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• Strictly Sinatra | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £10.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (45.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Toni Cocozza is a small-time Scottish Italian club singer obsessed with Frank Sinatra. In the hope of finding stardom he falls in with a group of gangsters and is soon betraying his true friends.

• X-Men - Limited Edition Steelbook (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (01/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The evolutionary next step in explosive action spectaculars is here! Loaded with hours of special features including deleted/extended scenes, behind-the-scenes featurettes and more, this Blu-ray edition of the smart, sleek (Newsweek) and striking (Time Out London) first chapter in the X-Men saga has never been more powerful!

• God's Gun | Blu Ray | (08/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Hornblower Collection (6 discs) | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Based freely on the classic novels by CS Forester, Hornblower is a series of TV films following the progress of a young officer through the ranks of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The series' greatest asset is the handsome and charismatic Ioan Gruffudd in the lead role, surely a major star in the making. For television films the production values are very good, though as Titanic, Waterworld and The Perfect Storm demonstrated, filming an aquatic adventure is a very expensive business, and it is clear that the Hornblower dramas simply make the best of comparatively small budgets. No more faithful to Forester's books than the 1951 Gregory Peck classic Captain Horatio Hornblower, the real inspiration seems to have come from the success of Sharpe, starring Sean Bean, which likewise featured a British hero in the Napoleonic Wars. Nevertheless, while rather more easygoing than the real British navy of the time, the Hornblower saga delivers an entertaining adventure, greatly enhanced by the presence of such guest stars as Denis Lawson, Cheri Lunghi, Ronald Pickup and Anthony Sher. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug - Extended Bookend Edition | Blu Ray | (03/11/2014) from £148.99   |  Saving you £-39.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £109.99

  Academy Award® winner Peter Jackson continues his Middle-Earth saga that follows the adventures of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) who's swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. In the company of thirteen dwarves and the wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) Bilbo enters the Lonely Mountain in possession of Gollum's precious ring and his keen blade Sting. With an all-star cast including many acclaimed actors from The Lord of the Rings (such as Cate Blanchett Ian Holm Christopher Lee Hugo Weaving Elijah Wood Andy Serkis and more) and the effects wizardry of Jackson's award-winning Weta Workshop Tolkien's epic story comes to life as never before imagined.

• Saturday Morning Pictures - The Best Of The Children's Film Foundation - Vol. 1 | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Adventures Of Hal 5: Hal 5 is a very old Austin with great character owned by the Hayward family. A wicked garage owner plots to steal the car to sell for a great deal of money but the Hayward children are out to stop him... Egghead's Robot: 'Eggheaed' Wentworth adapts his father's robot to perform the chores but forgets to programme him to stay out of trouble...

• Lord Peter Wimsey - Five Red Herrings ) | DVD | (27/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the series of novels written by Dorothy L Sayers in the 1920s and 30s, Lord Peter Wimsey was dramatised for TV by the BBC between 1972-5. Ian Carmichael, veteran of British film comedy, played the genial, aristocratic sleuth; Glyn Houston was his manservant Bunter. The pair are similar to PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Bertie Wooster (whom Carmichael played in an earlier TV adaptation) though here the duo are equal in intelligence, breezing about the country together in Wimsey's Bentley and stumbling with morbid regularity upon baffling murder mysteries to test their wits. Those for whom this series forms hazy memories of childhood might be surprised at its somewhat stagy, lingering interior shots, the spartan paucity of music, the miserly attitude towards locations, especially foreign ones, and the rather genteel, leisurely pace of these programmes, besides which Inspector Morse seems like Quentin Tarantino in comparison. It seems that initially the BBC was reluctant to commission the series and ventured on production with a wary eye on the budget. The Britain depicted by Sayers is, by and large, populated by either the upper classes or heavily accented, rum-do-and-no-mistake lower orders, which some might find consoling. However, the acting is generally excellent and the murder mysteries are sophisticated parlour games, the televisual equivalent of a good, absorbing jigsaw puzzle. There were five feature-length adaptations in all. "Five Red Herrings" is the last and perhaps the least of the series, involving a trout fishing holiday interrupted by the death of a local artist. --David Stubbs

• Duets | DVD | (14/05/2001) from £20.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A musical comedy about six very different people all travelling to Nebraska in the hope of wining a major karaoke competition!

