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• Two and a Half Men: The Complete Fourth Season | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £13.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lewis - Series 1-3 - Complete | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £19.88   |  Saving you £50.11 (252.06%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Series 1: It's taken a long time for Kevin Whately to take centre stage in a detective drama, but Lewis proves it's been time well spent. Lewis, of course, was previously the sidekick to Inspector Morse, and that raised fair suspicions that this spin-off drama was a fairly unnecessary cash-in of sorts. But those suspicions have proven unfounded, and Lewis has emerged as one of the best new programmes to hit ITV in recent years. The format's not moved on a great deal since the heights of Inspector Morse, but in this case, that's no bad thing. The episodes in this set on the whole build slowly, and build up intelligently and with diligence. Occasionally there are moments where the pace slips a little too much, but that's more than overcome by the fact that the drama on offer here is so absorbing. It's all anchored, of course, by Whately's excellent portrayal of the lead character. Eminently watchable, and clearly wearing the clothes of a character that he knows completely, it's a smashing performance, and with the aid of an excellent supporting cast, Lewis develops into a real treat. Is it better than Morse? Well, that's far too early too call. But on this basis of this debut, Lewis certainly has the potential for as enduring a legacy. --Jon Foster Series 2: After the successful first standalone outing for the character, Kevin Whately returns to the title role of Lewis again, for a second full season of investigations. And things seem, to the benefit of the viewer, just as dangerous as they always were. This series of Lewis is set five years after the death of Inspector Morse (to whom Lewis was, of course, the sidekick), and while the gap left behind by the late, great John Thaw is occasionally felt, this is still very much quality drama in its own right. Thus, this series finds the detective in his familiar Oxford stomping ground. Accompanied by Laurence Fox’s DS Hathaway, a collection of well-written, compelling mysteries are waiting to be solved. The series' investigations cover the discovery of a body in a library through to the world of underground boxing and a rape case that brings out the worst in the Oxford establishment. And there aren't any weak links here: each episode is involving, intelligent and a gripping watch. Even at its worst, Lewis is very good television drama. What’s more, Whately is terrific in the increasingly complex central role, and the scripts continue to allow him to flesh out the character. Lewis is, in many ways, a flawed man, and as he works his way through the layered and involving cases, this becomes ever-more obvious. And the programme is all the better for it. For in spite of some cynicism when it first announced that a standalone Lewis programme was being produced, there’s ample here to silence the most sceptical of naysayers. For Lewis is, simply, very strong television. --Jon Foster Series 3: What could have been an ill-advised spin-off continues to excel as Lewis arrives at its third series. Firmly stepping out of the shadows of Inspector Morse, Kevin Whately as Inspector Lewis once more is solving murders and mysteries in Oxford. And again, he's joined by Laurence Fox as DS Hathway, his partner in crime-solving. And Lewis gives the pair some interesting scenarios to get their teeth into. There are four feature-length stories in total, and things get started when a Czech barmaid is discovered, having being slashed to death. There's, as you'd expect, more to the crime than immediately meets the eye, and that convention continues in the following episode, where a student Shakespearian production abruptly ends after one of the cast is stabbed with a prop knife. We also get to meet, before the series ends, a rock star towards the end of his career, in what proves to be a terrific episode to close the series. To reveal any more significant plot points of Lewis would be to spoil half the fun. What this third series retains though is the kind of diligent, well-produced drama that its predecessor was. And in Whately, it has a lead actor who studiously inhabits his role, and ensures that the name of Inspector Lewis is another to add to the British detective hall of fame. Very strong drama, and it's just getting better. --Jon Foster

