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• The A-Team - A Taste Of The A-Team | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The A - Team : A Taste Of The A - Team

• Bergerac: Series 8 | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Bergerac the Jersey-based detective series stars John Nettles as Jim Bergerac a recovering alcoholic divorcee and father to a young daughter. He is a Detective Sergeant with the Bureau des Etrangers a department for non-residents on the Channel Island of Jersey. Episodes Comprise: 1. A True Detective (1 of 2) 2. My Name's Sergeant Bergerac (2 of 2) 3. The Dig 4. Roots of Evil 5. Entente Cordiale 6. In Love and War 7. Under Wraps 8. All the Sad Songs 9. The Messenger Boy 10. Diplomatic Incident 11. There for the Picking

• Thief | Blu Ray | (02/02/2015) from £20.69   |  Saving you £2.30 (11.12%)   |  RRP £22.99

  For his first theatrical feature Michael Mann (Manhunter Public Enemies) returned to the rain-soaked streets of his hometown Chicago for a stunning piece of neo-noir starring James Caan (The Godfather Rollerball) at his toughest. Caan plays Frank a jewel thief and former convict who is looking to settle down with his girlfriend (Tuesday Weld Once Upon a Time in America) and begin a family. But when his ‘fence’ is thrown from a window and the Chicago mafia begin to flex their muscles his hopes of a quiet life become anything but… With a sterling supporting cast in the shape of James Belushi Robert Prosky Willie Nelson and Dennis Farina lush electronic score by Tangerine Dream and the assured direction of Mann Thief is a standout eighties crime flick that paved the way for the his later urban thrillers such as Heat and Collateral as well as Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive. Bonus Features: Limited Slipcase Edition [3000 units] featuring two versions of the film High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the director’s cut from a new 4K film transfer approved by director Michael Mann with uncompressed 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the original theatrical cut [Limited Edition Exclusive] with original uncompressed 2.0 Stereo PCM audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Optional isolated music and effects track on the theatrical cut Audio commentary by writer-director Michael Mann and actor James Caan The Directors: Michael Mann – a 2001 documentary on the filmmaker containing interviews with Mann James Belushi William Petersen Jon Voight and others Stolen Dreams – a new interview with Caan filmed exclusively for this release Hollywood USA: James Caan – an episode of the French TV series Ciné regards devoted to the actor filmed shortly after Thief had finished production The Art of the Heist – an examination of Thief with writer and critic F.X. Feeney author of the Taschen volume on Michael Mann Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by maarko phntm Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Brad Stevens

• Joan Crawford Collection | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Titles Comprise: Mildred Pierce: Joan Crawford delivers a critically acclaimed performance as Mildred Pierce a woman clawing her way to success to provide her daughter with everything she lacks. No sacrifice is too much - ending her middle class marriage climbing to the top of a male-dominated business world and marrying a man she doesn't love - but is murder a step too far? Grand Hotel: Oscar-winning drama with an all-star cast exploring the interwoven relationships of the residents of a plush Berlin hotel... Humoresque: Glamorous socialite Helen Wright (Joan Crawford) takes what she wants clothes alcohol men uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets brilliant young violinist Paul Boray (John Garfield). But this is one toy she can't break. Instead her love for Paul brings Helen to the breaking point. In this acclaimed and profound exploration of desire Crawford makes Helen a rich layered character torn between selfless love and selfish impulses. Garfield matches her as the driven genius. Possessed: She loves him when he goes away for months. She loves him when he refuses to marry her. But when callow David Sutton chooses to marry someone else Louise Howell's love for him takes a darker turn. Give her a gun and she'll love him to death. Joan Crawford reteams with producer Jerry Wald of her Academy Award winning 'Mildred Pierce' and claims a 1947 Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of tempestuous mentally unstable Louise. The Damned Don't Cry: It's a man's world. And Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in it: be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. In the first of three collaborations with director Vincent Sherman Joan Crawford brings hard-boiled glamour and simmering passion to the role of Ethel who moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion to high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one a high-rolling racketeer abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel's swanky living room she flees a sure murder rap right back to the poverty she thought she had escaped. And this time there may not be a man to pick up the pieces of her shattered life.

• The Last Time | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A hard-hitting and captivating drama set amongst the fast-paced world of big business. A salesman (keaton) rediscovers a lust for life after falling for the fiancee of his new business partner (Fraser). A lesson on the dangers of ambition deceit and the perpetual search fro happiness.

