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• Double Platinum | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A soapy backstage melodrama originally produced for network broadcast, Double Platinum downplays showbiz verisimilitude to turn on the tears. With 60s soul queen Diana Ross and 90s pop princess Brandy sharing production credit as well as billing, this formulaic tearjerker focuses on its stars' dramatic chops more than their musical prowess, a choice that won't deter their respective audiences, even as it disappoints less partisan music fans who might have hoped for a stronger musical component.Olivia King (Ross) is the former St. Louis housewife who abandoned her family for pop stardom, only to return 18 years later determined to meet, and reconcile with, her daughter, Kayla (Brandy), now nurturing her own footlight fantasies. But when the prodigal mom finally does reveal herself to the bright, feisty teen, Kayla is outraged and then hard-boiled. Olivia's offer to help the undeniably talented girl make industry contacts is accepted, with the bitter caveat that the superstar should abandon any hopes of a true maternal bond with her embittered daughter. The usually imperious Olivia meekly accepts those terms, while the secretly yearning Kayla keeps up her tough-cookie cover, but the plot telegraphs its ultimate destination, even as the tears flow.Both stars acquit themselves well in the story's stormier clashes, and the emotional tug of the story is well engineered to soak hankies. Less credulous viewers will be hampered by the original songs--when Ross steps on-stage, her regal demeanour and flashy (if occasionally silly) gowns support her supposed status as a legend, but the utterly forgettable, generic songs she mouths deflate that image. That said, viewers less interested in the actual music than the glitzy idea of the two characters may well be content to wallow in the waterworks of a story that could as easily have been titled Divas: The Next Generation. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• The Calling | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A Satanic thriller in the vein of 'Rosemary's Baby' 'The Calling' tells the chilling story of a human woman who realizes that the child she gave birth to during a strange dreamlike event is actually the child of Satan. Put on earth in order to wreak havoc and bring the evil of her father to the world this seemingly cute young boy is actually a vessel for the greatest darkness in the world!

• Iron Maze | DVD | (22/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Murder mystery and suspense are rife when the son of a Japanese billionaire and his beautiful wife arrive in a small town in Pennsylvania with plans to convert an old steel mill into a huge money-making amusement park. When he is found seriously wounded no-one's surprised. None more so than former steel worker Barry who confesses to the crime. But this is no open and shut case. As the police investigate a succession of intimate lies and hidden truths unfold that exposes a bitter love triangle and leaves the town's fate in the balance. What really happened? The answer lies deep in the 'Iron Maze'. A maze of emotional deception industrial destruction and small-town prejudice.

• Critters 3 | DVD | (04/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Critters 3

• Heroic Duo | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-3.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Hypnotist Li Shang Zheng (Leon Lai) has been imprisoned following the fallout from an unsettled conflict with the Triads. Once inside Li uses his charismatic hypnotic skills on police inspector Li Wen Jian (Ekin Cheng) who unwittingly begins to engage in criminal activities...

• Doctor Otter | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This enchanting series follows Dr Melvyn P Otter on his rounds as he tends to a group of patients ranging from the clumsy to those suffering from a bout of hypochondria. Dr Otter is well versed in the medical arts but prefers to use his homemade remedies in the curing of ailments as opposed to the modern solutions favoured by his assistant Dr Borley Episode titles: Colour Me Lucky Blackberry Surprise Melvyn's Birthday A New Home For Lucky Treasure Hunt.

• Bass Day 1998 | DVD | (12/09/2002) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-3.64 (-16.60%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Artists include Michael Manning Andy Gonzalez and Victor Wooten.

• Secret Army - Complete Series 1, 2 And 3 | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £129.99

  The complete classic BBC TV series about the struggles of the Low Countries population during their occupation by the Nazi's during World War II.