• Meltdown | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £3.74   |  Saving you £2.25 (60.16%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jet Li can always be relied upon when it comes to action movies, and Meltdown is no exception. No surprises with the story line: Kit Li witnesses his wife blown up in a gangster attack masterminded by the nefarious Doctor, only to be confronted by the same "no risk, no reward" gangster two years later, now aiming to steal the Russian crown jewels from a hotel complex. The shadow of Die Hard falls heavily across the action, with its skyscraper stunts and marauding helicopter, given an appropriate twist by the high-velocity martial-arts sequences and director Wong Jing's stylish take on the high-tech metropolis that is Hong Kong. Jackie Cheung adds a comic element as Frankie Lane, the action-movie star seemingly past his sell-by date, and Kwan Sau Mei's Doctor is the epitome of suave nastiness. On the DVD: Meltdown on disc has a 1.85:1 widescreen picture that reproduces the plethora of monochrome conference rooms and exploding glass panels with dizzying clarity. This release comes ready dubbed into English--don't check the synchronisation too often and you'll hardly notice--with subtitles in 12 languages. The photo gallery is enlivened with Jet Li trivia, while the filmographies are unusually frank about the commercial nature of the Hong Kong film industry in general and Wong Jing's contribution in particular. But done with this degree of panache, films such as Meltdown are never less than 110# entertainment. --Richard Whitehouse

• Dot The I | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £6.76   |  Saving you £13.23 (195.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Danger is in the details. On the eve of her wedding to Barnaby (James D'Arcy) Carmen (Natalia Verbeke) recklessly kisses an attractive stranger Kit (Gael Garcia Bernal). Having recently fled a violent and volatile relationship in Spain Carmen has found comfort and safety with her fianc Barnaby who clearly dotes on her. Carmen hopes marriage will give her the security and stability she craves but her passions are aroused by one kiss from Kit and she is torn between her emotions and her loyalty to the man she is to marry...

• The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club - The Complete Fourth Series | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The legendary Bernard Manning comperes, while fellow stand-up veteran Colin Crompton is 'Mr Chairman' at the Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club - the friendliest working men's club in the North. Amid the boozing, bingo and committee announcements, the show features rising stars, contemporary acts and internationally acclaimed performers - along with the occasional musical oddity. This release presents the entire fourth series, featuring Wheeltappers favourite 'unusualist' Paul Daniels, music from Gene Pitney, Joseph Locke, Ray Ellington, Julie Rogers and The Hermits, with comedy from Jim Bowen, Frank Carson, Dustin Gee, Jimmy Jones and The Grumbleweeds; the series also includes the 1975 New Year's Eve party special.

• Rumble In Hong Kong | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A rare switch of roles for Jackie Chan for in this early outing he plays a villain as chief protector for one of the criminal masterminds of Hong Kong. Jackie is soon on a collision course with a policewoman intent on destroying the syndicate and cleaning up the streets at the same time... Stunts and action a plenty in this rare look at Jackie Chan on the other side of the badge.

• The Gold Rush - Charlie Chaplin Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (14/09/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Gold Rush saw the highly anticipated return of the Little Tramp to the silver screen as he seeks his fortune in the hidden gold mines of Klondike. This logical ambition quickly becomes surreal, however, when another prospector, just as famished as he, begins mistaking the Little Tramp for a giant chicken. In this world where shoelaces become spaghetti and bread rolls become ballet shoes, Chaplin, the alchemist, turns gold into visual poetry...

• Pacific Rim - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (11/11/2013) from £30.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-6.90%)   |  RRP £28.99

  When legions of monstrous creatures known as Kaiju started rising from the sea a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots called Jaegers which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenceless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes - a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi) - who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse. Special Features:(All Special Features are in 2D) A Film By Guillermo Del Toro A Primer On Kaijus and Jaegers Intricacy of Robot Design Honoring The Kaiju Tradition The Importance Of Mass And Scale Shatterdome Ranger Roll Call Jaegers Echo Human Grace Inside the Drift Goth-Tech Mega Sized Sets Baby Kaiju Set Visit Tokyo Alley Set Visit Orchestral Sounds From The Anteverse Audio Commentary by Guillermo Del Toro The Director's Notebook Drift Space The Digital Artistry of Pacific Rim The Shatterdome (Production Database) The Wall of Life/Rations Excuse Me Theft Catch You In The Drift Dad Blooper Reel

