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• Punk In London | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  With Punk now the stuff of postcards, its good to have Punk in London, a 1977 feature that taps the source of what the scene was all about. German director Wolfgang Büra interviews a number of players and promoters but, apart from concert sequences by The Adverts and The Clash--in gritty form on their ill-fated first European tour--the emphasis is on "almost were" bands. Büras reticent and awkward questioning wont win awards for journalism, but interviewees are prepared to open up to him. Theres political hard-talking from members of Chelsea, a chat with the unassuming bassist of The Lurkers (and parents!), priceless interview footage with Kevin Rowland, then in Birmingham band The Kiljoys; best of all, the laconic roadie of Subway Sect, a true leveller well aware that the whole "Punk thing" will fall victim to commercial pressure like counter-cultures before it. On the DVD: The 1977 film reproduces decently, its faded realism appropriate to the subject, and the sound captures the sweaty environs of Londons club scene with raw immediacy. A pity, though, that sound and vision in the interviews werent better synchronised. There are 21 access points; The Clash sequence is repeated with German subtitles (though markedly inferior picture quality), and an extended adverts sequence with German-only offstage banter. Overall, a quirky package, and a quirky documentary--but with a sincerity and authenticity that no "Best of" could ever hope to capture.--Richard Whitehouse

• Stargate S.G -1: Season 4 (Vol. 15) | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £12.96   |  Saving you £7.03 (54.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The 1994 film Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted when celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's-pet primary unit SG-1. With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" Goa'uld--the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. The welcome notion of a continued plot thread sees offshoots that follow the reincarnation of Daniel's wife, Sam's father literally joining a renegade faction of the Goa'uld and Jack in an unending quest to out-sarcasm everyone. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but amid a dearth of derivative lookalikes, Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. On this DVD: "Divide and Conquer" presents a disturbing theory that none of us may be who we think we are. Newly recurring guest star Vanessa Angel returns as Freya to reveal that "za'tarc" technology can programme a person to be an assassin without their knowledge. This episode becomes a claustrophobic showcase for the actors to display distrust for one another. "Window of Opportunity" is the now mandatory Groundhog Day scenario episode that all franchise series must attempt. Typically the SG-1 writers make more of the material than in other shows, with O'Neill and Teal'c growing to enjoy having 10 hours to live repeatedly. Ultimately, though, there's a lesson to be learned about the fruitlessness of trying to recapture the past. "Watergate" demonstrates the excellent continuity kept up by the show in revealing what happened to the original missing Dial Home Device--the Russians have it! Not only that, they have their own Stargate, a disturbing amount of information on the SG-1 team, a mysterious link to a water planet and a scientist who bears an uncanny resemblance to Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation (Marina Sirtis). "The First Ones" is a warm variant on the Lion and the Mouse fable when Daniel establishes a relationship with a primitive alien creature. The planet is the original home world of the Goa'uld parasites, meaning that the SG Team's rescue mission turns into a dangerous period of paranoid suspicion. Who has been compromised and what does Chaka really want with Daniel? --Paul Tonks

• Stargate S.G -1: Season 3 (Vol. 11) | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's pet primary unit SG-1 With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" Goa'uld--the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. The welcome notion of a continued plot thread sees offshoots that follow the reincarnation of Daniel's wife, Sam's father joining a renegade faction of the Goa'uld, and Jack in an unending quest to out-sarcasm everyone. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but amid a dearth of derivative look-a-likes, Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. --Paul TonksOn this DVD: Resolving the cliffhanger from Volume 10, "The Devil You Know" reveals an embarrassing secret that could allow the team to escape the clutches of Satanic Sokar. Then, when following up clues to find the Harcesis child "Forever in a Day", Teal'c is the only one to notice the SGC has been taken over by chameleonic aliens trying to establish a "Foothold" on Earth for invasion. The following "Pretense" is one of those sci-fi series staples as a character is put on trial to prove their guilt on behalf of another. "Urgo" is this volume's highlight, and expands the general sardonic humour with a little pathos for the guest appearance by Dom DeLuise. Lots of slapstick ensues. As well as trailers for the next volume, the disc includes a seven-minute interview with Don Davis on his character of General George Hammond. He talks about his own Captaincy in the army and an acting career that began with MacGuyver! There's also five minutes with costume designer Christine McQuarrie explaining what has to be done in just seven days. --Paul Tonks

• Snake Fist Fighter | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-3.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  At age 17 Chan plays Jackie a young man who is intrigued with martial arts but forbidden by his father to learn. He meets a beggar (Siu Tien Yuen) who offers to teach him. Jackie learns in secret until local mobsters put the squeeze on the family business.

