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• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £199.99

  Two words suffice to sum up the enduring and endearing qualities of Agatha Christie's Poirot: David Suchet. Despite all the careful Art Deco trappings, the light, spacious sets and luxurious country locations, despite the excellent supporting cast and atmospheric music score, despite all its admirable qualities this series would be for nothing without Suchet's magnificent grasp on the fussy little Belgian detective. Poirot's obsessive mannerisms, his mania for sartorial detail, his maniacal devotion to personal hygiene (especially when it comes to looking after the moustache) are all rendered exactly by Suchet, clearly as much a perfectionist in this respect as his alter ego in every other. Buoyed by their success with Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes, Granada TV brought a lighter touch to Poirot, which first aired in 1989, and this series is often breezily humorous in contrast to the gloomy Victorian Gothic of its predecessor. The producers took similar care in maintaining the spirit of Christie's original books even when--as with the Holmes adventures--the screenwriters occasionally took pardonable liberties with story and characters. Suchet is ably supported by Hugh Fraser as the Bertie Woosterish Captain Hastings, Philip Jackson as the tenaciously bulldog-like Inspector Japp, and Pauline Moran as Poirot's often exasperated PA, Miss Lemon. --Mark Walker

• An Enemy of the People | DVD | (01/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Adapted by master playwright, Arthur Miller from Henrik Ibsen's groundbreaking 1882 play, 'An Enemy of the People', is a scathing indictment of a corrupt society. An idealist doctor (Daly) discovers that the medicinal spring - source of wealth and fame for a small Norwegian town - are in fact poisoned.

• The Tomorrow People - Series 8 | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £4.38   |  Saving you £11.61 (265.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The series finale! This is the final instalment of Roger Price's original series... Their names are John Stephen Carol and Kenny... they seem to be just ordinary kids perhaps a bit quieter than most but they are The Tomorrow People forerunners of a new race... the homo superior. Gifted with superhuman powers they are nature's response to man's aggression: a new species wiser and more peace loving than homo sapiens and until more of their race evolve these four have intergala

• The Tomorrow People - The Doomsday Men | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Tomorrow People are investigating the Doomsday Men a secret organisation that glorify war as character building. Their leader is reputed to be Sir Arthur McLelland who's only living relative is his grandson Douglas who attends Glen College a boarding school in Scotland...

• Hercules | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Starring Elizabeth Perkins Sean Astin with Timothy Dalton Hercules is the breathtaking epic that brings to life the greatest mythical story of all. Gifted with great physical strength and heroic courage Hercules is destined for an extraordinary future. But born to Zeus as the result of an affair with the Princess of Thebes he is despised by the great God's wife Hera as the abhorrent evidence of her husband's infidelity. Fearing there is only one way to atone for his birth s

• To Live For | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £6.55   |  Saving you £-4.56 (-229.10%)   |  RRP £1.99

  It's only when you're life is truely on edge that you appreciate how precious and important everyday every moment is. After finding she has a life-threatening illness Susan Allen decides to spend what time is left to the fullest with her young daughter Carson. Tortured between her own terrible plight and what will happen to Carson she then crosses paths with an irresistable stranger. Although reluctantto get too involved as any future together seems impossible she soon finds out that it's never too late to fall in love or to realise there really is so much love to live for.

• 976 Evil II | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Robin (Debbie James) finds herself visited by an astral spirit. She soon becomes the only witness through her visions to the murders that the spirit commits in his astral form. Robin's only hope is a handsome stranger named Spike Johnson (Patrick O'Bryan). Through his past experiences with the horrorscope Spike's acquired his own psychic strength. Together they discover that the only way to save themselves from the vicious revenge of the astral spirit is to fight him on his own turf...

• Breakup at a Wedding | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £5.01   |  Saving you £7.98 (61.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From producer ZACHARY QUINTO (Star Trek, Heroes). An insanely funny satire on big wedding traditions. When bridezilla Alison breaks up with her groom Phil the night before their big wedding, rather than face the wrath of their family and friends, the unhappy couple decide to go ahead with the big day everyone wants (followed by a quickie divorce). Despite the calamity-filled trip down the aisle, the Groom, with the help of the wedding video guy, still hopes to make his sham bride change her mind, and become his wife for keeps.

