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• The Repair Shop: Series 6 | DVD | (21/03/2022) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Do You Know The Muffin Man? | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A police officer and his wife enjoy a trouble-free existence with their two children Teddy and Sandy. However their idyll is shattered when a friend of Teddy's is the apparent victim of molestation at the local day care centre...

• The Outer Limits - The Original Series - Vol. 2 | DVD | (27/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission... Surrender yourself to the mysterious world of 'The Outer Limits' as one of the creepiest and most provocative series in television history comes to DVD. On this fantastic box every episode from the second season is featured alongside a host of eery special features. Episodes comprise: 1. Soldier 2. Cold Hands Warm Heart 3. Behold Eck! 4. Expand

• Nikita - Season 1 | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £9.98   |  Saving you £33.00 (472.10%)   |  RRP £39.99

  In Nikita, the CW Network has developed another resounding hit on its roster of solid dramatic series that do a nice job of grabbing viewers from a variety of demographics. With season two starting in late September 2011, this slick package of the 22 episodes of season one is a great way of diving into a show that's among the best looking, most tightly produced, and intensely cinematic on the small screen. The title and the premise both come from the 1990 French feature film and early style-setter from writer-director Luc Besson, La Femme Nikita. The character of Nikita was a beautiful, troubled young criminal who was essentially abducted from prison and inducted into covert intelligence to become a sleeper assassin used at the will and the whim of the government. There was an American remake in 1993, Point of No Return, starring Bridget Fonda, then a TV adaptation in 1997 that used the original French title and ran for just over four seasons on the USA Network. This reworking maintains the basic premise of a black ops organization that has largely gone rogue from US government control, with the title character of a dangerous, sexy assassin having escaped its clutches and gone rogue herself. After six years as its most expert operative, this Nikita (Maggie Q, who is very dangerous and very sexy) uses all her training and black ops wiles to destroy the unit known only as Division. Division is run from a high-tech bunker by the evil, calculating Percy (a steely-eyed Xander Berkeley) as a kind of top-secret consulting firm for the high-paying interests of those in need of murder, protection, or other sundry cleanup or coverup services. It employs a stable of young, buffed, highly trained male and female "recruits" who, like Nikita, have been plucked from prison and indentured to lives dedicated to Division's devious details. But the pilot episode reveals that Division's latest recruit, Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca), is Nikita's mole, and she runs Alex from the outside, getting intel on Division's nefarious operations in her effort to bring it all down. The depth of Nikita's (and Alex's) malice toward Division is revealed over the course of the season, along with her ambivalence toward Percy's lieutenant, Michael (Shane West). Their cat-and-mouse includes a fair amount of personal heat within the missions that Nikita tries to disrupt, especially the one that becomes Division's top priority: eliminate Nikita. Michael has his own mixed feelings for his former protégé, and even as the intrigue among Michael, Nikita, Alex, and the other assorted characters both within and without Division becomes more elaborate, it's clear that there's a lot of gray for everyone. Except Percy, that is, who remains deliciously black throughout. The final episodes set up a suspenseful scenario of character maneuvering, compromised loyalties, and convoluted conspiracies that bodes very well for a new season. Every installment of Nikita is paced and plotted like a mini thriller, with production values and heavily styled good looks to match. As series creator Craig Silverstein and many other behind-the-scenes contributors confirm in the extensive supplemental materials, incredible attention is given to the details of art direction, design, wardrobe, cinematography, scoring, etc. in order to make what are essentially mini action movies. And action is definitely a key word. There is gunplay aplenty, with a level of physical violence that's about as powerful as anything on TV these days. But all of it is expertly staged and carefully motivated to serve the needs of brainy, quick-witted scripts. Maggie Q certainly has the background chops to bring integrity and authenticity to her smooth martial arts moves; that's really her chopping and shooting up there. She is eminently appealing not only for her beauty and grace, but also her soulful stare. Silverstein admits that the CW Network was looking for a shoehorn series to capture not just action fans, and they all thought the Nikita brand could be adapted into a version of something like Alias. It makes sense with all the secret agent stuff going on and with Maggie Q making herself a rousing antidote for Jennifer Garner fans. But she's also uniquely Nikita as she guides an exciting show that gives equal weight to brain and brawn with a precise combination of restraint and exuberance. --Ted Fry

