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• Snatch --Superbit | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Guy Ritchie Writer/Director of 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' delivers another awe-inspiring directorial masterpiece. 'Snatch' is an edgy and hilarious film about a diamond heist gone wrong a colourful Irish gypsy turned prizefighter and a very temperamental dog. In the heart of gangland two novice unlicensed boxing promoters Turkish (Jason Statham) and Tommy (Stephen Graham) get roped into organising a bare-knuckled fight with local kingpin villain and fellow boxing pro

• Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Best Of Monty Python's Flying Circus - Vol. 1 | DVD | (04/10/1999) from £8.00   |  Saving you £11.99 (149.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The coming together of the influential Python team is regarded as a milestone for modern absurdist comedy, though each of the six members had been doing similar sketch work prior to this first 1969 series, of whose highlights this video consists. The most revolutionary aspect of Python was its eschewal of punch lines, preferring as they did bizarre, surreal links and quantum leaps into the imagination of animator Terry Gilliam. Inevitably, Python has dated. Sketches such as "The Upper Class Twit of the Year" and the "Wink-wink, nudge nudge" man are worn down by familiarity. There's some clunky stereotyping and "Oo, ducky"-style gay references. That said, much of this still stands up. "Hells Grannies" and the race to find the world's funniest joke are fine, the Eric Idle-driven documentary spoofs are witty while the Batley Townswomen's Guild's re-enactment of Pearl Harbour is intelligently ridiculous. John Cleese, however, stands literally and metaphorically head and shoulders above the rest. His and Chapman's sketches, involving a mountaineering expedition leader with double vision and an arts TV interviewer who can't get past the etiquette of how to refer to his guest ("Eddie baby...") are pursued to their absurd non-conclusions with the remorseless logic of a top-drawer barrister. --David Stubbs

• Verdi-La Forza Del Destino | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Re-Animator 2 | DVD | (18/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator (1990) was one of the last hurrahs for special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor, Re-Animator, Bride is very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum--now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first. Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers and an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements--the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun. On the DVD: Bride of Re-Animator is presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its Dolby 2.0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. --Roz Kaveney

• Inspector Morse - Disc 17 And 18 - Fat Chance / Who Killed Harry Field | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  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

• Blood Of Redemption | DVD | (30/09/2013) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Quinn Forte is the head of the most notorious crime organization in Los Angeles known as 'The Company' which hides behind the façade of a financial investment firm run by his father. He and his strong-arm Sicario parade as Wall Street gurus by day and high-end thieves by night. Kurt his much younger brother who is unaware of Quinn's secret idolizes him. After a bad deal ends with a nightmarish blood bath Quinn's real identity is revealed his father is murdered and Kurt's life is in jeopardy. In custody Quinn agrees to take the fall and to not speak a word of The Company in exchange for the life of his brother. Quinn is released early and soon finds himself faced with the same demons he wanted to leave behind. The company is now ruled with an iron fist by Campbell who used to be Quinn's assistant but will never have the loyalty of his underlings the way Quinn once did. Campbell's first order of business was to cripple Sicario whom he now treats like his fool. Quinn comes home to Kurt now an FBI agent assigned to bring down The Company. Kurt blames him for the murder of their father. Quinn teeters between a hellish spiral back into his old ways and in a blaze of bullets Quinn and Sicario battle for Kurt's forgiveness and Quinn's own redemption as he fights to rise above his dark past...

• Ocean's Twelve | Blu Ray | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Like its predecessor Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve has a preposterous plot given juice and vitality by the combination of movie star glamour and the exuberant filmmaking skill of director Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight, The Limey). The heist hijinks of the first film come to roost for a team of eleven thieves (including the glossy mugs of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, and Don Cheadle), who find themselves pursued not only by the guy they robbed (silky Andy Garcia), but also by a top-notch detective (plush Catherine Zeta-Jones) and a jealous master thief (well-oiled Vincent Cassel) who wants to prove that team leader Danny Ocean (dapper George Clooney) isn't the best in the field. As if all that star power weren't enough--and the eternally coltish Julia Roberts also returns as Ocean's wife--one movie star cameo raises the movie's combined wattage to absurd proportions. But all these handsome faces are matched by Soderbergh's visual flash, cunning editing, and excellent use of Amsterdam, Paris, and Rome, among other highly decorative locations. The whole affair should collapse under the weight of its own silliness, but somehow it doesn't--the movie's raffish spirit and offhand wit soar along, providing lightweight but undeniably enjoyable entertainment. --Bret Fetzer

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Tragedy At Marsden Manor / The Double Clue | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Tragedy At Marsden Manor: Poirot is called in to investigate a murder at the local hotel. The Double Clue: Four unsolved robberies are creating work for Inspector Japp who has to call in Poirot for some assistance.

