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• The Acid House | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £8.52   |  Saving you £1.47 (17.25%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In The Acid House director Paul McGuigan adapts three Irvine Welsh short stories. These are set in an unflinchingly depicted world of grey, breeze block tenements, wiry psychos, short leather skirts, beer, fags and drugs, kinky sex in badly wallpapered lounges, random violence, hideous-looking babies, raves, footy, discarded crisp packets and barely intelligible dialogue featuring the occasional use of non-profanity."The Granton Star Clause" tells the unhappy tale of wee, pasty-faced Boab Doyle, who in one long, unhappy sequence loses his place in the football team, his girlfriend, his job and gets kicked out of the house by his parents, before an encounter with God (here, a hard-bitten, lager-quaffing Maurice Roeves) leads to a surreal, Kafka-esque conclusion. The second tale, "A Soft Touch", is gruellingly and well portrayed but pointlessly depressing. Kevin McKidd plays Johnny, a supermarket employee with an appalling slag-hag of a girlfriend who takes up with his new, violently psychotic and parasitical neighbour Larry. Will he stand up for himself? The answer will leave you thoroughly unsatisfied. Finally, there's "The Acid House", the funniest but silliest of the three tales in which Ewan Bremner plays an obnoxiously livewire Hibs fan who takes one too many tabs and ends up being transported into the mind of stereotypically middle-class couple's--Martin Clunes and Jemma Redgrave--baby. The Acid House is compulsive but bleak, exhilarating but ambivalent. The viewer is asked to bring their own moral compass to these stylised yet non-judgemental episodes. Fans of Trainspotting, however, will certainly find much of the scintillating same here.On the DVD: disappointingly, only the trailer is featured here. However, the DVD transfer in letterbox format is impeccable, used to its best advantage in the more surreal, fast-cut music video-style sequences, while the soundtrack, featuring The Verve and Primal Scream among others, also benefits. --David Stubbs

• The Insider | DVD | (08/01/2001) from £8.14   |  Saving you £9.61 (150.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jeffrey Waging (Russel Crowe) was a central witness in the lawsuits filed by Mississippi and 49 other states against the tobacco industry which were eventually settled for $246 billion.

• Millennium - Season 3 | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  After 10 years with the FBI former FBI serial killer profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) returns home to Seattle with his family . However his work experience has left him able to ""see"" into the minds of killers. This makes him a valued member of the Millennium Group a shadowy organisation dedicated to tracking evil and bringing its perpetrators to justice... The final season of episodes comprise: 1. The Innocents 2. Exegesis 3. TEOTWAWKI 4. Closure 5. ...Thirteen Years

• Green Wing Series 2 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £10.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (138.23%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An offbeat comedy set in a hospital The Green Wing throws in a bit of soap opera and a dose of the sketch-show to create something unique and hilarious! Following the sordid revelations and cliffhanging drama of series 1 the staff of Green Wing Hospital have reached unfathomable levels of perversity! Caroline finds herself back to square one with Mac while Sue White prepares to dig her Scottish claws into his mane-like ginger 'do; Joanna Claw has to come to terms with the fact that she accidentally slept with her son; Martin tries his hand at pimping; and Dr Statham enters politics under the proviso that his manifesto will be grammatically correct! Created by the team behind Smack the Pony be prepared for one of the most surreal journeys you're ever likely to take as you dive into the anarchic world of Green Wing Hospital!

• All The President's Men | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It helps to have one of history's greatest scoops as your factual inspiration, but journalism thrillers just don't get any better than All the President's Men. Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford are perfectly matched as (respectively) Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, whose investigation into the Watergate scandal set the stage for President Richard Nixon's eventual resignation. Their bestselling exposé was brilliantly adapted by screenwriter William Goldman, and director Alan Pakula crafted the film into one of the most intelligent and involving of the 1970s paranoid thrillers. Featuring Jason Robards in his Oscar-winning role as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, All the President's Men is the film against which all other journalism movies must be measured. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Death Wish | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £3.95   |  Saving you £12.04 (304.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this explosive story of revenge and urban violence Charles Bronson plays Paul Kersey a bleeding-heart liberal who has a change of opinion after his wife and daughter are violently attacked by a gang of thugs in their apartment. His daughter is raped and his wife is raped and murdered. Bronson then turns vigilante as he stalks the mean streets of New York on the prowl for muggers hoodlums and the like. Death Wish is a violent controversial film that is frank and original in its treatment of urban crime and the average citizen's helplessness in dealing with it. Herbie Hancock wrote the musical score and Jeff Goldblum makes his big screen debut as one of the thugs.

