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• Mutant X, Series 1 Vol. 1 | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £5.11   |  Saving you £19.88 (389.04%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mutant X takes the useful SF trope of the mutant minority persecuted by the state and adds potentially interesting spins on which it rarely delivers. The charismatic villain Mason Eckhart of the Genetic Security Agency (Tom McCamus) professes an ideology of service and sacrifice for which many mutants fall, unaware of his genocidal and exploitative real intentions--though his habit of dumping failed minions into glass tubes for subsequent vivisection might give them a clue. A quest for redemption underlies the apparent smugness of Adam (Michael Shea), the good guys' mentor who used to work for the GSA's front, research company Genomex. The shiny, pretty central quartet themselves--fierce acrobatic Shalimar, reliable density-shifter Jesse, laddish electro-boy Brennan and sensible mind-twister Emma--alternately rescue new mutants from Eckhart and neutralise those who are threats. After a couple of pilot episodes that pushed into OTT visual stylishness, the show has settled into mildly repetitive though watchable blandness: for the most part it avoids story arcs and a large cast of regulars in favour of plugging its characters into the stock plots of television SF, such as doubles, vengeance crusades and untrustworthy lovers. On the DVD: Mutant X Series 1, Volume 1 contains the following episodes: "The Shock of the New". Shopgirl Emma discovers her powers of persuasion have made her the target of murderous Mason Eckhart and his henchman Thorne. Rescued by Shalimar and Jesse, she refuses their offer of passage into the mutant underground and is attacked a second time. "I Scream the Body Electric". Captured while rescuing Emma, electricity-shooting Brennan is forcibly recruited into Eckhart's kidnap squads--can he be rescued or avoid corruption? "Russian Roulette". A gun that targets and destroys the DNA of mutants is being tested by Russian mercenaries. Mutant X needs it to cure Brennan and to stop Eckhart obtaining it. "Fool for Love". Shalimar falls for a GSA scientist whose cure for mutancy is more dangerous than either of them know. "Kiloherz". A fiery radical young mutant, Kiloherz, can travel in radio waves and inhabit electronic equipment. Mutant X need to save him from Eckhart and stop him doing too much damage. The DVDs also has trailers, Web links and interviews with Victoria Pratt (Shalimar) and producer Karen Wookey. --Roz Kaveney

• The Face Behind The Mask Bu-Ray (Imprint Collection # 44) | Blu Ray | (21/05/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Special Branch - Complete Series 1 | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This action-drama series was both the forerunner to and inspiration of 'The Sweeney' aimed squarely at the same audience. Episodes comprise: 1. A Copper Called Craven 2. Round the Clock 3. Inquisition 4. Assault 5. Polonaise 6. Red Herring 7. Death By Drowning 8. All the King's Men 9. Threat 10. The Other Man 11. You Won't Remember Me 12. Hostage 13. Blueprint for Murder

• The Beatles - Red Album | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Red Album remains one of the finest showcases for the early Beatles work available and here the best of the music from the early days is reviewed by a leading team of critics and contemporaries of the band. Fantastic archive performance footage is combined with insights from Bill Harry and three of the best Beatles book authors to set pen to paper!

• The World According To Garp | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  This is the splendid film adaptation of John Irving's bestseller. Robin Williams plays the role of T.S. Garp a complex and unpredictabale young man at odds with a violent and cruel world... The World According To Garp earned two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor: one for John Lithgow; and the other for Glenn Close as Best Supporting Actress.

• The Sword And The Sorcerer | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A Kingdom Ruled By Evil. A Princess Enslaved By Passion. A Warrior Driven By Justice. Meet Talon a daring mercenary who conquers castles and dungeons alike with his lethal three-bladed sword. But when Talon learns that he is the prince of a kingdom controlled by an evil sorcerer he is thrust into the wildest fight of his life. Can Talon rescue the beautiful princess and slay the warlock or will he fall prey to the black magic of medieval mayhem? Lee Horsley Kathleen Beller Simon MacCorkindale and Richard Moll star in this action-packed adventure saga filled with brutal battles luscious maidens savage monsters and more!

• Prince's Trust Concert 1987 | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Featuring: 1. God Save The Queen 2. Alison Moyet - Invisible 3. Bryan Adams - Hearts On Fire 4. Dave Edmunds - The Wanderer 5. Curiosity Killed The Cat - Misfit 6. Labi Siffre - So Strong 7. Mark King And The All Stars - Running In The Family 8. Midge Ure And The All Stars - If I Was 9. Go West - Don't Look Down 10. Eric Clapton And The All Stars - Behind The Mask 11. Ben E. King And The All Stars - Stand By Me 12. Tony Hadley And The All Stars- Through The Barricades 13. Elton John And The...

• Minder - Series 1 - Part 3 Of 4 | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £9.97   |  Saving you £6.02 (37.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Episode 7 - THE BENGAL TIGER: Terry is sent in to mind Arthur's local newsagent who is being threatened. Episode 8 - COME IN T-64 YOUR TIME IS TICKING AWAY: Arthur's interest in Candy Cabs is being threatened so he sends Terry to find out what is going on. Episode 9 - MONDAY NIGHT FEVER: Arthur falls for a would-be singer and promises to make her a star. Terry has his doubts.

