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• Big Jake | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £10.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (45.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this action-filled Western John Wayne stars as BIG JAKE McCandles a husband who hasn't seen his wife (Maureen O'Hara) in over 18 years. But he returns home after his grandson is kidnapped by a vicious outlaw gang. While the law gives chase in rickety automobiles Jake saddles up with an Indian scout (Bruce Cabot) and a box of money - even though paying a ransom isn't how Jake plans to exact good old frontier justice. Spiced with humour and first-class gunfights this is a vivid depiction of the last days of the wild frontier.BIG JAKE was a family affair for John Wayne. His eldest son produced it and two other sons Patrick and John Ethan appear in it. The film also marks the second time Richard Boone and John Wayne worked together and the fifth time Wayne worked with Maureen O'Hara.

• I Thank You | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £9.94   |  Saving you £-4.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  More Comedic antics from Arthur Askey

• Lansky | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Meyer Lansky was an enigma. Few knew him. Many feared him. He was passionately loyal to his friends and ruthless towards his enemies. He was calm and calculating. He seemed above reproach. Lansky is based on the true story of a young Jewish immigrant from Poland who grew up on the impoverished streets of the Lower East Side of New York at the turn of the 20th Century. Turning his back on poverty Lansky (Richard Dreyfuss) embarked on a life of crime. He monopolised racketeering bootlegging gambling and organised crime with a keeness of mind and shrewdness never before seen. Partnered with his childhood friend Ben Bugsy Siegel (Eric Roberts) and young Italian street thug Charlie Lucky Luciano (Anthony LaPaglia) Lansky earned notoriety that eventually made him the object of several FBI investigations and congressional hearings. Directed by John McNaughton this HBO production is a fascinating tale of loyalty and deception innocence and guilt crime and murder.

• The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (64.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Before nerds geeks and cyberpunks there was regular-guy Medfield College student Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) who accidentally turns into a human computer through a shocking lab mishap. As the hype over his instant genius threatens to swell his head he becomes the centre of a winner-take-all tug-of-war between greedy college deans and dangerous gamblers which lands him in big trouble! The ""genius"" Dexter then learns a valuable lesson when the same friends he had earlier turned his

• And Mother Makes Five - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  BAFTA winner Wendy Craig stars with Richard Coleman, Robin Davies and Oscar winner David Parfitt in this highly popular sequel to Thames' hit sitcom And Mother Makes Three. Co-written by Wendy Craig and produced by sitcom veteran Peter Frazer-Jones, the series charts the ongoing tribulations of Sally Harrison - a well-meaning, deeply loving but scatterbrained mother of two rambunctious young sons, now sharing her life with second husband David Redway, an antiquarian bookseller, and stepdaugh...

• Growth | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £12.48   |  Saving you £1.77 (15.78%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• La Traviata - Verdi | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £22.13   |  Saving you £2.86 (11.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The famous performance of Verdi's romantic tragedy captures one of the most sensational debuts in operatic history. Singing Violetta for the first time was the young Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu whose remarkable interpretation reached the front pages of the world's press and led the BBC immediately to film the production. Equally notable was the masterly conducting of Sir Georg Solti and director Richard Eyre's stylish staging. This DVD and highlights CD present the definitive record of a momentous occasion.

• Ronnie Barker Comedy Classics - Futtocks End/A Home of Your Own | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ronnie Barker is synonymous with classic comedy. This comedy classics box set features 2 brilliant titles: Futtocks End: A weekend gathering at the country home of the eccentric General Futtock (Ronnie Barker) produces a series of saucy mishaps between staff and guests. Comedic chaos ensues between the assembled group of motley characters. A Home of Your Own: Ronnie Barker stars in a noisy but wordless comedy of errors about British builders. Barker's put-upon cement mixer Peter Butterworth's short-sighted carpenter and Bernard Cribbins' hapless stonemason all contribute to the ensuing chaos.

• Latin Thugs - Wild And Chronic | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story retells the fascinating story of the start of one of the largest and most influential bands in rock and the drug induced breakdown of their original song writer and lead man. Roger Waters Dave Gilmour Nick Mason and Rick Wright retell how Syd's slip from reality haunted the band for many years and this is clearly demonstrated in the tracks 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Wish You Were Here'. There are also insights from former girlfriends landlords flatmates producers managers friends and famous fans. Also featuring rare early footage of the band performing including a live show at the UFO Club and an appearance with former landlord Mick Leonard on Tomorrow's World.

