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• It's The Rage | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £2.20   |  Saving you £3.79 (172.27%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mixing a superb cast with a serious salting of dark humour "gun culture" comedy It's The Rage is that rare thing, a genuinely outstanding film which went straight-to-video. Like Magnolia (1999) it makes coincidence a virtue in telling the stories of a group of disparate characters, and how their lives are entwined and sometimes ended because of America's obsession with firearms. When Jeff Daniels shoots his business partner, his wife, Joan Allen, leaves for a job with a software billionaire, Gary Sinise, and the film expands to encompass brother and sister punks (Giovanni Ribisi and Anna Paquin), a video store assistant, a pair of detectives and a gay couple. Adapted from his own play, Keith Reddin ensures the script remains pointed, while Sinise delivers a wonderful performance of supreme eccentricity recalling Peter Seller's Dr Strangelove. Indeed, there is much akin to Kubrick's tense, pitch-black humour in this anti-gun parable, while in various ways, from the central Daniels/Allen couple to the sardonic detachment of the music to Paquin's "almost-relationship" with an older man It's the Rage parallels the contemporaneous American Beauty (1999). It's actually the more powerful film, and though made for cable deserved all the praise it received on its festival screenings. On the DVD: The trailer doesn't capture the spirit of the film at all, while the 13-minute making-of documentary is routine promotional material. The commentary by first time film director (but veteran stage director) James D. Stern is exceptionally good, both enthusiastic and packed with information; the fact that It's The Rage really bites can almost certainly be attributed to Stern's college roommate being shot dead. The sound is Dolby Digital 5.1 and while this isn't the sort of film to show-off a sound system,it's atmospheric and the diverse music score becomes almost a character in itself. The anamorphically enhanced 1.77-1 image is good but a little grainy and shows occasional compression artifacting. --Gary S Dalkin

• Roy Rogers - His First & Last Double Feature: Under Western Stars + Mackintosh & T.J. (2- Disc Collector's Set) | Blu Ray | (26/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Superman | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  17 classic episodes of Fleischer Studio's animated adventures of 'Superman'! The first cartoon cost 000 to make whilst the remaining 16 were given a 000 budget each!

• Annie/Annie2/Oliver | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £14.50   |  Saving you £5.49 (37.86%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Annie: A plucky red-haired girl dreams of a life away outside her orphanage and its gin-soaked tyrant Miss Hannigan (played to perfection by Carol Burnett). One day Annie meets the famous billionaire ""Daddy"" Warbucks and the pair share spectacular times in 1930's New York City. But Miss Hannigan and her zany villainous colleagues are determined to spoil the fun for America's favourite orphan... Oliver!: Young Oliver Twist (Mark Lester) is an orphan who escapes the cheerless life of the workhouse and takes to the streets of 19th-Century London. Hes immediately taken in by a band of street urchins headed by the lovable villain Fagin (Ron Moody) his fiendish henchman Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed) and his loyal apprentice The Artful Dodger (Jack Wild). Through his education in the fine points of pick-pocketing Oliver makes away with an unexpected treasure... a home and a family of his own.

• The Water Babies | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Water Babies tells the story of Tom, a chimney sweep who gets framed for theft in 1850s England. Even though a young girl named Ellie knows the real thieves' identities and tries to clear Tom's name, Tom's desperate escape run lands him right in the middle of Dead Man's Pool. Assumed to have met certain death, Tom gets sucked into a magical underwater world. Tom befriends the creatures he meets beneath the sea, and they accompany him on a journey to the land of Water Babies, where he intends to ask the all-powerful Cracken to help him return to the world above the water. However, when Tom finally does manage to return to land, life is far from idyllic as he must set out clear his name and trap the real thieves. Many adults possess fond memories of seeing this 1978 movie as children. The land portions of this musical feature live-action footage, while the water sequence is fully animated. To a fresh, modern audience, the abrupt change from one format to the other is somewhat disconcerting, as is the choppy, older animation style. The story, based on the classic children's book of the same name by Charles Kingsley, is an intriguing look at both Victorian culture and the fantasy world. (Ages 4-8) --Tami Horiuchi, Amazon.com

• Curious George | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  George, the inquisitive little guy with an insatiable taste for adventure, sets off in a brand new tale for the big screen.

• Joan Crawford - Always The Star | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This glamorous and hugely popular actress raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her fifty-year career, she made over eighty films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of sty...

• Man In the Saddle | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Man In The Saddle

• Upstairs Downstairs - Series 4 - Episodes 8 To 13 | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £6.73   |  Saving you £8.26 (122.73%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Upstairs Downstairs continues the saga of the aristocratic Bellamy family and their loyal and lively servants. The residents of Eaton Place are having to deal with the effects of World War One in every aspect of their lives. The nation has been affected beyond belief and both Upstairs and Downstairs members of the household struggle to come to terms with the loss of loved ones tragedy unexpected romances and the changing face of British society...

