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• Classic Girls Collection - Pollyanna/Railway Children/Ballet Shoes | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £13.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (108.42%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise: 1. Pollyanna 2. Railway Children 3. Ballet Shoes

• Layer Cake / Snatch | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £12.93   |  Saving you £15.06 (53.80%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Layer Cake: Matthew Vaughn the producer of 'Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels' and 'Snatch' steps into the director's chair for the first time with 'Layer Cake'. Based upon JJ Connelly's London crime novel 'Layer Cake' is about a successful cocaine dealer (Daniel Craig) who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite and plans an early retirement from the business. However big boss Jimmy Price (Cranham) hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder the

• Rome: Complete Seasons 1 And 2 | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £44.99   |  Saving you £26.00 (57.79%)   |  RRP £70.99

  Family dysfunction. Treachery. Betrayal. Coarse profanity. Brutal violence. Graphic (and sometimes brutal) sex. No, it's not The Sopranos, it's Rome, HBO's madly ambitious series that bloodily splatters the glory of Rome just as savagely as Monty Python and the Holy Grail soiled the good name of Camelot (but with far fewer laughs; very few funny things happen on the way to this forum). Set in 52 B.C. (Before Cable), Rome charts the dramatic shifts in the balance of power between former friends Pompey Magnus (Kenneth Cranham), leader of the Senate, and Julius Caesar (Ciaran Hinds), whose imminent return after eight years to Rome after conquering the Gauls, has the ruling class up in arms. At the heart of Rome is the odd couple friendship between two soldiers who fortuitously become heroes of the people. Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) is married, honorable, and steadfast. Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson) is an amoral rogue whose philosophy is best summed up, "I kill my enemies, take their gold, and enjoy their women". Among Rome's most compelling subplots is Lucius's strained relationship with his wife, Niobe (Indira Varma), who is surprised to see her husband alive (but not as surprised as he is to find her upon his homecoming with a newborn baby in her arms!) Any viewer befuddlement over Rome's intrigues and machinations, and determining who is hero and who is foe, disappears the minute Golden Globe-nominee Polly Walker appears as Atia, Caesar's formidable niece and a villainess for the ages. In the first hour alone, she offers her already married daughter as a bride to the recently widowed Pompey. One eagerly awaits to see what (or who) she'll do next as much as we anticipate her comeuppance in the final episode of the first series. Rome is a painstakingly mounted production that earned eight well-deserved Emmy nominations in such categories as costumes, set design, and art direction. Michael Apted (Coal Miner's Daughter) was honored with a Director's Guild Award for the first ever episode, "The Stolen Eagle." But artistic considerations aside, instantly addicted viewers will agree with Atia, who notes at one point, "I adore the secrecy, the intrigue. It's most thrilling." --Donald Liebenson

• Layer Cake/Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Layer Cake: Based upon JJ Connelly's London crime novel 'Layer Cake' is about a successful cocaine dealer (Daniel Craig) who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite and plans an early retirement from the business. However big boss Jimmy Price (Cranham) hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward (Gambon) a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstasy a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings... The title 'Layer Cake' refers to the layers or levels the dealer has to go through as he painstakingly plots his own escape. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no 'codes' or 'families' and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust he has to use all his 'savvy' 'telling' and skills which make him one of the best to escape his own. The ultimate last job a love interest called Tammy and an international drugs ring threaten to draw him back into the 'cake mix'. But time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime.. (Dir. Matthew Vaughn 2004) Snatch: In the heart of gangland two novice unlicensed boxing promoters Turkish (Jason Statham) and Tommy (Stephen Graham) get roped into organising a bare-knuckled fight with local kingpin villain and fellow boxing promoter Brick Top (Alan Ford). But it all goes wrong when Brick Top's fighter who is rigged to win is suddenly knocked out by the boys' wildcard Irish gypsy boxer One Punch Mickey O'Neil (Brad Pitt). Unfortunately things go from bad to worse as Mickey starts playing by his own rules and the duo find they are heading for a whole lot of trouble. Meanwhile en route to New York to deliver a stolen 84-carat diamond to head honcho Avi (Dennis Farina) Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) is robbed of the stone. Forced to jump on the next plane to London Avi is by no means pleased. He hires local legend Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) to find Franky and the diamond. The hunt for the missing stone launches everyone into a spiral of double-crossing vendettas as different parties pursue personal agendas some of them farcical most of them illegal and all of them destined to spin completely out of control... (Dir. Guy Ritchie 2000) A disgrace to criminals everywhere. Streetwise charmer and cardshark Eddy (Nick Moran) walks into the biggest card game of his life carrying a stake backed by the life-savings of his three best mates Tom (Jason Flemying) Bacon (Jason Statham) and Soap (Dexter Fletcher). Eddy is the sharpest player on the circuit but the game is set-up and Eddy leaves owing underworld boss Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty) half a million. Harry gives Eddy a week to come up with the money before he starts taking fingers as collateral. Eddy's dad JD (Sting) can cancel the debt by handing over his bar lock stock and barrel to his old adversary Harry JD refuses to give in feeling his street-tough son can get himself out of his own messes. So while Harry sends a couple of petty crooks to steal a pair of antique shotguns to add to his collection Eddy and his mates plan a caper that will enable them to pay off Harry and make out like bandits! In a comedy of errors and a helter-skelter ride through London's gangland the guns cash drugs and identities become all mixed up as a full complement of London's lowlife get involved in a melee which even their menace can't handle. (Dir. Guy Ritchie 1998)

