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• Reeker | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (126.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Five students are hunted by a decaying creature and haunting visions in this horror.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Evil Under The Sun | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It seems that Hercule Poirot's luxuriant lifestyle catches up with him when at the opening of his good friend Captain Hasting's new restaurant he suffers a minor heart-attack. He's overweight and has a poor diet and on doctors orders he's sent along with trusty Hastings to the island retreat Sandy Cove to aid his recovery. Upon their arrival Poirot is immediately struck by the eccentric characters already there in particular Arlena Stuart the famous yet scandalous socialite. Despite his orders to relax he observes Arlena openly flauting her affair in her front of her husband with a grief stricken younger man. As his little grey cells work over time he forsees tragedy...

• Life Is Sweet | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £8.38   |  Saving you £1.61 (19.21%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Life is Sweet, Mike Leigh's 1990 snapshot of the suburban family condition at the tail end of the Thatcher era, is often depressing and occasionally harrowing. It is also ultimately joyous, not just for the sharpness of Leigh's satire--the script was improvised with and by the cast--but also for the real affection that binds the family together. Through a series of minor crises, channels of communication silted up by the daily grind and terminal self-absorption are gradually eased open and the film ends on a note of genuine hope. As parents Wendy and Andy, Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent give virtuoso performances: two adults who use fantasy, mundane work and a stream of banal chatter to keep reality at bay before a freak kitchen accident forces them to stop and take stock. They have two daughters to perplex them: one a plumber (Claire Skinner) and the other an angry anorexic (Jane Horrocks, unsparing in a gut-wrenching bulimic scene). Timothy Spall is hilarious as family friend Aubrey, a would-be restaurateur whose efforts to establish a gourmet eatery in Enfield collapse in hopeless, drunken farce. This is not an overtly political film, but the sense of a stake being driven through the heart of the 1980s enterprise culture is unmistakeable. Inspiring. --Piers Ford

• A Touch of Frost: Series 10 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £19.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (25.26%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A tenth series of investigations featuring gruff detective Frost (David Jason). Includes Hidden Truth Close Encounters and Held In Trust.

• Doctor Who - The New Series - Series 2 - Vol. 2 | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £4.90   |  Saving you £11.09 (226.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  David Tennant steps into the role of the Doctor for the second series of Doctor Who. Following the phenomenal success of the first series that took British television by storm in 2005 the second instalment is full of new thrills new laughs new heartbreak and some terrifying new monsters. The Doctor and Rose meet Queen Victoria an evil race of Cat Women and the dreaded Cybermen. Featured Episodes: 1. Tooth And Claw 2. School Reunion 3. The Girl In The Fireplace

• Starsky And Hutch - The Complete First Season | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In the rough-and-tumble, wildly entertaining world of Starsky & Hutch, impatient cops--anxious to join a foot race in pursuit of a villain--throw themselves out of moving vehicles and roll to a bruising stop. Undercover detectives Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Soul), hardly imbued with the powers of Spider-Man, routinely scale walls, hop from rooftop to rooftop, and fling themselves down steep hillsides to stop bad guys from doing what bad guys do. Years later Hill Street Blues would redefine the cop genre as a mesh of overlapping storylines and workaday frustrations, but Aaron Spelling's iconic 70s show portrays LA's finest as madly heroic creatures of reckless determination and physicality. This first season is also startlingly brutal for a primetime US show—it was later significantly toned down, much to the regret of fans—while maintaining a delightful, often incongruous, self-deprecating humour. From the series pilot on, partners and best pals Starsky and Hutch work a fine line between predator and prey, relentlessly pursuing suspects while also snared by crime chieftains or short-sighted superiors. In "The Fix", Hutch's secret romance with the former girlfriend of a mafia boss (Robert Loggia) results in the lawman's kidnapping and forced addiction to heroin. Similarly, in "A Coffin for Starsky", a mad chemist injects the wisecracking cop with a slow-acting but lethal poison. "Jo-Jo", written by Michael Mann, finds our guys at loggerheads with federal officers over a dumb deal the G-Men make with a serial rapist. The 23 episodes in this set are all fun, if sometimes shocking, viewing. Expect each character to take as much abuse as he dishes out. Still, the comic sight of Starsky and Hutch (in "Death Notice") trying to conduct business amid busy strippers is well worth the surrounding violence. --Tom Keogh

• Ghost Stories from the BBC: A View From a Hill / Number 13 (DVD) | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £13.89   |  Saving you £6.10 (43.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As a Christmas treat in the late 1960s and 70s, the BBC produced adaptations of ghost stories based on the works of MR James, the Cambridge academic and author of some of the most spine-tingling tales in the English language, which were broadcast to terrified viewers in the dead of winter. This was a tradition that was briefly revived by the BBC between 2005 and 2010. These adaptations, which have a subtlety and style all of their own, have been a major influence on many contemporary British horror filmmakers and have come to be some of the most sought after British TV titles of all time by their legions of eager fans. This final volume in the BFI's series includes two more recent MR James adaptations: A View From a Hill (2005) and Number 13 (2006). Both were screened to acclaim from critics and fans, and are regarded as perfect compliments to the vintage BBC Christmas Ghost story productions.

