New Releases

New DVD & Blu-Ray releases between 27/08/2010 and 03/09/2010

• Sherlock | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £12.00  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories Sherlock is a thrilling funny fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London.

• Silver Jubilee | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £6.99  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  Back by popular demand after two Nationwide sell out anniversary tours in 2008 and 2009 - the girls are still celebrating. Recorded live at the Theatre Royal Windsor - Dillie Adele and Liza look forward to entertaining you with a night of hilarious new songs beautiful harmonies and intricate and satirical lyrics.Tracklist: 1. It Isn't Too Late To Be Famous 2. White's Blues 3. Health & Safety 4. They Care 5. Getting It 6. I'm Saving Myself 7. Bulgarian Song Cycle 2010 - Songs 1-7 8. The Markets 9. My Parents 10. It Ain't Mississippi 11. The Enemy Of Beauty 12.. Mistaken Identity 13. I Watched Two People 14. Bulgarian Song Cycle 2010 - Songs 8-11 15. Lerwick Town 16. Lieder 17. Dogging 18. Goodbye Old Friends 19. Tesco Saves 20. Gordon Brown

• Four Lions | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £9.89  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  Chris Morris' Four Lions is a funny thrilling comedy that illuminates modern jihadism through the prism of farce. It understands jihadists as human beings. And it understands human beings as innately ridiculous. What This Is Spinal Tap did for heavy metal and Dr Strangelove the Cold War Four Lions does for the modern face of terrorism. In a British city four men have a secret plan. Omar (Riz Ahmed) is disillusioned about the treatment of muslims around the world and is determined to become a soldier. This is the most exciting idea Waj (Kayvan Novak) has ever heard. Better still it's a no brainer because Omar does his thinking for him. Opposed to Omar and everyone else on earth is the white islamic convert Barry (Nigel Lindsay). He'd realize he joined the cell to channel his nihilism - If he had half the self knowledge of a duck. Faisal (Adeel Akhtar) is the odd man out. He can make a bomb - but he can't blow himself up just now coz his sick dad has started eating newspaper. Instead he's training crows to fly bombs through windows. This is what Omar has to deal with. They must strike a decisive blow on their own turf but can any of them strike a match without punching himself in the face? Four Lions plunges us beyond seeing these young men as unfathomably alien. It undermines the folly of just wishing them away or even worse alienating the entire culture from which they emerge. The film is neither pro nor anti religious. The jokes fly out of the characters' conflicts excesses and mistakes. Crackling with wit and tension Four Lions is the essential response to our failure to engage with reality and a high toast to the idea that laughter is better than killing.

• Sherlock | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £15.00  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories Sherlock is a thrilling funny fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London.

• Normans | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £12.95  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  The Normans is a three-part series on BBC Two that will examine the extraordinary expansion and unchecked ambition of this warrior race between the 10th and 13th Centuries. Presented by Professor Robert Bartlett the series brings the history of the Normans to life by uncovering the personal stories of shadowy figures like Tancred of Hauteville best remembered as a poor 11th Century Norman lord who fathered no less than 12 sons two of whom left their homeland and risked their lives to become great rulers in the Mediterranean and Middle East. Sweeping across borders and centuries Bartlett journeys from the stormy shores of Great Britain via Jerusalem to the Kingdom of Sicily explaining how and why a dynasty of dukes and warriors became conquerors and kings. Bursting with colourful manuscripts documents and artefacts this series gives voice to an unfamiliar world of princess historians and mixed-race monks.

• Birds of a Feather: The Complete Second Series | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £14.85  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  Everyone's favourite Essex girls return with this second series of Birds of a Feather - one of the 1990s most successful longrunning and memorable sitcoms. This release also features the feature-length Christmas Specials from 1990. Created by legendary screenwriters Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (The New Statesman Shine on Harvey Moon) the series chronicles the misadventures of Sharon and Tracy (Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson) - North London-born sisters left to fend for themselves both financially and emotionally when their husbands are jailed for armed robbery. The girls have lived very different lives Tracey enjoying the neo-Georgian splendour of 'Dalentrace' - the luxury home paid for by husband Darryl's criminal activities - while her sister had remained in an Edmonton tower block. Now Sharon lives with Tracey enjoying a few home comforts and offering some much-needed moral support - even if some of her habits prove a tad annoying. And if life in Chigwell sometimes seems a little dull there are always the extra-marital adventures of their man-eating neighbour Dorien (Lesley Joseph) to keep them entertained...

• Cemetery Junction | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £10.23  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  Ricky Gervais' and Stephen Merchant's feature-film directorial debut Cemetery Junction centres on three men working at an insurance firm in 1970's England. In 1970s England three blue-collar friends spend their days joking drinking fighting and chasing girls. Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to leave their working-class world but cool charismatic Bruce (Tom Hughes) and lovable loser Snork (Jack Doolan) are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie (Felicity Jones) the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever

• Furry Vengeance | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £9.95  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  When Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser) uproots his family to the Oregon woods to build an 'eco-friendly' housing development he thinks his biggest problem will be keeping his family happy. But his job puts him top of the local animals' hit list as the feisty creatures set out to teach Dan that green isn't just the colour of money!

• Gilmore Girls Season 7 | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £17.85  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  See you in Stars Hollow for Season 7 of Gilmore Girls.

• When You're Strange | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £11.85  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  A look at the late '60s and early '70s rock band The Doors including rare exclusive footage.

