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• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Third Floor Flat / Triangle At Rhodes | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £5.39   |  Saving you £4.60 (85.34%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Third Floor Flat: Poirot is bored and discontended as he has had no murder case to investigate for several weeks. Only hours later he finds himself embroiled in the strange shooting of Mrs Grant the new resident who has moved in just two floors below his own apartment. Triangle At Rhodes: Poirot is on holiday at Rhodes' Palace Hotel when a British woman is mysteriously poisoned. Is this the simple crime of passion it appears to be or is the woman's husband an innocent man?

• MacGyver - Series 4 - Complete | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Part boy-scout. Part genius. All hero. Using his brain in place of a gun secret agent Angus MacGyver relies on his knowledge of science to save himself and others from jeopardy. Deploring the promotion of everyday violence MacGyver refuses to carry weapons and instead designs life-saving tools out of household staples like paper clips and duct tape. Richard Dean Anderson portrays a likeable hero of strong principals and intellect in this clever series which successfully ran for seven years (1985-1992) and continues to remain a beloved cult favourite. This collection features all the episodes from season 3 of MacGyver. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Secret Of Parker House 2. Blood Brothers 3. The Outsiders 4. On a Wing And A Prayer 5. Collision Course 6. The Survivors 7. Deadly Dreams 8. Ma Dalton 9. Cleo Rocks 10. Fraternity Of Thieves 11. The Battle Of Tommy Giordano 12. The Challenge 13. Runners 14. Gold Rush 15. The Invisible Killer 16. Brainwashed 17. Easy Target 18. Renegade 19. Unfinished Business

• F. Scott Fitzgerald And The Last Of The Belles | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £15.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (-300.50%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Idomeneo - Mozart | DVD | (29/10/2004) from £4.82   |  Saving you £10.17 (211.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Although Idomeneo is one of Mozart's lesser known operas it sparkles with the composer's usual brilliant melodies. Glyndebourne became the main advocate of the opera in the 50s and 60s and yet despite this Idomeneo was still considered by 1974 something of a rarity.During a ferocious storm Idomeneo the King of Crete makes a vow to Neptune offering a sacrifice (the first human being Idomeneo sees) in return for the god's help in bringing his ship safely to shore. As it turns out this is his own son Idamante. This dilemma can only be solved by the unselfish love of Ilia who is willing to give her life in his stead.Richard Lewis once again confirms his position as the world's leading exponent of this opera in the title role of Idomeneo with Josephine Barstow equally mesmerising in her portrayal of Elettra's agony. This significantly shortened version begins with Idomeneo alone on the beach after having survived the fierce storm. John Cox uses strikingly dark staging echoing the drama of the action and according to Mozart's original directions includes drowning sailors and the infamous Act II sea monster.

• Duel Of Hearts | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A rather jarring mix of period drama, trashy romance and all-star blockbuster, Duel of Hearts is a swashbuckling, bodice-ripping tale of slightly dubious quality. Based on a novel by Barbara Cartland, it provides the usual dollops of intrigue and love, although its choice of a female protagonist does at least give it some twist. The splendidly named Lady Caroline Faye (Alison Doody) is the story's plucky heroine, fighting to prove the innocence of her beau Lord Vane Brecon and discover his troubling inner turmoil. Donning a disguise that seems to consist largely of wearing her hair in a different manner, Lady Caroline places herself among the very people that would seek Brecon's undoing. Those looking for high quality drama should probably go elsewhere, but this is an entertaining enough piece of silliness, combining the history of Regency England with the production values of a daytime American soap opera. On the DVD: Duel of Hearts on DVD has had very little effort put into it, which is perhaps no surprise given the rather slapdash nature of the main feature. The sound has been digitally remastered but the picture quality hasn't, and has that dubious made-for-television look. The interactive menu is unattractive and unimaginative and there are no extras. --Phil Udell

• Apolcalypse Earth | DVD | (31/10/2016) from £6.75   |  Saving you £9.50 (173.04%)   |  RRP £14.99

