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• X-Men 1.5 Extreme Edition | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £4.35   |  Saving you £15.64 (359.54%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Although the superhero comic book has been a duopoly since the early 1960s, only DC's flagship characters, Superman and Batman (who originated in the late 1930s), have established themselves as big-screen franchises. Until now--this is the first runaway hit film version of the alternative superhero X-Men universe created for Marvel Comics by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and others. It's a rare comic-book movie that doesn't fall over its cape introducing all the characters, and this is the exception. X-Men drops us into a world that is closer to our own than Batman's Gotham City, but it's still home to super-powered goodies and baddies. Opening in high seriousness with paranormal activity in a WW2 concentration camp and a senatorial inquiry into the growing "mutant problem", Bryan Singer's film sets up a complex background with economy and establishes vivid, strange characters well before we get to the fun. There's Halle Berry flying and summoning snowstorms, James Marsden zapping people with his "optic beams", Rebecca Romijn-Stamos shape-shifting her blue naked form and Ray Park lashing out with his Toad-tongue. The big conflict is between Patrick Stewart's Professor X and Ian McKellen's Magneto, super-powerful mutants who disagree about their relationship with ordinary humans, but the characters we're meant to identify with are Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and Anna Paquin's Rogue. There are in-jokes enough to keep comics fans engaged, but it feels more like a science-fiction movie than a superhero picture. --Kim Newman On the DVD: X-Men 1.5's two-disc set offers little more than the original X-Men release. The six extended scenes which can be incorporated into the feature on Disc 1 were already available on the initial DVD version (though they're cleaned up a bit here), and when played within the film's original cut they seem disjointed and tacked on, adding very little to the overall story. Disc 2, meanwhile, will have little appeal to any but the most diehard of fans. The X-Men 2 Sneak Peak, the X-Men 2 trailer, the Daredevil trailer and the Activision Wolverine's Revenge trailer are little more than adverts. The four-part documentary, meanwhile, is impressively interactive (with multi-angle segments and two play modes), but unfortunately it's also a bit dull and self-congratulatory. --Robert Burrow

• Various Artists - the London Rock and Roll Show | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The London Rock And Roll Show was held on Saturday 5th August 1972 at Wembley Stadium. The headliners on that day - Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley and Bill Haley are featured on this DVD, also on the bill were The Houserockers, Billy Fury, Heinz, Screaming Lord Sutch, Roy Wood, The Platters, Linda Gail Lewis, Gary Glitter and The Coasters. The Concert lasted for over eleven hours and was watched by a crowd of 87,000 and it was also the first music event to be held at...

• Halloween III: Season of the Witch | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £7.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Halloween III: Season of the Witch was producer John Carpenter's attempt to get the series away from the original psycho-on-the-loose storyline and turn it into a vehicle for more far-fetched Halloween-themed horror tales. Incredibly, the fans voted for more of the same and Carpenter walked away for others to rehash the Michael Myers plotline in a succession of lookalike movies that are still turning up every few years. Though original screenwriter Nigel Kneale (of the Quatermass series and The Stone Tape) removed his name from the final film after a coarsening rewrite by director Tommy Lee Wallace, his strange touch is evident in the offbeat story. After the mysterious deaths of a toyshop owner, a doctor (Tom Atkins) and the man's daughter (Stacy Nelkin), an investigation takes place in the Irish-dominated Northern California community of Santa Mira, a company town owned by the Silver Shamrock Novelty corporation, whose bestselling Halloween masks are pushed by an amazingly irritating TV jingle you won't ever be able to get out of your head ("Two more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween"). Atkins and Nelkin are typical low-rent horror movie protagonists, dim-bulbs who discover an Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style conspiracy involving sharp-suited corporate robots. But guest star Dan O'Herlihy steals the film as a Celtic joke tycoon ("the man who invented sticky toilet paper and the dead dwarf gag") who hates the way American kids are despoiling the religious spirit of Samhain and decides to teach them a nasty lesson. His scheme, which involves a stolen Stonehenge megalith ("sure, you'd never believe how we did it") and a techno-magic spell that turns the heads of TV watchers into writhing masses of snakes and insects, is value for money. O'Herlihy mixes enough serious malice into the charm to come across as a great screen baddie. On the DVD: Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a disappointment on disc. After letterboxed titles, this defaults to full frame throughout, severely cramping Dean Cundey's Panavision cinematography, and it's a grainy, indifferent print that ill-serves the performances or the atmospherics. However, the severe cuts to the gruesome scenes made to previous video releases (in order to preserve the theatrical 15 rating) seem to have been restored. With an extras-packed Halloween disc on the market, it's a shame the most interesting of the follow-ups rates such a flimsy release--with not so much as a trailer as an extra. --Kim Newman

