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• Halloween | Blu Ray | (21/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It's a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie's freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin's character in Psycho. In the end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience--it's one of those movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen. ("No! Don't drop that knife!") Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more instalments: 1981's dismal Halloween II, which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate events, and 1998's occasionally gripping Halloween H20, which proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years. --Robert Horton

• Top of the Form | DVD | (09/07/2018) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hilarious 1950's comedy of an under-performing public school directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Ronald Shiner, Anthony Newley and Ronnie Corbett. Professor Fortescue (Ronald Shiner) is a fake Professor trying unsuccessfully to sell his system for picking racehorse winners. When by chance, he succeeds he is chased by the local bookmakers. Attempting to escape, Fortescue stumbles into Bagshot Boys College and despite his lack of formal education, accepts the role of Professor of an unruly bunch of boys. When the boys cheat in an exam and win a trip to Paris Fortescue has to maintain control as they all head to France. His task becomes more difficult when the brother of one of the boys joins the trip to steal the famous Marie Antoinette necklace, and the trip quickly descends into hilarious chaos. A superb ensemble cast includes, Richard Wattis, Alfie Bass and Harry Fowler.

• Re:Joyce! - A Celebration Of The Work Of Joyce Grenfell | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £16.46   |  Saving you £-0.47 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Re: Joyce is Maureen Lipmans' amusing and affectionate tribute to English comedienne Joyce Grenfell. Star of the English stage and screen Grenfell's style of humour was simple and charming but also sophisticated. In this special recording of the stage show Maureen Lipman guides us through the life and times of Joyce Grenfell. It is not only a salute to the skills of Joyce Grenfell but also to the craft of one of Britains finest comediennes - Maureen Lipman.

• Predator (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (16/12/2013) 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 Legends Of Comedy | DVD | (14/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  These three compelling dramas reveal the extraordinary and often turbulent off-camera lives of some of Britain's favourite comedians. Based on the testimonies of friends colleagues and family members these fascinating portrayals uncover the turmoil and heartache found behind the laughter. Frankie Howerd Rather You Than Me: Frankie Howerd is to this day an enduring and celebrated icon of British comedy well known for his camp persona and classic catchphrases. However behind the scenes Howerd was racked with depression and self loathing. In this compelling one-off drama David Walliams (Little Britain) gets to play one of his own comedy favourites telling the moving humorous and poignant story of Howerd's fight with his inner demons. The Curse Of Steptoe: Steptoe and Son was one of the most successful comedy series ever giving birth to the modern sitcom and transforming its actors into national treasures. It told the story of two rag-and-bone men Harry H Corbett (played by Jason Isaacs) and Wilfrid Brambell (Phil Davis) trapped together for eternity. But off-screen a stranger story would mirror fiction as the two men find themselves unable to escape their inner complexities or each other. Hughie Green Most Sincerely: Starring Trevor Eve (Waking the Dead) this fascinating drama tells the inside story of Hughie Green the avuncular front man of Opportunity Knocks and Double Your Money. Hughie's professional rivalry with Stars On Sunday presenter Jess Yates (Mark Benton) and serial womanising ultimately produced an explosive celebrity secret. This drama tells of the destructive power of success and celebrity and explores what family and fatherhood meant to this iconic character. These three compelling dramas reveal the extraordinary and often turbulent off-camera lives of some of Britain's favourite comedians. Based on the testimonies of friends colleagues and family members these fascinating portrayals uncover the turmoil and heartache found behind the laughter.

• Die Hard With A Vengeance | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £4.69   |  Saving you £13.30 (73.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The second sequel to the mould-making action film Die Hard brings Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) to New York City to face a better villain than in Die Hard 2. Played by Jeremy Irons, he's the brother of the Germanic terrorist-thief Alan Rickman played in the original film. But this bad guy has his sights set higher: on the Federal Reserve's cache of gold. As a distraction, he sets McClane running fool's errands all over New York--and eventually, McClane attracts an unintentional partner, a Harlem dry cleaner (Samuel L Jackson) with a chip on his shoulder. Some great action sequences, though they can't obscure the rather large plot holes in the film's final 45 minutes. --Marshall Fine

• Alan Davies - Urban Trauma | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Filmed live at the Duchess Theatre in London.

• Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70 | DVD | (03/12/2018) from £11.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With exclusive access to The Prince of Wales in his 70th birthday year, this intimate and revealing film follows the British heir to the throne over the course of a year, both at work and behind the scenes, at home and abroad. Film-maker John Bridcut also speaks to those who know him best, his wife The Duchess of Cornwall, and his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, who both speak about their upbringing as teenagers. Prince Charles's 70th birthday marked half a century of involvement in public affairs. He has championed issues that once were unfamiliar but are now mainstream such as global warming and youth opportunity. The longest-serving heir to the throne discusses his ongoing charitable work and looks ahead to his future role as monarch.

