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• Mapp And Lucia - The Complete First Series | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Miss Emmeline Lucas known universally to her friends as Lucia is a dreadful snob but in Miss Elizabeth Mapp of Mallards Lucia meets her match. On the surface they are the most genteel of society ladies but beneath the veneer of politeness and etiquette lies a bitter and seething malice. There is no plan too devious no plot too cunning no depths to which they would not sink in order to win the battle for social supremacy. Using their deadly weapons of garden parties bridge evenings and charming teas the two combatants strive to outcharm each other as the vie for the position of toast of the town. The Village Fete: Still mourning the death of her husband nine months previously Lucia decides to get away from the village where she lives for a while and rent a place in another part of England. Taking her best friend Georgie along with her and they both fall in love with the place. They decide that they will both rent there for the summer and return to home to participate in the village fete before moving out... Battle Stations: Lucia and Georgie move to their rented homes in Tilling and it is not long before Lucia and Miss Mapp are competing against each other in games of oneupmanship. The Italian Connection: Lucia holds her garden party in Mapp's garden and it is a success. Her happiness is soon brought back to earth when Mapp gleefully tells her that the Contessa Faraglione is coming to visit Tilling and that the two of them will be able to talk Italian to each other. Lobster Pots: A party at Lucia's new home leads to Mapp trying anything she can to get hold of Lucia's recipe for lobster. This leads to the two of them finding themselves stuck in the house during a raging flood. The Owl And The Pussycat: After months lost at sea Mapp and Lucia return to Tilling much to the surprise of all the residents who had thought that they had died. They both plan evenings where they will tell their memoirs of their adventure versions that differ quite dramatically from each other...

• Essential Poems (To Fall In Love With) With Daisy Goodwin | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Poetry is essential and Daisy Goodwin told us why in Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With). This series was transmitted from 14-18 February 2003 and looks at how poets from William Shakespeare and Andrew Marvell to Maya Angelou and Wendy Cope are still relevant today. Starring Amanda Holden Stephen Tompkinson Ralf Little Jo Whiley and Andrew Lincoln.

• Chocky's Children | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A year has passed since Matthew said goodbye to his alien friend Chocky. With the arrival of the summer holidays Matthew goes to visit his aunt in the countryside. While exploring he meets Albertine a young mathematical prodigy. They soon become friends and discover they can communicate telepathically. One day Chocky returns to warn Matthew that they are both in danger. Matthew realises where the danger must lay - a scientist who wants to test Albertine's exceptional abilities. W

• Betrayal | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £22.96   |  Saving you £-5.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Three people find themselves thrown together by fate and on a cross-country trip from LA to Texas. A mother and son are fleeing a dangerous drug dealer and another apparently harmless hitchhiker begs a lift. But in this twisted thriller nobody is exactly what they seem...

• Miami Vice - Series 1 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The cops. The cars. The clothes. The music. From executive producer Michael Mann (Heat Collateral) comes the first season of the explosive groundbreaking detective show that redefined the word ""cool."" Set against the seamy and steamy Miami underworld ride shotgun with suave Vice cops Sonny Crockett (Golden Globe winner Don Johnson) and Rico Tubbs (Phillip Michael Thomas) as they battle a never-ending gallery of criminals drug dealers and lowlifes. Features episodes 1-8 from Season One.

• The Trail Beyond | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £8.61   |  Saving you £-2.62 (-43.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two rough adventurers journey to the Northwest in search of gold. Their plans are temporarily sidetracked when they happen on a kidnapped girl.

• The One | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jet Li stars in this science fiction tale about a killer travelling through parallel universes, killing other versions of himself to gain power.

• The World According To Garp | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  This is the splendid film adaptation of John Irving's bestseller. Robin Williams plays the role of T.S. Garp a complex and unpredictabale young man at odds with a violent and cruel world... The World According To Garp earned two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor: one for John Lithgow; and the other for Glenn Close as Best Supporting Actress.

