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• Tales Of Hoffmann - Special Edition * Digitally Restored | DVD | (23/03/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Tales of Hoffmann has been beautifully restored in 4k supervised by Martin Scorsese Thelma Schoonmaker Powel and Ned Price. Newly discovered sequences from Act 3 and the epilogue which were missing from previously released versions of the film were found in the nitrate material held at the BFI and put back into the film as directors Powell & Pressburger originally intended Based on Jacques Offenbach’s opera of the stories of romantic poet E.T.A. Hoffmann The Tales of Hoffmann gave close collaborators Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger another opportunity to eschew realism and celebrate artifice and creativity. Metropolitan opera star Robert Rounseville plays Hoffmann a university student who is spectacularly unlucky in affairs of the heart. Each of his love affairs with Olympia (Moira Shearer) an animated doll Venetian courtesan Giulietta (Ludmilla Tcherina) and singer’s daughter Antonia (Ann Ayars) is doomed to failure due to circumstances far beyond our hero’s control. The entire film is shaped by Offenbach’s score given a rousing rendition by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of the legendary Sir Thomas Beecham. Bonus Features: Introduction from Martin Scorsese Interview with Thelma Schoonmaker Trailer Stills gallery

• Four Rom Com Classics | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Titles Comprise: Dave: Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver star in this box office winner about an uncanny Presidential look-alike recruited as a momentary stand-in for America's Chief Executive. However things don't turn out exactly as planned and Dave finds himself continuing the masquerade indefinitely. Real life Washington politicos and pundits join the fun as Dave uses ordinary-guy savvy to deal with the extraordinary responsibilities of the Oval Office. Mickey Blue Eyes: Hugh Grant plays dapper Manhattan art auctioneer Michael Felgate in this lively fish-out-of-water comedy romp. Eager to marry Gina (Jeanne Tripplehorn) the lovely teacher he's been dating for three months Michael feels it's time he met her family. What he meets is the family. Gina's father Frank (James Caan) is a gangster a 'juicer' who extracts money for the mob. Now the squeeze is on Michael to use the auction house as a money laundering scam for dubious artwork plunging fumbling bumbling Michael into a world where he must pose as a notorious wise guy called Mickey Blue Eyes. You'll call him hilarious. Sandra Bullock stars as a bumbling female FBI agent assigned to go undercover as a participant in the Miss United States beauty pageant when it is discovered that one of the contestants is being targeted for murder. Benjamin Bratt leads the undercover team while also playing the reluctant love interest. Candice Bergen and William Shatner manage the pageant and hire Michael Caine to turn Bullock from rough and tumble agent to stunning beauty queen. The physical transformation is impressive although the klutzy personality remains. Everything seems to be fine once the killer is suddenly caught but Bullock suspects there is more to this story and the truth eventually unfolds with an unexpected twist. Doc Hollywood: A brash young medical resident is driving across the country to begin a career in Beverly Hills as a cosmetic surgeon to the stars. But an accident of fate strands him in a small southern town. There his outlook on life - and love - gets a down-home twist that changes him forever.

• Plays for Britain - The Complete Series | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £8.97   |  Saving you £11.02 (122.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This hard-hitting anthology series continued the single-play format that had proved so successful with ITV's legendary Armchair Theatre, presenting six contemporary plays by writers at relatively early stages in their careers. The keynote is a provocative realism: Stephen Poliakoff's Hitting Town is an intense portrayal of siblings who find refuge from their bleak lives in one incestuous night; Roger McGough's The Life Swappers is a darkly comic take on the theme of exchanged identities; Howa...

• Death Wish | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £15.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (14.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this explosive story of revenge and urban violence Charles Bronson plays Paul Kersey a bleeding-heart liberal who has a change of opinion after his wife and daughter are violently attacked by a gang of thugs in their apartment. His daughter is raped and his wife is raped and murdered. Bronson then turns vigilante as he stalks the mean streets of New York on the prowl for muggers hoodlums and the like. Death Wish is a violent controversial film that is frank and original in its treatment of urban crime and the average citizen's helplessness in dealing with it. Herbie Hancock wrote the musical score and Jeff Goldblum makes his big screen debut as one of the thugs.

