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• John Wayne 3 Film Collection | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £10.03   |  Saving you £2.96 (29.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Titles Comprise: The Comancheros: John Wayne is a Texas Ranger in this rollicking, good humored western, assigned to bring an arms-running gang to justice. After Wayne arrests one of the criminals, matters are complicated when they wander into an area controlled by the Comancheros- a group of Anglos aiding the warring Comanche Indians. Director Curtiz' last film is based on the novel by Paul I. Wellman.North To Alaska: A tough, hard-drinking gold prospector agrees to pick up his partner's fiance, but winds up with a beautiful substitute. When both partners begin vying for her favour, trouble inevitably breaks out!The Undefeated: After the Civil War, former Union Colonel John Henry Thomas (Wayne) and Confederate Colonel James Langdon (Hudson) are leading expeditions to Mexico, Langdon to establish a new settlement away from Carpetbaggers and Thomas to sell horses. Along the way they must put aside their differences to deal with a threatening Mexican general.

• Murder She Wrote - Season 2 | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £17.25   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The complete second series of the Emmy award-winning detective drama. Angela Lansbury stars as everyone's favourite super-sleuth Jessica Fletcher a famous mystery writer who has a knack for solving murders on and off the page. Murder seems to follow Jessica Fletcher; a former English teacher and a mystery writer full of charm and a zest for life. She always happens to become ""the investigator"" when traveling around the country to promote her series of novels. Murder always

• Defiance - Season 1-3 | DVD | (18/01/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £31.69

  SEASON ONE Defiance is the story of courage and survival in a place unlike any other you could imagine. Set in the wake of an alien conflict, a completely transformed planet Earth is inhabited by human and alien survivors forced to live and work together in the aftermath of this global catastrophe. Mysterious drifter Joshua Nolan (Grant Bowler; True Blood, Lost), a former military lieutenant and his lone companion, Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas; Whitechapel), settle in the frontier town of Defiance, where they join up with other inhabitants struggling to build a new society in this dangerous new world. Now they must stand together against outside forces that threaten their existence. United they stand. Divided they fall. It's do or die in the town of Defiance. SEASON TWO As Defiance's second action-packed season begins, the lives of the townspeople remain in turmoil as Nolan (Grant Bowler) searches for Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas), Amanda (Julie Benz) deals with a personal loss and Stahma (Jaime Murray) plots to takeover Datak's criminal empire. Meanwhile, Earth Republic's control of Defiance brings changes with far-reaching consequences, including a scheming new mayor (James Murray) whose secret agendas push the town towards its breaking point. Watch every season two episode back-to-back and uninterrupted, and experience the thrilling intrigue and suspense of this Primetime Emmy® Award-nominated series from the producers of Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, and Farscape! SEASON THREE From the producers of Battlestar Galactica, Caprica and Farscape comes the third season of Defiance. Nolan and Irisa return to the ruins of Defance seven months after the complete destruction of New York City. They fnd the town on the verge of war with the Votanis Collective, led by the notorious General Rahm Tak. To beat impossible odds and to save Defiance from the brutality of the Votanis Collective, the town turns to the mysterious Omec, a long-lost race of Votans with a blood-stained past. Watch all 12 episodes with new aliens, new villians and new threatsback-to-back and uninterrupted.

• Julian Fellowes Investigates A Most Mysterious Murder | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Oscar winning Julian Fellowes examines the cases of real life unsolved murders from the 19th century in this fantastic new series. Each story is told through lavish dramatic reconstruction and Fellowes investigates the cases against each of the suspects presenting his own theory as to exactly what did happen. The first episode delves into the death in April 1876 of Charles Bravo a young barrister who died a slow and agonising death after taking poison. Although there were many susp

• Experimenter | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment in which people think they're delivering electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Subjects are told it's about memory, but the experiment is really about conformity, conscience, and free will. Milgram is trying to test people's tendency to comply with authority. His controversial experiments and results hit a nerve, and got him accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster. Much like Mad Men and Masters of Sex, EXPERIMENTER is a stylish and engaging look at a fascinating period of American history. It features a strong cast including Winona Ryder (Black Swan), Peter Sarsgaard (Black Mass), Taryn Manning (TV series Orange is the New Black) and John Leguizamo (John Wick).

