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• Wycliffe - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set amid the windswept beauty of Cornwall this popular and acclaimed series follows Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe as he investigates the region's most serious and challenging cases. While the storylines often highlight the social and economic difficulties faced by the local community the conscientious Wycliffe offers something of a contrast to the classic 'maverick detective'. A family man with a fastidious and tolerant approach he tackles each investigation with a calm determination and a resolutely open mind and his incisive style of questioning never fails to cut through to the heart of the mystery. Jack Shepherd is quietly charismatic in the title role and the series also stars Jimmy Yuill and Helen Masters as Detective Inspectors Doug Kersey and Lucy Lane - Wycliffe's dependable but very human colleagues. The series' haunting theme music composed by Nigel Hess received the Royal Television Society's award for the best television theme and Wycliffe remained a top-rated drama throughout its five-year run. This second series featuring guest appearances by Eleanor Bron Louise Jameson and Geoffrey Bayldon was originally transmitted in 1995.

• Delicatessen | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £5.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (167.39%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a distant apocalyptic future conventional society has reached a state of collapse. Grain is now used as currency and meat has become a rare commodity. Meanwhile an unemployed clown finds work as a maintenance man in a squalid apartment block situated above a butcher's shop. Having fallen in love with the owner's daughter he soon discovers the sinister truth behind the ominous landlord's unsavoury intentions. Between blossoming romance and disappearing tenants his only hope for survival could be the members of a subterranean militia of vegetarian freedom fighters. Or is it too late already? With its iconic surreal imagery gallows humour and its cast of warped characters Delicatessen marked the breakthrough collaboration between celebrated directors Marc Caro (Dante 01) and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie A Very Long Engagement Micmacs). Equal parts horror comedy and dystopian fantasia Delicatessen is still one of the most original and influential films of its time.

• The Divorce Of Lady X | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This light-hearted society comedy from the Alexander Korda Library features three great actors early in their careers: Korda's wife-to-be Merle Oberon Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson. Adapted by Lajos Bir'' from the 1933 stage play Counsel's Opinion The Divorce of Lady X is a solidly produced 'screwball whimsy' in which Korda used an early threestrip Technicolor technique masterfully to give the film its particular lustre. The beautiful Leslie (Merle Oberon) a costume party guest and handsome divorce lawyer Everard Logan (Laurence Olivier) find themselves stranded by fog in an already overcrowded hotel. Leslie's solution is to commandeer Logan's bedroom relegating him to the sofa eat his breakfast and sneak off leaving only a note: 'Goodbye Lady X'. The next day she overhears Logan making disparaging remarks about women in divorce cases and decides that with the aid of her friends Lord and Lady Mere (Ralph Richardson and Binnie Barnes) and an elaborate ruse she will teach the misogynist a lesson...

• Fireman Sam - The Great Fire Of Pontypandy | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £3.27   |  Saving you £10.98 (546.27%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Fireman Sam performs a super-heroic rescue he is awarded a special bravery medal and offered a new job in Newtown by visiting Chief Fire Officer Boyce. Meanwhile a Pontypandy Pioneer Scouts camping trip leads to a forest fire that threatens to engulf Pontypandy forcing everyone to prepare to evacuate! Will Fireman Sam leave his beloved town and will this be the end of Pontypandy? Find out in this all-new special!

• Yus, My Dear - Series 2 | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £13.11   |  Saving you £6.88 (52.48%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Conceived as a spin-off of comedy classic Romany Jones Yus My Dear concentrates on the previous series' funny trailer dweller couple Lil and Wally Brigs. As Wally gets a new job as a bricklayer and their caravan site gets a makeover the couple decides to move to a council house. But not everything is rosy as Wally's younger brother petty scoundrel Benny enters the scene bringing with him a good dose of mayhem...

