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• The Dam Busters | DVD | (04/06/2018) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A BRAND NEW RESTORATION COMMEMORATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORIGINAL WWII RAID A much-loved British classic, Michael Anderson's 1955 drama captures the tension and bravery of an audacious raid on the center of Nazi Germany's industrial complex and the quintessentially English combination of inventiveness and dogged determination. Split into two distinct sections, the film deals first with the fraught, but the ultimately successful development of a new bomb, by Dr. Barnes N. Wallis (Michael Redgrave). The second deals with the mission itself during the British raid on the Ruhr Dams, and its associated costs for the enemy and for the British airmen. Adapted by R.C. Sherriff from Paul Brickhill's book Enemy Coast Ahead and featuring superlative special effects photography by Gilbert Taylor (to say nothing of Eric Coates' stirring theme tune), The Dam Busters was Britain's biggest box office the success of 1955.

• Godzilla & Kong 4-Film Collection | Blu Ray | (14/06/2021) from £26.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Godzilla and Kong 4-Film collection includes Godzilla (2014), Kong Skull Island, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla vs. Kong.

• Casablanca | Blu Ray | (07/11/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman light up the screen in one of the most enduring romances in movie history. At his Moroccan nightclub, cynic Rick Blaine (Bogart) turns a blind eye to the misery of WWII until his former lover, Ilsa Lund (Bergman), walks through the door, forcing Rick to choose between a life with the woman he loves or becoming the hero she needs. Special Features Introduction by Lauren Bacall Two Separate Commentaries: Roger Ebert and Film Historian Rudy Behlmer Also on Blu-ray: Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic Warner Night at the Movies Great Performances: Bacall on Bogart You Must Remember This: A Tribute to Casablanca As Time Goes By: The Children Remember Deleted Scenes Outtakes Cartoons Audio-Only Scoring Stage Sessions 19/11/47 Vox Pop Radio Broadcast Theatrical Trailers

• Strike Back Shadow Warfare | DVD | (06/01/2014) from £9.44   |  Saving you £15.55 (164.72%)   |  RRP £24.99

  All ten episodes from the fourth series of the action drama based on the novel by former Special Forces operative Chris Ryan. In this series, when a Section 20 operative is executed in Lebanon by Leo Kamali (Zubin Varla), a member of Al-Zuhari's terrorist organisation, Scott (Sullivan Stapleton) and Stonebridge (Philip Winchester) travel to Columbia to try and take him alive.

• The Quiller Memorandum | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Pursuing or Pursued... he played it alone... the most dangerous game in Europe. This special edition version of The Quiller Memorandum is sourced from a brand-new digitally restored HD print and is presented in its original aspect ratio. In West Berlin secret agent Quiller (Segal) is assigned to unmask the leaders of a suspected Neo-Nazi organisation. The last two men given this job have already been killed and the agent soon realises that he can trust no-one not ev

• Coronation Street - Best of 1960 - 1969 | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £29.73   |  Saving you £10.26 (34.51%)   |  RRP £39.99

  First aired in December 1960 Coronation Street is the longest running most watched soap opera in Britain. This boxed set of the best episodes from the 1990s is released to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of everyone's favourite show. Winning numerous accolades the show was described as the most successful television programme in British history by the Royal Television Society and creator Tony Warren was made an MBE in 1976. The dramas of Weatherfield's residents have kept viewers enthralled throughout the soap s history and this volume of classic episodes from the 1990s allows fans to revisit key moments and storylines of that decade. Newcomers include the unhappily married Des and Steph Barnes loner Roy Cropper wheelchair-bound battleaxe Maud Grimes butcher Fred Elliott scheming barmaid Tanya Poole aspiring model Raquel Wolstenhulme and the troublesome Battersby family; noted writers include Shameless creator Paul Abbott and actor and playwright Stephen Mallatratt.

• World Without End | DVD | (18/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  England is on the brink of a devastating war with France that will last over a hundred years, and The Bubonic Plague, which will wipe out a third of Europe's population before it is done, is spreading.

• Transformers: The Last Knight (Blu-RayTM + Bonus Disc + Digital Download) | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £3.84   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Last Knight shatters the core myths of the Transformers franchise, and redefines what it means to be a hero. Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg); Bumblebee; an English Lord (Sir Anthony Hopkins); and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock). There comes a moment in everyone's life when we are called upon to make a difference. In Transformers: The Last Knight, the hunted will become heroes. Heroes will become villains. Only one world will survive: theirs, or ours.

