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• Basic Instinct - Special Edition | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £9.21   |  Saving you £10.78 (117.05%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With more than a decade of cinema in Basic Instinct's wake it's fascinating to look back at just how influential Paul Verhoeven's "erotic thriller" has been. The director's endless fight with censorship and unwillingness to kowtow to social mores meant his movies became notorious for graphically depicting sex and violence while pushing contemporary boundaries of taste. This whodunit about a bisexual femme fatale (Sharon Stone in a career-best performance) caused an enormous furore on its release; but after years of generally inferior imitations there's not much in it that seems quite so shocking now. It's perhaps best appreciated in retrospect more for its Hitchcockian style than the steamy sex. On the DVD: one of the most welcome elements of the disc is an acknowledgement of the film's own influences--from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Verhoeven's own The Fourth Man. The print is far superior to the previous release, looking magnificent in 1:78.1. Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar-nominated score sounds terrific in either 5.1 or DTS, as does Verhoeven's thick accent on the first commentary track alongside then Director of Photography Jan De Bont (Speed), who together reminisce on locations and manipulating their actors' performances. A second commentary from feminist critic Camille Paglia is a brave way of putting paid to the gay/feminist community uproar. There are some standard inclusions (trailer, production notes, photo gallery etc) but far more interesting are two mini-documentaries; "Cleaning Up Basic Instinct" shows how and why the TV version was so dull, while "Blonde Poison" focuses on the film's making and marketing. Finally, there are three storyboard comparisons and nine minutes of screen tests for Stone and Tripplehorn. This is the definitive release of an oft-cited modern classic. --Paul Tonks

• Guess With Jess: Why Do Bees Make Honey? | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £6.76   |  Saving you £4.22 (111.94%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Mimi is eating honey sandwiches and lets Jess have a taste. He loves it! But wonders why the bees make the delicious honey. That's the big question! It's so sticky maybe it's for glue....? With the help of Horace and his groovy song about how honey is made, Jess finds his way to the right answer!!

• Jeeves And Wooster - The Complete 3rd Series | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £13.02   |  Saving you £6.97 (53.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first three episodes of this third series of Jeeves & Wooster take place in Manhattan. In spite of the change of scene, our hero continues to get into the most terrible scrapes, and it falls to the faithful Jeeves to save the day, frequently. When he realises that Honoria Glossop may once again have her sights set on his precious bachelorhood, Bertie Wooster sets sail for the New World. Here he helps old pal Tuppy to make a business deal. At the same time he has to keep Motty Malvern on the straight and narrow, while helping two writer friends deceive their prying relatives. The final straw comes in the shape of Cyril Bassington-Bassington, the stage-struck son of Aunt Agatha's closest friend. Back home in England, Bertie and Gussie Fink-Nottle switch identities, the lunatic Roderick Spode reappears, Bertie is forced to commit burglary (again!), and there's a spot of trouble with a tin of treacle and some communists. The unflappable Jeeves is Bertie's only hope. Although the humour in this collection sometimes feels a little less assured than in earlier episodes and the new actor playing Gussie is a disappointment, the central performances of Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry are as good as ever. Few actors have ever brought such beloved characters so convincingly to life. --Simon Leake

• Anger Management / Groundhog Day / So I Married An Axe Murderer | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £23.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three side-splittingly funny comedies including Anger Management Groundhog Day and So I Married An Axe Murderer. Anger Management: Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) is usually a mild-mannered non-confrontational guy. But after an altercation aboard an airplane he is remanded to the care of anger management therapist Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) who could probably use some anger management himself. Now Dave is really mad! Groundhog Day: Bill Murray is at his wisecracking best in this riotous romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life! Teamed with a relentlessly cheery producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart aleck cameraman TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. On his way out of town Phil is caught in a giant blizzard - which he himself actually failed to predict - and finds himself stuck in a small town hell. Just when things couldn't get worse they do! Phil wakes the next morning to find that it's Groundhog Day all over again. And again. And again. During the recurring 24 hour nightmare Phil starts to realise that he can also use it to his advantage; to re-write the events of his day and to generally have a whale of a time. But manipulating his day to capture the one woman he really wants is not quite so easy... So I Married An Axe Murderer: Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) is a love-shy poet living in San Francisco who frequents neighborhood coffee houses reciting his tortured odes to unrequited love. Burned by a string of failed relationships Mackenzie's fear of commitment has intensified into outrageous extremes of paranoia. When he finds himself falling for the sweet-faced butcher (Nancy Travis) at his local meat shop he sees it as a final chance for love to overcome his painful cynicism. Feeling he has squelched his nagging fears Mackenzie marries the woman. But his anxiety quickly manifests itself in the conviction that his wife is actually an infamous axe murderer whose antics are described in juicy detail in each week's issue of the Weekly World News...

