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• Doctor Who - The Five Doctors | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Yes, The Five Doctors is the one that gathers together Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Baker and Davison, dumps them on some moorland and lets some of the Doctor's greatest enemies take potshots at them. Except, of course, that William Hartnell had sadly passed on by the time this series was made in 1983 (although his replacement Richard Hurndall does an excellent job) and Tom Baker was only featured as a patched-in cameo, apparently prevented from joining in by a temporal thingummy. However, this kind of creakiness comes with the territory and is soon forgotten. The assorted incarnations of the Doctor (together with a scattering of assistants) are drawn together through time and space to battle Daleks, Cybermen, Yeti--those weird androids which keep jumping into the air and disappearing--and many other old foes. They realise that they're on their home planet of Gallifrey and must eventually deal with the legacy of Rassilon, founder of the Time Lords. It's all great fun, of course, and the excellent chapter points on this DVD compensate for the rather self-indulgent lack of editing. --Roger Thomas

• Vampires / Ghosts Of Mars | Blu Ray | (07/05/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Double pack with two of John Carpenter's classic films Vampires and Ghosts of Mars! VAMPIRES: John Carpenter directs this horror based on the novel by John Steakley. When Jack Crow (James Woods)'s team of mercenary vampire hunters is slaughtered by the master vampire Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith), he teams up with Montoya (Daniel Baldwin) to fight back. Their only link to Valek is the beautiful, psychic prostitute Katrina (Sheryl Lee), and with her help they set out to confront the ultimate evil. FROM THE MASTER OF TERROR COMES A NEW BREED OF EVIL. James Woods leads a band of ruthless vampire hunters in a blood-soaked battle against the undead. Also starring Sheryl Lee, Daniel Baldwin and Maximillian Schell, Carpenter crafts a tense, brutal and action-packed horror/western crossover. GHOSTS OF MARS: Sci-fi feature directed by John Carpenter and starring Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge and Jason Statham. The year is 2176 and Mars has been colonised by Earth, but the spirits of the old planet still continue to cause trouble. When a police team travels to a distant Martian mining outpost in search of the mass murder suspect Desolation Williams (Ice Cube), they find the place populated mostly by headless corpses. Williams is discovered locked in the town jail, and when the team is attacked by a mob of miners possessed by Martian spirits, it seems the jail might be the safest place for them all to be. IT'S THEIR PLANET. WE ARE THE ALIENS. John Carpenter blends horror and sci-fi in this action adventure set on Mars in the year 2176 as Martian police battle supernatural forces unleashed by a deep mining facility.

• The Bretts: The Complete Series | DVD | (09/05/2016) from £34.22   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Chronicling the fortunes of four generations of a London theatrical family through the 1920s and '30s, The Bretts ran for two memorably successful series during the late 1980s. An Upstairs Downstairs of the theatrical set, it stars Norman Rodway as the effusive, charismatic Charles Brett and Barbara Murray as his strong-willed wife Lydia. With scripts from veteran screenwriters Rosemary Ann Sisson, Bill Craig, Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, this set features both acclaimed series.It's 1927, and thespians Charles and Lydia Brett are at the peak of their careers. Intending to capitalise on their success by acquiring their own theatre, will this bid for creative freedom ensure their family's theatrical legacy?

• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (2012 re-pack) | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £11.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

• A Day In The Life - Four Portraits Of Post-war Britain By John Krish | Blu Ray | (28/03/2011) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  John Krish is one of British cinema s best-kept secrets: a master of post-war documentary filmmaking who repeatedly turned his works for sponsors as diverse at the Central Office of Information (COI) and the NSPCC into not just effective non-fiction films but truly stirring cinema to rank alongside the world s greatest directors. A Day in the Life collects together four of his most cherished films: The Elephant Will Never Forget (1953) Our School (1962) They Took Us to the Sea (1961) and I Think They Call Him John (1964). In each of these films richly textured with the details of everyday post-war life Krish combines a deep belief in human beings with a compulsive desire to push the documentary form forward. This essential and critically acclaimed collection is supplemented with an interview with Krish as well as with Krish s rarely seen films I Want to Go to School (1959) and Mr Marsh Comes to School (1961).

• Billy Liar | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £14.83   |  Saving you £-1.84 (-14.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tom Courtenay gives a flawlessly nuanced performance as Billy Fisher the underachieving undertaker's assistant whose constant daydreams and truth-deficient stories earn him the nickname ""Billy Liar."" Julie Christie is the handbag-swinging charmer whose free spirit just might inspire Billy to finally move out of his parents' house. Deftly veering from gritty realism to flamboyant fantasy Billy Liar is a dazzling and uproarious classic.