• U.S. Seals | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When death stalks the high seas...There's only one combat force for the job... Modern-day pirates have taken to the seas crippling the world shipping trade and making the ocean a very dangerous place to be. The U.S. president has no choice but to call on the immediate intervention of the world's most lethal daring combat force: the Navy SEALs. From an oil rig in the icy North Atlantic to the luxurious playground of the French Riviera the SEALs engage the pirates at every turn leading to the fiery climax at the pirate's base in remote Kazahkstan. What stars as an important mission for the SEALs becomes a personal grudge match and finally a life-and-death struggle for control of the seas. In the tradition of Under Siege and Delta Force U.S. Seals is searing white-hot high-caliber action you'll watch again and again.

• Crimson Rivers 2: Angels Of The Apocalypse | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Underground | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Big Ben. Buckingham Palace. Piccadilly Circus. The London that everybody knows. But there is another side to London that remains unknown to the tourists emerging only at night an underground world of dark clubs pumping music and plentiful drugs...

• 500 Years Later | DVD | (20/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Zoot Suit | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Part fact and part fiction 'Zoot Suit' is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna (Daniel Valdez) is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee Alice Bloomfield (Tyne Daly) and George Shearer (Charles Aidman) fight the blatant misc

• The Girl Who Leapt Through Space Vol 1 | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Akiha Shihido is the third daughter of the powerful Shishido family. Her older sister Kazane decides to marry Akiha without her consent so naturally she escapes! But Akiha finds herself trapped in a mysterious space colony that is run by an artificial intelligence which is as ridiculous as it is rude : Leopard. The A.I. asks the young girl for help recovering various missing parts that will restore its full power. Now with the help of Konoha a strange ninja-like girl Akiha goes hunting for these mysterious parts facing uncanny enemies and dangerous situations. If her destiny is to become the girl that leapt through space how can she find her life's true calling in this crazy improbable new life?

• White Dragon | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Its power cannot be stopped. In the vein of House of Flying Daggers this martial arts film is action-packed with stylized martial arts scenes and beautiful actors - Cecilia Cheung is something to behold! A young noblewoman falls in love with a prince of the Imperial House. By accident she acquires the martial arts skills of the White Dragon. New in her power she learns that there are definite advantages in performing ""good deeds"" as the Little White Dragon. When she

• Permissive | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When Suzy arrives in London to visit an old school friend she is unwittingly plunged into the ruthless world of the 'groupie'. Fuelled by sex drugs and jealousy her new lifestyle fosters in her a cold cynical instinct for survival. But tragedy is never far away. With its effective blend of gritty location work brooding flash-forward devices and a soundtrack by cult acid folk and prog rock legends Comus Forever More - who also star - and Titus Groan Permissive is a dark British counter-cultural artefact that's shot through with grim authenticity. As a bonus this release also includes Stanley Long's ultra-rare Bread a film which whilst exploring the same cultural milieu as Permissive (and featuring its own bona fide cult British rock band Juicy Lucy) takes a somewhat more lighthearted approach to its subject.

• I Pierre Riviere | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £17.35   |  Saving you £2.64 (15.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault I Pierre Riviere a unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835 when a young man Pierre Riviere murdered his mother sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives including the written confession of Pierre himself and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of 'truth' and 'history'. Radical bold and uncompromising director Rene Allio's extraordinary work is at one and the same time an ethnographic enquiry an historical reconstruction and an unflinching portrait of psychopathology and its aftermath.

• The Silent Invasion | DVD | (12/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Silent Invasion

• Lucky | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £5.18   |  Saving you £14.81 (285.91%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Failing cartoon writer Millard Mudd has sunk deep into a rut. Living like a vagrant and surviving on a strict diet of alcohol Mudd's world has collapsed. But one day everything changes when a dog named Lucky enters his life. You see what makes Lucky no ordinary dog is his ability to talk. And what makes Lucky invaluable is his ability to teach Mudd how to write again. But what makes Lucky dangerous is his ability to get inside Mudd's head and turn him into a serial killer.

• Babymother | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  From ragga to riches: a single mother (Anjela Lauren Smith) determined to make it as a singer puts together an all girl reggae group...