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• Hot Fuzz | Blu Ray | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When top London cop PC Nicholas Angel (Nick Pegg) is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford he struggles with his seemingly crime-free world… and oafish partner Danny (Nick Frost). The second instalment in Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy is re-released with UltraViolet (TM) allowing you to download or stream Hot Fuzz to your computer tablet or smartphone to store it in the cloud and watch it anytime anywhere. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Outtakes Audio Commentaries Dead Right: Edgar Wright's First Cop Movie Featurettes Video Blogs

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

• Hot Fuzz | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £8.93   |  Saving you £11.06 (123.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When top London cop PC Nicholas Angel (Nick Pegg) is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford he struggles with his seemingly crime-free world… and oafish partner Danny (Nick Frost). The second instalment in Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy is re-released with UltraViolet (TM) allowing you to download or stream Hot Fuzz to your computer tablet or smartphone to store it in the cloud and watch it anytime anywhere. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Outtakes 4 Audio Commentaries Trailers

• Ice Road Truckers - Season 3 | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A job to die for! ICE ROAD TRUCKERS brings you to the most treacherous landscape on earth: northern Alaska. In Prudhoe Bay (250 miles north of the Arctic Circle) a network of ice roads in the tundra criss-cross river systems and open ocean to connect America's booming North Slope oil fields to dry land. Every winter truckers have less than three months to shuttle critical supplies over the ice. The only problem is that there's just one way to get to this remote location: 400 miles of ice-covered mountainous terrain known as the Dalton Highway. It's the most dangerous road in North America and has claimed the lives of more than 400 people since it was built just 30 years ago. The next chapter in the hit HISTORY series returns this season with veteran drivers Hugh Rowland and Alex Debogorski new drivers and more heart-stopping adrenaline than ever before. Episodes Comprise: 1. Deadliest Ice Road 2. Rookie Run 3. Canadian Invasion 4. Blinding Whiteout 5. Accident Alley 6. Arctic Ice 7. Wicked Weather 8. Killer Pass 9. Turn and Burn 10. Ocean Run 11. Busted Parts & Breakdowns 12. Race for the Finish 13. Arctic Thaw

• Ice Road Truckers Season 3 | Blu Ray | (13/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chain up! Season 3 of this gripping HISTORY™ series gets plenty of traction from its setting, the more than 400-mile "gauntlet of terror" known as the Dalton Highway. Said to be the most dangerous road in North America, the Dalton has reportedly claimed a life for each of its miles. "If the curves don't get you," the narrator intones in a dramatic John Wayne-like drawl, "the avalanches will." The drivers, a right-stuff bunch ("They don't pay us this much because it's easy," one proclaims), have 12 weeks to deliver more than 6,000 loads to the Prudhoe Bay oil fields before the ice roads thaw. Along with familiar grizzled ice road veterans Hugh and George from the show's first two seasons, season 3 shifts gears with its first female driver, the attractive Lisa Kelly, a motocross champion determined to prove herself as a heavy hauler in this male-dominated profession. The competition between the drivers to see who can make the most runs really takes a back seat to the potential calamities that await beyond every curve and over every steep incline. "Pick the wrong gear, you wash out," the narrator cautions, "hit the brakes too hard, you end up in a ditch." The road, it is said, never lets up, and neither does Ice Road Truckers. Photos of horrific crashes and computer-generated re-creations of serious accidents amp up the drama, but (spoiler alert), beyond tense moments driving through blinding storms or experiencing equipment malfunctions, the drivers emerge from this punishing season unscathed. Ice Road Truckers will especially appeal to truck enthusiasts who may have grown up with the Road Construction Ahead and There Goes a Truck videos. These drivers do some serious hauling (45,000 pounds is considered a light load) and it is fascinating, for example, to watch how 16-ton pipes are loaded and secured onto a flatbed. A feature film inspired by the series is reportedly in the works, but there's nothing like the real thing. --Donald Liebenson

• Girl Next Door/Nurse Betty/Say It Isn't So | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Girl Next Door (Dir. Luke Greenfield 2004): Matthew never saw her coming...but all his friends had! Teenager Matthew's dreams come true when a former porn star moves in next door. However after falling in love with her Matthew finds out that he's going to have to do a whole lot of crazy things to keep her! This DVD boasts an 'Uncut' version of the film which includes all the bits that you couldn't get to see in the cinema! Say It Isn't So (Dir. James B. Rogers 2001): Boy meets girl. Boy loves girl. Boy discovers she may be his sister. (Boy this could be trouble.) To make matters worse by the time he discovers ""it isn't so"" he has precious little time to stop the woman of his dreams from marrying another man. It's shameless romantic comedy at its finest from the twisted minds behind 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Me Myself & Irene'! Nurse Betty (Dir. Neil LaBute 2000): Betty (Renee Zellweger) is a waitress in a small American town. Unhappily married to a second-hand car salesman she longs to run away with Dr. David Ravell (Greg Kinnear) the glamorous leading man on a TV hospital soap opera. Charlie (Morgan Freeman) is a dangerous and yet philosophical hit man. Tiring of his lifestyle he dreams of doing one last big assignment and retiring to sunny Florida. When Betty's greedy husband puts together a drug deal Charlie enters their world. When Charlie and his protg (Chris Rock) are sent to reclaim the stolen drugs Betty watches as her husband is interrogated and shot. Traumatised she flees to L.A. to find and be with her on-screen idol Dr. Ravell. Charlie follows her eager to silence Betty forever and pick up his final pay-off. Nurse Betty is a quirky comedy thriller hilarious one moment and chilling the next about two very different people who chase their dreams across America.