• Witchfinder General Digitally Remastered Special Edition | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £9.45   |  Saving you £5.54 (58.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  England is in civil war as the Royalists battle Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price), who tours the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches. Aided by his sadistic accomplice John Stearne (Robert Russell), he travels from town to town and wrenches confessions from witches in order to line his pockets.

• King Creole | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £7.05   |  Saving you £5.94 (84.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Before his handlers persuaded him to settle for the safety of a screen franchise, the young Elvis Presley had weightier ambitions as an actor. The 1958 King Creole, his fourth feature outing, hints at the underlying seriousness of his goals. Presley plays Danny Fisher, a New Orleans teenager struggling to graduate from high school while working in a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family. He's also characterised as a troubled youth with a dangerous temper and feelings of shame and resentment toward his meek, unemployed father (Dean Jagger). When Danny's gift for singing provides him with a potential career break (and the requisite excuse for Elvis's production numbers), his involvement with a ruthless gangster (Walter Matthau) and his sultry, alcoholic moll (Carolyn Jones) threatens both his future and his family. King Creole boasts an impressive production pedigree (including producer Hal Wallis and director Michael Curtiz, the team behind Casablanca) and the supporting cast helps elicit one of Presley's most emotional performances. Jones in particular overrides the inherent clichés of her role: her self-loathing and sexuality are both palpable. Presley--still a few years away from the more sanitised image that would be integral to those franchise features--is young enough to be a credible teen, but more crucially he makes his rage and yearning largely convincing. --Sam Sutherland

• The Dambusters | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £11.32   |  Saving you £1.67 (14.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Something of a cult item among British war movies (and brilliantly spoofed a few years back by a lager ad), The Dam Busters turns a minor World War II incident into a saga of heroic stiff-upper-lippery in the classic British style. A bombing raid is proposed on a strategically vital Ruhr dam, but its position is inaccessible. Enter eccentric inventor Dr Barnes Wallis (Michael Redgrave in best daffy professor mode) who comes up with a genius idea--a bomb that will bounce on water like a skimmed pebble. Naturally the top brass pooh-pooh it, but gallant Wing Commander Guy Gibson (Richard Todd) is persuaded, and between them flyer and boffin forge ahead. The touches of carefully understated emotion now verge on self-parody, but it's hard not to get caught up in the narrative sweep, especially when the bombers take off on their mission and Eric Coates' stirring march hits the soundtrack. The modelwork, state-of-the-art for its early 1950s period, still looks impressive, and the death of Gibson's beloved black Labrador (embarrassingly called Nigger) is a three-hanky moment to rival the shooting of Bambi's mum. --Philip Kemp

• In Search Of The Dark Ages | DVD | (02/02/2015) from £17.82   |  Saving you £7.17 (40.24%)   |  RRP £24.99

  United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: 2-DVD Set, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Historian Michael Wood presents this BBC series about the Dark Ages. Originally aired in 1981, the series gives the audience an insight into the period known as the Dark Ages with Wood going on a journey of discovery to find out what really happened in Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire. The episodes are: 'In Search of Offa', 'In Search of Boadicea', 'In Search of Arthur', 'In Search of Alfred the Great', 'In Search of Athelstan', 'In Search of Eric Bloodaxe' and 'In Search of Ethelred the Unready'. ...In Search of the Dark Ages (8 Episodes) - 2-DVD Set ( In Search of Boadicea / In Search of Arthur / In Search of Offa / In Search of Alfred the Great / In Search of Athelstan / In Search of Eric

• Danielle Steel's Once In A Lifetime | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £8.47   |  Saving you £-2.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An endearing and tragic love story that follows the life of a popular American novelist Daphne Fields struggling to come to terms with bringing up her deaf son alone after the heartbreak of losing her husband and daughter in a house-fire. As the only reminder of the family she once had she devotes her life to her son's upbringing with outstanding courage forever putting his happiness before her own. She finds strength in Dr. Matt Dane who is dedicated to the care and attention of deaf children. He offers support and comfort as her writing career takes off and she is forced to make many personal sacrifices. But Daphne is scared. Scared that she will never find the happiness she once had and scared that she will never be able to love again.