• Whose Line Is It Anyway - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £18.88   |  Saving you £11.11 (58.85%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Make it up. Make it quick. Make it funny! Whose Line Is It Anyway? began as a radio show in 1987 and due to its success was transferred to television a year later. The show features four contestants comedians and actors who must improvise sketches in order to win points and ultimately win the game.

• Hamburger Hill | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (68.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill... up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was the way it really was. It's a raw gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. Dodge the gunfire. Get caught behind enemy lines. Go into battle beside the brave young men who fought and died. Feel their desperation and futility. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst men at their best.

• Futurama - Season 5 | Blu Ray | (26/12/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (49.95%)   |  RRP £29.99

  You asked for more...and the Planet Express crew is delivering! Welcome back to Futurama, the light-years-ahead-of-its-time animated series from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening. Join Fry, Bender, Leela and the rest of the gang for 13 hilarious new episodes that tackle some of the most controversial subjects in the galaxy...including evolution, mind exchange, feline intelligence and robosexual marriage. Hey, it could happen!Futurama has consistently received high critical acclaim, culminating in a Guinness World Record for Current Most Critically Acclaimed Animated Series in 2010. Season 5 includes all 13 new episodes and special features including Deleted Scenes, Full-length Audio Commentaries, The Prisoner of Benda Live Table Read and plenty more!

• Beyond Borders | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £4.35   |  Saving you £11.64 (267.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

  While attending a fundraising gala Sarah Jordan (Jolie) a naive married American socialite living in England witnesses a fiery plea delivered by an intruder renegade humanitarian Dr. Nick Callahan (Clive Owen). His plea made on behalf of impoverished African children under his care turns Sarah's life upside down. Attracted to Nick and his cause she impulsively abandons her sheltered life in England to work along side him in his effort to aid the helpless and anguished victims.

• White Noise | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £42.99

  In the 1920s, Thomas Edison speculated that a device would be created which would allow humans to conduct conversations with the dead. In the 1970s, Sarah Estep picked up some mysterious voices on her husband's reel-to-reel tape recorder, and set up the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) to help track the phenomenon. In 2005, following a welter of evidence gathered by Estep and others, EVP forms the backbone for director Geoffrey Sax's shocking feature film WHITE NOISE. Architect Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) has little time to mourn the passing of his wife Anna (Chandra West) when he starts receiving signals from her. A faint sound of her voice is caught by Rivers in radio static on the night of her death, followed by incessant cell phone calls coming from Anna's old number. Rivers is convinced he can hear Anna's voice saying 'go, Jon' to him in the resulting calls. With a little help from expert EVP practitioner Raymond Price (Ian McNeice), Rivers contacts Anna and begins a hazy dialect with her. From the garbled dialogue Rivers receives, he deduces that Anna is sending him to save the lives of people who are about to die. This joins Rivers, in his plight, with a former client of Price's, Sarah Tate (Deborah Kara Unger). However, meddling with messages from the dead leads the pair into a world of trouble, producing some startlingly anxious moments, and a spine-chilling forewarning of the possible consequences facing real-life users of EVP.

• The Ripper | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £6.02   |  Saving you £3.97 (65.95%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It is 1888 and London is a city in the grip of one of the most gruesome and mysterious crime sprees in history. Women are being strangled and murdered by a madman who can't be found a serial killer who strikes with ruthless precision. Under extreme pressure from the Royal family the head of Scotland Yard (Michael York) assigns its top man (Patrick Bergin) to the grisly case. Inspector James Hanson's only witness is a beautiful girl (Gabrielle Anwar) a former prostitute who the authorities consider expendable and with whom Hanson soon falls in love. Stories of the investigation quickly reach the top of England's royalty but who would think the prime suspect is among them? In a society where the privileged get away with murder Hanson knows he must stop this relentless killer - and protect the woman he loves.

