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• Race To Space | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The true story of Mac: the first chimpanzee in space. Wilhelm Von Huber is a NASA scientist who moves to Florida with his son Billy after the recent death of Billy's mother. But there's a widening gap developing between father and son because Billy thinks his father is boring and yearns to be with the young astronauts. Then Billy gets his wish when Dr. Donni McGuinness enlists his help to train the chimps NASA needs for an experimental space flight. Billy's favourite Mac is chosen to be the first in space but the boy then realises the real risks involved. Can Wilhelm and Billy pull together to ensure a happy outcome for Mac's mission? Based on a true story.

• Paddy McGuinness' All Star Balls Up | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £10.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paddy McGuinness the everyman working class hero shows you how footballers are overpaid oversexed and over rated in his latest DVD - All Star Balls-ups. Paddy has personally selected and provides his unique commentary on the funniest and most outrageous gaffs mistakes and bloopers he could find including up-to-date action from the Premiership season FA Cup and Champions League. With the help of a host of his famous football buddies Paddy comments shows us clips of the funniest humiliating and most outrageous balls-ups in football to date. The outright funniest and best comedy sports DVD available this coming Christmas.

• A Fast Show Threesome: Ted And Ralph, Grass, And Swiss Tony | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Swiss Toni - Season 1 & 2: Played by Charlie Higson and developed from The Fast Show character who claimed ""Buying a car is like making love to a beautiful woman"" Swiss Toni will no doubt entertain enthral evoke laughter and most of all make you feel evolved. With his blonde quiff standing to attention and his grey shot-silk suit sparkling under the showroom lights Swiss Toni is the emperor of his car emporium. However Toni is being taught to drive by his long-suffering wife Ruth and is consistently out-performed by his alcoholic employee Geoff. Swiss Toni is cheesy out-of-date and chauvinistic - which is why everyone loves him. Episodes Comprise: 1. Cars Don't Make You Fat 2. Taxed and Tested 3. Power Assisted Steering 4. Part Exchange 5. Left Hand Drive 6. One Previous Owner 7. Troubleshooter 8. Speed Date 9. Depression 10. Gellward 11. Cable 12. Pangolin 13. Mumble Jackets 14. Fothergill 2000 15. Listening 16. On Top of Old Smokey 17. Swiss Toni's Beautiful Adventure Grass: Grass marks a welcome return for The Fast Show's overzealous know-it-all Billy Bleach. Written by (along with Andrew Collins) and starring Simon Day he actually created the character of Billy almost ten years ago for use in his stand up routines. After witnessing a gangland murder self-made loser Billy Bleach is forced to grass on villain Harry Taylor and is given a new identity. How will he cope in the village of Little Mockwell in deepest rural Norfolk and will he get on with the locals? Featuring all the episodes from the first series. Ted & Ralph: This hilarious spin-off from BBC's award-winning sketch-based comedy The Fast Show concludes Ted and Ralph's painfully repressed relationship as wealthy landowner Ralph continues his uncomfortable attempts at forging an intimate union with working class Irish estate manager Ted. However Ralph has to save his estate as he slips into bankruptcy and believes that a wife would help him out of the mire... Enter Wendy a lady who might not be all she appears. As Ralph's fondness for his new female companion grows his relationship to Ted suffers. Will Ralph go through with the marriage and save the estate?

• Teletubbies - Teletubbies And The Snow / Happy Christmas From The Teletubbies | DVD | (30/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Teletubbies and the SnowOne day, sparkly clouds appear over Tellytubby land. Soon, everything is covered in fluffy, white snow--including the Tubbies' favourite things--their ball, bag, hat and scooter. The chubby foursome are at first afraid, but soon get stuck into some serious snow games, including rolling snowballs, sliding down hillsides, making footprints and making a snow Tellytubby--even their goggle-eyed vacuum-cleaner, Noo-noo, gets covered from brush to wheels in it. Teletubbies and the Snow will particularly delight pre-schoolers just getting their first taste of a real winter, but children who have never seen snow will love the four short films of real-life children singing winter songs and celebrating the year-end, as well as the antics of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-laa and Po, giggly Sun Baby and a cast of hundreds of fluffy bunnies hopping around. --Alison JardineHappy Christmas From The TeletubbiesWhat better time than Christmas could there be for these four likeable, er, things? After all, like the children they really are, the Teletubbies find the whole procedure to be an endless source of wonderful surprises and exciting things to do. They get presents, of course, found with the tree which, in Teletubby Land, just mysteriously appears--exactly as it does to real children, of course (unless they're unfortunate enough to be awake when an effing-and-blinding adult is attempting to manoeuvre it into place). There's also some jolly footage of real children, including a suitably happy bunch choosing and decorating a real tree, and of course it's these sections of "outside broadcasting" which balance the caperings of the four plush poppets so well. Despite the festive theme, this needn't be a Christmas-only video; the whole world is wondrous for the Teletubbies' pre-school audience, so the occasion is perfectly presented as a part of that, no more and no less. --Roger Thomas

• Excess Baggage / Biloxi Blues / Go | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Excess Baggage: Brazen yet emotionally neglected Emily T. Hope (Alicia Silverstone) desperate for her father's attention stages her own kidnapping. But before she can enjoy a happy reunion with her father her car gets stolen with Emily still inside and professional car thief Vincent Roche (Benicio Del Toro) is about to find out that he's stolen a lot more than he bargained for! And when Emily's sinister ex-CIA 'uncle' (Christopher Walken) starts tracking them down the heat can only get hotter in this hilariously romantic adventure! Biloxi Blues: In this semi-autobiographical screenplay Neil Simon's private memoirs in the US Army are made public. Set in 1943 at an army base in Biloxi Mississippi a lowly recruit (Broderick) comes under the command of a very weird drill sergeant (Walken)... Go: Ronna needs to make some extra cash. Simon wants to escape to Vegas for the weekend. Adam and Zack want to stay out of trouble. But it's not just another night in the life of these unusual characters. They're about to embark on a wild ride that won't end until the sun comes up.

• Dancehall Queen | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Dancehall Queen is a hugely enjoyable melodrama featuring a resourceful heroine, spectacularly slimy villains and a lot of very loud music. Street vendor Marcia (Audrey Reid) is under pressure from all directions--family friend Larry has made her dependent on his good will before putting sexual pressure on her teenage daughter while street thug Priest has killed a friend for minding her patch and is now trying to push his way into her bed. What is attractive about this film is that Marcia wins by playing to her strengths: she goes back to the wild-child dirty dancing she loved before having her children and becomes Mystery Lady, a contender for cash prizes in competition. Most of the film's occasional touches of wild comedy come from her attempts to keep this from her rather staid daughter and the ease with which, from behind silver foil fringes and jewelled nose-chains, she can take revenge on the men who mess with her quieter persona. This is a surprisingly classy little movie, whose rawness comes across as urgency: e en those of us who miss half the patois dialogue can't help but respond to its fizzy energy. On the DVD The DVD has digitally re-mastered music, the usual chapter index, a Web link and what is called "Hyperactive DVDROM" content which means it is very, very flashy and very, very loud. --Roz Kaveney