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• The Matrix - Collector's Edition DVD Box Set with poster, lobby cards, photographs & 35mm film frame | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  By following up their debut thriller Bound with the 1999 box-office smash The Matrix, the co-directing Wachowski brothers--Andy and Larry--annihilated any suggestion of a sophomore jinx, crafting one of the most exhilarating sci-fi/action movies of the 1990s. With mind-boggling, technically innovative special effects and a thought-provoking script that owes a debt of inspiration to the legacy of cyberpunk fiction, this is much more than an out-and-out action yarn; it's a thinking man's journey into the realm of futuristic fantasy, a dreamscape full of eye candy that will satisfy sci-fi, kung fu, action and adventure fans alike. Although the film is headlined by Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne--who both turn in fine performances--much of the fun and excitement should be attributed to Carrie-Anne Moss, whose Trinity flawlessly mixes vulnerability with immense strength, making other contemporary female heroines look timid by comparison. And if we were going to cast a vote for most dastardly movie villain of 1999, it would have to go to Hugo Weaving, who plays the feckless, semi-psychotic Agent Smith with panache and edginess. As the film's box-office profits soared, the Wachowski brothers announced that The Matrix is merely the first chapter in a cinematically dazzling franchise. --Jeremy StoreyIn the Box Set: That this Collector's Edition should appear less than a year after The Matrix's first DVD release indicates the degree to which the film has become an instant classic and set the initial benchmark for DVD quality and extra features. The chunky black box (about the size of the yellow pages) houses a slide-out tray containing the DVD, eight original lobby cards, an original one-sheet movie poster, six black and white photographs and a movie image card with the corresponding 35mm film frame attached. As with all such sets the whole is rapidly diminished by removing its parts, presenting the dilemma of whether to mount the poster and pictures, or leave them pristine but unseen in their original state.The DVD included is the same version available individually, including extensive behind-the-scenes features on the film's special effects. Contrary to the advertised contents, however, the disc does not contain the audio commentaries by Carrie-Anne Moss, editor Zach Staenberg and visual effects supervisor John Gaeta, or the music-only audio track with commentary by composer Don Davis (all of which are currently only available on the American version). --Steve Napleton

• Taggart - New Life | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £6.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (-16.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Boris Berezovsky at La Roque D'antheron | DVD | (19/12/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  'Les Pianos De La Nuit' is a collection of piano recitals performed live in the heart of Provence during the International Piano Festival of La Roque D'Antheron in July and August 2002. Conceived specifically for DVD release these virtuoso performances by contemporary artists can claim authoritative status as classic 21st-century archival footage.

• Stargate S.G -1: Season 5 (Vol. 24) | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £7.05   |  Saving you £-2.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Stargate SG-1 is the TV spin-off from the 1994 big-screen movie. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the primary unit SG-1. With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Episodes on this DVD: "Fail Safe", "The Warrior", "Menace" and "Sentinel". Before now, this show has managed to skirt around the edges of the technological implausibility that plagued the latter Star Trek incarnations. But in "Fail Safe", Sam's surreal solution to the problem of an asteroid on collision course with Earth has to be seen to be disbelieved. Teal'c and his old master Bra'tac have always wanted an inspiring leader to assist in making the other Jaffa realise their mistaken allegiances. Kytano (Rick Worthy) sure looks like "The Warrior" for whom they've been waiting. But everyone's patience and beliefs are put to the test when Jack questions what he sees as a situation that's too good to be true. The discovery of a Data-like android poses all sorts of questions for the SGC, especially as the dormant machine is the only thing left of a desolated world. Dr Jackson persuades everyone to turn it on, and boy do they regret it! Reese (Danielle Nicolet) turns out to have the mental maturity of a child, and a stroppy one at that. Worse, she's responsible for the greatest "Menace" the galaxy has ever known. Former crimes by the sinister NID have to be rectified on a doomed world. Led by the timid Marul (a fantastic turn by Henry Gibson), the planet believes in the mystical protection of "The Sentinel". Regrettably two turncoat agents destroyed that protection and it's up to the team to put something in its place. --Paul Tonks

• Cinderella - Prokofiev/Spoerli/Zurich Ballet | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £21.58   |  Saving you £1.41 (6.10%)   |  RRP £22.99

  CinderellaBallet in two acts.

• Matrix Revolutions (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  In this final explosive third installment of the Matrix trilogy the city of Zion last bastion of the human race defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo attempts to fulfill his prophecy as 'The One'. As the Machine Army wages devastation on Zion its citizens mount an aggressive defense but can they stave off the relentless swarm of Sentinels long enough for Neo adrift in a no man's land between the Matrix and the Machine world to harness the full extent of his powers and end the war?

