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• Toy Story & Toy Story 2 - Three Disc Collector's Set | DVD | (11/12/2000) from £7.92   |  Saving you £32.07 (404.92%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Toy Story 1 John Lasseter's Toy Story poses the universal and magical question of what do toys do when they are not being played with? Cowboy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), Andy's favourite bedroom toy, tries to calm the other toys during a wrenching time of year--the birthday party, when newer toys may replace them. Sure enough, Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) is the new toy that takes over the throne. Buzz has a crucial flaw, though--he believes he is the real Buzz Lightyear, not a toy. Bright and cheerful, Toy Story is much more than a 90-minute commercial for the inevitable bonanza of Woody and Buzz toys. Lasseter further scores with perfect voice casting, including Don Rickles as Mr Potato Head and Wallace Shawn as a meek dinosaur. The director-animator won a special Oscar "For the development and inspired application of techniques that have made possible the first feature-length computer-animated film". In other words, the movie is great. Toy Story 2 Like the handful of other great movie sequels, Toy Story 2 comments on why the first one was so wonderful while finding a fresh angle worthy of a new film. The craze of toy collecting becomes the focus here, as we find out that Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) is not only a beloved toy to Andy but also a rare doll from a popular 1960s children's show. When a greedy collector takes Woody, Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) launches a rescue mission with Andy's other toys. To say more would be a crime because this is one of the most creative and smile-inducing films since, well, the first Toy Story.Although the toys look the same as in the 1994 feature, Pixar shows how much technology has advanced: the human characters look more human, backgrounds are superior, and two action sequences that book-end the film are dazzling. And it's a hoot for kids and adults. The film is packed with spoofs, easily accessible in-jokes and inspired voice casting (with newcomer Joan Cusack especially a delight as Cowgirl Jessie). But as the Pixar canon of films illustrates, the filmmakers are storytellers first. Woody's heart-tugging predicament can easily be translated into the eternal debate of living a good life versus living for forever. Toy Story 2 was deservedly a huge box-office success. --Doug Thomas

• Space Race | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  For the first time ever the BBC brought together old adversaries to work on this series which tells the story of what really happened during the space race. In an extraordinary co-production partnership the team behind the hugely-acclaimed Seven Wonders of the Industrial World have brought the Russians and Americans together to create the docu-drama series The Space Race. This is the shocking but true story behind one of the most exciting and exhilarat

• In Which We Serve | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £14.83   |  Saving you £-4.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Noel Coward's great British war film made at the height of World War II in 1942 tells the story of a naval destroyer and its crew as they fight for their lives in a life raft after their ship is sunk.

• Elvis Presley Box Set (Volume 1) | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £25.24   |  Saving you £15.75 (62.40%)   |  RRP £40.99

  Includes Jailhouse Rock Trouble With Girls Spinout and Double Trouble. Jailhouse Rock: Elvis stars as Vince Everett a small-time convict introduced to the music business by his cellmate a former country music singer who also teaches Vince the guitar. On his release Vince tastes success as a performer but becomes disillusioned by the record industry until he is advised to set up his own label. He is a sensation but now that he is a superstar will he forget the people who

• WWE - Breaking Point 2009 | DVD | (04/01/2010) from £7.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (126.29%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Bouts include.... Submission Match for the World Heavyweight Championship - CM Punk vs. Undertaker I Quit Match for the WWE Championship - Randy Orton vs. John Cena ECW Championship Match - Christian vs. William Regal (with Ezekiel Jackson & Vladimir Kozlov) Singapore Cane Match - The Great Khali vs. Kane Submissions Count Anywhere Match - D-Generation X vs. Cody Rhodes & Ted DiBiase United States Championship Match - Kofi Kingston vs. The Miz Unified Tag Team Championship Match - Mark Henry & Montel Vontavious Porter vs. Chris Jericho & Big Show

• Disappearing Acts | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £6.40   |  Saving you £-0.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This is a love story waiting to explode. Brooklyn NYC. Franklin Swift is a construction worker who's rarely more than one step away from the dole queue. Zora Banks is a music teacher who dreams of becoming a singer/songwriter. From different worlds a chance encounter throws the pair together - the attraction is instant and it's not long before the unlikely lovers move in together. At first they're lost in their passion for each other but all too soon real life begins to take its toll. Money is tight Franklin's past catches up with him while Zora reveals a frightening secret of her own...