• Lord of the Rings : Fellowship of the Ring - Special Limited Edition | DVD | (27/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In a time before history, in a place named Middle-earth, a dark and powerful lord has brought together the forces of evil to destroy its cultures and enslave all life caught in his path.

• Suspect | DVD | (30/09/2007) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Crime melodrama about a frustrated young scientist's involvement with subversive elements.

• Sharknado 6-The Last One 3D (ES Wurde Auch Zeit) | Blu Ray | (21/09/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Der Fan | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Teenager Simone appears to be like any other fan of a rock band. But soon her fixation on the band's lead singer 'R' takes over her life. Simone walks out of school breaks off with her friends and parents and as if sleepwalking somehow finds herself waiting for her idol as he appears on a TV show. As she sees him for the first time she is speechless unable to even ask for his autograph. He notices her and reaches out to touch her. Simone wants nothing more than to love and be lov

• X-Men 1/X-Men 2: 2 disc doublepack | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £20.01 (401.81%)   |  RRP £24.99

  X-Men 2 picks up almost directly where X-Men left off: misguided super-villain Magneto (Ian McKellen) is still a prisoner of the US government, heroic bad-boy Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is up in Canada investigating his mysterious origin, and the events at Liberty Island (which occurred at the conclusion of X-Men) have prompted a rethink in official policy towards mutants--the proposed Mutant Registration Act has been shelved by US Congress. Into this scenario pops wealthy former army commander William Stryker, a man with the President's ear and a personal vendetta against all mutant-kind in general, and the X-Men's leader Professor X (Patrick Stewart) in particular. Once he sets his plans in motion, the X-Men must team-up with their former enemies Magneto and Mystique (Rebecca Romjin-Stamos), as well as some new allies (including Alan Cumming's gregarious, blue-skinned German mutant, Nightcrawler). The phenomenal global success of X-Men meant that director Bryan Singer had even more money to spend on its sequel, and it shows. Not only is the script better (there's significantly less cheesy dialogue than the original), but the action and effects are also even more stupendous--from Nightcrawler's teleportation sequence through the White House to a thrilling aerial dogfight featuring mutants-vs-missiles to a military assault on the X-Men's school/headquarters to the final showdown at Stryker's sub-Arctic headquarters. Yet at no point do the effects overtake the film or the characters. Moreso than the original, this is an ensemble piece, allowing each character in its even-bigger cast at least one moment in the spotlight (in fact, the cast credits don't even run until the end of the film). And that, perhaps, is part of its problem (though it's a slight one): with so much going on, and nary a recap of what's come before, it's a film that could prove baffling to anyone who missed the first instalment. But that's just a minor quibble--X-Men 2 is that rare thing, a sequel that's actually superior to its predecessor. --Robert Burrow

• The X Files: Existence | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £6.55   |  Saving you £9.44 (59.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The pretentiously titled Existence is another two-part X-Files yarn glued together to make a feature-length episode. Here the story concerns the birth of Scully's perhaps-alien-tinged child and proves the old maxim that you should stop watching any series when the characters start having babies. By now, newbie Robert Patrick is settled into the role of Agent Doggett, Scully's new partner on the X-Files, but David Duchovny's contract negotiations have enabled Fox Mulder, no longer in the FBI, to come back and hang about the delivery, clashing and then bonding with his replacement. The action content comes from a mild-mannered alien abductee transformed into an unstoppable killing machine, ripping through everything as he tries to prevent the upcoming nativity for reasons that (as ever) don't quite become clear. Also in the support cast are semi-regular Nicholas Lea as lurking plot-explaining conspirator Alex Krycek, and the more welcome Annabeth Gish, whose interestingly spiritual Agent Monica Reyes is being worked up as a replacement for Scully when Gillian Anderson gets out of her contract. Weirdly, The X-Files is in pretty good shape for a show that's been running this long--the performances and the direction are still strong, and outside the "continuing story" shows individual episodes hold up well. But this dreary muddle of running about (plus the odd decapitation) and agonised rumination (blathery philosophical musings about the miracle of life and childbirth) does not represent the series' strengths, suggesting that the best thing that could happen would be to get shot of the long-time stars and their played-out characters to make room for a revitalised show starring Patrick and Gish. On the DVD: The full-screen print, with the extra detail of the DVD image and Dolby Digital, allow you to pick up a lot more than from the murky telecasts. "Alex Krycek Revealed" Parts 1 and 2, a couple of character profiles, turn out to be very snippet-like Fox TV promo pieces, with some interview footage and behind-the-scenes stuff amid the usual teaser clips.--Kim Newman

