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• Father Ted - The Complete 1st Series | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £13.54   |  Saving you £6.45 (32.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From its very beginning in 1995, Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews' affable sitcom Father Ted occupied a previously undiscovered niche in TV comedy: by turns endearing and surreal, it was always effortlessly hilarious. Ted's the almost normal one, fighting the good fight to keep his sanity amid the chaos of his own household, where he lives with "poor idiot boy" Father Dougal, psychotically devoted housekeeper Mrs Doyle and foul-mouthed Father Jack, who doesn't need an excuse to hit the bottle (or smash one over someone's head) in any episode and whose vocabulary consists of just three immortal words: "Drink, Feck, Girls!"The first series opens with "Good Luck, Father Ted" as we learn just how dreary life on Craggy Island really is when Funland arrives (which boasts such attractions as Freak Pointing and the Spinning Cat!). Everyone's patience is tested further when "Entertaining Father Stone"--quite possibly the most boring man on Earth--in the second episode. Proving bad publicity can be good publicity, Ted and Dougal then accidentally manage to attract audiences to the blasphemous film "The Passion of St Tibulus". Their ingenuity is tested to the limit in "Competition Time" as they become "The Three Ages of Elvis". Dermot Morgan's Ted is at his most sympathetic in "And God Created Women" when he gets the wrong end of the stick about the intentions of romantic novelist Polly Clarke. Then, lastly, in " Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest", everyone rallies round at Father Jack's "funeral" to reminisce about what a fine priest and good-natured fellow he was! These six episodes made for a wonderful series debut; catchphrases were born ("Drink!"), as were regular characters (Jim Norton's sinister Bishop Brennan); and like Mrs Doyle's ever-wandering facial mole, audiences wanted it to "go on go on go on".On the DVD: the only extra is an exceedingly self-deprecatory commentary from co-writer Graham Linehan, who explains the origins of the characters and how he wrote in collaboration with Arthur Matthews. He frequently and hilariously compares himself with others (chiefly Mel Brooks on Young Frankensteinand The Producers). Fans will be delighted to hear many jokes that nearly made it into the show, but will undoubtedly end up somewhere else! --Paul Tonks

• Sleepless | DVD | (11/09/2017) from £3.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs (Jamie Foxx) finds himself caught in a high-stakes web of corrupt cops, internal affairs and murderous gangsters. When a failed heist leads to the kidnapping of his teenage son (Octavius J. Johnson), Downs must race against time during a wild and restless night to save him and bring the criminals to justice.

• Absolute Power - Series 1 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £7.23   |  Saving you £12.76 (176.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stephen Fry and John Bird star as spin doctors Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe bringing the popular and satirical Radio 4 comedy Absolute Power to BBC 2. Written by media commentator Mark Lawson writers Andy Rattenbury (Teachers) and Guy Andrews (Chancer) Absolute Power casts a witty and acerbic eye on the machinations of PR gurus and does for the PR industry what Drop The Dead Donkey did for the newsroom. Stephen as Prentiss and John as McCabe are a

• Insidious 3 | DVD | (12/10/2015) from £6.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (208.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This prequel, set before the haunting of the Lambert family, reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

• Father Ted - The Definitive Collection Box Set | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Father Ted is one of those rare sitcoms that defies categorisation--it owes as much to Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett as it does to Monty Python--and its blend of satire, character comedy and anarchic surrealism has made it a cult favourite around the world. Exiled to remote Craggy Island, Father Ted shares a house with the breathtakingly stupid Father Dougal Maguire and the constantly inebriated Father Jack, who has a small vocabulary and a taste for furniture polish. Their housekeeper, Mrs Doyle, takes care of them with a never-ending supply of tea and sandwiches: "Go on now, Father, won't you try one? They're diagonal." Together they fight boredom by dressing up as Elvis, startling ducks at the fair and provoking nuns. --Simon Leake

• Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Surprises | DVD | (12/11/2018) from £4.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (122.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Christmas is a time for rest and relaxation - except in the Brown household! The Brown family return for another TWO CHRISTMAS SPECIALS packed with madness and of course the love of family at Christmas. Mammy's Mummy Agnes is worried about Rory, who is undergoing plastic surgery. What will he look like when the bandages finally come off? Cathy has a new date with a handsome man she met on the internet, but Agnes is worried about whether he will measure up in real life. Meanwhile, Grandpa thinks the house is haunted... Buster Brady has deli delivered Agnes a magical new Christmas tree, which he got at a clearance sale. It's coin-operated, although Buster has said not to put any coins into it. Will Agnes be able to resist temptation? CSI: Mammy When a crime wave hits Finglas, the garda prompts Father Damien and Maria to put together a neighbourhood watch scheme. Agnes and Winnie promptly sign up, but are they really the best people to tackle crime in the area? After Cathy goes on yet another disastrous date, Agnes is determined to put Cathy's man troubles to rest once and for all. Although when they say it's good to 'air your problems', they probably don't mean literally. Meanwhile, Betty and Mark lock horns over whether Bono should go to his school disco.

