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• Shock Treatment | Blu Ray | (09/04/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  FROM THE CREATORS OF THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW ! It's not a sequel... it's not a prequel... it's an equal! Available on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere in the world, it is with absolute pleasure that Arrow Video presents Shock Treatment the criminally underrated sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show! Several years on from the events of the original Rocky, Brad and Janet Majors find their strained marriage put to the test on popular Denton TV show Marriage Maze. Poor Brad is heavily sedated and institutionalised, whilst Janet is given a radical makeover and primed for stardom. But what are the real motivations behind the kooky DTV crew and their enigmatic head-honcho, Farley Flavors? Featuring a host of familiar Rocky faces including Richard O Brien and Patricia Quinn, alongside the likes of Jessica Harper, Barry Humphries and Rik Mayall not to mention a rocking, shocking score from Richard O Brien and Richard Hartley Shock Treatment is the follow-up that s more than the equal of its predecessor. Extras High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original Stereo 2.0 and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Isolated music and effects track Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Archive audio introduction by Richard O Brien Brand new audio commentary with actresses Patricia Quinn and Nell Campbell Archive audio commentary by Mad Man Mike and Bill Brennan DTV Presents: A Shockumentary retrospective making-of featurette Let's Rock n Roll: Shock Treatment's Super Score archive featurette on the music of Shocky The Rocky Horror Treatment vintage behind-the-scenes documentary Patricia Quinn in Conversation with Mark Kermode Fan featurettes & cover songs Promo gallery featuring trailers, radio spot and stills Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commmissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys

• The Sound Of Music | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Share the magical heartwarming true-life story that has become the most popular family film of all time - Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound Of Music. Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or merriment. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture this timeless cla

• Cinderella Double Pack | Blu Ray | (24/08/2015) from £7.89   |  Saving you £12.48 (158.17%)   |  RRP £20.37

  Cinderella (2015) The story of “Cinderella” follows the fortunes of young Ella (Lily James) whose merchant father remarries following the death of her mother. Eager to support her loving father Ella welcomes her new Stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and her daughters Anastasia (Holliday Grainger) and Drisella (Sophie McShera) into the family home. But when Ella’s father unexpectedly passes away she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Soon she is forced to become their servant disrespected covered in ashes and spitefully renamed Cinderella. Yet despite the cruelty inflicted upon her Ella will not give in to despair nor despise those who mistreat her and she continues to remain positive determined to honor her mother’s dying words and to “have courage and be kind.” When Ella meets a dashing stranger in the woods unaware that he is really the Prince (Richard Madden) and not merely Kit an apprentice at the palace she believes she has finally found a kindred soul. It appears her fortunes may be about to change when the King (Derek Jacobi) summons all maidens in the kingdom to attend a royal ball at the palace raising Ella’s hopes of once again encountering the charming Kit. Alas her Stepmother forbids her to attend and callously destroys her dress. Meanwhile the calculating Grand Duke (Stellan Skarsgård) devises a plan to thwart the Prince’s hopes of reuniting with Ella and enlists the support of the devious Stepmother. But as in all good fairy tales help is at hand. Soon a kindly beggar woman (Helena Bonham Carter) steps forward and armed with a pumpkin a few mice and a magic wand changes Cinderella’s life forever. A live-action feature inspired by the classic fairy tale “Cinderella” brings to life the timeless images from Disney’s 1950 animated masterpiece as fully-realised characters in a visually-dazzling spectacle for a whole new generation. Directed by Academy Award® nominee Kenneth Branagh (“Thor ” “Hamlet”) and starring two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett (“Blue Jasmine ” “Elizabeth”) Lily James (“Downton Abbey”) Richard Madden (“Game of Thrones”) and Academy Award nominee Helena Bonham Carter (“The King’s Speech ” “Alice in Wonderland”) “Cinderella” is produced by Simon Kinberg (“X-Men: Days of Future Past ” “Elysium”) Allison Shearmur (“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1”) and David Barron (“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1”) with Tim Lewis (“Edge of Tomorrow”) serving as executive producer. The screenplay is by Chris Weitz (“About a Boy ” “The Golden Compass”) Cinderella (1950) Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmothers wand Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball to meet her Prince. But when the clock strikes midnight the spell is broken leaving only a single glass slipper a slipper that will be the key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!