• Silver Screams Cinema (Box Set) (Phantom Speaks / Vampire's Ghost / Return of the Ape Man / Valley of the Zombies / She Devil / Unknown Terror) Imprint Collection Blu Ray | Blu Ray | (23/07/2021) from £70.26   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Clint Eastwood: Out Of The Shadows | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £12.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (7.70%)   |  RRP £13.99

  'Unforgiven' co-star Morgan Freeman narrates a richly entertaining insider's look at Eastwood's personal life and public career. Loaded with rare archival material star commentaries and memorable film clips ""it's a keeper"" (Ed Bark The Dallas Morning News).

• The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Last Vampyre | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Last Vampyre is an overblown two-hour adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire", and was perhaps the most ill-advised of Granada Television's Sherlock Holmes series. Entirely contrary to the tone and spirit of Doyle's tale--which finds Holmes victoriously pitting his well-grounded deductive powers against irrational fears of a rise in blood sucking--The Last Vampyre is something of an embarrassment to the largely wonderful legacy of Granada's earlier efforts. (For the record, most of the creative executives who, along with star Jeremy Brett, had made the beloved series what it was in the 1980s were replaced by 1992, the year of this film.) In this version, Holmes does battle with a Dracula-like fellow who may or may not be the real McCoy. There is a great deal of padding to fill out the story to feature length, and it is mostly silly. So, you ask, is there anything to recommend this? Well, there is the ailing Brett's ever-fascinating performance, which deviates from Doyle's vision of the detective hero toward something darker and more personal. Edward Hardwicke does his usual warm and capable work as Dr Watson. --Tom Keogh

• Under The Piano | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Normal | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A poignant and funny portrait of a marriage that undergoes a wrenching examination... After 25 years of a loving marriage in a small midwestern town husband Roy announces to his wife Irma that he is a woman trapped in a man's body and wants to have a sex change operation.

• Leonard Bernstein: Trouble In Tahiti | DVD | (20/01/2003) from £23.05   |  Saving you £-3.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This new film of Leonard Bernstein's music-theatre piece Trouble in Tahiti, produced by BBC Wales and Opus Arte and directed by Tom Cairns, makes a strong case for a neglected work. Bernstein wrote his satire on American materialism in 1952, drawing on elements of opera, revue and musical comedy to tell a story of a marriage that's turned sour amid the trappings of suburban prosperity. The brevity of the piece, which flashes by in 39 minutes, perhaps accounts for its rare appearances, making this version specially welcome. Tom Cairns directs with style and panache, moving the camera effortlessly to and fro between the seven scenes. Amir Hosseinpour's choreography recalls with affection the heyday of the MGM musical then at its zenith. The film opens with a Greek-style chorus singing in scat jazz fashion to a montage of 1950s imagery: flickering television adverts, manicured lawns and white picket fences. Characters within the narrative appear in flash-back in home video footage. This is all highly diverting and possibly a ruse to mask some dramatic weakness in the story written by Bernstein himself. The wife never offers an explanation for her visit to the cinema to see Trouble in Tahiti instead of attending her son's school play, nor do we see the boy again after witnessing his parents having a tiff. The two principals, Karl Daymond as Sam and Stephanie Novacek as Dinah, are well cast and sing in a natural and pleasing manner with clear diction. The scat vocal trio is well matched and the City of London Sinfonia under Paul Daniel catch the spirit of the jazz inflected score as if it were second nature. On the DVD: Trouble in Tahiti is shot in wide-screen, appropriate for the era that gave us CinemaScope. There are subtitles in German, Spanish and French. A full translation in English is printed in the booklet. The extras include an introduction that partly overlaps with "A Very Testing Piece", in which Paul Daniel touches on the parallel with Bernstein's own unhappy childhood. Humphrey Burton in "Not Particularly Romantic" elaborates on this theme and goes on to offer a further fascinating commentary on Bernstein, whom he knew well. --Adrian Edwards

• Pranks | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Night Train Murders | Blu Ray | (10/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Children Of The Corn 4 - The Gathering | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £12.90   |  Saving you £2.09 (16.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The horror returns when the children of a small midwestern town are haunted by an unspeakable evil that lurks somewhere out behind the corn fields. A bright young medical student must solve the frightening mystery that plagues the children before a sinister stranger can claim their souls for his own! It's a pulse-pounding race against time and terror that will leave even the most die-hard suspense fans on the edge of their seats!

• Mandragora | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A 16-year-old boy with an angelic face and a freshly stolen jacket arrives at the main train station in Prague. He's immediately spotted by a man named Honza who asks him if he wants to earn some quick cash. The boy is too nave to realise that he's being set up as a prostitute. Honza drugs him and delivers him to his first trick. The boy wakes in the room of a homosexual client who has just had sex with him. Shaken he takes his payment from the man and returns to the train station

• Great Caruso, The | Blu Ray | (09/03/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A