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• Spaced - Definitive Collectors' Edition | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £26.25   |  Saving you £-1.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  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

• Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £4.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (40.94%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Harbour and his suicidal brother Wilbur inherit their father's second-hand book shop in Glasgow. Their lives beome entangled with Alice and her daughter Mary after the two women visit the shop. Idealistic young Mary captures Wilbur's disturbed heart and just may help save his life...

• CountryFile's Favourite Places | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £8.33   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  CountryFile's Favourite Places

• Snakes On A Train | DVD | (11/12/2006) from £19.95   |  Saving you £-3.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Under a powerful zombie curse snakes are hatched inside a young woman slowly devouring her from within. Her only chance of survival is a powerful shaman who lives across the border. With only hours to live she jumps on a train headed for Los Angeles. Unfortunately for the passengers aboard they are now trapped soon to be victims of these flesh eating vipers...

• The Solitary Child | DVD | (24/08/2015) from £7.30   |  Saving you £2.69 (36.85%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Horror icon Barbara Shelley takes an early starring role as a top model whose marriage sends shockwaves through Society in this gripping mystery drama from the late 1950s. Adapted from the novel by Nina Bawden and directed by Gerald Thomas, The Solitary Child is featured in a brand-new digital transfer in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. The marriage of Harriet, a celebrated London model, to Captain James Random causes a sensation: only two years previously, the gentleman farmer was acquitted in rather dubious circumstances of the murder of his fi rst wife and there is still a widespread suspicion among the public that Random is a man who 'got away with it'...

• Eat, Pray, Love (2011) / Closer (2004) / Erin Brockovich (2000) - Triple Pack | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £3.49   |  Saving you £16.50 (82.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise:Eat Pray Love: Based on the best selling book. After several personal disappointments and a broken heart, 35 year old Elizabeth Gilbert decides to venture out alone on a year long journey of self discovery. In Italy, she explores the art of pleasure through food, language and friendship. In India, she goes to her guru's ashram to study the art of spiritual devotion and finds peace with herself through the help of unlikely strangers. In Bali she learns the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence... and accidentally finds her true love along the way.Closer: If you believe in love at first sight, you'll never stop looking...Writer Patrick Marber adapted the screenplay from his own scathing stageplay in which a chance meeting between Englishman Dan (Jude Law) and American visitor Alice blossoms into a troubled relationship, bringing together and then affecting a second couple involving Larry (Clive Owen) and Anna (Julia Roberts). Sex and love are explored, capturing all the vulnerability and brutality of people falling in and out of love...Erin Brockovich: She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees.A research assistant (Roberts) helps an attorney (Finney) in a lawsuit against a large utility company blamed for causing an outbreak of cancer and other illnesses in a small community.

• Iron Sky: Dictator's Cut | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £12.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (36.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In 1945 the Nazis flew to the Dark Side of the Moon and established a secret hideout where they've been preparing for their grand return. The year is 2018 and the Americans return to the Moon in search for powerful energy source Helium-3. They end up landing too close to the secret Nazi fortress and although the big Nazi weapon Götterdämmerung is not yet ready to be deployed soon the skies are full of iron as the Nazi war machines take a pre-emptive move against threat from Earth. The Dictator's Cut of Iron Sky is an all-new take on the film following the original vision of the director Timo Vuorensola. This version is 20 minutes longer loaded with new visual effects new music from Laibach - and of course tons of new politically incorrect humour. Special Features: 20 Minutes of Additional Footage

• Secret Britain | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £10.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (45.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stunning BBC series presented by Julia Bradbury and Matt Baker (Countryfile) as they explore some of the UK’s hidden corners such as deserted beaches and tumbling waterfalls, showcasing the very best of what the British countryside has to offer. This two disc set contains all four episodes from the series: The Crowded South The first episode starts in Cornwall and travels east as far as Dover. The Hidden Heart Begins in the flatlands of East Anglia and ends at the wild, rugged Welsh coast. True North Takes the viewer north from Derbyshire to the coast of County Durham Borderlands and Beyond The final episode sets off from the borders and reaches the North West point of Britain SPECIAL FEATURES: Picture Gallery Subtitles