• Taggart - Vol. 2 | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  'Taggart' is the longest running police drama on TV. Thanks to its explosive storylines and tough-talking Glasgow detective Jim Taggart (Mark McManus) it has become a national institution with these next six feature length editions averaging over eleven million viewers. Set Comprises: 1. Cold Blood 2. Dead Giveaway 3. Root Of Evil 4. Double Jeopardy 5. Love Knot 6. Hostile Witness

• Slash | DVD | (09/10/2017) from £8.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Freshman Neil's Vanguard stories are all he cares about...until he meets the older Julia, who pushes him to put his own fan fic online. When the website's moderator takes a special interest in Neil's work, it opens up a whole new universe.

• The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1968 (Box Set 2) | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Further adventures of the oh so dapper John Steed and his sidekick Tara King. Episodes include: You'll Catch Your Death: In which Steed catches a villain and Tara catches a cold. All Done With Mirrors: In which Steed stays at home and Tara finds her mission illuminating. Legacy Of Death: In which Steed receives a deadly present and Tara gets tickle torture. They Keep Killing Steed: In which Steed makes many appearances and Tara gains a curt ally. Wish You Were Here: In which Steed holds the baby and Tara books in. Killer: In which Steed tracks an assassin and Tara books in. The Rotters: In which Steed knocks on wood and Tara gets the chop. The Interrogators: In which Steed travels by helicopter and Tara has to train.

• England's Summer Of Cricket 2007 | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  England's Summer Of Cricket 2007 brings you all the action interviews news and analysis from seven NPower Tests and ten NatWest One-Day Internationals played against the West Indies and India. England's cricketers went into the summer of 2007 with a point to prove after a 5-0 Ashes defeat and an early exit from the World Cup. There was a new coach in Peter Moores who brought fresh ideas and a new impetus to the team Michael Vaughan returned to captain the Test side while Paul Collingwood was appointed One-Day skipper. Three disc set featuring over 11 hours of footage bringing you the whole story of England's summer including the superb 3-0 Test Series win over the West Indies.

• The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1965 (Box Set 2) | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Swingingly stylish adventures with super spies John Steed and Mrs Peel! Flashback to the Sixties with the coolest duo in crimefighting! Episode titles include: The Murder Market: In which Steed gets a wife and Emma gets buried. A surfeit of H2O: In which Steed plans a boat trip and Emma gets very wet. The Hour That Never Was: In which Steed has to face the music and Emma disappears. Dial A Deadly Number: In which Steed plays Bulls and Bears and Emma has no option. Man-Eater Of Surrey Green: In which Steed kills a climber and Emma becomes a vegetable. Two's A Crowd: In which Steed is single-minded and Emma sees double.

• September | Blu Ray | (06/03/2017) from £8.14   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston and Elaine Stritch star in this drama written and directed by Woody Allen. The film follows Lane (Farrow), who is staying at her childhood home in Vermont as she recovers from a nervous breakdown. She has been having an affair with Peter (Waterston), a writer who lives nearby, but now relations between them seem to have inexplicably cooled. When Lane's mother Diane (Stritch) arrives with unexpected news, and the fate of her relationship with Peter becomes clear, Lane's emotional world is thrown into turmoil once again.