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• Torchwood: Complete BBC Series 2 Box Set | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £24.28   |  Saving you £25.71 (105.89%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Separate from the government outside the police beyond the United Nations: Torchwood sets its own rules. With fearsome new aliens compelling new storylines and amazing guest stars the second series will take the close-knit Torchwood team through dare-devil action temptation heartache... and a life changing event for one of the team. The high-octane new episodes take Torchwood on journeys to the 51st Century and World War I. The team battle a rogue Time Agent investigate alien sleeper cells save a stranded creature from horrific abuse and come face to face with an entity that may well be Death itself. Joined for three episodes by Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones in Doctor Who) and with guest appearances from Richard Briers (Monarch of the Glen The Good Life) Alan Dale (Ugly Betty The OC) and James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Smallville) Captain Jack will have his work cut out as the stakes get higher and his team are stretched further than ever before.

• She's The One | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £4.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (165.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  She's the One is actor-writer-director Edward Burns' second film, following the widely acclaimed The Brothers McMullen. Given a slightly larger budget to play with ($3m as against his debut project's $25,000), Burns revisits much the same territory--love and sibling rivalry within a New York Irish-American family--but rather more expansively. This time, too, he can run to a few stars-in-the-making (Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston, and John Mahoney from Frasier) to jazz up his cast of relative unknowns. Burns himself plays Mickey, a cab-driver in the Big Apple, with Mike McGlone as his yuppie stockbroker brother, and Maxine Bahns as Hope, the girl Mickey falls for and impulsively marries, much to the romantic delight of Francis' neglected wife Renee (Aniston). Francis, meanwhile, is having a clandestine affair with Heather (Diaz), Mike's former girlfriend--something Mike has yet to learn. Dispensing flawed wisdom and generally muddying the waters yet further is the lads' blunt-spoken father (Mahoney). Plotwise that's about it. Burns relies on his appealing cast and some amiably barbed repartee to hold our interest in what's essentially a dialogue-driven movie. He makes shrewd and sometimes unexpected use of his New York locations, too--it's a fair bet most people's mental image of Brooklyn wouldn't include a waterfront fishing community. This is a good-natured, slightly old-fashioned movie whose benevolent view of the battle of the sexes (where the women are invariably smarter than the men) never digs too deep or hits too hard. On the DVD: She's the One is presented on disc in its original widescreen ratio (1.85:1) and Dolby 4.0 sound that does the movie fair justice. Along with the original trailer, we get a seven-minute "making-of" featurette and a music video of the title song "Walls" from Tom Petty, who composed the film's score. Burns provides an unpretentious voice-over commentary, dealing mainly with matters of casting and the problems of shooting on location. --Philip Kemp

• Rollerball | DVD | (24/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the year 2018, violence and crime have been totally eliminated from society and given outlet in the brutal blood sport of rollerball, a high-velocity blend of football, hockey, and motor-cross racing sponsored by the multinational corporations that now control the world following the collapse of traditional politics. James Caan plays Jonathan ., the reigning superstar of rollerball, whose corporate controllers fear that Jonathan's popularity has endowed him with too much power. They begin to pressure him according to their own ruthless set of rules, but Jonathan has rules of his own--ones for a man determined to retain his soul in a world gone mad. As directed by Norman Jewison (who was enjoying a peak of success during the early and mid-1970s), Rollerball creates a believable society that's been rendered passive and compliant by the homogenisation of corporate dictatorships, where the control and flow of information is the only currency of any importance. It's a world in which natural human aggressions have been sublimated and vented through the religious fervour toward rollerball and its players. Rollerball now looks like one of those 1970s science fiction films (another example being Logan's Run) that seems a bit dated and quaint, but its ideas are still provocative and fascinating, and the production is visually impressive. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Wild Bill | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £9.33   |  Saving you £3.66 (39.23%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Audiences overlooked Wild Bill at the cinema, but it's one of the better Westerns of the 1990s, featuring yet another terrific performance by Jeff Bridges, America's most underrated movie actor. As James Butler Hickock, he captures the sense of a man at the end of his career, one of the first media superstars who discovers that his legend is more burden than blessing. As he heads toward his final hand of poker in Deadwood, South Dakota, he flashes back to his younger days and the events that built his reputation, even as he copes with encroaching blindness caused by syphilis. Walter Hill blends action and elegy, utilising a screenplay based both on Pete Dexter's novel Deadwood and Thomas Babe's play Fathers and Sons. Wild Bill features strong supporting performances by John Hurt (as a Hickock sidekick) and Ellen Barkin (as the tough, lusty Calamity Jane)--but the centrepiece is the sad, manly performance by Bridges, who more than measures up to the part. --Marshall Fine