• True Blood Season 2 (HBO) | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £5.98   |  Saving you £35.27 (747.25%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Ready for seconds? The biggest TV phenomenon of last year is back with a bite! Welcome back to Bon Temps home to mystery Southern sensuality and dark secrets. For Sookie Stackhouse life is more dangerous than ever after she and Bill become more deeply involved. Meanwhile Tara finds herself under a lover's spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; Eric becomes interested in Sookie after he recruits her to investigate the disappearance of his 2 000-year-old maker; and Maryann is revealed to possess a power that can control almost everyone in town. Then after making a shocking discovery Sookie Bill and Sam must form the last line of defence against a diabolical plan that raises this award-winning series to bloody new heights. Clothes fall to the floor almost as often as blood spatters the walls in this show that blends supernatural horror sex and mystery with just a little bit of social commentary thrown in for good measure. If you want to sink your fangs into more vampire TV and movies then check out some of these blood-sucking beauties: True Blood: Season 1: The first season of HBO's Charlaine Harris-adapated Sookie Stackhouse vampire series is a deliciously sexy and sensational TV debut. True Blood: Seasons 1 & 2 Box Set: It's a case of two times the Sookie on this two-fanged HBO box set collecting all the episodes from Season's 1 and 2. The Vampire Diaries Season 1: Developed by Dawson's Creek/Scream creator Kevin Williamson superb supernatural horror meets teen drama. Cirque Du Freak: Based on the popular books by Darren Shaw this fang-tastic fantasy film is a rollicking good adventure with a dark twist. New Moon: Adapated from Stephenie Meyer's sequel book this one howls quality with great performances from Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.

• Henry V | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £6.54   |  Saving you £3.45 (52.75%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Very few first-time film directors would have been capable of making such a triumphant adaptation of Henry V; but a still-youthful Kenneth Branagh's years of stage experience paid off handsomely and his 1989 version qualifies as a genuine masterpiece, the kind of film that comes along once in a decade. He eschews the theatricality of Laurence Olivier's stirring, fondly remembered 1945 adaptation to establish his own rules: Branagh plays it down and dirty, seeing the Bard's play through revisionist eyes, framing it as an anti-war story in contrast to Olivier's patriotic spectacle. Branagh gives us harsh close-ups of muddied, bloody men, and of himself as Henry, his hardened mouth and wilful eyes revealing much about the personal cost of war. Not that the director-star doesn't provide lighter moments: his scenes introducing the French Princess Katherine (Emma Thompson) trying to learn English quickly from her maid are delightful. What may be the crowning glory of Branagh's adaptation comes when the dazed leader wanders across the battlefield, not even sure who has won. As King Hal carries a dead boy (a young Christian Bale) over the hacked bodies of both the English and French, a panorama of blood and mud and death greet the viewer as Branagh opens up the scene and Patrick Doyle's rousing hymn "Non nobis, Domine" provides marvellous counterpoint (like the director, the composer was another filmic first-timer). A more potent expression of the price of victory could scarcely be imagined. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• Cousins | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  There's nothing like a wedding to break up a marriage. Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini play cousins-by-marriage who pretend to be lovers in order to punish their philandering spouses. Instead the make believe lovers walk directly in Cupid's line of fire-with consequences that are both hilarious and heartwarming.

• FROM BEIJING WITH LOVE (Eureka Classics) Special Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (23/10/2023) from £14.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Interview With The Vampire | Blu Ray | (13/10/2008) from £11.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (68.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Drink From Me And Live Forever Brad Pitt is Louis lured by Lestat into the immortality of the damned then tormented by an unalterable fact of vampire life; to survive he must kill Stephen Rea Antonio Banderas Christian Slater and newcomer Kirsten Dunst also star. One lifetime alone offers plenty of opportunities for the savage revelries of the night. Imagine what an eternity can bring. Hypnotically directed by Neil Jordan this film offers enough thrills shocks and fiendish fun to last a lifetime and beyond...

• Tooth Fairy | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £7.33   |  Saving you £13.92 (229.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dwayne Johnson is "The Tooth Fairy," also known as Derek Thompson, a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids.

• The Crew | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £5.03   |  Saving you £7.96 (158.25%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As a major heist approaches and with betrayal all around him a respected crime boss has to summon all his street nous and killer instinct as he fights for survival.

• Shaolin Soccer | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An over-the-hill ex footie player and a down-on-his-luck monk from the famous Shaolin temple team up to make a footie squad with a difference.

