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• The Beiderbecke Affair | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £33.95   |  Saving you £-23.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Delightful comedy drama about school teachers Trevor and Jill who are also a duo of amateur investigators. Features all six episodes from the first series: 'What I Don't Understand Is This...' 'Can Anybody Join In?' 'We Call It The White Economy' 'Um... I Know What You're Thinking' 'That Was A Very Funny Evening' and 'We Are On The Brink Of A New Era If Only....

• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel / Slumdog Millionaire Double Pack | DVD | (17/06/2013) from £4.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (65.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Best Exotic Marigold HotelSome of the finest actors in England lend their formidable talents to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a charming fish-out-of-water yarn. The Brits, who include Evelyn (Judi Dench), Muriel (Maggie Smith), Douglas (Bill Nighy), and Graham (Tom Wilkinson), are planning retirement in a less expensive country. After "thorough research on the Internet," the group chooses what looks to be a grand, peaceful retreat, the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. It turns out that the bloom is off this marigold--it's shabby, antiquated, and as chaotic as the city in India, Jaipur, where it is set. Who can adapt to this very different retirement experience, and who founders? That question lies at the heart of the plot of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. The cast is uniformly superb, as the retirees bond and bicker and fall out and then try to encourage one another. And Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) shines as Sonny, the barely-holding-it-together Marigold Hotel manager. Patel and Tena Desae, who plays Sunaina, his girlfriend, are charming yet face adaptation struggles of their own, in a modern-day India still tied strongly to its traditions but rapidly charging into the future. And the young Indians also seem to represent the energetic future, as the Brits represent the old world that's fast falling. At its heart, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, deftly directed by John Madden, is an uplifting journey, allowing the viewer to feel what the retirees are discovering on the screen. When Evelyn sighs, "Nothing here has worked out quite as I expected," Muriel crisply replies, "Most things don't. But sometimes what happens instead is the good stuff." The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is most definitely the good stuff. --A.T. Hurley Slumdog MillionaireDanny Boyle (Sunshine) directed this wildly energetic, Dickensian drama about the desultory life and times of an Indian boy whose bleak, formative experiences lead to an appearance on his country's version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Jamal (played as a young man by Dev Patel) and his brother are orphaned as children, raising themselves in various slums and crime-ridden neighorhoods and falling in, for a while, with a monstrous gang exploiting children as beggars and prostitutes. Driven by his love for Latika (Freida Pinto), Jamal, while a teen, later goes on a journey to rescue her from the gang's clutches, only to lose her again to another oppressive fate as the lover of a notorious gangster. Running parallel with this dark yet irresistible adventure, told in flashback vignettes, is the almost inexplicable sight of Jamal winning every challenge on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, a strong showing that leads to a vicious police interrogation. As Jamal explains how he knows the answer to every question on the show as the result of harsh events in his knockabout life, the chaos of his existence gains shape, perspective and soulfulness. The film's violence is offset by a mesmerising exotica shot and edited with a great whoosh of vitality. Boyle successfully sells the story's most unlikely elements with nods to literary and cinematic conventions that touch an audience's heart more than its head. --Tom Keogh

• Ben 10 Vol 6: Back With A Vengeance | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Ben 10: Volume 6 - Back With A Vengeance

• Taking The Flak | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £21.59   |  Saving you £-1.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Taking The Flak (2 Disc)

• The Royle Family - The Complete First Series | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On paper, The Royle Family doesn't sound that promising: a working-class family from Manchester sit in their cluttered living room, watch the telly and argue over domestic details (the arrival of a telephone bill, for instance, provides the big dramatic event of the first episode, which aired in September 1998). But from such small everyday incidents, Royle Family creators Caroline Aherne and Dave Best (who play young couple Denise and Dave) have crafted one of the most successful shows on British television: a comedy about the joys and frustrations of family life that's warm, honest and very, very funny--Britain's answer to The Simpsons, whose success the show rivalled when it started broadcasting on BBC2 (the programme jumped channels to BBC1 for its second series).The Royle Family marked an on-screen reunion for Brookside-actors Ricky Tomlinson (who plays bearded, big-hearted, banjo-playing Jim Royle) and Sue Johnston as his wife Barbara, the driving force behind the Royle household. It is smart casting because The Royle Family is as much a soap opera as a situation comedy. Now in its third series, The Royle Family has seen its characters develop like real folk. Denise and Dave got married and now have a little sprog; Barbara starts menopause (how many sitcoms are brave enough to use that for laughs?) and Denise's kid brother Anthony shakes off his surly adolescence when he turned 18 in series two. Unlike Oasis, who provide the shows theme song "Halfway Round the World", this programme just keeps getting better.But no soap--not even Brookside in its dafter moments--has one-liners as brilliantly crafted as The Royle Family. (The scripts from the series are available to buy.) Slouched in his armchair, Jim's dour running commentary on the TV shows that are on at the time are particularly priceless: Changing Rooms, for instance, boils down to "a Cockney knocking nails into plywood... Is this what its come to?" Not quite: because as long as the Royle Family are around, there is something worthwhile to watch. --Edward Lawrenson

