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• The Quiet Man | DVD | (15/01/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since--it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography. It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award. The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film. He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor McLaglen--that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup. Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding, and spots a broken bed. The look on his face says everything. The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland, but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely. --Robert Horton

• Food Of Love | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paul a handsome and talented music student is employed as the page-turner at one of the world famous pianist Kennington's concerts in San Francisco only to find the best way to make it to the top is to sleep his way there with older gentlemen who can assist him...

• Even More Great Comedy Moments | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £6.87   |  Saving you £9.12 (132.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A compilation of best bits from BBC comedy. Programme excerpts include: 'The Office' 'I'm Alan Partridge' 'The League Of Gentleman' 'Only Fools And Horses' 'Shooting Stars' 'Absolutely Fabulous' and 'Red Dwarf'.

• Degrassi Junior High: Season One | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £6.53   |  Saving you £23.46 (359.26%)   |  RRP £29.99

  One of the most authentic ground-breaking drama series ever to depict the pitfalls of teendom Degrassi Junior High confronts it all - friendship puberty rumors sports studies and more - with a refreshing ensemble cast and a unique teen's-eye-view of life. Sometimes moving sometimes shocking but always believable Degrassi Junior High is a monumental achievement for its unflinching portrayl of teen life. Episodes Comprise: 1. Kiss Me Steph 2. The Big Dance 3. The Experiment 4. The Cover-Up 5. The Great Race 6. Rumor Has It 7. The Best Laid Plans 8. Nothing to Fear 9. What a Night! 10. Smokescreen 11. It's Late! 12. Parents' Night 13 Revolution!

• Red Dwarf - Series 1-3 - The Bodysnatcher Collection | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The first three series in this hilarious comedy show now remastered! Series 1: 'The End' sees a radiation leak wipe out the crew of Red Dwarf leaving only one survivor - Dave Lister. In 'Future Echoes' Red Dwarf breaks the speed of light leaving the crew experiencing visions of their own futures. 'Balance Of Power' sees Lister about to take his chef's exam and if he passes he will be able to have Rimmer replaced as the ship's hologram... In 'Confidence And Paranoia' Lister gets a mutated virus which makes his hallucinations come to life leaving the ship beset by herring rain amongst other things... 'Waiting For God' sees the ship's computer Holly find a pod floating about in deep space and Lister pleased to learn that he is a god. In 'ME2' Rimmer creates a duplicate of himself all seems perfect until they both find themselves in a conflict that only one can win... Series 2: Features the episodes 'Kryten' in which the crew of Red Dwarf finds an android called Kryten looking after three fellow crew members who have been dead for years... 'Better Than Life' in which Rimmer receives a note from his mother informing him that his father is dead 'Thanks For The Memory' in which the crew wake up with no memory of what has happened over the past four days In 'Statis Leak' the crew find a stasis leak which takes them back to the time of the original Red Dwarf... 'Queeg' sees Holly the ship's computer replaced by Queeg 500. In 'Parallel Universe' the crew are thrown into a parallel universe there they meet their female counterparts... Series 3: The complete third series of the television comedy science fiction programme. Features the episodes 'Backwards' 'Marooned' 'Polymorph' 'Bodyswap' 'Timeslides' and 'The Last Day'.

• Power Rangers Ninja Storm - Samurai's Journey | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-5.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Continuing to gorge with an appetite for destruction Lothor and his alien minions mount an all-out attack led by Madtropolis to drain the Wind and Thunder Rangers of their power! It's all jammin' and no slammin' even in Megazord mode when Cam must travel in time to snag the ultimate power source -- a Samurai amulet that unlocks the mystery of the 'ancient warrior of evil.' Meanwhile with things frozen in time Lothor unleashes Operation Alien Outreach to take advantage of a d

• Red Dwarf : Series 8 (Limited Edition with corgi Scutter toy) | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Featuring the complete eighth series of Red Dwarf. Episodes comprise: 1. Back in the Red (Part 1) 2. Back in the Red (Part 2) 3. Back in the Red (Part 3) 4. Cassandra 5. Krytie TV 6. Pete 7. Pete II 8. Only The Good...

