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• Friends - Series 2 - Episodes 9-16 | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (40.08%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Season 2: Unfortunately, Rachel's brave intention to announce her feelings is scuppered in the season opener "The One With Ross' New Girlfriend". It doesn't matter how great her hair looks (a real-life accident when a friend cut it with a razor), or how many sneaky tricks she tries to separate them. Ultimately it takes a peculiar doppelganger to lure the new girl away in "TOW Russ" (Schwimmer credited as "Snaro"). The Friends couldn't be happier to have the angst and tension relieved, and "TOW Ross and Rachel... You Know" is unsurprisingly an all-time fan favourite. This was straightforward compared to the other side of Ross' love life in "TOW the Lesbian Wedding" though. Initiating another "will they, won't they?" subplot was the introduction of Richard (Tom Selleck) as a new flame for Monica. Highlights for the other characters all centred on the Emmy-winning two-part "The One After the Super Bowl" with a stunning cameo list including Brooke Shields, Chris Isaak, Dan Castellaneta (Homer from The Simpsons), Jean-Claude Van Damme and Julia Roberts (whom Perry subsequently dated for a short while). Another great highlight was Chandler and Joey's ineptitude in "TOW the Baby on the Bus", which also featured Chrissie Hynde giving Phoebe's "Smelly Cat" its best ever rendition on guitar. To leave viewers hanging, the year ended with Rachel in understandable uncertainty over "TOW Barry And Mindy's Wedding" (her ex-fiancé and ex-best friend). --Paul Tonks

• John Eliot Gardiner - In Rehearsal | DVD | (13/06/2002) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The In Rehearsal series continues to offer fascinating insights into the technique of conducting with this film about John Eliot Gardiner rehearsing Bach's Cantata BWV63 (Christen, ätzet diesen Tag). The venue is EMI's Abbey Road Studios, so there are the obligatory hackneyed shots of that zebra crossing at the beginning, but there's nothing else hackneyed about the rest of this engrossing film. The devil is in the detail: what Gardiner says about Bach and period performance (enlightening though it is) is less interesting than the way he says it. After one rousing chorus, for example, he leaves everyone breathless in silence while he digs some dirt from his fingernails before giving them a cool "Well done". A mild contretemps with the first trumpet leads to an interview in which the brass player nervously and darkly hints at even greater conflict under the surface of the rehearsal. It's remarkable to hear the sublime music-making that results despite, or perhaps because of, the tension: Gardiner continually urges the musicians to swing the beat and feel the pulse as if it were a dance, and they do. One quibble: the names of the soloists aren't credited anywhere, so here they are: Ann Monoyios, Sara Mingardo, Rufus Müller and Stephan Loges. On the DVD: John Eliot Gardiner in Rehearsal is presented in 4:3 ratio, with PCM Stereo sound format. The picture quality is clear without being lustrous, but perfectly adequate for the needs of the subject. The disc has subtitles available in English, German, French and Spanish. --Warwick Thompson

• Mesmerised | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £7.31   |  Saving you £-1.32 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This psychodrama is set in New Zealand during the 1880's and is based on the true story of an orphaned 18 year old who marries a cruel much older man. He constantly abuses her and keeps her under his thumb until she finally snaps and kills him. Later she is tried in court for murder...

• Omid Djalili Show - Series 2 | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Omid Djalili returns for a second series of stand-up sketches and skits.

• The Agatha Christie Hour - Magnolia Blossom / The Case Of The Discontented Soldier | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £5.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (33.39%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Episodes Comprise: Magnolia Blossom: Theodora Darrell is running away with her lover - and business associate of her husband - Vincent Easton when she learns her husband Richard is facing financial ruin. Old loyalties resurface and she returns home to see if she can fix the situation. The Case of the Discontented Soldier: The recently retired Major Wilbraham is bored and unhappy so he answers Parker Pyne's newspaper ad. Before long the Major finds himself rescuing Freda Clegg from two burly attackers; with Freda in tow he embarks on a daring adventure to find treasure in the wilds of Africa! Another charming love story of an autumn romance.

