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• Men Behaving Badly - Series 3 | DVD | (05/06/2000) from £4.75   |  Saving you £15.24 (320.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The ultimate small-screen representation of Loaded-era lad culture--albeit a culture constantly being undermined by its usually sharper female counterpart--there seems little argument that Men Behaving Badly was one of 1990s' definitive sitcoms. Certainly the booze-oriented, birds-obsessed antics of Martin Clunes' Gary and Neil Morrissey's Tony have become every bit as connected to Britain's collective funny bone as Basil Fawlty's inept hostelry or Ernie Wise's short, hairy legs. Yet, the series could easily have been cancelled when ITV viewers failed to respond to the original version, which featured Clunes sharing his flat with someone named Dermot, played by Harry Enfield. Indeed, it was only when the third series moved to the BBC and was then broadcast in a post-watershed slot--allowing writer Simon Nye greater freedom to explore his characters' saucier ruminations--that the show began to gain a significant audience. By then, of course, Morrissey had become firmly ensconced on the collective pizza-stained sofa, while more screen time was allocated to the boys' respective foils, Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash. Often glibly dismissed as a lame-brained succession of gags about sex and flatulence, the later series not only featured great performances and sharp-as-nails writing but also sported a contemporary attitude that dared to go where angels, and certainly most other sitcoms, feared to tread. Or, as Gary was once moved to comment about soft-porn lesbian epic Love in a Women's Prison: "It's a serious study of repressed sexuality in a pressure-cooker environment." Series 3 includes: "Lovers" in which Gary becomes worried that he hasn't slept with enough women; "Bed" in which Dorothy and Gary experience problems in the boudoir ("What's the matter? We always have sex after I've cooked for us. That's why I do it."); "Casual Ties" in which a depressed Deborah decides to sell her flat and go travelling, while Tony fails to cheer her up by impersonating different types of Cheese; "Weekend" in which Tony gets a job at The Crown; "Cleaning Lady" in which Tony reconsiders his professional options ("I could be an escort." "What, a car?" asks Gary); "Marriage" in which Gary joins Dorothy for a candlelit dinner ("Why she couldn't find a restaurant with proper lighting I don't know"). --Clark Collis

• Far From The Madding Crowd | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (-38.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Schlesinger's solid adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel sees three rival suitors vying for the affections of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie decked out in a variety of bonnets and frilly dresses), who has just inherited a farm. The men in her life are stout, whiskered yeoman Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), an impoverished local farmer; neurotic, repressed squire William Boldwood (Peter Finch); and handsome rascal Sgt Troy (Terrence Stamp), who dresses as if he's Flashman and breaks women's hearts for a hobby.Thanks to cameraman Nic Roeg and production designer Richard MacDonald (who also worked for Joseph Losey), 19th-century Dorset looks as pretty and as picturesque as a John Constable reproduction on top of a biscuit tin. Not that Schlesinger or screenwriter Frederic Raphael underplay the duress of rural life. We see the hardship of the farm workers' lives as the seasons turn. The film opens with a spectacular sequence in which Gabriel Oak's dog drives his flock of sheep over a cliff, thereby forcing him into penury. Whether hunger or heartbreak, every character here suffers. Bathsheba (like the model Christie plays in Darling) is a free-spirit in a society in which women's rights are severely restricted. --Geoffrey Macnab

