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• Bo Selecta | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £5.78   |  Saving you £17.20 (616.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring Avid Merrion as the Scandinavian stalker/host and sketches in which he plays the parts of pop stars like Craig David and Britney Spears in lurid, latex masks, Bo' Selecta! is a brilliantly surreal take on celebrity culture. This first series (originally broadcast in 2002) features a number of cameos and guest appearances from minor celebs: Boyzone's Keith Duffy, Davina McCall, Vanessa Feltz and the hapless Christine Hamilton, one of numerous guests to be interviewed by a puppet bear played by Merrion whose feverish line of questioning invariably results in him sprouting a little erection. Another character is hauled up in a neckbrace (following an altercation with Lisa Tarbuck), but Merrion's innocent broken English can't conceal the fact that he's a psychotic sex maniac who explicitly lusts after celebs who "make me do a sex wee", keeps Craig from Big Brother locked in a cupboard and his dead mother in a wardrobe. Merrion's pop spoofs are also masterly: rather than mimic the stars, he reinvents them--Mel B and Britney Spears--as farting, hairy-chested Northerners, slobbing out on fry-up breakfasts washed down with lager and, most improbably, Michael Jackson as a cussing, jive-talking black dude à la Huggy Bear. Bo' Selecta! doesn't so much satirise celebrities as debase them, exposing their humiliating none-dimensionality by drawing them into a vortex of vulgar absurdity, not unlike Vic Reeves' Shooting Stars. Of course, they play along--they're on television. Although initially off-putting to some, once you get into Bo' Selecta! there is, as for Big Brother's Craig, no escape. On the DVD: Bo' Selecta! on disc features numerous extras, including a behind the scenes feature in which the production team discuss making the show ("like directing a squirrel on roller-skates"), deleted scenes including Gareth Gates as a Tourette's victim, which was deemed a little beyond the pale, some unfunny bloopers and a feature on the life story of "Craig David" with Kate Thornton, including an unmissable nativity scene in which the infant Craig plays Jesus. There's also a commentary, with Merrion as his stalker self watching himself with consternation (It's strange seeing yourself on TV"). It's a pity we don't get to hear from the "real" Merrion. --David Stubbs

• Playing For Keeps | Blu Ray | (20/05/2013) from £8.09   |  Saving you £13.90 (171.82%)   |  RRP £21.99

  George is trying to put his life back together again after numerous set-backs, as well as falling far from grace with his ex-wife, Stacie (Jessica Biel), and young son Lewis (Noah Lomax).

• Spaced: Complete Series 1 and 2 (Box Set) | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Spaced is a sitcom like no other. The premise is simple enough: Daisy (Jessica Stevenson) and Tim (Simon Pegg) are out of luck and love, so pretend to be a couple in order to rent a flat together. Downstairs neighbour and eccentric painter Brian suspects someone's fibbing, and almost blows their cover with their lecherous lush of a landlady, Marsha. Fortunately he soon falls for Daisy's health-freak friend Twist, while Daisy herself goes ga-ga for pet dog Colin. Tim remains happily platonic with lifemate Mike; a sweet-at-heart guns 'n' ammo obsessive. The series is chock-full of pop culture references. In fact, each episode is themed after at least one movie, with nods to The Shining and Close Encounters of the Third Kind proving especially hilarious. Hardly five minutes goes by without a Star Wars reference, and every second of screen time from Bill Bailey as owner of the comic shop where Tim works is comedic gold. The look of the series is its other outstanding element, with slam-zooms, dizzying montages, and inspired lighting effects (often paying homage to the Evil Dead movies). It's an affectionate fantasy on the life of the twenty-something that's uncomfortably close to the truth. The second series finds the gang at 23 Meteor Street a little older, but definitely none the wiser. Tim's career is hampered by severe hang-ups over The Phantom Menace. Daisy's career is just plain non-existent. There is still a spark of sexual tension between them, but it's overshadowed by Brian and Twist getting it on. Propelling the seven-episode series arc is the threat of Marsha discovering that none of the relationships are what they seem, Mike's increasing jealousy and a new love interest for Tim. That's the basis for a never-ending stream of in-jokes and references that easily match the quality of the first series. Tim has a Return of the Jedi flashback, then déjà vu in reliving the end of The Empire Strikes Back. There are spoofs of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Robocop, The Sixth Sense and comedy rival The Royle Family. There are guest spots from Bill Bailey, Peter (voice of Darth Maul) Serafinowicz and The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss and Reece Shearsmith. Every episode is packed with highlights, but this series' guaranteed geek pant-wetting moments have to be the mock gun battles, slagging off Babylon 5 and learning that "The second rule of Robot Club is: no smoking." Jessica Stevenson won a British Comedy Award for this year. It deserved a whole lot more. --Paul Tonks On the DVD: Series 1 includes trailers, out-takes, deleted scenes with commentary, cast, crew, and character biographies and a full audio commentary by the director and cast. Series 2 features a chaotic but highly enthusiastic commentary from the director and cast, including of course Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, who also talk about some deleted scenes and why they were removed. There's an outtakes blooper reel, as well as a selection of raw location footage and a self-explanatory clip, "Daisy Does Elvis". The most useful feature, though, is the subtitle "Homage-o-Meter" facility, which displays all the movie references throughout the series. --Paul Tonks/Mark Walker

• Bo Selecta - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Aided by ""The Bear"" and rubber masked celebrities obsessive fan Avid Merrion hosts two full series of Bo' Selecta! from the squalor of his bedroom guiding us through an eclectic mix of celebrity stories interviews and gossip.

• Bo Selecta - Series 2 | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £4.97   |  Saving you £20.02 (402.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Aided by ""The Bear"" and rubber masked celebrities obsessive fan Avid Merrion hosts another series of Bo' Selecta! from the squalor of his bedroom guiding us through an eclectic mix of celebrity stories interviews and gossip.

• The Sandlot Kids 2 | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (30.16%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ten years after the original story the local dirt field is now 'home' to a new group of neighbourhood kids who get together to share laughs show off...and play baseball! Yet the gang faces their toughest challenge yet as they try to retrieve an irreplaceable model rocket that has landed in the junkyard behind left field; a forbidden territory guarded by the legendary slobbering beast known as 'The Great Fear'. Join the Sandlot kids as they experience a summer they'll never forget!

• Hush Your Mouth | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £5.00   |  Saving you £14.99 (299.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in a gritty urban landscape in London a young gang member is killed for being a grass but his reasons and his convictions sink with him into the dirty water of the Thames. His brother Leo shattered by the death struggles to understand why his friend Isaiah is apparently guilty of the murder. While his half-sister starts an unwitting relationship with the real killer and his mother sinks deeper into grief it is left to seventeen year old Leo to resist revenge take the necessary action and uncover the uncomfortable truth. He just wont shut up - He just wont stay dead

• Crimson Peak | Blu Ray | (15/02/2016) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Zavvi Exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook - Limited to 3000 copies When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak. From the imagination of director Guillermo del Toro comes a supernatural mystery starring Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Charlie Hunnam. Click Images to Enlarge

• Paper Rad - Trash Talking | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99