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• The Trials Of Life | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Trials of Life started as David Attenborough's most ambitious wildlife project, and ended as something really big. First came Life on Earth (1978), then The Living Planet (1984), but when The Trials of Life (1990) arrived the already epic individual series became "The Life Trilogy", collectively the most impressive documentary achievement in the history of television. Unfortunately the epic has shrunk here, as not only have the credits been removed, but each of the 12 original episodes having been cut from 49 minutes to 28 minutes (though the scene everyone remembers--a whale pursuing its prey right onto the beach--survives). Rather than focus on evolution or geography, the emphasis is on animal behaviour, from courting and mating, to giving birth and raising the young, hunting, flight and fighting, finding shelter, and migration. This immediacy makes The Trials of Life the most accessible of "The Life Trilogy" for younger children, though the abridgement makes it play like a superior schools programme. This short-attention-span version of a television masterpiece simply makes one wish for a fully restored, extra packed special edition of the complete series. David Attenborough would go on to make The Private Life of Plants and The Life of Birds. --Gary S Dalkin On the DVD: The Trials of Life has a good though slightly soft and grainy 4:3 picture that would benefit from remastering from the original elements. The stereo sound is a clear improvement over the originally broadcast mono, but a full 5.1 DTS remix would have brought out the best in the atmospheric natural location recording. The only extra is a 49-minute "making of" documentary, "Once More into the Termite House", originally shown as a companion to the series. Given a DVD all to itself, this programme offers a real insight into the challenges of making such a vast programme, while David Attenborough is as affable as ever. There are optional English and Greek subtitles on all three discs. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Spider's Web | Blu Ray | (18/12/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Spider's Web is a 1960 British murder mystery farce directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring Glynis Johns, John Justin, Peter Butterworth, Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert. An adaptation of the play by Agatha Christie, this classic who done it, set in the traditional country house, follows the appearance and then disappearance of a dead body. The household of Diplomat Henry Hailsham-Brown and wife Clarissa (Glynis Johns) are thrown into turmoil, as each character suspects that another is guilty of the murder and endeavours to cover it up from Police Inspector Lord (Peter Butterworth, star of the Carry On series of British films) who has the unenviable job of unravelling their various ham fisted deceptions and solving the mystery.

• British Drama Film Collection | DVD | (17/07/2017) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A great value triple fillm collection of great British horrror films that includes The Silver Darlings, The System and The Quare Fellow. Stars Oliver Reed, David Hemmings, Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Sym and Hugh Griffith.

• Ivor the Invisible | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One Saturday morning little John wakes up to find an invisible something sitting on the end of his bed. The something seems to be gigantic but John can't work out just how big it is. He tries to measure it but the invisible giant won't let him. When John asks this strange new friend his name the letters IVO appear on his mirror so John decides to call him Ivor. The invisible giant plays tricks on John's mum and dad and gets up to lots of mischief especially when John takes Ivor to the park and school!

• Red Monarch | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a Russia where fear has become the everyday currency Stalin and Beria are the two double acts to end them all. With the Kremlin as their stage and the Politburo as their stooges Stalin signs death warrants while Beria chases women. United by their Georgian heritage and moral depravity they trust each other only as much as they have to. A humorous look at Stalin dictator and family man.

• Mary, Mother Of Jesus | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £19.79   |  Saving you £-17.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The world's greatest story seen from the eyes of the Virgin Mary as she watches her infant son Jesus grow to manhood inspiring the known world with his miracles and teachings on the Word of God. The Angel Gabriel visits the 16 year-old Mary and tells her that she has been chosen to give birth to the Son of God. The child is born in Bethlehem and so begins a very human and touching story of love sacrifice and inspirational faith highlighting a real mother's concern for a son who knows that he must die on the cross so he can be born again.

• Fitzcarraldo | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Werner Herzog's lengthy 1982 fever dream is typical of the director's passion for boundless experience: the story concerns the title character's determination to open a shipping route over the Amazon as well as build an opera house (worthy of Caruso) at a river trading post. Klaus Kinski (star of Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God) plays the visionary/madman with a spooky dignity, and Herzog--as always--thrills to the mystic possibilities of filming where no one else would even think of placing a camera. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Five Disc Collector's Box Set) | DVD | (10/12/2004) from £59.95   |  Saving you £-9.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  As Sauron's evil threatens the whole of Middle-Earth, Frodo and Sam edge nearer to Mount Doom while the Fellowship must defend the human city of Minas Tirith in Peter Jackson's third and final instalment of the Tolkein trilogy.