• Mrs Brown's Boys - Series 1 | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the sell out theatre show Mrs Brown's Boys is written by and stars comedian Brendan O'Carroll as Agnes Brown a Dublin matriarch who just can't resist interfering in the lives of her family and friends.

• Mrs. Brown's Boys - All Round to Mrs. Brown's | DVD | (16/10/2017) from £7.29   |  Saving you £-2.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.49

  Everyone's favourite mammy, Mrs Brown, opens the doors to her house for a brand new entertainment show, All Round to Mrs Brown's. Agnes and the family are joined by celebrity guests, including Pamela Anderson, Judy Murray, Louis Walsh and lots of audience shenanigans. Fasten your seatbelts! Over 30 minutes on bonus content including: Chef Aly's Top Tips and hilarious unseen 'Too rude for TV' clips from the show.

• Insidious 3 | Blu Ray | (12/10/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (187.74%)   |  RRP £22.99

  This prequel, set before the haunting of the Lambert family, reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

• The Grey | Blu Ray | (21/05/2012) from £7.12   |  Saving you £17.87 (250.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The plane crashes (boy, does it crash) in the remote Alaskan nowhere, and the rough-and-tumble oil wildcatters who survive must fight their way to safety. That in itself might be enough from which The Grey could fashion a suspenseful thrill-ride, but the movie has one more ace up its sleeve. Wolves! A pack of them, starving and considerably irritated that these outsiders have blundered into their territory. And while it is true that most real-world wolves are hardly man-eaters, director Joe Carnahan and cowriter Ian Mackenzie Jeffers are really not all that interested in reality. Despite some hair-raising moments and a healthy spattering of gore, The Grey is an existential action picture, and the wolves function only as all-purpose predator (being computer-generated, they never really look real anyway). What's really at stake are the souls of these men--how they get along together, and how they face death. Yes, there is always something faintly absurd hanging around this movie; it's like a Jack London story adapted by Luc Besson. But out of its pulpy mash, Carnahan extracts something gutsy. It certainly helps that he's got the mighty Liam Neeson on board as the most capable of the survivors; Neeson exudes the kind of authority that the average action hero can only play-act. Dallas Roberts and Dermot Mulroney add colour, and Frank Grillo jumps off the screen as the most belligerent of the desperate crew. It's possible for a movie to have an absurd premise yet carve something unexpectedly philosophical out of that: The Incredible Shrinking Man and Rise of the Planet of the Apes come to mind. Add this one to that oddball list. --Robert Horton

• Mrs Brown's Boys - Series 2 | Blu Ray | (08/10/2012) from £10.78   |  Saving you £14.21 (131.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The nation's mother of comedy returns for a second, more outrageous & hilarious, series. TV's funniest and proudest mother, Agnes Brown, is back with the second series of her hit BBC comedy show. Mrs Brown, the loveable Dublin matriarch, continues her quest to meddle and interfere in the lives of her long suffering 6 children, with even more shocking and hilarious consequences.The nation's most endearing mother hen promises to be a little bit ruder, a little bit cruder and even more fun in this second series.Thought you'd seen Mrs Brown at her most outrageous in series one? Well you ain't seen nothing yet!!

• Father Ted - Series 3 | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £9.20   |  Saving you £10.79 (117.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This set contains the final series of Father Ted, which ended abruptly in 1998 with the death of its talented comic star, Dermot Morgan. The eight episodes here are a little uneven, but the best stuff is classic, laugh-out-loud satire, including "Are You Right There, Father Ted", in which Morgan's titular Catholic priest is re-banished to Ireland's Craggy Island, a green rock replete with paranoid sheep, randy milkmen, Nazi memorabilia collectors and an inexplicably large community of Chinese immigrants. Outstanding, too, is "Speed 3", in which Ted discovers that a number of babies recently born on Craggy all look like a self-made swinger named Pat Mustard. "Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse" speaks for itself, and "The Mainland" gives supporting actor Ardal O'Hanlon (as idiotic fellow cleric Dougal) a great showcase. --Tom Keogh

