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• Carry On Henry | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £13.97   |  Saving you £-3.98 (-39.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Shot in the bright postal colours of a seaside postcard, Carry on Henry applies the usual Carry On sniggering to the married life of Henry VIII. Talbot Rothwell's script is standard bedroom farce and full of jokes about choppers, while the threat of beheading and the actuality of torture are constantly present but only as the terrible things that happen to cartoon characters who will be back next time. Sid James turns in one of his better performances as the endlessly lecherous and fickle Henry, married to Joan Sims and lusting after Barbara Windsor. There is a genuine sexual chemistry between James and Windsor which at times almost breaks open the farce formula. The usual regulars--Kenneth Williams as Thomas Cromwell, Terry Scott as Cardinal Wolsey, Charles Hawtrey as Sir Roger--do their usual turns; Williams is more subdued than usual, while Hawtrey hugely enjoys playing the Queen's secret lover. This was not one of the high points of the series, but it has its own curious charm. On the DVD: The DVD has no extras whatever, but is a good clean print in 1.77:1 ratio with crisp mono sound. --Roz Kaveney

• Monte Carlo | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  It's 1940 and the rich and glamorous are seeking refuge from the war in the gambling capitol of Monte Carlo. There cabaret singer Katrina uses her charms to obtain war secrets which she passes onto British Intelligence.

• Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £37.78   |  Saving you £-2.79 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £34.99

  A 1980 Royal Opera House production of Donizetti's opera. Conducted by Richard Bonynge and directed by John Copley.

• Cats And Dogs | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £5.90   |  Saving you £0.09 (1.53%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After years of international crime experience Bud Spencer is back in action battling crooks in this hilarious parody of all cops and robber films. Elaborate action stunts and nonsensical humor is the order of the day as Spencer is assigned the task of finding and arresting cat burglar Tomas Milian. When Tony Roma (Milian) seduces and rips-off a senator's wife Lieutenant Parker (Spencer) is sent to track him down. While escaping from the cops and then escaping from a bedroom Roma en

• Cradle Will Rock | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £5.38   |  Saving you £12.61 (234.39%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Powerful and sweeping the critically acclaimed Cradle Will Rock starring John Cusack Bill Murray Susan Sarandon Hank Azaria and Joan Cusack takes a kaleidoscopic look at the extraordinary events of 1930s America. From high society to life on the streets director Tim Robbins (Dead Man Walking) brings Depression-era New York City to vivid life. A time when da Vincis are given to millionaires who help fund the Mussolini war effort. And Nelson Rockefeller commissions Mexican artis

• Suspiria | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Inspired by Thomas De Quincey's 'Suspiria de Profundis' and co-written by Argento and his long-term partner Daria Nicolodi SUSPIRIA is Argento's undisputed masterpiece of Grand Guignol horror hitting new peaks of terror through its stunning photography (courtesy of Luciano Tovoli) eye-popping production design and terrifying atmosphere of dread - thanks in no small part to the great score from Goblin! Susy Banyon (Jessica Harper) is an American ballet student travelling to Germany to study at an exclusive dance academy in the Black Forest. After one of the students and her friend are hideously murdered in the first of Argento's breath-catching set-piece killings Susy discovers that the academy has a bizarre history and as the body count rises she gets involved in a hideous labyrinth of murder black magic and madness...

• The Other Love | DVD | (28/02/2014) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  André De Toth directs 1947's The Other Love which was re-released theatrically in 1953 under the title Man Killer. The film is based on a story by Erich Maria Remarque well-known for their work on action-packed war flicks (Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front) and westerns (De Toth's Day of the Outlaw). This film is a tear-jerking romantic drama with music by the incomparable Miklos Rozsa. Seriously ill concert pianist Karen Duncan (Barbara Stanwyck) is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. She is attracted to her suave Doctor Stanton (David Niven) who perscribes lots of rest and fresh air. Karen decides to enjoy whatever life she has left in the night clubs of Monte Carlo in the presence of dashing Paul Clermont (Richard Conte). Doctor Stanton does all he can to save Karen.

