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• Unrest | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £8.07   |  Saving you £4.92 (37.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A group of young tourists charter a boat in the South Pacific Ocean for the holiday of a lifetime. They stumble upon an evil that demands vengeance at any cost. In the middle of the ocean and with no help coming they discover that payment is due. Out on a dead calm ocean in a thick fog a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean a sick dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht. The Greek

• South Park: Vol. 7 | DVD | (10/04/2000) from £9.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (23.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Chef Aid: After Alanis Morrisette uses a song Chef wrote years ago the boys and Chef go to the record company to sue. However with Johnny Cochran as their lawyer the record company ends up nailing Chef with a law suit. Spooky Fish: Aunt Flo has her montly visit to Mrs. Marsh and she brings Stan a pet fish which starts killing people. Unfortunately Mrs. Marsh thinks her baby boy has gone bad. Meanwhile there seems to be two Cartmans in South Park. Merry Christmas Charlie Manson: The boys take a trip with Cartman and his mother to Nebraska to celebrate the holidays with the entire Cartman clan. However things get complicated when Cartman's uncle escapes from prison and brings company with him. Gnomes: Due to rumors of Mr. Garrison's incompetent teaching the boys are forced to give current events reports in front of the School Board. Kyle Stan Cartman and Kenny are forced to work with Tweek the son of the town's coffee shop owner. Mr. Tweek decides to use the boys in order to save his small business from the evils of the large coffee titan Harbucks which has moved into town. Also everyone seems to be losing their underpants which Tweek blames on elusive creatures known as the Underpants Gnomes. Prehistoric Ice Man: While hunting for crocdiles the boys stumble upon a man frozen in time since 1996. Kyle and Stan's friendship falls into question as the boys fight over who found him.

• John Wayne | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  McLintock (Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen 1963): Cattle baron banker and model citizen George McLintock has the world in his hands. The only thing missing is his wife Katherine who left him two years earlier suspecting him of adultery. In an effort to get on with his life McLintock saves a beautiful but impoverished widow from resettlement and hires her as his cook welcoming both her and her two children into his home. Sparks begin to fly and McLintock's simple and serene li

• Blue Valley Songbird | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  She is a small-town girl with a big voice and an even bigger dream... This thoroughly enjoyable feature film specially made for television is based upon country superstar Dolly Parton's fictional story song ""Blue Valley Songbird"". Dolly's musical and acting abilities both shine on this release where her key role as a saloon singer with suppressed ambitions makes for a perfect fit. The film features Dolly singing many of her all-time favourite hits including ""Blue Valley Songbird Wildflowers I Hope You Are Never Happy and Runaway Feelin. In addition the film features two songs never included by Dolly on her albums : Angel Band and We Might Be in Love. Having been out of print for a long time Blue Valley Songbird is now re-released in new deluxe packaging which makes it a must for every Dolly fan !

• Taggart - Mind Over Matter | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  When the body of 21-year-old medical student Amy Penn is found by children in a park the Taggart team prepare themselves for a difficult investigation. Heavy rain has destroyed any evidence of her killer but strangely her body has been sculpted in death into a childlike pose with her thumb in her mouth. Initial enquiries uncover few leads. Amy was a hard-working friendly girl with no apparent enemies. Ross however fails to be convinced by her friend Donny Whyte. The discovery of another body on a ferry slipway puts a different perspective on the case. Neil Jones was a recovering alcoholic found nursing a half-empty bottle. At a first glance his death seems accidental but both bodies share almost identical neck wounds. Burke has to face the grim prospect of hunting for a serial killer. The connection between the victims proves strangely elusive until an unexpected twist leads the team to a therapy centre in the West End. Eager to crack the case Jackie Reid volunteers to go undercover as a patient - and against his better judgement Burke agrees. However Jackie hadn't banked on being forced to revisit painful memories from her own past. With the body count rising the race is on to find the killer. But is Jackie in too deep?

