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• Happiness | DVD | (22/05/2000) from £8.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (135.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At times brilliant and insightful, at times repellent and false, Happiness is director Todd Solondz's multi-story tale of sex, perversion and loneliness. Plumbing depths of Crumb-like angst and rejection, Solondz won the Cannes International Critics Prize in 1998 and the film was a staple of nearly every critic's Top 10 list. Admirable, shocking, and hilarious for its sarcastic yet strangely empathetic look at consenting adults' confusion between lust and love, the film stares unflinchingly until the audience blinks. But it doesn't stop there. A word of strong caution to parents: One of the main characters, a suburban super dad (played by Dylan Baker), is really a predatory paedophile and there is more than an attempt to paint him as a sympathetic character. Children are used in this film as running gags or, worse, the means to an end. Whether that end is a humorous scene for Solondz or sexual gratification for the rapist becomes largely irrelevant. Happiness is an intelligent, sad film, revelatory and exact at moments. It's also abuse in the guise of art. That's nothing to celebrate. --Keith Simanton

• Hitch | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £3.79   |  Saving you £16.20 (427.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Will Smith plays a date doctor who is about to be unmasked by a glam gossip reporter in this charming romantic comedy.

• Strike Back: Project Dawn | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £5.17   |  Saving you £21.08 (539.13%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Section 20 returns with two new highly-skilled and battle-hardened operatives - British Sergeant Michael Stonebridge and ex-US Delta Force Commando Damien Scott. Tasked by razor-sharp new section head, Colonel Eleanor Grant, to track the lethal, elusive terrorist LATIF, in possession of an apocalyptic WMD, our heroes must put aside their differences and defuse a plot that could ignite a war.Strike Back: Project Dawn is a breathlessly tense, smart and sexy adventure. Across five stories, Scott and Stonebridge plunge into a terrifying siege in a Delhi hotel; mount an undercover operation to derail a weapon heist in Cape Town by a ruthless former IRA operator; take up arms against a ferocious Sudanese militia to rescue a British aid worker; track a treasonous spy in a savage Balkan gangster state; and finally, race to stop a huge-scale double suicide bomber attack in Budapest, orchestrated by the ingenious, merciless Latif. As Section 20 finally confront their nemesis, prey becomes predator in a staggering series climax...

• The Responder: Series 2 | Blu Ray | (24/06/2024) from £24.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following his mother's death, Chris is broke, separated, and living alone in his dingy flat. But he is determined not to go back to his old ways. No more taking the law into his own hands. Now, Chris does things by the book. When gang war erupts between two of Liverpool's top drug-dealers, Chris is inexorably drawn in after his DCI threatens to expose his past misdeeds. But Chris is alone. The low-level criminals who once formed his network of informants are now either out of the game or in too deep. Which leaves only his former partner Rachel. Desperate to rebuild her own life and career, Rachel soon realizes she needs a partner who bends the rules. She needs Chris. As they are both sucked back towards the darkness, Chris and Rachel must pull each other back towards the light. Starring: Martin Freeman, Warren Brown, Rita Tushingham, Philip Barantini, Adelayo Adedayo.

• Mission Impossible 3 (Single Disc) | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £4.85   |  Saving you £15.14 (312.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tom Cruise returns as Special Agent Ethan Hunt, who faces the mission of his life.

• The Cedar Tree: The Complete Series 1 - Volume 3 | DVD | (15/07/2013) from £12.17   |  Saving you £12.82 (105.34%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Created by Upstairs Downstairs' Alfred Shaugnessy, The Cedar Tree is a study of one fictional aristocratic family, the Bournes of Larkfield Manor, focusing particularly on daughters Elizabeth (21), Anne (18), and Victoria (16). Dependent on their parents for income and bound by the remnants of the previous century's code of social behaviour, they represent a small backwater of Thirties' life. The girls' great hope is to find a suitable husband, and their expectations are high; but who is to k...

• Kate And Leopold | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £8.42   |  Saving you £7.57 (89.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman star in this time travelling romantic comedy about a pennyless British Aristocrat transported through time from his native Nineteenth Century New York to the present day.

• The Responder: Series 2 | DVD | (24/06/2024) from £21.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• High Hopes | Blu Ray | (13/04/2015) from £14.83   |  Saving you £5.16 (34.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mike Leigh writes and directs this class struggle comedy drama which portrays the intertwined lives of an extended working class family in London during the Thatcher years. The story follows left-wing bike messenger Cyril Bender (Philip Davis), his girlfriend Shirley (Ruth Sheen) and Cyril's conservative mother (Edna Dore), who lives in the last council house on her street next to the appallingly upper class Boothe-Braines (Lesley Manville and David Bamber). Cyril's consumerist sister Valerie (Heather Tobias) and her car salesman husband Martin (Philip Jackson) join the family to throw a surprise 70th birthday party for Mrs. Bender but, despite their best intentions, the event descends into disaster.