• St George's Day/The Fall Of The Essex Boys | DVD | (05/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  St. George's Day: A British crime thriller that follows the story of infamous gangster cousins Micky Mannock and Ray Collishaw. Having long since graduated from the terraces they now run the top firm in London. But when they lose a drug shipment belonging to the Russian Mafia, a turf war threatens to tear their empire apart. The Fall Of The Essex Boys: The rise and fall of the Essex Boys Gang - the drugs, the violence and, of course, the murders. The gritty...

• Red Dwarf: Series 5 (Limited Edition Gift Set) | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The complete fifth series of interstellar comedy from the Red Dwarf crew filled with classic moments such as Rimmer finally making it into the Space Corps not to mention Mr Flibble and the first appearance of Cat's alter-ego the dreaded Dwayne Dibley... Holoship: Rimmer is transmitted from Red Dwarf to the advanced Holoship Enlightenment which contains the cream of the Space Corps. Everything he has dreamed of exists on this ship; can he earn a commission to join this fantastic vessel? The Inquisitor: The Inquisitor roams through time weeding out life's wastrels and deleting the worthless: the crew of Red Dwarf crew are in serious trouble! Terrorform Rimmer: is taken prisoner inside his own mind and ends up being stripped oiled manacled licked chained taunted humiliated and nearly has a knobbly thing the size of a Mexican agarve cactus jammed up where only customs men dare to probe... Quarantine: After an encounter at a viral research centre Rimmer forces the crew to spend twelve weeks in quarantine. But who's watching the watcher? Demons And Angels: Who knows what evil lurks within the hearts of men? The Red Dwarf crew find out when they encounter their dark sides - four evil 'doppelgangers' hell bent on their destruction! Back to Reality: The crew discover an abandoned space ship on an ocean bed. However the salvage operation suddenly doesn't sound quite so sexy when they realise all of the occupants of the vessel committed suicide. Attack by a gigantic sea monster makes escape the favourite option...

• Red Dwarf - Smeg Ups | UMD | (10/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Red Dwarf Series 4 | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £5.49   |  Saving you £-0.50 (-10.00%)   |  RRP £4.99

  By the end of this fourth year, Red Dwarf had completed its metamorphosis from a modest studio-bound sitcom with a futuristic premise to a full-blown science-fiction series, complete with a relatively lavish (by BBC standards) special-effects budget, more impressive sets and more location shooting. Despite the heavier emphasis on SF, the character-based comedy remained as sharp as ever. Witness the Cat's reaction to Lister's pus-filled exploding head; Kryten's devastatingly sarcastic defence of Rimmer; or, the classic scene that opens the series, Lister teaching Kryten to lie. In "Camille", Robert Llewellyn's real-life wife plays a female mechanoid who transforms into something else entirely, as does the episode, which by the end becomes a delightful skit on Casablanca. "DNA" comes over all SF, with lots of techno-speak about a matter transmogrifier and a RoboCop homage--but in typical Dwarf fashion, turns out to be all about curry. "Justice" sees Rimmer on trial for the murder of the entire crew, while Lister attempts to evade a psychotic cyborg. Holly gets her IQ back in "White Hole", but wastes time debating bread products with the toaster. "Dimension Jump" introduces dashing doppelganger Ace Rimmer for the first time--he was to return in later series, with diminishingly funny results. Here his appearance is all the better for its apparent improbability. Finally, "Meltdown" goes on location (to a park in North London) where waxdroids of historical characters (played by a miscellaneous selection of cheesy lookalikes) are at war. Only intermittently successful, this episode is really memorable for Chris Barrie's tour-de-force performance, as Rimmer becomes a crazed, Patton-esque general. On the DVD: Red Dwarf, Series 4, like its predecessors, comes as a two-disc set complete with full cast commentary for every episode, an extensive retrospective documentary (mostly featuring the cast reminiscing), deleted scenes and lots of other fun bits of trivia. --Mark Walker

