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• The Eichmann Show (BBC) | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £11.09   |  Saving you £8.90 (80.25%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The behind-the-scenes true life story of ground-breaking producer Milton Fruchtman and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz, who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann. He is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of six million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how Eichmann's trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen. Filmed at the trial in Jerusalem in 1961, the production became the world's first ever global TV documentary series, where, for the first time, the horror of the camps was heard directly from the mouths of its victims. It was edited daily and broadcast in Germany, America, Israel and 34 other countries. People fainted when they saw it on TV. Never before had there been such drama in the use of cameras, their positioning or the revolutionary effect of operators being able to adjust frame and position to match subject and content.

• Breaking And Entering | DVD | (01/07/2007) from £3.92   |  Saving you £12.07 (307.91%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, "Breaking and Entering" follows a disparate group of Londoners and new arrivals.

• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Blu Ray | (07/04/2014) from £5.49   |  Saving you £24.50 (446.27%)   |  RRP £29.99

  'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield on an epic quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. Having survived the beginning of their unexpected journey the Company continues East encountering along the way the skin-changer Beorn and a swarm of giant Spiders in the treacherous forest of Mirkwood. After escaping capture by the dangerous Wood-elves the Dwarves journey to Lake-town and finally to the Lonely Mountain itself where they must face the greatest danger of all - a creature more terrifying than any other; one which will test not only the depth of their courage but the limits of their friendship and the wisdom of the journey itself - the Dragon Smaug. Special Features: 2D Special Features: New Zealand: Home of Middle Earth - Part 2 Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug - Trailer 1 Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug - Trailer 2 Live Event: In the Cutting Room Production Video: Introduction to Pick Ups Shooting Recap of Pick-Ups - Part 1 Recap of Pick-Ups - Part 2 Music Scoring: Scoring the Desolation of Smaug in Wellington Peter Jackson invites you to the set Lego Hobbit Game Trailer Kingdoms of Middle Earth Trailer Ed Sheeran - I See Fire Music Video 3D Special Features: Trailers: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Teaser The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Theatrical The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Teaser The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Theatrical

• Monarch Of The Glen - Series 6 - Part 2 | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Golly's relationship with Meg deepens and causes some ill feeling with Molly and Jess. Paul is attracted to Isobel who is having doubts about country life. He convinces her to stay but is quickly distracted when a newcomer Lucy arrives. Donald runs into an old flame amd Lucy's boss shows more than business interest in her. Isobel suspects that Paul is engaged and Jess confronts Golly about his sleeping arrangements. Paul is about to be officially coronated as the new Laird but ther

• Alan Bennett's Talking Heads Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (08/03/2021) from £11.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Alan Bennetts renowned monologues are remade with an extraordinary British cast with two powerful new pieces added to the collection. Touching on universal themes such as guilt, grief and isolation, Bennetts masterful monologues have always had a timeless quality. But they feel particularly relevant today. Bennetts long-term collaborator, director Nicholas Hytner, heads up a superlative creative team. Actors including Jodie Comer, Martin Freeman and Kristin Scott Thomas bring Bennetts haunting work to life with darkly captivating performances. With the actors talking directly to the camera, this is an exceptionally intimate dramatic experience. As the characters unburden their souls, theres nowhere for the actors or audience to hide. Starring Jodie Comer, Monica Dolan, Martin Freeman, Tamsin Greig, Sarah Lancashire, Lesley Manville, Lucian Msamati, Maxine Peake, Rochenda Sandall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Imelda Staunton, Harriet Walter

• Middle Earth - Six Film Theatrical Version | Blu Ray | (31/10/2016) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-30.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.70

  THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING Assisted by a Fellowship of heroes, Frodo Baggins plunges into a perilous trek to take the mystical One Ring to Mount Doom so that it and its magical powers can be destroyed and never be possessed by evil Lord Sauron. The astonishing journey begins in the first film of director/co-writer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy that redefi ned fantasy fi lmmaking. This imaginative foray into J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth won 4 Academy Awards® and earned 13 total nominations, including Best Picture. THE TWO TOWERS The Fellowship has broken, but the quest to destroy the One Ring continues. Frodo and Sam must entrust their lives to Gollum if they are to find their way to Mordor. As Saruman's army approaches, the surviving members of The Fellowship, along with people and creatures from Middle-earth, prepare for battle. The War of the Ring has begun. Nominated for six Academy Awards®* including Best Picture RETURN OF THE KING The final battle for Middle-earth begins. Frodo and Sam, led by Gollum, continue their dangerous mission toward the fires of Mount Doom in order to destroy the One Ring. Aragorn struggles to fulfill his legacy as he leads his outnumbered followers against the growing power of the Dark Lord Sauron, so that the Ring-bearer may complete his quest. Winner of 11 Academy Awards.®* AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY The first in a trilogy of films based on the enduring masterpiece The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey follows title character Bilbo Baggins, who along with the Wizard Gandalf and 13 Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome Dragon Smaug. Their journey will take them into the Wild, through treacherous lands inhabited by Goblins, Orcs and deadly Wargs, as well as a mysterious and sinister fi gure known only as the Necromancer. Along the path, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of ingenuity and courage that surprise even himself, he also gains possession of a precious ring tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways he cannot begin to imagine DESOLATION OF SMAUG The Hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf and 13 dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, continue their journey to reclaim the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. Along the way, they encounter the skin-changer Beorn; giant Spiders of Mirkwood; Wood-elves led by Legolas, Tauriel and King Thranduil; and a mysterious Man named Bard, who smuggles them into Lake-town. Finally reaching the Lonely Mountain, they face their greatest danger the Dragon Smaug. BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES Thorin Oakenshield and the dwarves of Erebor have reclaimed the vast wealth of their homeland, but now face the consequences of having unleashed the terrifying Dragon Smaug upon Lake-town. Meanwhile, Sauron, the Dark Lord, has sent forth legions of Orcs to attack the Lonely Mountain, and Bilbo Baggins finds himself fighting for his life as five great armies go to war. As darkness converges, the races of Dwarves, Elves and Men must decide unite or be destroyed.

• The Hobbit: Motion Picture Trilogy 4K (BOX) | Blu Ray | (03/12/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Brian Pern: The Life of Rock/A Life in Rock/45 Years of Prog and Roll | Blu Ray | (04/04/2016) from £14.35   |  Saving you £10.64 (74.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Ghost Stories | Blu Ray | (27/08/2018) from £21.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson's original Olivier nominated stage production, the same team have co-written and directed this adaptation for the big screen. Starring Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther, Andy Nyman, Paul Whitehouse, and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. Phillip Goodman (Andy Nyman), professor of psychology, arch-skeptic, the one-man ˜belief buster' has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave. His mentor Charles Cameron, the ˜original' TV parapsychologist went missing fifteen years before, presumed dead and yet now he writes to Goodman saying that the pair must meet. Cameron, it seems, is still very much alive. And he needs Goodman to find a rational explanation for three stories that have shaken Cameron to his core. As Goodman investigates, he meets three haunted people, each with a tale more frightening, uncanny and inexplicable than the last.

• The Office - Series 1 and 2 | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £17.53   |  Saving you £12.46 (71.08%)   |  RRP £29.99

