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• Mona Lisa Smile / A League Of Their Own / Maid In Manhattan | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mona Lisa Smile: Set in 1953 Katherine Watson (Roberts) is a free-spirited graduate of UC Berkeley who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom. A League Of Their Own: Tom Hanks Geena Davis and Madonna star in this major-league comedy from the team that brought you Big. Hanks stars as Jimmy Dugan a washed-up ball player whose big league days are over. Hired to coach in the All-American Girls League of 1943 - while the male pros are at war - Dugan finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his all-girl team. Jon Lovitz adds a scene stealing cameo as the sarcastic scout who recruits Dottie Hanson (Davis) the baseball dolly with a Babe Ruth swing. Teammates Madonna Lori Petty and Rosie O'Donnell round out the roster taking the team to the World Series. Based on the true story of the pioneering women who blazed the trail for generations of athletes. Maid In Manhattan: Marisa Ventura is a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City. She works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity Marisa meets Christopher Marshall a handsome heir to a political dynasty who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. Fate steps in and throws the unlikely pair together for one night. When Marisa's true identity is revealed the two find that they are worlds apart even though the distance separating them is just a subway ride between Manhattan and the Bronx.

• Rollerball / Fortress / Future Sport | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  RollerBall (2001): Rollerball takes place in the not too distant future and the future is fierce. A notorious renegade sport Rollerball packs arenas all over the world. A global viewership bets and roots for star players Jonathan Cross (Chris Klein) Marcus Ridley (LL Cool J) and their beautiful teammate Aurora (Rebecca Romjin-Stamos) who skate and motorcycle past opponents to score. Despite the danger of the fame the real threat lies in team owner Petrovich (Jean Reno) who sacrifices anything and anyone to maximize ratings which are worth more to him than the final score. In an heroic move Jonathan and his teammates attempt to expose the corruption and treachery. It's a risky play and the penalty is lethal... Fortress: Christopher Lambert stars as John Brennick a man about to experience the ultimate in criminal punishment - the Fortress. The setting is the United States in the future. With resources scarce and population soaring couples are allowed just one child. Former Black Beret Captain John Brennick and his wife Karen have broken the law. After the loss of their first child Karen is pregnant again. Caught and tried for their crime they are sent to the Fortress the most sophisticated maximum-security prison on the planet a jail built 30 storeys underground and equipped with technology beyond imagination. Each prisoner is implanted with an 'intestinator'; a device designed to inflict severe pain or death for any violation of the prison rules. Unrelenting and unforgiving the Fortress is a hellhole prison of the future. Escape-proof. Built to hold anything...except an innocent man. Future Sport: Wesley Snipes and Dean Cain star in the turbo charged sci-fi thrill ride where the only game is war... The year is 2025 and global tension is rapidly growing between the Hawaiian Liberation Organisation and the North American Alliance. On the brink of war superstar athlete Tre Ramsey (Cain) must fight with all his powers to save himself his team and the fate of his country. The question of the territory is set to be solved by holding a game of futuresport - a violent basketball and skateboarding which requires the utmost skill and agility - hold on to the ball for more than five seconds and electricity shoots through your body. Obike Fixx (Snipes) the creator of the game is coaching the HLO team - who seem willing to play by Street Rules thus increasing the danger level in the high-stakes game.

• The White Countess - Box Set | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The White Countess: Set in Shanghai in the late 1930s this is the story of the relationship between a blind former US diplomat and a refugee Countess (Richardson) reduced to a sordid life in the city's bars. Todd Jackson (Fiennes) once an American diplomat filled with idealism now bitterly disillusioned by realpolitik and the seemingly unavoidable nature of war finds his life enriched by the beautiful spirited Sofia.... Remains Of The Day: Stevens is the perfect English butler. Now employed by Mr Lewis the new American owner of Darlington Hall Stevens has spent the best part of his working life serving Lord Darlington the host of many prestigious international conferences in the 1930s. It was only when war broke out in 1939 that Lord Darlington's involvement with the Nazi party was uncovered. Now twenty years later Stevens realizes that his unquestioning faith and dedication to duty were misplaced and cost him dearly in his own personal life. Over several years he carried on an intense relationship with the Estate's attractive young housekeeper Miss Kenton. But his unwavering sense of duty led Stevens to deny his emotions - and eventually drive away the one woman he loved. Now he wants to make amends... An extraordinary story of blind emotion and repressed love The Remains Of The Day achieved an astounding 8 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture Best Actor and Best Actress. Anthony Hopkins received the BAFTA Award for the Best Performance by an actor in a leading role. Howards End: ""Only Connect"". This famous command is the catalyst which brings together two very different Edwardian families - the one passionate and progressive the other hidebound by wealth and social status - with irreversible and devastating consequences. A dying woman's impulsive wish marks a turning point in the relationship between the cosmopolitan Schlegel sisters Margaret and Helen and the wealthy Wilcox family when Ruth Wilcox bequeaths her idyllic country house Howards End to Margaret (Emma Thompson). Convinced that he is acting in the best interests of his family the patriarcal Henry Wilcox destroys his wife's ""unofficial"" will. But as the lonely repressed Henry falls in love with Margaret and Helen's willful attacks on class and convention strike at the very heart of the Wilcox family fate decrees that Henry must pay dearly for his deceit.

