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• Violent Playground | DVD | (16/01/2012) from £8.15   |  Saving you £4.84 (59.39%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a young and dangerous pyromaniac.

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 Part 1 | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £5.88   |  Saving you £34.11 (580.10%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The latest in a long line of successful US police dramas, the forensic cop show Crime Scene Investigation varies the formula by focusing on a team of civilian scientists who work the night shift in Las Vegas, poring over crime scenes for fingerprints, blood spatters, DNA-laced mucus and (especially) maggots. Star William Petersen plays a variation of his role from Manhunter, the cool puzzle-solving genius who can rattle off mystifying speeches with aplomb, while his contrasting partner is Marg Helgenberger, cast as a single mother/ex-stripper who is as concerned with the emotional as well as the physical mess left by crime. While most US cop shows (witness NYPD Blue) tend towards soap, neglecting the cases in favour of personal crises, CSI gives its regulars enough life to make them human but is essentially puzzle-based, with individual episodes following two or three cases à la Homicide: Life on the Street. The occasional special focuses on a major job with the team investigating the slaughter of a whole family ("Blood Drops") or a death in first class on a plane over Vegas ("Unfriendly Skies"). A few continuing threads are laid down, with a recurrent villain who gets away, but will inevitably return, but on the whole these shows play pretty well as one-offs. Very high-tech in style, with lots of zooms into microscopic examinations of hair follicles or stomach contents and distinctive visualisations of the different stories told by witnesses and evidence, this is one of the best shows currently airing. On the DVD: CSI's first DVD box set contains the show's first 12 episodes: the pilot followed by "Cool Change", "Crate & Burial", "Pledging Mr Johnson"; "Friends and Lovers", "Who Are You?", "Blood Drops"; "Anonymous", "Unfriendly Skies", "Sex Lies and Larvae"; "The I-15 Murders" and "Fahrenheit 932". In addition to inventive menus, the three-disc set offers character profiles, a trailer, some B-roll on-set footage, a subtitle option, and snippet-like interviews with the cast and creatives. --Kim Newman

• Croupier | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £5.41   |  Saving you £4.58 (84.66%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Croupier sees Clive Owen suffering from a bad case of writer's block as author Jack Manfred. Sitting in his London flat staring at an empty computer screen, trying to find the words to narrate his meandering life, he reluctantly accepts a job from his absentee father (Nicholas Ball) in a second rate casino as a dealer, or croupier, a job he once held in South Africa. His immersion back into this world is intoxicating, thanks primarily to the power he holds over his nightly clientele. Jack is a straight arrow on the floor (unlike his co-workers) but the whisper of an inside-job robbery makes his life suddenly more intriguing, as do the women who begin to drift into his life: a fellow croupier (Kate Hardie) and an alluring gambler (Alex Kingston). Suddenly, Jack finds his own life is his best book material. There's something visceral about watching the world of gambling, and director Mike Hodges (the original Get Carter) taps into this allure; Jack's simple croupier tryout--handling cards and chips with skill and grace--is as captivating as most action scenes in big popcorn films. In the end, this little film, which went on to become an art-house hit, is as unpredictable as a roll of the dice. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

• C.S.I. Season 6 Part 1 | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £8.99   |  Saving you £26.00 (289.21%)   |  RRP £34.99

  C.S.I. is an acclaimed edgy fast-paced drama series about a passionate team of forensic investigators (among them William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger) who work the graveyard shift at the Las Vegas Criminalistics Bureau. Their job - to find the missing pieces at the scene that will help to solve the crime and vindicate those who often cannot speak for themselves - the victims. Between the hidden clues and the buried motives lies the trail to the truth because people lie... but the evidence never does. Following on from the explosive Season 5 finale which saw the kidnap of team member Nick Stokes Season 6 sees the once fractured team reunited. With Las Vegas's bright lights and glamour as the backdrop the Clark County CSI night shift once more takes on the task of cleaning up what lies beneath the neon and the money. In this 3-disc release we learn of Warrick taking a walk down the aisle Nick tries to cope with his near death experience and Grisson will begin to open up and engage with his emotions and people. Features Part 1 of Series 6 Episodes 1 - 12

