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• Big Brother - Uncut - The Official Video | DVD | (11/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Big Brother was the TV event of 2000. The set-up--put 10 members of the public in a specially constructed house, keep them under 24-hour surveillance and watch them sweat out the weekly evictions of one of their number, voted by us, the public--was derived from a hugely successful Dutch programme, and gripping, unmissable stuff it proved to be over here, too. Because you already know the outcome--and if you don't, where were you last summer--the game-show aspect of the programme doesn't really work on DVD or video. But that was never really the point. It was the personalities involved that made the show such compulsive viewing, and they remain as lively as ever.On Big Brother--Uncut and the DVD To add some spice, Channel 4 have included scenes that were "too hot" for television: when Nicola decides to do some nude body painting, we see a bit more flesh now; some of the conversations between the contestants are a bit saucier than the original broadcast versions; and there are some hilarious close-ups of a few of the housemates picking their nose. But the best thing about Big Brother: Uncut is what made the whole show such big news in the first place: Nasty Nick's downfall, here played out in all its excruciating detail.Given what we know about him, it's fun to see Nick try his hand at some team-building exercises the producers designed to select the 10 contestants before the programme aired. This scene is also included on "Inside Big Brother", a making-of documentary accompanying "Big Brother: Uncut". Made while the Big Brother show was still being broadcast, there's an agreeable urgency to this programme. The Channel 4 producers interviewed here seem a little bewildered by the show's success. John Del Mol, the co-creator of the Dutch show, hazards a guess that the British show was such a hit because it was so well cast, and there's a fascinating look into the design of the house--"penal chic" was the effect they were after. Also included in this package are profiles of the various contestants, but these feel a little redundant, if only because, over the course of the show, we learn a lot more about the housemates than what's on these skimpy resumes. The profiles do, however, tell us that most of the contestants harbour show-biz ambitions. Now, why is that not a surprise? --Edward Lawrenson

• Somers Town | Blu Ray | (12/01/2009) from £7.95   |  Saving you £17.04 (214.34%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From the director of "This Is England" comes this hilarious and heart-warming tale of friendship and growing up in London's Somers Town.

• The River Wild | DVD | (13/08/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Meryl Streep tried her hand at action films with this Curtis Hanson film and proved herself quite credible, bringing emotion as well as the willingness to kick butt. She plays a suburban mum and former white-water rafting guide who is taking her family on a raft trip for summer vacation. But overworked Dad (David Strathairn) can't make the trip so she and her son leave without him--and walk right into trouble. Killers on the run (Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly) abduct them and force Streep to take them down the most dangerous stretch of river to elude the cops. Hanson understands how to pace and construct this kind of action fodder but it's strictly formula stuff, enlivened only by the depth of Streep's portrayal and the viciousness of Bacon's character. --Marshall Fine

• McBain | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £4.03   |  Saving you £-0.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When a group of U.S. Rangers save McBain from execution during the Vietnam War he vows to repay them. Years later when his saviour Santos is killed on a mission to reclaim Colombia for its people he finds himself called into action and regroups his army platoon to lead Santos rebel army...

• La Traviata: Salzburg Festival (Rizzi) | Blu Ray | (26/05/2009) from £17.24   |  Saving you £5.74 (40.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Here is the opera event of 2005, the Salzburg Festival's La traviata, Rolando Villazon, and Thomas Hampson in a dramatic staging by Willy Decker - the thrilling production that prompted riotous ovations not seen since Karajan's heyday.

• Love Don't Cost A Thing | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £5.00   |  Saving you £8.99 (179.80%)   |  RRP £13.99

  High-school senior Alvin Johnson (Nick Cannon) a brilliant but likable outcast has come to regret the years of intellectual endeavors that prevented him and his un-hip friends from socializing getting girlfriends and hanging out with the super-cool 'Elite' kids. When queen of the 'Elite' crew Paris Morgan (Christina Milian) wrecks her mother's car Alvin steps in and mortgages his future to help her out. The catch: in exchange for $1500 in car parts and Alvin's automotive expertise

• Sirius | DVD | (09/03/2015) from £13.73   |  Saving you £2.26 (14.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A documentary about the life of Dr. Stephen Greer and his claims of existing energy technologies that would change the world as we know it.

