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• Brotherhood Season 1 | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £11.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This riveting series puts a familial spin on Angels with Dirty Faces, the 1938 James Cagney-Pat O'Brien classic in which two childhood friends take divergent paths--one becomes a priest, and the other a hoodlum. In Brotherhood, Michael Caffee (Jason Clarke) is an idealistic and respectable Rhode Island state representative dedicated to the preservation of his close-knit lower-middle-class Irish neighbourhood, the Hill. His older brother, Michael (Jason Isaacs), is a gangster who returns home after a seven-year absence (one step ahead of a hit, two steps ahead of the Feds) to pick up where he left off. The stage is set for backroom skullduggery and mean streets thuggery, as both men pursue their visions of the American dream on opposite sides of the law. At the heart of this series is the conflict between the estranged brothers. With the exception of clueless matriarch MaryRose (Fionnula Flanagan), Michael is not exactly received with open arms. "You're a tornado," Tommy tells him early on. "You suck everything in and spit it out broken." Indeed, the man is a psychopath. When a henchman of neighbourhood mob boss Freddie Cork (Kevin Chapman) threatens a woman, Michael not only repeatedly bashes his head against a car, but for the coup de grace, cuts off his ear. In one gut-wrenching scene, he compels a woman to sell him her store by inducing her mentally challenged brother to play Russian Roulette. No wonder Tommy insists, "We're not the same in any way." But don't be too sure. Michael is a good man and devoted father and husband, but he isn't above (or beneath) using Michael's inside information to blackmail a stubborn colleague who won't vote his way on a freeway project that could destroy the Hill. As the season unfolds, he will be forced to make more ethically challenged deals with the powers behind the scenes, one of whom has a mysterious connection with his mother. Brotherhood mines the clash between personal and professional lives to flesh out its characters. "The people's business" doesn't pay well, and Tommy is forced to moonlight as a real estate developer, and perform all home repairs. Eileen (Annabeth Gish), his picture-perfect politician's wife, smokes pot and is having an affair with a man she knew in high school. Declan Gigg (Ethan Embry) is a conflicted policeman who grew up with the Caffees. Comparisons with The Sopranos are inevitable, but Brotherhood quickly establishes its own unique voice, if not accent. --Donald Liebenson

• Fear Island | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A beautiful secluded Island.... Five good friends... And a killer out for revenge.

• Paranoiac | Blu Ray | (26/07/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £0.46 (2.62%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A forgotten gem from the legendary Hammer Studios available for the first time on home video in the UK this sinister classic spins a gruesome web of unhappy families. It is three weeks before the Ashby siblings Simon (Oliver Reed) a brutish alcoholic and Eleanor (Janette Scott) a nervous wreck are to come into their late parents' inheritance. While Simon plans to have his sister certified insane and locked away Eleanor keeps seeing the lurking figure of their long-dead brother Tony around the estate. Who or what is this apparition and does he threaten to reveal skeletons in the closet (and elsewhere)? A massively entertaining horror treat in the best English Gothic tradition Paranoiac features a superbly oily lead performance from a young Oliver Reed stunning black & white Cinemascope photography an ingenious script by Jimmy Sangster and gripping direction by the great Freddie Francis. Featuring legendary actor Oliver Reed (Gladiator The Devils Women in Love) Paranoiac is classic British gothic horror of the same era as The Innocents Repulsion The Haunting Dracula These Are The Damned.

• Shrink | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £6.59   |  Saving you £6.40 (49.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  What happens when the people we count on to hold us together... are barely holding it together themselves? Jonas Pate's Shrink is a striking fast-paced expos'' of the other Hollywood featuring folks living outside their comfort zone and the people who put them there. Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey) is a psychiatrist with an A-list clientele including a once-famous actress (Saffron Burrows) an insecure young writer (Mark Webber) and a comically obsessive-compulsive superagent (Dallas Roberts). Henry is not in a good place however. He has been asked to take his first pro bono case a troubled teenage girl from a neighborhood far from the Hollywood hills. Considering his present state of mind is he ready for the real-life troubles of a young woman who loves the world of movies he has become so jaded by? At its core Shrink is a study of control and our endless need for it even when it grows increasingly impossible to obtain. Writer Thomas Moffett uses classic archetypes in this modern Hollywood tale but never pushes them over the edge of credibility. Performed by a well-matched cast at the top of their form the result is both satisfying and exhilarating. Watching Shrink makes us feel like voyeurs looking through a window into the lives of people who look great feel worse and end up behaving badly.