• The World At War - Vol. 5 | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £4.90   |  Saving you £20.09 (410.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When this epic series was first broadcast in 1973 it redefined the gold standard for television documentary; it remains the benchmark by which all factual programming must judge itself. Originally shown as 26 one-hour programmes, The World at War set out to tell the story of the Second World War through the testimony of key participants. The result is a unique and unrepeatable event, since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long left to live. Each hour-long programme is carefully structured to focus on a key theme or campaign, from the rise of Nazi Germany to Hitler's downfall and the onset of the Cold War. There are no academic "talking heads" here to spell out an official version of history; the narration, delivered with wonderful gravitas by Sir Laurence Olivier, is kept to a minimum. The show's great coup was to allow the participants to speak for themselves. Painstaking research in the archives of the Imperial War Museum also unearthed a vast quantity of newsreel footage, including on occasion the cameraman's original raw rushes which present an unvarnished and never-before-seen picture of important events. Carl Davis' portentous main title theme and score underlines the grand scale of the enterprise. The original 26 episodes were supplemented three years later by six special programmes (narrated by Eric Porter), bringing the total running-time to a truly epic 32 hours. Now digitally remastered The World at War looks even more of an impressive achievement on DVD. Available in five volumes, each handsomely packaged double-disc set comes with a detailed menu that places the individual programmes along a chronological timeline. Better yet, chapter access is laid out to allow you to select key speeches or maps or newsreel footage. The World at War was a landmark television event; its DVD incarnation underlines its importance as an historical document. --Mark Walker

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Hickory Dickory Dock | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £7.65   |  Saving you £2.34 (30.59%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Petty thefts are followed by brutal but mysterious murders at a student hostel in Hickory Road. Even the ingenious little grey cells of Poirot's mind find the circumstances difficult to comprehend. What is the significance of the slashed rucksack the stolen lightbulbs and the lethal morphine tartrate which is substituted for an unsuspecting student's sleeping powder?

• The Big Trail | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £9.93   |  Saving you £0.06 (0.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In this sweeping pioneer adventure, a courageous young scout leads hundreds of settlers across treacherous cliffs, through brutal snowstorms, Indian attacks and buffalo stampedes to their destiny out west. Along the way, he loses his heart to a beautiful pioneer woman and never stops trying to win her love. Tyrone Power co-stars in this visually spectacular epic from Raoul Walsh.

• Cha'mone Mo'Fo' Selecta! A Tribute To Michael Jackson | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £10.77   |  Saving you £2.22 (20.61%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cha'mone Mo' Fo' Selecta! A Tribute To Michael Jackson

• Ginger Rogers - Screen Goddess Collection | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £19.06   |  Saving you £30.93 (162.28%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Major And The Minor (Dir. Billy Wilder 1942): A woman disguises herself as a child to save on a train fare and is taken in charge by an army man who doesn't notice the truth. Bachelor Mother (Dir. Garson Kanin 1939): Ginger Rogers stars as a department store salesclerk about to be laid off after the Christmas holiday who happens to be passing an orphanage when a woman leaves a baby on the doorstep. The orphanage assumes that Rogers is the mother despite her protests; when they contact the department store the owner's son (David Niven) decides to restore her job so that she can take care of the child. Before long rumors are flying that Niven is the child's father... Top Hat (Mark Sandrich 1935): Following a case of mistaken identity dancer Jerry (Astaire) follows Dale (Rogers) the girl of his dreams to Europe and tries to win her heart through song and dance routines... This most lavish of musicals from Hollywood's golden era features lyrics and music by Irving Berlin. Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich 1934): In one of their best loved most charming song-and-dance comedies Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers demonstrate just how they became best known as America's greatest dance team. It Had To Be You (Dir. Don Hartman Rudloph Mate 1947): Victoria Stafford (Ginger Rogers) is a wealthy young woman who has been engaged three times and who has changed her mind at the last second at all three weddings. She is engaged again and is determined to wed her fourth fiance Oliver H.P. Harrington (Ron Randell) when she has a dream in which a man dressed like an Indian (Cornel Wilde) breaks up her fourth wedding. Upon awakening she is startled to find that the ""Indian"" from her dream is real... Tight Spot (Dir. Phil Karson 1955): Sherry Conley a street tough and cynical woman with an unhappy family background is taken from prison to a hotel where the DA tries to convince her to testify against a mobster. Sherry is reluctant because the last witness was murdered before he made it to the stand and why should she stick her neck out? At the hotel several attempts are made on her life and she falls for Vince the policemen guarding her...

• Inside The Commons | DVD | (13/04/2015) from £9.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Invisible Man: The Complete Series (Full HD Restoration) | Blu Ray | (10/04/2023) from £43.16   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Every episode of the 1970s sci-fi drama based on the novel by H.G. Wells. David McCallum stars as Daniel Westin, a scientist in the employ of the Klae Corporation, who discovers the secret of invisibility but struggles to reverse the effects of the experiment. While he searches for a means of restoring his visibility, the government send him on a number of top-secret missions. The episodes are: 'The Invisible Man', 'The Klae Resource', 'The Fine Art of Diplomacy', 'Man of Influence', 'Eyes Only', 'Barnard Wants Out', 'Go Directly to Jail', 'Stop When Red Lights Flash', 'Pin Money', 'The Klae Dynasty', 'Sight Unseen', 'Power Play' and 'An Attempt to Save Face'.

