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• Halloween V: The Revenge of Michael Myers | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Starting around Halloween 4, that masked nut Michael Myers stopped chasing his sister (played by Jamie Lee Curtis in the first and second films, as well as Halloween H20) and went after his niece. Now he's chasing her around again in part 5, but it's a lot of other people who die in the process. Donald Pleasence continues his mad-doctor bit from the earlier movies, Danielle Harris is the unfortunate relation, and Donald L. Shanks plays the monster. The film is an improvement on parts 2 and 4 (part 3 having nothing to do with Michael Myers), but it still amounts to routine slaughter with none of John Carpenter's stylistic brilliance from the original movie. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• The Early Bird | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £16.24   |  Saving you £-3.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Norman Wisdom reprises his best-loved character, the comically inept Pitkin, in 1965's The Early Bird, ably supported once again by Edward Chapman in his final appearance as Mr Grimsdale. This time around Wisdom is the only milkman working for Grimsdale's Dairy, a small business threatened by a menacing large corporation in the shape of Consolidated Dairies and their electric milk floats. Grimsdale and Pitkin must evoke the Dunkirk spirit to save their family firm from the grasp of the faceless giant. Of course, the wafer-thin plot is the merest excuse for a series of calamitous set pieces in which Wisdom wreaks havoc in his trademark bumbling manner. The best bits involve a disastrous game of golf, the usual shenanigans with a fire hose and a virtuoso tour de force opening sequence as the household struggles to wake up in the morning. Wisdom's own brand of Jerry Lewis-inspired clowning, with mugging and pratfalls aplenty, is all good clean fun with little or none of the smutty innuendo that characterised the contemporary Carry On series. He carries this film, as he does all his others, solely on the strength of his winningly naïve charm: this is innocent comedy from the days before supermarkets really did wreck all the local businesses, not to mention from the days before The Godfather gave a whole new spin on the comedy value of going to bed with your horse. On the DVD: There are no extra features on this disc at all. Given Wisdom's household-name status and the longevity of these much-loved movies, this seems like a sadly missed opportunity. The 4:3 picture has not been digitally remastered and shows its age, as does the muddy mono soundtrack. Only Ron Goodwin's wonderfully tongue-in-cheek music score comes across reasonably well. --Mark Walker

• The Frighteners | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the sleepy little town of Fairwater, a monstrous evil has awakened - an evil so powerful, its reach extends beyond the grave.

• Earthquake Los Angeles | DVD | (11/01/2021) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As a series of earthquakes start tearing apart Los Angeles, scientist Emily of the USGS theorizes that it's all building to a super quake that will drop the entire city into a lava-filled chasm. Engineer Jack, whose company is responsible for the quakes due to their deep fracking, feels obligated to help, and races with Emily through the increasingly damaged city with the hopes of diverting the epicenter to a less populated area, potentially saving millions of lives.

• Book Of Shadows - Blair Witch 2 | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  College students at a Boston college become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened.

• Halloween V: The Revenge of Michael Myers | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Starting around Halloween 4, that masked nut Michael Myers stopped chasing his sister (played by Jamie Lee Curtis in the first and second films, as well as Halloween H20) and went after his niece. Now he's chasing her around again in part 5, but it's a lot of other people who die in the process. Donald Pleasence continues his mad-doctor bit from the earlier movies, Danielle Harris is the unfortunate relation, and Donald L. Shanks plays the monster. The film is an improvement on parts 2 and 4 (part 3 having nothing to do with Michael Myers), but it still amounts to routine slaughter with none of John Carpenter's stylistic brilliance from the original movie. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• What Women Want / Miss Congeniality / Heartbreakers | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  What Women Want: Meet Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson). A successful advertising executive Nick has the world and its women at his fingertips. Or so he thinks. The world of advertising is fast becoming a woman's world and slick-talking chauvinistic womanising Nick is out of touch. Miss Congeniality: Sandra Bullock stars as a bumbling female FBI agent assigned to go undercover as a participant in the Miss United States beauty pageant when it is discovered that one of the contestants is being targeted for murder. Benjamin Bratt leads the undercover team while also playing the reluctant love interest. Candice Bergen and William Shatner manage the pageant and hire Michael Caine to turn Bullock from rough and tumble agent to stunning beauty queen. The physical transformation is impressive although the klutzy personality remains. Everything seems to be fine once the killer is suddenly caught but Bullock suspects there is more to this story and the truth eventually unfolds with an unexpected twist. Heartbreakers: Max (Sigourney Weaver) and Page (Jennifer Love Hewitt) are a mother and daughter con team with a devious routine. Max targets wealthy men lures them into marriage and then the equally gorgeous Page seduces them leaving Max to discover their infidelity and reap huge divorce settlements which tide them over until they target their next victim.

