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• Rope | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  An experimental film masquerading as a standard Hollywood thriller. The plot of Rope is simple and based on a successful stage play: two young men (John Dall and Farley Granger) commit murder, more or less as an intellectual exercise. They hide the body in their large apartment, then throw a dinner party. Will the body be discovered? Director Alfred Hitchcock, fascinated by the possibilities of the long-take style, decided to shoot this story as though it were happening in one long, uninterrupted shot. Since the camera can only hold one 10-minute reel at a time, Hitchcock had to be creative when it came time to change reels, disguising the switches as the camera passed behind someone's back or moved behind a lamp. In later years Hitchcock wrote off the approach as misguided, and Rope may not be one of Hitchcock's top movies, but it's still a nail-biter. They don't call him the Master of Suspense for nothing. James Stewart, as a suspicious professor, marks his first starring role for Hitchcock, a collaboration that would lead to the masterpieces Rear Window and Vertigo. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Blood Simple | DVD | (30/10/2017) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The debut film of director Joel Coen and his brother-producer Ethan Coen, 1983's Blood Simple is grisly comic noir that marries the feverish toughness of pulp thrillers with the ghoulishness of even pulpier horror. (Imagine the novels of Jim Thompson somehow fused with the comic tabloid Weird Tales and you get the idea.) The story concerns a Texas bar owner (Dan Hedaya) who hires a seedy private detective (M Emmett Walsh) to follow his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her first film appearance) and then kill her and her lover (John Getz). The gumshoe turns the tables on his client and suddenly a bad situation gets much, much worse, with some violent goings-on that are as elemental as they are shocking. (A scene in which a character who has been buried alive suddenly emerges from his own grave instantly becomes an archetypal nightmare.) Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld before he became an A-list director in Hollywood, Blood Simple established the hyperreal look and feel of the Coens' productions (undoubtedly inspired a bit by filmmaker Sam Raimi, whose The Evil Dead had just been coedited by Joel). Sections of the film have proved to be an endurance test for art-house movie fans, particularly an extended climax that involves one shock after another but ends with a laugh at the absurdity of criminal ambition. This is definitely one of the triumphs of the 1980s and the American independent film scene in general. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Lois And Clark - The New Adventures Of Superman - Season 2 | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Casting a fresh look on a timeless legend this exciting action-packed update of the DC Comic Superman captures the daring exploits of the mysterious visitor from another planet and brings the city of Metropolis to life. Originally airing on TV in the 1990s this humorously romantic action/adventure series puts a modern twist on the time-honored legendary superhero bringing to life the comic book characters Clark Kent (Dean Cain) his superhuman alter-ego Superman and Lois Lane (

• The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £7.65   |  Saving you £9.60 (150.23%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Flintstones in Rock Vegas sees best pals Fred (Mark Addy) and Barney (Stephen Baldwin) downing tools at Bedrock Mining Company to woo Wilma (Kristen Johnston) and Betty (Jane Krakowski) during a long vacation in Rock Vegas. All goes well until Fred's gambling addiction gets the better of him and he is framed for stealing Wilma's prized pearl necklace by love rival Chip Rockerfeller (Thomas Gibson) who oozes malice out of every prehistoric pore. Meanwhile Wilma's high fallutin mother Pearl (Joan Collins taking over from Elizabeth Taylor) thinks that Fred is too downmarket for her daughter and does everything within her power to push Wilma and Chip together...

• Underworld: Evolution | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.43   |  Saving you £14.82 (286.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Selene and Michael continue the saga of war between the Death Dealers and the Lycans.

• Father Came Too! | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Fast Lady team rides again! The newlywed Munroes purchase a rundown ramshackle cottage and plan to fix it up themselves primarily to escape their meddling father. However they haven't appreciated the scope of the work required to get the place up to scratch.. They have no choice but to seek outside help. When Builder Josh Wicks arrives on the scene the bills start going through the roof... Written by Henry Blyth (The Bulldog Breed) and Jack Davi

• How To Get Ahead In Advertising | DVD | (10/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Richard E. Grant plays a successful advertising executive who cracks up while trying to think up a campaign for a new spot cream. He then develops a spot himself, which soon enough grows a face and begins talking to him.