• A Bug's Life - 2 Disc Deluxe Edition | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £10.73   |  Saving you £17.25 (222.87%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Journey inside the miniature world of bugs for larger-than-life fun and adventure under every leaf! Crawling with imaginative characters hilarious laughs and colourful lifelike computer animation Disney and Pixor's A Bug's Life is a masterpiece terrific entertainment for all ages. (The Daily Mail). On behalf of 'oppressed bugs everywhere' an inventive ant named Flik hires 'warrior bugs' to defend his colony from a horde of greedy grasshoppers led by Hopper. But when Flik's cavalry turns out to be a motley group of flea circus performers the stage is set for comic confusion as well as unlikely heroes! Featuring a star-studded voice cast. A Bug's Life presents an amazing new perspective on teamwork and determination! Plus this DVD edition has been created directly from Pixar's digital source producing the clearest picture possible and two viewing formats: original wide-screen and special full-frame digitally recomposed to retain the entire image.

• The Grapes Of Wrath | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £6.23   |  Saving you £6.76 (108.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Ford's memorable screen version of John Steinbeck's epic novel of the Great Depression--often regarded as the director's best film--stars Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. After having served a brief prison sentence for manslaughter Joad arrives at his family's Oklahoma farm only to find it abandoned. Muley (John Qualen) a neighbor now nearly mad with grief tells Tom of the drought that has transformed the farmland of Oklahoma into a desert and of the preying land agents who have plowe

• Halloween | Blu Ray | (15/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  It was a cold Halloween night in 1963 when six year old Michael Myers brutally murdered his 17-year-old sister. Fifteen years later he escapes from prison and returns home...

• Cold Comfort Farm | DVD | (07/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Flora Poste who has had an expensive athletic and lengthy education is then orphaned and left with only 100 a year descends on her relatives in Cold Comfort Farm in 'Howling' Sussex. There she finds plenty of relatives namely the Starkadders ruled by the ferocious Aunt Judith. Each of the four cousins has a peculiar character trait there is no bathroom or telephone and the Starkadder women believe that pregnancy is the 'hand of nature and we women can't escape it'. Flora feels it her duty to bring order into the Starkadders chaotic bucolic lives...

• The O.C. - Series 4 - Complete | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  The O.C. - also known as Orange County California - is an idyllic paradise a wealthy harbour-front community where everything and everyone appears to be perfect. But beneath the surface is a world of shifting loyalties and identities of kids living secret lives hidden from their parents and of parents living secret lives hidden from their children... The complete fourth series of The O. C. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Avengers 2. The Gringos 3. The Cold Turkey 4. The Metamorphosis 5. The Sleeping Beauty 6. The Summer Bummer 7. The Chrismukk-huh? 8. The Earth Girls Are Easy 9. The My Two Dads 10. The French Connection 11. The Dream Lover 12. The Groundhog Day 13. The Case of the Franks 14. The Shake Up 15. The Night Moves 16. The End's Not Near It's Here

• Fifteen Minutes | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £5.28   |  Saving you £14.71 (278.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fifteen Minutes partners Robert De Niro and Saving Private Ryan's Edward Burns in a thriller satire on America's "reality TV" industry. De Niro plays celebrity detective Eddie Fleming, who must reluctantly work with arson investigator Jordy Warsaw (Burns) when a grisly fire is discovered to conceal a murder. This is the work of Emil (Karel Roden) and Oleg (Oleg Taktarov), East European psychos bent on a maniacal spree of killings. All of these are videotaped by Emil, who renames himself after his hero Frank Capra, in a perverse tribute to the US of A, where "no one is responsible for what they do!". Soon the duo decide to sell their footage to Kelsey Grammer's creepily shameless frontline TV journalist. As a pair of loons whose scariness is just the right side of cardboard villainy, Roden and Taktarov steal the movie as well as their camcorder. However, the central theme of voyeurism and video murder was dealt with far more effectively in the 1992 Belgian movie Man Bites Dog and, while the action tears along in explosive fashion, it does so at the expense of both plausibility and the anti-media satire, which seems hitched crudely onto the bumper of what is essentially a satisfying but conventional blockbuster thriller. --David Stubbs