• Four Lions | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £14.39  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  Chris Morris' Four Lions is a funny thrilling comedy that illuminates modern jihadism through the prism of farce. It understands jihadists as human beings. And it understands human beings as innately ridiculous. What This Is Spinal Tap did for heavy metal and Dr Strangelove the Cold War Four Lions does for the modern face of terrorism. In a British city four men have a secret plan. Omar (Riz Ahmed) is disillusioned about the treatment of muslims around the world and is determined to become a soldier. This is the most exciting idea Waj (Kayvan Novak) has ever heard. Better still it's a no brainer because Omar does his thinking for him. Opposed to Omar and everyone else on earth is the white islamic convert Barry (Nigel Lindsay). He'd realize he joined the cell to channel his nihilism - If he had half the self knowledge of a duck. Faisal (Adeel Akhtar) is the odd man out. He can make a bomb - but he can't blow himself up just now coz his sick dad has started eating newspaper. Instead he's training crows to fly bombs through windows. This is what Omar has to deal with. They must strike a decisive blow on their own turf but can any of them strike a match without punching himself in the face?

• Hot Tub Time Machine | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £9.99  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  Hot Tub Time Machine hits the bull's-eye: it's a rude, crude comedy with enough smarts and emotional sweetness to make it completely entertaining. Seeking to bring some youthful optimism back to their failed, miserable lives, three middle-aged guys--Adam (John Cusack), Nick (Craig Robinson), and Lou (Rob Corddry)--go to a mountain resort where they spent some of their wildest days (reluctantly dragging along Adam's nephew, Jacob, played by newcomer Clark Duke). A drunken accident in the titular hot tub sends them swirling back to 1986, where each of them decides to risk changing the future (and possibly erasing Jacob from existence) by doing things just a little differently. A plot summary doesn't capture the movie's rambunctious, daffy spirit as much as… well, the ridiculous title: this is a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine! Any expectation you may have will be met and surpassed. John Cusack delivers another underplayed yet marvellously funny performance, his best since High Fidelity; Clark Duke, from the TV show Greek, proves a promising young comic talent. But the movie really belongs to Robinson and Corddry, who've been floating around the edges of tons of comedies--some have been good, some have been bad, but they've both been consistently funny even in crappy movies. Hot Tub Time Machine gives them centre stage and lets them reveal the comic chaos they can deliver. It helps, but is not necessary, to have lived through the '80s to find Hot Tub Time Machine exquisitely silly. --Bret Fetzer

• Medium - Season 5 | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £24.95  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  When others see nothing she sees the truth. Medium is a drama inspired by the real-life story of research medium Allison Dubois an extraordinary young wife and mother who since childhood has struggled to make sense of her dreams and visions of dead people. Emmy Award winner Patricia Arquette stars as Dubois a strong-willed devoted young wife and mother of three girls who has gradually come to grips with her extraordinary ability to talk to dead people see current events and the future through her dreams and read people's thoughts. Dubois works as a consultant to District Attorney Manuel Devalos using her psychic abilities to solve violent and horrifying crimes that baffle Phoenix police and others within the criminal justice system.

• Birds of a Feather: The Complete First Series | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £7.00  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  Birds Of A Feather: Series 1

• Beverly Hills 90210: Season 10 | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £31.23  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  Beverly Hills 90210: Season 10

• When You're Strange | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £12.85  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  A look at the late '60s and early '70s rock band The Doors including rare exclusive footage.

• Bleach - Series 5 Part 1 | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £11.99  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  Kariya and the Bounts arrive in the Soul Society and find themselves battling two Soul Reaper lieutenants but the abundance of reishi in the Soul Society gives the Bounts a ready source of power rendering them formidable opponents. Ichigo and friends arrive in the Soul Society and when Rukia is injured in a fight Ichigo follows her to the Kuchiki house where he asks Byakuya to fight alongside him against the Bounts. Byakuya refuses and insists they leave it up to the 13th Court Squad Guards but soon enough Byakuya finds himself in a one-on-one battle with Kariya.

• The Burmese Harps | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £13.95  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  A rhapsodic celebration of song a brutal condemnation of wartime mentality and a lyrical statement of hope within darkness; even amongst the riches of 1950s' Japanese cinema The Burmese Harp directed by Kon Ichikawa (Alone Across the Pacific Tokyo Olympiad) stands as one of the finest achievements of its era. At the close of World War II a Japanese army regiment in Burma surrenders to the British. Private Mizushima is sent on a lone mission to persuade a trapped Japanese battalion to surrender also. When the outcome is a failure he disguises himself in the robes of a Buddhist monk in hope of temporary anonymity as he journeys across the landscape - but he underestimates the power of his assumed role. A visually extraordinary and deeply moving vision of horror necessity and redemption in the aftermath of war Ichikawa's breakthrough film is one of the great humanitarian affirmations of the cinema. Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and honoured at the Venice Film Festival The Burmese Harp is one of cinema's great anti-war classics alongside La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir) Grave Of The Fireflies (Isao Takahata/Studio Ghibli) Paths Of Glory (Stanley Kubrick) All Quiet On The Western Front (Lewis Milestone) and The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin) The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Burmese Harp.

• Big Brother's Big DVD The Best Bits: 2000-2010 | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £5.99  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  The best bits from channel 4's TV show Big Brother from 2000 to 2010!

• Wycliffe: The Complete Third Series | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £11.85  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  Wycliffe: Series 3 (2 Discs)