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• The Mummy (1999) - Augmented Reality Edition | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £4.40   |  Saving you £10.59 (70.60%)   |  RRP £14.99

  For his breakthrough into the blockbuster big time, director Stephen Sommers (Deep Rising) was determined to avoid the hackneyed Hollywood Mummy clichés of flailing bandages, somnambulant zombies and wooden acting. If you're happy to settle for two out of three then the finished film could be your cup of Egyptian tea, fully delivering on its visual promise, but occasionally mired in a quicksand of stilted dialogue and plot contrivance.When disgraced high priest Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) is awoken from his ancient prison, he unleashes his vengeful wrath in a whirl of computer-generated pestilence and plagues, all devised by the effects wizards at George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic. No gory detail is spared as the mummy sets about rebuilding his decayed body and reviving his forbidden lover, aided by hordes of swarming, flesh-eating scarabs and an army of the dead. Among the more human cast, Brendan Fraser (Blast from the Past, George of the Jungle) brings an infectious Boys' Own enthusiasm to his Indiana-Jones-style adventurer, while such supporting players as Rachel Weisz and John Hannah are mostly eclipsed by the spectacle on offer. Ultimately, The Mummy is great fun and offers digital thrills ideally suited to the DVD format which will wow even the most CGI-sated viewer.On the DVD: commendably, the extras on this DVD are on a par with the Region One offering, including deleted scenes and director's commentary, and both picture and sound quality are excellent. Most interestingly, veteran ILM effects supervisor John Berton presents step-by-step guides to some of the film's most extraordinary CGI shots, from early animatics to 3-D modelling and compositing. There's also the obligatory "making of" programme, in which everyone insists their primary concern was to ensure the effects never superseded the story. Unfortunately, this only makes you more aware of the script's shortcomings. --Steve Napleton

• Teletubbies - Teletubbies And The Snow / Happy Christmas From The Teletubbies | DVD | (30/11/2001) from £55.19   |  Saving you £-40.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Teletubbies and the SnowOne day, sparkly clouds appear over Tellytubby land. Soon, everything is covered in fluffy, white snow--including the Tubbies' favourite things--their ball, bag, hat and scooter. The chubby foursome are at first afraid, but soon get stuck into some serious snow games, including rolling snowballs, sliding down hillsides, making footprints and making a snow Tellytubby--even their goggle-eyed vacuum-cleaner, Noo-noo, gets covered from brush to wheels in it. Teletubbies and the Snow will particularly delight pre-schoolers just getting their first taste of a real winter, but children who have never seen snow will love the four short films of real-life children singing winter songs and celebrating the year-end, as well as the antics of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-laa and Po, giggly Sun Baby and a cast of hundreds of fluffy bunnies hopping around. --Alison JardineHappy Christmas From The TeletubbiesWhat better time than Christmas could there be for these four likeable, er, things? After all, like the children they really are, the Teletubbies find the whole procedure to be an endless source of wonderful surprises and exciting things to do. They get presents, of course, found with the tree which, in Teletubby Land, just mysteriously appears--exactly as it does to real children, of course (unless they're unfortunate enough to be awake when an effing-and-blinding adult is attempting to manoeuvre it into place). There's also some jolly footage of real children, including a suitably happy bunch choosing and decorating a real tree, and of course it's these sections of "outside broadcasting" which balance the caperings of the four plush poppets so well. Despite the festive theme, this needn't be a Christmas-only video; the whole world is wondrous for the Teletubbies' pre-school audience, so the occasion is perfectly presented as a part of that, no more and no less. --Roger Thomas

• Mutant X, Series 1 Vol. 2 | DVD | (26/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mutant X takes the useful SF trope of the mutant minority persecuted by the state and adds potentially interesting spins on which it rarely delivers. After a couple of pilot episodes that pushed into OTT visual stylishness, the show has settled into mildly repetitive though watchable blandness: for the most part it avoids story arcs and a large cast of regulars in favour of plugging its characters into the stock plots of television SF, such as doubles, vengeance crusades and untrustworthy lovers. On the DVD: Mutant X Series 1, Volume 2 contains the following episodes: "The Meaning of Death". A plague that kills mutants forces Adam to work with Mason Eckhart and the invulnerable mercenary Marlowe in the knowledge that any cure he comes up with will lead to a double-cross. "Lit Fuse". Brennan is attracted to energy-absorbing Ashley, who is being set up for betrayal by bounty-hunter Cross. When she absorbs Brennan, things get really complicated. "In the Presence of Mine Enemies". Jesse's hacker girlfriend Toni is forced by Eckhart to betray Adam's hideout Sanctuary and the computerised journalist Proxy Blue. Can the tables be turned? "Crime of the New Century". Youthful mutant firestarter Joshua is kidnapped, rescued and then turned over to the GSA by a renegade FBI agent. "Dark Star Rising". The survivors of a commando team have been altered into mutancy by scientists and want vengeance for their dead squad members. Mutant X helps them stop Eckhart getting the secret serum. The DVDs also contain trailers, a feature on the elaborate stunts and interviews with stunt coordinator Paul Rapovski, show runner Howard Chaykin and Victor Webster (Brennan). --Roz Kaveney

