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• Butch Cassidy/Sundance Kid S. | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Sundance Kid is the fastest gun in the West his sidekick Butch is a dreamer always planning that bigger better bank raid. But things are getting tougher and soon the accident-prone anti-heroes decide it's time to head south and disappear into legend. Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Screenplay for William Goldman and Best Song ('Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head') and Best Score for Burt Bacharach.

• Maddigan's Quest | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a strange post-apocalyptic world the city of Solis is the centre of human civilisation. But dark forces are at work in Solis. There are rumours of spies and betrayal. And the city is cut off from the solar cells it needs for power. Without power Solis is doomed. Solis' only hope lies with Maddigan's Quest; a circus troupe that travels the dangerous shifting roads of their world visiting outlying communities performing entertaining and telling stories. At the heart of the tr

• Piranha II - Flying Killers | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  James Cameron's debut feature is a thrill-a-minute terror ride where scuba divers investigating a sunken wreck at a plush Caribbean resort unwittingly unleash a shoal of mutated piranha which are as deadly in the air as under water!

• Press Gang - Complete Series 1 | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Written by Steven Moffatt the series is set in the fictional offices of the Junior Gazette a student newspaper ran with an iron fist by its editor Linda Day (Julia Sawalha)...

• Aspen Extreme | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (64.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In this heart-pounding action-adventure two buddies abandon their blue-collar world to become ski instructors in glamorous Aspen Colorado. There they discover the electrifying playground of the rich and famous - experiencing firsthand extreme skiing wealth and seduction. Surrounded by temptation and Aspen's alluring lifestyle their friendship faces the ultimate test as they struggle to keep sight of the things that really matter. Featuring some of the most incredible ski foota

• Due South: The Complete Series Boxset | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £149.99

  Benton Fraser - an uptight Canadian mountie with a bizarre way of doing things - comes to Chicago in an attempt to find out who killed his father. After solving the murder he decides to stick around and work for the local Canadian consulate. Making friends with the local detective Ray Vecchio a cynical man with a distrust of the outdoors Benton is often confused by how things are done south of the border and adversely Vecchio is equally perplexed by the mountie's approach to police work. This beast of a box set features every episode from all three seasons.

• 1970's Flashbacks | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A whistle stop tour of architecture music cars films places politics fashion furniture holidays and sport from the 1970's. Archive footage includes: Municipal buildings 70's fashion 'platform and flares!' the Ford Capri Cortina and the Vauxhall Viva. Carry On films The Common Market 70's furniture holidays in the Costas Red Rum and a look at the 'Deer Hunter'.

• Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream | Blu Ray | (28/01/2008) from £25.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (16.92%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This performance of George Balanchine's ballet A Midsummer Night's Dream was filmed live at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, in February 1999 and won the award for "Best Television Realisation of a Stage Production" at IMZ Dance Screen. The music is from Mendelssohn's youthful overture plus later theatre music, and five other pieces by the composer all selected by the great Russian choreographer Balanchine in 1962. In a fine ensemble cast, Paul Gibson as Oberon and Patricia Barker as Titania are suitably aloof, at least until the latter dances with the ass Bottom (Timothy Lynch) in a highlight of touching comedy. After all the quarrelsome entanglements of the first act, the finale ensures celebration and richly deserved happy endings all round. The simple sets have a picturesque charm, the costumes a fairytale glamour and the large cast, including many children, dance with flair and enthusiasm; this is clearly one production where everyone was having a fine time. In fact it is rather more enjoyable than Hollywood's A Midsummer Night's Dream of the same year. Ballet aficionados may also want to explore the BBC's wonderful Coppélia (2000). On the DVD: There are no special features on the disc, but the 12-page booklet is entirely in English and is well presented, offering track and cast lists, a synopsis and notes on Balanchine, Mendelssohn and the creative talents and directors of the Pacific Northwest Ballet. The sound is atmospheric--Dolby Digital 5.0--and the anamorphically enhanced 16:9 image is good, though slightly soft, and does occasionally reveal some compression artefacting. In defiance of regional encoding regulations, not only is this DVD region free, but includes the normal PAL UK television system programme material on one side and on the reverse includes the same content in NTSC format, suitable for American playback. Anyone curious to see if one format is better will find that the UK PAL transfer contains just a little more picture detail. --Gary S Dalkin

• How To Make A Monster | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Peter Drummond has been chief of make up at a Hollywood studio for 25 years. When his services are abruptly dispensed with Drummond takes his revenge on the callous heads of the studio by hypnotising a couple of actors and bringing his murderous creations Teenage Frankenstein and Teenage Werewolf to life!

