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• Band Of Brothers | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-1.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.80

  A genuinely epic achievement, the 10-part World War II drama Band of Brothers is a television series that makes big-screen Hollywood war movies look small in comparison. Based on the book by historian Stephen Ambrose, the series follows the US 101st Airborne Division's "Easy" E-Company from initial training through D-Day and across Holland, Belgium, Germany and Austria until the end of the war. Coproduced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, the series take its initial inspiration from Saving Private Ryan and borrows that film's visceral visual approach to combat scenes using hand-held camerawork and de-saturated photography. But where Band of Brothers excels is in its scrupulous attention to the realities of military life (retired US Marine Captain Dale Dye, who also co-stars, is the man to credit). After the high drama of the parachute drop on D-Day, Easy's greatest trial comes during the Battle of the Bulge, when they are besieged at Bastogne in the depths of winter. In one of the most harrowing and credible depictions of war ever committed to film we see the men enduring the repeated artillery attacks of the German forces and experience, if only vicariously, some of the sheer terror of the assault, while being humbled by the soldiers' courage and determination. Such feelings are enhanced by the series' masterstroke--bookend interviews with the surviving members of Easy Company, who talk with barely suppressed emotion of the experiences we see recreated. The endorsement of these veterans elevates Band of Brothers beyond any mere "war film"--its extraordinary achievement is that it shows the horror and savagery of war without gloss or jingoism, and yet celebrates the fraternal bonds and dogged heroism of the men who fought. On the DVD: Band of Brothers arrives handsomely packaged in a six-disc box set with two episodes on each of the first five discs. Sound (Dolby 5.1) and picture (1.78:1 widescreen) only enhance the series' epic credentials. Disc 6 contains all the extras, the meatiest of which is the marvellous 80-minute documentary "We Stand Alone Together" about the real men of Easy Company. There's also a first-rate, genuinely interesting 30-minute "making of" feature about actor boot camp, visual effects and blowing up fake trees among many other things. This is complemented by actor Ron Livingston's revealing Video Diaries of boot camp. Additionally there's a "Who's Who" section and footage of the HBO premiere at Utah Beach, plus a TV spot for car company Jeep. --Mark Walker

• War & Peace | DVD | (08/02/2016) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  BASED ON THE CLASSIC NOVEL BY LEO TOLSTOY In 1805 when we first meet Pierre (Paul Dano), Natasha (Lily James), and Andrei (James Norton), they are all part of St Petersburg's glittering elite, but are fired-up with youthful ambition to find meaning in their lives. Kind- hearted but awkward Pierre, the illegitimate son of Russia's richest man, wants to change the world for the better. Handsome and gallant Andrei, frustrated with the superficiality of his life, seeks a purpose, while the beautiful and spirited Natasha is searching for true love. At the same time Napoleon's army edges ever closer to Russia's borders. As everything they thought they knew is questioned, Pierre, Andrei and Natasha find themselves in a time when Russian society is about to change forever. EXTRAS - Cast and Crew Interviews and Featurettes

• Les Miserables | DVD | (25/02/2019) from £9.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A Ground-Breaking Bbc Adaptation Of Victor Hugo'S Epic Novel Against The Epic Backdrop Of France At A Time Of Civil Unrest, Les Misérables Is The Story Of Jean Valjean, A Former Convict Unable To Escape The Shadow Of His Past Life. His Future Is Threatened By His Nemesis, The Chilling Police Officer And Former Prison Guard Javert, Who Is Determined To Bring Him To Justice. Meanwhile Fantine, A Working Class Woman Abandoned By Her Rich Lover, Is Driven To Increasingly Desperate Measures To Provide For Her Young Daughter. Their Stories Collide And As A Revolutionary Violence Ignites On The Streets Of Paris, Jean Valjean Begins An Epic Journey Towards Self-Acceptance, Redemption And Love. Includes Bonus Features: An Introduction Battle Of Waterloo The Look Of Les Misérables Behind The Barricades Plus 6 Exclusive Art Cards .

