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• The Sopranos: Series 2 (Vols. 1-3) | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £32.99

  The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include soldier Chris (Michael Imperioli) hapless efforts to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the Government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --David Stubbs

• Deathstone | DVD | (13/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When a mystical Chinese tomb is excavated a series of murders follow; all the victims coming from the same powerful family. When an American Marine is accused of the murders two buddies come to his rescue to fight the supernatural and free their friend.

• Hollywood Workout | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  We've worked with Britney Spears Jennifer Lopez Elle MacPherson and Julia Roberts - now we show you how you can look as good as they do Nancy Kennedy. Get a celebrity body with the trainers to the stars. Nancy Kennedy and Bobby Strom share their workout secrets and nutrition advice in this specially devised exercise plan to ensure you tone up lose weight and look great. The Hollywood Workout is a fantastic fitness and food programme that shows you how to 'graze' eat to deliver fast effective and guaranteed results. Nancy and Bobby team up with a willing volunteer to take you though 3 x 20 minute workouts that focus on different parts of the body. The programme is devised to fit around busy lifestyles allowing you to workout as often or as little as you like. The Hollywood Workout comes from fitness experts who have years of personal training experience to guarantee everyone a body to be proud of.

• Space Precinct - Vol. 2 - Enforcer / Flash | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-13.00 (-86.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Enforcer: On Skall Street in Demeter City members of the infamous Hydra Gang are found dead - their hearts shredded but not a single mark in their bodies! Accompanied by an orphaned alien girl a new enforcer has taken over and the Skall Street traders soon discover that the Hydras have been replaced by something far worse. Flash: A new drug HE-11 (also known as Flash) has arrived on the street of Demeter causing spontaneous combustion in its users. While Brogan and Haldane visit Interchem the pharmaceutical company which originally developed the drug Orrin and Beezle run into trouble when Interchem's chief chemist Pola Vad Moonacki is kidnapped.

• The Sopranos: Series 2 (Vol. 1) | DVD | (21/05/2001) from £6.03   |  Saving you £6.96 (115.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include soldier Chris (Michael Imperioli) hapless efforts to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the Government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --David Stubbs

• ESPN 30 for 30 Unmatched | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The first time Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova stepped onto a tennis court together, the world scarcely noticed. Only a few hundred spectators saw the pert 18-year-old beat the scrappy 16-year-old Czech in 1973, but theirs was a rivalry that would enter sporting legend: no two athletes have met in as many matches or world championships, in any sport, as Evert and Navratilova. Seemingly polar opposites in terms of their upbringing, lifestyles and personal relationships, the Florida-born all-American Evert and the Czech-born Navratilova met a total of 80 times on the court, and between them claimed the end-of-season world number one ranking for 12 consecutive years. Their rivalry endured, and perhaps even created, the huge transformation of the women's game during the 1970s and 1980s, but perhaps most surprisingly led to a lifelong friendship between two titans of their sport.Close friends to this day, the two women now look back on their fierce rivalry and the changing face of tennis over the past 40 years.

