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• The Golden Bowl | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (178.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The latest Merchant Ivory period drama stars Uma Thurman, Jeremy Northam, Kate Beckinsale and Nick Nolte in a tale of passion & intrigue.

• Hotel New Hampshire | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From the novel by John Irving comes this darkly comic tale of an eccentric New England family. As the father moves them from one place to the next setting up a new hotel each time the assortment of oddball characters seem to become involved in ever more bizarre situations. Frannie becomes obsessed with the boy who attacks her John becomes obsessed with Frannie his sister and both of them fall for a girl who is so insecure she hides in a bear outfit Frank is coming to terms with his homosexuality and the youngest Lilly is convinced she isn't growing. The family pet is a flatulent dog that ends up stuffed and causes more trouble than when it was alive...

• Knock Around Guys | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £4.10   |  Saving you £15.89 (387.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An all-star cast enlivens this mobster movie. Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan, Battlefield Earth) plays the central role of Matty, the son of a mob boss (Dennis Hopper, Blue Velvet, Speed) who's reluctant to give his son a shot at crime. Alas, when Matty and his posse of friends--tough guy Vin Diesel (Boiler Room, XXX), lover boy Andrew Davoli (The Sopranos), and screw-up Seth Green (the Austin Powers movies)--finally get an opportunity, they fumble the job, and a very important satchel of money ends up in a Montana town where the wily sheriff (Tom Noonan, Manhunter) decides he deserves a bonus for his years of public service. The posse's problems get worse when Matty's ruthless uncle (John Malkovich) comes to town to clean up the mess. Mechanical and unimaginative, but the capable performances keep it moving.

• Knock Off | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £10.89   |  Saving you £-1.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Having based so much of his career on the films from the region, Jean Claude Van Damme heads to Hong Kong itself for his film Knock Off. Set in the 72 hours running up to the British handover to China (and released a mere year after the actual event), the film's action centres around the colony's thriving bootleg business, tied in with a rather convoluted plot concerning the CIA, Russian Mafia and an attempt to hold the United States to ransom through covert attacks. The opening section unwisely tries Van Damme's hand at knockabout humour with partner Rob Schneider but merely proves that the star is severely lacking the sort of humorous touch that Arnold Schwarzenegger has so successfully utilised. Once Knock Off descends into more familiar Van Damme territory, the film--and its leading man--are on surer ground. There are a good deal of spectacular fight sequences, some amazing stunts and a feisty female sparring partner in the form of Lela Rochen. Even the always-reliable Paul Sorvino pops up. Director Tsui Hark hits upon some interesting and initially invigorating visual effects but soon overdoes them, actually highlighting the lack of decent story rather than enhancing it. There is an incredible film to be made about this period in history but this isn't it. Knock Off is merely another undemanding, high-kicking, high-octane vehicle for Van Damme. --Phil Udell

• Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Complete DVD Collection | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £104.99   |  Saving you £75.00 (71.44%)   |  RRP £179.99