• Hornblower Complete Collection | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £39.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (50.01%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The complete collection of Horatio Hornblower's (Ioan Gruffudd) hi-jinks on the high seas!

• State Property 2 - Blood On The Street | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This time everything is on the line. Philly 'gangsta' Beans (Beanie Sigel) is back and badder than ever in this sizzling-hot sequel to the smash hit State Property. In State Property 2 Beans is stuck doing hard time in the State Penitentiary while his loyal crew ABM tries to do business without him. He teams up with fellow con Pollo Loco (N.O.R.E.) and when they reclaim their crews and hit the street all hell breaks loose! Friends become enemies and enemi

• Lord Peter Wimsey - Gaudy Night | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Edward Petherbridge stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in this classic adaptation of the novel by Dorothy L. Sayers. Harriet Vane is invited to return to Shrewsbury College but someone is terrorising the faculty and the students of the college by sending vicious anonymous letters.

• The Awakening | Blu Ray | (26/03/2012) from £12.13   |  Saving you £10.86 (89.53%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Starring Dominic West (The Wire, 300), Rebecca Hall (The Town) and Oscar®-nominee Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), The Awakening is the chilling new supernatural thriller from Nick Murphy. In post-World War I England in 1921, an author and paranormal skeptic (Hall) is invited to a countryside boarding school by the head master (West) to investigate rumours of an apparent haunting. But just when she thinks she has debunked the ghost theory, she has a chilling encounter which makes her question all her rational beliefs.

• The Hour | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Brand new thrilling six-part series drama about a 1950s newsroom penned by Bafta -winning writer Abi Morgan whose previous credits include Brick Lane White Girl and Sex Traffic. The Hour takes us behind the scenes of a broadcast news room in London during the mid 50s with a highly competitive sharp witted and passionate love triangle at its heart. We follow the lives of three characters who are tasked to set up a new weekly investigative news show called The Hour.

• Indian Summers | DVD | (15/02/2016) from £11.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (117.49%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Indian Summers Series One: The year is 1932, the place is India, and thepeople are romanticised, politicised and radicalised. They are drawn together and driven apart by class, race, love and theft, and the world around them is changing. In the small British colony of Simla, placed at the foothills of the Himalayas, the beliefs of the British Empire still remain but the young are hungry for freedom. Indian Summers tells a sweeping saga, stories of love, secrets, promises made and broken, and tensions that simmer in the hot, feverish days and nights of India - an India populated by freedom fighters, star-crossed lovers, political spies, artists, orphans, expats, the rich and the poor. Indian Summers Series One: Starring Julie Walters, Henry Lloyd Hughes, Jemima West, Fiona Glascott, Amber Rose Revah, Nikesh Patel

• The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on the best-selling book which had sold millions of copies by the time the film was made The Happy Hooker tells the funny and feisty tale of Xaviera Hollander - a girl on the verge of discovering her sexuality her financial freedom and the lusty lucrative connection between the two. Now on DVD for the first time along with its equally outrageous sequels the sexy sultry and seriously seductive movie aims to please! Two-time Bond girl Martine Beswicke stars as Xaviera now a best-selling author. And when Tinseltown comes calling with a less-than-savory offer for her book she flexes her independent spirit deciding to film the movie herself!