• The Patriot | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £4.91   |  Saving you £1.08 (22.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dr. Wesley McClaren (Seagal) was the government's top immunologist before giving it all up for a quiet practice in a small Montana community. But the peace is abruptly shattered when a violent extremist group unleashes a rapidly spreading lethal biological agent and takes over the town! As more and more people die from a baffling illness the edge-of-your-seat suspense only intensifies as McClaren races to outsmart the militiamen and find a cure before the insidious disease spreads wo

• A Most Wanted Man | DVD | (19/01/2015) from £3.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A tortured half-Chechen, half-Russian man on the run arrives in Hamburg looking to recover his late Russian father's ill-gotten fortune. Nothing about him seems to add up; is he a victim, thief or, worse still, an extremist intent on destruction?

• Whitechapel | DVD | (16/02/2009) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The streets of London's East End are awash with blood. A murderer stalks thenight picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. Butthis is not the 19th Century; this is not Jack the Ripper - this is a copycatkiller and once again the police remain clueless... For fast-tracked media savvy DI Chandler it's his first big murder case; forfront-line hard-bitten DS Miles he's now saddled with a boss who wouldrather talk about Emotional Intelligence than gut feeling. Neither of themhave a clue until renowned 'Ripperologist' Edward Buchan draws theirattention to the similarities between the Jack the Ripper killings in 1888 andthe modern-day murder.The race is on to succeed where police officers failed over 100 years before -to catch the copycat killer before he strikes again.

• Mission: Impossible 3 4K UHD + Blu-ray Steelbook | Blu Ray | (03/07/2023) from £24.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This is Mission: Impossible...like you've never seen it before! Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt in this pulse-pounding thrill ride directed by J.J. Abrahms (Lost, Alias). Lured back into action by his agency superiors (Laurence Fishburne and Billy Crudup), Ethan faces his deadliest adversary yet - a sadistic weapons dealer named Owen Davian (Oscar® winner Phillip Seymour Hoffman). With the support of his IMF team (Ving Rhames, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Maggie Q), Ethan leaps into spectacular adventure from Rome to Shanghai as he races to rescue a captured agent (Keri Russell) and stop Davian from eliminating his next target: Ethan's wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). Product Features Disc 1: 4K UHD Special Features Commentary by Tom Cruise and Director, J.J. Abrams Disc 2: Blu-ray Special Features Audio Commentary by Tom Cruise and director J.J. Abrams Disc 3: Blu-ray Bonus Disc The Making of the Mission (HD) Inside the IMF Mission Action: Inside the Action Unit (HD) Visualizing the Mission (HD) Mission: Metamorphosis (HD) Scoring the Mission (HD) Moviefone Unscripted: Tom Cruise, J.J. Abrams Launching the Mission 5 Deleted Scenes (HD) Theatrical Trailers (HD) TV Spots Photo Gallery Excellence in Film Easter Eggs (HD)

• The Cedar Tree: Series 1 - Volume 2 | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £15.25   |  Saving you £14.74 (96.66%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Created by Upstairs Downstairs' Alfred Shaughnessy The Cedar Tree is a study of one fictional aristocratic family the Bournes of Larkfield Manor focusing particularly on daughters Elizabeth (21) Anne (18) and Victoria (16). Dependent on their parents for income and bound by the remnants of the previous century's code of social behaviour they represent a small backwater of Thirties life. The girls' great hope is to fi nd a suitable husband and their expectations are high; but who is to know that what awaits all women at the end of the 'devil's decade' is war? A huge success for ITV in the 1970s The Cedar Tree picked up the reigns for classy period drama from Upstairs Downstairs and is the precursor to today's highly popular costume dramas such as Cranford and Downton Abbey.

• The Master | DVD | (03/10/2015) from £12.14   |  Saving you £10.84 (118.47%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paul Thomas Anderson writes and directs this Academy Award-nominated drama about a US Navy veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who seeks salvation in the company of a charismatic cult leader. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Freddie Quell, a troubled drifter who arrives home to post-WWII America shaken, disillusioned and fearful of the future. A raging alcoholic, Quell cannot begin to make sense of his deeply-rooted inner torment, let alone surmount it. When he meets Lancaster Dodd ...

• Ashes To Ashes - Series 3 | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £20.18   |  Saving you £19.81 (98.17%)   |  RRP £39.99

  We've come so far and now the end is near. The journey that began with Life on Mars concludes as Alex Drake embarks on her final mission: to uncover the truth about Gene Hunt and unlock the dark secrets of this World. Alex is back only this time it's 1983 and something feels different. The arrival of DCI Jim Keats sent by Scotland Yard to monitor the station's performance throws some unexpected light on past events. Haunted by the ghost of a policeman Alex decides that her only hope in getting home lies in finding out what really happened to Sam Tyler.