• Stargate S.G -1: Season 5 (Vol. 20) | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £11.45   |  Saving you £11.53 (136.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The opening episodes of the fifth season of Stargate SG-1 had a lot of story left over from the nail-biting Season 4 cliffhanger, so this year had to open with a two-part conclusion. "Enemies" is aptly named because the team are faced with their biggest nemeses of all, Apophis and the Replicators, while stuck in another galaxy 120 years away from Earth. The biggest interpersonal problem facing them, however, is a switch in allegiance by Teal'c. Continuing into "Threshold", it takes the wisdom of his old master Bra'tac to perceive that all is not as it seems. But after so many attempts, can the enemies ever truly be vanquished? At long last, Sam gets a sympathetic and revealing spotlight. We get to see some of her home life and who she is away from the science lab. In her garage she has a 1940 Indian motorcycle, a 1961 vintage Volvo and a Harley. These aren't the only things she tinkers with in "Ascension", however. In a case of torn loyalties, she's confronted by an imaginary friend/lover (Young Indiana Jones himself, Sean Patrick Flanery). And then Jack seems to experience something very similar when the team gains a "Fifth Man". Both these episodes' storylines are threatened by the poisonous introduction of Colonel Simmons (John de Lancie, Star Trek's Q). --Paul Tonks

• Future Sport | DVD | (25/10/1999) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Shades of Rollerball! Director Ernest Dickerson and executive producer Wesley Snipes ponder the sport of the future and come up with... "Futuresport", a combination of handball, ice hockey, and skateboard hot-dogging begun as an inner-city alternative to gang warfare and transformed into a glitzy media sensation. Dean Cain stars as the reigning Futuresport hero, a cocky glory hound who counts his cash and "popularity index" ratings with a smug grin until his narcissism costs him the championship game. As a ruthless terrorist group pushes the world to the brink of war, the suddenly altruistic Cain hatches a plan to bring Futuresport back to its roots. With the help of reporter (and former flame) Vanessa Williams and the game's creator (a rastah-inflected Snipes, who gives himself the film's best role), Cain proposes a winner-take-all game to settle the territorial dispute. Beefy former TV "Superman" Cain makes a better reformed hero than a snotty superstar and looks great in the game scenes, but Snipes steals the film with his funky turn as the inner-city guru with more on his mind than the game. Dickerson gives this TV film a handsome look and even injects a little grit into the otherwise bland screenplay, but apart from the zippy game scenes (which Dickerson films with an electrified energy), it's a familiar and rather flat bit of science fiction hokum. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Decadent Evil Dead | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  B-movie maestro Charles Band directs another entry in his cannon of campy low-budget horror films with the made-for-video feature Decadent Evil. The bloodletting action centers around a sleazy strip club called the Meat Market where sexy female vampire Morella (Debra Mayer) has transformed her former lover Marvin into a half-man/half-reptile creature whom she keeps suspended in a birdcage. Together with her vampire-stripper cohorts Sugar (Jill Michelle) and Spyce (Raelyn Hennessee) Morella lures unsuspecting men to their deaths in a vile plan for world domination that is soon threatened by the arrival of Marvin's midget son Ivan (Phil Fondacaro) who seeks vengeance for his father's condition. Loaded with gratuitous nudity and violence Decadent Evil is a worthy addition to the Band oeuvre.

