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• My Hero - Series 3 - Episodes 1-5 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Contains Episodes: Baby Talk: Keeping George's alter ego secret from Janet's parents is becoming almost impossible since the new addition to the family. With a visit expected any minute George is busy teaching the baby superhero antics. Will the truth finaly come out? Zero Tolerance: Life at the health centre takes an unexpected turn when a gun wielding lunatic rushes in demanding access to the drugs cabinet. However it is George rather than Thermoman who is left to save the day.

• Man About The House - Series 2 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When London bachelor girls Chrissy and Jo need a third girl to share their apartment they find the answer asleep in their bathtub. His name is Robin Tripp and though he's not a girl exactly he is studying to be a gourmet chef and who can tell the difference these days anyway? Landlord George Roper can for one and he's incensed. His wife Mildred can too and she's intrigued... So the question is will the good-cooking newcomer Robin Tripp fall on his face or feet - or wind up with e

• George And Mildred - Series 1 | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  George and Mildred was a spin-off from Johnny Mortimer and Brian Cookes successful 1970s sitcom Man About the House, and ran from 1976 to 1980. This release features the first six episodes. Starring the late, great Yootha Joyce as Mildred Roper, a sex-starved cockney housewife with pretensions to the middle classes, and Brian Murphy as George, her hopeless and incorrigible husband, this series sees them make the upward move to posh Middlesex suburbia, despite George being on supplementary benefit--mortgage conditions were evidently easier in 70s sitcomland. Their neighbours are snooty estate agent Jeffrey Fourmile, his wife Ann and son Tristram. Jeffrey is perturbed that the Ropers arrival will lower the tone of the neighbourhood ("Tristram will get nits!") as they stink up the street with their three-wheel car and cheap wartime furniture. Much mildly amusing comedy at the expense of the working/middle class divide ensues, with no double-entendre left unturned and some period gags to match the Ropers interior decor. Situations involving a local MP, Mildreds even snobbier sister and an unsightly caravan brought out the best in Joyce and Murphys excellent characters, while Nicholas Owen as Tristram was among the least annoying of child sitcom stars. --David Stubbs

• Dirty Sanchez | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £4.70   |  Saving you £-1.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Extremely insane humour dangerous stunts and outrageous gags. More crazed and painful antics that are sure to appeal to those of you already hooked on shows such as Jackass CKY and Steve-O. The craze is now synonymous with all things skateboarding and grunge music! ""Makes Jackass look like the Royal Shakespeare Company' - The Face.

• Dick Barton | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Before James Bond there was Dick Barton: Special Agent! Between 1946 and 1951 Dick Barton's thrilling nightly adventures on the BBC's Light Programme attracted a record-breaking 15 million listeners and enthralled an entire nation. The serial proved so popular that it spun off into three hugely successful feature films from the fledgling Hammer Films. While virtually all the original BBC radio shows have been lost these three Hammer feature films still survive and a

• World War II Classics - Above Us The Waves / In Which We Serve | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Even if all written and documentary evidence were to disappear, you could still get a real insight into Britain's involvement in the Second World War through feature films such as Above Us the Waves (1955) and In Which We Serve (1942). Directed by Ralph Thomas, Above Us the Waves tells of a Royal Navy mission to sink the "invincible" German battleship Tirpitz off the Norwegian coast. John Mills is calm and confident as the mission commander, with strong support from John Gregson and Donald Sinden--all treated by the German personnel as fellow gentlemen when captured. Despite stirring music from Arthur Benjamin, the action sequences are visually no more than adequate, and the film is only a partial success compared with the naval and domestic drama of the earlier In Which We Serve. Noël Coward wrote the screenplay and musical score, co-directed (with David Lean) and gave possibly his finest screen performance as the commander of HMS Torrin. His speech to the survivors of the sunken ship, as they prepare for reassignment, is just the highlight of a film packed with memorable visuals and perceptive dialogue. On the DVD: Though there are no additional features the black-and-white prints have come up excellently in the 4:3 video aspect ratio. There are 15 access points for each film, though the lack of subtitles is an unfortunate omission. These are period pieces that capture the mood of an era.--Richard Whitehouse

• The Pickwick Papers- In Colour! | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An exceedingly lively adaptation of this Dickins' Classic. With a stellar cast of British actors playing some of Dickens' most colourful characters. The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find. In the course of their travels, they repeatedly encounter the friendly but disreputable Mr. Jingle, who becomes a continual source of trouble for all who know him. Pickwick himself is the victim of a number...

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

• Dirty Sanchez - Series 1: Rear End | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  They are back! Three insane Welsh guys and 1 Burberry dressed nutter of an Englishman. Still passing the time doing bad things to each other but especially Pancho: extreme dark humour dangerous stunts and outrageous gags all caught on camera.

• George And Mildred - Series 2 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £13.50   |  Saving you £-0.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  George and Mildred are the ultimate odd couple the popular landlord and landlady from Man About The House who became a household name with Thames Television in the 1970's and 80's. Mildred is vain snobbish and domineering; George is shy timid frigid and henpecked. Together they make a great partnership! Episodes comprise: 1. Jumle Pie 2. All Around The Clock 3. The Travelling Man 4. The Unkindest Cut Of All 5. The Right Way To Travel 6. The Dorothy Letters 7.

• Butterflies - Series 2 - The Complete Series | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This classic poignant BBC comedy starring Wendy Craig as the bored suburban housewife Ria looking for more from life. Ria is seemingly happy with two teenage sons but after 19 years of marriage she feels that everyone is taking her for granted and that life is passing her by.

