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• Ethan Mao | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sometimes the only way out is to break in. A psychological thriller a coming-of-age drama a gay love story and a black comedy Ethan Mao tells the story of an 18-year-old boy reaching the point of no return. Booted out of his house for being gay Ethan Mao survives on the street as a hustler. There he meets 19-year-old Remigio a drug dealer and fellow hustler who takes him in. After being tipped off by his younger brother that his family is going on a day tri

• The River King | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £8.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's the truth that haunts us.... Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school who is found floating in the river. Fearing scandal the school insists it was suicide. But after discovering from the boy's girlfriend Carlin that he was being badly bullied Abel suspects that a dangerous schoolboy initiation has gone horribly wrong and he secretly solicits the help of a sympathetic teacher Betsy. He is warned off the investigation by hi

• Friends - Series 9 - Vol. 1 - Eps 1-4 | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Nine years is a long time for any group of Friends to stick so closely together, but somehow the gang are still as daftly charming as ever. After the birth of Emma, Rachel comes to terms with being a mother surprisingly well. It's how everyone else deals with it that makes things interesting. Joey's accidental proposal creates weird friction between him and Ross, who breaks his finger throwing the show's first ever punch. Monica becomes desperately broody and attempts all manner of convoluted ways of persuading Chandler (unfortunately he inadvertently bankrupts them in a move to Tulsa). Phoebe, on the other hand, occupies herself in the dating game, holding on to Mike (Paul Rudd) in the longest guest star relationship anyone's ever had. Other surprise guests this year include Freddie Prinze Jr as an overly sensitive nanny (in the 200th episode), Christina Applegate as another of Rachel's sisters and Jeff Goldblum playing himself on the set of another movie on which Joey is trying to get a break. As always the sparks occasionally fly between Rachel and Ross, while the others manage to strain their own relationships to the max. The real reason for watching now is the one-off kooky scenarios in which they--or rather Joey--get into. His endless dating finally sees him stuck for remembering if he's already slept with a girl; he botches an attempt at eyebrow waxing; and he manages to make Chandler think that Monica wants a breast enhancement. A 10th series and potential movie spin-off were announced well before the year was over, meaning six very rich actors will be supplying the fun for some time yet to come. --Paul Tonks

• Return Of The Fly | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The horror is back! The boundaries of science are pushed to their eery limits in this sequel to the classic ever-popular The Fly. Here Phillipe the son of the ill-fated scientist naively continues his father's misguided experiments. The victim of his traitorous assistant's greedy ambitions Phillipe finds himself in a terrifying limbo - he's grown the head and limbs of a fly! Taking spectacular revenge on his betrayers Phillipe must also race against time and find a way to

• Stargate Atlantis - Season 1 - Vol. 4 | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £6.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (100.43%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Sanctuary: The Atlantis team encounter a pre-technological world untouched by the Wraith and hope to negotiate with the local population to provide a home for the refugees of Wraith attacks currently living in Atlantis. Hot Zone: Several residents of Atlantis are infected with a deadly nanite virus forcing a lockdown of the city. Before I Sleep: A woman is found in suspended animation in Atlantis and the team is shocked to see that it is Dr. Weir herself who tells them of her trip 10 000 years into the city's past. The Brotherhood: The planet Dagan may be home to a vitally important zero-point module capable of restoring Atlantis' shield and protect the city from the Wraith but a mysterious 'Brotherhood' on the planet - and knowledge of the Genii - suggest that the planet may not be what it seems.

• Francis the Talking Mule: 7 Film Collection | Blu Ray | (03/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• David Bellamy's Wild Britain - The Peaks DVD | DVD | (02/06/2008) from £8.56   |  Saving you £3.43 (28.60%)   |  RRP £11.99

  In 3 ground-breaking award winning programmes David explores from ground and air the natural environments of Britain's premier wilderness landscapes. In his enthusiastic company we enter a wonderful world of wild heather and open water high mountain ancient settlement and deep forest with the odd bit of bog and marsh. Stories abound too of some of the other adventurous spirits that have gone and go before: stories of old molecatchers ghosts and wolves; of lost warriors and battlegrounds blood drinking ravens and stone worshipping priests; and a glorious company of singers and heroes - Wandsworth and Brooke King Arthur Wallace and Montrose.

