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• Angel: Complete Season 1 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Taking the Spin-off genre to the extreme, Angel attempts to replicate the success of Buffy by taking the heartthrob as the lead. Spin-off shows rarely match the success of their parent programmes, especially in the superhero/fantasy genre (cf. The Girl From UNCLE, The Bionic Woman, The Green Hornet--Frasier being the notable exception). Characters who were perfectly useful as supporting figures dwindle when forced in the spotlight, and Angel takes a special risk by building an entire series around a character who is: (a) supposed to be a mystery man; (b) a vampire who once spent half a season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a dastardly villain who killed without remorse; and (c) played by David Boreanaz, who is well up on handsome and broody but still can't do an Irish accent to save his life and is visibly learning this acting lark as the series progresses. The premise is that Angel, the vampire with a soul, has finally admitted he'll never get it together with Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), unless a reunion crossover episode or two are scheduled. He moves to Los Angeles, a city haunted not only by demons and vampires but lawyers and agents. Angel sets up as a private investigator and solves cases with a supernatural aspect, partnered with Doyle (Glenn Quinn), a half-demon with a proper Irish accent and the useful psychic ability to know when someone is in trouble (thereby predicting any given week's plot), and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), another Buffy refugee here trying to reinvent herself as a struggling big-city single girl. Far less consistent than its parent show, but also not saddled with quite so much of a continuing story arc, Angel has a very different feel, cued by its effective semi-Goth violin theme tune and lots of film noir-ish LA street scenes, with a dose of cynical inside-the-entertainment-industry stuff. It has its share of familiar ideas (such as a Fight Club episode) and simply daft premises (a demon-centred show which allegorises the debate about female circumcision , for example). Angel alienated a lot of initial fans by killing off its most appealing regular a third of the way into the run, dusting off hideous English comic stereotype Wesley the Watcher (Alex Denisof) as a replacement. However, it also comes up with some ingenious moments: in a two-parter guest-starring sometime Buffy villainess Faith (Eliza Dushku), the show finally delivers something scary and emotionally powerful as Angel proves he can solve cases his ex-girlfriend can't. Meanwhile, the last couple of episodes--which beef up a satanic law firm as regular foes and resurrect a long-dead character as a major troublemaker for the future--go from promising to delivering. --Kim NewmanOn the DVD: the DVD set is only moderately generous with features, compared to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series DVDs. There are two episodes with commentaries--creators Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt discussing the series' genesis and "City Of ". Added to this Jane Espenson, the resident queen of farce, talks us through the haunted apartment episode "Rm w/a Vu". Also included are four featurettes--introductions to the characters of Angel and Cordelia, a series one overview and a discussion of the show's demons--scripts for the two Faith episodes, cast biographies and a gallery of stills and blue-prints. Most importantly, given the way Angel was butchered by Channel 4 for an inappropriately early time slot, the show's violence and strong language are offered uncut. Presented in English and French Dolby Surround Sound 2.0 and with an aspect ratio of approx 1.33:1 --Roz Kaveney

• Angel: Complete Season 5 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £49.99   |  Saving you £30.00 (60.01%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Lives were upended--and some co-opted--in the fifth and final season of Angel, as the denizens of Angel Investigations found themselves taking on one of their scariest endeavors ever: corporate life. After making a literal deal with the devil (or something distinctly devil-like), Angel (David Boreanaz) moved his team from their crumbling hotel to the high-rise digs of law-firm-from-hell Wolfram & Hart, his reasoning being they could better fight the forces of evil from the inside, and with more resources to boot. Clever maneuvering or easy rationalization? A few members of Angel's team accused him of selling out (as did a number of viewers), but as with most of the show's previous four seasons, Angel somehow took a dubious premise and mined it for gold. And with one core cast member gone (Charisma Carpenter, whose Cordelia was immersed in a deep coma), it seemed as if the show, from within and without, would suddenly fall apart--that is, until Angel's longtime nemesis Spike (James Marsters) showed up, fresh from his sacrificial roasting at the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Let the vampire games begin! With Buffy off the air, fans flocked to Angel's last season to get their fix of Joss Whedon's "Buffyverse" in any form they could, and the addition of Spike was a shrewd one, albeit not enough to keep the show from getting canceled. And for the first half of the season, the creative forces behind the show seemed to be toying ruthlessly with the audience. Spike was around, but not entirely corporeal; Angel himself became sullen and withdrawn; and most horrifically, sweetheart scientist Fred (Amy Acker) and former watcher Wesley (Alexis Denisof) underwent traumas that would test even the most devoted viewer. However, just when you'd be about to throw in the towel, things started changing for the better--Spike became a permanent fixture (both in the flesh and on the show), Angel's secret motives were revealed, and the introduction of demon warrior Illyria, who proved to be the show's answer to Buffy's sardonic demon-made-human Anya, was a welcome breath of fresh air. Creatively, Angel also came up with some of its best episodes, including "Smile Time" (where Angel is turned into a puppet – really!) and "You're Welcome" (the show's 100th episode, which marked the bittersweet return of Carpenter's Cordelia). The ending of the series was deliberately ambiguous, and not everyone made it through alive, but in going out kicking, it was a proper sendoff for a show that always fought the good fight. --Mark Englehart

