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• The Steamie | DVD | (24/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tony Roper wrote The Steamie for Glasgow's Mayfest in 1987 and since then the play has always been in production somewhere in Britain. This is now your chance to own the original version of the smash-hit of the year which played to packed audiences in the theatre and was watched by millions when it was produced for television. Return to Hogmanay 1957 when a feisty bunch of Glasgow women - Mrs Culfeathers, Dolly, Doreen and the irrepressible Magrit - all meet at The Steamie to d...

• Man About the House | DVD | (28/01/2019) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  British comedy spin-off from the popular 1970s sitcom. Robin (Richard O'Sullivan) is a young catering student who shares a flat with two girls, Chrissy (Paula Wilcox) and Jo (Sally Thomsett). Robin spends his time desperately trying to win Chrissie over with his charm, while the three of them must team up with their landlords (George and Mildred) to stop their home from being demolished.

• Transcendence | Blu Ray | (25/08/2014) from £10.75   |  Saving you £14.24 (132.47%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A scientist has his brain uploaded into a computer in a cutting edge experiment.

• Bewitched - Season 2 | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Elizabeth Montgomery stars as Samantha Stephens a pretty typical America housewife who just happens to be a witch in this beloved comedy classic. Episodes Comprise: 1. Alias Darrin Stephens 2. A Very Special Delivery 3. We're In For A Bad Spell 4. My Grandson The Warlock 5. The Joker Is A Card 6. Take Two Aspirin 7. Trick Or Treat 8. The Very Informal Dress 9. And Then I Wrote 10. Junior Executive 11. Aunt Clara's Old Flame 12. A Strange Little Visitor 13. My Boss The Teddy

• Bugsy Malone | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £6.48   |  Saving you £2.51 (38.73%)   |  RRP £8.99

  New York, 1929: a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan in Alan Parker's much-loved kiddie mob flick.

• Transcendence | DVD | (25/08/2014) from £4.39   |  Saving you £15.60 (355.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A scientist has his brain uploaded into a computer in a cutting edge experiment.

• Man About the House | Blu Ray | (28/01/2019) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Catering student Robin Tripp sees nothing untoward about sharing a flat with two girls, Chrissy and Jo. It's an arrangement that suits all parties admirably unless the girls try their hand at cooking or Robin's animal urges get the better of him but it's a source of ongoing consternation to their landlords, Mr and Mrs Roper! This feature-film spinoff from the massively popular television series stars Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett as the groovy flatmates and Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy as landlords George and Mildred. Transferred in High Definition from original film elements, Man About the House guest stars Love Thy Neighbour's Jack Smethurst and Rudolph Walker, alongside Arthur Lowe, Bill Maynard and comedy genius Spike Milligan! SPECIAL FEATURES: Theatrical trailer Image gallery PDF material

• Bewitched - Season 1 | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Elizabeth Montgomery stars as Samantha Stephens a pretty typical America housewife who just happens to be a witch in this beloved comedy classic. Included in this magical DVD collection is the Emmy Award-winning series entire first season; 36 episodes (originally in black and white here colourised for DVD) that introduce one of the funniest ensemble casts in TV history. Dick York as Samantha's mortal husband Darin Agnes Moorehead as his witch of a mother-in-law Endora. Alice Pea

• The Trench | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in the 48 hours leading up to the catastrophic battle of the Somme this is the intense story of young men at war as seen through the eyes of 17-year old Billy Macfarlane (Nicholls). As the boys wait for the attack alternately excited and terrified this group of nave soldiers is forced to confront the reality of the enemy as the suspense reaches breaking point. When Billy's platoon is ordered to go with the first wave of attackers the awful truth of what they're about to un

• Man About The House - Series 1 | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £8.95   |  Saving you £4.04 (31.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of Thames TV's most successful sitcoms about the ups and downs of mixed flat-sharing. Three's A Crowd: Chrissy and Jo throw a farewell party for their flatmate who's getting engaged and moving out. Next morining they find Robin asleep in their bath. They're looking for a new flatmate and Robin is looking for somewhere to live so the girls ask Robin to stay. All they have to do then is to talk the Ropers into agreeing to the new arrangement... And Mother Makes Four: Chrissy's mother is about to pay a visit. She doesn't know Robin is living in the flat so he's told to make himself scarce. Then Chrissy's mother decides to stay the night... Some Enchanted Evening: Jo's new boyfriend is coming to the flat for a meal. Robin is persuaded to cook it. Then he and Chrissy have to spend the evening playing monopoly with the Ropers. They learn that Chrissy's boyfriend is Jewish - and Robin has cooked roast pork for their meal! And Then There Were Two: Chrissy is very nervous when Jo goes away for the weekend and leaves her alone in the flat with Robin. Robin brings another woman back only for Chrissy to sabotage his plans for a night of passion. It's Only Money: The rent is due and the money put aside to pay it has disappeared from the flat. Robin Chrissy and Jo have to find a way of getting some more money quickly... Match Of The Day: Robin has been picked to play in a college football match. A few days before the game he goes down with a bad cold. Chrissy and Jo rally round in an attempt to help him to recover in time to play. No CHildren No Dogs: Robin accidentally acquires a puppy. The lease on the flat says 'no pets' so Roper mustn't find out...

