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• Pie In The Sky - The Complete Boxed Set Series 1-5 | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Tales of crime and culinary wizardry are interwoven in this classic BBC series about a reluctant detective whose dream of turning restaurateur could be just within his grasp. Henry Crabbe has reached the end of his tetheras a plain clothes DU. After years of toiling in the force he is about to take early retirement. With a passion for food and a talent for cooking he is ready to fulfil his own personal dream - to buy his very own restaurant Pie In The Sky. However nothing is quite that simple. On the eve of his retirement he is suspended from duty. His boss the assistant Chief Constable now has him exactly where he wants him and is not going to allow him to live his dream in peace - Crabbe is free to indulge in his restaurant but always on call when cases need solving! This is the entire Pie In The Sky collection and this beautifully packaged boxed set features eight double DVDs. Series 1: 1. The Best Of Both Worlds 2. The Truth Will Out 3. An Innocent Man 4. Once A Copper 5. A Shot In The Dark 6. Undesirable Elements 7. Passion Fruit Fool 8. A Matter Of Taste 9. Who Only Stand And Wait 10. Endangered Species Series 2: 1. Hard Cheese 2. Brown Bread 3. The Policeman's Daughter 4. The One That Got Away 5. Dead Right 6. Black Pudding 7. Swan In His Pride 8. The Mild Bunch 9. The Mystery Of Pikey 10. Lemon Twist Series 3: 1. Money Talks 2. Game Pie 3. Irish Stew 4. Doggett's Coat And Badge 5. This Other Eden 6. Coddled Eggs Series 4: 1. Devils On Horseback (Part 1) 2. Devils On Horseback (Part 2) 3. Chinese Whispers 4. New Leaf 5. Breaking Bread 6. Gary's Cake Series 5: 1. Squashed Tomatoes 2. Ugly Customers 3. Pork Pies 4. Cutting The Mustard 5. Return Match 6. The Apprentice 7. In The Smoke 8. Smelling Of Roses

• The Best of George Gently | DVD | (04/03/2013) from £15.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's 1960s England and the world is changing fast... Martin Shaw plays one of the unsung heroes of detective fiction, Chief Inspector George Gently, whose passionate investigations reveal the dark underbelly of a society on the cusp of change. Lee Ingleby is his ambitious and undisciplined sidekick, Sergeant John Bacchus. Episode Comprise: Gently in the Night - Bacchus and Gently hunt for the murderer of a woman whose body is discovered in a local church. Gently Evil - A young woman's body is discovered in an idyllic coastal village with the subsequent investigation leading Gently and Bacchus to suspect her estranged husband. Goodbye China - Gently looks into the suspicious death of an old friend and informant when he is given different reasons for the man's demise by the coroner and the nurse who tended him in his final few hours. Gently in the Cathedral - As a result of one of Gently's old enemies being released from prison the detective finds himself suspended from duty and his life at risk.

• Skeleton Coast | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £5.81   |  Saving you £-2.82 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Tough action story in which a group of renegade mercenaries are called upon to enter Angolan territory to rescue a CIA agent who captured by some bad guys involved in the African Civil War.

• Paul - Limited Edition Steelbook Triple Play (Blu-ray, DVD + Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (13/06/2011) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America's UFO heartland. While there they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever. For the past 60 years an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town-a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Frost). Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes...

• Sample People | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Want to see Kylie as a sex-mad gun-toting coke-snorting hooker? Who Doesn't?! Check out this contemporary thriller featuring the dark underbelly of counter-culture life in Sydney Australia...

• Gregory's Two Girls | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £11.08   |  Saving you £-5.09 (-85.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'Gregory's 2 Girls' is part thriller, part romantic comedy and finds Gregory still dreaming his way through life and still looking for romance.

• Wake Of Death | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Action superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme is back and at his hard-hitting best as Ben Archer an ex-mob enforcer seeking revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends an all-out war is waged against the Chinese Triads... Hong Kong favourite Simon Yam faces off against the Muscles From Brussels in this pulse-pounding action thriller!

• Riddle Of The Sands | DVD | (01/11/2005) from £14.66   |  Saving you £-4.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on the ""classic spy thriller of the 20th century"" that historians hail as the ""tip-off"" that saved Britain from invasion. Two sailboating Englishmen discover a massive German fleet secretly preparing to attack their nation and set out to do something about it not only do they have to thwart the German Navy but Kaiser Wilhelm himself.

