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• Hotel// Complete Collection/All 5 Seasons/115 Episodes | DVD | (09/12/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• 2000 AD | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £8.94   |  Saving you £11.05 (123.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  2000 AD reunites Aaron Kwok and Andrew Lin from the ferociously pyrotechnic Black Sheep Affair (1998) for a slick but muddled Hong Kong/Singapore co-production conspiracy thriller about computer espionage. Kwok and Lin make fine adversaries, and have one excellent martial arts battle on a vertigo-inducing rooftop. Otherwise the action involves powerfully staged Heat-style gun play rather than martial arts, one set-piece car chase/shoot-out being strongly influenced by the Riviera pursuit in Ronin (1997). Beginning as a serious thriller, Kwok's nerdish computer games designer transforms into an invulnerable action hero, and any sense of plausibility is sacrificed for regulation mayhem. Cluttered with more characters than it knows what to do with, 2000 AD combines aspects of The Net (1995) and Entrapment (1999) into a largely nonsensical plot. Lin's villain is given vital information which later he is completely ignorant of. We never find out exactly what he is planning, or who he is really working for, and in one mystifying sequence he crashes the Singapore stock exchange, yet the event has absolutely no effect on anything. Though the cast is engaging and the direction polished the finale is an anti-climax, symptomatic of a highly entertaining movie which promises more than it delivers. On the DVD: The 1.77:1 anamorphically enhanced transfer is clean and generally free from grain; the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is as powerful as any heard on a Hong Kong movie, although listen though headphones and a fair degree of background hiss is clearly audible in the quiet scenes. The film can be viewed with the original Cantonese dialogue and English subtitles, or dubbed into English. Either way, a surprisingly large amount of the original dialogue is in English. There is a 19-minute "making of" documentary, though this is bland made-for-television promotional fare. Much better is the 14-minute interview with director Gordon Chan and a 17-minute interview with Andrew Lin who reveals how once shooting had begun his originally heroic part was re-written to make him the villain, thus explaining why the plot makes so little sense. Best of all is the commentary by Chan and Hong Kong film expert Bey Logan, which is packed with information about the movie, Hong Kong cinema and filmmaking in general. By itself it makes the DVD a worthwhile purchase. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Fall Of The Roman Empire | DVD | (30/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The second and last of Anthony Mann's historical epics is a smart, handsome spectacle of the decadence, corruption and intrigue that tore apart the Roman empire. The sprawling story spreads itself thin over a number of characters and stories. At the centre are handsome but stiff Stephen Boyd as Livius, the loyal soldier and symbolic son of the ageing emperor Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness), and Christopher Plummer as Commodus, the corrupt heir to the throne. They are boyhood friends turned enemies when the latter accedes to the throne and sells out the values of his father for greed and hedonistic pleasures. The three-hour running time is filled out with the tales of Sophia Loren (as the beautiful Lucilla in love with Livius but coveted by greedy Commodus) and a gallery of heroes and villains that includes James Mason, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland, Omar Sharif and Eric Porter. The film is highlighted with spectacular scenes--a grandiose funeral fit for an emperor, brutal battles in the provinces as the barbarians threaten the empire, and a climactic duel to decide the destiny of Rome--which Mann weaves into the shadowy intrigue of the halls of power. Like his previous epic El Cid, The Fall of the Roman Empire remains one of the best of the 1960s epics: well written with strong performances and a consistently elegant style, but lacking the central core and magnetic hero of its superior predecessor. Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) tackles almost the same story with a more crowd-pleasing action-adventure slant. --Sean Axmaker

• The Lion King Trilogy | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Lion King: Special Edition Disney's epic coming-of-age saga tells of the love between a proud lion ruler Mufasa and his son Simba - a naive and curious cub who just can't wait to be king. But Simba's envious Uncle Scar has other plans and his scheming for the throne leads to Simba's exile from the kingdom he should rightfully rule. Befriended by the hilarious warthog Pumbaa and his manic meerkat companion Timon Simba forgets his regal responsibilities and adopts a carefree lifestyle of Hakuna Matata. The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride Kiara Simba's playfully headstrong daughter and heir to the Pride Lands is on the prowl for adventure. Escaping her bumbling baby-sitters Timon and Pumbaa Kiara runs off to the Outlands which are strictly off limits. There she meets the mischievous Kovu - a young cub chosen to walk in Scar's paw prints. The rift between the Outlanders and Simba's pride deepens as Kiara and Kovu's feeling for each other grow. But will love find a way to bring their very different worlds together as one? The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog retell the story of The Lion King from their own unique perspective!

