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• The X Files: Season 1 | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In the first season of The X Files, creator Chris Carter was uncertain of the series' future, so each of the episodes is a self-contained suspense story; they do not delve deep into the ongoing X Files mythology or turn to self-parody and humour as do episodes in later seasons. Yet, these episodes display the elements for which the show would become famous: the cinematic production values and top-notch special effects, the stark lighting of the Vancouver sets, the atmospheric halo of Mark Snow's score, and the clever plots dealing with subjects ranging from the occult, religion, and monsters to urban legends, conspiracy theories and science fiction. Most importantly, Season 1 introduces FBI agents Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox "Spooky" Mulder (David Duchovny), two of the most attractive government officials around. Scully is the serious-minded medical scientist assigned to join Mulder on the X Files, a division of the FBI dealing with the paranormal. Mulder is the intuitive thinker with a dry wit, a passionate believer in the existence of paranormal phenomena and one of the few characters on television smart enough to figure out who the bad guy is before the audience does. Their muddled relationship, a deep friendship laced with sexual tension, provides the human heart in a world where the bizarre and horrible lurk in everyday society. The materials on the bonus disc provide some interesting trivia and background, but it is the 24 episodes themselves that make this seven-disc boxed set a true find. Those unfamiliar with The X Files often view all the fuss with the same scepticism with which Scully first regards her new partner's ideas. But just as she comes to realise the uncanny accuracy of Mulder's outlandish theories, newcomers to The X Files who sample a few episodes in this boxed set will likely find themselves riveted to their television late into the night. And undoubtedly, the shadows and creaking noises in the house that evening will seem more menacing than usual. --Eugene Wei, Amazon.com

• Creature from the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection | DVD | (10/06/2019) from £27.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The original Creature from the Black Lagoon is one of the silver screen's most unforgettable characters and, along with the other Universal Classic Monsters, defined the Hollywood horror genre. The Creature from the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection includes all 3 films from the original legacy including the gripping classic and the sequels that followed. These landmark motion pictures perfectly blended Universal's classic monster heritage with the science-fiction explosion of the 1950s and continue to inspire remakes and adaptations that strengthen the legend of the Creature from the Black Lagoon to this day. Bonus Features: Back to the Black Lagoon Documentary 3 Feature Commentaries Production Photographs Theatrical Trailers

• L.A. Confidential | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £8.42   |  Saving you £5.57 (66.15%)   |  RRP £13.99

  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

• Capturing Mary | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A young man (Wynter) ushers an older woman (Smith) into a dark exploration of her past - back to the time when as a young girl she met a stranger who affected her life forever.

• Boon - The Complete Fourth Series | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £19.99 (99.95%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Ken Boon is back in the saddle for more adventure and humour in this fourth series of the BAFTA-winning hit drama. With heart-warming storylines and an array of guest stars it's no surprise that Boon was an instant ratings winner for ITV and remains a much-loved series to this day. Michael Elphick is Ken the former fireman with a heart of gold and a passion for the Wild West and David Daker is Harry his over-ambitious business partner and old friend from his days in the West Midlands Fire Service. This series finds the two moving to Nottingham where Ken having handed the running of his motorbike despatch firm over to Rocky (Neil Morrissey Men Behaving Badly) continues to make a living as a private investigator and minder; still full of big ideas Harry seeks out more new business ventures with widow Helen (Brigit Forsyth The Likely Lads). Originally screened in 1989 this complete fourth series features a typically distinguished guest cast that includes Kenneth Cranham Bill Paterson Martin Clunes Ian McNeice Judy Cornwell Anthony Valentine and even world boxing legend John Conteh!

• Iron Eagle | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Iron Eagles (short of Top Gun) is close to being the definitive boys' movie of the 1980s. An 18-year-old (Jason Gedrick) gets instruction from an old vet (Louis Gossett Jr) in how to fly an F-16 jet and kick butt in the Middle East, all while listening to his Walkman and--oh, yeah--saving his father from terrorist clutches. Gossett wears his tough-love face while the kids run rampant. Speaking of children, young guys must have like this comic-book movie, as its success spawned three sequels. But watch out for the Reagan-era jingoism and political reductiveness. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Purgatory | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £5.67   |  Saving you £2.32 (40.92%)   |  RRP £7.99

  On the way to their African airport two peace corps volunteers pick up a friendly hitchhiker. However the innocent traveller is in fact a drug smuggler and when stopped at a checkpoint the discovery of the drug stash propels the two female volunteers into the living hell of a women's prison...