• Strange Hill High | DVD | (21/07/2014) from £3.14   |  Saving you £6.85 (218.15%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Follow the adventures of Mitchell, Becky and Templeton at Strange Hill High, where the classrooms, teachers and school dinners are definitely not what they seem!

• Love Potion No. 9 | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-19.00 (-317.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The premise of Love Potion No. 9--that a magic potion makes the user irresistible to the opposite sex--could be the setup for the crassest sex farce imaginable. Instead, this film is a surprisingly subtle romantic comedy. Nebbishy scientist Paul (Tate Donovan) goes to a Gypsy fortune teller (Anne Bancroft), who tells him she sees no women in his entire life. To make up for this depressing news, she gives him a few drops of a love potion--number 8. Paul, a biochemist, scoffs; but when his pet cat accidentally gets a taste and attracts every female cat in the neighborhood, he enlists fellow dweeby scientist Diane (Sandra Bullock) to analyse it. After experimenting on monkeys, they decide to test it on themselves; soon Diane is being pursued by handsome Italians in the street and comes close to marrying the Prince of England (sic), while Paul gets a little revenge on a woman who previously rejected him, then embarks on his own love spree. Shortly they discover that they really want each other; but before they can get married, an old boyfriend of Diane returns with his own dose of love potion number 8. Paul's only hope is to get something even more powerful. Love Potion No. 9 is genuinely clever and sweet, and both Donovan and Bullock work well with the low-key but effective humour of the movie's well-written script. It's a tribute to her talent and her girl-next-door looks that Bullock, unlike most pretty stars dressing down, is effective as both a lovelorn loser and the confident glamour-girl she becomes. Altogether, a charming and enjoyable film.--Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• The Simpsons - Season 7 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The complete seventh season of The Simpsons where you can finally unearth who was behind the shooting of the nefarious Mr Burns! Episodes Comprise: 1. Who Shot Mr Burns? (Part 2) 2. Radioactive Man 3. Home Sweet Home-Dum-Diddly-Doodly 4. Bart Sells His Soul 5. Lisa The Vegetarian 6. Treehouse Of Horror VI 7. King-Size Homer 8. Mother Simpson 9. Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming 10. The Simpsons' 138th Show Spectacular 11. Marge Be Not Proud 12. Team Homer 13. Two Bad Neighbours 14. Scenes From A Class Struggle In Springfield 15. Bart The Fink 16. Lisa The Iconoclast 17. Homer The Smithers 18. The Day The Violence Died 19. A Fish Called Selma 20. Bart On The Road 21. 22 Short Films About Springfield 22. Raging Abe Simpson And His Grumbling Grandson In The Curse of the Flying Hellfish 23. Much Apu About Nothing 24. Homerpalooza 25. Summer Of 4'2

• Diagnosis: Death | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £5.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (150.67%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Flight Of The Conchords cast make the transition from Emmy-Award Winning comedy show to feature film in this spoof Horror reminiscent of Kiwi legend Peter Jackson's work that's both hilarious and horrific in equal measure. A supernatural force brings together 2 lost souls united by their love of literature who after a sinister twist of fate are diagnosed with terminal cancer and the pair are sent to an experimental drug-testing facility run by a creepy Doctor (Flight Of The Conchord's Bret McKenzie). When the facility is locked down for the weekend and the drugs begin to take effect the human guinea pigs begin to experience ominous hallucinations pointing to a horrific murder. Unsure of where reality stops and the drugs have taken hold the apparitions become more threatening and the only way to leave the facility alive is to discover the truth about the haunting dark secret.

