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• Cleopatra 2525 - Vol. 2 - Season 1 : Episodes 7-13 | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One interesting thing about Cleopatra 2525 is that it works far better on video or DVD than as a weekly television show, because the action in the tightly packed half-hour episodes is so fast and furious that you can miss crucial developments in the admittedly simple plots just by nipping into the kitchen to put the kettle on. Furthermore, despite appearances, the scripts do allow for character development, but this has to be delivered in snippets rather than dollops. Far better, then, to settle down with a large pizza and watch the several episodes back to back like this. There's no shortage of humour in this camp post-apocalypse shoot-em-up-fest. Cleopatra is a dippy exotic dancer who suffers complications during surgery for a boob job! Placed in cryogenic suspension until such time as medical science can help her, she wakes up in the year 2525 to find a world seemingly dominated by plot ideas stolen from classic sci-fi movies such as The Terminator--humanity has been driven underground in a world ruled by machines, morphing androids are used as spies etc. etc. etc.--where she's "adopted" by a couple of firm-midriffed female resistance fighters who take their orders from a mysterious voice (called Voice). It's all great fun and the action and effects are excellent (especially the airborne robot thingies). --Roger Thomas

• All Creatures Great And Small - Series 3 | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Episodes Comprise: 1. Plenty to Grouse About 2. Charity Begins at Home 3. Every Dog His Day... 4. Hair of the Dog 5. If Wishes Were Horses 6. Pig in the Middle 7. Be Prepared 8. A Dying Breed 9. Brink of Disaster 10. Home and Away 11. Alarms & Excursions 12. Matters of Life and Death 13. Will to Live 14. Big Steps and Little 'Uns

• Paulie | DVD | (02/07/2006) from £8.83   |  Saving you £9.16 (103.74%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The human beings are almost as interesting as the title character in the surprisingly subtle and engaging Paulie, a film about the cross-country adventures of a smart-mouthed parrot. As director John Roberts deploys the footage, the bird becomes a vivid personality; every quizzical twist of his head is oddly expressive. The people who interact with Paulie are a quirky and interesting bunch as well, and the casting is topnotch: Tony Shalhoub (The Siege) as a Russian immigrant janitor, Cheech Marin as an open-hearted mariachi musician, and Gena Rowlands as a widowed painter in a footloose Winnebago--all are vividly eccentric individuals, memorable in their own right. There are some tired swipes at the cold-blooded meanies of Big Science (beady-eyed researcher Bruce Davison has Paulie clapped in irons), but for the most part the film respects the complexity of everyone's motivations, and that's virtually unheard of in today's Hollywood, even in films supposedly designed for grownups. --David Chute

• 8MM / 8MM 2 | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £12.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  8 MM (1998): Nicholas Cage is Tom Welles a surveillance specialist with a modest home-based business. Respected but still waiting for the big break that will improve his professional status Welles spends most of his time on routine cases. Nothing too dangerous nor too threatening - until a case involving a small innocuous-looking plastic reel of film turns Welles' life upside down sending him down a sordid and terrifying path into society's deepest corners. Drifting away

• The Triangle | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the Bermuda Triangle nothing stays lost forever... From director Brian Singer (X-Men Usual Suspects) and producer Dean Devlin (Stargate Independence Day) comes a stunning new original mini-series courtesy of the Sci-fi Channel. Billionaire Eric Benireall (Sam Neill) is losing his cargo ships and their crews at a frightening pace - and he wants answers. His bemused hand-picked team of a subject-specific experts include: sceptical tabloid journalist Howard

• Crazy / Beautiful | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Kirsten Dunst stars as a wealthy, troubled seventeen year old with a fondness for drinks and drugs. Will her new boyfriend - a poor latino kid with great dreams - help her recover or send her further out of control?

• Ulzana's Raid | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £11.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One man alone understood the savagery of the early American west from both sides and is assigned to aid the US Cavalry in tracking down the notorious Apache warrior Ulzana and his band of renegade Indians...

• All Creatures Great and Small - Series 1, Part 2 | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £8.25   |  Saving you £18.00 (257.51%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based on James Herriot's autobiographical best sellers 'If Only They Could Talk' and 'It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet' the long running TV series 'All Creatures Great and Small' continued to satisfy the Herriot hysteria of the British public.

