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• Dinotopia - The Series | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £38.95   |  Saving you £-3.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Karl his brother David and their father Frank are all stranded in Dinotopia after a plane accident. It's here that dinosaurs and humans live in perfect harmony but beneath the surface dangers are brewing....

• Cirque Du Soleil - Quidam | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £7.33   |  Saving you £5.66 (77.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Since 1984 Cirque du Soleil has reinvented and revolutionized the circus arts with an astonishing theatrical blend of circus arts and street performance. Cirque du Soleil has been pleasing the public with a novel show concept that is as original as it is non-traditional wrapped up in spectacular costumes and fairyland sets and staged to spellbinding music and magical lighting. There are no animals in a Cirque du Soleil production - only sheer human energy is put to work!

• The Dead Zone | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One of the very best Stephen King film adaptations, The Dead Zone is imbued with an ever-present atmosphere of dread. Shot in a permanently wintry Canada (standing in for New England), the icy backdrops are subtly employed by director David Cronenberg to accentuate the story’s fatalistic tone. Cronenberg’s welcome emphasis for the most part on psychological terror over physical shocks (something of a change of direction for him after The Brood and Scanners) is further enhanced by composer Michael Kamen’s marvellously chilly music score and Christopher Walken’s understated yet dominating central performance as high school teacher Johnny Smith, who wakes from a coma following a car crash to learn that he has been cursed with the gift of second sight. That his uncanny ability is indeed a curse and definitely not a blessing is made abundantly clear: even when Johnny is able to save people’s lives, there is always a price to pay. The cosmic law of Karma is grimly unforgiving. Herbert Lom, as Johnny’s sympathetic doctor, sums up the character’s plight, "Some things just weren’t meant to be." And even when Johnny learns the terrible secret of future Presidential candidate Greg Stillson (a villainous Martin Sheen), he knows he cannot act without accepting the fatal consequences. Brooke Adams, as the love of Johnny’s life, and Tom Skerrit, as the quietly desperate sheriff on the trail of a serial killer, are excellent in support. On the DVD: this disc comes with a chunky accompanying booklet with background notes on the film, cast and director, as well as a script excerpt for the originally planned pre-credits sequence (in the finished film we assume Johnny’s second sight is a result of the car accident--this earlier screenplay follows the book more closely). The movie itself--which features the "scissor-suicide" scene uncut--is accompanied by a chatty and informative commentary from film critics Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (a regular Amazon.co.uk contributor). Both the 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen picture and the Dolby 5.1 sound are adequate if unexceptional. --Mark Walker

• X Files: Season 7 | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £19.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (75.13%)   |  RRP £34.99

  From Scully dicsovering the alien spacecraft in 'The Sixth Extinction' and Mulder finally learning the truth about his sister in 'Closure' to Mulder's own disappearnce and Scully's miraculous pregnancy in 'Requiem' these season seven episodes are a must for every X-Files fan! Episodes comprise: 1. The Sixth Extinction 2. The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati 3. Hungry 4. Millennium 5. Rush 6. The Goldberg Variation 7. Orison 8. The Amazing Maleeni 9. Signs And Won

• Shadows in The Sun | DVD | (23/02/2015) from £7.05   |  Saving you £2.94 (29.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jamie Dornan (50 Shades of Grey The Fall) plays Joe the friend and unconventional carer for Hannah played by Oscar winner Jean Simmons (Spartacus Guys and Dolls) as she spends her later years alone in her Norfolk country home. When Hannah's son Robert (James Wilby) arrives with his teenage daughter played by Ophelia Lovibond (Guardians of the Galaxy) and younger son he becomes shocked with his mother's intimacy with her young friend. Emotions and tensions between the group begin to surface and it might take a tragic incident to bring them together. Writer/director David Rocksavage has produced this unique drama that explores the complexities of family relationships.

• Frasier - Complete Series 5 | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £10.92   |  Saving you £24.07 (220.42%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer is Frasier - the hilarious psychiatrist first seen on TV's Cheers and subsequently the star of this smash-hit comedy series. Sibling rivalry between Fraiser and Niles (David Hyde Pierce) leads to some riotous cases of one-upsmanship in Season Five. Which of the two will find out the winner as they vie for the same attractive woman? Meanwhile Daphne (Jane Leeves) finds her favorite pub invaded by a familiar (and unwelcome) interloper; Roz (Peri Gilpin) is expecting a visit from the stork and KACL's abrasive Bob ""Bulldog"" Briscoe becomes the hero of the day to all - all except Fraiser who knows the untold story! Episodes Comprise: 1. Frasier's Imaginary Friend 2. The Gift Horse 3. Halloween 4. The Kid 5. The 1000th Show 6. Voyage of The Damned 7. My Fair Fraiser 8. Desperately Seeking Closure 9. Perspectives On Christmas 10. Where Every Bloke Knows Your Name 11. Ain't Nobody's Business If ""I Do"" 12. The Zoo Story 13. The Maris Counselor 14. The Ski Lodge 15. Room Service 16. Beware of Greeks 17. The Perfect Guy 18. Bad Dog 19. Fraiser Gotta Have It 20. First Date 21. Roz And The Schnoz 22. The Life Of The Party 23. Party Party 24. Sweet Dreams

