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• Some Like It Hot - Special Edition | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £6.10   |  Saving you £13.89 (227.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Maybe "nobody's perfect", as one character in this masterpiece suggests. But some movies are perfect, and Some Like It Hot is one of them. In Chicago, during the Prohibition era, two skirt-chasing musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), inadvertently witness the St Valentine's Day Massacre. In order to escape the wrath of gangland chief Spats Colombo (George Raft), the boys, in drag, join an all-woman band headed for Florida. They vie for the attention of the lead singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), a much-disappointed songbird who warbles "I'm Through with Love" but remains vulnerable to yet another unreliable saxophone player. (When Curtis courts her without his dress, he adopts the voice of Cary Grant--a spot-on impersonation.) The script by director Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is beautifully measured; everything works, like a flawless clock. Aspiring screenwriters would be well advised to throw away the how-to books and simply study this film. The bulk of the slapstick is handled by an unhinged Lemmon and the razor-sharp Joe E. Brown, who plays a horny retiree smitten by Jerry's feminine charms. For all the gags, the film is also wonderfully romantic, as Wilder indulges in just the right amounts of moonlight and the lilting melody of "Park Avenue Fantasy". Some Like It Hot is so delightfully fizzy, it's hard to believe the shooting of the film was a headache, with an unhappy Monroe on her worst behaviour. The results, however, are sublime. --Robert Horton

• Diary Of The Dead | Blu Ray | (30/06/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (400.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From the legendary director of Dawn Of The Dead, George A. Romero comes a new take on his terrifying world of the undead.

• Some Like It Hot | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Maybe "nobody's perfect", as one character in this masterpiece suggests. But some movies are perfect, and Some Like It Hot is one of them. In Chicago, during the Prohibition era, two skirt-chasing musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), inadvertently witness the St Valentine's Day Massacre. In order to escape the wrath of gangland chief Spats Colombo (George Raft), the boys, in drag, join an all-woman band headed for Florida. They vie for the attention of the lead singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), a much-disappointed songbird who warbles "I'm Through with Love" but remains vulnerable to yet another unreliable saxophone player. (When Curtis courts her without his dress, he adopts the voice of Cary Grant--a spot-on impersonation.) The script by director Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is beautifully measured; everything works, like a flawless clock. Aspiring screenwriters would be well advised to throw away the how-to books and simply study this film. The bulk of the slapstick is handled by an unhinged Lemmon and the razor-sharp Joe E. Brown, who plays a horny retiree smitten by Jerry's feminine charms. For all the gags, the film is also wonderfully romantic, as Wilder indulges in just the right amounts of moonlight and the lilting melody of "Park Avenue Fantasy". Some Like It Hot is so delightfully fizzy, it's hard to believe the shooting of the film was a headache, with an unhappy Monroe on her worst behaviour. The results, however, are sublime. --Robert Horton