• Children's Classic Adventures | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of the little boy who lives in the animal kingdom is a well-loved and enchanting tale that teaches honour and respect for all creatures. The Adventures Of Moby Dick There is nothing fishy about this tale - it's pure excitement from start to finish. A classic story with some new characters and some great sea songs too. Black Beauty This time-honoured tale follows a beautiful ebony horse on his journey through the ro

• Philip Glass - Looking Glass | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £17.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one of today's greatest composers Philip Glass and allows us to follow him from New York to London and from Paris to Boston. He speaks about his beginnings his moving to Paris for two years of intensive study with Nadia Boulanger his meeting with Indian musician Ravi Shankar and director Robert Wilson who had a deep influence on his career. The film also shows him at work on the last details of his opera The Sound Of A Voice directed by Robert Woodruff and conducted by Alan Johnson. Eric Darmon's camera with its poetic shots and original framings takes us for a musical journey into seven months of the life of the composer who rising from the underground scene of the seventies brought on a revolution in modern theater.

• UFO - Vol. 7 | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Gerry Anderson's classic sci-fi series. The operatives of the secret Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation (S.H.A.D.O.) defend the earth from extra-terrestrials who are abducting humans to obtain their organs which can be transplanted into their own bodies... Episodes include: Destruction The Man Who Came Back The Psychobombs

• Highlander - The Animated Series - Exodus / The History Lesson | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Episodes are: 'Exodus' and 'The History Lesson'.

• Christmas In Wartime - The German People In Wartime 1939- 1945 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The story of the German population at Christmas during Wartime featuring original newsreels.

• Fantastic Four/The Death Of The Incredible Hulk | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  The Fantastic Four (Dir. Tim Story 2005): Prepare for the fantastic! The lifelong dream of inventor astronaut and scientist Dr. Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd) is close to being realized. He is spearheading a trip to outer space to the center of a cosmic storm. There he hopes to unlock the secrets of the human genetic codes for the benefit of all humanity. Extensive government grant cutbacks nearly dashed the visionary's hopes of the historic flight until Reed accepted a financing deal with his old college rival Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon) now a billionaire industrialist. Reed's crew for the mission includes his best friend astronaut Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis); Sue Storm (Jessica Alba) Von Doom's director of genetic research and Reed's ex-girlfriend; and Sue's hot-headed younger brother pilot Johnny Storm (Chris Evans). With benefactor Von Doom in tow the four set off for the exploration of a lifetime. The mission is uneventful - until Reed discovers a miscalculation of the speed of the approaching storm. Within minutes the event threshold is upon them. The space station is engulfed by turbulent clouds of cosmic radiation which genetically transforms the crew. Their DNA is irrevocably altered - and so is their future. Back on earth the effects of the exposure are quickly revealed. Reed gains the ability to stretch and contort his body into any shape he can imagine and as leader of the group is given the name Mr. Fantastic; Sue is able to render herself invisible and to create and project powerful force fields as Invisible Woman; Johnny becomes known as The Human Torch as he can now engulf his body in flames and take flight at will; and Ben whose freakish transmutation is the most shocking becomes an orange-colored rock-like superhumanly strong creature The Thing. Together they turn tragedy into triumph and catastrophe into coalition using their unique and formidable powers to thwart the evil plans of their now steely-eyed iron-fisted nemesis Dr. Doom... The Hulk (Dir. Ang Lee 2003): Scientist Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) has to put it mildly anger management issues. His quiet life as a brilliant researcher working with cutting edge genetic technology conceals a nearly forgotten and painful past. His ex-girlfriend and equally brilliant fellow researcher Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly) has tired of Bruce's cordoned off emotional terrain and resigns herself to remaining an interested onlooker to his quiet life. Which is exactly where Betty finds herself during one of the early trials in Banner's groundbreaking research. A simple oversight leads to an explosive situation and Bruce makes a split-second decision; his heroic impulse saves a life and leaves him apparently unscathed-his body absorbing a normally deadly dose of gamma radiation. Acclaimed Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee turns his masterful eye to adapting the classic Marvel Comics character for the big screen. Setting out to faithfully transfer the Hulk comic book character from four-color paneled page to motion picture screen Lee combines all the elements of a blockbuster visual effects-intensive superhero movie with the brooding romance and tragedy of Universal's classic horror films. Staying true to the early subversive spirit of the Hulk as envisioned by its creators (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby) while also tuning the tale to current dangerous times Lee presents a portrait of a man at war with himself and the world both a superhero and a monster a means of wish fulfillment and a nightmare...

