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• Hornblower - Duty - Episode 8 | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £7.56   |  Saving you £2.43 (32.14%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Heroic sailor Horatio Hornblower has just enough time for his nuptial ceremony before dashing off into Europe to settle a few personal scores...

• The Gathering | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £8.50   |  Saving you £7.49 (88.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Christina Ricci (Monster) stars in this spine-tingling supernatural thriller about an American backpacker in rural England whose life takes a turn for the worse after a car accident. During recovery she is befriended by a researcher (Stephen Dillane) studying a buried 1st Century church embedded with images of Christ's crucifixion. She begins to have horrific visions of the townspeople and their deaths. Is the town cursed or are her visions spirits from the unearthed church grasping for life? What is uncovered will shock and terrify you!

• Fantastic Four | UMD | (02/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Fantastic Four is a light-hearted and funny take on Marvel Comics' first family of superheroes. It begins when down-on-his-luck genius Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd) has to enlist the financial and intellectual help of former schoolmate and rival Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon) in order to pursue outer-space research involving human DNA. Also on the trip are Reed's best friend, Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis); his former lover, Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), who's now Doom's employee and love interest; and her hotshot-pilot brother, Johnny Storm (Chris Evans). Things don't go as planned, of course, and the quartet becomes blessed--or is it cursed--with superhuman powers: flexibility, brute strength, invisibility and projecting force fields, and bursting into flame. Meanwhile, Doom himself is undergoing a transformation. Among the many entries in the comic-book-movie frenzy, Fantastic Four is refreshing because it doesn't take itself too seriously. Characterisation isn't too deep, and the action is a bit sparse until the final reel (like most "first" superhero movies, it has to go through the "how did we get these powers and what we will do with them?" churn). But it's a good-looking cast, and original comic-book co-creator Stan Lee makes his most significant Marvel-movie cameo yet, in a speaking role as the FF's steadfast postal carrier, Willie Lumpkin. Newcomers to superhero movies might find the idea of a family with flexibility, strength, invisibility, and force fields a retread of The Incredibles, but Pixar's animated film was very much a tribute to the FF and other heroes of the last 40 years. The irony is that while Fantastic Four is an enjoyable B-grade movie, it's the tribute, The Incredibles, that turned out to be a film for the ages. --David Horiuchi

• Hornblower Complete Collection | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £39.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (50.01%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The complete collection of Horatio Hornblower's (Ioan Gruffudd) hi-jinks on the high seas!

• Liar - Series 2 | Blu Ray | (04/05/2020) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Three weeks after an arrest warrant was issued for him for the sexual assault of 16 women, Andrew Earlham's decomposing body is found in the Kent marshes. His throat slit, it's declared he was murdered sometime in the last three days. We pick up series two as the news ripples through the seaside community. As one of Andrew's more recent victims, Laura Nielson is trying to move on from her ordeal, so when she learns of Andrew's death, she can't help feeling relieved. The last three weeks spent with him out there and missing have not been easy... Yet not everyone is so unperturbed by the news. DI Vanessa Harmon is expecting a child, however her assault by Andrew has cast a shadow over what should be a joyous moment in her life with partner Jennifer. Katy, Laura's sister, has been emotionally ravaged by the fallout of her sister's rape and the breakup with her husband Liam. Andrew's death will force these characters to face up to the secrets of their recent past, secrets many of them hoped would stay buried. DS Rory Maxwell joins new detective Cassidy in the search to uncover clues about Andrew's past, and unpack the events of the three crucial weeks leading up to his death - to find his killer. As the investigation quickly gains momentum, bringing new characters to the foreground who could hold the answers to Andrew's grisly demise, Laura finds herself once again drawn into Andrew's destructive path and must fight to be believed.

• Fantastic Four | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £3.29   |  Saving you £6.70 (203.65%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Fantastic Four are back and this time they find themselves having to deal with the powerful Silver Surfer and the planet-eating Galactus.

• Black Hawk Down - Special Edition | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The harrowing true account of what happened when a mission by a group of elite US troops in Somalia went terrribly wrong.

• Fantastic Four - The Rise Of The Silver Surfer | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £7.56   |  Saving you £20.42 (446.83%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Fantastic Four are back and this time they find themselves having to deal with the powerful Silver Surfer and the planet-eating Galactus.

• Power Rangers - The Movie/Turbo - A Power Rangers Movie/... | DVD | (18/02/2013) from £6.96   |  Saving you £13.03 (65.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Power RangersPacked with stories and activities this book features over 70 stickers and a giant poster.Power Rangers 2Fantastic Four

• The Secret Of Moonacre | Blu Ray | (01/06/2009) from £9.25   |  Saving you £13.74 (148.54%)   |  RRP £22.99

  When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle.

• Shooters | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £6.56   |  Saving you £3.43 (52.29%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Shooters is a gritty British gangster flick that doesn't tart itself up with smart suits and clever dialogue but instead goes for a refreshing authentic and underground edge. When Gilly gets out of prison all he wants to do is collect the money he's owed and start a new life. But his friend J has other ideas and has invested the money in a drugs-for-guns deal.

• Hornblower - Loyalty - Episode 7 | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £6.25   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Further action-packed adventures on the high seas for Horatio Hornblower.