• Zachariah | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Advertised in 1970 as "the first electric Western", Zachariah is an endearingly pretentious effort that prefigures such genre oddities as Jodorowsky's El Topo and Alex Cox's Straight to Hell. The story is the archetypal one about two friends who become gunslingers and must inevitably face off against each other in the finale, but it's treated here as if it Meant Something Deeper--which means that after enjoying 75 minutes of violence we can all agree that peace and love and harmony is on the whole better for children and other living things. Curly haired farmboy Zachariah (John Rubinstein) and eternally grinning apprentice blacksmith Matthew (Don Johnson) are the fast friends who run away from home to join up with a gang of outlaws known as the Crackers (played by hippie folk-rock collective Country Joe and the Fish). These apparent 19th-century Westerners tote electric guitars and are given to staging free festival freak-outs at one end of town to distract from the bank robbery at the other. The boys soon hook up with Job Cain (Elvin Jones), an all-in-black master gunfighter who is also an ace drummer (his solo is impressive), but then drift apart as Zachariah has a liaison with Old West madame Belle Starr (Pat Quinn) in a town that consists of fairground-style brightly painted wooden cut out buildings (a gag reused in Blazing Saddles), then gets rid of his outrageous all-white cowboy outfit to settle down on a homestead and grow his own dope and vegetables. Matthew, of course, goes for the black leather look after outdrawing Cain, and comes a gunning for the only man who might be faster than him, but the hippie-era message is once these kids have killed everyone else they can still make peace with each other and the desert or something, man. Aside from a Beatle-haired teenage Johnson making a fool of himself by over-emoting to contrast with Rubinstein's non-performance, the film offers a lot of beautiful "acid Western" scenery and excellent prog rock and bluegrass music from the James Gang, White Lightnin' and the New York Rock Ensemble. Comedy troupe the Firesign Theatre (huge on album in 1970) provided the script, which explains satirical touches like the horse-and-buggy salesman (Dick Van Patten) spieling like a used car dealer and the madame's claim to have had affairs with gunslingers from Billy the Kid to Marshal McLuhan. The DVD extras are skimpy, but the print quality is outstanding. --Kim Newman

• Dead Again In Tombstone | Blu Ray | (23/10/2017) from £10.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Guerrero returns from the dead once more to protect a stolen relic from getting into the hands of a gang of soldiers, which will ultimately cause hell upon earth.

• Dead Again in Tombstone (DVD + Digital Download) | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £15.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Guerrero returns from the dead once more to protect a stolen relic from getting into the hands of a gang of soldiers, which will ultimately cause hell upon earth.

• Great British Garden Revival: Series One | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £8.89   |  Saving you £16.10 (181.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Great British Garden Revival sees the nation's top television gardening talents stand up in a bid to restore Britain s rich horticultural heritage. In this popular and beautifully produced series, Britain's leading experts each champion a gardening style or group of plants which they feel passionately about. They share insider tips and offer practical advice on how to transform our gardens. They also meet inspiring experts and passionate amateur gardeners who share their enthusiasm in wanting to celebrate the beauty of overlooked historic gardening styles and traditions, and bring them back. The Complete first series of the Great British Garden Revival contains all 20 episodes on 4-Discs, and covers almost every conceivable aspect of the British Garden: Monty Don campaigns for wild flowers Joe Swift champions front gardens Charlie Dimmock praises ponds Chris Beardshaw campaigns for the stumpery Toby Buckland celebrates homegrown fruit Christine Walkden praises ornamental bedding Sarah Raven examines the British lawn James Wong praises tropical gardens Rachel De Thame champions the art of topiary James Wong looks at rooftop gardens Chris Beardshaw celebrates herbaceous borders Alys Fowler praises kitchen gardens Carol Klein supports the cottage garden Tom Hart Dyke promotes house-plants Carol Klein shares her passion for the rock garden Toby Buckland looks at herbs Rachel de Thame gives tips on how to grow flowers Joe Swift talks about tree planting Diarmuid Gavin champions glasshouses Matt James wants gardeners to rediscover shrubs

• La Bamba | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Born to poverty. Destined for stardom. He lived the American dream. The life of rock and roll legend Ritchie Valens bursts across the screen in this celebrated music-filled movie with star-making performances by Lou Diamond Phillips as Richie and Esai Morales as his half-brother Bob. La Bamba depicts the 17-year-old Mexican-American's rocket rise to fame from field laborer to rock star with a string of hit singles and a date with destiny. Fueled by Valens' hit songs performed