• RoboCop | Blu Ray | (21/03/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Part Man, Part Machine, All Cop. RoboCop, from Orion Pictures, marked director Paul Verhoeven's (Flesh + Blood) Hollywood debut and instantly became an enduring sci-fi/action classic when it landed in theaters in the summer of 1987. Verhoeven's peerlessly exciting and kinetic visuals were matched by a sharp script, iconic cast and exceptional special effects by Rob Bottin (The Thing) and Phil Tippett (The Empire Strikes Back). The film takes place in Detroit in the not-too-distant future. Heroic cop Alex Murphy (Peter Weller, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai) is gunned down in the line of duty, only to be resurrected as RoboCop a cybernetic mix of spare human parts and Motor City steel, and the latest defense against crime designed by the all-powerful OCP Corporation. As RoboCop's memories of his former life as Murphy resurface, only his ex-partner (Nancy Allen, Dressed To Kill) stands beside him to fight against the vicious thugs responsible for his death, as well as a nefarious top-level OCP executive orchestrating the chaos from above. Unsurpassably thrilling, unexpectedly moving and unforgettably hilarious in equal measure, the future of law enforcement is back in a definitive 4K UHD Blu-ray presentation packed with hours of brand new bonus features and exclusive collectable packaging. 4K Ultra Hd Blu-ray Limited Edition Contents 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative by MGM, transferred in 2013 and approved by director Paul Verhoeven Newly commissioned artwork by Paul Shipper Director's Cut and Theatrical Cut of the film on two 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray™ discs with Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) Original lossless stereo and four-channel mixes plus DTS-HD MA 5.1 and Dolby Atmos surround sound options on both cuts Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing on both cuts Six collector's postcards (Limited Edition exclusive) Double-sided fold-out poster (Limited Edition exclusive) Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork (Limited Edition exclusive) 80-page Limited Edition collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Omar Ahmed, Christopher Griffiths and Henry Blyth, a 1987 Fangoria interview with Rob Bottin, and archive publicity materials (some contents exclusive to Limited Edition) Disc One Director's Cut Commentary by director Paul Verhoeven, executive producer Jon Davison and co-writer Ed Neumeier (originally recorded for the Theatrical Cut and re-edited in 2014 for the Director's Cut) Commentary by film historian Paul M. Sammon Commentary by fans Christopher Griffiths, Gary Smart and Eastwood Allen The Future of Law Enforcement: Creating RoboCop, an interview with co-writer Michael Miner RoboTalk, a conversation between co-writer Ed Neumeier and filmmakers David Birke (writer of Elle) and Nicholas McCarthy (director of Orion Pictures' The Prodigy) Truth of Character, an interview with star Nancy Allen on her role as Lewis Casting Old Detroit, an interview with casting director Julie Selzer on how the film's ensemble cast was assembled Connecting the Shots, an interview with second unit director and frequent Verhoeven collaborator Mark Goldblatt Analog, a featurette focusing on the special photographic effects, including new interviews with Peter Kuran and Kevin Kutchaver More Man Than Machine: Composing RoboCop, a tribute to composer Basil Poledouris featuring film music experts Jeff Bond, Lukas Kendall, Daniel Schweiger and Robert Townson RoboProps, a tour of super-fan Julien Dumont's collection of original props and memorabilia 2012 Q&A with the Filmmakers, a panel discussion featuring Verhoeven, Davison, Neumeier, Miner, Allen, star Peter Weller and animator Phil Tippett RoboCop: Creating A Legend, Villains of Old Detroit, Special Effects: Then & Now, three archive featurettes from 2007 featuring interviews with cast and crew Paul Verhoeven Easter Egg Four deleted scenes The Boardroom: Storyboard with Commentary by Phil Tippett Director's Cut Production Footage, raw dailies from the filming of the unrated gore scenes, presented in 4K (SDR) Two theatrical trailers and three TV spots Extensive image galleries Disc Two Theatrical Cut Commentary by director Paul Verhoeven, executive producer Jon Davison and co-writer Ed Neumeier (originally recorded for Theatrical version of the film) Two Isolated Score tracks (Composer's Original Score and Final Theatrical Mix) Edited-for-television version of the film, featuring alternate dubs, takes and edits of several scenes (95 mins, SD only) Split screen comparisons between the Director's Cut and Theatrical Cut, and the Theatrical Cut and edited-for-TV version RoboCop: Edited for Television, a compilation of alternate scenes from two edited-for-television versions, including outtakes newly transferred in HD from recently unearthed 35mm elements

• Elvis Presley Box Set (Volume 2) | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  Includes the films Viva Las Vegas Speedway and Harum Scarum. Viva Las Vegas: Lucky Jackson (Elvis) is a Vegas gambling car racing singing and dancing ladies man. But all does not go the way he plans when he finds himself distracted by the lovely pool manageress... Speedway: Stock car racer Steve Grayson (Elvis) has a generous disposition and a wastrel manager (Bill Bixby) - it's no surprise that he finds himself owing the taxman 5 000. Sparks fly when gorgeous tax inspector Susan Jacks (Nancy Sinatra) arrives on the scene... Harum Scarum: Johnny Tyronne (Elvis) is a swashbuckling action-adventure movie star on a goodwill tour of the Middle East to promote his latest film. Disaster strikes when he is kidnapped by a clandestine group of assassins who want him to kill a desert king!