• Thunderbolt And Lightfoot | DVD | (21/07/2003) from £24.89   |  Saving you £-11.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jeff Bridges actually corralled an Oscar nomination for his spirited, oddball performance in the genre-crime story Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, directed by first-timer Michael Cimino who (a short two films later) would bring down a studio with Heaven's Gate. Clint Eastwood plays a bank robber par excellence with a flair for explosives who is being hunted by his former partners, who think he has their loot from their last job. Bridges is his eager apprentice and sidekick, who helps him escape; when Eastwood finally makes peace with his hunters, Bridges convinces them to try a daring robbery--but things inevitably go awry. The relationship between Eastwood and Bridges is both funny and touching in this, one of Eastwood's better post-Dirty Harry efforts. --Marshall Fine

• The Last Station | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £6.01   |  Saving you £11.98 (199.33%)   |  RRP £17.99

  "The Last Station" is a love story set during the last year of the life and turbulent marriage of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and his wife the Countess Sofya.

• The Cutting Edge | DVD | (06/05/2002) from £11.45   |  Saving you £1.54 (13.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Cutting Edge is a 1991 romantic sports comedy-drama set in the allegedly exciting world of Olympic-level figure-skating. Ice maiden Moira Kelly has been reared from birth by her driving father (Stepfather star Terry O'Quinn adding a creepy touch) to be a champion, but is constantly let down because she's so unpleasant that no one wants to be her partner. On the other side of the tracks, macho jock DB Sweeney is invalided out of ice hockey and recruited by Kelly's Russian coach (Roy Dotrice) to team up with her. They hate each other on sight but develop into a potential winning team, and, in between being nasty to each other, fall in nauseating lurve. The tension builds up as to who is going to win that Olympic gold medal in the finale (guess!) and whether the leads will be able to hold off strangling each other in time for the big last-minute clinch. The whole thing is a stew of mismatched couple and underdog-triumphs-in-sport clichés, directed by ex-Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser, but it really falls down because Sweeney and Kelly obviously can't skate for toffee. The on-ice sequences, choreographed by medal-winning Robin Cousins in an only-job-he's-fit-for turn, employ doubles and tricky editing, which means the climactic struggle has to be quite literally skated over. On the DVD: The Cutting Edge comes to DVD in an anamorphic widescreen print that’s in good shape but with that slightly feathery colour common in pre-digital transfers. There are English, German, French and Italian tracks; plus a single measly trailer.--Kim Newman

• The Trip & The Trip to Italy: The TV Versions | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £13.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (81.75%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Available together for the first time BAFTA winning series The Trip and second series The Trip to Italy. Beautiful scenery exquisite gourmet cuisine and inspired free-flowing improvised comedy from two of the finest comic actors around. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon enjoy two hilarious tours one of the North of England and one of Italy.

• Friends: Complete Series 5 - New Edition | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £44.00 (734.56%)   |  RRP £49.99

  With Friends like these, you'll never need to go out again. Picking up from the momentous events of Series 4, this season starts out with Monica and Chandler in some awkward positions as they try to keep their blossoming romance a secret from the others. By the series' end they'll be planning to get married in Las Vegas, where Joey is working as a gladiator at Caesar's Palace casino, his big movie break having fallen through. The embers of Rachel and Ross's relationship continue to send up sparks, especially when Emily causes strife early on by insisting Ross never has contact with Rachel ever again. Phoebe finally meets her father and starts dating a cop named Gary. It all climaxes with everyone in Las Vegas, where Monica and Chandler's impromptu decision to wed is upstaged by a surprising event. --Leslie Felperin

• Half Past Dead 1 and 2 | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £11.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (66.86%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Half Past Dead: Don Michael Paul) Welcome to Alcatraz. ""The Rock"" has just re-opened for business but the first criminal slated for the electric chair is also sitting on a secret worth $200 million. And an invading group of commandos (led by Morris Chestnut) isn't going to let his fortune go up in smoke. Already undercover in Alcatraz FBI Agent Petrosevitch (Steven Seagal) has to neutralize the situation and rescue a Supreme Court Justice held hostage. Worse he has to convin

• The Vow | DVD | (25/06/2012) from £18.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (5.89%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, The Vow is based on the true story of a newlywed couple recovering from an accident that puts the wife in a coma.