• Gnomeo & Juliet / The Smurfs / Despicable Me - Triple Pack | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £2.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (85.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gnomeo and JulietPerfect for the whole family, this fresh and funny makeover of one of the world's most timeless stories features music from Sir Elton John, and the voice talents of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Jason Statham, Ashley Jensen, Stephen Merchant, Matt Lucas, and Ozzy Osbourne. Be prepared for a shedload of fun and adventure around every plant pot! Gnomeo and Juliet is an out-of-the-ordinary animated comedy your entire family will love. The Smurfs When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours - in fact, right in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down. Despicable MeIn a happy suburban neighbourhood sits a black house with a dead lawn. This is the secret hideout of Gru (Steve Carrel), who, with his army of excitable little yellow minions, plans to take over the world! But the arrival of three little orphaned girls, and their determination to make him their Dad, threatens his reputation as a super-villian!

• Feeling Minnesota | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £6.05   |  Saving you £13.94 (69.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  There can be few better ways reminding oneself of the key elements in late 1990s left-of-centre Hollywood than watching Feeling Minnesota. The film attempts to draw together most of the main themes from the post-Pulp Fiction world into one whole. The story--young lovers Freddie and Jjacks (sic) on the run from a criminal past--is pure True Romance, with an attempt to throw in a little Cohen brothers' style weirdness. It's not a bad film--how can any film that opens with a Johnny Cash tune not have some degree of style to it?--just one that misses that certain spark. The casting of Diaz and Reeves is hopelessly mismatched, the former's delightfully light touch during the film's many funny moments merely serving to heighten Reeves' clod hopping. He is slightly better when playing opposite brother and husband to Freddie Sam (Vincent D'Onofrio), but is unavoidably the film's weak link. It can't be denied that by pushing all the relevant buttons, Feeling Minnesota manages to provide a couple of hours of reasonably engrossing entertainment but, like the Bob Dylan version of "Ring of Fire" that closes the film, the originals are still the best. On the DVD: The de rigeur credible rock soundtrack is given extra sparkle by the DVD's audio quality, but the extras available are slight. The "making-of" featurette offers little more than one of those infuriating extended adverts that are passed off as film documentaries, while the cast interview section is presented in a series of a few second answers to a succession of uninspiring questions. --Phil Udell

• Rab C Nesbitt Collection (6 Disc) | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £33.95   |  Saving you £-13.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  I will tell you this boy! Rab C Nesbitt.. the string-vested ambassador the voice of the peepil thinker bampot...has an opinion on anything - as demonstrated through out this definitive 6 DVD collection of the Govan ponderer's works! Join Rab and the gang in 5 complete series - that's 32 full episodes of hilarity and wisdom. Holidays in the Highlands devil worship a night in the morgue get into jail get out of jail Beyond AA eviction the meaning of life - it's all here. Ably supported by their dysfunctional family and friends the Nesbitts lurch from one crisis to another as they ride a roller -coaster of emotion Govan style. Beat it!

• Navigating the Heart | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A love story of an improbable romance between a cosmopolitan career woman and a small-town fisherman. When sophisticated New York journalist Edith Iglauer (Jaclyn Smith) is assigned to go to British Columbia to write a frivolous piece on the fishing industry she butts heads with local fisherman and notorious loner John Daly (Tim Matheson). While she thrives on the fast-paced life of Manhattan he loathes pretension and could go days without speaking to anyone. But when the two are caught in a perilous situation they are forced to put aside their pettiness and re-examine their lives. With external factors stripped away they begin to fall in love. Ultimately Edith must decide between staying in the glamorous world she has always cherished or leaving it all behind for a chance at love.

