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• Young Sheldon: Season 1 | Blu Ray | (03/09/2018) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory

• Young Sheldon: Season 1 | DVD | (03/09/2018) from £10.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (36.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.

• The Last Bus | DVD | (08/11/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  John O'Groats, Scotland: An elderly man, Tom (Spall), whose wife has just passed away uses only local buses on a nostalgic trip to carry her ashes all the way across the UK to Land's End, where they originally met, using his free bus pass. Unbeknownst to Tom, his journey begins to capture the imagination of the local people that he comes across and, ultimately, becomes a nationwide story.

• Plunkett And Macleane | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £10.43   |  Saving you £-0.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  No-one will be neutral about Plunkett and Macleane. Either you go with its notion of cheeky, stylish fun or you want to grab first-time director Jake Scott by the ear and slap him silly. Your inclination may depend on whether you recall his dad Ridley's own directing debut, The Duellists (1977), and savour the correspondences. Dad took a Joseph Conrad tale of the Napoleonic Wars, cast it with the ultra-contemporary Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel, and filmed it with a swooping, mobile camera. Son Jake has made a feisty period piece about a pair of thieves (Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller) in 1748 London and filled it with blatant anachronisms. A decadent aristo (Alan Cumming), asked whether he "still swings both ways," replies, "I swing every way!" A ballroom full of revellers dances the minuet (or is it the gavotte?) while our ears--if not theirs--are filled with a trance ballad. And so forth. Is this sophomoric? Maybe. But it's also often fresh and inventive. Why shouldn't a filmmaker be allowed to speak directly to a contemporary consciousness, even flaunt it, as long as he also delivers startling imagery and convincing period detail? The solid cast includes Michael Gambon as a corrupt magistrate, Ken Stott as a very nasty enforcer named Mr Chance (who favours a thumb through the eye socket and into the brain as a mode of execution) and Terence Rigby as a philosophical jailer. Even Liv Tyler looks more interesting than usual. In the end pretty frivolous, Plunkett and Macleane is nonetheless a lively debut. --Richard T Jameson, Amazon.com

• Tom Browns Schooldays (Multi-region DVD) | DVD | (26/03/2018) from £15.24   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tom Brown's Schooldays, based on the classic novel set in the Victorian era. In this five-episode miniseries broadcast on BBC 1 young Tom Brown (Anthony Murphy) leaves home for Rugby, a well-respected school in decline. His arrival coincides with the appointment of a new headmaster, Dr. Arnold (Iain Cuthbertson), who aspires to reform the school by stamping out bullying, drunkenness, and bigotry. Tom's struggle is more personal: Before his arrival, he offended a wealthy but corrupt man who commissions his equally dissolute son Gerald (Richard Morant), a senior student at Rugby, to make Tom's life miserable. Gerald schemes with relish, finally catching Tom in a trap that threatens to break the forthright boy's spirit. The story could be pure melodrama were it not for the vivid details of life in a boarding school. As the plot moves this way and that, it's always kept real by the hardships of the time (boys sleep five to a bed, younger boys act as servants to older ones), making Tom Brown's Schooldays a keen social critique as well as an engaging story. There are some inspired performances; Too often a virtuous hero is a recipe for blandness, but the insightful script makes Tom clever but fallible and he refuses to mistreat those less privileged out of conscious choice, not because of some immutable goodness--the character (and the story) is more compelling as a result.

• Classic Children's Films - Swallows and Amazons/The Railway Children | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £8.45   |  Saving you £9.54 (112.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Railway Children: Three Edwardian children travel with their mother to live by a railway in Yorkshire when their father is wrongly imprisoned as a spy. Based on the novel by Edith Nesbit. (Dir. Lionel Jeffries 1971) Swallows And Amazons: Six young children experience a holiday in the Lake District during the peaceful summer of 1929.... Based on the novel by Arthur Ransome. (Dir. Claude Whatham 1974)

• The Parole Officer | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £5.75   |  Saving you £4.24 (73.74%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Steve Coogan (TV's Alan Partridge) stars in this comedy about a hapless parole officer who finds himself being set up by a crooked police chief. The only way out is to set up a heist, with help from some reluctant ex-cons.

• Muirhouse | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As part of the promotion campaign for his new book on supernatural phenomena an author had to spend a night in one of the world's most haunted houses and film what he discovers there. By the morning three people were dead and the author was found by police covered in blood. His camera is the only record of the shocking events of the night before. Shot in a real life haunted house the film claims to show real paranormal activity. Will have you jumping out of your socks (The Examiner) You'll really believe in the beyond by the time the end credits roll (Fangoria) Special Features: Trailer Behind the Scenes Director's Commentary Lead Actor's Commentary

• Small Faces | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the inner city ganglands of 1960's Glasgow urban decay is rife territory is all and woe betide those who break the boundaries. On one side the Glens led by the suavely sinister Charlie (Garry Sweeney) and on the other the Tongs headed by mental Malky (Kevin McKidd). In between are the brothers Maclean. When the youngest Lex (Iain Robertson) a thirteen-year-old with ideas above his station inadvertently shoots Malky in the face with an air-pistol the brothers become irreversibly embroiled in a gang war beyond their control.

• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) (2 Discs - UHD & BD) | Blu Ray | (13/09/2021) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The third chapter of the hugely successful Resident Evil franchise! This action-packed horror film is set in the Nevada desert and filled with intense special effects and more zombie terror! Las Vegas means fun in the sun. Well? At least the sun is still there. Except for a few rusting landmarks, it looks pretty much like the rest of the desert or the whole country, for that matter. The crowds are now flesh-eating zombies: the mass undead, the oozing, terrifying sludge of what remains. Here, the newly upgraded Alice, along with her crew (Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Ali Larter, Ashanti) will make a final stand against evil with one goal: to turn the undead dead again.

• M.R. James - Casting The Runes | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  M.R. James: Casting The Runes

• Gorillas In The Mist | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (100.43%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Sigourney Weaver more than earned her Oscar nomination for Best Actress in Gorillas in the Mist, dominating every frame of Michael Apted's biopic about primatologist Dian Fossey. Tenderly mothering an orphaned gorilla infant or terrorising an African poacher with a staged lynching, the statuesque star is never less than fiercely focused, a glamorous warrior for animal rights. As the amateur scientist who researched and spotlighted Rwanda's endangered mountain gorillas in National Geographic, Weaver is the passionate heart that keeps an otherwise flaccid film alive. Unfortunately, the film's stodgy script and direction simply document Fossey's magnificent obsession, offering no insight into what lonely impulse of the soul led this extraordinary woman to climb up an African mountain to bond so strongly with gorillas. Cardboard characters include an eternally smiling, sexless African soulmate (John Omirah Miluwi), a perfect boyfriend (Bryan Brown) who has to be dumped in favour of gorilla-love, and stereotypical villains. Still, the African scenery is spectacular, and who can resist the cross-species thrill when the huge dark hand of Digit, Fossey's favourite, first rests in her outstretched palm? Gorillas in the Mist will please those who savour Sigourney Weaver's Amazonian fervour and the pure fire of her physical and spiritual passion--and harbour a slightly misanthropic fondness for liaisons between beauties and beasts. --Kathleen Murphy

• Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 2 (Limited Edition Digipack) | Blu Ray | (19/10/2015) from £8.39   |  Saving you £11.60 (138.26%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The second season of the action drama spin-off from 'Marvel Avengers Assemble' (2012). Clark Gregg reprises his role from the film as Agent Phil Coulsen, who runs an elite team for the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. Together these agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. must investigate and hunt down strange occurences posed by new threats and a rising number of supervillains. The episodes are: 'Shadows', 'Heavy Is the Head', 'Making Friends and Influencing People', 'Face My Enemy', 'A Hen in the Wolf House', 'The Writing On the Wall', 'The Things We Bury', '...Ye Who Enter Here', 'What They Become', 'Aftershocks', 'Who You Really Are', 'One of Us', 'Love in the Time of Hydra', 'One Door Closes', 'Afterlife', 'Melinda', 'The Frenemy of My Enemy', 'The Dirty Half Dozen', 'Scars' and 'S.O.S.'.

• Marvel's Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 3 | Blu Ray | (30/01/2017) from £17.99   |  Saving you £2.20 (12.23%)   |  RRP £20.19

  Gear up for explosive action and mind-blowing adventure when Hydra's ancient origins and ultimate agenda are revealed in the epic, game-changing third season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The survival of mankind hangs in the balance as Director Phil Coulson and his Agents battle an otherworldly evil. Devastated by the apparent loss of Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz risks everything to rescue her. Agent May rejoins the teamonly to discover a terrible truth about her ex-husband, Dr. Andrew Garner. Meanwhile, after the release of Terrigen, the U.S. government creates the ATCU (Advanced Threat Containment Unit) to monitor emerging Inhumans. But the program is actually a smoke screen for the sinister machinations of Hydra's leader Gideon Malick, who joins forces with treacherous ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Grant Ward. The resulting carnage spurs Coulson to exact a revenge that will ultimately backfire, unleashing apocalyptic consequences in the form of a terrifying alien entity known as Hive. To help combat this threat, Agent Daisy Johnson organizes a small band of Inhuman Secret Warriors, not knowing that she will soon meet her match and once again be forced to make a heartbreaking sacrifice. Experience all 22 thrilling episodes plus captivating bonus features with this must-own boxed set: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The Complete Third Season.