• Bad Girls - Series 2 | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Few television dramas of recent years have managed to combine quality and popularity as successfully as Bad Girls. Series two of the women's-prison drama offers essentially more of the same, but the formula is so well honed that it would be churlish to complain. The main characters and storylines are still there, with the relationship that began between Nikki and Helen (Mandana Jones and Simone Lahbib) at the end of the first series brought eloquently and stylishly to centre stage--a result of both superb writing and performance. The show is given fresh impetus by the constant introduction of new characters. The resulting plot lines see the growing influence of the superb Yyvonne, the unhinged prison officer Di and a new wing governor Karen Betts added to the equation, all with explosive results. The mixture of humour and drama is, as ever, played to perfection.On the DVD: Having set an impressive standard with the DVD release of series one, Bad Girls continues to lead the field for television drama releases. Again the packaging of the four-disc set is handy but extremely stylish and comes with a whole series of extras. The documentary this time follows the cast on a promotional trip to South Africa and there are two galleries of photographs, deleted scenes, production and cast notes and a mass of outtakes that beg the question how they ever actually managed to make one programme, let alone the 13 included here, without the whole cast convulsing with laughter. --Phil Udell

• Great British Garden Revival: Wild Flowers With Monty Don | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £6.45   |  Saving you £4.54 (70.39%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The Great British Garden Revival sees the nation s top television gardening talents stand up in a bid to restore Britain s rich horticultural heritage. In this popular and beautifully produced series, Britain's leading experts each champion a gardening style or group of plants which they feel passionately about. They share insider tips and offer practical advice on how to transform our gardens. They also meet inspiring experts and passionate amateur gardeners who share their enthusiasm in wanting to celebrate the beauty of overlooked historic gardening styles and traditions, and bring them back. Wild Flowers with Monty Don features the episodes: Monty Don campaigns for wild flowers Joe Swift champions front gardens. Charlie Dimmock praises ponds Chris Beardshaw campaigns for the stumpery Toby Buckland celebrates homegrown fruit Christine Walkden praises ornamental bedding

• Dr Quinn Medicine Woman Series 2 | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  In an age when women are expected to be seen but not heard Dr. Michaela ""Mike"" Quinn is a renegade an independent spirit who forsakes her home in genteel Boston for the rough-and-tumble life of the frontier. But the prejudice she encountered back east pales in comparison to the challenges awaiting in Colorado Springs... Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman breathed new life into a tired genre and brought families together around the TV for six seasons with its refreshing take on the Western

• Open Season 2 | Blu Ray | (09/02/2009) from £8.84   |  Saving you £16.15 (182.69%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The woodland gang return for some more misadventures in this riotous sequel to the animated hit, "Open Season"!

• Communion | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Whitley Strieber's bestselling book Communion--quickly followed by this film adaptation--posited the notion of alien abduction, it did so to an eager audience who had yet to be bombarded with similar scenarios by The X-Files. Although somewhat eccentric in his general behaviour already, "Whit" (Christopher Walken) becomes ever stranger as he is gripped by increasing paranoia. One night at his family's country cabin he was unaccountably "visited". It's hard not to be as confused and frightened as he is when viewing the apparent corroborating evidence: recurring dreams, fleeting images, shadowy masked faces, vague comments from his young son and the occasional splitting headache. One of the strong points of Strieber's tale has always been the trepidation with which he approached it. The doctor's appointments and plucking up the courage to be hypnotised all offer a genuine reaction to inexplicable circumstance, and this is aided enormously by one of Walken's most mesmerising performances. He's well supported by Lindsay Crouse as his wife, Joel Carson as a thankfully believable yet cute son and an ambiguous musical theme from Eric Clapton. On the DVD: Given that a Region 1 Special Edition exists, this is a disappointing bare-bones DVD transfer. The picture is in full-screen 4:3 and the sound in Dolby 2.0 Stereo. The only extras are a few pages of filmography for director Philippe Mora, Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse and Frances Sternhagen. --Paul Tonks

• Murder Investigation Team - Series 1 | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A spin-off from 'The Bill' this gripping crime drama series focusing on the UK's case-cracking Metropolitan Police Special Crimes Unit. Two women officers (Spiro Coulson) head up the all-male team leaving no stone unturned as they put murder under the microscope... Includes all eight episodes from the first series: 1. Moving Targets 2. Daddy's Little Girl 3. Rubbish 4. Reading Writing And Gangbanging 5. Red Heads 6. Lambs To The Slaughter 7. Models And Millionaires 8. Th

• Urban Gothic - Series 1 And 2 Complete | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Featuring both series 1 and 2 of the cult classic televison series. Behind the facade of London's shiny dockside developments its designer boutiques and coffee bars lie forgotten dark corners and darker secrets. It's a city where anything can happen and being young and pretty wont always save you. From vampire documentaries to alien-infested supermarkets from teenage necromancy to ghostly East End gangsters you'll find tales of the city to chill the blood in Urban Gothic.

