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• The Nutcracker | DVD | (23/02/1998) from £14.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (20.09%)   |  RRP £17.99

  If Christmas is an elusive, childhood state of mind, Peter Wright's 1985 Royal Ballet production of The Nutcracker, recorded at Covent Garden, is just the thing to recapture it. The delicately symmetrical choreography of Wright and Lev Ivanov ensures that the stage is constantly filled with the mesmerising enchantment demanded by Tchaikovsky's perennial favourite. The ballet's success will always lie, in part, in its familiarity and its intrinsic status as Christmas entertainment, but the best productions, like Wright's, give equal weight to the dark forces of Hoffmann's original tale, which must be overcome before good and innocence can prevail. Here, the sadness of Drosselmeyer is a potent thread in the ballet, resolved in a moving, well-judged moment as the curtain falls. There is real magic in the dancing, from Julie Rose's charming, constantly involved Clara to the irresistible images of the divertissements. But rightly, the laurels go to Lesley Collier as the Sugar Plum Fairy and Anthony Dowell as the Prince for a pas de deux that seems to hover above the stage without making contact. And, like Wright's production, the splendid sets of Julia Trevelyan Oman--combining traditional Victorian Christmas images, a delicate filigree flower garden and pre-Raphaelite angels--steer the right side of sentimentality. On the DVD: The Nutcracker has no extras on this DVD, although the booklet provides adequate production notes. The 4:3 format also provides adequate picture quality for a mid-1980s television production, although no amount of colour adjustment improves a slightly washed-out look. The sound, Linear PCM Stereo, makes the orchestra sound robust and solid at the occasional expense of subtlety. --Piers Ford

• Pitch Perfect 3-Movie Boxset | Blu Ray | (23/04/2018) from £31.26   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Now graduated from college and out in the real world where it takes more than a cappella to get by, the Bellas return in Pitch Perfect 3, the next chapter in the beloved series. After the highs of winning the World Championships, the Bellas find themselves split apart and discovering there aren't job prospects for making music with your mouth. But when they get the chance to reunite for an overseas USO tour, this group of awesome nerds will come together to make some music, and some questionable decisions, one last time. The boxset also includes a bonus disc packed with OVER 30 MINUTES of additional exclusive behind the scenes content, including: Bellas Through the Years The A Cappella Aquatica Aca-Boot Camp: Round 3 Bellas Find Love Bellas Through the Years The A Cappella Aquatica Aca-Boot Camp: Round 3 Bellas Find Love Also included with purchase: a download of this film to watch on your mobile devices. Watch on the go - instantly stream anytime, anywhere!

• The Plague | DVD | (01/09/2001) from £14.83   |  Saving you £-8.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  While working in a lab doing genetic research an ambitious research assistance deliberately carries out a forbidden experiment and accidentally creates a deadly bacteria which kills her and then spreads rapidly through the city inflicting an agonising death upon its victims. The authorities try to impose a curtain of secrecy around the mounting death toll. They quarantine all known contacts while a research team launches a 24-hour desperate search for the cure or vaccine. One of the people Margo escapes and not knowing that she is a carrier of the deadly disease becomes a fugitive on the run eluding police escaping through the subways and the streets spreading the plague wherever she goes. News of the epidemic breaks and the city is thrown into panic. The research team struggles feverishly to find something to stop the onslaught before all human life on Earth is destroyed...

• Smallville - Series 6 - Complete | Blu Ray | (22/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  They tried to be friends. But their chosen paths set them on a collision course. The Clark Kent - Lex Luthor rivalry explodes into the fierce good-versus-evil battle fans have long expected in Season 6 of the spectacular series that reinterprets the characters and events of Superman mythology from its core. Adding to the rivalry: Lana Lang becomes Mrs. Luthor. Clark would be stunned to find out why she says yes. But that's not all that's stunning. Green Arrow forms a Super Hero league. Will Clark join? Phantom Zone escapees menace Earth. Can Clark stop them? Luthrcorop expands its dark experiments. Will an awesome Kryptonite-powered army be the result? The answers - and thrills - are here! Episodes Comprise: 1. Zod 2. Sneeze 3. Wither 4. Arrow 5. Reunion 6. Fallout 7. Rage 8. Static 9. Subterranean 10. Hydro 11. Justice 12. Labyrinth 13. Crimson 14. Trespass 15. Freak 16. Promise 17. Combat 18. Progeny 19. Nemesis 20. Noir 21. Prototype 22. Phantom

• Justice League - Justice On Trial | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Two two-part episodes from the first season: 'In Blackest Night' and 'The Enemy Below'. In Blackest Night the hard nosed combative Green Lantern is put on trial for destroying the planet by a group of indestructable android enforcers call the Manhunters. Unable to save himself even with the help of his laser-projecting power ring the Green lantern has to rely on the powerful Justice League who comes to his aid to uncover the real perpetrator of the crime. In the second episode s

