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• Sea Wife | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A British cargo ship carrying hundreds of refugees fleeing from Singapore is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sunk. Four survivors find themselves adrift on the high seas sharing a flimsy dinghy - a colonial businessman (Basil Sydney), an officer (Richard Burton), the ship's purser (Cy Grant) and a beautiful but mysterious young woman (Joan Collins).As the survivors fight to stay alive, the tensions - and attractions - between them grow stronger until they can't be contained any longer. Two of them share a fateful secret, which can never be revealed. The result is murder - and the start of a long, desperate search for true love...

• MAZE 3D (1953) - MAZE 3D (1953) (1 Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/04/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Verdi-La Forza Del Destino | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• What Planet Are You From ? | DVD | (15/01/2001) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  What Planet Are You From? stars Garry Shandling whose hilarious TV series The Larry Sanders Show offered him a great vehicle to show his comic performance abilities; you could scarcely tell the difference between his smile and his grimace--he always looked as if Hollywood was giving him a bad case of gas. However in this shockingly unfunny film, which Shandling co-wrote, one can only imagine that the other writers severely diluted Shandling's original intentions--the wince, his only expression, seems real. Worse, you'll share his dismay. Shandling stars as an alien from a sterile race of clones who is sent to Earth to procreate with an Earth woman--exactly why this is necessary is left fuzzy. Ostensibly, given the title, this should lead to a raucous satire of dating mores. Instead, our space invader quickly takes up with a recovering alcoholic played by Annette Bening, and we chart their stridently bumpy but predictable relationship. Greg Kinnear co-stars as a slimy co-worker; Linda Fiorentino plays Kinnear's man-eating wife; John Goodman portrays an FAA official who's onto Shandling's secret; and Ben Kingsley appears as the humourless leader of the alien planet. The single recurring joke involves the alien's genitalia and its propensity, when excited, to buzz loudly, which it does at least 10 or 15 times--afterit ceases to be remotely amusing. Shandling plays his character as so stunningly obtuse that whenever he manages a genuinely clever line it practically seems out of character; the rest of the talented cast flounders, similarly lost. Director Mike Nichols has staged painfully awkward scenes with Elan in the (distant) past--think The Graduate or Carnal Knowledge--but What Planet Are You From? simply sits there, flailing desperately, seemingly aware of its own crushing tedium. Large chunks of the film appear to have been left on the editing room floor; it's hard to imagine material even more comically futile than what appears onscreen. --David Kronke, Amazon.com

• Rooster Cogburn | Blu Ray | (06/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An elderly marshal after a gang of outlaws is helped by a Bible-thumping schoolmarm the daughter of a priest. She joins up with the hard-drinking hard-fighting one-eyed marshal to capture the gang of incompetent outlaws who killed her father.

• Court Martial Of Major Keller - Classic British Cinema | DVD | (15/02/2010) from £11.92   |  Saving you £-1.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Laurence Payne stars as Major Keller a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Colonel Winch. The facts of the case are shrouded by the mayhem of war and the effects that fear pressure and duty have upon a soldier. Did the Major covet the Colonel's wife? Was the Major ambitious and kill Winch to secure a promotion? Or had the Colonel cracked under the pressure of an illustrious battle career? To prove his innocence Major Keller must rely on the evidence and testimonies given in court however when he himself is the only witness his word may not be good enough to win his freedom.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Tragedy At Marsden Manor / The Double Clue | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Tragedy At Marsden Manor: Poirot is called in to investigate a murder at the local hotel. The Double Clue: Four unsolved robberies are creating work for Inspector Japp who has to call in Poirot for some assistance.

• Mad Love | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £19.44   |  Saving you £-4.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Soon after their first meeting Matt and Casey's relationship turns into a love affair. Under pressure from their parents to break up they decide to hit the road in a desperate attempt to stay together....

• Operavox | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the master animators that brought the three time Emmy Award-winning 'Shakespeare the Animated Tales' to the screen comes 'Operavox'. Through stunning cell and stop frame animation to oils and elaborate puppetry this exhilarating series vividly renders some of the world's most beloved operatic compositions bringing them to life as never before creating a unique accessibility to traditional opera. Skillfully translated from the full-length works the half hour adaptations of 'C

• Rocky Horror Picture Show - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (12/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  You asked for on Blu-ray and you shall receive it... Recreate The Midnight Movie Experience in your living room and celebrate 35 years of absolute pleasure with this picture-perfect specimen of Richard O'Brien's cosmic cult classic starring Tim Curry Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon It's brimming with twisted humour mind-blowing music and decadent extras. So come up to the lab...See what's on the slab... The Rocky Horror Picture Show in abundance!

• Rising Damp - The Best Of | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £10.64   |  Saving you £-0.65 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  First broadcast in 1974, the ITV bedsitland sitcom Rising Damp was an instant and enduring success. It starred Leonard Rossiter as the miserly and lovelorn landlord Rigsby who is constantly needling young lodger Alan (Richard Beckinsale), a science student whose long hair and earrings are symptomatic to Rigsby of the parlous effeminacy of the modern age. He's also in love with Frances De La Tour's dowdy spinster Miss Jones, though his tentative advances are forever rebuffed. She in turn carries a torch for Philip (Don Warrington), the elegant son of an African chief who also resides at Rigsby Towers. Some aspects of Rising Damp have not aged well, principally Rigsby's stream of racist jibes at Philip. Although these were doubtless well-meant and supposed to illustrate Rigsby's foolish bigotry, you suspect that that was a convenient cover for audiences in the 1970s to enjoy racist humour. However, Rossiter's Rigsby--stuttering, stammering, bent perpetually over backwards--remains a great comic creation, embodying all the festering prejudices, small-mindedness and self-delusion of the lower middle class Little Englander. --David Stubbs

• Untamed Love | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £5.91   |  Saving you £0.08 (1.35%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on real events this story follows a special needs teacher's efforts to break down the barriers of silent aggression in a highly-disturbed child.