• Alien Intruder | DVD | (01/09/2001) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-4.55 (-228.60%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Four convicts volunteer for a salvage space mission which turns into a nightmare when the crew begin disappearing.

• Pontypool | Blu Ray | (25/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A psychological thriller in which a deadly virus infects a small Ontario town.

• Oh Doctor Beeching - Complete Series 1 | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-23.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The trials and tribulations of the staff at Hatley railway station who are all wondering if Dr Beeching will close them down.... Featuring all 9 episodes of the first series and the pilot: Oh Doctor Beeching! All Change Talking Turkey The Train Now Standing A Moving Story The Late Mr Buckly Horse Play Past Love Job Opportunity Sleeping Around.

• Backmask | DVD | (04/05/2015) from £4.09   |  Saving you £11.90 (74.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Six teenagers host the sex and drug-fuelled party of a lifetime in an old abandoned asylum ignoring rumours that the once brutal and controversial home for the criminally insane still houses the spirits of its tormented victims. After a series of increasingly daring games they soon raise the stakes and attempt to summon the spirits that haunt the building. However they soon find themselves fighting for their lives as a vengeful spirit infiltrates the group wreaking havoc as it moves from one body to the next. Directed by Marcus Nispel (Friday the 13th The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and starring Stephen Lang (Avatar) and Kelly Blatz (From Within) THE ASYLUM is a gore-filled supernatural thrill-ride.

• Spider's Web | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A career driven female investment executive is seduced by a young man who uses her to steal from his wealthy father. He then sets her up to take the fall for his several murders but she eventually tries to turn the tables on him...

• Blackadder II (Remastered) | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £6.02   |  Saving you £9.97 (165.61%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Although now regarded as the opening salvo of a classic series, the original Blackadder series was not considered a great success, either among critics or many viewers, so a major rethink took place when it was recommissioned. On the writing front, future-Four Weddings And A Funeral scribe Richard Curtis was joined by Ben Elton, while the expensive War of the Roses-era sets were replaced by cosier Elizabethan ones. The most important change, however, was with Rowan Atkinson's eponymous character who, in the first series, had been a fairly weak-willed idiot but now emerged as the familiar Machiavellian fiend which would cement Atkinson's place in the pantheon of great British sitcom actors. Moreover, even if so many of the script's lines have been subsequently ripped off by lesser hands that it can't help but occasionally sound dated, the central performances of Atkinson, Tony Robinson (Baldrick), Tim McInnery (Lord Percy), Stephen Fry (Lord Melchett) and, of course, Miranda Richardson as the childishly psychotic Queen Elizabeth ("I love it when you get cross. Sometimes I think about having you executed just to see the expression on your face") remain note perfect. Yet the real pleasure for viewers may be in rediscovering the raft of excellent guest star performances--not least Tom "Doctor Who" Baker's berserk turn as a literally legless old sea dog given to guzzling his own urine long before the drinking water has run out. --Clark Collis

• Little Red Tractor - One Potato, Two Potato... | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £5.47   |  Saving you £7.52 (137.48%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Join Little Red Tractor and his friends Sparky Nipper and Big Blue on more of their fun adventures. Can the little tractor with a big heart help his driver Stan save the day again? Can they rescue Mr Jones from his hot air balloon and solve the mystery of the falling corn? Will the Little Red Tractor arrive in time to drag Nipper from the railway tracks? And who will help Stan when his beloved tractor goes missing? Episodes Comprise: 1. Thunder And Dancing 2. Row Yer Boat 3. Lost 4. Up Up and Away 5. One Potato Two Potato... 6. The Show Must Go On

• Hunted - Season 1 | Blu Ray | (26/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £31.99

  Meet Sam. A spy for hire. A ruthless operative. A determined hunter. And herself hunted by a hidden enemy more brutal and dogged than any she's ever known. Sam has been running from her past her entire life. But when she returns to her job at Byzantium following a near fatal attempt on her life, she will discover the only way to escape that past... is to confront it. Trapped in an intricate web of suspense and paranoia, Sam must discover who wants her dead at the same time as completing her mission for Byzantium before it is too late.