  From its charming and angst-ridden first season to the darker, apocalyptic final one, Buffy the Vampire Slayer succeeds on many levels, and in a fresher and more authentic way than the shows that came before or after it. How lucky, then, that with the release of its box set of seasons 1-7, you can have the estimable pleasure of watching a near-decade of Buffy in any order you choose. (And we have some ideas about how that should be done.) First: rest assured that there's no shame in coming to Buffy late, even if you initially turned your nose up at the winsome Sarah Michelle Gellar kicking the hell out of vampires (in Buffy-lingo, vamps), demons, and other evil-doers. Perhaps you did so because, well, it looked sort of science-fiction-like with all that monster latex. Start with season 3 and see that Buffy offers something for everyone, and the sooner you succumb to it, the quicker you'll appreciate how textured and riveting a drama it is. Why season 3? Because it offers you a winning cast of characters who have fallen from innocence: their hearts have been broken, their egos trampled in typically vicious high-school style, and as a result, they've begun to realize how fallible they are. As much as they try, there are always more monsters, or a bigger evil. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the core crew remains something of a unit--there's the smart girl, Willow (Alyson Hannigan) who dreams of saving the day by downloading the plans to City Hall's sewer tunnels and mapping a route to safety. There are the ne'r do wells--the vampire Spike (James Marsters), who both clashes with and aspires to love Buffy; the tortured and torturing Angel (David Boreanz); the pretty, popular girl with an empty heart (Charisma Carpenter); and the teenage everyman, Xander (Nicholas Brendon). Then there's Buffy herself, who in the course of seven seasons morphs from a sarcastic teenager in a minidress to a heroine whose tragic flaw is an abiding desire to be a "normal" girl. On a lesser note, with the box set you can watch the fashion transformation of Buffy from mall rat to Prada-wearing, kickboxing diva with enviable highlights. (There was the unfortunate bob of season 2, but it's a forgivable lapse.) At least the storyline merits the transformations: every time Buffy has to end a relationship she cuts her hair, shedding both the pain and her vulnerability. In addition to the well-wrought teenage emotional landscape, Buffy deftly takes on more universal themes--power, politics, death, morality--as the series matures in seasons 4-6. And apart from a few missteps that haven't aged particularly well ("I Robot" in season 1 comes to mind), most episodes feel as harrowing and as richly drawn as they did at first viewing. That's about as much as you can ask for any form of entertainment: that it offer an escape from the viewer's workaday world and entry into one in which the heroine (ideally one with leather pants) overcomes demons far more troubling than one's own. --Megan Halverson

• Bust - The First Series - Complete | DVD | (29/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Bust: The Complete First Series (2 Disc)

• Mars: Season 1 | Blu Ray | (10/04/2017) from £14.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The first manned mission from Earth to Mars in 2033 attempts to colonize the red planet.

• Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles - Vol. 1 - The Pluto Campaign | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £4.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (303.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Roughnecks is the computer-animated TV spin-off from director Paul Verhoeven's live-action sci-fi shoot-'em-up Starship Troopers. Verhoeven had already seen his Robocop movie spun-off into animated television with mixed results, so when it came to Starship Troopers he wanted Roughnecks to be a little different (the director acted as Executive Producer on the series). The style of computer animation here recalls, if anything, the little green soldiers from the Toy Story movies. Backed by an unending techno-based score (despite which the series has won several awards for sound editing), the 20-minute episodes are like viewing brilliantly conceived "cut scenes" from computer games. The series concept begins by taking the movie's characters, giving them different origins---and then forgets about a bug home-world in favour of a mobile threat that can appear anywhere. With souped-up combat suits that better acknowledge Robert Heinlein's original novel, the technological look and feel also owes a significant debt to Aliens. This first collection edits together the opening five episodes to make a 100-minute self-contained movie about a crawling infestation on Pluto. You'll know where shows start and end by the narration. The story is all to do with set-up as we meet the titular Roughnecks: Rico, Dizzy, Doc, Jenkins, Higgins and Razak. Between missions of rescue and mercy, a love triangle is established, Rico's heroics and Higgins' cowardice are explored and more bugs are wasted than you can possibly keep count of. The finale's discovery of "Bug City" will test anyone for arachnophobia. --Paul Tonks

• Are You Being Served? - Series 7 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  There's hilarity at Grace Brothers the High Street department store with a difference. Join in the fun as limp-wristed Mr Humphries and that blue-rinsed batle axe Mrs Slocombe lead the outrageous department store staff through a seventh series of outrageously funny episodes! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Junior 2. String Stuff This Insurance 3. The Apartment 4. Mrs. Slocombe Senior Person 5. The Hero 6. Anything You Can Do 7. The Agent 8. The Punch And Judy Affair

• Will Shakespeare - The Complete Series | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Written by Rumpole of the Bailey creator John Mortimer this six-part television dramatisation is based on the sixteen years that William Shakespeare is known to have spent in London remains one of the most impressive biographical portraits to date. With each episode built around the creation of a single play a skilful interweaving of known events and contemporary interpretation show how key experiences may have inspired some of Shakespeare's greatest works - the death of his young son and his love for the famous 'dark lady' of the sonnets for example. The bustling taverns and theatres of Elizabethan London are lavishly recreated while Shakespeare himself is played with tremendous sensitivity and breadth by Tim Curry. Originally screened in 1978 Will Shakespeare is a brilliantly imagined and very human portrait in which the flaws and frailties as well as the immense strengths of one of the world's greatest dramatists are brought vividly to life.

• American Pie - Unforgettable Range - Limited Edition Steelbook Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (24/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The first piece of 'Pie' brings together all the ingredients for a great disc. Featuring commentary by Director, Writer and Cast, deleted scenes and a Weitz brothers interview. American Pie takes a hysterical look at the goal of Jim, Ox, Kevin and Finch, four "unlucky in love" high school friends who make the ultimate pact: lose their virginity by prom night. As they try and manipulate their way into the... hearts of some of their classmates, their plans often backfire with hilarity. Sit back and follow the raging hormones of the boys and their girls as they gear up for the most important night of their lives... the prom?

• Rock And Chips - Five Gold Rings | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Paula Wilcox Shaun Dingwall Phil Daniels Kellie Bright and James Buckley star in Rock & Chips It's Christmas 1960 and the Trotters are settling into their new flat in Sir Walter Raleigh House Peckham. Rodney is a babe in arms Reg is still drawing the dole and hard-working Joan is struggling to keep the family afloat after losing her jobs at the town hall and the cinema. A 16-year-old Del has left school and is exploring employment opportunities around the docks - including a nice line in selling 45s straight off the back of a boat from America - and Freddie Robdal has been temporarily detained in Wormwood Scrubs at Her Majesty's pleasure. Meanwhile Del who has been advised that slipping an engagement ring on a girl's finger can open up a whole new world of lustful opportunity has managed to get himself engaged to half of Peckham. But will any of his engagements lead to a trip up the aisle?

• The Master Of Bankdam | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An epic film drama on the lives of three generations of Yorkshire mill-owners during Britain's turbulent Industrial Revolution. Simeon Crowther (Tom Walls) decides to hand over the family textile mill of Bankdam to his two sons Joshua (Dennis Price) and Zebediah (Stephen Murray). But Zebediah's reckless attitude endangers the whole survival of the family business and as catastrophe strikes the mill and they clash with the emerging trade union movement; who will save the mill and earn the title of The Master of Bankdam? First ever DVD release of this period Northern drama set amongst the dark satanic mills of Yorkshire. Renowned for coining the phrase 'there's trouble at t'mill.' An all-star cast with many small first-time appearances from stars such as Nicolas Parsons Part of the Odeon series 'Best of British' which showcases lost or unreleased films from the heyday of British cinema.

• Marcella - Series 1 | DVD | (03/04/2017) from £10.30   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Marcella is a new multi-stranded crime drama from internationally renowned screenwriter and novelist Hans Rosenfeldt (The Bridge). Set in contemporary London and starring Anna Friel, Marcella centers on the psychological struggles of a Metropolitan police officer at a crisis point in her personal life, driven by rejection and intuition. Co-created with Nicola Larder (The Tunnel), the series is Rosenfeldt's first drama created for an English speaking audience. Following his global success with The Bridge, Marcella captures Rosenfeldt's genius in creating truly compelling female characters.

• Dirty Weekend | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her. Finally driven to solving the problem with a hammer she realises she is then ready for a crusade against other such problem males.

• Dracula | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £8.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Although there have been numerous screen versions of Bram Stoker's classic tale none is more enduring than the 1931 original. The ominous portrayal of Count Dracula by Bela Lugosi combined with horror specialist director Tod Browning help to create an eerie mood. It remains a masterpiece not only of the genre but for all time.

• Criminal Minds Seasons 1-12 | DVD | (04/12/2017) from £84.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All the episodes from the first 12 seasons of the American crime drama following an elite team of FBI profilers as they analyse the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. Season 1 episodes: 'Extreme Aggressor', 'Compulsion', 'Won't Get Fooled Again', 'Plain Sight', 'Broken Mirror', 'L.D.S.K.', 'The Fox', 'Natural Born Killer', 'Derailed', 'The Popular Kids', 'Blood Hungry', 'What Fresh Hell?', 'Poison', 'Riding the Lightning', 'Unfinished Business', 'The Tribe', 'A Real Rain', 'Somebody's Watching', 'Machismo', 'Charm and Harm', 'Secrets and Lies' and 'The Fisher King: Part 1'. Season 2 episodes: 'The Fisher King: Part 2', 'P911', 'The Perfect Storm', 'Psychodrama', 'Aftermath', 'The Boogeyman', 'North Mammon', 'Empty Planet', 'The Last Word', 'Lessons Learned', 'Sex, Birth, Death', 'Profiler, Profiled', 'No Way Out', 'The Big Game', 'Revelations', 'Fear and Loathing', 'Distress', 'Jones', 'Ashes and Dust', 'Honor Among Thieves', 'Open Season', 'Legacy' and 'No Way Out: Part 2 - The Evilution of Frank'. Season 3 episodes: 'Doubt', 'In Birth and Death', 'Scared to Death', 'Children of the Dark', 'Seven Seconds', 'About Face', 'Identity', 'Lucky', 'Penelope', 'True Night', 'Birthright', '3rd Life', 'Limelight', 'Damaged', 'A Higher Power', 'Elephant's Memory', 'In Heat', 'The Crossing', 'Tabula Rasa' and 'Lo-Fi'. Season 4 episodes: 'Mayhem', 'The Angel Maker', 'Minimal Loss', 'Paradise', 'Catching Out', 'The Instincts', 'Memoriam', 'Masterpiece', '52 Pickup', 'Brothers in Arms', 'Normal', 'Soul Mates', 'Bloodline', 'Cold Comfort', 'Zoe's Reprise', 'Pleasure Is My Business', 'Demonology', 'Omnivore', 'House On Fire', 'Conflicted', 'A Shade of Gray', 'The Big Wheel', 'Roadkill', 'Amplification' and 'To Hell... and Back'. Season 5 episodes: 'Faceless, Nameless', 'Haunted', 'Reckoner', 'Hopeless', 'Cradle to Grave', 'The Eyes Have It', 'The Performer', 'Outfoxed', '100', 'The Slave of Duty', 'Retaliation', 'The Uncanny Valley', 'Risky Business', 'Parasite', 'Public Enemy', 'Mosley Lane', 'Solitary Man', 'The Fight', 'Rite of Passage', '... A Thousand Words', 'Exit Wounds', 'The Internet Is Forever' and 'Our Darkest Hour'. Season 6 episodes: 'The Longest Night', 'JJ', 'Remembrance of Things Past', 'Compromising Positions', 'Safe Haven', 'Devil's Night', 'Middle Man', 'Reflection of Desire', 'Into the Woods', 'What Happens at Home...', '25 to Life', 'Corazon', 'The Thirteenth Step', 'Sense Memory', 'Today I Do', 'Coda', 'Valhalla', 'Lauren', 'With Friends Like These', 'Hanley Waters', 'The Stranger', 'Out of the Light', 'Big Sea' and 'Supply and Demand'. Season 7 episodes: 'It Takes a Village', 'Proof', 'Dorado Falls', 'Painless', 'From Childhood's Hour', 'Epilogue', 'There's No Place Like Home', 'Hope', 'Self Fulfilling Prophecy', 'The Bittersweet Science', 'True Genius', 'Unknown Subject', 'Snake Eyes', 'Closing Time', 'A Thin Line', 'A Family Affair', 'I Love You, Tommy Brown', 'Foundation', 'Heathridge Manor', 'The Company', 'Divining Rod', 'Profiling 101', 'Hit' and 'Run'. Season 8 episodes: 'The Silencer', 'The Pact', 'Through the Looking Glass', 'God Complex', 'The Good Earth', 'The Apprenticeship', 'The Fallen', 'The Wheels On the Bus', 'Magnificent Light', 'The Lesson', 'Perennials', 'Zugzwang', 'Magnum Opus', 'All That Remains', 'Broken', 'Carbon Copy', 'The Gathering', 'Restoration', 'Pay It Forward', 'Alchemy', 'Nanny Dearest', 'No. 6', 'Brothers Hotchner' and 'The Replicator'. Season 9 episodes: 'The Inspiration', 'The Inspired', 'Final Shot', 'To Bear Witness', 'Route 66', 'In the Blood', 'Gatekeeper', 'The Return', 'Strange Fruit', 'The Caller', 'Bully', 'The Black Queen', 'The Road Home', '200', 'Mr. and Mrs. Anderson', 'Gabby', 'Persuasion', 'Rabid', 'The Edge of Winter', 'Blood Relations', 'What Happens in Mecklinburg...', 'Fatal', 'Angels' and 'Demons'. Season 10 episodes: 'X', 'Burn', 'A Thousand Suns', 'The Itch', 'Boxed In', 'If the Shoe Fits', 'Hashtag', 'The Boys of Sudworth Place', 'Fate', 'Amelia Porter', 'The Forever People', 'Anonymous', 'Nelson's Sparrow', 'Hero Worship', 'Scream', 'Lockdown', 'Breath Play', 'Rock Creek Park', 'Beyond Borders', 'A Place at the Table', 'Mr. Scratch', 'Protection' and 'The Hunt'. Season 11 episodes: 'The Job', 'The Witness', ''Til Death Do Us Part', 'Outlaw', 'The Night Watch', 'Pariahville', 'Target Rich', 'Awake', 'Internal Affairs', 'Future Perfect', 'Entropy', 'Drive', 'The Bond', 'Hostage', 'A Badge and a Gun', 'Derek', 'The Sandman', 'A Beautiful Disaster', 'Tribute', 'Inner Beauty', 'Devil's Backbone' and 'The Storm'. Season 12 episodes: 'The Crimson King', 'Sick Day', 'Taboo', 'Keeper', 'The Anti-Terror Squad', 'Elliott's Pond', 'Mirror Image', 'Scarecrow', 'Profiling 202', 'Seek and Destroy', 'Surface Tension', 'A Good Husband', 'Spencer', 'Collision Course', 'Alpha Male', 'Assistance Is Futile', 'In the Dark', 'Hell's Kitchen', 'True North', 'Unforgettable', 'Green Light' and 'Red Light'.

• Hellraiser: Inferno | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £8.35   |  Saving you £6.64 (79.52%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A shady L.A. detective (Sheffer) finds himself lost in a darkly nightmarish world of evil when he solves the mysterious puzzle box that releases the diabolical demon Pinhead! As those around him begin to meet tragic fates he sets out to conquer the horrifying Pinhead and escape eternal hell!

• Chariots Of Fire - 2 disc Special Edition | DVD | (11/04/2005) from £13.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The British Are Coming! Britain's finest athletes have begun their quest for glory in the 1924 Olympic Games. Success brings honour to their nation. For two runners the honour at stake is personal... and their challenge one from within. Winner of four 1981 Academy Awards including Best Picture 'Chariots Of Fire' is the inspiring true story of Harold Abrahams Eric Liddell and the team that brought Britain one of its greatest sports victories. Ben Cross Ian Charleson Nigel Havers Nicholas Farrell and Alice Krige enjoyed their first major movie roles in this debut theatrical feature for director Hugh Hudson. Producer David Puttnam blended those talents to shape a film of unique and lasting impact. From its awesome footage of competition to its Oscar-winning Vangelis score 'Chariots Of Fire' has blazed its way into the hearts of movie lovers everywhere.

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 1 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Vampire-slayer Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale, a Californian community located above the "Hellmouth", a phenomenon which explains the local graveyard's overpopulation of vampires and other supernatural beings. Angel, a mysterious loiterer, starts flirting with Buffy and gives her helpful tips on how to cope with the local nasties. However, he turns out to be a vampire, which complicates the future of their relationship. Buffy makes friends with school outcasts Willow, a computer nerd, and geeky Xander. But she excites the enmity of high-school princess Cordelia. The season's prime villain is the Master, a Nosferatu-looking vampire lurking under the town. Giles, Buffy's mentor, looks things up in books and demonstrates the exact same look of puzzlement actor Anthony Head used to demonstrate in those horrifying instant coffee ads. --Kim Newman