• Big Daddy/Spanglish/Mr. Deeds | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mr Deeds (Dir. Steven Brill 2002): Small town guy Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler) inherits a $40 billion fortune from his deceased uncle. He promptly moves to the big city where he meets Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder) a tabloid reporter who poses as a small town girl to uncover an expos on Mr Deeds. Conniving opportunists attempt to get their hands on his money while Deeds' sincere naivet has Babe falling in love with him. Ultimately Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things but it doesn't necessarily need to change him... Big Daddy (Dir. Dennis Dugan 1999): Thirty-two-year old Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed...and he can't return the kid. Uh-oh for Sonny! Spanglish (Dir. James L. Brooks 2004): A comedy with a language all its own! A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a new life in America; they end up working for John Clasky (Sandler) who's trying to come to terms with sudden success as a celebrity chef an overly sensitive wife (Tea Leoni) emotional children and an increasing attraction to his new nanny...

• Midnight Crossing | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With a pounding, synthesised sound track, big-haired babes in bikinis and succession of increasingly incredible fight scenes and returns from the dead, Midnight Crossing takes some beating as an eminently watchable slab of 1980s schlock. Honesty is a premium in this torrid tale of a buried fortune, hot sex, deceit on the high seas and much extended suspense. Jeff Shub (John Laughlin), a six-packed hunk in tight shorts, lives for his yacht, inherited from his father. When his wife's boss Morley (married to a blind woman and played by Daniel J Travanti) charters the yacht for a birthday celebration, the two couples head off for the Bahamas. Then, Morley reveals his real agenda--the recovery of treasure he buried on a Cuban island in the pre-Castro years--and it soon becomes clear that nothing and nobody are what they seem. Kim Cattrall, years before her emergence as a stylish television star in Sex and the City, pops up in a in a wet t-shirt. And at the film's centre is a knockout, beyond self-parody performance from Faye Dunaway. Here she plays Joan Crawford playing a blind woman who might not, in fact, be blind at all. Dunaway confirms the suspicion that she was an actress born 30 years too late for the kind of scripts that would have best served her unique brand of throbbing melodrama. The rest of the cast, particularly the usually reliable Travanti, soon follow her over the top. The result is a compulsive 90 minutes of hammy and thoroughly enjoyable action. On the DVD: Presented in letterbox widescreen (1.85:1) format for maximum effect Midnight Crossing surfaces pretty much as it did in the cinema. Picture quality is fine. The daylight scenes on board the yacht certainly benefit but the interminable night-time struggles are less convincing. Were they shot in a tank? Probably, if the dull stereo sound quality at this point is anything to go by. Extras are limited to the original cinema trailer and filmographies of the leading players.--Piers Ford

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 3 - Part 3 | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £15.15   |  Saving you £7.83 (64.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jack Ford has earned a reputation as someone to be feared and respected in Gallowshields. Realises his ambition to get on he lives well and doesn't seem to want for money. Continuing to mix with aristocracy while maintaining his Seaton family ties he also looks out for his Union comrades. Episodes Featured The Father of Lies Diamond Cut Diamond A Marriage and a Massacre High Life and Hunger Please Say Goodbye Before You Go

• Bluebeard | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £21.75   |  Saving you £-13.77 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Artist Gaston Morrell hires models to paint their portraits, then strangles them when the portraits are complete! Latest model Lucille soon learns of his dark secret and vows to bring him to justice.

• Ninja Squad | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Ninja empire is at stake as the supreme Ninja master and his disciple confront Ivan the Red a power-hungry Ninja.When the police fail to help the young disciple must reveal his amazing fighting ability to save his sister and avenge his mother's murder. The master must face Ivan the Red in a final gruelling duel to determine the fate of the Ninja Empire.The young Ninja must reveal his power to survive.

• Memory Run | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £8.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-49.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  LA 2015 AD. The Life Corporation a mega-government alliance of the police judiciary and health branches of government has discovered the secret of immortality... Manipulated by a corrupt judicial system in order to complete the first phase of an experimental brain transplant Andre Fuller an innocent man is framed and convicted for the murder of a wealthy woman. In a macabre blurring of a capital punishment and medical science Andre's brain is transplanted into the still liv

• Carrie | DVD | (07/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A Stephen King horror story about a high school girl with telekinetic powers who is pushed into a no-return path of bloody vengeance when she becomes the victim of cruel classmates.

