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• Katie Morag - Delivers the Mail (Cbeebies) | DVD | (25/08/2014) from £3.99   |  Saving you £3.41 (85.46%)   |  RRP £7.40

  Katie Morag follows the adventures of a feisty, independent, red-hairded young girl who lives with her family on the fictional Scottish Island of Struay. Although she lives in a fairly unique and remote setting, her adventures are full of experiences and feelings that all children can recognize and identify with. Her stories are full of jealousy, bravery and rivalry surrounded by an annoying little brother, busy shopkeeper parents and a couple of grandmothers who between them know everything about everything. Katie Morag is a girl who has been known to get herself into scrapes but who generally emerges from them in a funny and endearing way. Broadcast on CBeebies, Katie Morag is the first adaptation of the much-loved books and stories created, written and illustrated by Mairi Hedderwick. The TV series stars Cherry Campbell as Katie Morag. The DVD Katie Morag: Delivers the Mail features 7 episodes from the series, including Delivers the Mail , The Two Grandmothers , The Old Teacher , Granny Island s Ceilidh and The New Boy .

• The Acid House | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £7.10   |  Saving you £2.89 (40.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In The Acid House director Paul McGuigan adapts three Irvine Welsh short stories. These are set in an unflinchingly depicted world of grey, breeze block tenements, wiry psychos, short leather skirts, beer, fags and drugs, kinky sex in badly wallpapered lounges, random violence, hideous-looking babies, raves, footy, discarded crisp packets and barely intelligible dialogue featuring the occasional use of non-profanity."The Granton Star Clause" tells the unhappy tale of wee, pasty-faced Boab Doyle, who in one long, unhappy sequence loses his place in the football team, his girlfriend, his job and gets kicked out of the house by his parents, before an encounter with God (here, a hard-bitten, lager-quaffing Maurice Roeves) leads to a surreal, Kafka-esque conclusion. The second tale, "A Soft Touch", is gruellingly and well portrayed but pointlessly depressing. Kevin McKidd plays Johnny, a supermarket employee with an appalling slag-hag of a girlfriend who takes up with his new, violently psychotic and parasitical neighbour Larry. Will he stand up for himself? The answer will leave you thoroughly unsatisfied. Finally, there's "The Acid House", the funniest but silliest of the three tales in which Ewan Bremner plays an obnoxiously livewire Hibs fan who takes one too many tabs and ends up being transported into the mind of stereotypically middle-class couple's--Martin Clunes and Jemma Redgrave--baby. The Acid House is compulsive but bleak, exhilarating but ambivalent. The viewer is asked to bring their own moral compass to these stylised yet non-judgemental episodes. Fans of Trainspotting, however, will certainly find much of the scintillating same here.On the DVD: disappointingly, only the trailer is featured here. However, the DVD transfer in letterbox format is impeccable, used to its best advantage in the more surreal, fast-cut music video-style sequences, while the soundtrack, featuring The Verve and Primal Scream among others, also benefits. --David Stubbs