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• Treme - Season 2 | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £12.32   |  Saving you £30.66 (328.62%)   |  RRP £39.99

  You won't find many television series whose defining event occurred before the first episode of the first season. Then again, there aren't many, if any, series like HBO's Treme. Created by writer-producers David Simon (of The Wire) and Eric Overmyer, this show has as its driving force, its raison d'être, Katrina, the hurricane that decimated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 2005. The debut season began a couple of months after the storm passed through, leaving misery and chaos in its wake; the first of 11 episodes in this, the second season, starts about a year after that. Most of the action still centers around NOLA, where the locals are continuing to pick up the pieces and get on with their lives in a city now plagued with violence and disorder. Some of those who left are returning, but some may be gone for good (several scenes throughout the season take place in New York City). Some are trying to rebuild their homes (which means the endless wait for federal funds continues); others, hewing to a mantra that "no disaster should go to waste," include venal businessmen looking to capitalize on the city's pain by rebuilding New Orleans "properly." And as one character puts it, "Everybody is out of their minds." As before, there are numerous characters and story lines to keep track of. Trombonist Antoine Batiste (Wendell Pierce) takes a job teaching music to schoolkids while also putting together a hot new band, the Soul Apostles. His former wife, bar owner LaDonna (Khandi Alexander), spends much of the season suffering from the effects of a brutal assault. Chef Janette Desautel (Kim Dickens) now lives and plies her trade in Manhattan, while her former boyfriend, DJ and aspiring rapper-music exec Davis McAlary (Steve Zahn), has taken up with up-and-coming fiddler Annie Tee (Lucia Micarelli). Activist lawyer Toni Bernette (Oscar winner Melissa Leo) tries to get to the bottom of a killing that may have involved police misconduct, while daughter Sofia (India Ennenga) struggles to adapt to life without her dad, who died in the previous season. Part of the show's appeal is the fact that these folks and the others whose story lines we follow are not superheroes or world-beaters; they're just people dealing with life's daily, if not exactly ordinary, vicissitudes. But as before, it's the music that remains the show's soul and constant heartbeat, whether it's provided by regulars like Antoine, Annie, and trumpeter Delmond Lambreaux (Rob Brown), who's trying to simultaneously update and honor the traditional New Orleans sound, or guest artists including John Hiatt and Shawn Colvin. You might tune in for the writing and acting (both excellent), but in the end, it's the sounds of Treme that will keep you coming back. --Sam Graham

• Sex Pistols - The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Sex Pistols star in Julien Temple's at times surreal at times hilarious factional documentary that charts the rise and fall of punk's most notorious band through the eyes of its calculating and grandiose manager Malcolm McLaren played here with full Machiavellian swagger. Written and directed by Temple whilst he was still a film student it mixes animation and midgets with footage of some of the Sex Pistols' most electrifying live performances. Originally released in UK theatres in 1980 the film presents the band's success as an elaborate scam perpetrated by McLaren to make ""a million pounds"" at the expense of record companies outraged moralists the British Royal Family - and even the fans and band members themselves. As the film's original tagline stated The Great Rock Rock 'n' Roll Swindle is the film that incriminated its audience. As the brief but beautiful period of punk rock is now as far away from 2007 as 1976/77 was from the end of World War 2 it will be hard for anyone under 35 to comprehend just how shocking this film was and the incredible controversy it caused as depressed Britain blighted by inner city riots and waking to the birth of Thatcherism lurched into the Eighties. However watching it again it is still immensely powerful just as riveting still retains the capability to shock and is as valid now as it was then. More than 25 years after their break-up the Sex Pistols' music continues to influence punk and post-punk bands the world over - and The Great Rock Rock 'n' Roll Swindle shows why. It helped add to the band's already riotous reputation with scenes of Sid Vicious attacking a Parisienne prostitute (with a French tart) the subversive Queen's Silver Jubilee Day concert on the Thames in 1977 their infamous appearance on the ""Bill Grundy Show"" and underage female nudity. It even had to contend with the death of Sid Vicious who died between the ending of filming and its theatrical release. But it is the Sex Pistols music that emerges as the films biggest star: performances of ""Anarchy In The UK"" ""God Save The Queen"" and ""Holidays In The Sun"" are mesmeric while Vicious' ""My Way"" maintains an air of tragedy and exquisiteness at once. Tenpole Tudor (ingeniously called ""Tadpole"" by Irene Handl in the film) weighs in with vocals on ""Who Killed Bambi"" and ""Rock Around The Clock"" and even on-the-run Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs turns up to sing on ""No One Is Innocent"" and ""Belsen Vos A Gasser"". Having spawned the phrase ""making cash from chaos"" it's worth remembering that the Sex Pistols were voted the ""1977 Young Businessmen of the Year"" by their antitheses in the City of London..

• The Stranger | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £5.35   |  Saving you £10.64 (198.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Pro wrestling legend Steve Austin stars as a man with no name no memory and absolutely nothing left to lose. But when he finds himself hunted by both the FBI and the Russian mob this amnesiac decides to fight back. Pursuit cannot stop him. Torture will not break him. And with every beating bullet and betrayal he'll remember another piece of the horror that took away his career his family and his identity. Now the puzzle is nearly complete and one man is about to take back his past... by ending a whole lot of futures. Erica Cerra (Eureka) and Adam Beach (Flags Of Our Fathers) star in this explosive action-thriller about collateral damage stone cold vengeance and a double-crossed killing machine known only as The Stranger.

