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• The Agatha Christie Hour: The Complete Series | DVD | (25/06/2018) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Agatha Christie Hour is a collection of ten dramas based on short stories by the most popular novelist in history. Featuring a heady mix of romance, the supernatural and thrilling adventure, the episodes all showcase Christie's unrivalled flair for the dramatic. With guest stars including John Nettles, Roy Kinnear, Amanda Redman, Rupert Everett and Cherie Lunghi, the episodes in this set are: Features: Magnolia Blossom The Case of the Discontented Soldier The Girl in the Train The Fourth Man Jane in Search of a Job The Manhood of Edward Robinson The Case of the Middle-aged Wife In a Glass Darkly The Mystery of the Blue Jar The Red Signal

• Jimmy Neutron - Boy Genius | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £8.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (60.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This new CGI comedy tells the simple story of a 10 year-old boy... his robot dog... battling evil... rescuing his parents... saving the Earth... and returning home in time for dinner!

• The Steven Seagal Legacy | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £14.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (60.04%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Titles Comprise: 1. Executive Decision: The mission: board a hijacked 747 in mid-air. Avoid detection. Locate and disable a hair-triggered nerve-toxin bomb that could wipe out the U.S. Eastern Seabord. Execute a split-second attack that overwhelms the terrorists and safeguards the passengers. Do it all without air-to-ground radio. And do it before an increasingly jittery U.S. military blasts the airliner out of the sky. Exit Wounds: Stolen drugs crooked cops. To gangster Latrell Walker the money at the other end of the deal provokes the question - are all cops bad? But when he crosses paths with tough cop Orin Boyd he discovers that nothing is what it seems even the law. With enemies everywhere and only one chance Latrell and Orin must join forces to reveal the deadly conspiracy at the heart of the precinct. Fire Down Below: In the peaceful Appalachian hills of Jackson Kentucky the earth burns. The toxins being dumped into abandoned mines could turn Jackson into a wasteland if no one stops it. EPA Marshal Jack Taggert in Fire Down Below a thunderous eco-thriller. Taggert's job is to ferret out those responsible for poisoning the land. When thugs try to take him out of the action Taggert takes on another line of work. He's in the butt-kicking business and business is good. Glimmer Man: The desperate hunt for a serial killer just got rougher for LAPD homicide detectives Jack Cole and Jim Campbell; they've become partners... Popular comic Wayans brings his wisecracking stock-in-trade to his hard-hitting role. Action icon Segal draws on his trademark sock in trade chopping through dynamic martial arts sequences and getting in his own wry comedy chops as well. Wearing Buddhist prayer beads relying on ancient potions and living by Eastern philosophies ex-New Yorker Cole is unlike any partner the street-savvy Campbell has ever seen. The way Campbell sees it secretive Cole is also something else: suspect No 1 in their murder investigation. Above The Law: Chicago cop Nico Toscani is on to something big. Suspects collared in a drug raid are allowed to walk and Nico himself is asked to turn in his badge. He may be off the force but he's not out of the action. Steven Seagal makes his sensational screen debut as Nico smashing his way into the top ranks of action stars as he tracks ex-CIA operatives trafficking drugs and plotting a political assassination. Out For Justice: Brooklyn born-and-raised cop Gino Felino has seen many changes in 'the Neighbourhood'. One sad one is that boyhood adversary and criminal scum Richie has turned the local streets into war zones. He's a mad dog unleashed who Gino's more than willing to send to an eternal obedience school. But he and his world-weary partner must catch Richie first. Under Siege: When the USS Missouri welcomes aboard entertainers for the battleship''s last voyage the visitors throw a party a war party. Led by a rogue CIS operative and a turncoat officer they''re killer-elite commandos out to hijack the ship''s nuclear arsenal. They overpower the crew. Except one man - Ex-Navy SEAL and decorated combat operative Casey Ryback. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory: A renegade electronics wiz has seized the sleek Grand Continental passenger train transforming it into a rolling command unit for an awesome weapons satellite. But the one passenger who eludes capture is Ryback. The train is now a battleground the satellite is locked onto its target and an oncoming freight train hauling gasoline is headed toward the Grand Continental. Can Ryback thwart the siege in time? All aboard!