• Pentathlon | Blu Ray | (03/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fast-paced action movie starring Dolph Lundgren as a muscular East German athlete who defects during the 1988 Seoul Olympics. When Eric Brogar (Lundgren) wins a gold medal in the pentathlon he becomes a national hero in his nation. However, his subsequent defection to the US quickly turns him into a figure of loathing, with his coach, Heinrich Mueller (David Soul), particularly disenchanted. Heinrich quickly makes plans to follow the athlete to America and exact his revenge. Will Eric be able to enjoy his freedom in peace or will his former coach force him to fight for it?

• Beg! | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £7.46   |  Saving you £1.52 (34.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A doctor's world begins to come apart as her father falls into a coma and her lover is murdered. The detective investigating the crime begins to act strangely and the doctor's new lover is put in jeopardy...

• Rothko's Rooms | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Filmed on both sides of the Atlantic this documentary chronicalling Rothko's life and charting the development of his work fills the screen with his softly defined rectangular clouds of colour. There are penetrating contributions from his children and comments from a wide range of friends artists art historians collectors and curators. The focus is on Rothko's demands for the perfect setting for the showing of his work typified by the story of his iconic Seagram murals nine of which now hang at the Tate Modern. One of the murals' commissioners Philip Jonson is among those who explain why Rothko refused to allow these works to hang in their intended venue the Four Seasons restaurant in New York.

• Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - The Reel Collection | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is a mesmerizing movie about earth's encounter with spaceships and alien beings as experienced by one ordinary man.

• Capote/In Cold Blood | Blu Ray | (08/02/2010) from £24.28   |  Saving you £0.71 (2.92%)   |  RRP £24.99

  CapoteBolstered by an Oscar-caliber performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role, Capote ranked highly among the best films of 2005. Written by actor/screenwriter Dan Futterman and based on selected chapters from the biography by Gerald Clarke, this mercilessly perceptive drama shows how Truman Capote brought about his own self-destruction in the course of writing In Cold Blood, the "nonfiction novel" that was immediately acclaimed as a literary milestone. After learning of brutal killings in rural Holcomb, Kansas, in November 1959, Capote gained the confidence of captured killers Perry Smith (Clifton Collins, Jr.) and Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino) in an effort to tell their story, but he ultimately sacrificed his soul in the process of writing his greatest book. Hoffman transcends mere mimicry to create an utterly authentic, psychologically tormented portrait of an insincere artist who was not above lying and manipulation to get what he needed. Bennett Miller's intimate direction focuses on the consequences of Capote's literary ambition, tempered by an equally fine performance by Catherine Keener as Harper Lee, Capote's friend and the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who served as Capote's quiet voice of conscience. Spanning the seven-year period between the Kansas murders and the publication of In Cold Blood in 1966, Capote reveals the many faces of a writer who grew too close to his subjects, losing his moral compass as they were fitted with a hangman's noose. --Jeff ShannonIn Cold BloodTruman Capote's extraordinary nonfiction book about the course of two killers in this world--their lives, their senseless slaughter of an entire family, their executions--was faithfully adapted for the screen in this 1967 film by Richard Brooks (Deadline USA, The Blackboard Jungle). 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 nonsensational approach to the story. (The term "semidocumentary" 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

• Alien Origin | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £2.39   |  Saving you £7.60 (76.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Recently discovered footage from a lost military expedition exposes a horrifying truth about the genesis of life on earth.