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• Sucker Free City | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sucker Free City is an original film directed by Spike Lee that takes a riveting look at the seductive dangerous world and life choices of a diverse group of young people inextricably caught up in the unique gang culture of San Francisco. When racial tension erupts and emotions collide three young men from different ethnic backgrounds perpetrate low-level crimes that eventually infringe upon each other's neighbourhoods. As their lives intersect on the streets will they com

• Love Thy Neighbour - Episode 5 And 6 | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £10.43   |  Saving you £-2.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  One of the highest rated sitcoms of the 1970s attracting 16 million viewers at the peak of its popularity Love Thy Neighbour explores the culture clash between black and white neighbours Bill Reynolds (Rudolph Walker) and Eddie Booth (Jack Smethurst). This release features episodes five and six of Series One.

• Carry On Again Doctor | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The title of Carry On Again Doctor (1969) says it all; almost the same cast playing similar characters to their previous year's outing in Carry On Doctor. This one rejoices in the alternative title "Bowels are Ringing". But the enduring popularity of these films owes almost everything to their basic formula and if this one occasionally seems a bit cobbled together, all the old favourites are still there, working away. This time, the setting moves from the National Health Service to the private sector and even stretches as far as the "Beatific Islands" when Jim Dale is exiled to a missionary clinic for his overzealous attention to the female patients, who include Barbara Windsor of course. There, orderly Sid James rules the roost of the clinic with his harem of local women. Trivia addicts can spot Mrs Michael Caine in a brief role as a token dusky maiden. The second half of the Talbot Rothwell script picks up nicely as the characters converge on the private hospital back in England where Dale rakes in the money with a bogus weight loss treatment. Hattie Jacques is in fine form as Matron, Kenneth Williams fascinates with his usual mass of mannerisms and Joan Sims is stately as the Lady Bountiful figure financing most of the shenanigans. It's a tribute to their professionalism that we can still lose ourselves in some of the creakiest old jokes around. On the DVD: Bog standard 4:3 picture format and mono soundtrack provide an adequate viewing experience, especially as today most people will be more familiar with these films from television transmissions than from their cinema release. However, the lack of extras is a shame. Apart from the scene index, there is nothing to distinguish the DVD from its video equivalent. At the very least, a cast list or star biographies would add a little value. --Piers Ford

• Love Thy Neighbour - The Complete Series 2 - Plus Two Bonus Episodes | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-13.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Complete second season of the cult 70's TV Comedy plus 2 bonus episodes! One of the highest rated sitcoms of the 1970s attracting 16 million viewers at the peak of its popularity Love Thy Neighbour explores the culture clash between black and white neighbours Bill Reynolds and Eddie Booth.

• The Boston Strangler | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The unexpected casting of Tony Curtis as the presumed Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, is only the first of the attractions of this hard-nosed suspense picture. Although the style of The Boston Strangler looks dated today, with its split-screen experiments and post-Bonnie and Clyde permissiveness, the film still has the clean, strong lines of a methodical policier. For the first hour, we don't focus on the Strangler, instead following the Beantown cops (led by Henry Fonda) as they track down leads; the best sequence is the near-accidental connection made between burglary suspect DeSalvo and the killings. Director Richard Fleischer had a forceful hand with true-crime material (Compulsion, 10 Rillington Place) and he takes an unblinking look into the then-taboo subject of sexual pathology. Curtis's physical transformation into a dumpy, dull-eyed brute is the best aspect of his performance; it's a role he lobbied hard for, but it did not lead to more challenging work. --Robert Horton

• The Whistle Blower | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Frank Jones (Michael Caine) is an ordinary law abiding businessman. He served his country during the war and he is very proud of his son Bob (Nigel Havers) a Russian linguist and translator. Frank's world is shattered by the arrival of the police to tell him his son is dead. The plot thickens when the inquest verdict is 'Accidental Death'. Frank embarks on his own investigation into his son's death and discovers that there are no limits to what the government will do to protec

