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• Star Wars: Episode VI - Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter - Steelbook Edition | Blu Ray | (11/03/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• My Girl / My Girl 2 | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Doubling My Girl with its sequel makes sense since they tell a two-part tale. In the first film, 11-year-old Vada Sultenfuss (astounding newcomer Anna Chlumsky) lives with her widowed father, a distracted tuba-playing mortician (Dan Aykroyd). Rather understandably Vada is confused and disturbed about the nature of death. In her narration to camera we learn what it feels like to be a girl growing up in Pennsylvania in the early 1970s, as her father become involved with make-up artist Jamie Lee Curtis. Macaulay Culkin (in a performance reminding us that once there was a good child actor behind the name) is the best friend who assists her rite of passage. Jumping forwards two years into the sequel, My Girl 2, Culkin is replaced by Austin O'Brien. Now 13 and with a baby on the way in the Aykroyd /Jamie Lee Curtis home, Vada's growing-up continues further afield. She investigates the life of her mother in an attempt to understand her own. Los Angeles becomes the backdrop as she deals with the inevitable problems of puberty. Ultimately this is the story of a teenager's grounding in the ways of the world told simply and with charm. On the DVD: My Girl/My Girl 2 on disc sadly has no extras beyond a trailer for each film. It's also a shame the 1.85:1 transfer remains grainy for both. At least the three-channel surround picks out the period songs nicely. --Paul Tonks

• Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood / Two Weeks Notice | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Mothers. Daughters. The never-ending story of good vs. evil... After years of mother-daughter tension Siddalee (Bullock) receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the 'Ya-Yas' her mother's girlhood friends... (Dir. Callie Khouri 2002 Cert. 12) Two Weeks' Notice: Attorney Lucy Kelson wants to save the world. Instead she's choosing ties and interviewing prospective girlfriends for her handsome and hapless billion

• Austin Powers 3 - Goldmember | UMD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Stargate SG-1: Season 6 (Vol. 26) | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £6.54   |  Saving you £13.45 (67.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Redemption - Part 1: The SGC has come under attack from Anubis who has a device that can use one Stargate to destroy another. With a wormhole dialed in to Earth's stargate the SGC can not contact its off-world allies for help. Carter works furiously to find a solution... Redemption - Part 2: Teal'c is off world attending his wife's funeral; his son believes she would not have been killed if Teal'c had not joined the fight against the Goa'uld. Wanting proof that the Goa'uld are not gods and can be stopped he insists that Teal'c allow him to join in battle so he can see for himself what the war is all about. Together they search for Anubis... Descent: SG-1 heads for the now abandoned Goa'uld mothership that once belonged to Anubis and now houses a downloaded version of Thor's mind. Frozen: The SGC's study of the Antarctic Gate site reveals a woman buried in the ice who is revived. Unwittingly carrying a deadly disease she poses a deadly threat to the team.

• The Killer Next Door | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Molly Wright is an average college student with an ordinary life. A strange artist moves in and her life is about to change.... Her new neighbour is a serial killer and no one will believe her.

• James Stewart - Western Box | Blu Ray | (09/12/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Love Story | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £6.44   |  Saving you £9.55 (148.29%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of the most famous tearjerkers ever LOVE STORY tells the tale of Jenny (Ali McGraw) a poor college student from Rhode Island and Oliver (Ryan O''Neal) a rich law student from Boston who fall in love while attending college. Despite opposition to their relationship from Oliver's wealthy father the two get married. After graduation Oliver takes a job at a prestigious legal firm in New York as everything seems to be going well for the couple tragedy strikes Jenny who

• Nightwing, Shadow of the Hawk - Double Feature - BD | Blu Ray | (16/10/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sergeant Bilko | DVD | (24/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• I'm Gonna Explode | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £10.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (45.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Roman and Maru, two troubled teenagers, attempt an impossible rebellion against the adult world.

• Age of the Dragons: Director's Cut | DVD | (30/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• X - Force Extreme Adventures - Surfing | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-2.97 (-29.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The giant waves along the Hawaiian coast offer the world's most extreme surfing challenge. Daniel Kereopa a 23-year-old Maori from New Zealand has enjoyed several years on the professional surfing circuit and was the 1999 Indigenous World Champion. Now with the support of Australian surfing legends Ross Clark-Jones and Tony Ray Daniel is determined to take on the monster Hawaiian waves. We follow Daniel's intensive preparations in New Zealand with all the trials and tribulatio

