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• Gimme, Gimme, Gimme - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Gimme, Gimme, Gimme took situation comedy to new peaks of vulgarity when it returned for a third and final series in 2001, thanks to the full-on performances of James Dreyfus (Tom) and Kathy Burke (Linda) who suck up Jonathan Harvey's innuendo-laden scripts and spit them out like a couple of thespian tornados. "I don't think anything could relax my lips, baby," leers Burke, milking the endless supply of double entendres. "Mind you, after a couple of vodkas they're usually flapping around like flip-flops." Tom's descent into self-parody--when he looks in the mirror, he sees the new Noel Coward--can have only one logical conclusion: the offer of a bit-part in Crossroads which eventually splits up this dysfunctional friendship. Sex-crazed Linda is deluded beyond all reason--when she looks in the mirror, she sees Catherine Zeta Jones--and here we finally get some insight into the reasons behind her grotesque traits: visits from her old Borstal wing governor (the excellent Ann Mitchell, sending up her Widows character), and the long-lost son she gave up for adoption. Like all successful comedy, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme has its dark side. It also becomes increasingly surreal as the episodes pass: Tom fails miserably in a walk-on role in a conceptual Japanese drama presented in a fire station; and Linda turns the back garden into a campsite. Sophisticated it isn't, but it's often wickedly hilarious and occasionally brilliant. On the DVD: Gimme, Gimme, Gimme is presented in standard 14:9 format with a stereo soundtrack, replicating the sitcom viewing experience. Apart from the episode index, there are no extras. At the very least biographies of Harvey, Burke and Dreyfus would have been useful. --Piers Ford

• Bunny And The Bull | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £5.87   |  Saving you £13.38 (290.24%)   |  RRP £17.99

  From the director of "The Mighty Boosh" and starring its very own Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, as well as Ed Hogg ("White Lightnin'") "Bunny and the Bull" is a comedy road movie set entirely in a flat.

• Satan Bug | Blu Ray | (22/09/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Star Trek/Star Trek - Into Darkness | DVD | (15/09/2014) from £3.74   |  Saving you £21.25 (568.18%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Star TrekIntroduces five stand-alone stories that take you on an intriguing adventures each focusing on an alien species that has come into contact - and often conflict - with the Federation of Planets.Star Trek Into Darkness Boxse

• Brian Pern: The Life of Rock/A Life In Rock/45 Years of Prog Rock (BBC) | DVD | (04/04/2016) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Brian Pern: A Life in Rock' is a British comedy documentary following ageing rock star Brian Pern, former front-man of the legendary 1970s progressive rock group Thotch. The Three series; The Life of Rock, A Life in Rock and 45 Years of Prog and Roll follow Brian as he develops as an artist through the ages. Brian claims to have invented world music, come up with the idea of Live Aid and to be the first musician to use Plasticine in videos . An affectionate parody of Peter Gabriel, Brian Pern features a whole host of recognisable faces from Rock and Pop.

• Best Of The Best | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £14.90   |  Saving you £-4.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Alex Grady (Roberts) an Oregan welder and widowed father of a 5-year-old son is chosen for the United States National Karate team. He finds himself in the company of of Tommy Lee (Rhee) a soft spoken Karate instructor and a mix of international colleagues. It's a team with rough edges that must be resolved if they're to win the international competition in the South Korean capital Seoul. The team's sponsor brings in an unorthodox trainer Catherine Wade (Kirkland) to teach the men to

• Manimal - Complete | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £22.35   |  Saving you £12.64 (56.55%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Dr. Jonathan Chase is a wealthy, young, and handsome man with the brightest of futures with a very dark past. From Africa's deepest recesses, to the rarest peaks of Tibet, heir to his father's legacy, and the world's darkest mysteries is Jonathan Chase, master of the secrets that divide man from animal, animal from man, Manimal. From Africa's deepest recesses, to the rarefied peaks of Tibet, heir to his father's legacy and the world's darkest mysteries. Jonathan Chase (Simon MacCorkindale)...

• The Promised Land | DVD | (06/05/2024) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Kinvig - The Complete Series | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The titular electrical repairman (Tony Haygarth) has a simple life and a fertile imagination. Running his own business from a rundown street corner in Bingleton he's more than happy with his scatty wife Netta (Patsy Rowlands) and their beloved dog Cuddly. However a chance encounter with the divine Miss Griffin (Prunella Gee) opens up Des Kinvig's life to a world far beyond that of his daydreaming imagination. Soon he's whisked away from his mundane life for regular trips to the

• Teletubbies - Meet The Teletubbies | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Share the unique Teletubbies experience with this wonderful selection of Teletubbies footage designed to be you and your child's first steps into Teletubbyland. Discover more about Tinky Winky Dipsy Laa Laa and Po and why millions of children continue to love around the world. Also enclosed is a special guide for parents and carers created to provide a wide range of information about the rich content of Teletubbies and why it generates such a positive reaction from very young children.

