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• Veep The Complete Series | DVD | (13/01/2020) from £43.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Politics is about people, former Sen. Selina Meyer is fond of saying. Unfortunately, the people Meyer, a charismatic leader and rising star in her party, meets after becoming vice president are nothing like she expected, but everything she was warned about. Veep follows the VP as she puts out political fires, juggles her public schedule and private life, and does everything within her limited powers to improve her dysfunctional relationship with the chief executive. Meyer's trusted, and some not-so-trusted, sidekicks include chief of staff Amy, one-time spokesperson Mike, and right-hand man Gary.

• Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £9.77   |  Saving you £5.22 (53.43%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Camp Rock 2

• Goal 2 - Living The Dream | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £8.53   |  Saving you £9.46 (110.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  After gaining experience with the football club Newcastle United, Santiago Munez gets a huge break when he's transferred to Real Madrid.

• Frenzy | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £6.49   |  Saving you £3.50 (53.93%)   |  RRP £9.99

  By the time Alfred Hitchcock's second-to-last picture came out in 1972, the censorship restrictions under which he had laboured during his long career had eased up. Now he could give full sway to his lurid fantasies, and that may explain why Frenzy is the director's most violent movie by far--outstripping even Psycho for sheer brutality. Adapted by playwright Anthony Shaffer, the story concerns a series of rape-murders committed by suave fruit-merchant Bob Rusk (Barry Foster), who gets his kicks from throttling women with a necktie. This being a Hitchcock thriller, suspicion naturally falls on the wrong man--ill-tempered publican Richard Blaney (Jon Finch). Enter Inspector Oxford from New Scotland Yard (Alex McCowan), who thrashes out the finer points of the case with his wife (Vivian Merchant), whose tireless enthusiasm for indigestible delicacies like quail with grapes supplies a classic running gag.Frenzy was the first film Hitchcock had shot entirely in his native Britain since Jamaica Inn (1939), and many contemporary critics used that fact to account for what seemed to them a glorious return to form after a string of Hollywood duds (Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz). Hitchcock specialists are often less wild about it, judging the detective plot mechanical and the oh-so-English tone insufferable. But at least three sequences rank among the most skin-crawling the maestro ever put on celluloid. There is an astonishing moment when the camera backs away from a room in which a murder is occurring, down the stairs, through the front door and then across the street to join the crowd milling indifferently on the pavement. There is also the killer's nerve-wracking attempt to retrieve his tiepin from a corpse stuffed into a sack of potatoes. Finally, there is one act of strangulation so prolonged and gruesome it verges on the pornographic. Was the veteran film-maker a rampant misogynist as feminist observers have frequently charged? Sit through this appalling scene if you dare and decide for yourself. --Peter Matthews

• Ken Loach at the BBC | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £24.09   |  Saving you £-5.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.00

  1965 saw Ken Loach working as one of the in house directors of the groundbreaking The Wednesday Play series at The BBC which included Three Clear Sundays Up the Junction and The End of Arthur's Marriage. Of these plays Up The Junction had the most impact telling the story of three young women factory workers in their work and home lives focusing on Rube as she meets her first boyfriend and chronicles the significant life changing events that follow including an illegal abortion. Not only controversial at the time Loach's inter-cutting of real life interviews mixed in with drama became a signpost for his future directing style striving for naturalism and realism. 1966 saw Ken Loach's breakthrough piece Cathy Come Home. The play follows the lives of young sweethearts Cathy (Carol White fresh from Up The Junction) and Reg (Ray Brooks) starting out as a newly married couple moving into a new place and having children. Reg then suffers an accident which means he is unable to work and they end up being evicted and separated. With Cathy homeless but still looking after the children she faces having her children taken away from her by Social Services. This is perhaps the play that has had more impact than any other on television highlighting the very real problem of homelessness. Even some forty years later the power of Cathy Come Home remains undiminished. In Two Minds charts the turbulent life of a young woman who endures a difficult family life and after throwing a kitchen knife at her mother is diagnosed as a schizophrenic. Much like Cathy Come Home the realistic documentary style helps provide veracity to the story. Written by Jim Allen The Big Flame is a story of striking Liverpool dock workers who decide that to safeguard their futures they must control the port themselves. This was the first of several Ken Loach / Jim Allen collaborations - many of which would be starkly political. The BAFTA nominated Days of Hope was Jim Allen's tale of a working-class family in the period from 1916 to 1926 taking in the First World War events in Ireland and the General Strike of 1926. Running to well over six hours the series tells an epic story particularly in the light of the parlous state of the economy and labour relations in Britain at the time. A radical series in every sense Jim Allen was able create real parallels in Days of Hope that resonated with the working class of the mid 1970's and the political climate at that time. Loach returned to the BBC with The Price of Coal (written by Kes author Barry Hines) a film which depicted the lives of those living in a coalfield community. The first part subtitled Meet The People is a comic tale surrounding the story of a colliery community in preparation for a visit by Prince Charles and the efforts being put on by the management to make the pit fit for a future king involving grassing over an unsightly coal slag heap and whitewashing everything in site. The second part Back To Reality is completely different in tone when the colliery suffers a sudden underground explosion trapping killing and injuring the miners and as the rescue team work frantically to rescue those trapped those above ground argue about who is to blame. The Rank and File which completes the collection again written by Jim Allen is a story based around the strike by the Pilkington Glass workers. This beautifully packaged collection displays some of Loach's very best work and gives a real insight into working class life in the 60's and 70's. The collection also features an interview with Ken Loach a documentary entitled Housing Problems and a commentary track for Cathy Come Home.