• Anna Karenina | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Opulent and extravagent yet surprisingly satisfying the movie visualises the story of destined would be lovers Vronsky and Anna Karenina. Thrown into the tale is Anna's distant relation Kitty who set her sights on the darling bachelor long before Anna's untimely arrival. Tragedy glamour and romance mix with high drama.

• Robocop/Rollerball | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Robocop (Dir. Paul Verhoeven 1987): A sadistic crime wave is sweeping across America. In Old Detroit the situation is so bad a private corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) has assumed control of the police force. The executives at the company think they have the answer - until the enforcement droid they create kills one of their own. Then an ambitious young executive seizes the opportunity. He and his research team at Security Concepts create a law enforcement cyborg from the body of a slain officer. All goes well at first. Robocop stops every sleazeball he encounters with deadly piercing and sometimes gruesome accuracy. But there are forces on the street and within Security Concepts itself that will stop at nothing to see this super cyborg violently eliminated... Prepare yourself for non-stop action and adventure in one of the most explosive sci-fi stories you'll ever witness: Robocop. Rollerball (Dir. Norman Jewison 1975): The year is 2018. There are no wars. There is no crime. There is only..the Game. In a world where ruthless corporations reign supreme this vicious and barbaric ""sport"" is the only outlet for the pent-up anger and frustrations of the masses. Tuned to their televisions the people watch Rollerball: a brutal mutilation of football motorcross and hockey. Jonathan E (James Caan) is the champion player - a man too talented for his own good. The Corporation has taken away the woman Jonathan loves (Maud Adams) but they can't take away his soul - even if the diabolical corporate Head (John Houseman) tells him he'd better retire or suffer the old-fashioned way. With its surrealistic imagery and tense action sequences Rollerball grips you by the heart - and never lets you go!

• The Fallen Idol (Digitally restored) | Blu Ray | (16/11/2015) from £12.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (43.50%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Smiley | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-8.03 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Loveable scamp Smiley Greevins is the most mischievous boy in the whole of the small Australian outback town of Murrumbilla. He’s forever getting into scrapes with kindly police sergeant Flaxman (Chips Rafferty) - but Reverend Lambert (Ralph Richardson) knows he's a good child at heart. Smiley comes from the poorest family in town but - when he dreams of owning his own bicycle - he won't let anything stand in his way! Watch out Murrumbilla as Smiley tries his hand at everything going to raise a few pennies - and ends up getting accidentally involved with opium smuggling to the local aborigines!

• Nuns On The Run / Time Bandits | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nuns On The Run (Dir. Jonathan Lynn 1990): Following in the great Carry On... tradition with a bit of Monty Python thrown in for good measure Nuns On The Run is a classic slice of slapstick comedy starring Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane. Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to leave he sets them up to be killed after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. Brian and Charlie decide to steal the money for themselves but when their escape doesn't go to plan they have to seek refuge in a nuns' teacher training school. Disguised as nuns Brian and Charlie have to avoid their boss Triads police and Brian's girlfriend. There's also the problem of them being men disguised as nuns in an all women institution. Time Bandits (Dir. Terry Gilliam 1981): All the dreams you've ever had.... and not just the good ones. The first of three Terry Gilliam films collectively referred to as his Trilogy of the Imagination (along with 'Brazil' and 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen') 'Time Bandits' is a wonderfully inventive fantasy with a massive cult following and universal appeal. A sleeper hit in 1981 the film grossed well over eight times its million budget. Co-written by Gilliam and fellow Monty Python veteran Michael Palin (who also appears in the film) 'Time Bandits' tells the story of Kevin (Craig Warnock) a young imaginative boy kidnapped by a band of mischievous dwarves who have stolen a map of the universe detailing the locations of holes in the space-time continuum from the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson). The dwarves with Kevin in tow set off on a bizarre journey back and forth though time with the intention of looting the fortunes of history's rich and famous. Along the way they meet the likes of King Agamemnon (Sean Connery) Robin Hood (John Cleese) and Napoleon (Ian Holm) among others and even get to sail on the Titanic moments prior to its unfortunate encounter with an iceberg. Unknowingly the diminutive bandits are being watched by the spectre of Evil Genius (David Warner) who wants the map for his own typically wicked purposes...