• Line of Duty - Series 1-6 Complete Box Set | Blu Ray | (12/07/2021) from £60.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the creator and producers of Bodyguard. This thrilling British police drama has earned universal praise for its nail-biting action, complex characters, and intricate plotting (TV Guide). At anti-corruption unit AC-12, Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar, Blood) leads his team of DS Steve Arnott (Martin Compston, The Nest) and DC Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure, This Is England) in investigating suspected cases of police corruption•and in the process, they begin to uncover a conspiracy that reaches to the heights of the force. Special Features: Five behind the scenes featurettes, Actor filmographies, picture galleries.

• Continuum - Season 2 | Blu Ray | (27/04/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Available for the first time on Blu-ray all 13 Episodes from Season 2 of Continuum. Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) a cop from the year 2077 finds herself trapped in present day Vancouver searching for convicted terrorists from the future known as Liber8. With unexpected assistance from teen tech genius Alec Sadler (Erik Knudsen) Kiera desperately tries to bring down the terrorists before they change the course of history forever. In Season 2 Kiera continues her uneasy alliance with her partner Vancouver Police detective Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster) and grapples with the big question that closed the first season – why was she sent here? Meanwhile Alec struggles to understand the implications of a mysterious message sent from his future self and Liber8 become more strategic and even more lethal. Bonus Features: Audio Commentaries

• The Fall Of The Roman Empire | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The second and last of Anthony Mann's historical epics is a smart, handsome spectacle of the decadence, corruption, and intrigue that tore apart the greatest empire the world has seen. The sprawling story spreads itself thin over a number of characters and stories. At the centre are handsome but stiff Stephen Boyd as Livius, the loyal soldier and symbolic son of the ageing emperor Marcus Aurelius(Alec Guinness), and Christopher Plummer as Commodus, the corrupt heir to the throne. They are boyhood friends turned enemies when the latter accedes to the throne and sells out the values of his father for greed and hedonistic pleasures. The three-hour running time is filled out with the tales of Sophia Loren (as the beautiful Lucilla in love with Livius but coveted by greedy Commodus) and a gallery of heroes and villains that includes James Mason, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland, Omar Sharif, and Eric Porter. The film is highlighted with spectacular scenes--a grandiose funeral fit for an emperor, brutal battles in the provinces as the barbarians threaten the empire, and a climactic duel to decide the destiny of Rome--which Mann weaves into the shadowy intrigue of the halls of power. Like his previous epic El Cid, The Fall of the Roman Empire remains one of the best of the 1960s epics: well written (and historically accurate up to a point) with strong performances and a consistently elegant style, It lacks a central core and the magnetic hero of its superior predecessor. Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) tackles the same story with an updated action-adventure slant. --Sean Axmaker

• The Virtues | DVD | (12/08/2019) from £10.86   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stephen Graham stars as Joseph, a moral yet troubled man who's lost everything he ever held dear. Joseph finds himself compelled to travel to Ireland to confront the demons that continue to haunt him from a childhood spent in the care system, a journey that will have savage and brutal consequences. His path soon crosses with that of Dinah, played by Niamh Algar. She's fiery and more than able to stand up for herself, but like Joseph she's also deeply guarded, holding close a secret she's hiding from all those around her. Joseph and Dinah's lives spiral intensely in and out of control as they both try to ground themselves, torn between morality and self-indulgence, defined by drug-induced self destruction, traumatised by their own harrowing histories, and yet enlightened by their dual faith in companionship. Survival instincts kick in as they pave their way to an unnerving and tormented future. Neither of them thought their lives would ever tangle into a delicate love story.

• Groundhog Day | Blu Ray | (15/07/2019) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bill Murray is at his wry, wisecracking best in this riotous romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life. Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman (Chris Elliott), TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. After a surprise blizzard traps him in small-town hell, things get even worse; Phil wakes the next morning to find it's GROUNDHOG DAY all over again and again and again. Blu-ray Disc Special Features: Deleted Scenes Audio Commentary with Director Harold Ramis Needle Nose Ned's Picture-In-Picture Track The Study of Groundhogs: A Real-Life Look At Marmots A Different Day: An Interview with Harold Ramis The Weight of Time Documentary

• Continuum - Season 3 | Blu Ray | (27/04/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In Season 3 of Continuum Kiera (Rachel Nichols) faces the immediate consequences of Alec’s (Erik Knudsen) betrayal at the end of Season 2 - when he disappeared in a flash of light with the time travel device Kiera hoped might send her home. Alec’s impulsive decision sets in motion a chain of events which pushes Kiera into a shocking alliance with a former enemy. Kiera must also contend with a newly strategic Liber8 and a growing darkness in her police partner Carlos (Victor Webster). Ultimately all roads lead through young Alec Sadler. His genius has never been more tested. And his choices force Kiera - and everyone - to examine all they hold dear. Bonus Features: Webisodes Audio Commentaries Behind the Scenes