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• The Europeans | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £4.47   |  Saving you £5.52 (123.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1850 a few miles outside Boston the household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe Eugenia and Felix the daughter and son of his half sister. Gertrude one of Wentworth's two daughters is instantly infatuated with her cousins and trouble brews...

• Black Sheep | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £30.29   |  Saving you £-20.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  There's one in every family! Meet Mike Donnelly (Chris Farley). He's one lovable hilarious accident waiting to happen. Dedicated to helping his big brother Al (Tim Matheson) win the race for Washington State Governor he turns every opportunity for votes into an embarrassing disaster. Campaign aide and super slacker Steve Dobbs (David Spade) volunteers to baby-sit Mike. Big mistake! When Mike discovers that the incumbent governor is a crook he dives headfirst into a whole new

• China Girl | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A street-smart Italian youth falls in love with a shy Chinese girl. Their romance blossoms igniting an ugly all-out gang war led by his hot-head brother and her own brother the leader of the reigning Chinese gang.

• Night Passage | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £8.71   |  Saving you £-3.72 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Thanks to ultracrisp Technirama photography of great mountainside and river gorge locations in Colorado, Night Passage is often terrific to look at; you can almost feel the autumn sun and brisk air. This should have been another classic Western pairing James Stewart with director Anthony Mann. But after choosing the locations, cast, and crew, and directing the precredit sequence, Mann abruptly resigned. He found Borden Chase's screenplay an "incoherent" rehash of relationships and setups from their previous films, nor was he encouraged by Stewart's determination to play the accordion and sing. Stewart's an ex-railroad cop who became a pariah by letting a prisoner--Audie Murphy's "The Utica Kid"--escape. The two cross paths again in a ghost town where Dan Duryea, doing a zany version of his loony outlaw from Winchester '73, has holed up with his gang. Replacement director James Neilson, a newcomer destined for bland Disney servitude, fosters a lot of flatfooted standing-around.

• Inspector Morse - Disc 23 And 24 - The Death Of The Self / Absolute Conviction | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £7.46   |  Saving you £7.53 (100.94%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and story lines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep-down sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --Piers Ford

• Another Day In Paradise | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £4.86   |  Saving you £-1.87 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  From the Director of Kids comes the story of Bobbie a teenage runaway and thief who is happy making money the hard way - by breaking into vending machines. Bobbie is approached by Mel the charismatic uncle of one of his drug buddys. Mel offers Bobbie the chance of a big score in another town. With the prospect of easy money limited risk plenty of drugs and excitement on offer Bobbie cannot refuse. Bobbie sets off with his girlfriend Rosie Mel and Sidney Mel's heroin addict girlfriend. Between the shopping and fixes the foursome begin to bond and an unlikely family emerges. However the heist becomes more dangerous than imagined and Bobbie is forced to make a decision about his new found family and his outlaw life.

• Wagner: Siegfried -- Metropolitan/Levine | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £19.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (14.59%)   |  RRP £21.99

  James Levine makes Siegfried, sometimes the problem child among the four operas of Wagner's Ring cycle, attractive and interesting. He is aware of the darker side of some of the comic scenes--the seemingly benevolent dwarf Mime carries the weight of Wagner's many prejudices--but manages to keep them uneasy rather than positively sinister thanks to the finally judged performance of Heinz Zednik. Siegfried Jerusalem is admirable as Siegfried, full of boyish enthusiasm during the reforging of the sword, and of authority in his confrontations with the dragon and with Wotan. (The dragon itself is, as so often, an unfortunate compromise between realism and stylisation.) James Morris is extraordinary in Wotan's scenes here, his combination of injured pride and relieved joy when Siegfried demonstrates, by shattering his spear, that Wotan has entirely lost control of events is exemplary. This is an opera whose many and various scenes are all preludes to its emotional core: the love duet which comes when Siegfried awakens Brunnhilde. Jerusalem and Hildegard Behrens convey both the innocence and the ardor of this duet; while Levine gets extraordinary playing from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra throughout, but especially here, where a chamber-like delicacy applies to much of the music. On the DVD Siegfried on this disc is a recording of the 1990 Metropolitan Opera production and comes with both menus and subtitles in German, French, English, Spanish and Chinese as well as a picture gallery. Awkwardly it is presented in (American) NTSC format not PAL, and the visual ratio is standard TV 4:3. Better is the choice of sound formats--PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital and DTS digital--which provide a spacious acoustic that gives proper weight to the climaxes, and an appropriate delicacy to Wagner's subtler passages. --Roz Kaveney