• Dragon Fighter | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £7.96   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Cocaine Fiends | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Jane Bradford (Lois January) moves from a small town to a large city and is turned into a cocaine addict by drug running gangsters. When her brother Eddie (Dean Benton) arrives in the city he too becomes addicted and forces his girlfriend into prostitution in order to support their habit. Similar in style to Reefer Madness this has become something of a cult classic with the underlying message being ""There always will be Jane Bradfords until you Mr Citizen co-operate with the forc

• Stargate SG-1: Season 6 (Vol. 28) | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £5.71   |  Saving you £-0.72 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Allegiance: SGC's Alpha Site is crowded with Tok'ra and Jaffa refugees and tensions mount between them when the base falls under sabotage and both Tok'ra and Jaffa civilians are mysteriously killed. Jacob Carter and Bra'tac try to keep their respective sides restrained. Cure: On the newly contacted planet Pangera SG-1 is offered a deal for a miracle medicine but they eventually discover that the source is a captured Gou'ald Queen. Worse still the Pangerans can't supply enough of the medicine and what they have is only a temporary effect that requires continued dosage to sustain... Prometheus: A camera crew is mistakenly allowed to tour SGC's Nevada facility and end up exposing Project Prometheus in order to break a big story... Unnatural Selection: The SG-1 team is visited by Thor. He informs them that one of the Asgard planets has been overrun by Replicators and the Asgard need their help to defeat the invaders.

• The Hiding Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (20/08/2012) from £7.16   |  Saving you £2.83 (39.53%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When Jo witnesses the gruesome murder of her parents, she becomes a key witness against a notorious crime boss. She is placed into the Witness Protection Program and is relocated thousands of miles away from her big city home to the rural countryside of Montana. Now she has a new name, a new look and a new family. Jo slowly begins to make new friends and builds a new life when her past catches up to her and the fight of her life has begun.

• Remembering Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra And Dean Martin | DVD | (19/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Judy Garland Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin were three of the most iconic figures of the 20th century. Their dominance of showbusiness spanned decades and traversed the world. This DVD features each of them performing live as individuals and as duets. Songs featured include You're nobody til somebody loves you You do something to me This can't be love Stormy Weather I can't give you anything but love Somewhere over the rainbow and many more. The DVD also includes biographies of J

• Yours, Mine And Ours/Parenthood/Baby Geniuses | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Yours Mine And Ours: 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. Parenthood: The Buckmans are a modern-day family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the ""right way"". At the centre of the storm is Gil (Steve Martin) who manages to keep his unique sense of humour while attempting to maintain a successful career and be a loving husband and parent all at the same time. As Gil and the rest of the Buckmans discover being the ""perfect"" parent often means just letting children be themselves. Baby Geniuses: Dr. Elena Kinder (Kathleen Turner) is out to dominate the world. Two-year-old Sly is the only person in her way. Dr. Kinder and her partner in crime Dr. Heep (Christopher Lloyd) have a covert research lab dedicated to cracking the code to a secret baby language. When Sly escapes from the lab he joins his twin brother Whit in an effort to expose the nefarious plot. Raised by his uncle (Peter MacNicol) who cares for special children Whit is naive to the ways of the world and is quickly captured by Dr. Kinder. Mistaken for Whit Sly is taken back to his uncle where he rallies the other foster babies into a super commando rescue squad to invade the secret lab in an effort to squash Dr. Kinder's evil plot.

• Dean Martin - Music Masters | DVD | (24/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• California Surfin' Ft Jan And Dean - Beach Boys | DVD | (01/11/2005) from £9.57   |  Saving you £12.41 (188.60%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Track Listing: 1.Introduction 2.Help me Rhonda 3.Sloop John B. 4.Do It Agin 5.I Can Hear Music 6.Cottonfields 7.Dead Man's Curve - Feat. Jan & Dean 8.Three Window Coupe - Feat. Jan & Dean 9.My Mighty G.T.O. - Feat. Jan & Dean 10.The New Girl In School 11.Fun fun Fun 12.Barbara Ann 13.Good Vibrations 14.I Get Around 15.Surfin' USa 16.School Days 17.California Girl 18.Surfer Girl 19.Be True To Your School 20.Darlin' 21.It's OK 22.Keepin' The Summer Alive 23.Rock 'n' Roll Music 24.Moonlight Surfin

• Happily Ever After - Collection 1 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £7.25   |  Saving you £-5.26 (-264.30%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Four animated adventures featuring the classic tales: Aladdin Puss In Boots Thumbelina The Shoemaker And The Elves