• South Park: Vol. 2 | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-7.99 (-61.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Join Stan Kyle Cartman and Kenny as these four animated tykes take on the supernatural the extraordinary and the insane. For them it's all a part of growing up in South Park. An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig: The boys attempt to breed an elephant with a pot-bellied pig and the town/s geneticist creatures an evil clone from Stan's DNA. Death: While their parents are out of town protesting against the kids' favourite TV shoe Terrance and Phillip Death pays a visit to South Park Pinkeye: On Halloween a mishap at the morgue transforms the residents of South Park into brain-eating zombies interfering with the school's costume and the boy's trick or treating. Tom's Rhinoplasty: Mr. Garrison deserts his class for a visit to Tom's Rhinoplasty and Wendy is afraid that substitute teacher Ms. Ellen has her eye on Stan.

• Skyhook | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £14.55   |  Saving you £1.44 (9.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Space is the next business frontier. The challenge is in finding a practical method to transport man equipment and resources from earth to orbit. In SkyHook a team of brilliant scientists compete to build the world's first space elevator and find themselves up against an evil corporate mercenary in this science fiction espionage extravaganza of deals and death. A material science expert is blackmailed to steal designs from the team of scientists that are on the brink of their goal. While the SkyHook team continues to pursue their dream Jamal continues his attack in an attempt to secure the 1 Billion Dollar Space prize and control the fate of the space industry.

• Real Kung Fu Double Bill | DVD | (01/01/1900) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Includes the great old school kung fu movies: My Life's On The Line: Lau Ka Liang meets 'Minute Fong' a deadly fighter who promises to despatch his victims in lees than 60 seconds! The Hot The Cool And The Vicious: 'Flash Legs' Tan Tao Liang in a high octane Kung Fu version of 'The Good The Bad And The Ugly'.

• Tonite Let's All Make Love In London | DVD | (25/09/2017) from £13.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Featured here as a brand-new digital restoration, Peter Whitehead's celebrated film probes the myth and the reality of Swinging London presenting an intimate, impressionistic collage of rare concert and studio performances, interviews with key figures from the worlds of music, art and cinema, and images of Sixties counterculture. John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, Vanessa Redgrave, Lee Marvin, Julie Christie, Allen Ginsberg, Edna O'Brien, David Hockney and Michael Caine are among those captured on film and in sound; bookended by a performance of Pink Floyd's Interstellar Overdrive, the soundtrack features songs by the Rolling Stones and Eric Burdon. Made when many young people saw politicised hedonism as the logical response to global uncertainty, Whitehead's Pop Concerto for Film taps into both the confidence and the confusion of an iconic moment in time.

• Scorpion Spring | DVD | (06/03/2003) from £8.37   |  Saving you £-4.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Two strangers pick up a desperate fugitive and his mysterious companion. They discover that nothing is what it seems and learn that the road to truth is long and treacherous and getting there can be murder.

• The Beatles: Get Back | Blu Ray | (12/07/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Broken Arrow | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches.

• A Breath of Scandal / Houseboat Double Pack | DVD | (22/04/2013) from £8.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (60.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Breath Of Scandal: Drawn from Sidney Howard's successful Broadway Americanization of the Molnar farce Olympia, and adapted by a then-blacklisted and uncredited Walter Bernstein, the film opens in the Austrian countryside of 1907. The widowed Princess Olympia (Loren) is living a lush, if dull, exile from the court of Frances Joseph I, banished as a result of vaguely-referenced indiscretions that have caused the royal family embarrassment. She's desperate for distraction, wh...

