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• Hotel | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £12.93   |  Saving you £-2.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Genius filmmaker Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas Timecode) brings together a dazzling all-star cast in this story of dark sexual intrigue where no one is quite what they seem and the staff are more in control than the guests. Figgis brings a fresh approach to film-making. Add this to the surplus of bizarre sexual activity and horrific cannibalistic images and Hotel becomes one place you will not want to check into alone...

• The Elephant Man | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Lynch creator of Twin Peaks and acclaimed director of 'Eraserhead' 'Blue Velvet' and 'Wild At Heart' directs this bizarre but true story of courage and human dignity. John Hurt gives the performance of a lifetime as John Merrick the worst freak known to Victorian medical science a man whose body is hideously distorted into a grotesque parody of an elephant. Rescued from a travelling freak show by Sir Frederick Treves Merrick gradually reveals himself to be a strangely sweet and gentle man remarkably unembittered by the degradation and torment he suffered at the circus. Beautifully shot by Freddie Francis and with an excellent supporting cast including Sir John Gielgud Anne Bancroft and Dame Wendy Hiller The Elephant Man is a compelling moving and enchanting story. The film was nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor.

• A Touch Of Frost - Endangered Species | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £4.96   |  Saving you £8.03 (161.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The BAFTA-award winning series starring David Jason is back for another installment of underhand dealings that Frost has to sift through...

• Farscape 1.1 | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £5.98   |  Saving you £19.01 (317.89%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An international co-production of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Australia's Channel 9 and Hallmark Entertainment, Farscape is genre television at its most ambitious, inspired both by the cult appeal of Babylon 5 and the continuing success of the Star Trek franchise. Making extensive use of CGI, prosthetics and state-of-the-art puppetry, Farscape takes a visual leap beyond previous shows. Admittedly, the basic premise may be borrowed from Buck Rogers (American astronaut catapulted to far-flung galaxy populated by strange aliens), while the crew have something of Blake's 7 about them (a motley bunch of escaped convicts pursued by a relentless foe), and ideas like the living ship are borrowed from Babylon 5, but the Farscape concept has a freshness that makes it look and feel completely original. The production design is all bio-mechanical curves and the script never takes itself too seriously (fart jokes and double-entendres pop up when you least expect them). It must have been expensive to make, but it certainly looks (and sounds--in Dolby Digital 5.1) like every penny made it to the screen. In this handsome box set, two discs contain the first four episodes of the first season, completely uncut. In "Premiere", astronaut John Crichton is inadvertently catapulted into a parallel universe where he is taken on board the bio-mechanical ship Moya and meets the inhabitants: D'Argo, a seven-foot-tall Luxan warrior, Zhaan, a blue-skinned Delvian priestess, and the diminutive slug-like Rygel, the Henson Creature Shop's proudest creation. Another humanoid (and potential love interest), formidable-yet-sexy Peacekeeper Aeryn Sun, joins soon after. In true Buck Rogers style, Ben Browder plays Crichton as an all-American astronaut, although with a more believable sense of bewilderment; the supporting cast is a mixture of Australian and British actors, mostly disguised under heavy make-up. In episode 2, "Throne for a Loss", Rygel's devious side is developed further as he gets the crew into trouble when he "borrows" a crystal crucial to the operation of the ship and is kidnapped by some unpleasant characters. Disc Two opens with the wittily titled "Back and Back and Back to the Future", the obligatory time-travel episode, followed by "I, E.T.", in which Crichton feels the force of his earlier comment: "Boy did Spielberg get it wrong. Close Encounters, my ass." On the DVD: Disc One includes a "making of" documentary, with comments from the cast, Brian Henson and producer Rockne S. O'Bannon (the man also responsible for Alien Nation and SeaQuest), plus a profile of principal character John Crichton. Disc Two profiles Aeryn Sun and has the original trailer and DVD-ROM extras (screensaver and weblinks). --Mark Walker

