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• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 2 Part 1 | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  These first 12 episodes from the second series of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation consolidate the show's well-deserved popular appeal, while beginning to explore (gently at first) beneath the slickly professional surface of the investigators themselves. Gradually we learn more about what makes Grissom and his astonishingly gifted forensics team tick, beyond merely that they're workaholics who seem to require no sleep at all. The show's trademark reveals of vital evidence--be it on the autopsy slab or under the microscope--add a fresh spin to what is, at heart, a good old-fashioned whodunit series. William Petersen brings the requisite air of antiquarianism to a character whose meticulous demeanour and love of order consciously inherits the mantle of Sherlock Holmes (whose vast collection of tobacco samples and bottles of chemicals are the ancestors of CSI's high-tech crime lab). This is a series in which scientific evidence-gathering is elevated to the status of a religion. "When a tree falls in the forest, even if no one is around to hear, it does make a sound", affirms Grissom with the calm assurance of a yogi on the path to Enlightenment. And just when CSI starts to seem a little too pat, just when the trail of clues seems too neat, the show always seems able to throw a surprise or two at us: perhaps there has been no crime after all; perhaps the evidence concerns a completely different crime altogether; or perhaps, as in one brave episode concerning brothers implicated in multiple murders, the evidence simply isn't good enough to convict the right man, even when Grissom knows which one really is guilty. As a result, every episode is simply compulsive viewing. On the DVD: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Series 2 Part 1 comes in a three-disc set with several worthwhile extras. There are cast and crew interviews, an on-set tour, a peek at the workshop where all the bloody body parts are created, and, most informative, selected episode commentaries featuring writer-creator Anthony E Zuiker and director and producer Danny Cannnon among others. Picture and Dolby Digital sound are impeccable. --Mark Walker

• Doctor Who - The Cybermen | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £5.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (191.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Doctor Who: The Cybermen Collection (2 Discs) (Dr Who)

• Killing Hasselhoff | DVD | (02/10/2017) from £3.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ken Jeong, Jim Jefferies and Rhys Darby star in this US comedy directed by Darren Grant. After losing his nightclub and running into debt with a notorious local gangster, Chris Kim (Jeong) is given a deadline of 72 hours to repay the money he owes or face the consequences. With little hope of finding the cash in time, Chris decides to rig the annual celebrity death pool contest he runs with his friends in order to win the $500,000 prize money. However, in order to get his hands on the cash, Chris must first hunt down and kill his entry in the death pool, David Hasselhoff.

• Rasputin | DVD | (24/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Prince Alexei heir to the last Tsar is a hemophiliac. The Tsarina is persuaded to allow a mysterious monk Rasputin to use his powers of healing on the Prince. Against the wishes of the Tsar Rasputin tends to the young Prince - with frighteningly successful results. So begins a relationship which ended in Rasputin's murder and the eventual downfall of Imperial Russia...

• Doctor Who - The Monsters Collection: The Cybermen | DVD | (30/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Take a trip through time and space to meet creatures and enemies that always came back for more... Doctor Who - The Monster Collection: The Cybermen contains two exciting stories! The Cybermen were once human but chose to replace all living tissue with plastic and steel. Seeing emotions as a weakness they removed those too and now Cyber massive armies try to upgrade the universe... The Tomb of The Cybermen is a four-part story from 1967. Starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor it is set in eerie Cybermen tombs on Telos. The Rise of The Cybermen and The Age of Steel were first shown in 2006. The Tenth Doctor played by David Tennant falls into a parallel universe and witnesses the creation of the Cybermen.

• Danielle Steel's Heartbeat | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £5.31   |  Saving you £0.68 (12.81%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the book by Danielle Steel Bill Grant (John Ritter) is the popular producer of a top TV soap but separated from his ex-wife and two young sons he badly misses family life. Adriane (Polly Draper) is a happily married news executive at the same TV station. But when she unexpectedly becomes pregnant her child-phobic husband deserts her rather than compromise his career with the responsibilities of parenthood. Both alone and lonely Bill and Adriane eventually meet and quic

• Dreamscape | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £14.44   |  Saving you £-5.46 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Alex Gardner (Dennis Quaid) is a talented young psychic who is frittering his gifts away betting on the ponies. That is, until he's coerced by his old pal and mentor Dr Paul Novotny (Max von Sydow) into taking part in a dream research project in which his psychic abilities make him indispensable. The project concerns "dreamlinking", whereby talented individuals like Alex hook up via electrodes and project themselves into some troubled subject's nightmares, in which they not only observe but participate in the dream, hopefully effecting some remedy. Alex is by nature a feckless guy, a charismatic scoundrel sporting a Cheshire cat's grin. But he warms easily to his new role as dream-dwelling psychotherapist, having a core of decency. Not so his nemesis, Tommy Ray Glatman (David Patrick Kelly), a dreamlink prodigy and pawn of Bob Blair (Christopher Plummer), who runs the research project for the government (he's described as the "head of covert intelligence"). Blair is worried about the President (Eddie Albert), whose nightmares of nuclear holocaust cause him to escalate disarmament talks with the Russians, much to Blair's dismay, being your basic evil, slick, smarmy covert kind of guy. Turns out Blair's real aim is to use the project to train dreamlink assassins, his star pupil being psycho Tommy Ray and his test case the President. Only Alex is there to stop them.Dreamscape is all business, with a well-structured screenplay that lays the groundwork for the film's many admirable performances. Kate Capshaw in particular is very dreamy as a research scientist and Dennis Quaid's love interest. And David Patrick Kelly is likely to become your worst nightmare, especially when he's the Snakeman, giving an often fantastical performance. But what you are most likely to remember from this wonderful thriller is the many vivid dream sequences, aptly surreal images from the troubled psyche. --Jim Gay

• The Missionary | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fallen women? Does it mean they've hurt their knees? After a decade of soul-saving in Africa Charles Fortescue is asked to minister to the ladies of the night in 1906 London. So Fortescue feeds them shelters them and not infrequently provides them a bed: his!A naive man of the cloth becomes a man of the sheets in this playfully naughty yet always tasteful comedy that stars Monty Python's Michael Palin (who also wrote the script) as Fortescue and features a colourful array of cockeyed characters: a blissful airhead (Phoebe Nicholls) a lusty mission sponsor (Maggie Smith) a bewildered butler (Michael Hordern) an earthy bishop (Denholm Elliott) a cantankerous John Bull (Trevor Howard) and more. Jolly good fun!