• Sream 2 | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £7.05   |  Saving you £12.94 (183.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wes Craven once again teams up with Kevin Williamson in this hip fun and relentlessly scary follow-up to the hit thriller Scream! Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) thought she had put the shocking Woodsboro murders behind her until a crazed copycat killer begins acting out a chilling real-life horror sequel on her college campus! As the bodies begin to pile up ambitious reporter Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox) Deputy Dewey (David Arquette) and other Woodsboro survivors find themselves trapped in an all-new nightmare where no one is safe: or above suspicion. Even more terrifying and twistedly funny then the original 'Scream 2' again defies the rules and delivers heartstooping surprises giving you more of what made you scream in the first place!

• The Benchwarmers | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £6.07   |  Saving you £3.92 (64.58%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Three guys try to make up for their un-athletic youth in this new comedy.

• The Will Ferrell Collection | DVD | (05/11/2013) from £16.98   |  Saving you £25.00 (166.78%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) Will Ferrell (Old School, Elf) is Ron Burgundy, a top-rated 1970's San Diego anchorman who believes women have a place in the newsroom - as long as they stick to covering fashion shows or late-breaking cooking stories. So when Ron is told he'll be working with a bright young newswoman (Christina Applegate) who's beautiful, ambitious and smart enough to be more than eye candy, it's not just a clash of two TV people with really ...

• And God Created Woman | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £14.60   |  Saving you £2.65 (19.87%)   |  RRP £15.99

  On The Seventh Day He Got Creative. A beautiful free spirit whose only want is to play Rock 'n' Roll finds her spontaneous style always gets her in trouble. With a smitten politician in one hand and a husband in the other she creates her own rules - then breaks them. Director Roger Vadim's (Barbarella) remake of his 1956 Bardot classic And God Created Woman achieves the right balance between retaining the original eroticism whilst accounting for an independent modern woman's approach to life.

• Bounce | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £8.33   |  Saving you £7.66 (91.96%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ben Affleck is a man who switches plane tickets with another who dies in a plane crash. A year later he seeks out the widow (Gwyneth Paltrow) and begins to fall in love with her..

• The Professionals - Season 4 | DVD | (26/12/2002) from £22.76   |  Saving you £17.23 (75.70%)   |  RRP £39.99

  More episodes from the cult television series starring Lewis Collins Martin Shaw and Gordon Jackson. Episodes include: 'The Acorn Syndrome' 'Wild' 'Need to Know' 'Takeaway' 'Blackout' 'Blood Sports' 'Slush Fund' 'The Gun' 'Hijack' 'Mixed Doubles' 'Weekend in the Country' 'Kickback' and 'It's Only a Beautiful Picture'.

• Inspector Morse - Disc 11 And 12 - The Secret Of Bay 5B / Infernal Serpent | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £4.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (201.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and story lines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep-down sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --Piers Ford

• Puppet Master | DVD | (13/11/2000) from £10.01   |  Saving you £-4.02 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Five psychics hear rumours that the secret of life has been discovered by Andre Toulon a puppeteer and decide to investigate. What they find are five mutated puppets which have been specially designed to kill...

• Dawdle The Donkey - Donkey Tales | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dawdle the Donkey is a pre-school series of charming tales of friendship and discovery written by the creator of the Wombles Elizabeth Beresford and featuring the voices of David Jason and Josie Lawrence with music by Chris De Burgh. This three DVD collection of thirty-three tales stars Dawdle - a strong minded donkey and the leader of the group Rola Polar - a jovial rather lazy bear whose fur pockets are packed full of useful items and Archie - a quiet but very friendly black

• Hot Pursuit | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Cusack stars as Danny an all round nice guy who plans to spend some quality time in the Caribbean with his girlfriend Lori (Wendy Gazelle). But although they've been planning their trip for months it only takes a few minutes for it all to go wrong! To start Danny misses his plane. Then for all his attempts to catch up with Lori he finds himself in ever more bizarre situations. From jailbreaks and jungles to hurricanes and hijacking his only companion is roguish old sea dog Captain MacLaren (Robert Loggia). She promised him ten days together in paradise. He never dreamed how far he'd have to go!

• The Night We Called It A Day | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £6.29   |  Saving you £6.70 (106.52%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A down-on-his-luck Aussie rock promoter secures the coup of his career in this comedy.

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Vol. 4 | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A fourth volume of adventures with those heroes in a half-shell! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Shredder Strikes (Part One) 2. The Shredder Strikes (Part Two) 3. The Unconvincing Turtle Titan