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• Without A Trace - Season 1 | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £11.99   |  Saving you £52.00 (520.52%)   |  RRP £61.99

  It has not taken long for Without a Trace to emerge from the shadows of CSI and become a ratings force in its own right. Jerry Bruckheimer produced both series, and both feature the-face-is-familiar character actors with extensive and diverse resumes who have been catapulted to primetime stardom. Jack Malone, head of a crack FBI missing persons unit, is the Australian-born Anthony LaPaglia's breakout role after years of portraying enough Italian mobsters and criminals to populate a season of The Sopranos. LaPaglia was a surprise Golden Globe Award-winner for this inaugural season. Without a Trace is instantly arresting. "The clock is ticking" in each episode, as Malone and company race against time to find a missing person. "After 48 hours," Malone explains to the rookie member of the team in the series pilot, "they're gone." To solve each baffling case, Malone and fellow agents Samantha Spade (Poppy Montgomery), Vivian Johnson (Marianne Jean-Baptiste of Secrets and Lies), Danny Taylor (Enrique Murciano), and new guy Martin Fitzgerald (Eric Close), must work from the inside out. "Once we find out who she is," Malone says of one victim, "odds are we'll find out where she is." Among the inaugural season's most wrenching episodes are "Between the Cracks" and "Hang On to Me," both featuring Charles Dutton in his Emmy Award-winning performance as a father whose son has been missing for five years. The powerful season finale, "Fallout," presented in this four-disc set in a "creator's cut," concerns a man who lost his wife in the 9/11 attacks. The riveting episodes mostly stand alone, but some cases do return to haunt Malone, as witness "In Extremis," a case that ends tragically and leads to an internal investigation that threatens to subvert the close-knit unit in the episode. "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?" Sharp writing, authentic procedurals, taut direction, and effective use of music make Without a Tracea series worth finding on DVD. --Donald Liebenson

• The Last Seduction | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £15.97   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Linda Fiorentino is like a home-grown apocalyptic nightmare in The Last Seduction as the sizzling, sexy dame who thinks "sharing" is a dirty word. Fiorentino, a master of the double-cross, hooks up with naive Peter Berg, a nice guy desperate for a little adventure. There are endless twists to this cleverly vicious story, but the real draw is Fiorentino, whose performance is brilliant. She is the everywoman you never want to meet: cool as ice, passionate, tough, self-satisfied, smart, and amoral. Bill Pullman is a surprise as a Machiavellian doctor who is almost her match. Definitely not a date flick, as this represents one vicious battle in the sex wars. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• Stargate SG-1: Season 4 | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  It wasn't until the beginning of Stargate SG-1's fourth season that fans knew to take the Replicator threat seriously. The spidery nasties had only seemed like one of many new enemies introduced in previous years. But when the one seemingly omnipotent backbone of the galaxy was asking Earth for help, clearly we were in real trouble! In fact, the team's list of enemies expanded and got far more complicated this year. Proving without a shadow of a doubt that this is science fiction, the Russians reveal they have their own Stargate program and ask the Americans for help. This twist allows for exploration of all the political machinations occurring behind the scenes of the SG-C, all of which appear to stem from the embittered Senator Kinsey (Ronny Cox). There were quite a few Earth-based stories in the year, but not all the new enemies were originally local. Willie Garson comically guest-starred as Martin, a geekily suspicious guy with too much knowledge of the Stargate. More sinister was an old flame of Daniel's turning into something far more painful than an old wound (thanks to an ancient Egyptian curse). Thankfully, the writers hadn't forgotten the importance of one-off storylines too. In "Upgrades" the team learns a lesson in abuse of power. In "The Other Side" (featuring DS9's Rene Auberjonois) they learn about blind trust. In "Scorched Earth" a dangerous claim for a planet's ownership means they learn to value Daniel's contribution to the group dynamic. If only this last lesson were learned better, season 5 might not have ended up as muddled as it did. --Paul Tonks

• Homeward Bound 2 - Lost In San Francisco | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £6.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (151.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  First it was a journey through miles of mountainous terrain but now feisty bulldog Chance pampered cat Sassy and loveable golden retriever Shadow are lost in the bustling city of San Francisco! With a whole new pack of pooches at their side and fun and excitement at every turn the resourceful threesome plot a course across the Golden Gate Bridge and home to their beloved family. Also starring the voices of Michael J. Fox Sally Field and Ralph White.

