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• Rome: The Complete HBO Season 2 (6 Disc Box Set) | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £18.99   |  Saving you £36.00 (189.57%)   |  RRP £54.99

  Unlike another certain celebrated HBO series, Rome's end will satisfy those swept up in its lavishly mounted spectacle and invested in the human dramas of the historical figures and fictional characters. Series 2 begins in the wake of Julius Caesar's assassination, and charts the power struggle to fill his sandals between "vulgar beast" Mark Antony (James Purefoy) and "clever boy" Octavian (Simon Woods), who is surprisingly named Caesar's sole heir. The series' most compelling relationship is between fellow soldiers and unlikely friends, the honorable Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) and Titus "Violence is the only trade I know" Pullo (Ray Stevenson), who somewhat reverse roles when Vorenus is overcome with grief in the wake of his wife's suicide. Series 2 considerably ups the ante in the rivalry between Atia (an Emmy-worthy Polly Walker), who is Antony's mistress, and Servilia (Lindsay Duncan) with attempted poisonings and sickening torture. Another gripping sub plot is Vorenus's estrangement from his children, who, at the climax of the season opener are presumed slaughtered, but whose true fate may be even more devastating to the father who cursed them. Rome's second season does not scrimp on the series' sex and violence, in both cases exceedingly brutal. But in this cauldron of treachery and betrayal, words, too, are vicious, as when a defiant Atia ominously tells Octavian's new wife, Livia, "Far better women that you have sworn to [destroy me]. Go look for them now." In writing Rome's epitaph, we come to praise this series, not to bury it. Although two seasons was not enough to establish a Rome empire, it stands as one of HBO's crowning achievements. --Donald Liebenson

• Outlander: Complete Season 1 | Blu Ray | (26/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The complete first season of the award winning adaptation of Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling Outlander novels. Outlander follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse, who, in 1946, is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, and immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that splits Claire’s heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives. DVD and Blu-ray Bonus Features: An Epic Adaptation The Dresses and Kilts of Outlander Weaving Authentic: Making the Fabrics of Outlander Podcast Audio x 8 with Ronald D. Moore Blu-ray Exclusive Bonus Features: Diana Gabaldon Tours Outlander Casting Outlander Walk Through the Sets and Stages with Ronald D. Moore Emerging a Scot: Cast Goes to Boot Camp On Location: Castle Leoch The Magic of Scotland Outlander Cast & Crew Table Read A Triangle in Time 33 Deleted Scenes The Reckoning Extended Episode Click Images to Enlarge

• Outlander (2014) - Seasons 1-4 | DVD | (07/10/2019) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All the episodes from the first four seasons of the British-American television drama based on the novels by Diana Gabaldon. English nurse Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe) goes on a second honeymoon with her devoted husband Frank (Tobias Menzies) after both performing their duties during the Second World War. On a visit to a stone circle at Craigh Na Dun near Inverness, Claire touches one of the stones and finds herself transported back in time to 1743 where she encounters Frank's ancestor Black Jack Randall (Menzies) who, apart from appearance, has no likeness to her loving husband. When she is rescued from the evil clutches of Black Jack by a gang of Scottish rebels, she finds herself under suspicion of being an English spy. Season 1 episodes are: 'Sassenach', 'Castle Leoch', 'The Way Out', 'The Gathering', 'Rent', 'The Garrison Commander', 'The Wedding', 'Both Sides Now', 'The Reckoning', 'By the Pricking of My Thumbs', 'The Devil's Mark', 'Lallybroch', 'The Watch', 'The Search', 'Wentworth Prison' and 'To Ransom a Man's Soul'. Season 2 episodes are: 'Through a Glass, Darkly', 'Not in Scotland Anymore', 'Useful Occupations and Deceptions', 'La Dame Blanche', 'Untimely Resurrection', 'Best Laid Schemes...', 'Faith', 'The Fox's Lair', 'Je Suis Prest', 'Prestonpans', 'Vengeance Is Mine', 'The Hail Mary' and 'Dragonfly in Amber'. Season 3 episodes are: 'The Battle Joined', 'Surrender', 'All Debts Paid', 'Of Lost Things', 'Freedom & Whisky', 'A. Malcolm', 'Crème de Menthe', 'First Wife', 'The Doldrums', 'Heaven & Earth', 'Uncharted', 'The Bakra' and 'Eye of the Storm'. Season 4 episodes are: 'America the Beautiful', 'Do No Harm', 'The False Bride', 'Common Ground', 'Savages', 'Blood of My Blood', 'Down the Rabbit Hole', 'Wilmington', 'The Birds and the Bees', 'The Deep Heart's Core', 'If Not for Hope', 'Providence' and 'Man of Worth'.