• El Topo | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The gunfighter El Topo ('The Mole') and his young son ride through a desert to a village whose inhabitants have been massacred. Bandits are nearby torturing and killing the survivors. El Topo rescues a woman (Mara) who leads him on a mission to find and defeat the four master gunmen of the desert. Leaving his son with a group of monks El Topo and Mara complete the mission accompanied by a mysterious woman in black. The women leave El Topo wounded in the desert where he is found by a clan of deformed people who take him to the remote cavern where they live. Awakening years later he goes with a dwarf woman to a nearby town promising to dig a tunnel through which the cave-dwellers can escape. They find the town run by a vicious sheriff and home to a bizarre religious cult. El Topo's son now a man is a monk in the town. The completion of the tunnel leads El Topo the townspeople and the cave-dwellers to a bloody and tragic end.

• Starsky And Hutch - The Complete Second Season | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Starsky & Hutch: The Complete Second Season proves the 1970s series, in its sophomore year, both codified its earliest strengths while continuing to evolve into a sharper, wittier and often darker show. Contributing to those improvements were the stars themselves: David Soul (who plays maverick police detective, intellectual and health nut Ken Hutchinson) and Paul Michael Glaser (as Hutch's more impulsive, junk-food-junkie partner Dave Starsky), each of whom directed exemplary episodes in the second series. The series' creators also struck a more entertaining balance between the comic and dramatic possibilities inherent in Starsky and Hutch's bluntly honest, fraternal relationship. A number of stories placed the guys in intentionally funny undercover situations: as garish gamblers in the two-part opener "The Las Vegas Strangler"; entertainment directors (named Hack and Zack) on a luxury cruise ship in "Murder at Sea"; gigolo-like dance aficionados in the playfully-titled "Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back into Your Hearts"; and, most amusingly, stunt men in "Murder on Stage 17". Those are all good shows, and the duo often bicker within them, to great comic effect, like an old married couple. But it's the relentlessly tougher episodes that prove each character's mettle and demonstrate the depth of Starsky and Hutch's mutual trust. Among these is the powerful "Gillian", in which Starsky discovers Hutch's classy new girlfriend is a prostitute and breaks the news to his shattered friend. Somewhat lighter but just as revealing is "Little Girl Lost", starring a young Kristy McNichol as an orphaned street urchin whom Hutch, lately in a misanthropic, anti-Christmas mood, takes into his home. Glaser's directorial debut, the harrowing "Bloodbath", gives Soul a lot of room for an intensely physical and psychological performance as Hutch scurries to find his kidnapped partner. Soul returns the favour with "Survival", in which Starsky desperately seeks his missing pal, trapped and slowly dying beneath a car wreck. All in all, a very good series, with (of course) Antonio Fargas still sharp as sidekick Huggy Bear. --Tom Keogh

• The Serpent's Egg | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £29.03   |  Saving you £-13.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Abel Rosenberg (Carradine) is a circus acrobat out of work and living in a defeated Germany after the First World War. He takes a job at the Veregus Clinic and there he finds the truth behind the work of the Professor Veregus (Bennett) work that led to his own brother committing suicide...

• The First of the Summer Wine - Series One | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A prequel to Roy Clarke’s original Last of the Summer Wine and featuring Peter Sallis, First of the Summer Wine takes place in a small Yorkshire village. The action revolves around the antics of the young Compo, Clegg and Seymour and their usually level headed female counterparts, all of whom are grappling with the world around them, their youth, and their experiences with the opposite sex – usually with hilarious consequences. Set between May and September 1939 as Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Great Britain become increasingly poised for war the characters’ lives are about to be changed forever.

• The Emperor's Club | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In everyone's life there's that one person who makes all the difference. William Hundert a retired 'old-school' classics teacher is passionate about his subject. Moreover he strongly believes in moulding his students by using principles. However his methods are put to the test by a new student Sedgewick Bell who shakes Hundert's controlled world and threatens to undermine all that he stands for. Hundert's challenge is to change this young man while maintaining his integrity. Les

• A Touch of Frost: Series 2 | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £10.71   |  Saving you £14.28 (133.33%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The second series of investigations featuring the gruff detective. Episodes comprise: 'A Minority Of One' 'Widows And Orphans' 'Nothing To Hide' and 'Stranger In The House'.

