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• High Hopes (Mike Leigh's) | Blu Ray | (28/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A film by one of Britain's most celebrated film makers and multi-award winning director of Life Is Sweet Naked Secrets and Lies Topsy Turvy and most recently Vera Drake. Fabulous Films presents for the first time on DVD this critically acclaimed slice of life dark comedy Mike Leigh's High Hopes. 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. This disparate cast of characters swim in and out of each others lives against a background of London and its suburbs seamlessly orchestrated by director Mike Leigh.

• The Pallisers - Vol. 2 - Episodes 8 To 13 | DVD | (11/04/2005) from £14.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (33.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England The Pallisers is a saga of wealth passion power intrigue and scandal. Based on 6 political novels by Anthony Trollope this powerfully addictive series stars Susan Hampshire and Philip Latham as Lady Glenncora and Plantagenet Palliser. Their politically advantageous marriage sets the stage for this fascinating chronicle of three generations of a powerful aristocratic family.

• Hornblower - Retribution | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £7.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (20.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based freely on the classic novels by C. Forester, Hornblower is a series of TV films following the progress of a young officer through the ranks of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The series greatest asset is the handsome and charismatic Ioan Gruffudd in the lead role, surely a major star in the making. For television films the production values are very good, though as Titanic, Waterworld and The Perfect Storm demonstrated, filming an aquatic adventure is a very expensive business, and it is clear that the Hornblower dramas simply make the best of comparatively small budgets. No more faithful to Forester's books than the 1951 Gregory Peck classic Captain Horatio Hornblower, the real inspiration seems to have come from the success of Sharpe, starring Sean Bean, which likewise featured a British hero in the Napoleonic Wars. Nevertheless, while rather more easy going than the real British navy of the time, the Hornblower saga delivers an entertaining adventure, greatly enhanced by the presence of such guest stars as Denis Lawson, Cheri Lunghi, Ronald Pickup and Anthony Sher.--Gary S Dalkin

• Rhythm of Resistance | DVD | (16/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Shanghai Surprise | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A romantic adventure for the dangerous at heart... Sean Penn is Glendon Wasey a quick-witted fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Madonna is Gloria Tatlock a determined missionary nurse seeking the healing powers of opium for her patients. She wants to help the suffering...he wants the boat fare back to the States. So fate sets them on a hectic exotic chaotic and quite often romantic quest for stolen drugs. The trouble is the opium they're after is also the target of every thug and smuggler in Shanghai. It's a wild rickshaw-race adventure with every concubine Kung Fu killer and crime boss in town in hot pursuit! You're in for a Shanghai Surprise as Sean Penn and Madonna star in this high-flying grand adventure set in 1937 China with music by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison.

• Come Back Little Sheba | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shirley Booth won the 1953 Best Actress Oscar for her role as Lola an ageing woman dealing with loss: the loss of ""herself"" and her dreams twenty years before and the recent loss of her dog Sheba - in effect her replacement for a child. Burt Lancaster plays Doc Lola's husband; an ex-alcoholic dwelling on his belief that he was forced into marriage due to Lola's pregnancy which was subsequently lost. When a young college student named Marie rents a room in their house Doc f

• Red Surf | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £5.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (33.50%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Remar a pro surfer turns into a drug dealer. His girlfriend wants him to change his ways before he becomes the next victim of the streets.

• Frederick Forsyth Presents: A Little Piece Of Sunshine | DVD | (29/06/2009) from £6.43   |  Saving you £1.56 (24.26%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Frederick Forsyth: A Little Piece Of Sunshine

• Drainiac | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When Julie Ashbrook (Georgia Hatzis) helps her father fix up a hopelessly run-down house she is clearly unaware of the horrors that are about to follow. As her father leaves for other business in town she is plagued by bizarre phenomena. She calls up three of her friends to keep her company in the old run-down house. Supernatural occurences begin to haunt the friends and the situation becomes even more haunting when Julie's father returns from town only to be killed by a mysterious

• Dawn Of The Dragon Slayer 1&2 | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dawn Of The Dragon Slayer When Will’s father is killed by a dragon Will leaves his once-idyllic home in the mountains to hunt down the beast. The trail of slaughter leads him on an epic journey across the lowlands. When he reaches an ancestral home he finds others who know about the dragon and stays to work for the tyrannical Sterling in order to learn how to slay the beast. Will is befriended by Sterling’s daughter Kate and she prepares him for the final battle with the dragon. But Sterling threatened by Will orders his men to kill the young squire. Will manages to escape with his life but he must risk everything to destroy the dragon so that can avenge his father’s death and prove himself a man. Dawn Of The Dragon Slayer 2 In a country ruled by an occupying foreign empire Elenn an arrogant young noblewoman accompanies her aunt on a mission to bring an ancient relic to the secret coronation of the rightful king of their people. When her aunt is murdered Elenn hires a smuggler and criminal to escort her across the dangerous country to take her aunt's place at the coronation. But when Corvus a rogue magister employs a dark magic to retrieve the ancient relic for his own evil designs Elenn must find the humility and strength within herself to fulfill her aunt's calling to unite her people before the power of the relic falls into the hands of the empire.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - 5 Little Pigs / Sad Cypress | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Five Little Pigs: Poirot is called in to investigate a fourteen year old murder... A woman was hanged for poisoning her husband to death. Her only daughter has come of age and is back from living overseas. She must find out if there was a mis-carriage of justice all those years ago if she is to have any future. Her late father was an artist reknowned for having affairs with his models. The family home was full of visitors. Who else had a motive? The Sad Cypress: Another intriguing investigation for the brilliant Belgian detective as the beautiful Elinor Carlisle stands accused of a double murder; that of her wealthy aunt Laura Wellman and also of her rival in love Mary Gerrard. Elinor had the motive and the opportunity to administer the fatal poison to both women. Poirot believes the evidence to be irrefutable but once his little grey cells get to work he begins to piece together another version of events as Elinor finds time running out...