• All Creatures Great And Small - Christmas Specials | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.72

  Based on James Herriot's autobiographical best sellers If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet the long running TV series All Creatures Great and Small is back with The Christmas Specials!

• A Very Peculiar Practice | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A satirical, surreal and acutely observed comedy-drama from the mid-1980s, A Very Peculiar Practice stars Peter Davison, who, following turns as a vet in All Creatures Great and Small and the Doctor in Doctor Who, here plays naïve Dr Stephen Daker, a profoundly nervous new addition to Lowlands University's medical practice. The distinctly eclectic team he meets is headed by the compassionate, incompetent, alcoholic and suicidal "Jock" McCannon (the gloriously theatrical Graham Crowden). Barbara Flynn is marvellous as the manipulative bisexual Dr Rose Marie, and David Troughton as Dr Bob Buzzard personifies the "greed-is-good" ethos of the era. The seven 50-minute episodes here form an overall arc following Daker from sheer terror through romance with behavioural psychologist Lyn Turtle (Amanda Hillwood), to ethical conflict with the sociopathic vice-chancellor (played with relish by John Bird). Increasingly surreal (from strange nuns to stranger dream sequences--the second, even better series was more bizarre still), the series launches an acidic assault on the Thatcherite asset-stripping mentality that was then laying waste not just British universities, but the entire nation. Written with an acute irony by Andrew Davies, whose move into more mainstream adaptations such as Pride and Prejudice (1995) was contemporary TV drama's greatest loss, A Very Peculiar Practice is a television landmark that, alongside The Singing Detective and Edge of Darkness, marks 1986 as one of the finest years in the history of the medium. --Gary S Dalkin

• Knight Rider (2008) Season 1 | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £25.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (39.96%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Knight Rider: Season 1 (2008) (4 Disc)

• Desperate Justice | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A harrowing, if limited, 1993 thriller, Desperate Justice stars Lesley Ann Warren as Carol, a mother whose young daughter is raped by the caretaker of her school and left in a coma. The culprit is quickly rounded up; however, the case against him is dismissed for lack of rock-solid evidence. In a moment of blind fear and rage, Carol metes out summary justice of her own--and must face up to the consequences. Desperate Justice is suitably restrained in dealing with the violence central to its subject matter. While competently enough scripted and acted to retain the viewer's interest and sympathy, it has a slightly fuzzy, sucrose feel about it that acts as a general anaesthetic against the inevitably disturbing subject matter. The final scenes in particular achieve a tidy, somewhat predictable sense of "closure" so beloved by Americans. Despite its made-for-TV air, Desperate Justice has just enough about it to ensure a passable late night 90 minutes over a mug of Horlicks. On the DVD: This is not the sort of movie that was ever designed to benefit from DVD enhancement. Picture format is 4:3. As well as trailers, there are included here items entitled "About the film" and "About the stars", which turn out to be perfunctory text-only blurbs. --David Stubbs

• Black Beauty | DVD | (27/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Black Beauty,a film centering on a 15 year-old girl who volunteers at a city pound, and convinces her Grandfather in the country to adopt a horse that was rescued from an abusive owner. They spend the summer rehabilitating Black Beauty.

• All Creatures Great And Small: Series 4-7 | DVD | (21/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All the episodes from the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh series of the British drama which follows events at James Herriot (Christopher Timothy)'s rural veterinary practice in the Yorkshire Dales. Series 4 episodes are: 'One of Nature's Little Miracles', 'Barks and Bites', 'The Bull With the Bowler Hat', 'The Pig Man Cometh', 'Hail Caesar!', 'Only One Woof', 'Ace, King, Queen, Jack', '...The Healing Touch', 'City Slicker' and 'For Richer, for Poorer'. Season 5 episodes are: 'Against the Odds', 'Place of Honour', 'Choose a Bright Morning', 'The Playing Field', 'When Dreams Come True', 'A New Chapter', 'A Present from Dublin', 'The Salt of the Earth', 'Cheques and Balances', 'The Female of the Species', 'The Jackpot' and 'Two of a Kind'. Series 6 episodes are: 'Here and There', 'The Course of True Love', 'The Call of the Wild', 'The Nelson Touch', 'Blood and Water', 'Where Sheep May Safely Graze', 'The New World', 'Mending Fences', 'Big Fish, Little Fish', 'In Whom We Trust', 'The Rough and the Smooth' and 'The Best Time'. Season 7 episodes are: 'The Prodigal Returns', 'Knowin' How to Do It', 'If Music Be the Food of Love', 'A Friend for Life', 'Spring Fever', 'Out With the New', 'Food for Thought', 'A Cat in Hull's Chance', 'A Grand Memory for Forgetting', 'Old Dogs, New Tricks', 'Hampered', 'Promises to Keep' and 'Brotherly Love'.

