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• The Bourne Supremacy | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £3.95   |  Saving you £16.04 (406.08%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Matt Damon returns as the amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne who must return to the world he has so tried to leave behind him when a murder is committed in his name.

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £5.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (154.83%)   |  RRP £13.99

  History will place an asterisk next to A.I. as the film Stanley Kubrick might have directed. But let the record also show that Kubrick--after developing this project for some 15 years--wanted Steven Spielberg to helm this astonishing sci-fi rendition of Pinocchio, claiming (with good reason) that it veered closer to Spielberg's kinder, gentler sensibilities. Spielberg inherited the project (based on the Brain Aldiss short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long") after Kubrick's death in 1999, and the result is an astounding directorial hybrid. A flawed masterpiece of sorts, in which Spielberg's gift for wondrous enchantment often clashes (and sometimes melds) with Kubrick's harsher vision of humanity, the film spans near and distant futures with the fairy-tale adventures of an artificial boy named David (Haley Joel Osment), a marvel of cybernetic progress who wants only to be a real boy, loved by his mother in that happy place called home. Echoes of Spielberg's Empire of the Sun are evident as young David, shunned by his trial parents and tossed into an unfriendly world, is joined by fellow "mecha" Gigolo Joe (played with a dancer's agility by Jude Law) in his quest for a mother-and-child reunion. Parallels to Pinocchio intensify as David reaches "the end of the world" (a Manhattan flooded by melted polar ice caps), and a far-future epilogue propels A.I. into even deeper realms of wonder, just as it pulls Spielberg back to his comfort zone of sweetness and soothing sentiment. Some may lament the diffusion of Kubrick's original vision, but this is Spielberg's A.I., a film of astonishing technical wizardry that spans the spectrum of human emotions and offers just enough Kubrick to suggest that humanity's future is anything but guaranteed. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com On the DVD: A perfect movie for the digital age, A.I. finds a natural home on DVD. The purity of the picture, its carefully composed colour schemes and the multifarious sound effects are accorded the pin-point sharpness they deserve with the anamorphic 1.85:1 picture and Dolby 5.1 sound, as is John Williams's thoughtful music score. On the first disc there's a short yet revealing documentary, "Creating A.I.", but the meat of the extras appears on disc two. Here there are good, well-made featurettes on acting, set design, costumes, lighting, sound design, music and various aspects of the special effects: Stan Winston's remarkable robots (including Teddy, of course) and ILM's flawless CGI work. In addition there are storyboards, photographs and trailers. Finally, Steven Spielberg provides some rather sententious closing remarks ("I think that we have to be very careful about how we as a species use our genius"), but no director's commentary. --Mark Walker

• Will and Grace: Complete Series 4 | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £44.00 (734.56%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Meet Will & Grace. Grace is a sassy and smart interior designer Will is a gorgeous and supercool lawyer. They're both looking for love and they're made for each other in every way except for one thing - Grace is straight Will is gay. Their lives are complicated even further by their outrageous friends Karen & Jack. This DVD box set comprises all the episodes from the fourth season: 1. The Third Wheel Gets The Grace 2. Past And Presents 3. Crouching Father Hidden Husband 4. Pris

• Will and Grace: Series 4 (Episodes 23-27) | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £8.85   |  Saving you £4.14 (31.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fagel Attraction: When his laptop is stolen from a coffee bar Will meets a hot detective who quickly offers to take him 'undercover' and it's not long before our boys in blue get down on the beat... Hocus Focus: Will wins a portrait session with an eccentric celebrity photographer and asks best friend Grace to accompany him. However the wacky snapper's unorthodox methods produce an image that delights Grace but drives Will to distraction. A Buncha White Chicks Sittin' Around Talkin': When Will hears his biological clock ticking he shocks Grace by asking her to be the mother of his child but Grace discloses a startling revelation. A.I. - Artificial Insemination (Parts 1 & 2) After Will and Grace settle on starting a family obstacles to their offspring pile up including missing specimen samples and arguments over names that leave the whole bump n' grind issue of insemination a little raw.