• Ghosted | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £6.61   |  Saving you £6.38 (96.52%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jack (John Lynch) a model prisoner has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife leaves him on the anniversary of their son's death the only thing that keeps him from going under is the presence of a new prisoner Paul (Martin Compston). But when Paul falls under the influence of psychotic Baron Clay (Craig Parkinson) Jack soon finds he must risk his own life and sanity to help the newcomer. But can he save both himself and Paul in the process? A hard-hitting gritty prison drama starring a stellar cast of home-grown British talent and in your face violence Ghosted is a tough and powerful tale of loss survival salvation and life in a British prison.

• Ballers: The Complete Third Season | DVD | (04/12/2017) from £6.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All ten episodes from the third season of the American football comedy starring Dwayne Johnson. Retired NFL players and former teammates with the Miami Dolphins Spencer Strasmore (Johnson) and Charles Greane (Omar Benson Miller) struggle to adapt to life after football. Spencer takes up a job as a financial manager for NFL players, while Charles starts working at a car dealership and begins to wonder whether he chose to retire too early. In this season, Spencer looks to move in on the lucrative Las Vegas market. The episodes are: 'Seeds of Expansion', 'Bull Rush', 'In the Teeth', 'Ride and Die', 'Make Believe', 'I Hate New York', 'Ricky-Leaks', 'Alley-Oops', 'Crackback' and 'Yay Arena'.

• The Inbetweeners 2 | Blu Ray | (01/12/2014) from £11.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (120.12%)   |  RRP £21.99

  The hotly anticipated follow up to the UK's most successful comedy film of all time, THE INBETWEENERS 2 sees our favourite foursome visit Australia.

• The Big Bang Theory S1-12 | DVD | (11/11/2019) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists, the kind of beautiful minds that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them interact with people, especially women. All this begins to change when a free-spirited beauty named Penny moves in next door. Sheldon, Leonard's roommate, is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends, fellow Caltech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali. However, Leonard sees in Penny a whole new universe of possibilities ... including love.

• Django, Prepare A Coffin | DVD | (14/01/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. What the boss doesn't know is that Django isn't hanging the men at all, just making it look like he is, and using the men he saves from the gallows to build up his own "gang" in order to take revenge on the boss, who, with Django's former best friend, caused the death of his wife years before.

• The House I Live In | DVD | (11/02/2013) from £7.55   |  Saving you £7.44 (98.54%)   |  RRP £14.99

  For over forty years, America's 'War on Drugs' has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs in America are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. The House I Live In captures heart-wrenching stories at all levels of America's drug war. Together, these stories pose urgent questions: What caused the war? What perpetuates it? And what can be done to stop it?

• He Who Dares: The Downing St Siege | DVD | (05/01/2015) from £10.66   |  Saving you £5.59 (59.47%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Simon Phillips and Tom Benedict Knight star in this British action thriller sequel to Paul Tanter's 2013 film 'He Who Dares'. Following on six months after the SAS carried out a successful rescue mission to recover the Prime Minister's kidnapped daughter from a terrorist group the UK's most wanted criminal Alexander Holt (Phillips) escapes from prison and starts putting plans in place to get revenge for his time spent behind bars. His plan: kidnap the Prime Minister (Russell Kilmister). While SAS Captain Chris Lowe (Knight) faces an inquiry into his and his team's actions in the kidnapping case Holt takes advantage of the lack of security and attacks 10 Downing Street taking the Prime Minister hostage. Can Holt and Lowe put their differences aside and negotiate a reasonable agreement that allows the PM to get out alive?

• Jaws 3 | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £8.15   |  Saving you £1.84 (22.58%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The brand new Sea World complex in Florida offers visitors the chance to view the undersea kingdom from the safety of glass tunnels on the sea-bed. All seems well until a thirty-five foot Great White shark appears on the scene.....

• No Man's Land | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £14.46   |  Saving you £5.53 (38.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A brilliant take on the tragedy that beset his country, Danis Tanovic's directorial debut No Man's Land is a bleak comedy set during the war in Bosnia. The story begins as a group of Bosnian soldiers emerge from a fog to realise that they have strayed into a thin strip of land unclaimed by either side in the conflict. A bloody sequence of events ensues, which results in a disputed trench being occupied by weathered Bosnian veteran Branko Djuric and his opposite number, Rene Bitorajac's Serbian greenhorn. There's a standoff between them, complicated by Djuric's injured colleague lying atop a "bouncing mine". He's a human booby trap--move him and the everything within 50 yards will be blown sky-high. As the blue-hatted, ineffectual UN are called in, and with the world's media, led by the late Katrin Cartlidge as a rather snotty BBC reporter, swiftly arriving on the scene, this single trench becomes an almost Beckettian metaphor for the war. Tanovic is not especially concerned with taking sides in the Bosnian-Serb conflict. Whatever its causes, both sides are seen to be as bad, or more accurately as desperate, as each other. That it's hard, for outsiders in particular, to tell who's who much of the time only heightens the irony. There's anger at the media intrusiveness ("Does our misery pay well?" screams Djuric at the reporters), but what's really conveyed is a sense of the absurdity, futility and intractability of war, as summarised in the final image. From the grotesque mess of conflict, Tanovic has fashioned a perfectly judged and beautifully executed movie. On the DVD: No Man's Land is presented in widescreen with a Dolby 5.1 soundtrack. There are no extras, other than an English language option for the hard of hearing. --David Stubbs

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