• Traffik | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £31.15   |  Saving you £-21.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  At the end of the 1980s, Traffik was an early indication that Channel 4's financial investment in film would be worthwhile and not pull any punches. The series depicts a soulless society embroiled in the catchments of its own greed. Drug trafficking is a political hot potato that one man alone cannot hope to spearhead a war against. Minister Jack Lithgow (Bill Paterson) realises this somewhere in between negotiating an international crackdown policy and discovering his daughter Caroline (Julia Ormond) is hooked on the very thing he's fighting to eradicate. This is one of three threads masterfully interwoven in Simon Moore's script and spread across six episodes. At the other corners of the Heroin triangle are Hamburg and Pakistan. In Germany, businessman Rosshalde is arrested on smuggling charges. This triggers a startling personality change in his wife Helen (Lindsay Duncan), who takes on a Lady Macbeth-like role in destroying everything obstructing her financial security. In Kurachi we follow the woes of farmer Fazal (Jamal Shah) as he finds work with drug baron Tariq Butt (Talat Hussain). Performances are outstanding as the taut plot draws these elements toward a cold finale. BAFTAs were awarded to the series' design, camerawork and sound. Technically it's as brilliant as Steven Soderbergh's 2000 cinematic remake Traffic. But in the characterisations of a populace who are all wrong in their views on drug use, you'll be hard pressed to find a better presentation of the subject on the big or small screen. On the DVD: Eight chapters per episode; picture and sound adequate. That's it. Like the subject of the series, the search for extra happiness is a fruitless one. --Paul Tonks

• First Knight | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £8.75   |  Saving you £-2.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  1995 had already seen the box-office success of sword-wielding heroes in Rob Roy and Braveheart when along came this glossy revision of the Arthurian legend, in which Lady Guinevere (Julia Ormond) is torn between her love for the noble King Arthur (Sean Connery) and the passionate knight Sir Lancelot (Richard Gere). As the story opens, Guinevere's lands are under attack by the evil knight Malagant (Ben Cross), and she must choose between marriage to Arthur and the security of Camelot, or encouraging the affections of Lancelot, who has heroically rescued her from a potentially lethal attack. Anyone looking for meticulous medieval authenticity won't find it here, but director Jerry Zucker (Ghost) keeps the action moving with exuberant spirit and glorious production values. Even if you don't completely believe Richard Gere as a somewhat too-contemporary Lancelot, the performances of Ormond and especially Connery are effortlessly appealing. --Jeff Shannon

• Eating Out | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £7.15   |  Saving you £7.84 (109.65%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tiffani and her friend Casey try to lure the gorgeous Zack with a phony online profile using the image of Tiffani's buff ex Ryan... which works fine until the real Ryan shows up. Only through some fancy footwork advice from his Aunt Helen and mentor Harry and a daring sexual escapade can Casey figure out how to set things right and perhaps even find the love he's been seeking.

• Come on Eileen | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £7.59   |  Saving you £4.16 (71.36%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Eileen is a mother of two children, who are both about to fly the nest. A new relationship suddenly comes into her life, and briefly she blooms. However Bill the new boyfriend, a pot smoking ex-cricketer has his own problems.Their fling opens the door to insecurity and paranoia for Eileen and she lapses back to her troubled past and starts to unravel.This touching film treads between darkness, humour and pathos as it follows Eileen attempts to reunite her family and get her life back on track.

• Duplicity | Blu Ray | (27/07/2009) from £5.50   |  Saving you £19.49 (354.36%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Oscar winner Julia Roberts and Clive Owen reunite for "Duplicity", from writer/director Tony Gilroy (seven-time Oscar-nominated for "Michael Clayton").