• Johnny Cash - The Best Of The Johnny Cash TV Show | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £6.94   |  Saving you £3.05 (43.95%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tracklist: 1. Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line 2. Johnny Cash - Hey Porter 3. Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away 4. George Jones - Medley 5. Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done 6. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising 7. Loretta Lynn - I Know How 8. Kris Kristofferson - Loving Her Was Easier 9. Johnny Cash & The Carter Family - Daddy Sang Bass 10. Ray Charles - Ring of Fire 11. Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down 12. Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes 13. Joni Mitchell & Johnny Cash - Long Black Veil 14. Waylon Jennings - Brown Eyed Handsome Man 15. Tammy Wynette - Stand by Your Man 16. Roy Orbison - Crying 17. Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash - Jackson 18. Merle Haggard & Johnny Cash - Sing Me Back Home 19. Johnny Cash - Man in Black 20. Derek & The Dominos - It's Too Late 21. Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue From the summer of 1969 to the final show in March of 1971 (58 episodes in all) The Johnny Cash TV Show not only exposed an American audience to an eclectic array of musical talent but also helped establish Johnny Cash as a true artist humanitarian and a larger-than-life legend. The 21 performances contained on this new Best-Of DVD showcase the spectrum of incredible performers that Johnny hand-picked to be on his show many for their first network appearance. So ""come along and ride this train"" - the train that Cash envisioned for us all - every week on The Johnny Cash TV Show and now for generations to come. It's safe to say the world will long marvel at and scrutinize the gifts Johnny Cash's genius left behind over his 71 years from the music to his tempestuous life rock-solid integrity and heartland values. Now at long last we can marvel at the great moments another facet of that genius created on American television.

• Bullseye | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Roger Moore and Michael Caine play the part of two con men who use their uncanny resemblance to a pair of nuclear scientists to gain entry to their safety deposit boxes but soon become entangled in the confusing world of spies and intrigue.

• Till Human Voices Wake Us | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Til Human Voices Wake Us is a ghostly romance from Australia. Guy Pearce plays a brooding psychiatrist who must go back to his family's summer home to bury his father and settle some lingering childhood traumas. Helena Bonham Carter is the mysterious woman he meets on his journey, twice: once in a fleeting encounter on a train, again as she takes a dive off a trestle into a river. By the way, she's amnesiac--Guy Pearce just can't shake that Memento feel. For viewers susceptible to this kind of thing, director Michael Petroni's lofty literary tone might just work (the breathless pauses are broken by quotations from TS Eliot); otherwise, it will look like a skeletal take on a potentially interesting subject. The two fine actors give it a go and they're always good to look at, but finally one wonders what they saw in this very slim proposition. --Robert Horton

• Female Drama Collection - The Truth About Cats And Dogs/Kissing Jessica Stein/Hope Floats | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Dir. Michael Lehmann 1996): Charming and bittersweet this modern-day romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman Janeane Garofalo and Ben Chaplin explores the beguiling perils of mistaken identity. Abby a gutsy and witty veterinarian who hosts her own radio talk show is anything but confident when it comes to love. A petite brunette she describes herself as tall and blonde when Brian a caller who is smitten with her radio persona asks her on a date. She talks her tall blonde neighbour Noelle into assuming her identity setting off an escalating series of hilarious and romantic crises. Kissing Jessica Stein (Dir. Charles Herman-Wurmfeld 2002): Acclaimed romantic comedy in which Jessica Stein (Westfeldt) is a single sucessful businesswoman living in New York City who finds herself not as straight as she thought... Hope Floats (Dir. Forest Whitaker 1998): Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart - and find hope again...

