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• French Fields - The Complete Second Series | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £10.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After four highly successful series in 1989 the international Emmy Award-winning Fresh Fields became French Fields as William and Hester Fields (Julia McKenzie and Anton Rodgers) followed their children's example and set up home across the Channel. They soon discover there s more than 22 miles of water dividing the English from the French. Hester's brave attempt to cross the language barrier using Franglais and mime to rival Marcel Marceau merely causes bewilderment. And French customs and culture are no less tricky; even the car steering wheel is in the wrong place while asking a surly housekeeper to leave could be seen as despotic and spark a minor revolution. However despite such difficulties the Fields persevere in their inimitable style providing comic entertainment for their French friends and viewers alike. This complete second series also includes the hilarious 1990 Christmas Special.

• Saturday Night Fever / Staying Alive | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The years have endowed Saturday Night Fever with a powerful, elegiac quality since its explosive release in 1977. It was the must-see movie for a whole generation of adolescents, sparking controversy for rough language and clumsily realistic sex scenes which took teen cinema irrevocably into a new age. And of course, it revived the career of the Bee Gees to stratospheric heights, thanks to a justifiably legendary soundtrack which now embodies the disco age. But Saturday Night Fever was always more than a disco movie. Tony Manero is an Italian youth from Brooklyn straining at the leash to escape a life defined by his family, blue collar job and his gang. Disco provides the medium for him to break free. It was the snake-hipped dance routines which made John Travolta an immediate sex symbol. But seen today, his performance as Tony is compelling: rough-hewn, certainly, but complex and true, anticipating the fine screen actor he would be recognised as 20 years later. Scenes of the Manhattan skyline and the Brooklyn Bridge, representing Tony's route to a bigger world, now have an added poignancy, adding to Saturday Night Fever's evocative power. It's a bittersweet classic. On the DVD: Saturday Night Fever is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround soundtrack, both of which help to recapture the unique atmosphere of the late 1970s. The main extra is a director's commentary from John Badham, with detailed descriptions of casting and the improvisation behind many of the scenes, plus the unsavoury reality behind Travolta's iconic white disco suit. --Piers Ford

• Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol - 2010 Christmas Special (with Digital Copy) | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £8.18   |  Saving you £-3.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Amy and Rory are trapped on a crashing space liner and the only way The Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser in a festive edition of the time-travelling adventure written by Steven Moffat. But is Kazran Sardick the richest man in Sardicktown beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?

• The Rag Trade - LWT Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Rag Trade: LWT Series 1 (2 Discs)

• Dual | Blu Ray | (25/09/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After receiving a terminal diagnosis, a woman opts into a futuristic cloning procedure to ease her friends' and family's loss. When she makes a miraculous recovery, her attempts to decommission her clone lead to a court-mandated fight to the death.

• The Chief - The Complete Fourth Series | DVD | (18/07/2011) from £11.98   |  Saving you £20.00 (200.20%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This outstanding police procedural drama stars noted actor Martin Shaw as Alan Cade the compassionate and resolutely reformist chief constable of Eastland a fictional East Anglian force; a distinguished guest cast includes Philip Glenister Andy Serkis John Shrapnel Peter Egan and Nickolas Grace. While this fourth series continues to show the many challenges facing Cade and his frontline team from drug crime to terrorist bombings witness intimidation and the exploitation of migrant workers the focus remains on the politics of modern policing. The former Met commissioner s radical approach still antagonises his superiors at the Home Office and he is now witnessing the gradual centralisation and unaccountability of the government agencies that are taking over different police roles. And as ever Cade's deep commitment to Eastland is taking an unremitting toll on his personal relationships...

• Not Another Happy Ending | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With her debut novel, Happy Ending , Jane Lockhart (Karen Gillan) pulled off that rare double critical acclaim and mainstream success. But now, with just the last chapter of the follow-up novel to write, she encounters crippling writer s block. She has no idea how her story ends... This is not good news for her publisher, Tom. His company is up against the wall financially and the only thing that will save him is a hit, in the form of Jane's next novel. When he discovers that his most importa...

