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• The Sopranos: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £15.74   |  Saving you £46.25 (293.84%)   |  RRP £61.99

  The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme-makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include the hapless efforts by Chris (Michael Imperioli) to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme-makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, and devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --David Stubbs

• The Big Short | Blu Ray | (23/05/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £1.99 (24.91%)   |  RRP £9.98

  The true story of several remarkable contrarian investors who, recognizing just how insane the housing bubble and subprime mortgage market had become, figured out how to short the market and make a killing during the financial collapse of 2008.

• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On its original release in 1988, the pairing of Steve Martin and Michael Caine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was seen as something of a dream ticket. Viewing the film many years later, that assessment still proves completely accurate: the casting is perfect. American Freddy Benson and Briton Lawrence Jamieson are con men who work the French Riviera--at first as colleagues, later as rivals--praying on rich, gullible women before finally meeting their match. Having spent the decade veering between popular rubbish and low-key quality, for once Caine was able to find a populist vehicle that did justice to his talents. Steve Martin is, well, very Steve Martin but there are few better suited to the visual comedy of his character. The film has an old-fashioned feel (no sex, violence or bad language) and owes much to the earlier period of film humour--it really doesn't take that much imagination to see this as an Ealing comedy. All round, it's a stylish, charming, witty film. On the DVD: Extras are few, limited to scene selection, subtitles and the very funny trailer. Picture quality is superb, allowing the film's exotic setting to sparkle and there are many scenes of breathtaking beauty. Given that the film is full of fantastic comedy set pieces, the ability to select scenes is a real plus, allowing to the viewer to locate that classic Martin pratfall at the push of a button. --Phil Udell

• Shetland Series 5 | DVD | (15/04/2019) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Award-winning crime writer Ann Cleeves' bestselling detective series returns for a fifth season as DI Jimmy Perez faces a compelling new single mystery. A human hand washes up on a Shetland beach. A few hours later, more body parts are discovered in a hold-all that has been dumped at sea. The victim is identified as a young Nigerian man, spotted in Lerwick a few days before. What was he doing on the islands? In investigating his murder, DI Perez becomes involved in the search for a vulnerable young woman, leading him to uncover a complex network of human trafficking across Scotland's remote rural communities.

• Minority Report 4K Ultra HD/BD SteelBook | Unknown | (02/02/2026) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Acclaimed director Steven Spielberg's action-packed foretelling vision of the future comes to 4k Ultra HD for the first time. When Precrime detective John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is identified as a future murderer, he must race against his own specialised police department and time itself to prove his innocence of a crime he has yet to commit. Visually stunning and packed with relentless action, it is a cerebral, high-octane ride through a future where free will is under surveillance - and nothing is as it seems.Deboss on the back, on the badge. Spot Gloss on the badge and Tom Cruise + background, with Matte on the text and circles on the front

• Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | DVD | (02/12/2013) from £3.79   |  Saving you £16.20 (427.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Alan's radio station, North Norfolk Digital, is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.

• Monster House | DVD | (11/12/2006) from £4.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (278.74%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Three kids who must do battle with a mysterious and spooky house in this animated adventure.

• The Office - An American Workplace - Season 1-9 Complete | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £60.79   |  Saving you £-24.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £35.95

  The complete boxset of The Office: Seasons 1 to 9

• Digimon: Digital Monsters Season 2 | DVD | (14/11/2016) from £19.20   |  Saving you £20.79 (108.28%)   |  RRP £39.99

  By popular demand, the anime fan-favourite released for the first time on DVD! Four years after Tai, Mimi and the rest of the Digidestined brought peace to the digital world and found their way back home, the Digimon Emperor - a new villain - threatens the world and its Digital Monsters. With some the original kids off to junior high, a new generation is chosen to defend and save the world from evil. Davis, Yolei, Cody, and Ken join T.K and Kari to form the new Digidestined team. Together they journey back to the Digital World to battle the Digimon Emperor and free all the Digital Monsters from his control. Special Features: Original Japanese opening

• League of Gentlemen - Complete Collection | DVD | (15/01/2018) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Includes All 3 Series, The Christmas Special & New Anniversary Specials Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Mark Gatiss play the dozens of bizarre and darkly comic inhabitants of the fictional town of Royston Vasey, located in a remote part of the North of England. This complete box set contains the previously released individual titles (Series 1, Series 2, Series 3 and The Christmas Specials) together with the three new Anniversary Specials, celebrating the League's twentieth anniversary at the BBC. Features: Series One: Character Biographies Cast and Director Commentary Photo Gallery and over 20 minutes of Unseen Material Series Two: Character Biographies Cast Commentary ¢ Photo Gallery and over 20 minutes of Unseen Material Series Three: Over two hours of Bonus Material Local Gossip (commentary) Interview with Costume Designer, Yves Barre Dean's magic Teach-In Local Out-takes & Deleted Scene Photo Gallery Isolated Music Cues New Video Diaries The Making of Series 3 SFX Footage Character Biographies Christmas Special Stocking Fillers: Documentary Tales From Behind The Crypt ¢ Character Biographies Interview with composer Joby Talbot Jackanory: The Curse of Karrit Poor Photo Gallery Out-takes The League in Conversation with Paul Jackson - Full Version Commentary by the League FX Shots