• Citizen Smith: Series 1 and 2 | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Episodes: Crocodile Tears Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Abide with Me The Weekend The Hostage The Path of True Love But Is It Art? A Christmas Story Speed's Return Rebel Without a Pause The Tooting Connection Working Class Hero Spanish Fly Right to Work Rock Bottom.

• Finding Forrester | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £6.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sean Connery and Rob Brown star as an eccentric, reclusive novelist and a talented young scholar & athlete. As the young man gets to know his mentor he must face up to a tough decision about his dreams to write and play sport.

• Citadel: Burnt by the Sun 2 | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The epic final chapter of the WWII saga, Burnt by the Sun (1994). Divisional Commander Kotov returns home during World War II after having been cruelly betrayed, narrowly escaping execution for treason and all but reduced to dust in a prison camp. Discovering that everything has changed and that he will have to fight again for his name and his honour, Kotov once again bears arms and struggles forth.

• The Irish Rm: Complete Series 1-3 | DVD | (06/06/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Based on the tales by novelists Somerville and Ross, The Irish R.M. is a collection of stories about Major Sinclair Yeates, an English army officer who becomes the Resident Magistrate in pastoral Ireland. Set in the nineteenth century, this classic comedy-drama is an exciting watch, filled with eccentric characters that grips the viewer. Starring Peter Bowles, Niall Toibin and Anna Manahan, this complete saga contains all three series with 6 episodes in each. Available for the first time in 5 years, this collection contains every episode of The Irish R.M. ever made. When Major Sinclair Yeates (Peter Bowles) resigns his commission in the English Army and takes up a post as resident magistrate in the West of Ireland, he is not prepared for the colourful array of characters who will now surround him. Starring Peter Bowles, Niall Toibin and Anna Manahan, this nineteenth century comedy-drama is set in the rural village of Skebawn with Yeates residing in an old manor house. The story is based on the classic novels written by Somerville and Ross but the TV adaptation features tales of Yeates trying to settle into daily life of his new Irish village. The customs and culture of the town soon develop as being as hectic as the battlefield he's been previously used to. Series One: EPISODE GUIDE Great Uncle McCarthy Trinket's Colt A Misdeal The Boat's Share Occasional Licences O Love! O Fire! Series Two: EPISODE GUIDE A Horse, A Horse The Dispensary Doctor Holy Island Oweneen The Sprat A Royal Command The Aussolas Martin Cat Series Three: EPISODE GUIDE The Muse In Skebawn Major Apollo Riggs The Friend of Her Youth In the Curranhilty Country Lisheen Races The Devil You Know

• The Man Who Cried | DVD | (10/04/2003) from £4.66   |  Saving you £5.33 (114.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The story, set before World War II, tells of a young woman who has fled from Russia to Paris, but secretly desires to head to America

• True Blood Season 1 (HBO) | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £8.83   |  Saving you £31.16 (352.89%)   |  RRP £39.99

  True Blood: Season 1

• My Girl/My Girl 2 | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  My Girl: A coming-of-age comedy starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin (Home Alone) and newcomer Anna Chlumsky, MY GIRL is an irresistible story of first love and loss. Chlumsky makes an extraordinary acting debut as Vada Sultenfuss, a precocious 11-year-old tomboy and Macaulay Culkin is Thomas J., the boy next door. Their summer adventures from first kiss to last farewell introduce Vada to the world of adolescence. My Girl 2: The year is 1974. Vada is now 13 years old. Research for a school assignment leads Vada to Los Angeles where she stays with Uncle Phil (Richard Masur), his likeable girlfriend (Christine Ebersol), and her streetsmart son, Nick (Austin O'Brien Last Action Hero). Guided by Nick through the city of Los Angeles in search for clues to her late mother's history, Vada makes some surprising discoveries about her roots and also about herself as she confronts the uncertainties of adolescence, first love, first kisses and her place in a changing family.