• Mork And Mindy - Series 2 | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £21.58   |  Saving you £3.41 (15.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Tracklist: 1. Mork in Wonderland: Part 1 2. Mork in Wonderland: Part 2 3. Stark Raving Mork 4. Mork's Baby Blues 5. Dr. Morkenstein 6. Mork vs. Mindy 7. Mork Gets Mindy-itis 8. A Morkville Horror 9. Mork's Health Hints 10. Dial 'N' for Nelson 11. Mork vs. the Necrotons: Part 1 12. Mork vs. the Necrotons: Part 2 13. Hold That Mork 14. The Exidor Affair 15. The Mork Syndrome 16. Exidor's Wedding 17. A Mommy for Mindy 18. The Night They Raided Mind-ski's 19. Mork Learns to See 20. Mork's Vacation 21. Jeanie Loves Mork 22. Little Orphan Morkie 23. Looney Tunes and Mork Melodies 24. Clerical Error 25. Invasion of the Mork Snatchers 26. The Way Mork Were

• Thugs Mugs and Dogs | DVD | (11/04/2011) from £4.82   |  Saving you £-0.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  It's the Mutt's Nuts! A dark yet humorous gangster film full of northern grit Thugs Mugs and Dogs centres on ruthless businessman Gordy Metcalf (ex-Underworld enforcer Dave Courtney) who owns the best greyhound in the country and is married to the lustiest and bustiest wife (Cathy Barry) on either side of the Watford Gap! Council estate lad Danny (Martin Owen) and his pals find their lives endangered by the decade-long feud between Gordy and an ex-greyhound trainer. The hapless trio find themselves trapped between both sides with all thoughts of escape futile. They can die tomorrow or stay alive for few more months the latter being the lesser of two evils. Thugs Mugs and Dogs is an intricate tale of collaboration between loyal friends and the dire consequences of planning their revenge against the Mr Big of dog racing. Like a game of high-stakes poker the man with the most money should win but in this tale the winner gets to keep his life! Set against the industrial back-drop of the North-East Thugs Mugs and Dogs is the most talked about northern crime film since the original 'Get Carter'. With a heart-stopping culmination filmed at Europe's richest greyhound race at Peterborough's Fengate Stadium Thugs Mugs and Dogs features an all-star cast led by Dave Courtney (The Krays Triads Yardies & Onion Bhajees) Paul Usher (Brookside The Bill) Cathy Barry (Diary of a Milf) Thomas Craig (Coronation Street) and Lisa Riley (Emmerdale).

• Microcosmos | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £7.53   |  Saving you £-1.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Take an incredible journey with Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou through a meadow on an ordinary summer's day. By the use of Macrovision and extraordinary sound get a bug's eye view of the world in minature!

• Britannia High - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Britannia High is a vibrant exciting contemporary Fame for the noughties and has a host of talent on board. As well as an exceptional cast the show is choreographed by Arlene Philips with the score written by Take That's Gary Barlow and award-winning song writer Guy Chambers.

• Criminal Minds - Season 1-7 | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £120.13   |  Saving you £-53.14 (-79.30%)   |  RRP £66.99

  Create a profile of the most suspenseful show on television in this complete collection of Criminal Minds. Stay riveted through each and every episode as the elite profilers assigned to the Behavioural Analysis Unit work against the clock to analyse and identify the most dangerous criminals in an effort to catch them before they kill again. But no matter how dangerous the job, this colourful collection of characters proves that it takes wit and teamwork to catch an unsub. Special Features: Season 1: The Making of Criminal Minds Meet Matthew Gray Gubler Deleted Scenes Season 2: Audio Commentaries Behavioural Scene: Real-Life Criminal Minds Gag Reel Deleted Scenes Profilers Profiled The Physical Evidence Meet Kirsten Vangsness Season 3: Original Featurettes The Making of Criminal Minds - Season 3 From Script to Screen: True Night Profile: Rossi, Mantegna Shemar Moore: Criminal Minds' Wild Ride Deleted Scenes Gag Reel Season 4: Working the Scene: Blow Up!, Truckin', Night Train, Master Class Profile: Hotchner, Morgan Season 5: Original Featurettes Gag Reel On-Air Promos Season 6: Secrets: Making Criminal Minds - Season 6 Crime Scenes From Script to Screen: Agent Down Greg St. John's CMS6 Yearbook Gag Reel Deleted Scenes Season 7: Gag Reels Deleted Scenes Behind the Scenes