• DER STERNWANDERER - MOVIE | Blu Ray | (04/02/2010) from £11.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sons of Anarchy - Season 3 | Blu Ray | (10/10/2011) from £35.08   |  Saving you £-8.09 (-30.00%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Sons Of Anarchy is an adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club's (MC) desire to protect its livelihood while ensuring that their simple sheltered town of Charming California remains exactly that: charming. The MC must confront threats from drug dealers corporate developers and overzealous law officers. Behind the MC's familial lifestyle and legally thriving automotive shop is a ruthless thriving illegal arms business. A series about the seduction of money power and blood. This season begins with SAMCRO feeling powerless over Abel's kidnapping especially Jax whose grief sends him into deeper turmoil over his future with the club. The search for Abel sends our guys to Ireland where Jax faces not only the Irish Republican Army but an untold personal history as well. Meanwhile still on the lam Gemma is hit with unexpected news and risks her freedom to deal with it. Episodes Comprise: 1. So 2. Oiled 3. Caregiver 4. Home 5. Turning and Turning 6. The Push 7. Widening Gyre 8. Lochan Mor 9. Turas 10. Frinne 11. Bainne 12. June Wedding 13. NS

• The Rolling Stones - Bridges To Babylon 1998 | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Like any good brand, the Rolling Stones know to preserve the formula even when updating the package, and this long-form concert video underscores that market strategy. As with each of their tours since the early 1980s, the quartet, augmented by a discreet auxiliary of backup musicians, gives the fans new eye-candy while dishing up a familiar set list spiked with Mick Jagger's lip-smacking vocals and Keith Richards' signature guitar riffs. The visual twists are at once spectacular and conservative: a cyclopean main stage design with massive pillars (presumably the Babylonian connection), a vast oval video screen (shades of Big Brother), and a hydraulic bridge enabling a mid-concert sortie into the audience, with the Stones playing a more stripped-down, intimate set on a small satellite stage. That huge physical setting doubtless made the live shows eye-filling rock spectacles, but the video crew necessarily accepts the limitations of the small screen, focusing more on close-ups of the band, rapid cuts, and racing, hand-held tracking shots to convey excitement while keeping the viewer close to the action. The evening's repertoire sticks to the band's most familiar hits, and if the Glimmer Twins occasionally slip their masks to let the routine show, the real wonder is how effectively they keep the playing focused. During the first half of the programme, the band's newest songs (especially "Saint of Me" and "Out of Control") elicit conspicuously higher energy from the band, if not the audience. But just as the show seems doomed to a certain anonymity, the escape onto the smaller, no-frills stage pumps up players and crowd alike, particularly when they launch into "Like a Rolling Stone", a cover that winds up sounding like a great idea too long deferred. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Fun At The Funeral Parlour | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring many of The Fast Show's finest this series was created and scripted by Rhys Thomas one of the writers behind Swiss Toni - Rhys also played alongside the titular car dealer as his long-suffering apprentice Paul. Welsh funeral directors Ivor Arwell Percy and Gwynne Thomas run a family business that should be doomed to failure. For a start the boss and father of the clan Ivor is scared of dead bodies and socially inept to such a degree that his wife ran o

• Monsieur Verdoux - Charlie Chaplin Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (26/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Charlie Chaplin turns his traditionally sunny sensibilities inside out with this sublime black comedy about a family man who secretly uses murder to support his beloved invalid wife and child. "

• The Baggies Are Back - West Bromwich Albion Season Review 2019/20 | DVD | (21/09/2020) from £4.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All the highlights from West Bromwich Albion's 2019/2020 Championship campaign which resulted in them gaining promotion to the English Premier League after finishing second in the league. A successful season for the club saw Slaven Bilic and his players regain top flight football. The programme features every goal from every game as well as interviews with Bilic and the team.

• Out At The Wedding | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £13.86   |  Saving you £1.13 (8.15%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ever tell a little white lie that got slightly out of hand? New-Yorker Alex (Andrea Macellus) gets embroiled in a farcical web of mistaken identities and sexualities -when she decides to keep her mixed-raced boyfriend a secret from her family at her sister' wedding. All goes well until her loose-lipped gay best friend Fred (Charlie Schlatter) inadvertently suggests Alex is actually in a loving relationship with a woman. As the rumour-mill goes into overdrive Alex keeps up the charade and enlists the help of red-hot Risa (Cathy DeBuono) to act as her lesbian lover. But things go from complicated to crazy when Alex' newly-wedded sister falls in love with Risa! Full of laugh-out-loud moments swinging sexualities and crazy characters Out at the Wedding is one ceremony you ll never forget.

