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• Lakeview Terrace | DVD | (30/03/2009) from £6.54   |  Saving you £11.45 (63.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Two newlyweds move in to their California dream home only to be harassed by an overly vigilant neighbourhood watchman (Samuel L. Jackson).

• House Of Games | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  David Mamet's 1987 directorial debut House of Games is mesmerising study of control and seduction between two kinds of detached observers: a gambler who is also a con artist and a psychotherapist who is also an emerging pop-psych guru in the book market. The latter (played by Lindsay Crouse) meets the former (Joe Mantegna) when one of her clients is driven to despair from his debts to the card shark. Mantegna's character agrees to drop the IOUs in exchange for Crouse's attention at the seedy House of Games in Seattle, a mecca for conmen to talk shop and hustle unsuspecting customers. The shrink gets so caught up in the arcane rules and world view of her guide over subsequent days that she observes--with no false rapture--various stings in progress inside and outside the club. Mamet's story finally becomes a fascinating study of two people protecting and extending their respective cosmologies the way rival predators fight for the same piece of turf. The psychological challenge is compelling; so is the stylised dialogue, with its pattern of pauses and hiccups and humming meter. Mostly shooting at night, Mamet also gave Seattle a different look from previous filmmakers, turning its familiar puddles into concentrations of liquid neon and poisonous noir. --Tom Keogh

• Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal Season 2 Complete Collection (Episodes 50-98) | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £19.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Our two heroes are facing the world's most skilled duellists in the World Duel Carnival - the greatest tournament in history! Yuma and Astral squeaked by the preliminaries, but they're about to face their ultimate test in the finals where unexpected new rules and devices await. Contains episodes 50-98

• Five Card Stud | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Paramount released a first-rate Western, El Dorado, in 1967, and another, True Grit, in 1969. So why was the studio's 1968 oater such a hunk of buzzard bait? You know Five Card Stud's in trouble from the opening credits--they're too short to accommodate the Dean Martin title song, so that it spills awkwardly into the first scene. The timing never does come out right--not in the lethargic pacing, not in the lax editing (which often leaves cast members stranded onscreen at scene's end), and not in the herky-jerky screenplay, which either lurches over intervals of weeks (months?) or piles up enough calamities in one day to stock a sequel. Even the end comes five minutes and two anticlimactic scenes late. An after-hours poker game is underway as the film begins. A stranger is caught cheating and, over the objection of professional gambler Dean Martin, lynched. Soon there's another stranger in town, black-clad preacher Robert Mitchum, and participants in the fatal card game start dying grotesque, solitary deaths. Five Card Stud wants to be a psychological mystery, but there's scant psychology and no mystery at all beyond why the filmmakers thought any viewer could fail to figure it out. Martin and Mitchum sleepwalk through their roles (Martin's includes a glum, ludicrously written romance with brothel-keeper Inger Stevens), while Roddy McDowall camps up his turn as spoiled son of the local range baron. Somewhere in the middle, the young Yaphet Kotto plays it admirably cool as a philosophical bartender.

• Apex | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A robot is sent to an alternate dimension via a time-travel experiment gone wrong and wreaks havoc in the new world in which it finds itself. A scientist is sent to investigate and attempts to stop the disaster from happening in the first place.

• Dark Angel | DVD | (17/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Good cop. Bad alien. Big trouble! Jack Kane (Lundgren) is an unorthodox Houston cop out to stop a yuppie criminal gang known as the White Boys. However his investigation is about to get a rather odd but deadly extra-terrestrial dimension! Reluctantly partnered with FBI agent Laurence Smith Kane begins to realise that an alien presence is on the streets collecting a priceless intergalactic drug that can only be found in the human brain...

• The Corporation | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Brilliant documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.

• How To Train Your Dragon | Blu Ray | (01/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From the studio that brought you "Shrek," "Madagascar" and "Kung Fu Panda" comes "How to Train Your Dragon" - a comedy adventure set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons!

• Heist | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-2.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Gene Hackman stars as an ex-con who decides to pull off the biggest jewelry heist of his career, but mayhem ensues when the gang of jewel thieves he teams up with turn on him.