• Angel: Complete Season 4 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  As the fourth series of Angel starts, everything is still as we left it: Angel has been sunk to the bottom of the sea in an iron box by his inexplicable and vindictive son Connor and Cordelia has been summoned to higher realms to await orders. Gunn and Fred are left in the Hyperion Hotel, unsure about what has happened to their friends, and Lilah is working hard to seduce Wesley to the dark side. In the first few episodes, some of this is resolved but it's almost immediately replaced by far worse crises: prophesies of doom accumulate more rapidly even than usual in this wonderfully gloomy show and a horned rock-like Beast rains fire on Los Angeles. This last year is Angel's most tightly dramatic season yet--with a story arc of surprising intensity punctuated by the show's usual wit and sexiness. On the DVD: Angel, Series 4 is presented on disc in Dolby 2.0 Surround Sound with a visual aspect ratio of 16:9. It comes with insightful, and often hilarious, commentaries on seven of the 22 episodes as well as featurettes--a series overview, profiles of the characters of Jasmine and the Beast, a farewell to the Hyperion Hotel (the characters' base for three seasons) and a discussion of the apocalypse that Angel has to deal with from episode seven onwards). It has subtitles in English, French, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish and has the option of the soundtrack dubbed into French. --Roz Kaveney

• Summer Catch | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-3.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Summer Catch combines sports movie with teen romance across class boundaries and sticks in some less than effective bawdy comedy to make up the weight. Playing in a local summer baseball league is the last chance at a professional sports career Ryan (Freddie Prinz Jr) has after he gave up an earlier chance in order to attend his mother's funeral. The threats to his success include the rivalry of other young players, the temptation to just have fun offered by teammate Brubaker (Matthew Lillard) and his growing feelings for Tenley (Jessica Biel). Ryan also has his own demon--an obsession with failure. Occasional outcroppings of psychobabble and melodrama stop this ever finding a satisfactory tone of its own--the scenes on the baseball diamond are often the most interesting. The scenes of sexual comedy largely waste such interesting young actors as Marc Blucas, Christian Kane and Brittany Murphy, all of whom do what they can with unprepossessing material. This is a film for Freddie Prinz Jr fans more than anyone else. On the DVD: Summer Catch on DVD offers a collection of deleted scenes that indicate just how much more uncertain the film's tone was before editing; the commentary by actors Prinz and Biel and director Mike Tollin shows that they at least all had a fairly good time making it. The visual aspect ratio is widescreen anamorphic 1.85:1 and the DVD has Dolby 5:1 digital sound. --Roz Kaveney

• Angel: Series 1 (Standard plastic case packaging) | DVD | (01/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

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• Angel - The Vampire Anthology - Fred | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This DVD release features 4 of Fred's best episodes selected by series creator Joss Whedon. Winifred ""Fred"" Burkle (Amy Acker) is a scatterbrained genius rescued by Angel from an alternative universe and life of servitude. It has taken a while for Fred to readjust to the real world but the help of her friends especially Gunn has been invaluable. Fred's story features her rescue a visit from her parents and an assassination attempt on her old science teacher! Episodes compris

• First Daughter / Just Married / Never Been Kissed | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  First Daughter: The girl who always stood out is finally getting the chance to fit in. Samantha Mackenzie (Katie Holmes) has fame and glamour but she just wants what every college freshman wants: the opportunity to experience the world away from home and most importantly away from her parents. She just wants to be treated like anyone else. To be... normal. But it's not going to be easy because Sam's home address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and her dad is John Mackenzie (

• Just Married / Shallow Hal / Dude, Where's My Car? | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £19.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Just Married Tom's a traffic reporter with blue collar roots. Sarah's a writer whose family is as wealthy as it is snobbish. Much to her clan's and ex-boyfriend's horror Sarah (Brittany Murphy) and Tom (Ashton Kutcher) fall in love and marry. Following their wedding they set off on what they expect to be the perfect vacation but thanks to her ex-beau and relentless bad luck the happy couple experiences the honeymoon from hell! Shallow Hal Hal Larsen is the ultimate shallow guy. Hal finds beauty only in supermodels and centrefolds. The first thing he looks for in a woman is looks. Hal won't even consider dating someone with a less-than-perfect body smile and sense of style. But after an impromptu hypnosis by self-help guru Tony Robbins Hal's view of woman makes a 180-degree turn; he now sees their true inner beauty. Enter Rosemary an overweight Peace Corps volunteer. Hal envisioning Rosemary's kindness and humour as female nirvana is instantly smitten and an idyllic romance begins. When the spell is broken Hal must now face unrecognisable Rosemary and learns one of life's most important lessons. Dude Where's My Car? Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester (Seann William Scott) got really wasted last night. The fridge is packed with pudding their girlfriends - The Twins - are ticked off and somehow Jesse's car has disappeared. So the hapless stoners set out to find the car which happens to have their girlfriends' anniversary presents in it. But they soon discover that losing the car isn't half the story. High school hottie Christie (Kristy Swanson) is mysteriously hot for Jesse Chester is a favorite customer at the local topless club and they owe a suitcase full of money to a transvestite stripper. On top of all that they're being pursued by a minivan full of geeks horny space babes and a couple of totally gay Scandinavian dudes - all trying to find the continuum transfunctioner the device that can save or destroy the universe...

