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• Compulsion | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sometimes murder is just a way to pass the time Compulsion is a compelling stylish thriller that sees two callous law students murder a young boy in cold blood to improve their intellectual superiority.

• Frank Capra - It's A Wonderful Life/Mr Smith Goes To Washington/You Can't Take It With You/It Happened One Night | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: It's A Wonderful Life (1946) This collectors edition of Frank Capra's masterpiece is the ultimate feel good film. Starring the unforgettable James Stewart as George Bailey the man who receives the greatest Christmas gift of all. A superb ensemble cast includes Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore this high spirited Christmas tale is directed by the immortal Frank Capra and ranks as an all-time favourite of fans and critics alike. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) James Stewart Jean Arthur and Claude Rains star in this award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic small-town politician who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him... You Can't Take It With You (1938) James Stewart Jean Arthur Lionel Barrymore and Edward Arnold star in this screwball comedy. Arthur stars as Alice Sycamore the stable family member of an offbeat clan of free spirits who falls for Stewart the down-to-earth son of a snooty wealthy family. Amidst a backdrop of confusion the two very different families rediscover the simple joys of life... It Happened One Night (1934) Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic. Spoiled Ellie Andrews (Colbert) escapes from her millionaire father (Walter Connolly) who wants to stop her from marrying a worthless playboy. En route to New York Ellie gets involved with an out-of-work newsman Peter Warne (Gable). When their bus breaks down the bickering couple set off on a madcap hitchhiking expedition. Peter hopes to parlay the inside story of their misadventures into a job. But complications fly when the runaway heiress and brash reporter fall in love.

• Marx Brothers Collection - Monkey Business/Horse Feathers/Duck Soup | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Monkey Business (Dir. Norman Z. McLeod 1931): The madcap Marx Brothers stowaway on a luxury cruise ship in this fast-paced laugh-filled farce. While they manage to elude capture by the ship's captain and crew by staging impromptu puppet shows and hiding in herring barrels getting off the boat is another matter. Before long they're all impersonating Maurice Chevalier in order to disembark and begin their new careers as mob bodyguards. Horse Feathers (Dir. Norman Z. McLeod 1932): Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) is the new President of Huxley College. In order to stay in charge he must somehow get the college football team to win their annual Thanksgiving game against arch-rivals Darwin - a bit of a tall order since Huxley haven't won a match since 1888! Needless to say playing it by the rules is the last thing on Wagstaff's mind... Duck Soup (Dir. Leo McCarey 1933): A pointed political satire Duck Soup is the Marx Brothers' funniest and most insane film! Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly the hilarious dictator of mythical Freedonia. Harpo and Chico are commisioned as spies by Groucho's political rival the calculating Trentino. The film contains many of the brothers' famous sequences: the lemonade stand the Paul Revere parody the ""We're Going To War"" number (a beautiful spoof of 30's musicals) the hilarious mirror scene and a final battle episode that has been copied by everyone including Woody Allen!

• Confessions - Confessions Of A Window Cleaner/Confessions Of A Driving Instructor/Confessions From A Holiday Camp/Confessions Of A Pop Performer | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The 'Confessions' series of films are still entertaining examples of 70s British high camp and go to places the 'Carry On' films never dared! Confessions Of A Window Cleaner (1974): The classic bawdy British sex comedy about a window cleaner who doesn't quite clean up his act... Confessions Of A Driving Instructor (1973): Our randy young hero Timmy Lea progresses from the 'ins and outs' of window cleaning to the joys of 'gear shifting' as he sets himself up as a driving instructor. Guaranteed 0 to 60 in 5 seconds...blonde or brunette! Confessions From A Holiday Camp (1977): Timmy and Sid are entertainment officers at a holiday camp. They must organise a beauty contest successfully or find themselves out of work! Confessions Of A Pop Performer (1975): Hilarious antics a-plenty when Tommy and Sid take on a second-rate pop group and end up on a Royal Charity Show!

• Clash By Night | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £10.78   |  Saving you £2.21 (20.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the novel Clash By Night by Rupert Croft-Cooke. A bus transporting prisoners on their way to jail is hijacked by a gang determined to release their leader. The rest of the prisoners are locked in a barn soaked with petrol and warned not to escape. When the police find the body of the freed prisoner they try and find the bus and the rest of the prisoners. But can their impromptu prison cell withstand the flames and sparks of Bonfire Night?

