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• M.A.S.H. - Seasons 1 To 3 | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Relive some of your favourite M*A*S*H moments with this triple season DVD box set! Season 1: 1. M*A*S*H - The Pilot 2. To Market To Market 3. Requiem For A Lightweight 4. Chief Surgeon Who? 5. The Moose 6. Yankee Doodle Doctor 7. Bananas Crackers and Nuts 8. Cowboy 9. Henry Please Come Home 10. I Hate A Mystery 11. Germ Warfare 12. Dear Dad 13. Edwina 14. Love Story 15. Tuttle 16. The Ringbanger 17. Sometimes You Hear The Bullet 18. Dear Dad Again 19. The Long John Flap 20. The Army-Navy Game 21. Sticky Wicket 22. Major Fred C. Dobbs 23. Cease Fire 24. Showtime Season 2: 1. Divided We Stand 2. 5 O'Clock Charlie 3. Radar's Report 4. For the Good of the Outfit 5. Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde 6. Kim 7. L.I.P. 8. The Trial of Henry Blake 9. Dear Dad... Three 10. The Sniper 11. Carry On Hawkeye 12. The Incubator 13. Deal Me Out 14. Hot Lips and Empty Arms 15. Officers Only Henry in Love 16. For Want of a Boot 17. Operation Noselift 18. The Chosen People 19. As You Were Crisis 20. George Mail Call 21. A Smattering of Intelligence Season 3: 1. The General Flipped at Dawn 2. Rainbow Bridge 3. Officer of the Day 4. Iron Guts Kelly 5. O.R. 6. Springtime 7. Check-Up 8. Life With Father 9. Alcoholics Unanimous 10. There is Nothing Like a Nurse 11. Adam's Ribs 12. A Full Rich Day 13. Mad Dogs and Servicemen 14. Private Charles Lamb 15. Bombed 16. Bulletin Board 17. The Consultant 18. House Arrest 19. Aid Station 20. Love and Marriage 21. Big Mac 22. Payday 23. White Gold 24. Abyssinia Henry

• Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | UMD | (19/05/2008) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After years of rumours, it turns out that Tim Burton was the perfect visionary to film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim's Broadway masterpiece, and the result is a macabre and moving musical movie as enthralling as anything Burton has ever done. The show's mix of gothic horror, Grand Guignol, very dark humor, and witty and beautiful music never was the stuff of traditional musical comedy, but it's a powerful work, and perhaps the richest of the late 20th century. In the movie, Burton's frequent collaborator, Johnny Depp, plays Todd, a wronged man whose lust for revenge drives him to murder (an 19th-century legend who has been traced to a real-life barber). Helena Bonham Carter, another Burton mainstay, is Mrs. Lovett, the barber's partner-in-unspeakable-crime. It's no surprise that Depp is an excellent choice to convey Todd's brooding intensity and volcanic rage, but he can also sing a score that is so challenging it has often played in opera houses (though not with the same style as the Broadway original, Len Cariou, and he occasionally lapses into pop style). Bonham Carter is small of voice and lacks the humour of the original Broadway Lovett, Angela Lansbury, but she sings on pitch, in rhythm, and in character at the same time, which is no small feat for a Sondheim show. Aficionados will regret the loss of certain musical passages--"The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" is just an instrumental overture and the chorus is gone altogether, among others, but the reassuring presence of orchestrator Jonathan Tunick and conductor Paul Gemignani ensures that the music feels right and sounds great. And the film's depiction of a Victorian London hellhole, with cinematography by Dariusz Wolski and costumes by Colleen Atwood, also looks and feels right. The excellent cast is filled out by Alan Rickman as the villainous Judge Turpin, Timothy Spall as his seedy Beadle, Sacha Baron Cohen as a rival barber, Jamie Campbell Bower as the young lover Anthony, Jayne Wisener as his object of affection, and Ed Sanders as the young Toby. For fans of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp who don't think they like musicals, Sweeney Todd should be a revelation (though not for the squeamish, as the gore is intense and completely appropriate). For fans of Broadway and Sondheim, it's hard to imagine getting a better adaptation than this. The fact that there's no newly composed Oscar-bait song sung by a Josh Groban-type over the end credits only makes it better. --David Horiuchi

• In A Stranger's Hand | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Wealthy Jack Bauer (Urich) comes to the aid of a mother Laura McKillin whose daughter has been abducted. Together to their horror they discover a dedicated ring of professional child snatchers...

• Jackanory - Peter Pan | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The classic J.M. Barrie tale as told by Jan Francis.

• Love Actually | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.08

  An ensemble comedy from the makers of "Notting Hill" following a whole host of separate but intertwining stories of love in London.

