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• Wonka | DVD | (04/03/2024) from £8.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Wonka | Blu Ray | (04/03/2024) from £9.67   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the extraordinary character at the centre of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, thejewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the bestselling children's books of all time, Wonkatells the wondrous story of how the worlds greatest inventor, magician and chocolatemakerbecame the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big screenspectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chockfull of ideas and determined tochange the world one delectable bite at a time proving that the best things in life begin with adream, and if youre lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.

• Truly, Madly, Deeply | DVD | (05/03/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Truly Madly Deeply is an intelligent, moving, and deeply funny story about love and death. Nina (Juliet Stevenson), a scatterbrained professional translator, has lost the love of her life, Jamie (Alan Rickman). As her life (and her flat) slowly falls to pieces, she is inundated with an endless stream of repairmen and eligible suitors. But rather than go on with life, Nina dwells on her dead love, slumped at her piano, endlessly playing half of a Bach duet. Then, in a truly magical sequence, his cello suddenly joins her melody... and Jamie's back from the dead. At first it's bliss--think of the superficially similar blockbuster Ghost, only with real people instead of pretty faces Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. But Nina gradually realises it's a thoroughly real Jamie who's back; complete with every annoying, argumentative fault she'd conveniently forgotten. (He might be dead, he explains, but he still attends political meetings.) Moreover, he has to hide whenever any of the living are around. And he's constantly ice-cold. And he invites his dead pals to her place at all hours. What's a living woman to do? Director Anthony Minghella went on to create the melodramatic period piece The English Patient--but in this film, he shows a far more sensitive, subtle touch. The photography is brilliant, capturing the simple beauties of suburban London. And the wonderfully acted characters, quirky and all too real, will keep you laughing--and always guessing what will happen next.--Grant Balfour, Amazon.com

• The Howling III | Blu Ray | (07/10/2019) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?

• Wonka | Blu Ray | (04/03/2024) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the extraordinary character at the centre of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the bestselling children's books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the worlds greatest inventor, magician and chocolatemaker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big screen spectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chockfull of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time proving that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if youre lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.

• Truly, Madly, Deeply BD | Blu Ray | (05/03/2018) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-0.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.09

  Truly Madly Deeply is an intelligent, moving, and deeply funny story about love and death. Nina (Juliet Stevenson), a scatterbrained professional translator, has lost the love of her life, Jamie (Alan Rickman). As her life (and her flat) slowly falls to pieces, she is inundated with an endless stream of repairmen and eligible suitors. But rather than go on with life, Nina dwells on her dead love, slumped at her piano, endlessly playing half of a Bach duet. Then, in a truly magical sequence, his cello suddenly joins her melody... and Jamie's back from the dead. At first it's bliss--think of the superficially similar blockbuster Ghost, only with real people instead of pretty faces Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. But Nina gradually realises it's a thoroughly real Jamie who's back; complete with every annoying, argumentative fault she'd conveniently forgotten. (He might be dead, he explains, but he still attends political meetings.) Moreover, he has to hide whenever any of the living are around. And he's constantly ice-cold. And he invites his dead pals to her place at all hours. What's a living woman to do? Director Anthony Minghella went on to create the melodramatic period piece The English Patient--but in this film, he shows a far more sensitive, subtle touch. The photography is brilliant, capturing the simple beauties of suburban London. And the wonderfully acted characters, quirky and all too real, will keep you laughing--and always guessing what will happen next.--Grant Balfour, Amazon.com

• Simon Schama - A History of Britain : The Complete Series | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments, but Schama's way of telling it is a good deal more enthralling as a result. Schama successfully gives lie to the idea that the history of Britain has been moderate and temperate, passing down the generations as stately as a galleon, taking on board sensible ideas but steering clear of sillier, revolutionary ones. Nonsense. Schama retells British history the way it was--as bloody, convulsive, precarious, hot-blooded and several times within an inch of haring off onto an entirely different course. Schama seems almost to delight in the goriness of history. Themes returned to repeatedly include the wars between the Scots and the Irish and the Catholic/Protestant conflicts--only the Irish question remains unresolved by the new millennium. As Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy, Schama talks less of Kings and Queens but of poets and idea-makers like Orwell. Still, with his pungent, direct manner and against an evocative visual and aural backdrop, Schama makes history seem as though it happened yesterday, the bloodstains not yet dry. On the DVD: The Complete History of Britain extras are generously packaged on a separate disc and include the original score and a Simon Schama biography. There's an interesting "promotional message" to camera in which Schama explains the role of a cab driver, Wally, in inspiring the series, along with an interview with Mark Lawson in which Schama stresses the deliberate subjectivity of these programmes and an inaugural BBC History lecture in which he defends TV's ability to transpose history to camera. --David Stubbs

• A Private Function | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The story's setting is 1947 England where hard-hit Brits won't let mandatory food rationing keep them from celebrating the wedding of the future queen to Lt. Phillip Mountbatten. But there may be no public banquet for citizens in a Yorkshire town. The contraband guest of honour they've pampered and fattened has been pignapped!