• The Frank Sintra Show Welcome Home Elvis | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Elvis Presley burst onto the music scene in 1956 he shocked a nation and inspired a generation. With his unique performing style he defined an era and his influence is still felt throughout the musical world today. In 1958 Elvis left a void when he was drafted into military service and stationed in Germany. So it was no surprise that when he returned to the world stage his army of adoring fans were waiting for him. His profile was so great that Frank Sinatra invited him to appear on his hugely popular TV show as his main guest. Join Sinatra in the ' Welcome Home Elvis' (from National Service) TV special. Rare archive footage captures two of the Twentieth Century's most recognisable icons whilst they share the stage in this enchanting piece of television entertainment history. The show also features Sammy Davis Jr and Nancy Sinatra . This TV special contains a number of memorable live performances from Elvis including an amazing duet with Sinatra himself. This is programme is a must for all Elvis fans.

• South Park: Vol. 5 | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-4.98 (-38.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Mexican Staring Frog Of Southern Sri Lanka: Ned and Jimbo track the deadly Mexican Staring Frog and the success of their new cable-access hunting show threatens to edge out an old favourite Jesus and Pals. Flashbacks: As their school bus teeters on a cliff's edge the boys relive landmark moment from their youth. When Ms. Crabtree goes for help she finds love! Summer Sucks: Fireworks are banned Mr Hat has disappeared and Cartmen's forced to take swimming lessons. Plus the mayor's plan to put some punch in the July 4th celebrations goes awry. Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls: South Park's Film Festival attracts big crowds but the resulting strain on the sewer system causes problems for Mr Hankey. Kyle appeals to the movie industry to save him.

• Battle Cry / Objective Burma / Operation Pacific | DVD | (21/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  Battle Cry: A tight-knit group of marines have adventures in both love and war as they progress from boot camp training to a New Zealand ops base and on to the hard-fought invasion of Saipan. Operation Pacific: 'Duke' Gifford an ultra devoted commander feeling guilty about the death of his former commanding officer and the failure of his marriage leads his submarine crew up into uncharted waters in the battle for the Pacific... Objective Burma: A crack squad of paratroopers parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. When an ambush cuts off their only escape route his troop are forced into the swamp-infested hell of the Burmese jungle. The harrowing fight for survival begins in a realistic account of the grim hardships facing brave men in battle...

• I've Been Watching You 2: Prom Night | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Cherry isn't like the other girls but she still wants to be the prom queen the trouble is she has not been nominated. Bitter and confused by her absence from the list of finalists she embarks on a mission of murder and mayhem in her quest for celebrity status.

• The Sopranos: Series 1 (Vol. 2) | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: This ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there is the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his mid-level capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what is not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Act Of War | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Former American embassy security agent Jack Gracy (Scalia) sneaks into a party at the building to visit his estranged girlfriend. As the pair try to resolve their personal problems terrorists storm the event and take all the attendees hostage. However they hadn't planned on Jack being in on the party...

• Lifeforce | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the blink of an eye the terror begins. A mission to investigate Halley's Comet discovers an even more fascinating phenomenon: an alien spacecraft! After a deadly confrontation the aliens travel to Earth where their seductive leader begins a terrifying campaign to drain the lifeforce of everyone she encounters. Her victims in turn continue the cycle and soon the entire planet is in mortal danger. And when the mission's sole survivor sets out to destroy her he comes face to face with the most charming - and horrifying - being he's ever known. Will he be able to destroy the lovely vampiress... or will he become yet another victim of her fatal charm?

• South Park: Vol. 3 | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £7.41   |  Saving you £8.57 (193.89%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Join Stan Kyle Cartman and Kenny as these four animated tykes take on the supernatural the extraordinary and the insane. For them it's all a part of growing up in South Park. Starvin' Marvin: Its Thanksgiving! Genetically altered turkeys are on the rampage in South Park and Cartman is mistaken for a starving Ethiopian. Mecha-Streisand: A monster threatens to destroy South Park but help is on the way in the form of award-winning actor a celebrated movie critic and a rock superstar. Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo: Christmas time in South Park finds Kyle incarcerated in the South Park Mental House but an unlikely hero saves the day. Damien: When the son of the prince of darkness arrives in South Park Cartman's birthday party is upstaged by the battle of good against evil.

• Yellow | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £9.26 (57.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Roselyn Sanchez and D.B. Sweeney star in this romantic drama about a young dancer who travels from her native Puerto Rico to the Big Apple in search of a new life after the death of her crippled father once a great ballet star in New York City. Upon her arrival in New York with no job and nowhere to live Amaryllis (Sanchez) turns to working in a strip club to make ends meet. Amaryllis quickly creates a new family in New York by befriending an older man in her building a washed-out poetry professor named Miles Emory as well as her co-workers at the strip club. Increasingly desperate Amaryllis seriously injures herself during a performance one night at the club only to be saved by Christian (Sweeney) a doctor in the audience. Miles' poem 'Yellow' inspires Amaryllis to seek a Broadway dancing job and her emotional connection to Miles helps to give him a reason for living that eluded her father. As Amaryllis' relationship with Christian turns into a love affair she must make a choice between the security of his love and following her dream.

• Category 6 - Day of Destruction/Category 7 - The End of the World - Armageddon Double | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nature strikes out with unfathomable fury as the unimaginable becomes a terrifying reality. Three twisters descend upon Las Vegas leaving a neon wasteland in their wake. Hurricanes tear through the Gulf Coast without warning. Record-high temperatures scorch the northeast. One-hundred-mile-an-hour winds tear across the south. Lightning storms ignite the sky. Wildfires blaze out of control. For Amy Harkin a budding Chicago anchorwoman looking for her big break the fear of these weather anomalies is second only to the dread of the inevitable repercussions: rolling coast-to-coast blackouts and the dwindling sources needed to revive them. With the worst power breakdown on record looming an overload could cripple the nation and leave the entire population in the dark without communication and vulnerable to unthinkable dangers.

• Born Invincible | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Classic Kung Fu fare from the Hong Kong school directed by the old master himself, Joseph Kuo, Born Invincible has only been available in an extremely crackly print for years. Fortunately this version has been cleaned up, though lovers of Oriental kitsch will be glad to hear that the risible, excruciating dubbing remains intact. The plot revolves around the evil Ching Ying (Carter Wong), who has trained since the age of three in the near-impossible art of Tai Chi Kung Fu. His body has become tantamount to a single, deadly muscle, the 108 pressure points of human vulnerability reduced to just one--his sole weakness. His training has also left him with whitened hair and a voice that, dubbed, is a little too close to Harry Enfield's Grayson character from the Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketches in high excitement. Having killed two elders of the Lei Ping school in martial combat over an old score, it falls to the students of that establishment to avenge their masters, through three rigorous years of training. The awesome, though often-comical fight scenes (which in no way resemble Tai Chi) dominate the movie, involving as they do protracted acrobatic manoeuvres, few of which seem to involve actual contact with the human body. Still, lovers of The Matrix might care to revisit this, in order to check out how those moves were first committed to celluloid when editing was less of a fine art. --David Stubbs

• The Beverly Hillbillies - Vol. 1 | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  12 classic episodes on three discs. The story of the newly wealthy Clampett family and their escapades through Beverly Hills has enchanted viewers for many decades since its initial showing in 1962. After Jed Clampett (Buddy Ebsen) discovered oil on the family property he moved his blue collar clan to the lush surroundings of Beverly Hills to the significant horror of the locals. Unable to fit in the Clampett's simply live their life in the style to which they've become accustomed