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• Rizzoli and Isles - Season 2 | DVD | (18/03/2013) from £9.85   |  Saving you £20.14 (204.47%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Once again it's all about chemistry in this second season of Rizzoli & Isles (with 15 episodes, plus bonus material, on three discs). Sometimes that's literally the chemicals used by Dr. Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander), the forensic pathologist who, as medical examiner, figures out what killed the victims whose murderers Boston detective Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon) is trying to bring to justice. More often, it's the chemistry between the two title characters that's at the heart of this series. This pair is a younger, much sexier, distaff answer to The Odd Couple, with Isles the meticulous, sometimes prissy Felix to Rizzoli's less analytical, more cynical Oscar. They're both good at their jobs, of course; Isles's knowledge about just about everything is almost laughably encyclopedic, while Rizzoli is an intuitive, courageous cop. But though the procedural aspect of the show is detailed and reasonably involving (this season they deal with vicious rapes, fire bombings, and ice pick killings; there are also fairly preposterous episodes involving a modern-day witch hunt, a baseball star run amok, a So You Think You Can Dance-type competition, and more), it's the constant banter between these two mismatched best friends that fuels the episodes. They talk about man issues; Maura's hot but naive, Rizzoli's skeptical, and both are single. And they have family issues--boy, do they have family issues, what with Jane's mother (Lorraine Bracco) in extreme bitter mode over her impending divorce and her wayward youngest brother having just been released from prison (her other brother's a cop), while Maura's biological dad is a notorious mobster who long ago somehow hooked up with her beautiful socialite mother, played by Jacqueline Bisset. Much of this is presented with an appealing light touch. Notwithstanding some gruesome cases, Rizzoli & Isles is not a gritty show; in fact, there's enough cutesy stuff, even when they're on the job, to make it hard to take the crimes seriously. But with Harmon and Alexander around, crime novelist Tess Gerritsen's works remain in good hands. --Sam Graham

• Rizzoli And Isles - Season 5 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The complete fifth series of the American crime drama based on the novels by Tess Gerritsen. The series follows Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon) and her best friend medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander) as they join forces to solve crimes. The episodes are: 'A New Day', '...Goodbye', 'Too Good to Be True', 'Doomsday', 'The Best Laid Plans', 'Knockout', 'Boston Keltic', 'Lost & Found', 'It Takes a Village', 'Phoenix Rising', 'If You Can't Stand the Heat', 'Burden of Proof', 'Bridge to Tomorrow', 'Foot Loose', 'Gumshoe', 'In Plain View', 'Bite Out of Crime' and 'Family Matters'.

• Rizzoli and Isles - Season 1 | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £20.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (49.95%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Tough and smart. Edgy and humourous. Rizzoli and Isles. Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander star as combative working-class Boston detective Jane Rizzoli and cool cerebral medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles in an exciting police procedural with a compelling point of view based on the best-selling novels by Tess Gerritsen. The two women have each other's backs as they investigate their city's grittiest and most puzzling homicides from the Back Bay to back alleys. The high-calibre supporting cast includes Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos) as Jane's overprotective mum. Some best friends shop together some meet for Mojitos some join book clubs. Rizzoli and Isles bust crime.

• The Dream Team | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £17.89   |  Saving you £-4.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy. Michael Keaton heads an all-star cast in this irresistible comedy about four mental patients who are seperated from their therapist on the way to a baseball game. A chronic liar with a violent streak Billy (Michael Keaton) finds himself on the loose in New York City with his fellow group-therapy patients: Henry (Chri

• Riding In Cars With Boys | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Drew Barrymore stars in the true life tale of a teen mother who overcame all sorts of hardships and went on to become a succesful writer in later life.

• Someone to Watch Over Me (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (17/05/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After exploring the science-fiction and fantasy worlds of Alien, Blade Runner and Legend, famed British director Ridley Scott turned to modern-day New York for Someone to Watch Over Me, one of a number of adult-orientated erotic thrillers, including Fatal Attraction, Black Widow and Jagged Edge, to appear in the late eighties. Tom Berenger (Platoon, Inception) plays a blue-collar NYPD detective assigned to protect a wealthy murder witness (Mimi Rogers, The Rapture). Soon, the relationship becomes an affair, threatening Berenger's marriage to Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas, The Sopranos), and the killer is still on the loose Stylishly shot by Steven Poster (Donnie Darko), Someone to Watch Over Me is glossy, high-concept filmmaking from start to finish. Special Features 2K restoration Original stereo audio Audio commentary with filmmaker and critic Jim Hemphill (2021) Someone to Write a Script (2019): interview with screenwriter Howard Franklin Someone to Shoot a Movie (2019): interview with celebrated cinematographer Steven Poster Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Jamie Graham, extracts from an American Cinematographer article on the making of the film, a selection of interviews with key cast members, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies

• The Basketball Diaries | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £18.13   |  Saving you £-5.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, the poet and musician who spent much of his adolescence addicted to heroin and shooting hoops with fellow Catholic high-school kids. As a biography, the film doesn't amount to more than the sum of its gritty scenes of smack use, violence, perversions (poor Bruno Kirby plays a lecherous coach who comes on to young Jim), and the usual scream-and-puke dramas that go along with a cold-turkey session. Director Scott Kalvert doesn't seem to realise that most people don't know who Carroll is and therefore can't possibly understand why they should care about his gutterball youth. DiCaprio, having nowhere to go with his performance but maintain Carroll's tailspin, is boring and redundant. Some kind of allusion to the literary and rock & roll life that follows the mess we're watching might have been helpful. The DVD release offers the choice of a full or widescreen (letterbox) picture, plus interviews. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Someone To Watch Over Me | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £15.58   |  Saving you £-9.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Someone to Watch Over Me is a stylish, smart film noir directed by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner). The movie stars Tom Berenger as a New York cop and family man who falls for the rich and beautiful witness (Mimi Rogers) he's assigned to protect. Scott, who always displays a distinctive eye for extraordinary art direction, does something here he should be doing a lot more often: directing contemporary noir. Berenger and Rogers rise to the occasion, seemingly aware that they're making something special. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Heat / The Deer Hunter / Goodfellas | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Heat: When Al Pacino and Robert De Niro square off 'Heat' sizzles. Written and directed by Michael Mann 'Heat' includes dazzling set pieces and a bank heist that USA Today's Mike Clark calls 'the greatest action scene of recent times.' It also offers 'the most impressive collection of actors in one movie this year' (Newsweek). The Deer Hunter: This powerful motion picture tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. Robert DeNiro gives an outstanding performance as Michael the natural leader of the group. 'The Deer Hunter' is a searing drama of friendship and courage and what happens to these qualities under hardship; it is a shattering emotional experience you will never forget. GoodFellas: When Martin Scorsese one of the world's most skilful and respected directors reunited with two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro in 'GoodFellas' the result was one of the most powerful films of the year. Based on the true-life best seller Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi and backed by a dynamic pop/rock oldies soundtrack critics and filmgoers alike declared GoodFellas great.

• The Sopranos: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include soldier Chris (Michael Imperioli) hapless efforts to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the Government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --David Stubbs

• Tangled | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £15.27   |  Saving you £-1.28 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  When David is found bruised beaten and stumbling down a secluded road the Police try to piece together the puzzle of what happened. We learn of the relationship between Jenny the love of David's life and Alan David's best friend and the love triangle that instigated the confrontation. Was it love jealousy or the pre-meditated scheme of a deranged psychotic?

• Even Cowgirls Get The Blues | DVD | (06/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  From the director of Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho comes a star-studded comedy based on the best-selling novel by Tom Robbins. Uma Thurman Lorraine Bracco and Keanu Reeves star in this magical road movie about a hitchhiker in search of the ultimate ride.

• Goodfellas (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Scorsese's classic tale based on the true life rise and fall of a small time gangster gets the two disc 'Special Edition' treatment with many new & exclusive DVD extras.

• Radio Flyer | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lorraine Bracco John Heard and Oscar-winner Ben Johnson star in this moving story of a family torn apart by violence - and healed by imagination. Elijah Wood and Joseph Mazzello co-star as Bracco's two young sons devoted brothers who escape their chaotic family life with dreams of flying. Inspired by a local legend they attempt to build a working airplane. And in the process of transforming their ordinary red wagon into a fantastical flying machine they transform their own lives

• Goodfellas | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £15.97   |  Saving you £7.01 (54.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From Nicholas Pileggi’s true-life bestseller Wiseguy GoodFellas explores the criminal life like no other movie. Directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese it was judged 1990's Best Picture by the New York Los Angeles and National Societies of Film Critics and named to the American Film Institute's Top-100 American Films List. Electrifying performances abound and from a standout cast that includes Robert De Niro Ray Liotta Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino Joe Pesci walked off with the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. It bristles with passion wit and style and endures as an American classic (Peter Travers Rolling Stone).

• The Sopranos: Series 1 (Vol. 1) | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: This ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there is the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his mid-level capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what is not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Riding In Cars With Boys | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £6.84   |  Saving you £3.15 (46.05%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Drew Barrymore stars in the true life tale of a teen mother who overcame all sorts of hardships and went on to become a succesful writer in later life.

• Ridley Scott | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  A collection of films from acclaimed director Ridley Scott. Gladiator (2000): The great Roman General Maximus (Russell Crowe) has once again led the legions to victory on the battlefield. The war won Maximus dreams of home wanting only to return to his wife and son; however the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) has one more duty for the general - to assume the mantle of his power. Jealous of Maximus' favor with the emperor the heir to the throne Commodus (J

• Custody Of The Heart | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Claire thinks she's doing right when she starts up a small company. But everything turns wrong when she finds that the price she pays for a successful business is a failed marriage.

• The Sopranos: Complete HBO Seasons 1-6 Box Set | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £160.99

  Critically hailed as 'a modern masterpiece' (The Observer) the series is a darkly humorous and often violent look at a New Jersey family whose patriarch happens to be a mob boss. The pace is fast the conflict fierce and the humour bitterly dark The Sopranos takes hold and doesn't let go.