• Father Ted - Series 2 - Part 1 | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Father Ted was granted a full 10 episodes for its second series after the enormous success of the original six. Series 2, episodes 1 to 5, offers the first half of the season plus the bonus of the 1996 Christmas Special. The Craggy Island parochial house regulars go straight to "Hell" for the most unbearable caravan holiday. Here Graham Norton makes his first appearance as the excruciatingly enthusiastic Father Noel. Then in a leftover script from series one, "Think Fast, Father Ted" has them attempt to rig a raffle at which some Kraftwerk-inspired priests and the record "Ghost Town" are the only entertainment. Their payback is to be the patsies in a rigged "Song For Europe", offering their version of "My Lovely Horse". Ted, Dougal and Jack manage to ensnare the lives of one bishop each into their "Tentacles of Doom" when the Holy Stone of Clonrichert is blessed with an upgrade to holy status. There's not much holy going on when Father "Damo" appears to teach Dougal all manner of bad habits in "The Old Grey Whistle Theft". Finally "A Christmassy Ted" sees seven priests lost in Ireland's largest lingerie store and Father Tod Unctious trying to steal Ted's Golden Cleric Award with reference to Mission: Impossible. The second series' wonderful parallel universe more than equals that of the first. On the DVD: From an animated menu fashioned around Mrs Doyle, the only extra is a full-length commentary from co-writer Graham Linehan. As with the previous disc, he's constantly telling jokes and then retracting them along with offering fascinating insights into cameos and dancing auditions. Linehan promises to be more experimental in future commentaries. The picture is naturally in its original 4:3 broadcast ratio. --Paul Tonks

• Mrs Brown's Boys: Very Merry Christmas Bundle | DVD | (08/11/2021) from £26.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Celebrate the Christmas cheer with everyone's favourite Mammy and her family. The Very Merry Christmas Bundle features all 19 festive episodes packed with fun, shenanigans and a stocking full of laughs! Episodes Included: Mammy of the People Mammy's Memories? A Wonderful Mammy Orange is the New Mammy Exotic Mammy Mammy's Motel Mammy's Ass Mammy's Christmas The Virgin Mammy Buckin' Mammy Who's a Pretty Mammy? Mammy's Tickled Pink Mammy's Gamble Mammy's Christmas Punch Mammy's Widow's Memories Mammy's Forest Chez Mammy Mammy's Mummy CSI: Mammy

• Young Guns / Young Guns II | DVD | (06/08/2021) from £14.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Georgia Rule | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Exasperated with her rebellious daughter, a woman sends the teen to Idaho to live with her own stern mother.

• Big Miracle | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £3.40   |  Saving you £12.59 (370.29%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A small town newspaper reporter writes about three California gray whales trapped in the Arctic Circle.

• Luther - Series 4 | Blu Ray | (04/01/2016) from £13.65   |  Saving you £11.34 (83.08%)   |  RRP £24.99

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• Northpole Double Set | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £11.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Double bill of festive family adventures directed by Douglas Barr. In 'Northpole' (2014) the magical land where Santa Claus (Robert Wagner) lives is powered by the festive spirit generated by people around the world. However, as modern life takes over and people have less time to spend with their families over Christmas, Northpole is rapidly losing power and so it is left to one young boy, Kevin (Max Charles), to convince his family to save Christmas. In 'Northpole - Open for Christmas' (2015) Mackenzie Warren (Lori Loughlin) hopes to sell The Northern Lights Inn that she has inherited from her late aunt, and enlists the help of handyman Ian (Dermot Mulroney) to fix up the place. Ian and his daughter are charmed by the inn but can't revive Mackenzie's childhood love for the building. But Santa needs the inn to survive so he sends Clementine the elf (Bailee Madison) to restore Mackenzie's holiday cheer. Can they all work their magic on her and save the inn?

• A Christmas Star | DVD | (23/11/2015) from £6.59   |  Saving you £11.40 (172.99%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The feel-good family film of the year: Spreading a truly special Christmas message This Christmas, prepare to believe in miracles as Belfast-based children's charity Cinemagic and Signature Entertainment present A Christmas Star, released in UK cinemas nationwide from 13th November 2015. A host of film and television professionals join forces to tell the truly magical and heartwarming story of a spirited young girl who charms her entire village, The highly anticipated Christmas family film stars newcomer Erin Galway-Kendrick along with an ensemble supporting cast that includes Pierce Brosnan (Tomorrow Never Dies, Die Another Day, The World Is Not Enough), Suranne Jones (Coronation Street, Scott & Bailey, Lawless), Robert James Collier (Downton Abbey, Coronation Street, Mercenaries), Bronagh Waugh (Hollyoaks, The Fall), Richard Clements (A Belfast Story). The film is narrated by Liam Neeson (Taken) and it features a cameo from Kylie Minogue (Moulin Rouge!) and guest appearance from Dermot O'Leary (The X Factor). Set in the picturesque village of Pottersglen in Northern Ireland, A Christmas Star follows a young and spirited Noelle who, born in dramatic circumstances under the Christmas Star, believes she has the gift to perform strange miracles. When conniving developer McKerrod threatens her peaceful life she teams up with a misfit gang of local kids to save the village from demolition. But one by one her friends lose faith in Noelle's abilities and she is left to fight McKerrod on her own. The town's future hinges on a final showdown in Belfast's historic Stormont building as Noelle implores politicians, her friends and the watching world to believe in the true meaning of Christmas love.