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• STING | Blu Ray | (19/08/2024) from £9.94   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One cold, stormy night in New York City, a mysterious object falls from the sky and smashes through the window of a rundown apartment building. It is an egg, and from this egg emerges a strange little spider... The creature is discovered by Charlotte, a rebellious 12-year-old girl obsessed with comic books. Her mother and stepfather, Ethan, are distracted by their new baby and are struggling to cope, leaving Charlotte to bond with the spider. Keeping it as a secret pet, she names it Sting. As Charlotte's fascination with Sting increases, so does its size. Growing at a monstrous rate, Sting's appetite for blood becomes insatiable. Neighbours' pets start to go missing, and then the neighbours themselves. Soon Charlotte's family and the eccentric characters of the building realise that they are all trapped, hunted by a ravenous supersized arachnid with a taste for human flesh - and Charlotte is the only one who knows how to stop it.

• The Flaxton Boys 1 | DVD | (20/07/2015) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first series in Yorkshire Television's long-running fondly remembered children's drama which traces the lives of four generations of the Flaxton family across the ages. This thirteen-part adventure story begins in Yorkshire in 1854 as young Jonathan Flaxton and his mother take up a mysterious inheritance: a bleak supposedly haunted hall thought to conceal a wealth of treasure within its imposing walls. Jonathan and his new friend Archie Weekes soon encounter all manner of peril – from smugglers villains and spies to superstitious villagers and ghostly apparitions. With their father reported missing in the Crimean War the family's situation becomes increasingly desperate but it's clear that Jonathan and his mother are not the only ones seeking the Flaxton 'fortune'...  

• Carlito's Way | Blu Ray | (25/10/2021) from £25.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Brian De Palma, the director of Scarface, comes the critically acclaimed crime-thriller Carlito's Way. Al Pacino gives an electrifying performance as former drug kingpin Carlito Brigante, who is sprung from prison by his high-powered attorney (Sean Penn). He stuns the New York underworld by vowing to go straight from a history of violence, but his plans are undermined by misguided loyalties and an outmoded code of honour. In a life-or-death battle, Carlito takes on the relentless forces that refuse to let him go. Special Features Deleted Scenes The Making of Carlito's Way Brian De Palma on Carlito's Way Original Promotional Featurette Theatrical Trailer

• To The Manor Born - 25th Wedding Anniversary Special | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Series One, first broadcast in 1979, finds Audrey mourning the death of her husband, but more importantly mourning his inability to handle his financial affairs. Forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Manor, she is equally distressed to find it bought by upstart businessman Richard De Vere, a man with no concept of the history or the valued place of the Estate in the community. Audrey must roll her sleeves up. It’s time for the ex-Lady of the Manor to put the new Lord in his place – or vice versa. A battle of wits is about to take place that will find the winner To The Manor Born. Special Features Interview with writer Peter Spence Cast Filmographies Production Notes Subtitles

• The Artist | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £6.75   |  Saving you £18.24 (270.22%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career. For extra Peppy Miller, major movie stardom awaits. THE ARTIST tells the story of their interlinked destinies.

• Blood From The Mummy's Tomb (Doubleplay) | Blu Ray | (30/10/2017) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Margaret (Valerie Leon) suffers a recurring nightmare in which she sees an ancient Egyptian queen, to whom she bears an uncanny resemblance, sealed up in a sarcophagus. The priests who entomb her first chop off her hand, before throwing it to jackals. They are then killed by a mysterious and powerful force that lacerates their throats. Margaret's father, Professor Fuchs (Andrew Keir), gives her a ring that he discovered in the tomb of Queen Tera 20 years before the ring was on the queen's disembodied hand. At the moment Fuchs discovered the Queen's perfectly preserved, still bleeding, body, Margaret's mother died giving birth to her. When a certain celestial conjunction is complete, and three key artefacts are assembled by Tera's corpse, the evil sorceress will be reborn EXTRAS: NEW FEATURETTE - The Pharaoh's Curse: Inside Blood From the Mummy's Tomb ORIGINAL TRAILER

• Clockwise | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mr. Brian Stimpson ran his life -- and everyone else's -- by the clock. Then one day at 2:09 and 43 seconds... The clock decided to strike back. In this hilarious comedy hit written by Michael Frayn (Noises Off) John Cleese stars as the compulsively punctual headmaster of a British high school. But on the day Stimpson is to give a major speech at a posh teachers conference he finds himself in a frantic cross-country chase filled with missed trains confused cops strange monks odd old ladies and stolen clothes. Can Stimpson make up for precious lost time or is the entire world conspiring to make him late for the most important appointment of his life?

• Ever Decreasing Circles - Series 1 | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Written by the successful team of John Esmonde and Bob Larbey 'Ever Decreasing Circles' was first broadcast by the BBC in February 1984. Richard Briers Penelope Wilton and Peter Egan star in this popular suburban-set comedy. Episode 1: Martin lives in a cul-de-sac and is a pillar of the community. He is chairman of just about every club committee. The equilibrium of the Close where he lives is disturbed when new neighbour Paul moves in next door... Episode 2: Paul masterminds a take-over at the general meeting of the Motor Club and Martin is relieved of his chairmanship. Ann is hopeful of a renewed social life but their new freedom is short lived... Episode 3: Martin is beginning to find his new neighbour's unconventional behaviour a potential danger to the harmony of the Close. 'Goings-on' of this kind have never happened before and something has to be done... Episode 4: Martin Ann Howard and Hilda spend their holidays together at the same resort at the same and even book it on the same day every year; a ritual that has remained for seven years but one that is unsettled when Paul offers them all the chance of a villa in Spain... Episode 5: In Martin's absence Paul is voted onto the committee to organise a Vicars and Tarts Dance for the RSPCA. When Martin's role is diminished he resorts to blackmail to take credit for the success of the event...