• Rossini: Semiramide | DVD | (31/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Bel canto can be translated as "pretty singing", and that definition seems tailor-made for this production, which offers grace, charm, and a fine-tuned sense of style in abundance to compensate for its limited psychological and emotional impact. The four principal singers are all specialists in the bel canto style and this opera has played a key role in building their substantial reputations. For its sweeping musical imagination and technical wizardry, Rossini's epic about royal assassination and misdirected lust in the ancient Babylonian Empire deserves a place in any inclusive opera collection, and we are not likely to have a better video recording of Semiramide in the foreseeable future. June Anderson has an attractive appearance and sounds exactly right in the music's florid melodic lines. But she is not dramatically compelling as the wicked queen who had her husband killed and fell in love with a man who turned out to be her long-lost son, Arsace. Marilyn Horne rose to the highest levels of international fame in the role of that conflicted son, and her presence alone would be enough to give this video classic status. Her voice was a bit past its prime when this performance was recorded in 1991, but still there is no other voice quite like it, no other voice so suited to Rossini's heroic mezzo roles. Samuel Ramey is a close bass counterpart to Anderson: great tone, agile florid singing, and a rather wooden but visually appealing stage presence. Sanford Olsen has a small role and sings it near perfectly. James Conlon gets excellent musical results; John Copley's staging is massive and static. --Joe McLellan, Amazon.com

• Beyond Re-Animator | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (97.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Welcome to Death Row. The Doctor will see you now... Trash cinema's greatest ghoul is back! Horror legend Jeffery Combs returns as Dr. Herbert West in Beyond Re-Animator the gory sequel to the original 80s splatter classic. Incarcerated for the death of an innocent teenage girl at the hands of one of his resurrected corpes Dr. West continues his insane research into the creation of life from behind bars. West makes a breakthrough with his discovery of Nano-Plasmic Energy a substance that prevents the living dead from degenerating but in doing so he unleashes bloody chaos in the prison as no one knows difference between the humans and the zombies. From the fevered mind of HP Lovercraft and Brian Yuzna comes a sick horror comedy thrill ride in which you can trust no one... Alive or Dead!

• Power Rangers - Dino Thunder: Triassic Triumph | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £6.83   |  Saving you £5.16 (75.55%)   |  RRP £11.99

  A spin-off of the popular 'Power Rangers' children's TV show 'Dino Thunder' features a team of kids who discover ancient rocks that give them the ability to transform into superheroes. With the help of manufactured dinosaurs they fight mutants created by an evil paleontologist named Mesogog who would like to see the world return to a prehistoric era. In these episodes Kira and Devin while working at an internship at a TV station are attacked by Mesagog's faceless soldiers the Ty

• Teaching Mrs Tingle | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £8.08   |  Saving you £6.91 (85.52%)   |  RRP £14.99

  ""Lots of Fun!"" - Los Angeles Times. Written and directed by Kevin Williamson (Scream Scream 2 TV's Dawson's Creek) Teaching Mrs. Tingle is a cool cutting-edge comedy starring Hollywood's hottest young talent! Leigh Ann Watson (Katie Holmes - TV's Dawson's Creek Go Disturbing Behavior) is the brightest girl at Grandsboro High...but her dreams of a much-needed college scholarship are sabotaged when her history teacher the dreaded Mrs. Tingle (Helen Mirren - The Madness of King