• American Gothic | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £48.52   |  Saving you £-13.53 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In some ways reminiscent of David Lynch's Twin Peaks this eerie drama series concentrated on the dark and often disturbing truths hidden beneath the surface of a small American town. Set in Trinity South Carolina American Gothic succeeded in its one-season run to intrigue viewers with its mysterious storylines and macabre undertones. Gary Cole heads up the cast as Sheriff Lucas Buck Trinity's knight in shining armor. Much of the plot revolves around Buck's attempts

• Amazing Grace | DVD | (06/08/2007) from £5.84   |  Saving you £14.15 (242.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ioan Gruffudd stars as anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce in this lavish biopic.

• 56 Up | DVD | (12/11/2012) from £7.53   |  Saving you £5.46 (72.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The original 7 Up, broadcast in 1964 as a World in Action special, featured children from widely different social backgrounds sharing their hopes and dreams for the future. Inspired by World in Action founder editor Tim Hewat's passionate interest in both the Jesuit saying: 'Give me the child until he is seven and I will show you the man', and 1960s Britain's rigid class system, this unique, groundbreaking series set out to discover how far the children's lives were pre-determined by their background. Director Michael Apted has returned every seven years to chart the group's progress, documenting the participants as they have become adults and entered middle-age, dealing with everything life has thrown at them in between; the very first example of a programme recording real people living real lives this landmark series has won an array of awards. 56 Up, broadcast in 2012, returns to visit the people whose lives have been publicly tracked since they were seven, and sees more of the original line-up taking part than ever before, with one participant, Peter, deciding to re-join the series after almost 30 years.

• Battle Of The River Plate | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.50   |  Saving you £6.49 (99.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It is the early years of World War II and the Royal Navy must fight a desperate battle to stop Germany's best battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, from sailing to the South Atlantic.

• Fear Is The Key | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Following the death of his family in an aeroplane crash a man plots an elaborate revenge scheme on those responsible

• Bundy - Legacy Of Evil | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £5.43   |  Saving you £7.56 (139.23%)   |  RRP £12.99

  "Bundy: A Legacy of Evil" tells the shocking true story of Ted Bundy (Corin Nemec) who murdered numerous young women between 1974 and 1978. Out on DVD September 14.

• Toast Of London: Series 1-3 | DVD | (26/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.65

  Meet Steven Toast (Matt Berry, The IT Crowd, House of Fools) - actor, ladies' man and aficionado of some of Soho's finest drinking clubs. With the often misguided assistance of his old-school 'retro' agent Jane Plough (Doon Mackichan, Smack the Pony, Plebs) and peculiar flatmate Ed Howzer-Black (Robert Bathurst, Cold Feet, Downton Abbey), Toast faces a multitude of obstacles in his quest for fame and recognition. These include murderous director Acker Herron, arch-nemesis Ray Bloody' Purchase, submarines, Bruce Forsyth lookalikes, obsessive hoarders, Freemasonry, and the real Michael Ball. Special Features: Series 1: The Pilot Episode Audio Commentary with Michael Cumming (Director), Matt Berry (Writer), Arthur Mathews (Writer) and Kate Daughton (Producer) Burnt Toast, Making Toast, The Forsyth Sage, Toast and Purchase Art Film Dub Toast sings a song about London The Theme from Toast of London Unplugged 'My Name is Michael Ball' ... a short film about Michael Ball On the Analyst's Couch The Songs Series 2: Audio Commentary of Desperate Measures with Matt Berry (Writer) Arthur Matthews (Writer) Michael Cumming (Director) and Kate Daughton (Producer) Audio Commentary of Fool in Love with Matt Berry (Writer) Arthur Matthews (Writer) Michael Cumming (Director) and Kate Daughton (Producer) Mo' Burned Toast Series 2 Songs Deleted Scenes Steven Toast's Voiceover Showreel 'My Turn' Toast Autobiography On the Analyst's Couch Part II: Steven Toast recalls some of his most memorable stage roles.

• Airline - The Complete Series | DVD | (13/02/2012) from £30.62   |  Saving you £-0.63 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  1946. The war is over... but not for everyone. Demobbed pilot Jack Ruskin (Roy Marsden The Sandbaggers) has developed a passion for aviation and he's determined to keep flying. Unable to find work with an established civilian airline, and armed with only his demob suit and a seventy-pound gratuity, he decides to launch his own air freight company with wartime colleague Peter Witney. Boasting just one plane, Ruskin Air Services is born amid the austerity of post-war Britain... and it's not only the Great Freeze that threatens to keep Jack's fledgling business on the ground. Airline vividly brings to life the faltering and sometimes perilous progress of the independent airline operators of the Forties, encompassing landmark events such as the Berlin Airlift and capturing the excitement of the earliest passenger services. Richard Heffer (Colditz) and Terence Rigby (Beiderbecke) also star in this highly original series, devised and written by Wilfred Greatorex (The Power Game).