• Friends: Series 10 (Vol. 5) | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £6.16   |  Saving you £0.83 (11.90%)   |  RRP £6.99

  In the first eight episodes of Season 10 of Friends we have seen Joey and Rachel get it together and then separate Ross come unstuck at the tanning booth Emma's chaotic first birthday party the time-honoured Friends Thanksgiving meal and Phoebe receive a marriage proposal. But how does it all end ...? Contains the final episode ever of Friends: The Last One (Part 2)

• Willard | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £7.86   |  Saving you £12.13 (154.33%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As accomplished as it is superfluous, Willard is a stylish horror film with plenty of style but precious little horror. Genre buffs will appreciate it as a visually superior sequel/remake of its popular 1971 predecessor, giving Crispin Glover a title role perfectly suited to his uniquely odd persona, in the same league as Psycho's Norman Bates. This time, Willard's the psychotically lonely son of the original film's now-deceased protagonist: a milquetoast introvert who befriends an army of obedient rats--lethal allies when Willard's pushed to his emotional breaking point by his abusive boss (R. Lee Ermey). In keeping with his memorably macabre episodes of X-Files, writer-director Glen Morgan excels with dreary atmosphere and mischievously morbid humor (including an ill-fated cat named Scully), and Glover gives his best performance since River's Edge. But even the furry villain Ben--an oversized rat with attitude--is more funny than frightful. With some justification, Glover's fans will appreciate the open door to a sequel. --Jeff Shannon

• Gloriana | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Britten: Gloriana (Elder ENO Orchestra/Chorus Walker Johnson)

• Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2011) from £11.48   |  Saving you £10.50 (110.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Little Malcolm is released as part of the BFI Flipside DVD and Blu-ray series which is dedicated to unveiling the hidden history of British cinema.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Complete Collection | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £149.99

  David Suchet stars as Agatha Christie's sleuth Hercule Poirot in the complete collection of cases from the long running ITV series. Contains all the episodes and TV movies aired from 1989 to January 2006 (Poirot Collection vol.1-6).

• Thorne: Sleepyhead & Scaredy Cat | Blu Ray | (10/01/2011) from £7.95   |  Saving you £17.04 (214.34%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Crime thrillers following DI Tom Thorne based on the novels by Mark Billingham. Sleepyhead: Follows DI Tom Thornes investigation into a mysterious serial killer. His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate. Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke deliberately induced by manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see hear and feel she is aware of everything going on around her but she is unable to move or communicate. In leaving Alison alive the police believe the killer's made his first mistake. Scaredy Cat: Is a second DI Tom Thorne thriller where killing becomes a team sport. The film depicts a vicious calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station followed her home and strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time in the same way a second body is discovered at the back of Kings Cross. Thorne discovers that this is not a single serial killer he's up against but two of them.

• Separation | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £28.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown - marital and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are revealed through a fragmented but brilliantly achieved and often humorous narrative in which dreams and desires are as real as the 'swinging' London (complete with Procul Harum music and Mark Boyle light show) of the film's setting.

• Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter | DVD | (29/06/2015) from £6.69   |  Saving you £11.30 (168.91%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The haunting and funny story of a young woman set on fulfilling the wildest of dreams. A lonely woman (Oscar-nominee Rinko Kikuchi) becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried in a cult Hollywood film is in fact real. Abandoning her structured life in Tokyo she heads for the frozen Minnesota wilderness armed with only a hand-embroidered map. Ill prepared but determined she encounters unexpected help along the way as she searches for her lost mythical fortune.

• The Adjuster | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £9.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sex... Power... Obsession. Another offbeat film from director Atom Egoyan that explores the theme of voyeurism. Noah Render is an insurance company adjuster who routinely cheats on his wife and takes advantage of his vulnerable female clients whose homes have been destroyed by fires. His wife Hera works as a film censor but - unknown to her bosses - she videotapes scenes from the pornographic films she watches to give to her mixed-up sister Sete. Into their lives step Bub

• Conspiracy Theory / Payback | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Conspiracy Theory: New York cab driver and conspiracy buff Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) knows about the secret movers shakers and assassins who really control things. Trying to put Justice Department attorney Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts) in the know he's run out of her of office. Soon both will run for their lives. The two stars conspire for suspense romance and twists that click like a rush-hour taximeter. (Dir. Richard Donner 1997 Cert. 15) Payback: Mel Gibson po

• Three Men In A Boat (Vintage Classics) | DVD | (19/08/2024) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hellboy UHD BD | Blu Ray | (19/08/2019) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hellboy is back, and he's on fire. From the pages of Mike Mignola's seminal work, this action-packed story sees the legendary half-demon superhero (David Harbour, Stranger Things) called to the English countryside to battle a trio of rampaging giants. There he discovers The Blood Queen, Nimue (Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil series), a resurrected ancient sorceress thirsting to avenge a past betrayal. Suddenly caught in a clash between the supernatural and the human, Hellboy is now hell-bent on stopping Nimue without triggering the end of the world.