New Releases

• Rio Bravo | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.58   |  Saving you £7.41 (112.61%)   |  RRP £13.99

  When it comes down to naming the best Western of all time, the list usually narrows to three completely different pictures: Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, Hawks' Red River and John Ford's The Searchers. About the only thing they all have in common is that they all star John Wayne. But while The Searchers is an epic quest for revenge and Red River, a sweeping cattle-drive drama, Rio Bravo is a much calmer film. Basically, it comes down to Sheriff John T Chance (Wayne), his alcoholic friend Dude (Dean Martin), the hotshot new kid Colorado (Ricky Nelson), and deputy-sidekick Stumpy (Walter Brennan), sittin' around in the town jail, drinkin' black coffee, shootin' the breeze, and occasionally singin' a song. Hawks--who, like his pal Ernest Hemingway, lived by the code of "grace under pressure"--said he made Rio Bravo as a rebuke to High Noon, in which sheriff Gary Cooper begged for townspeople to help him. So, Hawks made Wayne's Sheriff Chance a consummate professional--he may be getting old and fat, but he knows how to do his job, and he doesn't want amateurs getting mixed up in his business; they could get hurt. If the configuration of characters sounds familiar, it should: Hawks remade Rio Bravo two more times--as El Dorado in 1967, with Wayne, Robert Mitchum, and James Caan; and as Rio Lobo in 1970, with Wayne, Jack Elam, and Christopher Mitchum. The film achieved additional notoriety in the 90s when Quentin Tarantino revealed that he uses it as a litmus test for prospective girlfriends. --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com

• Thunderbirds Are Go / Thunderbird Six | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.32

  Stand by for another action-packed adventure from the amazing international rescue team! Thunderbirds Are Go: The excitement begins as Zero X a 21st Century spacecraft is leaving the earth's atmosphere bound for Mars with five men on board. The craft is suddenly blasted by a mysterious explosion. Sabotage! Can the Tracy team uncover the perpetrators and save the next launch? Thunderbird Six: The trouble begins when rescue team member Alan Tracy sets out on a holida

• Trash | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Richard Curtis writes and Stephen Daldry directs this Rio-set adventure drama. The film follows 14-year-old Raphael (Rickson Tevez), who, after finding a wallet in a trash heap, becomes involved in a mystery concerning corrupt politicians and stolen money. The wallet appears to contain some very sensitive information, and with the help of American priest Father Juilliard (Martin Sheen) and aid worker Olivia (Rooney Mara), Raphael and his friends try to get to the bottom of the mystery before the information falls into the wrong hands.

• Nothing Barred | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.89   |  Saving you £3.10 (44.99%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Master farceur Brian Rix joins fellow Whitehall Theatre stalwart Leo Franklyn and a host of famed character comedians - including Naunton Wayne Charles Heslop Irene Handl and Bernard Cribbins - for this hugely entertaining quintessentially English romp. Released in 1961 Nothing Barred (aka The Night We Sprang a Leak) is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture and his fortunes fade even further with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?

• We Need To Talk About Kevin | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the million-selling Orange Prize winning novel by Lionel Shiver and directed by acclaimed film-maker Lynne Ramsay, We Need To Talk About Kevin is an emotional thriller starring Academy Award Winner Tilda Swinton, Academy Award nominee John C. Reilly, & Ezra Miller.Eva (Tilda Swinton) puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin. The relationship between mother and son is difficult from the very first years. When Kevin is 15, he does something irrational and unforgivable in the eyes of the community. Eva grapples with her own feelings of grief and responsibility. Did she ever love her son? And how much of what Kevin did was her fault?

• Southern Comfort (Limited Edition packaging) | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £13.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Southern Comfort is more than merely Deliverance in the Louisiana Bayou. Walter Hill's taut little tale of weekend warrior National Guardsman on swamp exercises reverberates with echoes of Vietnam. Powers Booth brings a hard pragmatism to the "new guy" in the unit, a Texas transplant less than thrilled with his new unit. "They're just Louisiana versions of the same rednecks I served with in El Paso", he tells level-headed Keith Carradine. The barely functional unit of city boys and macho rednecks invade the environs of the local Cajun trappers and poachers, "borrowing" the locals' boats and sending bursts of blank rounds over their heads in a show of contempt. Before they know it the dysfunctional strangers in a strange land are on the losing end of guerrilla war. The swamp rats kill their commanding officer (Peter Coyote) and terrorise the bickering bunch as they flee blindly through the jungle without a map, a compass, or a leader to speak of. Hill directs with a clean simplicity, creating tension as much from the primal landscape and the Cajuns' unsettling reign of terror as from the dynamics of a platoon of battle virgins tearing itself apart from rage and fear. Ry Cooder's eerie and haunting score and the primal, claustrophobic landscape only intensifies the paranoia as the city boys splinter with infighting (sparked by a bullying Fred Ward), blunder through booby traps and ambushes, and finally turn just as savage as their pursuers in their drive to survive. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• 10 Minute Solution - Five Day Get Fit Mix | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £3.91   |  Saving you £6.08 (155.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  No time to exercise? We have the solution for you - the 10 Minute Solution! Everyone can find at least ten minutes in their day and we've developed a well-rounded plan that is made up of 5 highly effective 10-minute workouts that will train your ENTIRE body - without spending hours in the gym! You can do one workout per day and get 5 days worth of amazing cross training. You can also use the mix and match feature to create your own favourite combination of the workouts. Or you can choose to do the routines all together and really kick your workout into high gear!