• 300 Spartans | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £6.98   |  Saving you £7.27 (127.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Released just a few years before a similar British film ZULU this 1962 English gladiator film depicts the tiny army of Sparta and their efforts to stave off an attack by Persian forces which greatly outnumbered the Spartans. Led by King Leonidis (Richard Egan) the Spartans army consisted primarily of a security force who guarded the palace. This rousing gladiator epic boasts an incredible cast including Diane Baker Ralph Richardson and Kieron Moore.

• Jumanji | Blu Ray | (03/10/2011) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-0.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After the success of Jurassic Park in 1993, the floodgates opened for digital special effects, and Jumanji is nothing if not a showcase for computer-generated creepiness guaranteed to give young children a nightmare or two. Whether that was the filmmakers' intention is up for debate, since this is a PG-rated adventure revolving around a mysterious board game that unleashes a terrifying jungle world upon its players, including gigantic spiders, huge mosquitoes, a stampede of rhinos, elephants, and every other jungle beast you can imagine. Robin Williams plays a man-child who's been trapped in the world of "Jumanji" for 26 years until he's freed by two kids who've discovered the game and released its parade of dangerous horrors. A chaotic and misguided attempt at family entertainment, the movie does offer a few good laughs, and the effects are frequently impressive, if not entirely convincing to the eye. --Jeff Shannon

• The Complete First of the Summer Wine | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

  A prequel to Roy Clarke's original Last of the Summer Wine and featuring Peter Sallis, First of the Summer Wine takes place in a small Yorkshire village.The action revolves around the antics of the young Compo, Clegg and Seymour and their usually level-headed female counterparts, all of whom are grappling with the world around them, their youth, and their experiences with the opposite sex - usually with hilarious consequences.Set between May and September 1939 as Hitler's Nazi Germany and Great Britain become increasingly poised for war the characters' lives are about to be changed forever.This four disc set contains both series and the pilot episode.

• Transformers - Beast Machines - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £69.93   |  Saving you £-59.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The struggle for Cybertron continues in Transformers: Beast Machines Season 2! Mysteriously transported back to their home planet of Cybertron with no memory of how or why they are there the Maximals find themselves pitched in a life-or-death battle with the evil Vehicons ruthless minions of the Decepticon Megatron. With a war now being waged the Maximals led by the awesome Optimus Primal must free Cybertron from Megatron and restore it to its former glory before all life is doomed. With animals replacing the vehicular forms of the Autobots Transformers: Beast Machines takes the age-old battle to a new level.

• Frasier - Season 6 | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £9.82   |  Saving you £25.17 (256.31%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The sixth season of the hugely popular American sitcom. Episodes comprise: 1. Good Grief 2. Frasier's Curse 3. Dial M For Martin 4. Hot Ticket 5. First Do No Harm 6. Secret Admirer 7. How To Bury A Millionaire 8. The Seal Who Came To Dinner 9. Roz A Loan 10. Merry Christmas Mrs. Moskowitz 11. Good Samaritan 12. Our Parents Ourselves 13. The Show Where Woody Shows Up 14. Three Valentines 15. To Tell The Truth 16. Decoys 17. Dinner Party 18. Taps At The Montana 19. IQ 20. Dr. Nora 21. When A Man Loves Two Women 22. Visions Of Daphne 23. Shutout In Seattle (1) 24. Shutout In Seattle (2)

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Plymouth Express / Wasp's Nest | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Plymouth Express: A train journey ends in tragedy forcing Poirot to instigate an investigation. Wasps' Nest: Poirot visits a garden fete bumping into the son of an old friend and mysterious beautiful girlfriend...

• Let's Go To Prison | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Welcome to the slammer It's time to shower with the crims and gag on prison slop in this uncompromising no-holds-barred comedy about one man's hilarious fight to survive the nick.

• Dark Signal | DVD | (30/05/2016) from £4.77   |  Saving you £11.22 (235.22%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From master of British horror, Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent) comes the terrifying and blood-curdling Dark Signal. Part slasher, part ghost story, Dark Signal creates spine-tingling atmosphere, shocking moments of brutality and jump-out-of-your-seat scares. It's sure to make the staunchest of skeptics sleep with the lights on

• Married... With Children - Season 1 | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Bundys are a stereotypical American family. Al is a shoe salesman who is fond of frequently reliving his doubtful 15 seconds of fame on the football field. Al is terrified of the all-to-frequent amorous advances his ditsy wife Peggy a woman who must spend most of Al's wages at the salon and the mall. They have two children: Kelly the stunning but superficial party animal and Bud who is too wrapped up in himself to realize his goal of 'scoring' with a girl.