• Meryl Streep - It's Complicated/Out Of Africa/Julie & Julia/Kramer Vs Kramer/Postcards From The Edge/Adaptation | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Titles Comprise: It's Complicated: Two-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep (Mamma Mia! The Devil Wears Prada) Steve Martin (The Pink Panther Cheaper By The Dozen) and Alec Baldwin (My Sister's Keeper 30 Rock) star in this hilarious look at marriage divorce and everything in between. With a thriving bakery a new romance and her divorce finally behind her Jane Adler (Streep) has her life all figured out... until her ex-husband Jake (Baldwin) decides he'll stop at nothing to win her back. Out Of Africa: Meryl Streep stars as Karen Blixen the restless wife of European aristocrat and plantation owner Baron Bror Blixen (Brandauer). When Bror departs to hunt big game and chase women the running of their East African coffee plantation falls to Karen. She throws herself into this task with the same determination and spirit she brings to her passionate but sporadic affair with free-spirited British hunter Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford). While enduring her husband's infidelities and the eventual destruction of their beloved land she entertains Denys and befriends the workers. Hatton shares Karen's profound love for the African landscape but is unwilling to sacrifice his independence for their relationship... Julie & Julia: Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's Julie & Julia and My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme. Based on two true stories Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who though separated by time and space are both at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion fearlessness and butter anything is possible. Kramer Vs Kramer: Returning home late from work one night a career-obsessed Ted Kramer is told by his wife that she is leaving him. After a life of being 'somebody's daughter' or 'somebody's wife ' she's going off to find herself - leaving Ted to care for their 6 year-old son. Ted while trying to hold down his job gets to really know his son: cooking his meals taking him to the park understanding every need and fear. For the first time in his life he feels like a fulfilled parent. But then Joanna returns. And she wants her son back... Postcards From The Edge: Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine star as daughter and mother in this wickedly witty expos'' of life in the Hollywood fast lane based on the autobiographical book by Carrie Fisher. Adaptation: Lovelorn screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage) turns to his less talented twin brother Donald (also Cage) for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere...

• Death Note - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Death Note is based on the hit supernatural action mystery manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The live-action film directed by Shusuke Kaneko (Azumi 2 Gamera) follows the manga story of Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara - Battle Royale) a brilliant but bored student with great prospects. Life changes dramatically when he finds the Death Note a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god named Ryuk. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies. Light sees an opportunity to rid the world of evil using the powers granted in the Death Note. Police call in the help of the famous but unconventional detective L when criminals begin to mysteriously die. So begins the battle of wits to see who really is good or evil.

• Taggart - 100th Episode | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £16.18   |  Saving you £3.81 (23.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Taggart: 100th Episode

• Rachel And The Stranger | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set against a backdrop of the dangerous brutal days of the Western pioneers David Harvey is a widower with a young son who takes a bonded servant Rachel as his wife. There is no affection between them until his smooth talking friend Jim Fairways who shows an obvious interest in Rachel forcing David to realise that there is a woman in his house.

• Juno and the Paycock (1930) | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Derived from Sean O'Casey s acclaimed play, Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Juno and the Paycock is one of the Master s most unjustly neglected films. Down in the Dublin slums, Captain Boyle is a shiftless layabout, scrounging off his hard-working wife Juno. When he learns he has inherited a great deal of money, their lives change forever. Starring members of the cast of the original Abbey Theatre production, this powerful drama shows there was more to Hitchcock than just suspense. His skill...

• Best Of - A Centenary Celebration | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

• Berlin Express | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £18.49   |  Saving you £-5.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in the immediate post-war occupied Germany a group of international passengers become entwined with a Nazi plot to assassinate a German peace campaigner Dr Bernhardt on an express train from Paris to occupied Berlin. As time runs out the five must comb the shadowy ruins of bombed-out Frankfurt to uncover a loyalist Nazi spy ring.

• The Universe - Complete Season 4 | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Journey back to the beginning of history on a mind-blowing adventure through space and time. Using stunning HD graphics The Universe returns in season four to transport viewers past the wonders of our own solar system and out to the bizarre far-flung reaches of the cosmos. From death stars to ringed planets star clusters to space wars The Universe uses new discoveries and more advanced CGI to help explain the mysteries of outer space. From wormholes to transporters examine which elements from popular sci-fi movies could really exist and discover how the universe is awash in all sorts of strange liquids from oceans of methane to blobs of alcohol floating in space and even iron rain. Watch and marvel as experts cook up ten ways to destroy the Earth including blowing it up with anti-matter hurling it into the Sun and colliding with another galaxy.

