"Actor: Dominic Wood"

• Chicago | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Rene Zellweger, Catherine Zeta Jones and Richard Gere star in the big screen version of the hit musical about a nighclub star who finds herself on Chicago's death row and recruits the town's slickest lawyer.

• The Lord of the Rings (Animated Version) | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the movie's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well-conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives what is surely the definitive Gollum (he revived his portrayal a couple of years later for BBC Radio's exhaustive 13-hour dramatisation). The film's other outstanding virtue is avant-garde composer Leonard Rosenman's magnificent score in which chaotic musical fragments gradually coalesce to produce the triumphant march theme that closes the picture. None of which makes up for the incompleteness of the movie, nor the severe abridging of the story actually filmed. Add to that some oddities--such as intermittently referring to Saruman as "Aruman"--and the final verdict must be that this is a brave yet ultimately unsatisfying work, noteworthy as the first attempt at transferring Tolkien to the big screen but one whose virtues are overshadowed by incompleteness. --Mark Walker

• The Wire - The Complete Season 1-5 | Blu Ray | (01/06/2015) from £45.19   |  Saving you £14.80 (32.75%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Season 1 From David Simon creator and co-writer of HBO's triple Emmy-winning mini-series The Corner this unvarnished highly realistic series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets the series captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance where easy distinctions between good and evil and crime and punishment are challenged at every turn. Season one introduces two major groups of characters—the Baltimore police department and a drug dealing organization run by the Barksdale family. Season 2 In this season McNulty (Dominic West) has been demoted to harbour patrol Daniels (Lance Reddick) is in the police archive dungeon Prez (Jim True-Frost) is chafing in the suburbs and Greggs (Sonja Sohn) is stuck behind a desk. Meanwhile on the docks of the Baltimore harbour the rank and file scrounge for work and the union bosses take illegitimate measures to reinvigorate business but a horrific discovery is about to blow the whole port inside out. While the detail is on ice a new case begins. Season 3 Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets The Wire captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance where easy distinctions between good and evil and crime and punishment are challenged at every turn. Season 3 introduces Baltimore's local politicians and the upstart drug dealing Stanfield organization while continuing to examine the Barksdale Organization and the Baltimore Police Department. Season 4 With the fall of Barksdale and the ascent of young Marlo Stanfield as West Baltimore's drug king The Wire's fourth season continues to follow the money up the political ladder in the midst of a mayoral election that pits the black incumbent Clarence Royce against an ambitious white councilman Tommy Carcetti. Season 5 The Wire Season 5 concludes the award-winning TV series with a bang. The bodies are piling up in Homicide but funds for police work have been diverted to the schools. Meanwhile business is booming on the streets as the war between East and West Baltimore’s drug kings reaches a new intensity. McNulty is drinking again. Bubs is clean again. Omar is back with a vengeance and Carcetti is struggling to make a difference as Mayor. After taking us through the streets the docks the corridors of power and the schools The Wire brings us to the Baltimore media where the successes and tragedies of all of our favourite characters become ammunition in the battle for circulation figures. Bonus Features: Season 1 Audio Commentary on Episode 1 with David Simon Audio Commentary on Episode 2 with Clark Johnson Audio Commentary on Episode 12 with David Simon and George P. Pelecanos Season 2 Audio Commentary on Episode 6 with Michael K. Williams & Domenic West Audio Commentary on Episode 12 with Producer Karen Thorson and Editor Thom Zimny Season 3 Audio Commentary on Episode 1 with David Simon and Nina Noble Audio Commentary on Episode 2 with Richard Price Audio Commentary on Episode 3 with David Simon Audio Commentary on Episode 11 with George Pelecanos and Joe Chappelle Audio Commentary on Episode 12 with David Simon and Karen Thorson Season 4 Audio Commentary on Episode 1 with David Simon and Ed Burns Audio Commentary on Episode 4 with Karen Throrson Kate Sanford and Jim True-Frost Audio Commentary on Episode 6 with Dan Attias and William F. Zorzi Audio Commentary on Episode 11 with Robert Chew Julito McCullum Jermaine Crawford Maestro Harrell and Tristian Wilds Audio Commentary on Episode 12 with Joe Chappelle and George Pelecanos Audio Commentary on Episode 13 with David Simon and Nina K. Noble Part I: It's All Connected: The Wire (28:40) (TRT TBD) Part II: The Game is Real: The Wire (30:00) (TRT TBD) Season 5 Audio Commentary on Episode 1 w/Director Joe Chappelle and Cast Member Wendell Pierce Audio Commentary on Episode 2 w/Writer William Zorzi and Director/Cast Member Clark Johnson Audio Commentary on Episode 4 w/Writer Ed Burns and Producer Karen Thorson Audio Commentary on Episode 6 w/Producer George Pelecanos and Director Seith Mann Audio Commentary on Episode 7 w/Director/Cast Member Dominic West and Editor Kate Sanford Audio Commentary on Episode 10 w/Creator David Simon and Producer Nina Noble The Wire: The Last Word (26:33) The Wire Odyssey (28:39) The Wire Prequels (6:14) Seasons 1-5 PaleyFest NY: The Wire Reunion (85 minutes)