• Doctor Who Collector's Edition - Doctor Who And The Daleks / Daleks Invasion Earth - 2150 AD | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In the mid-1960s, with Dalekmania sweeping Britain, BBC TV's Doctor Who materialised on the silver screen. Doctor Who and the Daleks replaced William Hartnell with Peter Cushing and remade the Daleks' TV debut with a much bigger budget in Technicolor and Techniscope. With his two granddaughters, Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden (and Roy Castle along for comic relief), the Doctor becomes an intermediary in a conflict between the robotic Daleks and angelic Thals on the almost dead world of Skaro. A huge hit on release, the film remains an enjoyable, well-produced family adventure, though somewhat lacking the menace of the TV original. Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD remakes the second Dalek TV serial and finds the Doctor and companions in a ravaged future London where a resistance movement has literally gone underground to fight the Nazi-like alien invaders. Peter Cushing once more makes a kindly, dependable Doctor, though Bernard Cribbins is given a cringe-making comedy routine impersonating a "roboman", and the jazzy soundtrack is wildly out of place. Nevertheless this is a superior sequel, offering lavish production values, better action set-pieces and a higher suspense and fear factor than its predecessor. The best moments remain surprisingly chilling even today. On the DVD: Doctor Who and the Daleks--the first disc--has a fun, very well-made 1995 documentary running 57 minutes and recounting the production of both feature films. Included are interviews with various surviving cast members. There is also an affectionate commentary with Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden, hosted by Jonathan Southcote, author of The Cult Films of Peter Cushing. Sadly Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD has no substantial extra features, but both discs include the respective trailer, presented anamorphically enhanced, and a DVD-ROM reproduction of the relevant cinema brochure. The mono sound is good and the pin-sharp, vibrantly colourful, anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 transfers are all but flawless, making both films look good as new. --Gary S Dalkin

• Sweet Karma | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Beverly Hills Cop Collection | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £21.25   |  Saving you £8.74 (41.13%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Musicals Collection - Xanadu/Sweet Charity/Thoroughly Modern Millie | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £12.13   |  Saving you £2.86 (19.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Xanadu: A look at the future and a loving remembrance of the way things were in the heyday of Hollywood. Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly star in this dazzling musical with score including the hit songs 'Magic' 'I'm Alive' 'All Over The World' 'Suddenly' and the title song 'Xanadu'. Sweet Charity: New York dance hall hostess Charity (Maclaine) who dreams of old-fashioned romance but gives her heart to one undeserving man after another; will she find true love after all? Bob Fosse's dazzling musical based on Neil Simon's smash Broadway hit. Thoroughly Modern Millie: Julie Andrews stars as Millie an innocent country girl who comes to the big city in search of a husband. Along the way she becomes the secretary of the rich and famous Trevor Graydon (John Gavin) befriends the sweet Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore) fights off white slaver Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie) and hooks up with a lively paper clip salesman Jimmy (James Fox). In the end it takes a rich and nutty jazz baby like Muzzy (Carol Channing) to unravel all these complications give a great party and match up lovers!

• A Touch of Frost: Series 6 - 10 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £27.95   |  Saving you £42.04 (150.41%)   |  RRP £69.99

  A must for all fans of BAFTA winning David Jason detective series, A Touch of Frost. This 10-disc set features all the episodes from series six to ten.

• Eagle Has Landed, The / The Ipcress File | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the spy-crazed film world of the 1960s, Len Deighton's antihero Harry Palmer burst onto the scene as an antidote to the James Bond films. Here was a British spy who had a working-class accent and horn-rimmed glasses and above all really didn't want to be a spy in the first place. As portrayed by Michael Caine, Palmer was the perfect antithesis to Sean Connery's 007. Unlike that of his globetrotting spy cousin, Palmer's beat is cold, rainy, dreary London, where he spends his days and nights in unheated flats spying on subversives. He does charm one lady, but she's no Pussy Galore, just a civil servant he works with, sent to keep an eye on him. Eventually he's assigned to get to the bottom of the kidnapping and subsequent "brain draining" of a nuclear physicist, all the while being reminded by his superiors that it's this or prison. Things begin to get pretty hairy for Harry. Produced by Harry Saltzman in his spare time between Bond movies, the film also features a haunting score by another Bond veteran, composer John Barry. --Kristian St. Clair, Amazon.com

• The Addams Family - Volume 1 | DVD | (09/04/2007) from £11.99   |  Saving you £18.00 (60.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Join Gomez Morticia Pugsley Wednesday Uncle Fester and the clan for the complete first season of The Addams Family! Episodes comprise: 1. The Addams Family Goes to School 2. Morticia and the Psychiatrist 3. Fester's Punctured Romance 4. Gomez the Politician 5. The Addams Family Tree 6. Morticia Joins the Ladies League 7. Halloween with the Addams Family 8. Green-Eyed Gomez 9. The New Neighbours Meet the Addams Family 10. Wednesday Leaves Home 11. The Addams Family Meet the V.I.P.'s 12. Morticia the Matchmaker 13. Lurch Learns to Dance 14. Art and the Addams Family 15. The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik 16. The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man 17. Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family 18. Uncle Fester's Illness 19. The Addams Family Splurges 20. Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family 21. The Addams Family in Court 22. Amnesia in the Addams Family 23. Thing is Missing 24. Crisis in the Addams Family 25. Lurch and His Harpsichord 26. Morticia the Breadwinner 27. The Addams Family and the Spacemen 28. My Son the Chimp 29. Morticia's Favourite Charity 30. Progress and the Addams Family 31. Uncle Fester's Toupee 32. Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor 33. Lurch the Teenage Idol 34. The Winning of Morticia Addams