• 3 Film Box Set: Beethoven 1-3 (Lenticular) | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £12.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (13.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Beethoven A St. Bernard puppy 'adopts' a new home after escaping from dog thieves. The Newton family just haven't realised the trouble that 185lbs of dog can get into... Beethoven's 2nd Beethoven has fallen in love with the fetching Missy and is ready to settle down with a family of his own. Like it or not, George Newton, his hapless owner, is about to discover the meaning of chaos - times four! Tchaikovsky, Chubby, Dolly and Mo, a quartet of irresistible puppies that have definitely inherited their father's talent for getting into mischief. Beethoven's 3rd The story begins as Richard Newton, his wife Beth, daughter Sara and son Brennan prepare for a cross-country drive to a family reunion. For Richard, it's a dream vacation. For his family, it's boredom on wheels - until the appearance of a surprise passenger: the huge, rollicking, slobbering, lovable dog, Beethoven. Richard has promised to take Beethoven to the reunion and deliver him to his owner, Richard's brother. Beth and Brennan are less than thrilled with this news, especially when the excitable Beethoven unleashes a string of canine calamities! But when two bumbling thieves threaten the safety of the Newtons, it's Beethoven who sets out to put the bite on the bad guys and forever win a place in his new family's hearts.

• Franz Lehar - Giuditta (Bibl, Montazeri, Ushakova) | DVD | (08/01/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Lehar: Giuditta (Bibl Montazeri Ushakova)

• Press Gang - Complete Series 4 | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £13.48   |  Saving you £1.51 (11.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  BAFTA award-winning children's series Press Gang is back in a new DVD release of the complete fourth series originally shown on ITV in 1992. Episodes comprise: 1. Bad News 2. UnXpected 3. She's Got It Taped 4. Love and War 5. In the Picture 6. Day Dreams

• Heartless | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £8.94   |  Saving you £8.05 (90.04%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Angus Deayton and Simone Lahbib star in the original director's cut of this heart-warming comedy drama. Harry Holland (Deayton) is a charming yet ruthless and hedonistic barrister. Struck down in the middle of a major trial by a rare cardiac condition he is rushed to hospital where he wakes up three weeks later after a successful heart transplant operation. To Harry's dismay he has changed into a different man questioning the morals of his career and unable to enjoy his old bachelor

• Mystic Pizza | DVD | (13/01/2014) from £39.29   |  Saving you £-29.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A sweet and sassy comedy about the bonds of sisterhood, Mystic Pizza offers the opportunity to see some solid young actresses early in their careers. Three sisters of blue-collar Portuguese descent work in a pizzeria in the coastal town of Mystic, Connecticut. Each has her own unique romantic entanglements. One is the fast girl in town (Julia Roberts) who falls for a rich kid but wonders if she'll ever be accepted; one is the lifelong local girl (Lili Taylor) in love with her fisherman boyfriend (Vincent D'Onofrio) but scared of what marriage will do to their sex lives; and the youngest sister (Annabeth Gish) dreams of going to Yale but during a summer of babysitting has an affair with a married man. Through it all each sister depends on the others regardless of the complications. It's the alluring charm of the three disparate leads that makes Mystic Pizza the delightful experience it is. --Robert Lane, Amazon.com

• Catherine Cookson - The Complete Collection | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £71.96   |  Saving you £48.03 (66.75%)   |  RRP £119.99

  Catherine Cookson was born Catherine McMullen in 1906. Her life began in poverty and she grew up believing her real mother was her sister. In a life that could have been taken from any of her own novels Catherine aspired to achieve more than many of her time. From poverty to wealth she left the sadness behind to start a new life in Hastings where she was to meet her husband Tom Cookson. As a form of therapy Catherine began to write and never stopped and became one of the world's be

• Closed Circuit | Blu Ray | (17/02/2014) from £19.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (25.58%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In thie gripping thriller a high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy.Starring Eric Bana Rebecca Hall Jim Broadbent Julia Stiles and Ann-Marie Duff.