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• Brief Encounter | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £5.30   |  Saving you £7.69 (145.09%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Noel Coward's timeless movie of a couple who meet in a railway station and must make a decision that will change their lives forever.

• Only When I Laugh - Series 1 - 4 - Complete | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £42.99

  Only When I Laugh was written by Eric Chappell (Rising Damp Home to Roost) and directed by Vernon Lawrence (Duty Free The Bounder). The series starred James Bolam (Beiderbecke) Peter Bowles (To the Manor Born) and Christopher Strauli (Raffles) as three congenital hypochondriac layabouts forever haunting the ward patrolled by the droll Doctor Thorpe (Richard Wilson - One Foot in the Grave). This 4 DVD collection includes every episode from all four series!

• Grey's Anatomy - Series 3 | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £28.97   |  Saving you £11.02 (38.04%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Grey's Anatomy is back with Season 3! Doctors. Lovers. Friends. Join the staff of Seattle Grace Hospital as they learn that there are no easy cures for life's challenges and each choice comes with shades of grey. The DVD includes every episode of the...perfectly satisfying emotional cocktail of romance humor suspense and medical intrigue...and goes even deeper into the lives of the characters and actors that make Grey's Anatomy irresistible. Own Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Third Series - Seriously Extended because enough is never enough. Seriously.

• The Graduate | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In his first major film role Dustin Hoffman plays an ultra-nave college graduate who's seduced by a middle-aged woman played by the scintillating Anne Bancroft and then falls in love with her daughter. With the sharpest of scripts and a perfect soundtrack by Simon & Garfunkel this film was deservedly nominated for 6 Oscars and won Nichols an Academy Award for Best Director.

• Blithe Spirit | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Struggling to find material for his next novel writer Charles Condomine invites a local mystic Madame Arcati to hold a sance at his house in the presence of his wife Ruth and two guests. Sceptical of Arcati's powers Charles does not expect for anything to happen so it is much to his surprise when the ghost of his dead wife Elvira appears to him. Desperate to be rid of his dead wife as he fears she may kill him to have his company forever he pleads with Arcati to send her back to where she came...

• In Which We Serve | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £10.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Noel Coward's great British war film made at the height of World War II in 1942 tells the story of a naval destroyer and its crew as they fight for their lives in a life raft after their ship is sunk.

• Prison Break S1 Red Tag Boxset | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £12.99   |  Saving you £47.00 (361.82%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Season one of Prison Break is great television. Here's the set-up. Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) is framed and wrongfully convicted for assassinating the Vice President's brother. Lincoln's brother Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), who just happens to have designed Illinois' Fox River Penitentiary where Lincoln is on death row, hatches an elaborate escape plan. Michael's plan involves getting himself incarcerated in Fox River and smuggling the prison's blueprints by having them hidden in tattoos that cover his entire torso. Once inside, Michael must form alliances with a rogue's gallery of felons with their own sometimes unsavory motives. Meanwhile, on the outside, Lincoln's lawyer and one-time girlfriend Veronica Donovan (Robin Tunney), pursued by Secret Service agents, attempts to unravel the conspiracy that sent her man to the slammer. Prison Break is anchored by tight, suspenseful writing clearly relished by the largely little-known cast. Standouts include Robert Knepper as the murderer/pedophile T-Bag, who somehow makes such a despicable character likeable. Stacey Keach of Mike Hammer fame plays the warden-with-a-heart-of-gold, who clashes with Captain Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) over whether to rehabilitate the inmates or makes their lives more miserable. Peter Stormare, famous for his skills with a wood chipper in Fargo, turns in a deliciously menacing performance as mob boss John Abruzzi, while Amaury Nolasco's winsome Fernando Sucre shares a cell and secrets with Miller's Scofield. Watching the show one gets a sense that this is the opening salvo of Wentworth Miller's career, which will doubtless include roles as assassins, detectives, super heroes, and perhaps the champion of staring contests. Midway through the season it's explained that Scofield is a genius with an heightened sensitivity to other peoples' suffering, which sums up what makes the show so great--the mind-bendingly intricate plot is a framework for moments when people make others suffer and cope with the burden of their own suffering.The six-disc set includes 22 addictive episodes, audio commentary on selected episodes, three featurettes, and alternate and deleted scenes. As with most TV shows on DVD, the "previously on Prison Break" intros can get tiresome, but that's what the fast forward button is for. --Ryan Boudinot