• The Simpsons Film Festival | DVD | (01/04/2002) from £7.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (72.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Any four episodes of The Simpsons chosen at random would make perfectly acceptable entertainment, but The Simpsons’ Film Festival is a particularly happy selection. One of the show’s many delights has always been its unending stream of movie parodies, and here we have four episodes devoted to just that. In "Beyond Blunderdome", Mel Gibson (playing himself) sends up his tough-guy persona when he hires Homer to produce his latest movie. Then in "A Star is Burns" Springfield hosts its own film festival (with acerbic guest critic Jay Sherman in attendance). The competition boils down to Barney’s haunting cinema verité short about the horrors of alcohol or Mr Burns’ grandiose vanity project (though Homer prefers Hans Moleman being hit by a football). "22 Short Films About Springfield" is a series of parodies within a parody featuring Springfield’s secondary characters, including Milhouse’s dad and Chief Wiggum in a glorious Pulp Fiction sequence. Finally, the show’s own internal parody cartoon duo hit the big screen in "The Itchy and Scratchy Movie", while Bart and Homer lock horns about going to see it. They sell Soylent Green in the future cinema foyer; and Homer loves it, of course.On the DVD: just four episodes is hardly stunning value for money, but it’s perhaps quality not quantity that counts here. Annoyingly there is no "Play All" facility, a serious let down in all the Simpsons DVD releases (Futurama had the same problem, too). The only extra feature of any note is a three-minute montage of Troy McClure’s finest moments. Sound is unexceptional Dolby Stereo and the picture is standard 4:3 ratio. --Mark Walker

• Doctor Who - Series 7 Part 1 | Blu Ray | (29/10/2012) from £5.56   |  Saving you £24.43 (439.39%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Doctor, Amy and Rory are back for the first five blockbuster episodes of series seven.The trio encounter the Daleks, Weeping Angels and even Dinosaurs on a Spaceship as the series builds to the departure of The Ponds in one of the most heartbreaking episodes in the history of Doctor Who.

• The Rolling Stones - Bridges To Babylon 1998 | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Like any good brand, the Rolling Stones know to preserve the formula even when updating the package, and this long-form concert video underscores that market strategy. As with each of their tours since the early 1980s, the quartet, augmented by a discreet auxiliary of backup musicians, gives the fans new eye-candy while dishing up a familiar set list spiked with Mick Jagger's lip-smacking vocals and Keith Richards' signature guitar riffs. The visual twists are at once spectacular and conservative: a cyclopean main stage design with massive pillars (presumably the Babylonian connection), a vast oval video screen (shades of Big Brother), and a hydraulic bridge enabling a mid-concert sortie into the audience, with the Stones playing a more stripped-down, intimate set on a small satellite stage. That huge physical setting doubtless made the live shows eye-filling rock spectacles, but the video crew necessarily accepts the limitations of the small screen, focusing more on close-ups of the band, rapid cuts, and racing, hand-held tracking shots to convey excitement while keeping the viewer close to the action. The evening's repertoire sticks to the band's most familiar hits, and if the Glimmer Twins occasionally slip their masks to let the routine show, the real wonder is how effectively they keep the playing focused. During the first half of the programme, the band's newest songs (especially "Saint of Me" and "Out of Control") elicit conspicuously higher energy from the band, if not the audience. But just as the show seems doomed to a certain anonymity, the escape onto the smaller, no-frills stage pumps up players and crowd alike, particularly when they launch into "Like a Rolling Stone", a cover that winds up sounding like a great idea too long deferred. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Depeche Mode: Devotional | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Directed by the innovative photographer and director and longterm Depeche Mode visual collaborator Anton Corbijn this hugely impressive and visually stunning film perfectly captures the essence of one of Britain's most pioneering acts at the height of their powers. On its release in 1993 `Devotional' was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Long Form Music Video. The `Devotional' 2 disc DVD is a compilation of the band's live performances recorded in Frankfurt and Barcelona on th

• Blue Tornado | DVD | (06/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A 'Top Gun' pilot mysteriously disappears whilst on a routine flying mission. The squadron's leader makes it his job to find out what's going on and why his bosses are exercising their powers to cover up the 'accident'.

• The Simpsons - Classics - Springfield Murder Mysteries | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £6.25   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Who Shot Mr Burns? (Part 1) (Season 6): Conspiracy and intrigue is rife in Springfield following the shooting of Mr Burns. With Chief Wiggum leading the investigation and a list of potential suspects it's going to take more than one episode to solve this case. Guest voice: Tito Puente. Who Shot Mr Burns? (Part 2) (Season 7): The list of suspects has been reduced with Lisa giving Chief Wiggum some valuable pointers. Unfortunately her intervention has identified Homer

• Invaders Season 2 | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  US science-fiction TV hit - Invaders aired during the '60s. Created by Larry Cohen it tells the story of extra-terrestrials who flee their dying planet and come to conquer Earth. Roy Thinnes stars as architect David Vincent who accidentally learns of the plot and makes it his mission to foil them at every turn. Invaders is a must for fans of science fiction and seventies drama everywhere.