• Richard III | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The third and final entry in Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare triptych, Richard III is an audacious portrait of a man determined to prove himself a villain. A pure master of the political stage, Richard deploys a barrage of odious, unscrupulous traps in an attempt to exercise complete control over his rivals. As the personification of evil impudence, Olivier portrays the Duke of Gloucester with such aplomb that he even lures the audience on to his side. This is true even as Richard engineers plots to murder his brother Clarence (John Gielgud), betray his cousin Buckingham (Ralph Richardson) and seduce his niece Lady Anne (Claire Bloom). From the play's famous opening lines ("Now is the winter of our discontent"), Olivier delivers every speech with truly Machiavellian splendour. As usual, his voice is a force of nature--a full-bodied coloratura at one moment, an earthy baritone cello a few beats later. As a director, Olivier fully realises but underplays the corners of the script that most directors would hinge their dramatisation on. But he can also play it large: Olivier's superb staging of the climactic battle rivals his work on Henry V. Though Richard is finally brought down by the whispered curses of Queen Margaret, the audience exits feeling that the journey has been both entertaining and complete. Regrettably, this would be Olivier's last Shakespeare film, as a planned adaptation of Macbeth was abandoned for financial reasons. Olivier justly received an Oscar nomination for his performance; and believe it or not, this film was the inspiration for the original Blackadder! --Kevin Mulhall

• The Bed Sitting Room | Blu Ray | (25/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  In the hazy aftermath of World War III the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' (which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds including the signing of the peace treaty) is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room. This vividly imagined darkly satirical filmic version of a post apocalyptic England directed by Richard Lester (A Hard Days Night How I Won the War The Knack) is based on the highly regarded play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus.

• Things to Come | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Things To Come

• Laurence Olivier - Icon Collection | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £39.99   |  Saving you £60.00 (150.04%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Sir Laurence Olivier is regarded as one of the greatest actors of the 20th Century. Olivier dazzled audiences with brilliant acting athleticism and elaborate costumes makeup and vocal techniques. He began acting as a child and went on to gain international movie stardom and a catalogue of prestigious awards. This collection celebrates the career of possibly the greatest acting talent Britain and the world has ever seen. Set Comprises: Richard III (1955) Henry V (1944) A

• Home | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two irrepressible legends of the British stage lend elegance wit and pathos to this touching and tender play about the fragility of the mind and the strength of the human spirit. Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson are among the small congregation of ageing residents whiling away a breezy afternoon on the lawn of a home for the mentall frail in rural Britain. As the day's end nears so does the realisation that although the hopes and dreams these once agile minds once harbured a

• Return Of Bulldog Drummond | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Retired British military officer Capt. Hugh Bulldog Drummond is the leader of the Black Clan a secret organisation crusading to rid England of crime by means of a purge against foreign undesirables. When World Peace Conference delegate Brunel is assassinated en-route to Birmingham Drummond and his sidekick Algy kidnap arms dealer Charles Latter and set about threatening a foreign consortium to leave the country within 24 hours after the Black Clan pay them a visit. The ringleader of the syndicate is Drummond's old adversary European arms dealer Carl Peterson who kidnaps Drummond's wife to use her as bait to capture her husband. After walking into Peterson's trap Drummond is drugged and placed in a car that is driven into a nearby river; he narrowly escapes drowning and sets about liberating his wife from the gang's lair. Meanwhile Algy organises for the Black Clan to intervene and rescue Drummond and his wife.

• Eagle In A Cage | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Eagle In A Cage

• Things to Come | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1940 the world is plunged into a seemingly perpetual war. A devastating air raid practically destroys Everytown, reducing its previously grand buildings to rubble. Almost 30 years later, over half the remaining population is wiped out by the chilling Wandering Sickness. Victims are shot on sight as a bewildered humanity struggles to survive in a barbarous wasteland. In 1970 a futuristic flying machine brings a saviour to the remnants of Everytown. John Cabel (Raymond Massey) represents the visionary brotherhood Wings Over the World. Cabel faces opposition from local warlord the Boss (Ralph Richardson) but he and his colleagues pledge to create a utopia from the ashes of the old world. Nothing, it seems, will be allowed to get in their way

• Time Bandits | UMD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Fallen Idol | DVD | (16/11/2015) from £14.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (50.04%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Fleet Air Arm At War And Peace | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £9.64   |  Saving you £5.35 (55.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Fleet Air Arm: At War and Peace is a unique DVD collecting together rare and previously unseen and unavailable films celebrating the Royal Navy's aviation history. As well as providing fascinating film records of Royal Navy aircraft carriers operations and aircraft it also offers an invaluable 'behind the scenes' look at life in the Fleet Air Arm. This collection features three films and covers the period 1943 to 1959. The Volunteer (1943) Ralph Richardson stars in this dramatised Fleet Air Arm wartime documentary which was produced written and directed by the distinguished team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Following the fortunes of a pilot and an air mechanic in the Fleet Air Arm it offers a fascinating look at life on board a wartime British aircraft carrier and action with Seafires Albacores and Martlets as well as footage of other Fleet Air Arm stalwarts including the Kingfisher and Walrus Flying Boat. Eagles Of The Fleet (1950) Ralph Richardson provides the narration for this stirring look at the Home Fleet on exercises off Gibraltar with the emphasis on the role of British carriers and their contingent of Hawker Sea Furies and Fairey Fireflies.

• Maid In Manhattan | Blu Ray | (08/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A senatorial candidate falls for a hotel maid, thinking she is a socialite when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman's dress.