• Obsession | Blu Ray | (25/11/2013) from £11.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (73.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( Dolby Linear PCM ), English ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Documentary, Featurette, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Short Film, Special Edition, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: High melodrama, creeping insanity and barely contained delirium abound in this dizzying tribute to the high tension thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock from director Brian De Palma (Carrie, Scarface, Dressed to Kill). Michael Courtland is a Southern gentleman who seems to have everything - A successful business, a beautiful wife and an adoring young daughter - until a botched kidnapping tears his world apart leaving him widowed, bereaved and bereft. Years later on a trip to Italy, he meets a woman with an uncanny resemblance to his late wife but all is not how it appears as a twisted conspiracy threatens to unhinge his mental shackles, sending him to the knife edge of MADNESS! A master class in mounting unease and clammy palmed claustrophobia, Obsession is a classic 70s thriller with an evil twist that will leave you speechless. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Oscar Academy Awards, ...Obsession ( 1976 ) (Blu-Ray)

• The Gentle Gunman (Vintage Classics) | DVD | (07/03/2022) from £7.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  At the height of World War II, Terry (John Mills) and his younger brother Matt (Dirk Bogarde) are undercover IRA foot-soldiers working in London. But While Matt is fully committed to the cause, Terry is now beginning to question their violent methods. When two fellow IRA members are arrested Terry and Matt are asked to break them out. Will Terry follow his orders or will his misgivings put the two in harm's way? Extras A closer look At The Gentle Gunman With Film Writers Matthew Sweet And Phuong Le Behind The Scenes Stills Gallery

• The Call Of The Wild | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £8.90   |  Saving you £-2.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jack London's classic tale of the Klondike Gold Rush as we follow the lives of the dog Buck and his master John Thornton.

• Dad's Army - Series 6 | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Vintage comedy by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. As Walmington-on-Sea trembles at the thought of a mighty Nazi invasion the indefatigable Captain Mainwaring and his eager Home Guard are ready and waiting - regardless that some of them are so old they can hardly stand up... Starring Arthur Lowe John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn. Winner of 3 Writers Guild awards and a BAFTA. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Deadly Attachment 2. My British Buddy 3. The Royal Train 4. We Knows Our Onions

• Last Light | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £5.96   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Denver Bayliss (Kiefer Sutherland) is a cold-blooded killer who has been sentenced to death and is awaiting execution. Fred Whitmore (Forest Whitaker) is the haunted prison guard who befriends him: two men forced to live with the violence and degradation of death row. This is the story of one man who chooses to defy it until death and the shattering effect that struggle has on everyone close to him: the stone-hearted cell-block lieutenant (Clancy Brown) Denver's estranged sister (Amanda Plummer) and his ex-attorney (Kathleen Quinlan).

• The Herbie Collection | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  A collection of movies featuring the lovable little Volkswagon! Herbie - The Love Bug: He tale of a struggling race car driver named Jim Douglas who only begins winning races once he starts driving Herbie. Elated at his new found success Jim does not realise that it is the Volkswagen who is responsible for the first-place finishes! Herbie Goes Bananas: There's disorder south of the border when Herbie the almost human Volkswagen meets Paco the pickpocket and has to

• Home Alone 2 - Lost In New York | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £4.75   |  Saving you £3.24 (68.21%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This somewhat unpleasant 1992 sequel to the blockbuster Home Alone revisits the first film's gimmick by stranding Macaulay Culkin's character in New York City while his family ends up somewhere else. Again, the little guy meets up with colourful people on the margins of society (including a pigeon woman played by Brenda Fricker) and again he gets into a prop-heavy battle with Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. The latter sequence is even worse than the first film in terms of violence inflicted on the two villains (director Chris Columbus, who also made the first film, can't seem to emphasise the slapstick over the graphic effects of the fight). The best running joke finds a concierge (Tim Curry) at the swank hotel where Culkin is staying trying and failing to prove that the boy is on his own. --Tom Keogh

• Exile: The Complete Series | DVD | (03/10/2016) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tom Ronstadt (JOHN SIMM) is a successful London journalist who, with his career and life falling apart, returns to his hometown in Lancashire for the first time in 18 years. He finds his father Sam (JIM BROADBENT), whom Tom idolised as a child, in the grip of Alzheimer's a once formidable man now being cared for by his sister Nancy (OLIVIA COLMAN). Over the three episodes Tom unravels the mystery linked to his childhood that drove him away all those years ago. As his frustrations grow with his father's failure to remember the past, he persists unaware that he is unearthing a devastating crime that will reveal secrets he could never have imagined.