• The Tribe - Season 2 | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In the wake of a deadly virus that has wiped out the adult population the children of the world must now survive on their own. The sophisticated hi-tech society that their forefathers created has collapsed into confusion anarchy and fear. It is in this dangerous new world where The Tribe must construct a new culture in their own image and learn that in the aftermath of a disaster there come fresh opportunity and new responsibility. The future is theirs to create. Contains all 52 e

• Four Sided Triangle UHD | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hard-living Hollywood starlet Barbara Payton stars as a woman duplicated through technology in this cautionary tale that mixes Home Counties horror with prescient science fiction (Hammer's first). Co-starring Stephen Murray as the unbalanced scientist and directed by Hammer legend Terence Fisher, Four Sided Triangle is featured here as a brand-new 4K restoration from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Lena returns to her home after many years to discover that her two childhood friends Bill and Robin are now scientists and have created a machine that can perfectly duplicate objects. Bill's heart is broken when he realises that Lena loves Robin until he hits on the mad idea to duplicate Lena in his machine.Extras:Commentary by Melanie Williams and Thirza Wakefieldwith commentary by Kevin Lyons and Jonathan RigbyTrailerIn the Sticks Sci-Fi!Terence Fisher featurette TITLE TBCI Am Not AshamedImage Gallery

• My New Gun | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The life of a young suburban housewife is transformed through a series of mishaps when her husband gives her a gun...

• Defiance - Season 1-2 | DVD | (19/01/2015) from £15.00   |  Saving you £1.49 (9.00%)   |  RRP £16.49

  Season 1 Defiance is the story of courage and survival in a place unlike any other you could imagine. Set in the wake of an alien conflict a completely transformed planet Earth is inhabited by human and alien survivors forced to live and work together in the aftermath of this global catastrophe. Mysterious drifter Joshua Nolan (Grant Bowler; True Blood Lost) a former military lieutenant and his lone companion Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas; Whitechapel) settle in the frontier town of Defiance where they join up with other inhabitants struggling to build a new society in this dangerous new world. Now they must stand together against outside forces that threaten their existence. United they stand. Divided they fall. It’s do or die in the town of Defiance. Season 2 As Defiance’s second action-packed season begins the lives of the townspeople remain in turmoil as Nolan (Grant Bowler) searches for Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas) Amanda (Julie Benz) deals with a personal loss and Stahma (Jaime Murray) plots to take over Datak’s criminal empire. Meanwhile Earth Republic’s control of Defiance brings changes with far-reaching consequences including a scheming new mayor (James Murray) whose secret agendas push the town towards its breaking point. Watch every Season Two episode back-to-back and uninterrupted and experience the thrilling intrigue and suspense of this Primetime Emmy® Award-nominated series from the producers of Battlestar Galactica Caprica and Farscape! Bonus Features: Season 1 Alternate Ending Deleted Scenes Minisodes Jesse Does Defiance Gag Reels

• Tycoon (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £6.12   |  Saving you £3.87 (63.24%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An action-packed romantic movie about an engineer's attempt to build a railroad tunnel in the Andes Mountains. Johnny Munroe is a tough builder who along with partner Pop Mathews has been hired by tycoon Frederick Alexander to pull off the difficult task. Although Johnny and Pop think that it would be far easier to lay the train tracks on a bridge spanning a river Frederick insists on a tunnel.