• The Woman In Question | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Agnes Astra Huston (Jean Kent) a fortune teller at a run-down fair is found murdered in her bedroom. The police track down five of the most likely suspect and start asking questions. As the police question the suspects their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their highly suspicious points of view. Director Anthony Asquith working in the style of a Hitchcock whodunit deftly moves between multiple points of view in this gritty look at life in a seaport town.

• Hotel | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sherlock Holmes The Complete Collection - Case Files Contains 16 discs, over 37 hours and all 4 series Starring Jeremy Brett, Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Product Code: 5037115337436 cat.no. 3711533743 "Sherlock Holmes, the creation of novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of the world's greatest and most popular fictional detectives, as famous for his deerstalker and pipe as his legendary powers of observation and deduction. He is an aloof and private man driven by a fierce intellect that gives him astounding brilliance and unfathomable eccentricity in equal measure. The late Jeremy Brett, the definitive Holmes, stars in these beautiful adaptations taken from the classic ITV1 series and as ever Dr Watson is on hand as his indispensable assistant." 16 DISC SET The Adventures, The Return, The Casebook, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Based on the crime novels and short stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this acclaimed series recreates the classic Sherlock Holmes mysteries of murder and theft in Victorian times. Jeremy Brett stars in the lead role of Detective Sherlock Holmes, with David Burke playing the role of his assistant, Doctor John Watson, in Series One. In the second series, Burke is replaced by Edward Hardwicke. ITV

• Wheels On The Bus - Humpty Dumpty & Six Other Singalong Stories | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £9.11   |  Saving you £0.88 (8.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This animated children's series is a delightful introduction to a world full of nursery rhymes games and fun. Beep the Bus and friends get up to all sorts of musical adventures in Sing Sing City a place where everything has a song. Songs Comprise: Humpty Dumpty Little Boy Blue Incy Wincy Spider Grand Old Duke Of York If You're Happy And You Know It Cobbler Cobbler Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

• Steve Hackett -Spectral Mornings | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £13.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (17.70%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Steve Hackett is best known for his tenure with British rock band Genesis. Steve joined the band in December 1970 following the departure offormer guitarist and founder member of Genesis Anthony Phillips. The first Genesis album to feature Steve Hackett was Nursery Cryme released inlate 1971.For the next seven years Steve would make a huge contribution to Genesis and their slow but sure climb to huge success as a band. Following thealbums Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, A Trick Of The Tail and Wind And Wuthering Steve decided toleave the band in the summer of 1977 making the Live album Seconds Out his Swansong and continue with a solo career which had started withhis first solo release Voyage Of The Acolyte.OVERVIEWFurther albums followed including Please Don't Touch and Spectral Mornings. In fact Steve has had a flourishing solo career ever since andcontinues to record and release albums and tour regularly.The bulk of the content on this DVD was taken from a performance filmed on the 8th of November 1978 for German television. The concertrecording was the last date on the hugely successful tour although only the fourteenth concert the band had played so from a historical point of viewthis was right at the start of Steve's solo career and as such captures a moment in time.The band performed a shortened set for the television cameras and it has been mastered in the NTSC format in order that American and Japanesefans may also now enjoy this historical performance.This DVD was originally available as a VHS tape and briefly as a DVD.As an added bonus we have included tracks filmed at the same time as thisperformance but for some reason these tracks were not included in the broadcast. These tracks have now been included and the set nowrepresents the actual running order of the complete performance.Over thirty years on from his departure from Genesis Steve Hackett retains a large and dedicated fan base making this release all the moredesirable.

