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• The Music Of Chance | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nashe is an ex-fireman travelling across America burning up what's left of his inheritance and his memories of the past when he picks up a bloody and battered man by the side of the road. Both begin a series of card games where the stakes spiral out of control leading to unforseen bizarre circumstances. A card game that could literally change their lives forever.

• My Brother's Keeper | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Real life identical twin Aaron Ashmore of Veronica Mars stars as both Eric and Lou Woods top high school rowers growing up in a dead-end industrial town. Eric is a gifted student who hopes for higher education while twin brother Lous ambitions reach as far as the next party. But when Lou receives a full athletic scholarship to a prestigious university he secretly switches identities so Eric can attend college in his place. Now with the National Rowing Finals fast approaching Eric is torn between the loyalty to his brother and the seduction of his new lifestyle at Oakridge. Will anger and dishonesty sink both their goals or can two brothers make the ultimate sacrifice to live one dream?

• Phantasm II | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Armed with his lethal band of flying silver spheres the deadly mortician who was thought to have killed his last victim nine years ago returns more dangerous than ever! Once again young Michael Pearson and his pal Reggie take on the master of the killer orbs as they race against time and risk their lives to thwart his murderous rampage forever...

• Planet Of The Apes - Book & DVD | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall star in this legendary science fiction masterpiece. Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist. Winner of an Honorary Academy Award for Outstanding Make-up Achievement and nominated for two Oscars (1968 Best Costume Design and Best Original Score) Planet of th

• The Flying Deuces - Deluxe Edition | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £4.69   |  Saving you £1.30 (27.72%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Stan and Ollie are on holiday in Paris when Ollie falls in love with the beautiful daughter of an innkeeper. On discovering she is already married Ollie decides that the only way to get over the disappointment is to join the Foreign Legion - dragging poor old Stan along for company. The boys wreak havoc at the training camp and are arrested for desertion before escaping in a stolen airplane where they take a ride they will never forget! The Flying Deuces is unique as it was made in 1939 as an independent picture unlike most Laurel & Hardy movies that were made under the guidance of Hal Roach. It is classic laugh a minute entertainment and is renowned by fans the world over as being one of their finest pieces.

• Made For Each Other / James Stewart On Film | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Produced in a time when films were both literally and figuratively black and white, Made for Each Other was unique in its effective blending of the comedic, the dramatic and, as perhaps some would insensitively say, the melodramatic. Beautiful Carole Lombard and likeable James Stewart are Jane and John Mason, a couple who meet, fall madly in love, marry and quickly have a baby. But while they--and the audience--are confident that they are meant for each other, life intercedes and the couple must meet with disapproving in-laws, job stress, financial challenges and, finally, a devastating illness.Lombard and Stewart--and the genuinely good people they portray--are utterly compelling and charming. Say yawningly what you will about tradition but the Masons' path is one that many, if not most, go down. And unlike the wonderful but wholly fantasy world of peer Preston Sturges, director John Cromwell's universe is, like real life, full of ups and downs. It's an accessible, sensitive portrayal. He gives the audience characters they want to see succeed, and to see stay together in the process. It may be a tale of triumph of the human spirit but its ultimate sentiment--one that celebrates the kindness of strangers--is thoroughly sweet, though in no way saccharine. Look for a great supporting cast, including a blustery Charles Coburn as John Mason's boss and Lucile Watson as Mason's interfering mother. --N F Mendoza

• Good People | Blu Ray | (05/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Academy Award ® Nominees James Franco* (Homefront) and Kate Hudson** (The Killer Inside Me) star in GOOD PEOPLE as a debt-ridden couple who discover a hidden bag of cash in their dead tenant's apartment. When they decide to spend it, they find themselves pulled deeper and deeper into a world of deception and they soon become the target of a deadly adversary Academy Award® Nominee Tom Wilkinson*** (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Omar Sy (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and Anna Friel (Limitless) also star in this contemporary action-thriller.