• James Dean - The First American Teenager | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £8.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  James Dean was one of the greatest icons of the 20th Century and his legend still lives on today Filmed by Ray Connolly and David Puttnam this essential documentary features footage from Dean's greatest films and interviews with screen icons such as Sammy Davis Jnr Dennis Hopper and Natalie Wood. The soundtrack to the film features David Bowie The Eagles Lou Reed Eric Clapton and Elton John

• Lava | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £8.26   |  Saving you £1.73 (20.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  During a blazing hot summer day in West London two deluded heroes set out on an impossible mission. Smiggly (writer/director Tucker) is one of life's also rans while Phillip (Holmes) is a well-meaning shelf stacker in a supermarket. Together they plan to avenge the beating that has left Phillip's brother Stevie (Iggulden) badly disabled and brain damaged. Encouraged by Stevie's dad (Bell) they set out on a scheme that sees them encountering a dodgy gun dealer (Grantham) the local

• Shenandoah | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £8.63   |  Saving you £1.36 (15.76%)   |  RRP £9.99

  With the integrity and depth of an epic Shenandoah tells the dramatic story of a man caught in a dilemma. James Stewart stars as a Virginia farmer during the Civil War. He refuses to support the Confederacy because he is opposed to slavery yet he will not support the Union because he is deeply opposed to war. When his son is taken prisoner Stewart goes to search for the boy. Seeing first-hand the horrors of war he is at last forced to take his stand.

• Sharpe - Sharpe's Mission | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £5.84   |  Saving you £2.15 (36.82%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Sean Bean stars as the courageous Major Richard Sharpe. In Sharpe's Mission Wellington orders Sharpe to join the dashing Colonel Brand on a hazardous journey behind French enemy line with the aim of blowing up an ammunition store.Sharpe's wife Jane becomes disillusioned with Sharpe's frequent absences. Left behind in the camp she warms to the attentions of another admirer.Meanwhile Sharpe is out in the mountains and is dangerously out numbered with the French ranks closing in. He must risk his own life however to confront a far deadlier enemy on his own side.

• The Sopranos: Series 2 (Vol. 2) | DVD | (21/05/2001) from £6.03   |  Saving you £6.96 (115.42%)   |  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 Time Of Your Life | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £16.65   |  Saving you £3.34 (20.06%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Time of Your Life is a gripping emotional thriller about the pain and confusion one woman faces after waking from a 18-year long coma to a world where nothing is the same. Meet Kate (Genevieve O'Reilly) who at the age of 36 has spent half her life lying motionless in her childhood bedroom. Kate discovers that everything around her has changed: her parents Eileen (Geraldine James) and Toby (Robert Pugh) look like her grandparents; her friends have succumbed to the jobs a

• Club Le Monde | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £6.71   |  Saving you £3.28 (48.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An affectionately tongue in cheek comedy exploring the early 1990's human traffic club culture in Britain where open air raves moved into more respectable indoor premises but the drugs dance music and dramas continued...

• Maigret - Series 1 - Episodes 4 To 6 | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Michael Gambon plays the extraordinary Belgian detective Inspector Maigret in this television adaptation of the novels by George Simenon. Intuitive intelligent and creative with a genius for human nature Maigret is like no other detective as he cunningly investigates crime and the human psyche. Episode titles: Maigret And The Mad Woman Maigret On Home Ground Maigret Sets A Trap.

• Dead Man's Cards | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A former boxer gets a chance when he's offered a job on the door of a run-down nightclub.

• The Amazing Mr Blunden | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £36.18   |  Saving you £-30.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Amazing Mr. Blunden

• Vigo - Passion For Life | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Julien Temple directs this modern and personal take on an extraordinary story. Vigo is a tragic but inspiring film about the passionate relationship between French film-maker Jean Vigo and his beautiful wife Lydu. The film is interspersed with extracts of Vigo's work.

• Taggart - Vol. 4 | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Volume Four: Six DVD Set Instrument of Justice Forbidden Fruit Player For The Dead Hellfire Black Orchid Ring Of Decent. 'Taggart' is the longest running police drama on TV and has become a national insinuation. These nest six feature length editions averaging over twelve million viewers mark the death of tough-talking Glasgow detective Jim Taggart (Mark McManus) and the arrival of dynamic detective duo DI Mike Jardine (James Macpherson) and DS Jackie Reid (Blythe Duff). Set Comprises: Instrument Of Justice. Forbidden Fruit. Prayer For The Dead. Hellfire. Black Orchid. Ring Of Decent.