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• Down By Law | DVD | (31/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law is in the same minimalist, oddball, black-and-white groove as his classic of American independent cinema, Stranger than Paradise (1984). The setting is Louisiana, where two losers (musicians Tom Waits and John Lurie) find themselves stuck in a jail cell together. One day they are joined by a boisterous Italian (Roberto Benigni), and the chemistry changes--suddenly an escape attempt is on the horizon. Conventional drama is not Jarmusch's intention; one of the emotional high points of this film is the three guys marching around their prison cell shouting, "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Yet the deadpan style creates its own humorous mood, underscored by melancholy (also underscored by the music of Lurie and the gravel-voiced songs of Waits). This was the first American film for Italian comedian Benigni, (Life is Beautiful), and he lights it up with his effervescent clowning. Jarmusch has said that Down by Law forms a loose trilogy with Stranger than Paradise and the subsequent Mystery Train (1989)--a triptych of disaffected, drifting life in the United States. Few filmmakers have ever surveyed ennui so entertainingly. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Bob The Builder - A Christmas To Remember | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £11.01   |  Saving you £5.98 (54.31%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Includes: 'A Christmas to Remember' and 'Bob's White Christmas'. Featuring a festive feature length adventure with Bob The Builder. Includes the music videos 'Can We Fix It?' and 'Mambo No 5'.

• Thomas & Friends: Whale of a Tale | DVD | (23/05/2016) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Thomas and his friends have tall tales to tell. A rumor about Toby spreads across the island, as Henry believes he has the chickenpox. Thomas blames his blunders on an imaginary engine, and when Toad spots a stranded whale it really is a Whale of a tale!

• House 4 | Blu Ray | (11/12/2017) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  STEP INSIDE, YOU'RE FRIGHTFULLY WELCOME! Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the House the makers of Friday the 13th return with one last terrifying entry in the hit horror franchise! In House IV: The Repossession, a mother and her daughter, still reeling from a car crash which claimed the life of husband Roger, move into the old family homestead to start a new life. Unfortunately for them, not only is the house in the sights of local mobsters, but it's also plagued by a host of hair-raising supernatural phenomena including ghostly visions and showers that run with blood! Featuring scenes to sicken and stupefy in equal measure (the appearance of a ghoulish singing pizza is a particular standout), this fourth and final entry in the House franchise might just be the barmiest of them all! SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: ¢ Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements ¢ High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation ¢ Original Stereo and DTS-HD MA 5.1 Audio Options ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing ¢ Audio commentary with director Lewis Abernathy ¢ Home Deadly Home: The Making of House IV brand new documentary featuring interviews with director Lewis Abernathy, producer Sean S. Cunningham, stars Terri Treas, and William Katt actor/stunt coordinator Kane Hodder and composer Harry Manfredini ¢ Theatrical Trailer ¢ Still Gallery ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Justin Osbourn

• A Little Of What You Fancy | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £8.97   |  Saving you £4.02 (44.82%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Music Hall was once the most popular form of entertainment in London. Bawdy raucous sentimental and energetic it produced a whole host of stars and some of the best-loved songs of all time. Filmed in the 1960s A Little Of What You Fancy is a loving tribute to the likes of Lily Morris Gus Elen and Ella Shields. Featuring original archive film of the stars plus rare prints portraits and photographs it traces what remains of the great Music Halls in 1960s London - and discovers the spirit of Music Hall still very much alive in places like The Players Theatre off the trand and MacDonalds in Hoxton. 1960s performances by Helen Shapiro singing Dont Dilly Dally and The Lambeth Walk and Sheila Bernette singing She Was Poor But She Was Honest Dear Old Pals and Covent Garden in the Morning are mixed with original recordings of Stanley Holloways I Live in Trafalgar Square and Lets All Go Down the Strand. Gus Elen is captured performing Its a Great Big Shame and Lily Morris is seen and heard lamenting Why am I Always the Bridesmaid? And these are just a few of the musical highlights in this glorious celebration of traditional Music Hall at its very best!

• Shabby Tiger: Complete Series | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nick Faunt is a Manchester millionaire''s son who at the height of the Depression leaves home to become an artist embracing a life of bohemian freedom but also of poverty and hardship. When he meets Irish serving girl Anna Fitzgerald in the Cheshire countryside a strange love story begins... This seven-part Granada Television adaptation of Howard Spring''s best-selling novel originally transmitted in 1973 features RSC player John Nolan as Nick and Prunella Gee as Anna; Sharon Maughan makes her TV debut as the other woman in Nick''s life the glamorous and ambitious Rachel Rosing. While Coronation Street contributors Geoffrey Lancashire and Adele Rose wrote the screenplays the series'' brilliantly authentic 1930s street scenes were achieved with the construction of replicas of Manchester''s landmarks at the National Tramway Museum at Crich in Derbyshire.

• Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte --Gardiner | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A performance of Mozart's 'Cosi Fan Tutte' performed by the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists. Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

• Jag - Season 9 | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £29.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (16.67%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The action-adventure series JAG travels the globe for its Ninth Season - on DVD for the first time! This season it's a mix of war stories and personal dilemmas as Harm Rabb (David James Elliott) resigns his post and flies missions for the CIA. Meanwhile beautiful Mac MacKenzie (Catherine Bell) dates a familiar face then faces off with a notorious terrorist. Plus Bud Roberts (Patrick Labyorteaux) gets promoted wife Harriet (Karri Turner) resigns to raise their kids and Sturgis Turner (Scott Lawrence) finds love with a jazz singer! But it's Admiral Chegwidden (John M. Jackson) who drops the biggest bombshell - a personal revelation that affects all their lives. Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime with all 23 episodes from the penultimate season of JAG!

• Mystics | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dave (Kelly) and Locky (O'Shea) are a couple of old-timers who have found the perfect scam offering solace and peace to the bereaved and an injection of cash to their pockets. Posing as a medium in touch with the other side Dave acts as the front man whilst his partner relays messages from 'beyond the grave'. All is going swimmingly until Larry the kingpin from the local mob gets killed and his wife wants to know where he's hidden his last haul. Unable to refuse a request from

• The Beyond | Blu Ray | (06/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lucio "King of the Eyeball Gag" Fulci made his name with a series of gory, gooey horror epics, and The Beyond stands above all as his outré masterpiece. The largely incoherent plot has something to do with a turn-of-the-century curse and a doorway to hell in the cellar of an old New Orleans hotel. Fulci shows his usual sensitivity with wooden acting, clumsy dialogue, and buckets of oozing blood and pus, but don't let that get in the way of enjoying this mad tale of zombies from hell invading Earth and eating their way through a cast of humans: crucified martyrs, blind visionaries, creepy hotel handymen, befuddled cops, and a plucky pair of heroes desperately fleeing a horde of hungry undead. The blood-red art direction is eerily beautiful, and Fulci's relentless long takes, punctuated by jolting shock cuts and eruptions of grotesque violence, create a mood of sheer paranoid horror right down to the final, mind-bending image. And don't forget the Fulci claim to fame: eyes are gouged out, eaten away, melted with acid, and (shudder) popped out by a spike through the back of the skull. Yech! If you dare ignore such piddling details as narrative logic and let yourself get carried away on the creepy visuals, it's a deliciously stylish treat, an edgy bit of Gothic gore pitched in all its bone-crunching, flesh-ripping, organ-splatting glory. This sadistic, sanguinary hell-spawn tale is for gore-hounds only. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Sharpe's Rifles / Sharpe's Eagle | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £3.55   |  Saving you £11.44 (322.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe (1993-7) ran to 14 full-length television films that follow the adventures of the titular soldier through the later years of the Napoleonic Wars. The programmes are an outstanding achievement for the small screen, dominated by Sean Bean's central performance as the heroic, troubled outsider who turns out to be a resourceful and loyal leader. Bolstered by a strong supporting cast, particularly Daragh O'Malley as Harper and (in later episodes) Abigail Cruttenden as Jane, Sharpe is often visually striking, the action tense and gripping. Consistency is maintained by all 14 episodes being directed by Tom Clegg. On the DVD: Sharpe on DVD contains a photo gallery and several screens of background text. The sound is full-bodied stereo while the very "sharp" picture has been transferred slightly letterboxed at 14:9. Though looking much better than the original TV transmissions the occasionally cropped framing makes it apparent the films were shot in 16:9 widescreen, so it is regrettable they have not been transferred to DVD in that format. Otherwise these are first-rate releases. --Gary S Dalkin

• Batman - The Brave And The Bold Vol.3 | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £6.70   |  Saving you £3.29 (49.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Caped Crusader teams up with heroes from across the DC Universe delivering nonstop action and adventure with a touch of comic relief. Blue Beetle Green Arrow Aquaman and others fight crime alongside Batman although their differing powers and personalities are often at odds with the Dark Knight's style. While still based in Gotham Batman often travels beyond the Gotham City limits facing situations both unfamiliar and exhilarating. With formidable foes around every corner Batman still relies on his stealth resourcefulness and limitless supply of cool gadgets to uphold justice.