• The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1968 (Box Set 4) | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The final adventures of the oh so dapper John Steed and his sidekick Tara King. Episode titles include: Fog Who Was That Man I Saw You With Pandora Thingumajig Homicide And Old Lace Requiem Take-Over Bizarre

• The Deer Hunter | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Deer Hunter is an astonishing powerful and vivid epic about three men steelworkers from Pennsylvania whose lives are changed irrevocably in the tragic devastation of the Vietnam war. When Michael Steven and Nick are captured by the Vietcong they are forced to play Russian Roulette by their brutal captors who make bets on their survival. The experience of capture leaves them with terrible physical and spiritual wounds and when Michael returns to Saigon to fulfil an old vow to one of his friends he makes an unexpected horrific discovery. Director Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter won no less than 5 Oscars in 1978 for Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actor Best Editing and Best Sound.

• Killer Klowns From Outer Space | Blu Ray | (15/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Space No One Can Eat Ice Cream... Clowns can be terrifying at the best of times - especially when they're Killer Klowns from Outer Space! When Mike and his girlfriend Debbie turn up at the local police station warning that a gang of homicidal alien clowns have arrived in the town of Crescent Grove the cops are naturally sceptical. Talk of popcorn-firing guns and a spaceship shaped like a circus tent out in the woods hardly helps to convince them. Before long however reports start coming in from anxious locals reporting similar run-ins with the colourfully-dressed large shoe-wearing assailants. There can no longer be any doubt - the Killer Klowns from Outer Space are here and they're out to turn the population into candy floss! The sole directorial effort from the Chiodo brothers - the special effects team behind such hits as Critters and Team America: World Police - Killer Klowns from Outer Space is the wacky 1988 horror comedy classic against which all other knowing B-movie efforts should be measured. So in the words of the film's opening theme song hop aboard the 'nightmare merry-go-round' and brace yourself for a cinematic experience unparalleled in this galaxy! Special Features: High definition digital transfer Audio Commentary with the Chiodo Brothers The Making of Killer Klowns - a 20-minute featurette comprising interviews and behind-the-scenes footage Komposing Klowns - interview with composer John Massari Visual Effects with Gene Warren Jr. Kreating Klowns - with Charles Chiodo and creature fabricator Dwight Roberts Chiodo Brothers' Earliest Films - a look back on the first Chiodo Brothers' productions 2 Deleted Scenes with Director's Commentary Killer Bloopers Klown Auditions Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork to be revealed! [Amaray only] Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film

• The Demoniacs | DVD | (24/08/2015) from £16.25   |  Saving you £-3.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sadistic horror directed by Jean Rollin. A gang of pirates kidnap, rape and murder two young girls. The spirits of the two girls make a pact with the devil to avenge themselves on the pirates, and then begin a bloody and protracted quest to murder their killers.

• Films That Define A Decade: '80s | Blu Ray | (22/08/2016) from £15.00   |  Saving you £-1.54 (-11.40%)   |  RRP £13.46

  The excessive ˜80s... where everyone had huge hairdos and massive shoulder pads, mobile phones were the size of bricks and the movies were larger than life. We had John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd starring as The Blues Brothers; An American Werewolf in London took horror to new heights; a young Al Pacino thrilled as the iconic Scarface; and Kurt Russell challenged shape-shifting aliens in The Thing.

• The Grifters | Blu Ray | (20/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Grifters is Stephen Frears' darkly modern noir tale of a small-time grifter Roy Dillon (John Cusack) torn between his new girlfriend (Annette Benning) and his estranged mother (Angelica Huston): both con-artistes with their own angles to play. When small-time cheat Roy Dillon winds up in hospital following an unsuccessful scam it sets up a confrontation between his mother Lilly and sexy girlfriend Myra. Both Myra and Lilly are ruthless at playing the con game in a league far above Roy... and always looking for their next victim. The question soon becomes who's conning who as Roy finds himself caught in a complicated web of passion and mistrust.

• Three Coins In The Fountain | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £7.83   |  Saving you £5.16 (65.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This charming romantic comedy tells the story of three American secretaries and their search for love in Rome. After throwing a coin in the Trevi Fountain and making a wish each of them eventually finds what they are looking for. For Frances (Dorothy McGuire) it is waspish author Clifton Webb. For Anita (Jean Peters) there's office romeo Rossano Brazzi. And for Maria (Maggie McNamara) a real-life handsome prince Louis Jourdan. Exquisitely photographed amidst the splendours of the

• Black Dynamite | Blu Ray | (16/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The House That Dripped Blood | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases all associated with the same unoccupied house...