• The River King | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's the truth that haunts us.... Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school who is found floating in the river. Fearing scandal the school insists it was suicide. But after discovering from the boy's girlfriend Carlin that he was being badly bullied Abel suspects that a dangerous schoolboy initiation has gone horribly wrong and he secretly solicits the help of a sympathetic teacher Betsy. He is warned off the investigation by hi

• Francis the Talking Mule: 7 Film Collection | Blu Ray | (03/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Intruders | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Women all over America are living through diabolical nightmares as time and again they share in the same hideous dream. Despite the fact that none of the women have ever met they all tell the same disturbing story! When an acclaimed psychiatrist Dr. Chase (Crenna) uses regressive hypnosis on some of his patients he discovers a strange common ground; similarities that cannot be put down to the power of the imagination or to the supernatural. He uncovers a sinister truth a truth that proves that alien life on earth could be a reality!

• Parting Glances | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Parting Glances follows New York lovers Michael and Robert on the eve of Robert's departure for Africa where his employer has reassigned him. During the night of farewell partying with friends they come to terms with the end of their relationship. In the background their best friend Nick is dying of AIDS but isn't going to stop drinking and smoking (a fantastic performance of cutting wit from Steve Buscemi). Director Sherwood brings warmth and humour to his characters and depiction

• Stealing Harvard | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £6.43   |  Saving you £14.82 (286.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A middle-class man turns to a life of crime in order to finance his niece's first year at Harvard University.

• The Fantastic 5 Digistack: Flight of the Reindeer/Rudolph/Casper's Haunted Christmas/Annabelle's Wish/Ben Hur | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer And The Island Of Misfit Toys - Lovable Ruldolph has overcome his handicap - his bright red nose - to become the most popular Reindeer in the North Pole but a mysterious thief disrupts his happy life. The Toy Taker lures children's toys away with the help of his magic flute and Christmas is threatened when he steals all of Santa's gifts. Annabelle's Wish - A Magical animated adventure based on the legend that on Christmas Eve Santa Claus

• Housesitter | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A slick, smart vehicle for Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, Housesitter offers an acceptably daffy premise and enough inventive business to sustain it through to the, not unexpected, happy ending. Architect Martin builds a dream home for his childhood sweetheart (Dana Delaney) only to be rejected when he proposes marriage. After a one-night stand, Hawn--a daffy waitress with a gift for making up improbable but convincing lies--moves into Martin's house and tells his parents (Donald Moffatt, Julie Harris) and the whole community that she is his surprise new wife. When he sees how this impresses Delaney, Martin goes along with the charade, encouraging wilder and wilder fictions and doing his best to join in so that he can rush through to a divorce and move on to the woman he has always wanted. Hawn has to recruit a couple of winos to pose as her parents and impress Martin's boss into giving him a promotion, but we glimpse her real misery at his eventual intention to toss her out of the make-believe world she has created because her own real background is so grim. Its sit-com hi-jinx are manic enough not to be strangled by an inevitable dip in to sentiment towards the end, and Hawn, who always has to work hard, is better matched against the apparently effortless Martin than in their subsequent pairing in Out-of-Towners. Martin, often wasted in comparatively straight roles, has a few wild and crazy scenes as Hawn prompts him into joining her improvised fantasies. Director Frank Oz, a frequent Martin collaborator (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Shop of Horrors, Bowfinger), is the model of a proper, competent, professional craftsman when he sets out to put a comedy together--but the film misses streaks of lunacy or cruelty that might have made it funnier and more affecting. On the DVD: The disc offers a pristine widescreen non-anamorphic transfer, letterboxed to 1.85:1. There are no extra features to speak of, just text-based production notes, cast and director bios, plus a trailer and an assortment of language and subtitle options. --Kim Newman

• Peter Pan (2003) with Limited Edition 3D Lenticular Sleeve | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Living would be an awfully big adventure.Re-discover the timeless story of Peter Pan as you've never seen it before and be swept off your feet to a Neverland you'd never dreamt possible. Magic, adventure, flying, swashbuckling action and amazing special effects: this feature film version of Peter Pan by critically acclaimed filmmakers has got it all.Join the boy who wouldn't grow up and Wendy, the girl who is told she has to, in their adventure against Captain Hook and his pirate crew. Follow Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, giant crocodiles and other fantastic creatures to a world where anything is possible... and where dreams and imagination have a power all of their own.