• The Steven Seagal DVD Legacy | DVD | (09/12/2002) from £19.98   |  Saving you £42.01 (210.26%)   |  RRP £61.99

  Includes the following 8 great films: Exit Wounds Executive Decision Fire Down Below Glimmer Man Nico Under Siege Under Siege 2 Out For Justice

• Play for Today: Volume One (4-disc Blu-ray Boxset) | Blu Ray | (16/11/2020) from £40.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  50 years on from its first transmission, the BBC's Play for Today anthology series remains one of British television's most influential and celebrated achievements. Between 1970 and 1984, plays which combined some of the era's finest writing, acting and directing talents were broadcast direct to living rooms, regularly challenging viewers and pushing the boundaries of TV drama. Featuring plays by the likes of Ingmar Bergman, Julia Jones and Colin Welland and featuring a roster of eminent British actors, Play for Today: Volume One brings together seven iconic dramas on Bluray for the very first time, in a collection that exemplifies the breadth and brilliance of this groundbreaking series. The set includes five plays which have been restored from the original negatives held in the BBC archive. The Plays: The Lie (Written by Ingmar Bergman | Dir. Alan Bridges, 1970) Shakespeare or Bust (Written by Peter Terson | Dir. Brian Parker, 1973) Back of Beyond (Written by Julia Jones | Dir. Desmond Davis, 1974) Passage to England (Written by Leon Griffiths | Dir. John Mackenzie, 1975) Our Flesh and Blood (Written by Mike Stott | Dir. Pedr James, 1977) A Photograph (Written by John Bowen | Dir. John Glenister, 1977) Your Man from Six Counties (Written by Colin Welland | Dir. Barry Davis, 1976)

• Tommy and Tuppence - Partners in Crime | DVD | (20/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Ant Bully | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £3.91   |  Saving you £14.08 (360.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  After Lucas Nickle floods an ant colony with his watergun, he's magically shrunken down to insect size and sentenced to hard labour in the ruins.

• The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin - The Complete First Series | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Boasting a virtuoso comic performance from Leonard Rossiter The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976-79) remains one of the greatest of all television sitcoms. Writer David Nobbs combined the surrealist absurdity of Monty Python with an on-going story line that unfolded through each of the three seasons with a clear beginning, middle and end; a ground-breaking development in 70s TV comedy. The first and best season charts middle-aged, middle-management executive Reginald Perrin as he breaks-down under the stress of middle-class life until he informs the world that half the parking meters in London have Dutch Parking Meter Disease. He fakes suicide and returns to court his wife Elizabeth (Pauline Yates) in disguise, a plot development that formed the entire basis of Mrs Doubtfire (1993). Series Two is broader, the rapid-fire dialogue still razor sharp and loaded with caustic wit and ingenious silliness, as a now sane Reggie takes on the madness of the business world by opening a chain of shops selling rubbish. The third season, set in a health farm, is routine, the edge blunted by routine sitcom conventions. At its best The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is hilarious and moving, its depiction of English middle-class life spot on, its satire prophetic. Reggie's visual fantasies hark back to The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and Billy Liar (1963), and look forward to Ally McBeal (1997-2002) and are the icing on the cake of a fine, original and highly imaginative show. On the DVD: Reginald Perrin's discs contain one complete seven episode season. There are no extras. The sound is good mono and the 4:3 picture is generally fine, though some of the exterior shot-on-film scenes have deteriorated and there are occasional signs of minor damage to the original video masters. Even so, for a 1970s sitcom shot on video the picture is excellent and far superior to the original broadcasts. --Gary S Dalkin

