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• Merlin | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £8.77   |  Saving you £1.22 (13.91%)   |  RRP £9.99

  What kind of guy was the wizard Merlin, anyway? He lives a long time, raises a boy to be a king, props up a Utopian empire with his magic and wisdom, and then watches as it all crumbles under such banal forces as vengeance and betrayal. This four-hour mini-series re-tells the story of Camelot and King Arthur from the perspective of the magic man who sacrifices a great deal to guide mortals toward a better destiny. Sam Neill plays Merlin as an accessible, flesh-and-blood fellow of real passion, powerless to undo the spell of a rival (Rutger Hauer) who has virtually imprisoned Merlin's great love, Nimue (Isabella Rossellini), but gifted enough to counter the treachery of Morgan Le Fey (Helena Bonham Carter) and the wicked Queen Mab (Miranda Richardson). The battle sequences and special effects are striking and original, and it is great fun to see such art-house movie actors as Richardson, Carter, Neill, etc., in fantasy entertainment the whole family can enjoy. (An unrecognizable Martin Short must be singled out, however, for a wonderful, largely dramatic performance as Mab's sidekick, Frik.) Directed by Steve Barron (The Adventures of Pinocchio), Merlin is a nice bit of glossy revisionism of a beloved legend. --Tom Keogh

• Afterlife - Series 2 | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A second series of chilling and supernatural goings on as University lecturer Robert Bridge (Andrew Lincoln) becomes further embroiled in the world of the medium Alison Munday (Lesley Sharp)... Episodes Comprise: 1. Roadside Bouquets 2. Ratman 3. Lullaby 4. Your Hand In Mine 5. Mirrorball 6. Mind The Bugs Don't Bite 7. Things Forgotten 8. A Name Written In Water

• Mad Men The Complete Collection (2022 Resleeve) | DVD | (03/10/2022) from £35.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mad Men explores glamorous 1960s Madison Avenue and the ego-driven Golden Age of advertising, where everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. Featuring a decorated cast of Golden Globe® and Primetime Emmy® Award nominees and winners, Mad Men is one of the most talked- about TV dramas in history. From creator and executive producer Matthew Weiner, this intriguing and seductive series follows the complex lives of Don, Peggy, Roger, Joan, Betty, and Pete.

• Eyes of Laura Mars (Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (20/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Eyes of Laura Mars put an original spin on the "women in peril" plot staple by giving us Faye Dunaway as a fashion photographer disturbed by visions of real violence echoed in her flashy, S&M-influenced work. The visions start coming closer to home as her woman friends are butchered and their copies of her work vandalised. Good-looking cop Neville (Tommy Lee Jones) argues that her art is responsible, but nonetheless starts an affair with her. Hints are dropped that the killer might be someone close to her, like obsessive ex-con driver Tommy (Brad Dourif) or her possessive ex-husband Michael (Raul Julia). Evocative scenes of 70s' New York nightclub excess, and the strikingly perverse photographs of Helmut Newton, now create a period 70s' flavour to this flawed psychic thriller. Dunaway's performance is suitably overwrought and the young, slimline Jones is at once attractive and off-key. On the DVD: The DVD comes with subtitles, director's commentary, a publicity short made at the time and an interesting lecturette illustrated with yet more photographs. --Roz Kaveney

• The Corporation | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Brilliant documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.

• UQ Holder! Collection BLU-RAY | Blu Ray | (22/04/2019) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When you're the grandson of a famous hero, you'd think that your life would be interesting, but Tota Konoe is stuck in the dullest place he can imagine! He can't even leave his tiny village until he can defeat his teacher and foster parent Yukihime, and she seems to be impossibly powerful. Then everything changes when Yukihime is attacked and Tota learns that both she and Tota himself aren't who or what Tota thought they were! Now Tota has a new, impossibly long life ahead of him and an amazing destiny that ties in with the fate of his grandfather, the legendary Negi Springfield! Get ready for vampires, demons and magic users galore as Tota discovers the perils of being a member of the world's most exclusive organization

• Department S - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 And 2 - Six Days / The Trojan Tanker | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The hit of the 1969-1970 season, Department S was an attempt on the part of television company ITC to create a "with-it" follow-up to the The Saint and Man in a Suitcase series which were starting to look staid by then. The department of the title is notionally part of Interpol, a group managed by the first of many black TV top cops (here Denis Albana Peters), and assigned all the bizarre cases The Avengers hadn't handled. Often they would come up against modern variations on the classic "locked-room" or "paradox" mysteries so favoured in crime fiction, mysteries which verge on the sort of phenomena The X Files would later specialise in (except no aliens appear in Department S). The supposed leads are Action-Man-type Stewart Sullivan (Joel Fabiani) and English-rose computer whiz Annabelle Hurst (Rosemary Nichols), but the break-out character is the flamboyant Jason King (Peter Wyngarde), a mystery writer and puzzle-solver notable for his Fu Manchu facial hair and an enormous wardrobe of safari suits, ruffled shirts, flared trousers and velvet jackets. King was the only male character on TV to be as fashion-conscious as the Avengers girls, and his preening peacock attitudes--along with the scripts' above-average mysteries--made this essential viewing for the Age of Aquarius. Volume One includes the following episodes: "Six Days", in which a missing airliner turns up but the passengers have no idea that they've lost six days, with Peter Bowles; and "The Trojan Tanker", in which a mystery woman is found in a luxury suite concealed inside an oil tanker, with Simon (Doomwatch) Oates. --Kim Newman

• Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend | Blu Ray | (06/04/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Cadillac Man | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A fast-paced comedy that shifts hilarity into overdrive! Whether he's pitching himself or the high-priced luxury cars at Turgeon Auto Sales Joey O' Brien (Robin Williams) never let's a day go by without ""doing"" someone good. But Joey's schmoozed through life on cruise control for way too long... and now he's riding in the hot seat! Co- Starring Tim Robbins (The Player) Pamela Reed (Kindergarten Cop) and Fran Drescher (""The Nanny"") Cadillac Man is a non-stop joy ride of comic lun

• Space Cowboys | DVD | (14/05/2001) from £13.24   |  Saving you £0.75 (5.66%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In the 1950s four pilots were passed over for astronaut training, but forty years later they finally get their chance.

• Births, Marriages And Deaths | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £4.72   |  Saving you £1.27 (26.91%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Alan Graham and Terry have been best mates since primary school. Now pushing forty the three friends are still inseparable. Naturally Alan and Graham are going to give Terry a stag night to remember. A big fry-up breakfast bubbly down the dogs for a flutter ten-pin bowling...fantastic. But when the boys pay a late night revenge visit to their despised former headmaster things begin to go disastrously wrong. A tragic accident sets off an unforeseen chain of events revealing terrible secrets. Life will never be the same again.

• The Clash - Rude Boy: Collectors Edition | DVD | (06/04/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  19 Songs: 28 Performances: 72 minutes of live Clash footage Now fully restored in HD with all new 5.1 surround sound. Filmed as a fictional documentary Rude Boy the movie follows punk (Ray Gange) as he quits his job in a West End sex shop to become a roadie for the most exciting band in the country - The Clash. Capturing THE CLASH during their 'Clash On Patrol’ & 'Sort It Out' UK tours of 1978 Rude Boy is an unparalleled film document of one of the best live bands ever. Follow the band as they tour the length and breadth of the country and headline the legendary 'Rock Against Racism Carnival' in London's Victoria Park. Gain exclusive access to the rehearsal rooms and the recording studio as they lay down tracks to their second album 'Give 'Em Enough Rope' Set against the backdrop of late 70's Britain Rude Boy is a unique piece of film making and is by far the best document of the music and attitude of the times. Bonus Features: Audio Commentary from Producers/Directors David Mingay and Jack Hazan Interview with 'Rude Boy' Ray Gange Interview with Clash Road Manager Johnny Green Interview with Film-Maker and Cameraman Jack Hazan Interview with Film-Maker David Mingay 2 Bonus Live Tracks that never made the final cut 4 Deleted Scenes 1980 Theatrical Trailer 1980 30 Second Radio Ad 'Just Play The Clash' Separate Song Menu Clash Discography with Original Sleeve Artwork Clash Image Gallery The Clash Live In Munich 3rd October - 7 Songs plus Backstage Interview Original Promotional Fanzine from 1980 Rude Boy Photo Book

• RWBY: Volume 3 | Blu Ray | (16/05/2016) from £11.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Team RWBY is back and ready for their second semester at Beacon, an academy that trains the world's strongest fighters. But real life doesn't stop. Between classes and homework, they still have to find time to save the world. And between the White Fang, Roman Torchwick, and a mysterious new trio, they certainly have their work cut out for them! Contains episodes 1-12. Special Features: World of Remnant History Videos, Behind-the-Scenes Production Diaries, Audio Commentary Tracks with Cast and Crew.

• Inferno (4K Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray + Blu-ray Bonus Disc) | 4K UHD | (20/02/2017) from £8.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (128.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Academy Award® winner Ron Howard returns to direct the latest thriller in Dan Brown's (Da Vinci Code) billion-dollar Robert Langdon series, Inferno, which finds the famous symbologist (again played by Tom Hanks) on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop the unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population. Click Images to Enlarge

• Mad Men - Seasons 1-4 | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Critically hailed as 'the planet's coolest TV drama' (The Times) Mad Men winner of three consecutive Golden Globes and back-to-back Emmys for Outstanding Drama Series is a darkly humourous look at the incredible advertising minds dictating the American Dream in the late 50s and 60s. Hard drinking chain smoking over-sexed and smoulderingly stylish the Madison Avenue pioneers sell an ideal they are struggling to achieve in their own lives. Mad Men is a sexy stylish and shocking portrait of a time that was anything but innocent. Nothing is as sexy. Nothing is as provocative. Nothing is as it seems. Winner of an incredible thirteen Emmys four Golden Globes and a BAFTA Mad Men is the groundbreaking series that critics are calling one of TV's best ever dramas. Contains all 52 episodes of the four award-winning seasons.

