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• The X Files: Season 9 | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  With so many promises to fulfil and questions left unanswered, the ninth and final series of The X-Files was inevitably going to short-change some of its audience. Mulder is missing, Scully is in and out with various baby concerns, Reyes frequently seems like she's only along for the ride and Doggett seems so right in the role that some fans wondered if he should have appeared sooner. Other cult cameos flitted across the screen in an attempt to keep viewers transfixed. Lucy Lawless, Cary Elwes and Robert Patrick's real-life wife were interesting diversions, but when Burt Reynolds appeared to be none other than God himself, it was apparent that nothing at all was sacred in this last year. Standalone episodes (for example, on Satanic possession and a Brady Bunch psycho) proved to be amongst the least interesting of the show's efforts. No doubt because everyone was focussing on the all-important arc story episodes. Was there more than one alien faction? Were they all in collusion? Who had control of the black oil virus? Who had been in charge of the abductions? More importantly, would Mulder and Scully finally get in bed together? Scattered through the 19 episodes (the fewest of any season), were answers to some of these points. Then as much as possible that remained was packed into the two-hour finale. After 200 episodes, it's just possible that The X-Files overstayed its welcome; nonetheless it will always be remembered for being the most influential TV product of the 1990s. And since this is science-fiction, don't assume it's completely dead either. --Paul Tonks

• The Conspiracy | Blu Ray | (14/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When two young filmmakers select a crazed conspiracy theorist as the subject of their new work the task seems simple enough: Befriend him gain his trust and let his theories speak for themselves. Despite his street preaching their subject proves to be an articulate and intelligent man. Listen long enough and his arguments even start to make a certain sort of sense. It s enough to make you wonder if maybe somewhere there's some basis to what he's saying. And then he simply disappears. While one of the filmmaking duo is prepared to walk away the other becomes obsessed. This should not be possible. People do not just disappear. Not unless someone wants them to. What if he was correct? What if he was on the verge of exposing some greater scheme? And what if he was taken? And so begins an obsessive effort to reconstruct his work an effort that points the duo to a high powered retreat and networking organization for the political and business elite.

• The X-Files: The Truth | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The guest cast list for The X-Files: The Truth runs almost to the first commercial break, suggesting how many plot strands this season-and-series finale needs to make room for, with many old characters (including ghostly appearances for the dead ones) popping up. Mulder (David Duchovny), teasingly absent for the final season, is suddenly back, accused of murdering a super-soldier who isn't supposed to be able to die. He faces a military tribunal, defended by AD Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), as guest stars trot out testimony that fills the double-length episode with explanations recapping nine years of confusion as creator Chris Carter tries to spatchcock his impromptu conspiracy theories into a real plot. Last-season regulars Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish are shunted aside as Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder get to dodge a last-scene explosion and wind up in a pretty silly clinch-with-philosophy in the face of vaguely imminent apocalypse. Seriously, if the franchise is to continue on the big screen, how about ditching the embarrassing alien conspiracy mess and doing a monster story? On the DVD: The X-Files: The Truth comes to disc with a lovely widescreen transfer, a 13-minute "Reflections on the Truth" featurette that, though it hits the self-congratulation button a couple too many times, has a little more meat than the puff pieces included on previous releases, and a bonus episode ("William") that is unfortunately another of the maudlin ones, this time resolving the plotline about Scully's super-baby. --Kim Newman

• Normal | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A poignant and funny portrait of a marriage that undergoes a wrenching examination... After 25 years of a loving marriage in a small midwestern town husband Roy announces to his wife Irma that he is a woman trapped in a man's body and wants to have a sex change operation.

• Flutter | DVD | (03/08/2015) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John is an ordinary married man with an unusual way of making a living, his successful lawyer wife knows he pays his ways through gambling and it is his honesty that makes their domestic arrangement work. But when an attractive new female bookie mysteriously arrives at the dog track, however, John finds himself in a world of thrills and suddenly the stakes are higher than he could have ever imagined. Starring Joe Anderson (The Grey, The Crazies), Billy Zane (Titanic), Luke Evans (Dracula Untold, Immortals) and Laura Fraser (Breaking Bad, A Knight's Tale).

