Cheap DVDs

The Commitments £2

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The Commitments is based on the the first story of Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy. It charts the rise of a soul band in Dublin and the struggles they have off-stage.

It’s also got a fantastic soundtrack, which is probably worth getting the film for alone. The lovely Andrea Corr makes a cameo appearance as well, which is nice.

Instore at Zavvi you can get this DVD for just £2.

Tesco DVD Bargains

There’s a range of Tesco DVD bargains available at the moment.

We’ve already featured some of them on the site, but others are new.

Bewitched: The Complete Third Season £9
Bewitched: The Complete Fourth Season £6
A Fish Called Wanda: Special Edition £3
Hex: The Complete First Season £5
Hex: The Complete Second Season £9
The League Of Gentlemen: The Complete Collection £14
Seinfeld: Season Nine £6
The Shield: The Complete First Season £8
The Shield: The Complete Third Season £12
The Spider-Man Trilogy £5
The Spider-Man Deluxe Trilogy £6
The Tudors: The Complete First Series £9

UPDATE: A Fish Called Wanda and The Tudors were added on the 17th of July.

Live 8 £4.99

The original Live Aid concerts held in 1985 were important politically and very good musically. In my opinion (and mine alone) Live 8 did well in terms of music, but didn’t seem to achieve as much as was hoped in terms of political change.

This four disc boxset contains all the best bits from the various concerts held around the world in 2005 as well as footage from the Edinburgh event, unseen backstage and documentary material, plus the Live 8 message films.

Click here to buy this set for £4.99 from CD-WOW.

The Book Group: Series’ One And Two £4.99 Each

Channel 4 is the home of original comedy - this can’t really be disputed when you consider that they’ve been the ones brave enough to transmit stuff like Peep Show and Father Ted (both of which probably wouldn’t work on any other station).

The Book Group is another comedy drama shown on the channel. This particular show is about a group of individuals living in Glasgow who want to make new friends, lead new lives, and improve themselves by reading books.

CD-WOW have The Book Group: The Complete First Series available for £4.99 - for more information, click here.

The Book Group: The Complete Second Series continues where the last series left off, with Clare still struggling with writer’s block and Janice becoming ever closer to Rab.

This DVD contains all six episodes, along with some interesting bonus material.

Click here to get it for the same price of £4.99 from the same retailer, CD-WOW.

Clint Eastwood Collection £11.12

Clint Eastwood has had quite the career, but he’s probably best remembered for the westerns he was in. Well, them and the Dirty Harry collection as well.

The Clint Eastwood Collection boxset contains four of his best films - For A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, A Fistful Of Dollars and Hang ‘Em High (one more than the Spaghetti Western Collection then).

Click here to bag this set of cheap DVDs for £11.12 from Select Cheaper.

Spaghetti Western Collection £9.99

The old-fashioned western films are a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon. I have no idea why I associate them with Sunday afternoons, but there you go.

The Spaghetti Western Collection contains three Special Edition DVDs of the very best of the genre - A Fistful Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More and The Good The Bad And The Ugly.

Click here to buy this set for £9.99 from Zavvi.

One Foot In The Grave: The Complete Boxset £24.98

I don’t believe it! You can now get every episode ever made of One Foot In The Grave on DVD. It’s funny that the older you get, the more you start to sympathise with how Victor Meldrew thought about the world (that’s the case with me at least).

One Foot In The Grave: The Complete Boxset gathers together all of the various releases in one handy collection. The 12 discs contained feature not only all the regular episodes from all six series’, but the Christmas specials as well.

To get this set for £24.98 from Amazon, click here.

Without A Trace From £17.97

If you’ve been flicking round the channels on a weekday afternoon, chances are you might have come across Without A Trace - for some reason Channel 4 thought this would be a good time slot for a show about missing people.

Without A Trace: The Complete First Season contains all 23 episodes across four discs. You also get some bonus material, like deleted scenes, included as well.

Click here to get this set for £17.98 from Amazon.

A programme about missing people seems quite an obvious idea, but I can’t think of any others that have been made. Maybe it’s not that obvious then!

Without A Trace: The Complete Second Season contains another 24 episodes for you to enjoy. Interesting that it won two Emmy awards, yet is practically unknown in this country.

Amazon are also selling this set for a good price, £17.97. Click here for more details.

Without A Trace: The Complete Third Season is the cheapest of the three boxsets on offer at the moment. That’s not to say it’s the worst of them either - far from it.

An interesting fact about the show is that Jerry Bruckheimer is the creator. This doesn’t mean you should expect big explosions and little meaningful dialogue, sadly.

If you fancy this set, click here to get it for £13.97 (as long as you spend £15 or more, otherwise it’s £15.42 delivered) - again, from Amazon.

The Karate Kid Collection £7

I love the Karate Kid films, even though the last one lets the side down by not having Daniel-san come back. They’re almost like a slightly less serious version of the Rocky series.

The Karate Kid Collection contains all four Karate Kid movies. The first three are very good, whilst the last one is often forgotten - probably for good reason! It’s quite awful…

Tesco are selling this for £7 - click here for more details.

The Spider-Man Deluxe Trilogy £6

Yes, earlier on we featured The Spider-Man Trilogy boxset for £5 - but The Spider-Man Deluxe Trilogy set has an extra three discs loaded with bonus material.

For only a pound more than the aforementioned trilogy box, you get a whole host of audio commentaries, documentaries, deleted scenes and other bits and bobs.

Click here to get this collection for £6 from Tesco.