• Fated | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When the charismatic and eccentric art teacher Tatty (Michael Angelis) falls in love with Amy (Katrine de Candole) one of his students he believes he has met the love of his life. Unfortunately Amy beautiful and free-spirited does not share his feelings and ends the relationship. As Amy breaks away from him Tatty is left to watch in horror as she runs into the path of an oncoming car. Distraught and blaming himself Tatty loses all focus on his own life and drinks heavily. In a state of delirium he creates a statue of Amy that he places in the dark interior of a haunted burnt-out church. Tatty lives there protecting his creation and devoted to her for the next 13 years. On New Years Eve a magical night with the sky lit with fireworks a clubhouse burns. While the city celebrates Cal (Brendan Mackey) is on the run suspected of arson. Tired and frightened Cal takes refuge in the church only to be startled by Tatty. As Cal starts to run again he accidentally breaks the statue. The magic of the night and the mystery of the church combine to cast a spell and Amy comes alive. However in order to remain alive Amy must kiss the first man she sees. To Tatty's horror it was Cal not him that Amy saw so together they run into the night after Cal. Amy realises that if she is to live Cal must die and so she runs again. As Amy enjoys the magic of the evening in the company of drunken reveler Pedro (Craig Charles) Tatty works frantically to reverse the spell and save them all.

• Red Dwarf Series 1 | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Notoriously, and entirely appropriately, the original outline for Doug Naylor and Rob Grant's comedy SF series Red Dwarf was sketched on the back of a beer mat. When it finally appeared on our television screens in 1988 the show had clearly stayed true to its roots, mixing jokes about excessive curry consumption with affectionate parodies of classic SF. Indeed, one of the show's most endearing and enduring features is its obvious respect for the conventions of SF, even as it gleefully subverts them. The scenario owes something to Douglas Adams's satirical Hitch-Hiker's Guide, something to The Odd Couple and a lot more to the slacker SF of John Carpenter's Dark Star. Behind the crew's constant bickering there lurks an impending sense that life, the universe and everything are all someone's idea of a terrible joke. Later series broadened the show's horizons until at last its premise was so diluted as to be unrecognisable, but in the six episodes of the first series the comedy is witty and intimate, focusing on characters and not special effects. Slob Dave Lister (Craig Charles) is the last human alive after a radiation leak wipes out the crew of the vast mining vessel Red Dwarf (episode 1, "The End"). He bums around the spaceship with the perpetually uptight and annoyed hologram of his dead bunkmate, Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie, the show's greatest comedy asset) and a creature evolved from a cat (dapper Danny John Jules). They are guided rather haphazardly by Holly, the worryingly thick ship's computer (lugubrious Norman Lovett). On the DVD: Red Dwarf I arrives in a two-disc set, with all six episodes on the first disc accompanied by an excellent group commentary from Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John Jules and Norman Lovett. (There's also a bonus commentary on "The End" with the two writers and director Ed Bye.) The 4:3 picture is unimpressive, but sound is decent stereo. The second disc has an entertaining 25-minute documentary on the genesis of the series with contributions from the cast, writer Doug Naylor and producer Paul Jackson. Navigate the animated menus to find a gallery of extra features, including isolated music cues, deleted scenes, outtakes ("Smeg Ups"), a fun "Drunk" music montage, model effects shots, Web links, audiobook clips, the original BBC trailer and even the entire first episode in Japanese. --Mark Walker

