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• One For The Road | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jimmy (Chisholm) is young ambitious and desperate to sell his late father's business. However his alcohol problems have prompted him to attend a rehabilitation course for drink drivers. Here he meets salesman Paul (Procter) taxi driver Mark (Devenport) and retired property tycoon Richard (Bennett). Bonds are unexpectedly formed through the workshops but equally Richard's millions become a lure to the others who plot to sell him Jimmy's ailing business and to relieve him of his wealth!

• The Real Cancun | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £7.98   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Each year over 40 000 college students travel to Cancun Mexico for Spring Break. But this year for the first time sixteen people will come together for eight days in a beachfront Cancun villa for the ultimate Spring Break vacation. In this documentary feature bonds will be forged romances sparked friendships tested and hearts broken all amidst a backdrop of non-stop partying.

• The Plague Dogs | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Don Giovanni - Mozart | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £3.52   |  Saving you £12.73 (563.27%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Arthaus present another in the Glyndebourne classic opera series this time the long-awaited 1977 production of Don Giovanni directed by Sir Peter Hall.Don Giovanni represents a force of nature without conscience and sense of responsibility. His sole aim in life is to win the female he has just fallen in love with. Therefore all the people around him become his victims. Not able to own up to his crimes he is dragged down to hell.Sir Peter Hall has long been associated with Glyndebourne having directed there since 1970. His production of Mozart's tragic 'opera of all operas' as E.T.A. Hoffman once called it for the 1977 Glyndebourne seasons has received universal praise - a high accolade for such an original production. Celebrated baritone and Glyndebourne favourite Benjamin Luxon perfectly embodies the unconscionable seducer Don Giovanni - although he nearly didn't appear after injuring himself during rehearsals jumping from a balcony as stage directions instructed.

• The Sweeney - Vol. 2 - Car Chases | DVD | (06/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  If you were watching TV in the mid-1970s chances are The Sweeney was one of the weekly highlights and these re-mastered collections will have you pining for a time when the only choice was brown or beige, and a monkey would buy you a lot more than a nice whistle. If, however, these episodes are your first taste of Detective Inspector Jack Regan (John Thaw) and Detective Sergeant George Carter (Dennis Waterman) of the Flying Squad, be warned that you will soon be telling friends to "Shut it!" and scouring the pages of Exchange and Mart for a mint-condition Ford Granada in "Tawny Metallic". (Ironically the choice ride for slags in the show was the Jaguar MK2 later to become so closely associated with Thaw's more cerebral take on police work, Inspector Morse.) First aired as 1974's pilot Regan, the show was produced by Thames Television subsidiary Euston Films and ran over four series and 53 episodes. Despite being given strict guidelines on speaking parts, locations and structure, writers were expected to produce scripts very quickly and individual episodes were filmed within 10 working days. Based on this frenetic schedule, the result was a choice parade of slags, blags and assorted lowlife, played out across fantastic London locations with a gritty humour that set the agenda for many of the small-screen cop shows to follow. Regan and Carter manage to fit up a few collars between pints, and even occasionally shed their nylon shirts and flares for a distinctly unromantic interlude between the sheets--brown of course. In "Stoppo Driver", when a gang of villains lose their own driver in a high-speed chase the logical replacement for their next blag is Cooney (Billy Murray), the squad's latest chauffeur who learnt everything he knew from Evel Knievel. Led by Barney ("a tough monkey, plenty of form") the thieves kidnap Cooney's bride on their honeymoon night and blackmail him to help them rob a bent card game. Colin Welland provides the hired muscle in the second episode, "Faces", as renegade ex-marine Tober, visiting the Smoke from Manchester to help a terrorist gang take down four quickfire scores to fund their operations. The Sweeney boys know a hard man when they see one ("he did Smoky Evans with a hatchet") and relish the opportunity for some fisticuffs between styrofoam cups of tea (like "liquid concrete"). Things get messy when a stuck-up intelligence officer tells them the final blag is being faked to rustle out his undercover grass and Regan is forced to stand down, despite having acted on their own pint-sized informant's tip-off: "but it was the dwarf"! --Steve Napleton