• James Martin's Brittany | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Renowned TV chef James Martin is our guide for a trip to Brittany an area he first visited as a student to explore the delights of its regional recipes and produce the historic towns and villages and the magnificent scenery. He is joined by various culinary guests on the journey including The Hairy Bikers (Dave Myers and Simon King) Martin Blunos Lawrence Keogh and local boy Daniel Galmiche. Each episode combines mouthwatering recipes prepared at that day''s campsite or by the beach with visits to places of interest including stunning markets for seafood and fresh Breton produce a winery and a brewery a goat''s cheese factory a local bakery a strawberry farm and beautiful coastal oyster beds.

• Spider-Man 3 | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Spider-Man returns to battle a host of new baddies in the third adventure based on the popular comic book hero.

• The Beiderbecke Connection | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £12.68   |  Saving you £-2.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The ongoing saga of investigative schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne continues in this four part series....

• Child of God | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £5.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (173.04%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A harrowing and disturbing tale following Lester Ballard - a dispossessed, violent necrophiliac killer who's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order as he falls deeper into crime and degradation.

• Otello - Verdi | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £15.85   |  Saving you £1.14 (7.19%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Filmed at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1995 this rendition of Verdi's 'Otello' is beautifully crafted by leading stars Placido Domingo and Renee Fleming. This was the first major success for Fleming at the Met and as this release illustrates she tackled the character of Desdemona wonderfully.

• Midsomer Murders - Beyond The Grave | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £4.90   |  Saving you £12.09 (246.73%)   |  RRP £16.99

  John Nettles stars as Chief Inspector Barnaby in this feature-length episode of the acclaimed crime series. When a portrait of Jonathan Lowrie a wealthy royalist who was killed by a Roundhead musketeer is slashed at the Aspern Tallow museum Barnaby and Sergeant Troy are called in to investigate. A series of strange events follows and soon the detectives are investigating much more than an act of vandalism.

• Rocketman | DVD | (15/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Blast off for this outrageously funny space travel in this comedy that spins wildly out of control all the way to Mars! Though he's a whiz with computers accident-prone astro-nut Fred Randall is the last guy on Earth you'd want on the first manned mission to Mars. But as bad luck and poor timing would have it that's exactly what happens and Fred undergoes rigorous if not hilarious training at NASA. After that Fred blasts off with the rest of the space shuttle crew a cocky no-

• Terminator/ Predator/ Commando | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £9.80   |  Saving you £0.19 (1.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Terminator (James Cameron 1984): In this blazing cinematic comic book Arnold Schwarzenegger is perfectly cast as the fiercest and most relentless killing machine ever to threaten the survival of mankind! From the Oscar winning director of Titanic this fast-paced cleverly conceived rip roaring action adventure fires an arsenal of thrills intriguing plot twists and heart-stopping suspense that never lets up for a minute! In 2029 giant super-computers dominate the planet hell-bent on exterminating the human race! And to destroy man's future by changing the past they send an indestructible cyborg - a Terminator - back in time to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) the woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah protect herself from this unstoppable menace to save the life of her unborn child? Or will the human race be extinguished by one mean hunk of mutant metal? Predator (Dir. John McTiernan 1987): It sees the heat of their bodies. It smells their fears. It hunts for sport. It kills for pleasure. In a place without rules - the hunter has become the hunted. Deep inside the jungles of Latin America Schwarzenegger's team of elite commandos are being slaughtered by a mysterious predator. No longer are they hunters - they are the prey... of an alien whose only instinct is to kill. One by one it strikes with inhuman ferocity. Now to survive with the jungle as their only ally they face their greatest challenge: to stay alive. Commando (Dir. mark L. Lester 1985): In this early action classic that features his unique blend of thrills and offbeat humour Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as retired Colonel John Matrix. The ex-head of a special commando strike team he's forced back into action when his daughter (Milano) is kidnapped. With the help of a feisty stewardess (Chong) Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she gets killed...