• Poolhall Junkies | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Obsessed by the world of pool Johnny could be one of the best. But his mentor and ""trainer"" Joe is holding him back from his dream. Johnny eventually breaks from Joe which leads to violence. After an ultimatum from his girlfriend Tara Johnny finally commits to a ""real"" job in the construction business. Joe is bent on revenge for the beating he took and soon he has a new protg Brad who is just as good if not better then Johnny. The two play a high-stakes game of pool which en

• Justice League - Paradise Lost | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £7.91   |  Saving you £6.07 (123.37%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Paradise Lost: Wonder Woman returns home to Themyscira to find that the evil sorcerer Felix Faust has turned her mother Hippolyta and the rest of her Amazon sisters to statues of stone. Faust promises to free Themyscira from his evil enchantment if Wonder Woman agrees to help him find the lost fragments of a mysterious ancient relic. War World: In the second superhero episode Superman is captured by the warlord Mongul and plunged into a gladiator-style fight to t

• Smallville - The Complete Season 1 | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £54.99

  Before the Legend...Before the Icon...He was a teenager growing up in Smallville. The Complete First Season of the hit series that chronicles the life of the boy who would be Superman is on DVD in a 6-disc collector's set with super bonus features.

• Smallville - The Complete Season 6 | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £13.06   |  Saving you £36.93 (73.90%)   |  RRP £49.99

  They tried to be friends. But their chosen paths set them on a collision course. The Clark Kent - Lex Luthor rivalry explodes into the fierce good-versus-evil battle fans have long expected in Season 6 of the spectacular series that reinterprets the characters and events of Superman mythology from its core.Adding to the rivalry: Lana Lang becomes Mrs. Luthor. Clark would be stunned to find out why she says yes. But that's not all that's stunning. Green Arrow forms a Super Hero league. Will Clark join? Phantom Zone escapees menace Earth. Can Clark stop them? Luthrcorop expands its dark experiments. Will an awesome Kryptonite-powered army be the result? The answers - and thrills - are here! Episodes Comprise:1. Zod 2. Sneeze 3. Wither 4. Arrow 5. Reunion 6. Fallout 7. Rage 8. Static 9. Subterranean 10. Hydro 11. Justice 12. Labyrinth 13. Crimson 14. Trespass 15. Freak 16. Promise 17. Combat 18. Progeny 19. Nemesis 20. Noir 21. Prototype 22. Phantom

• Luther: Series 1-4 | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Smallville - Series 8 - Complete | Blu Ray | (12/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  There's a new reporter at the Daily Planet: Clark Kent who shares a workspace with Lois Lane. There's a new hero in Metropolis too. No one knows who he is. But Jimmy Olsen was on the scene of one of the do-gooder's exploits and he snapped a blurred photo of the hero in superspeed action - a hero everyone now calls the Red-Blue Blur. Red-jacketed blue-shirted Clark Kent draws closer to his Superman destiny in the exciting 22-episode 4-disc Season 8 of Smallville. Another Kryptonian destiny also takes shape. Davis Bloome begins to realize he is Doomsday. His mission on Earth: kill Clark Kent. So many new events (will Jimmy and Chloe's marriage last?) so many new faces (Tess Mercer Saturn Girl and Cosmic Boy among them!) so many state-of-the-art effects - so don't miss a single thrill-packed moment!

• Dragonlance - Dragons of Autumn Twilight | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After 300 hundred years of peace the world of Krynn has descended into darkness as the evil goddess Takhisis and her army of dragons threaten to dominate the lands. Can a small band of heroes including the wizard Raistlin the priestess Goldmoon (Lucy Lawless) and the half elven warrior Tanis (Michael Rosenbaum) save the world before all is lost? Based on The New York Times bestsellers DragonLance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight is an epic tale of might magic and monsters!

• Danielle Steel's Palomino | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £4.12   |  Saving you £1.87 (45.39%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After the break up of her marriage photographer Samantha Taylor retreats to the sanctuary of friend Caroline Lord's California ranch. An excellent rider Samantha is initially given a frosty welcome by the ranch hands but she begins to gain their respect as they see that she is more than able on a horse and in their environment. Samantha falls in love with ranch hand Tate Jordan and they share a deep and passionate love until Tate finds out that Samantha's ex-husband is popular and wealthy news anchor Warren Taylor. Ashamed by his profession and his 'status' he leaves the ranch. Samantha is heartbroken once again and tries to assuage her pain by embarking on a project photographing the 'real' cowboys of the west. Whilst visiting a ranch in California Samantha breaks her back in an accident and is paralysed and must learn how to walk - and ride - again. Caroline Lord tragically dies but leaves her ranch to Samantha who turns it into a riding school for paralysed children. Through this enterprise she begins to heal from the pain of Tate's desertion the loss of her friend and her own paralysis. Tate returns to the ranch after hearing of Caroline's death and finds Samantha there. Can they both overcome their own demons and learn to love each other again?

• X-Men: Beginnings Trilogy | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £4.99   |  Saving you £14.92 (299.00%)   |  RRP £19.91

  Although the superhero comic book has been a duopoly since the early 1960s, only DC's flagship characters, Superman and Batman (who originated in the late 1930s) have established themselves as big-screen franchises. Until now--this is the first runaway hit film version of the alternative superhero X-Men universe created for Marvel Comics by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and others. It's a rare comic-book movie that doesn't fall over its cape introducing all the characters, and this is the exception. X-Men drops us into a world that is closer to our own than Batman's Gotham City, but it's still home to super-powered goodies and baddies. Opening in high seriousness with paranormal activity in a WW2 concentration camp and a senatorial inquiry into the growing "mutant problem", Bryan Singer's film sets up a complex background with economy and establishes vivid, strange characters well before we get to the fun. There's Halle Berry flying and summoning snowstorms, James Marsden zapping people with his "optic beams", Rebecca Romijn-Stamos shape-shifting her blue naked form, and Ray Park lashing out with his Toad-tongue. The big conflict is between Patrick Stewart's Professor X and Ian McKellen's Magneto, super-powerful mutants who disagree about their relationship with ordinary humans, but the characters we're meant to identify with are Hugh Jackman's Wolverine (who has retractable claws and amnesia), and Anna Paquin's Rogue (who sucks the life and superpowers out of anyone she touches). The plot has to do with a big gizmo that will wreak havoc at a gathering of world leaders, but the film is more interested in setting up a tangle of bizarre relationships between even more bizarre people, with solid pros such as Stewart and McKellen relishing their sly dialogue and the newcomers strutting their stuff in cool leather outfits. There are in-jokes enough to keep comics' fans engaged, but it feels more like a science fiction movie than a superhero picture. --Kim Newman

• Afterschool | DVD | (13/02/2012) from £20.69   |  Saving you £-4.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Robert (Ezra Miller) is a young American student at an elite East Coast preparatory school who accidentally captures on camera the tragic death of two classmates.

• Justice League - Secret Origins | DVD | (10/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  When global catastrophe strikes sometimes the job is too big for a single hero. At these moments the world's greatest super heroes answer the call of the Justice League. Justice League works together as a team to overcome a dangerous array of intersteller invaders and world conquering megalomaniacs - it is the ultimate power against the forces of evil.

• Smallville - The Complete Season 5 | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £15.99   |  Saving you £39.00 (243.90%)   |  RRP £54.99

  An astonishing season of destiny! Clark Kent now carries a full load of classes at Central Kansas U., but that's not all he carries. He carries the full weight of his - perhaps the world's - destiny. We call this season Superman in Training, series co-creator Alfred Gough says. Clark is going to accept his destiny. During this exciting pivotal season: The Fortress of Solitude rises. A spaceship mystery unfolds. A dark tragedy - one even Clark's powers can't prevent - strikes. These and more key elements of Superman lore fall into place.

• Smallville - The Complete Season 7 | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £74.23   |  Saving you £-24.24 (-48.50%)   |  RRP £49.99

• Stargate S.G - 1: Season 5 (Vol. 23) | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £5.92   |  Saving you £14.07 (70.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stargate SG-1 is the TV spin-off from the 1994 big-screen movie. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the primary unit SG-1. With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Episodes on this DVD: "Summit", "Last Stand", "48 Hours" and "Proving Ground". In a daring Tok'ra mission, Daniel Jackson is sent to infiltrate and attend a Goa'uld "Summit" disguised as a manservant. With a lot of sneaking around and a little technobabble thrown in to explain how he isn't recognised, things come to a head with the unveiling of who the secret new baddies are and how they affect Daniel personally. In a direct continuation from "Summit", SG-1 make what they hope is a "Last Stand" against the System Lords. Similarly, the Tok'ra stand together on planet Revanna where O'Neill and Teal'c have a crash course in alien technology as they learn how to grow different types of tunnel from crystal. It's been a while since someone made the analogy of the Stargates operating like a telephone exchange. "48 Hours" traps Teal'c within the system, and the team have only two days to find a way to reconnect him. Unfortunately, this requires the aid of the Russians who are more than a little reluctant about giving up their private dialling device. This episode also features terrific cameos from the slithery Maybourne and Simmons (John de Lancie). Inevitably there needs to be a next generation of SG teams, so Jack and co take time out from their missions to train up some newbies. "Proving Ground" is all about who can make the grade, and in particular they have their eyes on the brilliant Jennifer and headstrong Elliot. The tension is really piled on in this show as layers of reality build to confuse the kids and the audience as to what's really happening to them. --Paul Tonks

• Whistle And I'll Come To You | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  M.R. James is one of the greatest writers of stories of the supernatural and 'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad' is one of his darkest works - a tale of solitude and terror and the dangers of intellectual pride. Made in 1968 for BBC Television's Omnibus programme Jonathan Miller's adaptation succeeds in capturing the chill of terror at the heart of the story. The bleak Norfolk landscape is superbly photographed by Dick Bush to instil a sense of isolation and unease from th