• Ice Cold In Alex | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £6.59   |  Saving you £7.40 (112.29%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The title Ice Cold in Alex refers to the beer the heroes of this 1958 British World War Two classic plan to drink in Alexandria, once they have escaped from the Germans, negotiated minefields and survived both mechanical failure and the killing heat of the North African sands. The setting is Libya in 1942, at the height of the campaigns featured in The Desert Fox (1951) and The Desert Rats (1953), and a disparate group in a military ambulance--which include a Nazi agent to add tension of one kind and a beautiful nurse to add tension of another--must make an epic journey to safety. Staring John Mills, Sylvia Sims, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews the terror and poignancy comes from our certainty that not everyone will survive, such that the suspense sometimes reaches near unbearable levels. Director J Lee-Thomson was clearly inspired by the then recent French masterpiece, The Wages of Fear (1952) and handles both the character drama and set-pieces with great skill. He would go on to make another great war adventure, The Guns of Navarone (1961), also starring Anthony Quayle, who then returned to the desert for the ultimate British war classic, Lawrence of Arabia (1962). --Gary S. Dalkin

• Sugar Rush Series 1 & 2 | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £18.88   |  Saving you £11.11 (58.85%)   |  RRP £29.99

  ""Being a teenage girl is tough. Being an uncool 15 year old lesbian who's completely infatuated with the most outrageous and popular girl in school is downright unfair!"" - Maria Sweet Sugar Rush explores the world of Kim and her earth-shattering lust for the gorgeous and sassy Maria Sweet otherwise known as Sugar. And if Sugar wasn't enough to blow Kim's mind there's also her dysfunctional embarrassing family; a mini-freak for a brother an obsessively house-proud dad and a mum who's behaving as if she's the one who's 15 years old. 18 months on and Kim's now 17 out proud and living life to the full on the Brighton lesbian scene... in her dreams. In truth she's holed up in her bedroom with only her A-Level revision and an electric toothbrush for company. Her best friend Sugar isn't getting any action either but she's got a good excuse: she's serving time in a Young Offenders Institute!

• Queen & Country DVD | DVD | (24/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.

• Les Miserables | DVD | (13/06/2022) from £12.02   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jean Valjean (Richard Jordan), convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for several decades by the relentless and cruel Policeman Javert (Anthony Perkins).

• The Sand Pebbles | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £16.17   |  Saving you £-6.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Robert Wise chose to film Robert McKenna's award-winning novel The Sand Pebbles as his follow-up to the success of The Sound of Music. Shot in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the film combines historical sweep and intimate human drama in several parallel stories, all revolving around US Navy machinist's mate Jake Holman (Steve McQueen), a skilful but fiercely independent sailor who joins the "sand pebble" crew of the USS San Pablo, a Navy gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River on the eve of the Chinese revolution in 1926. The San Pablo's inexperienced captain (Richard Crenna) obsessively defends the Navy's mission-however unnecessary or unwanted--to protect American missionaries and businessmen, blind to the more dangerous implications of American involvement with China's opposing political factions. Holman is a defiant voice of humanity in this clash between outmoded values and inevitable change; his final line of dialogue ("What the hell happened?") is a tragic summation of misguided policy, expressing the film's criticism of the Vietnam War. Rather than preach, however, Wise lets McKenna's potent drama emerge from finely drawn relationships: between Holman and a young American teacher (19-year-old Candice Bergen, in her second film); between Holman and the Chinese "coolie" (Mako), whose heart-breaking fate transcends all issues of racial or political difference; and between crewmate "Frenchy" Burgoyne (Richard Attenborough) and the Chinese woman he's sworn to love and protect at all costs. Combined with the film's colourful supporting cast, adventurous scope, and climactic battle scenes, these personal dynamics bring substance and spirit to a complex story of good intentions gone awry. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• H.M.S. Defiant | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in 1797 at the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars, HMS Defiant is an enthralling British naval drama made to capitalise upon MGM's epic remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, also released in 1962. Based on the novel Mutiny by Frank Tilsey and starring Alex Guinness as a fair-minded captain locked in psychological conflict with Dirk Bogarde, his manipulative, coldly malicious first officer, the parallels with the famous true story are clear. However there were many naval mutinies at this period and this large-scale saga, which includes some spectacularly staged widescreen naval battles, offers a realistic depiction of life in the British navy at the time--from the press gangs and floggings, to the appalling food and living conditions. Director Lewis Gilbert--who previously helmed Sink the Bismarck! (1960)--strikes a good balance between the personal drama and sweeping maritime adventure. Guinness successfully varies his firm-but-fair officer from The Bridge on the River Kwai, Bogarde is chillingly hateful and Anthony Quayle gives strong support. ITV's recent Hornblower cumulatively offers a more detailed portrait of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars, though the TV series cannot match the visual scale of this big-screen production. On the DVD: HMS Defiant is presented anamorphically enhanced at 2.35:1, though a little of the original CinemaScope frame is still cropped at the sides. The image is generally very good, though a handful of scenes near the end show considerable print damage and there is an inconstancy of colour grading between some shots. Grain is variable, but not generally a problem, though some unattractive "ringing" from edge enhancement is noticeable, particularly around Alex Guinness when he stands against a bright sky. The sound is in very clear mono with just occasional distortion on the music score. The disc offers the option of watching with dubbed French, German, Italian or Spanish soundtracks. The original trailer is included--under the American title of Damn the Defiant!--as are trailers for three other classic war films. The only other extra features are a small gallery of original publicity materials and three very basic filmographies. --Gary S Dalkin