• El Cid | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sumptuous in every way, visually magnificent, with grandiose sets, panoramic Spanish vistas and intricately detailed costumes, possessor of one of cinema's greatest music scores, boasting vast and astonishingly kinetic battles, and breathing heroic virtue in every scene, El Cid is the very epitome of epic. For this reworking of the medieval legend of the Cid (Arabic for "Lord") who united warring factions and saved 11th-century Spain from invasion, producer Samuel Bronston and director Anthony Mann insisted every set had to be created from scratch, every costume specially made for this movie alone; they also shot entirely on location in La Mancha and along the Mediterranean coast of Spain to enhance the film's authenticity. The cinematography is saturated with the burnished hues of the Spanish landscape, as are the palatial sets and rich costumes; Miklos Rozsa's resplendent score is also the result of painstaking research into medieval Spanish sources. The screenplay is imbued with knightly gravitas and more than a little salvation imagery, from the opening scene of the young Rodrigo rescuing a cross from a burning church, to the movie's indelible finale as The Cid rides "out of the gates of history into legend". Charlton Heston is at his most indomitable as Rodrigo, "The Cid", a natural leader of men and the embodiment of every manly virtue (note that he fathers twins--a sure token of his virility); Sophie Loren is ravishing as Chimene, the woman whose love for Rodrigo conflicts with her filial instincts after he kills her father, the king's champion, over a point of honour. Their scenes together create a humane warmth at the heart of this vast movie: the moment when Chimene finally declares her love (beneath a shrine of three crosses--more symbolism) to the exiled Rodrigo forms a pivotal and very intimate centrepiece. Shortly thereafter he must rise from their rural marriage bed to lead his followers into battle, and the tension between his public and private lives adds a piquancy to the film's stunning battle sequences. The international supporting cast sometimes look like makeweights, especially when chewing on the occasionally stilted dialogue, but any such faults are easily forgiven as the scale and spectacle of El Cid carries the viewer away on a tide of chivalry. --Mark Walker

• WWE - Elimination Chamber 2010 | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  World Heavyweight Championship Elimination Chamber Match: Undertaker vs. CM Punk vs. John Morrison vs. Rey Mysterio vs. R-Truth vs. Chris Jericho Intercontinental Championship: Drew McIntyre vs. Kane WWE Championship Elimination Chamber Match: Sheamus vs. John Cena vs. Triple H vs. Randy Orton vs. Ted DiBiase vs. Kofi Kingston Divas Championship Match: Gail Kim vs. Maryse

• Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe | DVD | (10/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  All 12 episodes of the Flash Gordon series Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe are featured on this three DVD box set. Starring Buster Crabbe as Flash with Carol Hughes as Dale and Charles Middleton as the Evil Mind the Merciless.

• Wuthering Heights (Repackaged) | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £5.45   |  Saving you £4.54 (83.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte's classic tale of all-consuming love. When Mr. Earnshaw encounters Heathcliff, a ragamuffin orphan, he kindly brings the boy into his home and makes him part of the family. And from the start, Heathcliff falls hopelessly in love with the daughter of the house, the beautiful, headstrong Catherine. She adores him, too, but when a wealthy neighbour woos her, Catherine's material instincts get the better of her, and she agrees to marry the man. However, Catherine discovers that she cannot forget Heathcliff so easily... and that not even death can make them part...

• The Broken Hearts Club - A Romantic Comedy | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £7.32   |  Saving you £5.67 (77.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The cynical yet tender tale of a group of gay friends living in Hollywood, all ultimately in search of one true love.

• Blacklight | Blu Ray | (03/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• It's Alive / It's Alive 2 / It's Alive 3 | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  It was born three days ago. It has killed seven people. It's parents are human beings. Whatever it is It's Alive! The Davies expecting a baby. All is well and good until the baby turns out to be a monster with the nasty habit to kill when it's scared. And it's very easily scared... A trilogy of horror films from schlock auteur Larry Cohen.

• Britten: Death In Venice | Blu Ray | (02/03/2014) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Catholic Boys | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-47.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  For the boys of St. Basil growing up in Brooklyn in 1965 was one crazy time. It's Brooklyn 1965 and young Michael Dunn (Andrew McCarthy) finds himself forced to attend St. Basil's in pursuit of the priesthood. Once there against his better judgment he gets caught up with a wild crowd led by the raucous Rooney (Kevin Dillon) and together they work towards their higher education - the kind you don't get in school! From hiding out in the local diner to making out in Rooney's dad's car from the good-when-they're-bad girls of the convent school to the shy beauty Michael falls for (Mary Stuart Masterson) from a confession that's good for the soul to what sends you there in the first place finding your way in the world isn't easy. But the boys of St. Basil's are out to have the time of their lives - for as long as they're young as long as they're free and as long as they can get away with it.

• The Gamefisher's Year | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £12.15   |  Saving you £-2.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A Visual Diary Of Gamefishing Throughout The Year. Presenter John Andrews introduces the viewer to a programme of very practical and useful hints about the many and varied techniques for fishing different waters at all times of the year from pursuing game fish in Scottish rivers to harling on the River Tay in January and fly fishing for Autumn salmon.