• Star Trek 6 : The Undiscovered Country | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Star Trek V left us nowhere to go but up, and with the return of Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer, this sixth instalment restored the movie series to its classic blend of space opera, intelligent plotting and engaging interaction of stalwart heroes and menacing villains. Borrowing its subtitle (and several lines of dialogue) from Shakespeare, the movie finds Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and his fellow Enterprise crew members on a diplomatic mission to negotiate peace with the revered Klingon Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner). When the high-ranking Klingon and several officers are ruthlessly murdered, blame is placed on Kirk and crew. The subsequent investigation, which sees Spock taking on the mantle of Sherlock Holmes, uncovers an assassination plot masterminded by the nefarious Klingon General Chang (Christopher Plummer) in an effort to disrupt a historic peace summit. As this political plot unfolds, Star Trek VI takes on a sharp-edged tone, with Kirk and Spock confronting their opposing views of diplomacy and testing their bonds of loyalty when a Vulcan officer is revealed to be a traitor. With a dramatic depth befitting what was to be the final movie mission of the original Enterprise crew, this film took the veteran cast out in respectably high style, with the torch being passed to the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation in the following movie, Star Trek: Generations. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Power Rangers - Operation Overdrive Vol.1 | DVD | (10/03/2008) from £6.96   |  Saving you £5.03 (72.27%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Five brave teens set out on an exciting global treasure hunt to track down five long-lost jewels from the Corona Aurora Crown of the Gods. They must decode mind-crunching puzzles embark on mythical adventures and overcome spectacular battles or Dark Forces will wear the Crown and evil will be unstoppable. The Entire universe's fate rests in the hands of Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive.

• Narrow Margin | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A Los Angeles District Attorney (Hackman) is attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Acher) back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her they board a Vancouver-bound train only to find the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours as theitrain hurls through the beautiful but solated Canadian wilderness a deadly game of cat andmouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death...

• The Lion King (Read Along) | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-2.97 (-29.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This is a read-along version of the classic Disney movie. Wild Africa is the setting for this tale of a young lion cub whose evil uncle usurps his father's crown and lets hyenas overrun the kingdom. Dodging danger and befriending some oddball characters the cub wanders until the day he's ready to return. Songs by Elton John and featuring the voices of Whoopie Goldberg Cheech Marin James Earl Jones Matthew Broderick Nathan Lane and Jeremy Irons. Academy Award Nominations: 4 including 3 for Best Original Song. Academy Awards: 2 including Best Original Score and Best Original Song (Elton John and Tim Rice: Can You Feel the Love Tonight).

• Vampire Resurrection | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £6.17   |  Saving you £9.82 (61.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  She awoke him from the grave to love again...

• The Inbetweeners Movie | Blu Ray | (28/05/2018) from £8.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Join The Inbetweeners as they make their big screen debut in this critically acclaimed, smash-hit comedy. Having just left school for good, Simon, Will, Jay and Neil are off on the holiday of a lifetime; two weeks of sun, sea and, who knows, maybe even some sex, with no teachers, no parents and absolutely no idea how to survive on their own. Follow the adventures of these four clueless friends as they lurch from one holiday disaster to the next. Appalling accommodation. Check. Humiliating attempts to pull girls. Check. Regrettable misuse of bidet. Check. It's a very real and painfully funny coming of age tale where four boys become men... or at least try to.

• Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive (Complete Series) | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Five brave teens set out on an exciting global treasure hunt to track down five long-lost jewels from the Corona Aurora Crown of the Gods. They must decode mind-crunching puzzles embark on mythical adventures and overcome spectacular battles or Dark Forces will wear the Crown and evil will be unstoppable. The Entire universe's fate rests in the hands of Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive.