• I Am Soldier | Blu Ray | (17/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  I Am Soldier follows Mickey (Tom Hughes, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll) taking on the most dangerous military training known to man: SAS selection. The Special Air Service is the UK's most renowned Special Forces regiment, tasked with missions in some of the most dangerous and hostile locations on the planet. Mickey is smashed by the grueling selection process- physically, mentally and emotionally. But, when the Counter Terrorism Squadron take charge of a deadly situation, Mickey, Carter (Noel Clarke, Star Trek Into Darkness) and their fellow recruits advance into conflict to see if they really do have what it takes . Many try to get into the SAS. Only the elite prevail.

• Citizen Kane | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In May of 1941 RKO Radio Pictures released a controversial film by a 25-year-old first-time director. That premier of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was to have a profound and lasting effect of the art of motion pictures. It has been hailed as the best American film ever made and it's as powerful a film today as it was fifty years ago. It earned eight Academy Award nominations and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Through its unique jigsaw-puzzle storyline inventive cinemato

• Delibes: Coppelia -- Royal Ballet | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Coppélia is Delibes fairy-tale ballet of 1870, here presented in a production based on the Royal Ballet's 1954 version with designs by Osbert Lancaster and choreography by the company's founder Ninette de Valois. In a small European town Dr Coppélius (Luke Heydon) makes life-sized mechanical dolls. The whimsical tale unfolds as Swanilda (Leanne Benjamin) suspects that her fiancée Franz (Carlos Acosta) is falling in love with the enigmatic Coppélia (Leana Palmer). Everything is suitably magical, from the beautiful sets and costumes to the gorgeously melodic score. There is a sense of romantic playfulness throughout, and of course almost two hours of wonderful dancing, making this a treat to place beside Swan Lake and Giselle. Given live on 19 February 2000, this was the first live full-length ballet from Royal Opera House to be broadcast since 1968.On the DVD: Fortunately the DVD proves an object lesson in how to present ballet on the digital format. There is an introduction by Deborah Dull, principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet, a short but interesting profile of designer Osbert Lancaster, and a nine-minute film "Covent Garden Tales--The Ballet Moves" which gives a look behind the scenes at the Royal Ballet's new home. For a live production, the 16:9 anamorphically enhanced widescreen picture is simply superb, with excellent Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. With even the special features delivered with 16:9 anamorphic enhancement this is a high-quality production in every respect. Encoded for regions two and four. --Gary S Dalkin

• Suzanne | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £4.91   |  Saving you £-0.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A young actress becomes totally obsessed with the part she is playing and before long art and reality start to blur. Based on a song by Leonard Cohen (which is used in the film).

• Deck Dogz | DVD | (02/08/2010) from £2.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (81.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Three young urban skaters with ambitions to make it to the World Championships hear that World Champion skater Tony Hawk is scouting for new talent in Sydney. With no idea of how they are going to get there they decide to set off on the adventure of a lifetime...

• Bloodsport / Enter The Dragon | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A well-oiled Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in what may be one of the few kickboxing films to be based on a true story. The Muscles from Brussels plays Frank Dux, the first Westerner ever to win the extreme "whupfest" known as the Kumatai (a long-running, no-holds-barred fighting tournament in Hong Kong). While a bit deficient in the script department (to say the least), this undeniably exciting flick succeeds by letting Van Damme play to his strengths: namely, minimal acting and a lot of impossibly acrobatic splits while kicking people in the head. Bloodsport is a guilty-pleasure testosterone blast of the highest order, with a memorable villain (the massive Bolo Yeung from Enter the Dragon) and a multitude of well-choreographed fight scenes. An embarrassed-looking Forest Whitaker cameos as a hapless (and non-kickboxing) cop. --Andrew Wright

• Trance | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Trance

• The World Of Philip Pullman | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A documentary profiling the author of 'His Dark Materials' Philip Pullman. Philip Pullman is a serious contender for the claim to be the most important young persons novelist living today. He was gifted the extremely prestigious Greatest Briton in the Arts award. His Dark Materials trilogy has sold over 8 million copies internationally and the trilogy itself is the subject of a New Line Cinema release as a successor to The Lord of the Rings with Nicole Kidman starring in a lead role.

• The FBI: The Second Season Part One | DVD | (15/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A