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• Alias: Complete Season 2 | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £8.93   |  Saving you £36.06 (403.81%)   |  RRP £44.99

  It was a family affair in the second series of JJ Abrams' wonderfully inventive Alias, as super secret agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) came face-to-face with the mother of all super secret agents--her own mother, Irina Derevko (Lena Olin), a former KGB agent, presumed dead, and more dangerous than ever. After shooting poor Syd, Irina later shows up at the doorstep of the CIA, offering to turn herself in and work for the good guys. But can she be trusted? Alias set up so much duplicity in its second series that it might have been hard to keep track of who was doing what to whom, but thanks to a great ensemble cast, fast-paced writing and direction, and some cannily cast guest stars, the show rode a stunning emotional roller-coaster and never broke its momentum, even when halfway through the season, it reinvented itself. With episode 13, "Phase One" (which aired after the Super Bowl to the show's biggest audience), Syd's original nemesis (and employer) SD-6 changes forever, yet the kick-butt agent still finds herself going up against the malevolent leader Sloane (Ron Rifkin) and his ever-changing set of henchmen. Action fans got plenty of fighting, while romantic Alias watchers swooned as Syd and the dashing Vaughn (Michael Vartan) finally consummated their unrequited love. The critically acclaimed show owed a debt to Buffy the Vampire Slayer for its mix of action, romance, mystery, and moral quandaries, but in this series Alias truly came into its own--with a climax that came as a total shocker and prepped the show for an emotionally volatile third series. Guest stars included the phenomenal Amy Irving as Sloane's wife, Faye Dunaway as a nefarious bigwig, Christian Slater as a kidnapped scientist, and Ethan Hawke as a fellow CIA agent (or rather, two of them), but it was the dysfunctional nuclear family of Syd, Irina, and father Jack (Victor Garber) that gave Alias its heart and its strength, whether the three perfectly cast actors (all Emmy nominated) were just bickering or undertaking deadly hand-to-hand combat. --Mark Englehart

• Big Ass Spider | DVD | (23/12/2013) from £4.96   |  Saving you £11.03 (222.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A 50-foot-tall alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages the city of Los Angeles. When a massive military strike fails, the city's scientists and soldiers turn to an unlikely hero.

• Alias Season 3 | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £4.48   |  Saving you £40.51 (904.24%)   |  RRP £44.99

  The third season of Alias found super spy Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) waking up in Hong Kong with a monster hangover and two years in the future with nary a memory. What's worse, her world has been turned upside-down with the evil Sloane (Ron Rifkin) now a world-famous humanitarian and philanthropist, and, even worse, her true love Vaughn (Michael Vartan) married to a seemingly great gal. Nice way to go back to work, eh? After coming up with one heck of a cliffhanger in season 2, Alias proceeded a bit aimlessly through these 22 episodes, and as a result, the parts were truly greater than the whole. With Lena Olin no longer around as Syd's duplicitous mother, and the addition of admirable yet bland Melissa George as Vaughn's wife Lauren, Garner found herself for the first time without a compelling female foil to play off. By dividing its focus equally between the quest for the enigmatic Rambaldi device, Syd and Vaughn's now-contentious relationship, and the uncovering of Syd's missing years, Alias lost a little of its power without a larger story arc. The loss of regular cast members Merrin Dungey (Francie/Alison) and Bradley Cooper (Will)--both of whom do make great guest appearances--also divest the show of the personal life that kept Sydney human and approachable. Still, Garner is stellar as always, the plot twists come fast and furious, and secret identities are revealed. This season does have a great panorama of guest actors including Ricky Gervais, Justin Theroux, Djimon Hounsou, David Cronenberg, Quentin Tarantino, Vivica A. Fox, and Isabella Rossellini as Syd's long-lost aunt. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

• Alias - Season 4 | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  The fourth exciting season of undercover adventures starring Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow!

• Alias: Complete Season 1 | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £17.94   |  Saving you £27.05 (150.78%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Created by JJ Abrams, Alias plays like a cross between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and James Bond. Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is a super (and super-sexy) spy, fighting nefarious villains and working for the good guys--or so she thinks. Recruited as a college freshman for espionage work, Sydney found her true calling with SD-6, a secret division of the CIA. When her hunky doctor-boyfriend proposes to her, she decides to let him in on the truth she's not supposed to tell anyone: she's not a grad student with a demanding job for an international bank, but a secret agent who constantly puts her life on the line for the free world. But when SD-6 discovers her security breach, her fiancé is brutally assassinated, and Sydney suddenly finds herself face-to-face with the truth: she's been working for the bad guys. Deciding to become a double agent for the CIA and bring down the evildoers, Sydney gets one more surprise--her estranged father (Victor Garber) is also working for SD-6, and the CIA as well. Welcome to the family, Syd! Confused? This is all just the first episode. With its double-edged tension (how long can Syd play double agent?) and one heck of a MacGuffin (the dreaded Rambaldi device, the mythic creation of a Renaissance genius), the show leads its viewers from episode to episode with visceral, compelling action, not to mention the nascent romance between Syd and her CIA handler, Vaughn (Michael Vartan), and her clashes with her heretofore distant father. Sharp, smart and always suspenseful, Alias' centre was held by the gorgeous Garner, a stellar action heroine and an even better actress who could pull off Sydney's exotic undercover missions and conflicted emotions with equal dexterity. By the end of this first series, which concludes with a breathtaking cliffhanger, you'll be seduced into Alias' world with, happily, no desire to escape. --Mark Englehart