• La Bamba | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £32.98   |  Saving you £-26.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Lou Diamond Phillips leaves a haunting impression in La Bambaas the late 1950s pop idol Ritchie Valens, who made the Latino influence in rock & roll conspicuous through his hit songs. Filmmaker Luis Valdez (Zoot Suit) creates a nimble, exciting, and sympathetic portrait of the boy driven to rise above obstacles of race and family legacy, and Esai Morales is equally fine as Ritchie's envious, searching brother. Great support from Elizabeth Pena and Danielle von Zerneck as Valens's sister and mother, respectively, and Joe Pantoliano is solid as the singer's straight-talking manager. Valdez brightens up the third act with a rock & roll show featuring, among others, Brian Setzer as Eddie Cochrane. Marshall Crenshaw turns up as Buddy Holly getting on that plane with Valens, and Los Lobos (who actually performs Valens's music on the soundtrack) has a nifty cameo as a Tijuana band that gives Valens a piece of crucial inspiration. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Diary Of The Dead | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  From the legendary director of Dawn Of The Dead, George A. Romero comes a new take on his terrifying world of the undead.

• Urban Gothic - Series 2 | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tales of the city to chill the blood... Available for the first time the second series of the cult classic URBAN GOTHIC offers more bite sized tales of terror from cannibal killers to the darkest of teen love stories leading finally to the terrifying secret conspiracy behind the horrors. Stories comprise: Sandman Membrane Necromance Eater Serotonin Wild The End Ritual Slaughter Dollhouse Burns - Parts 1 and 2.

• Kull the Conqueror (Retro VHS Packaging) | Blu Ray | (19/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bad Girls - Complete Series 1-4 | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Hard-hitting award-winning original and controversial Bad Girls depicts the trials and triumphs of prison inmates and officers in the notorious women's prison of HMP Larkhall. It's a tense and sexually charged atmosphere and it's a hidden world where anything can happen.... This bumper box set features all 55 uncut episodes from the first four series! Series 1: 1. Them And Us 2. Drug Wars 3. Love Rival 4. The Victim 5. Tangled Web 6. A Big Mistake 7. Playing With Fire 8. Falling Apart 9. Payback Time 10. Love Hurts Series 2: 1. Tug Of Love 2. Shit Happens 3. Visiting Time 4. Looking For Love 5. Mistaken Identity 6. Losing It 7. The Set-Uo 8. Babes Behind Bars 9. The Leaving 10. Family Plan 11. Rough Justice 12. Facing Up 13. Oh What A Night Series 3: 1. Back From The Brink 2. The Turn Of The Screw 3. The Chains Of Freedom 4. False Identity 5. Blood Ties 6. Do Or Die 7. The Great Escape 8. Uninvited Guests 9. Common Criminal 10. Chapel Of Love 11. Battle Lines 12. Tough Love 13. Revolving Doors 14. Fronting Up 15. Cat & Mouse 16. Coming Out Series 4: 1. Fight Or Flight 2. Unholy Alliances 3. Behind Closed Doors 4. Fait Accompli 5. Ony The Lonely 6. Sweet Sixteen 7. Pillow Talk 8. Prison Issue 9. Baby On Board 10. Family Matters 11. Battle Lines 12. Appearances' Sake 13. True Colours 14. Hard Knock Life 15. Marriage Of Inconvenience 16. Curtain Call