• Mozart In Turkey | DVD | (22/12/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mozart in Turkey is a feature-length 88-minute hybrid BBC co-production which interleaves making-of documentary footage (24 minutes) and filmed highlights (64 minutes) from Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("The Abduction from the Seraglio"). Working to their pre-recorded performance of the complete opera conducted by leading Mozartian Sir Charles Mackerras with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Choir, we see the cast mime to playback key arias, duets and quartets from Mozart's gorgeous work. The story of a Spanish noble woman, Konstanze (soprano Yelda Kodalli), her English maid, Blonde (soprano Désirée Rancatore), fiancé, Belmonte (tenor Paul Groves) and his servant, Pedrillo (tenor Lynton Atkinson) in the Turkish Harem of Pasha Selim (Oliver Tobias in a speaking role) is beautifully filmed in the famous Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. The documentary sections offer a brief, rather superficial look at Mozart's writing of the opera and the ideas that influenced it and are expressed within the drama. The music-making is hardly to be faulted and the staging is ravishing. Unfortunately the whole seems like an over-length DVD extra that should accompany a complete film of the opera--the very thing that is mysteriously missing from this release. On the DVD Mozart in Turkey is presented anamorphically, enhanced at 16:9 for widescreen televisions, with a virtually flawless picture taken, presumably, from digital tape. If the programme is watched complete the sound is stereo only and the music sometimes sounds harsh. If music highlights are selected, sound is available in stereo or a much fuller and more rounded Dolby Digital 5.1. There are optional subtitles in English, German, Spanish, French and Dutch, but if any of these is selected it is imposed over the English-language documentary sections as well as the German-language opera scenes. When playing music highlights there are rather abrupt and unmusical fades in and out between scenes. The menu is awful, offering the option either to play all or select a given track, but not to play from a particular scene onwards. Switching subtitles on or off, or changing audio tracks, entails returning to the main menu then starting the programme afresh. There is no resume play facility and there are no extras. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Crown - The Complete Third Season | DVD | (26/11/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Yankee Doodle Dandy | Blu Ray | (14/10/2014) from £19.62   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill - Live | DVD | (24/05/2003) from £33.99   |  Saving you £-16.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A compilation of film footage taken on tour with Alanis Morissette. The tracklist includes: 1. Welcome the charmed ones I'm sure 2. All I Really Want 3. The Craziness 4. Right Through You 5. Sexual Chocolate Intros 6. Not the Doctor 7. Synergy 8. Hand in my Pocket 9. Enuf about Me 10. Feathers 11. Head Over Feet 12. Mary Jane 13. He would for Someone 14. Forgiven 15. Spotless Pseudo Home 16. Perfect 17. Release not Revenge 18. You Oughta Know 19. Wake Up 20. Explo

• Outlander - Season 2 | DVD | (17/06/2019) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Season 2 of Outlander begins as Claire and Jamie arrive in France, hell-bent on infiltrating the Jacobite rebellion led by Prince Charles Stuart, and stopping the battle of Culloden. With the help of his cousin Jared, a local wine merchant, Jamie and Claire are thrown into the lavish world of French society, where intrigue and parties are abundant, but political gain proves far less fruitful. Altering the course of history presents challenges that begin to weigh on the very fabric of their relationship. However, armed with the knowledge of what lies ahead, Claire and Jamie must race to prevent a doomed Highland uprising and the extinction of Scottish life as they know it.Click Images to Enlarge

• Outlander - Season 3 | Blu Ray | (05/03/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

  The third season of Outlander picks up right after Claire travels through the stones to return to her life in 1948. Now pregnant, she struggles with the fallout of her sudden reappearance and its effect on her marriage to her first husband, Frank. Meanwhile, in the 18th century, Jamie suffers from the aftermath of his doomed last stand at the historic battle of Culloden, as well as the loss of Claire. As the years pass, Jamie and Claire attempt to make a life apart from one another, each haunted by the memory of their lost love. The budding possibility that Claire can return to Jamie in the past breathes new hope into Claire's heart... as well as new doubt. Separated by continents and centuries, Claire and Jamie must find their way back to each other. As always, adversity, mystery and adventure await them on the path to reunion. And the question remains: when they find each other, will they be the same people who parted at the standing stones, all those years ago? Click Images to Enlarge

• Luke's Kingdom - The Complete Series | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Starring Oliver Tobias, James Condon, Helen Morse and Elizabeth Crosby, and produced by Tony Essex (Follyfoot), Luke's Kingdom is an epic adventure series set in Australia during the early nineteenth century. Filmed entirely on location, it is a tale of pioneering and achievement against bitter odds, in which a family struggles to carve out an existence in a land more dangerous and more brutal than the West at its wildest. Amongst its directors are fan-favourite Peter Hammond (The Avengers) and the award-winning Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock).

• The Bitch / The Stud (Limited Edition Blu-ray Boxset) | Blu Ray | (15/03/2021) from £20.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Joan Collins stars as Fontaine, a night club owner in both of these steamy 70's erotic dramas. The Stud: ontaine (Dame Joan Collins) is the London wife of Benjamin (Walter Gotell), a wealthy Arab businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, The Hobo , and partying. She hires a handsome manager, Tony (Oliver Tobias), to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on his satisfying her nymphomaniacal demands. The Bitch: The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.