• Will and Grace: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £5.87   |  Saving you £44.12 (751.62%)   |  RRP £49.99

  After a first season made controversial by the mere presence of openly gay characters, Will & Grace returned triumphantly with renewed confidence and vigour. In their second season, sidekicks Jack and Karen (the very, very funny Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally) are more snide and gleefully obnoxious than ever; Will (Eric McCormack) has perfected his prickly panache; and in particular Grace (Debra Messing) has entered a whole new plane of sexy goofiness, diving even more headlong into physical comedy--such as the episode when, in order to woo a high school crush, she gets a water-padded bra that springs a leak. The writing has also become tighter, grown more deft in its gay and pop culture references (which were often self-conscious in the first season) and at juggling sustained storylines, such as the Immigration department investigating Jack's marriage to Karen's Salvadorian maid Rosario (Shelley Morrison), Grace and Will struggling to become less emotionally incestuous, and Jack seeking his biological father. The show excels at tackling emotional subjects (like Will discovering that his father, who has accepted and even embraced his homosexuality at home, has told his co-workers that Will is married to Grace) with a sharp comic eye. Guest stars start to accumulate: Molly Shannon returns, Sydney Pollack and Debbie Reynolds play Will's dad and Grace's mom, Joan Collins appears as a rival designer, Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, MD) plays the leader of a going-straight support group, and Gregory Hines takes on a recurring role as Will's new boss, a high-powered lawyer who seduces Grace. Will & Grace mixes superb sitcom farce with sly sociopolitical commentary; the fusion is smart and consistently entertaining. --Bret Fetzer

• Will and Grace: Complete Series 1 | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £6.03   |  Saving you £43.96 (729.02%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Will & Grace debuted with a controversial splash because one of its two lead characters is gay--but smart writing and topnotch performances, not politics, have made the show a hit. Two neurotic and sharp-tongued urbanites--gay lawyer Will (Eric McCormack) and straight interior designer Grace (Debra Messing)--delight in their volatile but enduring friendship as they share a sumptuous New York apartment. Sweeping into the mix are Will's unapologetically queeny friend Jack (Sean Hayes) and Grace's wildly eccentric assistant Karen (Megan Mullally). Much like Seinfeld, the humour on Will & Grace springs from self-obsession, petty jealousy, and compulsive interfering in each other's lives--basically, the building blocks of human nature. The show's writers apparently feel compelled to keep the lead characters warm and likeable in the usual sitcom mode (which hardly seems necessary, as McCormack and Messing are naturally engaging). As a result, it's Jack and Karen who get free reign to be truly obnoxious and ridiculous--which, of course, makes them incredibly funny and charismatic. Hayes and Mullally rise to the occasion, ripping through absurd situations and arias of narcissistic wit with dazzling panache. Will & Grace's plots routinely center around scenarios that could feature a married couple or two same-sex roommates: Will and Grace bicker over buying a dog, find their relationship tested by apartment renovations, or discover they're both pursuing the same guy--standard sitcom material that the gay factor gives a clever spin. Though their relationship gets in the way of their sex lives, the two take so much pleasure in each other's company that they can't help but stick together--a surprisingly chaste theme for such a culturally groundbreaking show, but one that Will & Grace's addicted audience undoubtedly appreciates. --Bret Fetzer

• Will and Grace: Series 1 (Episodes 9-15) | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hit American sitcom Will and Grace is as perky as Friends and as wittily urbane as Frasier. The premise concerns Will (Eric McCormack), a mildly uptight lawyer who agrees to have as a flatmate his best friend, interior designer Grace (Debra Messing). Their relationship has all the hallmarks of lovers--emotional dependency, little things that get on each others' nerves, strong mutual interests and volcanic arguments. The only snag is that while Grace is straight, Will is gay. Though not shy of poking sharp fun at that situation, Will and Grace is among sitcom's most potent and sophisticated antidotes to homophobia. Though initially a little too pleased with its own camp pertness, the show grows and grows on you with successive episodes, finally becoming indispensable. It also benefits from secondary characters Jack (Sean P Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally), also gay and straight respectively, both outrageously and hilariously irresponsible characters: he a free spirit and freeloader, she's "working" as Grace's assistant even though she doesn't need the money, having married it. Despite its diamond and rapid-fire punchlines, Will and Grace conveys enough sense of the main characters' lovelorn predicament to prevent it from becoming too cute. --David Stubbs

• Will and Grace: Series 1 (Episodes 1-8) | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £6.54   |  Saving you £13.45 (67.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hit American sitcom Will and Grace is as perky as Friends and as wittily urbane as Frasier. The premise concerns Will (Eric McCormack), a mildly uptight lawyer who agrees to let his best friend, interior designer Grace (Debra Messing), to become his flatmate. Their relationship has all the hallmarks of lovers--emotional dependency, little things that get on each others' nerves, strong mutual interests and volcanic arguments. The only snag is that while Grace is straight, Will is gay. Though not shy of poking sharp fun at that situation, Will and Grace is among sitcom's most potent and sophisticated antidotes to homophobia. Though initially a little too pleased with its own camp pertness, the show grows and grows on you with successive episodes, finally becoming indispensable. It also benefits from secondary characters Jack (Sean P Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally), also gay and straight respectively, both outrageously and hilariously irresponsible characters: he a free spirit and freeloader, she’s "working" as Grace's assistant, even though she doesn't need the money, having married it. Despite its diamond and rapid-fire punch-lines, Will and Grace conveys enough sense of the main characters' lovelorn predicament to prevent it from becoming too cute.--David Stubbs