• Delibes: Coppelia -- Royal Ballet | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £20.52   |  Saving you £4.47 (21.78%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Coppélia is Delibes fairy-tale ballet of 1870, here presented in a production based on the Royal Ballet's 1954 version with designs by Osbert Lancaster and choreography by the company's founder Ninette de Valois. In a small European town Dr Coppélius (Luke Heydon) makes life-sized mechanical dolls. The whimsical tale unfolds as Swanilda (Leanne Benjamin) suspects that her fiancée Franz (Carlos Acosta) is falling in love with the enigmatic Coppélia (Leana Palmer). Everything is suitably magical, from the beautiful sets and costumes to the gorgeously melodic score. There is a sense of romantic playfulness throughout, and of course almost two hours of wonderful dancing, making this a treat to place beside Swan Lake and Giselle. Given live on 19 February 2000, this was the first live full-length ballet from Royal Opera House to be broadcast since 1968.On the DVD: Fortunately the DVD proves an object lesson in how to present ballet on the digital format. There is an introduction by Deborah Dull, principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet, a short but interesting profile of designer Osbert Lancaster, and a nine-minute film "Covent Garden Tales--The Ballet Moves" which gives a look behind the scenes at the Royal Ballet's new home. For a live production, the 16:9 anamorphically enhanced widescreen picture is simply superb, with excellent Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. With even the special features delivered with 16:9 anamorphic enhancement this is a high-quality production in every respect. Encoded for regions two and four. --Gary S Dalkin

• Act Of Grace | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £11.94   |  Saving you £-1.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In a secret world, a family's code of honour is under threat and an ancient way of life is knocked off its axis by one boy's act of grace...Raised on the tough Manchester estates, a young English boy, Dezzie, becomes loyal friends with a young Chinese boy, Yasin, protecting him from local gangs and bullies until Godfather Kai Chang arrives to take the teenager back to Hong Kong.Ten years later, Yasin returns to Manchester and invites Dezzie to be a part of the 'family'. A Triad family with unbreakable laws, a code of honour and traditions dating back two thousand years. But as the friends journey progresses side by side, a firm wedge of hate and betrayal is soon to drive them apart... and against each other.

• The Falls | DVD | (14/01/2013) from £25.90   |  Saving you £-9.91 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  RJ and Chris are two teenage boys raised in Mormon communities. Though both are poster boys for their church with perfect academic records and pretty girlfriends buried feelings soon rise to the surface when they are assigned to serve a mission together as part of their rite of passage. Now they will have to make sense of the conflict between their desires and the rules that govern the only world they know.

• American Dragon | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After years of busting the Triads on the back streets of Hong Kong Tony Lam a legendary cop is out for a new life. On his way to paradise he's stopped off in another Hell hole - New York City. He's flown into an urban jungle where his assassination squad want him dead and the FBI want him alive. Now it's the time for him to mix fire with fury on the mean streets.

• Zero Patience | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this wacky musical with a message the ghost of Patient Zero the French-Canadian flight attendant who allegedly first brought AIDS to Canada materialises and tries to contact old friends... A timely and eccentric musical that serves up water baller dancing jungle animals and singing butt puppets to explore the politics of AIDS scapegoating!

• Emmett's Mark | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £3.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (250.63%)   |  RRP £13.99

  When brilliant detective Emmett Young starts developing killer headaches he puts it down to stress but a trip to the doctor's reveals another cause. Emmett has a fatal disease. He hires a hitman to kill him only to find out the hospital has made a mistake. Now he has to find his own unknown assassin and solve the biggest murder mystery of his career...his own!!!

• Passing | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £6.29   |  Saving you £-0.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dying is a punishment to some to some a gift and to some a favour.... Ernie and his best friend Rose buddies since World War II have outlived their youth outlived their families and outlived all hopes for the future. Yet despite their austere existence a gentle whimsy and affection for each other fills their days. With humour and courage they face the increasing vulnerability in a world that moves faster than they can. Wade is a drifter and a loner who meets and falls in lov

• Jupiter Moon - Vol. 6 - Episodes 41 To 45 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  More episodes from the long running TV sci-fi series. It is the year 2050 and mankind has esablished a space city on Jupiter's Moon. In orbit around the moon is the spaceship Ilea home of Columbus College University Of Space. The Ilea has found the sky-mining ship Copernicus stranded in the lee of the moon Amalthea. Its entry ports are jammed and its support systems dead. But the Ilea's computer says that there is one person on board still alive. Victoria believes it is her father

• Jupiter Moon - Vol. 8 - Episodes 51 - 55 | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £6.39   |  Saving you £6.60 (50.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  More episodes from the long running TV sci-fi series. It is the year 2050 and mankind has esablished a space city on Jupiter's Moon. In orbit around the moon is the spaceship Ilea home of Columbus College University Of Space. Jupiter Moon is an epic drama about the loves passions and ambitions of young people growing up in an alien and dangerous environment many million miles away from Earth.