• It's The Rage | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £6.92   |  Saving you £-0.93 (-15.50%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mixing a superb cast with a serious salting of dark humour "gun culture" comedy It's The Rage is that rare thing, a genuinely outstanding film which went straight-to-video. Like Magnolia (1999) it makes coincidence a virtue in telling the stories of a group of disparate characters, and how their lives are entwined and sometimes ended because of America's obsession with firearms. When Jeff Daniels shoots his business partner, his wife, Joan Allen, leaves for a job with a software billionaire, Gary Sinise, and the film expands to encompass brother and sister punks (Giovanni Ribisi and Anna Paquin), a video store assistant, a pair of detectives and a gay couple. Adapted from his own play, Keith Reddin ensures the script remains pointed, while Sinise delivers a wonderful performance of supreme eccentricity recalling Peter Seller's Dr Strangelove. Indeed, there is much akin to Kubrick's tense, pitch-black humour in this anti-gun parable, while in various ways, from the central Daniels/Allen couple to the sardonic detachment of the music to Paquin's "almost-relationship" with an older man It's the Rage parallels the contemporaneous American Beauty (1999). It's actually the more powerful film, and though made for cable deserved all the praise it received on its festival screenings. On the DVD: The trailer doesn't capture the spirit of the film at all, while the 13-minute making-of documentary is routine promotional material. The commentary by first time film director (but veteran stage director) James D. Stern is exceptionally good, both enthusiastic and packed with information; the fact that It's The Rage really bites can almost certainly be attributed to Stern's college roommate being shot dead. The sound is Dolby Digital 5.1 and while this isn't the sort of film to show-off a sound system,it's atmospheric and the diverse music score becomes almost a character in itself. The anamorphically enhanced 1.77-1 image is good but a little grainy and shows occasional compression artifacting. --Gary S Dalkin

• Fletch / Sergeant Bilko / King Ralph | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  King Ralph: This heart warming comedy starring John Goodman as the unlikliest king ever.... A freak accident kills off the whole Royal Family and a new heir must be found. The last person anyone expects it to be is lounge singer Ralph Jones who goes from one disaster to another as he reluctantly becomes King Ralph.... Sgt. Bilko: Sgt. Bilko is back and up to his old tricks. The arrival of Major Thorn threatens to put a stop to the casino under-the-table deals and Bilko's other illicit businesses... Fletch: Chevy Chase is at his hilarious best in this suspense-packed comedy thriller based on Gregory McDonald's novel. Fletch is an investigative reporter who's constantly changing his identity. While working on a drug expose Fletch attracts the attention of a strange business man (Tim Matheson) who wants to be killed so his wife will inherit more insurance. The wily Fletch senses a scam and soon he's up to his byline in frame-ups murder police corruption and forbidden romance. It'll be the story of the year if he can stay alive to meet his deadline!

• Harry Potter E La Camera Dei Segreti (4k+Br) | Blu Ray | (22/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• 4 Dogs Playing Poker | DVD | (14/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An entry in the recent rash of crooks-falling-out cynical crime-comedy noirs, Four Dogs Playing Poker opens with a robbery at a wedding in Buenos Aires. Five friends pose as staff and guests to penetrate the secret collector's vault of lecherous father-of-the-bride George Lazenby and walk away with a valuable dancing-girl statue. Back in Los Angeles, the team are visited by their sponsor, hefty guest-star crook Forrest Whitaker, who tells them there's a question as to whether the statue is on the ship that's supposed to be smuggling it into the country. If it doesn't show up they'll have to cough up a million dollars between them or get killed. To underline the point and in the first of many "it-just-doesn't-make-sense" plot turns, Whitaker has his men shoot Tim Curry, organiser of the gang, in the leg and then, to show that trying to leave town is a bad idea, has him hung up dead in a meat locker with his feet chain sawed off (offscreen) by the comedy British double-act thugs. An unbelievably complicated scheme is hatched between the surviving four, two couples, whereby they each take out insurance policies that benefit the rest and pick cards and safety-deposit box-keys that identify one of them as the designated murderer and another as a victim. Naturally, suspicions simmer (one character, when asked if she distrusts her friends, replies "all my friends are thieves") and triple-crosses are hatched. The prolific Olivia Williams, in Lulu wig and American accent, emerges as the star, walking a knife-edge between imperilled heroine and cynical manipulator but she is ably supported by druggie, computer savvy Daniel London, hunky bartender Balthazar Getty and jittery insurance functionary Stacy Edwards. Familiar, if watchable. --Kim Newman