• Miami Vice | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £7.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  1: Pilot Sonny Crockett an undercover cop for the Miami Vice Department and Ricardo Tubbs a New York street cop unwillingly team up to apprehend a Columbian cocaine smuggler in this pilot episode. 2: The Golden Triangle Crockett and Tubbs' assignment as hotel security turns out to be more than just routine when a drugs-related hit leads to a side of Lt. Castillo they've never seen before. 3: The Golden Triangle Part 2 Lt. Castillo must find a way to catch General Lao Li with enough evidence to send him to prison but without endangering My Ying's life who was brought to Miami by Lao Li as a hostage to protect himself from Castillo.

• Swiss Toni - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (01/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Played by Charlie Higson and developed from The Fast Show character who claimed ""Buying a car is like making love to a beautiful woman"" Swiss Toni will no doubt entertain enthral evoke laughter and most of all make you feel evolved. With his blonde quiff standing to attention and his grey shot-silk suit sparkling under the showroom lights Swiss Toni is the emperor of his car emporium. However Toni is being taught to drive by his long-suffering wife Ruth and is con

• The Circus - Charlie Chaplin Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (10/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When we first meet Chaplin's Tramp in this comic gem, he's broke and hungry. Mistaken for a pickpocket and pursued by a police officer into a circus tent, the Tramp becomes a star when delighted patrons think his escape from the law is an act. Highlights include a frenetic fun-house seqeunce, the Tramp turning a magical skit into mayhem and his teetering tighrope walk while monkeys cling to his head.

• The Fast Show - The Last Fast Show Ever - Part 1 | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £11.91   |  Saving you £8.08 (67.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The success of The Fast Show has always relied on the number of sketches devoted to your favourite characters. While this, the last ever series, suffers a little for the loss of Caroline Aherne (presumably busy with The Royle Family?), and from the fact that those sketches based on a single catch-phrase or joke--Jessie's Diets, "Which was nice", and even the cough-prone Bob Fleming--seem to be running out of steam, the show's more rounded creations are all back and still going strong. Swiss Tony has emerged from therapy a new man, Colin Hunt gets the sack from his beloved office job and Ralph struggles on with his unrequited love for handyman Ted. There are new characters: a ragged, Charlton Heston-like astronaut who runs into different situations screaming, "What year is this? Who is the President?!", and a cynical, middle-aged woman who meets every note of human kindness she encounters with a sarcastic "Hah!", are particular standouts. However, as always, the series works best when the regular characters collide with contemporary phenomena, so here we have Indecisive Dave being phoned by a friend who's appearing on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?; the "Suits You!" tailors harassing an incognito Johnny Depp; the cheeky criminal stealing a child's Pokémon cards; John Actor playing hard-nosed interior designer Laurence Lewellyn Monkfish in Changing Monkfish; the send-up of recent gangster Brit flicks A Right Royal Barrel of Cockney Monkeys (populated entirely by pseudo-cockney public schoolboys); and a sketch in which Channel 9's gardening presenter is assisted by a topless woman. Nice Dimmocks! --Paul Philpott

• Fast Show Live and Farewell Tour Live double pack | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring The Fast Show: Farewell Tour and The Fast Show: Live! The Fast Show - Farewell Tour: In October and November 2002 The Fast Show favourites took to the stage.... to rapturous applause. This sell-out tour represented the final outing for a host of favourite characters from the 'suit you' tailors to a musical incarnation of Ted and Ralph to the office joker Colin Hunt. The Fast Show - Live: The sell out stage show based on the hit TV series filmed at the Apollo theatre in 1998. ""Aaaah the theatre! Gielgud Richardson Rodney Bewes - the thrill of the spotlight the gasp of the audience. But who would have expected to see these chaps - Arthur Atkinson Brilliant Suit You Jazz Club Rowley Birkin Swiss Toni Jesse Ted and Ralph (in a musical!) and all the other Fast Show fellows in a ripping stage show? And who would hve expected to find me the 13th Duke of Wybourne in the Royal box with a magnum of fizzy a box of Havanas and a clutch of the finest fillies from the chorus line..."" Bingo!