• Threads | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The original BBC drama that shocked a generation. Set in the paranoia of nuclear war this chilling and BAFTA-award winning BBC2 drama was aired causing outrage and anxiety amongst the viewing public due to its graphic and realistic storytelling of a possible nuclear strike. After its initial airing Threads became a national talking point and became a powerful and terrifying glimpse into a post holocaust world after a devastating nuclear bomb. Even more terrifyin

• The Scorpion King 2 - Rise Of A Warrior | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior is a dazzling prequel to the 2002 adventure movie The Scorpion King, the latter starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Mathayus, the warrior who takes on an evil army attacking his homeland. The Scorpion King 2 stars Michael Copon as a young Mathayus, who trains to become one of his king's warriors and then declares vengeance on the evil Sargon after the latter kills Mathayus' father. The hero's ascension as a noble fighter coincides with Sargon's usurping of the throne, leading Mathayus to seek a supernatural means to destroy him. His quest leads him to the infamous labyrinth in which the Minotaur feasts on men, and to the underworld itself, a horrifying place in which people become ensnared and die very slowly. Accompanied by a childhood friend-turned-warrior (Karen Shenaz David) and a philosopher-huckster (Simon Quarterman), Mathayus bravely but uncertainly battles through one obstacle after another to complete his journey. Directed by Australian filmmaker Russell Mulcahy (Resident Evil: Extinction), The Scorpion King 2 is a suspenseful and sometimes startling feature, with art direction and special effects that evoke the mysteries of ancient Greece and indeed make the underworld look like a most unearthly and nightmarish place. --Tom Keogh

• The Deadly Spawn | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £63.30   |  Saving you £-57.31 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a remote part of New England. Two teenagers on a camping trip see what looks like a meteorite fall from the sky and land nearby. Investigating they discover the Deadly Spawn - a toothsome alien-being that quickly disposes of them before setting off in search of more food. Hiding in a nearby town its terror is fully unleashed upon the unwary inhabitants... Released by Vipco in 1983 The Deadly Spawn became an immediate hit scaring audiences all over the U.K. With the release o

• Man With The Gun | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £15.92   |  Saving you £3.06 (23.67%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Clint Tollinger (Robert Mitchum Cape Fear The Night of the Hunter) has a gun for hire. Any western town with an excess of untamable rough and tough bad guys can rely on him to quiet things down. Tollinger who watched his unarmed father die because he couldn't defend himself is ruthless and effective in his unusual profession. But Tollinger's wife Nelly (Jan Sterling The High and The Mighty Ace in the Hole) disapproves of his cold-blooded way of enforcing law and order. Nelly leaves her husband and sets herself up as director of a troupe of dancing girls in a small town saloon. Tollinger determined that Nelly will return to him follows her to Sheridan City. He is hired by Marshal Sims (Henry Hull) to protect the town from no-good rancher Dade Holman and his hired heavies.

• Scrooged | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £6.73   |  Saving you £9.26 (137.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

  High-spirited high jinks on Christmas Eve put Frank Cross (Bill Murray) in a ghostly time warp in this hilarious take-off of Charles Dickens' ""A Christmas Carol."" Cross who has made the meteoric rise from the depths of the mailroom to TV network president is mean nasty uncaring unforgiving and has a sadistic sense of humor - perfect qualities for a modern-day Scrooge. Before the night is over he'll be visited by a maniacal New York cab driver from the past a present-day fairy who's into pratfalls and finally a ghoulish seven-foot headless messenger from the future...