  It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describe The Office as a comedy. On a superficial level, it disdains all the conventions of television sitcoms: there are no punch lines, no jokes, no laugh tracks and no cute happy endings. More profoundly, it's not what we're used to thinking of as funny. Most of the fervently devoted fan base that the programme acquired watched with a discomfortingly thrilling combination of identification and mortification. The paradox is that its best moments are almost physically unwatchable. Set in the offices of a fictional Slough paper merchant, The Office is filmed in the style of a reality television programme. The writing is subtle and deft, the acting wonderful and the characters beautifully drawn: the cadaverous team leader Gareth, a paradigm of Andy McNab's readership; the monstrous sales rep, Chris Finch; and the decent but long-suffering everyman Tim, whose ambition and imagination have been crushed out of him by the banality of the life he dreams uselessly of escaping. The show is stolen, as it was intended to be, by insufferable office manager David Brent, played by cowriter Ricky Gervais. Brent will become a name as emblematic for a particular kind of British grotesque as Alan Partridge or Basil Fawlty, but he is a deeper character than either. Partridge and Fawlty are exaggerations of reality, and therefore safely comic figures. Brent is as appalling as only reality can be. --Andrew Mueller On the DVD: Series 1 is tastefully packaged as a two-disc set appropriately adorned with John Betjeman's poem "Slough". The special features occupy the second disc and consist of a laid-back 39-minute documentary entitled "How I Made The Office by Ricky Gervais", with cowriter Stephen Merchant and the cast contributing. Here we discover that Gervais spends his time on set "mucking around and annoying people", and that actress Lucy Davis (Dawn) is the daughter of Jasper Carrott; as well as seeing parts of the original short film and the original BBC pilot episode; plus we get to enjoy many examples of the cast corpsing throughout endless retakes. There are also a handful of deleted scenes, none of which were deleted because they weren't funny. Series 2 is a single-disc release, but the extra features are enjoyable nonetheless. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant feature in a gleefully shambolic video diary--highlights of which include Gervais flicking elastic bands at his cowriter and taping their editor to his swivel chair. The ubiquitous Gervais also mockingly introduces some outtakes (mostly of him corpsing throughout dozens of takes) and a series of deleted scenes, notably of Gareth arriving in his horrendous cycle shorts. --Mark Walker

• Fargo - Season 1 | Blu Ray | (22/09/2014) from £19.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (50.33%)   |  RRP £29.99

  An original adaptation of the Academy Award-winning feature film Fargo features an all-new story and follows a new case and new characters all entrenched in the trademark humour murder and Minnesota nice that made the film an enduring classic. Billy Bob Thornton stars as Lorne Malvo a rootless manipulative man who meets and forever changes the life of small town insurance salesman Lester Nygaard played by Martin Freeman.

• Sherlock | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £3.96   |  Saving you £21.03 (531.06%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories Sherlock is a thrilling funny fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London.

• Sherlock - Series 1-3 | Blu Ray | (20/01/2014) from £13.99   |  Saving you £26.00 (185.85%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Complete Series 1 to 3 of the contemporary re-imagining of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic co-created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. The series has caused a sensation since it first aired in the summer of 2010 delivering an audience of more than 10 million viewers per series who have tuned in to watch Sherlock and John Watson navigate a maze of cryptic clues and lethal killers in three thrilling action-packed adventures.

• Svengali | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £4.96   |  Saving you £8.03 (161.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Svengali tells the story of Dixie (Jonny Owen) a small town guy with a big dream. He leaves a humble Welsh mining twon for the bright lights of London intent on becoming the manager of the best band on the world. A feel-good British comedy with a heart of gold and a soundtrack to match (featuring music by The Stone Roses The Coral Jake Bugg The Libertines and The Prems).

• Monarch Of The Glen - Series 6 - Part 1 | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paul is now the new Laird of Glenbogle and gets involved in a land dispute between newcomer Isobel and her neighbour. Hector's brother Donald MacDonald has been forced to return home by the police placing him under the supervision of his estranged family. Lexie organises Molly's 60th birthday party in an effort to forget her marital problems. There is a tense atmosphere between Paul and Lexie and Duncan shines as a DJ when Ewan is temporarily out of action. Molly and Donald revea

• Saving Santa (DVD) | DVD | (03/11/2014) from £5.85   |  Saving you £7.14 (122.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Once upon a time, Santa operated with just a small workshop and a few elves. But, as Christmas has grown ever bigger, Santa has been forced to innovate! Now his cleverest elves develop amazing technology, including a hologram to hide the North Pole and a time machine to allow Santa to deliver presents to every home in the world, in just the one night. Bernard is an elf who dreams of creating such inventions, but his job is to clean the reindeer stables! Yet when he creates an amazing Christma.