• Cop Out | Blu Ray | (20/09/2010) from £12.91   |  Saving you £10.08 (78.08%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster in this buddy action comedy.

• Jonas Brothers - Season 1, Volume 3 | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Jonas is the hottest rock band on the planet. Band members Nick Kevin and Joe Lucas are superstar pop idols who tear up the stage night after night causing severe outbreaks of Jonas induced hysteria. Legions of fans (especially the ones determined to become a future Mrs. Lucas) want a peek at what their lives are like offstage.

• Ross Kemp Afghanistan and Return to Afghanistan Box Set | Blu Ray | (20/09/2010) from £19.24   |  Saving you £10.75 (35.80%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Since 2007 Ross Kemp has been making some of the most powerful television about British soldiers' serving in Afghanistan on Britain's frontline. His documentaries are un-missable. Candid and brutally honest they are the first on UK television to show what our troops are going through to win peace in this war-torn land during the toughest years of the campaign so far. In the summer of 2007 Ross joins his father's old regiment 1 Royal Anglian and for the first time heads to Afghanistan. Ross is immediately embedded with frontline troops where for weeks at a time he lives a soldier's life as they fight a fanatical and determined enemy. Off the battlefield he tells the stories of those who risk their lives fighting the Taliban stories of soldiers who have lost friends in battle and the impact that a loss has on relatives back home. Ross returns to Afghanistan in the summer of 2008 to the recently captured town of Musa Qaleh. This small yet significant town is the centre of some of the fiercest fighting in the conflict. The worst battles take place in the densely vegetated and claustrophobic terrain of the green zone. He joins 5 Scots and 1 Royal Irish on four operations as they defend the town from Taliban attack. In the final programme Ross meets the unsung heroes of this conflict young soldiers' who have lost limbs to mine strikes who now face an uncertain future. In the winter of 2009 Ross travels to Kajaki a remote base in Helmand where he joins 45 Victor Company of the Royal Marines.

• Norman Walks | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £15.51   |  Saving you £1.48 (9.54%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Dan Snow's Norman Walks

• 31 North 62 East | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (141.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A female Captain in the SAS who survives an attack on her unit in Afghanistan, later discovers that her unit was sacrificed for political reasons.

• The Legend Is Born: Ip Man | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £4.94   |  Saving you £11.05 (223.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Legend Is Born: Ip Man

• King Of Queens - Season 9 | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £22.93   |  Saving you £2.06 (8.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The final season of The King of Queens sends this under-appreciated sitcom out with a bang. The season begins with several strong stand-alone episodes, including ones in which Doug (Kevin James) uses a tax refund to buy an ice cream truck; Carrie (Leah Remini) suspects that their best friends have managed to buy a vacation home by sponging off of her and Doug; Doug, after rescuing a chicken from being killed, becomes a vegetarian; Arthur (Jerry Stiller), eternally resplendent in argyle sweaters, asks Doug and Carrie for the money to get braces; and Adam Sandler (Punch Drunk Love) plays a high school friend of Doug's with a lot of repressed anger. But the season crescendos in a three-episode story that begins with Arthur preparing to get married again while Doug and Carrie's marriage crumbles when Carrie wants to move to an apartment in Manhattan. From there, the Heffernans' worst impulses run comically amok, demonstrating this show's long-standing strengths: The cheerful exploitation of all the character's bad behaviour, be it Doug's selfishness, Carrie's envy, or Arthur's raging egomania; snowballing storylines that routinely end in entertaining disaster and humiliation; and the skilfully-honed interplay of the three leads. The supporting cast--including Doug's best friend Deacon (Victor Williams), the emotionally enmeshed roommates Spence (Patton Oswalt) and Danny (Gary Valentine), and needy dog-walker Holly (Nicole Sullivan)--all have their moments, but James, Remini, and Stiller are the show's engine, and it runs like a Maserati. The Complete 9th Season lacks any extras, which is disappointing considering that it's also a short season of only 12 episodes; but the satisfying comic crunch of each episode makes this box set still a must-have for any fan of the show. --Bret Fetzer