• Bedlam | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £10.28   |  Saving you £9.71 (48.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Everybody has a dark side. That's the tag line for Sky Living's brand new spooky drama series Bedlam. And it's a phrase which is bound to haunt the lead characters as they settle into Bedlam Heights the converted lunatic asylum that they have chosen to call home. Kate (Charlotte Salt) has been working with her father Warren (Hugo Speer) to renovate the former asylum into the latest in modern living. She's also bagged herself a rather stylish flat in to the bargain which she now shares with best mate Molly (Ashley Madekwe) and Ryan (Will Young). That's until Kate's troubled cousin Jed (Theo James) turns up. He says he just needs a place to crash but the creepy goings on at Bedlam Heights soon start to get under his skin. Can he really 'Save Kate'? And from whom or what does she need saving? Bedlam is bound to bring a shiver to your evenings.

• A Kind Of Loving | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £12.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (23.09%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this British drama Alan Bates stars as a young man who must decide whether to follow his heart or his responsibilities when his girlfriend falls pregnant and they are forced to move into her family's house.

• The World At War - Vol. 5 | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £4.90   |  Saving you £20.09 (410.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When this epic series was first broadcast in 1973 it redefined the gold standard for television documentary; it remains the benchmark by which all factual programming must judge itself. Originally shown as 26 one-hour programmes, The World at War set out to tell the story of the Second World War through the testimony of key participants. The result is a unique and unrepeatable event, since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long left to live. Each hour-long programme is carefully structured to focus on a key theme or campaign, from the rise of Nazi Germany to Hitler's downfall and the onset of the Cold War. There are no academic "talking heads" here to spell out an official version of history; the narration, delivered with wonderful gravitas by Sir Laurence Olivier, is kept to a minimum. The show's great coup was to allow the participants to speak for themselves. Painstaking research in the archives of the Imperial War Museum also unearthed a vast quantity of newsreel footage, including on occasion the cameraman's original raw rushes which present an unvarnished and never-before-seen picture of important events. Carl Davis' portentous main title theme and score underlines the grand scale of the enterprise. The original 26 episodes were supplemented three years later by six special programmes (narrated by Eric Porter), bringing the total running-time to a truly epic 32 hours. Now digitally remastered The World at War looks even more of an impressive achievement on DVD. Available in five volumes, each handsomely packaged double-disc set comes with a detailed menu that places the individual programmes along a chronological timeline. Better yet, chapter access is laid out to allow you to select key speeches or maps or newsreel footage. The World at War was a landmark television event; its DVD incarnation underlines its importance as an historical document. --Mark Walker

• Feast | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £5.78   |  Saving you £10.21 (176.64%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From executive producers Wes Craven Ben Affleck Matt Damon and Chris Moore comes the incredible horror extravaganza Feast. When a motley crew of strangers find themselves trapped in an isolated tavern they must band together in a battle for survival against a family of flesh-hungry creatures. Terrifying and full of surprises Feast turns the screen blood red as the group is devoured one-by-one.

• Playing Shakespeare | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £24.28   |  Saving you £0.71 (2.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Accesssible for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare students and seasoned theatregoers alike this is a rare opportunity to see the finest actors of their time - including Judi Dench Ben Kingsley Ian McKellen Patrick Stewart and more - work in a series of masterclasses filmed for television on the intricacies and balances of Playing Shakespeare. In 1982 John Barton Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company gathered many of the finest British actors of their generation in one rehearsal room. Their aim was to grapple with the work of Shakespeare - to wrestle with its meaning its poetry its language. To examine the way that sentences are constructed so as to guide the actor. The way in which the drama of the written word is best conveyed to an audience. It makes for a gripping insightful and powerful work of theatre in its own right - harnessing the expertise of this master of Shakespeare's work at the height of his craft inviting the viewer into this intimate and exposing space as he works with the living instruments that will bring these works to life. The results are unforgettable. And whether you are an actor or a member of the audience the lessons to be learned will change the way you practice or experience Shakespeare's work.

• Predator 3D | Blu Ray | (17/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Arnold Schwarzenegger wages an all-out war against an unstoppable enemy in this pulse-pounding action thriller - now in spectacular 3D for the first time ever! On a rescue mission deep within a Central American jungle a team of U.S. commandos find themselves hunted by a terrifying creature more powerful and deadly than any on Earth... because the Predator is not of this Earth.