• Will and Grace: Series 1 (Episodes 16-22) | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £6.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (67.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hit American sitcom Will and Grace is as perky as Friends and as wittily urbane as Frasier. The premise concerns Will (Eric McCormack), a mildly uptight lawyer who agrees to have as a flatmate his best friend, interior designer Grace (Debra Messing). Their relationship has all the hallmarks of lovers--emotional dependency, little things that get on each others' nerves, strong mutual interests and volcanic arguments. The only snag is that while Grace is straight, Will is gay. Though not shy of poking sharp fun at that situation, Will and Grace is among sitcom's most potent and sophisticated antidotes to homophobia. Though initially a little too pleased with its own camp pertness, the show grows and grows on you with successive episodes, finally becoming indispensable. It also benefits from secondary characters Jack (Sean P Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally), also gay and straight respectively, both outrageously and hilariously irresponsible characters: he a free spirit and freeloader, she's "working" as Grace's assistant even though she doesn't need the money, having married it. Despite its diamond and rapid-fire punchlines, Will and Grace conveys enough sense of the main characters' lovelorn predicament to prevent it from becoming too cute. --David Stubbs

• The Bourne Identity/The Bourne Supremacy/The Interpreter | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Bourne Identity: A man who may or may not be Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is found floating in the Mediterranean Sea and is hauled onto a fishing boat. When the ship's doctor examines the unconscious castaway he discovers two bullet wounds and an implanted device that displays a Swiss bank account number. With nothing but this code the amnesiac Bourne travels to Zurich and gains access to a safe-deposit box containing a gun thousands of dollars in various currencies and valid passports from numerous countries - each listing a different identity. Within minutes Bourne is on the run from a seemingly ever-present agency relying on language and fighting skills he didn't even know he possessed! Offering $20 000 for a ride to Paris Bourne gains the reluctant help of the nomadic Marie (Franka Potente). Meanwhile the shadowy organization headed by a tough-talking bureaucrat (Chris Cooper) sends numerous assassins (including the Professor played by Clive Owen) after Bourne and Marie. As their situation grows more perilous the two strangers struggle to find out who Bourne really is and why they are being hunted... (Dir. Doug Liman 2002) The Bourne Supremacy: They should have left him alone! The Bourne Supremacy re-enters the shadowy world of expert assassin Jason Bourne (Damon) who continues to find himself plagued by the splintered nightmares from his former life. The stakes are now even higher for the agent as he coolly maneuvers through the dangerous waters of international espionage - replete with CIA plots turncoat agents and constantly shifting covert alliances - all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and answers to his own fragmented past... (Dir. Paul Greengrass 2004) Interpreter: The truth needs no translation... Director Sidney Pollack's diverse career sees him returning to familiar ground with The Interpreter Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn starring in a film riddled with subterfuge recriminations and deadly secrets. Kidman plays Silvia Broome an interpreter who works at the UN in New York City. One night while collecting a bag she has left behind in the building Silvia overhears a whispered conversation in which an assassination attempt on redoubtable African leader Zuwanie (Earl Cameron) is planned during his future visit to the UN. Secret service agent Tobin Keller (Penn) is assigned to provide security for Zuwanie on the forthcoming trip and conducts an investigation when Silvia explains what she has heard. He quickly discovers that Silvia has a lengthy troubled past as a citizen from the same country as Zuwanie and immediately begins to doubt her story... This is the first film to be shot inside the United Nations Headquarters. Locations include the General Assembly and the Security Council as well as corridors and hallways of the complex. The cast and crew filmed on weekends in order not to disrupt the working week of the Organization. (Dir. Sidney Pollack 2004)

• The Bourne Identity Identity (Special Edition) / The Bourne Supremacy | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy in one boxed set edition.

