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• The Shining | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (94.58%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Jack Nicholson stars in this chilling and classic horror from director Stanley Kubrick.

• Mike Bassett: England Manager | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (196.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ricky Tomlinson - star of TV's "The Royle Family" - plays football manager Mike Bassett in this spoof documentary that follows the turn of events after he becomes manager of England's international football team - because no one else wants the job!

• Brassed Off | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Take The Full Monty, add a sharper emotional edge and replace the strutting strippers with a dignified British band. That's the essence of Brassed Off, a bittersweet gem released in 1996, a year before its more popular (and Oscar-nominated) counterpart. In the Yorkshire town of Grimley, there has always been a coal mine, just as for the last 111 years there has been a brass band and it seems that Danny (the wondrous Pete Postlethwaite) has been the director for every one of those years. Tory economic policies, however, are closing coal mines around the country in favour of nuclear power and Grimley appears to be next on the list. Danny is unfazed by the threat, claiming, "It's music that matters." But some of the men are about to quit the band until the appearance of Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald at her most radiant), who dazzles the all-male group (including old flame Andy, played by Ewan McGregor) first with her beauty, then with her flügelhorn playing. The new member gives the band a boost as they continue to perform and compete but closure remains very real, as director Mark Herman (Little Voice) accompanies the band's performances (played with gusto by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band) with scenes of angry labour-management confrontations and family strife. In this context, some of the characters claim that the music is an irresponsible form of escapism. It becomes clear, however, from a touching performance of "Danny Boy" to the stirring conclusion at Royal Albert Hall, that music is an expression of the human spirit, a bit of beauty and sanity in a harsh world. With defiance, the band can play "Land of Hope and Glory" even when the land offers them neither. --David Horiuchi

• The Shining: Extended Cut | Blu Ray | (30/09/2019) from £19.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes the winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer's block. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. As Jack's writing goes nowhere and Danny's visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel's dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family.

• Poirot - Complete Collection | DVD | (30/03/2009) from £94.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (5.26%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Poirot: Complete Box Set

• Scum | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £8.48   |  Saving you £4.77 (66.07%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Raw, violent and shocking, Scum is a compelling story set in a contemporary Borstal.

• Dawson's Creek - Season 6 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £15.98   |  Saving you £19.01 (118.96%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Dawson (James Van Der Beek) returns to Boston after working as an assistant director in Los Angeles over the summer and reunites with Joey (Katie Holmes) who has spent a relatively angst-free summer in Capeside. However there are plenty of obstacles to overcome for the long-time star-gazers. Meanwhile Pacey is trying to make it in the world of business without selling his soul; Jack worries that Professor Freeman might be aware of his crush; and could Audrey have developed a drin

• Grow Your Own | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £7.79   |  Saving you £10.20 (130.94%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Real life, true love and plump vegetables on a city allotment are at the centre of this nourishing, magical comedy.

• Raised By Wolves | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Loosely based on the Wolverhampton childhoods of Caitlin Moran and Caroline Moran Raised By Wolves follows six socially-isolated home-schooled siblings and their acerbic highly capable mother Della Garry. Eldest sibling Germaine 16 is idiosyncratic distressingly overshary and deludedly in love with local yob Lee. Aretha 15 an introverted sarcastic George Orwell admirer just wants to be left alone to endure her adolescence. Thirteen-year-old Yoko is a dreamy aspiring paleontologist with a heavy dose of 'the Force'. Along with 'the babbies' Wyatt (6) Mariah (5) and toddler Cher the family also share their small council house with Della's feckless acid casualty dad Grampy a frequent refugee from his ongoing bad romance with 'Sh*t Nan'. In her frenzied pursuit of Lee Germaine drags her family reluctantly out into the world going underage clubbing dabbling in voyeurism taking the law into their own hands and dealing with major life milestones in their characteristic highly inappropriate way. Bonus Features: Promo Trailer Caitlin & Caroline: Raised In Wolves – 4 featurettes giving you a tour of their Wolverhampton

• High Hope | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.08   |  Saving you £6.91 (85.52%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Wayne left home because of an argument about pies. Cyril would like to machine gun the Royal family. Rupert and Laetitia Boothe-Brain play yuppie sex games while deep in suburbia Valerie fails to arouse her husband Martin with a suggestion that he be Michael Douglas and she a virgin. Mrs Bender gets locked out of her house and is criticised by her neighbour for selfishly occupying a whole house in an increasingly fashionable area. And Cyril's girlfriend Shirley wants to start a family but gets no encouragement from Cyril who feels that the world should be spared more babies until everyone already here has a job a place to live and enough to eat.