• Doris Day | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £16.32   |  Saving you £33.67 (206.31%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A collection of six classic Doris Day movies in one bumper value box set! Young At Heart (1955) Barney Sloan (Frank Sinatra) is a cynical down-on-his-luck musician who reluctantly agrees to help his composer friend Alex Burke (Gig Young) with a new comedy he is working on. However Barney gains a new perspective on life and love when he meets Alex's irrepressibly perky fiancee Laurie (Doris Day) - and promptly falls in love with her! Lover Come Back (1961) Account ex

• Tales Of Hoffman | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger create a phantasmagoric marriage of cinema and opera in this one of a kind take on a classic story. In Jacques Offenbach's fantasy opera The Tales of Hoffman a poet dreams of three women - a mechanical performing doll a bejeweled siren and the consumptive daughter of a famous composer - all of whom break his heard in different ways. Powell and Pressburger's feverishly romantic adaptation is a feast of music dance and visual effects an

• 3 Classic World War 2 Naval Battles - The Battle Of The River Plate / In Which We Serve / We Dive At Dawn | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £15.74   |  Saving you £2.25 (14.29%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Battle Of River Plate - Ten days before World War II Germany's crack battleship Admiral Graf Spee sails with orders to carry out action against Allied merchant shipping in the South Atlantic. Captained by Hans Langsdorff (Peter Finch) Graf Spee with her superior speed sinks ship after ship. Meanwhile the net is tightening round the German Killer. Outwitted by British Intelligence the Germans are convinced Graf Spee is trapped by a massive naval force. The captain eva

• Pop at the Movies 1 | DVD | (05/11/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  PLAY IT COOL Billy Universe and the Satellites, a happy-go-lucky rhythm and twist group, are en route to Brussels to compete in a song contest. When fog forces the plane to return to the airport, Billy and friends go on a whirlwind musical tour of London's nightclubs! THREE HATS FOR LISA Lisa Milan is a gorgeous Continental film star who's just arrived at Heathrow for the premiere of her latest film but within minutes she's been whisked away by her number-one fan, Johnny Howjego and his Cockney pals Sammy, Flora and cabbie Sid! 6.5 SPECIAL An aspiring young singer taking her first step towards fame when she catches the 'Six-Five Special' to London. To her surprise, she finds the train packed with an array of '50s showbiz talent and, as the musical artistes rehearse en route, she gets a ringside seat! JUST FOR YOU A suave man-about-town dispenses witty quips from the bed of his Space Age bachelor pad whilst watching a stream of musical performances on his picture wall!

• MegaFault | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £2.89   |  Saving you £10.10 (349.48%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In West Virginia Charley Boomer Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations. Seconds later a gigantic earthquake rocks the North Atlantic. Within hours as government seismologist Dr. Amy Lane studies the ghostly landscape a gigantic aftershock hits. Barely escaping with their lives Amy and Boomer watch from a rescue helicopter as an enormous crack rushes towards the western horizon. Amy soon realizes that this earthquake has exposed a deep seismic fault that runs across the centre of the North American continent. Now Amy and Boomer together with the top government agencies must race to develop a plan to stop the crack that could potentially tear the world in half.