• Will and Grace: Series 2 (Episodes 9-12) | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £3.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (75.19%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Hit American sitcom Will and Grace is as perky as Friends and as wittily urbane as Frasier. The premise concerns Will (Eric McCormack), a mildly uptight lawyer who agrees to have as a flatmate his best friend, interior designer Grace (Debra Messing). Their relationship has all the hallmarks of lovers--emotional dependency, little things that get on each others' nerves, strong mutual interests and volcanic arguments. The only snag is that while Grace is straight, Will is gay. Though not shy of poking sharp fun at that situation, Will and Grace is among sitcom's most potent and sophisticated antidotes to homophobia. Though initially a little too pleased with its own camp pertness, the show grows and grows on you with successive episodes, finally becoming indispensable. It also benefits from secondary characters Jack (Sean P Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally), also gay and straight respectively, both outrageously and hilariously irresponsible characters: he a free spirit and freeloader, she's "working" as Grace's assistant even though she doesn't need the money, having married it. Despite its diamond and rapid-fire punchlines, Will and Grace conveys enough sense of the main characters' lovelorn predicament to prevent it from becoming too cute. --David Stubbs

• Will and Grace: Series 2 (Episodes 17-20) | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £6.50   |  Saving you £5.49 (45.80%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Advise And Resent: When Will is set up on a blind date (guest star Michael E. Rodgers) by his boss (Gregory Hines) he has internal debates on whether or not to go. Of course Jack gives Will advice on how to be a good blind date. Meanwhile Grace continues to struggle with her wimpy boyfriend Josh (guest star Corey Parker) as Karen doles out some typically un-wanted advice. An Affair To Forget: When Ellen (guest star Leigh-Allyn Baker) and Rob (guest star Tom Gallop) announce that they are getting married Grace feels forced to reveal to Will that she once slept with Rob - a secret that surfaces at Ellen's hen party and prompts Ellen to seek revenge. During Rob's bachelor party Jack is confused and baffled when he becomes aroused by the lap-dancer hired for the evening. There But For The Grace Of Grace: It's a scary glimpse into the future for Will and Grace when they visit their curmudgeonly retired college professor (guest star Orson Bean) only to discover that he is a bitter old man that has a Grace (guest star Piper Laurie) of his own. Meanwhile Karen (Megan Mullally) must confront her most mortal enemy - the kitchen - when Stan requests a homecooked meal for his birthday and she looks to Jack and Ben to come to her rescue. The Hospital Show: While on a blind date Will finds out that Karen's husband Stan has had a heart attack and rushes to the hospital to be with the gang. Will Jack Grace and Rosario all speculate on who Karen will turn to for her inevitable emotional breakdown. After all who pays the bills if Stan dies?

• Will and Grace: Series 3 (Episodes 5-8) | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £9.89   |  Saving you £3.10 (23.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The second four episodes from season 3 of the smash U.S. sitcom about a gay lawyer and a straight interior designer. Grace 0 Jack 2000: Grace has made up her mind to break up with Ben (Gregory Hines) because she's convinced their relationship is going nowhere - but his charm and refusal to call it quits tempt her to reconsider. Meanwhile Jack's latest and most outrageous cabaret gig is an absolute bomb until he frantically works an unwilling Will into the act... Love Plus One: Grace rejects an ex-boyfriend's suggestion that she participate with him and his girlfriend in a romantic escapade but when she confides in Will and Karen - who falls down laughing at the prospect - the conservative Grace considers throwing caution to the wind. Gypsies Tramps And Weed: Will reluctantly decides to use a birthday gift certificate from Grace to consult a psychic about his future and encounters an absent-minded fortune teller (Camryn Manheim) whose frighteningly personal predictions leave him reeling. Lows In The Mid-Eighties: In a flashback to Thanksgiving 1985 co-ed Grace invites her college boyfriend Will home to meet her family but their romantic relationship swerves dramatically when a conflicted Will phones a teenaged Jack for some crucial advice. Unfortunately Will and an angry Grace end up temporarily estranged when he blurts out that he's gay and she orders him out of the house - and her life.

• Will and Grace: Series 3 (Episodes 1-4) | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £3.88   |  Saving you £9.11 (234.79%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The first four episodes from season 3 of the smash U.S. sitcom about a gay lawyer and a straight interior designer. New Will City: Will finally returns from his Caribbean working vacation and tries to help a confused Grace decide between her two sub-par boyfriends but he gets a rude awakening when he jealously discovers that Jack has ingratiated himself with Grace in his absence... Fear And Clothing: Will's apartment resembles a disheveled boarding house when a rattled Grace seeks refuge after someone tries to break into her apartment but her needy presence - combined with Jack and his latest entourage - force the long suffering Will to demand that one of them must go! Husband And Trophy Wives: Will and Jack can't wait to arrive at the house of two old friends who are known for their wild parties but they discover that the former party animals are now sedately raising an adopted baby girl - and Will shocks Jack when he volunteers to test his shaky parenting skills by babysitting her for them. Girl Trouble: Grace's delight in having a bright intern (guest star Natasha Lyonne) whom she can mentor turns into horror when the young woman re-makes herself in the spitting image of sassy brassy Karen - and that's at least one too many Karens to handle!