• Double Team | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £5.19   |  Saving you £0.80 (15.41%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Look ma, no script! As expected from a movie by Hong Kong action director Hark Tsui, there are many explosive, fast-paced sequences in this Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle. Some are thrilling, others inconsequential. There is also another mumbling, overdone performance by Mickey Rourke, who looks as if he performed his own plastic surgery. Except for an unintentionally humorous ending, the only surprise is Dennis Rodman as Van Damme's partner in exploitation. Rodman has plenty of charisma, but needs someone to weed out those inferior scripts. He plays an eccentric arms dealer coerced by an avenging Van Damme into tracking down the evil and sadistically weird character played by a well-muscled Rourke. It says little for the production that the best sequence of the movie occurs a quarter of the way into the action. It concerns an escape by Van Damme from an island think tank for forcibly retired covert agents. After that, everyone should have gone home. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• Magnum P.I: Season 1 | DVD | (31/07/2022) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Shield : Series 2 | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £8.07   |  Saving you £29.91 (588.78%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Everything good about the first season of The Shield is intensified in the second. For detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and his amoral strike team, these 13 episodes follow "the money train," a stockpile of Armenian mob money ripe for the taking. Mackey's team plots to steal this criminal fortune while under pressure from Capt. Aceveda (Benito Martinez), whose political campaign is threatened by a civilian auditor (Lucinda Jenney) assigned to uncover corruption in "the Barn." The uneasy alliance between Aceveda and Mackey provokes the suspicion of Wyms (CCH Pounder), whose by-the-book vigilance is rewarded while Dutch (Jay Karnes) endures a slump that worsens the Barn's sullied reputation. After being horribly disfigured by Mackey, a vile Mexican druglord (Daniel Pino) plots a territorial coup, prompting the strike team's finest police work while Mackey struggles to save his failing marriage. Post-9/11 tensions erupt when beat cop Danny (Catherine Dent) justifiably shoots an armed Arab civilian, and newlywed Julien (Michael Jace) copes with (literal) gay-bashing following his church-sponsored sexual reorientation. As always, The Shield supports these plotlines with gritty casework, including a brutal kidnapping, homicide, and gangland warfare. Every episode (shot in grainy 16mm) meets the series' high standard of excellence, but "Greenlit," "Homewrecker" (featuring the death of a recurring character), and "Dominoes Falling" are standouts, while the controversial "Co-Pilot" offers a retrospective look at the Barn's volatile origins. Writing and direction are consistently superb, and Pounder deserves honorable mention among the brilliant cast, striking a stoical balance of world-weary wisdom, procedural diligence, and righteous indignation. Bonus features comprise a virtual film school for anyone seeking a career in television. While the commentaries explore the nuts and bolts of series development, the "Directors' Roundtable" (with creator Shawn Ryan, Scott Brazil, Peter Horton, and Paris Barclay) is a revealing, frequently hilarious study of the rigors of fast-paced production; "Sound Surgery" presents a track-by-track analysis of sound, music, and dialogue; and "Wrap Day" is a celebratory tribute to the series' hard-working cast and crew. It's all good, and guaranteed to stoke anyone's appetite for Season Three. --Jeff Shannon

• The Repair Shop: Series 6 | DVD | (21/03/2022) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Xena - Warrior Princess - Complete Series 1 | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In a time of ancient gods ruthless warlords and capricious kings a land in turmoil cried out for a hero. She was Xena a mighty Warrior Princess forged in the heat of battle. Relive the power the passion and the wild adventure of international icon Lucy Lawless' groundbreaking first season as Xena a season that swept up audiences the world over and completely redefined the role of the female action hero. This box set includes all 24 jaw-dropping episodes from season 1. Episodes Comprise: 1. Sins of the Past 2. Chariots of War 3. Dreamworker 4. Cradle of Hope 5. The Path Not Taken 6. The Reckoning 7. The Titans 8. Prometheus 9. Death In Chains 10. Hooves and Harlots 11. The Black Wolf 12. Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts 13. Athens City Academy Of the Performing Bards 14. A Fist Full of Dinars 15. Warrior...Princess 16. Mortal Beloved 17. The Royal Couple Of Thieves 18. The Prodigal 19. Altared States 20. Ties that Bind 21. The Greater Good 22. Callisto 23. Death Mask 24. Is There A Doctor In the House?

• Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal Season 3 Complete Collection (Episodes 99-144) | DVD | (18/06/2018) from £16.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Our two heroes are facing the world's most skilled duelists in the World Duel Carnival - the greatest tournament in history! Yuma and Astral squeaked by the preliminaries, but they're about to face their ultimate test in the finals where unexpected new rules - and devices - await!

• Hostel | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £3.40   |  Saving you £16.59 (487.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel and discover the grim reality behind it.

• The Lone Ranger/The Lone Ranger And The Lost City Of Gold | DVD | (22/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Two Lone Ranger classics together on 1 DVD, includes the original classic 'The Lone Ranger' and 'The Lone Ranger And The Lost City of Gold'. A band of hooded riders have killed 3 Indians near the town of San Doria. The Lone Ranger finds that each of the Indians was also robbed of a piece of a piece of a silver medallion. The medallion was broken in to 5 pieces and when put together shows the whereabouts of a stockpile of Indian riches. The Lone Ranger and Tonto now have to find the keepers of...

• Robin Hood - Series 1 Volume 1 | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £3.21   |  Saving you £16.78 (522.74%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The BBC's Robin Hood is a big budget re-imagining of the classic tale with a unique blend of exhilarating action wit and romance all headed by a bright young cast of actors. Robin Hood delights as he fights the authority of the evil Sheriff of Nottingham with outrageous scams disguises tricks and ingenuity breathtaking archery and incredible swordplay. All the while he romances the heavenly Maid Marian and champions the poor with his band of merry men! Starring Keith

• Slasher - The Complete First Season | DVD | (11/07/2016) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Blending classic horror, contemporary murder mystery and timeless crime fiction, psychological thriller Slasher tells the gripping story of a young woman who finds herself the centrepiece in a series of horrifying copycat murders based on the grisly killings of her parents. When Sarah Bennet (Katie McGrath, Jurassic World, Dracula) returns to the small town where she was born, she is determined to start a new life. But it's not long before history starts to repeat itself, and she is plunged into the midst of a new, even bloodier, murder mystery. As the killings escalate and long-buried secrets are revealed, everyone around her is either a suspect...or a victim. And when she uncovers some soul-shattering revelations about her own life, Sarah discovers that the truth may be more dangerous than any serial killer could ever be. Episodes: An Eye for an Eye Digging Your Grave with Your Teeth Like as Fire Eateth Up and Burneth Wood As Water Is Corrupted Unless it Moves Ill-Gotten Gains The One Who Sows His Own Flesh In the Pride of His Face Soon Your Own Eyes Will See

• The Virgin Queen | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £4.96   |  Saving you £5.03 (101.41%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.