• Serial Killer Triple: Urban Explorers/A Horrible Way To Die/... | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £6.73   |  Saving you £1.26 (15.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Urban ExplorersAnxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin an international group of four urban explorers hire a local guide Kris who leads them into the maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications under the city. When their guide has a bad fall two of the girls in the group frantically set off to seek help while Denis the young American stays behind. Armin a former East German border guard suddenly appears from nowhere. Out of sheer desperation Denis allows Armin to lead them and their unconscious guide to safety and it is at this moment that Denis realizes he has just made the biggest mistake of his life! A Horrible Way to DieForget everything you've ever seen in a serial killer movie and get ready for the chiller that stunned festival audiences around the world: notorious murderer Garrick Turrell (AJ Bowen of House of the Devil and Hatchet II) has escaped from police custody and resumed his killing spree. His former girlfriend Sarah (Amy Seimetz of Alexander the Last) is a recovering alcoholic trying to put her life back together in a new town with a new man (Joe Swanberg of Nights And Weekends). Her past continues to haunt her. And now her ex-boyfriend is leaving a trail of slaughter in his hunt to find her. From Adam Wingard the director of the award-winning film Pop Skull and screenwriter Simon Barrett (Dead Birds) comes the movie experience that is emotionally raw disturbingly graphic and brutally real. Prepare yourself for A Horrible Way to Die. The Last VictimIn 1980 John Wayne Gacy was convicted of the rape and murder of 33 young men and sentenced to death row. Years later ambitious criminology student Jason Moss began a bizarre correspondence with the serial killer and what followed was a nightmare journey into a world of violence madness and sexual depravity that brought home the true horror of Gacy's crimes. William Forsythe (The Devil's Rejects The Rock) and Jesse Moss (Final Destination 3) star in this chilling shocker based on the best seller that detailed an 18-year-old's terrifying relationship with the most notorious mass murderer in American history and hailed by Maxim as 'a true-life Silence of the Lambs'.

• Hitch / Men In Black / Men In Black 2 | DVD | (22/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hitch (Dir. Andy Tennant 2005): In Andy Tennant's delightful romantic comedy Hitch Will Smith stars as Alex Hitchens an urban date doctor who helps the common man woo the woman of his dreams. Hitch will use any means necessary--dance lessons back waxing--to instill romantic confidence in his clientele. Why? He was once a lonely wallflower himself who learned about love and heartbreak the hard way. His latest project Albert Brennaman (Kevin James) may be his most difficult. Brennaman a junior accountant prone to clumsiness has fallen head-over-heels for one of his clients Allegra Cole (Amber Valleta) a well-known celebrity. To complicate things further Hitch's dating dogma is shaken when he meets and falls for a beautiful gossip columnist Sara Melas (Eva Mendes) whose sharp wit easily pierces his cool fa''ade. Conflict arises when Melas uncovers Hitch's true profession and blames him for her best friend being dumped. Men In Black (Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld 1997): Secret agents 'K' (Tommy Lee Jones) and 'J' (Will Smith) work for a highly funded yet unofficial government agency which tracks civilisation-infiltrating extraterrestrial. K and J must prevent an alien terrorist (Vincent D'Onofrio) from assassinating two galactic ambassadors on Earth for a conference dooming the Earth to certain destruction! Men In Black 2 (Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld 2002): Agent J and Agent K are back! Agent J (Will Smith) needs help with a new breed of alien terror intent on destroying the planet. He is sent to find Agent K (Jones) restore his memory and enlist him in the fight of a lifetime...

• The Musicademy Beginners Worship Guitar Tuition DVD - Vols 1-3. Box Set. | DVD | (31/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £51.99

• Murphy's Law | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  James Nesbitt stars as a tough unorthodox cop who does what it takes to get the job done.... This release includes the pilot of Murphy's Law plus four episodes which comprise: Electric Bill Manic Monday Reunion Kiss And Tell.

• Taggart - New Life | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Murder strikes at the heart of Glasgow's scientific community when Professor Lloyd a leading researcher at Wenbourne is killed en-route to make the keynote speech at Glasgow's Science Centre. DCI Burke and the team initially suspect the protest group that has been campaigning against Lloyd's research into genetic engineering but on closer examination Burke discovers a world where the human motives of greed love and ambition raise their ugly heads.

• Hitch | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Stargate S.G -1: Season 4 (Vol. 17) | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's pet primary unit SG-1 With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" Goa'uld--the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. On the DVD: Episodes: The Curse, The Serpent's Venom, Chain Reaction and 2010. It's five years after the Stargate movie saw Dr. Jackson's theories professionally debunked. In "The Curse", he finally finds short-lived vindication with a few of his old archaeological colleagues. Unfortunately, one of them is more interested in the recently discovered Osiris Jar than is healthy. The birth of a powerful new Goa'uld God is sure to spell trouble for the SG team soon. "The Serpent's Venom" is the strongest test of Teal'c's loyalties anyone could have imagined. Betrayed and captured on homeworld Chulak, the "sholvah" is tortured to the point of death. In fact, it is his willingness to accept death that convinces his captors that perhaps his rejection of Apophis has meaning for them too. This is a powerful episode with strong violence and performances. When General Hammond announces his resignation on the grounds of disliking sending people into danger, the team know something's wrong. A "Chain Reaction" of events and clues leads O'Neill to the recently incarcerated turncoat Maybourne. Suddenly with this episode, all the previous references to the sinister NID agency make worrying sense. As Hammond explains, they're "above the law". That doesn't stop Jack from MacGuyvering a way out of the clutches of Ronny Cox's double-dealing Senator Kinsey though! Inexplicably, we're then presented with a future vision of the year "2010" where Kinsey has become President. Here we see Earth in peaceful alliance with the Aschen race. But Jack is sulking in secluded retirement. Sure enough things aren't at all idyllic--just as he forewarned--and in typical style for the series, an engaging time-travel plotline unravels to safeguard the past from this imperfect present. --Paul Tonks