• My Hero Academia: Two Heroes Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (08/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Our favourite young hero-in-training is in for a wild ride when villains threaten the artificial moving city, I-Island. Deku and All Might receive an invitation to I-Expo, the world's leading exhibition of Quirk abilities and hero item innovations! Amid the excitement, sponsors, and pros from all over, Deku meets Melissa, a girl who is Quirkless just like he once was. Suddenly, I-Expo's top-of-the-line security system gets hacked by villains, and a sinister plan is set in motion. It's a serious threat to hero society, and one man holds the key to it all the symbol of peace, All Might.

• Justice League Collection | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.95   |  Saving you £-1.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.00

  In this action-packed adventure series, the world's greatest superheroes, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Hawkgirl and Martian Manhunter, join forces as the Justice League to battle powerful villains, supernatural creatures and evil entities determined to take over the world and destroy the League.

• Cyrano De Bergerac | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.30   |  Saving you £14.69 (277.17%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau and cowriter Jean-Claude Carriere had the brilliant idea of casting Frances most lovably vulnerable hunk, the massive Gerard Depardieu, in one of French literatures meatiest roles: the sword-wielding poet Cyrano. Equipped with a massive nose and a heart to match, Depardieu soars as the heart-broken soldier who must lendhis words of love to another man to woo the woman he yearns for. Rappeneau spared no expense in taking this Edmond Rostand play into realistic locations for the battle scenes in the second act, making the film as exciting as it is romantic and funny. Depardieu attacks the role in great gulps, consuming all the oxygen in any room he enters. Macho but sensitive, he creates a larger-than-life Cyrano, whose wrenching sadness at the lack of interest from his lady love will have you reaching for the tissues. --Marshall Fine

• The Sand Pebbles | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £16.17   |  Saving you £-6.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Robert Wise chose to film Robert McKenna's award-winning novel The Sand Pebbles as his follow-up to the success of The Sound of Music. Shot in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the film combines historical sweep and intimate human drama in several parallel stories, all revolving around US Navy machinist's mate Jake Holman (Steve McQueen), a skilful but fiercely independent sailor who joins the "sand pebble" crew of the USS San Pablo, a Navy gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River on the eve of the Chinese revolution in 1926. The San Pablo's inexperienced captain (Richard Crenna) obsessively defends the Navy's mission-however unnecessary or unwanted--to protect American missionaries and businessmen, blind to the more dangerous implications of American involvement with China's opposing political factions. Holman is a defiant voice of humanity in this clash between outmoded values and inevitable change; his final line of dialogue ("What the hell happened?") is a tragic summation of misguided policy, expressing the film's criticism of the Vietnam War. Rather than preach, however, Wise lets McKenna's potent drama emerge from finely drawn relationships: between Holman and a young American teacher (19-year-old Candice Bergen, in her second film); between Holman and the Chinese "coolie" (Mako), whose heart-breaking fate transcends all issues of racial or political difference; and between crewmate "Frenchy" Burgoyne (Richard Attenborough) and the Chinese woman he's sworn to love and protect at all costs. Combined with the film's colourful supporting cast, adventurous scope, and climactic battle scenes, these personal dynamics bring substance and spirit to a complex story of good intentions gone awry. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Kill Your Darlings | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

• Wallace And Gromit - A Matter Of Loaf And Death | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.30   |  Saving you £5.69 (77.95%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Log line: Wallace and Gromit''s new bakery business faces danger when a mysterious killer starts targeting all the bakers in town. Two liner: Wallace and Gromit have opened a new bakery business - Top Bun - but a deadly murderer is targeting all the bakers in town. Wallace couldn''t care - he''s found true love in the shape of Piella Bakewell former star of the Bake-O-Lite bread commercials. Can Gromit discover the identity of the Cereal Killer before Wallace becomes the next victim? Two para: Wallace and Gromit have opened a new bakery - Top Bun - and business is booming not least because a deadly Cereal Killer has murdered all the other bakers in town. Gromit is worried that they may be the next victims but Wallace couldn''t care - he''s fallen head over heels in love with Piella Bakewell former star of the Bake-O-Lite bread commercials. So Gromit is left to run things on his own when he''d much rather be getting better acquainted with Piella''s lovely pet poodle Fluffles. But then Gromit makes a shocking discovery which points to the killer''s true identity. Can he save his master from becoming the next baker to be butchered? And does Fluffles know more than she is saying? It''s a classic 'who-doughnut'' mystery as four-time Academy Award winning director Nick Park creates a hilarious new masterpiece in the tradition of 'master of suspense'' Alfred Hitchcock.