• The Deeper You Dig | Blu Ray | (05/10/2020) from £15.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Themes of family, loss and survival intersect on the thin line that separates the living from the dead in The Deeper You Dig, the latest feature written, directed by and starring filmmaking family the Adams Family (Knuckle Jack, Rumblestrips) described as a force to be reckoned with (Dread Central) and the multi-hyphenates other multi-hyphenates hope to be when they grow up (Nightmare on Film Street). Bogus tarot card reader Ivy (Toby Poser) and her teenage daughter Echo (Zelda Adams) are an unconventional but loving mother/daughter team. But when reclusive Kurt (John Adams) moves in down the road, a tragic accident results in Echo's murder, causing three lives to collide in mysterious and wicked ways. Kurt believes he can hide his secret beneath the earth but Echo, refusing to accept death, burrows into his head until he can feel her in his bones. As she haunts his every move, trying to reach her mother from beyond, Ivy must dig deep to see the signs and prove that love won't stay buried. A dark, unsettling meditation on grief, survival and the brittle barrier that separates the living from the dead, this limited double-disc edition pairs The Deeper You Dig with John Adams' earlier feature The Hatred, making for a compelling double bill of original, independent horror. LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS Exclusive two-disc set containing The Deeper You Dig (2019) and The Hatred (2018) Reversible sleeve featuring two exclusive choices of artwork Double-sided fold-out poster Limited edition illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by Neil Mitchell DISC ONE THE DEEPER YOU DIG High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation Original lossless PCM 2.0 stereo soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary by writers/directors/stars Toby Poser and John Adams At Home with the Adams Family, an exclusive, in-depth interview with the trio of filmmakers responsible for The Deeper You Dig It's in the Blood: The Family in the Horror Genre, an exclusive visual essay by critic Anton Bitel exploring the theme of family in The Deeper You Dig and the Adams Family's broader filmography Special effects breakdown with commentary by Trey Lindsay FrightFest TV interview with the Adams Family Hellbender music videos Theatrical trailer Image gallery DISC TWO THE HATRED High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation Original lossless PCM 2.0 stereo soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Kid Kalifornia music videos

• Two Of A Kind | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £28.61   |  Saving you £-15.62 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A selfish young would-be inventor and a boorish young would-be actress come together to set their decidedly amateur criminal minds on saving the world...

• The Plane Makers - Volume 1 | DVD | (13/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The prequel to ATV's famous boardroom drama The Power Game, The Plane Makers follows the fortunes of the Scott Furlong airplane development company and its managing director, the ruthless John Wilder (Patrick Wymark). Never previously available in any format, this release contains the first 13 episodes of series two - only one episode still exists from series one and that is included on disc one as a special feature. After months of work, a new passenger airliner, The Sovereign, is almost ready for its first flight. When John Wilder discovers that the Sovereign's French competitor is due for its maiden flight he gives orders to get the plane off the ground in two days, a decision he may come to regret... ? Don't Worry About Me - the only surviving episode from series one ? Image Galleries

• Charmed - Series 8 | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £14.39   |  Saving you £45.60 (316.89%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The Charmed Ones Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Paige (Rose McGowan) have faked their own deaths attended their own funerals and must now accustom themselves to a life of normality. But not everyone is convinced they are dead in the explosive eighth and final season of Charmed! With a desire to put their old lives behind them and live a demon-free existence Piper Phoebe Paige and Leo cast a spell creating new identities. They alter their appearances to the outside world but still appear as themselves to those closest to them. Piper tries to live the normal family life by being a wife to Leo raising two sons and running her nightclub P3. Phoebe embraces her new life and tries to form a relationship with Dex Lawson (Jason Lewis Sex and the City) a gorgeous artist who had admired her from afar but never had the courage to ask her out. Now with a new lease on life Phoebe goes after Dex especially after she has a premonition that she will marry him. Wanting to move on and put magic behind her Paige still can't ignore the Whitelighter in her (as her healing abilities have appeared) and answers the call of a young witch named Billie who has telekinetic powers. As the Charmed Ones work with Billie to hone her skills and teach her the importance of their calling they realize how much they miss magic. Episodes Comprise: 1. Still Charmed and Kicking 2. Malice in Wonderland 3. Run Piper Run 4. Desperate Housewitches 5. Rewitched 6. Kill Billie: Vol. 1 7. The Lost Picture Show 8. Battle of the Hexes 9. Hulkus Pocus 10. Vaya Con Leos 11. Mr. & Mrs. Witch 12. Payback's a Witch 13. Repo Manor 14. 12 Angry Zen 15. The Last Temptation of Christy 16. Engaged and Confused 17. Generation Hex 18. The Torn Identity 19. The Jung and the Restless 20. Gone with the Witches 21. Kill Billie: Vol. 2 22. Forever Charmed

• Live Forever | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (40.04%)   |  RRP £13.99

  This funny and revealing new film documents the rise and fall of Brit Pop and Cool Britannia when, for a brief instance in the mid 1990s, British music and pop culture dominated the world!

• The Eagle Has Landed | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This 1976 adventure story set in World War II concerns a Nazi plot to kidnap Churchill from his retreat--or murder him if need be. The Eagle Has Landed has a large, great cast and a director, John Sturges, who's been down this road of ensemble action before (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape) make this project exciting if not as memorable as Sturges's more famous works. The weak ending doesn't help. -- Tom Keogh

• Christmas Crackers Collection | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Roots - The Next Generation | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This is the sequel to the highly successful television series Roots and continues the story of Alex Haley's family line from the Post American Civil War era to Alex Haley's geneological search to discover his roots.