• JOHNNY GUITAR-GEJAGT, GEH - MO | Blu Ray | (27/09/2018) from £15.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Looney Tunes Back In Action / Cats And Dogs / Kangaroo Jack | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £5.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (217.03%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Three fantasitc family favourites on this great boxed set. Looney Tunes Back In Action: David verses Goliath Ali versus Frazier Britney versus Justin all pale in comparison to the earth rending bone-crushing carrot-chomping anvil-dropping tail-feather-scorching gleefully epic smack down that is Rabbit verses Duck or more specifically Bugs Bunny verses Daffy. Set in a live-action world Warner Bros. animated superstars interact with human characters for maximum comic eff

• Three Sisters | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In a remote little town in turn of the century Russia three sisters - Olga (Jeanne Watts) Irina (Louise Purnell) and Masha (Joan Plowight) with their brother Andrei (Derek Jacobi) fantasise about their return to their former home in Moscow. For them Moscow is a city of dreams magnetism and inspiration - a far cry from their current life - an oppressive and overbearing existence devoid of hope. As they muddle through life they hold on to the memory of a place they once knew and t

• Joan Sutherland : The Reluctant Prima Donna | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £14.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This film tells the story of Dame Joan Sutherland - one of the greatest operatic performers of the late twentieth century. Shy and lacking in confidence she sang unnoticed at Covent Garden for seven years after arriving from Australia but over the course of twelve months she was transformed into 'La Stupenda'. Focusing on the two roles that launched her on the international stage 'Lucia di Lammermoor' and 'Alcina' this documentary tells her story through major new interviews with Dame Joan her husband Richard Bonynge Franco Zeffirelli Plcido Domingo Luciano Pavarotti Marilyn Horne and Sherrill Milnes.

• Nightmare Alley | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tyrone Power - cast against type at his own insistence - gives the performance of his life as handsome scumbag and conman Stanton Carlisle. He seduces fellow sideshow artiste Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell) to learn the secret of the once-lucrative mind-reading act she performed with her alcoholic husband (Ian Keith), Carlisle, a 'born mentalist', secures the secret method and sets off with his new carnie wife, Molly (Coleen Grey) to milk the big time as a spiritualist in Chicago. As Carlisle's success grows, it's only a matter of time before his greed - and twisted involvement with femme fatale psychoanalyst Lilith Ritter (Helen Walker) - brings his world crashing down around him.

• Upstairs Downstairs - Series 2 - Episodes 1-7 | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring the first seven episodes of the second series of this classic British TV drama. Episode titles: The New Man A Pair Of Exiles Married Love Whom God Hath Joined Guest Of Honour The Property Of A Lady Your Obedient Servant.

• Carry On Don't Lose Your Head | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £6.66   |  Saving you £3.33 (50.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Carry On Don't Lose Your Head parodies the adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, with crinkly, cackling Sid James as master of disguise the Black Fingernail and Jim Dale as his assistant Lord Darcy. He must rescue preposterously effete aristo Charles Hawtrey from the clutches of Kenneth Williams' fiendish Citizen Camembert and his sidekick Citizen Bidet (Peter Butterworth). The Black Fingernail is assisted in his efforts to thwart the birth of the burgeoning republic by the almost supernatural stupidity of his opponents, who fail to recognise the frankly undisguisable Sid James even when dressed as a flirty young woman. What with an executioner who is tricked into beheading himself in order to prove the efficacy of his own guillotine, it's all a little too easy. As usual, no groan-worthy pun is left unturned, nor unheralded by the soundtrack strains of a long whistle or wah-wah trumpet. This is pretty silly stuff even by Carry On standards, with most of the cast barely required to come out of first gear and an overlong climactic swordfight sequence hardly raising the dramatic stakes. Most of the humour here resides neither in the script nor the characterisation but in the endlessly watchable Williams' whooping, nasal delivery (occasionally lapsing into broad Cockney) and the jowl movements of the always-underrated Butterworth. On the DVD: There are no extra features except scene selection. The picture is 4:3 full screen ratio.--David Stubbs

• Return Of The Fly | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The horror is back! The boundaries of science are pushed to their eery limits in this sequel to the classic ever-popular The Fly. Here Phillipe the son of the ill-fated scientist naively continues his father's misguided experiments. The victim of his traitorous assistant's greedy ambitions Phillipe finds himself in a terrifying limbo - he's grown the head and limbs of a fly! Taking spectacular revenge on his betrayers Phillipe must also race against time and find a way to