• Screen Sirens | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Screen Sirens (8 Discs)

• Classic War Movies Collection - Heaven And Earth/Escape To Victory/Gettysburg/Memphis Belle | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Heaven And Earth (1993): From three-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone -- whose Platoon took you to the Vietnam battlefront and whose Born On The Fourth Of July took you to the American homefront -- comes an acclaimed movie about the fight to survive on both fronts. Tommy Lee Jones and Joan Chen turn in award-caliber performances (Peter Travers Rolling Stone) in the powerful story of a man who fought a woman who endured...and a love caught up in the explosive wartime upheaval of a land and a people caught between Heaven And Earth. Escape To Victory (1981): The battlefield: a stadium in occupied Paris. The armies: German all-stars vs. ragtag Allied POWs. The objective: demonstrate another proof of Aryan superiority. Guess who wins? Better yet guess who cleverly uses the match as a means of escape? Sylvester Stallone Michael Caine and Max von Sydow star in this rouser directed by the legendary John Huston. The climatic match is a heart-in-the-throat hat-in-the-air exhibition of brute force and balletic grace featuring soccer legends Pele Bobby Moore Osvaldo Ardiles Co Prins Mike Summerbee and more. Gettysburg (1993): Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. Two great armies will clash at Gettysburg site of a theology school. For three days through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge the fate of one nation indivisible hangs in the balance. The bloodiest battle fought on American soil comes to the screen in a powerful production. Tom Berenger Jeff Daniels Martin Sheen Richard Jordan and more play key roles in this magnificent epic based on Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'The Killer Angels' filmed at actual battle locations and rigorously authenticated. Memphis Belle (1990): During spring 1943 they took to the war-torn skies for the most dangerous mission in defence of freedom. If the ten-man crew of the bomber Memphis Belle returned they would receive a hero's welcome and renew flagging public morale. But the odds were stacked heavily against them in the true courageous story of the brave fly-boys who each fought mortal fear while fighting the enemy together.

• Da | DVD | (17/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The Da in 'Da' is the recently deceased foster father of 40 year old Irish playwright Charlie who now lives in New York and has returned to Ireland for his father's funeral. Da in typical Irish style can't bear to miss his own funeral! As Charlie sorts through the old man's papers burning most of them who strolls in but Da himself. Shocked Charlie reminds him that he is dead and tells him to 'get out of my head'... Most of the action takes place in Charlie's mind and memory moving from present reality to the past and back again as the two struggle to understand each other. In the process other significant and colourful characters of Charlie's early life are resurrected including his mother the family dog and his tyrannical employer. His reverie is interrupted by Mr. Drumm who was entrusted with Da's will which much to Charlie's dismay bequeaths everything to him including all of the money Charlie ever sent his Da. Charlie learns that he cannot exorcise the past. Like all mankind he is part of a human chain and to reject his father even in memory is to deny himself... Based on the highly acclaimed Broadway play and written by Hugh Leonard Da features Barnard Hughes recreating his Tony award winning performance for the screen Martin Sheen as Charlie and William Hickey as Drumm.

• Big Bad Mama | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  After the death of her lover Wilma takes over his bootlegging business but without much success. She soon meets up with bank robber Fred who convinces her and her daughters to join him for his next big heist. In the meantime Wilma also kidnaps the daughter of a millionaire in the hopes of getting rich off the ransom. Will Wilma and Fred be able to retire with their ill-gotten gains or will the law eventually catch up with them?

• Secrets Of The Heart | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £6.60   |  Saving you £13.39 (202.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The dead scream in order to free themselves of their secrets... Set in Spain in the 1960's 'Secrets Of The Heart' follows the story of nine year old Javi and his friend Carlos. Javi takes Carlos to an old country house on the outskirts of the city where legend has it a violent crime ofd passion once took place and the voices of the dead can still be heard in the basement. The mystery of the uninhabited house marks the beginning of a search into the unknown for the two young frie

• Man Hunt | DVD | (20/03/2017) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Joan Sutherland - The Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances 1961-1968 | DVD | (30/11/2001) from £21.39   |  Saving you £3.60 (16.83%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Only When I Laugh | DVD | (01/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Great Sopranos - Voice Of Firestone Performances | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £13.75   |  Saving you £3.24 (19.10%)   |  RRP £16.99

• Colonel Effingham's Raid | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £10.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Upstairs Downstairs - Series 3 - Episodes 8 To 13 | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £7.33   |  Saving you £7.66 (104.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The second part of the third series contains outstanding Emmy award winning episodes which comprise: The Bolter / Goodwill To All Men / What The Footman Saw / A Perfect Stranger / Distant Thunder / The Sudden Storm