• Shadowhunters Seasons 1,2 &3 Boxset | DVD | (13/07/2020) from £46.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Complete Collection of Shadowhunters

• Vampire Academy | DVD | (14/07/2014) from £5.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (168.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Rose and Lissa are two high school students trying to get through the normal dramas - vicious rumours, ex-boyfriends and bloodlust. Late nights and high stakes are normal at St Vladimir's, better known as the Vampire Academy.

• Shadowhunters Season 3 | DVD | (13/07/2020) from £23.67   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Contains all 22 episodes from Season Three

• Penny Dreadful: City of Angels | DVD | (14/12/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a murder shocks 1938 Los Angeles, Detective Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto) and his partner Lewis Michener (Nathan Lane) pursue the case during a historic period of great change: from the construction of the city's freeways to the infiltration of Third Reich spies and the rise of radio evangelism. Set against the city's deep traditions of Mexican-American folklore, these powerful forces soon threaten Tiago and everyone he holds dear. Also starring Natalie Dormer and Academy Award® nominee Adriana Barraza, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels takes you into the darkest shadows of Hollywood's Golden Age. Special Features Introduction to Penny Dreadful: City of Angels The Many Faces of Magda The Dance of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels The Devil is in the Details Parts I & II

• Shadowhunters Season 1 | DVD | (26/08/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  On her 18th birthday, Clary Fray discovers that her mundane life is over: she is a Shadowhunter a human-angel hybrid who protect other mundanes (humans) from demons. When her mother is kidnapped, Clary is led into the Shadow World by the mysterious Jace. Brooklyn, NY is still her home, but now she walks among faeries, warlocks, vampires and werewolves. Is she ready to uncover her family's past, and live her destiny?

• Shadowhunters Season 2 | DVD | (14/10/2019) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Shadow World is in upheaval and the Circle growing stronger. As the Shadow hunters face a new enemy, loyalties are tested, unexpected bonds are forged and relationships pushed to the limit. Clary and her fellow Shadowhunters are witnessing a world that is going down - but not without a fight. Alone the Shadowhunters are strong but together they are unstoppable.

• Shadowhunters Season 1 | Blu Ray | (26/08/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  On her 18th birthday, Clary Fray discovers that her mundane life is over: she is a Shadowhunter a human-angel hybrid who protect other mundanes (humans) from demons. When her mother is kidnapped, Clary is led into the Shadow World by the mysterious Jace. Brooklyn, NY is still her home, but now she walks among faeries, warlocks, vampires and werewolves. Is she ready to uncover her family's past, and live her destiny?

• Dick And Dom In Da Bungalow - The Dirty Norris Files | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £12.15   |  Saving you £0.84 (6.91%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Episodes from the popular Kids Saturday morning television shown on BBC1.

• Straw Dogs | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £2.29   |  Saving you £15.70 (87.30%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Forty years after Sam Peckinpah's hugely controversial 1971 original, Rod Lurie adapted and directed a new version of Straw Dogs, with a very deliberate change of location and an updating of the social context. Instead of being set in Britain, the story now takes place in small-town Mississippi, where Hollywood screenwriter David Sumner (James Marsden) is moving with his wife Amy (Kate Bosworth). She grew up in Blackwater, which she aptly refers to as "backwater," but has since become a much-desired TV actress. In their isolated house, David will write while Amy's ex-beau (Alexander Skarsgård) repairs the adjacent barn with his redneck buddies. In drawing the unease between this effete, conflict-averse intellectual and the swaggering, flag-waving, God-fearing locals, Lurie (The Contender) seems to be aiming at the hostility between red state/blue state America in 2011. But the movie breaks down when it gets to the sadistic plot turns that lead to the savage finale, a siege in which David is pushed to his primal self. In the Peckinpah film, this was a hellish and ambiguous exorcism, but here the events just seem ugly, and the movie loses control of its perspective about halfway through. James Marsden is a game actor, but he can't be as convincing a bookworm as Dustin Hoffman was in the original film. Kate Bosworth's ambivalence is the most interesting thing at play here, as she suggests the marriage might have been less than perfect all along. That subtle discontent is more intriguing than the movie's lurid collapse into ultraviolence. --Robert Horton