• X-Men - The Last Stand | Blu Ray | (12/03/2007) from £5.91   |  Saving you £17.07 (584.59%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The X-Men face their most potent threat to date when a vaccine to 'cure' mutants is discovered.

• X-Men: Beginnings Trilogy | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £4.99   |  Saving you £14.92 (299.00%)   |  RRP £19.91

  Although the superhero comic book has been a duopoly since the early 1960s, only DC's flagship characters, Superman and Batman (who originated in the late 1930s) have established themselves as big-screen franchises. Until now--this is the first runaway hit film version of the alternative superhero X-Men universe created for Marvel Comics by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and others. It's a rare comic-book movie that doesn't fall over its cape introducing all the characters, and this is the exception. X-Men drops us into a world that is closer to our own than Batman's Gotham City, but it's still home to super-powered goodies and baddies. Opening in high seriousness with paranormal activity in a WW2 concentration camp and a senatorial inquiry into the growing "mutant problem", Bryan Singer's film sets up a complex background with economy and establishes vivid, strange characters well before we get to the fun. There's Halle Berry flying and summoning snowstorms, James Marsden zapping people with his "optic beams", Rebecca Romijn-Stamos shape-shifting her blue naked form, and Ray Park lashing out with his Toad-tongue. The big conflict is between Patrick Stewart's Professor X and Ian McKellen's Magneto, super-powerful mutants who disagree about their relationship with ordinary humans, but the characters we're meant to identify with are Hugh Jackman's Wolverine (who has retractable claws and amnesia), and Anna Paquin's Rogue (who sucks the life and superpowers out of anyone she touches). The plot has to do with a big gizmo that will wreak havoc at a gathering of world leaders, but the film is more interested in setting up a tangle of bizarre relationships between even more bizarre people, with solid pros such as Stewart and McKellen relishing their sly dialogue and the newcomers strutting their stuff in cool leather outfits. There are in-jokes enough to keep comics' fans engaged, but it feels more like a science fiction movie than a superhero picture. --Kim Newman

• Moonfall UHD Blu-ray: 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (27/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Frankie & Alice | DVD | (02/03/2015) from £15.49   |  Saving you £-2.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The story of an exotic dancer with multiple personalities struggling to remain true to herself while fighting against two very unique alter egos: a seven-year-old child named Genius and a Southern white racist woman named Alice. In order to stop the multiple voices in her head Frankie works together with a psychotherapist to uncover and overcome the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her. Featuring a scintillating performance from Halle Berry that was nominated for a Golden Globe®

• Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro -- 1966 Salzburg Festival/Bohm | DVD | (19/09/2003) from £7.53   |  Saving you £23.72 (378.31%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A performance of Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro featured at the Salzburg Festival in 1966. Karl Bohm conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

• Die Another Day | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £5.45   |  Saving you £7.54 (58.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This was to be Pierce Brosnan's final outing as 007, and what a great Bond he was too! James Bond's newest mission begins with a spectacular high-speed hovercraft chase through a minefield in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea - and the action doesn't let up until the credits roll. From Hong Kong to Cuba to London, Bond circles the world in his quest to unmask a traitor and prevent a war of catastrophic proportions. On his way he crosses paths with Jinx (Oscar -winner Halle Berry) and Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike), who will play vital roles in his latest adventure. Hot on the trail of deadly megalomaniac Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens) and his ruthless right-hand man Zao (Rick Yune), Bond travels to Iceland into the villain's lair: a palace built entirely of ice. There he experiences firsthand the power of a new hi-tech weapon. Ultimately it all leads to an explosive confrontation - and an unforgettable conclusion - back in Korea where it all started.

