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• Maigret | DVD | (09/01/2017) from £9.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Maigret Sets A Trap Montmartre, Paris. A serial killer is stalking the streets. Five women are dead and people are afraid to go out after dark. The newspapers are rife with speculation. And Chief Superintendent Maigret is without a lead and under great pressure Maigret's Dead Man One February morning, an agitated man calls the Police judiciaire asking for Maigret. He claims he's being followed by someone trying to kill him. Before Maigret can get the details he hangs up, calls back again from various cafés, until the calls finally stop. That night, his body is found, his face badly beaten, stabbed to death. Ridden with guilt for not having saved his dead man, Maigret is determined to find the murderer. Bonus Features: Behind the Scenes

• Simon Schama - A History of Britain : The Complete Series | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments, but Schama's way of telling it is a good deal more enthralling as a result. Schama successfully gives lie to the idea that the history of Britain has been moderate and temperate, passing down the generations as stately as a galleon, taking on board sensible ideas but steering clear of sillier, revolutionary ones. Nonsense. Schama retells British history the way it was--as bloody, convulsive, precarious, hot-blooded and several times within an inch of haring off onto an entirely different course. Schama seems almost to delight in the goriness of history. Themes returned to repeatedly include the wars between the Scots and the Irish and the Catholic/Protestant conflicts--only the Irish question remains unresolved by the new millennium. As Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy, Schama talks less of Kings and Queens but of poets and idea-makers like Orwell. Still, with his pungent, direct manner and against an evocative visual and aural backdrop, Schama makes history seem as though it happened yesterday, the bloodstains not yet dry. On the DVD: The Complete History of Britain extras are generously packaged on a separate disc and include the original score and a Simon Schama biography. There's an interesting "promotional message" to camera in which Schama explains the role of a cab driver, Wally, in inspiring the series, along with an interview with Mark Lawson in which Schama stresses the deliberate subjectivity of these programmes and an inaugural BBC History lecture in which he defends TV's ability to transpose history to camera. --David Stubbs

• A Cinderella Story: Once Upon A Song | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £2.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (234.11%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Overworked, harried and terrified of being put back in foster care, 17-year-old Katie Gibbs (Lucy Hale) does her stepmother and step-siblings' bidding without complaint. However, vocally gifted Katie finally gets upset when she is forced to lay down singing tracks so her untalented stepsister, Bev Van Ravensway (Missi Pyle), can hopefully win a recording contract from Massive Records--whose company president is scouting for spectacular new voice at a talent showcase for the Performing Arts Department of a prestigious private school.

• Spartacus - Vengeance | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £18.99   |  Saving you £21.00 (110.58%)   |  RRP £39.99

  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 in Spartacus: Vengeance. Gaius Claudius Glaber and his Roman troops are sent to Capua to crush the growing band of freed slaves that Spartacus leads before it can inflict further damage. Spartacus is presented the choice of satisfying his personal need for vengeance against the man that condemned his wife to slavery and eventual death or making the larger sacrifices necessary to keep his budding army from breaking apart. Containing all of the blood-soaked action, exotic sexuality, and villainy and heroism that has come to distinguish the series, the tale of Spartacus resumes in epic fashion.

• The Fairy Queen, semi-opera by Henry Purcell (Glyndebourne Festival 2009) | Blu Ray | (26/04/2010) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Footballers' Wives - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £9.95   |  Saving you £15.04 (151.16%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Marriage, sex, drugs, fast cars and fights and loads and loads of affairs – these are all the ingredients that make this one of the DVD and TV highlights this April.

• Cinderella - Ch4 | DVD | (21/05/2018) from £5.11   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Kathleen Turner leads a star-studded cast in Channel 4's big budget retelling of the classic fairy tale set in 1950's Britain A humorous re-telling of a classic story that will surprise and delight adults and children alike. Cinderella (named Zezolla) lives in the glamorous 1950s in a gorgeous stately home, where fashion is everything. However, when her Father returns from a business trip with her new femme-fatale evil step-mother Claudette (Kathleen Turner) and two wicked step-sisters in tow, she is also faced with the challenge of keeping him from being murdered. Zezolla is banished by her new family to live in the attic and forced to wait hand and foot on her new relations. With no pumpkin in sight, an anti-social mermaid acting as fairy godmother and a guitar-playing Prince with more love for rock n roll and motorbikes than chatting up the ladies, this is a fairy-tale not to be missed. Starring Oscar-nominee Kathleen Turner, Emmy-winner David Warner, Marcella Plunkett, Leslie Phillips, Gideon Turner, Katrin Cartlidge and Lucy Punch. Directed by BAFTA winner Beeban Kidron (Oranges are not the Only Fruit).