• Straw Dogs | Blu Ray | (12/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Forty years after Sam Peckinpah's hugely controversial 1971 original, Rod Lurie adapted and directed a new version of Straw Dogs, with a very deliberate change of location and an updating of the social context. Instead of being set in Britain, the story now takes place in small-town Mississippi, where Hollywood screenwriter David Sumner (James Marsden) is moving with his wife Amy (Kate Bosworth). She grew up in Blackwater, which she aptly refers to as "backwater," but has since become a much-desired TV actress. In their isolated house, David will write while Amy's ex-beau (Alexander Skarsgård) repairs the adjacent barn with his redneck buddies. In drawing the unease between this effete, conflict-averse intellectual and the swaggering, flag-waving, God-fearing locals, Lurie (The Contender) seems to be aiming at the hostility between red state/blue state America in 2011. But the movie breaks down when it gets to the sadistic plot turns that lead to the savage finale, a siege in which David is pushed to his primal self. In the Peckinpah film, this was a hellish and ambiguous exorcism, but here the events just seem ugly, and the movie loses control of its perspective about halfway through. James Marsden is a game actor, but he can't be as convincing a bookworm as Dustin Hoffman was in the original film. Kate Bosworth's ambivalence is the most interesting thing at play here, as she suggests the marriage might have been less than perfect all along. That subtle discontent is more intriguing than the movie's lurid collapse into ultraviolence. --Robert Horton

• Take Down | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this action thriller, a group of spoilt and rebellious rich kids are sent by their parents to a tough-love boot camp on a remote island, where they are given one last chance to take responsibility for themselves and appreciate how lucky they really are. But when ruthless mercenary Speck (Ed Westwick) and his right-hand man Dorsey (Ashley Walters) hold the group hostage for a billion-dollar ransom, the young captives, led by Kyle (Jeremy Sumpter), are suddenly forced to work together using their newly acquired survival skills in order to fi ght back or die trying.

• Shadowhunters Season 3 Blu Ray | Blu Ray | (13/07/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Contains all 22 episodes from Season Three

• The Queen's Sister | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Queens Sister written by award-winning writer Craig Warner follows the trials and loves of this complicated glamorous and controversial member of the royal family. The story - a witty irreverent romp - spans four decades; from her childhood in which she displayed a gift for music and performance to a much publicised prohibited love affair in the '50s and her rebellious bohemian life in the swinging '60s through to the private isolation of a woman rejected by her

• The Lord of the Rings -- Limited Edition Box Set | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the film's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives what is surely the definitive Gollum (he revived his portrayal a couple of years later for BBC Radio's exhaustive 13-hour dramatisation). The film's other outstanding virtue is avant-garde composer Leonard Rosenman's magnificent score in which chaotic musical fragments gradually coalesce to produce the triumphant march theme that closes the picture. None of which makes up for the incompleteness of the movie, nor the severe abridging of the story actually filmed. Add to that some oddities--such as intermittently referring to Saruman as "Aruman"--and the final verdict must be that this is a brave yet ultimately unsatisfying work, noteworthy as the first attempt at transferring Tolkien to the big screen but one whose virtues are overshadowed by incompleteness. --Mark Walker

• Simply Magic | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Whatever you do don;t let anyone see this video keep it hidden and its contents top secret. Why? Because in Simply Magic Dominic Wood gives you a rare glimpse inside the Magic Circle and shows you with easy to follow instructions how to do some awesome magic tricks that will leave your friends gob-smacked!

• Strictly Come Dancing - The Best Of Series 5 | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Strictly Come Dancing is back with Series 5! Join Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly along with the Series 5 contestants - Alesha Dixon Matt Di Angelo Gethin Jones Letitia Dean Kenny Logan Kelly Brook John Barnes Kate Garraway Penny Lancaster Stewart Dominic Littlewood Gabby Logan Willie Thorne Stephanie Beacham and Brian Capron - for a smashing dance contest!