• The Watch | Blu Ray | (25/03/2013) from £5.06   |  Saving you £19.93 (393.87%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Four everyday guys come together to form a neighbourhood watch group to escape their humdrum lives. Little do they know that their town has been over taken by aliens posing as suburbanites and they have to save the day.

• Jaded | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A woman called Meg Harris finds herself cast into the spotlight when she is the victim of a female rape. Meg is threatened by her husband when she decides to go to court. Meanwhile the accused two regulars from a local bar are protected when the bar owner Jack chooses to lie under oath. This taut thriller was nominated for best feature at the International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

• The Early Bird | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £16.24   |  Saving you £-3.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Norman Wisdom reprises his best-loved character, the comically inept Pitkin, in 1965's The Early Bird, ably supported once again by Edward Chapman in his final appearance as Mr Grimsdale. This time around Wisdom is the only milkman working for Grimsdale's Dairy, a small business threatened by a menacing large corporation in the shape of Consolidated Dairies and their electric milk floats. Grimsdale and Pitkin must evoke the Dunkirk spirit to save their family firm from the grasp of the faceless giant. Of course, the wafer-thin plot is the merest excuse for a series of calamitous set pieces in which Wisdom wreaks havoc in his trademark bumbling manner. The best bits involve a disastrous game of golf, the usual shenanigans with a fire hose and a virtuoso tour de force opening sequence as the household struggles to wake up in the morning. Wisdom's own brand of Jerry Lewis-inspired clowning, with mugging and pratfalls aplenty, is all good clean fun with little or none of the smutty innuendo that characterised the contemporary Carry On series. He carries this film, as he does all his others, solely on the strength of his winningly naïve charm: this is innocent comedy from the days before supermarkets really did wreck all the local businesses, not to mention from the days before The Godfather gave a whole new spin on the comedy value of going to bed with your horse. On the DVD: There are no extra features on this disc at all. Given Wisdom's household-name status and the longevity of these much-loved movies, this seems like a sadly missed opportunity. The 4:3 picture has not been digitally remastered and shows its age, as does the muddy mono soundtrack. Only Ron Goodwin's wonderfully tongue-in-cheek music score comes across reasonably well. --Mark Walker

• Richard Hammond's Blast Lab Blow-Ups | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £4.97   |  Saving you £5.02 (101.01%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Pint-sized petrol head Richard Hammond presents the popular children's TV show Blast Lab involving scientific experiments of the noisier kind no show ever goes without a bang! Two teams take part in science related challenges in order to win prizes the losers get to blow up their winnings. Among the many experiments Hammond conducts are what happens when a tonne of water is dropped on a car from a height of 30 metres what happens when you use the world's largest trebuchet to fire flaming cannonballs at a caravan and can a jet pack man propel himself 30 metres in the air as he attempts the world's highest ever basketball slam dunk?

• Homicide - Series 4 - Complete | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Life Is A Mystery. But Death Is A Job. With gallows humor and dogged determination the men and women of the Baltimore Police Homicide Division race to keep pace with the killers who haunt their city. But with 250 murders a year the ominous Board tracking their progress remains full. Executive Produced by Barry Levinson (Rain Man Diner) Tom Fontana (Oz St. Elsewhere) and Henry Bromell (Northern Exposure Chicago Hope) and created by Paul Attanasio (Gideon's Crossing Quiz Show) Homicide: Life On The Street features an extraordinary cast highlighted by Yaphet Kotto (Roots) Richard Belzer (Law & Order: SVU) and Emmy winner Andre Braugher (Gideon's Crossing). This collection includes all 22 episodes from the fourth season of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning series available on DVD for the first time. Now for the first time - watch the episodes in the order intended by the series' producers.

• Last House On The Left | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bold powerful and starkly realistic this chilling cinematic debut of horror master Wes Craven (Scream) is a shocking journey into the heart of evil. Written and directed with almost unbearable dramatic tension (Chicago Sun Times) The Last House on the Left will make you deadbolt your doors and frantically mutter: It's only a movie... it's only a movie... it's only a movie.! Easy going Mari Collingwood and her fun loving friend Phyllis are on their way to a Bloodlust concert to celebrate Mari's 17th birthday when three escaped convicts kidnap and torture them. But Mari and Phyllis are fighters and although they are drugged and beaten into unconsciousness stuffed in a car trunk and driven into the woods for even more brutality they are still alive.... But for how long?

• He Walked By Night | DVD | (16/03/2015) from £7.33   |  Saving you £5.66 (77.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Alfred L. Werker directs this archetypal noir thriller starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady and James Cardwell. When petty criminal Roy Martin (Basehart) shoots and kills a policeman while on the run, Sergeants Marty Brennan and Chuck Jones (Brady and Cardwell) are tasked with finding out who killed their colleague. Can another crime committed in the city that same night hold the key to finding their guy?

• Infamous Serial Killers of Our Time | DVD | (17/01/2011) from £32.93   |  Saving you £-17.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The murderers next door What drives people to murder to torture and to mutilate? What happens that makes a monster out of a human being? And once that inner transformation has taken place how can they be stopped? In this fascinating collection we look at six of modern history's most notorious killers examining their early years for clues as to their murderous potential their private lives for details of their unusual thought processes their horrific crimes and the way each has been brought to justice.