• The Good Karma Hospital: Series 4 | DVD | (11/04/2022) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A life-affirming drama, full of heart and hope, series four of THE GOOD KARMA HOSPITAL sees the fiercely passionate and outspoken Lydia Fonseca forced to confront her complex past when Greg faces deportation. Meanwhile, beloved Ruby Walker struggles to look to her uncertain future, after Gabriel Varma's shock departure. Excitingly, we also introduce two new doctors, the charismatic British Asian Muslim, Samir Hasan and the epitome of a young, privileged Indian woman in Nikita (Niki) Sharma, who is getting a taste of medicine at the sharp end. As with all families, this medical family has their ups and downs, yet they are bound by duty to their patients - and love for one another. Escape with us to Kerala in South India, with all of its contrasts and to this beloved community hospital.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Death In The Clouds | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £8.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Poirot is at the French Open Tennis Championship when he witnesses an inebriated Lady Hornbury telling Mme Giselle that she has no more money. On the flight back from Paris Mme Giselle is killed with a poisoned dart. What seems like a straightforward case becomes complicated by the presence of Daniel Clancy a detective writer with a knowledge of blow pipes and by the sudden appearance of Mme Giselle's illegitimate daughter who arrives to claim her inheritance...

• The Chase (BBC TV Series) | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £4.20   |  Saving you £17.05 (579.93%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Keith Barron Gaynor Faye and Nicola Stephenson star in this compelling drama written by Gaynor's renowned script-writing mother Kay Mellor (Playing the Field Between the Sheets) The Chase follows the lives and loves of a family of vets in a struggling Yorkshire practice as they cope with new wives and babies money worries and shocking secrets. George Williams (Keith Barron) heads the practice with his daughter Anna (Gaynor Faye) and her husband Tom (Nicholas Gleaves). George's second daughter Sarah (Nicola Stephenson) lives in London where she moved following the death of her mother - and the discovery of Tom in a compromising situation with one of the surgery nurses Fiona (Heather Peace). But George has found a new wife Claudie (Michelle Holmes). At his wedding reception he announces his retirement leaving an eight-month pregnant Anna with a struggling business an estranged sister one vet down one vet defecting to the local opposition and a list of operations as long as her arm. It's enough to send a woman into labour!

• Raised By Wolves: Series 2 | DVD | (11/04/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Loosely based on the Wolverhampton childhoods of Caitlin Moran and Caroline Moran, Raised By Wolves follows six socially-isolated, home-schooled siblings and their acerbic, highly capable mother Della Garry. Hormones are well and truly raging in series two of Channel 4's Raised by Wolves. As the witty Wolverhampton teens Germaine and Aretha based on the show's co-writers Caitlin and Caz Moran delve deeper into adolescence, the comedy gets even better. And filthier. Germaine (Helen Monks) is obsessed with two things: Google and sex. When her mum Della (the brilliant Rebekah Staton) switches off the WiFi, fed up with the cost of the internet, Germaine protests that she absolutely definitely needs YouTube to watch TED talks. Looking through her internet history, Della doesn't find any searches for 'inspiring lectures'. Instead it's 'Tom Hardy topless', 'Tom Hardy top on', 'Benedict Cumberbatch hatless' and 'Benedict Cumberbatch hat on'. Phwoar.

• Boomers | DVD | (22/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With a stellar cast of much-loved British actors - Russ Abbot Stephanie Beacham Philip Jackson James Smith Alison Steadman June Whitfield and Paula Wilcox – Boomers follows the ups and downs of three couples living in Thurnemouth 'Norfolk's only West facing resort.' Alan (Philip Jackson Poirot ) and Joyce (Alison Steadman Gavin and Stacey) are coming at retirement from very different directions: Alan wants to slow down Joyce wants to speed up. John (Russ Abbot September Song) and Maureen (Stephanie Beacham Bad Girls) live in their gadget-filled dream house adventurous in every aspect including the bedroom. For them 60 is the new 40. However there's a reminder of what's around the corner with Maureen's ever-present Mum Joan (June Whitfield Absolutely Fabulous). And finally there's Trevor (James Smith The Thick Of It) and Carol (Paula Wilcox Mount Pleasant) who've got non-communication down to such a fine art that if Trevor spent a weekend away Carol might not even notice. 30 years of living in each other's pockets have shown the benefits and drawbacks of staying friends over the decades...