• Mr Deeds / Big Daddy / Anger Management | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mr Deeds (Dir. Steven Brill 2002): Small town guy Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler) inherits a billion fortune from his deceased uncle. He promptly moves to the big city where he meets Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder) a tabloid reporter who poses as a small town girl to uncover an expos'' on Mr Deeds. Conniving opportunists attempt to get their hands on his money while Deeds' sincere naivet'' has Babe falling in love with him. Ultimately Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things but it doesn't necessarily need to change him... Big Daddy (Dir. Dennis Dugan 1999): Thirty-two-year old Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed...and he can't return the kid. Uh-oh for Sonny! Anger Management (Dir. Peter Segal 2003): Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) is usually a mild-mannered non-confrontational guy. But after an altercation aboard an airplane he is remanded to the care of anger management therapist Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) who could probably use some anger management himself. Now Dave is really mad!

• End Game | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sex is a currency it commands power and can instil fear. Tom a young man with a troubled past finds himself drawn into a seedy underworld run by George Norris a super villain with a sadistic streak. Tom becomes a helpless pawn in one of Norris's narcotic scams with a bent cop Dunston and is dragged deeper into a viscious circle of blood money vice and ruthless violence from which there seems no way out; until fate gives Tom a glimmer of hope. When Norris is killed in his apartment Tom seizes his chance to escape. Terrified and covered in Norris's blood Tom heads downstairs to his neighbours Max and Nikki his new friends in the city. With going to the police out of the question Max and Nikki speed Tom to their isolated cottage deep in the Welsh countryside. With the luxury of space Tom begins to realise a long-forgotten dream; a return to happier times before his innocence was shattered. Suppressed emotions flood back provoked by Tom's attraction to Nikki a beautiful woman fascinated by Tom's past. Yet how long can this last with Dunston desperate to hunt down Tom before he exposes the corruption? It's only a matter of time before his deadly past catches up with himagain. But just how much is Tom willing to sacrifice....?

• Farscape 3.4 | DVD | (19/08/2002) from £17.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (28.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Well over half way through its third season and Farscape has plenty more surprises in store. This box set concludes the cliffhanger of "Infinite Possibilities" with the extraordinarily brave "Icarus Abides", in which the battle between Crichton and his Scorpius clone is resolved, but with fatal consequences. Then, in a dizzying change of pace, we return to Moya and the "other" Crichton for "Revenging Angel", part of which is a madcap Farscape take on the Road Runner cartoons, with a furious D'Argo standing in for Wiley Coyote. Matters turn sombre again as Aeryn communes with the spirits of the dead in "The Choice", but the reappearance of her mum, the vengeful Xhalax Sun, creates problems for Rygel and Stark. Across these four episodes the action seesaws between the crews of Moya and Talyn until a reluctant and painful reunion takes place in "Fractures", setting the scene for the final quartet of episodes of this enthralling season. Anyone who has not followed Farscape extremely closely from the very first episode of season one should go right back and begin at the beginning. On the DVD: four uncut episodes are accompanied by the now-familiar gallery of extras. There are "Info Pods" on D'Argo and Pilot, some deleted scenes, "Farscape Facts", Sci-Fi channel promos and a picture gallery. --Mark Walker

• Crazy In Alabama | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (40.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's clear why Melanie Griffith saw Mark Childress's bestselling book Crazy in Alabama, as the perfect vehicle for herself. The role of Lucille, a beautiful, battered wife in rural Alabama who dreams of glamorous movie stardom, is tailor-made for her. Griffith's husband, Antonio Banderas, has done quite a respectable job guiding her in this, his directorial debut; her performance--compelling, funny, and warm--is her best since Something Wild. (She also looks simply smashing.) Otherwise, the film is a curious amalgam of genres: an antic, surreal Southern Gothic comedy combined with a deadly serious civil-rights parable. As the movie opens, in the summer of 1965, Lucille (Griffith) has just murdered her abusive husband and is blowing town for Hollywood with his head in a Tupperware container. Scenes of her wacky cross-country road trip are interspersed with incidents back in Alabama involving clashes between protesting blacks and murderously intolerant whites. One can't imagine how these two seemingly disparate narrative lines will come together, but they do, in a surprisingly effective manner. The moral of both stories turns out to be: "You can bury freedom, but you can't kill it". Stand-out performances by Robert Wagner, as Lucille's Hollywood agent; Rod Steiger, as a quirky Southern judge; Lucas Black (Sling Blade) as Lucille's highly principled young nephew; and, believe it or not, Meat Loaf, as a brutal, bigoted Southern sheriff give the film an additional boost. --Laura Mirsky