• Red Dwarf Series 3 | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The third series of Red Dwarf introduced some radical changes--all of them for the better--but the scripts remained as sharp and character-focussed as ever, making this a firm candidate for the show's best year. Gone were the dull metallic grey sets and costumes, gone too was Norman Lovett's lugubrious Holly, replaced now by comedienne Hattie Hayridge, who had previously played Hilly in the Series 2 episode "Parallel Universe". New this year were custom-made costumes, more elaborate sets, the zippy pea-green Starbug, bigger special effects and the wholly admirable Robert Llewellyn as Kryten. The benefits of the show's changes are apparent from the outset, with the mind-bending hilarity of "Backwards", in which Kryten and Rimmer establish themselves as a forwards-talking double-act on a reverse Earth. After a modest two-hander that sees Rimmer and Lister "Marooned", comes one of the Dwarf's most beloved episodes, "Polymorph". Here is the ensemble working at its best, as each character unwittingly has their strongest emotion sucked out of them. Lister loses his fear; Cat his vanity; Kryten his reserve; and Rimmer his anger ("Chameleonic Life-Forms. No Thanks"). "Body Swap" sees Lister and Rimmer involved in a bizarre attempt to prevent the ship from self-destructing. "Timeslides" delves deep into Rimmer's psyche as the boys journey haphazardly through history. Finally, "The Last Day" shows how completely Kryten has been adopted as a crewmember, when his replacement Hudzen unexpectedly shows up. On the DVD: Red Dwarf, Series 3 two-disc set maintains the high standard of presentation and wealth of extra material established by its predecessors. Among other delights there are the usual "Smeg Ups" and deleted scenes, plus another fun commentary with the cast. There's a lengthy documentary, "All Change", specifically about Series 3, a tribute to costume designer Mel Bibby, Hattie Hayridge's convention video diary, and--most fascinating--the opportunity to watch "Backwards" played forwards, so you can finally understand what Arthur Smith's backwards-talking pub manager actually says to Rimmer and Kryten in the dressing room. --Mark Walker

• Dinosaurs - The Myths And The Reality | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Ever since Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park broke box-office records worldwide, everyone has wanted to know more about dinosaurs, the mighty creatures that walked the earth many millions of years ago.Using animation and 3D computer graphics, this DVD separates myth from prehistoric reality. With the help of dinosaur experts Dr. Michael Brett Surman (a consultant on Jurassic Park) and Dr. David Norman, the UK's leading authority on dinosaurs, presenter Craig Charles helps you discover that truth is often far stranger than fiction!

• Red Dwarf Series 2 | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The second series of Red Dwarf is, as Danny John-Jules says in the accompanying DVD commentary, "the one where it really went good". First broadcast in the autumn of 1988, these six episodes showcase Rob Grant and Doug Naylor's sardonic, sarcastic humour to perfection. The writing has matured, no longer focussing solely on SF in-jokes and gags about bodily functions, instead allowing the humour to develop from the characters and their sometimes surprisingly poignant interactions: Lister's timeless love for Kochanksi, for example, or Rimmer's brief memory-implanted love for one of Lister's ex-girlfriends. The cast had gelled, too, and there's even more colour this year as the drab sets are spiced up, a little more money has been assigned to models and special effects, and the crew even go on location once in a while. "Kryten" introduces us to the eponymous house robot (here played by David Ross), although after this first episode he was not to reappear until Series 3, when Robert Llewellyn made the role his own. Then in "Better Than Life" the show produced one of its all-time classic episodes, as the boys from the Dwarf take part in a virtual reality game that's ruined by Rimmer's tortured psyche. Other highlights include "Queeg", in which Holly is replaced by a domineering computer personality, the baffling time travel paradox of "Stasis Leak", the puzzling conundrum of "Thanks for the Memory", and the astonishingly feminine "Parallel Universe". On the DVD: Red Dwarf, Series 2 has another chaotic and undisciplined group commentary from the cast, all clearly enjoying the opportunity to reminisce. The second disc has a host of fun extras, including an "A-Z of Red Dwarf", outtakes, deleted scenes, a Doug Naylor interview, model shots, and the full, unexpurgated "Tongue Tied" music video. As with the first set, the animated menus are great fun and the "Play All" facility is the most useful little flashing button ever created. --Mark Walker

• SILKWOOD (1983) - SILKWOOD (1983) (1 Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (25/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A