• The Wash | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The rent is due and his car's been booted. Sean has to come up with some ends... and fast! With his best friend and roommate Dee Loc he gets a job busting suds down at the local car wash. The first order of business is impressing Mr Washington the gun-toting dominoes-playing owner of The Wash. Comic tensions fly when Mr Washington hires Sean as Dee Loc's supervisor. Then they start getting harrassed by menacing phone calls from a disgruntled ex-employee. Then Dee Loc begins to susp

• I'm All Right Jack | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £14.21   |  Saving you £2.78 (16.40%)   |  RRP £16.99

  After a decade on radio in The Goons, 1959's I'm All Right Jack set Peter Sellers on the road to international stardom. Sellers played both Sir John Kennaway, and unforgettably, the Bolshy trade union leader Fred Kite (he would go on to take three roles in Dr Strangelove and featured endless disguises in The Pink Panther in 1963) series. The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satiric edge, lampooning the then burning issue of industrial relations. Bertram Tracepurcel's (Dennis Price) plans to make a fortune from a missile contract, a scheme which involves manipulating his innocent nephew Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) into acting as the catalyst in an escalating labour dispute, from which the socialist Mr Kite is only too keen to make capital. Management and labour both have their self-serving hypocrisy dissected in this ingenious comedy, actually a sequel to the military comedy Private's Progress (1956), but which stands independent of the earlier film. Both films were made by the brothers John and Roy Boulting, director and producer of such British classics as Brighton Rock (1947), Seven Days to Noon (1950), Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959) and Heaven's Above (1963). The superb cast of I'm All Right Jack also features Richard Attenborough, John Le Mesurier, Margaret Rutherford and Terry Thomas. --Gary S. Dalkin

• All The Pretty Horses | DVD | (19/12/2005) from £5.24   |  Saving you £0.75 (14.31%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Matt Damon and Henry Thomas star as John Grady Cole and Lacey Rawlins, two young cowboys in 1949 who ride from Texas into Mexico in search of what may be left of the Old West.

• Clockstoppers | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £3.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  High school student Zak discovers that his Father has invented a wristwatch with the ability to manipulate time, making the rest of the world seem frozen by comparison.

• Melrose Place - The Second Season | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £21.58   |  Saving you £28.41 (131.65%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The complete second season of Melrose Place. Episodes Comprise: 1. Much Ado About Everything 2. A Long Night's Journey 3. Revenge 4. Fire Power 5. Of Bikes and Men 6. Hot and Bothered 7. Flirting with Disaster 8. No Bed of Roses 9. Married to It 10. The Tangled Web 11. Collision Course 12. Cold Turkey 13. Duet for One 14. Strange Bedfellows 15. Under the Mistletoe 16. Reunion Blues 17. Michael's Game 18. Arousing Suspicions 19. The Young Men and the Sea 20. Parting Glances 21. Swept Away 22. With This Ball and Chain 23. Otherwise Engaged 24. Love Mancini Style 25. The Two Mrs. Mancinis 26. In Bed with the Enemy 27. Psycho-Therapy 28. The Bitch Is Back 29. Imperfect Strangers

• Puccini: Manon Lescaut -- Royal Opera House | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This famous production of Manon Lescaut from The Royal Opera recorded in 1983 features two of the biggest stars in opera Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa in their vocal prime. Placido Domingo's performance of Des Grieux is considered to be unsurpassed. Conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli made his British operatic debut with this production which has not been available on video for 10 years. Puccini's first masterpiece was rapturously received on its first night. It has his hallmark se

• It Happened One Night | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Director Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) took home every Oscar in the book (well, okay, all the major ones) for this seminal 1934 comedy starring Clark Gable as a hard-bitten reporter who stays close to a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) so not to lose a good story. Funny and sexy, the film is full of memorable scenes often referred to in other films, such as the "Wall of Jericho" (a mere bedcover hung on a clothesline down the middle of the room), and Colbert's famous flash of thigh to stop a speeding car in its tracks. Capra's brisk, urbane brand of wit was a perfect complement to his populist faith in the common man (in this case, Gable's character), and this inspiration makes this film a spirited entertainment and an uplifting experience. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• The Walker | DVD | (14/01/2008) from £7.79   |  Saving you £12.20 (156.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A society "walker" in Washington DC finds himself caught up in a murder investigation in this tense thriller.