• The Square Peg | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Square Peg marks a slight departure for Norman Wisdom, being his first comedy to be set, however recently, in the past. He plays one of a pair of council workmen, who while repairing the road outside an army base come to illustrate the oxymoronic nature of the phrase "military intelligence". Finding themselves drafted, the workmen are sent to repair the roads ahead of the Allied advance through war-torn Europe by the sergeant they previously embarrassed. Norman finds himself behind the German lines, joins-up with French Resistance, gets captured then sets out to rescue British prisoners from a German military HQ by impersonating General Schreiber. Of course Wisdom plays Schreiber too, offering the sort of comedy stereotyping which Basil Fawlty in best "Don't mention the war" mode would appreciate. The Square Peg is the film which introduced Norman Wisdom's famous catch-phrase, "Mr. Grimsdale!" for whenever disaster struck. The long suffering Mr Grimsdale is played by Edward Chapman, who would reprise the role in Wisdom's A Stitch in Time (1963) and The Early Bird (1965), as well as playing Mr Philpots in The Bulldog Breed (1960). Hattie Jacques gets to sing a remarkable duet with Wisdom, and a pre-Goldfinger (1964) Honor Blackman provides the love interest.--Gary S. Dalkin

• WWE - No Way Out 2012 | Blu Ray | (01/10/2012) from £22.21   |  Saving you £-2.22 (-11.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Desperate measures have earned the Big Show an ironclad contract from John Laurinaitis. Now the Big Show vows to take out 14 years of pent-up aggression on John Cena inside the confines of a 15-foot high steel cage, but if the Big Show falls to Cena, Mr. McMahon will utter those 2 infamous words to the reviled GM...'You're Fired!' Plus, the WWE Championship is contested amidst a bizarre love-quartet involving the unstable Diva AJ and three Triple Threat combatants - CM Punk, Daniel Bryan and...

• Passing | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-0.55 (-9.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dying is a punishment to some to some a gift and to some a favour.... Ernie and his best friend Rose buddies since World War II have outlived their youth outlived their families and outlived all hopes for the future. Yet despite their austere existence a gentle whimsy and affection for each other fills their days. With humour and courage they face the increasing vulnerability in a world that moves faster than they can. Wade is a drifter and a loner who meets and falls in lov

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 1 | DVD | (26/05/2000) 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.What's immediately apparent on watching Volume 1 is the quality of the scripts, proving that great writing is timeless. Of the three episodes on this first disc, the screenplays are by Serling himself (episode 47, "Night of the Meek"), Richard Matheson (episode 51, "The Invaders") and Zone regular George Clayton Johnson (episode 81, "Nothing in the Dark"). The acting does full justice to the writers' high standards. Art Carney as the alcoholic department store Santa Claus in "Night of the Meek" provides a theatre-sized one-man masterclass, his close-up performance conveying all the character's desperation then new-found joy. Veteran Agnes Moorehead (who made her screen debut as Charles Foster Kane's mother in Citizen Kane) faces an unusual challenge in Matheson's almost entirely wordless "The Invaders", in which she plays a frightened old woman who is attacked by tiny aliens (when the mystified Moorehead first read the script, which had no dialogue for her at all, she asked "Where's my part?"). In the claustrophobic two-hander "Nothing in the Dark", a fresh-faced Robert Redford is more than usually charming as Gladys Cooper's unwanted visitor who might or might not be Death himself.On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. --Mark Walker