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• George And Mildred - Series 2 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £13.50   |  Saving you £-0.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  George and Mildred are the ultimate odd couple the popular landlord and landlady from Man About The House who became a household name with Thames Television in the 1970's and 80's. Mildred is vain snobbish and domineering; George is shy timid frigid and henpecked. Together they make a great partnership! Episodes comprise: 1. Jumle Pie 2. All Around The Clock 3. The Travelling Man 4. The Unkindest Cut Of All 5. The Right Way To Travel 6. The Dorothy Letters 7.

• Summer Catch | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-3.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Summer Catch combines sports movie with teen romance across class boundaries and sticks in some less than effective bawdy comedy to make up the weight. Playing in a local summer baseball league is the last chance at a professional sports career Ryan (Freddie Prinz Jr) has after he gave up an earlier chance in order to attend his mother's funeral. The threats to his success include the rivalry of other young players, the temptation to just have fun offered by teammate Brubaker (Matthew Lillard) and his growing feelings for Tenley (Jessica Biel). Ryan also has his own demon--an obsession with failure. Occasional outcroppings of psychobabble and melodrama stop this ever finding a satisfactory tone of its own--the scenes on the baseball diamond are often the most interesting. The scenes of sexual comedy largely waste such interesting young actors as Marc Blucas, Christian Kane and Brittany Murphy, all of whom do what they can with unprepossessing material. This is a film for Freddie Prinz Jr fans more than anyone else. On the DVD: Summer Catch on DVD offers a collection of deleted scenes that indicate just how much more uncertain the film's tone was before editing; the commentary by actors Prinz and Biel and director Mike Tollin shows that they at least all had a fairly good time making it. The visual aspect ratio is widescreen anamorphic 1.85:1 and the DVD has Dolby 5:1 digital sound. --Roz Kaveney

• Lexx - The Movies - Series 1 Vol.1 | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. The show's Canadian creators, "Supreme Beans" Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff, and Jeffrey Hirschfield--partnered with German money and studio facilities--intended every episode to be, in their words, "a nasty adventure". With flashes of nudity and surgical gore, and a collection of extreme hairstyles and accents, the overall look is often akin to a sci-fi Eurotrash. Aboard the stolen 10-kilometre-long spaceship Lexx (designed to look like a dragonfly) are the "Dirty Three-and-a-Half": insufferable coward Stanley H Tweedle (Brian Downey), the Edward Scissorhands clone and 2000 years-dead Kai (Michael McManus), decapitated and lovestruck robot head 790 (voiced by writer Hirschfield), and the skimpily wardrobed Zev (19-year-old Eva Habermann). It's with the last of these characters that the show generated its main audience and proved itself totally indifferent to regular boundaries of TV formatting. A disregard both for genre conventions and good taste makes the show a constant series of surprises. --Paul Tonks On the DVD: The jam-packed pilot "I Worship His Shadow" is full of startlingly graphic imagery, skimpily clad women, and literally wall-to-wall computer graphics. TV sci-fi has never been introduced so explosively. "Super Nova" has the crew of the Lexx hunting for Kai's homeworld, and drawn to a planet by a holographic message from Poetman (Tim Curry). Essentially, the story has little to do with the overall arc, but is an experiment in format and testing boundaries (the most obvious example being Zev's naked shower scene). There's also a nutty song and dance moment for Kai and Zev, a cameo of the director floating in space, and Curry chewing scenery with gusto. The first movie's disc features a Sci-fi Channel trailer of interviews for the series, a behind-the-scenes documentary introducing the show's creators and their irreverent sense of humour, plus DVD-ROM Screen Saver and Weblinks. The second movie's disc features a gallery of 12 stills, cast biographies, and another documentary which this time looks at the enormous CGI work put into the first season. This is where the digital transfer really pays off, and the FX-heavy show looks gorgeous in crisp definition as opposed to the general murkiness of TV broadcast or the VHS releases. --Paul Tonks

