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The Show Goes On on DVD

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:45:03 +0100

The Show Goes On sees Gracie Fields play Sally Field, a mill girl whose dream of singing on stage in London has ended with her busking on the sands instead. When a composer discovers her and takes her under his wing to perform his sentimental ballads, it's Sally's reinvention of them with her own un...

Released 24th January on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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Crying With Laughter on DVD

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:45:02 +0100

A darkly comic award winning thriller from the producers of 'London to Brighton', 'Crying with Laughter' tells the story of stand up comedian Joey Frisk, whose life is on a downward spiral. During the most important week of his life, Joey finds himself battling a drug problem, failing to do the righ...

Released 24th January on DVD for 12.74 ukp

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Love, Life and Laughter Sing As We Go on DVD

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:45:03 +0100

A double-bill of Gracie Fields films - Love, Life and Laughter 1934 and Sing As We Go 1934.Born in Rochdale, Gracie Fields was a comedienne and singer who charmed English Music Hall audiences with her Northern Lass persona before becoming a top box-office draw at the cinema and Britain's hig...

Released 24th January on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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Queen of Hearts Look Up and Laugh on DVD

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:45:02 +0100

A pairing of films starring Gracie Fields - Queen of Hearts 1935 and Look Up and Laugh 1936.Born in Rochdale, Gracie Fields was a comedienne and singer who charmed English Music Hall audiences with her Northern Lass persona before becoming a top box-office draw at the cinema and Britain's hi...

Released 24th January on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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Sally in Our Alley Looking on the Bright Side on DVD

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:45:02 +0100

A pairing of Gracie Fields films - Sally in Our Alley and Looking on the Bright Side.Born in Rochdale, Gracie Fields was a comedienne and singer who charmed English Music Hall audiences with her Northern Lass persona before becoming a top box-office draw at the cinema and Britain's highest paid ...

Released 24th January on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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A Damsel in Distress on DVD

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:45:02 +0100

Fred Astaire plays an American dancing star who finds himself falling in love when he shares a cab with a beautiful young English woman Joan Fontaine - the daughter of an aristocrat who does not reveal her background. After their meeting, the dancer sets about tracking her down. Also stars real li...

Released 24th January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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Black Dynamite on DVD

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:45:02 +0100

Michael Jai White stars in this action comedy parody of the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. After his brother is murdered in the ghetto, Vietnam veteran and former CIA agent Black Dynamite White sets out on a supercharged one-man mission to clean up the streets and avenge his brother's death. H...

Released 24th January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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Smokey and the Bandit on Blu-ray

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:45:02 +0100

In Smokey and the Bandit, bootlegging truck driver the Bandit Burt Reynolds bets a Texan millionaire Pat McCormick that he can smuggle a consignment of prohibited beer across state lines from Texas to Atlanta in just over a day. Cue an extended car chase across the country, with Jackie Gleason p...

Released 24th January on Blu-ray for 12.99 ukp

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That's My Boy Complete Series 2 on DVD

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:45:02 +0100

In That's My Boy, sitcom legend Mollie Sugden Are You Being Served? stars as Ida Willis, a fear-inspiring housekeeper who finds herself in a rather unusual situation when she goes to work for doctor Robert Price and his model wife, Angie having moved into the couple's London flat, she gradually r...

Released 24th January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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The Other Guys on DVD

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:45:02 +0100

A comedy about NYPD detectives, The Other Guys stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as cops with a chance to prove themselves. Detectives Christopher Danson Dwayne Johnson and P. K. Highsmith Samuel L. Jackson are the coolest cops in the city, while Detectives Allen Gamble Ferrell and Terry Ho...

Released 24th January on DVD for 16.99 ukp

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The Breakfast Club on Blu-ray

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:45:03 +0100

Five mismatched teenagers are stuck with each other for the day when they are forced to spend Saturday at school on detention. Gradually, though, unlikely friendships form. John Hughes' seminal high school comedy set the template for a number of 1980s teen movies, while Simple Minds scored a huge hi...

Released 24th January on Blu-ray for 13.99 ukp

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The Other Guys on Blu-ray

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:45:02 +0100

Intolerable Cruelty on Blu-ray

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:45:02 +0100

Intolerable Cruelty stars George Clooney as Miles Massey, a top divorce lawyer who always wins his case - until he comes head to head with the scheming, gold-digging Mrs Marilyn Rexroth Catherine Zeta-Jones. Sparks fly in this battle-of-the-sexes comedy as Miles and Marilyn each embark on their ow...

Released 24th January on Blu-ray for 12.99 ukp

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Mary and Max on DVD

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:45:02 +0100

These are extraordinary times for animation, and to the recent outstanding likes of Toy Story 3, The Illusionist and A Town Called Panic we can now add this singular claymation from Adam Elliot, which recounts the tale of a 25-year friendship conducted almost entirely through the post. For Mary ...

Released 24th January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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My Friend Walter The Complete Series on DVD

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:45:02 +0100

Ronald Pickup, Prunella Scales and Don Henderson are among the cast of My Friend Walter, a fantasy adventure series about a girl who sets out to save her family's farm with the help of a famous time-travelling ancestor. Adapted from the children's novel by Michael Morpurgo and directed by the BAFTA ...

Released 24th January on DVD for 11.99 ukp

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Jackboots on Whitehall on DVD

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:45:02 +0100

An animatronic puppet-based satirical comedy, Jackboots on Whitehall is based in a parallel universe in which the Nazis have successfully invaded the British Isles! Voiced by well-known British actors including Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Timothy Spall and Richard O'Brien, the fi...

Released 24th January on DVD for 11.99 ukp

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Tremors on Blu-ray

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:45:02 +0100

The race to higher ground is on when two handymen and a local seismology student discover that their little town of Perfection, Nevada is infested with stinking subterranean man-eating worms. A very well-done comedy-horror film that salutes a host of horror films from bygone years....

Released 24th January on Blu-ray for 13.99 ukp

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Executive Stress Series 2 on DVD

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:45:01 +0100

The complete second series of the 1980s ITV sitcom starring Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles. Mother-of-five Caroline Keith, and her husband Donald Bowles try every trick in the book to keep their relationship under wraps, as their employer, a large American publishing company in London, has spec...

Released 24th January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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Definitely, Maybe on Blu-ray

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:45:02 +0100

A romantic comedy starring Ryan Reynolds as a 30-something father who is in the middle of a divorce when his 10-year-old daughter, Maya, asks him to describe his life before he married her mother. For Maya, Will recounts his past as an ambitious young politician. He also recalls relationships he had...

Released 24th January on Blu-ray for 12.99 ukp

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You're Only Young Twice Series 2 on DVD

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:45:01 +0100

This highly popular Yorkshire Television sitcom stars much-loved TV battleaxe Peggy Mount on robust form as Flora Petty, the scourge of Paradise Lodge - a superior residence for retired gentlefolk. Pat Coombs co-stars as Flora's dim-witted sidekick, Cissie, while veteran stage actress Lally Bo...

Released 24th January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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