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• The Sorcerers | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The Sorcerers, the second film directed by the lost "wunderkind" of British cinema Michael Reeves, may not have the scope and visceral impact of his masterpiece, Witchfinder General (1968), but there's enough fierce originality here to show what a tragic loss it was when he died from a drugs overdose aged only 24. The film also shows the effective use he made of minimal resources, working here on a derisory budget of less than £50,000--of which £11,000 went to the film's sole "named" star, Boris Karloff. Karloff plays an elderly scientist living with his devoted wife in shabby poverty in London, dreaming of the brilliant breakthrough in hypnotic technique that will restore him to fame and fortune. Seeking a guinea-pig, he hits on Mike, a disaffected young man-about-town (Ian Ogilvy, who starred in all three of Reeves' films). But the technique has an unlooked-for side effect--not only can he and his wife make Mike do their bidding, they can vicariously experience everything that he feels. At which point, it turns out that the wife has urges and desires that her husband never suspected. Karloff, then almost at the end of his long career, brings a melancholy dignity to his role; but the revelation is the veteran actress Catherine Lacey as the seemingly sweet old lady, turning terrifyingly avid and venomous as she realises her power. The portrayal of Swinging London, with its mini-skirted dollybirds thronging nightclubs where the strongest stimulant seems to be Coke rather than coke, has an almost touching innocence, but Reeves invests it with a dream-like quality, extending it into scenes of violent death in labyrinthine dark alleys. By this stage, some ten years after it started, the British horror cycle was winding down in lazy self-parody. Reeves had the exceptional talent and vision to revive it, had he only lived. On the DVD: The Sorcerers DVD has original trailers for both this film and Witchfinder General (both woefully clumsy); filmographies for Reeves, Karloff and Ogilvy; an "image gallery" (a grab-bag of posters, stills and lobby cards); detailed written production notes by horror-movie expert Kim Newman; and an excellent 25-minute documentary on Reeves, "Blood Beast", dating from 1999. The transfer is letterboxed full-width, with acceptable sound. --Philip Kemp

• The Real McCoy | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  They said there wasn't a man on earth who could pull off a bank job like this. They were right! After six long years in prison for a foiled bank robbery legendary criminal Karen McCoy (Basinger) wants nothing more than to turn her life around. But her hopes are soon shattered: no one will hire her; she's stuck with a sleazy parole officer and her ex-husband has told their son that she's dead. To make matters worse crime lord Jack Schmidt (Stamp) is forcing her to pull off a seemin

• It Came From Beneath The Sea | Blu Ray | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Submarine commander Pete Mathews (Kenneth Tobey) and scientists Lesley Joyce (Faith Domergue) and John Carter (Donald Curtis) battle an angry sea monster driven from the depths of the ocean by an H-bomb explosion. In search of non-contaminated food this tentacled tyrant counts among its victims a fishing trawler and its passengers a family sunning at the beach several San Francisco skyscrapers and even the Golden Gate Bridge!

• Theatre Of Death | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The name Christopher Lee has become synonymous with horror and he delivers a typically bravura performance in this atmospheric and tense chiller. A string of bizarre killings has struck fear into the hearts of Parisians. The victims were drained of blood which leads some to suspect a vampire. Clues lead the police to the Theatre of Death where horror presentations are a speciality. Could the murderer be its sinister director?

• Primal Species | DVD | (01/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A group of terrorists thought they were stealing a few pounds of uranium. But they were wrong... dead wrong! It turns out they've stolen something much bigger but just as deadly - ten tons of fierce man-eating Velociraptor a species presumed extinct but now well and truly alive and kicking! This costly mistake proves to be their last and only a Special Forces elite team have any hope of stopping these prehistoric animals with an attitude. Unfortunately these dinosuars of destruction are on a mission of their own... the extinction of the human race. The future of mankind is now in the hands of this crack division led by squad leader Rance (Scott Valentine) who must now take out the velociraptor before a new generation has a chance to be born...

• The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (64.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Before nerds geeks and cyberpunks there was regular-guy Medfield College student Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) who accidentally turns into a human computer through a shocking lab mishap. As the hype over his instant genius threatens to swell his head he becomes the centre of a winner-take-all tug-of-war between greedy college deans and dangerous gamblers which lands him in big trouble! The ""genius"" Dexter then learns a valuable lesson when the same friends he had earlier turned his

• Lost | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £5.86   |  Saving you £0.13 (2.22%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dean Cain stars in this pulse-pounding suspense thriller about a man who finds himself Lost on the desert highways of California tormented by an unknown assailant and way beyond the point of no return. Cain turns in an astonishing performance as Jeremy Staunton a stereotypical 'yuppie' whose situation turns out to be anything but typical when a seemingly routine road trip develops into an increasingly desperate game of cat and mouse. Trapped in a maze of endless desert highway bound by a vital deadline and pursued by an unseen menace Stanton is about to take the longest and perhaps the last ride of his life!

• Rat Pack Sings | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Features a compilation of performances from those swingin' cats the 'Rat Pack'.

• The Last Seduction 2 | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £21.25   |  Saving you £-11.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bridget Gregory having successfully killed her husband and framed Mike Swale for it flees to Barcelona in Spain to avoid an investigation. Here she meets Troy Fenton who runs a phone sex line and soon lets Bridget in on his secret operation where she begins another devious plan...