• Auf Wiedersehen Pet Box Set - The Complete Series 1 and 2 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £89.99

  The entire first and second series of the cult TV show. In the first series a group of builders from England go over to Germany to work on a site by day and do their bit for European harmony and understanding by night. The episodes are: 'If I Were a Carpenter' 'Who Won the War Anyway?' 'The Girls They Left Behind' 'Suspicion' 'Home Thoughts From Abroad' 'The Accused' 'Private Lives' 'The Fugitive' 'The Alien' 'The Last Rites' 'The Lovers' 'Love and Other Four Letter Words'

• Just Ask For Diamond | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Hondo | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £9.60   |  Saving you £0.39 (4.06%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Apache war drums sound an ominous warning for an isolated female rancher and her young son in this exciting and memorable John Wayne classic. Wayne plays Hondo Lane a cavalry rider who becomes the designated protector of the strong-willed Angie Lowe (Geraldine Page) as well as a father figure to her boy Johnny (Lee Aaker). Angie determinedly awaiting the return of her brutish husband (Leo Gordon) refuses to leave their homestead despite the growing danger from nearby warring Native American tribes. And she finds herself growing more and more enthralled with this stranger Hondo - a man hardened by experience but still capable of sympathy kindness and love. Ward Bond Michael Pate James Arness and Rodolfo Acosta co-star; Page received an Academy Award-nomination for Best Supporting Actress in this one of her first film roles.

• A Private Function | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A Private Function is a hysterically funny tale of social climbing and a stolen pig starring Monty Python legend and famous world traveller Michael Palin (A Fish Called Wanda; Brazil; Time Bandits; The Missionary).

• Wonka (UHD/ BD) | Blu Ray | (04/03/2024) from £55.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the extraordinary character at the centre of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the bestselling children's books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolatemaker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big screen spectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chockfull of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time-proving that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you're lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.

• Howling 3 - The Marsupials | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £8.93   |  Saving you £-5.94 (-198.70%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Professor Harry Beckmeyer is called to the White House to explain to the President his most startling piece of classified information and evidence that a tribe of werewolves are in existence in Australia. He experiments on a captured werewolf in his lab and learns the torment of a freak species. But to the US Government and the Military it's an experiment way out of control. For them an agent of Satan is at large. A dreadful threat to all of mankind. It must be hunted down and exterminated.

• MAZE 3D (1953) - MAZE 3D (1953) (1 Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/04/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sherlock Homes & The Baker Street Irregulars | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This BBC drama centres around a group of street kids known as the Baker Street Irregulars who act as Sherlock Holmes' eyes and ears. This original Sherlock Holmes mystery involves Holmes and the Irregulars having to solve the disappearance of two of their own gang.

• Foyle's War - French Drop / Enemy Fire | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £12.96   |  Saving you £15.02 (150.65%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Set during World War II Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) is a Detective Chief Superintendent who is refused his request of a transfer to join the war effort and remains on the home front. As the war rages in Europe Foyle finds his skills at detection in high demand as he battles against murder anti-Semitism mystery and betrayal on the south coast of England... Featuring the first 2 episodes of series 3.

• Hondo | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Apache war drums sound an ominous warning for an isolated female rancher and her young son in this exciting and memorable John Wayne classic. Wayne plays Hondo Lane a cavalry rider who becomes the designated protector of the strong-willed Angie Lowe (Geraldine Page) as well as a father figure to her boy Johnny (Lee Aaker). Angie determinedly awaiting the return of her brutish husband (Leo Gordon) refuses to leave their homestead despite the growing danger from nearby warring Native American tribes. And she finds herself growing more and more enthralled with this stranger Hondo – a man hardened by experience but still capable of sympathy kindness and love. Ward Bond Michael Pate James Arness and Rodolfo Acosta co-star; Page received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in this one of her first film roles. Special Features: Commentary by Leonard Maltin Western Historian Frank Thompson and Actor Lee Aaker Introduction by Leonard Maltin The Making of Hondo The Apache From the Batjac Vaults Theatrical Trailer (HD) Photo Gallery

• Monk Dawson | DVD | (09/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Mad Dog Morgan | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A young man finds no luck in the Australian gold rush and drifts into petty crime. His life changes when he gets twelve years in an infamous prison.