• The International | Blu Ray | (05/04/2010) from £11.82   |  Saving you £8.17 (69.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The International is actually two movies in one: A highbrow thriller about a sprawling bank that resorts to murder and arms sales to retain its power, and a sleek visual essay on how architecture and interior design shapes your perceptions. Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen, still not quite a star despite Inside Man and Children of Men) has been on the brink of conclusive evidence against the villainous international bank,but his sources always end up dead. With the aid of a Manhattan district attorney (Naomi Watts in a woefully underwritten part), he stumbles on the trail of the bank's favourite hit man, who might provide the (literally) smoking gun Louis needs. The International starts out smooth and silky, with visual style to burn and Owen's intense fervour. The plot gradually bogs down in incoherent moralising, but along the way there are some taut sequences, including a bloody shootout in the Guggenheim Museum where alliances shift unexpectedly. But what makes The International worth seeing is director Tom Tykwer's astute eye for public space: Chic postmodern buildings, broad Italian plazas, Turkish rooftops like mountain paths--Tykwer orchestrates actors through these architectural shapes, his hypnotic visual sense creating far more tension and excitement than the plot. Also featuring Armin Mueller-Stahl (Eastern Promises) and Ulrich Thomsen (The Celebration) as malevolent Europeans. --Bret Fetzer Stills from The International (click for larger image)

• Original Spider-Man - Season 3, Volume 2 | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £6.04   |  Saving you £8.95 (148.18%)   |  RRP £14.99

  It's the final release in this must-have Marvel'' collection as Original Spider-Man Season Three is completed on DVD with seven more episodes. This colour television series from 1970 features some weird and wonderful storylines and the return of a few familiar foes. New York comes under nuclear attack and Spider-Man continues to fend off all manner of evil incarnations including old enemies like Rhino and Mysterio. The collection ends on a high note as a series of flashbacks remind us of Spider-Man's amazing super hero credentials. Episodes comprise: Episodes 7: Up From Nowhere Episodes 8: Rollarama Episodes 9a: Rhino Episodes 9b: The Madness of Mysterio Episodes 10: Revolt In The Fifth Dimension Episodes 11: Specialists And Slaves Episodes 12: Down To Earth Episodes 13: Trip To Tomorrow

• Evolution: The Grand Experiment | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (-26.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  If you want to know what the most up-to-date information is supporting Darwin's theory listen to a number of top evolutionary scientists from universities around the world contribute their vast wealth of knowledge to support the theory of evolution. The bulk of evolutionary experts amongst detractors to the theory interviewed for this stunning documentary speak to the contribution of evolutionary science over the last 150 years as they give detailed opinions as to how creatures evolved and what their intermediate species might have been. This documentary was filmed on three continents over twelve years and includes incredible wildlife footage and photography as it takes a critical eye in the spirit of true science to the theory 150 years on. This is a great resource for educational purposes as the format is socratic systematic uses simple language that explains technical terms and is easy to follow for students of all ages. Evolutionary experts speak about the evidence for whale evolution dinosaurs to birds and rodents to flying mammals.

• 30 Rock Season 3 | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £4.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (400.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Warning: The third season of 30 Rock may cause fits of "lizzing" (an elevated state of hilarity that involves laughter plus whizzing) with its brilliantly loopy word play, "what the what" situations, and deft turns by a stellar roster of A-list guest stars. Liz Lemon (Emmy-winning geek goddess Tina Fey) trying to avoid jury duty by dressing as Princess Leia? Jenna (Jane Krakowski) starring in a biopic about Janis Joplin (or Jackie Jomp-Jomp due to rights complications that forbid use of Joplin's name and music)? Steve Martin as a fabulously wealthy agoraphobe? I want to go to there! This season, Liz increasingly yearns for a normal life outside of the demands of her sanity-testing job as head writer of TGS, a Saturday Night Live-esque comedy show. Happiness will find Liz, but not before two hilariously doomed relationships, one with a little person (guest star Peter Dinklage), whom she initially mistakes for a child, and the other with a neighbor (Mad Men's Jon Hamm) who doesn't realize people have allowed him to skate through life because of his impossibly good looks. She also has a rude awakening when she joins a group of Ladies who Lunch while on forced administrative leave. Her friendship with Master of the Universe mentor Jack Donaghy (indispensable Emmy-winner Alec Baldwin) is the series' endearing sweet spot. 30 Rock is unlike any other workplace comedy on television. Dancing to its own comic rhythms, the series takes great delight in tweaking sitcom clichés and conventions. In "The Bubble," the scene is set for a montage of Id-driven Tracy Jordan's (Tracy Morgan) wackiest moments on the show. Instead, Liz dreamily reflects, "I'm thinking of some of them right now." Family Guy's got nothing on 30 Rock when it comes to the surreal arbitrary gag, as when naive NBC page Kenneth (Jack McBreyer) realizes he is being sexually harassed by a Miss Vierra (Meredith from The Today Show), or when sociopathic, narcissistic Jenna is taught a lesson by the writers who have banded together as the feathered Fedora-clad Pranksmen. 30 Rock makes truly inspired use of the actors, TV icons, and musicians who appear this season. In "Believe in the Stars," Oprah Winfrey, smelling of "rose water and warm laundry," hilariously appears as herself, kind of. In "The One with the Cast of Night Court," Jennifer Aniston is upstaged by Harry Anderson, Markie Post, and Charles "Mac" Robinson. Salma Hayek makes for an exotic love interest for Jack in a multi-episode arc. The season finale features Sheryl Crow, Clay Aiken, Elvis Costello (a.k.a. Declan McManus, international art thief), Adam Levine, and others brought together for a benefit to find a kidney for Jack's long-lost father (Alan Alda). But the joy of 30 Rock is not the stars, but such brain-tickling lines as, "I watched Boston Legal nine times before I realized it wasn't a new Star Trek," and the charming character grace notes, like seeing the world as Kenneth does, populated by Muppets. In the season finale, Liz remarks that she figures TGS (30 Rock?) has two years left. Say it ain't so! --Donald Liebenson