• Hellraiser: The Scarlet Box Limited Edition Trilogy | Blu Ray | (26/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  IT WILL TEAR YOUR SOUL APART Stephen King was once quoted as saying: I have seen the future of horror... his name is Clive Barker. That future became reality when in 1987 Barker unleashed his directorial debut Hellraiser launching a hit franchise and creating an instant horror icon in the formidable figure of Pinhead. Barker s original Hellraiser based on his novella The Hellbound Heart follows Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence) as she comes head-to-head with the Cenobites demonic beings from another realm who are intent on reclaiming the soul of her deviant Uncle Frank. Picking up immediately after the events of the original Hellraiser Hellbound: Hellraiser II finds Kirsty detained at a psychiatric institute and under the care of Phillip Channard a doctor who abuses his position to realise his own dark aims. In Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth a reporter investigating a mysterious death at a nightclub finds herself in the way of Pinhead and the Cenobites who plan to bring their horrifying world into our own. Coming at a time when the genre was degenerating into self-parody Hellraiser offered a fiercely unique vision that approached its horrors with a far greater degree of seriousness than many of its contemporaries.. Along with its sequels the Barker-produced Hellbound and Hell on Earth Arrow Video is proud to present some of the most terrifyingly original films in the history of horror in brand new 2K transfers. Limited Edition Contents: Brand new 2K restorations of Hellraiser Hellbound: Hellraiser II and Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth Hellraiser: Evolutions a brand new documentary looking at the evolution of the hit horror franchise and its enduring legacy featuring interviews with numerous cast and crew from the series later instalments including Scott Derrickson (director Hellraiser: Inferno) Rick Bota (director Hellseeker Deader and Hellworld) alongside genre figures Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton (writers Saw IV Feast) and Stuart Gordon (director Re-Animator From Beyond) Audio commentaries for all 3 films Hours on archive material including cast/crew interviews EPK material storyboards trailers TV spots and more Clive Barker early short films Salome and The Forbidden Exclusive 200 page hardback book with new writing on Hellraiser and the Barker universe from Barker archivists Phil and Sarah Stokes. Contains chapters looking at Barker s early work the genesis and production of the first 3 films in the Hellraiser series as well as a consideration of the development of the character of Pinhead and a look at Pinhead s latest literary incarnation The Scarlet Gospels all illustrated with a wealth of production stills and unseen material from the Barker archive Exclusive Limited Edition packaging with expansive new artwork from Gilles Vranckx Much more to be announced!

• Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £24.82   |  Saving you £-4.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jeanette Winterson's semi-autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit transfers wonderfully to the screen in this BBC adaptation (with a screenplay by Winterson). Jess is the adopted daughter of evangelical Christians living in the northwest of England in the 1960s. Her mother wants Jess to be a missionary, but when she falls in love with Melanie, Jess begins to realise that there is more to life than church. When Jess' mother begins to suspect the girls of "unnatural passions" she tries to destroy their relationship with the help of Pastor Finch (Kenneth Cranham) and his congregation. But their efforts--including a terrifying attempt at exorcism--only push Jess further away. Jess eventually understands that the only way to survive is to escape, and she sets her sights on a place at Oxford. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is both a broad comedy and a moving coming-of-age story. Charlotte Coleman is perfect as the teenage Jess, attempting to reconcile her religious devotion and her adolescent passion, but the film belongs to Geraldine McEwan as Jess' mother. McEwan obviously relishes Winterson's script, and she creates a character both monstrous, ridiculous and surprisingly sympathetic. It's a difficult role to carry off, but McEwan succeeds. Her performance is the high-point of this award-winning, provocative film. --Simon Leake, Amazon.com

