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• Heimat | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Heimat is Edgar Reitz's epic tale of family life in a small German village which spans across the generations from the end of the First World War. The epic 11 episode series first shown on BBC television in the 1980's tells the story of the German village Schabbach through the years 1919-1982...

• Matrix: Reloaded | UMD | (25/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• The Da Vinci Code | UMD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Death By Engagement | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ditched at the altar the violent-tempered groom causes his runaway bride s car to crash then proceeds to bash her head with a tire iron until stopped by police bullets. Now with the former bride in coma her large antique engagement ring begins a mysterious and deadly passage from desperate-to-be married young women to another with each ending up brutally murdered. Two police detectives sexy feminist Rikki (Sascha Knopf) and the cocky macho Cade Hamilton are sent to investigate the vicious serial killings. Rikki and Cade find themselves always one step behind the killer who is bent on reclaiming the heirloom engagement ring.

• Hellgate | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £5.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Beyond the darkness terror lives forever. A deserted old mining town has become a shrine to the daughter of its sole inhabitant Lucas. His daughter Josie was brutally murdered many years before Lucas now lives as a recluse obsessively devoted to Josie. Then Lucas finds a strange crystal with the powers of resurrection and mutilation; at last he is able to resurrect his daughter who he uses to lure people to their deaths and re-inhabits the town with their undead bodies.

• Backflash | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £5.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (33.39%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Disgruntled video store owner Ray (Robert Patrick) is struggling to make ends meet in the desert of the Southwest U.S.A. To escape his problems he takes to the highway. On route to nowhere he picks up an attractive and mysterious hitchhiker Harley (Jennifer Esposito). The chemistry between them is immediate and Harley offers Ray the opportunity of a lifetime - to help her smuggle million of stolen money from a local bank. In the tradition of the classic American road movie and with a cast of bizarre characters dramatic locations and an unpredictable plot Backflash is a modern and edgy thriller with a stellar cast also including Colm Meaney and Melissa Joan Hart.

• Tupac Shakur - Thug Angel - The Life Of An Outlaw | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Ray | HD DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jamie Foxx stars in this biopic of legendary soul and R&B singer Ray Charles. Skilfully edited and with a keen eye for period detail the narrative weaves in and out of the past in an interlocking tapestry of the man's rise to fame in the 1950s and '60s. Growing up poor black and blind in the rural south Charles learns under the tutelage of his tough-love mother (Sharon Warren) to turn these handicaps into assets. With this training Ray eventually plays his way into a major deal with Atlantic records and earns icon status as an American legend. Along the way the high cost of fame leads him to engage in abusive relationships manipulative behaviour and struggles with drug and alcohol problems. This is a dynamite film for the music alone (Charles's actual recordings are used in the film) but Foxx's career-benchmark performance transcends Ray's biopic roots turning this into a piercing full-on character study: unflinching sometimes harrowing and ultimately deeply moving. The sheer joy of Charles's music comes alive in Foxx's movements and his character matures convincingly and powerfully. A stellar supporting cast is on hand to back him up every step of the way including Larenz Tate as producer Quincy Jones and Kerry Washington as Ray's long-suffering wife Regina.

• Walk Hard -The Dewey Cox Story | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A wild and wicked send-up of every musical biopic ever made Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story stars John C. Reilly as one of the most iconic figures in rock history - Dewey Cox! America loves Cox! But behind the music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a musician whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral Cox sleeps with 411 women marries three times has 22 kids and 14 stepkids stars in his own 70's TV show collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp and gets addicted to - and then kicks - every drug known to man... but despite it all Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman.

• Vampire Princess Miyu - Vol. 5 | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sharing a dark journey through the weaknesses of the human heart with her only companion Lava once an evil Shinma and now her devoted guardian Miyu lives an endless quest as both the hunter and the hunted. The Moray Boat: When Mayumi starts some trouble it's up to Miyu to reluctantly pursue her. City Of Illusion. In different parts of the city buildings are seen turning into sand and crumbling away... Love Of The Dolls: Kasumi a doll artist treats

• Chicago Blues | DVD | (01/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 16 | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. --Mark Walker

• National Lampoon's Gold Diggers | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £9.39   |  Saving you £-3.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A comedy about two of the world's worst gold diggers who'd do anything to be on top! Two clueless con-men (Will Friedle and Chris Owen) incapable of making their scams profitable decide to forfeit their careers and become gold diggers instead. They marry a pair of rich Beverly Hills sisters hoping to bump them off and cash in on the insureance. However these two lascivious older ladies have their own plan to eliminate their young suitors prompting a fun-filled festival of hilarity!