• Phoenix Nights: Series 1 and 2 | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £40.19   |  Saving you £-15.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Created by and starring Bolton-born comic Peter Kay, Phoenix Nights is one of those rare gems that few saw on first showing but that everyone was soon talking about. The first series introduces wheelchair-bound Brian Potter (Kay), who runs the titular Phoenix, a shabby social club populated by an assortment of wonderfully observed characters. It's grim up North and despite the best efforts of the staff to inject life into the proceedings--be it an alternative comedy night, a version of Robot Wars in Potter's beloved Pennine Suite or a Wild West extravaganza--each evening's entertainment always ends badly. Undaunted, the Phoenix denizens continue to strive for their dream: a world in which "clubland never dies". The beginning of the second series sees Brian Potter's beloved Phoenix Club lying in ashes and the staff scattered to the four winds. Even club compere Jerry St Clair is reduced to singing "Come get your black bin bags" to the tune of Men in Black in the local supermarket. But not even being barred from having a licence for the rest of his natural life can deter the northern Svengali from reopening the club and making it bigger and better than before--even if that means making Jerry the licensee and offering up-market Chinese nosh. --Kristen Bowditch

• Night at the Museum 1-3 | DVD | (13/04/2015) from £14.35   |  Saving you £-8.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Get ready for the wildest and most adventure-filled Night at the Museum ever as Larry (Ben Stiller) spans the globe uniting favourite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.

• You've Got Mail | DVD | (23/08/1999) from £8.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (56.31%)   |  RRP £13.99

  By now, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have amassed such a fund of goodwill with moviegoers that any new onscreen pairing brings nearly reflexive smiles. In You've Got Mail, the quintessential boy and girl next door repeat the tentative romantic crescendo that made Sleepless in Seattle, writer-director Nora Ephron's previous excursion with the duo, a massive hit. The prospective couple do actually meet face to face early on but Mail otherwise repeats the earlier feature's gentle, extended tease of saving its romantic resolution until the final, gauzy shot. The underlying narrative is an even more old-fashioned romantic pas de deux that is casually hooked to a newfangled device. The script, cowritten by the director and her sister, Delia Ephron, updates and relocates the Ernst Lubitsch classic, The Shop Around the Corner, to contemporary Manhattan, where Joe Fox (Hanks) is a cheerfully rapacious merchant whose chain of book superstores is gobbling up smaller, more specialized shops such as the children's bookstore owned by Kathleen Kelly (Ryan). Their lives run in close parallel in the same idealized neighbourhood yet they first meet anonymously, online, where they gradually nurture a warm, even intimate correspondence. As they begin to wonder whether this e-mail flirtation might lead them to be soul mates, however, they meet and clash over their colliding business fortunes. It's no small testament to the two stars that we wind up liking and caring about them despite the inevitable (and highly manipulative) arc of the plot. Although their chemistry transcended the consciously improbable romantic premise of Sleepless, enabling director Ephron to attain a kind of amorous soufflé, this time around there's a slow leak that considerably deflates the affair. Less credulous viewers will challenge Joe's logic in prolonging the concealment of his online identity from Kathleen, and may shake their heads at Ephron's reinvention of Manhattan as a spotless, sun-dappled wonderland where everybody lives in million-dollar apartments and colour co-ordinates their wardrobes for cocktail parties. --Sam Sutherland

• Young Guns | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £4.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (223.03%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Six reasons why the west was wild. The year is 1878 Lincoln County. John Tunstall a British ranch owner hires six rebellious boys as ""regulators"" to protect his ranch against the ruthless Santa Fe Ring. When Tunstall is killed in an ambush the Regulators led by the wild-tempered Billy the Kid declare war on the Ring. As their vendetta turns into a bloody rampage they are branded outlaws becoming the targets of the largest manhunt in Western history.

• Chicken Little | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £9.15   |  Saving you £-2.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.96

  Zach Braff lends his voice to the hero of Disney's take on the classic fable.

