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• Belle And Sebastian - Fans Only | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Considering their reputation for hating interviews and photo sessions, Belle & Sebastian's Fans Only is a surprisingly intimate affair. Over 136 minutes, the main feature documentary follows Belle & Sebastian from their inception in 1996 through every step of their six-album career, tracking the band to America, Brazil, and Japan, and hanging out with them in their hometown of Glasgow. At times, Fans Only feels like a lovingly crafted home video, with private photos and previously unseen segments of super-8 footage merging with the commercial promos and television appearances. It's all here: childhood snaps, Stuart Murdoch behind the wheel of an orange city bus, a song from the legendary Session At West 54th (still the holy grail for some devotees), a self-made documentary of a band rehearsal from 1999, Richard and Mick's acceptance speech at the Brits (with Richard captioned as Nick Cooke), Stevie and Stuart serenading the queue at the Bowlie Weekender, the band appearing on a Brazilian chat show, it goes on and on. Belle & Sebastian have always been a fans' band, close to those that understand them and inaccessible to those that don't. Fans Only is that relationship caught brilliantly on video. On the DVD: Fans Only on disc also includes live versions of "Dog on Wheels", "Landslide" and "The Kids are Alright" from The Bowlie Weekender. There are questions from the band's press conference for Fold Your Hands, You Walk Like a Peasant, plus Stevie singing "Darlin'" at Coachella, a 60s' version of "Jonathan David" and a Discography. --Ian Watson

• The Band From Utopia - A Tribute To The Music Of Frank Zappa | DVD | (19/04/2002) from £21.50   |  Saving you £-1.51 (-7.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Recorded live at the Jazz Open in Stuttgart in 1994, The Band from Utopia benefits from musicians fleet-fingered enough to replicate the late Frank Zappa’s intricate amalgams of jazz, rock, classical and r&b. Zappa, who died in 1992, was a prodigious musical talent and one of the few people to build musical bridges between rock and the more "serious" works of Stravinsky and Varese. If there’s a weakness in his music, however, it’s that instead of soul it has only a pervasively sarcastic quality. Zappa's mirthless humour is in evidence here: architecturally breathtaking music and musicianship is sabotaged by titles like "The Illinois Enima (sic) Bandit", while the wistfully gorgeous backdrop of "Outside Now" is disfigured by an embittered, satirical stream-of-consciousness lyric. This project does work, however, not least because of the cheerful tone set by vocalist/guitarist Ike Willis, who invests in the music humane qualities lacking in Zappa. He savours some of Zappa’s more acrid verse, as in "Bamboozled By Love", while relishing its ploughing, killer blues riff. The rest of the band, meanwhile, set about their task of restoring old Zappa classics like 1968’s "Uncle Meat" with an infectiously good-natured enthusiasm. Playing with Zappa, a notorious disciplinarian, was probably never this much fun. The Stuttgart audience look as if they’ve wandered in from Songs of Praise and the Band From Utopia have the Dress Sense From Hell, but overall this is a musica! l celebration worth celebrating. On the DVD: The Band from Utopia disc has no extra features. The digital soundtrack is immaculate, though, and the video aspect ratio 4.3. --David Stubbs

• Rugby League & Super League - Official Greatest Collectors Box Set | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £22.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (9.65%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Super League - The Greatest Games: Sit back and enjoy 10 of Super League's greatest ever games, featuring the dramatic comebacks, intense rivalries and epic encounters that have defined Rugby League's summer era.Featuring Wigan, Leeds, Saints, Bradford, and Warrington, Hull FC, Castleford, Wakefield and that historic evening in the French capital on Super League's opening night when Paris St Germain defeated Sheffield Eagles in front of 18,000 spectators.Pride of the Lions - 100 Years of British Rugby League: 'Pride of the Lions' features 100 years of golden memories and the pick of the action from when Britain ruled the roost as the most feared team on the planet. In addition to rarely seen footage of historic early triumphs, there's extended highlights from Britain's very first World Cup victory in 1954, the infamous Battle of Brisbane, the incredible Ashes success in 1970, Mike Gregory's sensational try at Sydney and more recently, the titanic clashes at home and abroad against the Aussies and the Kiwis.Rugby League's Greatest Ever Tries: This is what the greatest game is all about: skill, power, speed, courage, drama, passion. It's the definitive collection for any rugby league fan - 250 of the most sensational tries ever scored. From Boston to Offiah, Hanley to Schofield, Lydon to Long and Murphy to McGuire, rugby league has always been blessed with great names scoring breathtaking tries.These truly magical moments from the last 50 years include Challenge Cup classics, international gems, last gasp winners and the very best from the sixties right the way through to Super League.

• Murder Between Friends | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £4.90   |  Saving you £-1.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The steamy exotic city if New Orleans in America's deep south is the setting for this true story of an ingenious brutal murder plot that goes terribly wrong. Based on a true story.

• The Professionals - Volume 5 | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Thrown together to join George Cowley's new C15 organisation....Hard men no patience nor time for subtleties. Charged with combating terrorists criminals and corruption wherever they find it. Capable of using any means necessary. The only people they can trust are themselves... Hunter/Hunted: There's trouble for Doyle when the hi-tech sniper rifle he's testing is stolen. Charged with recovering it he's soon to learn that the thief has him in his sights! First Night: When an Israeli minister goes missing in London it falls to CI5 to find him. How can they do this when the only clue is a blurred photograph? The Rack: An incident at CI5 has the authorities believing Doyle has killed a suspect. The department's always had enemies and this is their perfect excuse to have it shut down... Man Without A Past: A bomb in a restaurant kills bystanders and severely injures Bodie's girlfriend. Who was responsible? Bodie and Doyle investigate to find out who was really the target and why...

• The Governor - Series 1 | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £6.28   |  Saving you £13.71 (218.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Governor was written by Lynda La Plante and tells the story of a female governor who is put in charge of a high-security male prison. Facing various problems including hostage situations and escape attempts the new Governor is challenged not only to overcome the difficulties with in the prison but also the attitude of her fellow male prison guards. Is she up to the task? Features all 6 episodes of Series 1.

• The Legend Of Robin Hood | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a tyrant comes among us a hero will arise to oppose and crush him. In the whole range of fact and fiction there is no character who satisfies this need with more romantic exuberance than Robin Hood. This new serial written specially for television tells once more with a few original variations the story of his exciting life and adventures... The long awaited 1975 miniseries first aired on BBC1 is finally available of DVD!

• Enigma | DVD | (03/08/2020) from £9.17   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An emotionally fragile code-breaker is called back to the scene of his mental breakdown when the Enigma machine fails to crack the new German code. However, these U-boat cryptograms are not the only problem to contend with when it is discovered that a German mole has infiltrated the Enigma project. Based on a true story.

• Anselm - Das Rauschen der Zeit 3D Special Edition (2D + 3D Version) | Blu Ray | (28/03/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Professionals - Season 4 | DVD | (26/12/2002) from £22.76   |  Saving you £17.23 (75.70%)   |  RRP £39.99

  More episodes from the cult television series starring Lewis Collins Martin Shaw and Gordon Jackson. Episodes include: 'The Acorn Syndrome' 'Wild' 'Need to Know' 'Takeaway' 'Blackout' 'Blood Sports' 'Slush Fund' 'The Gun' 'Hijack' 'Mixed Doubles' 'Weekend in the Country' 'Kickback' and 'It's Only a Beautiful Picture'.

• Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin- The Collection: Living It Up / The Caddy / Sailor Beware / Pardners | DVD | (16/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin - The Collection: Living It Up (1954) / The Caddy (1952) / Sailor Beware (1954) / Pardners (1956) (Paramount UK 4-DVD Box Set)

• Lee Enfield Rifle | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The history of the rifle that was the standard infantry weapon for The British Army in two world wars and beyond. This unique specialist DVD gives a fascinating insight into the bolt action rifle that was one of the finest battle weapons ever produced. Reliable robust and providing a 10-shot magazine when most of its European contemporaries could only provide five the rifle was first produced in 1865 and was used by various armies right up until the first Gulf War. The DVD features Martin Farnan Director of Shooting with the National Rifle Association and well known rifle expert John Hutchins and has been made in full consultation with the National Rifle Association and with Peter Laidler of the Infantry Weapons Collection HQ Land Warfare Centre Warminster. In addition to the history of the rifle there are scenes that have never or very rarely been seen before. Featuring the deLisle carbine in action: firing the No.4 comparing the SMLE (Short Magazine Lee Enfield) and Mauser 98 and grenade launchers and bayonets. Experts fire and comment on the SMLE its predecessors and derivatives.

• Thrill Seekers | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.35

• Gettysburg | Blu Ray | (15/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.57

  Thanks to generous funding from media mogul Ted Turner, first-time director Ronald F Maxwell was able to make an almost word-for-word adaptation of Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Killer Angels. Running over four hours, Gettysburg (1993) splits into two convenient parts for TV viewing (although a 70mm print was given limited theatrical release). This story of three bloody days of conflict in July, 1863 (an unimaginable 50,000 casualties), is divided equally between Union and Confederate forces. On the Union side, Jeff Daniels is the quietly heroic Colonel Joshua Chamberlain; Sam Elliott is utterly convincing as General Buford, the Union cavalryman who holds the Confederate army at bay on the first day. Martin Sheen plays an oddly subdued and vacillating General Lee--a controversial portrait of the legendary Confederate chief--while Tom Berenger, despite being almost hidden underneath an enormous authentically period-style beard, is strong and authoritative as General Longstreet (whose opposition to Lee's plans gave many in the Confederacy a reason to blame him for the disaster at Gettysburg). Chamberlain's last-ditch defence of Little Round Top, which prevented the Union forces from being flanked on the second day of battle, forms the climax to the first half; the heartbreaking Pickett's Charge--the Confederates' disastrous frontal assault on the entrenched Union lines on the third day--is the movie's greatest set piece and one of the most compelling reasons to endure a little too much stodgy dialogue (lifted directly from the novel) and an apparently over-reverential attitude to the subject-matter. But much of this movie was made in and around the actual battle site, so it's only to be expected that the cast and crew tread carefully, as if literally under the watchful eyes of the men whose lives they are re-enacting. And re-enactment is the key: with a cast of thousands in splendidly detailed period costumes, cannonades galore and massed ranks of musketry, the sheer scale of the military spectacle is endlessly impressive. If as a piece of filmmaking it has many faults, as an historical re-enactment Gettysburg is unsurpassed--even by the epic Waterloo (1970), which drafted in a large chunk of the Russian army as Napoleonic extras. --Mark Walker

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1998--TV movie) | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A lost world that time forgot populated by prehistoric creatures not seen on this earth for 50 million years - that is the astonishing possibility presented by Professor George Edward Challenger (Patrick Bergin) to the Royal Geographic Society of London England. A gruff impossible man Challenger calls for an expedition to prove - or disprove - this incredible claim first presented by Professor White who died on a prior expedition to this supposed lost world. Joined by the effervescent reporter Edward D. Malon the dashing big game hunter Peter Roxton Challenger's nemesis and Professor White's vivacious daughter Amanda (Jayne Heitmeyer) Challenger sets off on a journey to the edge of the earth. The explorers find a land-locked island that time and evolution forgot. By creating a primitive hot-air balloon the hardy adventurers manage to enter this dark cauldron of humanity's infancy venturing on to explore a world of stegosaurs and t-rex brontosaurs and raptors and finally make contact with a race of humanity's ancestors who make human sacrifices to their dinosaur gods. Beaten battered but triumphant Challenger and Amanda White return to England - but report their expedition as a failure. Humanity they have decided is not yet ready for the wonders they have seen.

• Age of Kill | Blu Ray | (15/06/2015) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A black ops sniper is blackmailed by a psychotic international terrorist into killing 6 unrelated people in 6 hours... but there is more to the victims than meets the eye. Sam Blake is running out of time. Living in the shadow of a botched mission that claimed an innocent victim the disgraced special ops sniper is plunged into a world of darkness when his daughter is taken hostage by a mysterious terrorist. Out of options and with no one to turn to Blake is forced to carry out their evil bidding and must assassinate six seemingly random targets within six hours on the streets of London. As chaos reigns and the body count rises the city’s fragile political climate is threatened. If shattered the consequences would be catastrophic. With his old unit closing in and his daughter at the mercy of a psychopath every second counts.

• Dean Martin Entertains | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £15.58   |  Saving you £-8.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Dino Crocetti - better known as Dean Martin - was the epitome of the word ""cool."" Founding member of the Rat Pack half of the hysterical team of Martin & Lewis and above all crooner extraordinaire - his smooth seemingly effortless singing style was often imitated but never equalled. This fabulous compilation of full-length songs from the height of his popularity and vocal skills lets you see and hear why there was nobody quite like Dino. As a special bonus this disc also includes 'Hollywood Biography: Dean Martin' a look at the life and career of one of the world's most versatile singers and actors filled with rare film clips photos and newsreel footage Track Listing: 1.Memories Are Made Of This 2.Almost Like Being In Love 3.If You Were The Only Girl 4.You Made Me Love You 5.When You're Smilin' 6.One For My Baby 7.Oh Marie 8.Too Young 9.The Isle Of Capri 10.That's Amore

• The Professionals - Vol. 4 | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £5.42   |  Saving you £0.57 (10.52%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Thrown together to join George Cowley's new C15 organisation....Hard men no patience nor time for subtleties. Charged with combating terrorists criminals and corruption wherever they find it. Capable of using any means necessary. The only people they can trust are themselves... Close Quarters: Can the Klu Klux Klan really be acting in Britain? It seems so after a lawyer trying to defend some black tenants is threatened. When Bodie is hospitalised during their investigation

• 9 (Nine) Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (22/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted Nightwatch) join forces to produce wunderkind director Shane Acker's distinctively original and thrilling tale. 9 stars Elijah Wood John C. Reilly Jennifer Connelly Martin Landau Christopher Plummer and Crispin Glover and features the music of Danny Elfman. When 9 (The Lord of the Ring's Elijah Wood) first comes to life he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. As they'll soon come to learn the very future of civilization may depend on them.

• Music Legends: The Beatles | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Beatles Trilogy The Beatles Trilogy is the essential DVD for all fans of the Fab Four as it charts the meteoric rise of the boys from Liverpool through the hits of the sixties right up to the final days of John Lennon. Seen through the eyes of rare footage and newsreel reports this intriguing 3 DVD set gives a truly brilliant insight into this group of lads who literally conquered the globe and became the world's very first super group. George Martin talks extensively about...