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• Roman Polanski Collection | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £14.57   |  Saving you £1.68 (12.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Rosemary's Baby: Like most first time mothers Rosemary experiences confusion and fear. Her husband an ambitious but unsuccessful actor makes a pact with the devil that promises to send his career skyward... Possibly the best horror film ever made this brilliant adaptation of Ira Levin's best-selling novel is the story of a loving young New York city couple who are experiencing their first child. Director Roman Polanski elicits uniformly extraordinary performances from the all-star cast. Ruth Gordon won an Oscar for her performance as an oversolicitous next-door neighbour in this classic chiller. Chinatown: Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one unforgettable night in ... Chinatown. The Tenant Roman: Polanski directs and stars as Trelkovsky an expatriate Pole in Paris who takes over the lease of a gloomy apartment and comes to believe that the other tenants in the block are conspiring to drive him to kill himself. The real or imagined conspiracy is supported by the suicide of the previous tenant. Trelkovsky finds himself assuming the identity of his predecessor but the twist that sets this film above the competition is that this previous occupant was a girl. Polanski uses this twist to explore the character's latent bisexuality in an atmosphere of paranoia and delusion.

• In Search Of The Castaways | DVD | (13/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The exciting tale of two children who with the help of an eccentric professor set out in search of their shipwrecked father...

• The Bee Gees - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? (DVD) | DVD | (14/12/2020) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART takes audiences on a unique cinematic journey through the brotherhood of the Bee Gees and their ever-enduring musical accomplishments. The story of Barry, Maurice and Robin is one of phenomenal success, of loss and heartbreak, and a continual spirit of creative reinvention. From the award-winning producers behind The Beatles: Eight Days A Week and Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart features newly shot interviews, rarely seen archive and remastered performances across the Bee Gees' five-decade long career.

• La Femme Infidele | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Charles Desvallees has a good reason to believe that his wife is cheating on him and so hires a private detective to prove himself right! Coming up with a name of Victor Pegala he confronts the lover...

• Love Me Tonight (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (15/01/2024) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Reuniting the leads of Josef von Sternbergs smash hit Morocco, and co-produced by the great Ernst Lubitsch, Desire was acclaimed by Graham Greene as the best of Dietrichs American films. Product Features INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES 2019 restoration from a 4K scan Original mono audio Audio commentary with writers and critics Glenn Kenny and Farran Smith Nehme (2023) Geoff Andrew on Love Me Tonight (2023): in-depth discussion of Rouben Mamoulians classic musical by the writer and critic Hollywood on Parade excerpts (1932): Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald perform musical numbers from the film for the newsreel series Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Limited edition exclusive with a new essay by Phil Concannon, archival interviews and articles, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies for the UK All extras subject to change

• Creature from the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection | DVD | (10/06/2019) from £27.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The original Creature from the Black Lagoon is one of the silver screen's most unforgettable characters and, along with the other Universal Classic Monsters, defined the Hollywood horror genre. The Creature from the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection includes all 3 films from the original legacy including the gripping classic and the sequels that followed. These landmark motion pictures perfectly blended Universal's classic monster heritage with the science-fiction explosion of the 1950s and continue to inspire remakes and adaptations that strengthen the legend of the Creature from the Black Lagoon to this day. Bonus Features: Back to the Black Lagoon Documentary 3 Feature Commentaries Production Photographs Theatrical Trailers

• Love Affair (1939) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (21/02/2022) from £21.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Golden-age Hollywood's humanist master Leo Mccarey (Make Way for Tomorrow) brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema's most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne(The Awful Truth) and Charles Boyer (Gaslight) are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the top of the Empire State Buildinguntil the hand of fate throws their star-crossed affair tragically off course. Swooning passion and gentle comedy coexist in perfect harmony in the exquisitely tender Love Affair (nominated for six Oscars), a story so timeless that it has been remade by multiple filmmakers over the yearsincluding McCarey himself, who updated it as the equally beloved An Affair to Remember Special Features New 4K digital restoration by The Museum of Modern Art and Lobster Films, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray New interview with film critic Farran Smith Nehme about the movie's complicated production history New interview with Serge Bromberg, founder of Lobster Films, about the restoration Two radio adaptations, featuring Irene Dunne, William Powell, and Charles Boyer Two shorts directed by Leo McCarey, both starring silent comedian Charley Chase: Looking for Sally (1925) and Mighty Like a Moose (1926) English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by author Megan McGurk