• The Navigators | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £79.99   |  Saving you £-60.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ken Loach does for the railways in The Navigators what he did for the construction industry in Riff-Raff (1990). As ever, his sympathies lie firmly with the ordinary working blokes, not above of bit of banter and skiving, but essentially trying to do a decent job and stay loyal to their mates in the face of managerial double-talk and corporate devotion to the bottom line. It's 1995, and the Tories have just carried out their disastrous, pea-brained scheme to break up the railways. We follow the fortunes of a gang of track workers in South Yorkshire as they find themselves confronted with all the fallout of privatisation--redundancies, cost-cutting, corner-cutting and the wholesale junking of any concern with safety or quality of work. Accidental deaths, one hapless time-server explains, "have got to be kept to an acceptable level". Two scenes encapsulate the tragic-comic tone of the film. At one point the disbelieving workers are ordered by managers to smash up a load of new equipment; it's surplus to requirements, but can't possibly be sold to "the competition", their former British Rail workmates at the depot down the line. Later, called to a derailment, the track workers pass a whole series of hard-hat wearing managers, each paying no attention to what needs doing but muttering fiercely into a mobile phone trying to pass the buck for the accident to another company. Loach cast the film using local actors and comics, and there's a strong sense of authenticity in the flat accents and dry Yorkshire humour. But ultimately this is a lament for the destruction, not only of what was once a great rail network, but of the pride and camaraderie of those who worked on it. The film's ending is fittingly bleak. --Philip Kemp

• Pandaemonium | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Acclaimed director Julien Temple's latest movie tells of the relationship between two of England's greatest poets - Coleridge and Wordsworth - and the drugs and jealousies that eventually destroyed it.

• The War Wagon | Blu Ray | (06/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The obsessive desire of a rancher to bring down the powerful man who robbed him of his name and his land sends him and four confederates along a desperate headlong course from which there is no turning back.

• The Moonstone | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Originally broadcast in 1971 the intriguing detective drama The Moonstone is a series based on the hugely popular novel by Wilkie Collins. Starring Robin Ellis (The Negotiator) and Colin Baker (Doctor Who) the plot centres around The Moonstone an Indian treasure given to Rachel Verrinder as an 18th birthday present. It has been stolen from a temple in colonial India and a number of misfortunes have followed it into the hands of Rachel. The Moonstone goes missing and the plot

• Diary Of A Sex Addict / Dead Sexy / Body Double | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Body Double: Director Brian De Palma pits sexuality against physical violence in a roller coaster of a thriller starring Craig Wasson and Melanie Griffith. A beautiful young woman performs a seductive striptease at the window of her fabulous Hollywood home. A struggling young actor watches entranced from a house nearby drawn into her obsession. Suddenly he becomes a helpless witness to her savage murder. Compelled to track down the psychopath responsible his investigations lead him into the stark and perverted world of the body double. Dead Sexy: Shannon Tweed former Playboy Playmate of the Year star as the beautiful and fast-talking detective Kate McBain hot on the trail of a serial killer who has brutally murdered four of Los Angeles' sexiest high-class hookers. From strip joints to Beverly Hills mansions McBain gets caught up in a dangerous web of intrigue seduction and murder as she finds herself falling for the charming and mysterious Blue (John Enos) who has a thing for sexy blondes like her and who just might be the killer. Will Detective McBain (or her naked ambition) triumph or will she end up dead sexy? A taut and erotic thriller in the tradition of 'Basic Instinct' 'Dead Sexy' will keep your pulse racing right through to the shocking climax. Diary of a Sex Addict: An erotic and disturbingly arousing glimpse into the obsessive life of a sexual compulsive. By all outward appearances Sammy Horn's (Des Barres) life appears to be the picture of domestic bliss - devoted husband loving father and successful businessman. But Sammy is leading a double life. He is a sex addict driven by impulses he is powerless to control. And while he is busy feeding his addiction and indulging his obsession he will lie to the people he cares about and hurt the people that care about him in his never-ending quest for a fix. A raw and enticing thriller co-starring Rosanna Arquette Nastassja Kinski and with breakout performances from Alexandra Paul and Ed Begley Jr Diary of a Sex Addict is your ticket to a world beyond your wildest imagination.