• Children's Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol.3 | DVD | (23/08/2021) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For over 30 years, The Children's Film Foundation produced quality entertainment for young audiences, employing the cream of British filmmaking talent. Unavailable for years, these much-loved films finally make a welcome return to out screens. The Bumper Box Collection Vol.3 includes the following the following CFF adventures; The Clue of the Missing Ape, Adventure in the Hopfields, Tim Driscoll's Donkey, Runaway Railway, Calamity the Cow, Cry Wolf, Big Wheels and Sailor, Breakout and Our Exploits at West Poley. As always the films feature a plethora of familiar faces, including George Cole, Melvyn Hayes, John Moulder-Brown, Ronnie Barker, Shelia Reid, Brenda Fricker and of course last but not least, the one and only Phil Collins!

• Jimmy Neutron - Boy Genius | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  This new CGI comedy tells the simple story of a 10 year-old boy... his robot dog... battling evil... rescuing his parents... saving the Earth... and returning home in time for dinner!

• Dennis Potter | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  This mammoth box set features eight works of Dennis Potter spread over eleven discs. The Singing Detective:Slowly recovering from a terrible skin disease in a busy National Health hospital cynical thriller writer Phillip Marlow continues to unravel the traumas of his wartime boyhood while working through the plot of his greatest detective story - with himself as a crooning '40s detective on the trail of murderous Nazi plotters. But what is real and what is imagined? As childh

• Agatha Christie's Partners In Crime | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  First broadcast in the early 1980s, Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime stars James Warwick and Francesca Annis as the husband-and-wife team of detectives Tommy and "Tuppence" Beresford. Together they zoom around 1920's England in a very posh car and solve all kinds of high-society crimes, from forgery at an exclusive nightclub to the mysterious disappearance of an Arctic explorer's fiancée. The show benefits from two charming lead performances and some wonderful period details--Annis seems to change her hat and her dress every 30 seconds--but it is at best only moderately entertaining. The years have not been kind to this type of mystery, in which murder is the equivalent of an especially tricky crossword puzzle, offering the amateur sleuths an opportunity to avoid boredom and have a terribly thrilling time. Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple survive both in print and on film, because the central characters are interesting enough to make us forgive weak plotting and a lack of depth, but Tommy and Tuppence don't have the staying power of Christie's more famous creations. Their adventures are fun in small doses, and if you're in the mood for some witty repartee, but otherwise this series is little more than a quaint relic of a bygone age. --Simon Leake

• Broken Arrow/The Siege/Chain Reaction | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Broken Arrow (Dir. John Woo 1995): Two military pilots (Travolta and Slater) engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads. When a Stealth Bomber crashes in the Utah desert during a top-secret test run the military quickly moves in to retrieve its two ""broken arrows"". But the situation spins wildly out of control after one of the pilots reveals the crash to be part of an incredible nuclear extortion plot... The Siege (Dir. Edward Zick 1998): When a crowded city bus blows up in Brooklyn and a campaign of terror begins to make its bloody mark on the streets of New York it's up to FBI special agent Anthony ""Hub"" Hubbard (Washington) and U.S. Army General William Devereaux (Willis) to find out who's responsible and put an end to the destruction. Together they face explosive danger at every turn when they team up to a wage an all-out war against a ruthless band of terrorists. Chain Reaction (Dir. Andrew Davis 1996): A student machinist (Keanu Reeves) finds himself caught in a maze of secret government cover-ups high tech espionage and murders after working on a groundbreaking scientific experiment. Eddie Kasalivich (Reeves) and Lily Sinclair (Rachel Weisz) are part of a team of scientists who have developed a revolutionary new source of energy. But no sooner have they finishes celebrating their triumph than their lab is destroyed and the head of their team killed. Named as the main suspects Eddie and Lily quickly realise their only hope lies with a powerful and mysterious bureaucrat (Morgan Freeman) who may or may not be on their side.

