01%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Directed by Steve Sekely (Day Of The Triffids) Hollow Triumph stars Paul Henreid (Casablanca The Conspirators) as Johnny Muller a thief whose casino raid has gone wrong. Only he and Marcy played by Herbert Rudley (Brewster's Millions) escape. Soon Marcy ends up shot in the street and Johnny needs to escape. He is being pursued by the police and the casino owners. Out on the street Johnny is mistaken for a psychiatrist Dr. Bartok. He visits his office where the secretary - Joan Bennett (Scarlet Street) - also mistakes Johnny for her boss until she notices that the scar on her boss's cheek is missing. Johnny decides to replicates the scar but manages to put the scar on the wrong side of his face. Does it matter? Do people really look at other people's faces? Will the scar give him away? Is he marked for death?

• Nine Dead | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £4.19   |  Saving you £5.80 (58.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  I have brought the nine of you here for a reason. Your survival depends on you figuring out what that reason is. I will return every ten minutes and kill one of you until you figure out why I have brought you here or until you are all dead. Communication is the key to survival for nine strangers who have been abducted by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Can their differences and prejudices be put aside? Will they figure out the answer? Who lives and who dies? Only time will tell. You have ten minutes...

• Another Day, Another Time - Celebrating The Music Of Inside Llewyn Davis | DVD | (26/05/2014) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (164.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Coen Brothers’ celebration of 1960s folk music in their film INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS inspired the concert ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER TIME. Produced by T Bone Burnett who also produced the film’s soundtrack and held in New York City’s Town Hall the concert features live performances of the film's music as well as songs from the early 1960s. Some of the greatest folk musicians (Avett Brothers Joan Baez Dave Rawlings Machine Rhiannon Giddens Lake Street Dive Colin Meloy The Milk Carton Kids Marcus Mumford Punch Brothers Patti Smith Willie Watson Gillian Welch and Jack White) and the star of INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Oscar Isaac assembled for one unique evening. Featuring interviews with the musicians and behind the scenes footage while they’re rehearsing for the concert ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER TIME gives an insight on the role folk music plays for them.

• Curtain Up | DVD | (27/06/2016) from £15.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Curtain Up is a 1952 British film directed by Ralph Smart, written by Jack Davies and Philip King. In an English provincial town, a second-rate repertory company assemble at the theatre on Monday morning to rehearse the following week's play, a melodrama titled Tarnished Gold. Harry (Robert Morley), their irascible Director, is highly critical of the play, which has been foisted on him by the owners of the Company and is unenthusiastic about its prospects. The cast, a mixture of wanabee-film stars and has-beens, are equally unenthusiastic and little progress is made. Just as matters seemingly cannot get worse, the authoress of the play, Catherine Beckwith (Rutherford), appears and insists on 'sitting at the feet' of the Director. Chaos ensues...

• Bullitt / Getaway / Cincinnati Kid / Tom Horn / Never So Few | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £42.90   |  Saving you £8.09 (18.86%)   |  RRP £50.99

  A celebration of the life and career of Steve McQueen with five of his classic movies. Bullitt SE (Dir. Peter Yates 1968): Special Edition (English - Dolby Digital (2.0) Stereo / 1.85:1 Widescreen / 1 hour and 49 minutes) In one of his most memorable roles Steve McQueen stars as Detective Frank Bullitt a hard-driving tough-as-nails San Francisco cop. Bullitt has just received what sounds like a routine assignment: keep a star witness out of sight and out of danger for 48

• After Henry - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (10/03/2008) from £8.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  After Henry follows the comfortable middle-class lives of three women; except that for one of them life isn't all that comfortable... Sarah has been left well provided for by her late husband but unfortunately she has also been left with a demanding mother and a prickly adolescent daughter who craves independence just as long as mother is there to clear up the mess... Episodes Comprise: 1. The Older Man 2. Phonecalls 3. The Teapot 4. Security 5. Romantic Complications 6. The Birthday