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• The Sopranos: Complete Series 1 | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £13.89   |  Saving you £48.10 (346.29%)   |  RRP £61.99

  Writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television seriesThe Sopranos is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home. This ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there's the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegiate mob clan and his own nouveau-riche brood. The brilliant first series is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his midlevel capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get. Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed. The first year's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what's not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland

• The Sopranos: Complete Series 1 (Six Disc Set) | DVD | (29/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £61.99

  The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: This ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there's the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own nouveau riche brood. The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his midlevel capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers, and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get. Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful, and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed. The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive, and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what's not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Sex and The City: The Complete Series | Blu Ray | (29/11/2021) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Own the ground-breaking HBO series on Blu-ray for the very first time, and experience the friendships and fashion in gorgeous high-definition. Sex and the City stars Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, a New York-based writer who explores and experiences the unique world of Manhattan's dating scene, chronicling the mating habits of single New Yorkers. The series also stars cast regulars Kim Cattrall as PR executive Samantha Jones, who's seen -- and done -- it all; Kristin Davis as Charlotte York, still trying to hold on to the idea of happily ever after; and Cynthia Nixon as corporate lawyer and mother Miranda Hobbes, a pragmatist trying to balance the idea of love with the realities of life.

• Puppetmaster 2 | Blu Ray | (22/10/2012) from £13.49   |  Saving you £2.50 (18.53%)   |  RRP £15.99

  You can't keep a good man down or a Puppet Master buried as Tunneler, Leech Woman, Pinhead and the rest of the puppets return to exhume their beloved creator in Puppet Master II, the sequel to the hit horrorfest, Puppet Master. This time, the little devils are after the special fluid that keeps them alive, which is only found in...you guessed it...human brains. Lucky for the puppets, a new team of paranormal researchers has come to the hotel to investigate its murder-soaked past. (Don't these guys ever learn?) The puppets-led by a new member, the flamethrowing Torch-are happy to shed some light on the (brain) matter, as they tunnel, burn, strangle and hook to survive. Featuring the special effects wizardry of Academy Award nominee David Allen (Young Sherlock Holmes, Willow)..

• Puppet Master 2 | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Those nasty little puppets are back to wreack more havoc and take care of some unfinished business. Joined by 'Torch' the newest member of the sinister troop the puppets exhume their beloved creator 'Toulon' and gather the brain matter that keeps them alive. Yet the puppetmaster has a deadly plan of his own.

• Quantum Leap - Series 5 | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  The final season of the cult TV programme Quantum Leap finally comes to DVD. Episodes Comprise: 1.Lee Harvey Oswald: Part 1 2. Lee Harvey Oswald: Part 2 3. Leaping of The Shrew 4. Nowhere to Run 5. Killin' Time 6. Star Light Star Bright 7. Deliver Us From Evil 8. Trilogy: Part 1 9. Trilogy: Part 2 10. Trilogy: Part 3 11. Promised Land 12. A Tale Of Two Sweeties 13. Liberation 14. Dr. Ruth 15. Blood Moon 16. Return 17. Revenge 18. Goodbye Norma Jean 19.The Beast Within 20. The Leap Between The States 21. Memphis Melody 22. Mirror Image

• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Complete | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £199.99

  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is set on a space station orbiting the planet Bajor. Commander Benjamin Sisko is in charge of a diverse crew who must fight off rival alien species who want to control DS9 because of its strategic position close to a wormhole that allows speedy travel to the far reaches of space.

• Quantum Leap - The Ultimate Collection | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £129.99   |  Saving you £-30.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Theorising that one could time travel within his own lifetime Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al an observer from his own time who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life