• Fire & Fantasy: The Ultimate Dragon Collection (Sinbad The Persian Prince / Age of The Dragons / Rise of the Dragons, Wyvern) | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £12.91   |  Saving you £7.08 (54.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sinbad: The Persian Prince:Fantasy action adventure transposing the ancient Persian legend of Sinbad the Sailor to the modern day. Adrian Sinbad (Patrick Muldoon) is a billionaire oil shipping magnate who must complete seven tasks in order to save the world from catastrophe after his flagship oil tanker is hijacked by Somalian pirates.Age Of The Dragons:Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones star in this fantasy adventure loosely based on Herman Melville's classic novel 'Moby Dick'. Captain Ahab (Glover) and his crew are joined by harpoonist Ishmael (Corey Sevier) in their hunt for the White Dragon, the merciless creature that killed Ahab's family when he was a boy and left him scarred and mutilated for life. As they close in on their quarry, Ahab's beautiful adopted daughter, Rachel (Sofia Pernas), must choose between her allegiance to her father's dark quest and her newfound love for the dashing Ishmael.Wyvern: Rise Of The Dragon:Sci-fi Channel fantasy horror B-movie in which a small town in Alaska is terrorised by a dragon-like flying reptile. Thawed from its ancient slumber by melting icecaps caused by global warming, the creature is soon wreaking havoc on the lives of town residents including truck driver Jake (Nick Chinlund) and feisty waitress Claire (Erin Karpluk).

• Bad Girls - Complete Series 1-4 | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Hard-hitting award-winning original and controversial Bad Girls depicts the trials and triumphs of prison inmates and officers in the notorious women's prison of HMP Larkhall. It's a tense and sexually charged atmosphere and it's a hidden world where anything can happen.... This bumper box set features all 55 uncut episodes from the first four series! Series 1: 1. Them And Us 2. Drug Wars 3. Love Rival 4. The Victim 5. Tangled Web 6. A Big Mistake 7. Playing With Fire 8. Falling Apart 9. Payback Time 10. Love Hurts Series 2: 1. Tug Of Love 2. Shit Happens 3. Visiting Time 4. Looking For Love 5. Mistaken Identity 6. Losing It 7. The Set-Uo 8. Babes Behind Bars 9. The Leaving 10. Family Plan 11. Rough Justice 12. Facing Up 13. Oh What A Night Series 3: 1. Back From The Brink 2. The Turn Of The Screw 3. The Chains Of Freedom 4. False Identity 5. Blood Ties 6. Do Or Die 7. The Great Escape 8. Uninvited Guests 9. Common Criminal 10. Chapel Of Love 11. Battle Lines 12. Tough Love 13. Revolving Doors 14. Fronting Up 15. Cat & Mouse 16. Coming Out Series 4: 1. Fight Or Flight 2. Unholy Alliances 3. Behind Closed Doors 4. Fait Accompli 5. Ony The Lonely 6. Sweet Sixteen 7. Pillow Talk 8. Prison Issue 9. Baby On Board 10. Family Matters 11. Battle Lines 12. Appearances' Sake 13. True Colours 14. Hard Knock Life 15. Marriage Of Inconvenience 16. Curtain Call

• Predators - Play Exclusive | Blu Ray | (01/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £28.99

  Executive producer Robert Rodriguez (Grindhouse, Spy Kids) is the driving force behind this energetic reboot of the popular Predator films, which pits the dreadlocked alien hunters against a rogues' gallery of human antiheroes, led by a bulked-up Adrien Brody. The Oscar winner acquits himself nicely in the role of a gritty mercenary who finds himself stranded on a jungle planet with a host of criminals and professional killers (among them such scene-stealers as Walton Goggins and Danny Trejo), as well as a seemingly innocent doctor, well played by Topher Grace. They've been deposited there to serve as living targets for a horde of Predators--whose looks, designed by Gregory Nicotero and Howard Berger, are impressively varied and sleek--that use the planet as their private hunting grounds. Laurence Fishburne is also on hand as a soldier who has managed to survive for years in the jungle; he, Brody, and Grace do much to make the pulpy dialogue by Alex Litvak and Michael Finch (adapting a premise penned by Rodriguez in the mid-'90s) palatable. Likewise, Hungarian director Nimrod Antal (Vacancy) lends a great deal of atmosphere and Rodriguez-style momentum to the picture--perhaps more than necessary, since the end result is, like the 1987 original with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a fun B-movie and nothing more, designed entirely to give moviegoers a slick, unchallenging roller-coaster ride. Having said that, it's a vast improvement over the 1990 sequel and the dreadful tie-ins with the Alien franchise, and should provide movie monster aficionados with an afternoon's worth of thrills. --Paul Gaita