• South Park: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £16.94   |  Saving you £23.05 (136.07%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Set in a Colorado mountain town that gets destroyed on a regular basis and is populated by the dumbest, most vulgar characters imaginable, South Park is an anarchic animated sitcom that owes more to the spirit of Monty Python than to its comparatively tame predecessor The Simpsons. The show's origins go back to a 1995 Christmas video "postcard" called The Spirit of Christmas that a Fox Studios executive had commissioned at the previous Sundance Film Festival for $2000 having seen the work of film-makers Trey Parker and Matt Stone (Cannibal: The Musical). The adventures of Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny became an instant ratings and merchandising smash and the foul-mouthed eight-year-olds have expanded to the cinema screen (Bigger, Longer and Uncut), found their way to the MTV Movie Awards and allowed the show creators/(song) writers/voice-artists to pursue equally anarchic comedy at the box office with Baseketball and Orgazmo. Constantly pursued by a censorship outcry, the series has survived several copycat cartoon threats and even the death of its lead female vocal-artist during its third season. Perhaps the show's biggest controversy has always been that--despite a disclaimer before every episode--under-aged children still see it. But lured by a universe full of Cheesy Poofs and Cookie Dings, where no-one's afraid to badmouth school bus driver Miss Crabtree and where it's OK to vomit from being in love, it's no wonder that children of all ages can't help but love it. Seriously. --Paul Tonks Season Two: Parker and Stone intentionally annoyed audiences by holding back season one's cliff-hanger resolution ("Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut") where we learn the surprise truth of who Cartman's dad really is. Season two instead opens with a TV Movie-of-the-Week Special for cartoon-within-a-cartoon characters Terrance and Phillip in "Not Without My Anus". A clever sub-plot runs through the middle of the year with closet homosexual schoolteacher Mr Garrison losing his hand puppet Mr Hat and replacing him with Mr Twig. It comes to an end in the amazing "Chef Aid" with Mr Hat busting Garrison and Chef from jail to attend a concert where Elton John, Meat Loaf and Ozzy Osborne are playing (all voiced for real). We get to explore the dubious leisure activities of Jimbo and Ned on their cable access show "Huntin' and Killin'" during a ratings war with "Jesus and Pals" (Christ having chosen the town to live in--naturally) in the Jerry Springer spoof "The Mexican Staring Frog of southern Sri Lanka". The season is rounded off by visits from the Evil Eric Cartman (who's nice!) from a parallel universe in "Spooky Fish", the Booktastic Bus in "Chickenlover", the Underpants Gnomes and even Charles Manson. --Paul Tonks

• Hot Tub Time Machine | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £9.93   |  Saving you £15.06 (151.66%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Four guy friends, all of them bored with their adult lives, travel back to their respective 80s heydays thanks to a time-bending hot tub.

• Rubbadubbers - Bathtime Scramble! | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Rubbadubbers is a high spirited new pre-school animated series which turns an everyday bathroom into a world of imagination and fantastic adventure. It follows the exploits of a group of bath toys whose lively minds take them an incredible journeys where a toothbrush can become a tree a soap dish a sailing ship and a sponge a desert island. The emphasis of course being on the power of pretend play and shared imagination because the best way to learn about life is to play. Bath

• The Limits of Control | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (-25.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Beautifully shot and timeless, "The Limits of Control" delivers a surreal neo-noir, detective story unlike anything you have ever seen!

• When You're Strange | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A look at the late '60s and early '70s rock band The Doors including rare exclusive footage.

• JASON STATHAM - ACTION HEROES | DVD | (01/01/2023) from £25.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• John Bishop's Australia | DVD | (27/11/2017) from £6.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This entertaining travelogue sees comedian John Bishop return to Australia for a new adventure, 22 years after he first cycled along the country's Gold Coast as part of a year long trip. John always felt that by spending all day on the road during his original visit he'd missed out on much of the country he rode through. Now, using his 1992 diary as a guidebook, John is back on his bike, reflecting on his own personal journey as he reconnects with his 25 year old self. This time he's taking plenty of breaks along the route to sample the delights of Australia, meeting extraordinary people and experiencing some true natural wonders as he discovers how this stunning country has changed.

• The Fly | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Be afraid. Be very afraid... Get ready for the ultimate edition of Cronenberg's masterful sci-fi horror film with this 20th anniversary edition released under Fox's highly prestigious Cinema Reserve range. This frightening but extremely moving and romantic horror film stars Jeff Goldblum as an over-ambitious scientist who accidentally merges with a housefly while conducting a bizarre teleporting experiment. A journalist (Geena Davis) who has fallen in love with him while

• Hammers Over The Anvil | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £4.24   |  Saving you £3.75 (88.44%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A Young Boy's Hero. A Married Woman's Desire. Russell Crowe stars as East Driscoll a bachelor horsebreaker who won't settle down. He becomes the idol of Alan a young boy with polio who dreams of riding just like his hero. As Alan struggles with the hardships of growing up he meets Grace an older English aristocrat for whom he develops feelings. The situation gets further complicated when the married Grace falls for the much younger East and Alan unwillingly is caught in the middle...