• The World At War - Vol. 5 | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £4.90   |  Saving you £20.09 (410.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When this epic series was first broadcast in 1973 it redefined the gold standard for television documentary; it remains the benchmark by which all factual programming must judge itself. Originally shown as 26 one-hour programmes, The World at War set out to tell the story of the Second World War through the testimony of key participants. The result is a unique and unrepeatable event, since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long left to live. Each hour-long programme is carefully structured to focus on a key theme or campaign, from the rise of Nazi Germany to Hitler's downfall and the onset of the Cold War. There are no academic "talking heads" here to spell out an official version of history; the narration, delivered with wonderful gravitas by Sir Laurence Olivier, is kept to a minimum. The show's great coup was to allow the participants to speak for themselves. Painstaking research in the archives of the Imperial War Museum also unearthed a vast quantity of newsreel footage, including on occasion the cameraman's original raw rushes which present an unvarnished and never-before-seen picture of important events. Carl Davis' portentous main title theme and score underlines the grand scale of the enterprise. The original 26 episodes were supplemented three years later by six special programmes (narrated by Eric Porter), bringing the total running-time to a truly epic 32 hours. Now digitally remastered The World at War looks even more of an impressive achievement on DVD. Available in five volumes, each handsomely packaged double-disc set comes with a detailed menu that places the individual programmes along a chronological timeline. Better yet, chapter access is laid out to allow you to select key speeches or maps or newsreel footage. The World at War was a landmark television event; its DVD incarnation underlines its importance as an historical document. --Mark Walker

• Classic Films Triple - Great Expectations/Oliver Twist/A Tale Of Two Cities | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Great Expectations (1946) - David Lean directed this stylish film presentation of Charles Dickens' heart warming story of a young man befriending an escaped convict who becomes his unknown benefactor and of the consequences for the young man as he establishes himself in the world. A Tale Of Two Cities - Dickens' epic tale set during the French Revolution follows the fortunes of a disillusioned English lawyer Sidney Carton (Dirk Bogarde) whose solace is drink and who bears an uncanny resemblance to a young French aristocrat named Darnay. Carton defends Darnay but ends up falling in love with Darnay's fiancee Lucy. When Darnay is imprisoned by the revolutionary mob Carton is given the chance to redeem himself as he leaves for Paris for Darnay's aid. A truly gripping tale incomparably told and flawlessly performed. Oliver Twist - Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) orphaned at birth and raised in the workhouse is expelled for daring to ask the Beadle (Francis L. Sullivan) for more food. Unhappily apprenticed to an Undertaker Oliver escaped to London where he meets the cheeky Artful Dodger (Anthony Newly) the villainous Fagin (Alec Guiness) the aggressive Bill Sykes (Robert Newton) and the kindly but doomed Nancy (Kay Walsh). Torn constantly between the forces of good and evil Oliver eventually seals his fate by picking the pocket of a rich gentleman (Henry Stephenson).

• The Sitter | Blu Ray | (14/05/2012) from £15.12   |  Saving you £9.87 (65.28%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Sitter may be the last movie featuring the "heavy" version of Jonah Hill. With the many pounds he's since lost, many movie-industry minds are wondering if the Jonah Hill-ness of his screen persona, flaunted so prodigiously in the likes of Knocked Up, Get Him to the Greek, and Superbad, has disappeared from the scales too. But until Jonah 2.0 gets his chance, The Sitter couldn't capture his trash-talking, man-child, king-of-comeback essence more boldly, more lovingly, or with such blatant vulgarity. Hill plays Noah, a jobless twentysomething layabout still living with his divorced mum along with the delusion that he has a hot girlfriend (she only keeps him around for oral talents that are unrelated to speech). As a favour that might help Mum with her own sad love life, he agrees to a one-night babysitting stand for the neighbours and their three wildly dissimilar but equally messed-up children. The night progresses through slapstick, farce, adventure, romance, danger, pathos, and eventual catharsis for everyone. (Unfortunately there's a touch of maudlin, sentimental corn in the mix too.) The children are as important to the escapades as Noah and are the primary source of his stupid/smooth shtick that mixes clever put-downs, terrified jabbering, and hilariously relentless patter of urban slang vernacular. Noah's spoiled charges are two boys--an anxiety-wracked 13-year-old and a 10-year-old Nicaraguan adoptee with severe anger and pyromania issues--and a precocious 8-year-old-girl who's heavily into make-up, hip-hop, and a score of other age-inappropriate behaviours. As the four of them hurtle deeper into the night, the situations become more antically treacherous with drug dealers, gangster thugs, police officers, and upper-crust snobs as part of the mix, along with their knives, cocaine, diamonds, alcohol, and guns. Director David Gordon Green, whose unusual career has gone from art house (George Washington, All the Real Girls) to raunchy bromance (Pineapple Express, Your Highness), supplants formal technique with the off-kilter and oft-unseemly style of Jonah Hill vs. the world. Green sometimes evokes the flow of surreality that Martin Scorsese took to unnatural ends in After Hours, only with more dirty bits and a lot more full-on crude laughs. Nearly everyone in the large supporting cast makes an excellent foil for the star's constant streetwise riffing, especially Sam Rockwell, who digs in to his role as a psychotic but emotionally conflicted drug dealer always on the lookout for new best friends. But it is Jonah Hill who sits firmly, even heavily in the driver's seat. It's a great place to flash his better-honed actorly chops along with his beloved version 1.0 comedic gift. --Ted Fry