• Big Momma's House/ Big Momma's House 2 Double Pack | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £5.39   |  Saving you £7.60 (141.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Titles Comprise: Big Momma's House: Disguise the limit in this hilarious heavyweight hit that's 'bigger than Mrs. Doubtfire and badder than Tootsie' (Mike Cidoni, ABC-TV). 'Martin Lawrence brings down the house' (E! Online) as crafty FBI agent Malcolm Turner - he's willing to go through thick and thin in order to catch an escaped federal prisoner. 'Nia Long is captivating' (Checkout.com) as Sherry, the con's sexy former flame - she might have the skinny on m...

• Wagner: Parsifal | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £18.65   |  Saving you £3.34 (17.91%)   |  RRP £21.99

  A performance of Wagner's opera 'Parsifal' featuring the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Conducted by James Levine. The action takes place in the Middle Ages. At the castle of Monsalvat cut off from the rest of the world the brotherhood of Grail Knights guards the chalice in which the blood of the crucified Saviour had once been caught. In an effort to seize possession of the Grail Klingsor a powerful magician has established his realm at the foot of the mountain peop

• Man About The House - Series 1 | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £7.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of Thames TV's most successful sitcoms about the ups and downs of mixed flat-sharing. Three's A Crowd: Chrissy and Jo throw a farewell party for their flatmate who's getting engaged and moving out. Next morining they find Robin asleep in their bath. They're looking for a new flatmate and Robin is looking for somewhere to live so the girls ask Robin to stay. All they have to do then is to talk the Ropers into agreeing to the new arrangement... And Mother Makes Four:

• Chuck And Buck | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-3.55 (-118.70%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Once upon a time, in a childhood land of lollipops and sleepovers, Chuck and Buck were the best of friends; their days marked out with "fun, fun, fun". The trouble is that Chuck grew up and Buck did not. When the pair are reunited at a family funeral, Chuck (now a thrusting music exec with a pert girlfriend and an apartment in the Hollywood hills) finds himself bothered and bewildered by the creepy lost boy he thought he'd left behind. "I like your house," mumbles Buck, sticking out like a sore thumb at an uptight yuppie party. "It's very old person-y." Shot on a shoestring budget by Miguel Arteta, Chuck and Buck offers a uniquely rich and strange comedy of retarded childhood. Think of this as a Peter Pan for modern-day America, or the Tom Hanks film Big viewed through a glass darkly. The slender premise contains deep pockets of ambiguity. After all, who's the real victim here? The harassed Chuck (played by American Pie co-creator Chris Weitz) or the spurned, saucer-eyed Buck (Mike White, who also wrote the script)? And who is the hero: the successful, status-conscious professional or the dopey, tearful wild card? Throughout the tale, you find your sympathies swinging back and forth between them. Make no mistake, Chuck and Buck is alive with hilarious, often horrific set-pieces. Yet Arteta's direction keeps it on a tight leash, prevents it from descending to the level of a simple freak-show. Instead his film blossoms from an odd-couple farce into a drolly provocative (and oddly humane) portrait of that shadow period between infancy and adolescence. White's character comes across as a very human kind of movie monster. Resplendent in stripy T-shirt, Buck is Chuck's conscience, his id, the ghost of childhood come back to haunt him. --Xan Brooks

• Deadbeat at Dawn | Blu Ray | (22/10/2018) from £9.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jim VanBebber's notorious, blood-drenched cult classic Deadbeat at Dawn rises again on the advent of its 30th anniversary, newly restored for the first time on Blu-ray. Locked and loaded with a raft of new extras, see Deadbeat as you've never seen it before in all its head-busting, bone-crushing glory! Written by, directed by and starring VanBebber, Deadbeat follows the story of Goose a gang leader whose girlfriend is brutally slaughtered when he attempts to leave the thug life behind. Pulled back into the gang, who've now formed an uneasy alliance with the thugs that butchered his girl, Goose sees an opportunity to exact his brutal, deadly revenge. The very definition of DIY, independent filmmaking (VanBebber quit film school after his first year and used his student loan to fund the movie), Deadbeat at Dawn surpasses its low-budget origins to create a revenge movie that delivers more thrills and bloody spills than all of Chuck Norris' films combined. Special Edition Contents: Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements by Arrow Films, supervised and approved by writer-director Jim VanBebber High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed PCM mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new free-wheeling audio commentary with Jim VanBebber ('Goose', The Ravens' Gang Leader), actor Paul Harper ('Danny Carmodi', The Spyders' Gang Leader) and guest Cody Lee Hardin, moderated by filmmaker Victor Bonacore (Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber) Jim VanBebber, Deadbeat Forever! a brand new retrospective documentary on VanBebber and the Deadbeat legacy by Filmmaker Victor Bonacore, featuring first-time interviews, super-rare footage, VanBebber's college films and much, much more! Archival 1986 behind-the-scenes documentary Nate Pennington's VHS documentary on a failed Deadbeat shoot Outtakes, newly transferred in HD Four newly-restored VanBebber short films Into the Black (1983, 34 mins), My Sweet Satan (1993, 19 mins), Roadkill: The Last Days of John Martin (1994, 14 mins) and Gator Green (2013, 16 mins) Jim VanBebber Music Video Collection, featuring never-before-seen Director's Cuts Chunkblower promotional trailer for an unfinished Gary Blair Smith-produced gore-soaked feature film Extensive Image Gallery Never-Before-Seen Stills! Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector's booklet featuring new writing by Scott Gabbey and Graham Rae

