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• Rome - Series 1-2 - Complete | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The year is 52 B.C. Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic Rome is the wealthiest city in the world a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people; epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now those foundations are crumbling eaten away by corruption and excess. A serialized drama of love and betrayal masters and slaves husbands and wives Rome chronicles a turbulent era that saw the death of a republic and the birth of an empire.

• Enchanted April | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £6.49   |  Saving you £-1.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.00

  This delightful and witty adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel has a superb cast and a location that creates a magic of its own. In grey rainy 1920s England Lotte and Rose tired of their overbearing husbands decide to rent a villa for a month in Portofino Italy. To share the cost they are joined by two other very different women - Lady Caroline a beautiful but bored socialite and crusty old Mrs. Fisher who has an impeccable literary pedigree. They all want to escape from trapped lives and in this paradise in ways they never imagined possible that is what they all do.

• Mrs Doubtfire | DVD | (30/07/2001) from £14.75   |  Saving you £-1.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This huge 1993 hit for Robin Williams and director Chris Columbus (Home Alone), based on a novel called Alias Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine, stars Williams as a loving but flaky father estranged from his frustrated wife (Sally Field). Devastated by a court order limiting his time with the children, Williams's character disguises himself as a warm, old British nanny who becomes the kids' best friend. As with Dustin Hoffman's performance in Tootsie, Williams's drag act--buried under layers of latex and padding--is the show, and everything and everyone else on screen serves his sometimes frantic role. Since that's the case, it's fortunate that Williams is Williams, and his performance is terribly funny at times and exceptionally believable in those scenes where his character misses his children. Playing Williams's brother, a professional makeup artist, Harvey Fierstein has a good support role in a bright sequence where he tries a number of feminine looks on Williams before settling on Mrs Doubtfire's visage. --Tom Keogh

• State of Play | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A tense conspiracy thriller that twists deeper and deeper into the hostile twilight world where politics meets the press, from Emmy-winning writer Paul Abbot (Cracker) and director David Yates (Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts). Featuring an all-star cast including David Morrissey, John Simm, Bill Nighy, James McAvoy and Kelly Macdonald. Stephen Collins is an ambitious politician. Cal McAffrey is a well-respected investigative journalist and Stephen's ex-campaign manager. En route to work one morning, Stephen's research assistant mysteriously falls to her death on the London Underground. It's not long before rumours of an affair between Stephen and the assistant hit the headlines. Meanwhile a suspected teenage drug dealer is shot dead. Revelation upon revelation pile up in the aftermath of these two seemingly unconnected events, ultimately bringing to light shady dealings between the government and major corporate powers. Friendships are tested and lives are put on the line as an intricate web of lies unfolds.

• D-Tox | Blu Ray | (06/03/2023) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After his girlfriend is killed by the serial killer he's chasing, FBI agent Jake Malloy falls apart. That's why he's sent to a rehab centre in the middle of nowhere, a clinic for cops with problems burnt out cases, alcoholics and worse. But Malloy can't escape his demons: soon after he arrives, people start dying. They seem to be suicides but Jake isn't so sure. Has his serial killing nemesis followed him into the wilderness...? A change of pace for Sylvester Stallone (Rambo, Rocky), D-Tox is a psychological horror movie, with simmering tension courtesy of I Know What You Did Last Summer director Jim Gillespie and solid support from Kris Kristofferson (Convoy), Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgement Day) and Jeffrey Wright (The Batman). 88 Films are proud to present this underrated thriller on Special Edition Blu-ray.

• Pennyworth Season 1 | DVD | (22/06/2020) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This DC origin story follows Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne, who's not yet Bruce's billionaire father, in 1960s London.

• Rome - Series 1-2 - Complete | Blu Ray | (21/09/2009) from £24.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (20.01%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The epic drama set in the days of Julius Caesar his brutal henchman Mark Antony his cunning heir apparent Otavian his conflicted friend Brutus his ruthless niece Atia and his wrathful lover Sevilia. It is a tale for ages seen through the eyes of Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo two soldiers whose lives become inexorably tied to the fate of Rome itself. Love and lust brotherhood and betrayal entangle the infamous Romans in a cruel match of power and principle revenge and redemption chronicling the death of the ancient republic...and the birth of an Empire. Superior picture quality and sound enables customers to experience Rome like never before.