• Doctor Who - The Green Death | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £7.57   |  Saving you £12.42 (164.07%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring the third incarnation of the Doctor--Jon Pertwee's patriarchal renaissance man--The Green Death is a solid addition to the Doctor Who canon. Originally broadcast in May 1973, it may now have dated a little, with its vegetarian hippies and "boyo" Welshmen, but it has all the elements of classic Who, the Doctor encountering green-glowing dead bodies, a shadowy mastermind, a global conspiracy, brainwashing, a megalomaniacal supercomputer and, of course, giant maggots.This story, the final sequence of Pertwee's penultimate season, reached the TV ratings Top 10, and fittingly, met high production standards. The environmental message, while facilitating Who's ongoing individual-freedom motif, also proved prophetic in its warnings of globalisation and pollution. The special effects, though admittedly dated now, were good for their time and budget--the stop-motion photography of the maggots and the front-axial projection used for the pulsating green skin are particularly effective. The well-crafted script manages to combine monsters, punch-ups and cliffhanger endings with cerebral concepts, human drama and erudite references to Beethoven and Oscar Wilde--the single tear of the reformed villain as he destroys his paymaster is just one of the subtle touches distinguishing this work. The Green Death's six filler-free episodes belong to the Golden Age of Doctor Who, and their denouement is one of the most poignant in the series' long history.On the DVD: the Beeb, as always, have gone to town on the picture, with the images and colours scrubbing up nicely for their age. Sadly there are none of the usual nostalgia-inducing contemporaneous news features, but there is an amusing mockumentary starring The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss. The interviews with writer Robert Sloman and actor Stewart Bevan will also give fans some extra insights--particularly Bevan's revelation that the actors were discouraged from rehearsing the final scene so as to give it genuine emotional intensity. --Paul Eisinger

• Tom Cruise - All The Right Moves / Legend / T.A.P.S. / Minority Report | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  All The Right Moves: Set in a dying mill town in the heart of Pennsylvania Stef (Cruise) dreams of winning a football scholarship to escape from a hopeless future... (Dir. Michael Chapman 1983) Legend: Young Jack (Cruise) lives in a magic forest populated with friendly and exotic creatures. But the delicate balance between good and evil is upset when the Lord of Darkness seizes Jack's beloved Lili (Sara) and a horn from one of the last unicorns thereby gaining con

• Danielle Steel's Daddy | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Patrick duffy and Linda Carter star in this highly emotional story of love loss and rediscovered happiness. Oliver is a top advertising executive who seems to have it all - a beautiful wife three great children and a lovely home. But one fateful day his wife announces she is leaving home to become a mature student at a far away university. Her promise to return on weekends is quickly broken and Oliver must take on the role of both father and mother to his increasingly confused and resentful children. Soon the family is falling to pieces. The kids blame Oliver for the eventual divorce and the eldest son Benjamin drops out of high school to set up home with his newly pregnant girlfriend. The painful death of his own mother is the final straw and a despairing Oliver agrees to take a new job in Los Angeles hopefully leaving his heartbreak behind. There he meets and falls in love with a beautiful actress but will his children ever allow Oliver to rebuild the romance and happiness he yearns for?

• Creepshow 2 | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Stephen King and George A. Romero present... The Creep is your guide to three new tales of terror from the creepiest comic book of them all! In Old Chief Wood'nhead kindly shop-keepers are slaughtered by hoodlums and unleash a most unexpected avenger. Four teens out for fun find themselves on a lake-monster's menu in The Raft. And in The Hitcher a cheating wife is in for the ride of her life when she runs down a hitcher who won't stay dead. Gore FX legend Tom Savini and Stephen King himself co-star in this scream of a sequel co-wriiten by King and George A. Romero that's bigger better and wilder than ever!

• The World Is Not Enough | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £5.39   |  Saving you £14.36 (395.59%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In his 19th screen outing The World is Not Enough, Ian Fleming's super-spy is once again caught in the crosshairs of a self-created dilemma: as the longest-running feature-film franchise, James Bond is an annuity his producers want to protect, yet the series' consciously formulaic approach frustrates any real element of surprise beyond the rote application of plot twists or jump cuts to shake up the audience. This time out, credit 007's caretakers for making some visible attempts to invest their principal characters with darker motives--and blame them for squandering The World is Not Enough's initial promise by the final reel. By now, Bond pictures are as elegantly formal as a Bach chorale, and this one opens on an unusually powerful note. A stunning pre-title sequence reaches beyond mere pyrotechnics to introduce key plot elements as the action leaps from Bilbao to London. Pierce Brosnan undercuts his usually suave persona with a darker, more brutal edge largely absent since Sean Connery departed. Equally tantalising are our initial glimpses of Bond's nemesis du jour, Renard (Robert Carlyle), and imminent love interest, Elektra King (Sophie Marceau), both atypically complex characters cast with seemingly shrewd choices and directed by the capable Michael Apted. The story's focus on post-Soviet geopolitics likewise starts off on a savvy note, before being overtaken by increasingly Byzantine plot twists, hidden motives and reversals of loyalty superheated by relentless (if intermittently perfunctory) action sequences. Bond's grimmer demeanour, while preferable to the smirk that eventually swallowed Roger Moore whole, proves wearying, unrelieved by any true wit. The underlying psychoses that propel Renard and Elektra eventually unravel into unconvincing melodrama, while Bond is supplied with a secondary love object, Denise Richards, who is even more improbable as a nuclear physicist. Ultimately, this world is not enough despite its better intentions. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com On the DVD: There are three different documentaries on this disc, as well as a "Secrets of 007" featurette that cuts between specific stunt sequences, behind-the-scenes footage and storyboards to reveal how it was all done, and a short video tribute to Desmond Llewelyn ("Q"), who died not long after this movie was released. The first "making of" piece is presented by an annoyingly chirpy American woman and is aimed squarely at the MTV market (most fascinating is watching her interview with Denise Richards in which the two orthodontically enhanced ladies attempt to out-smile each other). "Bond Cocktail" gamely distils all the essential ingredients that make up the classic Bond movie formula--gadgets, girls, exotic locations and lots of action. Most interesting of all is "Bond Down River", a lengthy dissection of the opening boat chase sequence. Director Michael Apted provides the first commentary, and talks about the challenges of delivering all the requisite ingredients. The second commentary is less satisfactory, since second unit director Vic Armstrong, production designer Peter Lamont and composer David Arnold have little in common. There's also the Garbage song video, and the booklet has yet more behind-the-scenes info. The anamorphic CinemaScope picture and Dolby digital sound are as spectacular as ever. --Mark Walker