• 7-63 Up | Blu Ray | (14/10/2019) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The original 7 Up, broadcast in 1964 as a World in Action special, featured children from widely different social backgrounds sharing their hopes and dreams for the future. Inspired by World in Action founder editor Tim Hewat's passionate interest in both the Jesuit saying: Give me the child until he is seven and I will show you the man and his anger at Britain's rigid class system, this unique, groundbreaking series set out to discover how far the children's lives were pre-determined by their background. Director Michael Apted has returned every seven years to chart the group's progress, documenting the participants as they have become adults and now reach retirement age, dealing with everything life has thrown at them in between with life-changing decisions, shocking announcements and joy and tears in equal measure. The very first example of a programme recording real people living real lives, the Ups have won an array of awards over the years. This very special set contains every instalment in this ground-breaking series from 7 through to 63.

• Law And Order Special Victims Unit - Series 1 | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  All the episodes from Season 1 of Law And Order: Special Victims Unit. Episodes Comprise : 1. Payback 2. A Single Life 3. ...Or Just Look Like One 4. Hysteria 5. Wanderlust 6. Sophomore Jinx 7. Uncivilized 8. Stalked 9. Stocks And Bondage 10. Closure: Part I 11. Bad Blood 12. Russian Love Poem 13. Disrobed 14. Limitations 15. Entitled 16. The Third Guy 17. Misleader 18. Chat Room 19. Contact 20. Remorse 21. Nocturne 22. Slaves

• P'tang Yang Kipperbang | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The plot of one the early Channel Four film is sweet and simple. Boy likes girl at school but is too embarrassed to confront her. Alan relates everything to a running cricket commentary (provided superbly by John Arlott) right up to the will he won't he finale when he has to kiss Ann in a school play.

• Blake's 7 - Series 1 | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £17.75   |  Saving you £32.24 (181.63%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Blake's 7 was the hit BBC space opera launched in the wake of Star Wars, though with a grittier sensibility and produced on a fraction of the budget. Over 13 episodes the first series introduced freedom-fighter Blake (Gareth Thomas) as he escaped from the Orwellian Federation, gathered a crew of low-life rebels, salvaged an alien starship called the Liberator, and began striking back against the forces of Supreme Commander Servalan (sultry Jacqueline Pearce). The effects were cheap, and alien planets were represented by a disused quarry or an industrial complex, but the strong characters and cynical storylines created by Doctor Who veteran Terry Nation remain involving. The perfect foil for Blake was Paul Darrow's Avon, a near psychopathic criminal mastermind who only fought to save his skin. The cowardly Vila (Michael Keating) was almost as memorable, while the female leads were Jenna (Sally Knyvette), a smuggler and pilot, and determined Auron telepath Cally (Jan Chappell). Also on board was Gan (David Jackson), inhibited from violence by a brain implant. With even the good guys being criminals, including murderers, this was a galaxy far, far away from previous screen space opera. Though undeniably dated, the show is still vintage TV SF, right from the opening three-parter "The Way Back / Spacefall / Cygnus Alpha" to the cliff-hanging shocker "Orac", which introduces the final member of the un-magnificent seven. On the DVD: Blake's 7, Series 1 presents the 13 episodes across five DVDs so as to maximise picture quality. Following the BBC's Doctor Who DVDs the 4:3 images are as strong as one could expect from a 1970s TV show shot partly on video (interiors) and 16 mm film (exteriors). Film shots have some grain and vary considerably in quality while the video material shows occasional minor tearing and flaws in the tape. Otherwise these are as good as Blake's 7 is ever going to look. The same is true of the mono sound, which is clear and undistorted. Each DVD is introduced with a CGI reincarnation of the series' famous logo and three episodes are offered with a commentary. These are "Spacefall" (Sally Knyvette, Michael Keating and producer David Maloney), "Seek-Locate-Destroy" (Keating, Jacqueline Pearce and Stephen Greif) and "Project Avalon" (Knyvette, Pearce and Greif). The chat ranges from high-school reunion playfulness, including singing the title music, to some more serious insights into making the show, to an amusing running debate as to whether Glynis Barber appears in "Project Avalon". Other extras are "2 out takes, a missing scene, 1 robot, 2 flat feet and a blooper". These are exactly what they say: an extract from Blue Peter in 1978 with Lesley Judd making a Blake's 7 bracelet; nine clip compilations introducing the main characters; a synopsis for each episode; and a trailer for the Series 2 DVDs. --Gary S Dalkin