• The Complete Montalbano Collection | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  The Complete Inspector Montalbano. Featuring all 26 of the gripping compelling and thoroughly enjoyable films based on the bestselling novels of Andrea Camilleri Luca Zingaretti stars in the title role as the Sicilian detective operating within Italy's precarious justice system. Solving crimes in the Sicilian town of Vigata he must contend not only with scheming and devious criminals but also corrupt politicians police bureaucracy unreliable judges lethal mafia families femmes fatales and more so much more. Thankfully he can turn to fine Italian cooking and his girlfriend Livia for comfort - but even these small pleasures are often interrupted in the life and times of Inspector Montalbano.

• The Shanghai Job | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE SHANGHAI JOB is a high-octane heist action film from the team behind Mechanic Resurrection, Welcome To The Punch and Iron Man 3 and starring Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings) and Simon Yam (Ip Man). Washed-up private security agent Danny Stratton has been reduced to low level body-guarding operations, after a botched job when a Van Gogh painting in his care was stolen. He gets a chance to restore his reputation when he s given the rare opportunity to escort a valuable Chinese antique out of Shanghai. In the course of the mission he is ambushed, and, with the safety of the woman he loves in jeopardy, Danny has to work with his team of experts to save her, whilst also outsmarting the devious mastermind behind the heist.

• Cliff Richard - The Collection | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Bold As Brass Cliff Richard: Live In The Park World Tour 2003

• Birds Of A Feather: Christmas Specials | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.68   |  Saving you £-0.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.00

  One of the nineties’ most successful sitcoms Birds of a Feather stars Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson as Sharon and Tracey North London-born sisters left to fend for themselves both financially and emotionally when their husbands are jailed for armed robbery. Doing their best to hang onto Tracey’s smart home the sisters also enjoy regular visits from waspish-yet-sympathetic neighbour Dorien (Lesley Joseph) whose high-grade gossip and extra-marital antics liven up many a dull day in Chigwell… A new series in 2014 was a smash hit proving that the girls are still loved by the British public! A particular highlight of the original series were the fondly remembered Christmas Specials - this special release includes the first four.

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Tracey receives two tickets for a cruise - a romantic surprise planned by Darryl before being sent to prison. Dorien does her best to encourage her to use the tickets; just think about all the available men! That fails miserably but there’s always Plan B… Falling in Love Again 
Chris is in trouble - the McCarthy brothers who have bought his debts are threatening grievous bodily rearrangement. But there’s a simple and obvious solution! It involves a TV quiz show a trip to Berlin and a Messerschmitt bubble car… We’ll Always Have Majorca 
Darryl has been kind to Abel Kane a former rock star imprisoned for drug offences. Now Kane offers Darryl a favour. It concerns Kane’s Majorcan villa a prison breakout and an unexpected Christmas holiday for Sharon Tracey and Dorien… The Chigwell Connection 
When doubt is cast on the integrity of the officer who arrested Chris and Darryl the sisters start a campaign to Free the Chigwell Two. Dorien meanwhile suffers humiliation at the hands of tennis-club gossip queen Melanie Fishman when Marcus is accused of drug-running…

• The Seventh Veil | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.75   |  Saving you £4.24 (48.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Seventh Veil

• Sky - The Complete Series | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Eerie, unsettling and a benchmark production for children's television in the 1970s, Sky was created by Doctor Who stalwarts Bob Baker and Dave Martin as one of the run of outstanding children's dramas HTV produced in that decade. Filmed in such richly atmospheric locations as Avebury, Glastonbury Tor and Stonehenge, Sky is a mixture of ecological fable, science fantasy and good, old-fashioned peril. Marc Harrison stars as Sky - an ethereal boy who materialises on an Earth that is as unprepared for him as he is for it. He soon realises that he's been brought to the wrong time and must seek out the Juganet to return to his correct place in reality. With the help of tearaway Arby Venner, his sister June and friend Roy he must race against time as Nature rejects Sky and the Earth's immune system creates the evil Goodchild, who is out to stop him at all costs... One of the most memorable television series of the 1970s is available here, for the very first time in any video format. Episodes three and seven no longer exist in the archive in any format and the version included on this set is taken from an off-air VHS.

• Animals United 3d | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (128.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the Okavango Delta, Billy, the little mischievous meerkat, and his best (and only) pal Socrates, the friendly lion, wait for the annual flood, essential to the Delta and all the animals living there.