• All Quiet On The Western Front | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £8.65   |  Saving you £1.34 (15.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A devastating story of war and a generation destroyed. In 1914 a group of German schoolboys idealistic and inflamed with youthful patriotism set off to fight in the ""glorious"" war. During their brutal basic training disenchantment begins. Then boarding a train for the front they see the wounded being rushed back to the hospitals and they begin to grasp the grim reality of war. On their first night in action they come under heavy attack. In the trenches they begin to fall. Thei

• Gym Ball - Inch Loss Workout | DVD | (27/12/2002) from £5.44   |  Saving you £9.55 (175.55%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Fancy a challenging but fun way to firm up your body? You will never get bored of this fresh and innovative style of working out. Lucy Knight takes the viewer through a whole body workout designed not only to tone your body but to improve core stability posture balance co-ordination overall fitness and set the conditions for inch loss. See great results and have fun achieving them with the 'Gym Ball Inch Loss Workout'.

• Ash Vs Evil Dead: The Complete Second Season | Blu Ray | (23/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The second season roars back into action with Ash leaving his beloved Jacksonville and returning to his home town of Elk Grove, Michigan. There, he confronts Ruby. The former enemies have to form an uneasy alliance as Elk Grove soon becomes the nucleus of evil.

• Doctor Jekyll Versus The Werewolf | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After her fiance is murdered by thuggish villagers the beautiful Justine is saved from death by loner Waldemar a man with a mysterious 'illness'...

• Ash vs Evil Dead Season 1-3 | Blu Ray | (22/10/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Ash, having gone from urban legend to hometown hero, discovers that he has a daughter. When Kelly witnesses a massacre with Ruby's fingerprints all over it, she returns to warn Ash and Pablo.

• Ally McBeal, Series 5 Box Set 1 | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £10.65   |  Saving you £9.34 (87.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The fifth season was the last series of Ally McBeal, and probably the least satisfying. While always at least slightly entertaining, it was troubled by two conflicting imperatives: first, to steer its neurotic characters and multiplicity of sub-plots towards a coherent and credible resolution; second, to sustain another series of a programme which had, by now, exhausted all the plot possibilities that were remotely believable. The result is a bemusing onslaught of new characters (Ally's Mini-Me Jenny and a barely distinguishable phalanx of lantern-jawed male leads), celebrity cameos (Edna Everage, Christina Ricci, Barry White, Matthew Perry, Jon Bon Jovi), several storylines that would test the credulity of any of the curiously indulgent judges before whom Ally's firm practises (notably the arrival of a 10-year-old daughter that Ally didn't know she had) and one misbegotten attempt to anchor the programme to the real world (the "Nine One One" episode, an unwatchably mawkish allegory about the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States). Granted that Ally McBeal was never intended to be realistic drama, but when the programme spirals entirely off into the realms of the surreal, any possibility of the sort of identification with the characters on which the programme once relied is lost. Though not without its moments, the sudden redemption of Fish, always the best-written character, is deftly handled. Series Five will be of chief interest to adherents who stuck with it through the first four and so wanted to see how it all ends; in keeping with the central character's defining motifs of solipsism and self-pity, it does so with a whimper. On the DVD: Ally McBeal has episode selector on each disc, and a scene selector within each of those. The final disc contains two short and desultory documentaries on the series billed, somewhat hopefully, as "Special Features". A French audio soundtrack is available, as are subtitles in English, French and Dutch. –-Andrew Mueller

• Urotsukidoji - Legend Of The Overfiend / Legend Of The Demon Womb | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A graphically violent and sexually explicit example of Japanese anime the first instalment of Urotsukidoji is seen by many as the manga film par excellence. According to ancient lore the earth is made of the three parallel realms of Human Man-Beast and Monster-Demon. Every three millennia the evil overfiend Chojin brings the realms together. If he succeeds this time all of mankind will be lost. Teenage hero Amano is the only hope for humanity. Seriously Disturbing - Daily Telegraph