• That Thing You Do! | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £6.25   |  Saving you £-0.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tom Hanks's debut as a writer and director is a lively, affectionate account of the shooting-star career of a forgotten (fictional) 1960s pop-rock band called The Wonders--as in "one-hit wonders". Hanks plays the manager of the group, which includes drummer Guy "Sticks" Patterson (Tom Everett Scott) who works the floor at his parents' appliance store in Erie, Pennsylvania; Jimmy (Johnathon Schaech), the talented and temperamental lead singer and songwriter; Lenny (Steve Zahn), the goofy guitarist; and Ethan Embry as a geeky little fellow identified in the cast list only as "The Bass Player". The movie traces their meteoric rise and fall, from cutting their first record, to going on tour with a Phil Spector/Motown-type revue, to the internal tensions that lead to the band's disintegration, which comes when they fail to follow up their smash hit single, "That Thing You Do!" And that song, by the way, is so catchy it would definitely have been a hit in 1964--and deserves to be one today. This delightful movie would make a great double-bill with Allison Anders's wonderful Grace of My Heart. --Jim Emerson

• Father Of The Bride/Father Of The Bride 2 | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £8.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (100.11%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Father Of The Bride: the feel-good smash-hit comedy about the outrageous trials and tribulations of a well-intentioned father going through the - mental and physical - preparations for his only daughter's wedding. The prenuptial pandemonium begins when the bride-to-be announces her engagement setting off on an outrageous chain of events including a chaotic first meeting with the in-laws and a wedding day snowstorm. Starring Steve Martin Diane Keaton and Martin Short this remake of the 1950 comedy classic is warm wacky look at a daughter's dream come true... and a father's proudest moment! Father Of The Bride 2: George Banks (Steve Martin) feels far too young to be a grandfather and way too old to become a father again. So when his recently married daughter Annie and his wife Nina (Diane Keaton) both announce they're pregnant the news sends George headlong into a wacky mid-life crisis as he desperately tries to recapture his youth. But the fun only doubles as the Banks household gets turned completely upside down by party planner extraordinary Frank Egglehoffer (Martin Short) who returns to throw the baby shower of the century just as everyone is anxiously awaiting the delightful double delivery!

• Benidorm - Complete Boxset | DVD | (08/10/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  WELCOME TO BENIDORM! This all-inclusive package features 10 glorious seasons at The Solana Hotel bringing you a laugh-out-loud mix of hilarious holiday makers and hapless holiday staff. Benidorm is Britain's favourite holiday resort and it's certainly been a British comedy phenomenon for over a decade, winning countless awards and attracting guest stars such as Joan Collins, Cilla Black, Sheridan Smith, Shane Richie, Uri Gellar and The Chuckle Brothers! Not forgetting musical legends Bananarama, Madness and Holly Johnson. Enjoy this classic series again and again with exclusive content including outtakes, Benidorm: 10 Years on Holiday documentary special, and Benidorm's infamous 2017 Royal Variety Performance. RELEASED IN SPECIAL SUITCASE PACKAGING WITH 4 POST CARDS Extras: Series 1: Cast Interviews, Photo Album Series 2: Outtakes, Behind the Scenes, Audio Commentaries, Photo Album 2009 Special: Behind the Scenes, Photo Album Series 3: Outtakes, Behind the Scenes, Audio Commentaries, Photo Album, Deleted Scenes 2010 Xmas Special: Making Of including Deleted Scenes, Photo Gallery Series 4: Behind the Scenes, Outtakes, Audio Commentaries Series 5: Behind the Scenes, Outtakes, Audio Commentaries Series 6: Outtakes Series 7: Outtakes Series 10: Benidorm: 10 Years on Holiday, Royal Variety Performance Sketch, Deleted Scenes, Photo Gallery

• The Towering Inferno | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (94.58%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Disaster movies used to work because there was little certainty as to who would survive. Not so in this film, really an amalgam of two original stories, about a group of well-to-do celebrants at the top floor of a skyscraper. Cheapo electrical wiring and bad construction management cause an enormous blaze at the lower floors, steadily rising to consume the revellers. Newman's an architect, McQueen a firefighter and Fred Astaire a kind old gentleman, for which he was Oscar-nominated. OJ Simpson plays a security guard who rescues a cat. Now that's a disaster. -- Keith Simanton, Amazon.com

• Three Men And A Baby / Three Men And A Little Lady | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £12.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (43.35%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Three Men And A Baby (Dir. Leonard Nimoy 1987): They changed her diapers. She changed their lives. Take three of Hollywood's hottest stars of the '80s add one adorable baby girl and the result is one of the biggest funniest comedy hits ever! Three handsome Manhattan bachelors finding their dating and mating rituals irreparably damaged when an unexpected new roommate - complete with crib pacifier and dirty diaper - shows up on their doorstep. This bouncing bundle of