• The Real King's Speech | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £6.88   |  Saving you £6.11 (47.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Major Documentary of the true story behind the oscar winning story

• Tina Turner - Celebrate | DVD | (05/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The indestructible original voice of soul music celebrates six decades on planet Earth! Includes Tina's live 60th birthday concert featuring duets with Bryan Adams. Also clips of archive performances with Cher Rod Stewart David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Plus a string of special dedications to Tina by a host of stars including; Paul McCartney Bono and The Edge Ricky Martin Mariah Carey Sting and Al Green. Intercut with interviews with the birthday girl herself - this is a true celebration of Tina Turner at her best. Tracks include: 'River deep Mountain High' / '24-7' / 'What's Love Got To Do With It' / 'Steamy Windows' / 'When The Heartache Is Over' / 'Whatever You Need' / 'Don't Leave Me This Way' / 'Let's Stay Together' / 'Talk To My Heart' / 'Hold On I'm Coming' / 'It's Only Love' / 'Without You' / 'All The Women' / 'Nutbush City Limits' / 'The Best

• Calamity Jane / Seven Brides For Seven Brothers / My Fair Lady | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  This 1953 musical is very much a vehicle for Doris Day, in the title role, as a wild cowgal who can out-shoot and out-sing any boy on the range. When an actress arrives in Deadwood and uses her feminine charms on Jane's secret love, Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel), Jane tries to mend her tomboy ways. Not exactly up to the feminist code of honour, this is still energetic and Day is very perky. Of course, one could almost detect a homosexual undercurrent with the cross-dressing Jane, but this was Hollywood in the 1950s, so we best not. Calamity Jane won an Oscar for Best Song--"Secret Love", by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• Dawson's Creek - Season 5 | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £24.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (80.03%)   |  RRP £44.99

  It's goodbye to Capeside, hello to Boston in Dawson's Creek's fifth season (a.k.a.: Dawson's Creek: The College Years). While the end of the fourth season sent the five friends their separate ways--Dawson (James Van Der Beek) to USC Film School, Joey (Katie Holmes) to Wilmington College, Jen (Michelle Williams) and Jack (Kerr Smith) to Boston Bay College; and Pacey (Joshua Jackson) to the high seas--it doesn't take them long to find themselves together again. That's a good thing, especially when tragedy strikes a family member and threatens to tear the survivors apart. More than anything, the fifth season seems to be about falling into bad relationships. Jen dates a cute but sleazy musician (Chad Michael Murray), Pacey gets a job in a restaurant where he pursues a woman (Lourdes Benedicto) already having an affair with a married man, then fends off a vampish new boss (Sherilyn Fenn, Twin Peaks). Joey is drawn to her handsome English professor (Ken Marino). And Jack joins a frat, becomes a jerk, and starts a devoted relationship with his beer bottle. Dawson meets an eccentric young filmmaker (Jordan Bridges) which in turn leads to a meeting with his favorite Boston film critic (Meredith Salenger). And Joey's new roommate, the annoyance-with-a-heart-of-gold Audrey (Busy Phillipps), becomes the newest major addition to the cast. The irritation factor is high this season, a couple of "Joey is threatened" interludes don't have the punch that they could have, and in the season finale, the inevitable resolution of the show's central relationship doesn't really resolve anything at all. But viewers who have followed the Capeside crew for four seasons will still want to see what happens in the fifth. The fifth season is the first to have no DVD extras at all, and it continues the music-replacement strategy (which, since the second season has replaced much of the music, and since the third season has replaced Paula Cole's theme song, all due to licensing expenses). In addition to the usual background-music switches, some scenes have been edited (for example, the episode "Highway to Hell" has cut two of the performances on-stage at the Drunk & Dead). Also, the opening credits of "The Long Goodbye" and "Downtown Crossing" had originally used instrumental versions of "I Don't Want to Wait," which had underscored the emotion of those episodes. In the DVD set, those have been replaced by the standard version and an instrumental version, respectively, of "Run Like Mad." --David Horiuchi, Amazon.com