• Shania Twain - Live | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  For erstwhile "new country" outsider Shania Twain, the commercial impact of her first live video doubtless carries the sweet smell of revenge. Twain's mid-1990s breakthrough, fuelled by formidable production polish and carefully groomed videos, conspicuously delayed live shows until long after the expatriate Canadian's success crossed into platinum territory--an omission that prompted some sceptics to theorise the would-be megastar's talent was accomplished through studio legerdemain. Shania Twain Live may benefit from plenty of polish and more than a little calculation in its staging, but the singer/songwriter's long apprenticeship in lounge bands and resort revues north of the border is apparent. Whether one loves or loathes her songs, Twain herself comes across as a seasoned performer who knows how to work the audience.Equally apparent, and equally unlikely to resolve the division between fans and foes, is Twain's crossover agenda. Scaled for the arenas that Twain and her handlers targeted early on, the concert is closer in pace and power-chords to a mainstream rock show than most country acts, an orientation that aligns the star with Garth Brooks's swaggering attack rather than most country songstresses. Her band may boast three fiddlers, but their slashing attack emulates the kilowatt buzz of the rock guitarists that share the scrim, who pull off familiar string-bending flourishes. As for the front woman, in her electric-green leopard-print top, hip-hugging pants, and meticulously permed, waist-length hair, she resembles some improbably aerobicised white Rastafarian.The set list is a generous one, reproducing most of Twain's back-to-back platinum albums, and illustrates her skill at mixing melting ballads, flirtatious rockers that enable her to strut her physical beauty, and songs testifying to her self-reliance. Still, for all Twain's assertions that she won't suffer fools gladly, the songs ultimately reveal a traditional romanticism with a moderate, post-feminist spark. One need only check out the power equation behind such songs as "Honey, I'm Home" and "Any Man of Mine" to recognise Twain's themes are ultimately much older than their crossover wrappers. --Sam Sutherland

• On The Waterfront | Blu Ray | (11/08/2014) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Marlon Brando is the longshoreman who finds himself increasingly isolated when he challenges the might and power of the tough New York City dockers' Union. Rod Steiger is his elder brother torn between loyalty to union and love of family. Lee J. Cobb is the powerful union boss while Eva Marie Saint is the girl with whom Brando falls in love. Winner of 8 Oscars including Best Picture Best Actor Best Support Actress Best Director and Best Screenplay this devastating film has since its first screening become one of the movie greats.

• Patriot Games | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £5.19   |  Saving you £12.06 (306.87%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Let's see--he has been Han Solo in three films and Indiana Jones in three more. So why shouldn't Harrison Ford take on a new continuing character in Tom Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan? In this film, directed by Phillip Noyce, Ford picked up the baton when Alec Baldwin, who played Ryan in The Hunt for Red October, opted for a Broadway role instead. In this film, Ryan and his family are on vacation when Ryan saves a member of the British royal family from attack by Irish terrorists. The next thing he knows, the Ryan clan has been targeted by the same terrorists, who invade his Maryland home. The film can't shed all of Clancy's lumbering prose, or his techno-dweeb fascination with spy satellites and the like. But no one is better than Ford at righteous heroism--and Sean Bean makes a suitably snakey villain. --Marshall Fine

• A Man Called Horse | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  American Indians were "cool" in 1970, the year A Man Called Horse made its vigorous, feverishly real, and occasionally shocking debut alongside Little Big Man and Soldier Blue. Unlike the latter two films, however, Horse is less an allegory for Vietnam-era America and more of a vision quest for historical identity. In one of his defining roles, Richard Harris plays an English aristocrat captured by Dakota Sioux in 1825. Over time, he adopts their way of life and eventually becomes tribal leader--but not before undergoing savage initiation rituals, the most famous of which involves being suspended by blades inserted beneath Harris's pectoral muscles. Horse looks clunky, quaint, and inadvertently demeaning in some respects today, but the film's Native-American milieu is at least defined on its own terms, making no concessions to familiar Western conventions. The real draw is Harris, whose performance has a soulful integrity. --Tom Keogh

• Umbrella Academy Season 1 | DVD | (02/08/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  On the same day in 1989, forty-three infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. Seven are adopted by a billionaire who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his children to save the world. Now, the six surviving members reunite upon the news of their father's passing and must work together to solve a mystery surrounding his death. But the estranged family begins to come apart due to their divergent personalities and abilities, not to mention the imminent threat of a global apocalypse. The Umbrella Academy is based on the comic book series created and written by Gerard Way, illustrated by Gabriel Bá, and published by Dark Horse Comics. Special Features: Includes Art Cards and Poster

• The Ladykillers | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £4.79   |  Saving you £13.20 (275.57%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Tom Hanks teams up with the Coen brothers for a remake of the classic 1955 Ealing comedy about a group of thieves trying to bump off their landlady.