• RAMBO DVD TRILOGY MOMENTUM EDITION BOX SET | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £29.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (66.69%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Sylvester Stallone never courted as much controversy as he did with the screen violence of the Rambo trilogy. From 1982 to 1988, they kept his name above Schwarzenegger's in the muscle hero league, with "Rambo" becoming a descriptive phrase in the language to describe gung-ho aggression (in Japanese, "rambo" means "violence"). The strangest part of the character's success is that originally he had none. Both David Morrell's novel and the original incarnation of First Blood had the Vietnam vet committing suicide after his rampage through small town America. The un-Hollywood ending was changed when Stallone and the producers recognised here was a character with possibilities. First Blood: Part II was co-written by James (Titanic) Cameron, a man who has always recognised box office possibilities. Stallone took a very relevant (to 1985) issue of surviving POWs and created an alternative end to the Vietnam War. This was achieved courtesy of the Cold War animosity that still existed towards the Russians, embodied in a suitably vile cameo from Steven Berkoff. A little love interest helped ground the movie and prevent it from completely turning into a video game, as did the best of Jerry Goldsmith's stirring scores for the trilogy. After saving himself and then his Country, Rambo III was simply about saving his friend Richard Crenna. The code of honour was by this point watered down into a song lyric, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother". Nevertheless the final instalment continues to say something about the indomitable American spirit that will not accept defeat lightly. Patriotism may never have been portrayed quite so bloodily before Rambo's arrival, but at least a generation learned to question attitudes to war veterans, as well as the benefits of carrying a compass in your hunting knife. On the DVD: The Rambo trilogy on disc brings together all three movies in crisp 2.35:1 widescreen transfers. Sadly the extras are a little thin considering how much more was on the old Laser Discs. The first film has but a trailer; the third has a few minutes of behind the scenes material; the second has quite a few mini-documentaries that could really have done with being edited together, and having repeated interviews cut out. But there's still fun to be had hearing how deep and meaningful the movies were in conception.--Paul Tonks

• Brian Cox's Jute Journey | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Produced by Hopscotch Films for BBC Scotland. Hollywood actor Brian Cox is a son of Dundee. It's the big constant in his life. He grew up amid the clatter of the Jute mills, where both his parents began their working lives. The Jute trade, making hessian from India's 'golden' fibre, dominated Dundee for over a century, linking it with Calcutta. Now it is fast becoming a memory. This documentary is a journey into Brian Cox's own past, and on to Calcutta in the footsteps of the Dundee Jute work...

• Match Point | DVD | (30/09/2013) from £7.23   |  Saving you £-1.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  And so Woody Allen picks up his camera and moves the location of his latest film across the channel to London. In the process? Match Point becomes one of his finer efforts of recent times. Jonathan Rhys Meyers leads the cast as Chris Wilton, a former professional tennis player, who quickly lands himself a job as a coach. As he goes about his business, he meets Chloe (Emily Mortimer), and a relationship soon ensues, much to the delight of her family. With some speed, he quickly finds himself working for her father (Brian Cox), and wedding bells aren’t too far away. Yet there’s a fly in the ointment, in the shapely form of Chloe’s brother’s girlfriend, played by Scarlet Johansson. Johansson’s powers of attraction--and bluntly, she looks terrific here--aren’t lost on him, setting the stage for an intriguing mix of thriller and drama that comes very much alive in the final act. Allen wisely utilises London not just to give his film a different feel to usual, but also to embellish it with a strong cast of primarily British actors. And while Match Point doesn’t deliver the clever humour and wry laughs you find in the majority of the prolific writer-director’s work, this is still very much an engaging film. Ironically, those likely to warm to the film the least are Allen’s most loyal fanbase. Save for the minimalist credits and the jazz soundtrack, it’s hard to tell he’s behind the camera with Match Point, and that has the trade off of making it accessible to those not usually won over by Woody Allen’s talents. And yet still, there’s something for everyone here, and while Match Point is far from the peak of Allen’s work, it’s still a fine addition to an exemplary body of work.--Simon Brew

• Leeds Rhino's - Engage Super League Champions (07/08/09/11) 8 Disc Box Set | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  What an achievement!Four times in five seasons Leeds have lifted the Engage Super League trophy - who'd have thought Old Trafford would become their second home?The M62 has become the road to success for the Rhinos though. Tony Smith, Brian McLennan and now Brian McDermott have guided them to Grand Final glory, incredibly conquering the much admired St Helens on each occasion.This unique DVD box set features every minute and every twist and turn from four of the most memorable days in Rhinos history:2007 LEEDS 33 - 6 ST HELENSThe Rhinos belie their underdog status to thrash St Helens and give coach, Tony Smith, the ultimate send-off.2008 LEEDS 24 - 16 ST HELENSBrian McClennan guides Leeds to a repeat success against the Saints in his first season in charge.2009 LEEDS 18 - 10 ST HELENS The Rhinos back up their table-topping campaign in one of the most intense finals ever.2011 LEEDS 32 - 16 ST HELENS An amazing story. Fifth place during the regular season, Leeds reclaim the trophy following a final quarter master class. With the full Engage Super League story of the four seasons that laid the foundations for these classic triumphs, this is the complete DVD record of a golden era for the Rhinos.

