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• Ripping Yarns - The Complete Series | DVD | (05/03/2012) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following the phenomenal success of Monty Python s Flying Circus Michael Palin and Terry Jones created this unforgettable BAFTA-winning series of comic plays for the BBC. Gleefully parodying the conventions of Boy s Own-style adventure Ripping Yarns sees Palin taking the protagonist s role in nine rip-roaring stories from stirring tales of sporting endeavour intrepid exploration and wartime heroism to skulduggery supernatural mystery and murder... and of course the notorious exploits of Eric Olthwaite - Yorkshire s most interesting outlaw. An illustrious supporting cast includes John Le Mesurier Iain Cuthbertson Denholm Elliott Joan Sanderson and Don Henderson with Terry Jones starring in one episode and fellow former Python John Cleese also making a cameo appearance; the series was produced and directed by the multi award-winning team of Terry Hughes (The Two Ronnies) Jim Franklin (The Goodies) and Alan J.W. Bell (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy). Both series originally aired between 1976 and 1979 are released in this special-edition set with special features including deleted scenes a 1983 documentary Comic Roots in which Palin revisits his native Sheffield and Secrets the only surviving recording of Palin and Jones 1973 screenplay for the BBC s darkly comic (now sadly wiped) Black and Blue anthology series.

• How Stella Got Her Groove Back | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £6.00   |  Saving you £6.99 (116.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back, stars Angela Bassett as a 40-year-old, Manhattan stock trader and single mother whose static life gets a jolt during a vacation with her pal (Whoopi Goldberg) in Jamaica. Sparks fly when Bassett meets a 20-year-old stud (Taye Diggs) who has an ambivalent career path but a great body and lots of sexual energy to burn. After some prodding by Goldberg's warm-funny secondary character, Bassett gets it on with the fellow--and proceeds to worry about what she's doing with a man half her age. The film is most enjoyable in its sunny, exotic early scenes and becomes more formulaic once the unlikely couple transports their will-we-stay-together-or-won't-we tensions back to the Big Apple. But director Kevin Rodney Sullivan goes out of his way to make a movie unabashedly thick with fantasy and wish-fulfilment for female audiences (it's Diggs who reveals a lot more flesh than the regal Bassett). This is a Saturday-night movie all around. --Tom Keogh

• Deathstroke: Knights and Dragons | Blu Ray | (17/08/2020) from £9.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ten years ago, Slade Wilson aka the super-assassin called Deathstroke made a tragic mistake, and his wife and son paid a terrible price. Now, a decade later, Wilson's family is threatened once again by the murderous Jackal and the terrorists of H.IV.E. Can Deathstroke atone for the sins of the past or will his family pay the ultimate price?

• Sister Act / Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £11.00   |  Saving you £8.99 (81.73%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sister Act: A Hilariously Divine Comedy!"" -ABC Radio Network. Relive all the fun laughter and irresistible music of Sister Act - the inspired comedy hit that packed pews everywhere! Whoopi Goldberg stars as a sassy low-rent lounge singer forced to hide out from the mob in the last place anyone would ever look for her - a convent. While she's there her irreverent behavior attracts a flock of faithful followers and turns the nuns' tone-deaf choir into a soulful chorus of swin

• Fury | 4K UHD | (28/05/2018) from £18.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany. Special features: Presented in SD or HD resolution 4K ultra HD: Tanks of Fury Documentary No Guts, No Glory: The Horrors of Combat Featurette Tiger 131 Featurette Heart of Fury Featurette Clash of Armour Featurette Theatrical Trailers Blu-Ray: Over 50 Minutes of Deleted & Extended Scenes Director's Combat Journal Armoured Warriors: The Real Men Inside the Shermans Featurette Taming the Beasts: How to Drive, Fire & Shoot Inside a 30-Ton Tank Featurette Blood Brothers Featurette

• Parky's Picks | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £4.47   |  Saving you £20.52 (459.06%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This collection celebrates the great talkers and demonstrates what the Parkinson show was all about. By concentrating in greater depth on individuals who remain fresh in the memory and high in my esteem you'll be entertained, informed and reminded that the show gave time and space for the guest to talk on whatever subject took their fancy. So sit back and enjoy the likes of Oprah Winfrey on her extraordinary childhood, Michael Caine on learning to drive Hollywood Style, Dr Jacob Bronowski’s thoughts on the morality of science, Jonathan Miller's chicken impressions, Peter Ustinov's ordeal at the hands of Japan's answer to Michael Parkinson, Dame Judi Dench on Shakespeare in the nude, Don McCullin on war photography and Bette Midler on performing in Turkish Baths.