• Prisoners' Wives: Series 2 | DVD | (06/05/2013) from £9.92   |  Saving you £6.07 (61.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The return of the drama about women struggling to cope while the men in their lives are on the inside. Career criminal's wife Francesca finds herself at the heart of an escalating gangland war, while Harriet is delighted that son Gavin appears to have forged a friendship with a group of Muslims. But it seems they are not all they appear to be. There are also two new characters - Kim, whose perfect world is turned upside down when her loving husband and the father of her three boys is accused of a terrible crime - and bride-to-be Aisling, exasperated that her repeat offender father is back in jail. Starring Polly Walker, Pippa Haywood, Iain Glen, Nicola Walker, Sally Carman, Karla Crome and Anne Reid.

• Rome - The Complete First Series | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £16.65   |  Saving you £34.34 (206.25%)   |  RRP £50.99

  The complete first season of the daring ground-breaking and controversial historical drama series. Think of The Sopranos in ancient Rome and you'll get a flavour... This six disc box set contains the 12 hour-long episodes of the first season: this features the HBO 'cut' which includes over an hour of footage not broadcast on the BBC! The year is 52 B.C. Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic Rome is the wealthiest city in the world a cosmopolitan metropolis

• Patriot Games | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £5.19   |  Saving you £12.06 (306.87%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Let's see--he has been Han Solo in three films and Indiana Jones in three more. So why shouldn't Harrison Ford take on a new continuing character in Tom Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan? In this film, directed by Phillip Noyce, Ford picked up the baton when Alec Baldwin, who played Ryan in The Hunt for Red October, opted for a Broadway role instead. In this film, Ryan and his family are on vacation when Ryan saves a member of the British royal family from attack by Irish terrorists. The next thing he knows, the Ryan clan has been targeted by the same terrorists, who invade his Maryland home. The film can't shed all of Clancy's lumbering prose, or his techno-dweeb fascination with spy satellites and the like. But no one is better than Ford at righteous heroism--and Sean Bean makes a suitably snakey villain. --Marshall Fine

• Rome: Season 2 | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £17.55   |  Saving you £32.44 (64.90%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Following the death of Caesar the Roman Empire is plunged into a chaotic power struggle at every social strata an epic conflict unfolds pitting families armies and friends against each other. The new episodes go deeper into the intriguing characters and provocative storylines that made the first season a hit with critics and viewers.

• The Mayor of Casterbridge | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Travelling the dirt roads of Wessex in search of work, Michael Henchard (Ciaran Hinds) a farm worker, auctions his wife Susan (Juliet Aubrey) and baby daughter in a moment of drunken madness at a country fair.Years later, Susan and her daughter Elizabeth-Jane (Jodhi May) return, seeking Michael in Casterbridge where he has become a rich and respected member of Wessex society. Driven by the need to make amends, he remarries Susan but in a tragic twist of fate, she dies, but not before leaving a letter containing a shocking revelation.As a romance blossoms between Elizabeth-Jane and the mayor's charismatic business manager Farfrae (James Purefoy). Henchard become convinced that the young man is determined to destroy him and orders Elizabeth-Jane never to see him again, setting a chain of events in motion that will change their lives forever.

• Lorna Doone - The Complete Series | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £16.76   |  Saving you £-3.77 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the great love stories of English literature is retold in this powerful television adaptation directed by Andrew Grieve (Hornblower) and starring Clive Owen (Children of Men) Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings) Polly Walker (Rome) and Billie Whitelaw (Napoleon and Love). Based on R.D. Blackmore's classic novel set during the turbulent times of King Charles II the production tells of John Ridd a young West Country yeoman whose father has been killed by the Doones - a clan of aristocratic but murderous outlaws inhabiting a neighbouring valley. John's search for vengeance is complicated by his feelings for Lorna a daughter of the Doone clan; behind the romance and adventure lie the richer themes of retribution and forgiveness as John is ultimately able to heal the scars left by the killing of his father through his love for Lorna.