• Dish Dogs | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Morgan and Jason (Sean Astin and Mathew Lillard) are two of the most ineligible bachelors in town. Budding philosophers they pride themselves on their resistance to the female art of persuasion. Determined to maintain their single status they travel the California coast surfing philosophizing and washing dishes to earn their keep. When a good friend submits to the vows of matrimony the two truth-seekers reluctantly travel home for the wedding. While there Jason falls for an ol

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - How Does Your Garden Grow? / The Million Dollar Bond Robbery | DVD | (29/05/2003) from £9.27   |  Saving you £3.71 (59.08%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A potpourri of international intrigue awaits Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in How Does Your Garden Grow? / The Million Dollar Bond Robbery. An alleged Communist conspiracy casts suspicion on the Russian servant of a murdered woman in How Does Your Garden Grow?. In The Million-Dollar Bond Robbery, it's the theft of American bonds en route from London to New York. But even the most devious criminal mind is no match for Agatha Christie's famous detective. --Larisa Lomacky Moore

• Always | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £17.87   |  Saving you £2.12 (10.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Portrait of a Lady | DVD | (20/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this powerful, dramatic filming of the Henry James classic, superbly adapted for the screen by Jack Pulman (I, Claudius), Suzanne Neve stars as the young Isabel Archer. On the death of her father, Isabel refuses the hand of Mr. Goodwood and leaves her married sisters for Europe, stubborn, independent, and in the company of her rich eccentric Aunt Lydia (Beatrix Lehmann).Welcomed into the bosom of her aunt's family, she is soon befriended by her cousin Ralph (Richard Chamberlain) who respects and admires her spirit. Ralph persuades his father, on the aged man's deathbed, to divert half his fortune to Isabel, while he watches to see what she makes of her now fully-funded freedom.The choices she makes, both good and bad, will have a deep and long-lasting impact on those around her, arousing much passion and weighted with much grief. In his book 'The Realists', acclaimed author C.P. Snow described this production as a supreme television achievement, aesthetically and in all other ways. As gripping as it is compelling, it is not hard to see why.

• How To Get Ahead In Advertising | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-13.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The career where two heads are better than one! To hotshot advertising executive Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant) people are pathetic sheep to whom he can sell anything...except a brand-new pimple cream. Creatively blocked Dennis becomes so stressed that he sprouts a pimple of his own...a pimple that eventually grows intoia huge head with a mind and a voice! Before long the sassy carbuncle takes over Dennis' life revealing to him a diabolical plan to control the masses. Now Dennis must find courage deep within himself to save society and himself from the beastly blemish!

• Maniac Cop | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  New York City is terrorised by a series of brutal bloody murders of innocent victims. The police boil in a pressure cooker of public outcry when it is discovered that the killer is a cop. The prime suspect is Jack Forrest a young policeman who through a series of unfortunate coincidences is pinned as the maniac killer. Desperate for a suspect the police arrest him. Jack escapes and aided by his lover Teresa an undercover policewoman is out to prove his innocence. The killings continue and the city is alive with a frantic manhunt for Jack. Citizens arm themselves innocent policemen are killed by the nervous populace. The city is coming apart at the seams. Detective Frank Mcrae eventually discovers the bizarre secret of the real killer. A secret that would clear Jack. But McRae too falls victim to the maniac cop. In a chilling chase across the city Jack and Teresa are left to rid New York of the most dreaded of all criminals... a Maniac Cop!