• The Missing: Series 1 & 2 | DVD | (26/12/2016) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This DVD boxset showcases both series one and two of the intriguing, gut wrenching series The Missing, starring Tcheky Karyo. Series 1 One moment there's a hand in yours and the next moment it's gone. For Tony Hughes, the emptiness of those seconds that turn into panic-stricken minutes, then weeks, then years, it is a moment he cannot forget and now he can never let go. What happened to Tony and Emily's son Oliver when they holidayed in France? Was he lost? Kidnapped? Trafficked? Murdered? The not-knowing haunts them, tears at them, shreds their marriage. And while Emily tries to move on, Tony can only go back to that day, to that place and try to find his son... try and find the truth. Set in England and France over eight years, The Missing follows Tony and Emily's story along with the French police grappling with a small town and a way of life overturned by events as they witness a man out of control, out for the truth, out for some kind of justice. In a world full of hope and despair, passion and injustice how far will one man go to ease the pain inside? The answer lies in The Missing. Series 2 A young British woman stumbles through the streets of her German hometown and collapses. Her name is Alice Webster, and she has been missing for 11 years. Alice's return sends shockwaves through the small community of Eckhausen, especially when it is revealed that she may hold vital clues to the whereabouts of another missing girl. Told simultaneously over two timeframes, the series follows Alice's family as they are thrown back into a turmoil that threatens to tear them apart at the seams. French missing persons detective, Julien Baptiste, becomes embroiled in the mystery as he races across Europe to pursue a 12 year-old case that he never let die. Through a gripping puzzle of twists and turns, The Missing Series 2 explores the emotional complexity of what happens when a missing child returns, as well as tracing a thrilling chase for a missing girl who is yet to be found.

• Wild Rose (DVD) | DVD | (19/08/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fresh out of jail with two young kids in tow, Rose-Lynn dreams of getting out of Glasgow and making it as a country singer in the USA. Her mum Marion (played by Julie Walters Billy Elliot, Paddington) has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense and urges her daughter to focus on supporting her children. Forced to take responsibility as a mother, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house (played by Sophie Okonedo Hotel Rwanda). In this coming-of-age tale, Rose-Lynn comes to realise that the path to living out her dreams may be closer to home than she thinks. This is an uplifting and moving comedy drama about mothers and daughters and dreams and reality. WILD ROSE is a heart-warming and feel-good new film that tells the story of a free-spirited young singer Rose-Lynn Harlan (played by Jessie Buckley Taboo, War & Peace) who is bursting with raw talent, charisma and cheek. But will she escape the shackles of Glasgow and her roots to follow her dreams of Nashville?

• That Thing You Do! | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £5.49   |  Saving you £0.50 (9.11%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tom Hanks's debut as a writer and director is a lively, affectionate account of the shooting-star career of a forgotten (fictional) 1960s pop-rock band called The Wonders--as in "one-hit wonders". Hanks plays the manager of the group, which includes drummer Guy "Sticks" Patterson (Tom Everett Scott) who works the floor at his parents' appliance store in Erie, Pennsylvania; Jimmy (Johnathon Schaech), the talented and temperamental lead singer and songwriter; Lenny (Steve Zahn), the goofy guitarist; and Ethan Embry as a geeky little fellow identified in the cast list only as "The Bass Player". The movie traces their meteoric rise and fall, from cutting their first record, to going on tour with a Phil Spector/Motown-type revue, to the internal tensions that lead to the band's disintegration, which comes when they fail to follow up their smash hit single, "That Thing You Do!" And that song, by the way, is so catchy it would definitely have been a hit in 1964--and deserves to be one today. This delightful movie would make a great double-bill with Allison Anders's wonderful Grace of My Heart. --Jim Emerson

• Hammer House Of Horror - Complete | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £11.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This British anthology series produced by England's leading exporters of horror films told tales of haunted houses demons ghosts and other supernatural wonders... Includes all 13 episodes across 4 discs: The House That Bled To Death The Silent Scream The Two Faces of Evil The Mark of Satan Witching Time Visitor From The Grave Rude Awakening Charlie Boy Children of the Full Moon The Thirteenth Reunion The Carpathian Eagle Guardian of the Abyss Growing Pains.

• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective + When Nature Calls | Blu Ray | (28/10/2019) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A double bill of comedy genius Jim Carrey's most iconic roles: Ace Ventura. in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective he must track down a kidnapped dolphin mascot with the help of the team's board member Melissa (Courteney Cox). In Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Ace is summoned by the British Consul General (Simon Callow) to recover a missing sacred bat in order to stop a war between two tribes.

• Patch Adams | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Patch Adams raises two schools of thought: there are those who are inspired by the true story of a troubled man who finds happiness in helping others--a man set on changing the world and who may well accomplish the task. And then there are those who feel manipulated by this feel-good story, who want to smack the young medical student every time he begins his silly antics. Staving off suicidal thoughts, Hunter Adams commits himself into a psychiatric ward, where he not only garners the nickname "Patch" but learns the joy in helping others. To this end, he decides to go to medical school, where he clashes with the staid conventions of the establishment as he attempts to inject humour and humanity into his treatment of the patients ("We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease", he declares throughout the film). Robin Williams, in the title role, is as charming as ever, although someone should tell him to broaden his range--the ever-cheerful, do-gooder à la Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society is getting a little old. His sidekick Truman (Daniel London) steals the show with his gawky allure and eyebrows that threaten to overtake his lean face--he seems more real, which is odd considering that Patch Adams does exist and this film is based on his life. Monica Potter is the coolly reluctant love interest and she makes the most of her one-dimensional part. While moments of true heartfelt emotion do come through, the major flaw of this film is that the good guys are just so gosh-darn good and the bad ones are just big meanies with no character development. Patch Adams, though, does provide the tears, the giggles and the kooky folks who will keep you smiling at the end. --Jenny Brown

• Bruce Almighty | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £7.33   |  Saving you £10.66 (145.43%)   |  RRP £17.99

  At the end of the worst day of his life, TV reporter Bruce (Jim Carrey) angrily ridicules and rages against God and God responds. Endowing Bruce with divine powers, God challenges him to take on the big job to see if he can do it any better!

• Woman In Black 2: Angel of Death | DVD | (13/07/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  England 1941. With London in the midst of the blitz two teachers evacuate a group of schoolchildren to the abandoned Eel Marsh House. Seeking safety from the bombs in the remote coastal location the group instead find themselves facing a far deadlier and terrifying evil when their arrival awakens the Woman in Black.

• Heartbeat - The Complete Fifth Series | DVD | (18/07/2011) from £11.99   |  Saving you £30.00 (300.30%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield and initially starring former EastEnder Nick Berry as PC Nick Rowan this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines with a host of colourful characters that viewers took to their hearts and a wonderfully nostalgic soundtrack. Running for two successful decades and becoming staple Sunday-night viewing Heartbeat won several prestigious TV awards including Best Performing Peak-Time Drama in 1999 (beating Coronation Street) and a number of ITV Programme of the Year awards. The series attracted a peak audience of 14 million spawned a highly successful spin-off The Royal and a Top Ten hit single and has garnered a devoted following remaining prime-time viewing world-wide. In this complete fifth series the love story between Nick and Kate ends in tragedy and a dark cloud of shock and grief gathers over Nick as he is forced to move into a new and traumatising chapter in his life.

• Peaky Blinders: Series 1 | DVD | (21/10/2013) from £13.25   |  Saving you £11.74 (88.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Peaky Blinders is an epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of post-war Birmingham on the cusp of the 1920s. Thomas Shelby controls the Peaky Blinders one of the city's most feared and successful criminal organisations but his ambitions go beyond running the streets. Crime pays business pays better.

• SAS Rogue Heroes | DVD | (05/12/2022) from £16.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Cairo, 1941. David Stirling - an eccentric young officer, hospitalised after a training exercise went wrong - is bored. Convinced that traditional commando units don't work, he creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare. He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling's team are every bit as complicated, flawed and reckless as they are astonishingly brave and heroic.

• Larry Crowne | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £5.30   |  Saving you £12.69 (239.43%)   |  RRP £17.99

  After losing his job, a middle-aged man reinvents himself by going back to college.