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The ABC Murders | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £6.87   |  Saving you £3.12 (45.41%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Three bodies are found. Beside each lies a copy of the ABC Railway Guide. The police are baffled. But the killer has made one mistake; he has challenged Hercule Poirot to unmask him...

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Yellow Iris / The Case Of The Missing Will | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £10.42   |  Saving you £2.56 (34.45%)   |  RRP £9.99

  More intriguing investigations for Agatha Christie's famed Belgian detective... Yellow Iris: A new French restaurant is opening in London. Poirot is reminded of an unsolved case that occured at a restaurant with the same name in Buenos Aires where the wife of an oil tycoon died mysteriously. When the London restaurant opens events appear to be repeating themselves but this time Poirot is determined not to fail. The Case Of The Missing Will: Poirot and Hastings are in Cambridge attending a Union Society debate. Poirot's old friend Andrew Marsh is one of the speakers. Marsh is in poor health and later at his home announces that he intends to change his will the next day. When on the following morning he is found dead in the nearby wood Poirot becomes involved in a case of infedelity illegitimacy and inheritance.

• Little Voice | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £5.88   |  Saving you £12.11 (205.95%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Michael Caine was robbed of an Oscar. He gives his finest performance in a decade as big-talking small-time agent Ray Say, a paunchy, pale life of the party hiding his desperation under gold chains and cool bravura. When he hears the almost magical voice of Jane Horrocks's meek little LV (short for Little Voice) fill her bedroom with the rich voice of Judy Garland, he sees his ticket to the big time. Little Voice is ostensibly LV's story, and in fact the original play was written for Horrocks, whose amazing vocal impressions of Garland, Shirley Bassey and Marilyn Monroe (among others) form the centrepiece performance of the film. But as directed by Mark Herman (Brassed Off), the story of this mousy girl who shuts herself in from a bellowing world is just as overwhelmed by the bombastic characters as LV herself. Brenda Blethyn babbles a blue streak as LV's overbearing mother, Mari, an ageing widow who escapes her unhappiness in carousing and becomes almost pathologically jealous when Ray's attentions turn from her to LV. As Ray puts his dreams on the line for LV's showcase, he reveals his true self: a venal man who spits and barks out his bottled-up anger in an astoundingly bile-filled delivery of Roy Orbison's "It's Over." The showstopping moment once again overwhelms LV's tale, but Caine's performance is so astounding it seems a fair trade. --Sean Axmaker

• Pennies From Heaven | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £19.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (50.33%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Dennis Potter's astonishing six-part miniseries Pennies from Heaven remains one of the edgiest, most audacious things ever conceived for television. The story tells of one Arthur Parker (Bob Hoskins), a sheet-music salesman in 1930s England. Beaten down by economic hard times and the sexual indifference of his proper wife (Gemma Craven), Arthur cannot understand why his life can't be like the beautiful songs he loves. On a sales trip through the Forest of Dean, he meets a virginal rural woman (Cheryl Campbell) he suspects may be his ideal. Ruination follows. Punctuating virtually every scene is a vintage pop song--lip-synched and sometimes danced out by the characters. This startling innovation makes the contrast between Arthur's brutish life and his bourgeois dreams even more dramatic. Potter's dark vision digs into British stoicism, sexual repression, the class system and even the coming of fascism in Europe. But it is especially poignant on the subject of the divide between art and reality. Piers Haggard directs the long piece with deft transitions between songs and story. (It was shot partly on multi-camera video, partly on film.) The cast is fine, especially the extraordinary Cheryl Campbell, who imbues her character with keen intelligence and no small measure of perversity. Bob Hoskins triumphs in his star-making part, bringing a demonic energy to his small-time Cockney, nearly bursting his button-down vests with frustration and appetite. Pennies from Heaven was remade in 1981 for the big screen (with Steve Martin), in an interesting, Potter-scripted adaptation; it's one of the reasons the original has been unavailable on home video for so long. --Robert Horton

• Margaret Thatcher - The Long Walk To Finchley / Magaret | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise: Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley: Satirical drama based on Margaret Thatcher's early years in politics. Young Margaret wants nothing more than to be an MP but may be too much of a rebel for the Conservative Party of the 1950s. She did not have a 'good war' she is interested in politics and she thinks a woman's place can be in the House as well as the home. Margaret: Drama charting Margaret Thatcher's astonishing fall from power one of the most extraordinary stories of political assassination the world has seen. It took only eleven days for Thatcher to go from being the most powerful woman in the world to the tearful figure in the back of the car. A major tragedy in the true Shakespearean sense in Margaret we watch a woman lose the one thing she really cares about - power - changing from leader to victim before our eyes.