• Basic Instinct | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A brutal murder. A brilliant killer. A cop who can't resist the danger. Michael Douglas stars as Nick Curran a tough but vulnerable detective. Sharon Stone costars as Catherine Tramell a cold calculating and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Catherine becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered - a crime she had described in her latest novel. Has she been set up by a jealous rival or is she guilty? Obsessed with cracking the case Nick descends into San Francisco's forbidden underground where suspicions mount bodies fall and he finds within himself an instinct more basic than survival.

• Street Kings | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £4.97   |  Saving you £15.02 (302.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Keanu Reeves stars as troubled veteran LAPD officer, Tom Ludlow, in this dark tale of good cop versus a very bad cop.

• Basic Instinct | Blu Ray | (15/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A brutal murder. A brilliant killer. A cop who can't resist the danger. Michael Douglas stars as Nick Curran a tough but vulnerable detective. Sharon Stone costars as Catherine Tramell a cold calculating and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Catherine becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered - a crime she had described in her latest novel. Has she been set up by a jealous rival or is she guilty? Obsessed with cracking the case Nick descends into San Francisco's forbidden underground where suspicions mount bodies fall and he finds within himself an instinct more basic than survival.

• Jeff Dunham - Spark of Insanity | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jeff Dunham is a ventriloquist and one of the most successful comedians in the world. Spark Of Insanity is his latest DVD and his first official release in the UK. It features a full live show with Jeff and his long time favourite characters Walter The Grumpy Old Man Peanut and Jos'' but also includes his new character Achmed The Dead Terrorist. His routine with his Achmed has been viewed over 50 million times on You Tube. Spark Of Insanity is an amazing show from one of comedy's most inventive minds.

• South Park - Season 8 | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £22.93   |  Saving you £2.06 (8.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  All fourteen episodes from South Park's eighth season are now available for the first time in this 3-disc collector's set. Stan Kyle Kenny and Cartman find themselves in the middle of hot-button political issues and celebrity shenanigans. Season eight is capped off with a very special Christmas episode done in the way only South Park does Christmas!

• 24 - Season 6 | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £11.50   |  Saving you £38.49 (334.70%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The further adventures of Los Angeles’ Counter Terrorism Unit’s finest initially sees Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer in a Chinese prison and not in good shape. But, this being 24, it’s not too long before the breakneck plot has revved into gear, and the wheels are turning again on a frantic real-time ride that’s thoroughly in the tradition of what’s become television’s finest thriller. You won’t be finding plot spoilers here, because half the fun of 24 is not knowing what unexpected twist the scriptwriters have for you around the next corner. All that matters is that the world is under threat, and it’s up to Jack Bauer to lead the fightback. And it’s Kiefer Sutherland that’s the real asset to series six; whereas particularly in season five he took a sideways step to accommodate stronger supporting characters, here he’s shouldering a greater degree of the show’s narrative thrust. You’d be hard pushed to declare that season six is vintage 24, but that’s more to do with the context of particularly the excellent run that preceded it. But few shows can match its audacious verve, and repeated ability to surprise and enthral. So while season six may have too many villains, and may ask you to bear with it through a few troughs, there’s still nothing out there to match it. Jump aboard… --Jon Foster

• Smart People | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  "Smart People" takes a sideways look at a highly dysfunctional family headed by the brilliant, but emotionally naive, Professor Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid).

• This Is England | Blu Ray | (15/09/2008) from £6.99   |  Saving you £18.00 (257.51%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A young lad finds friendship with a gang of skinheads in this tough and gritty movie from director Shane Meadows.