• Man And Boy | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £6.58   |  Saving you £3.41 (51.82%)   |  RRP £9.99

  High-flying TV exec Harry Silver (Ioan Gruffudd) is growing restless with married life and parenthood. When his wife Gina (Natasha Little) discovers he's had a one-night stand with a work colleague she walks out on him leaving the hapless Harry to take care of the couple's five-year old son Pat. The going is tough at first but with the help of his parents and the American waitress at Pat's favourite restuarant Harry starts to learn some hard lessons about being a good father.

• Hornblower - The Frogs And The Lobsters | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £7.97   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based freely on the classic novels by C.S. Forester, Hornblower is a series of TV films following the progress of a young officer through the ranks of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The series greatest asset is the handsome and charismatic Ioan Gruffudd in the lead role, surely a major star in the making. For television films the production values are very good, though as Titanic, Waterworld and The Perfect Storm demonstrated, filming an aquatic adventure is a very expensive business, and it is clear that the Hornblower dramas simply make the best of comparatively small budgets. No more faithful to Forester's books than the 1951 Gregory Peck classic Captain Horatio Hornblower, the real inspiration seems to have come from the success of Sharpe, starring Sean Bean, which likewise featured a British hero in the Napoleonic Wars. Nevertheless, while rather more easy going than the real British navy of the time, the Hornblower saga delivers an entertaining adventure, greatly enhanced by the presence of such guest stars as Denis Lawson, Cheri Lunghi, Ronald Pickup and Anthony Sher. "The Frogs and the Lobsters" provides a tough, complex and surprisingly violent drama concerning an attempt to mount a royalist counter-offensive against Revolutionary France.--Gary S Dalkin

• Another Life | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Another Life' is a version of the true-life scandalous tale of Percy Thompson's 1922 murder by Freddy Bywaters lover of Percy's wife Edith. To follow-up the clever disturbing 'Intimate Relations' writer-director Philip Goodhew once again taps into a true-crime story. The story begins in 1913 with the lively Edith (Little) and her family celebrating Christmas. Despite her driving ambition Edith has agreed to marry her quite dull and nerdy boyfriend Percy (Moran) and at first

• Fantastic 4 | DVD | (20/04/2006) from £5.95   |  Saving you £12.04 (202.35%)   |  RRP £17.99

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• 101 & 102 Dalmatians (Double Pack) | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £22.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (50.03%)   |  RRP £29.99

  It's hard to know who thought it would be a good idea to make a live-action version of Disney's animated classic, 101 Dalmatians (and originally Dodie Smith's classic children's story). The one bright notion anyone had was casting Glenn Close as Disney Übervillainess Cruella de Vil; her flashing eyes and angular features are a perfect match and do credit to what is one of the most indelible animated characters Disney has ever created. The story remains essentially the same, focusing on Cruella's plot to kidnap the puppies of a young married couple (Jeff Daniels and Joely Richardson) and make them into a coat. But the dreaded John Hughes, who wrote this script, fills it with sadistic slapstick and far too few genuine laughs. The human actors work hard, but to little avail; thankfully, there's a posse of puppies to regularly steal scenes when the going gets dreary--although there are only so many laughs to be had from inappropriate dog puddles. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com Don't be fooled by the title, there are four reasons to like 102 Dalmatians, the sequel to the successful live-action remake of Disney's 101 Dalmatians. There are the 101 spotted pooches, Glenn Close back in fine form as Cruella DeVil, Oddball--the spotless Dalmatian pup--and Waddlesworth, a parrot who thinks he's a rottweiler (and is voiced by Monty Python's Eric Idle). There are just as many reasons to be disappointed: like most sequels, the story line is virtually a rewrite of t he first; the secondary casting isn't as interesting; the dialogue merely serves to move the plot along; and the third act substitutes mean-spiritedness for comedy. After a period of rehabilitation, Cruella has returned to her old tricks. Once again, she simply must have a spotted coat and will go to any lengths to get hold of the 102 Dalmatians needed to make one with a hood. She sets her sights on the pups owned by her probation officer, Chloe (Alice Evans), and the owner of a local animal shelter, Kevin (Ioan Gruffudd). Her servant Alonso (Tim McInnerny) and flamboyant furrier Monsieur Le Pelt (Gerard Depardieu, in one ridiculous outfit after another) are drafted to aid in her quest. It should come as no surprise that Chloe and Kevin fall in love, Oddball helps to save the day and Cruella is defeated. Children should enjoy the animal high jinks, but adults are less likely to be enamoured by this perfectly competent, but relatively charmless affair. --Kathleen C Fennessy, Amazon.com.

• Lucky Break / Very Annie Mary | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Lucky Break Small time villians Jimmy and Rudy are caught doing a bank raid and are put in HM Prison Long Rudford. Whilst there they hatch an escape plan which involves them staging the prison governor's musical 'Nelson'. Very Annie Mary Tells the story of Annie Mary a woman in her early thirties living in the Rhondda Valley South Wales who is forced to make changes in her life when her father suffers a major stroke. The future of the family business is left in her hands and so she hatches a plan to raise money the only way she can.

• Black Hawk Down | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Fantastic Four - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (14/04/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Fantastic Four Limited Edition Steelbook. After exposure to cosmic radiation four astronauts become the most remarkable if dysfunctional heroes of all time. Unfortunately the mission's sponsor has also been transformed - into the world's most lethal super-villain - setting the stage for a confrontation of epic proportions.