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• George Washington | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For a first feature from a 24-year-old director, George Washington is an amazingly assured piece of work. The title’s misleading: this is no biopic of America’s first President, but a poetic, richly atmospheric rhapsody set in a rundown industrial town in the American South. Given this backdrop, and a predominantly black cast, you might expect an angry study of social deprivation and racial tension, but Green has no such agenda. Instead, he derives a shimmering, heat-hazed beauty from his images of rusting machinery, junkyards and derelict buildings, and if the overall tone is tinged with sadness, it’s mainly from a sense of universal human loss. The action, such as it is, moves at its own slow Southern pace, following a group of youngsters, black and white, over a few high-summer days. Things do happen--a couple decide to elope, one boy’s saved from drowning, another gets killed--but they’re presented in an oblique, understated fashion that owes nothing to conventional Hollywood notions of narrative. With one exception, the cast are all non-professionals, mainly youngsters who director-writer David Gordon Green found in and around the town where the film was made, Winston-Salem in North Carolina. Shooting in a semi-improvised fashion, Green draws from his young cast remarkably spontaneous performances and dialogue (often their own) full of unselfconscious poetry. Drawing on a wide range of influences--among other things he cites Sesame Street, documentaries and such 70s classics as Deliverance, Walkabout and especially Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven--Green has fashioned a film that’s fresh, tender and utterly individual. And it looks just gorgeous: belying the tiny budget, Tim Orr’s widescreen photography lavishes mellow softness on images of dereliction and small-town decay. Never has dead-end poverty been made to look so attractive. On the DVD: George Washington comes on a disc generously loaded with extras. Besides the obvious theatrical trailer we get two of Green’s early short films, Physical Pinball and Pleasant Grove (both clearly dry runs for the main feature), an 18-minute featurette about the film’s reception at the Berlin Film Fest and a deleted scene of a community meeting. This scene, the short Pleasant Grove and the movie itself also offer a director’s commentary--or rather a director’s dialogue, as Green shares the honours with one of his lead actors, Paul Schneider. Their laconic, unpretentious comments enhance the whole experience enormously. The film has been transferred in its full scope ratio (2.35:1) and looks great. --Philip Kemp

• The Nativity | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £3.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (50.13%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Young Vic Theatre Company presents the story of the Nativity.

• Little Women | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £18.28   |  Saving you £-13.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Set in New England during the Civil War, LITTLE WOMEN chronicles the lives and loves of four sisters - Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth - who after their father leaves for battle, must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small.

• Space Rangers | DVD | (24/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The year is 2104. Explorers have discovered new worlds and new civilisations. They've established remote outposts in the farthest reaches of the galaxy. A few men and women have volunteered to uphold the law on the frontier: the Space Rangers. Much like the pioneers before them who tamed the Wild West the space rangers have left behind their comfortable lives on Earth to seek new challenges and adventures. And just as the settlers made enemies among the Indians they encountered so

• The Marx Brothers Collection - A Girl In Every Port/The Cocoanuts/Room Service/Love Happy | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  A fantastic collection of timeless works from the Marx Brothers. Films comprise: A Girl In Every Port (1952): This was Groucho Marx's second solo outing for RKO and his third feature without Chico and Harpo. Groucho and William Bendix play a couple of scheming sailors who spend most of their time in the ship's brig. Bendix receives a small inheritance and decides to spend it on a clapped-out racehorse. When Groucho learns that the animal has a much more successful twin

• Airwolf - Vol. 1 | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £11.08   |  Saving you £-1.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Airwolf appeared only two years after Knight Rider and, perplexingly, the same year as the short-lived Blue Thunder series. However, creator Donald P Bellisario had spent more than a little time in fully conceptualising this series. Although the format allowed for stories-of-the-week, a B-plot always ran as background motivation for the individual tales. This was a trick Bellisario would also use to good effect later in Magnum P.I. and Quantum Leap. The hook that sustains the audience here is an extremely bitter sub-plot: Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) is a peculiar anti-hero to root for since he is effectively being held to ransom and doing the same in return. His brother St. John is held captive somewhere and until his release the Airwolf chopper is Hawke's to keep hidden and use under the covert instructions of "Archangel". His best friend Dominic Santini (the ever-appealing Ernest Borgnine) is a surrogate father figure caught up in the family history. All this pre-determined angst means this is never a show that plays itself for laughs. Very specific character flaws are upfront from the beginning. We are hammered over the head with the idea of Hawke being a tortured intellectual; hence the cello, log cabin retreat and inability to smile. Of course the real star is the spurious technology showcased in the Mach One helicopter armed to the teeth and able to defy the laws of physics on a regular basis. As the mid-80s looked increasingly to the lighter side in most television successes, Airwolf is a rare display of aggression. Justice is fought, but dig only a little way and the moral motivations are often in question. Toward the end of its third season things began to lose coherence and after a year's pause the show was magically resurrected with an all-new cast. It didn't last. --Paul Tonks

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 4 - Part 2 | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £22.65   |  Saving you £-2.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jack Ford loses his Midas touch and becomes a victim of the Wall Street crash which forces him to leave New York with gangsters threatening his life. He returns illegally to Liverpool as a stowaway on a cargo boat which costs him every penny he has. He then sets about finding old friends and rebuilding his life... Episodes comprise: Oh My Charming Billy Boy / Friends Romans Countrymen / The Bright Young Things

• Battle Of The Planets - Vol. 2 | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  G-Force Princess Tiny Keyop Mark Jason and watching over them from Centre Neptune their computerised co-ordinator 7-Zark-7! Watching warning against surprise attacks by alien galaxies beyond space! Fearless young orphans protecting earth''s entire galaxy. Always five acting as one... Dedicated Inseparable Invincible!