• Flying Blind | DVD | (15/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Frankie (Helen McCrory Skyfall) is in her forties ambitious and successful. She works in the aerospace industry designing surveillance drones for the military. She's never married and is completely in control of every part of her life. Her closest relationship is with her father who worked as an engineer on Concorde. But her life changes forever when she embarks on a passionate affair with Kahil a French/Algerian aerospace student twenty years younger than her. One day she arrives at work and is detained by the security services: Kahil is a person of interest to MI5. Her well-ordered life starts to unravel in a welter of suspicion and prejudice as Frankie no longer knows whether to follow her passion or listen to the doubts that increasingly overwhelm her.

• Reilly - Ace Of Spies - The Complete Series | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  All six volumes of adventures starring Sam Neill as the British master spy.

• Brother Sun, Sister Moon | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It seemed like a good idea in 1973: a musical scored by Donovan about the life and times of St. Francis of Assisi, the passionate ascetic who expressed love for God by loving nature. But the finished product was something else. Filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli (Endless Love) makes a decorous effort at communicating the ideals of Francis and even tweaking the character toward flower-power relevance. But the result is feel-good fluff, a boring movie that doesn't penetrate its subject as much as reinvent him toward a modern bias. Graham Faulkner is entirely forgettable in the lead and Donovan's songs on this project aren't exactly first-rate, either. --Tom Keogh

• Shine On Harvey Moon - Series 1 | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Its 1945 and Corporal Harvey Moon is demobbed and returns home to London's East End. Everyone believed that the former Clapton Orient footballer had been killed in action so so plenty has been going on in his absence.

• In The Flesh - Series 1-2 | Blu Ray | (09/06/2014) from £20.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (24.95%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In The Flesh is set in a small village in the North of England post-zombie uprising as rehabilitated zombies are reintroduced back into society. Now known as PDS Sufferers (Partially Deceased Syndrome) they have been caught treated and armed with their flesh cover-up and special contact lenses are returning to their friends and families who previously thought them dead. The series follows our hero Kieren Walker a 17 year old who committed suicide four years ago when his best mate Rick died serving in Afghanistan. He's now returning to a village where he always felt like an outsider and a family who never got to say goodbye. We follow Kieren as he struggles to cope with fitting back in with the guilt of what he did in his untreated state and the sudden reappearance of Rick a fellow PDS Sufferer. The boy that Kieren thought was dead is alive and the boy Rick thought was alive is dead.

• Layer Cake/Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Layer Cake: Based upon JJ Connelly's London crime novel 'Layer Cake' is about a successful cocaine dealer (Daniel Craig) who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite and plans an early retirement from the business. However big boss Jimmy Price (Cranham) hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward (Gambon) a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstasy a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings... The title 'Layer Cake' refers to the layers or levels the dealer has to go through as he painstakingly plots his own escape. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no 'codes' or 'families' and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust he has to use all his 'savvy' 'telling' and skills which make him one of the best to escape his own. The ultimate last job a love interest called Tammy and an international drugs ring threaten to draw him back into the 'cake mix'. But time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime.. (Dir. Matthew Vaughn 2004) Snatch: In the heart of gangland two novice unlicensed boxing promoters Turkish (Jason Statham) and Tommy (Stephen Graham) get roped into organising a bare-knuckled fight with local kingpin villain and fellow boxing promoter Brick Top (Alan Ford). But it all goes wrong when Brick Top's fighter who is rigged to win is suddenly knocked out by the boys' wildcard Irish gypsy boxer One Punch Mickey O'Neil (Brad Pitt). Unfortunately things go from bad to worse as Mickey starts playing by his own rules and the duo find they are heading for a whole lot of trouble. Meanwhile en route to New York to deliver a stolen 84-carat diamond to head honcho Avi (Dennis Farina) Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) is robbed of the stone. Forced to jump on the next plane to London Avi is by no means pleased. He hires local legend Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) to find Franky and the diamond. The hunt for the missing stone launches everyone into a spiral of double-crossing vendettas as different parties pursue personal agendas some of them farcical most of them illegal and all of them destined to spin completely out of control... (Dir. Guy Ritchie 2000)

• Layer Cake | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £5.15   |  Saving you £4.84 (93.98%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Just as he's about to get out of the game entirely, a drug dealer gets drawn back in to the doublecrossing world of the London mafia in this refreshing British thriller.