• Spartacus: The Complete Collection | DVD | (29/04/2013) from £31.95   |  Saving you £48.04 (150.36%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Own all of the epic action with the Spartacus Complete Collection! Blood and Sand Betrayed by his country. Beaten into slavery. Reborn as a warrior. Spartacus: Blood and Sand' is a graphic and visceral account of Rome's most famous gladiator. When he's separated from the love of his life, Spartacus is forced into the gruesome and bloodthirsty arena, where a grisly death is primetime entertainment. Gods of the Arena The House of Batiatus is on the rise, basking in the glow of its infamous champion Gannicus, whose skill with a sword is matched only by his thirst for wine and women. These are the times a young Batiatus has been waiting for. Poised to overthrow his father and take control, he'll freely betray anyone to ensure his gladiators are in the highest demand. And he'll have his loyal and calculating wife Lucretia by his side for every underhanded scheme. Vengeance On the heels of the bloody escape from the House of Batiatus that concluded 'Spartacus: Blood and Sand', the gladiator rebellion continues and begins to strike fear into the heart of the Roman Republic. Containing all of the blood-soaked action, exotic sexuality, villainy and heroism that has come to distinguish the series, the tale of Spartacus resumes in epic fashion. War of the Damned Gaius Claudius Glaber is dead. The rebellion has swelled to thousands of freed slaves, and Spartacus, alongside his generals Crixus, Gannicus and Agron, prepares for war with Rome. The epic conclusion of a legendary journey, Spartacus: War of the Damned unleashes a battle unlike anything ever seen before.

• Mrs Dalloway | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vanessa Redgrave plays Clarissa Dalloway an MP's wife whose life is thrown into crisis when a lover she rejected 30 years ago makes an unexpected appearance at a party she is hosting at her elegant London home prompting bittersweet memories of her youth. Marleen Gorris the Oscar winning director of Antonia's Line brings to life Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking 1925 novel which itself inspired Michael Cunningham's Pultizer Prize-winning novel 'The Hours'. Beautifully filmed in

• Beast in the Cellar | DVD | (22/04/2024) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• LA Vengeance | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £2.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Steve Ford (Bruce Willis) is a down but not out L.A based Private Investigator whose professional and personal worlds collide after his loving pet dog Buddy is stolen by a notorious gang. A series of crazy circumstances find him doing the gang's bidding, while being chased by two vengeful Samoan brothers, a loan shark's goons, and a few other shady characters. They say a dog is a man's best friend, and Steve shows how far a man will go to be reunited with him

• The Longest Yard | Blu Ray | (16/05/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Sessions | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £3.29   |  Saving you £16.70 (507.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the true story of California-based journalist and poet Mark O'Brien, The Sessions is an immensely poignant and surprisingly funny tale of a man, paralyzed by polio who - at age 38 - is determined to finally lose his virginity.

• Grease / Saturday Night Fever | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £12.07   |  Saving you £12.92 (107.04%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Grease John Travolta solidified his position as the most versatile and magnetic screen presence of the decade in this film version of the smash hit play Grease. Recording star Olivia Newton-John made her American film debut as Sandy Travolta's naive love interest. The impressive supporting cast reads like a who's who in this quintessential musical about the fabulous '50's. Grease is not just a nostalgic look at a simpler decade - it's an energetic and exciting musical homage to the age of rock n'roll! Saturday Night Fever John Travolta gives a sensual and intelligent performance as the troubled Tony Manero - Brooklyn paint store clerk by day and undisputed king of the dance floor by night. Every Saturday Tony puts on his wide collared shirt flared trousers and platform shoes and heads out to the only place where he's seen as a god rather than some young punk. But in the darkness away from from the strobe lights and glitter ball is a tragic story of disillusionment violence and heartbreak. Without a doubt Travolta's performance made him a Hollywood legend but 'Saturday Night Fever' is more than just a movie that defined the music and fashion of a generation. It's a powerful and provocative urban tragedy that carries as much significance today as it did in 1977.

• Welcome Home | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Jake Robbins (Kristofferson) was shot down over Cambodia while serving in the Air Force and presumed dead by his wife Sarah (Williams). In fact Jake was captured and then he escaped with the help of Leang a Khmer Rouge peasant. Although they are on opposite sides Jake and Leang develop an understanding and fall in love. But after years of raising a family together Jake is forcibly separated from Leang when it is discovered he is an American Citizen. Waking up in the United Stat