• Action Adventures Collection | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

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• The X Files: Season 5 | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £22.98   |  Saving you £12.01 (34.30%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The fifth season of The X-Files is the one in which the ongoing alien conspiracy arc really takes over, building towards box-office glory for the inevitable cinematic leap in The X-Files Movie (1998). The series opener "Redux" begins with Mulder having been framed for everything going. Scully finally sees a UFO ("The Red and the Black") before being presented with a potential daughter (the two-part "Christmas Carol" and "Emily"). By "The End", there's an enormous tangle of threads for the big-screen adaptation to unravel (or not, as it turned out). Cigarette Smoking Man is being hunted, playing every side against the middle, as well as chasing after information on Mulder's sister. Krycek is back, too, as is an old flame for Mulder in the shape of Agent Diana Fowley. If that wasn't enough to goad viewers into the cinema, there was the Lone Gunmen's 1989-set back story ("Unusual Suspects", with Richard Belzer playing his Homicide: Life on the Streets character), a musical number in the black and white Frankenstein homage "Post Modern Prometheus", and scripts co-written by Stephen King ("Chinga"), William Gibson ("Kill Switch"), and even Darren McGavin (who had inspired the show as Kolchak: The Night Stalker) in "Travellers". On the DVD: The X-Files, Season 5 extras include Chris Carter's commentary over "Post Modern Prometheus", which reveals the decision making behind shooting in black and white as well as the problems it caused. A second commentary is from writer/coproducer John Shiban on "Pine Bluff Variant", where he openly admits the influence of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Across the six discs (only 20 episodes because of the movie of course) you get credits for every episode, their TV promo spots, deleted and international versions of several scenes (some with commentary from Carter), and a couple of TV featurettes. The best of these is "The Truth About Season 5", talking to an excited Dean Haglund (Langly) amongst other crew members.--Paul Tonks

• The Bionic Woman: Series 1 | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £22.39   |  Saving you £17.60 (78.61%)   |  RRP £39.99

• Eye Of God | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Martha Plimpton stars as an Oklahoma diner waitress who weds the born-again prison inmate (Kevin Anderson) with whom she's been corresponding but she soon finds that his ostensible piety masks a cruel domineering nature that leads inevitably to horrific violence.

• Ultimate Force - Series 1 and 2 | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The complete first two series of the hard-hitting military drama starring Ross Kemp as Sergeant Henno Garvie the tough and charismatic leader of Red Troop who with his men puts his life on the line in the name of his country. Episode titles: The Killing House Just A Target Natural Selection Breakout The Killing Of A One-Eyed Bookie Something To Do With Justice Communication Mad Dogs Wannabes The List What In The Name Of God... Dead Is Forever.

• Steam Through The Scottish Highlands | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Take a trip aboard the Jacobite steam train leaving Fort William for Mallaig....

• Namu, The Killer Whale | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hank Donner (Lansing) is a marine biologist fascinated by creatures from the deep. When he starts studying a killer whale Namu near an isolated fishing community he finds himself the victim of suspicion and prejudice from local villagers. Over the course of this moving family adventure he must save Namu's life by persuading them that whales are intelligent and compassionate animals...

• Tenko - Series 3 - Part 2 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £14.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (66.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The women are now relocated in Singopore and trying to get back to normal life. Dorothy is bullied for being a collaborator and Mrs Van Meyer continues to gossip. Clifford tries to discourage Marion from seeing the others. Featuring Episodes 6-10 of the Third Series (plus the 1950 Reunion).