• Doctor Jekyll And Sister Hyde | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Professor Jekyll an earnest scientist obsessively works day and night haunted by the fear that one lifetime will not be enough to complete his research; sidetracked from his objective he becomes consumed with developing an immortality serum. Once convinced his findings are complete he consumes the potion only to discover that he is to become two as he turns into half Jekyll and half Hyde. Desperate to cover up his new found identity he calls her his sister but things take a turn for the worse when he realises that he needs female hormones if he is to maintain his existence. Before long he is battling with his alter ego Mrs Hyde as a number of young girls begin to go missing in the streets of London...

• Rock 'N' Chips | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Peckham 1960 and the Trotters are all under one roof: Grandad Joan husband Reg and the teenage Del Boy (James Buckley). Things suddenly change however when ex-con Freddie Robdal (Nicholas Lyndhurst) appears. Joining this comedy drama are teenage versions of Only Fools and Horses favourites Boycie Trigger and Denzil.

• Le Mepris | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £16.65   |  Saving you £-0.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Starring Brigitte Bardot, then at the height of her fame, and Michel Piccoli as a married couple tearing the last strips off a failing marriage, Le Mépris is both one of Jean-Luc Godard's most accessible films and perhaps his most excoriating and emotionally raw. Godard and his regular cinematographer Raoul Coutard (lensman for most of the greatest films of the New Wave) splashed out the budget for this international co-production on Bardot's salary and gorgeous CinemaScope photography to capture the Italian setting's intense beauty, bright as a knife. The nominal story concerns the film production of an adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, on which Piccoli is the scriptwriter, much to the disgust of his wife Camille (Bardot) who preferred life when he merely wrote novels. Hired by Jack Palance's swaggering American producer to adapt the Greek epic for a film to be directed by the august Fritz Lang (director of M, here playing himself), Paul inadvertently sets in motion the elements which will unravel his marriage, earning his wife's contempt (the closest translation of the French word "mépris"). Soon, the tenderness of the film's opening sequence--wherein they loll naked on a bed as she coquettishly solicits his approval of each of her body parts--gives way to harrowing bickering, the meat of film's central 35-minute scene which will induce pained winces in anyone who has ever been through a bitter split-up. If that sounds harrowing, be reassured that Le Mépris is not without its lighter moments and joys: Godard's trademarked musings on the nature of cinema, Bardot looking exquisitely chic in a selection of soigné little outfits, Lang bemusedly quoting the German poet Hölderlin and Bertolt Brecht. As mannered as the New Wave posturings now seem, Le Mépris still looks unbeatably stylish, its themes as eternal as Homer and the Capri landscape. --Leslie Felperin

