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• Emma / Mansfield Park | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £15.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (12.51%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Emma (Dir. Douglas McGrath 1996): In the lush countryside of 19th century England there's a young woman so devoted to meddling in the affairs of others that she fails to recognise the longings of her own heart. Her name is Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow) and although she's ""never one to interfere "" Emma manages to make a mess out of every romance she sets up. But her biggest blunder may lie ahead when she discovers her own feelings for her handsome brother-in-law a man she can't d

• The Slipper And The Rose | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £14.24   |  Saving you £-8.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  You know the story: Cinderella rides in a magical pumpkin to the ball, enchants the prince and flees at midnight. He finds her slipper and tracks her down, and they live happily ever after. But wait! In The Slipper and the Rose, it turns out there's more to the life of a prince than being charming. The king prefers to choose the prince's wife, one of proper social station who would provide a strong political alliance to ward off the kingdom's enemies. That's one of the twists in this 1976 British take on the classic fairy tale, one of a long line of musical versions. The disgruntled prince, who's as much of a focal point here as the lady with the footwear, is played by Richard Chamberlain, during the years when he was taking on the classics and had not yet been crowned king of the TV mini-series. He displays a pleasant voice opposite Gemma Craven as Cinderella, and veteran character actor Michael Hordern as the king leads the supporting ensemble. Add lavish sets and lush scenery (partially filmed in Austria), humour, fun choreography, and an Oscar-nominated score full of charming songs by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman (veterans of such Disney movies as Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book, and who also co-wrote the script with director Bryan Forbes), and you have a grand, engaging family musical. The 143-minute running time and dreamy, deliberate pace might test the patience of antsy viewers, but The Slipper and the Rose's legion of fans wouldn't have it any other way. --David Horiuchi, Amazon.com

• Solar Impact: The Destruction of London | DVD | (03/08/2020) from £8.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Move Over Darling | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Move Over Darling is a wonderful romantic comedy starring screen legend and number one office box office star of the time Doris Day.

• She Stoops to Conquer | DVD | (18/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Director Tony Britten's adaptation of this evergreen comedy, shot entirely on location in and around the Jacobean Wiveton Hall in North Norfolk, stays faithful to Oliver Goldsmith's original text, at the same time making the play Relevant for a modern television audience the cast includes a host of theatre and television stars Polly Hemingway, Ian Redford, Miles Jupp, Susannah Fielding, Holly Gilbert, Mark Dexter, Joseph Thompson and Roy Marsden. Made for Sky Arts and presented in five episodes, the two disc set also contains a video diary by actor/comedian Miles Jupp, who plays a definitive Tony Lumpkin in the series, actor’s workshops with writer/director Tony Britten and the cast, as well as a one hour documentary exploring Goldsmiths life and work, written and presented by Simon Butteriss entitled A Gooseberry Fool Oliver Goldsmith Stoops to Conquer. Capriol Films 'She Stoops to Conquer' premiered on Sky Arts to great critical and audience acclaim, both for its attention to textural detail and the beauty and quality of its visual style. 'She Stoops to Conquer' has recently had a very successful three month season at the National Theatre that has raised the profile of this great period comedy.