• One Tree Hill - Season 1 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £61.99

  One Tree Hill: Season 1 marks the beginning of a genuinely engrossing series that maintains, for a long while, an unusual focus on a single, powerful conflict defining the destinies of two characters. Adolescent half-brothers Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan (James Lafferty) Scott have lived parallel lives in One Tree, North Carolina. They share a common father, Dan Scott (Paul Johansson), who has disregarded the existence of Lucas, his son by a one-time flame, Karen (Moira Kelly), whom he dumped years before to accept a basketball scholarship to college. While neglecting Lucas, Dan--whose hoop dreams never materialized--has spent his time almost perversely micro-managing every one of Nathan's moves on and off the court at his old high school, where the lad is currently an arrogant superstar under gruff-but-wise coach Whitey Durham (Barry Corbin). Nathan (whose mother is separated from Dan) is a child of privilege and has been raised to disregard teamwork, compromise, or the feelings of others. He regards Lucas, a basketball sensation on neighborhood playgrounds, as trash, and his own girlfriend, Peyton (Hilarie Burton), as a pretty bauble he can abuse and dismiss at will. Still, he's sympathetic; one can see glimpses of the human being struggling to emerge from under Dan's control. Meanwhile, Lucas helps Karen run her café, hangs out with platonic best friend Haley (Bethany Joy Lenz), and pines for Peyton (herself a punky misfit at heart). He also turns to surrogate dad Keith Scott (Craig Sheffer)--actually his uncle and Dan's older brother--for support, and sees himself as a perpetual and doomed outsider in One Tree. All that changes when Whitey invites Lucas to join the b-ball team that Nathan dominates, a move that challenges the status quo of multiple relationships in a small community. For about a third of its episodes, this series from creator Mark Schwahn (who wrote the hit film Coach Carter) stays true to the suspense surrounding Lucas's and Nathan's changes in fortune. Then a bit of padding follows to the end of the season; there are 22 episodes to fill out, after all. But even as various distractions (a kidnapping subplot, a car accident and coma for a major character) and random events creep in (Dan, rather incredibly, takes over the team from Whitey at one point, thus coaching both his sons), One Tree Hill remains highly watchable. The writing is shaped well and organic, while performances are consistently excellent. (It's especially good to see Sheffer, perhaps best known for A River Runs Through It, again.) --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• The Tower | DVD | (13/12/2021) from £8.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Last House On The Left | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £5.87   |  Saving you £14.12 (240.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Masters of horror Wes Craven and Sean Cunningham revisit their landmark film that launched Craven's directing career and influenced decades of horror films to follow: The Last House On The Left.

• Planet of the Apes | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £5.88   |  Saving you £17.11 (290.99%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Director Tim Burton's eagerly awaited new take on the story of an astronaut (Mark Wahlberg) who crashlands on a strange planet, only to find a civilisation where Apes are the dominant species!

• Fantasy Island | DVD | (13/07/2020) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Blumhouse's Fantasy Island, the enigmatic Mr. Roarke makes the secret dreams of his lucky quests come true at a luxurious but remote tropical resort. But when the fantasies turn into nightmares, the guests have to solve the island's mystery in order to escape with their lives.

• Jeepers Creepers 3 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £9.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Taking place on the last day of the Creeper's twenty-three-day feeding frenzy, as the skeptical Sargent Tubbs teams up with a task force hellbent on destroying the Creeper for good. The Creeper fights back in gory glory as its enemies grow closer than ever before to learning the secret of its dark origins.

• Brat Pack Collection - Breakfast Club / About Last Night / St Elmo's Fire | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Breakfast Club (Dir. John Hughes 1985): Without doubt John Hughes' The Breakfast Club is one of the greatest teen movies of all-time if not the best. Without it we might not have witnessed the phenomenal rise of the 'Brat Pack'; the group of actors synonymous with the teen films of the '80s. They were five teenage students with nothing in common faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their High School library. At 7am they had nothing to say but

• Z Nation: Season One, Two & Three | Blu Ray | (09/10/2017) from £19.69   |  Saving you £11.81 (59.98%)   |  RRP £31.50

  All 43 episodes from Seasons One, Two & Three of the hit Zombie series, Z Nation - in a 12 disc set. SEASON ONE Three years after the devastating ZN1 virus gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of a zombie attack and humanity s last hope to develop a vaccine from New York to California. However, he s hiding a secret that could endanger the mission. Z Nation: Season 1 is a rollercoaster of non-stop thrills, chills, and blood-splattering fun. EXTRAS: Race for The Cure: The Making of Z Nation Preparing for the ZN1 Virus Behind the Gore Music of The Apocalypse Zombie Kill Reel Z-Nation Gag Reel and more SEASON TWO While the heroes barely surviving the nuclear blasts search for Murphy, Citizen Z broadcasts Murphy's identity and offers a bounty from the CDC to get him to California safely. Suddenly everyone wants a piece of The Murphy, including a mysterious and deadly bounty hunter, Vasquez. EXTRAS: Making Of Season 2 Behind The Effects Zombie Kill Reel SEASON THREE With Operation Bite Mark in shambles and our heroes again on the hunt for Murphy, the mission has changed, the team makeup has changed, and even the threats have changed. With all new horrors like Wolf-Z's, Electro-Shock Z's, and the deadly but surprisingly feral humans called 'Enders', the Apocalypse has gotten worse, and the stakes have gotten higher.