• Rear Window/The Birds/Vertigo | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rear Window (1954): Alfred Hitchcock amply demonstrates why he's been called ""The Master of Suspense"" with this both witty and macabre tale of voyeurism and murder starring two of cinema's all-time favourites James Stewart and Grace Kelly. L.B. Jeffries (Stewart) a photographer with a broken leg takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbours during a summer heat wave. But things really hot up when he suspects one neighbour of murdering his invalid wife and burying the body in a flower garden. The Birds (1963): Wealthy reformed party girl Melanie Daniels enjoys a brief flirtation with lawyer Mitch Brenner in a San Francisco pet shop and decides to follow him to his Bodega Bay home. Bearing a gift of two lovebirds Melanie quickly strikes up a romance with Mitch while contending with his possessive mother and boarding at his ex-girlfriend's house.One day during a birthday party for Mitch's younger sister a flock of birds attacks the children in what seems to be a random incident. In fact it signals the beginning of a massive and organized avian assault on the residents of the town--a mysterious assault that no one can explain...and from which no one might come out alive. Vertigo (1958): Set in San Francisco James Stewart portrays and acrophobic detective hired to trail a friend's suicidal wife (Novak). After he successfully rescues her from a leap into the bay he finds himself becoming obsessed with the beautiful and troubled woman...

• Press Gang - Complete Series 2 | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Series 2 of the BAFTA award-winning children's series from 1990. A family drama which follows the lives of the teenagers who run the 'Junior Gazette' a newspaper for the kids written by the kids under the iron-fist of the Editor Linda Day.

• The Bible Code | DVD | (14/04/2005) from £8.19   |  Saving you £-2.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Bible Code is a 40-minute American TV documentary, originally titled Secrets of the Bible Code Revealed, re-edited for the UK with narration by British presenter Paul Ross. The title change links the programme closely with Michael Drosnin's bestseller and The Bible Code, and while Drosnin is featured, the film is based more closely on the books The Mysterious Bible Codes by Grant Jeffrey and Cosmic Codes by Chuck Missler. The theory that there are phrases prophesying future events mathematically encoded in the Hebrew text of The Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) is centuries old; Sir Isaac Newton spent years investigating the possibility. However, it was the 1994 publication of a paper in the journal Statistical Science, consequently publicised by Drosnin, that revived modern interest. This short film can do no more than provide an introduction to a subject hotly debated by many leading mathematicians, statisticians, theologians and historians. The programme is in no doubt that God encoded secret messages in the Bible, and so oversimplifies the issue as to reduce it to the level of tabloid sensationalism. Anyone genuinely interested in the theory would be better served reading a serious book on what is an enormously involved subject. On the DVD: This is a standard 4:3 TV programme with average picture and sound which doesn't benefit from the digital format. The only extra is a handful of barely relevant text pages on the Enigma code. The listed "brief history of WWII" is not present. Given the subject so much more could have been done in providing background material, even to including a DVD-ROM computer programme to run code searches. As it is this is a missed opportunity to make a genuinely interactive experience. --Gary S Dalkin

• Terminator | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Almost ten years have passed since Sarah Connor's ordeal began, and her son John, the future leader of the resistance, is now a healthy young boy.

• Due South - The Complete Second Series | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Benton Fraser - an uptight Canadian mountie with a bizarre way of doing things - comes to Chicago in an attempt to find out who killed his father. After solving the murder he decides to stick around and work for the local Canadian consulate. Making friends with the local detective Ray Vecchio a cynical man with a distrust of the outdoors Benton is often confused by how things are done south of the border and adversely Vecchio is equally perplexed by the mountie's approach to police

• The Terminator | UMD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Terminator was the film that cemented Arnold Schwarzenegger's place in the action-brawn firmament, and both his and the movie's subsequent iconic status are well deserved. He's chilling as the futuristic cyborg that kills without fear, without love, without mercy. James Cameron's story and direction are pared to the bone and are all the more chillingly effective for it. But don't overlook the contribution of Linda Hamilton, who more than holds her own as the Terminator's would-be victim, Sarah Connor, thus creating--along with Sigourney Weaver in Alien--a new generation of rugged, clear-thinking female action stars. The film's minimalist, malevolent violence is actually scarier than that of its far more expensive, more effects-laden sequel. --Anne Hurley

• The Stepford Wives | DVD | (15/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ira Levin's scary novel about forced conformity in a small Connecticut town made for this compelling 1975 thriller. Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones (not unlike the alien takeover in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces--not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. Screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) made this a taut, tense semi-classic with a healthy dose of satiric wit. The DVD release presents the film in its original widescreen dimensions. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• A Hard Days Night (Special Edition, 4K-UHD+Blu-ray+2 Bonus-DVDs) | Blu Ray | (23/06/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Due South - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Benton Fraser - an uptight Canadian mountie with a bizarre way of doing things - comes to Chicago in an attempt to find out who killed his father. After solving the murder he decides to stick around and work for the local Canadian consulate. Making friends with the local detective Ray Vecchio a cynical man with a distrust of the outdoors Benton is often confused by how things are done south of the border and adversely Vecchio is equally perplexed by the mountie's approach to police work. This cracker of a box set features the entire third series of the quirky comedy drama.

• Press Gang - Complete Series 3 | DVD | (11/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  BAFTA Award winning children's series Press Gang is back in a new DVD release of the complete third series originally shown on ITV in 1991. Starring Dexter Fletcher and Julia Sawalha Press Gang was written by Steven Moffat ('Coupling' and the new 'Doctor Who')and is generally acknowledged to be one of the best series ever written for television. Episodes Included: The Big Hello Killer On The Line Chance Is A Fine Thing The Last Word Part 1 The Last Word Part 2 Holding On

• Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream | HD DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A Midsummer Night's Dream- Ballet in Two Acts and Six Scenes.