• Zombie Resurrection | Blu Ray | (23/03/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This Easter... A unique British zombie film that has a never-seen-before twist for zombie movie fans: a zombie Jesus who brings the dead back to life when a rag tag group of survivors take refuge during the Zombie apocalypse.As the blood-thirsty zombies invade something very unexpected happens. One of the zombies displays 'Jesus-like' powers when he touches other zombies they are miraculously returned to life. Is this Zombie Saviour the cure for the undead plague or is he heralding the end of the world? The survivors soon find out in this 'truly sick zombie flick'. Special Features: 'Making of' Documentary Cast and Director Commentaries

• Matrix Revolutions | UMD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• Wire In The Blood - Justice Painted Blind | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Robson Green plays Dr Tony Hill a clinical psychologist with empathy beyond the established boundaries of his science in 'Wire In The Blood' based on the best selling novels by Val McDermid.

• Worcestershire on Film | DVD | (01/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Worcestershire is a county steeped in history and between its rolling countryside and Rivers Avon and Severn sits towns, villages and communities rich in manufacturing, crop growing and cultural heritage, from market gardening in the Vale of Evesham to carpet making in Kidderminster. Worcestershire on Film, produced and edited by acclaimed filmmaker Andy McKay and his team at the University of Lincoln's School of Media, pieces together rarely seen and newly restored 20th century films of the county that are preserved at the Media Archive for Central England (MACE). Amongst the films are a variety of reports from the regional news programme ATV Today which ran from 1964 to 1981, including village reaction to the possible sale of St Jarvis' Church Spire to America in 1968; the 1969 demolition of the house on Rainbow Hill where Sir Edward Elgar died; apple picking and asparagus farming in the 1960s and 1970s and reports from the 1960s to 1980s on flooding in the county when the River Severn burst its banks. There is also a focus on industry including a 1925 film illustrating carpet making in Kidderminster and a look at needle making in Redditch in 1968. A variety of films captured with skill by amateur filmmakers can also be seen, including shots of Winston Churchill's visit to Worcester on 20th May 1950. This section includes a glimpse of the newly discovered letters between Churchill and the city's mayor, encouraging Churchill to make this visit after he was granted the freedom of the city in 1945. These hidden gems have been arranged into seven themes so you can choose how you want to make your exploration of twentieth century Worcestershire. The DVD also includes a short film, About MACE, a behind the scenes look at the work of the MACE team and the services they provide. DVD PAL. Running Time: 71 mins Ratio: 16:9 (Archive 4:3) Colour/Black and White Optional Subtitles for the Hard of Hearing

• The Sopranos: Series 1 (Vol. 4) | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £16.70   |  Saving you £-1.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: this ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there is the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his mid-level capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what is not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• The Stars Collection Quad Pack - Vol. 2 | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £2.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (100.33%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Corruption Empire The death of a corporate mogul due to an overdose from a sexual performance enhancing drug leads to a case in which a witness (Roberts) accuses Detective Curtis (Bratt) of tampering with evidence. Meanwhile Detective Briscoe is set up by a former partner to take the rap for corruption. Now the two cops must take the stand to face the very justice that they defend... Playing God It's high-voltage thrills as hot X-files star David Duchovny and new big-screen bad boy Timothy Hutton square off in an edgy confrontation where the stakes are high...and the action is deadly! Duchovny plays Dr. Eugene Sands an ex-surgeon lured into a dark underworld by a hip - but lethal - mob caught in a web of murder and mayhem and growing far too close to the mobster's seductive mistress played by sexy Angelina Jolie. It's a potent action thriller where passion and deception meet in a battle between good and evil! Al's Lads Adventure drama set in 1927 Chicago surrounding Jimmy and his two Liverpool pals who work as lowly waiters on the Mauretania steaming towards America. They soon become involved in a gin selling racket and before long they are working for legendary gangster Al Capone... All The Queens Men Led by an American a mismatched team of British Special Services agents must infiltrate in disguise a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will help end the war.

• 10 Hollywood Leading Men | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.99 (159.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Featuring 10 Films starring leading Hollywood actors: Shades: Sleek satire of on-set shenanigans in a movie within a movie... Playing God: It's high-voltage thrills as hot X-files star David Duchovny and new big-screen bad boy Timothy Hutton square off in an edgy confrontation where the stakes are high...and the action is deadly! Duchovny plays Dr. Eugene Sands an ex-surgeon lured into a dark underworld by a hip - but lethal - mob caught in a web of murder and mayhem