• Paul McCartney - Live At The Cavern Club | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Paul McCartney's Live at the Cavern is essentially the video counterpart to his album Run Devil Run and is equally addictive. The legendary Liverpool club--where the Beatles and a great many other Mersey bands cut their musical teeth--has relocated to new premises in the same street, but it's still the most intimate of venues (it holds all of 300 punters) and is of course the obvious place for Macca to stage this wonderful rock & roll retro extravaganza. Oh yes, there was also a secondary audience of several million who watched the show as a Webcast, but at least this meant they weren't queuing at the bar. The music, however, isn't obvious at all. Rather than go down the tried and tested route of rehashing all the rock & roll classics everyone knows, McCartney decided instead to create a show focusing on his own personal favourites from his formative years. This means that we get stuff like "Fabulous", "Blue Jean Bop" and "Honey Hush" rather than the usual over-revived material. This combination of an instantly recognisable style with rather less recognisable songs is as refreshing as an ice-cold Tizer. The all-star band includes Dave "Floyd" Gilmour, Ian "Purple" Paice (looking alarmingly like Mel Smith) and even Pete "Eighteen with a Bullet" Wingfield. The performance is preceded by an interview with His Macship conducted by Jools Holland. --Roger Thomas

• Friends - Series 2 - Episodes 9-16 | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £15.96   |  Saving you £-5.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Season 2: Unfortunately, Rachel's brave intention to announce her feelings is scuppered in the season opener "The One With Ross' New Girlfriend". It doesn't matter how great her hair looks (a real-life accident when a friend cut it with a razor), or how many sneaky tricks she tries to separate them. Ultimately it takes a peculiar doppelganger to lure the new girl away in "TOW Russ" (Schwimmer credited as "Snaro"). The Friends couldn't be happier to have the angst and tension relieved, and "TOW Ross and Rachel... You Know" is unsurprisingly an all-time fan favourite. This was straightforward compared to the other side of Ross' love life in "TOW the Lesbian Wedding" though. Initiating another "will they, won't they?" subplot was the introduction of Richard (Tom Selleck) as a new flame for Monica. Highlights for the other characters all centred on the Emmy-winning two-part "The One After the Super Bowl" with a stunning cameo list including Brooke Shields, Chris Isaak, Dan Castellaneta (Homer from The Simpsons), Jean-Claude Van Damme and Julia Roberts (whom Perry subsequently dated for a short while). Another great highlight was Chandler and Joey's ineptitude in "TOW the Baby on the Bus", which also featured Chrissie Hynde giving Phoebe's "Smelly Cat" its best ever rendition on guitar. To leave viewers hanging, the year ended with Rachel in understandable uncertainty over "TOW Barry And Mindy's Wedding" (her ex-fiancé and ex-best friend). --Paul Tonks

• 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

• Autumn | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £8.97   |  Saving you £9.02 (100.56%)   |  RRP £17.99

  As the last autumn leaves slowly peel away from the trees a mysterious airborne virus ravages the planet and within a few hours billions die. Victims suffer horrific deaths as their internal organs liquefy and whole towns expire within minutes. Soon cities become infested breeding grounds for the new apocalyptic virus. By the end of the first day there are only a handful of survivors. A small group of ordinary strangers are soon forced to work together to stay alive. The survivors are lead by Michael (Dexter Fletcher Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels Doom) a lonely soft ware consultant and Carl (Dickon Tolson Peak Practice Eastenders) an ill-tempered mechanic. When Michael and the survivors escape from the infested city to an isolated country house they discover the real horror has only begun! When the dead start to gruesomely reanimate the group have naive hopes that the walkers or the meat suites would decompose and simply fall apart but they discover the longer the reanimated corpses are alive the more they learn the cleverer they get the more aggressive and treacherous they become - the more they became killing machines. When Phillip Evans (David Carradine Kill Bill Kung Fu) is discovered as a lone survivor in the lifeless city a new hope emerges but nothing is as it seems in a world turned upside down and hope soon turns into terror. In order to endure the winter each survivor must find the strength within themselves to fight their personal demons and find the courage to combat a war against the vicious dead. What follows is a shockingly clever adventure of survival in a thrilling desolate world. This Autumn the darkness will come!

• Hallelujah! - Series Two | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £9.15   |  Saving you £5.84 (39.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Dame Thora Hird stars in one of her own personal favourite role as the barmiest woman in the Salvation Army!

• Witchcraft 2 - The Temptress | DVD | (06/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Many years have passed since baby William was snatched from Satan's grasp. Protected from his sordid past by his adopted parents, William has grown into manhood unaware that he is the son of Satan.
  Now Satan has sent the sultry Witch Delores to find his kidnapped heir and return him to his side, in the depths of hell. To fulfill Satan's devious plan, Delores must first seduce William...and whoever gets in her way will die!

• Boy Eats Girl | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £2.89   |  Saving you £13.10 (453.29%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Stephen Bradley's deliciously wicked horror/comedy in which a boy declares his love for his girlfriend only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie who sires more teen undead while trying to control his appetite for his beloved...