• Will and Grace: Series 2 (Episodes 21-24) | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £2.75   |  Saving you £10.24 (372.36%)   |  RRP £12.99

  My Best Friend's Tush: Grace discovers that one of Karen's friends is the notorious Helena Barnes (guest star Joan Collins) one of New York's most celebrated interior designers and her primary competition for a lucrative design job. Meanwhile Jack might regret it when he convinces Will to help him try to obtain financing for his latest venture The Subway Tush - a portable seat to make subway rides comfy. Girls Interrupted: Grace becomes chummy with her unpredictable neighbour Val (guest star Molly Shannon) from down the hall and while the pair surprisingly find they share a mutual rapport Grace's glow dims when she tells Will that a sentimental music box has disappeared during her new pal's visit. Meanwhile Jack poses as a straight man to attend a party for former homosexuals who have become heterosexual - fully intent on swaying a new convert (Neil Patrick) back to his side of the gender-preference aisle. Ben? Her? (Part 1) To help make peace between Grace and Ben Will has them both over to dinner only to have their relationship go beyond friendship. But then Will finds out that Ben is dating someone else. Meanwhile Jack catches Rosario in a clinch with a lover and learns that she wants a divorce. Ben? Her? (Part 2) Forced by his boss to betray both of his friends Will quits - only to discover that everything isn't as it seems. Frustrated he leaves a lost Jack and Grace behind and ends up on a tropical island without a care in the world. That is until Ben shows up...

• Bourne Supremacy | UMD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Good enough to suggest long-term franchise potential, The Bourne Supremacy is a thriller fans will appreciate for its well-crafted suspense, and for its triumph of competence over logic (or lack thereof). Picking up where The Bourne Identity left off, the action begins when CIA assassin and partial amnesiac Jason Bourne (a role reprised with efficient intensity by Matt Damon) is framed for a murder in Berlin, setting off a chain reaction of pursuits involving CIA handlers (led by Joan Allen and the duplicitous Brian Cox, with Julia Stiles returning from the previous film) and a shadowy Russian oil magnate. The fast-paced action hurtles from India to Berlin, Moscow, and Italy, and as he did with the critically acclaimed Bloody Sunday, director Paul Greengrass puts you right in the thick of it with split-second editing (too much of it, actually) and a knack for well-sustained tension. It doesn't all make sense, and bears little resemblance to Robert Ludlum's novel, but with Damon proving to be an appealingly unconventional action hero, there's plenty to look forward to. --Jeff Shannon

• Will and Grace: Series 2 (Episodes 1-4) | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £5.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (14.40%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Hit American sitcom Will and Grace is as perky as Friends and as wittily urbane as Frasier. The premise concerns Will (Eric McCormack), a mildly uptight lawyer who agrees to have as a flatmate his best friend, interior designer Grace (Debra Messing). Their relationship has all the hallmarks of one between lovers--emotional dependency, little things that get on each other's nerves, strong mutual interests and volcanic arguments. The only snag is that while Grace is straight, Will is gay. Though not shy of poking sharp fun at that situation, Will and Grace is among sitcom's most potent and sophisticated antidotes to homophobia. Though initially a little too pleased with its own camp pertness, the show grows and grows on you with successive episodes, finally becoming indispensable. It also benefits from secondary characters Jack (Sean P Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally), also gay and straight respectively, both outrageously and hilariously irresponsible characters: he's a free spirit and freeloader, she's "working" as Grace's assistant even though she doesn't need the money, having married some. Despite its diamond and rapid-fire punch lines, Will and Grace conveys enough sense of the lovelorn predicament of the main characters to prevent it becoming too cute. --David Stubbs

• Will and Grace: Series 3 (Episodes 9-12) | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The third volume of episodes from season 3 of the smash U.S. sitcom. Episode titles: Three's A Crowd Six Is A Freak Show Coffee & Commitment Swimming Pools... Movie Stars Crazy In Love.

• Will and Grace: Series 4 (Episodes 1-4) | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  At the end of Series 3 Grace had got together with Nathan (Woody Harrelson). Things are going well until Will gets back from vacation and Will and Grace re-establish their special relationship leaving Nathan feeling neglected. Grace and Nathan nearly get engaged and then split up. Jack is getting to know the son - Elliot he never knew he had thanks to an anonymous 'donation' 13 years ago. Karen's husband Stanley Walker gets arrested and there's nothing Will can do to save him from a life behind bars... Episodes comprise: Third Wheel Gets The Grace Past And Presents Crouching Father Hidden Husband Prison Blues.