• Romantic City - London | Blu Ray | (26/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Stop Making Sense | Blu Ray | (26/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre in December 1983, filmmaker Jonathan Demme joined creative forces with cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth and Talking Heads ... and miracles occurred. Following a staging concept by singer-guitarist David Byrne, this euphoric concert film transcends that all-too-limited genre to become the greatest film of its kind. A guaranteed cure for anyone's blues, it's a celebration of music that never grows old, fuelled by the polyrhythmic pop-funk precision that was a Talking Heads trademark, and lit from within by the geeky supernova that is David Byrne. The staging--and Demme's filming of it--builds toward an orgasmic release of music, rising from the bare-stage simplicity of Byrne, accompanied only by a boom box on "Psycho Killer" to the ecstatic crescendo of "Burning Down the House", by which time the Heads and additional personnel have all arrived on stage for a performance that seems channelled from heaven for the purpose of universal uplift. (God bless Demme for avoiding shots of the luckiest audience in 80s pop history; its presence is acknowledged but not at the viewer's expense.) With the deliriously eccentric Byrne as ringleader (pausing mid-concert to emerge in his now-legendary oversized suit), this circus of musical pleasure defies the futility of reductive description; it begs to be experienced, felt in the heart, head and bones, and held there the way we hold on to cherished memories. On those three nights in December 1983, Talking Heads gave love, life, and joy in generous amounts that years cannot erode, and Demme captured this act of creative goodwill on film with minimalist artistic perfection. Stop Making Sense is an invitation to pleasure that will never wear out its welcome. --Jeff Shannon

• Hierro | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £5.86   |  Saving you £12.13 (207.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Emotionally devastating, visually stunning and truly terrifying, a Spanish genre thriller, Hierro depicts one woman's desperate journey into a nightmare vortex of horror and loss.

• Inspector Morse: The Complete Series 1-12 | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £104.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspector Morse The Complete Collection - Case Files Contains 18 discs, over 59 hours and all 33 episodes Starring John Thaw , Kevin Whately Product Code: 5037115330734 cat.no. 3711533073 18 DISC SET More than 3 hours of exceptional documentaries: The Last Morse, The Mystery of Morse, Rest in Peace. Based on: The characters created by Colin Dexter Story: Box set containing all 33 episodes of the popular crime drama series. Episodes are: 'The Dead Of Jericho', 'The Silent World Of Nicholas Quinn', 'Service Of All The Dead', 'Wolvercote Tongue', 'Last Seen Wearing', 'Settling Of The Sun', 'Last Bus To Woodstock', 'The Ghost In The Machine', 'The Last Enemy', 'Deceived By The Flight', 'The Secret Of Bay 5B', 'Infernal Serpent', 'The Sins Of The Fathers', 'Driven To Distraction', 'Masonic Mysteries', 'Second Time Around', 'Fat Chance', 'Who Killed Harry Field', 'Greeks Bearing Gifts', 'Promised Land', 'Dead On Time', 'Happy Families', 'The Death Of The Self', 'Absolute Conviction', 'Cherubim And Seraphim', 'Deadly Slumber', 'Day Of The Devil', 'Twilight Of The Gods', 'The Daughters Of Cain', 'Way Through The Woods', 'Death Is Now My Neighbour', 'The Wench Is Dead', 'The Remorseful Day'. Starring: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Amanda Hillwood, Clare Holman, James Grout, Judy Loe, Peter Woodthorpe Directed by: John Madden Written by: Anthony Minghella.