• The Knackery | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set in the very near future The Knackery is the latest hard hitting feature film from Belfast's leading independent production house Yellow Fever Productions (makers of the award winning Battle Of The Bone). All is not as it seems on the country's most watched family game-show... Reality television has taken things to the extreme and given the public The Knackery a show where six contestants fight for the grand prize of 'one million pounds'. To liven things up the producers of the show release a horde of genetically modified zombies which puts a little bit more pressure on the fighters in this Big Brother style beat-em-up. As an undercover reporter tries to scoop the story he's been waiting for he soon comes across a kid who has entered the arena unaware of the consequences. Seeing this as another excuse for higher ratings the shows producers announce their new contestant as they witness the fighting skills of the youngster against others - but as the fighters get killed off things take a turn for the worse leaving the reporter and kid to team up against some very tough opponents... human and not-so-human. Six contestants... One million quid... And a sh*t load of zombies!

• The Stan And Ollie Collection - Lucky Dog / The Stolen Jools | DVD | (19/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Lucky Dog: Stan befriends a stray dog and Oliver Hardy takes a liking to Stan's wallet. After causing so much chaos Stan's only option is to get rid of the dog. Just in time the dog comes up trumps saves the day and teaches the villain Hardy a lesson too. The Stolen Jools: A famous actress has her jewels stolen. Everyone from the police to the mob want to know the identity of the theif and almost everyone is under suspicion. A star studded cast of the most promi

• George Best - Best Intentions | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £5.54   |  Saving you £9.45 (170.58%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Depending on your point of view, George Best is either the carefree hedonist who played football for the love of it, and gleefully enjoyed the fringe benefits (booze 'n' birds) which came with the territory, or he is the sad, shambolic, wife-beating alcoholic who frittered away his God-given gifts. Both perspectives are given a full airing in Best Intentions, an old Ulster TV documentary which has been re-released on video to coincide with Best, the recent biopic starring John Lynch as George Best.This isn't exactly a polished piece of film-making. Many of the interviews seem to have taken place in howling gales (you can¹t listen to Dennis Law without being distracted by the way his hair dances in the wind), and the archive footage is very clumsily edited. Nevertheless, all the key witnesses are grilled. No, Bobby Charlton insists, there was never really any rift between him and the boy wonder--they were just very different personalities. His old manager Matt Busby remembers him as good-natured, quiet lad who used to stay behind on the training pitch to help the youngsters. Busby's relationship with the Belfast prodigy was akin to that of an ailing father with his lovable, reckless teenage son. Best vexed and exasperated Sir Matt, but helped him win the European Cup. As Best says, it was probably a fair trade-off. Everybody liked George, even his fiercest critics. His ex-wife Angie, his shaggy-haired old manager Bill McMurdo and former team-mates like Pat Jennings and Pat Crerand all trot out well-worn anecdotes about what a "smashing bloke" he is. George himself gives honest answers to questions on his drinking and playboy antics. If you're in any doubt why people make such a fuss of him, it only takes a few seconds of old footage of him prancing around opponents on the pitch to remind us that he really was the footballing genius the hype proclaims him to be. --Geoffrey Macnab

• The Master Race | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £8.23   |  Saving you £4.76 (57.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A secret meeting of German Generals led by Friedrich von Beck (George Couloris) receive their final orders from the German High Command: the war is lost and it is their duty to prepare for the Fourth Reich by avoiding capture and assimilating themselves into the melting pot of post-war Europe. Their mission is to build tension and hatred so that the attempts to re-construct a peaceful Europe are destroyed. Major Philip Carson (Stanley Ridges) from the American occupation force arrives to help the war-weary people of a battle-scarred Belgium town get back on their feet plough their fields and rebuild their church. But the disruptive Nazi agents set against the volatile backdrop of refugees Russian prisoners of war and villagers with old scores to settle threatens to undermine the newly-found peace...

• Doctor In The House - Complete Collection | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Based on Richard Gordon's best selling novels this hilarious collection of seven classic British comedies stars a wealth of talent and screen legends. Set in St. Swithins hospital it follows the antics and mishaps of a group of medical students and their quest to become doctors.

• The Incredible Genie | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £8.08   |  Saving you £1.91 (19.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Simon is the smartest guy in school but he's also the lonliest. None of the other kids talk to him. When he finds a mysterious lamp that a local professor has brought back from an archeological dig overseas Simon is astonihed to find a Genie inside! At first the Genie is nothing but trouble but over time Simon warms to him. But will having his own personal Genie be a good or bad thing for Simon?