• Puppet Master Trilogy | DVD | (20/01/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Disc 1: Puppetmaster OneAlex Whitaker and three other gifted psychics are investigating rumours that the secret of life has been discovered by master puppeteer Andre Toulon. But the psychics quickly discover Toulon's secret of death in the form of five killer puppets - each one uniquely qualified for murder and mayhem. Together they're an army of skilled assassins diabolically programmed to guard the deadly secrets of the Puppet Master. Disc 2: Puppetmaster TwoYou can't keep a good man down or a Puppet Master buried as the puppets return to exhume their beloved creator in Puppet Master II. This time the little devils are after the special fluid that keeps them alive which is only found in...you guessed it... human brains! The puppets - led by a new member the flamethrowing Torch - are happy to shed some light on the (brain) matter as they tunnel burn strangle and hook to survive. Disc 3: Puppetmaster ThreeAfter hearing that Andre Toulon's puppets have no strings but rather seem to have a life of their own Dr. Hess a Gestapo henchman during WWII sends the Gestapo to the theatre to kidnap them. During the melee Toulon's wife Elsa is killed and Toulon is whisked away by the Nazis. However on the way to headquarters the puppets attack the Gestapo and escape with Toulon. Now Toulon begins to plan his revenge. He creates a new puppet Six-Shooter models Blade after a pasty-faced Nazi and uses Elsa's essence to create Leech Woman. Now Toulon's army is ready to take revenge...

• Puppet Master 2 | DVD | (07/11/2007) from £5.05   |  Saving you £0.94 (15.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Puppet Master | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Puppet Master (Dir. David Schmoeller 1989): Five psychics hear rumours that the secret of life has been discovered by Andre Toulon a puppeteer and decide to investigate. What they find are five mutated puppets which have been specially designed to kill... Puppet Master II (Dir. Dave Allen 1990): Those nasty little puppets are back to wreack more havoc and take care of some unfinished business. Joined by 'Torch' the newest member of the sinister troop the puppets

• Reign In Darkness | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £12.15   |  Saving you £3.84 (31.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Molecular biologist Michael Dorn (Kel Dolen) is accidentally infected with a new virus he is developing and his life takes a dramatic turn for the worst. The virus which he believes is a cure for HIV harbours something far more sinister; turning it's victims into vampires. Now a threat to the very organisation for which he worked Michael is on the run a tortured soul living off the streets as he battles to come to terms with his violent new existence as a blood-lusting predato

• Puppetmaster 2 | DVD | (22/10/2012) from £6.95   |  Saving you £6.04 (86.91%)   |  RRP £12.99

  You can't keep a good man down or a Puppet Master buried as Tunneler, Leech Woman, Pinhead and the rest of the puppets return to exhume their beloved creator in Puppet Master II, the sequel to the hit horrorfest, Puppet Master. This time, the little devils are after the special fluid that keeps them alive, which is only found in... you guessed it...human brains. Lucky for the puppets, a new team of paranormal researchers has come to the hotel to investigate its murder-soaked past. (Don't these guys ever learn?) The puppets - led by a new member, the flamethrowing Torch-are happy to shed some light on the (brain) matter, as they tunnel, burn, strangle and hook to survive. Featuring the special effects wizardry of Academy Award nominee David Allen (Young Sherlock Holmes, Willow).

• Reign in Darkness | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-2.44 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Molecular biologist Michael Dorn is accidentally infected with a new virus he is developing and his life takes a dramatic turn for the worse. The virus which he believed was designed as a cure for HIV harbors something far more sinister-turning it's victims into vampires. Now a treat to the very organization for which he worked Michael is on the run a tortured soul living off the streets as he battles to come to terms with his violent existence as a blood-lusting predator. With malicious bounty hunter Lance and junkie vampire Gage in pursuit Michael knowing the true heinous potential of the virus must decide the fate of the world.

• Puppet Master 1 And 2 | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Puppet Master': Five psychics hear rumours that the secret of life has been discovered by Andre Toulon a puppeteer and decide to investigate. What they find are five puppets which have been specially designed to kill. 'Puppet Master 2': The group of deadly puppets are back to create more murder and mayhem. This time the victims are a team of researchers.

• Classical Visions | DVD | (30/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Strauss: The Magic Of ViennaSee Vienna in all its glory set to the charming waltzes of Johann Strauss and enjoy the culture and architectural beauty of this magnificent city on the Danube. See the palace of Schonbrunn Prater the house of parliament Hofburg the Danube wine-shops in Grinzing and much more.Beethoven: Spring FlowersThe poetry of springtime comes to life in a beautiful montage of color set to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven. This video captures in unusual macro detail the world of flowers plants and insects in spring. Enjoy the sights and the sounds for romantic dreams and pure relaxation.Chopin: Autumn DreamEnjoy the beauty of swans against the perfect unspoiled landscapes of a crisp colorful autumn day. Filmed throughout the regions of the Ukraine and set to the music of Chopin this spectacular montage will excite the senses and stimulate the mind while comforting the soul with its magnificent details of nature.