• Stainless Steel and the Star Spies | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  In 1981, the legendary Euston Films produced this quirky, one-off sci-fi kids' comedy, both paying homage to and gently parodying the genius of Gerry Anderson. Featuring a blend of live-action and puppetry, Stainless Steel and the Star Spies is written by celebrated cartoonist Gray Jolliffe, produced by Verity Lambert, and stars comedy greats Anna Karen and Deryck Guyler. The Metaliens, alien robots intent on galactic domination, encounter a major setback. Their enormous Space Saucer, 'Compromise', enters a black hole in a strange, uncharted region of Space, and collides with another craft - sending the Kleptonite Ball, their precious cargo and the key to Universal Conquest, hurtling to a planet inhabited by primitive life forms: Earth. Having materialised in a bar, the Ball variously functions as a Christmas tree decoration, a bathroom ornament, and a fortune-teller's prop. The Metaliens must retrieve the Kleptonite Ball if their mission is ever to succeed. And that's when their problems really begin...

• Hercules In New York | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £6.25   |  Saving you £3.00 (60.12%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Bored with life on Mount Olympus Hercules (Arnold Schwarzenegger in his debut film) decides to visit Earth against the wishes of his father Zeus. Zeus explodes with anger and hurls a thunder-bolt at Hercules who plummets into the sea and is rescued by a freighter bound for New York. There he is befriended by Pretzie (Arnold Stang) who whisks him away from a brawling free-for-all with his shipmates. The plot thickens when Zeus' wife Juno sends the dreaded Nemesis to take away Hercules' god-like strength. Some local hoodlums have just bet a small fortune on Hercules in a weight-lifting competition and when he fails to win a chase all over New York is on.

• The Wanderers | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £66.24   |  Saving you £-56.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  New York 1963: f you're young you belong to a gang and if you're Italian you belong to 'The Wanderers'. A collection of kids caught up in love friendship and pubescent fumbles. Interspersed in their lives are bitter clashes with rival gangs - none more feared than the Baldies and their heavyweight leader Terror...

• House Of Games | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  David Mamet's 1987 directorial debut House of Games is mesmerising study of control and seduction between two kinds of detached observers: a gambler who is also a con artist and a psychotherapist who is also an emerging pop-psych guru in the book market. The latter (played by Lindsay Crouse) meets the former (Joe Mantegna) when one of her clients is driven to despair from his debts to the card shark. Mantegna's character agrees to drop the IOUs in exchange for Crouse's attention at the seedy House of Games in Seattle, a mecca for conmen to talk shop and hustle unsuspecting customers. The shrink gets so caught up in the arcane rules and world view of her guide over subsequent days that she observes--with no false rapture--various stings in progress inside and outside the club. Mamet's story finally becomes a fascinating study of two people protecting and extending their respective cosmologies the way rival predators fight for the same piece of turf. The psychological challenge is compelling; so is the stylised dialogue, with its pattern of pauses and hiccups and humming meter. Mostly shooting at night, Mamet also gave Seattle a different look from previous filmmakers, turning its familiar puddles into concentrations of liquid neon and poisonous noir. --Tom Keogh

• All I Want For Christmas / Surviving Christmas / Scrooged Triple Pack | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £5.09   |  Saving you £10.90 (214.15%)   |  RRP £15.99

  All I Want For Christmas: An offbeat but festive comedy that will cheer the whole family, 'All I Want For Christmas' stars Leslie Nielsen as an irreverent Santa and Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall as the grandmother of two young children intent on making their holiday wish come true. Surviving Christmas: It's madness, mischief and mayhem when rich executive Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) decides to rent himself a family for the holidays. Tired of spending Christmas alone, Drew makes th...

• Marty | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (66.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Before beginning the main feature make sure you watch Burt Lancaster's endorsement of Marty in the appended theatrical trailer first. Yes, he was involved as coproducer, but his conviction clearly stems from the film itself. This screen adaptation of Paddy Chayevsky's play was a breakthrough in an American neo-realism that would sustain itself for two decades. Ernest Borgnine is in his element as the Bronx butcher in his mid-30s seemingly destined for a bachelor existence on account of past disappointments. There's a winningly natural performance from Esther Minciotti as his well-meaning, ever-interfering mother, while Betsy Blair is inspired casting as schoolteacher Clara, plain and diffident but with the proverbial good heart. The supporting cast is one of telling cameos, simply and unselfconsciously delivered. Delbert Mann conveys the energetic bustle of the Italian ex-pat community, and ensures that the intimacy of the original play is not lost. On the DVD: Marty's black-and-white print reproduces crisply in the DVD format, as does Roy Webb's score, which vividly evokes 1950s American city life. There's dubbing in four and subtitles in five European languages, together with the original trailer mentioned above. Having seen Marty, you'll surely agree that Lancaster's enthusiasm was not misplaced. --Richard Whitehouse