• Richard Thompson - Live From Austin Texas | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £18.85   |  Saving you £-3.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This is the recording of a Richard Thompson show performed in July 2001. Richard has been successfully touring his 1000 Years Of Popular Music show for some time now and his live shows are as successful and critically acclaimed as ever. Tracklisting: 1. Cooksferry Queen 2. Uninhabited Man 3. Walking The Long Miles Home 4. Al Bowling's In Heaven 5. Mingus Eyes 6. Dry My Tears And Move On 7. Easy There Steady Now 8. Persuasion 9. Bathsheba Smiles 10. Mr . Rebound 11. Ghosts I

• Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The man Ricky Gervais has described as The funniest most clich''-free comedian on the circuit returns to reinvent stand-up comedy television. Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle marks the return of arguably one of Britain's finest stand up comedians and shows him at his masterful and hilarious best. Each of the six episodes sees Stewart explore a different theme in a stand-up routine illustrated with sketches featuring an ensemble cast of well known comic talent. In each episode Stewart sets out to answer a question that addresses a specific aspect of modern life; Why for example is there a tide of banal books in bookshops threatening to engulf us? Does the world really need celebrity hardbacks? Stewart's on a journey to find out - and meets some interesting authors along the way. Has political correctness really gone mad or is it just that a lot of people confuse political correctness with health and safety legislation? Stewart tries to pick his way through the PC minefield and reveals how it only made him put on weight. Stewart sets out to discover the truth about popular television duo Ant and Dec and visits a quaint English village where The Funniest Thing That's Ever Been On Television Ever has given rise to a unique rural tradition. Sort of. Whatever the topic Stewart addresses it with razor sharp wit using every argument at his disposal to convey his point. And you'l have learned something along the way (which may or may not be true).

• Doctor In The House - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Doctor In The House follows the misadventures of medical students Michael Upton (Barry Evans) Duncan Waring (Robin Nedwell) Paul Collier (George Layton) and Dick Stuart-Clark (Geoffrey Davies). Albeit well intentioned the three medical students are easily distracted form the task in hand by the lure of the latest nurse on the scene and this infuriates the ferocious Professor Geoffrey Loftus (Ernest Clark). Features the complete series 2. Episodes Comprise: 1. It's All In The Little Blue Book 2. What Seems To Be The Trouble 3.Take Off Your Clothes...And Hide 4. Nice Bodywork 5. Look Into My Eyes 6. Put Your Hand On That 7. The Royal Visit 8. If You Can Help Somebody - Don't 9. Hot Off The Presses 10. A Stitch In Time 11. May The Best Man Win 12. Doctor In The Box 13. Finals