• Friends - Series 5 - Episodes 9-16 | DVD | (15/11/1999) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-13.99 (-200.10%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Season 5: Divorce number two is immediately on the cards as the year opens with "T.O. After Ross Says Rachel". As of this point, Ross' character undergoes some extreme personality changes (which apparently lost Schwimmer many female fans). His incessant whining drives all the Friends to distraction, especially in "T.O.W. Ross Moves In" with Chandler and Joey. Later things get uncomfortable both at work and at home when he goes through a period of rage ("T.O.W. Ross' Sandwich"). While all this downplays his failed relationship with Rachel, the real idea is to allow focus on the secret pairing of Chandler and Monica after a night of passion in London. This made for a return to the show's appealingly silly atmosphere as poor Joey is made piggy-in-the-middle of everyone's secrets. Building to "T.O.W. Everybody Finds Out", the silliness pauses for some genuinely touching interplay between Perry and Cox. The previous year's semi-serious thread about Phoebe's birth gets forgotten fast: to distract the viewer she's introduced to Gary (Michael Rapaport) in "T.O.W. The Cop". This leads to some hilarious parodying with Phoebe interrogated about apartment hunting, and the guys excited and then scared in "T.O. W. The Ride Along". She's more than over him by the time of the two-part finale "T.O.W. In Vegas" though, especially since she missed out on London. Just in case fans thought Chandler and Monica had permanently stolen the spotlight, a cliffhanger shocks expectation again with Ross and Rachel bursting out of a chapel... --Paul Tonks

• The Visit: An Alien Encounter | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £7.98   |  Saving you £12.01 (60.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

• The A-Team | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £4.66   |  Saving you £5.33 (114.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem if no one else can help and if you can find them maybe you can hire the A-Team. 1: The Taxi Cab Wars The small independent Lonestar cab company admits defeat and closes its doors when their cabs

• Once More For Bobby | DVD | (08/06/2015) from £6.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Few in football can unite fans from different clubs - but Bobby Robson did. In 2014 footballers Robbie Elliott and Phil Gray paid their personal tribute with a gruelling 3500 mile charity cycle ride to visit every stadium where Sir Bobby coached in just 25 days. Narrated by Tim Healy with contributions from Alan Shearer Gary Lineker Peter Beardsley Paul Gascoigne Jose Mourinho and other legends this touching tribute to Bobby Robson will delight anyone interested in football cycling or the human spirit.

• Gala From St. Petersburg | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  300 Years Of St. Petersburg - Gala Concert

• 3 Classic Westerns Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 6 | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £18.99   |  Saving you £-16.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Santa Fe Trail: Hollywood journeyman par excellence Michael Curtiz directs this historical Western which tells the stories of confederate soldier Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and General George Armstrong Custer (Ronald Reagan) as they fight abolitionist John Brown (Raymond Massey). Sagebrush Trail: A young cowboy (Wayne) breaks out of jail after being falsely accused of murder and must prove his innocence before the authorities lock him back up... Billy The Kid Returns

• I Married Wyatt Earp | DVD | (18/12/2003) from £6.42   |  Saving you £-2.43 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Based on the memoirs of Josephine Marcus Earp a young opera singer from San Fransisco this docudrama tells the story of how she became the wife of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp....

• The Ugly Duckling & Me | DVD | (16/07/2012) from £5.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.67%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the much loved, timeless fairytale The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling andMe tells the story of Ratso, a wheeler dealer city rat, and Ugly, a baby duckling with a striking appearance.But Ugly isn't your average duckling and Dollar signs flash before Ratso's eyes as he recognises Ugly as a potential source of income. However, as the pair embark on an unlikely adventure, Ratso comes to realise that there is more to life than making a quick buck and so begins a lifelong friendship. A must for fans of classic fairytales and more recent films such as Ratatouille and Happy Feet this offers pure delight for the whole family.

• Agrippina - Handel | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £29.68   |  Saving you £-4.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Agrippina: Handel

• The Tigon Collection | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A chilling collection of classic horror movies comprising: Witchfinder General (1968): England is torn in civil struggle as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Hopkins who tours the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches. Aided by his sadistic accomplice John Stearne he trav

• Pillow Talk (Limited Edition Digibook) | Blu Ray | (07/05/2012) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-0.89 (-4.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Interior decorator Jan Morrow (Doris Day) and composer Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) share a phone line. Brad keeps the line occupied all day talking to his girlfriends, which annoys Jan terribly and animosity between them builds up.They, however, have never met and when by chance Brad sees Jan, he decides to add her to his list of conquests. Knowing how she feels about him, he poses as an innocent Texan country boy named Rex Stetson to win her, a plan which seems to work.