• Legends Of Country Blues Guitar - Vol. 3 | DVD | (12/12/2012) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A compilation of ragtime / blues featuring archive performances....

• Mary Higgins Clark - You Belong To Me / All Around The Town / Haven't We Met Before | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three film adaptations from the novels of the woman known to millions as 'The Queen Of Suspense'. You Belong To Me (Dir. Paolo Barzman 2001): Dr Susan Chandler has a call-in radio show and uses it explore the issues of lonely women murdered by a seductive killer. One such investigation puts her life and those of her closest friends in danger. Based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark. All Around The Town (Dir. Paolo Barzman 2002): Laurie has no alibi to offer when she

• Windtalkers / Hart's War / Platoon | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Windtalkers: In 1942 several hundred Navajo Americans were recruited as Marines and trained to use their language as code. Marine Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage) is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) - a Navajo code talker the Marines' new secret weapon. Enders' orders are to protect his code talker but if Yahzee should fall into enemy hands he's to protect the code at all costs. Against the backdrop of the horrific Battle of Saipan when capture is imminent Enders is forced to make a decision: if he can't protect his fellow Marine can he bring himself to kill him to protect the code? Harts War: Fourth generation war hero Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still as the camp's highest-ranking American officer he commands his fellow inmates keeping a sense of honour alive in a place where honour is easy to destroy all under the dangerous ever-watchful eye of SS Major Wilhelm Visser. Never giving up the fight to win the war McNamara is silently planning waiting for his moment to strike back at the enemy. A murder in the camp gives him the chance to set a risky plan in motion. With a court martial to keep Visser and the Germans distracted McNamara orchestrates a cunning scheme to escape and destroy a nearby munitions plant enlisting the unwitting help of young Lt. Tommy Hart. Together with his men McNamara uses a hero's resolve to carry out his mission ultimately forced to weigh the value of his life against the good of his country. Platoon: Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young naive American who upon his arrival in Vietnam quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong but also with the gnawing fear physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him. While his two commanding officers (Oscar-nominated Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other the conflict chaos and hatred permeate Taylor suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings to man's highest value...life. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture and based on the first-hand experience of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone Platoon is powerful intense and starkly brutal.

• The Skeleton Key | HD DVD | (10/12/2007) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It can open any door. From the writer of The Ring (Ehren Kruger) and the director of K-PAX (Iain Softley) comes the supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key. Set largely in the dark atmospheric backwoods just outside of New Orleans The Skeleton Key stars Kate Hudson as Caroline a live-in nurse hired to care for an elderly woman's (Rowlands) ailing husband (Hurt) in their home... a foreboding and decrepit mansion in the Louisiana delta. Intrigued by the enigmatic couple their mysterious secretive ways and their rambling old house Caroline begins to explore the mansion. Armed with a skeleton key that unlocks every door in the house she discovers a hidden attic room that holds a deadly and terrifying secret...

• Cyborg Cop | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £7.16   |  Saving you £-3.17 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep Jack Ryan a former member of the DEA immediately suspects that something is wrong. He discovers that the package contains a plea for help from his brother Phillip on a DEA assignment on the Caribbean Island of St. Keith.

• 50 Pills | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-54.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Darren Giles (Lou Taylor Pucci) has lost his college scholarship can't work up the courage to ask out the girl of his dreams Gracie (Kristen Bell) and doesn't have the cash to stay in college another term. When his roommate gives him one day to sell 50 pills of ecstasy Darren suddenly sees a way of making enough money to pay his student tuition and stay in college. However can he survive New York's biggest drug lord a crazed dominatrix convince his parents he's not gay write a paper on Dante's inferno escape three thugs chasing the wrong guy and sell his 50 pills of E in time to make his tuition payment? If he doesn't he'll never get the chance to date his dream girl.

• Sergeant Bilko | DVD | (24/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Yogi Bear: Yogi and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lou | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £6.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Living in rural New South Wales, working-class single mother Rhia is struggling to evade debt collectors and raise three young daughters. The eldest, and hardened beyond her years, Lou blames Rhia for the departure of her father, who walked out 10 months ago and hasn’t been seen since. Mother-daughter relations hit bottom when Rhia takes in Doyle (John Hurt), her father in-law, who is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s. Doyle turns Lou’s initial hostility around with exciting tales of his South Seas adventures. But coursing deepest in his mind are fractured memories of Annie, his late wife. Before long, Doyle “sees” Annie in Lou and imagines he is courting her all over again.