• Cape Fear Box Set (1962 & 1991 versions) | DVD | (14/01/2002) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The original 1962 version of Cape Fear is directed by J Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) in a deliberately Hitchcockian manner, and stars Robert Mitchum as a creepy ex-con angry at the attorney (Gregory Peck) whom he believes is responsible for his incarceration. After Mitchum makes clear his plans to harm Peck's family, a fascinating game of crisscrossing ethics and morality takes place. Superior to Martin Scorsese's punishing 1991 remake, which seems trapped in its explicitness, Thompson's film accomplishes a lot with a more economical and telling use of violence. The result is a rich character study that explores the nature of guilt. Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake dabbles a bit in some fascinating psychological crosscurrents between its characters, but it finally trades in all that rich material for extensive and gratuitous violence. Robert De Niro plays a serial rapist released from prison after 14 years. Angry because his appalled attorney (Nick Nolte) made it easy for him to be convicted, this monster is out to hurt Nolte's character through his wife (Jessica Lange) and daughter (Juliette Lewis). The themes of interlocking guilt and anger between these people suggests a smart film in the making. But the final act, set on a boat with De Niro's vengeful pervert attacking Nolte and the two women, takes a more unfortunate direction. The stars of the original film, Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck, each make a cameo appearance. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Patriot Games | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Let's see--he has been Han Solo in three films and Indiana Jones in three more. So why shouldn't Harrison Ford take on a new continuing character in Tom Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan? In this film, directed by Phillip Noyce, Ford picked up the baton when Alec Baldwin, who played Ryan in The Hunt for Red October, opted for a Broadway role instead. In this film, Ryan and his family are on vacation when Ryan saves a member of the British royal family from attack by Irish terrorists. The next thing he knows, the Ryan clan has been targeted by the same terrorists, who invade his Maryland home. The film can't shed all of Clancy's lumbering prose, or his techno-dweeb fascination with spy satellites and the like. But no one is better than Ford at righteous heroism--and Sean Bean makes a suitably snakey villain. --Marshall Fine

• Rome: The Complete HBO Season 2 (6 Disc Box Set) | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £19.99   |  Saving you £35.00 (175.09%)   |  RRP £54.99

  Unlike another certain celebrated HBO series, Rome's end will satisfy those swept up in its lavishly mounted spectacle and invested in the human dramas of the historical figures and fictional characters. Series 2 begins in the wake of Julius Caesar's assassination, and charts the power struggle to fill his sandals between "vulgar beast" Mark Antony (James Purefoy) and "clever boy" Octavian (Simon Woods), who is surprisingly named Caesar's sole heir. The series' most compelling relationship is between fellow soldiers and unlikely friends, the honorable Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) and Titus "Violence is the only trade I know" Pullo (Ray Stevenson), who somewhat reverse roles when Vorenus is overcome with grief in the wake of his wife's suicide. Series 2 considerably ups the ante in the rivalry between Atia (an Emmy-worthy Polly Walker), who is Antony's mistress, and Servilia (Lindsay Duncan) with attempted poisonings and sickening torture. Another gripping sub plot is Vorenus's estrangement from his children, who, at the climax of the season opener are presumed slaughtered, but whose true fate may be even more devastating to the father who cursed them. Rome's second season does not scrimp on the series' sex and violence, in both cases exceedingly brutal. But in this cauldron of treachery and betrayal, words, too, are vicious, as when a defiant Atia ominously tells Octavian's new wife, Livia, "Far better women that you have sworn to [destroy me]. Go look for them now." In writing Rome's epitaph, we come to praise this series, not to bury it. Although two seasons was not enough to establish a Rome empire, it stands as one of HBO's crowning achievements. --Donald Liebenson

• Sliver | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £36.00   |  Saving you £-20.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This is the too-hot-for-cinemas Unrated Cut of Sliver! Sliver Heights has everything a girl could want. Panoramic views of the city a fully functional gym and a voyeuristic landlord. One day one of the tenants has an accident. First she looks out the window then she looks the wrong way and finally she looks like pavement pizza. This leaves a vacant room which Carly Norris (Sharon Stone) takes a fancy to. She's a thirtysomething executive who has never had that much success

• The Locksmith | DVD | (19/10/2015) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Roland Pierce (Warren Clarke, Poldark, Nice Work, In the Red) is a locksmith and proud of it. He is an honest craftsman, unlike his apprentice Barry who was born to party. Then Roland’s ex-wife is nearly killed by an intruder in an attempted robbery, and his life spins out of control. The police are certain they’ve got their man; a local junkie (John Simm) known for causing trouble. But Roland is unconvinced and decides to take the law into his own hands. The consequences will haunt him for the rest of his life. This pacey drama launched John Simm (Life on Mars) into the public eye and features a career-defining performance from Warren Clarke. Also starring Chris Gascoyne (Coronation Street), Sarah-Jane Potts (Kinky Boots, Gracepoint) and Polly Hemingway (Emmerdale) with a tense score by Colin Towns (Doc Martin, Pie in the Sky). 8.3 IMDB Rating Stars Warren Clarke (2015 Poldark, A Clockwork Orange, Dalziel and Pascoe, Bleak House (2005)) and features Sarah-Jane Potts (Casualty, Waterloo Road). Also features BAFTA nominated actor John Simm (Life on Mars) Directed by winner of four International film awards Chris Bernard