• The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The locals of Royston Vasey head to the big screen in this movie based on the cult TV series.

• Manchester United - Own Goals and Gaffes | DVD | (26/11/2007) from £16.42   |  Saving you £1.57 (8.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Would Man U believe it?! Its not always glory glory Man United. Sometimes things don't go to plan and the Theatre of Dreams can become the Theatre of Screams! United-mad fans Alan Halsall and Andy Whyment (Tyrone and Kirk from Coronation Street) introduce the very best - and very worst - of calamitous clangers and hilarious howlers both for and against the Reds from over the years. Including the daftest own goals the craziest keeper catastrophes the dodgiest defending and those misses that left the strikers as red-faced as the United shirt! One United. One Love. Lots of Laughter.

• More Secret Gardens | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £9.39   |  Saving you £9.60 (50.60%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Alan Tichmarsh visits an array of England's most wonderful gardens exploring the beauty diversity and imagination used in so many of the nation's small gardens.

• Niagara Niagara | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two shoplifters find themselves thrown together for an adventure. Seth a thief and Marcy a girl suffering from Tourette Syndrome set off for Toronto where Marcy hopes to find a special doll.

• The Long Riders (Special Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Serenity | HD DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Can't stop the signal... Beloved television cult director Joss Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer Angel) makes a spectacular first foray onto the big screen with Serenity the cinematic adaptation of his wildly popular but short-lived sci-fi series Firefly. A mix of space western comedy and drama Serenity follows captain Malcolm Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and his ragtag crew as they trade their way around the edges of civilized society. Of particular interest are two passengers they take on Simon and River Tam (Sean Maher and Summer Glau) a brother and his telepathic sister on the run from the corrupt governing Alliance. As notorious former members of the anti-Alliance opposition Mal and his crew make it difficult for Simon and River to stay hidden. Everything goes completely awry when a government assassin is sent to retrieve River. As Mal is forced to choose between his close-knit crew and the brother and sister newcomers it becomes apparent that River harbors both a dangerous secret and astounding fighting powers and Mal decides that discovering the truth about what she knows might just be worth his time. Many of the film's action sequences revolve around Summer Glau's martial arts skills in her portrayal of River. Glau prepared for her role with Hong Kong stuntwoman Ming Lu as well as stunt coordinators Chad Stahelski and Hiro Koda and as a result performed nearly all the stuntwork herself. In addition to the stellar stunts realistic graphics and an often haunting score the film's actors display a rare chemistry that brings viewers both into their lives and into a possible version of humanity's future.

• Victim | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Victim is quite simply a watershed moment in cinema history. The first mainstream film to portray sympathetically and realistically homosexual society, it did so at a time when homosexuality was still a crime in Britain. Janet Green and John McCormick's screenplay makes Dirk Bogarde's Melville Farr a deeply conflicted man; married and in love with his wife, he also has relationships with men; while as a lawyer he is bound to uphold the law, even as he is compelled to break it. When Jack Barrett (a young Peter McEnery) commits suicide to avoid the consequences of blackmail, Farr sees this as murder, and decides to end the extortion even if it costs him his career. Rather more skilfully plotted than it initially appears, Victim generates considerable tension, and boasts fine performances from an ensemble cast including Sylvia Syms as Farr's wife, Norman Bird, Donald Churchill and John Barrie. Basil Dearden, who memorably featured Bogarde in an early role in The Blue Lamp (1950), directs with professional assurance. Not just a historical document--though the location footage of central London circa 1961 is fascinating in its own right--Victim was instrumental in changing attitudes, which led to the decriminalisation of homosexuality. A turning point for Bogarde too, the film marked a move from matinee idol to the more serious fare of The Servant (1963) and Darling (1965). On the DVD: Victim is presented in an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 transfer, which beautifully captures the noir-ish black-and-white cinematography of Otto Heller. There is occasional print damage, but it is minimal and doesn't distract from the film. The mono sound is very good. The disc also includes the original trailer, an annotated gallery of production photographs and a 28-minute television interview with Dirk Bogarde. This excellent feature was filmed in the actor's house just prior to the release of Victim and finds him discussing his career with particular reference to Hunted (1952), the Doctor comedies, Song Without End (1960) and his latest, "bitterly controversial" picture, which he says couldn't have been made even two years earlier. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Incredible Hulk 1982 Complete Season | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Incredible Hulk: Complete 1982 Series

• The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (The Kurt Russell Collection) | DVD | (14/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lured | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A serial killer in London lures young women into his clutches by posting ads in the personal columns of newspapers. After each murder he informs the police by means of a cryptic poem earning himself the tag the 'Poet Killer'. But when the poet killer murders a dancer her best friend decides to assist the police by answering one of his ads...