• The Dam Busters | Blu Ray | (04/06/2018) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A BRAND NEW RESTORATION COMMEMORATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORIGINAL WWII RAID A much-loved British classic, Michael Anderson's 1955 drama captures the tension and bravery of an audacious raid on the center of Nazi Germany's industrial complex and the quintessentially English combination of inventiveness and dogged determination. Split into two distinct sections, the film deals first with the fraught, but the ultimately successful development of a new bomb, by Dr. Barnes N. Wallis (Michael Redgrave). The second deals with the mission itself during the British raid on the Ruhr Dams, and its associated costs for the enemy and for the British airmen. Adapted by R.C. Sherriff from Paul Brickhill's book Enemy Coast Ahead and featuring superlative special effects photography by Gilbert Taylor (to say nothing of Eric Coates' stirring theme tune), The Dam Busters was Britain's biggest box office the success of 1955

• 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea / The Swiss Family Robinson / One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  20 000 Leagues Under The Sea (Dir. Richard Fleischer 1955): An adventure based on Jules Verne's prophetic novel.... Climb aboard the Nautilus and into a strange undersea world of spellbinding adventure! Kirk Douglas Paul Lukas and Peter Lorre star as shipwrecked survivors taken captive by the mysterious Captain Nemo brilliantly portrayed by James Mason. Wavering between genius and madness Nemo has launched a deadly crusade across the seven seas. But can the captive crew expose his evil plan before he destroys the world? Disney's brilliant Academy Award-winning (1955) adaptation of Jules Verne's gripping tale makes 20 000 Leagues Under The Sea a truly mesmerizing masterpiece! Swiss Family Robinson (Dir. Ken Annakin 1960): A family fleeing from the despotic regime of Napoleon is chased off course by a band of pirates. They are then shipwrecked on a tropical island where they begin a new and adventurous life. Based on the book by Johann Wyss. One Of Our Dinosaurs (Dir. Robert Stevenson 1975): It's Nanny Hettie to the rescue when British Intelligence Agent Lord Southmere is captured by Chinese agent Hnup Wan. Hettie is the only one who knows Southmere's secret: he has stolen a piece of top-secret microfilm from a Chinese warlord and hidden it in the skeleton of a dinosaur in a London museum. Aided by a small army of fellow nannies Hettie saves the day by foiling Wan and his gang.

• Elton John - Elton 60 - Live From Madison Square Garden | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £23.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  On 25th March 2007 Elton John celebrated his 60th birthday with his 60th sold out show at New York's Madison Square Gardens thereby breaking his own world record. Now the full momentous show (featuring rarely performed fan favourites like Levon and Take me To The Pilot) are available for your pleasure! Tracklist: 1. Sixty Years On / 2. Madman Across The Water 3. Where To Now St Peter? 4. Hercules 5. Ballad Of A Well Known Gun 6. Take Me To The Pilot 7. High Flying Bird 8. Holiday Inn 9. Burn Down The Mission 10. Better Off Dead 11. Levon 12. Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) 13. Daniel 14. Honky Cat 15. Rocket Man 16. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues 17. The Bridge 18. Roy Rogers 19. Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters 20. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word 21. Bennie And The Jets 22. All The Girls Love Alice 23. Tiny Dancer 24. Something About The Way You Look Tonight 25. Philadelphia Freedom 26. Sad Songs (Say So Much) 27. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me 28. I'm Still Standing 29. The Bitch Is Back 30. Crocodile Rock 31. Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting 32. Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding 33. Your Song

• Two Rode Together | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £8.04   |  Saving you £1.95 (24.25%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The West's most violent story... The West's most valiant hour! John Ford's criminally overlooked western (the first collaboration between Ford and James Stewart) finally makes its way to DVD for the first time! A group of children are held captive by the Indians. A Lieutenant enlists the help of a Texas Marshall in a rescue attempt. Based on the novel by Will Cook.

• Dark City | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If you're a fan of brooding comic-book anti-heroes, got a nihilistic jolt from The Crow (1994) and share director Alex Proyas's highly developed preoccupation for style over substance, you might be tempted to call Dark City an instant classic of visual imagination. It's one of those films that exists in a world purely of its own making, setting its own rules and playing by them fairly, so that even its derivative elements (and there are quite a few) acquire their own specific uniqueness. Before long, however, the film becomes interesting only as a triumph of production design. And while that's certainly enough to grab your attention (Blade Runner is considered a classic, after all), it's painfully clear that Dark City has precious little heart and soul. One-dimensional characters are no match for the film's abundance of retro-futuristic style, so it's best to admire the latter on its own splendidly cinematic terms. Trivia buffs will be interested to know that the film's 50-plussets (partially inspired by German expressionism) were built at the Fox Film Studios in Sydney, Australia, home base of director Alex Proyas and producer Andrew Mason. The underground world depicted in the film required the largest indoor set ever built in Australia. --Jeff Shannon

• Scott Of The Antarctic | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole....