• Song For A Raggy Boy | DVD | (22/04/2024) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Acid House | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £7.10   |  Saving you £2.89 (40.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In The Acid House director Paul McGuigan adapts three Irvine Welsh short stories. These are set in an unflinchingly depicted world of grey, breeze block tenements, wiry psychos, short leather skirts, beer, fags and drugs, kinky sex in badly wallpapered lounges, random violence, hideous-looking babies, raves, footy, discarded crisp packets and barely intelligible dialogue featuring the occasional use of non-profanity."The Granton Star Clause" tells the unhappy tale of wee, pasty-faced Boab Doyle, who in one long, unhappy sequence loses his place in the football team, his girlfriend, his job and gets kicked out of the house by his parents, before an encounter with God (here, a hard-bitten, lager-quaffing Maurice Roeves) leads to a surreal, Kafka-esque conclusion. The second tale, "A Soft Touch", is gruellingly and well portrayed but pointlessly depressing. Kevin McKidd plays Johnny, a supermarket employee with an appalling slag-hag of a girlfriend who takes up with his new, violently psychotic and parasitical neighbour Larry. Will he stand up for himself? The answer will leave you thoroughly unsatisfied. Finally, there's "The Acid House", the funniest but silliest of the three tales in which Ewan Bremner plays an obnoxiously livewire Hibs fan who takes one too many tabs and ends up being transported into the mind of stereotypically middle-class couple's--Martin Clunes and Jemma Redgrave--baby. The Acid House is compulsive but bleak, exhilarating but ambivalent. The viewer is asked to bring their own moral compass to these stylised yet non-judgemental episodes. Fans of Trainspotting, however, will certainly find much of the scintillating same here.On the DVD: disappointingly, only the trailer is featured here. However, the DVD transfer in letterbox format is impeccable, used to its best advantage in the more surreal, fast-cut music video-style sequences, while the soundtrack, featuring The Verve and Primal Scream among others, also benefits. --David Stubbs

• Classic Taggart - The Mark McManus Collection | DVD | (20/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This unforgettable collection includes seven vintage episode starring Mark McManus, the actor who remains synonymous with DCI Jim Taggart. So sit back and enjoy 15 hours of Taggart at its very best. They just don't make them like this anymore.

• Filth | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £5.54   |  Saving you £14.45 (260.83%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy), a corrupt policeman, is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Enlisted to solve a brutal murder and threatened by the aspirations of his colleagues, he sets about ensuring their ruin.

• Wives And Daughters | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Andrew Davies' 1999 adaptation of Mrs Gaskell's Wives and Daughters was hailed as the rediscovery of a "forgotten" classic novel and found the BBC on the crest of a wave with costume dramas--led by Pride and Prejudice. Handsome and beautifully filmed, if anything, it surpassed the quality of even that highly praised landmark production. "We should all look pretty strange under a microscope," botanist Robert Hamley tells our heroine Molly Gibson and of course Mrs Gaskell places all her characters under intense scrutiny, with affection but without judgement. Davies' screenplay peals back the layers, giving full vent to the comedy, tragedy and satire that drive this tale of provincial life to its highly satisfactory conclusion. Justine Waddell imbues Molly with an increasingly exasperated but remarkably forbearing intelligence, while Francesca Annis, as the outrageously self-absorbed step-mother Hyacinth, paints a wonderful portrait of affectation without ever totally alienating our sympathy. Michael Gambon's immensely touching Squire Hamley won him a Best Actor BAFTA, but all the performances are uniformly excellent, contributing immeasurably to five hours of television drama of the highest calibre. On the DVD: Presented in 16:9 format with a Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack, this two-disc presentation retains all the hallmarks of the original BBC viewing experience. The picture quality is lush--the production lighting is excellent--and the sound quality sharp. The only gripe is with the extras: the Omnibus documentary "Who the Dickens is Mrs Gaskell?" is brutally truncated, cutting off talking heads like novelists Fay Weldon and Margaret Drabble in their prime and giving limited insight into how the production was made. As an audio bonus, there is also 30 minutes of John Keane's music.--Piers Ford

• Prisoners' Wives | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £8.80   |  Saving you £11.19 (56.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Prisoner’s Wives tells the stories of four women; Gemma, Francesca, Harriet & Lou whose lives become entwined as they all struggle to cope on the ‘outside’ whilst their men do time ‘inside’. It is a show about a group of women defined by the absence of men in their lives, but more importantly their relationships with each other. From the innocent mother-to-be who was unaware that her husband was a murderer, to the sophisticated and complicit career-criminal's wife; these women couldn't be more different, yet the situation they share brings them together.