• Family Guy, Series 1 | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £6.13   |  Saving you £18.86 (307.67%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Family Guy shouldn't work at all. Even by the witless standards of modern television, it is breathtakingly derivative: does an animated series about the travails of a boorish, suburban yob with a saintly wife, a hopeless son, a clever daughter and a baby sound familiar at all? Even the house in Family Guy looks like it was built by the same architects who sketched the residence of The Simpsons. However, Family Guy does work, transcending its (occasionally annoyingly) obvious influences with reliably crisp writing and the glorious sight gags contained in the surreal flashbacks which punctuate the episodes. Most importantly, the show's brilliance comes from two absolutely superb characters: Stewie, the baby whose extravagant dreams of tyrannising the world are perpetually thwarted by the prosaic limitations of infanthood, and the urbane family dog Brian--Snoopy after attendance at an obedience class run by Frank Sinatra. Family Guy does not possess the cultural or satirical depth of The Simpsons--very little art in any field does. But it is a genuinely funny and clever programme. --Andrew Mueller

• Jimi Hendrix - Live At Woodstock | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £32.99   |  Saving you £-13.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This all-new 2-disc deluxe set features all of the existing film footage from Jimi's unforgettable August 1969 Woodstock concert newly re-edited and presented uninterrupted and in its original performance sequence. Live At Woodstock includes never-before-seen versions of 'Foxey Lady' 'Message To Love' 'Hey Joe' 'Spanish Castle Magic' and 'Lover Man'; and an all-new 5.1 and 2.0 stereo soundtrack mixed by Eddie Kramer Jimi's original studio engineer. In addition to the newly re-edited colour footage featured on DVD one A Second Look offers a totally unique perspective of Jimi's Woodstock performance that has never before been shared. A Second Look combines never before seen black and white video footage of Jimi's legendary Woodstock performance intercut with alternate camera angles filmed in colour. A Second Look features uninterrupted footage of every performance featured on DVD One in its original performance sequence. In addition A Second Look presents never before seen video footage of 'Hear My Train A Comin' - a performance missed by the film crew and presented here for the very first time.

• Little House on the Prairie Season 7 | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £29.90   |  Saving you £0.09 (0.30%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A long-running drama based upon the Little House series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie follows the lives of the simple farming Ingalls family: Charles Caroline Mary Laura Carrie and then Grace and the later adopted Albert James and Cassandra who settle into a quaint little house on the banks of Plum Creek near the small town of Walnut Grove during the late 1800s. Often narrated by Laura the series follows her simple farm upbringing from her childhood until her adulthood with Almanzo Wilder with whom she starts a family of her own. Episodes Comprise: 1. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Part 1 2. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Part 2 3. A New Beginning 4. Fight Team Fight 5. The Silent Cry 6. Portrait of Love 7. Divorce Walnut Grove Style 8. Dearest Albert I'll Miss You 9. The In-laws 10. To See the Light: Part 1 11. To See the Light: Part 2 12. Oleson Versus Oleson 13. Come Let Us Reason Together 14. The Nephews 15. Make a Joyful Noise 16. Goodbye Mrs Wilder 17. Sylvia: Part 1 18. Sylvia: Part 2 19. Blind Justice 20. I Do Again 21. The Lost Ones: Part 1 22. The Lost Ones: Part 2