• Eye Of The Killer | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Seeing is believing. After ten years silence a notorious serial killer is back and it's up to detective Michael Hayden to catch him. Hayden realises all too soon that he has a psychic connection with the killer and if he is going to catch him before the next murder he's going to have to get inside the killer's mind.

• Pennyworth Season 1 | Blu Ray | (22/06/2020) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This DC origin story follows Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne, who's not yet Bruce's billionaire father, in 1960s London.

• Emma / Mansfield Park | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Emma (Dir. Douglas McGrath 1996): In the lush countryside of 19th century England there's a young woman so devoted to meddling in the affairs of others that she fails to recognise the longings of her own heart. Her name is Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow) and although she's ""never one to interfere "" Emma manages to make a mess out of every romance she sets up. But her biggest blunder may lie ahead when she discovers her own feelings for her handsome brother-in-law a man she can't d

• Patriot Games | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Let's see--he has been Han Solo in three films and Indiana Jones in three more. So why shouldn't Harrison Ford take on a new continuing character in Tom Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan? In this film, directed by Phillip Noyce, Ford picked up the baton when Alec Baldwin, who played Ryan in The Hunt for Red October, opted for a Broadway role instead. In this film, Ryan and his family are on vacation when Ryan saves a member of the British royal family from attack by Irish terrorists. The next thing he knows, the Ryan clan has been targeted by the same terrorists, who invade his Maryland home. The film can't shed all of Clancy's lumbering prose, or his techno-dweeb fascination with spy satellites and the like. But no one is better than Ford at righteous heroism--and Sean Bean makes a suitably snakey villain. --Marshall Fine

• Rome: The Complete HBO Season 2 (6 Disc Box Set) | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £18.99   |  Saving you £36.00 (189.57%)   |  RRP £54.99

  Unlike another certain celebrated HBO series, Rome's end will satisfy those swept up in its lavishly mounted spectacle and invested in the human dramas of the historical figures and fictional characters. Series 2 begins in the wake of Julius Caesar's assassination, and charts the power struggle to fill his sandals between "vulgar beast" Mark Antony (James Purefoy) and "clever boy" Octavian (Simon Woods), who is surprisingly named Caesar's sole heir. The series' most compelling relationship is between fellow soldiers and unlikely friends, the honorable Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) and Titus "Violence is the only trade I know" Pullo (Ray Stevenson), who somewhat reverse roles when Vorenus is overcome with grief in the wake of his wife's suicide. Series 2 considerably ups the ante in the rivalry between Atia (an Emmy-worthy Polly Walker), who is Antony's mistress, and Servilia (Lindsay Duncan) with attempted poisonings and sickening torture. Another gripping sub plot is Vorenus's estrangement from his children, who, at the climax of the season opener are presumed slaughtered, but whose true fate may be even more devastating to the father who cursed them. Rome's second season does not scrimp on the series' sex and violence, in both cases exceedingly brutal. But in this cauldron of treachery and betrayal, words, too, are vicious, as when a defiant Atia ominously tells Octavian's new wife, Livia, "Far better women that you have sworn to [destroy me]. Go look for them now." In writing Rome's epitaph, we come to praise this series, not to bury it. Although two seasons was not enough to establish a Rome empire, it stands as one of HBO's crowning achievements. --Donald Liebenson

• Sliver | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £36.00   |  Saving you £-20.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This is the too-hot-for-cinemas Unrated Cut of Sliver! Sliver Heights has everything a girl could want. Panoramic views of the city a fully functional gym and a voyeuristic landlord. One day one of the tenants has an accident. First she looks out the window then she looks the wrong way and finally she looks like pavement pizza. This leaves a vacant room which Carly Norris (Sharon Stone) takes a fancy to. She's a thirtysomething executive who has never had that much success

• The Trial | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On the morning of his 30th birthday Josef K. (MacLachlan) wakes up to every person's worst nightmare when two strange men enter his home to place him under arrest. Bewildered by the reasoning of these two authorities he doesn't take the charges seriously and attempts to carry on his life as usual. When summoned to a hearing in an unfamiliar part of the city however K. refuses to accept the case being brought against him by the system. The more K. tries to fight the unnamed charge