• Stephen King's The Night Flier | DVD | (20/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  For tabloid journalist Richard Dees (Miguel Ferrer) facts are always stranger than fiction. Every headline is a dead-line. Serial Killers UFO abductions tales of molestation mayhem and murder. To some the tales are unbelievable - but his faithful readers believe. And now there's a new story. The Night Flier What is it that flies by night in a dark winged Cessna lands at secluded airports and brutally murders local residents? Dees begins to follow the unknown killer in a Cessna

• SOLARIS | Blu Ray | (03/04/2017) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Released in 1972, Solaris is Andrei Tarkovsky's third feature and his most far-reaching examination of human perceptions and failings. It's often compared to Kubrick's 2001, but although both bring a metaphysical dimension to bear on space exploration, Solaris has a claustrophobic intensity which grips the attention over spans of typically Tarkovskian stasis. Donatas Banionis is sympathetic as the cosmonaut sent to investigate disappearances on the space station orbiting the planet Solaris, only to be confronted by his past in the guise of his dead wife, magnetically portrayed by Natalya Bondarchuk. The ending is either a revelation or a conceit, depending on your viewpoint. On the DVD: Solaris reproduces impressively on DVD in widescreen--which is really essential here--and Eduard Artemiev's ambient score comes over with pristine clarity. There are over-dubs in English and French, plus subtitles in 12 languages. An extensive stills gallery, detailed filmographies for cast and crew, and comprehensive biographies of Tarkovsky and author Stanislaw Lem are valuable extras, as are the interviews with Bondarchuk and Tarkovsky's sister and an amusing 1970s promo-film for Banionis. It would have been better had the film been presented complete on one disc, instead of stretched over two. Even so, the overall package does justice to a powerful and disturbing masterpiece. --Richard Whitehouse

• Diamonds Of The Night | Blu Ray | (21/01/2019) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk has English subtitles.

• Rectify - Series 3 | DVD | (23/05/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Daniel Holden must put his life back together after serving 19 years on Georgia's Death Row before DNA evidence calls his conviction into question.

• Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension | Blu Ray | (29/02/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (212.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  For the first time, see the unseen in Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension the horrifying conclusion to the Paranormal Activity films.

• Suits Season 7 | Blu Ray | (11/06/2018) from £10.35   |  Saving you £12.61 (121.84%)   |  RRP £22.96

  With Mike (Patrick J. Adams) making his return to Pearson Specter Litt, and Jessica (Gina Torres) departing, Harvey (Gabriel Macht) and Louis (Rick Hoffman) must put personal animosities aside in an effort to keep their struggling firm afloat. As new dynamics unfold, Donna (Sarah Rafferty) and Rachel (Meghan Markle) find themselves making bold moves to challenge the status quo. Special Features Deleted Scenes Gag Reel The People Behind the Suits Suits: A Centennial Moment Mike and Rachel Sendoff Reel

• NCIS: Los Angeles: The Twelfth Season | DVD | (18/10/2021) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Season 12 of NCIS: Los Angeles, our city of heroes breaks out the big guns. From staving off a nuclear attack to staying one step ahead of a sociopathic stalker, every global case strikes a personal chord with the crew. While Callen's (Chris O'Donnell) past continues to catch up to him, Sam (LL Cool J) faces risks that put his family in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Kensi (Daniela Ruah) braves a serious threat from a pardoned criminal, Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen) earns his NCIS badge, Eric (Barrett Foa) becomes a billionaire, and Nell (Renée Felice Smith) contemplates a promotion. Throughout 18 episodes on 5 discs, exclusive special features that include 2 featurettes, deleted and extended scenes, plus an audio commentary, the evidence is clear: there's no threat our team can't survive.

• New In Town | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.13   |  Saving you £14.86 (289.67%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Renee Zellweger stars as the career woman who embarks on the challenge of her life, only to discover the love of her life waiting for her there!

• Suits - Season 1-3 Box Set | DVD | (09/06/2014) from £12.57   |  Saving you £37.42 (297.69%)   |  RRP £49.99

  All three seasons of Suits in one box set. The legal drama stars Patrick J. Adams and Gabriel Macht as Mike Ross and Harvey Spector and follows college drop-out Mike who accidentally lands a job with one of New York's best legal closers Harvey Specter. They soon become a winning team with Mike's raw talent and photographic memory and Mike soon reminds Harvey of why he went into the field of law in the first place.

• Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £8.08   |  Saving you £11.91 (147.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two years later... Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is the much anticipated sequel to Square's top selling game Final Fantasy VII: a full blown CGI movie! After Cloud saved the world from Sephiroth the citizens of the planet begin suffering from a strange sickness called Geo-Stigma. Meanwhile Cloud has secluded himself and is being haunted by demons from his past...