• Do Not Adjust Your Set | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £5.76   |  Saving you £-1.77 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Originally planned as a children's show 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' soon gained a large adult following. With music interludes by Neil Innes' Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and animations by Terry Gilliam the programme brought together some of the great writers and performers who would eventually create Monty Python.

• Good Omens | Blu Ray | (28/10/2019) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It takes good and evil to save the world in this adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's cult novel, starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant. Aziraphale is a fussy angel. Crowley is a loose-living demon. They've both been on Earth for over 6,000 years. During that time they've grown quite fond of it, and, against all odds, each other. But there's a problem the Antichrist has arrived here on Earth, which means the world they have become too fond of will end in flames, if they don't manage to save it. This wildly imaginative and screamingly funny drama follows Aziraphale and Crowley as they join forces in an attempt to find an 11-year-old Antichrist (and his dog) and avert the Apocalypse. Armageddon is coming but it doesn't have to be the end of the world. Featuring an all-star cast including: Michael Sheen (Masters Of Sex) As Aziraphale David Tennant (Doctor Who) As Crowley Jon Hamm (Mad Men) As Gabriel Adria Arjona (True Detective) As Anathema Device Michael Mckean (Better Call Saul) As Shadwell Miranda Richardson (The Hours) As Madame Tracy Jack Whitehall (Fresh Meat) As Newton Pulsifier And Voice Talent From Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock)

• Star Trek 5 : The Final Frontier | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £7.94   |  Saving you £10.05 (126.57%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Almost universally derided on its first release as the worst of the Star Trek movies to date, The Final Frontier may just have been the victim of bad press. Following in the wake of the massively successful fourth instalment The Voyage Home didn't help matters (notoriously, even-numbered entries are better), nor did having novice director and shameless egomaniac William Shatner at the helm. But if the story, conceived and co-written by Shatner, teeters dangerously on the verge of being corny at times, it redeems itself with enough thought-provoking scenes in the best tradition of the series, and a surprisingly original finale. Granted there are a few too many yawning plot holes along the way, and the general tone is over-earnest (despite some painfully slapstick comedy moments), but the interaction of the central trio (Kirk, Spock and McCoy) is often funny and genuinely insightful; while Laurence Luckinbill is a charismatic adversary as the renegade Vulcan Sybok. True, the rest of the cast scarcely get a look in, and the special effects betray serious budgetary restrictions, but with a standout score from Jerry Goldsmith and a meaty philosophical premise to play around with, Star Trek V looks a lot more substantial in retrospect. Certainly it's no worse than either Generations or Insurrection, the next "odd-numbered" entries in the series. On the DVD: This is a non-anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) print, with only two trailers as extra features. Quite frankly, Star Trek fans are being short-changed. --Mark Walker

• Across The Bridge | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Carl Scaffner (Steiger) is on the run from Scotland Yard after stealing a massive fortune and fleeing to Mexico. However his fugitive lifestyle is under threat from his his love for a faithful dog... Based on a novel by Graham Greene.

• The Small Black Room | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £9.49   |  Saving you £6.50 (68.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From the legendary filmmaking duo Powell and Pressburger [A Matter of Life and Death The Red Shoes] The Small Back Room is the story of the troubled love affair between a tormented back room scientist and a beautiful secretary told against a background of ministerial intrigue and empire building. Sammy Rice [David Farrar] was the army's finest bomb disposal officer until he was injured in the war and left with a false foot. Now part of a specialist 'back room' team he dismantles the booby-trapped devices being dropped by Nazi bombers. He falls in love with Susan [Kathleen Byron] a colleague and the two begin a secret affair. However embittered by life he feels inferior; inferior as a lover inferior as a man unable to wear uniform; inferior in his work for although a brilliant scientist he allows himself to be exploited by his power-hungry boss. Haunted by his past he drowns his sorrows in whiskey. Sammy's life is descending into disarray when the news comes; a bomb has exploded with catastrophic consequences and another has been found. Faced with the biggest challenge of his career Sammy must confront his demons and take his own life in his hands to solve the mystery of the bomb's lethal mechanism.