• Rapid Fire | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Rapid Fire was the penultimate film starring Brandon Lee before his untimely death on the set of The Crow. It's a standard martial arts thriller in which Lee plays Jake Lo, a young arts student who witnesses a gangland execution and is unwittingly drawn into a pitched standoff between the mafia, a Chinese drug syndicate and Ryan, a downbeat but resolute Chicago cop (Powers Boothe) determined to nail his prey. With a plot that careens through every genre cliché, Lee's smouldering looks and showy fighting skills carry the film. The martial arts sequences (which Lee co-choreographed) are nicely staged, but given the unusual settings--the penultimate fight takes place in a Chinese laundry--could have been even more inventive. The workmanlike direction by Dwight H Little (Marked for Death, Free Willy 2) fails to inject much into the material. In particular, traumatised by seeing his Special Agent father die in the Tiananmen Square massacre, Jake Lo's attraction to both a corrupt FBI agent and Ryan as surrogate father figures could have been given more resonance given the loss of Brandon Lee's own father at an early age. With hundreds of bloodless deaths, cringe-worthy dialogue and a dated power rock soundtrack, Rapid Fire looks and feels like a TV film. And on that level, at least, it's entertaining. On the DVD: The main feature is presented in letterboxed widescreen. Sound and picture quality are very good. Subtitles are provided for ten languages (Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norweigian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish) and in English for the hard of hearing. Extra features are limited to chapter selection and a theatrical trailer. --Chris Campion

• Deadlier Than The Male / Some Girls Do | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £11.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Join Hugh ""Bulldog"" Drummond in two of his groovy sixties adventures! Deadlier Than The Male (Dir. Ralph Thomas 1966): For Hire: Deadly Weapons! - Blonde Brunette Redhead A rarely seen 1966 tongue-in-cheek spy thriller starring Richard Johnson as Hugh Bulldog Drummond investigating the attempted sabotage of oil deals and assassination of a Persian King. Elke Sommer co-stars. Some Girls Do (Dir. Ralph Thomas 1969): Hugh ""Bulldog"" Drummond returns! Drummond'

• Narcos Season 2 | DVD | (04/09/2017) from £6.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Narcos tells the true-life story of the growth and spread of cocaine drug cartels across the globe and attendant efforts of law enforcement to meet them head on in brutal, bloody conflict. It centers around the notorious Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) and Steve Murphy (Holbrook), a DEA agent sent to Colombia on a U.S. mission to capture and ultimately kill him.

• Cave Of Forgotten Dreams | Blu Ray | (17/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Join the master adventurer and iconic director Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) in this extraordinary 3D blu-ray, as he ventures on a new epic journey.Overcoming considerable challenges, Herzog captures the stunning majesty of the Chauvet Cave in southern France, where the world's oldest cave paintings have been discovered. Herzog reveals a breathtaking subterranean world including the 32,000-year-old artworks. With his humorous and engaging narration Herzog refelcts on our primal desire to communicate and represent the world around us, evolution and our place within it, and ultimately what it means to be human.

• Countess Dracula | Blu Ray | (08/09/2014) from £12.91   |  Saving you £3.84 (34.44%)   |  RRP £14.99

  One of Hammer's most enduringly popular films and a benchmark for 1970s horror Countess Dracula stars Ingrid Pitt in an iconic career-defining role as the aged countess who must regularly bathe in virgins' blood to regain her fading youth. Genre stalwart Peter Sasdy directs arguably his best Hammer film from a script by award-winning writer Jeremy Paul and showcasing a rousing score from composer Harry Robinson. Countess Dracula is featured here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. In medieval Hungary Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy an embittered ageing widow discovers by accident that virgin's blood causes her skin become youthful and smooth. Determined to retain her new youth at all costs the Countess coerces her lover to abduct a string of young virgins to keep her supplied with the blood she now craves to stay beautiful... Special Features: Audio commentary with Ingrid Pitt and horror experts Kim Newman and Stephen Jones Original Theatrical Trailer Archive interview with Ingrid Pitt 50 Years of Hammer - news feature Thriller episode Conceptions of Murder episode

• Plein Soleil | DVD | (09/09/2013) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  René Clément's (Forbidden Games Gervasise) 1960's stylish thriller Plein Soleil is adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. Alain Delon (le Cercle Rouge Le Samourai) stars as Tom Ripley an American who travels to Europe on an all-expenses-paid mission to convince his friend the charismatic playboy Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet - Le Feu Follet) to travel to San Francisco at the request of the wealthy Greenleaf family. Initially the pair enjoys the good life in Italy often to the anger and dismay of Philippe's much put-upon fiancée Marge (Marie Laforet). However as Tom's funds begin to run dry it becomes more and more apparent that Philippe has no intention of returning to the U.S. forcing Tom to consider more calculated means of maintaining his extravagant lifestyle. Special Features: Interview with Alain Délon The Restoration of Plein Soleil Réné Clémént: At the Heart of the New Wave - a documentary by Dominque Maillet

• Checkpoint | DVD | (16/04/2012) from £6.65   |  Saving you £6.34 (95.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot.