• Detroit | Blu Ray | (08/01/2018) from £4.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Kathryn Bigelow, the Academy Award® winning director of THE HURT LOCKER and ZERO DARK THIRTY, DETROIT tells the gripping story of one of the darkest moments during the civil unrest that rocked Detroit in the summer of ˜67.

• Phone Booth | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Colin Farrel stars as a slick publicist trapped in a New York City phone booth. After he picks up the ringing receiver a sniper warns him that if he hangs up he dies.

• The Brittas Empire - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The ultimate depiction of workplace perdition has to be Whitbury Leisure Centre in The Brittas Empire, despite the later claim of The Office to the title. And while David Brent seems all too uncomfortably real, Chris Barrie's Gordon Brittas carried the gung-ho officiousness of mediocre middle-management to its surreal conclusion. The Brittas Empire could never quite make up its mind if it was a quasi-realistic sitcom or a fantasy comedy, and it's this uneasy mixture that invites you to question whether there's anything terribly funny about unplanned single parenthood, childcare problems, assault in the workplace and women who are addicted to prescription drugs (see also Waiting for God) because of their partners' behaviour. Then, just as you're pondering all this, Brittas comes out with another mouthful of managerial psychobabble that makes you realise that only this kind of tragi-comic exaggeration is robust enough to stand up to Barrie's monstrous creation. This second series treads a fine line between the merely bleak and the really rather nasty with exquisite precision. It opens with the news that Brittas has been killed abroad in an industrial accident, prompting his tranquillizer-addled wife to mourn him for less time than it takes her to remarry--except, of course, that Brittas is alive and well. Along the way, receptionist Carole attempts to murder Brittas with a JCB when she mistakenly thinks he's assaulted her baby, which she keeps in a cupboard under her desk. On the DVD: The Brittas Empire, Series 2 carries all seven episodes on two discs, together with several extras including a gallery, a profile and a Brittas Management Quiz (don't ask!). --Roger Thomas

• Strangers On A Train (1951) | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.71   |  Saving you £8.54 (156.70%)   |  RRP £13.99

  From its cleverly choreographed opening sequence to its heart-stopping climax on a rampant carousel, this 1951 Hitchcock classic readily earns its reputation as one of the director's finest examples of timeless cinematic suspense. It's not just a ripping-good thriller but a film student's delight and a perversely enjoyable battle of wits between tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) and his mysterious, sycophantic admirer, Bruno (Robert Walker), who proposes a "criss-cross" scheme of traded murders. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. With an emphasis on narrative and visual strategy, Hitchcock controls the escalating tension with a master's flair for cinematic design, and the plot (coscripted by Raymond Chandler) is so tightly constructed that you'll be white-knuckled even after multiple viewings. Strangers on a Train remains one of Hitchcock's crowning achievements and a suspenseful classic that never loses its capacity to thrill and delight. --Jeff Shannon

• FX2 - The Deadly Art Of Illusion | DVD | (18/09/2000) from £15.53   |  Saving you £-2.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Follow-up to the 1986 Original. Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy are back for an all-new action-thriller that continues the FX saga with stylish wit unrelenting suspense and amazing high-tech action. Five years after his first deadly adventure Rollie Tyler (Brown) has left the special effects business and now designs sophisticated electronic toys for a living. But when his girlfriend’s ex-husband (Tom Mason) a police detective persuades him to devise an illusion to capt

• Abbott And Costello - Meet The Killer/Jekyll And Hyde | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Meet The Killer: Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami). Jekyll And Hyde: Slim and Tubby are American cops in London to study police tactics. They wind up in jail and are bailed out by Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll has been murdering fellow doctors who laugh at his experiments. He has more murders in mind. At one point the serum that turns Jekyll into the murderous Hyde gets injected into Tubby.

• Peak Practice - The Complete First Series | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £17.00 (130.87%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The full first series which centres on the dramas of life in a country practice in the Derbyshire dales... Episodes include: Sharp Practice Outsiders Growing Pains Roses Around The Door Impulsive Behaviour Hope To Die Listening Skills Giddy Heights.