• Hollow Man | DVD | (26/03/2001) from £5.13   |  Saving you £14.86 (289.67%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Paul Verhoeven's appropriately shallow Hollow Man, Kevin Bacon plays a bad-boy egotistical scientist who heads up a double-secret government team experimenting with turning life-forms invisible. How do we know he's a bad boy? Because he (a) wears a leather overcoat, (b) compares himself to God, (c) drives a sports car and (d) spies on his comely next-door neighbour while eating Twinkies. Sadly, this is the most character development anyone gets in this undernourished action/sci-fi thriller, which boasts some phenomenal, seamless and Oscar-worthy computer effects and some amazingly ridiculous plot twists. After experimenting rather ruthlessly on a menagerie of lab animals, Bacon finally cracks the code that will turn the invisible gorillas, dogs and so on back into their visible forms, and promptly volunteers as a human guinea pig. Sure enough he is rendered invisible, organ by organ, vein by vein, and then proceeds to spy on his female co-workers in the bathroom and molest his comely next-door neighbour. Soon, Bacon is thoroughly psychotic, and it's up to Elisabeth Shue (Bacon's co-worker and ex-girlfriend) and hunky Josh Brolin (her current snuggle bunny) to defeat the invisible man, who's picking off the science team one by one. You'd think this would be a prime opportunity for copious amounts of cheesy sex and aggressive violence--which Verhoeven served up so well and so exuberantly in Starship Troopers and Basic Instinct--but if anything, the director seems to tone down the proceedings, and really, who wants a muted Paul Verhoeven movie? --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com On the DVD: In the audio commentary with director Paul Verhoeven and star Kevin Bacon, Hollow Man scriptwriter Andrew Marlowe reveals that the story had been in development for some nine years before it got made, and that he had worked on it for "a number of years". An amazing revelation, given that the main attraction of this DVD is surely the cutting-edge special effects and the fascinating behind-the-scenes deconstruction of them. The DVD viewer cannot help but wonder how anyone could have spent years on a script that looks like it was cobbled together over a weekend as an excuse to play around with some really neat CGI effects. The various documentary features on the disc break down all the key FX scenes in exhaustive detail, showing the creative blend of live action and CGI and all the painstaking methods by which it was achieved. Director Verhoeven is appropriately profiled as "Hollywood's Mad Scientist" in the "Anatomy of a Thriller" featurette (in the commentary he makes a comparison with Hitchcock's Rear Window that only serves to underline the gulf between his ambitious vision and its execution). Elsewhere, legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith provides a commentary to his music, which gives hope to fans that he will now do the same for some of his better scores. There are deleted scenes, trailers, storyboards and a really neat menu interface to round off an enjoyable DVD package. Anamorphic picture and sound quality are impeccable. --Mark Walker

• Big Ass Spider | Blu Ray | (23/12/2013) from £7.05   |  Saving you £10.94 (155.18%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A 50-foot-tall alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages the city of Los Angeles. When a massive military strike fails, the city's scientists and soldiers turn to an unlikely hero.

• Heroes Season 3 | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £4.99   |  Saving you £45.00 (901.80%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Heroes is an action-packed US drama following the lives of ordinary people who discover they have extraordinary abilities. Their only destiny is to save the world. Heroes returns for its third season with a brand-new chapter Volume 3: Villians which explores the nature of good and evil in all the characters as a cadre of villians is unleashed upon the world.

• A Tiger's Tail | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £6.00   |  Saving you £6.99 (116.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Michael J. Sarna directs this family adventure in which an escaped tiger cub befriends a young boy. Billy Connley (Will Spencer) and his friend Koby Burrows (Zachary Friedman) think they have their hands full with the usual teenage problems: girls, bullying and homework. That is, until Billy is followed home by a tiger cub that has escaped from a local animal park. Though Billy and Koby realise that they should return the cub, they quickly become attached to it. Moreover, the boys believe tha.