• RKO 281 | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Orson Welles arrives in Hollywood hailed as the boy genius but is stuck for the subject of his first movie. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle he has an argument with Hearst and decides to make a film about him. Some time later he gets the green light and starts to make his movie but Hearst gets to find out more about the film and sets about making sure that the whole project is stopped.

• Rebus: Black And Blue / Hanging Garden / Dead Souls | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  John Hannah stars as Ian Rankin's celebrated Scottish detective Rebus. Episodes Comprise: 1. Black And Blue 2. Hanging Garden 3. Dead Souls

• Harrison Birtwistle: The Minotaur | Blu Ray | (18/01/2010) from £25.79   |  Saving you £4.20 (16.29%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• The Charge Of The Light Brigade | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dramatisation detailing the events that led to the destruction of the Light Brigade at the Crimea of the men who were sent to their death and those behind what is now recognised as one of British history's major military blunders.

• Shaft Trilogy | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  The original and hippest version of Shaft cruised onto cinema screens in 1971. John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is an African-American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Director Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) seems fond of certain detective genre clichés (e.g., the hero walking into his low-rent office and finding a hood waiting to talk with him), but he and Roundtree make those moments their own. Shaft produced a couple of sequels, a follow-up television series, and a remake starring Samuel L. Jackson, but none had the impact this movie did. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com Shaft's Big Score is the first sequel to the super-hip 1971 original. When a pal of detective John Shaft is murdered in a bombing, New York's coolest private eye finds himself caught in the middle of a power struggle between black and white gangsters over the numbers racket in Queens. Directed by Gordon Parks (who does a brief cameo as a croupier in an illegal casino) and written by Ernest Tidyman (both of whom made the original Shaft), this film lacks the pacing of its progenitor. Roundtree is at his best when he's questioning a woman he's just met about a suspect while at the same time beguiling her into the sack (ah, those lazy, crazy days of the sexual revolution). The finale--a shootout in a cemetery, followed by a car-boat-helicopter chase through Queens and up the Harlem River--is preposterously drawn-out: Shaft, impervious to machine-gun fire, winds up tripping, spraining his ankle, and limping while running from the chopper; two shots later, he's sprinting like a halfback. Look for late Muhammad Ali trainer Drew Bundini Brown as a wise-cracking mobster. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.comShaft in Africa, the second sequel to the original hit, foreshadows itself early on when Shaft, asked to go undercover in Africa to halt a modern-day slave trade, claims that he's not James Bond but strictly Sam Spade. Bond, however, is the operative model here, with John Shaft masquerading as an Ethiopian to infiltrate the slave business and bring it down. Yet everyone he encounters seems to know who he is and wants to kill him--but the string of dead bodies he leaves in his wake across two continents proves that no one is able to stop everyone's favourite hip private eye. Written by Stirling Silliphant, the film is long on action set pieces that are filmed with more energy than the previous movie, Shaft's Big Score. Given contemporary practices involving smugglers of illegal Chinese and Mexican immigrants, the plot isn't all that far-fetched. Roundtree, as usual, is the picture of unflappable cool--but don't get him mad. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Callie And Son | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Lindsay Wagner stars as Callie who battles her way up the ladder from waitress to fabulously wealthy Texas socialite. The price for her success is her son Randy played by Jameson Parker. Through weilding great power Callie is nearly powerless in her efforts to keep Randy away from beautiful young schemer Michelle Pfeiffer. The film's many intrigues result in a sensational murder trail.

• Bugsy Malone | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  New York, 1929: a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan in Alan Parker's much-loved kiddie mob flick.

• House On Terror Tract | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  For the life of him real estate agent Bob Carter (John Ritter) can't figure out why three of his listings are such a tough sell. Sure the homes have blood-soaked histories. True the owners are all dead or insane. But these are top-notch houses in turnkey condition ready to move in! However today Bob has a sure thing; a newlywed couple in search of the tract home of their dreams. The couple are delighted by what they see...until Bob tells them the fates of the previous owners. T