• Black Sea | DVD | (13/04/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A suspenseful adventure thriller directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald, centring on a rogue submarine captain (Jude Law) who pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumoured to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea.

• Underworld: Blood Wars (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (29/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The next installment in the blockbuster franchise, UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS follows Vampire death dealer, Selene (Kate Beckinsale) as she fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David (Theo James) and his father Thomas (Charles Dance), she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.

• Stargate SG-1: Season 6 | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £19.99   |  Saving you £40.00 (200.10%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The biggest change for Stargate's sixth season was its move to the Sci-Fi Channel. Financial rescue or genre haven from cancellation? Whatever the behind-the-scenes politics, the departure of Daniel Jackson (actor Michael Shanks) the previous year most certainly contributed to the need to run a tighter ship somewhere. With the addition of his replacement, Jonas Quinn, the new show dynamic (hinted at by the new title theme tune) meant far more convoluted arc-stories and less individual focus. One of very few solo spotlights came from Christopher Judge writing his own show, when "The Changeling" saw Teal'c act out a life as a fireman. One reason for being a fan favourite was its cameo from still-alive-after-all Daniel Jackson. There'd be several more through the year, culminating in a finale that tested how much attention you'd been paying to that all-important back-story. Other kooky cameos included Dean Stockwell in one of the many spotlights on the energy resource n'quadria, Ian Buchanan as one of the devilish Replicators (and hopefully the end of that plotline) and regular spots from John DeLancie, Ronny Cox and Tom McBeath as the Earth-bound series baddies. More pertinently, we also saw Byers from The X-Files (Bruce Harwood) as a scientist involved with the Antarctic Gate. Lest we forget, there are other portals on Earth. Is that an already planned spin-off on the horizon? --Paul Tonks

• A Man Called Ove | Blu Ray | (16/10/2017) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Meet ove (rolf lassgård), an isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse - the quintessential angry old man next door. having entirely given up on life, his days are spent in a constant monotony of enforcing housing association rules and visiting his beloved wife sonja's grave. ove's somewhat contend existence is disrupted, however, with the arrival of a boisterous young family who move in next door. heavily pregnant parvaneh (bahar pars) and her lively children are the complete antithesis of what ill-tempered ove thinks he needs. yet, from this unhappy beginning an unlikely friendship blooms and ove's past happiness and heartbreaks come to light. based on the international bestselling novel by fredrik backman, the award-winning a man called ove is a wistful, heartwarming tale of unreliable first impressions and a wonderful reminder that life is sweeter when it's shared.

• Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Originally broadcast in 1981 this five-part story has Turpin and his highway companion Swiftnick encountering treachery and danger at every turn as they try to help an American lady Jane Harding who is on a mission to depose the corrupt governer of Maryland. Written by the legendary Richard Carpenter Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure is a fast-paced action story with strong support from a number of guest stars such as: Patrick MacNee Michael Deeks Susan Hampshire Oli

• Objective Burma | DVD | (28/06/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (401.34%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station.

• The Hypnotist | DVD | (15/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Detective Inspector Joona Linna has an eyewitness to a bestial slaughter of a family in the suburbs of Stockholm. The witness the family's teenage son is barely alive and cannot be heard with conventional means. The eldest daughter is also mysteriously missing. It seems as if someone is trying to wipe out the whole family and Joona Linna fears that she can be the killer's next victim. Struggling against time Linna persuades the questioned hypnotist Erik Maria Bark to make an attempt to reach out to the boy and make him talk under hypnosis. Erik Maria Bark breaks his solemn oath never to practise hypnosis again and a lethal voyage down to the bottomless darkness of the sub-conscious mind begins.

• Boys On Film 2 | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Karaoke romance frisky farm boys vengeful mums and a magical Powerpoint presentation are just some of the refreshing and captivating themes that run through this second volume of nine gay shorts on the acclaimed 'Boys on Film' label. Sexual tension becomes terrifying and bizarre in both Till Kleinert's award-winning 'Cowboy' and Australian fang-fest 'Love Bites' while film festival favourites 'Baby Shark' and 'Futures & Derivatives' supply ample food for thought for fans of arthouse cinema. Sweaty hook-ups abound in saucy gym tale 'Working It Out' while schoolboy crushes are at the fore in the heart-warming 'Lucky Blue'. Once more 'Boys On Film' brings you an eclectic array of gay short films from around the world each with a distinct flavour all its own.

• Pipkins: The Collection | DVD | (28/08/2017) from £26.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's that Hare again! For a generation of schoolchildren who escaped from school at lunchtime for a dose of television there was one programme that stood head and shoulders above all others Pipkins! Topov, Pig, Tortoise, Octavia the Ostrich and, of course, the irrepressible Hartley Hare spend their time helping out people, usually with unforeseen results! Just as popular with adults as it was with children, Pipkins will appeal to anyone who bought other classic children s television series such as Bagpuss, Willo the Wisp and The Clangers - as well as archive television fans.