• On The Waterfront | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £5.84   |  Saving you £0.15 (2.57%)   |  RRP £5.99

  ""You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody instead of a bum which is what I am let's face it."" - Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) Marlon Brando is the longshoreman who finds himself increasingly isolated when he challenges the might and power of the tough New York City dockers' Union. Rod Steiger is his elder brother torn between loyalty to union and love of family. Lee J. Cobb is the powerful union boss while Eva Marie Saint

• The Marine | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £3.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (243.65%)   |  RRP £12.99

  WWE champion John Cena dominates the big screen as Marine John Triton. Wherever there's danger Triton is usually smack dab in the middle of it... and he doesn't play by rules! After he's unwillingly discharged from Iraq Triton's beautiful wife Kate (Nip And Tuck's Kelly Carlson) is kidnapped by merciless jewel thieves led by a vicious killer (Robert Patrick)! Now Triton must fight to save her utilizing his most powerful weapon - himself!

• Lifeboat | Blu Ray | (23/04/2012) from £28.33   |  Saving you £-5.34 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Based on an unpublished novella by John Steinbeck (written on commission expressly to provide treatment material for Hitchcock's screen scenario), Lifeboat found the Master of Suspense navigating a course of maximal tension – in the most minimal of settings – with a consistently inventive, beautifully paced drama that would foreshadow the single-set experiments of Rope and Dial M for Murder.After a Nazi torpedo reduces an ocean liner to wooden splinters and scorched personal effects, the survivors of the attack pull themselves aboard a drifting lifeboat in the hope of eventual rescue. But the motivations of the German submarine captain (played by Walter Slezak) on the eponymous craft might extend beyond mere survival...With a cast including Shadow of a Doubt veteran Hume Cronyn and the extraordinary, irrepressible Tallulah Bankhead, this 'picture of characters', as Franois Truffaut aptly termed the film, oscillates dazzlingly between comic reparte and white-knuckle suspense – a perfect example of 'the Hitchcock touch'.

• The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following the success of Karel Reisz's 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' Alan Sillitoe adapted another of his works for the screen this time a short story of a disillusioned teenager rebelling against the system to make Tony Richardson's 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' one of the great British films of the 1960s. Newcomer Tom Courtenay is compelling as the sullen defiant Colin refusing to follow his dying father into a factory job railing against the capitalist bosses and preferring to make a living from petty thieving. Arrested for burglary and sent to borstal Colin discovers a talent for cross-country running earning him special treatment from the governor (Michael Redgrave) and the chance to redeem himself from anti-social tearaway to sports day hero. With Colin a favourite to win against a local public school tensions build as the day approaches...

• Sodbusters | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The American Wild West provides a rugged backdrop for this hilarious story of one community's struggle to keep its land and with it a quiet simple life. A comic tribute to all those classic westerns where a mysterious stranger arrives to save the day the tale is rich with intrigue and ripe with passion. Capturing the strength of the pioneer spirit the story takes us to the frontiers of insanity with some of the most dim-witted characters imaginable. The citizens of Marble Hat Co

• Taggart - 25th Anniverary Edition | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Taggart: 25th Anniversary Edition

• Grownups - Series 1 | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £14.36   |  Saving you £5.63 (39.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the creator of Two Pints Of Larger And A Packet Of Crisps Susan Nickson comes BBC 3's latest comedy series Grown Ups. The series follows the trials and tribulations of a group of twenty somethings facing the dilema of whether to settle down or to carry on partying. Episode Listing: 1.Sour Milk 2.Givesies 3.Naked Splitty Dress Girl 4.Refkectomoz 5.Poorly 6.Tronsian Tronsian O Answawdd Da 7.Suprise! 8.Chimps

• Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (17/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium the only force that stands between humanity and alien hordes are the genetically enhanced super-soldiers known as Ultramarines. But when a select squad of scarred veterans and raw recruits responds to a distant planet's distress beacon they'll discover that a horrific evil has been unleashed. And amidst a living nightmare of chaos carnage and daemonic fury these steel battle-brothers must now survive the ultimate enemy: Themselves. The voices of Terence Stamp (Superman II Wanted) John Hurt (Alien Hellboy) and Sean Pertwee (Dog soldiers Event horizon) star in this intense CGI animated sci-fi/action thriller and the first-ever feature-length movie interpretation of the Warhammer 40 000 game universe. Special Features: Into the void - Making Ultramarines Between chaos and darkness - The world of the space marines Creating the Daemon Animated graphic novel Ultramarines prequel