• Carry On - The Ultimate Carry On | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £109.99

  Twelve classic titles in one box set

• Carry On Henry | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £13.97   |  Saving you £-3.98 (-39.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Shot in the bright postal colours of a seaside postcard, Carry on Henry applies the usual Carry On sniggering to the married life of Henry VIII. Talbot Rothwell's script is standard bedroom farce and full of jokes about choppers, while the threat of beheading and the actuality of torture are constantly present but only as the terrible things that happen to cartoon characters who will be back next time. Sid James turns in one of his better performances as the endlessly lecherous and fickle Henry, married to Joan Sims and lusting after Barbara Windsor. There is a genuine sexual chemistry between James and Windsor which at times almost breaks open the farce formula. The usual regulars--Kenneth Williams as Thomas Cromwell, Terry Scott as Cardinal Wolsey, Charles Hawtrey as Sir Roger--do their usual turns; Williams is more subdued than usual, while Hawtrey hugely enjoys playing the Queen's secret lover. This was not one of the high points of the series, but it has its own curious charm. On the DVD: The DVD has no extras whatever, but is a good clean print in 1.77:1 ratio with crisp mono sound. --Roz Kaveney

• Shanghai Kiss | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £5.79   |  Saving you £7.20 (55.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An out-of-work Chinese American actor involved with a high school girl learns that he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai China. He moves to the exotic city to connect with his ancestry and start a new life but must leave behind the only girl who has ever loved him. Liam (Ken Leung) is a struggling actor wasting his time picking up on beautiful plastic girls in hip Hollywood bars with his buddy Joe (Joel David Moore) a writer who hasn't written a damn thing. The closest thing to an emotional connection in Liam's life is a flirtatious friendship with 16 year old Adelaide (Hayden Panettiere) a precocious high school girl who is actually more mature than Liam. When Liam learns he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai China he travels to the bright and beautiful city and discovers a profound connection to his family legacy. Liam meets a sophisticated Chinese woman named Micki (Kelly Hu) and finds himself falling into instant infatuation with her. Liam decides to move to China leaving behind Adelaide who is quite possibly the only girl who has ever loved him but running away from his problems only lands him in deeper trouble.

• Red Scorpion | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Lieutenant Nikolai is a member of the Soviet Special Forces assigned to infiltrate a rebel uprising and assassinate the leader that is causing problems for the Cuban forces occupying the territory. When Nikolai fails to complete the mission he pays the price; torture by the Cuban leaders! He manages to escape to the desert and find the rebel army once more but this time he is on their side! It's all out warfare as he leads a daring attack against his former comrades!

• Carry On Don't Lose Your Head | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £6.66   |  Saving you £3.33 (50.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Carry On Don't Lose Your Head parodies the adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, with crinkly, cackling Sid James as master of disguise the Black Fingernail and Jim Dale as his assistant Lord Darcy. He must rescue preposterously effete aristo Charles Hawtrey from the clutches of Kenneth Williams' fiendish Citizen Camembert and his sidekick Citizen Bidet (Peter Butterworth). The Black Fingernail is assisted in his efforts to thwart the birth of the burgeoning republic by the almost supernatural stupidity of his opponents, who fail to recognise the frankly undisguisable Sid James even when dressed as a flirty young woman. What with an executioner who is tricked into beheading himself in order to prove the efficacy of his own guillotine, it's all a little too easy. As usual, no groan-worthy pun is left unturned, nor unheralded by the soundtrack strains of a long whistle or wah-wah trumpet. This is pretty silly stuff even by Carry On standards, with most of the cast barely required to come out of first gear and an overlong climactic swordfight sequence hardly raising the dramatic stakes. Most of the humour here resides neither in the script nor the characterisation but in the endlessly watchable Williams' whooping, nasal delivery (occasionally lapsing into broad Cockney) and the jowl movements of the always-underrated Butterworth. On the DVD: There are no extra features except scene selection. The picture is 4:3 full screen ratio.--David Stubbs