• The Plague Dogs | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  An animated adventure from the artistic team behind 'Watership Down'. A pair of dogs Rowf (Christopher Benjamin) and Snitter (John Hurt) escape from an animal research facility situated in a remote part of the English countryside. Rowf is cynical and mistrusting of humans having only known the tortured existence of being a laboratory animal. Snitter on the other hand had previously enjoyed life as a domestic pet and longs to be loved and cared for by a human master once again. Unprepared for life in the wild the pair befriend a fox The Tod (James Bolam) who helps them learn to survive in the bleak environment by feeding on the area's livestock. As the authorities attempt to track down the escapees things take a turn for the worse when a deliberately leaked story suggests the dogs may be infected with the bubonic plague...

• Britten: Owen Wingrave | DVD | (14/07/2009) from £19.92   |  Saving you £-3.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• All's Faire In Love | DVD | (13/08/2012) from £2.09   |  Saving you £10.90 (83.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The tale begins when a collage football star Will (Owen Benjamin - The House Bunny) arrives at All's Faire In Love... Renaissance Faire to work off his class non-attendance obligation to Prof. Shockworthy (Cedric The Entertainer - Barbershop, Madagascar 1, 2 & 3) by joining the rag-tag peasant Greenbriar Theatre Troupe. The same is true for Kate (Christina Ricci - Black Snake Moan, The Addams Family), a performer who left her investment banking opportunities to join her cousin Jo (Louise Griffiths) to blossom on stage and in Will's heart. Will and Kate get the chance to prove themselves when the Faire's chief benefactress (Ann-Margret - The Break Up, Grumpy Old Men) create the ultimate competition to determine who will be a Royal and who a Common Peasant threatening to hand over the Troupe's most coveted Shakespearean stage at the Faire - to the treacherous and devious Troupe of Royals lead by Rank (Chris Wylde). Will and Kate must overcome all manner of opposition and treachery to prove their worth, win the day and perhaps together fall in love.

• A Gala Evening - In The Presence Of HRH The Prince Of Wales From The Glyndebourne Festival Opera | DVD | (11/01/2004) from £21.38   |  Saving you £3.61 (16.88%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From the Glyndebourne Festival Opera a host of leading opera stars perform for HRH The Prince Of Wales. Works include Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro - 'Voi Che Sapete' and Rossini's Il Barbiere Di Siviglia - 'Un Voce Poco Fa'.

• S.W.A.T. / Bad Boys / Striking Distance | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A triple bill of high-octane action adventures featuring S.W.A.T. Bad Boys and Striking Distance. S.W.A.T.: An imprisoned drug kingpin offers a huge cash reward to anyone that can break him out of police custody and only the LAPD's Special Weapons and Tactics team can prevent it. Bad Boys: When 0 million of seized heroin is stolen from the Miami Police lockup Detectives Lowrey (Will Smith) and Burnett (Martin Lawrence) Miami's most mismatched cops are called upon to solve the case before the FBI close their department. Julie (Tea Leoni) is their only lead to the case but will only speak to Lowrey. As he is not around when she calls Burnett impersonates his cool slick partner. A hilarious role reversal begins in order to retain her trust. From then on it's a race against time as the trio dodge the mob and retain their charade while putting pressure on every low-life in Miami's underworld to track down their man. Striking Distance: Tom Hardy (Bruce Willis) is a fifth generation Pittsburgh cop. Formerly a homicide detective he publicly challenged the police department including several of his family members about the identity of the serial killer who took his father's life. Convinced that a newly active serial killer is the same gunman who murdered his father - despite the fact that another man is already behind bars for that crime - Hardy is working out of his jurisdiction to catch the killer. The maverick cop finds himself at odds with his new partner (Sarah Jessica Parker) as he skirts around the system and defies his uncle (Dennis Farina) his father's successor as the Chief of Homicide.

• WWE - Bad Blood 2004 | DVD | (01/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A collection of WWE wrestling matches featuring the World Heavyweight Championship Match between Chris Benoit and Kane the Women's Championship Match between Trish Stratus Lita Gail Kim and Victoria the Intercontinental Championship Match between Shelton Benjamin and Randy Orton and more.