• Mystery Junction | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.01   |  Saving you £2.98 (42.51%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sydney Tafler stars as a celebrated crime writer who finds life imitating art when he boards a train on which murder is a travelling companion... Also featuring Barbara Murray and soon-to-be Hollywood star Patricia Owens, Mystery Junction is a rare and inventive addition to the classic whodunnit genre. Believed to be lost for decades, it is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.Miss Owens, an avid reader of detective stories, finds herself travelling in the same railway compartment as crime writer Larry Gordon neither of them realising that amongst their fellow passengers is a prisoner under escort to trial for murder. When a rescue attempt claims a policeman's life and the passengers become snowbound at a remote railway station, it's a race against time to unmask the culprit before the murderer strikes again!SPECIAL FEATURE:Image Gallery

• Scrubs - Series 5 | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £5.44   |  Saving you £25.55 (469.67%)   |  RRP £30.99

  The mishaps and malpractice at the Sacred Heart hospital slips effortlessly into a fifth hilarious season as intern J.D. (Zach Braff) continues his oddball odyssey... Episodes Comprise: 1. My Intern's Eyes 2. My Rite Of Passage 3. My Day At The Races 4. My Jiggly Ball 5. My New God 6. My Missed Perception 7. My Way Home 8. My Big Bird 9. My Half-Acre 10. Her Story II 11. My Buddy's Booty 12. My Cabbage 13. My Five Stages 14. My Own Personal Hell 15. My Extra Mile 16. My Bright Idea 17. My Chopped Liver 18. My New Suit 19. His Story III 20. My Lunch 21. My Fallen Idol 22. My Deja Vu My Deja Vu 23. My Urologist 24. My Transition

• Tooth Fairy | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £7.33   |  Saving you £13.92 (229.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dwayne Johnson is "The Tooth Fairy," also known as Derek Thompson, a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids.

• James Cagney - Signature Collection Box Set (Angels with dirty faces / Public enemy / Roaring twenties / White heat) | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Public Enemy (Dir. William A. Wellman 1931): Tom's bad way of life is constantly set up against his brother Mike's who has a job during the day and goes to night school. Mike will enroll in the Marines to fight in WWI. He will come back and will constantly try to put Tom back on the right path. White Heat (Dir. Raoul Walsh 1950): Cody Jarrett is the sadistic leader of a ruthless gang of thieves. Afflicted by terrible headaches and fiercely devoted to his 'Ma ' Cody is a volatile violent and eccentric leader. Cody's top henchman wants to lead the gang and attempts to have an 'accident' happen to Cody while he is running the gang from in jail. But Cody is saved by an undercover cop who thereby befriends him and infiltrates the gang. Finally the stage is set for Cody's ultimate betrayal and downfall during a big heist at a chemical plant. Angels With Dirty Faces (Dir Michael Curtiz 1938): Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New York - Hell's Kitchen. Early on Rocky gets sent to reform school where he learns how to be a first class criminal. Jerry who had escaped from the law goes straight and becomes a priest. As adults they reunite in the old neighborhood: Jerry works with the kids who like he and Rocky could end up on either side of the law. Rocky has returned looking for a safe place to stay till he can get back into his old racketeering organization -- something that his old partner isn't anxious to have happen. Lots of rapid fire wisecracks roughhousing and gunfire ensues. The Roaring Twenties (Dir. Raoul Walsh 1939): After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

• Any Human Heart | DVD | (27/12/2010) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-12.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.43

  Any Human Heart, William Boyd's compelling and entertaining story of one man's emotional and unpredictable journey through every decade of the 20th century, comes to Blu-ray and DVD from 27th December 2010 courtesy of Universal Playback.

• The Jackal | Blu Ray | (25/10/2010) from £18.51   |  Saving you £2.47 (15.91%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Bruce Willis is The Jackal - the greatest assassin in history - out to eliminate a top U.S. government official. Declan Mulqueen an imprisoned underground operative is the only man who can stop him. Now the Deputy Director of the FBI is taking the biggest risk of all . . . he's releasing one criminal to stop another in this terrifically explosive totally intriguing suspense thriller.