• Chilly Dogs | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £8.40   |  Saving you £11.59 (58.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When slacker Kevin Manley receives a letter from his long lost grandfather telling him that he has inherited land in Alaska it seems to be the answer to his prayers for excitement and adventure. But there's a catch: in order to claim the land Kevin must first compete in the world's toughest dog sled race across the frozen tundra of Alaska. The wild and crazy adventure begins when Clive Thornton (Leslie Neilson) and sexy Bonnie Livengood (Natasha Henstridge) join the canine crew as they set out to win the most hilarious race....

• The Bruce | DVD | (14/06/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Marco Polo | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £6.29   |  Saving you £13.70 (217.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made-for-TV miniseries that traces the journeys of the 13th century Venetian trader Marco Polo. Setting out in the company of two priests to both prove the existence of China, and convert it to Christianity, Marco Polo (Ian Somerhalder) continues the exploration on his own when the priests decide to turn back. Struggling on through blizzards and outlaws, Polo is eventually rewarded by reaching the court of ruler Kubla Khan (Brian Dennehy) who, impressed by the explorer's fortitude and courage, adopts him into his court.

• Various Artists - Guitar Legends in Sevilla | DVD | (13/01/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This DVD features live footage of some of the world's greatest guitarists playing live for Expo 92 Opening Sevilla Spain October 18 1991. Features Joe Satriani Bryan May Steve Vai Les Paul Roger Waters Nuno Bettencourt and many more!!! Tracklist: 1. Turn Turn Turn (Roger McGuinn) 2. Eight Miles High (Roger McGuinn) 3. Keep Your Distance (Richard Thompson) 4. Jerusalem On The Juke Box (Richard Thompson) 5. Brazil (Les Paul) 6. How High The Moon (Les Paul) 7. Go Back To Your Woods (Robbie Robertson) 8. What About Now (Robbie Robertson) 9. The Weight (Robbie Robertson) 10. Shake This Town (Robbie Robertson) 11. In The Flesh II (Roger Waters) 12. Another Brick In The Wall II (Roger Waters) 13. Brain Damage/Eclipse (Roger Waters) 14. Comfortably Numb (Roger Waters) 15. Running & Hiding (All Stars) 16. Satch Boogie (Joe Satriani) 17. Surfing With Alien (Joe Satriani) 18. Always With Me Always With You (Joe Satriani) 19. Big Bad Moon (Joe Satriani Brian May) 20. Liberty (Steve Vai Brian May) 21. Greasy Kids Stuff (Steve Vai) 22. For The Love Of God (Steve Vai) 23. More Than Words (Nuno Bettencourt Gary Cherone) 24. Driven By You (Steve Vai Brian May) 25. Guitar Solo (Brian May) 26. Tie Your Mother Down (Brian May) 27. Funk #49 (Joe Walsh) 28. Rocky Mountain Way (Walsh May Vai Satriani) 29. All Right Now (Rodgers May Vai Satriani) 30. Now Im Here (May Cherone) 31. Hey Joe (All Stars)

• Epoch | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £14.24   |  Saving you £-8.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Across the planet sudden increases in earthquake activity is causing massive damage and worldwide panic. Mason Rand (David Keith) a young nuclear weapons expert is recruited by the President's science advisor to investigate some additional strange activity over the giant Himalayan mountains. With the Earth's life support system in the balance Rand and his team fly to Bhutan to join a top secret U.S. task force. What they discover will change man's view of history forever...

• Various Artists - the Strat Pack Live | Blu Ray | (01/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In autumn 2004 London's Wembley Arena staged what must surely go down as the greatest guitar concert of all time to celebrate the 50th birthday of a true rock icon - The Fender Stratocaster Guitar. Members of Queen Genesis Thin Lizzy The Crickets The Shadows Free The Eagles Roxy Music Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones plus solo stars Amy Winehouse Albert Lee Jamie Cullum Theresa Andersson and Paul Carrack all gathered on one stage to honour the occasion and also to raise money for Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy. Tracklist: 1. Peggy Sue - The Crickets Albert Le... 2. Maybe Baby - The Crickets Albert L... 3. I Fought The Law - The Crickets Al... 4. Oh Boy - The Crickets Albert Lee &... 5. That'll Be The Day - The Crickets ... 6. The Rise & Fall Of Flingel Bunt - H... 7. Sleepwalk - Hank & Ben Marvin 8. Apache - Hank & Ben Marvin 9. I'm On My Way - Theresa Andersson 10. Country Boy - Albert Lee & Theresa ... 11. How Long - Mike Rutherford & Paul C... 12. All Along The Watchtower - Mike Rut... 13. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Mike... 14. I Can't Dance - Mike Rutherford & P... 15. Red House - Gary Moore 16. Angel - Jamie Cullum 17. Stronger Than Me - Amy Winehouse 18. Muddy Water Blues - Paul Rodgers 19. Drinking - Paul Jasmine & Steve Ro... 20. All Right Now - Paul Rodgers & Bria... 21. Can't Get Enough - Paul Rodgers & J... 22. Funk 49 - Joe Walsh 23. Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh 24. Life In The Fast Lane - Joe Walsh 25. Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh 26. 6PM - Phil Manzanera 27. Marooned - David Gilmour 28. Coming Back To Life - David Gilmour 29. Sorrow - David Gilmour 30. Ooh La La - Ronnie Wood 31. Stay With Me - All Star Line-Up