• Julien Donkey Boy | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £12.90   |  Saving you £10.08 (101.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  There's going to be no middle-ground in your opinion of Harmony Korine's second film Julien Donkey Boy--it's either a blazing, daring masterpiece or one of the worst movies ever made. Ewen Bremner, the gawkiest of the Trainspotting gang, transforms himself into the terrifying yet pathetic Julien, with curly black hair, removable teeth, a letter-perfect American maniac accent and the body language of the truly demented. Julien is a schizophrenic but rather than observe his mental problems the film chooses to crawl inside them--we're never sure how much of what we see is actually happening and none of the "sane" characters make much sense either. Julien's family consists of a brother (Evan Neuman) who is constantly climbing stairs like a lizard to beef himself up for a contest that turns out to be ridiculous, a pregnant sister (Chloe Sevigny) who sometimes phones him up pretending to be their dead mother and a hard man father (Werner Herzog) who douses him with freezing water to toughen him up and delivers a bizarrely sincere soliloquy about the superiority of the ending of Dirty Harry over Julien's pretentious improvised poem. Though it comes with a certificate of authenticity from the Danish Dogma 95 movement, it violates several of the cardinal rules of their manifesto epitomised by Festen and The Idiots: there is unsourced music on the soundtrack, special effects in the form of pixellated or freeze-frame images and action as family arguments explode into scrum-like fights (Korine's directorial debut, Gummo, was closer in spirit to the movement). It opens and closes with the tragic deaths of children, but is mostly a shapeless series of scenes that deliver an impression of madness rather than a story. Bits of it are undeniably irritating, just as mad people usually are, but there are lucid flashes where Korine gets his cast to focus on their characters and provide great scenes. --Kim Newman

• Blue Murder At St Trinians | DVD | (01/01/2007) from £5.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (54.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The second film in the St Trinians series takes the anarchic schoolgirls to Rome having won a UNESCO prize trip. There they become involved with a jewel thief...

• In Which We Serve | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £14.64   |  Saving you £-4.65 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Noel Coward's great British war film made at the height of World War II in 1942 tells the story of a naval destroyer and its crew as they fight for their lives in a life raft after their ship is sunk.

• COI Collection Vol.2 - Design For Today | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £16.23   |  Saving you £3.76 (23.17%)   |  RRP £19.99

  COI Collection: Vol.2 - Design For Today (2 Discs)

• Wagner: Gotterdammerung -- Metropolitan/Levine | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £12.24   |  Saving you £11.01 (100.27%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Under the baton of James Levine, Gotterdammerung ("The Twilight of the Gods") has a narrative drive that reminds us that, of all the individual operas in Wagner's Ring cycle, this is the one most about human emotions and the one in which its heroes are pulled into a world where they are most vulnerable to them. Siegfried Jerusalem as Siegfried and Hildegard Behrens as Brunnhilde never, in a sense, stand a chance: they are innocents who allow themselves to be manipulated not merely by the villainous Hagen, but by the ordinary venality of Gunther and his sister Gutrune, who goes along with a dirty little scheme to get what she wants, and is destroyed by it. As the tempter figure Hagen, Matti Salminen dominates the stage whenever he is on it; he is one of those basses whose voice and scowl seem to come from somewhere deeper than his large boots: rarely have the summoning of the vassals, or the oath of vengeance he, Gunther and Brunnhilde swear against Siegfried seemed so utterly his triumph. Jerusalem is almost perfect as Siegfried in spite of the gravelly quality of his heroic tenor: he has a glorious innocence even when the character is tricked into desecrating his true love; Hildegard Behrens is magnificent as Brunnhilde, both in her anger at Siegfried's apparent betrayal of her and in her redemptive understanding of how she has to atone for his death. Other Gotterdammerungs may be more monumental, but few make you care so passionately. On the DVD: Gotterdammerung comes with menus and subtitles in German, French, English, Spanish and Chinese and with a picture gallery of the production. Awkwardly it is presented in (American) NTSC format, not PAL, and with a visual aspect of standard TV 4:3. More impressive is the choice of PCM stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1; the sound is admirably clear and well-balanced. --Roz Kaveney

• Monkey Shines | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £11.30   |  Saving you £1.69 (13.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After an aspiring law student is disabled after an accident his best friend recruits an animal trainer to educate a lab monkey to assist him in his day-to-day tasks. As the two become closer it seems the monkey can read his mind and his own mind seems to be affected by that of the monkey...

• Atlantis, The Lost Continent | DVD | (23/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Midsomer Murders - A Worm In The Bud | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £3.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (325.81%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The ancient Setwale Wood has provided remedies for the people of Midsomer for many decades. Now it is the subject of court action by villagers to prevent the impecunious owner of Abbey Farm James Harrington from cutting it down to raise finance. Leading light of the 'save the wood campaign' is neighbouring farmer Simon Bartlett. The case goes before Causton Crown Court. After the ruling a fight breaks out between the two farmers. The next day the body of Bartlett's wife is found

• Armitage III - Polymatrix | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  2179: Mars has been colonized by Earth populated by humans and ""Second Type"" robots - machines designed to perform the menial tasks humans won't do. Then there are the ""Third Types"" - illegal humanoid robots designed by a nationalist force to look and behave exactly like humans - living undetected among the Martian population as citizens until one man Rene D'anclaude declares war on the ""Thirds"" vowing to destroy them all... This is a story of technology and emotion hatred and