• The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £14.94   |  Saving you £-12.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Starring Steve McQueen as the getaway driver this 1959 film tells the story of a thwarted bank robbery at the Southwest Bank in St. Louis in 1953. Many St. Louis residents bank employees and police who were on duty during the actual robbery attempt either played themselves or were cast as extras in the film.

• Boss'n Up | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £6.97   |  Saving you £13.02 (65.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Some play the game. He changed it! Stuck as a dead-end grocery clerk Cord Christopher (Snoop Dogg) is down on his luck broke and frustrated. And while he doesn't have much he has a way with the ladies. Cord realizes his true calling when Orange Juice (Hawthorne James) a legendary veteran of the pimp game pays an unexpected visit and shows him the ropes. With Orange Juice as his guide and the girl of his dreams Chardonnay Allen (Shillae Anderson) on his arm Cord embrac

• The Game | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's not quite as clever as it tries to be, but The Game does a tremendous job of presenting the story of a rigid control freak trapped in circumstances that are increasingly beyond his control. Michael Douglas plays a rich, divorced, and dreadful investment banker whose 48th birthday reminds him of his father's suicide at the same age. He's locked in the cage of his own misery until his rebellious younger brother (Sean Penn) presents him with a birthday invitation to play "The Game" (described as "an experiential Book of the Month Club")--a mysterious offering from a company called Consumer Recreation Services. Before he knows the game has even begun, Douglas is caught up in a series of unexplained events designed to strip him of his tenuous security and cast him into a maelstrom of chaos. How do you play a game that hasn't any rules? That's what Douglas has to figure out, and he can't always rely on his intelligence to form logic out of what's happening to him. Seemingly cast as the fall guy in a conspiracy thriller, he encounters a waitress (Deborah Unger) who may or may not be trustworthy, and nothing can be taken at face value in a world turned upside down. Douglas is great at conveying the sheer panic of his character's dilemma, and despite some lapses in credibility and an anticlimactic ending, The Game remains a thinking person's thriller that grabs and holds your attention. Thematic resonance abounds between this and Seven and Fight Club, two of the other films by The Game 's director David Fincher. -- Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The Courier | Blu Ray | (01/06/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Brotherhood of the Rose | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

• Cold Feet - Series 2 | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (50.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Award winning comedy about three young couples in the North of England who face very modern crises. Adam's life has descended into bachelor squalor. Desperate to get back on track he begins dating again. Jenny and Pete's marital problems have just taken a turn for the worse. Karen is shocked by David who wants to forget executive stress and become a house husband. Meanwhile Pete spots Rachel in the supermarket with a baby of unknown identity and gives chase armed with a camera...

• Medusa Touch, The / The Boys From Brazil | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £10.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (18.63%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Medusa Touch: Richard Burton stars as successful novelist John Morlar who believes he has 'a gift for disaster' - the power to cause death and destruction through unconscious telekinesis. When Morlar is viciously assaulted and left for dead the night of the Moon Mission disaster and a jet crash police investigating the attack quickly turn to Morlar's mysterious therapist Zonfeld (Lee Remick) in the belief that there is a link between the assault and Morlar's disturbing co

• The Sandlot Kids 2 | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (30.16%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ten years after the original story the local dirt field is now 'home' to a new group of neighbourhood kids who get together to share laughs show off...and play baseball! Yet the gang faces their toughest challenge yet as they try to retrieve an irreplaceable model rocket that has landed in the junkyard behind left field; a forbidden territory guarded by the legendary slobbering beast known as 'The Great Fear'. Join the Sandlot kids as they experience a summer they'll never forget!

• Power Rangers - Operation Overdrive Vol.5 | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-5.54 (-46.20%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Five brave teens set out on an exciting global treasure hunt to track down five long-lost jewels from the Corona Aurora Crown of the Gods. They must decode mind-crunching puzzles embark on mythical adventures and overcome spectacular battles or Dark Forces will wear the Crown and evil will be unstoppable. The Entire universe's fate rests in the hands of Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive.