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• Cracker | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  First screened in 1993, Jimmy McGovern's Cracker was at once a variation on a familiar theme and a daring new departure from the run-of-the-mill cop show. Robbie Coltrane's Fitz is an independent criminal psychologist called in by the police to help them crack intractable cases, usually involving grisly serial murders. But like its Granada TV stablemate Prime Suspect, Cracker also delves deep into the main characters' personal lives, revealing a chaos of emotional entanglements that become increasingly inseparable from their professional duties. Robbie Coltrane's charismatic presence dominates: the contrast between Fitz's professionalism and his complete inability to diagnose his own psychological failings provides much of the show's dramatic impetus. His frequent interrogations of murder suspects are tour de force demonstrations of coolly analytical method shot through with biting humour. But his drunken, intemperate behaviour towards his wife and everyone else is a telling contrast of extremes, and one that creates dangerous resentment among his colleagues. Coltrane is supported by a strong cast that includes Barbara Flynn, Geraldine Somerville, Lorcan Cranitch (as the terrifyingly unstable DS Jimmy Beck), Christopher Eccleston, and a pre-Royle Family Ricky Tomlinson. McGovern's screenplays balance gritty, Manchester-based realism with splendidly mordant wit, making Cracker simply riveting viewing. On the DVD: This complete Cracker 10-disc box set contains all three series that ran from 1993-95. The feature-length episodes are: "The Mad Woman in the Attic", "Say I Love You", "One Day a Lemming Will Fly" (Series 1); "Be a Somebody", "The Big Crunch", "Men Should Weep" (Series 2); "Brotherly Love", "Best Boys", "True Romance" (Series 3); "White Ghost" (1996 special). --Mark Walker

• Margot | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Beautiful and heartbreaking Margot brings to the screen with breathtaking vividness the glamorous and turbulent life of Britain's first international ballet superstar. At the age of 40 Dame Margot Fonteyn (Anne Marie Duff - The Virgin Queen Shameless) was already one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century but beneath her elegantly poised facade was a woman painfully aware of the future. Torn between her loyalties to the Royal Ballet and her marriage to the notorious and increasingly unfaithful Panamanian diplomat Roberto de Arias (Con O'Neill - Telstar Criminal Justice) Margot sensed mounting pressure to consider retirement. But as her star began to wane Margot's unexpected pairing with the young Russian ''migr'' Rudolph Nureyev (Michiel Huisman - The Young Victoria De Co-assistant) caused a global sensation. Whilst Margot's private life collapsed her passionate and vibrant relationship with Nureyev transformed Margot into a worldwide celebrity and created one of the most enduring and celebrated ballet partnerships of all time.

• Mock the Week - Too Hot For TV 2 | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £4.45   |  Saving you £15.54 (349.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Produced exclusively for DVD three hilarious hours of the country's finest comic minds battling it out on TVs most outrageous comedy show. Mock The Week Too Hot For TV 2 is the sharpest rudest and funniest collection of Mock the Week moments so far delving into the show's archives to unearth laugh out loud nuggets of comedy gold never previously allowed to be shown. Watch Dara O Briain Frankie Boyle Hugh Dennis Russell Howard Andy Parsons and a host of Britain's finest stand ups pushing the boundaries further than ever before.

• Guardian Angel | DVD | (22/05/2000) from £11.72   |  Saving you £-5.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Cynthia McKay is Lawton Hobbs' personal bodyguard. Hobbs is being threatened by Nina Lindell a seductress who had earlier killed McKay's lover.

• Freaky | Blu Ray | (04/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Six Feet Under: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £21.98   |  Saving you £31.00 (155.08%)   |  RRP £50.99

  In some ways, HBO's Six Feet Under plays kid brother to the Sopranos: it's spunkier, less refined, chancier and a bit of a punk. Nevertheless, the show, set in the southern California mortuary Fisher and Sons, deserves its place in the pantheon of great television series. The initial series was a showcase for the most original characters, including tight-lipped brother David (Michael C Hall) coming out of the closet, emotionally trippy mom Ruth (Frances Conroy) and the most complex girlfriend on the face of the planet, Brenda (Rachel Griffiths). Slowly, the major force in series two 2 is the unassuming lead, Peter Krause. Part of the long line of good-looking actors who never get respect because they make it look too easy, Krause finds the perfect blend of optimism and wonderful, bittersweet anguish as Nate, the prodigal son. The opening series' happy ending is forgotten as relationships change, the business is still under fire from the evil conglomerate Kroehner, and a lively dream sequence is just around the corner. As with the first series, creator Alan Ball lets many others direct and write the show, but his stamp is all over it. The eccentricities of the characters are shaped, and not always suddenly. Take daughter Claire (Lauren Ambrose), who sheds her bad boyfriend only to find more complex relationships on her road to discovering her own groove. One person in the mix is Ruth's beatnik sister (Patricia Clarkson, in an Emmy-winning role). She's a joyous embodiment of thriving--if ageing--counter-culture. Another new character is Nate's old girlfriend, the granola-loving Lisa (Lili Taylor). With Brenda heading down another destructive course, Nate is at more than one crossroads by series' end. For fans who groove with the wild, serio-comedic world of the Fishers (and let's face it, many didn't), the second series goes down like a fine meal of fusion cuisine. --Doug Thomas

• Married... With Children - Season 1 | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Bundys are a stereotypical American family. Al is a shoe salesman who is fond of frequently reliving his doubtful 15 seconds of fame on the football field. Al is terrified of the all-to-frequent amorous advances his ditsy wife Peggy a woman who must spend most of Al's wages at the salon and the mall. They have two children: Kelly the stunning but superficial party animal and Bud who is too wrapped up in himself to realize his goal of 'scoring' with a girl.

• An Everlasting Piece | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £7.83   |  Saving you £5.16 (65.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set against the turbulent backdrop of Belfast, fellow barbers Colm (a Catholic) and George (a Protestant) form an unlikely partership to corner the rights to the toupee market in Northern Ireland.

• HIDDEN (1987) - HIDDEN (1987) (1 Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (03/10/2017) from £23.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• In Cold Blood | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £4.90   |  Saving you £8.09 (165.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Richard Brooks's In Cold Blood is a faithful 1967 screen adaptation of Truman Capote's extraordinary non-fiction book about the course of two killers in this world--their lives, their senseless slaughter of an entire family, and their executions. Robert Blake and Scott Wilson are remarkable as the murderers, but what has kept this film special over the decades is Brooks's blunt, clearheaded, and non-sensational approach to the story. (The term "semi-documentary" has been applied to Brooks's style on this film, and it's an entirely fair description.) The experience of watching In Cold Blood is naturally unsettling, but the director--as with Capote--leaves final judgments about justice to the beholder. --Tom Keogh

• We Joined the Navy (Vintage Classics) | DVD | (21/11/2022) from £9.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  We Joined The Navy is a 1962 British naval comedy starring British film icon Kenneth More, Lloyd Nolan, Joan O'Brien and Mischa Auer and directed by Wendy Toye. Lieutenant Commander Robert Badger is an excellent naval officer with one major problem. He speaks the truth at the most inopportune times, leading him to be transferred from ship, to shore, and then to instruct at the Royal Naval College. When his remarks are repeated by one of his students to his father, an anti-military Member of Parliament, he has one last chance to prove himself. Product Features The Extraordinary Career of Wendy Toye Pt 2 feat. interviews with Jo Botting & Pamela Hutchinson Visions: Wendy Toye & Sally Potter: Two Directors Behind the Scenes Stills Gallery The King's Breakfast (1963)

• Niagara | Blu Ray | (29/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Marilyn Monroe sizzles in this tense masterful thriller. While the seductive Rose Loomis (Monroe) and her husband George (Joseph Cotten) vacation in a charming guest cabin at spectacular Niagara Falls Rose and her lover plot to kill George. But things go terribly wrong and soon an innocent honeymooning couple find themselves swept up in the crime.

• Day After Tomorrow, The / Independence Day | DVD | (31/05/2005) from £8.47   |  Saving you £7.52 (88.78%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Day After Tomorrow: Extremely concerned by the Earth's extremely rapid rate of climate change paleoclimatologist Adrian Hall (Quaid) races northward to a freezing New York to rescue his son as the rest of humanity streams south to escape the impending ice age... Independence Day: One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of mankind.

• The Final Countdown | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £10.66   |  Saving you £-7.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  ""...This is the USS Nimitz. Where the Hell are we...?"" Trapped inside the boundaries of time and space... 102 aircraft.... 6000 men.... all missing. It is 1980 and the USS Nimitz puts to sea off of Pearl Harbor for routine exercises. After encountering a strange storm and losing all contact with the US Pacific Fleet nuclear war with the Soviet Union is assumed and the USS Nimitz arms herself for battle. However after encountering Japanese Zero scout planes and finding Pearl Harbor filled with pre-World War II battleships it is realized that the storm the Nimitz went through caused the ship to travel back in time: to December 6th 1941.

• Tin Star: Season 3 | Blu Ray | (15/02/2021) from £11.42   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The final and concluding Season of the Tin Star saga. Thousands of miles away from the Rocky vista of Canadian town, Little Big Bear, Jack, Angela and Anna return to the UK 20 years after leaving to confront the sinister truth they ran from. The family are on the attack, determined to draw to a conclusion the historic battles they have been fighting from the past, and will have to confront their deadliest enemies in a battle to win freedom in the present.

• Robin's Nest - Series 5 - Complete | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £7.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (150.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  There's a fresh helping of high-jinx and mishaps for Robin and Vicky as they continue the struggle to run their bistro business occasionally helped (but mostly hindered) by Vicky's overbearing father and their disaster-prone one-armed dishwasher Albert Riddle. This complete fifth series contains all six episodes originally transmitted in 1980 and also includes that year's Christmas Special. Episodes Comprise: 1. Pastures New 2. A Man of Property 3. If You Pass 'Go' Collect ''200 4. Never Look a Gift Horse... 5. Just an Old-Fashioned Girl 6. Great Expectations 7. Christmas Special: No Room at the Innf

• Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £8.96   |  Saving you £9.03 (100.78%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When a doctor is killed at a mental asylum the evil Baron Frankenstein seizes the chance to transplant his brain into the meek body of Doctor Richter. But the bloody operation creates an entity of evil which shatters the lives of everyone...

• Utopia - Series 1 | Blu Ray | (11/03/2013) from £11.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Utopia is a cult graphic novel rumoured to have predicted the worst disasters of the late twentieth century. Dismissed as the fevered imaginings of a madman by most, and idolised by a handful, only one thing seems certain about Utopia: come into contact with it and you won't be safe for long. When a small group of normal people, including survivalist geek Wilson Wilson, Ian an IT consultant, Becky, a post grad student and Grant, an 11 year old boy, find themselves in possession of the manuscript of Utopia, they realise they are at the centre of a nightmarish conspiracy turned real. Targeted by the silent but deadly Arby working for a shadowy organisation known only as The Network, they are left with one option if they want to stay alive: they have to run, avoiding even being caught even on CCTV. The Network is everywhere: in government, in business, in charge. A secret organisation constrained neither by borders nor common morality. Nobody knows what their plan is, just that they will stop at nothing to find the original manuscript of Utopia. And there's one question on everyone's lips...Who is Jessica Hyde? Utopia asks what if the conspiracy nuts are right? What if people are trying to control our lives, doctor our food, experiment upon us, kill us? Fast, terrifying, funny and brutal, you'll be on the edge of your seat wondering if can really trust anyone...?

• The Descent Part 2 | Blu Ray | (12/04/2010) from £9.55   |  Saving you £15.44 (161.68%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Shauna Macdonald ("Mutant Chronicles") returns as Sarah, continuing the story of 2005's hugely successful horror thriller "The Descent", in which a group of young women disappear during a caving trip in the Appalachian Mountains.

• Mothering Sunday | Blu Ray | (31/01/2022) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr and Mrs Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend an afternoon of abandon with her secret lover, Paul (Josh O'Connor), the boy from the manor house nearby who is Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.