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• Toys | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Enter a spectacular world of whimsy fun and fantasy in this acclaimed visual extravaganza. Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving adult who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle a war-loving general who builds weapons disguised as toys. Aided by his sister and girlfriend Leslie sets out to thwart his uncle and restore joy and innocence to their special world.

• Kidnap and Ransom | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £11.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Never Promise Never Lie. When a businesswoman (Emma Fielding) is kidnapped in South Africa expert hostage negotiator Dominic King (Trevor Eve) believes he's dealing with a straightforward case - pay the money get her back! But when the release is botched and they strike again in Britain the kidnapper Willard's (John Hannah) motives become far more sinister. With trouble brewing at home with his wife Sophie (Natasha Little) and teenage daughter - and his team boss Angela (Helen Baxendale) and ambitious assistant Carrie (Amara Karan) pushed to the limit King must draw on all his reserves to bring the victims home alive. Kidnap and Ransom stars Trevor Eve (Waking The Dead Bouquet Of Barbed Wire) John Hannah (Spartacus Four Weddings and a Funeral) Helen Baxendale (Friends Cold Feet) and was created by Patrick Harbinson (24 Law & Order).

• South Pacific / Oklahoma / Carousel | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  South Pacific: Blessed with a treasure of timeless songs South Pacific combines the passionate heartwarming romance of a naive young Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) and an older French plantation owner (Rossano Brazzi) with South Seas splendour and a world at war while the breathtaking score is highlighted by some of the most romantic songs ever written. Oklahoma!: Rodgers and Hammerstein's charming and vigorous tale of romance and adventure set in the Wild West. Songs include 'People Will Say We're In Love' 'Oh What A Beautiful Morning' and the title song 'Oklahoma!' Carousel: Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones are reunited in this second classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. In this bittersweet love story Billy Bigelow (MacRae) a smooth-taking carny barker falls in love with a milworker (Jones) in a little town on the coast of Maine. Although Billy is killed during a robbery before the birth of his daughter years later he is allowed to return to earth for one day to redeem himself - and to teach his daughter one very important lesson. This the most poetic and lyrical of all the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals features the classics If I Loved You and You'll Never Walk Alone.

• Midsomer Murders : The Christmas Collection | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Nothing is as it seems behind the well-trimmed hedges of the picturesque cottages in the idyllic English county of Midsomer. Beneath the tranquil surface of sleepy village life exist dark secrets scandals and downright evil. John Nettles stars as the humorous thoughtful and methodical Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby. This Christmas Collection includes four fantastic episodes! Ghosts Of Christmas Past: It is Christmas in Midsomer. A shot rings out from Draycott House. Nine years later the whole Villiers family come together again. At the police station DCI Barnaby heads home and asks Sgt Scott to contact him if anything happens warning him that: 'Things have a habit of happening around Christmas time.' Death Of A Stranger: Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby and Sergeant Troy investigate a murder. DCI Barnaby returns from a winter holiday to discover an unidentified tramp has been beaten to death in the woods near the village of Marshwood. While he was away Supt Ronald Pringle just before his retirement quickly arrested a local young man. But Barnaby suspects that he is innocent which is only reinforced when there is an apparent suicide at the same spot. A Talent For Life: In Malham Bridge former socialite and feisty pensioner Isobel Hewitt is accused of assault by fellow fly fisher Margaret Seagrove. When Barnaby and Troy investigate the allegations they discover that all is not well on the Midsomer riverbanks. The investigation takes a more serious turn when two bodies are discovered in the river. Are they the victims of an uncalculated attack by poachers or was there a more sinister motive? Shot At Dawn: The Court Marshall and execution of Tommy Hicks for desertion during World War I ignites a feud between the Hammonds and the Hicks which lasts for 90 years. Duggie Hammond always felt guilty about his forced involvement in Tommy's unjust death. During a ceremony at the village war memorial Tommy's son Lionel unveils a plaque for his father. Colonel Henry Hammond who supported the execution finds the ceremony farcical and lets his feelings be known. When Henry is later executed Barnaby and Jones investigate.