• Loser 3D (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (23/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An improvisational comedy using a handful of actors playing characters competing in an actual poker tournament.

• Men Of Honour | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A military drama starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr that tells the true story of Carl Bashear who combated racism to become the US Navy's first African-American deep-sea diver.

• Inspector Morse - The Dead Of Jericho / Mystery Of Morse | DVD | (14/09/1998) from £6.38   |  Saving you £13.61 (213.32%)   |  RRP £19.99

  John Thaw created one of Britain's most-loved TV detectives in this pilot episode that started the long-running Inspector Morse series, based on the novels by Colin Dexter. The brilliant, somewhat elitist police inspector who loves crosswords, classical music and the more-than-occasional pint of ale clumsily romances a woman (Gemma Jones) from his choir. When he finds her hanged in her apartment on the eve of their big recital, he suspects murder and muscles his way in on the investigation. The assigned investigators are convinced it's suicide except for the eager Sergeant Lewis (Kevin Whately), and they reluctantly team up to sort out a mystery tangled in blackmail, adultery, peeping neighbours (former Doctor Who Patrick Troughton) and mistaken identities. With his snooty temperament and lone-wolf lifestyle, the white-haired, Oxford-educated bachelor is a wonderful mismatch with the younger Lewis, a married man with a family and a rather less classical background (Whatley is a Geordie, though Lewis was a Brummie in the book). There's a quiet undercurrent of affection and respect almost from their first meeting that builds with each continuing Inspector Morse mystery, as well as an air of melancholia and loneliness beautifully developed in the script by future Oscar-winning writer/director Anthony Minghella (The English Patient). Morse's initial theories may be washouts (a series hallmark), but his relentless sleuthing, eye for clues and mind for puzzles dredges up the answer in the end, even as he loses the girl. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Robin's Nest - Series 3 - Complete | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £10.91   |  Saving you £4.08 (27.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  There's a fresh helping of high jinx and mishaps for Robin and Vicky as they continue the struggle to run their bistro business occasionally helped (but mostly hindered) by Vicky's overbearing father and their disaster-prone one-armed dishwasher Albert Riddle. This complete third series contains all 13 episodes originally transmitted in 1978. Episodes Comprise: 1. You Need Hands 2. The Candidate 3. Just Desserts 4. Away from all What? 5. England Expects 6. Once Two is Three 7. Dinner Date 8. Everything You Wish Yourself 9. Be It Ever So Humble 10. Day Trippers 11. The Long Distance Runner 12. At Harm''-s Length 13. The Happy Hen

• Secret Of The Andes | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £7.90   |  Saving you £-3.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  There are things that just you will be able to see with the heart..... This is the tale of an American archeologist leading an expidition in search of a mysterious Pre-Columbian relic in a tiny Andes village.

• The X Files: Deadalive | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This release consists of two episodes--"This is Not Happening" and "Deadalive"--of the eighth series of The X-Files spliced together into a feature-length story. With David Duchovny contracted only to do a certain percentage of shows this year, Robert Patrick was brought in as Agent John Doggett, partnering Gillian Anderson's Agent Scully while Duchovny's Mulder is off being tortured by alien-abductors in what looks like an industrial dentist's chair. This story comes about two-thirds of the way through the arc and sets up Duchovny's return to the show--though he literally has to die and come back to get back on the case. It's an unfortunate paradox that most X-Files stand-alone releases concentrate on the dreary alien-abduction/conspiracy episodes which carry the greater storyline of the show, giving the misleading impression that the series is a drearily solemn, badly plotted, straight-faced but stupid sci-fi soap opera. Always skipped over are the far more interesting, entertaining and impressive stand-alone supernatural mysteries or strange comic exercises. Though Duchovny is mostly lying in a hospital bed with oatmeal all over his face, Anderson--whose character is pregnant this series, another dull sub-plot--still gives an amazingly committed performance and gets terrific support from Patrick, whose character has shaken up a lot of what was settled or stale about the show, and the always-underrated Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Skinner. The story features several wild-eyed UFO guru types (including Roy Thinnes, once star of The Invaders) and returned abductees transformed into un-killable alien zombies. It's as well made as ever, with ominous shadows and the odd smart line, but you need to have been paying very close attention for seven years to understand what's going on. With Duchovny a potential escapee and Anderson perhaps in line to follow, this episode brings on the excellent Annabeth Gish as Agent Monica Reyes, a specialist in bizarre rituals, who is being effectively set up to partner Patrick in a post-Mulder-and-Scully X-Files that might well keep the franchise going on forever Star Trek-fashion. --Kim Newman