• Tales Of Halloween | Blu Ray | (24/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Named the best horror anthology since Trick ˜r Treat by Fangoria and among the best Halloween-themed horror movies ever made by DailyDead, Tales of Halloween weaves together ten chilling tales from horror's top directors including Neil Marshall (The Descent), Lucky McKee (The Woman) and Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, III & IV). Watch in terror as ghosts, ghouls, monsters, aliens, axe murderers and the devil himself delight in terrorising unsuspecting residents of one American suburban neighbourhood across one heart-stopping Halloween night. Special Features: Deleted Scene / Grim Grinning Ghost directed by Axelle Carolyn Behind-The-Scenes / Sweet Tooth directed by Dave Parker Anatomy of a Scene / Friday the 31st directed by Mike Mendez Fun Facts / pop-on video commentary for selected segments (caption file) Photo Gallery / Behind-The-Scenes of Bad Seed Storyboards / Ding Dong

• Hollow Man / Hollow Man 2 | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hollow Man: What would you do if you were invisible? How far would you go? After years of experimentation Dr. Sebastian Caine (Bacon) a brilliant but arrogant and egotistical scientist working for the defense department has successfully transformed mammals to an invisible state and brought them back to their original physical form. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough Caine instructs his team to move on to Phase III: human experimentation. Using himself as the first subject the invisible Caine finds himself free to do the unthinkable. But Caine's experiment takes an unexpected turn when his team can't bring him back. As the days pass he grows more and more out of control doomed to a future without flesh as the Hollow Man. (Dir. Peter Verhoeven 2000) Hollow Man 2: There's more to terror than meets the eye... Christian Slater stars in the action-packed sequel to the box office hit Hollow Man as a volunteer soldier/assassin who goes mad after he turns invisible. A driven Seattle detective Frank Turner and the molecular biologist Maggie Dalton he's been assigned to protect find themselves on the run from an undetectable soldier gone rogue. He will destroy everything in his path in order to find the serum to save his life and punish the unscrupulous scientists and agents of the government responsible for this creation.... (Dir. Claudio Fah 2006)

• Kill Speed | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A group of young speed-freak pilots make a killing by transporting crystal meth across the Mexican border in their supersonic planes. Chasing the adrenalin-fuelled Hollywood lifestyle of girls parties and endless stacks of cash they take ever greater risks. But when they are asked to fly in their biggest shipment yet 900 pounds or $2.7million - of meth their antics attract the attention of the FBI that wants to smash the supplying Mexican cartel. Caught up in a deadly and duplicitous game of cat and mouse the fly guys are about to run their craziest mission yet. A high octane mix of Fast & Furious and Top Gun Kill Speed stars Goldberg (Ex WWE Champion) Greg Grunberg (Heroes Lost) Robert Patrick (Walk The Line) Tom Arnold (True Lies) and the Backstreet Boys Nick Carter.

• Heroes Series 1 Part 2 | DVD | (10/12/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £30.00 (601.20%)   |  RRP £34.99

  It’s hard to remember a science fiction series that has hit so big so quickly. Yet by the end of the first series of Heroes, it feels--for all the right reasons--that the show’s been around for longer than it has, such is the huge amount of success it’s enjoyed.

• Higher Love | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Ross a self-absorbed and determined young man plans to sell off his family's priceless wine collection to finance his purchase of a substantial mining interest which promises to make him rich. However standing in the way is his eccentric Uncle Cullen who has a very different and much more bizarre plan for the family estate.

• Hollow Man | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  At a top secret military lab, a group of brilliant young scientists have just unlocked the secret of invisibility.

• Heroes Series 1 Part 1 | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £7.00   |  Saving you £30.98 (772.57%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Save the Cheerleader. Save the World. Heroes is a serial saga about people all over the world discovering that they have superpowers and trying to deal with how this change affects their lives...

• Heroes - Series 1 - Complete | HD DVD | (10/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Discover the phenomenon that is sweeping audiences everywhere as Heroes: Season 1 comes to HD! Experience the suspense mystery and electrifying twists as this astonishing series follows seemingly unconnected ordinary people around the globe who discover they have extraordinary powers. As they come to terms with their unique abilities their risky decisions will affect the futures of everyone around them... and the world. Join their epic journey in this seven-disc set packed with hours of fascinating and revealing bonus features including the never-before-aired series pilot from show creator Tim Kring.

• Hollow Man | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Hollow Man --Superbit | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  What would you do if you were invisible? How far would you go? After years of experimentation Dr. Sebastian Caine (Bacon) a brilliant but arrogant and egotistical scientist working for the defense department has successfully transformed mammals to an invisible state and brought them back to their original physical form. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough Caine instructs his team to move on to Phase III: human experimentation. Using himself as the first subject th

• Hollow Man | DVD | (21/02/2011) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (32.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  What would you do if you were invisible? How far would you go? After years of experimentation Dr. Sebastian Caine (Bacon) a brilliant but arrogant and egotistical scientist working for the defense department has successfully transformed mammals to an invisible state and brought them back to their original physical form. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough Caine instructs his team to move on to Phase III: human experimentation. Using himself as the first subject the invisible Caine finds himself free to do the unthinkable. But Caine's experiment takes an unexpected turn when his team can't bring him back. As the days pass he grows more and more out of control doomed to a future without flesh as the Hollow Man.