• Feast Trilogy | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise: Feast : From executive producers Wes Craven Ben Affleck Matt Damon and Chris Moore comes the incredible horror extravaganza Feast. When a motley crew of strangers find themselves trapped in an isolated tavern they must band together in a battle for survival against a family of flesh-hungry creatures. Terrifying and full of surprises Feast turns the screen blood red as the group is devoured one-by-one. Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds: The ravenous rapacious creatures of Feast have returned and this time they're taking on an entire town. In the aftermath of the slaughter that saw a family of grotesque monsters attacking a bar in a middle-American backwater four survivors made it out alive. Fleeing the blood-soaked bar they make it to a small neighbouring town where a new batch of monster-bait is dealing with their own problems. But when the insatiable creatures follow the trail into the town all bets are off as the locals are forced to band together with the new arrivals to try and figure out how to survive a fresh onslaught. Feast 3: The Happy Finish: Following the monster onslaughts of Feast 1 and 2 the survivors are saved by the mysterious prophet Shot Bus Gus who seemingly has the ability to control the beasts. He leads them into the sewers as they travel to the big city. Along the way they get help from karate expert Jean-Claude Segal and learn that the beasts originate from a place called The Hive. Armed with this knowledge they decide to fight back and destroy them once and for all!

• Burn Notice - Season 2 | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £15.53   |  Saving you £9.46 (60.91%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Combining thrilling espionage action and wry humor with intricate plot twists and gripping suspense Burn Notice is simply one of the smartest sexiest shows on television! After being mysteriously blacklisted from the intelligence community former CIA operative Michael Westen must rely on his extraordinary - and lethal - set of skills to survive the hard-boiled streets of Miami and somehow recover his stolen identity. With the help of his sultry ex-girlfriend Fiona - a former IRA affiliate every bit as deadly as she is gorgeous - Michael must track down his elusive nemesis and get to the bottom of his burn....before it's too late. Episodes Comprise: 1. Breaking and Entering 2. Turn and Burn 3. Trust Me 4. Comrades 5. Scatter Point 6. Bad Blood 7. Rough Seas 8. Double Booked 9. Good Soldier 10 . Do No Harm 11. Hot Spot 12. Seek and Destroy 13. Bad Breaks 14. Truth & Reconciliation 15. Sins of Omission 16. Lesser Evil

• Married Single Other | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £5.45   |  Saving you £14.54 (266.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Married Single Other

• Universal Soldier Regeneration | Blu Ray | (05/04/2010) from £12.97   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1992 two of the world's most popular action superstars were brought together to create one of the most unforgettable martial arts/action/sci-fi cult classics of its time. The film was Universal Soldier the stars were Jean-Claude Van Damme (JCVD Legionnaire Bloodsport Kickboxer) and Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV The Punisher Direct Contact). In 2010 director John Hyams (NYPD Blue One Dog Day The Smashing Machine) has brought these legends of action cinema together again for the ultimate future killing machine showdown Universal Soldier: Regeneration. The world is in danger and the government is being threatened. Crazed terrorists are on the loose and will stop at nothing to cause death and destruction. Using stolen technology they have created their own version of the Universal Soldier: a lethal robot warrior whose only programme is to kill and kill again. The government's only hope is to regenerate Luc Deveraux a decommissioned Unisol and expert assassin. His mission: to infiltrate a highly armed fortress slaughter the enemy and save the world from nuclear disaster. But somebody - or something - is waiting for him something intent on crushing the future into oblivion. Let the combat commence.

• Funny Games | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A family settles into their new vacation home, which just so happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.

• Eloise | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (46.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  You can't learn everything in a classroom. A high-school student's highly charged sexual awakening is brought vividly to life in Eloise - a fresh and vibrant take on the transformative powers of a girl's first lesbian love affair. As 18-year old Asia lies in a coma fighting for her life we are given a glimpse in to the life she recently led. What begins as the typical existence of any standard high school senior (long-term boyfriend included) is forever changed after a life-altering first encounter with the stunning Eloise. Introducing Asia to a beautiful world of art and seducing her with the wild underbelly of bars and clubs Eloise ignites passions in her she never thought possible. Fuelled by a blistering erotic tension between the two dazzling leads Eloise is an example of New Lesbian Cinema at its very peak.

• Another Sunday And Sweet FA | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Another Sunday And Sweet FA

• Keep Fit | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-0.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Keep Fit