• Man In A Suitcase - Complete | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Richard Bradford is ex-CIA agent 'Mac' McGill who now works as a private investigator. He goes from job to job living out hotel rooms with all his worldly possessions in one old brown suitcase... Featuring all the episodes ever made! Episodes comprise: 1. Brainwash 2. The Sitting Pigeon 3. Day of Execution 4. Variation on a Million Bucks (1) 5. Variation on a Million Bucks (2) 6. Man from the Dead 7. Sweet Sue 8. Essay in Evil 9. The Girl Who Never Was 10. All That Glitter

• The Mermaids of Tiberon | DVD | (16/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the most surreal, fantasy adventures ever filmed, The Mermaids of Tiburon, is an enchanting tale of beautiful mermaids and lost treasure.Dr Samuel Jamison (George Rowe) is a marine biologist at an aquatic theme park who learns of an underwater treasure trove of 'flame pearls' from an elderly gentleman, Ernst Steinhauer (John Mylong). Steinhauer shows Jamison some incredible colour-changing sea jewels which he discovered during a visit to the island of Tiburon. But after inviting Jamison to accompany him on a treasure hunt, Steinhauer is discovered missing and his house ransacked...

• Sunrise | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1928 Sunrise won Oscars for Janet Gaynor as Best Actress and cinematography as a "Unique and Artistic Picture". In 1967 it was declared "the single greatest masterwork in the history of cinema" by key French new wave magazine Cahiers du Cinema. Released with a synchronised score and effects soundtrack but no dialogue, it is a cinematic landmark from the transition period between silent cinema and the talkies. Beginning as a prototype film noir in which a farmer (George O' Brien) plans the murder of his wife (Gaynor) with his vacationing lover from the city (Margaret Livingstone), the film develops from tense thriller into a story of reawakened love and redemption. Anticipating Orson Welles's artistic freedom on Citizen Kane (1941), German expressionist director FW Murnau was given carte blanche following the huge American success of The Last Laugh (1924). The result was this poetic fable making inventive use of every technical device then available, including in-camera multiple exposures and superimpositions, long elegant tracking shots, forced perspectives, complex miniatures and synchronised sound, as well as the largest single-street-scene set ever built. The result is a film that influenced everything from Hitchcock suspense to Titanic (1997) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Murnau summons powerful performances from his principal players--Gaynor would later headline A Star Is Born (1937) and O'Brien would take important roles in several classic John Ford westerns--while the transcendent finale evokes and reworks the ending of the director's earlier classic, Nosferatu (1922). Though now inevitably dated Sunrise remains essential for anyone seriously interested in the development of cinematic art. On the DVD:Sunrise is presented on an immaculately produced two-disc special edition. Though restored to full length and presented in the original 1.2:1 ratio with the complete music and effects soundtrack, the film has been taken from a print made in 1936, the original camera negative having been destroyed in a fire. As a result this is the best possible modern presentation of Sunrise, though the print, while perfectly acceptable, is very grainy, lined and flickery by contemporary standards. The mono sound has been superbly restored and is remarkably effective for its vintage; an alternative stereo musical track recorded for recent reissue sounds excellent. The film also boasts a commentary by John Bailey: apart from talking a little too much about how beautiful the lighting is, Bailey offers seriously in-depth knowledge about the film and about Murnau that really puts everything into historical context and explains the constant technical ingenuity. The second disc presents the useful A Song of Two Humans, a 12-minute visual essay by film historian R Dixon Smith, and almost 10 minutes of outtakes with optional commentary by John Bailey, as well as a trailer, stills gallery and notes explaining the nature of the restoration. There is also an excellent 40-minute documentary Murnau's 4 Devils: Traces of a Lost Film, telling the story of the director's lost follow up to Sunrise. Microsoft Word and PDF files available via DVD-ROM present various incarnations of the screenplays for both Sunrise and 4 Devils. --Gary S. Dalkin

• MacGyver - The Complete Third Season | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Part boy-scout. Part genius. All hero. Using his brain in place of a gun secret agent Angus MacGyver relies on his knowledge of science to save himself and others from jeopardy. Deploring the promotion of everyday violence MacGyver refuses to carry weapons and instead designs lifesaving tools out of household staples like paper clips and duct tape. Richard Dean Anderson portrays a likeable hero of strong principals and intellect in this clever series which successfully ran for seven years (1985-1992) and continues to remain a beloved cult favorite. This collection features all the episodes from season 3 of MacGyver: 1. Lost Love (Part 1) 2. Lost Love (Part 2) 3. Back From the Dead 4. Ghost Ship 5. Fire And Ice 6. GX-1 7. Jack In The Box 8. The Widowmaker 9. Hell Week 10. Blow Out 11. Kill Zone 12. Early Retirement 13. Thin Ice 14. The Odd Triple 15. The Negotiator 16. The Spoilers 17. Mask Of The Wolf 18. Rock The Cradle 19. The Endangered 20. Murderer's Sky

• Delivery Boys | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £11.95   |  Saving you £-7.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A gang of boys under the Brooklyn Bridge are united by their common interest in break dancing. Some work as pizza delivery boys hence they call themselves the ""Delivery Boys"". They form a dance team and enter a local break dance contest sponsored by a woman's panty manufacturer. A rival gang's sponsor intimidates their employer into thinking she must keep the boys working so they won't be harmed. She gives the boys some ""specialized"" deliveries to make them late for the contest. The

• American in Paris | Blu Ray | (31/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A