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• Dawson's Creek: The Best of Seasons 1 and 2 | DVD | (04/09/2000) from £9.94   |  Saving you £10.05 (50.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dawson's Creek is, first and foremost, one of the defining shows about teen angst and complicated teenage relationships. The first two seasons were the classic ones, as Dawson oscillates in his affections between beautiful Jen and his best friend Joey and manages to fall entirely between two stools. This is a show in which indecision and failure to commit is always going to lead to nothing good, however uncertain the prospects of commitment. Michelle Williams as Jen and Katie Holmes as Joey provide the show with its emotional centre of quirky intensity. James Van Der Beek as the essentially unreliable Dawson provides good looks and a hang-dog complexity of feeling to the mix, while Joshua Jackson as his sidekick Pacey provides both reliable comic relief and a sense of more depth to come in the show's later seasons. This "Best of Seasons 1 and 2" provides good examples of what the show does best. From Season 1, "The Scare" is a finely judged commentary on teen horror films--the show's creator Kevin Williamson was also responsible for the Scream franchise--and "Beauty Contest" is a finely judged social comedy about the show's high-toned resort community. Other strands in "Beauty Contest" lead in Season 2 to the brief Joey-Dawson relationship in "The Kiss" and to its aftermath in "His Leading Lady", where Dawson directs Rachael Lee Cook as Devon in a movie script based sufficiently closely on earlier episodes that she reprises Joey's actual lines. Dawson's Creek is essential teen soap, savvy enough in its post-modern edge to play well with self-parody and intertextuality.--Roz Kaveney

• Tender Loving Care | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Overtons were a blissfully happy couple until tragedy struck and their little daughter was killed in a car crash. The mother fails to cope with the loss still believing that her little daughter is alive. A nurse is hired by her husband for her mental healing but Kathleen Randolph has more in mind than just to heal Allison...

• Just Write | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  While visiting a good friend in a trendy Hollywood cafe Harold (Jeremy Piven) a tour bus driver spots his favourite actress Amanda Clark (Sherilyn Fenn) and introduces himself. She mistakingly assumes he is a writer and to Harold's amazement proposes a date to discuss her next movie. As their relationship grows so must Harold's charade to keep Amanda from discovering he is a Beverly Hills tour guide and not a hot-shot writer. With a rewrite deadline looming an actress swooning and his whole world rocking Harold must choose what to write as well as do what is right. He could win her heart if he would 'Just Write'.

• The Tribe - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1-4 | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Let's admit it right away, The Tribe may just be the best kids' TV show ever. To be precise, it's for older children and teenagers (and their parents will find it insightful, too), the very age group that occupies all the roles in this post-apocalyptic tale. Mixing the scenario of Lord of the Flies (except there are, y'know, girls in it as well) with the visual imagery of Mad Max and the angst-ridden psychodrama of Sweet Valley High, The Tribe tells of a near-future in which the world's adult population has been wiped out by a virus. Of course, society's infrastructure has gone, too, so the youthful survivors not only have to deal with all the usual trials and tribulations of childhood and adolescence but must also develop some form of functioning society of their own, without any form of adult intervention and with only the barest amount of technology. What happens, of course, is that all the social ills of the old world, from bullying to teenage pregnancy, are writ 10 times larger in the new. The ways in which the characters cope (or fail to cope) with these issues are both exasperating and deeply moving. --Roger Thomas

• Tender Loving Care | DVD | (30/01/2000) from £17.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You are about to experience a fantasy quit unlike anything you've ever seen or felt before - a fantasy built from the very stuff of your own mind. Tender Loving Care is not just a finely crafted suspense story; it's an exploration into the innermost perceptions opinions and attitudes. The unfolding story is shaped and changed by your responses to it so that no two people will experience Tender Loving Care in the same way.

• The Tribe - Vol. 2 - Episodes 5-8 | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £7.86   |  Saving you £8.13 (50.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Let’s admit it right away, The Tribe may just be the best kids’ TV show ever. To be precise, it’s for older children and teenagers (and their parents will find it insightful, too), the very age group that occupies all the roles in this post-apocalyptic tale. Mixing the scenario of Lord of the Flies (except there are, y’know, girls in it as well) with the visual imagery of Mad Max and the angst-ridden psychodrama of Sweet Valley High, The Tribe tells of a near-future in which the world’s adult population has been wiped out by a virus. Of course, society’s infrastructure has gone, too, so the youthful survivors not only have to deal with all the usual trials and tribulations of childhood and adolescence but must also develop some form of functioning society of their own, without any form of adult intervention and with only the barest amount of technology. What happens, of course, is that all the social ills of the old world, from bullying to teenage pregnancy, are writ 10 times larger in the new. The ways in which the characters cope (or fail to cope) with these issues are both exasperating and deeply moving. --Roger Thomas

• Horror | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Eric's Revenge: Missing presumed dead in a fire that destroyed his home Eric Matthews returns a year later to the site now occupied by a massive shopping mall. Demented even insane Eric is obsessed with being reunited with his childhood sweetheart no matter who he kills. Offerings: John Radley has a curious way of liking someone. Be nice to him and you'll start receiving severed body parts. Fingers ears noses... it's only after Tim wakes up with his head in a vi

• Peter Jackson | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Three of director Peter Jackson's earlier works.

• The Haunting Double Pack: Hill House & Bly Manor | DVD | (18/10/2021) from £25.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Haunting of Hill House is the critically-acclaimed, modern reimagining of Shirley Jackson's legendary novel about five siblings who grew up in the most famous haunted house in America. Now adults, they're reunited by the suicide of their youngest sister, which forces them to finally confront the ghosts of their pasts... some of which lurk in their minds... and some of which may really be lurking in the shadows of the iconic Hill House. For the first time, experience even more thrills with three extended Director's Cut episodes featuring never-before-seen footage and go deeper inside Hill House with four exclusive commentaries from Creator and Director Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep).