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• Mary Poppins Returns Doublepack | DVD | (15/04/2019) from £6.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Depression-era London, a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, along with Michael's three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack, she helps the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives.

• Distant Shores: Series 2 | DVD | (19/01/2015) from £9.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (53.12%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Peter Davison and Samantha Bond star in this comedy drama series about a plastic surgeon who relocates his family to the remote island of Hildasay to take a new job as a small community GP. How will the modern urbanites cope with their new way of life in the middle of nowhere? Matthew Thomas Davies, Claudia Renton and Berwick Kaler also star.

• Simon Schama - A History of Britain : The Complete Series | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments, but Schama's way of telling it is a good deal more enthralling as a result. Schama successfully gives lie to the idea that the history of Britain has been moderate and temperate, passing down the generations as stately as a galleon, taking on board sensible ideas but steering clear of sillier, revolutionary ones. Nonsense. Schama retells British history the way it was--as bloody, convulsive, precarious, hot-blooded and several times within an inch of haring off onto an entirely different course. Schama seems almost to delight in the goriness of history. Themes returned to repeatedly include the wars between the Scots and the Irish and the Catholic/Protestant conflicts--only the Irish question remains unresolved by the new millennium. As Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy, Schama talks less of Kings and Queens but of poets and idea-makers like Orwell. Still, with his pungent, direct manner and against an evocative visual and aural backdrop, Schama makes history seem as though it happened yesterday, the bloodstains not yet dry. On the DVD: The Complete History of Britain extras are generously packaged on a separate disc and include the original score and a Simon Schama biography. There's an interesting "promotional message" to camera in which Schama explains the role of a cab driver, Wally, in inspiring the series, along with an interview with Mark Lawson in which Schama stresses the deliberate subjectivity of these programmes and an inaugural BBC History lecture in which he defends TV's ability to transpose history to camera. --David Stubbs

• Helen Of Troy | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The abduction of beautiful Helen wife of Spartan King Menelaus by Paris of Troy triggers a long war faithfully recreated in this lavish TV miniseries.

• WWII - The Long Road Home | DVD | (26/10/2020) from £7.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Elliott Hasler writes, directs and stars in this WWII drama. British soldier Charlie Standing (Hasler) is captured in Tunisia by enemy soldiers and sent to various POW camps throughout Italy. When he manages to escape Standing begins the arduous journey of trying to return home. Meanwhile, his wife (Alice Rogers) no longer receives letters from her husband and fears the worst as she cares for their infant son.

• Animated Adventures Collection - Laura's Star/The Magic Sword/Dr Seuss/Powerpuff Girls - The Movie | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £6.57   |  Saving you £1.42 (21.61%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Laura's Star (2004): Did you ever believe that somewhere there's a special friend just for you? That what Laura finds the day she moves with her family to the city. She misses her old friends and her old house - until she rescues a fallen star the perfect size for cuddling. The star is homesick too. And as Laura and the star share a series of enchanted adventures (stardust makes toys come to life!) she finds that friendship can turn her strange new surroundings into a wonderful new place. A place called home. Beloved by children acclaimed by critics and based on the popular book series this resplendent movie glows with charm and storybook-like animation. Sprinkle a little stardust in the life of your little one. The Magic Sword (1998): Stunning animation and sensational songs await you in the enchanted land of Camelot. A spirited teenage girl names Kayley answers the call to adventure when Ruber the evil knight steals King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur. Aided by Garrett a handsome blind squire Kayley embarks on a thrilling quest to recover the sword and save her beloved kingdom. Along the way these two unlikely heroes meet up with one outrageously funny creature a wise-cracking two-headed dragon named Devon and Cornwell. On their magical musical journey Kayley and Garrett discover the unlimited power of friendship and courage. You'll discover dazzling fun-filled entertainment in Quest for Camelot. Powerpuff Girls - The Movie (2002): This full-length adventure features an animated epic so big so funny and so spectacular that only the Powerpuff Girls can handle it! Created by a perfectly powerful experiment Blossom Bubbles and Buttercup explode into action as the new kids in Townsville! But after one enthusiastic game of tag they nearly destroy their beloved city. Now called social freaks they turn to the mysterious Mojo Jojo for help but this sinister simian has other plans big plans like leading an army of evil monkeys to destroy the world! Join the celebration as the Powerpuff Girls save Townsville and the world - for the very first time ... before bedtime!

• Detonator Orgun | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Originally released in 1991, the three-part Denotator Orgun plays like a mixture of several popular sci-fi films. Tomoru, a teenage boy in the 24th century, is haunted by weird dreams partially based on the computer games he plays with his friends. He soon discovers he's telepathically linked to the mysterious alien robot, Orgun. Meanwhile, at the Earth Defense Force Intelligence He adquarters, Dr Michi Kanzaki and supercomputer I-Zak decrypt a message from deep space that turns out to be the blueprints for Orgun's physical makeup. As they make these discoveries, an advanced race of aliens nears the Earth with plans to destroy it. Naturally only the combination of Tomoru, Kanzaki and Orgun can defeat them. Director Masami Obari (Fatal Fury) handles the action sequences, space battles, and fist fights between giant robots with his usual skill. He's less successful at presenting Hideki Kakinuma's convoluted story, a needlessly complicate d mixture of flashbacks, fantasies, quasi-religious mysticism and warnings about the dangers of tampering with human evolution that is simultaneously too complicated and too simple for its two-and-a-half-hour length. --Charles Solomon, Amazon.com

• Jack And The Beanstalk - The Real Story | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-19.90%)   |  RRP £14.99

  For Jonathan (or Jack for short) 'Jack And The Beanstalk' has never been a fairy tale but part of his family history which has been buried for centuries. In order to destroy this curse on his family he must visit the fantastic world where fairy tales really do come true...

• Guru In Seven | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Shot entirely on location in London Brighton Paris and Bombay with snappy editing a blistering east/west soundtrack and prowling camerawork - Guru in Seven is sharply observed raw real and as 'un-PC as it gets. With support from Saeed Jaffrey Jacqueline Pearce and Antony Zaki the film stars a cast of hugely talented young British actors and features an astonishing debut from Nitin Chandra Ganatra as 'Sanjay' in a role reminiscent of a young Michael Caine in ALFIE. FAST FRESH AND FUNNY... A RAW SEXY TALE WITH A TWIST - LOADED FUNNY AND RUDE...UNMISSABLE - THE SUN A 200 MPH ROMP...A VERY FUNNY MOVIE - NME ***** - EMPIRE ***** - UNCUT

• Madagascar Skin | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Harry a shy young man with a Madagascar shaped birthmark flees the city and his unhappy life there and ends up alone on a beach. In strange circumstances he bumps into Flint and hiding out in an abandoned cottage their suspicions of one another start to disappear...