• Damsel (DVD) | DVD | (18/03/2019) from £6.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Samuel Alabaster (Robert Pattinson) voyages across the Western frontier to ask the love of his life, Penelope, (Mia Wasikowska) to marry him. When he discovers she's been kidnapped, he finds himself on an unpredictable journey that raises the question: is this damsel really in distress? From award-winning directors David and Nathan Zellner, and featuring a stand-out cast, Damsel is an entertainingly original (NY Times) adventure that takes an unmissable set of twists and turns.

• Final Scream | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A group of college graduates are invited to a remote estate to participate in what they believe to be an innocent murder mystery game. The evening begins as a fun night of scary stunts fake blood featuring a mysterious man in a creepy mask. But soon the body count becomes reality as one of the players turns into a violent killer. Now they are playing a far more realistic game a game to stay alive!

• Role Models | Blu Ray | (11/05/2009) from £5.99   |  Saving you £19.00 (317.20%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Danny and Wheeler (Rudd and Scott) are two salesmen who trash a company truck on an energy drink-fuelled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship programme.

• Maps To The Stars | Blu Ray | (02/02/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Weiss family are an archetypical Hollywood dynasty - Dr Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) is a psychotherapist whose self-help books have made him a fortune. His wife Cristina (Olivia Williams) is the overbearing mom-ager of their thirteen-year old son Benjie a prodigious child star fresh out of drug rehab and their estranged daughter Agatha (Mia Wasikowska) has recently been released from a psychiatric hospital. Agatha is now back in Hollywood making friends with a wannabe actor named Jerome (Robert Pattinson) and has landed a new job as PA to one of Stafford’s clients - the neurotic and tempestuous actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore) whose dream of reprising her dead mother’s starring role from the 1960s is beginning to haunt her.

• Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - The Chocolate Crunch And Other Stories | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Thomas and friends are back with 8 new exciting episodes never before seen on DVD. Episodes: 'Percy's Chocolate Crunch' 'Bill And Ben's Excellent Adventure' 'Dunkin Duncan' 'Jack Goes To Work' 'The World's Strongest Engine' 'Middle Engine' 'Thomas And The Jet Engine' and 'Faulty Whistles'.

• Inside No. 9 Series 4 BD | Blu Ray | (12/02/2018) from £18.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A fourth anthology from Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith. A unique mixture of comedy, drama, love, intrigue, ancient curses, industry gossip, room service, and murderous intent. Guest stars include Zoë Wanamaker (Harry Potter); Noel Clarke (Kidulthood); Emilia Fox (Silent Witness); Monica Dolan (W1A); Sian Gibson (Car Share); Fenella Woolgar (War And Peace); Rory Kinnear (Count Arthur Strong); Marcia Warren (Sherlock); Bill Paterson (Fleabag); Tanya Franks (Chewing Gum); Hattie Morahan (Outnumbered), Nicola Walker (Unforgotten) and Weruche Opia (Bad Education).

• K9 Series | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £4.58   |  Saving you £26.67 (803.31%)   |  RRP £29.99

  WHO's a Good Dog! TV's Most loved Robot dog K9 blasts back into action via a Space Time Manipulator and arrives in the late 21st Century in a London scarred by Alien Intrusion and Government rule through a Cybernetic Police Force. K9 is a cybernetic construct from the 50th Century and has the appearance of an earth dog both in shape and size. He arrives at the home of Professor Gryffen a renowned cybernetics and temporal dynamics expert who is working on the Alien Space-Time-Manipulator (STM) which opens a portal to anywhere in space and time. K9 is following a group of rogue Aliens Jixen Warriors who attack Gryffen and a couple of teenagers; Starkey a homeless rebel and Jorjie a very capable intelligent young girl. To save them K9 sacrifices himself and explodes soon followed by his regeneration thanks to a strange alien device implanted in his mainframe. The new look K9 can now hover and fly and has more capabilities than ever before. K9 loses his long term memory and begins a quest to not only protect humanity but to discover more about his time and Space travelling past. The year is 2059 and the Earth has suffered at the hands of natural disasters and the world government's have developed cybernetic technology and replaced human police and security forces with Cybernetic Civil Pacification Corps (The CCPC) who are controlled by the sinister Department. The Department have divisions run by Inspectors who control Public Order and Alien and Paranormal activity. Alongside Gryffen's errand boy Darius the teens are destined to become K9's companions in the battle against repression by the Department and the ongoing intrusion by Alien Life forms. The series features many new and bizarre Alien menaces from beyond Time and Space as well as some evil home grown human adversaries.