• Guess Who / Just Married | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Guess Who (Dir. Kevin Rodney Sullivan 2005): Percy Jones (Bernie Mac) takes great pride in the knowledge that he is always right especially when it comes to the welfare of his family. When his daughter Theresa (Zoe Saldana) brings her new boyfriend Simon Green (Ashton Kutcher) home to meet Percy and his wife Marilyn (Judith Scott) he is unaware that Simon has already popped the question and plans to announce the engagement at Percy and Marilyn's 25th anniversary party. A

• Angel - The Vampire Anthology - Cordelia | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This DVD release features 4 of Cordelia's best episodes selected by series creator Joss Whedon. Former Sunnydale cheerleader Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter) moved to LA to seek her fortune after daddy's long-standing tax evasion depleted her funds. Struggling to catch her big break Cordy appointed herself to help out at Angel Investigations. The episodes in Cordelia's collection follow her from arrival in the city to turning half-demon and gaining supernatural powers that leav

• Angel - The Vampire Anthology - Wesley | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £4.75   |  Saving you £8.24 (173.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This DVD release features 4 of Wesley's best episodes selected by series creator Joss Whedon. Episodes comprise: 1. Parting Gifts (Season 1) 2. Guise Will Be Guise (Season 2) 3. Loyalty (Season 3) 4. Sleep Tight (Season 3)

• Angel: Series 2 (Standard plastic case packaging) | DVD | (01/06/2004) from £28.92   |  Saving you £6.07 (20.99%)   |  RRP £34.99

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• Angel: Series 3 (Standard plastic case packaging) | DVD | (01/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

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• Angel - The Vampire Anthology - Gunn | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £2.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (335.91%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This DVD release features 4 of Gunn's best episodes selected by series creator Joss Whedon. Vampire hunter and vigilante Charles Gunn's (J. August Richards) life changed forever when his sister was turned into vampire. Sporting a pickup truck decorated with stakes Gunn took a while to warm up to Angel but is now a firm part of the team. His collection includes a face-off with his old gang and a visit from a debt collector who has come to fetch his soul. Episodes comprise:

• Universal Squadrons | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £7.20   |  Saving you £5.79 (80.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Returning home from war torn Iraq War Vet Captain Lance Deakin finds that the frontline has followed him home as around every corner enemies threats and war awaits Desperate to get back to a normal life Captain Lance Deakin discovers that he is still in battle as his own men hunt him down seeking brutal revenge as it becomes clear that he was more than just an average soldier but a super-soldier scientifically enhanced to become an unstoppable killing machine. Trapped in a war that he cannot escape and used by the military in fights that he cannot remember Deakin has to decide where reality starts and when the nightmares began

• WWF - No Mercy 2001 | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  October 21 2001 - St. Louis Missouri. WWF Championship Triple-Threat Match: Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Kurt Angle WCW Championship: The Rock vs. Chris Jericho Undertaker vs. Booker T WWF Tag Team Championship: Dudley Boyz vs. Big Show & Tajiri WWF Intercontinental Championship Ladder Match: Christian vs. Edge 1st Ever Lingerie Match: Torrie Wilson vs. Stacy Keibler Kane vs. Test WCW Tag Team Championship: Hardy Boyz vs. Lance Storm & The Hurricane

• Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron | DVD | (20/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A documentary charting the rise and fall of the Enron company from the perspective of employee Brian Cruver.

• Mr And Mrs Smith / Life Or Something Like It | DVD | (25/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mr And Mrs Smith (Dir. Doug Liman 2005): A sexy action packed thrill ride about a bored married couple who discover that they are enemy assassins... Life Or Something like It:(Dir. Stephen Herek 2002): Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie) is a beautiful blonde reporter for a Seattle news station. With a baseball-superstar boyfriend a wonderful apartment and a job opportunity with a national network in New York Lanie's life is all going according to plan. The only thorn in her side is the cameraman and ex-lover she's been teamed with called Pete (Burns). Pete is funny charming and utterly disinterested in a career much to Lanie's disbelief but the pair have an undeniable chemistry that Pete exploits at every turn. Everything changes for Lanie in an instant when she meets homeless Prophet Jack (Shalhoub) for an interview. After he gives her routine predications about the weather and football scores he breaks the ominous news that she will be dead in seven days...