• The Alcohol Years | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Alcohol Years: Almost 20 years after leaving it behind Carol Morley - winner of the City Of Melbourne Award for Best Short Documentary at the 2000 Melbourne International Film Festival - returned to Manchester where she had spent several years lost in an alcoholic haze at the centre of the city's burgeoning musical and cultural scene. From booze fuelled nights at the city's legendary Hacienda club to inebriated revelries at New Order's expense 'The Alcohol Years' is a poetic retrieval of that time in which Carol's rediscovered friends and acquaintances recount tales of her drunken and promiscuous behaviour. Carol Morley's search for her lost self and the conflicting memories and viewpoints of those around her weave in and out revealing a poignant portrayal of the city its pop culture the people who lived it and of a young woman who found herself at the centre of a defining moment in Manchester's cultural history. Among those contributing to Carol's story are many of the most notable and significant figures from the era including broadcaster record company executive and entrepreneur Tony Wilson author and DJ Dave Haslam Buzzcocks singer Pete Shelley Vini Reilly of The Durutti Column musician journalist and TV presenter Dick Witts Jesus And Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart and Nico's former manager Alan Wise. 'The Alcohol Years' features music by New Order The Durutti Column Pete Shelley Vini Reilly ToT Stella Grundy and Fall drummer Spencer Birtwistle. Everyday Something: Based on Carol Morley's collection of newspaper cuttings and narrated by the late John Peel 'Everyday Something' presents private moments that give strange glimpses into everyday life.

• Elvis Presley : Films that Rock - Love Me Tender, Wild In The Country, Flaming Star | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-0.64 (-2.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Elvis: Films That Rock contains three of the King's early screen efforts: Love Me Tender (1956), Flaming Star (1960) and Wild in the Country (1961). It's pointless to suggest that they aren't among Elvis's best movies (you'll have to look elsewhere for King Creole and Jailhouse Rock, which probably are), partly because any fan's going to want them all anyway, but also because all three are interesting in their different ways. Love Me Tender, made in black and white in 1956, was Presley's first stab at acting, and this story of a family split by the American Civil War--one brother goes off to fight, the other doesn't--sees him short on screentime and being upstaged by pretty much everyone else. That said, it was a reasonably brave move for Presley to begin his movie career by dealing with this kind of subject matter, however sentimentalised. Four years later, Flaming Star took the steer by the horns with Presley portraying a young man of mixed parentage caught up in the ethnic conflict between Native Americans and the white race. Again, a brave choice of subject; this was a landmark movie insofar as it showed Presley certainly had enough acting ability to create a credible parallel career along the lines of, say, Sinatra. It wasn't to be, though, as even then his talents were being manipulated by others, which is why all his later movies--even the best ones--were little more than advertisements for his records. Wild in the Country, from the following year, saw Presley as a young tearaway who finds redemption in his talent for writing. It's pure melodrama, but the moralising is kept under control. This is a nice little collection, all in all, and an essential for any fan. On the DVD: Elvis: Films That Rock presents the three pictures in positively radiant transfers, which are absolutely gunge-free and make the very best of the beautifully stylised lighting and cinematography of the period, while the classic Cinemascope presentations translate perfectly into widescreen. Special features include trailers for all three movies. --Roger Thomas

• Doctor Foster - Series 2 | Blu Ray | (09/10/2017) from £16.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The award-winning ratings hit that got everyone talking returns for the dramatic next chapter in Gemma's story. Life appears to be going well for the talented doctor and son Tom after the turmoil that followed her discovery of husband Simon's betrayal. After her divorce, Gemma has attempted to leave what happened behind, but can you ever really move on from your ex especially when a child is involved? Gemma's life is further complicated with sexual tensions, destructive obsessions and the need to create stability for her now teenage son. Dark, adult, and psychologically raw, Series 2 is packed with gripping drama, explosive twists and turns, and sees Gemma going further than she ever has before to protect the people she loves.

• Blue Sky (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (25/01/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Relocated to a secretive Alabama army camp, military engineer Hank (Tommy Lee Jones) is assigned to work on a series of hazardous nuclear tests. Morally compromised, Hank becomes embroiled in a dangerous conflict with his superiors as he determines to expose the testing; a complex situation compounded by the volatility of his erratic wife, Carly (Jessica Lange). The final film by director Tony Richardson (released posthumously after his death), and featuring outstanding performances from Lee Jones as the whistleblowing patriarch and Lange, who won an Academy Award for her role, Blue Sky is a thrilling finale to one of cinema's most distinguished and celebrated careers. Extras Original trailer **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Fully illustrated booklet with a new essay on the film by Jim Hemphill and full credits Other extras TBC

• Chalet Girl | Blu Ray | (03/10/2011) from £9.43   |  Saving you £8.56 (90.77%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Feisty 19 year old Kim Matthews (Felicity Jones) takes on the challenge of her life when she lands a job as a chalet girl in a glitzy ski resort in the Alps.