• The Steamie | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £5.22   |  Saving you £9.77 (187.16%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Written by Tony Roper The Steamie is set around Hogmany 1957 when a feisty bunch of Glasgow women (Mrs Culfeathers Dolly Doreen and the irrepresible Magrit) all meet at The Steamie to do the traditional family wash before the New Year. The Steamie is a hilarious cameo of Glasgow's social histroy where the washing was always easier to do when the women shared their laughter and sorrow and a scandalous supply of gossip.

• Man About The House - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The complete third series of one of Thames TV's most successful sitcoms about the ups and downs of mixed flat-sharing. Episodes comprise: 1. Cuckoo In The Nest 2. Come Into My Parlour 3. I Won't Dance Don't Ask Me 4. Of Mice And Women 5. We Shall Not Be Moved 6. Three Of A Kind

• Man About The House - Series 2 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When London bachelor girls Chrissy and Jo need a third girl to share their apartment they find the answer asleep in their bathtub. His name is Robin Tripp and though he's not a girl exactly he is studying to be a gourmet chef and who can tell the difference these days anyway? Landlord George Roper can for one and he's incensed. His wife Mildred can too and she's intrigued... So the question is will the good-cooking newcomer Robin Tripp fall on his face or feet - or wind up with e

• Peter And The Wolf / L'Enfant Et Les Sortileges | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It was a happy idea to couple the Royal Ballet School production of Peter and the Wolf with the Netherlands Dance Theatre's L'enfant et les sortiléges, for in each story the boy is the protagonist, in one instance leading a wolf hunt and in the other wreaking revenge on his toys after his mother has locked him in his room to finish his homework. Neither work in their final form was conceived for dancing: the Prokofiev comes from the concert hall and the Ravel from the opera house. Colette, the authoress of Gigi penned the story of L'enfant et les sortil&ecute;ges, which is related here in an introduction by the choreographer Jiri Kylian with charm and a nod back at his own childhood pranks. Viewers coming to this dance version of the opera for the first time maybe be surprised that Ravel composed the boy's role for a girl and a rather buxom one in this instance. The somewhat gloomy, heavily embroidered production misses no opportunity in bringing to life the toys in the boy's room or the animals in the garden that turn on him in retribution. In conclusion as an act of compassion of binding the paw of an injured squirrel, the boy and the animal kingdom are reconciled in music of a truly sublime nature. Lorin Maazel conducts Ravel's sophisticated and witty score with its translucent vocal lines with the affection for which he has long been renowned. In marked contrast to that production, Peter and the Wolf is set against a plain backdrop with one prop, a slice of carved tree trunk centre stage. Anthony Dowell narrates and also dances the role of the Grandfather with aplomb. In each instance a musical instrument represents a character. The choreographer Matthew Hart marshals his small group of dancers, duck, cat, bird and wolf, with imagination and dexterity. David Johnson as Peter (represented by the full orchestra) gives a splendid performance, boyish and graceful, making a further excellent advertisement for schoolboys considering dancing as a career in the wake of Billy Elliot. A stylish presented and well contrasted double bill. --Adrian Edwards

• Man About The House | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This is the film based on the 1970s TV sitcom Man About the House, made during the same period with the same cast. At the time, the whole idea of a single man and two single women sharing a flat, however (more-or-less) platonically, seemed terribly naughty. The scriptwriters wickedly stirred things up even further by making Richard O'Sullivan's character a randy-but-gentlemanly heterosexual, despite being a catering student--after all, in the 70s everyone just knew that all chefs were roaring poofs. The trio's sex-starved landlady (Yootha Joyce) and her rodent-like, impotent husband (Brian Murphy) were later to get their own series, George and Mildred. The plot is a perfunctory affair, as property developers attempt and fail to demolish the street in which the protagonists live. That said, the script (cowritten by John Mortimer) isn't really narrative-driven anyway, it's purely an excuse for the characters to interact with the will-they-won't-they-ooh-they-are-a-bit relationship between Robin and Chrissie (Paula Wilcox) and practically invites the viewer to cheer them on. While the transition to the big screen caused the idea to lose much of its energy, as a dollop of comedy nostalgia Man About the House is still great fun. And if you don't laugh at the jokes, just check out the clothes, cars, hairstyles and makeup, not to mention all that cigarette smoking! --Roger Thomas