• Perfect Stranger | Blu Ray | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Halle Berry and Bruce Willis star in this thriller about a reporter investigating the unsolved murder of one of her childhood friends.

• Mozart: Don Giovanni -- Vienna/Furtwangler | DVD | (08/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The incomparable Cesare Siepi stars in this legendary Salzburg production of Mozart's masterpiece. Wilhelm Furtwangler conducts the internationally renowned Vienna Philharmonic in what has become one of the definitive productions of a classic opera.

• Dark Tide | Blu Ray | (22/10/2012) from £6.62   |  Saving you £11.37 (171.75%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A thriller centered on a diving instructor who returns to deep waters after a near-fatal encounter with a Great White shark.

• Bond Remastered - Die Another Day (1-disc) | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £4.33   |  Saving you £5.66 (130.72%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Pierce Brosnan returns as James Bond, who comes up against a North Korean Generan, who gets his hands on a device that lets him change his facial features. Bond must travel to Iceland to unmask the traitor and prevent a war of catastrophic consequence.

• X-Men 1-3 Box Set (6 Disc) | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £6.03   |  Saving you £33.96 (563.18%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Born into a world filled with prejudice are children who possess extraordinary and dangerous powers the result of unique genetic mutations.

• Atlantis, The Lost Continent | DVD | (23/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bach - St. Matthew Passion (Richter) | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £22.53   |  Saving you £-0.54 (-2.50%)   |  RRP £21.99

• Worzel Gummidge - The Crowman / A Little Learning / Worzel Pays A Visit | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £8.63   |  Saving you £-2.64 (-44.10%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Worzel has misplaced one of his turnip heads; this time it's his 'learning' head which makes him very clever. Meanwhile Mr Peters working on the school roof makes a welcome discovery...

• X-Men 3 - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (05/05/2014) from £23.98   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After a controversial 'cure' is discovered mutants can choose to give up their unique gifts and become 'normal.' But when peaceful mutant leader Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) clashes with his militant counterpart Magneto (Ian McKellen) their opposing viewpoints trigger the war to end all wars! Hugh Jackman Halle Berry Ellen Page and Anna Paquin co-star in the third chapter of the legendary X-Men saga.

• Worzel Gummidge - The Return Of Dolly Clothes-Peg / Worzel Revolt / Worzel's Birthday | DVD | (01/09/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Episodes are: 'The Return Of Dolly Clothes-Peg' 'Worzel In Revolt' and 'Worzel's Birthday'.

• Robots | UMD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The delightful designs of William Joyce (writer/illustrator of such popular children's books as George Shrinks and Bently & Egg) make Robots a joy to behold. The round, bouncy, and ramshackle forms of hero Rodney Copperbottom and his computer-animated friends are part of an ornate a universe of elaborate contraptions and gleaming metallic surfaces. Rodney (voiced with a hint-of-Scottish lilt by Ewan McGregor) is a young inventor who sets off for Robot City to work for Big Weld (Mel Brooks), the supreme inventor of the mechanical world. But upon his arrival, Rodney discovers that Big Weld has disappeared, and the slick, shiny Ratchet (Greg Kinnear, As Good As It Gets) is phasing out the spare parts that lumpen robots need to function and replacing them with "upgrades"--expensive and glistening new exoskeletons. Unfortunately, from this suitable beginning, the story degenerates into a series of action sequences that make very little sense, though some are kinetic and fun (though others are only there to serve the inevitable Robots video game). Most kids will enjoy the sheer visual pleasure of the movie, but compared to the narrative richness of Pixar movies like The Incredibles and Toy Story, that pleasure is pretty short-lived. Also featuring the voices of Robin Williams, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Amanda Bynes, Jennifer Coolidge, and many, many more. --Bret Fetzer