• The Saint - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £89.95   |  Saving you £-29.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Long before assuming the mantle of 007, Roger Moore made his name as suave, ultra-sophisticated amateur sleuth Simon Templar in The Saint. First broadcast in 1962--coincidentally the year Dr No appeared in cinemas--the show ran until 1969, by which time Moore was internationally famous and poised to make the move to big-screen Bond. Simon Templar suits Moore's personality well: he plays Leslie Charteris's creation with the merest raised eyebrow reaction to imminent danger and the unflappable demeanour of a man whose first concern is to prevent any creases in his Saville Row suit. Templar's dialogue is sprinkled with trendy Americanisms and the show is filled with American supporting actors in a blatant attempt to sell it to a transatlantic audience (the attempt failed, which is why Moore took on The Persuaders in 1967). A bevy of exotic women and even more exotic foreign locations establish it as a product of the Jet Set era, even though most of the production is in fact studio-bound aside from a handful of establishing shots. The second episode, "The Latin Touch", is typical: supposedly the action takes place in Rome, but its sense of location is fatally undermined by some distinctly dodgy back projection and the casting of Warren (Alf Garnett) Mitchell as an Italian taxi driver. Sophisticated it once was, but it all seems rather quaint now: the suits, the old school tie, the phallic sports car (a Volvo!), and Templar's smug, patronising attitude all grate on modern sensibilities. This is one for nostalgia lovers, certainly, but it hasn't dated too well. On the DVD:Although billed as Series 1, this 10-disc box set contains the first 39 black-and-white episodes, dating from 1962-64. There are a handful of extra features on the first four discs, including some text biographies and fact files, plus an interview with series creator Robert S Baker. Picture and mono sound quality are generally poor, reflecting the age of the original material, which doesn't appear to have been remastered. Still, it's adequate for what it is and shouldn't deter fans from acquiring this generous collection of a cult TV classic. --Mark Walker

• Blu ray 5-Movie Starter Pack: Mama/The Purge/Purge: Anarchy/OUIJA/As Above, So Below | Blu Ray | (06/07/2015) from £18.75   |  Saving you £-0.07 (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.68

  As Above So Below Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead. A journey into madness and terror As Above So Below reaches deep into the human psyche to reveal the personal demons that come back to haunt us all. Purge In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity-including murder-becomes legal. The police can't be called. Hospitals suspend help. It’s one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. When an intruder breaks into James Sandin's (Ethan Hawke) gated community during the yearly lockdown he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear a family apart. Now it is up to James his wife Mary (Lena Headey) and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide. Purge: Anarchy The New Founders of America invite you to celebrate your annual right to Purge. The Purge: Anarchy takes it to the streets for the country’s yearly 12 hours of anarchy when all crime is legal. This new story follows an unlikely group of five strangers over the course of the night. As they fight to survive a night fraught with impossible decisions these strangers will find out just how far they will go to protect themselves and ultimately each other. OUIJA How far would you go to make contact with someone you lost? From the Producers of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Insidious comes a supernatural thriller in which a group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they unwittingly release a dark power from the other side. What started as a game will unleash an evil only they can stop. Starring Olivia Cooke (Bates Motel) Douglas Smith (Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters) Bianco Santos (The Fosters) and Daren Kagasoff (The Secret Life of the American Teenager). Mama Guillermo del Toro the Academy Award®-nominated writer of Pan’s Labyrinth presents this supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When the young sisters are found alive in a decrepit cabin their uncle (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Game of Thrones) and his girlfriend (Oscar® nominee Jessica Chastain Zero Dark Thirty) take them in. As they try to introduce the children to a normal life Annabel (Chastain) begins to wonder if the traumatized girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home.

• Basic | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £4.90   |  Saving you £9.09 (185.51%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.

• The Monolith Monsters | DVD | (15/02/2016) from £6.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a desperate race against time and nature, a geologist and scientist must join forces to in order to discover a way to stop killer rocks from outer space that are causing people to turn to stone with fright! An American sci-fi movie from the golden decade of 1950's Sci-Fi movies, starring Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne and Phil Harvey.

• They Live | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Nada (Piper) is a struggling labourer who drifts into town and luckily scores a job at a construction site. Discovering a box of sunglasses Nada swipes a pair and is shocked to find what he can see through them; billboards demand citizens 'Eat' or 'Sleep' TV shows spout orders at him and some people look rather less than human...

• Rabbit Hole | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £4.86   |  Saving you £15.13 (311.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award Rabbit Hole is the new film from John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus Hedwig and the Angry Itch) based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by David Lindsay Abaire. Rabbit Hole features a triumphant return to the screen by Nicole Kidman starring alongside Aaron Eckhart two-time Oscar winner Dianne Wiest Sandra Oh and newcomer Miles Teller. Set in the suburbs of America Rabbit Hole tells the story of Becca and Howie Corbett a married couple struggling to return to their everyday existence several months after the loss of their child. With their world tilted off of its axis Becca and Howie embark on separate journeys making increasingly unexpected choices that threaten to pull them apart. But as a series of events unfold that offer to bring new meaning into their lives the couple must decide whether to allow their personal journeys to bring them back together. Rabbit Hole is a vivid honest and occasionally funny portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of situations.