• Peaky Blinders - Series 1-3 Boxset | DVD | (13/06/2016) from £4.94   |  Saving you £19.87 (402.23%)   |  RRP £24.81

  Peaky Blinders is an epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of post-war Birmingham on the cusp of the 1920s. Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later, Inception) stars as Thomas Shelby, the controller one of the city's most feared and successful criminal organisations, the Peaky Blinders, known for their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps. But Shelby's ambitions go beyond running the streets. Crime pays, but business pays better. Featuring a specular cast that includes Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Helen McCrory (Skyfall, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Paul Anderson (Legend), Annabelle Wallis (Annabelle), Charlotte Riley (Edge of Tomorrow), Noah Taylor (Game of Thrones) and Tom Hardy (The Revenant, Mad Max).

• Great American Railroad Journeys: Series 1 to 3 | DVD | (01/10/2018) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A companion to the phenomenally successful Great British Railway Journeys, this series sees Michael Portillo swap his treasured copy of Bradshaw's Handbook for its stateside counterpart an 1879 edition of Appleton's General Guide to the United States and Canada. This eleven-DVD set features 55 episodes covering six different journeys: New York City to Niagara Falls Philadelphia to Jamestown St. Louis, Missouri, to the Grand Canyon The Twin Cities to Memphis, Tennessee Boston, Massachusetts, to Toronto, Ontario Reno, Nevada, to San Diego, California Michael's first journey takes him from New York City to Niagara Falls and the second traverses the mid-Atlantic cities and states: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Jamestown, Virginia. The third follows the trail of 19th-century pioneers from St. Louis to the Grand Canyon. Michael's fourth journey begins in Minnesota's Twin Cities and ends in Memphis, Tennessee, while the fifth takes him a thousand miles from leafy New England over mountain ranges to the Great Lakes. In his sixth and final journey Michael travels a thousand miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains south along the coast of California to tell the story of a state that has transformed the world. Along the way Michael encounters revolutionaries and feminists, pilgrims and witches and rides some of the oldest and most breathtaking railroads in the world. He takes in Broadway, attempts to conduct a cattle auction, discovers gold and silver, learns how America's most famous railroad conquered the wild landscapes of the west and immerses himself in the culture and history of the continent's first inhabitants: the Native Americans.

• Victoria | DVD | (10/10/2016) from £12.75   |  Saving you £-2.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Victoria is the landmark account of the early years on the throne of one of Britain's greatest queens. Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who) plays Victoria, taking her first faltering steps from capricious, hormonal teenager to respected monarch. Central to the drama is the scandalous friendship between Victoria and her first Prime Minister Lord Melbourne (BAFTA nominated Rufus Sewell; The Man in the High Castle), and the romance with her cousin Prince Albert (Tom Hughes; The Game).

• Liar, Liar | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £6.54   |  Saving you £3.45 (52.75%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jim Carrey is back in top form after his disastrous outing in The Cable Guy. As a lawyer who becomes physically unable to tell a lie for 24 hours after his son makes a magical birthday wish, Carrey learns a few brutal truths about the real meaning of life. There is very little plot, but Carrey's rubbery contortions and slapstick trickery provide just enough humour to keep you interested in this breezy bit of escapism. Not aided in Liar Liar by pets or animation, Carrey manages to do amazing and unique things with very simple props. He is also more in control of his acting than before. He is still over the top, but remains believable in some of the lower-energy scenes. An added plus is that the comedy is not as coarse as we've come to expect from him. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• Ace Ventura - Pet Detective (1994) | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £5.04   |  Saving you £13.95 (276.79%)   |  RRP £18.99

  The 1994 box-office hit that turned comedy maniac Jim Carrey into Hollywood's first $20-million man, this gag-filled no-brainer stars Carrey as the titular rubber-faced gumshoe who tracks down lost pets for his heartbroken clients. Ace's latest case involves the apparent kidnapping of the Miami Dolphins' team mascot, Snowflake the dolphin. His investigation is a source of constant aggravation for Miami police lieutenant Lois Einhorn (Sean Young), who turns out to be packing more than a pistol under her skirt. Friends fans will appreciate the presence of Courtney Cox, who remains admirably straight-faced as the Dolphins' publicist and Ace's would-be girlfriend, but of course it's Carrey who steals the show with shameless abandon. One viewing may suffice for a lot of people, but Carrey's hyper antics made Ace Ventura: Pet Detective one of the bestselling videos of the 1990s. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com