• Follow Me DVD | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

  The first release from the crews new company Anthill Films, Follow Me takes the viewer inside the action, capturing the unique perspectives and HD imagery the crew is famous for A modern portrait of mountain bike lifestyle, Follow Me gets back to basics and reminds us why we all love to ride bikes Breaking from the traditional single rider format, Follow Me is based on the idea that no one rides alone mixing and matches the worlds best downhillers, freeriders and slopestylers in some of the best places to ride on the planet Think back-yard sessions, ripping local trails, training bike parks, epic road trips and heli drops Follow Me is all about good times, pushing limits with your friends, crazy adventures and most importantly having fun your bike Follow Me will change the way you see mountain bike films and get you stoked to get off the couch and ride Riders include Sam Hill, Gee Atherton, Darren Berreclough, Ben Boyko, Brendan Fairclough, Geoff Gulevich, Matt Hunter, Cam McCaul, Brandon Semenuk, Steve Smith, Kurt Sorge, Thomas Vanderham Locations include Queenstown NZ, North Shore, Sunshine Coast, Kamloops, Mt. Hood Run Time: 45 Minutes

• Winchester 73 | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £8.64   |  Saving you £-3.65 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Frontiersman Lin McAdam (Stewart) is attempting to track down both his father's murderer and his one-of-a-kind rifle the Winchester '73 as it passes among a diverse group of desperate characters including a crazed highwayman (Dan Duryea) an immoral gunrunner (John McIntire) a savage young Indian chief (Rock Hudson) and McAdam's own murderous brother (Stephen McNally)...

• Boardwalk Empire - Season 1-3 | DVD | (05/08/2013) from £19.98   |  Saving you £45.01 (225.28%)   |  RRP £64.99

  Boardwalk Empire - Season 1When Alcohol Was Outlawed. Outlaws Became Kings. From Terence Winter Emmy Award-winning writer of 'The Sopranos ' and Academy Award Winning Director Martin Scorsese 'Boardwalk Empire' is set in Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition when the sale of alcohol became illegal throughout the United States. The Great War is over Wall Street is about to boom and everything is for sale even the World Series. It is a time of change when women are getting the vote broadcast radio is introduced and young people rule the world. On the beach in southern New Jersey sits Atlantic City a spectacular resort known as The World's Playground a place where rules don't apply. Massive hotels line its famous Boardwalk along with nightclubs amusement piers and entertainment to rival Broadway. For a few dollars a working man can get away and live like a king -- legally or illegally. The undisputed ruler of Atlantic City is the town's Treasurer Enoch Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) a political fixer and backroom dealer who is equal parts politician and gangster and equally comfortable in either role. Because of its strategic location on the seaboard the town is a hub of activity for rum-runners minutes from Philadelphia hours from New York City and less than a day's drive from Chicago. And Nucky Thompson takes full advantage. Boardwalk Empire - Season 2Atlantic City 1921. In a city whose fortunes have soared in the wake of Prohibition Nucky Thompson is paying a steep price for wielding ultimate power in the world's playground. Steve Buscemi returns as Nucky in Season 2 of this hit HBO drama series that follows the continued rise of organized crime at the dawn of Prohibition. Though the 1920 election he successfully rigged is over Nucky finds himself the target of a federal investigation for vote tampering - and an insurrection by those he counted among his closest allies. All the while top mobsters like Arnold Rothstein Lucky Luciano Meyer Lansky and Al Capone wait in the wings looking for the chance to grab a bigger piece of Nucky's pie. Michael Pitt Kelly Macdonald and Michael Shannon co-star. Boardwalk Empire - Season 3Atlantic City 1922: The Roaring '20s are about to begin in earnest and despite a booming economy alcohol is scarce and gangster violence is heating up. Amidst this backdrop Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) whose marriage to Margaret has become a sham after she signed away his highway windfall to the church faces the challenge of mending old relationships. Nucky also encounters new competition from a hair-trigger gangster who builds a strategic bulkhead between New York and Atlantic City in an effort to siphon off Nucky's alcohol business. The conflict brings out the best and worst in Nucky as new and familiar faces undergo compelling metamorphoses within the third season of this Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning series.