• Cliffhanger | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cliffhanger was a 1994 comeback of sorts for action hero Sylvester Stallone, this time thanks to director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2) and some spectacularly rugged and vertigo-inducing, high-mountain terrain. The opening sequence alone delivers what the title promises, and there's an extraordinary airplane stunt that was later reprised, with modifications, in Air Force One. Stallone, looking as tough and craggy as the mountains themselves, is a rescue climber who finds himself going after a gang of crooks (headed by John Lithgow in his bad-guy mode) who've hijacked a US Treasury plane and crash landed in the Rockies with millions of bucks. Outrageous action-packed, snow-packed and scenery-packed chase sequences (featuring whirring helicopters, whooshing skis, popping gunfire and clanging pitons that earned the movie Oscar nominations for sound and sound editing) abound. --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com

• Fawlty Towers: Series 1 and 2 | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £30.47   |  Saving you £-0.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Often hailed as the greatest ever British sitcom, Fawlty Towers is closer to the more elaborate tradition of farce. Comprising two series made in 1975 and 1979, the total of just 12 episodes were painstakingly constructed by writers John Cleese and Connie Booth. Unlike most British farce, however, Fawlty Towers deals with the big themes--death, psychology, xenophobia and even sex-o-phobia (Basil's marriage to Sybil is the most sterile ever depicted in a sitcom). Basil's contempt for his guests is, of course, legendary. It takes little from patrons to unleash his sledgehammer sarcasm: "Rosewood, mahogany, teak? Sorry, I was wondering what you'd like your breakfast tray made out of", he sneers at a guest who dares to request breakfast in bed. Like every Englishman, he wants to be king of his own castle and resents having to take in lodgers to maintain the place, especially the open-necked younger generation, whom he regards as sub-human. Mostly, though, Fawlty Towers is comedy of exasperation--who can forget the "damn good thrashing" Basil gives his clapped-out car, or the nervous breakdowns he almost suffers trying to make himself understood to Manuel? It's also comedy of embarrassment. The very fear of losing his dignity generally leads Basil into the most spectacularly undignified of predicaments. His inevitable misery is our sheer delight. -- David Stubbs On the DVD: each six-episode season is given its own disc with a commentary track from John Howard Davies and Bob Spiers, directors of Season 1 and Season 2 respectively. The third disc has all the additional material, the best of which are new interviews with John Cleese, Andrew Sachs and Prunella Scales. Also included are text biographies of all the leads and the guest stars, a short background featurette on Torquay and the hotel owner who is said to have inspired Basil, a very short blooper reel of outtakes and a brief teaser with Cleese in character entitled "Cheap Tatty Review". Much of this extra material was comfortably fitted onto the individually available Season 1 and 2 discs, so it's a bit of a mystery why a third disc was deemed necessary for the box set. --Mark Walker

• Quatermass Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (01/07/2024) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Midsomer Murders - Talking To The Dead | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-3.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

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• Nightmare on Elm Street | Blu Ray | (27/09/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  From modern horror master Wes Craven comes a timeless shocker that remains the standard bearer for terror. Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) is having grisly nightmares. Meanwhile her high-school friends who are having the very same dreams are being slaughtered in their sleep by the hideous fiend of their shared nightmares. When the police ignore her explanation she herself must confront the killer in his shadowy realm. Featuring John Saxon with Johnny Depp in his first starring role and mind-bending special effects this horror classic gave birth to one of the most infamous undead villains in cinematic history: Freddy Krueger...

• Zardoz | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A box office failure at the time, John Boorman's 1974 cult science fiction film Zardoz is an entrancing if overly ambitious project that offers pointed commentary on class structure and religion inside its complex plot and head-movie visuals. Its healthy doses of sex and violence will involve viewers even if the story machinations escape them. Beautifully photographed near Boorman's home in Ireland's Wicklow Mountains by Geoffrey Unsworth (2001), its production design is courtesy of longtime Boorman associate Anthony Pratt, who creates a believable society within the film's million-dollar budget. A bewigged Sean Connery is Zed, a savage "exterminator" commanded by the mysterious god Zardoz to eliminate Brutals, survivors of an unspecified worldwide catastrophe. Zed stows away inside Zardoz's enormous idol (a flying stone head) and is taken to the pastoral land of the Eternals, a matriarchal, quasi-medieval society that has achieved psychic abilities as well as immortality. Zed finds as much hope as disgust with the Eternals; their advancements have also robbed them of physical passion, turning their existence into a living death. Zed becomes the Eternals' unlikely messiah, but in order to save them--and himself--he must confront the truth behind Zardoz and his own identity inside the Tabernacle, the Eternals' omnipresent master computer. --Paul Gaita

• Gatling Gun | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £6.07   |  Saving you £-0.08 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the early 1860s the Gatling gun was invented and the Wild West was never to be the same again! Some believed the gun was pure evil a machine so potent and capable of such destruction that no one man should be able to wield its awesome power. Others saw it as a means to winning the West once and for all. When the US Cavalry is sent to deal with the rouge Indian Two-Knife the Gatling gun is at the centre of a bloody and savage tug of war and when the stakes are this high it's not easy to tell who is your friend or who is your foe.

• Cheech And Chong - Get Out Of My Room | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A mock documentary filmed mostly in and around LA with interviews of Cheech and Chong interspersed between four videos of songs from their last album. Songs include: 'Get outta my room' and 'Born in East LA'.