• Alan Bleasdale Presents - Reqiuem Apache - Ch4 | DVD | (28/05/2018) from £5.11   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the play by Jim Morris. Blood on the Dole follows the lives of four teenagers, two boys and two girls, struggling to cope after being thrust into the real world for the first time after leaving school. Living in deprived Merseyside, the four youths' bright-eyed optimism for their futures and new-found freedom is soon crushed by the realities of unemployment, poverty, and the brutal reality of living and trying to find work in a city in decline. They all soon find themselves in the hopeless situation of facing complete dependence on state handouts, the dole . The four teenagers instead find themselves turning to each other to find the strength to survive. An impressively fresh social commentary and portrayal of teenage love set within a disturbingly authentic account of disenfranchised youth. With austerity still very much a part of our political climate, and recent films such as I, Daniel Blake continuing to challenge such government policy, Blood on the Dole is still a hugely relevant watch today. Produced by BAFTA-winner Alan Bleasdale as a part of the Alan Bleasdale Presents series, a Channel 4 anthology showcasing and given a platform to new, up-and-coming talent young writers. After his successes in landmark dramas including Boys from the Black Stuff, The Monocled Mutineer and GBH, in 1994 Channel 4 gave Alan Bleasdale the opportunity to find and mentor new TV writers. Four big-budget, standalone films were made as a result, with top casts and experimental storylines.

• The Most Fertile Man In Ireland | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £11.54   |  Saving you £-9.55 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The most fertile man in Ireland is in serious demand. Whilst the rest of the male population of Belfast are firing nothing but blanks Eamonn is blessed with 'tadpoles on speed that could impregnate a stone'. Realising that there is cash to be made out of his fellow man's infertility this 24 year old virgin transforms himself overnight into Belfast's very own one man sperm bank. Business is booming until Eamonn is sucked into the 'troubles' and finds his crown jewels dangling in the fires of political distrust and religious intolerance!

• Hellbound - Hellraiser 2 | DVD | (20/05/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Kirsty Collins (Ashley Laurence) lies in a psychiatric hospital haunted by the night of unspeakable terror that destroyed her family. Now only hours later the nightmare is beginning again. From the bloodstained mattress secreted in his home obsessive psychiatrist Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham) raises the remains of Kirsty's murderous stepmother Julia (Clare Higgins). Together Chanard and Julia unlock the secret of the lament Configuration puzzle box to release the unlimited horrors and ultimate pleasures of Hell. For the second time Kirsty must return beyond the limits to the Outer Darkness to confront the darkest desires of Hell and free her father's soul.

• Women Talking Dirty | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £7.27   |  Saving you £5.72 (78.68%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Helena Bonham Carter and Gina McKee star in this new British comedy about an unlikely friendship between two Scottish women who help each other through life's ups & downs.

• Women Talking Dirty | DVD | (12/02/2004) from £4.76   |  Saving you £2.99 (99.67%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Helena Bonham Carter and Gina McKee star in this new British comedy about an unlikely friendship between two Scottish women who help each other through life's ups & downs.

• Man Dancin' | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Jimmy Kerrigan is released from jail after 9 years inside everyone expects him to fall back into his old ways. But Jimmy's changed says all he wants to do is open a bar on a Greek island once his parole is up. Problem is nobody believes him - not at least his former gangland boss Donnie McGlone and Jimmy's old adversary Detective Inspector Walter Villers. They both think Jimmy's up to no good branching out on his own. Enter Father Gabriel Flynn the man in charge of Jimmy'

• On Dangerous Ground | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £4.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When they learn of a secret covenant on the status of Hong Kong signed by Mao in 1944 Chinese factions the British government Hong Kong businessmen AND the Mafia all try to be the first to take hold of it. Tough man Sean Dillon pressured by Brigadier Ferguson into working for the British does it his own way. But we see a new twinkle in his eye when he looks at sweet Su Yin... And can it be that pretty Inspector Hanna Bernstein is beginning to grow fond of Sean? Based on Jack Higgins' novel.