• Incredible Hulk - Series 4 - Complete | DVD | (02/06/2008) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Episodes Comprise: 1. Prometheus: Part 1 2. Prometheus: Part 2 3. Free Fall 4. Dark Side 5. Deep Shock 6. Bring Me the Head of the Hulk 7. Fast Lane 8. Goodbye Eddie Cain 9. King of the Beach 10. Wax Museum 11. East Winds 12. The First: Part 1 13. The First: Part 2 14. The Harder They Fall 15. Interview with the Hulk 16. Half Nelson 17. Danny 18. Patterns

• The Secret Agent | Blu Ray | (15/08/2016) from £5.79   |  Saving you £27.20 (469.78%)   |  RRP £32.99

  Toby Jones, Vicky McClure and Stephen Graham star in this three-part BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel. Set in Victorian London, the drama follows Soho shopkeeper Verloc (Jones) as he becomes increasingly involved in espionage and terrorism. Unknown to his wife Winnie (McClure), Verloc is employed by the Russian embassy to spy on a dangerous anarchist group and is tasked with bombing Greenwich Observatory so it can be blamed on the anarchists. As Chief Inspector Heat (Graham) becomes more aware of his suspicious activities, Verloc uses his vulnerable brother-in-law Stevie (Charlie Hamblett) to help him carry out his mission.

• 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

• Men In Black | Blu Ray | (16/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones return to save the world all over again in this eagerly awaited blockbusting sequel!

• 3rd Rock From The Sun - The Complete Season 2 | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The complete second series of the Emmy award winning comedy series about alien beings studying life on Earth and experiencing everything for the first time. All 26 episodes of the Emmy award winning show. Episode titles: See Dick Continue to Run Part 2 See Dick Continue to Run Continued Hotel Dick Big Angry Virgin From Outer Space Much Ado About Dick Dick the Vote Fourth and Dick World's Greatest Dick My Mother The Alien Gobble Gobble Dick Dick Dick Jokes Jolly O

• Night of the Living Dead (Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (04/10/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Phantasm | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  If this one doesn't scare you you're already dead! After their friend is murdered two brothers begin a hunt in search of the killer. Their investigation leads them to the discovery of a startling and hideous secret. As the brothers learn more about what is really going on at Morningside mortuary (involving a floating sphere with razor-sharp protruding daggers which seeks out victims and drains the blood from their heads) they get deeper into trouble but it may be already too late!

• The Slayer | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £6.02   |  Saving you £-0.03 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Timmy Time - Timmy's Plane | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.10   |  Saving you £5.89 (82.96%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Adorable he may be but Timmy is a little lamb with a lot to learn. He has just turned 3 (in sheep years) and being the only lamb in the flock Timmy has been used to getting his own way. Now for the first time Timmy is going to have to learn to get along with other little animals. Episodes Comprise: Timmy's Plane Timmy Learns Magic Timmy's Tractor Timmy the Postman Timmy Gets Spooked Timmy's Tins Timmy Rings the Bell Timmy Bounces Back

• The Monkees - Monkees - Series 1 | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Hey...Hey..The Monkees are back! Containing all 32 episodes from the first series of The Monkees TV show! Episodes Comprise: 1. Royal Flush 2: Monkee See Monkee Die 3. Monkee vs. Machine 4. Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers 5. The Spy Who Came In From the Cool 6. Success Story 7. Monkees in A Ghost Town 8. Don't Look A Gift Horse In the Mouth 9. The Chaperone 10. Here Come the Monkees-The Pilot 11. Monkees A La Carte 12. I've Got A Little Song Here 13. One Man Shy (Peter and the Debutante 14. Dance Monkee Dance 15. Too Many Girls (Davy and Fern) 16. Son of a Gypsy 17. The Case of the Missing Monkee 18. I Was a Teenage Monster 19. The Audition 20. Monkees In the Ring 21. The Prince and the Pauper 22. Monkees At the Circus 23. Captain Crocodile 24. Monkees A La Mode 25. Alias Micky Dolenz 26. Monkee Chow Mien 27. Monkee Mother 28. Monkees on the Line 29. Monkees Get Out More Dirt 30. Monkees In Manhattan 31. Monkees At the Movies 32. Monkees On Tour

• Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £4.93   |  Saving you £25.06 (83.60%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Of all operas, perhaps the one that least needs ingenious extramusical assistance is 'Tristan, this aurally erotic work that speaks so vividly to the listener`s inner eye. Wagner`s score is simply more illustrative and sensuously pictorial than any series of stage pictures could be. With Ren� Kollo and Gwyneth Jones in the title roles, this DVD represents a historical milestone and document of highest value in the reception of Richard Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde'.

• MONTY PYTHON: DAS LEBEN DES BR | Blu Ray | (22/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A