• The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug - Extended Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (03/11/2014) from £36.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Academy Award® winner Peter Jackson continues his Middle-Earth saga that follows the adventures of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) who's swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. In the company of thirteen dwarves and the wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) Bilbo enters the Lonely Mountain in possession of Gollum's precious ring and his keen blade Sting. With an all-star cast including many acclaimed actors from The Lord of the Rings (such as Cate Blanchett Ian Holm Christopher Lee Hugo Weaving Elijah Wood Andy Serkis and more) and the effects wizardry of Jackson's award-winning Weta Workshop Tolkien's epic story comes to life as never before imagined.

• Charles II | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the better BBC costume dramas of recent years, 2003's Charles II: The Power and the Passion depends very strongly on its central performance. Fortunately, Rufus Sewell is admirable throughout as the saturnine, witty monarch who has retained popular fondness down the centuries in spite of his conscientious adherence to the bad and losing cause of absolute monarchy. Adrian Hodge's intelligent script dramatises the issue in quick sound bites--many politicians accepted the Restoration to avoid chaos and were determined to bring Charles to heel, whereas he was determined to defend the position for which his father had been martyred. If that meant handing the throne to his Catholic brother in default of a legitimate son of his own, so be it. The four hour-long episodes cover the Restoration, the Plague and the Fire of London, the secret treaties with France and the Popish Plot, as well as giving us a fair bit of Charles's moderately happy marriage to Catherine (Shirley Henderson in the most hideously accurate historical hairdos ever) and his affairs with various mistresses. Among a number of fine supporting performances, Rupert Graves stands out as Buckingham, the friend who betrayed Charles. This sort of costume drama only ever works if the acting is as good as it is here. On the DVD: Charles II on disc comes with a making-of documentary and a commentary on the first episode from writer Adrian Hodge and the director and producer. It also includes an extended documentary on Charles's back story--his education, his attempt to fight Cromwell's forces, his period on the run in England and his long exile--in which a number of eminent historians, including Richard Holmes and Ronald Hutton, talk about how he became the king he was. --Roz Kaveney

• Sherlock - Series 1 and 2 Box Set | Blu Ray | (23/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £32.99

  Box Set Comprises:Series One:Sherlock Holmes can tell a software designer by his tie and an airline pilot by his thumb. He has a unique analytical brain and, unlike anyone else in the world, he staves off boredom by solving crimes. When a chance encounter brings soldier John Watson into Sherlock's life, it's apparent the two men couldn't be more different, but Sherlock's intellect coupled with John's pragmatism soon forge an unbreakable alliance.A Study In PinkThe Blind BankerThe Great GameSeries Two:Sherlock and Watson return... Embroiled in the complex plans of the dangerous and desirable Irene Adler, Sherlock needs every one of his remarkable skills to survive, and an invitation to the wilds of Dartmoor brings our terrified heroes face to face with the supernatural. Meanwhile Sherlock's nemesis, Moriarty, is out there in the shadows and is determined to bring Sherlock down - whatever the cost.A Scandal In BelgraviaThe Hounds Of BaskervilleThe Reichenbach Fall

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (08/04/2013) from £7.21   |  Saving you £23.04 (387.23%)   |  RRP £28.99

  It took some time for Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson to return to Middle Earth, but the wait was very much worth it. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey starts off by playing strongly to its links to the previous adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings trilogy, before setting off on an adventure of its own. The first of three films based on The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey isn't a fast film to get going, but it does spent quality time introducing its key characters. Most moviegoers are more than familiar with Sir Ian McKellen's Gandalf of course, but the collection of dwarves and Martin Freeman's take on Bilbo Baggins are all brought together, and the adventure ensues. It's a journey that's punctuated by terrifically orchestrated action sequences, a swirling score, and lavish production design. Furthermore, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has one or two real standout moments contained within its running time, not least when we finally get reunited with Gollum. The sequence where Bilbo Baggins and Gollum come face to face is as good as anything Jackson put on screen in the Lord Of The Rings films. And while The Hobbit doesn't quite capture the magic of the earlier trilogy often enough, there's a lot here to enjoy, and plenty left to look forward to. It's beautifully, beautifully presented on disc, too. --Jon Foster