• Desert Heat | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £6.97   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Versatility, thy name is Van Damme! So Arnold cries in End of Days? Hah! In this relentless revenge actioner, Jean-Claude not only cries, but has a drunk scene, suffers suicidal despair, does a little slapstick, and still manages to flash his ubiquitous butt. Which, of course, is what his legion of fans want to see him kick plenty of (other people's butts, that is; not his own). Van Damme may no longer generate any box-office heat (like 1998's Legionnaire, this bypassed cinemas to go straight to video), but he at least gives his fans what they want. Originally titled Coyote Moon, Desert Heat recalls that guilty pleasure Road House, as Eddie Lomax (Van Damme) comes to the rescue of a gallery of colourful characters terrorised by slobbering, drug-dealing bikers and rednecks in a dilapidated desert town. And this time, it's personal. As one denizen ominously observes, "There's trouble on the hoof and it's coming this way" for the three ill-fated bullies who beat up and shot Eddie and left him for dead. Despite its desert setting, Heat is an oasis for great character actors who pick up Van Damme's considerable slack. They include Danny Trejo (Con Air) as Eddie's Native American friend Johnny Sixtoes, Pat Morita (The Karate Kid), Larry Drake (Darkman), Vincent Schiavelli (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ghost), Bill Erwin (Candy Stripe Nurses), and luscious Jaime Preslly as Dottie the waitress. The director is credited as Danny Mulroon, a pseudonym for John Avildsen, the Academy Award-winning director of Rocky. His career, too, seems to be on the ropes, but he keeps punching with some welcome eccentric touches. At one point Johnny gives the recuperating Eddie a foot massage (didn't he see Pulp Fiction?). And the script offers such goodies as a lovelorn bus driver (Tom's brother, Jim Hanks) inviting Dottie to see Yojimbo, and one biker's plea for mercy from a local tough: "Jessie, we were in high school together. I signed your yearbook". --Donald Liebenson, Amazon.com

• True Blue | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £17.08   |  Saving you £-7.09 (-71.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  On one level, True Blue is a distillation of the brutal physicality and unique focus demanded of participants in the annual University Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge. Based on legendary oarsman and Oxford coach Dan Topolksi's book about the 1987 race, it is also a tale of revenge; dominant Oxford had been defeated the year before and wanted the title back. More than that, though, it is a story of sporting obsession and the Machiavellian resources required to last the course in an event shrouded in ritual. When a clutch of lantern-jawed American international rowers muscle in on the Oxford team and threaten, quite literally, to rock the boat with their disregard for any of the tradition surrounding the race or Topolski's coaching methods, the fragile concept of team spirit is splintered. Ferdinand Fairfax's film, full of fine performances, builds the tension through a series of confrontations and a constantly shifting balance of power over the year leading up to the race. The intuitive relationship between the besieged Topolski (the excellent Johan Leysen) and the President of the College Captains, Donald McDonald (the quietly impassioned Dominic West) is particularly well drawn. With more than a hint of Chariots of Fire, not least in the Vangelis-like soundtrack, this is a moving and beautifully observed film about sporting passion.On the DVD: True Blue is presented in widescreen with a 16:9 anamorphic video aspect ratio that makes excellent use of the sweeping vistas of the Thames for the racing and training scenes which dominate the film. Stanislas Syrewicz's brooding score underpins the action at every stage and, thanks to the quality of the Dolby Surround soundtrack, helps to bring an appropriately epic, theatrical feel to your home viewing. --Piers Ford

• Van Helsing (4K UHD + BluRay + UV) | 4K UHD | (14/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mega-budget action adventure starring Hugh Jackman as the eponymous Gabriel Van Helsing, monster hunter extraordinaire. Van Helsing is sent on a mission by the Vatican to Transylvania to hunt down the evil Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh), accompanied only by the faithful friar Carl (David Wenham). There he meets the beautiful Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale), one of the last remaining descendants of a powerful royal family. She is as determined as Van Helsing to destroy the infamous vampire, who placed an ancient curse on her ancestors that has led to generations of supernatural goings-on and copious bloodshed. Other adversaries including Frankenstein's monster, the Wolf Man and Dracula's bloodthirsty vampire brides stand in their way - but will the brave and beautiful win through?