• ThirtySomething - Season 3 | DVD | (23/09/2011) from £17.92   |  Saving you £22.07 (123.16%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Thirtysomething was more than a snapshot of the late 80s/early 90s, it was a cultural phenomenon. By Season Three, the show about the inner workings of a group of close friends and married couples had reached full maturity as a series. The relationships and conflicts existed on a completely realised level that allowed the viewer to associate, to new heights, with what was happening on their TV. Whether it was Michael and Hope trying to keep their fire lit, Gary evolving into fatherhoo...

• Superfly | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Never a dude like this one! He's got a plan to stick it to The Man! Superfly the blaxploitation classic makes its long-awaited debut on DVD! Ron O'Neal stars as Superfly a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet converting the coke to cash and running off to start a new life. The problem is that the Mob does not have a retirement plan and will give him a choice of staying and selling for them or dying if they find out his intentions. Not only a cult classic Superfly features one of the finest soundtracks to grace the movies courtesy of the Curtis Mayfield Experience.

• Half Light | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £5.24   |  Saving you £10.75 (205.15%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A best selling thriller novelist moves to a remote cottage on the Scottish coast following a tragic loss. But her demons have followed her.

• The Trial | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £6.96   |  Saving you £6.03 (86.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On the morning of his 30th birthday Josef K. (MacLachlan) wakes up to every person's worst nightmare when two strange men enter his home to place him under arrest. Bewildered by the reasoning of these two authorities he doesn't take the charges seriously and attempts to carry on his life as usual. When summoned to a hearing in an unfamiliar part of the city however K. refuses to accept the case being brought against him by the system. The more K. tries to fight the unnamed charge

• THE SWORDSMAN OF ALL SWORDSMEN (Yi dai jian wang) (Eureka Classics) Limited Edition Two-Disc Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (25/03/2024) from £25.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  LIMITED EDITION TWO-DISC BLU-RAY SET FEATURES*: Strictly limited to 2000 copies ONLY | O-card slipcase featuring new artwork by Grégory Sacré (Gokaiju) | A set of facsimile lobby cards | Double-sided poster featuring original release posters | Bonus Disc featuring The Mystery of Chess Boxing | PLUS: A collector's booklet featuring new writing on both films by James Oliver DISC ONE - THE SWORDSMAN OF SWORDSMEN - FEATURES 1080p HD presentation on Blu-ray from a 2K digital restoration completed by the Taiwan Film Institute | Original Mandarin audio | Optional English Subtitles | Brand new feature-length audio commentary by Asian film expert Frank Djeng and film writer John Charles (The Hong Kong Filmography, 1977 - 1997) | Archival interview with director Joseph Kuo DISC TWO (BONUS DISC) - THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING** - FEATURES Strictly limited to 2000 copies ONLY | 1080p HD presentation on Blu-ray, scanned from the only known surviving print of the film supplied by collector Dan Halsted (Head Programmer at the Hollywood Theatre, Oregon) | Original Mandarin, Cantonese and 'Classic' English dubbed audio options | Brand new feature-length audio commentary by Asian film expert Frank Djeng and martial artist / filmmaker Michael Worth | Brand new feature-length audio commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema | Sleeve artwork by Darren Wheeling * All extras subject to change ** The subtitles for The Mystery of Chess Boxing are burnt-in due to the only surviving materials available being a release print

• Invisible Ghost | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £11.30   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• War and Remembrance - The Complete Series | DVD | (11/04/2016) from £36.55   |  Saving you £3.44 (9.41%)   |  RRP £39.99