• Men Behaving Badly - Series 3 | DVD | (05/06/2000) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The ultimate small-screen representation of Loaded-era lad culture--albeit a culture constantly being undermined by its usually sharper female counterpart--there seems little argument that Men Behaving Badly was one of 1990s' definitive sitcoms. Certainly the booze-oriented, birds-obsessed antics of Martin Clunes' Gary and Neil Morrissey's Tony have become every bit as connected to Britain's collective funny bone as Basil Fawlty's inept hostelry or Ernie Wise's short, hairy legs. Yet, the series could easily have been cancelled when ITV viewers failed to respond to the original version, which featured Clunes sharing his flat with someone named Dermot, played by Harry Enfield. Indeed, it was only when the third series moved to the BBC and was then broadcast in a post-watershed slot--allowing writer Simon Nye greater freedom to explore his characters' saucier ruminations--that the show began to gain a significant audience. By then, of course, Morrissey had become firmly ensconced on the collective pizza-stained sofa, while more screen time was allocated to the boys' respective foils, Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash. Often glibly dismissed as a lame-brained succession of gags about sex and flatulence, the later series not only featured great performances and sharp-as-nails writing but also sported a contemporary attitude that dared to go where angels, and certainly most other sitcoms, feared to tread. Or, as Gary was once moved to comment about soft-porn lesbian epic Love in a Women's Prison: "It's a serious study of repressed sexuality in a pressure-cooker environment." Series 3 includes: "Lovers" in which Gary becomes worried that he hasn't slept with enough women; "Bed" in which Dorothy and Gary experience problems in the boudoir ("What's the matter? We always have sex after I've cooked for us. That's why I do it."); "Casual Ties" in which a depressed Deborah decides to sell her flat and go travelling, while Tony fails to cheer her up by impersonating different types of Cheese; "Weekend" in which Tony gets a job at The Crown; "Cleaning Lady" in which Tony reconsiders his professional options ("I could be an escort." "What, a car?" asks Gary); "Marriage" in which Gary joins Dorothy for a candlelit dinner ("Why she couldn't find a restaurant with proper lighting I don't know"). --Clark Collis

• Danielle Steel - Daddy / Fine Things / Message From Nam | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Danielle Steel is one of the best-selling authors of all-time and now you can enjoy this box set featuring three movie adaptations of some of her best known novels. Daddy (Dir. Michael Miller 1991): 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 i

• Project Itoh: Harmony - Collector's | Blu Ray | (07/11/2016) from £21.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (37.20%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In a future ruled by an unwavering dedication to good health, three high school girls led by the defiant Miach Mihie attempt suicide as the ultimate act of rebellion. Tuan Kirie survives, but can't shake the hatred she has for the perfect world she lives in. . Years later, a simultaneous mass suicide rocks the globe and sends society into a state of shock. A small group stands up to take credit for the event, claiming they've hijacked the consciousness of every person on the planet. Everything about the terrorists' message sounds too familiar to Tuan. She suspects her old friend Miach might be involved, but how could that be when she'd supposedly killed herself years earlier? Desperate for answers, Tuan launches an investigation that takes her across the globe chasing the ghost of her old friend. But what is Miach's end game? Will she finally wake the world from its monotonous slumber? Or, end it all for good? . Contains the Film on Blu-Ray and DVD with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles. Presented in collectors packaging with booklet.

• Unconscious | DVD | (31/08/2015) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hollywood stars Kate Bosworth (Still Alice, Superman Returns) and Wes Bentley (The Hunger Games, Interstellar) come together for this surreal thriller that's unlike anything you've seen before. When a man awakes with amnesia, he's held captive by a woman claiming to be his wife. But as he soon discovers, she's something far more sinister...

• Company of Heroes (DVD + UV Copy) | DVD | (25/03/2013) from £4.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (189.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Inspired by true events. A company of American soldiers is lost behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge and makes a horrific discovery - a super bomb in development. The soldiers soon learn about a secret allied mission to retrieve a defecting German scientist in charge of a secret weapons program. Faced with impossible odds, the company and an escaping POW go on a daring raid into the heart of Nazi Germany in pursuit of the scientist. Starring Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Chad Michael Collins (Sniper: Reloaded), Neal McDonough (Captain America: The First Avenger), Vinnie Jones (The Tomb) and Jurgen Prochnow (Das Boot).

• Storage | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £4.03   |  Saving you £8.96 (69.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Edgy Australian horror-thriller set within an inner city storage facility. When 17 year-old Jimmy begins to work at a storage facility it seems to have that nearly every customer has something to hide. But when he sees 'evidence' being hidden inside a red drum Jimmy soon finds that when you start down a dark road it's impossible to turn back. A very atmospheric movie and setting that evokes the claustrophobic fear of The Descent and reminds of Freddy Krueger's famed 'Boiler Room' in Nightmare on Elm Street.

