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• V - The Mini Series | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £13.90   |  Saving you £7.09 (51.01%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Nowadays, the word "event" is thrown around all too often when describing television programmes, but back in 1983 the debut of V: The Mini Series was a television event in the truest sense. The appearance of gigantic flying saucers over the world's largest cities heralds the arrival of aliens from a distant galaxy who look human and act benevolently. Of course, things aren't exactly what they seem, and when some suspicious humans start to question the visitors' intentions they uncover a vast alien conspiracy, along with some unusual culinary habits. Soon, the visitors have enslaved the Earth under their fascist rule, and small groups of human rebels are forced underground to fight for the freedom of their entire species. But with the future of the planet still in question the epic story comes to an abrupt end, forcing the viewer to wait for the resolution in V: The Final Battle and the on-going series. That's not to say that the original V isn't worth the price of admission: in over three hours, it manages to capture the spirit of the great classic science fiction of the 1950s and 60s. The feeling of paranoia and insecurity that runs throughout the whole thing makes it feel, at times, like an expanded episode of The Twilight Zone, only shinier (hey, it was the 1980s). The special effects were impressive for their day, inspiring similarly themed films in the 90s (the gigantic flying saucers were seen again in Independence Day, and the storage area of the mothership turns up in The X Files Movie and The Matrix). What does irritate, however, is the utter lack of subtlety in the allegorical storyline. In fact, it could only have been made more obvious by demanding that the entire cast wear "This is how it was in 1930s' Germany" t-shirts. But if V occasionally doesn't live up to its own high standards, it's still a remarkably high-quality slice of epic television drama. On the DVD: The picture is an impressive widescreen 1.85:1 ratio and the soundtrack is adequate Dolby stereo. The DVD boasts a feature-length commentary by writer and director Kenneth Johnson, as well as a 25-minute "Behind the Scenes" documentary. --Robert Burrow

• The Associate | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £7.65   |  Saving you £-1.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Behind every great man is a woman... Wishing he'd get the hell out of her way. After a backstabbing co-worker nabs her promotion a fast-track executive starts her own company by inventing a male business partner to sell her ideas. However the ruse works so well she must impersonate her fictitious associate in order to keep her hard-won clients!

• Shattered Promises | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £12.95   |  Saving you £-6.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Alan Masters a brilliant criminal attorney involved with the mafia is chief suspect in his wife's murder investigation. Only one honest cop is determined to see justice done...

• Daisy Miller | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A beautiful adaptation of the Henry James novella about a beautiful American girl Daisy whose headstrong ways create quite a stir in European society during the 1800's. Daisy finds herself caught between the affections of two men: European aristocrat Frederick Winterbourne and the suave Italian Mr Giovanelli Daisy's American ways slowly clash with continental etiquette and concern her mother Ms Ezra B Miller who tries to persuade her to act more like a proper lady.