• Catchfire | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £21.95   |  Saving you £-15.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Previous UK releases of Catchfire have listed the pseudonymous Allan Smithee as director, but this version proudly opens with "a Dennis Hopper film". Also known as Backtrack, it offers a plot that advances by illogical leaps and bounds while whole scenes seem to go astray. With prominently billed actors getting almost nothing to do while major players go un-credited, a bland music score that might have been laid in from another film entirely and an ending that makes a lot of noise without actually resolving much, the film certainly has its bad points. However, it's also one of Hopper's more eccentric films, and more fun than Colors or The Hot Spot (which he had no trouble owning up to), partly because the director also takes a quirky lead role and his own personal interests are stirred by the modern art frills of the chase plot. The film opens with LA-based conceptual artist Jodie Foster, looking chunkily terrific just before her adult career took off, suffering a minor breakdown on the freeway and happening on a gangland execution. Pint-sized mob boss Joe Pesci sets his killers on her but the crooks ineptly murder Foster's boyfriend (Charlie Sheen, taking a very early bath). Pesci calls in Hopper, a professional hitman who immerses himself in Foster's life and art in order to track her down only to develop an obsessive crush on the woman. When he finds her, he gives her the choice between getting rubbed out or becoming his property. Hopper retains the knack for finding odd-looking byways of rural America, but is uncomfortable with helicopter chases and shoot-outs. The leads, despite great chunks of missing story, are both interesting--Foster sexily vulnerable and Hopper doing a wry New York drawl as the sax-playing hit man. Catchfire also offers an amazing supporting cast of the director's friends, including Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich), Tony Sirico (The Sopranos), Bob Dylan (with a chainsaw), Helena Kallianotes (Five Easy Pieces), Julia Adams (The Creature from the Black Lagoon), and John Turturro.On the DVD: the film itself comes in a good-looking widescreen transfer, but the lack of special features let the disc down, with only feeble notes for three cast members (and no Smithee filmography). --Kim Newman

• The James Dean Story - Rebel Without A Cause | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  On September 30th 1955 James Dean was only 24 years of age when he was killed in an automobile accident but today he is still revered as an icon of Fifties style. This film traces his life fro the early years in Indiana up to his finest hour in the movie 'Rebel Without A Cause'.

• FRANK SINATRA - The Premier Collection Vol 3 | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Hound Dog Entertainment proudly presents three fantastic hour long television shows starring Frank Sinatra and the cream of 1950's musical entertainment. Episode 1: In 1957 the Ford car company authorized a live star-studded network television spectacular to give their new Edsel maximum publicity. Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby were hired with pals Rosemary Clooney Louis Armstrong and a surprise visit by Bob Hope. Episode 2: In this Timex Special - High Hopes - Old Blue Eyes pairs up with fellow Rat Packer Dean Martin and crooner Bing Crosby. Episode 3: Cole Porter's classic musical/comedy Anything Goes starring Frank Sinatra and Ethel Merman ably supported by Bert Lahr and Sheree North. Sinatra is on top of his form singing Porter's music live.

• Robocop - The Prime Directives 1 To 4 | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A quartet of Robocop adventures from the 'Prime Directives' series. Dark Justice (2000): Ten years after his resurrection Robocop is up against a renegade cyborg creating havoc known as Bone Machine. A sinister rebel group called The Trust secretly re-programmes Robocop to kill Delta City's security commander Cable. An all-out three way tussle between Robocop Cable and Bone Machine proves to be the Delta City champion's biggest challenge yet... Meltdown: A sinister rebel group The Trust schemes to take control of Delta city. They transform the dead body of Robocop's best friend Cable into a machine designed to destroy Robocop. Will Cable remember he is the man inside the machine? Resurrection: Fugitives on the run Robocop and former partner Cable are separated during a pitched battle with Robohunters falling into the hands of two opposing mercenary groups who restore and re-programme them for the purposes of their respective dark crusades... Crash And Burn: With Delta City on the verge of a new Dark Age Robocop and Cable are trapped inside the towers of Control Headquarters. To save the city the embattled defenders must shut down the all-powerful computer and in doing so the ultimate sacrifice must be made...