• 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

• 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

• Yours, Mine and Ours | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £15.73   |  Saving you £-5.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  18 kids. 2 families. 1 force of nature.The 2005 re-make of Melville Shavelson's original 1968 comedy hit!Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo are a perfect match in this irresistible comedy about two single parents who get married... only to meet some unexpected homewreckers -their own kids! Admiral Frank Beardsley (Quaid), a widower with eight children, runs his family like a tight ship. Frank's orderly life changes course when he impulsively marries his long-lost high school sweetheart, Helen (Russo); a free-spirited fashion designer with ten kids of her own. For Frank and Helen's wildly different families, it's fight at first sight. So his kids hatch a plan to sabotage the marriage! What follows is a no-schemes-barred, domestic free-for-all that rocks the house with hilarious moments... and some heartwarming surprises.

• Watchmen / Tales Of The Black Freighter | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £8.27   |  Saving you £7.71 (146.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Watchmen: When one of his former colleagues is murdered the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...But who is watching the Watchmen? Tales Of The Black Freighter A gruesome 25 minute manga-style CG animated pirate story following the lone survivor of an attacked vessel (Gerard Butler) and his desperate journey to safely return home. Based on the comic book within the Watchmen universe it is an example of post-modern Metafiction and a comic-within-a-comic that also serves as a foil for the main plot.

• Forgotten Sins | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £7.17   |  Saving you £-0.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Forgotten Sins' is a startling and disturbing drama based on a true story. County sheriff Matt Bradshaw a devout churchgoer and respected pillar of the community stands accused of terrible crimes: sexually abusing his own daughters and organising multiple rapes and Satanic rituals. Matt's reaction to these accusations is almost as shocking - he makes a full and frank confession. Amid an atmosphere of religious frenzy and further accusations of murder and torture the witch hunt begins. Only one man believes in Matt's innocence: eminent psychologist Dr Richard Ofshe (William Devane). He is convinced that Matt is the innocent victim of religious brainwashing and police pressure for a confession. But what chance does Ofshe have of seeing justice done when Matt himself is so utterly convinced of his own guilt?

• The Comedy Hour With Dean Martin And Jerry Lewis Vol.2 | DVD | (18/12/2006) from £7.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their names in the 'Colgate Comedy Hour' shows of 1940s and 50s America. This second volume of original footage from the series brings to life the hilarious sketches jokes and slapstick for which the duo became renowned as well as musical numbers that showcase Dean Martin's remarkable voice.

• Shanghai | Blu Ray | (23/07/2012) from £10.75   |  Saving you £14.24 (132.47%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From director Mikael Hafstrom (1408) comes the epic espionage thriller Shanghai staring John Cusack (1408) and international superstars Gong Li (Miami Vice, Memoirs of a Geisha) and Ken Watanabe (Letters from Iwo Jima, The Last Samurai.) Nothing is what it seems in this Casablanca-style international thriller set in the ancient Chinese city a week before the attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. secret agent Paul Soames (Cusack) has just arrived to investigate the murder of his best friend, only to become quickly immersed in a web of conspiracy and lies that beset the city. Shadowed by a Japanese intelligence officer, Tanaka (Watanabe), Soames' investigation quickly centers on a charismatic local gangster, Anthony Lanting and Lanting's beautiful wife, Anna (Li). Before long, Soames and Anna are involved in an affair that will put everything they have at stake. As national loyalties are traded fast-and-loose for those of the heart, Soames and Annamust race to solve the mystery and make it out of occupied China before the city's collapse.

• Wwe: Tlc 2015 | Blu Ray | (22/02/2016) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In WWE, TLC doesn't mean tender loving care, it means Tables, Ladders & Chairs! The WWE World Heavyweight Championship hangs high above the ring as ˜The Celtic Warrior' Sheamus defends his newly won title against number one contender Roman Reigns in a Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match. Kevin Owens and Dean Ambrose write another chapter in their rivalry as they face off for the WWE Intercontinental Championship and The New Day defend their WWE Tag Team Championships against The Lucha Dragons and The Usos in a Triple Threat Ladder Match! Tables will be broken, ladders will be mangled, and chairs will be dented at WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs!

• The Whistle Blower | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Frank Jones (Michael Caine) is an ordinary law abiding businessman. He served his country during the war and he is very proud of his son Bob (Nigel Havers) a Russian linguist and translator. Frank's world is shattered by the arrival of the police to tell him his son is dead. The plot thickens when the inquest verdict is 'Accidental Death'. Frank embarks on his own investigation into his son's death and discovers that there are no limits to what the government will do to protec

• Frank Sinatra - Sinatra And Friends | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Recorded in 1977. Includes duets with Natalie Cole Dean Martin Tony Bennet and John Denver. Tracks included are: 1. Where Or When... Sinatra & Friends 2. I've Got You Under My Skin 3. I Get A Kick Out Of You..Duet With Nataile Cole 4. I've Got Love On My mind... Natalie Cole 5. If I Were A Rich Man... Robert Merril 6. Oldest Established Floating Crap Game Duet With Dean Martin & Robert Merril 7.She's Got You... Loretta Lynn 8. All Or Nothing At All Duet With Loretta L

• The Walking Dead: The Complete Eleventh Season | Blu Ray | (14/03/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A