• Braveheart | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A stupendous historical saga, Braveheart won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for star Mel Gibson. He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). The scenes of hand-to-hand combat are brutally violent, but they never glorify the bloodshed. There is such enormous scope to this story that it works on a smaller, more personal scale as well, essaying love and loss, patriotism and passion. Extremely moving, it reveals Gibson as a multitalented performer and remarkable director with an eye for detail and an understanding of human emotion. (His first directorial effort was 1993's Man Without a Face.) The film is nearly three hours long and includes several plot tangents, yet is never dull. This movie resonates long after you have seen it, both for its visual beauty and for its powerful story. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• Jack Frost | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

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• The Great Escape/Attack | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £11.30   |  Saving you £-2.31 (-25.70%)   |  RRP £8.99

  The Great Escape (Dir. John Sturges 1963): In 1943 the Germans opened Stalag Luft North a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp designed to hold even the craftiest escape artist. In doing so however the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history - brilliantly portrayed here by Steve McQueen James Garner Charles Bronson and James Coburn - who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted. One of the most ingenious and suspenseful adventure films of all time The Great Escape is a masterful collaboration between director John Sturges screenwriters James Clavell and W.R. Burnett and composer Elmer Bernstein. Attack (Dir. Robert Aldrich 1956): With a company of American soldiers trapped by the Germans during The Battle of the Bulge their captain is an abject psychopathic coward who has a record of exposing his men to danger. When his cowardice turns to sheer panic during combat it becomes necessary for the enlisted men to take things into their own hands...

• The Sopranos: Series 2 (Vol. 4) | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include soldier Chris (Michael Imperioli) hapless efforts to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the Government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --David Stubbs

• The Sopranos: Series 1 (Vol. 4) | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (180.36%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: this ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there is the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his mid-level capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what is not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Joe Somebody | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 20 | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. --Mark Walker

• Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure / Van Wilder: Party Liaison / Slackers | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure: Bill and Ted are two cool dudes, but to their teacher they are high school no-hopers. They fantasise about forming a band called 'Wyld Stallyns' - one day they'll put themselves together and learn to play guitar. But unless Ted achieves the seemingly impossible and passes a history presentation, he will be shipped off to military school. End of friendship. ; A figure from the future appears in the nick of time, providing a time-travelling phone booth...

• Basilisk | DVD | (05/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  To the one I love...Prepare to die The Kouga and the Iga two ninja clans with four hundred years of hostilities between them meet at the request of Lord Ieyasu. There they learn that the peace forced upon them is to be broken by the whim of royalty and that the outcome of this battle will determine the next Shogun. The passions of the past quickly reignite as two scrolls are sent out into the night. Ill-fated is this event indeed for lovers stand with hands entwined as travesty approaches on the wings of a hawk. Reared from birth as sworn enemies Gennosuke and Oboro each the heir of these rival clans seek lasting peace between their peoples. But the terms have been set and two lists seal their destinies. Two lists from which a name can only be crossed out in blood. No mercy will be spared to the enemy.

• Ghost Rock | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £14.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (6.67%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A band of merciless outlaws led by the ruthless 'Black' Jack Pickett (Gary Busey - 'Lethal Weapon' - 'Under Siege') has been blazing a trail of murder and destruction through the frontier towns of Arizona.In an attempt to bring justice to the lawless West U.S. Ranger Moses Logan (Jeff Fahey - 'The Lawnmower Man' - 'Wyatt Earp) relentlessly pursues Pickett to the small town of Ghost Rock.This peaceful town has been taken over by Pickett and his gang. Out-manned and out-gunned Logan joins forces with the famed bounty hunter John Slaughter (Michael Worth - 'US Seals' - 'Fists Of Iron') and a mysterious female gunfighter (Jenya Lano - 'Blade') to unleash war on Pickett in the streets of Ghost Rock.

• The Lion King (Special Edition Gift Pack) | DVD | (31/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Disney's epic coming-of-age saga tells of the love between a proud lion ruler Mufasa and his son Simba - a naive and curious cub who just can't wait to be king. But Simba's envious Uncle Scar has other plans and his scheming for the throne leads to Simba's exile from the kingdom he should rightfully rule. Befriended by the hilarious warthog Pumbaa and his manic meerkat companion Timon Simba forgets his regal responsibilities and adopts a carefree lifestyle of Hakuna Matata.

• Rescue Me - Season One: Episode 1 - 3 | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £8.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (14.17%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary) is a lifesaver. Whether he's pulling survivors from fiery high-rise infernos or the twisted steel of a subway collision Gavin takes great pride in leading the heroic but often overwhelmed firefighters of New York City's Truck Company 62. Gavin is also a man drifting between sorrow and anger over a recent separation from his wife (Andrea Roth) and three kids and recurring memories of comrades and other New Yorkers who fell victim to the tragedy of 9/11. Leary and multiple Emmy Award-winning writer-producer Peter Tolan (The Larry Sanders Show Murphy Brown) the team behind the critically acclaimed cop drama The Job have reunited as creators writers and executive producers of Rescue Me. Episodes Comprise: 1. Guts 2. Gay 3. Kansas

• Twilight Zone, The - Vol. 9 | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, a season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. --Mark Walker