• Airwolf - Series 1 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £15.97   |  Saving you £-6.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Jan-Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine star in the cult favourite Airwolf - although some might call Airwolf itself the star. The Emmy Award-winning series followed the dangerous missions of the high-tech helicopter Airwolf and it's renegade pilot Stringfellow Hawke. Fans can now relive every secret mission and dangerous operation in Part 1 of Season One!

• Seven | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The most viscerally frightening and disturbing homicidal maniac picture since The Silence of the Lambs, Seven is based on an idea that's both gruesome and ingenious. A serial killer forces each of his victims to die by acting out one of the seven deadly sins. The murder scene is then artfully arranged into a grotesque tableau, a graphic illustration of each mortal vice. From the jittery opening credits to the horrifying (and seemingly inescapable) concluding twist, director David Fincher immerses us in a murky urban twilight where everything seems to be rotting, rusting, or moulding; the air is cold and heavy with dread. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are the detectives who skillfully track down the killer--all the while unaware that he has been closing in on them, as well. Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey are also featured, but it is director Fincher and the ominous, overwhelmingly oppressive atmosphere of doom that he creates that are the real stars of the film. --Jim Emers

• FRED DIBNAH'S INDUSTRIAL AGE - Railways & Ships and Engineering | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £7.31   |  Saving you £7.68 (105.06%)   |  RRP £14.99

  RAILWAYS & SHIPS AND ENGINEERING Continuing the series in which Fred Dibnah celebrates our nation's rich industrial heritage

• Bad Day | Blu Ray | (24/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Rebecca Ryan (Claire Goose) has been working undercover for the Organised Crime Division (OCD) posing as a taxi driver while investigating London's [most notorious gangsters the] South Side Mob. When she finds that her own young daughter has been brutally murdered she fears that her cover may have been blown. As Rebecca trawls the seedy depths of London's underworld hunting down her daughter's killers the lines between good and evil right and wrong begin to blur as do her notions of justice and revenge. She embarks on a brutally bloody campaign of vengeance against the gang she believes is responsible. As the fragile bonds that hold the gang together begin to unravel death pervades. No one is safe including the elusive and mysterious mistress Jade (Sarah Harding). As a trail of blood begins to flow from Rebecca's quest for justice it's left up to the world-weary OCD agent Darius Cruise (Anthony Ofoegbu) to bring her in. He and his newly assigned hot tempered partner Abby Barrett (Donna Air) must do what no cop likes to do - to go after one of their own and if necessary take her down.

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A small and tranquil town, snuggled into the hollow of a valley. A mysterious death, a puzzling investigation. A secret diary, a pact, a double and an unlucky ring. Dreams, hallucinations, premonitions. Loves without a future, a singer who goes through the memory of times past. A Red Room, white lines, a high school girl in ankle socks who ends up incinerating her life away.This is the world of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. The last seven days of Laura Palmer.

• Turbo | Blu Ray | (05/05/2014) from £19.34   |  Saving you £10.65 (55.07%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From the makers of Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda Turbo is a high-velocity 3D comedy about a snail who dares to dream big - and fast. After a freak accident infuses him with the power of super-speed Turbo kicks into overdrive and embarks on an extraordinary journey to achieve the seemingly impossible: competing in the world's fastest race the Indianapolis 500. With the help of his tricked-out streetwise snail crew this ultimate underdog puts his heart and shell on the line to prove that no dream is too big and no dreamer too small.

• The Silent Force | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The sole survivor of an elite federal force aims to get even with an Asian crime lord who assassinated his team.

• Lizzie McGuire - Season 2.1 | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-13.99 (-155.60%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Meet Lizzie McGuire. She is so thirteen years old with all the worries every thirteen-year-old has. Join Lizzie (Hilary Duff) and her cartoon alter ego for an hilarious look at life on the edge - of teen years... Episodes comprise: 1. Educating Ethan 2. Lizzie Strikes Out 3. Last Year's Model 4. Courtship of Miranda Sanchez 5. Facts of Life

• Carry Me - Thomas - Peep Peep Party | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  More adventures with every child's favourite - Thomas! 'Lady Hatt's Birthday Party' 'Baa!' 'Double Teething Troubles' 'Thomas Percy And Old Slowcoach' 'Happy Ever After' 'Busy Going Backwards' 'Thomas' Christmas Party' 'Thomas And Percy's Christmas Adventure' Plus two songs: 'Night Train' and 'Donald's Duck'!

• Lord Peter Wimsey - Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The plot of The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club takes a new turn concentrating not on who did it? but moreover when was it done? A vast inheritance depends on the timing of the deaths of an elderly brother and sister - the sequence of deaths is the Big Question. Once this is established only then can Peter Wimsey's sleuthing turn to who the murderer is...

• The Stick Up | DVD | (01/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  It's a quiet little town where nothing happens - until the day the bank is hit for half a million dollars of Indian casino money by a thief wearing a clowns mask. From here the story follows a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse between bank robber and former cop Parker (James Spader) and small-town police officer Ray DeCarlo (David Keith) determined to catch him. Parker doesn't help himself by holing up with a nurse who happens to be DeCarlo's former wife. Throw in a rookie FBI agent, Indians wh...

• Thomas And Friends - Classic Collection - Series 1 To 5 | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  All Aboard for this Special Edition Classic Collection gift set containing 130 fun-packed Thomas & Friends stories. Including 5 DVD's this is the first time ever that the Classic Collections 1 2 3 4 and 5 have been available in a special Collector's gift set with over 700 minutes of Thomas & Friends stories.