• Prime Suspect: Complete Collection | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Contains 10 discs, over 24 hours and all 15 episodes plus "The Making Of" Starring Helen Mirren Prime Suspect Complete Collection Box Set Helen Mirren (Actor), Danny Dyer (Actor), Christopher Menaul (Director), Philip Martin Alongside Tom Bell, Helen Mirren stars in the cop drama series as the hard-edged, chain-smoking Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison;she is later promoted to Detective Superintendent. In addition to dealing with the gritty day-to-day cases Tennison has to solve--involving serial killers, rapists and child abusers--the drama also delves into her personal battles, including her marriage problems and struggle with alcoholism. As an on-going sub-plot, Prime Suspect raises the issue of sexual discrimination in the workforce, as Tennison faces the enduring battle of forging a career in this very male-dominated profession. Created by Lynda La Plante, the show was first broadcast in 1991. ITV

• Leonard Cohen's Lonesome Heroes | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £6.65   |  Saving you £6.34 (95.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Leonard Cohens Lonesome Heroes the scope and detail of Cohens artistic inspirations is put under the microscope to quite fascinating result. Cohens first love was poetry and in the works of the Spanish poet Garcia Lorca and his fellow Canadian Irving Layton he found the words that moved him to create his own verse. The beat writers too hit a note with Leonard and their work has lived with him throughout his career. It may not come as a surprise to find Bob Dylan and Judy Collins as part of this index but perhaps a less acknowledged genre of interest to Cohen is Country music - however he was deeply affected by performers such as Hank Williams Hank Snow and the country recordings of Ray Charles. And the fact Cohens records have always achieved greater success in Europe than in North America may partly be due to his love of the Belgian chansonnier Jacques Brel. These and many others artists are here shown to have played a crucial role in the formation of Leonard Cohen's muse. But religion and spirituality too have played an enormous role in Leonards life and music particularly the faith into which he was born Judaism and his more recent study of Buddhism which drove him to spend several years in a monastery meditating for hours every day.

• La Boheme | Blu Ray | (26/07/2010) from £20.85   |  Saving you £9.14 (43.84%)   |  RRP £29.99

  La Boheme is based on the masterwork by Giacomo Puccini itself based on a novel by Henri Murger. This latest production and direction by Jonathan Millar for the English National Opera was filmed at the London Coliseum in early 2009 and features a brand new English translation by Amanda Holden. Taken to Paris's depression era of the 1930's by Miller and designer Isabella Bywater a vision of realism as depicted in the films and photos of the peroid is captured.

• 2001 Maniacs: Field Of Screams | Blu Ray | (26/07/2010) from £11.53   |  Saving you £9.72 (94.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a round of unsuspecting Northerners fail to show up for their annual Guts N' Glory Jamboree the residents of Pleasant Valley take their cannibalistic carnival on the road and head to Iowa.

• Shakespeare: Loves Labours Lost | Blu Ray | (26/07/2010) from £22.34   |  Saving you £2.65 (11.86%)   |  RRP £24.99

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• Blank Generation | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £7.92   |  Saving you £9.33 (140.09%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A classic punk rock movie from 1980 starring Richard Hell illustrating the end of the first wave of New York City punk rock better than any documentary. Nada (Carole Bouquet) a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star Billy (Richard Hell). Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and must decide whether to continue with it or return to her lover a fellow journalist trying to track down the elusive Andy Warhol (playing himself). Featuring members of the Voidoids and the Ramones. This long lost film is like a time capsule from pre-Disneynification New York City: sleazy dirty and most importantly real. Includes a lengthy new interview with Hell about the film and more.

• Life After People: Season Two | Blu Ray | (26/07/2010) from £28.33   |  Saving you £-3.34 (-13.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  What would happen if every human being on Earth disappeared? Welcome to Earth. Population Zero. This isn't the story of how we might vanish - it is the story of what happens to the world we leave behind. The second season of the fascinating series Life After People stunningly graphic journey to a world wiped clean of humanity. From animal outbreaks to massive structural collapses to hordes of toxins and chemicals unleashed across the globe Life After People: The Complete Season 2 reveals what happens in the hours days months and years after people disappear. The incredible cutting-edge CGI effects are perfect for the Blu-ray format revealing in superb quality the scientific details of the fate of every aspect of the man-made world and how the landscape of our planet would forever change in our absence. As each scenario is revealed it is easy to forget you are watching CGI and not the actual disintegration of our planet as we know it.