• Reservoir Dogs - Limited Steelbook Edition (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (01/12/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Muppets Take Manhattan | Blu Ray | (24/03/2014) from £8.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (37.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play.   Fresh out of drama school, Kermit, Fozzie Bear and the entire cast of Kermit's musical - Manhattan Melodies - head for the Big Apple with plans to turn their small play into a Broadway hit! All they need now is someone to produce their show! But when no one in town will even meet with them, it's up to Kermit to believe hard enough for all of his friends that the show WILL go on!   Actors The Muppets, Brooke Shields, Art Carney, Joan Rivers, Liza Minnelli, John Landis, Dabney Coleman, Gregory Hines, Elliott Gould, Gates McFadden & Sandra Bernhard Director Frank Oz Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1984 Screen Widescreen 1.85:1 Anamorphic Languages English - Dolby (2.0) Stereo Additional Languages French ; German ; Spanish Subtitles English ; French ; German ; Polish ; Czech ; Hungarian ; Hindi ; Turkish ; Danish ; Arabic ; Swedish ; Finnish ; Icelandic ; Dutch ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Spanish Duration 1 hour and 34 minutes (approx)

• Parenthood | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ron Howard's 1989 hit, written by fellow family men Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (Splash, A League of Their Own), is an original comedy about contemporary life and the eternal responsibilities of raising children. Steve Martin has never been better than as a dedicated husband and father trying (and inevitably failing, as do most of us) to balance the demands of his kids and his job. The actor, like his character, throws himself into the part quite touchingly, particularly in a scene where a hired clown fails to show up at a children's party and Martin's character unabashedly provides the entertainment. Good as Martin is, this is actually an ensemble piece with numerous actors playing members of the same family, with cross-generational joys and disappointments in the air--and parents in conflict, children in love and so on. Jason Robards is very good as a patriarch who finally accepts the reality that the son he adores (Tom Hulce) is a major screw-up. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Last Exit To Brooklyn | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle the Catholic priest Christopher and the idealistic English teacher Joe Connor lodge two thousand and five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege of the Hutu militia.

• The Hunter | Blu Ray | (21/02/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Hole in the Ground (DVD) | DVD | (08/07/2019) from £6.83   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O'Neill (Seána Kerslake) is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris (James Quinn Markey). A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home. Bonus Feature Inside the Hole in the Ground

• Rawhide: The Complete Series | DVD | (11/08/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dinner for Schmucks | DVD | (17/01/2011) from £2.69   |  Saving you £17.30 (643.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tim (Paul Rudd), an up-and-coming executive has just received his first invitation to the "dinner for idiots," a monthly event hosted by his boss that promises bragging rights (and more) to the exec that shows up with the biggest buffoon.

• Benidorm: The Complete Collection - Series 1 - 4 and Specials | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £6.48   |  Saving you £33.51 (517.13%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This is the complete box set of all four series of the popular hit comedic television show Benidorm, set in Spain, which depicts the lives of working class people on their holidays abroad to this tourist magnet destination, whether they're first timers or regulars, with amusing results.

• Flatliners | Blu Ray | (05/02/2018) from £7.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Flatliners, five competitive medical students, obsessed by the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiments: by stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience - giving them firsthand account of the afterlife. But as their experiments become increasingly dangerous, they are each haunted by the sins of their pasts, brought on by the paranormal consequences of trespassing to the other side. Click Images to Enlarge

• Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £3.70   |  Saving you £16.29 (440.27%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The end of the world is nigh and two strangers, Dodge and Penny, meet and decide to go on a road trip to see Dodge's long-lost childhood sweetheart.

• Mrs Merton And Malcolm - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Described as possibly the most disturbing show on television by Time Out magazine Mrs Merton and Malcolm was a spin off from the wildly successful The Mrs Merton Show. Created by Caroline Aherne Craig Cash and Henry Normal the programme developed Aherne's spoof chat show host Mrs Merton into a sitcom mum looking after her grown-up son Malcolm. The duo lived a highly structured life alongside Mr Merton who was only ever seen on screen as an immobile silent lump in bed upstairs.

• Shakespeare In Love/Marie Antoinette/Vanity Fair | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £11.22   |  Saving you £8.77 (43.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shakespeare In Love (Dir. John Madden) (1998): When Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production! Marie Antoinette (Dir. Sofia Coppola) (2006): A decadently imaginative interpretation of the life of France's iconic teenage queen Marie Antoinette from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI aged 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the termination of her royal tenure and ultimately the fall of Versailles in the French Revolution... Vanity Fair (Dir. Mira Nair 2004): Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) is a poor but well educated girl born into a 19th-century society offering little in the way of career advancement for women. She becomes a governess for Sir Pitt Crawley (Bob Hoskins) and aims to find a rich husband.

• The Thirteenth Floor | DVD | (03/07/2000) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Computer scientist Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) finds something extremely important. Knowing that he's marked for assassination, he leaves a message in the virtual reality world he's designed, hoping it will be found by colleague Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko). Hall is a suspect in Fuller's murder and indeed finds a bloody shirt in his house, with no recollection of what he did the night before. Hall plunges headlong into Fuller's world (a re-creation of l937 Los Angeles) to try to unravel the slaying and is soon knee-deep in confusion and trouble. What this film lacks in character depth and plot cohesiveness it makes up for in special effects and high concept. Fans of films like Blade Runner, Dark City, eXistenZ, and even the game Sim City should find this appealing. Of course, there's the question of letting the computers do all the heavy lifting in films while the humans walk through the plot (an all-too-familiar scenario in 1999), but the re-creation of 30s Los Angeles is certainly something to see, pallid script and acting or not. The Thirteenth Floor is a stylish modern-day noir that raises questions about technology vs. reality, all the while wrapped up in a murder-mystery story line. --Jerry Renshaw