• The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - 2 disc Special Edition | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £4.68   |  Saving you £18.31 (391.24%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, science-fiction and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.

• Peter Sellers Collection | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £19.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (50.03%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Featuring a collection of Peter Sellers' best films. Includes: 1. Heavens Above! (Dir. John Boulting & Roy Boulting 1963) 2. I'm Alright Jack (Dir. John Boulting 1959) 3. Only Two Can Play (Dir. Sidney Gilliat 1962) 4. Very Best Of Peter Sellers

• Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Blu Ray | (31/01/2018) from £10.75   |  Saving you £14.24 (132.47%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Commencing a risky game of cat and mouse with corrupt D.A. Martin Hunter (Michael Douglas), ambitious reporter C.J. (Jesse Metcalfe) frames himself as a murder suspect to catch Hunter in the act!

• Nureyev | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  No performer on the world stage received so much acclaim and publicity as Rudolf Nureyev and no one gave away so little about their private life and thinking. In this television biography made some twelve months before his death in 1993 Nureyev tells his own story in his own words and recalls turning points in his career. The programme traces Nureyev''s life starting out from his home town of Ufa in the shadow of the Ural Mountains half way between Moscow and Siberia. When filming took place there Ufa had changed very little since his departure thirty years before. The school was still there and so was the modest wooden house which his family shared with two others. The green curtains still hung at the old theatre where he saw the ballet performance which changed the course of his life. Nureyev''s sister his head mistress and the dance teacher who first discovered him (101 years old at the time this programme was made) all recall the solitary rebel. At the Kirov Theatre the prima ballerina who was his first partner remembers the student who emerged as the most brilliant dancer of his generation. The cameras were also allowed to film Nureyev on his Mediterranean island of Li Galli which once belonged to another Russian dancer Massine. Nureyev''s dancing career has been extensively chronicled on film and television. This definitive biography incorporates extensive archive material and documents Nureyev''s career with footage of his greatest roles and the most important events in his life

• Shameless 1-3 Box Set | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Featuring series 1 to 3 of blisteringly funny offbeat drama from writer Paul Abbott (Clocking Off) Shameless follows the rollercoaster lives and loves of the anarchic Gallagher family from Manchester. Meet the Gallaghers. Mum went AWOL years ago Dad stayed at home with the six children only to hit the bottle. And sometimes the kids. The real head of the family is big sister Fiona (20) who looks after Carl (11) Debbie (9) and baby Liam (3). She is occasionally helped more often hindered by reluctant virgin 'Lip' (16) and the actively gay but very private Ian (15). Welcome to a hectic world of sexual adventures triumphs love scams and a fair bit of crime on a rough Manchester housing estate where wheel-less cars are the norm and the moving ones are stolen. This box set features all the episodes from series 1 and 2.

• Shameless Series 3 | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £26.48   |  Saving you £0.50 (2.04%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The critically acclaimed and brilliantly funny drama from award-winning writer Paul Abbott features the Chatsworth Estate's Gallaghers probably the UK's most dysfunctional family. Head of the family Frank embarks on a series of adventures with his remarkably well-balanced children Fiona Lip Ian Debbie Carl and Liam - not forgetting the other two with Frank's valium-fuelled lover Sheila. Shameless: Series 3 is packed with sex drugs gratuitous violence love and scams. Chaos ensues with more tales of how one extraordinary family goes about its normal everyday life.

• Bones - Series 4 - Complete | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £8.65   |  Saving you £31.34 (362.31%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Everybody Has Secrets... From executive producers Hart Hanson Barry Josephson and Stephen Nathan comes the fourth exciting season of Bones a darkly amusing procedural with humor heart and character inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs.

• The Sandbaggers - Series 2 | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Both a critical and ratings success on its original ITV transmission The Sandbaggers was lauded in 2003 by the New York Times as being ""The best spy series in TV history"". 'The Sandbaggers' is a nickname for the Special Section of the British Secret Service - a team of special agents who were deployed during the Cold War. Run by the dour single-minded Neil Burnside (Roy Marsden) the 'Sandbaggers' are headed by the brash but conscientious Willie Caine (Ray Lonnen). In