• Flambards - The Complete Collection | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  All thirteen episodes: 'Christina' 'The Blooding' 'Entry To A New World' 'Lady Bountiful' 'Point To Point' 'The Cold Light Of Day' 'Edge Of The Cloud' 'Flying High' 'Sing No Sad Songs' 'New Blood' 'Prisoners Of War' 'What Are Servants For?' and 'Inheritance'.

• Niko's Christmas Collection | DVD | (03/11/2014) from £22.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Two brilliant Christmas films for your little ones to enjoy! In The Flight Before Christmas a friendly young reindeer called Niko learns to overcome his fear of flying by taking lessons from a flying squirrel. The pair then head to the North Pole to save a troubled Santa and his fleet of flying reindeer. In The Magic Reindeer Niko returns and this time he is adjusting to life with his new step-family. As Christmas approaches he misses his absent father, however when his little stepbrother i.

• The Foreigner | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jon Cold is a freelance secret agent who's as cunning as he is deadly. When Cold is hired to deliver a mysterious package from France to Germany some very dangerous people will stop at nothing to stop him. But getting in his way is a decision they might not live to regret... With exotic locations and blistering action The Foreigner is heart-pounding entertainment that'll keep you on the edge of your seat!

• Danielle Steel's Star | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £5.35   |  Saving you £0.64 (11.96%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The death of her loving father shatters 16-year-old Crystal's (Jennie Garth) happy life on a remote ranch. Abused by her bitter mother she's first raped then blamed for the tragic shooting of her younger brother and finally banished from the family home. Alone and penniless she flees to San Francisco and takes a job as a waitress in a night club. Her unique singing talents are soon noticed however and before long she's carving out a sparkling recording career. By chance Crystal meets up with her one true childhood love Spencer Hill (Craig Bierko) who's now engaged to a powerful society beauty. Though infatuated with each other they realise they must go their separate ways - both eventually reaching the pinnacle of their careers. But fame and fortune can never eclipse true love. So when fate finally brings them together again will more than a decade of triumphs and tragedies once more stand in the way of happiness and love?

• Aquamarine/ Flicka/ My First Daughter? | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £19.95   |  Saving you £-9.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Titles Comprise: Aquamarine: It's the end of summer and Claire (Roberts) and Hailey (JoJo) have a major problem. In just five days Hailey's family is moving halfway around the world! These girls need a major miracle and they get one in the form of Aquamarine a beautiful mermaid who washes ashore in a late summer storm. Sweet but clueless to the ways of romance she offers to grant the girls one wish if they help her find the boy of her dreams. But when they attempt to reel in the cute local lifeguard the result is something none of them expect and they discover that sometimes what you wish for isn't what you really want after all! Flicka: Sixteen year old Katie McLaughlin (Alison Lohman) is a headstrong and determined teenager trying to find her way in life. Katie forms a bond with a wild horse she names Flicka. Despite pleas from her father (Tim McGraw) not to ride Flicka Katy sets out to follow her own path not only with the horse but with her future to show that she is capable taming Flicka and one day taking over the family ranch. First Daughter: The girl who always stood out is finally getting the chance to fit in. Samantha Mackenzie (Katie Holmes) has fame and glamour but she just wants what every college freshman wants: the opportunity to experience the world away from home and most importantly away from her parents. She just wants to be treated like anyone else. To be... normal. But it's not going to be easy because Sam's home address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and her dad is John Mackenzie (Michael Keaton) the President of the United States. Now living thousands of miles away from the White House Sam hopes that being out on her own means she'll be free of the constraints of being the First Daughter. But everywhere she turns there's a Secret Service agent at the ready and her fellow freshmen won't let her stop being the most famous student in the country.

• Party Of Five - Season 1 | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  After the sudden loss of their parents the Salingers must band together to keep their own lives on track discovering first loves last calls and themselves along the rocky road to growing up. Headlined by a young sexy cast including Neve Campbell Scott Wolf and Lacey Chabert this highly-rated long-running series (1994-2000) firmly found its place as a pop culture phenomenon for all ages. Shot through with equal doses heartache and laughter Party Of Five remains an emotional knockout delivering all 22 episodes of this Golden Globe winning (Best TV Series Drama 1996) series' breakthrough debut season proving again that home is where the heart is. Episodes comprise: 1. Pilot 2. Homework 3. Good Sports 4. Worth Waiting For 5. All's Fair 6. Fathers And Sons 7. Much Ado 8. Kiss Me Kate 9. Something Out Of Nothing 10. Thanksgiving 11. Private Lives 12. Games People Play 13. Grownups 14. Not Fade Away 15. It's Not Easy Being Green 16. Aftershocks 17. In Loco Parentis 18. Who Cares? 19. Brother's Keeper 20. The Trouble With Charlie 21. All-Nighters 22. The Ides Of March