• Lexx - The Movies - Series 1 Vol.2 | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. The show's Canadian creators, "Supreme Beans" Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff, and Jeffrey Hirschfield--partnered with German money and studio facilities--intended every episode to be, in their words, "a nasty adventure". With flashes of nudity and surgical gore, and a collection of extreme hairstyles and accents, the overall look is often akin to a sci-fi Eurotrash. Aboard the stolen 10-kilometre-long spaceship Lexx (designed to look like a dragonfly) are the "Dirty Three-and-a-Half": insufferable coward Stanley H Tweedle (Brian Downey), the Edward Scissorhands clone and 2000 years-dead Kai (Michael McManus), decapitated and lovestruck robot head 790 (voiced by writer Hirschfield), and the skimpily wardrobed Zev (19-year-old Eva Habermann). It's with the last of these characters that the show generated its main audience and proved itself totally indifferent to regular boundaries of TV formatting. A disregard both for genre conventions and good taste makes the show a constant series of surprises. --Paul Tonks On the DVD: The first films's disc features a behind-the-scenes documentary with the show's creators talking generally about the intent of the films, a text interview with Jeffrey Hirschfield on his dual role as writer and voicing robot head 790, plus a hilarious "Purity Test" quiz to see how much of a fan you are. The second film's disc features a gallery of 12 stills, a Sci-fi Channel featurette and another documentary containing a very frank interview with director Robert Sigl and hilarious outtakes from Malcolm McDowell. --Paul Tonks

• Supernatural - Season 1 Part 1 | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £12.60   |  Saving you £17.39 (58.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Supernatural stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki as Dean and Sam Winchester two brothers who travel the country looking for their missing father and battling evil spirits along the way. Sam Winchester is a college student bound for law school determined to escape his family's past - unlike his older brother Dean. Ever since they were little their father has been consumed with an obsession to find the evil forces that murdered his beloved wife and recruited his two young sons

• Pirates Of The Plain | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £4.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Never was a treasure so sought after... Pirates of the Plain centres around a nine-year-old boy (Seth Adkins) with an overactive imagination. Whether it's shoot-outs with the James Gang or laser battles with alien robots little Bobby's playmates seem real to him. It frightens his mother Dee Wallace Stone while Bobby's grandpa (Charles Napier) thinks it's just Bobby's way of coping with not having many friends and a father that left two years prior. At the same

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Mozart - Idomeneo | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart IdomeneoStaged By Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann.Part of the epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD.

• Turbulence 2 - Fear Of Flying | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A passenger of a hijacked airliner who happens to be an airplane engineer works to deactivate a chemical weapons bomb after the hijackers kill the pilot and threaten to kill all the passengers on the plane

• In The Blink Of An Eye | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  They were childhood friends close as sisters and bound by a special promise. But now Sunny Jacobs (Mimi Rogers) is branded a cop killer. She's spent 15 years in a grim penitentiary. She swears she's innocent but only one person her friend Micki (Veronica Hamel) believes her. Micki alone has the courage to enter the corridors of power and fight for her friends freedom. Its a murky world where witnesses are bribed vital evidence is supressed and innocent people die in the electric chair. So lives are at stake and its a race agsinst time. And for Micki theres an ever present doubt; can she really trust her childhood friend to tell the truth?

• Boycott | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A drama based on the events in Alabama in 1955. When a black woman refuses to give up her seat on a bus for a white woman she is arrested and charged under the state's segregation laws. Enter a man called Martin Luther King who leads a boycott of the buses and a fight against prejudice...

• Caught Up | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When Daryl Allen an ex-convict struggling to live a clean life meets Vanessa a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to his former girlfriend he begins to be pursued by a mysterious gunman. Though Vanessa claims it is simply her ex-boyfriend trying to kill her Daryl soon discovers he has inadvertently become involved in a murder-for-diamonds plot where nothing and no one are what they seem.

• The Devil's Advocate (Steelbook--Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Hotshot attorney Kevin Lomax’s 64-0 case record has brought him a tempting offer from an elite New York firm. But the job Lomax accepts isn’t what it seems. The Devil is in the details. In this gleeful modern gothic fable Keanu Reeves plays eager Lomax and Al Pacino is the charismatic fi rm founder who knows there are cases to be won… and souls to be lost. From Lomax’s court triumphs and skyrocket rise to its double-twist ending The Devil’s Advocate is red-hot entertainment. Lomax’s life wife (Charlize Theron) and soul are on the line.