• Midsomer Murders - Second Sight | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £4.90   |  Saving you £12.09 (246.73%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Barnaby and Scott investigate a death in Midsomer Mere where villagers seem to have the ability to predict future events. John Ransom's head was covered in scorch marks the result of his brother Max's research into second sight. Is his death due to a pub brawl with his brother-in-law Ben Kirby over plans for a baptism or is he a casualty of the bizarre experiments? In the battle between faith and science even Barnaby thinks he has seen a man somewhere before. It's time to delve in

• Cheats | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £3.50   |  Saving you £18.25 (1,048.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book Handsome Davis (Trevor Fehrman) sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends Sammy Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years. The gang have entered their final year of high school and the stakes are upped by the schoo

• Major Dundee (1965) 2 Disc - Imprint Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (06/11/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Postmortem | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £14.30   |  Saving you £-6.31 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A profiler who escapes from his life of serial killers seeks sanctuary in a Scottish town where he plans to begin a book. But his life is threatened by the past and a killer who creates obituaries for his victims...

• Dead Before Dawn | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £7.93   |  Saving you £-5.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Rich and successful with two lovely children Robert and Linda Edelman seem to have the perfect marriage. But beneath the surface gloss lies another story; for years Linda has suffered violent physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband. Finally she summons the courage to file for divorce. But with her marriage nearly over the real nightmares begin. Enraged Robert vows revenge on the wife who has dared to stand up to him. Determined to keep both his reputation and his children Robert plans his own 'special' divorce; he hires a hit man. But only by becoming the live bait to trap her murderous husband can Linda have any hope of staying alive. Based on a true story this suspensful terrifying story stars Cheryl Ladd as the woman whose efforts to reclaim her own life mark her for murder. A rich husband. A beautiful home. Two lovely children. It could cost her her life.

• Dead And Buried | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £10.78   |  Saving you £2.21 (20.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Something very strange is happening in the quiet coastal village of Potters Bluff where tourists and transients are warmly welcomed then brutally murdered! Even more shocking is when these slain strangers suddenly reappear as normal friendly citizens around town... Now the local sheriff and an eccentric mortician must uncover the horrific secret of a community where some terrifying traditions are alive and well: no one is ever truly dead and buried!

• X Files Season 4 Boxset | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £89.99

  In Season 4 of The X-Files, Scully is a bit upset by her on-off terminal cancer and Mulder is supposed to shoot himself in the season finale (did anyone believe that?), but in episode after episode the characters still plod dutifully around atrocity sites tossing off wry witticisms in that bland investigative demeanour out of fashion among TV cops since Dragnet. Perhaps the best achievement of this season is "Home", the most unpleasant horror story ever presented on prime-time US TV. It's not a comfortable show--confronted with this ghastly parade of incest, inbreeding, infanticide and mutilation, you'd think M & S would drop the jokes for once--but shows a willingness to expand the envelope. By contrast, ventures into golem, reincarnation, witchcraft and Invisible Man territory throw up run-of-the-mill body counts, spotlighting another recurrent problem. For heroes, M & S rarely do anything positive: they work out what is happening after all the killer's intended victims have been snuffed ("Kaddish"), let the monster get away ("Sanguinarium") and cause tragedies ("The Field Where I Died"). No wonder they're stuck in the FBI basement where they can do the least damage. The series has settled enough to play variations on earlier hits: following the liver vampire, we have a melanin vampire ("Teliko") and a cancer vampire ("Leonard Betts"), and return engagements for the oily contact lens aliens and the weasely ex-Agent Krycek ("Tunguska"/"Terma"). Occasional detours into send-up or post-modernism are indulged, yielding both the season's best episode ("Small Potatoes") and its most disappointing ("Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man"). "Small Potatoes", with the mimic mutant who tries out Mulder's life and realises what a loser he is (how many other pin-up series heroes get answerphone messages from their favourite phone-sex lines?), works as a genuine sci-fi mystery--for once featuring a mutant who doesn't have to kill people to live--and as character insight. --Kim Newman