• The Christmas Miracle | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £4.69   |  Saving you £5.30 (53.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Starring KC Clyde, Bruce Davison and Kari Hawker

• Runaway Jury | Blu Ray | (27/05/2013) from £14.83   |  Saving you £-1.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From master storyteller John Grisham and the director of Don't Say a Word comes a taut suspense-thriller that 'grabs hold of you and never lets go' (Philadelphia Metro). In their first film together screen legends Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman face off in this electrifying nail-biter about a ruthless jury consultant (Hackman) who'll do anything to win. With lives and millions of dollars at stake the fixer plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a jury member (John Cusack) and a mysterious woman (Rachel Weisz) who offers to 'deliver' the verdict to the highest bidder. Packed with danger intrigue and pulse pounding twists and turns Runaway Jury rules! Special Features: Commentary with Director Gary Fleder 2 Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Director Gary Fledor Selected Scene Commentary x2 Exploring the Scene: Hackman and Hoffman together Off the Cuff: Hackman and Hoffman The Ensemble: Acting The Making of Runaway Jury Shadow and Light: Cinematography A Vision of New Orleans: Production Design Rhythm: The Craft of Editing

• Cleopatra 2525 - Series 1 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The year is 2525 and the world has been turned upside down. Monstrous airborne machines known as Baileys have taken over the surface of the earth and driven the people underground. While most of humanity has abandoned hope of ever reclaiming the surface of the earth there are those who remain fiercely committed to the cause. Among these brave souls are the female warriors Hel and Sarge. They are joined by Cleopatra a 21st Century girl who wakes up 500 years after being cryogenically frozen. They are united in the most courageous of quests: to restore humanity to its rightful place on the planet! Episode titles: Quest For Firepower Creegan Flying Lessons Mind Games Home/Rescue Run Cleo Run Choices.

• Too Good To Be True | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A divorced womans ex-husband becomes obsessed with her when she moves in with a new man...

• Doctor Who - The Five Doctors | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £6.22   |  Saving you £13.77 (221.38%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Yes, The Five Doctors is the one that gathers together Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Baker and Davison, dumps them on some moorland and lets some of the Doctor's greatest enemies take potshots at them. Except, of course, that William Hartnell had sadly passed on by the time this series was made in 1983 (although his replacement Richard Hurndall does an excellent job) and Tom Baker was only featured as a patched-in cameo, apparently prevented from joining in by a temporal thingummy. However, this kind of creakiness comes with the territory and is soon forgotten. The assorted incarnations of the Doctor (together with a scattering of assistants) are drawn together through time and space to battle Daleks, Cybermen, Yeti--those weird androids which keep jumping into the air and disappearing--and many other old foes. They realise that they're on their home planet of Gallifrey and must eventually deal with the legacy of Rassilon, founder of the Time Lords. It's all great fun, of course, and the excellent chapter points on this DVD compensate for the rather self-indulgent lack of editing. --Roger Thomas

• Sink or Swim: The Complete Series | DVD | (10/10/2016) from £16.92   |  Saving you £18.07 (106.80%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Peter Davison headlines this well-remembered BBC sitcom, starring alongside BAFTA-winning Hustle stalwart Robert Glenister in his TV debut. They play brothers Brian and Steve Webber, whose attempt to strike out in business involves a soggy narrowboat and a dubious decision to ply the Thameside tourist trade. Unfortunately, Steve is as loutish and lazy as Brian is charming and ambitious and the latter finds both his enthusiasm and his relationship with idealistic girlfriend Sonia severely hampered by his brother's persistent presence! Scripted by Alex Shearer, creator of The Two of Us, Sink or Swim is a much-sought-after comedy. This set contains all three series.