• L.A. Confidential | DVD | (02/10/2017) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, LA Confidential is the real thing--a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press--and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood. The Oscar-winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere and White Jazz)--a compelling blend of LA history and pulp fiction that has earned it comparisons to the greatest of all Technicolour noir films, Chinatown. Kim Basinger richly deserved her Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a conflicted femme fatale; unfortunately, her male costars are so uniformly fine that they may have canceled each other out with the Academy voters: Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey and James Cromwell play LAPD officers of varying stripes. Pearce's character is a particularly intriguing study in Hollywood amorality and ambition, a strait-laced "hero" (and son of a departmental legend) whose career goals outweigh all other moral, ethical and legal considerations. If he's a good guy, it's only because he sees it as the quickest route to a promotion. --Jim Emerson

• Doctor Who - The New Series - Series 2 - Vol. 3 | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £5.38   |  Saving you £10.61 (66.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This latest incarnation stars Scottish actor David Tennant as the 'good doctor' ably flanked by the lovely Billy Piper resuming her role as the Timelord's spunky sidekick Rose. Episodes Comprise: 1. Rise Of The Cybermen 2. The Age Of Steel 3. The Idiot's Lantern

• Power Rangers: Green With Evil | DVD | (20/03/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Power Rangers may have met their match after the evil witch Rita Repulsa creates her own Ranger: the Green Ranger! Can Angel Grove survive this new menace, armed with his own powers, a mystical dagger and the Dragonzord? A full-scale assault has been launched. Now, it's up to the Power Rangers to rise to their ultimate challenge! Includes all 5 episodes of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers arc that introduced the world to the most popular Ranger of all time! Episodes: Part 1: Out of Control Part 2: Jason's Battle Part 3: The Rescue Part 4: Eclipsing Megazord Part 5: Breaking The Spell

• Extreme Measures | DVD | (12/06/2000) from £7.03   |  Saving you £6.96 (99.00%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Extreme Measures loses credibility near the climax when it sacrifices its hold on reality, but this entertaining, intelligent thriller effectively applies a formulaic plot to the complicated ethics of medical research. It also gives Hugh Grant an opportunity to break free from lightweight comedy by playing an emergency room surgeon who discovers that a renowned neurologist (Gene Hackman) has been conducting secret experiments on patients. When Grant fails to save a patient whose body later mysteriously disappears from the morgue, his investigation leads to an underground community of healthy homeless people, some of whom have been test subjects in Hackman's revolutionary, but criminal research toward a cure for paralysis. Co-produced by actor-model Elizabeth Hurley and capably directed by Michael Apted, this otherwise conventional thriller rises above its limitations by asking morally complex questions that give its far-fetched plot an extra kick of dramatic impact. --Jeff Shannon

• Beauty and the Beast/Belle's Magical World/ Enchanted Xmas Triple Pack | DVD | (31/10/2011) from £14.94   |  Saving you £9.05 (60.58%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Beauty and the Beast: One of the most acclaimed and treasured animated films of all time is about to sweep you off your feet. Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted staff, Belle soon learns the most important lesson of all - that true beauty comes from within. An all-new digital restoration makes this 2-Disc DVD more magical than ever. Be our guest and let the music you'll never forget and the characters who will fill your heart cast a shimmering spell like never before.Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Celebrate the most magical time of the year with this Special Edition of the irresistible holiday classic inspired by Disney's Academy Award-winning masterpiece, Beauty And The Beast (1991: Winner - Best Song, Best Original Score; nominated for Best Picture). Share the wonder as Mrs. Potts (Angela Lansbury) recounts another tale as old as time about a Christmas past that almost wasn't - thanks to the scheming of former court composer Forte (Tim Curry), now a gloomy, holiday-hating pipe organ, determined to keep Belle and Beast apart forever. Only a true Christmas miracle could possibly thwart his dastardly plans. Reuniting the original voice cast, this spectacular gem sparkles with exciting bonus features, delightful songs, spellbinding visuals, and enduring themes of hope, friendship and love. Your family will experience the spirit of the season all year long with the timeless magic of Beauty And The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas.Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World: A lot happened before Belle and Beast lived happily ever after! Share the fun with one of Disney's most spirited Princesses and all her enchanted friends as their exciting adventures continue in this sparkling Special Edition of Belle's Magical World - inspired by Disney's beloved Academy Award-winning masterpiece, Beauty And The Beast (1991: Winner - Best Song, Best Original Score; nominated for Best Picture). Join Belle, Beast, Cogsworth, Lumiere, plus some charming new friends as they discover how love, teamwork, forgiveness and friendship can turn a once-gloomy castle into a dazzling palace fit for a princess! Adorned with delightful bonus features, your favourite characters and great songs, this fun-filled, modern-day classic proves that true beauty shines from within!

• Poldark - Series 2 - Part 2 | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £5.63   |  Saving you £15.35 (581.44%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The second half of the acclaimed second series of the classic BBC drama. Welcome to Cornwall near the turn of the nineteenth century where an air of celebration pervades. However even as Admiral Lord Nelson defeats the french fleet in the battle of the Nile the situation between the recently returned Ross Poldark and George Warleggan is no nearer a conclusion. And things at home aren't much better for Ross for Demelza is playing a very dangerous game with Lord Falmouth's nephew

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Hollow | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £9.71   |  Saving you £3.28 (33.78%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Poirot joins Sir Henry Angkatell and fellow guests at Sir Henry's country retreat The Hollow. When the handsome doctor John Christow is found dead Poirot investigates and in doing so uncovers a love triangle. A crime of passion or a pack of lies? Confused by the different stories told by the family and guests Poirot starts to believe that he is deliberately being kept from the truth.