• Neville's Island | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Neville's Island is an ITV TV film which plays like The Lord of the Flies meets Three Men in a Boat. Except here there are four men, who, when their boat sinks, find themselves stranded on a small island in the middle of the Lake District's Derwent Water with a sausage and an almost defunct mobile phone. Given that our heroes are middle-aged executives on a weekend training exercise, tempers and personalities soon fray. Starting Martin-Men Behaving Badly-Clunes this is essentially a comedy, though the funniest lines go to Timothy Spall as the mercilessly sarcastic Gordon. Jeff Rawle is Neville, the capable team leader, David Bamber the organised Angus, while Clunes has the plum role as Roy, whose mental instability triggers the sometimes-surreal concluding sequences. In a scene paralleling Scream (1996) the rules of the stranded-on-an-island film genre are established, allowing writer Tim Firth to have fun twisting the clichés. He even feints that the film is about to turn into a slasher pic, or the UK's answer to Deliverance (1972). Neville's Island does get a little out of its depth when it ventures into metaphysical waters, but the performances are perfectly judged and the exceptionally sharp dialogue delivers sustained amusement and intermittent belly laughs. On the DVD: There is a basic stills gallery and a list of screen credits for each of the four stars which is misleadingly labelled "biography". Otherwise there are no special features. The sound is effective three channel Dolby Pro logic with the dialogue well presented and Barrington Pheloung's inventive score highlighted. The anamorphically enhanced 1.77:1 ratio picture is occasionally grainy but the DVD clarity does succeed in making a TV film look like a real, albeit low-budget, feature film, with some beautiful daytime cinematography and some imaginative firework shots demonstrating strong contrast and luminosity.--Gary S Dalkin

• Diamond Geezers | DVD | (24/08/2015) from £7.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (150.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Dodger is sent to Los Angeles by his London Gangster father to retrieve his baby sister and the cash she stole and ran away with. Things don't go as planned, putting Dodger and his new crew (Eddie, a hipster bookie and Jones, an underground boxer) in the sights of Latino Gang bangers and West Hollywood's notorious slightly non-conformist local Mafia.

• The Suffragettes - The Story Of Emmeline Pankhurst | DVD | (09/09/2006) from £6.25   |  Saving you £3.74 (59.84%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This is the story of the late nineteenth century movement whose goal was to win voting rights for women. Headed by the redoubtable Emmeline Pankhurst women who fought for the movement and in some cases died for the right to vote became known as the Suffragettes.

• Venom | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £10.98   |  Saving you £5.27 (54.22%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Peter Sykes directs this classic horror starring Simon Brent. The film follows artist Paul Greville (Brent) as he arrives in a picturesque village and finds there is more to the locals than meets the eye when he becomes involved with the daughter of a man who conducts experiments on animals.

• Outings | DVD | (13/06/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ˜Queer as Folk' meets ˜Skins' in this explosive new 3 part British drama, focussing on a group of gay 20-Somethings trying to work it all out - from writers Rob Ward (co-writer of critically acclaimed play Away from Home) and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan (Iris Prize winner for Closets ) Episode 1 - Entrances and Exits By Lloyd Eyre-Morgan Kane is dumped by Tom (again) during an intimate moment and moves back in with his mum (yet again). Will he ever find his place in the world or in the bedroom? Elsewhere, Kiegan is asked a question and Tim tells it as it is. Episode 2 - Best Man By Rob Ward Kiegan continues to escape the pressure of his breakup and family the only way he knows how, but will he further alienates himself at his niece's christening? Kane starts dating and a blast from Tim's past makes Lucy doubt their future. Episode 3 - Happy Returns By Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Rob Ward Tim throws a surprise 80s pop star fancy dress birthday party for Lucy, convincing her that recent difficulties are behind them. But is Tim really ready to get serious with her? Old friends and foes collide in the explosive season finale. ˜Queer as Folk' meets ˜Skins' in this explosive new 3 part British drama, focussing on a group of gay 20-Somethings trying to work it all out - from writers Rob Ward (co-writer of critically acclaimed play Away from Home) and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan (Iris Prize winner for Closets ) Episode 1 - Entrances and Exits By Lloyd Eyre-Morgan Kane is dumped by Tom (again) during an intimate moment and moves back in with his mum (yet again). Will he ever find his place in the world or in the bedroom? Elsewhere, Kiegan is asked a question and Tim tells it as it is. Episode 2 - Best Man By Rob Ward Kiegan continues to escape the pressure of his breakup and family the only way he knows how, but will he further alienates himself at his niece's christening? Kane starts dating and a blast from Tim's past makes Lucy doubt their future. Episode 3 - Happy Returns By Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Rob Ward Tim throws a surprise 80s pop star fancy dress birthday party for Lucy, convincing her that recent difficulties are behind them. But is Tim really ready to get serious with her? Old friends and foes collide in the explosive season finale.