• Hidden (cache) | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A married couple are terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.

• Father Ted : The Very Best Of Father Ted | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Is it a sitcom? Is it a serious documentary about the Catholic priesthood? No, it's The Very Best of Father Ted, a choice collection of episodes from Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews' affably surreal sitcom. Ted's the normal one, as evidenced by his moving Song for Europe entry, "My Lovely Horse"--a modern classic if ever there wasn't one. Gasp as "poor idiot boy" Father Dougal becomes a rollerblading fiend in "Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading"; be amazed as super Ted saves Craggy Island from a deadly milk-float in the stunning blockbuster sequel "Speed 3" (well, it's faster and more fun than Speed 2); fall off the window-sill as devoted housekeeper Mrs Doyle utters the line that's almost Shakespearean in its sublimity, "Cup of tea, Father?". Graham Norton pops up to annoy everyone in "The Mainland", there's a whole host of Elvis impersonators in "Competition Time", and meanwhile Father Jack doesn't need an excuse to hit the bottle (or to smash one over someone's head) in any episode. Not saying Mass has probably never been so much fun. On the DVD: The Very Best of Father Ted on disc has six episodes as opposed to five on the video release: the extra one is the Christmas special, "A Christmassy Ted". Extra features are selected commentaries by Graham Linehan and Ardal O'Hanlan, a clip compilation of each character, and a rather poor photo gallery. Picture is 4:3 and sound basic stereo. --Gary S Dalkin

• Howard's Way - The Complete Collection | DVD | (27/02/2023) from £38.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Every episode from all six series of the BBC drama following the mixed fortunes of the Howard family. When Tom Howard (Maurice Colbourne) is made redundant, he decides to follow his dream of designing and building boats and uses his redundancy payout to purchase a struggling boatyard. His wife Jan (Jan Harvey) is not impressed with his risky new venture and his decision puts a strain on their relationship. Meanwhile in the coastal town of Tarrant, daily life is full of love, lies, secrets and scheming...

• The New Avengers | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £27.25   |  Saving you £32.74 (120.15%)   |  RRP £59.99

  John Steed and his new accomplices Purdey and Gambit find themselves facing new and deadly dangers in the bizarre world of espionage...

• Father Ted - The Complete 1st Series | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £13.54   |  Saving you £6.45 (32.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From its very beginning in 1995, Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews' affable sitcom Father Ted occupied a previously undiscovered niche in TV comedy: by turns endearing and surreal, it was always effortlessly hilarious. Ted's the almost normal one, fighting the good fight to keep his sanity amid the chaos of his own household, where he lives with "poor idiot boy" Father Dougal, psychotically devoted housekeeper Mrs Doyle and foul-mouthed Father Jack, who doesn't need an excuse to hit the bottle (or smash one over someone's head) in any episode and whose vocabulary consists of just three immortal words: "Drink, Feck, Girls!"The first series opens with "Good Luck, Father Ted" as we learn just how dreary life on Craggy Island really is when Funland arrives (which boasts such attractions as Freak Pointing and the Spinning Cat!). Everyone's patience is tested further when "Entertaining Father Stone"--quite possibly the most boring man on Earth--in the second episode. Proving bad publicity can be good publicity, Ted and Dougal then accidentally manage to attract audiences to the blasphemous film "The Passion of St Tibulus". Their ingenuity is tested to the limit in "Competition Time" as they become "The Three Ages of Elvis". Dermot Morgan's Ted is at his most sympathetic in "And God Created Women" when he gets the wrong end of the stick about the intentions of romantic novelist Polly Clarke. Then, lastly, in " Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest", everyone rallies round at Father Jack's "funeral" to reminisce about what a fine priest and good-natured fellow he was! These six episodes made for a wonderful series debut; catchphrases were born ("Drink!"), as were regular characters (Jim Norton's sinister Bishop Brennan); and like Mrs Doyle's ever-wandering facial mole, audiences wanted it to "go on go on go on".On the DVD: the only extra is an exceedingly self-deprecatory commentary from co-writer Graham Linehan, who explains the origins of the characters and how he wrote in collaboration with Arthur Matthews. He frequently and hilariously compares himself with others (chiefly Mel Brooks on Young Frankensteinand The Producers). Fans will be delighted to hear many jokes that nearly made it into the show, but will undoubtedly end up somewhere else! --Paul Tonks

• Gangsters - The Complete Series | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Emerging from the Play for Today anthology series in 1975 Philip Martin's near two-hour-length play Gangsters proved so popular that a series was commissioned and followed eighteen months later. Following the lead of such gritty cop dramas as The Sweeney Gangsters revealed a world of racial segregation and ghettos in the style of American television; and it didn't hold back on the violence or bad language either. Former SAS officer John Kline (Maurice C