• Depeche Mode - Videos 86>98+ | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-4.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Video 86 - 98 (2 Discs)

• Sweet Liberty | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It's Alan Alda vs. Hollywood in the writer-director-star's hilarious madcap comedy about the bawdy barbaric and beautifully crazed world of moviemaking. College professor Michael Burgess' life and town are turned upside down when a film company arrives to make a movie out of his best selling book on the American Revolution. To the earnest heartfelt Professor's horror leading man Michael Caine is a philandering adventurer the movie's director wants to turn his historic story into a youth-oriented lusty romp and female star Michelle Pfeiffer is so obsessed by Burgess' heroine that he begins to inexplicably fall in love with the zany actress. Spilling over with charm wry observation and riotous comedy the divine and delightful Sweet Liberty co-stars Academy Award nominee Bob Hoskins and the legendary silent film goddess Lillian Gish.

• Gardens Of The National Trust - Vol. 1 | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (217.03%)   |  RRP £18.99

  In this beautifully filmed programme Alan Titchmarsh follows six of the National Trust's loveliest gardens through the changing seasons. There's Killerton in Devon which boasts one of the most spectacular rhododendron displays in the south of England. Barrington Court Somerset the finest example of Gertrude Jekyll's work in the Trust's hands. Peckover House Cambridgeshire a charming riverside town garden where clematis and roses thrive in a setting of rare trees. Dunham Massey

• Wild Country | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-12.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  16 year-old Kelly Ann gives birth to a baby boy which is immediately given up for adoption. Six weeks later trying to get over the emotional upset she goes on an overnight hike with her church youth group. When they find a baby boy in a 'lair' they are stalked by a wild beast which begins to pick them off one by one. Lee Kelly Ann's ex-boyfriend sacrifices himself to give Kelly Ann a chance to escape and she begins a new life as mother to the baby.

• Love Actually/Definitely, Maybe/Bridget Jones's Diary | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £12.09   |  Saving you £12.90 (106.70%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Love Actually: From the new bachelor Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) instantly falling in love with a refreshingly real member of the staff (Martine McCutcheon) moments after entering 10 Downing Street... To a writer (Colin Firth) escaping to the south of France to nurse his re-broken heart who finds love in a lake... From a comfortably married woman (Emma Thompson) suspecting that her husband (Alan Rickman) is slipping away... To a new bride (Keira Knightley) mistaking the distance of her husband's best friend for something it's not... From a schoolboy seeking to win the attention of the most unattainable girl in school... To a widowed stepfather (Liam Neeson) trying to connect with a son he suddenly barely knows... From a lovelorn junior manager (Laura Linney) seizing a chance with her long-tended unspoken office crush... To an ageing seen it all remember very little of it rock star (Bill Nighy) jonesing for an end-of-career comeback in his own uncompromising way... Love the equal-opportunity mischief-maker is causing chaos for all. These London lives and loves collide mingle and climax on Christmas Eve-again and again and again-with romantic hilarious and bittersweet consequences for anyone lucky (or unlucky) enough to be under love's spell. Definitely Maybe: Definitely Maybe features Ryan Reynolds stars as Will Hayes a 30-something Manhattan dad in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year-old daughter Maya (Abigail Breslin) starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins in 1992 as a young starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya Will relives his past as an idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. Will hopelessly attempts a PG version of his story for his daughter and changes the names so Maya has to guess who is the woman her father finally married. Is her mother Will's college sweetheart the dependable girl next-door Emily (Elizabeth Banks)? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante the apolitical April (Isla Fisher)? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist Summer (Rachel Weisz)? As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad's romantic puzzle she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale Maya helps him to understand that it's definitely never too late to go back...and maybe even possible to find a happy ending. Bridget Jones's Diary: In the screen adaptation of 'Bridget Jones Diary' Helen Fielding's international best-selling phenomenon documentary filmmaker Sharon Maguire has managed a rare feat: a film as captivating as the novel! Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is a pretty and neurotic thirtysomething singleton (in her vernacular) who vows to take control of her life after being humiliated by handsome standoffish barrister Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at her parents' New Year's party. Determined to lose weight and cut back on vices like wine cigarettes and workaholic-alcoholic-misogynistic men Bridget begins a diary to chart her progress. Unfortunately the P.R. executive hits a snag when her boss gorgeous cad Daniel (Hugh Grant) instigates a sexy e-mail flirtation. Despite her tendency to bungle book launch parties and any situation involving the ever-disapproving Mark Darcy Bridget's winning combination of charm vulnerability and wit intrigues not only the seductively dangerous Daniel but also the arrogant barrister. Featuring a note-perfect performance by Zellweger a devilish one by