• The Ant Bully | Blu Ray | (05/11/2007) from £6.89   |  Saving you £19.10 (277.21%)   |  RRP £25.99

  An all-star cast--including A-list stars such as Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep--lend their voices to The Ant Bully, from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker John A. Davis (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) and producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (The Polar Express). Social misfit Lucas gets bullied by the bigger boys in his neighbourhood, so he takes out his frustrations on the only things around smaller than him: an ant hill on his front lawn. After being flooded and stepped on, the ants fight back when ant wizard Zoc (voiced by Nicolas Cage) develops a potion that shrinks Lucas down to bug-size. But Zoc's thirst for revenge gets foiled when the ant queen (Meryl Streep) decrees that Lucas must learn to live like an ant, and Zoc's girlfriend Hova (Julia Roberts) takes up the task of teaching the unhappy boy how to value others over himself. The animation of The Ant Bully makes good use of scale as Lucas grapples with the gigantic world around him, but the writing is not so imaginative; the name actors are thrown away on bland characters and lackluster dialogue. The lessons Lucas learns are admirable (and amusingly Communist in flavour), but the way he learns them feels contrived and uncompelling. It's too bad, because there probably won't be many other movies featuring the combined talents of Meryl Streep and Bruce Campbell. Also featuring Ricardo Montalban (Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan), Lily Tomlin (Nashville) and the much-underrated Paul Giamatti (Sideways) as a sleazy exterminator. --Brett Fetzer

• Predator/Chain Reaction | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £8.96   |  Saving you £0.03 (0.30%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Predator (Dir. John McTiernan 1987): It sees the heat of their bodies. It smells their fears. It hunts for sport. It kills for pleasure. In a place without rules - the hunter has become the hunted. Deep inside the jungles of Latin America Schwarzenegger's team of elite commandos are being slaughtered by a mysterious predator. No longer are they hunters - they are the prey... of an alien whose only instinct is to kill. One by one it strikes with inhuman ferocity. Now to survive with the jungle as their only ally they face their greatest challenge: to stay alive. Chain Reaction (Dir. Andrew avis 1996): A student machinist (Keanu Reeves) finds himself caught in a maze of secret government cover-ups high tech espionage and murders after working on a groundbreaking scientific experiment. Eddie Kasalivich (Reeves) and Lily Sinclair (Rachel Weisz) are part of a team of scientists who have developed a revolutionary new source of energy. But no sooner have they finishes celebrating their triumph than their lab is destroyed and the head of their team killed. Named as the main suspects Eddie and Lily quickly realise their only hope lies with a powerful and mysterious bureaucrat (Morgan Freeman) who may or may not be on their side.

• The Ant Bully | HD DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  An all-star cast--including A-list stars such as Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep--lend their voices to The Ant Bully, from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker John A. Davis (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) and producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (The Polar Express). Social misfit Lucas gets bullied by the bigger boys in his neighbourhood, so he takes out his frustrations on the only things around smaller than him: an ant hill on his front lawn. After being flooded and stepped on, the ants fight back when ant wizard Zoc (voiced by Nicolas Cage) develops a potion that shrinks Lucas down to bug-size. But Zoc's thirst for revenge gets foiled when the ant queen (Meryl Streep) decrees that Lucas must learn to live like an ant, and Zoc's girlfriend Hova (Julia Roberts) takes up the task of teaching the unhappy boy how to value others over himself. The animation of The Ant Bully makes good use of scale as Lucas grapples with the gigantic world around him, but the writing is not so imaginative; the name actors are thrown away on bland characters and lackluster dialogue. The lessons Lucas learns are admirable (and amusingly Communist in flavour), but the way he learns them feels contrived and uncompelling. It's too bad, because there probably won't be many other movies featuring the combined talents of Meryl Streep and Bruce Campbell. Also featuring Ricardo Montalban (Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan), Lily Tomlin (Nashville) and the much-underrated Paul Giamatti (Sideways) as a sleazy exterminator. --Brett Fetzer