• Fringe - Season 1-4 | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  From J.J. Abrams (Lost), Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman - the team that brought you Star Trek, Mission Impossible: III and Alias - and executive producers Jeff Pinkner and Bryan Burk comes a new drama that will thrill, terrify and explore the blurring line between science fiction and reality.When an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport and the passengers and crew have all died grisly deaths, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is called in to investigate. When the search nearly kills her partner, Special Agent John Scott, a desperate Olivia searches frantically for someone to help, leading her to Dr. Walter Bishop, our generation's Einstein. There's only one catch: He's been institutionalized for the last 20 years, and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son, Peter, in to help. Under Special Agent Phillip Broyles, our trio will discover that what happened on that fatal flight is only a small piece of a larger, more shocking truth.

• Gomorrah Season 3 | DVD | (12/03/2018) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With the Godfather Don Pietro murdered, there is a void to be filled in the underworld of Naples. His son Genny takes control, using the opportunity to settle old scores. The survivors of the remaining factions, exhausted by the warring and massive police pressure, have suffered drastic financial losses and make peace. And with Avitabile in prison for another year, Genny now has to reign over North Naples and Rome. Ciro, on the other hand, has had his revenge but his dreams and his family have been destroyed. He decides to leave everything behind, travels to Bulgaria and goes to work for the big-time drug dealer Valentin. But when Ciro has to return to Naples, he forms a new powerful partnership with the young and ambitious Enzo; a light that was once extinguished in Ciro's eyes reappears. Enzo, with Ciro's help, learns how to be a real boss and to take what he is entitled to. It is a time of drastic change for all of them. Once they started out as street-level drug dealers. Now they are casting their net way beyond the city of Naples and the borders of Italy.

• The Bridge At Remagen | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.92   |  Saving you £1.07 (9.80%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Fine casting, rugged characters and authentic military detail make The Bridge at Remagen one of the best World War II action films of the 1960s. Based on actual incidents during the final Allied advance on Germany in March 1945, the story focuses on the US Army's exhausted 27th Armoured Infantry, assigned to seize the bridge at Remagen, on the Rhine river, to prevent 50,000 German troops from retreating to safety. Lt Hartman (George Segal) leads the mission, while a Nazi major (Robert Vaughn) defies orders by attempting to hold the bridge instead of blowing it up. With strong emphasis on war's harsher realities, the film's compelling characters illustrate the camaraderie of survivors and the heroism of mavericks in the thick of battle. Segal and Ben Gazzara effectively convey a hard-won friendship, and the film's dynamic action (filmed in Czechoslovakia and Italy) never overwhelms the story's emotional impact. This is highly recommended. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Ruslan And Lyudmila | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A performance of Glinka's opera 'Ruslan And Lyudmila'.

• Friday After Next | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £7.36   |  Saving you £12.63 (171.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It is Christmas Eve for most of the Christian world but when Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) are rudely awaken by a burglar in a Santa suit it is definitely another FRIDAY in the ghetto. The phony Santa gets away with all the cousins' Christmas gifts and their overdue rent money after assaulting Craig with a paltry Christmas tree. Cops are called in and do little more than confiscate Craig and Day-Day's pot stash. Though the cousins may be used to such adversity in the 'hood they have never before had to think about getting real jobs in order to pay the bills. This third installment in the hip-hop stoner series follows L.A.'s lovable losers through their first day as rent-a-cops at a South Central strip mall.

• Trolls: Holiday in Harmony | DVD | (29/11/2021) from £4.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The holidays are better together. Poppy is planning a secret gift swap for all of Trolls Kingdom. When both Poppy and Branch end up drawing each other's name, things take an unexpected turn. Both are at a loss finding the perfect gift for the most important troll in their lives. Meanwhile, Tiny Diamond comes down with a bad case of writer's block while trying to think of a holiday rap for his dad, Guy Diamond. On the journey to get his flow back, Tiny will meet new friends that guide him to look through the clutter. Will Poppy and Branch finally come up with the perfect gift idea for one another? DreamWorks Trolls Holiday in Harmony will light-up the holiday season with festive traditions, musical moments and heartfelt humour for audiences around the world!

• Butterfly | DVD | (29/10/2018) from £6.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  International Emmy Award-winning Anna Friel stars in a heartfelt story from BAFTA award-winning writer Tony Marchant. Butterfly is about the acrimonious relationship between separated parents, Vicky and Stephen, and their division in opinion over how to support their gender variant child, Max. From a young age, their now 11-year-old son has identified as a girl and presented signs of gender dysphoria. When Max was 8, Stephen had walked out on his family, unable to understand or cope with his son's gender issues. But when Max self-harms, Stephen seizes the opportunity to return to live at the family home and support his son. What unfolds for all the family members involved is the greatest challenge and test of love and understanding imaginable. Includes subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing

• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | DVD | (27/12/2010) from £6.50   |  Saving you £13.49 (207.54%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera). A bass guitarist for totally average garage band Sex Bob-omb the 22-year-old has just met the girl of his dreams... literally. The only catch to winning Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)? Her seven evil exes are coming to kill him. Genre-smashing filmmaker Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz Shaun of the Dead) tells the amazing story of one romantic slacker's quest to power up with love in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.