• Dockers | DVD | (01/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dockers is a landmark one-off drama suspended somewhere between Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff. A striking Channel Four production Dockers dramatises the infamous struggle that developed when five Merseyside dockworkers were fired for refusing to work overtime with no pay, and gained the support of co-workers who wouldn't cross their picket line. As a result, those who stood in solidarity with the original five were sacked as well--500 in total--leading to a two-year stand-off. Co-written by award-winning screenwriters Jimmy McGovern (Cracker) and Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting), the two-year ordeal is brought home with startling reality, not least because of the contribution of the real-life Liverpool dockers who helped develop the script in extensive writing workshops, lending the film an authenticity it might have otherwise lacked. While the narrative hangs around the moving central story of one family in which both father and son are caught up in the strike, dramatic conflicts develop on multiple levels: between father and son; between the families of the sacked workers (this is particularly well realised as one long-time friend, played by The Royle Family's Ricky Tomlinson, turns scab); and between the workers and the union that betrays them. Ken Stott and Crissy Rock (Ladybird, Ladybird) are outstanding as the central working-class couple, old before their time at 47, and if nothing else, the film reveals one further reason why Liverpool loved Robbie Fowler quite so ferociously: during post-goal celebrations, Fowler lifts his jersey to reveal a T-shirt emblazoned with a message of support for the wronged dockers, ensuring national attention for the action at a time when all hope seemed lost. --Tricia Tuttle

• The Last Yellow | DVD | (13/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You wouldn't describe Leicester as a fast town, but that suits Frank (MARK ADDY) just fine. Content to carry on living with his mum, Frank exists in a fantasy world with himself cast as vigilante for hire.

• Trottie True | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  British screen legend Jean Kent stars in this exuberant comedy-drama about a showgirl who marries a lord. After making her name in the music halls Trottie True (Kent) is recruited to join the legendary Gaiety theatre in London. As a 'Gaiety Girl' she attracts the attention of some very well-bred admirers including love-struck Lord Digby Landon (James Donald) who she marries. But can an aristocrat really be happy with a young lady who comes from the theatre? Their love is soon put to the test... Brilliantly directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and featuring early appearances by Bill Owen Hattie Jacques Christopher Lee and Roger Moore Trottie True is a delightful treat.

• Servants Of Twilight | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the well known thriller written by the horror author Dean R. Koontz. A group of religious fanatics claim that a six year old boy called Joey is an agent of the devil and set out to destroy him.....

• Doctor In The House - Complete Collection | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Based on Richard Gordon's best selling novels this hilarious collection of seven classic British comedies stars a wealth of talent and screen legends. Set in St. Swithins hospital it follows the antics and mishaps of a group of medical students and their quest to become doctors.

• Nighthawks | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After the end of his workday staid schoolteacher Jim explores the disco's and secret meeting places of London's gay underground unable to reconcile his sexual identity with the rest of his life - until the strain of living a lie threatens to take its toll at last.

• True Romance (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Two lovers (Christian Slater Patricia Arquette) are thrust into a dangerous game of high-stakes negotiations and high-speed adventure. The pair come into unexpected possession of a suitcase of mob contraband. Fleeing to Los Angeles they hope to sell the goods and begin a new life. But both sides of the law have other ideas...

• The Other Woman | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £2.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (103.05%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When Tessa's ex-husband Michael remarries leaving her with two children she takes an immediate dislike to Carolyn. But when Tessa finds out she is terminally ill she decides to give Carolyn another chance...

• Big Time Rush: Season 1, Volume 2 | DVD | (13/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Being in a pop group definitely has its big time highs and lows. Follow the guys of BTR on their sometimes bumpy (yet entertaining!) road to success, as they prep for their album release, meet and greet with bloggers and celebrities, plan the biggest dance party The Palm Woods has ever witnessed, and even catch a little Hollywood fever along the way!