• Francis the Talking Mule: 7 Film Collection | Blu Ray | (03/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dockers | DVD | (01/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dockers is a landmark one-off drama suspended somewhere between Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff. A striking Channel Four production Dockers dramatises the infamous struggle that developed when five Merseyside dockworkers were fired for refusing to work overtime with no pay, and gained the support of co-workers who wouldn't cross their picket line. As a result, those who stood in solidarity with the original five were sacked as well--500 in total--leading to a two-year stand-off. Co-written by award-winning screenwriters Jimmy McGovern (Cracker) and Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting), the two-year ordeal is brought home with startling reality, not least because of the contribution of the real-life Liverpool dockers who helped develop the script in extensive writing workshops, lending the film an authenticity it might have otherwise lacked. While the narrative hangs around the moving central story of one family in which both father and son are caught up in the strike, dramatic conflicts develop on multiple levels: between father and son; between the families of the sacked workers (this is particularly well realised as one long-time friend, played by The Royle Family's Ricky Tomlinson, turns scab); and between the workers and the union that betrays them. Ken Stott and Crissy Rock (Ladybird, Ladybird) are outstanding as the central working-class couple, old before their time at 47, and if nothing else, the film reveals one further reason why Liverpool loved Robbie Fowler quite so ferociously: during post-goal celebrations, Fowler lifts his jersey to reveal a T-shirt emblazoned with a message of support for the wronged dockers, ensuring national attention for the action at a time when all hope seemed lost. --Tricia Tuttle

• Carry On Emmannuelle | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £9.66   |  Saving you £0.33 (3.42%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Made in 1978, Carry On Emmannuelle was really the last gasp of the most fondly regarded series of British comedy films. In most respects, it hardly does justice to the many truly funny and brilliantly played previous scripts. But it does feature a curiously vulnerable, even touching, performance from Kenneth Williams as a French diplomat with a wife of insatiable physical appetites. In theory, of course, it aims to be a pastiche of the hugely popular Emmanuelle, which had marked the transition of soft-core erotic cinema into the art house. But it's too crudely scripted and lacking in the belly laugh inducing innuendo of the best Carry On films to succeed on that level. "Are you hungry, Loins?" Emmannuelle asks the chauffeur. "I think I could manage a little nibble," he replies. You get the idea. In the title role, Suzanne Danielle, who would go on to be the best of the Princess Diana impersonators, isn't a good enough comic actress to raise such lines above the ordinary. And the few stalwarts who returned for this outing--Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor and Peter Butterworth--just about emerge with their dignity intact. This was a Carry On too far. But fans will want it for their collection because it shows Kenneth Williams at his most professionally committed--his diaries reveal his real thoughts on the matter--and to remind themselves of the high quality of so much of the work which had gone before.On the DVD: presented in 4:3 format and with a standard mono soundtrack, this release of Carry On Emmannuelle starts off with a print of such ropey quality that you seem to be watching through a dust storm. The sound quality is little better, although on both counts things improve as the film progresses. The lack of extras is disappointing, adding to the rather sad, low-budget feel of the film itself. --Piers Ford

• Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  In 1990, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael showed Winona Ryder as cinema's top teenage role model. Her edge was a delinquency-equals-sympathy angle that held true throughout Beetlejuice, Mermaids, Heathers and Edward Scissorhands. Here as Dinky Bossetti she's chasing the ghosts of a past no one can explain. She's adopted; her town of Clyde, Ohio is mysteriously stuck in the 1950s; but weirder still is everyone's fixation with the imminent return of once-famous homecoming girl Roxy Carmichael. Dinky's school peers conform to the John Hughes 80s look and mindset, but it's the retro adult population that really winds her up. Jeff Daniels ought to be a perfectly conditioned suburbanite, but can't get over having once been married to Roxy. Imparting the secret that they'd had a child and given it away, Dinky's own confusions and obsessions suddenly make sense. The tangle of B-plots are given purpose at the same time she is. Her silent admirer (Thomas Wilson Brown) is able to approach her at last, and her school guidance counsellor becomes the friend she's never had. Ultimately the story's about the notion that no teenager ever feels like they fit in. Of course the real problem facing Ryder, Dinky and any viewer is that all teens grow up. What then? On the DVD: This is a bare-bones package with a simple two-channel stereo and 16:9 anamorphic ratio transfer. That said, it looks and sounds just fine. There's only one trailer, but someone's tried with the diner-style menu at least. --Paul Tonks

• Memories of Christmas with Mantovani and his Orchestra | DVD | (14/11/2016) from £6.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (43.74%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Mantovani was the most successful orchestra leader of his time, selling over 60 million albums in his career. Memories of Christmas includes two superb TV shows on a theme of Christmas Music and nostalgia for a golden age. Special guest singers include All Saints Choir, Edmund Hockridge and Joan Regan; with the highlights of Christmas Cheer include Jingle Bells, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, White Christmas, O Come All Ye Faithful, Lullaby by Brahms, Mary s Boy Child and Whilst Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night.