• Mutant X - Season 2 - Vol. 3 | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £10.27   |  Saving you £12.71 (174.59%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'The X-Men'-like half human/half mutants are back for a second series of tongue-in-cheek adventures as they battle to protect their race against the shadowy forces of evil. The Grift:Brennan's ex-girlfriend enlists his help when a scheme to blackmail a prominent politician turns nasty. Within These Walls:When a dangerous mutant prisoner escapes an armoured convoy it sets in progress a deadly chase leading to a mysterious assassin - the prisoner's next target. At D

• Helen Of Troy | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The abduction of beautiful Helen wife of Spartan King Menelaus by Paris of Troy triggers a long war faithfully recreated in this lavish TV miniseries.

• Eugene Onegin: Metropolitan Opera (Gergiev) | Blu Ray | (24/02/2014) from £18.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Shrek - 20th Anniversary Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital | Blu Ray | (11/05/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Robin And Marian | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £12.63   |  Saving you £0.36 (2.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Robin Hood (Connery) is an old man when he returns with his best friend Little John to England after the Crusades. Maid Marian (Hepburn) has entered a nunnery King Richard is a raving lunatic his Brother John a moron and the age of great adventure has seemed to have passed Robin by. But when The Sheriff of Nottingham (Shaw) once again threatens Sherwood Robin gathers his faithful men and band of peasants to fight oppression in this high-spirited adventure in which Robin Hood and Maid Marian rediscover their love...

• Shrek/Shrek 2/Shrek The Third/Shrek: Forever After - The Final... | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £20.89   |  Saving you £14.10 (67.50%)   |  RRP £34.99

  ShrekYou've never met a hero quite like Shrek winner of the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The endearing ogre sparked a motion picture phenomenon and captured the world's imagination with... the Greatest Fairy Tale Never Told! Critics are calling Shrek 'not just a brilliant animated feature but a superb film on any level' (USA Today). Relive every moment of Shrek's (Mike Myers) daring quest to rescue the feisty Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) with the help of his loveable loudmouthed Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and win back the deed to his beloved swamp from scheming Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow). Enchantingly irreverent SHREK is an ogre-sized adventure you'll want to see again and again! Shrek 2Everyone's favourite larger-than-life hero returns in Shrek 2 the #1 comedy of all time hailed by critics and audiences alike as even better than its Oscar -winning predecessor! 'There are so many jokes and jests not even a jelly-bellied ogre could consume them all in one sitting' proclaims USA Today. Happily ever after never seemed so far far away when a trip to meet the in-laws turns into another hilariously twisted adventure for Shrek and Fiona. With the help of his faithful steed Donkey Shrek takes on a potion-brewing Fairy Godmother the pompous Prince Charming and the famed ogre-killer Puss In Boots a ferocious feline foe who's really just a pussycat at heart! Shrek The ThirdGet ready for Thirds in this hilarious comedy of royal proportions. When his frog-in-law suddenly croaks Shrek embarks on another whirlwind adventure with Donkey and Puss In Boots to find the rightful heir to the throne. Everyone's favourite cast of characters is back along with a magical misguided Merlin an awkward Arthur a powerful posse of princesses and a bundle of unexpected arrivals. Only Shrek can tell a tale where everyone lives happily ever laughter! Shrek Forever AfterIt started with a loveable ogre... who befriended a talking donkey' and rescued a beautiful princess in the original 'un-fairytale' that broke the mould for all animated films to come. Now a decade of Shrek comes to a hilarious halt with Shrek Forever After the fitting final chapter to this record-breaking Oscar-winning movie phenomenon. Longing for the days when he was a 'real ogre' Shrek signs Rumpelstiltskin's magical contract and poof! - in an instant everything and everyone he knows has changed. Donkey suddenly can't remember his best friend; Fiona is now a tough warrior princess; and Puss In Boots is one fat cat! Together they have just 24 hours to reverse the contract to save Far Far Away and restore happily Forever after to close the final chapter in this 'fine family film!' (Mark Adams Sunday Mirror).

• Blade 2 | UMD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Darkest Hour | 4K UHD | (04/06/2018) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  During the early days of World War II, with the fall of France imminent, Britain faces its darkest hour as the threat of invasion looms. As the seemingly unstoppable Nazi forces advance, and with the Allied army cornered on the beaches of Dunkirk, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the leadership of the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Academy Award nominee Gary Oldman). While maneuvering his political rivals, he must confront the ultimate choice: negotiate with Hitler and save the British people at a terrible cost or rally the nation and fight on against incredible odds. Directed by Joe Wright, DARKEST HOUR is the dramatic and inspiring story of four weeks in 1940 during which Churchill's courage to lead changed the course of world history.