• Julien Donkey Boy | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £12.90   |  Saving you £10.08 (101.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  There's going to be no middle-ground in your opinion of Harmony Korine's second film Julien Donkey Boy--it's either a blazing, daring masterpiece or one of the worst movies ever made. Ewen Bremner, the gawkiest of the Trainspotting gang, transforms himself into the terrifying yet pathetic Julien, with curly black hair, removable teeth, a letter-perfect American maniac accent and the body language of the truly demented. Julien is a schizophrenic but rather than observe his mental problems the film chooses to crawl inside them--we're never sure how much of what we see is actually happening and none of the "sane" characters make much sense either. Julien's family consists of a brother (Evan Neuman) who is constantly climbing stairs like a lizard to beef himself up for a contest that turns out to be ridiculous, a pregnant sister (Chloe Sevigny) who sometimes phones him up pretending to be their dead mother and a hard man father (Werner Herzog) who douses him with freezing water to toughen him up and delivers a bizarrely sincere soliloquy about the superiority of the ending of Dirty Harry over Julien's pretentious improvised poem. Though it comes with a certificate of authenticity from the Danish Dogma 95 movement, it violates several of the cardinal rules of their manifesto epitomised by Festen and The Idiots: there is unsourced music on the soundtrack, special effects in the form of pixellated or freeze-frame images and action as family arguments explode into scrum-like fights (Korine's directorial debut, Gummo, was closer in spirit to the movement). It opens and closes with the tragic deaths of children, but is mostly a shapeless series of scenes that deliver an impression of madness rather than a story. Bits of it are undeniably irritating, just as mad people usually are, but there are lucid flashes where Korine gets his cast to focus on their characters and provide great scenes. --Kim Newman

• The Big Knights | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £8.08   |  Saving you £3.91 (48.39%)   |  RRP £11.99

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• Homecoming | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £9.90   |  Saving you £-3.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a group of children are seemingly abandoned by their mother they seek assistance from their mysterious grandmother a reclusive loner who is initially reluctant to take them in... Homecoming is a tender tale of second chances and the real meaning of family that proves that home is truly where your heart is.

• He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe - Vol. 3 | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  ""By the power of Greyskull! I have the power!!!"" More episodes from the adventure of Adam prince of Eternia as he tries to keep his alter ego of He-Man secret when defending his planet from the evil Skeletor... Episodes Comprise: 1. Like Father Like Daughter 2. Colossor Awakes 3. A Beastly Sideshow 4. Reign Of The Monster 5. Daimar The Demon 6. Creatures From The Tar Swamp

• The Hurt Locker | DVD | (18/01/2016) from £6.19   |  Saving you £13.80 (222.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jeremy Renner portrays the leader of a bomb-defusing squad in Iraq in this fierce tale of war.

• Quatermass 2 | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which on his arrival he finds has been completely destroyed...

• The Locket | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £24.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Men worshipped...cursed...hated...loved her!!! Nancy (Laraine Day) appears to be the perfect bride for her fianc''e John Willis (Gene Raymond) and everything is set for a perfect wedding ceremony...until her former husband Harry Blair (Brian Aherne) approaches Willis and explains how Nancy ruined his life eventually leaving him in a psychiatric ward. As Blair's story unfolds in flashbacks he recounts how Nancy's previous lover the renowned artist Norman Clyde (Robert Mitchum) warned him of Nancy's kleptomania incessant lying and involvement with murder; and at the time Blair refused to believe Clyde believing him to be the jilted lover. But is Blair's story also that of the jilted lover; or is he trying to save Willis from marrying a woman with a dark secret?