• The Thirteenth Guest | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

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• Guardian | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Though the Guardian opens with a nod or two to Three Kings, it really offers a cut-down version of Fallen, with Los Angeles Detective Kross (Mario Van Peebles) facing Telal--a body-hopping Sumerian demon he encountered at an archaeological site in Iraq during the Gulf War--entrusted by ritual scarification with the task of protecting a 12-year-old boy who will grow up to unite the three great monotheistic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) and thus set the Devil's work back millennia. A sub-plot deals with a red powder drug ("Chaos"), imported by the demon's minions, which catches on in LA sending coke-sniffing agents into murderous frenzies (the funniest scene) and briefly giving guest star dealer Ice-T superpowers until an ambiguously angelic hit lady (Stacy Oversier) tosses him off a building. There are elements of The Matrix stirred in, with Oversier and Telal dead ringers for the Carrie-Ann Moss and Hugo Weaving characters, but it inevitably boils down to a Fallen-style formula. It's stripped-down demonology--ever since The Evil Dead, those Sumerian demons have been getting a bad press--with direct-to-video action, but is by no means unlikeable. On the DVD: Along with the trailer, this disc offers IMDB filmographies for Van Peebles, Remar, Ice-T and John Terlesky (who used to be a busy B-actor in the likes of Chopping Mall and Valet Girls and now directs quickies such as Guardian). The transfer is augmented for 16:9 and looks significantly better than the video version, giving this low-budget effort a relatively lush feel, though the Iraqi desert does look as though it was an hour or so drive out of Los Angeles. --Kim Newman

• Bear In The Big Blue House - Practice Makes Perfect | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  More fun for all the family with Bear. Show Your Stuff: Bear's whittlin' is interrupted when he finds out Tutter's quitting the soccer team because he just can't kick as well as Rita a particulary talented mouse on the squad. Treelo's feeling left out because he doesn't have any talents. Tutter finds however that talents come easy for some require work for others but can be fun nonetheless! The Great Bandini: Mysterious genius the Great Bandini is coming to Woodland Valley for a lecture about music. On the way to the event the gang meets a mysterious stranger named Edwina Badger (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg) who helps the gang to realise how musical they really are... At the Old Bear Game: Pip) and Pop are delighted to find out that Bear personally knows their hero the great baseball player Ferret Jeeter. After a cool afternoon of hanging out with Ferret Pip and Pop soon find their good friend Bear still has a few tricks up his sleeve as well and good old Bear is a hero in his own right. All Weather Bear: A storm has made its way through the valley leaving the otter pond a mess and thwarting swimming swimming plans for a bit. They all pitch in and clean up the pond but to their disappointment the rain returns. However with a little help from Bear they find that no matter what the weather there's always fun to be had at the Big Blue House!

• 747 | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £6.26   |  Saving you £-1.27 (-25.50%)   |  RRP £4.99

  When two planes collide one man receives all the blame... Now others are at risk.

• Champ Car Review 2006 | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £24.65   |  Saving you £0.34 (1.38%)   |  RRP £24.99

  On-board and trackside cameras capture every high speed pass and near-miss. So sit back and enjoy this fully-loaded review package!

• Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - The Reel Collection | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is a mesmerizing movie about earth's encounter with spaceships and alien beings as experienced by one ordinary man.

• Comic Book Heroes | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Yes, they were originally Comic Book Heroes, although The Lone Ranger and Zorro's Black Whip are probably best remembered as the 1949 TV series and the 1944 Republic cinema serial respectively. This excellent three-disc set gives us the first three episodes of the former and the entire 12 episodes of the latter. The origin of the Lone Ranger is quite an extraordinary tale by any standards, let alone those of the fizzy blandness of 1940s American TV: originally one of the Texas Rangers, recruited to act as a mobile police force during the lawless days of the West, his entire patrol is massacred and he himself is left for dead, prompting him to become the masked vigilante of the title. The stark brutality of this event is depicted in chilling, slow-paced detail in the first episode, the distinctive voice-over narrative adding a dream-like detachment to the proceedings. Zorro's Black Whip, though slicker, is also innovative in that the main protagonist is female. The sister of a crusading newspaper editor who moonlights as the Black Whip, another masked righter of wrongs, she takes over both his day job and his crime-fighting role when he is murdered. Conveniently, she's a descendant of the legendary Zorro himself, with whip-wielding skills seemingly in her genes. But does this stuff stand up after all these years? In short, absolutely; this is first-rate period entertainment and as such is self-recommending. On the DVD: Comic Book Heroes has been transferred in its original 1.33:1 ratio and has been lovingly remastered--never has old monochrome footage glowed so richly. There are no subtitles or other extra features, though. --Roger Thomas