• With Or Without You | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  With or Without You works as an above-average television drama; but that's about the height of its ambition. It's strange that Michael Winterbottom, director of the hard-edged, bitter Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) and the grandiose snowy western The Claim (2000) should have bothered with anything as routine and undemanding. Perhaps its greatest distinction is that it's set in present-day Belfast without so much as a mention of the Troubles. The plot is a bog-standard romantic triangle. Rosie and Vincent, who have been married five years or so, want a baby, but nothing's happening. It doesn't help that Rosie's older sister has sprogs burgeoning like mushrooms wherever you look. Then up pops a figure from Rosie's past--Benoît, her pen-pal from before she met Vincent. And being French, he's naturally charming, witty, romantic and everything poor old Vincent isn't. Think you can guess what's coming? Well, most likely you can--right down to the all-too-pat happy ending. Still, the actors (Christopher Ecclestone, Dervla Kirwan and Yvan Attal are the leads) are accomplished and watchable, the dialogue stays the right side of banal and it's refreshing to see Belfast shown as a civilised, cultured place to live. With or Without You passes an hour and a half pleasantly enough and may even raise the odd chuckle, but it covers well-trodden territory without much new to say. On the DVD: aptly routine stuff--the theatrical trailer, a bland "making of" featurette and some interviews with the three principal players. Widescreen (16:9 anamorphic) and Dolby Surround Sound give the material the best possible showcase. --Philip Kemp

• The Borrowers/A Simple Wish | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £17.33   |  Saving you £-11.34 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Borrowers: Follows the adventures of the dauntless tiny Clock family parents Pod (Jim Broadbent) Homily (Celia Imrie) and their kids Peagreen and Arrietty - a family of tiny four inch tall people who live under the floorboards of a big house surviving by ""borrowing"" from the ""Human Bean"" family upstairs. The Borrowers turn dental floss into tightropes toaster handles into catapults socks into beds stamps into wall posters and when their world is facing extinction - in the form of Ocious P. Potter (John Goodman) their resourcefulness knows no bounds. A Simple Wish: tells the sweet-natured story of Murray a bumbling fairy godfather who has good intentions but not much else. Technically Murray is a fairy godmother--the only male member of the North American Fairy Godmother Association. After barely passing his godmother's exam he is sent to New York City to watch after Anabel a young girl who wishes that her father Oliver will land a part in a Broadway musical so that the family won't have to move to Nebraska. But when the district's previous godmother a nefarious spellcaster named Claudia arrives with her wacky sidekick Boots her plans to cripple Murray and Anabel's magical association and monopolize the wish market wreak havoc on the already unstable Murray. It's up to Murray and Anabel to pool their resources and get rid of Claudia and Boots once and for all. Director Michael Ritchie turns the fairytale knob up a notch with A Simple Wish also taking the time to poke fun at Broadway musicals. Featuring spectacular special effects and an extremely engaging performance by Wilson this is a children's fable with a fresh twist.

• Komodo | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  I think they're contesting our place in the food chain", quips an Imperilled teen at an especially low moment of Komodo, a regulation trapped-with-monsters straight-to-video quickie. There was a millennial blip of such nature-on-the-rampage horrors in the year 2000 and Komodo settles comfortably onto the shelf with King Cobra, Blood Surf, They Nest, Crocodile, Spiders and Octopus. If you've seen all of them, you'll probably want to see this too--but don't say we didn't warn you. Komodo familiarly packs a few no-name actors to an island supposedly off the shore of Carolina (actually somewhere in Australasia and has them menaced by CGI creatures, then fighting back and beating the beasts. Though the title gives away the nature of the menace, ex-effects technician-turned-director Michael Lantieri keeps the monsters off-screen and purportedly mysterious for half the running time. Teenage Patrick (Kevin Zegers) is traumatised by the deaths of parents (and his dog) and retreats into an amnesiac fugue, but his psychiatrist Victoria (Jill Hennessy) brings him back to the site of the tragedy to stir his memories. It turns out that the local evil oil company has always known that a bunch of giant, flesh-eating lizards were on the loose but kept quiet about it for nebulously nefarious purposes. Oates (Billy Burke), a rebellious company minion, hooks up with Patrick (who shows unexpected resourcefulness in whipping up lizard traps) and the shrink and they have a last-reel confrontation with the monsters that allow for some very distant echoes of Jurassic Park. The CGI and model work is seamless but the monsters have too little personality and, despite their voracious appetites, require all manner of contrivances to bring their victims within snapping distance. Nice bit at the end though with a gory if not dramatic finale. --Kim Newman