• The Scorpion King 1-4 | Blu Ray | (12/06/2017) from £13.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (7.15%)   |  RRP £14.99

  THE SCORPION KING Adventure rules! The spectacular Mummy series explodes into a new realm of breathtaking, non-stop action in The Scorpion King! Unleashing WWE superstar The Rock as the most fearsome warrior of the ancient world, The Scorpion King plunges you into a sweeping tale flled with stunning fght sequences, awe-inspiring battles and pulse-pounding thrills. It's the ultimate special effects-powered epic and the must-see-and-see again adventure of the year! BONUS: Outtakes Feature Commentary with The Rock Feature Commentary with Director Chuck Russell Alternative Versions of Key Scenes w/5.1 audio Spotlight on Location: The Making of Scorpion King Ancient World Production Design Preparing the Fight The Rock and Michael Clarke Duncan Working with Animals Special Effects: The Cobras Special Effects: The Fire Ants Godsmack Music Video I Stand Alone King Scorpion (static images) THE SCORPION KING 2: RISE OF A WARRIOR See how the legend of the Scorpion King began! When a young Mathayus witnesses his father's death at the hands of the king (Ultimate Fighting Championship winner Randy Couture), his quest for vengeance transforms him into the most feared warrior of the ancient world. From the director of Resident Evil: Extinction and Highlander comes a heroic adventure flled with heart-stopping action and thrilling visual effects! THE SCORPION KING 3: BATTLE FOR REDEMPTION Since his triumphant rise to power in the original blockbuster The Scorpion King, Mathayus' kingdom has fallen and he's lost his queen to plague. Now an assassin for hire, he must defend a kingdom from an evil tyrant and his ghost warriors for the chance to regain the power and glory he once knew. Starring Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Billy Zane (Titanic), The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption takes The Mummy phenomenon to an all-new level of epic action and non-stop adventure! BONUS: Feature Commentary with Director Roel Reiné Deleted/Extended Scenes Deleted Shots Montage Gag Reel Swords and Scorpions: A Making Of Preparing For Battle THE SCORPION KING 4: QUEST FOR POWER Join an exciting new chapter in the action-packed series from the producers of The Mummy! After the king of Norvania is assassinated, the legendary Scorpion King Mathayus is framed for the crime and must fght off an entire kingdom of soldiers. Now Mathayus (Victor Webster) and his only remaining allies, a mysterious woman and her unconventional father, are the last hope to stop the evil heir to the throne on his quest for an ancient and almighty mystical power. Featuring Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk) and an all-star cast of fghters, including Roy Big Country Nelson (Winner of The Ultimate Fighter), Royce Gracie (UFC Hall of Fame) and Don Wilson (Three-time World Kickboxing Champion) BONUS: Deleted Scenes Gag Reel Making of Feature Commentary with the Cast and Crew

• Hercules In New York | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bored with life on Mount Olympus Hercules (Arnold Schwarzenegger in his debut film) decides to visit Earth against the wishes of his father Zeus. Zeus explodes with anger and hurls a thunder-bolt at Hercules who plummets into the sea and is rescued by a freighter bound for New York. There he is befriended by Pretzie (Arnold Stang) who whisks him away from a brawling free-for-all with his shipmates. The plot thickens when Zeus' wife Juno sends the dreaded Nemesis to take away Hercules' god-like strength. Some local hoodlums have just bet a small fortune on Hercules in a weight-lifting competition and when he fails to win a chase all over New York is on.