• Motherland Series 1-3 | DVD | (11/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Series One A group of less-than-perfect parents reveal the comic and crazy sides of middle-class motherhood as they navigate the trials and traumas of unromanticized parenting, where chaos and hyper-competition reign supreme as they struggle to keep up and stay the course. Series Two A collective sigh of relief can be heard across the Motherland as a new school term dawns. Julia makes a life changing decision about her career; Amanda consciously un-couples and reluctantly joins Liz in the single mothers' club. Kevin takes over from Julia as the resident life-juggling working parent whilst Anne is just hungry. There's a new face joining the scrum at the school gates as the gang wonder if high flyer Meg really does have it all. Series Three The Nation's favourite gang of Mums (and Dad) return to navigate the pitfalls of middle-class parenting and the clash of cliques formed at the school gates

• The Dwelling Place | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £14.20   |  Saving you £-1.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set in rural Northumberland during the 1830's this Catherine Cookson series tells of Cissie Brodie's struggle to keep the family intact when the sudden death of her parents causes them to be evicted from their cottage...

• Sylvia | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £7.36   |  Saving you £8.63 (117.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Starring Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow, "Sylvia" is a story of the love, passion, wit and despair between two of the 20th century's most brilliant minds, the American poet Sylvia Plath and the British poet Ted Hughes.

• The Astronaut's Wife | DVD | (24/04/2000) from £5.38   |  Saving you £14.61 (271.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An intriguingly creepy premise but failed execution marks The Astronaut's Wife, a stylish and ultimately bland thriller about a pretty, young woman whose pretty, young astronaut husband comes back from his most recent space mission a little... odd. Before that fated space trip, Spencer (Johnny Depp) and Jillian (Charlize Theron) were a sunny, happy couple with matching blonde hairdos and a predilection for romping in the sack from extremely clever camera angles. However, after a communications blackout brings Spencer and his partner back down to earth prematurely, things are a little... peculiar. Spencer's partner goes bonkers and has a heart attack; on top of that, the partner's wife takes a fatal shower with a plugged-in radio. Getting out of the space biz, Spencer accepts a job as a corporate exec in New York, and as a welcome to the Big Apple for his comely wife, he molests her at the company cocktail party. Soon enough, Jillian is pregnant, but as you might expect, this pregnancy (twins, don't you know) is a little... unusual. Writer-director Rand Ravich takes his sweet time getting from extremely obvious plot point A to even more obvious plot point B, stretching out the development particulars in mind-numbing, suspense-killing fashion. Even Joe Morton, as a sinisterly psychotic NASA official, can't liven things up--you know you're in bad thriller territory when the biggest scare comes from a light suddenly being switched off. Theron, sporting a Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby style haircut, sleepwalks beautifully through the movie, but she did this role much, much better in The Devil's Advocate. Depp, with a cornpone Southern accent, is about as realistic as his peroxided hair. Ravich does the viewer no favours with a hackneyed ending straight out of a B-grade paperback horror novel in which the most shocking moment is Theron's sudden emergence as a brunette. With Blair Brown as a jaded socialite who offers to help out Theron by providing do-it-yourself abortion pills, and a lovely Donna Murphy as the suicidal wife who figures it all out before everyone else. -- Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

• Waiting For God - Series 1 | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £5.03   |  Saving you £10.96 (217.89%)   |  RRP £15.99

  'If you're angry you know you're still alive!' The fondly remembered BBC sitcom Waiting for God finally makes its way to DVD. Former photo-journalist Diana Trent (Stephanie Cole) and Tom Ballard (Graham Crowden) are a pair of geriatric delinquents residing in the Bayview Retirement Village under the ambitious eye of Harvey Bains manager and proprietor. The declining duo spend their time sniping at a world where the young are revered and the elderly are held in cont

• Tinker Bell | Blu Ray | (10/11/2008) from £8.92   |  Saving you £15.07 (168.95%)   |  RRP £23.99

  This summer, discover Tinker Bell and her fairy friends on the big screen!