• Ballykissangel - Season 3 | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £15.14   |  Saving you £9.85 (65.06%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The third series of Kieran Prendiville's gentle comedy drama which became a fixture of the Sunday night schedule for BBC1. Episodes comprise: 1. When A Child Is Born 2. Changing Time 3. Stardust In Your Eyes 4. The Fortune In Men's Eyes 5. I Know When I'm Not Wanted 6. Personal Call 7. Lost Sheep 8. The Waiting Game 9. Pack Up Your Troubles 10. The Reckoning 11. Amongst Friends

• Fugitive Pieces | DVD | (31/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Fugitive Pieces is a powerful, poetic, and emotionally charged drama about love, loss and liberation. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII.

• The Damned United | Blu Ray | (31/05/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "The Damned United" centres around controversial football manager Brian Clough, set in 1974 but flashing back to the 1960s, about the famed manager's ill-fated 44-day reign as coach of Leeds United, then one of the country's most successful teams.

• Secretary | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal – Donnie Darko Adaptation) gets a job as a secretary in a small firm she does her best to please. But her new boss (James Spader – Stargate Crash) finds fault with her typing and administers a rather unconventional kind of punishment. Soon Lee realises that she is not only becoming the perfect secretary but also the woman she always wanted to be. Daring sexy and provocative this award-winning film is a must for everyone who's ever had a hard day at work...

• For Better, For Worse | DVD | (04/08/2014) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Boasting some of post-war Britain's most accomplished screen stars this gentle romantic comedy charts the tribulations of a materially challenged but deeply loving young couple. Starring Dirk Bogarde Cecil Parker and Dennis Price For Better For Worse is co-scripted and directed by Oscar-nominated Jack Lee-Thompson and received two BAFTA nominations in 1954. The film is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer in its original aspect ratio from original film elements. When impoverished young graduate Tony Howard proposes to Anne Purves in the cinema he is readily accepted. Her father listens patiently to Tony when he asks for his daughter's hand but upon receiving far from satisfactory answers to the usual father-in-law questions he agrees to the marriage only on the condition that Tony finds both a job and a flat... Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Promotional Material PDF

• Last Exit To Brooklyn | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £17.97   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The mean and desolate streets of Brooklyn are home to a host of unhappy hopeless characters stuck in dead-end lives. A young prostitute emotionally numb from having sold her body so many times regularly leads her prospective clients to a dark alley where a gang beats and robs them; an office worker cannot deal with his repressed homosexuality; and a young girl's father refuses to admit that she is eight months pregnant. All these stories take place in a world waiting to explode: local workers are engaged in an angry strike against a nearby factory while not too far away at the Brooklyn Navy Yard soldiers sail daily for Korea many never to return. The personal and the political intermingle in this bleak look at poverty drugs and violence in the inner-city in the early 1950s based on Hubert Selby Jr's controversial book. Jennifer Jason Leigh received the Best Supporting Actress Award from the New York Film Critics Circle in 1990 for her work in this film.

• Roseanne - Series 2 | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  America's favourite dysfunctional family - Roseanne Conner (Roseanne Barr) husband Dan (John Goodman) her sister Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) and kids Becky (Lecy Goranson) Darlene (Sara Gilbert) and D.J. (Michael Fishman) - is back! An unforgettable season of odd jobs and bathtub dreams broken romance and Halloween pranks weight-loss programs and school assembly humiliations the arrival of Arnie Thomas and the reunion with Ziggy Dan's dad hooking up with Crystal Jackie joining

• The Violators | DVD | (25/07/2016) from £5.54   |  Saving you £10.45 (188.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Author Helen Walsh makes a striking debut as writer/director of this powerful new British drama set against the backdrop of the grim Cheshire housing estates. Two dysfunctional girls Shelly (Lauren McQueen) and Rachel (Brogan Ellis) from very different backgrounds meet and set off on a course that will have profound implications for both of them. A visceral and powerful debut film with more than a few twists along the way.