• The Secret Of My Success | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Derivative fluff from 1987, The Secret of My Success is made tolerable by its bawdy exuberance and an appealing performance by Michael J Fox, who was still enjoying TV stardom and the career momentum he earned by travelling Back to the Future. Here he plays a Kansas farm boy who dreams of scoring big in New York City... but reality turns out to be brutal to his ambition. When his uncle (Richard Jordan) gives him a mail-room job in the high-rise headquarters of a major corporation, Fox occupies an empty office and poses as a young executive, winning the attention of a lovely young colleague (Helen Slater) and having an affair with his boss's wife (Margaret Whitton). Sporadically amusing as a yuppie comedy and rather off-putting as a wannabe sex farce, the film's still recommendable for its lively cast and a breezy style that almost succeeds in updating the conventions of vintage screwball comedy. Whitton is a standout performer here, so you may wonder why her comedic talent has been underrated, apart from a good role in the first two Major League movies. This may be little more than a big-screen sitcom, but it's not without its charms. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Aces High | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An intense drama of life and death amongst fighter pilots in World War I. A moving story of comradeship and bravery loneliness and fear from award winning director Jack Gold 'Aces High' contains some of the most magnificent aerial battles ever staged leading to a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography and Best Film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards.

• Sky - The Complete Series | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Eerie, unsettling and a benchmark production for children's television in the 1970s, Sky was created by Doctor Who stalwarts Bob Baker and Dave Martin as one of the run of outstanding children's dramas HTV produced in that decade. Filmed in such richly atmospheric locations as Avebury, Glastonbury Tor and Stonehenge, Sky is a mixture of ecological fable, science fantasy and good, old-fashioned peril. Marc Harrison stars as Sky - an ethereal boy who materialises on an Earth that is as unprepared for him as he is for it. He soon realises that he's been brought to the wrong time and must seek out the Juganet to return to his correct place in reality. With the help of tearaway Arby Venner, his sister June and friend Roy he must race against time as Nature rejects Sky and the Earth's immune system creates the evil Goodchild, who is out to stop him at all costs... One of the most memorable television series of the 1970s is available here, for the very first time in any video format. Episodes three and seven no longer exist in the archive in any format and the version included on this set is taken from an off-air VHS.

• One Foot In The Grave - Series 6 | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £4.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (221.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One Foot In The Grave returns for the final series. Long-suffering wife Margaret (Annette Crosby) looks on as Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) the uber-grump continues his run of rudeness and misfortune. Retirement isn't the walk in the park he thought it would be and the grim reaper's calls are growing ever louder... Episode Listing: 1. The Executioner's Song 2. Tales Of Terror 3. Futility Of The Fly 4. Threatening Weather 5. The Dawn Of Man 6. Things Aren't Simple Anymore

• Monarch Of The Glen - Series 7 | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (24.95%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The seventh and final series of this wonderful Highland drama brings with it a host of new problems for the McDonald family to contend with introducing a few new faces as well as revisiting one or two old ones. Following the sudden death of his partner Meg Golly now finds himself as a single parent struggling to cope with the demands of both his son and his job. He soon learns that he is not alone and he and Molly become become closer than they have been for a long time. Meanwhile

• Code 404 Series 1&2 Boxed Set | DVD | (11/10/2021) from £26.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Series OneJohn Major had it all: wife, best friend, glittering career in the police force... when his cover was blown and he met an untimely death. One year later, he's back - part AI and better than ever... or so he'd like to believe. Full of glitches, he's got to track down the person who shot him, prove himself as a cop so as not to get shut down, save his marriage and his friendship with his partner to boot.Series TwoDI John Major and DI Roy Carver were the top crime fighting duo in the Unit but when an undercover sting went horribly wrong, Major was gunned down on the job and killed. As an ˜asset' considered too valuable to lose, his body was fast-tracked into an experimental Artificial Intelligence project to bring him back from the dead. The only problem is, Major 2.0 may look like and sound like the original, but something was lost in translation - quite a lot actually.Oh, and if that wasn't enough, thinking her husband is dead, Major's wife has fallen in love with Carver. Somehow, Major's error-strewn hunches and Carver's scrambling to make good allows them to just about scrape by but for how long?

• The Souvenir Part II | DVD | (25/04/2022) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction. Joanna Hogg's shimmering story of first love and a young woman's formative years, The Souvenir Part II is a portrait of the artist that transcends the halting particulars of everyday life a singular, alchemic mix of memoir and fantasy. With an outstanding cast that also includes Richard Ayoade, Charlie Heaton, Joe Alwyn and Tilda Swinton, the critically acclaimed sequel to The Souvenir is a truly unmissable cinematic event.

• Massacre In Rome | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Set in the Second World War when Nazi Germany occupied Italy. This film deals with the Vatican's involvement in the entire movement during the occupation of Rome.