• Outpost | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £5.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (194.48%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A team of mercenaries, sent in to war-torn Eastern Europe, encounter a horrible secret that has lain buried in a disused military bunker since the end of WWII.

• XXY | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £10.72   |  Saving you £4.27 (39.83%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This is the dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite who lives with her parents, who in turn have to cope with the challenges of her condition.

• Bizet: Carmen | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £15.80   |  Saving you £-3.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  BIZET CARMEN.Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.Pappano.

• The Passionate Friends | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £6.08   |  Saving you £6.91 (113.65%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Through her marriage to a wealthy financier Mary Justin has the freedom and comfort she has always yearned for but her life is one that lacks emotional fulfilment. On a visit to Switzerland she runs into an old friend Steven Stratton with whom she once had a passionate love affair many years before her marriage. Her meeting with Steven rekindles old memories of a friendship of the most beautiful kind. If only they could begin again...

• Clint Eastwood Red Tag Boxset | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £22.17   |  Saving you £-10.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.11

  A Fistful of DollarsThe First of the Spaghetti Westerns, A Fistful of Dollars became an instant cult hit. It also launched the film careers of Italian Writer/Director Sergio Leone, and a little known American television actor named Clint Eastwood. As the lean, cold-eyed cobra-quick gunfighter - Clint became the first of the 'anti heroes'. The cynical, enigmatic loner with a clouded past is the same character Eastwood fans have been savouring ever since. A fistful of Dollars is the western taken to the extreme - with unremitting violence, gritty realism and tongue-in-check humour. Leone's direction is taut and stylish, and the visuals are striking - from the breathtaking panoramas (in Spain) to the extreme close-ups of quivering lips and darting eyes before the shoot-out begins. And all are accented by renowned film composer Ennio morricone's quickly, haunting score. For a Few Dollars MoreClient Eastwood had proven so successful in his first foray into European Westerns with A Fistful of Dollars that a follow up sequel was inevitable. Superbly scripted by Luciano Vincenzoni, featuring an unforgettable alliance between ruthless gun-slingers Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef, For a Few Dollars More tells the tale of a ruthless quest to track down the notorious bandit El Indio played by Gian Maria Volonte. The film is also noted for its array of weaponry, a veritable arsenal of rifles that become so startlingly influential in future westerns. Sergio Leone's direction is both violent and operatic and Ennio Morricone's atmospheric score keeps the tension taut as the action moves from jail breaks and holds up to spectacular gun battles. The Good, The Bad and The UglyThe Good, The Bad and The Ugly, written by Age-Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni and Sergio Leone is the third and last Western in Clint Eastwood's spaghetti trilogy. Director Sergio Leone subtitles for the upright puritan Protestant ethos, so familiar in Hollywood westerns, a seedy cynical standpoint towards death and morality, as a team of brutal bandits battle to unearth a fortune buried beneath an unmarked grave. Joining Clint War, filmed to resemble to the French battlefields of World War One, to end in the climatic Dance of death. Arguably the quintessential Italian Western, this 1966 film boasts a fine Ennio Morricoe score featuring a main theme that reached No.1 in the worlds pop charts. Hang 'em HighThey riddled him with bullets. They strung him up. They left him to die. But they made two fatal mistakes, they hung the wrong man... and they didn't finish the job. In his first American-made western, Clint Eastwood indelibly carves his niche as the quintessential tough guy - cool-headed, iron-willed and unrelenting in the pursuit of revenge. Oklahoma, 1873. Jed Cooper (Eastwood), mistaken for a rustler and killer, is lynched on the spot by crooked lawman Captain Wilson and a rampaging band of vigilantes. But as Wilson and his gang flee the scene, there's one very important detail they've overlooked: Cooper is still alive! Out for justice - and vengeance - Cooper takes on the job of deputy marshal... and, one by one, tracks down the nine men who 'done him wrong'.