• Another Life | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Another Life' is a version of the true-life scandalous tale of Percy Thompson's 1922 murder by Freddy Bywaters lover of Percy's wife Edith. To follow-up the clever disturbing 'Intimate Relations' writer-director Philip Goodhew once again taps into a true-crime story. The story begins in 1913 with the lively Edith (Little) and her family celebrating Christmas. Despite her driving ambition Edith has agreed to marry her quite dull and nerdy boyfriend Percy (Moran) and at first

• Merlin and the War of the Drag | DVD | (08/12/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An army of dragons invade the crippled English countryside and the apprentice wizard Merlin must confront the fire-breathing beasts.

• LA POISON | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  One of the great late period films by Sacha Guitry - the total auteur who delighted (and scandalised) the French public and inspired the French New Wave as a model for authorship as director-writer-star of screen and stage alike. In every one of his pictures (and almost every one served as a rueful examination of the war between the sexes), Guitry sculpted by way of a rapier wit - one might say by way of the Guitry touch - some of the most sophisticated black comedies ever conceived... and La Poison [Poison] is one of his blackest. Michel Simon plays Paul Braconnier, a man with designs on murdering his wife Blandine (Germaine Reuver) - a woman with similar designs on her husband. When Braconnier visits Paris to consult with a lawyer about the perfect way of killing a spouse - that is, the way in which he can get away with it - an acid comedy unfolds that reaches its peak in a courtroom scene for the ages. From the moment of Guitry's trademark introduction of his principals in the opening credits, and on through the brilliant performance by national treasure Michel Simon (of Renoir's Boudu sauve des eaux and Vigo's L'Atalante, to mention only two high-water marks), here is fitting indication of why Guitry is considered by many the Gallic equal of Ernst Lubitsch. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to introduce Sacha Guitry into the catalogue with La Poison for the first time on video in the UK in a dazzling new Gaumont restoration. Special Features: Newly translated optional subtitles Substantial booklet containing writing on the film, vintage excerpts, and rare archival imagery

• Angelo's - Series 1 | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Is there anything more definitively British than the 'greasy spoon' experience? Full English breakfasts mugs of mud coloured tea chipped formica tables signed publicity stills of now fading celebrities who may have strayed this way for a little (fried) slice of cafe life. It's arguably one of Britain's greatest traditions; especially when it's run by foreigners. Angelo's is a caf in the heart of London a short stroll from the tourist Mecca of Trafalgar Square the grandeur of Whitehall and the sex shops of sleazy Soho. This unique geographical location means it is also the meeting place for a whole motley crew of diverse deftly drawn characters from the imagination of writer Sharon Horgan (Pulling Annually Retentive). Heading up this unlikely gang is proprietor Angelo (played by Steve Brody) an Italian immigrant and proud Anglophile who wouldn't serve up any 'foreign muck' in his establishment. Angelo always provides a warm welcome to his patrons just as long as they don't spend all day sitting over one bloody coffee. He is ably assisted by his daughter Maria (Shelley Longworth) who far from being a willing waitress spends most of her day dreaming of being discovered by Simon Cowell and leaving this dump behind her. Never far behind is best friend Alicia (Alice Lowe) who like all true companions constantly undermines Maria and tries to steal her boyfriends. Then there's Karen and Dave (Sharon Horgan and Paul Garner) the local police community officers who seem to spend more time discussing their marital problems than doing any actual police work. Other regular fixtures include: Shelley (Miranda Hart) the man-hungry mini cab driver who is saving her virginity for Mr Right even if he's taken out a restraining order against her; Kris (Simon Farnaby) a classically trained out of work actor who dresses as a gold robot and mimes for pennies from tourists; and Russell (Kim Wall) who spends every day in Angelo's searching for a new employer before his wife finds out that he has been made redundant from his last job.

• Inspector Morse - Disc 3 And 4 - Service Of All The Dead / Wolvercote Tongue | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £5.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (150.67%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and story lines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep-down sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --Piers Ford

• The Sand Pebbles | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £10.23   |  Saving you £2.76 (26.98%)   |  RRP £12.99

  'The Sand Pebbles' tell many stories. It's the story of China a slumbering giant that rouses itself to the cries of its people - and of the Americans who are caught in its bloody awakening. It's the story of Frenchy (Richard Attenborough) a crewman on the USS San Pablo who kidnaps his Chinese bride from the auction block. Most of all it's the story of Jake Holman (Steve McQueen) a sailor who had given up trying to make peace with anything: including himself. Nominated for nine A

• Ninja Terminator | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £19.96   |  Saving you £-15.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  All-action martial arts tale of three Ninjas competing for a statue of the Golden Ninja Warrior which embodies the divine power of the Ninja Empire. Spectacular fight scenes and swordplay.