• Waterloo Road - Series 3 - Spring Term | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  It''s exam time at Waterloo Road and it''s not only the pupils who are being tested. Corruption is rife in the tendering process to build a new training centre at the school with Headteacher Rachel Mason coming under pressure from a blackmailing builder to secure his interest in the bid. What is the secret she''s trying to hide - and how much will it cost the school? On a romantic front Assistant Teacher Davina Schackleton finds herself the object of attention of more than one man and French Teacher Steph Haydock is using her talents to seduce a Frenchman Claude Legard into parting with his money - but all in a good cause. Bullying becomes an issue when young Teacher Jasmine Koreshi intervenes in what should have been an obvious case but finds herself accused of assault instead. The pupils continue to create as many challenges for others as they face themselves when a group of eco-warriors decide to make the school greener at any cost a young student faces deportation leading to an immigration crisis and one young girl falls victim to a predatory supply teacher. Spring Term at Waterloo Road is as unpredictable as the weather - sometimes sunny often stormy but always with the promise of great things to come.

• ID / ID2: Shadwell Army | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ID1 - John, an ambitious young copper, is sent undercover into the hardcore football gangs to track down the ˜generals' - the shadowy figures who orchestrate the violence. Gradually, the hard drinking, hard fighting macho world proves irresistible and John slowly finds himself turning into one of the thugs he has been sent to destroy. ID2 - 20 years on from the ferocious and deeply upsetting original fi lm a young British Asian police officer is going deep undercover into the heart of the Shadwell FC firm. The team's resurgent hooligan element are fired up by a takeover from a Russian billionaire and adventures into Europe, whilst plans to build a new mosque in the shadow of Shadwell's ground create an explosive environment for Mo to defuse. As football and political violence create a perfect storm of social unrest this undercover copper is faced with the question of who he really is and where he belongs. Bonus: ID2 - Making Of Deleted Scenes

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 40th Anniversary | Blu Ray | (09/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Released in 1977, Close Encounters of the Third Kind was that year's cerebral alternative to Star Wars. It's arguably the archetypal Spielberg film, featuring a fantasy-meets-reality storyline (to be developed further in E.T.), a misunderstood Everyman character (Richard Dreyfuss), apparently hostile government agents (long before The X-Files), a sense of childlike awe in the face of the otherworldly, and a sweeping feel for epic film-making learned from the classic school of David Lean. Contributing to the film's overall success are the Oscar-winning cinematography from Vilmos Zsigmond, Douglas Trumbull's lavish effects and an extraordinary score from John Williams that develops from eerie atonality à la Ligeti to the gorgeous sentiment of "When You Wish Upon a Star" over the end credits. Not content with the final result, Spielberg tinkered with the editing and inserted some new scenes to make a "Special Edition" in 1980 which ran three minutes shorter than the original, then made further revisions to create a slightly longer "Collector's Edition" in 1998. This later version deletes the mothership interior scenes that were inserted in the "Special Edition" and restores the original ending. On the DVD: CE3K is packaged here with confusing documentation that fails to make clear any differences between earlier versions of the film and this "Collector's Edition"--worse, the back cover blurb misleadingly implies that this disc is the 1980 "Special Edition" edit. It is not. A gorgeous anamorphic widescreen print of Spielberg's 1998 "Collector's Edition" edit occupies the first disc: this is the version with the original theatrical ending restored but new scenes from the "Special Edition" retained. The second disc rounds up sundry deleted scenes that were either dropped from the original version or never made it into the film at all--fans of the "Special Edition" can find the mothership interior sequence here. The excellent "making-of" documentary dates from 1997 and has interviews with almost everyone involved, including the director speaking from the set of Saving Private Ryan. Thankfully the superb picture and sound of the feature make this set entirely compelling and more than compensate for the inadequate packaging. --Mark Walker

• Poldark: Complete Series 1-3 | DVD | (14/08/2017) from £25.99   |  Saving you £-5.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.93

  All 28 episodes from the first three series of the BBC drama starring Aidan Turner as Captain Ross Poldark. After spending three years fighting in the American War of Independence, Poldark must rebuild his life in the small Cornish copper mining town he calls home. However, when he finds his father dead, his estate in ruins and his childhood sweetheart Elizabeth (Heida Reed) engaged to his cousin, the life he once knew seems to no longer exist. With the help of his new maid Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson), Ross attempts to navigate the hostile, poverty-stricken locals and the region's wealthy and influential businessmen to reopen his family's disused copper mine, Wheal Leisure.