• The Stuff | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A satirical horror movie about a designer foodstuff that takes the public by storm... but are they eating it or is it eating them? Another cult classic from director Larry Cohen (It's Alive Black Caesar Q - The Winged Serpent).

• Murder One - Season 1 And 2 | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  The complete two seasons of the thrilling Murder One show in which a single but multi-faceted case is explored from opening trial arguments to final judgment over the course of many enthralling episodes.

• Fred Claus | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £4.45   |  Saving you £-1.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.00

  Fred Claus has lived almost his entire life in his little brother's very large shadow so when Fred arrives at the North Pole to work off a debt, trouble isn't far behind.

• Basquiat | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In his writing and directorial debut, Julian Schnabel's film Basquiat depicts the life of graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, aka SAMO, and the turbulent period from the late 1970s to 1988, as his life was catapulted into fame and notoriety. As Jean-Michel's work gained favourable attention from New York's elite art community, he went from a street punk living in a cardboard box to the first black artist to succeed in the all-white dominated art world. Tony Award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright does a brilliant job portraying a man tortured by self-doubt and thoughts of suicide, struggling to survive and be acknowledged as an artist. The film's use of dream-like imagery and rhythmic pace tells the story from the perspective of Jean-Michel's eyes as he manages to "float" through relationships and gallery showings,until his impending death in 1988 from a heroin overdose. Brimming with talent, the film also stars David Bowie as pop-artist Andy Warhol, Michael Wincott as poet Rene Ricard and many others, including Gary Oldman, Benicio del Toro, Dennis Hopper and Courtney Love. --Michele Goodson

• Comancheros, The / The Undefeated | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £10.78   |  Saving you £4.21 (39.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This is a John Wayne Western double-bill featuring The Comancheros (1961) and The Undefeated (1969). Nobody made a fuss about The Comancheros when it came out, yet it has proved to be among the most enduringly entertaining of John Wayne's later Westerns. The Duke, just beginning to crease and thicken toward Rooster Cogburn proportions, plays a veteran Texas Ranger named Jake Cutter who joins forces with a New Orleans dandy (Stuart Whitman) to subdue rampaging Indians and the evil white men behind their uprising. The Comancheros was the last credit for Michael Curtiz (Casablanca), who, ravaged by cancer, ceded much of the direction to Wayne (uncredited) and action specialist Cliff Lyons. With support from Wayne stalwarts James Edward Grant (co-screenplay) and William Clothier (camera), the first of many rousing Elmer Bernstein scores for a Wayne picture and a big, flavourful cast including Lee Marvin (the once and future Liberty Valance), Nehemiah Persoff, Bruce Cabot, and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams (in his last movie), they made a broad, cheerfully bloodthirsty adventure movie for red-meat-eating audiences of all ages. In The Undefeated Wayne and Rock Hudson each play a Civil War commander who, after the ceasefire, lead a community of folks into Mexico to make a fresh start. Hudson is a Southern gentleman; Wayne commanded the Yankee cavalry at Shiloh, where Hudson's brother died. Nevertheless, Rock, with his extended family, and Duke, with his troop of cowboys and 3,000 horses to sell to Emperor Maximilian, soon join forces to outgun banditos and beam paternally over the budding romance between their respective daughter and son. Lingering North-South animosities are celebrated in an obligatory communal fistfight, and the showdown with both Maximilian's lancers and the rebel Juaristas is disconcertingly perfunctory. --Richard T Jameson

• Cold In July | DVD | (20/10/2014) from £4.33   |  Saving you £11.66 (269.28%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Noir thriller directed by Jim Mickle and starring Michael C. Hall and Sam Shepard. Texan small-business owner Richard Dane (Hall) has been hailed as the town hero since he protected his wife (Vinessa Shaw) and child by fatally shooting a would-be burglar inside their home. Residual guilt from the encounter is quickly dissipated by the police who assure Richard that he was acting in self-defence and therefore cannot be held accountable for the murder. However, when the burglar's recently-parol.