  It started with The Winds of War , now the gripping emotional saga of the Henry Family continues with this epic near-on 22 hour mini-series. War and Remembrance sweeps back the pages of history, bringing alive the turmoil and the tragedy, the madness, the glory and the horrors of a world at war. Against this dramatic panorama of world events, war and remembrance chronicles the lives of the Henry family and their friends. Scattered to the four corners of the globe, they find themselves thrust into the fury of battle and drawn to the places that were to become historic milestones: Midway, Guadalcanal, Yalta, Auschwitz, Stalingrad, El Alamein, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima and Hiroshima. Amidst these triumphs and atrocities that will change the face of the world forever, the head of the family, US Naval Officer Victor Pug Henry and the beautiful English woman Pamela Tudsbury find their love for each other tested by the horrors that surround them. Filmed lavishly on location around the world, war and remembrance stars an astonishing array of talent including: ROBERT MITCHUM JANE SEYMOUR VICTORIA TENNANT IAN McSHANE SIR JOHN GIELGUD SHARON STONE STEVEN BERKOFF TOPOL ROBERT HARDY JOHN RHYS-DAVIES BRIAN BLESSED and ROBERT MORLEY

• Ice Age / Chicken Run / Home Alone / Mrs Doubtfire / James And The Giant Peach | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Ice Age Seemingly anti-social Manny a woolly mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano) acts as if he just wants to be left alone. When he meets Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo) a sloth the two become unlikely traveling companions. The plot thickens when the duo finds a human infant and decides to try to return the child to its herd. Manny slowly but surely reveals his heart of gold while Sid continues to provide comic relief. Diego (voiced by Denis Leary) a saber-tooth tiger with ulterior motives soon joins them in their search for the humans. Ultimately this group of misfits becomes its own herd learning about friendship and loyalty as they brave snow ice freezing temperatures predators hail and even boiling lava pits. All the while a saber-tooth squirrel Scrat provides comic relief as he valiantly struggles with an acorn. Chicken Run Trouble is brewing down on Mrs Tweedy's poultry farm: the chickens are revolting (yes that old chestnut) and clucky hen Ginger (voiced by Julia Sawalha) is planning her latest coop um coup. Getting one or two birds out of the farm is no problem whatsoever. Unfortunately Ginger plans to get everyone out at the same time and when one of the would-be escapees happens to be kind-hearted but bird-brained Babs (Jane Horrocks) Ginger is fighting a losing battle. Home Alone Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them! Mrs Doubtfire How far would an ordinary father go to spend more time with his children? Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams) is no ordinary father so when he learns his ex-wife (Sally Field) needs a housekeeper he applies for the job. With the perfect wig a little makeup and a dress for all occasions he becomes Mrs Doubtfire a devoted British housekeeper who is hired on the spot. James And The Giant Peach James Henry Trotter a lonely orphan is sent to live with horribly wicked Aunts Spiker and Sponge. He escapes his aunts by climbing inside a giant peach from were he embarks on a series of wildly imaginative adventures.

• Shiva Baby | Blu Ray | (22/11/2021) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Shiva Baby is a darkly playful comedy of chaos about a young bisexual woman grappling with tradition and independence over the course of one climactic day-long shiva, a Jewish gathering of friends and family during a time of mourning. A highlight of 2020's Toronto International Film Festival and SXSW, and featuring a standout lead performance from emerging actor-comedian Rachel Sennott, the acclaimed feature debut from writer-director Emma Seligman is bold, modern filmmaking at its most daring, hilarious and unforgettable. Extras: Q&A with Emma Seligman

• Cape Fear | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £10.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (36.52%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Cape Fear is a 1962 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and a remake of the 1962 film of the same name. It stars Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange and Juliette Lewis and features cameos from Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Martin Balsam, who all appeared in the 1962 original film.Superior to Martin Scorsese's punishing 1962 remake, this 1962 thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) stars Robert Mitchum as a creepy ex-con angry at the attorney (Gregory Peck) whom he believes is responsible for his incarceration. After Mitchum makes clear his plans to harm Peck's family, a fascinating game of crisscrossing ethics and morality takes place. Where the more recent version seemed trapped in its explicitness, Thompson's film accomplishes a lot with a more economical and telling use of violence. The result is a richer character study with some Hitchcockian overtones regarding the nature of guilt. --Tom Keogh