• The Manor Reborn - The Entire BBC Series (National Trust Avebury Manor) | DVD | (13/02/2012) from £33.99   |  Saving you £-24.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Manor Reborn is the groundbreaking collaboration between the BBC and the National Trust. For the first time, these national icons have joined together and produced an unmissable programme when they transformed a historic house.Presented by Penelope Keith To the Manor Born and Paul Martin Flog It!/, The Manor Reborn follows the exciting design process behind bringing an historic property back to life. They follow a lively and interesting team of historians, designers and volunteers as they refurbish the 500 year-old Avebury Manor in Wiltshire.Inspired by the real stories and occupants of the Manor - from the age of Queen Elizabeth I to the eve of World War II - the series illustrates the story of British design across five centuries. It draws on a wide range of craft and furniture-making skills and reveals the invention of 'the home'.In addition to restoring nine rooms in the house, the team also recreated and redesigned a kitchen garden. Together they reflect five different periods of history - Tudor, Queen Anne, Georgian, Victorian and early 20th century.Avebury Manor has been restored as an immersive experience and is one of a few National Trust properties where visitors can touch, handle, sit on and enjoy every element of the house.Architectural writer Dan Cruickshank; Anna Whitelock, lecturer in early modern history at the University of London Royal Holloway; leading interior designer Russell Sage; and gardener David Howard have all brought their expertise to the transformation of the Manor. They were joined by volunteers and apprentices - from the National Trust and around the West Country - and some of the most talented craftsmen, designers and specialist companies who preserve the heritage skills needed to restore a historic house.

• The Counsellor | DVD | (17/03/2014) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The film tells the story of a lawyer (Fassbender), who finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.

• Zoolander 2 | DVD | (04/07/2016) from £4.85   |  Saving you £15.14 (312.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Derek Zoolander is back and better-looking than ever in this outrageously funny sequel to the smash hit. Derek and Hansel were once top male supermodels, now reunited to uncover an international conspiracy against the world's most beautiful people. Bonus Features: The Zoolander Legacy Go Big or Go Rome

• Hellboy - Steelbook | Blu Ray | (19/08/2019) from £70.13   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hellboy is back, and he's on fire. From the pages of Mike Mignola's seminal work, this action-packed story sees the legendary half-demon superhero (David Harbour, Stranger Things) called to the English countryside to battle a trio of rampaging giants. There he discovers The Blood Queen, Nimue (Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil series), a resurrected ancient sorceress thirsting to avenge a past betrayal. Suddenly caught in a clash between the supernatural and the human, Hellboy is now hell-bent on stopping Nimue without triggering the end of the world.

• The Relic | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £6.93   |  Saving you £3.06 (44.16%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Relic is the story of a monster that runs amok in a Chicago museum on the very day the institution is holding a glitzy reception. Naturally, the museum bosses want to go ahead with their public relations even as the creature is decapitating victims. Penelope Ann Miller plays a scientist on the run from the critter (which is at times computer generated and reminiscent of the raptors in Jurassic Park), and Tom Sizemore is a cop looking for his cold-blooded (in every sense) killer. Peter Hyams (Timecop) directs, and as always he excels at managing the plastic action at the cost of real feeling and logic. (Much of the story is pretty laughable.) --Tom Keogh

• Pelleas Et Melisande | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £17.29   |  Saving you £-2.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A performance of Debussy's beautiful opera recorded in France in 1987.

• Along Came A Spider | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (126.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Morgan Freeman stars once agin as detective Alex Cross in this sequel to "Kiss The Girls." A congressman's daughter under Secret Service protection is kidnapped from a private school by an insider who calls Cross.

• Falling | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A writer in the process of a divorce moves to the countryside. She employs a gardener and becomes emotionally attached to him. However the gardener hides a secret.

• The Shadow | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Another masked avenger is reincarnated as a big budget movie. Idle playboy Lamont Cranston (Alec Baldwin), schooled in Tibetan mysticism, fights crime in late '30s New York while wearing a natty hat and false beak. He finds time to romance telepathic sweetie Margo Lane (Penelope Miller), whose crusty old scientist Dad (Ian McKellen) has just invented an atom bomb which is in danger of falling into the hands of Shiwan Khan (John Lone), conquest-happy last descendent of Genghis Khan.Director Russell Mulcahy turns out the regulation death traps (a locked chamber filling with water, a bomb timer which ticks away during the climax) and the Shadow breezes through via nifty "invisible" effects. It evokes the conventions and charms of 1930s' pulp fiction in rather more nostalgic mode than Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, and adds little of its own attitude, although a sly camp sensibility (notably in the extremely chi-chi Tim Curry and John Lone as the villains) goes for snickering at the expense of tension. A pleasant, eye-pleasing movie but, after the super-heroic likes of Batman, The Crow and The Mask, the merely mysterious Shadow seems somewhat grandfatherly and remote. --Kim Newman

• Iris | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £9.25   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the memoir of John Bayley this tells the story of his marriage to acclaimed writer Iris Murdoch, from when they met as teachers at Oxford to her struggle with Alzheimer's disease forty years later.

• The Messengers | Blu Ray | (15/09/2008) from £6.00   |  Saving you £16.99 (283.17%)   |  RRP £22.99

  An ominous darkness invades a seemingly serene sunflower farm in North Dakota, and the Solomon family is torn apart by suspicion, mayhem and murder.

• The Passion | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Passion re tells the last week of Jesus' life putting the viewer at the heart of the action with the story being told from three different viewpoints: the religious authorities the Romans and Jesus. Compelling visually arresting drama of the greatest story ever told...