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• Full Metal Jacket - Special Edition | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  One of a series of revisionist Vietnam cinema released in the late 1980s, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket is essentially split into two stories linked by a number of characters. The film follows new recruit Joker (Matthew Modine) and his fellow soldiers through their basic training and into combat in Vietnam. The first half is a chilling portrayal of military brutality and de-humanisation, mainly at the hands of Sgt Hartman (played at a level of staggering intensity by ex-Marine Lee Ermey), that centres around the tragic character of Private Pyle, a young man pushed to the edge of his endurance. The tone of the film is no less harsh when transported to the combat zone as we see the results of the training process in action: the young men turned into unquestioning killing machines. Joker is perhaps the one exception, a soldier with "Born to Kill" written on his helmet who also sports a peace sign on his lapel. But the film finds itself caught in the trap of many of the war movies of the time--how to create audience empathy with characters who are essentially in the wrong. It's a dilemma that Full Metal Jacket never really solves, although as a spectacle the film is a masterpiece. Made in the days before CGI became the norm, the battle sequences--filmed, rather bizarrely, in London's Docklands before its redevelopment--are hugely realistic and are perhaps the key moments of the movie, heightening the disorientation and fear felt by the soldiers. By offering no more than a snapshot of the Vietnam conflict (the action deals with one individual skirmish), Kubrick cleverly leaves any judgement on the war to the audience, although clearly attempting to influence them. The fate of the characters who survive is also left in the balance, but we can perhaps imagine what awaits them. On the DVD: Part of a series of Kubrick DVD reissues, Full Metal Jacket has been treated to the full remastering and restoration treatment. The battle sequences have benefited the most, gaining a new audio and visual crispness and clarity that adds to their already impressive sense of realism--you can almost feel the heat searing from the screen and the explosions detonating around you. Maybe not the best war film ever made, as some may claim, but certainly one to take you right to the heart of the action. --Phil Udell

• Stargate S.G -1: Season 4 (Vol. 19) | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's-pet primary unit SG-1. With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" Goa'uld--the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. On the DVD: Episodes: Double Jeopardy and Exodus. In "Double Jeopardy", SG-1 experiences a bogus journey when they're reunited with their robot doppelgangers (from "Tin Man"). Some welcome resolution is given to their separate story line, since they'd basically been left to fend for themselves. The split-screen effects are excellent allowing the actors to interact with themselves. This was the directorial debut of Michael Shanks (Dr Jackson). The big Season Four finale had a lot of continuity to pull together before allowing our heroes their "Exodus". Sam gets to spend more time with her Tokra father than has been possible while everything disintegrates around them. While Teal'c goes out of his way to avenge the death of an old lover (how many wives has he had?), the unveiling of Earth's most recently acquired piece of technology seems to turn the tide of battle against the Goa'uld. And then all is lost. Including them.--Paul Tonks

• Blackwoods | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A tragic accident leaves a young girl dead. The man responsible goes free. But for the victim's family no crime goes unpunished. Pursued by a family thirsty for vengeance Matt tries to escape to the Blackwoods. But escape is never that easy. Twists and turns reveal themselves as the night grows darker and Matt's chances slip away with the final rays of light...

• The Sigil | DVD | (22/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Rockford Illinois. Local boy, Logan Lewis, is reported dead along with 41 others at a house in Los Angeles, CA. The government releases a statement blaming a undiscovered uranium mine nearby. The bodies, over-exposed to radiation, have been confiscated. The house ruined and destroyed. Shaken by her brother's death, Devan seeks answers. She recruits her childhood friend, Nate, to come with her to California and make peace with Logan's death. Nate, caught up in the conspiracy, brings along his ...

• The Take | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Crime Was Only The Beginning... Living in gang-infested Boyle Heights in East L.A. loving family-man Felix Delgado (Leguizamo) does the best he can to provide for his wife Marina (Perez) and two kids. He reports every day to his blue-collar job as an armored truck driver. One morning while driving his route his life is tragically altered when men hijack his truck and force him to participate in a heist of the day's cash. After murdering his co-workers in cold blood the thieves shoot Felix in the head and leave him for dead with the incriminating gun placed in his hand. Felix miraculously survives the close-range blast and after a struggle on the operating table regains consciousness with minimal but permanent damage to his brain's right frontal lobe but leaving him with a changed personality and paranoid emotions as he remembers the incident. Felix soon begins to piece together the elements of the crime and descends into the underbelly of East LA to exact revenge on the man he suspects took his life away.

• One Step Closer | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Daniel Green is 74 years old and crippled yet tales abound around town that a seemingly aged man is able to execute quite extraordinary feats of strength. What exactly is Daniel's secret? Has he stumbled across the secret of everlasting life or is there something more sinister going on? As the townfolk grow ever more worried a shocking accident throws their world into turmoil...

• The Imitation Game | Blu Ray | (09/03/2015) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Zavvi Exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook. The Imitation Game is a gripping, acclaimed thriller that tells the incredible true story of unsung war hero Alan Turing, the British mathematician responsible for cracking the German Enigma code during World War II. Benedict Cumberbatch (The Fifth Estate, Star Trek Into Darkness, and TV's Sherlock) and Keira Knightley (BAFTA nominee for Atonement, Oscar® nominee for Pride and Prejudice) star as Turing and his ally and fellow code-breaker Joan Clarke, alongside a top-notch cast, including Matthew Goode (Stoker, A Single Man), Mark Strong (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Rory Kinnear (Skyfall), Charles Dance (Gosford Park, TV's Game of Thrones), Allen Leech (In Fear, TV's Downton Abbey) and Matthew Beard (An Education).

• Cinderella / Bambi / Mary Poppins / Alice In Wonderland / Dumbo | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £129.99

  This amazing box set features 10 Disney classics for the whole family to enjoy! Cinderella (2 Disc Special Edition) (1950): Cinderella dreams of romance and a better life while serving the selfish needs of her wicked stepmother and two stepsisters. With the help of her mischievous mice friends Gus and Jaq and a little Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo from the magical wand of her Fairy Godmother Cinderella meets the handsome Prince Charming at the Royal Ball. But as she flees the castle before the stroke of midnight breaks the spell Cinderella leaves behind a single glass slipper... Mary Poppins (2 Disc Special Edition) (1964): Julie Andrews stars as the loveable nanny who soars out of the skies and into the hearts of everyone she encounters. Toting a carpetbag full of magical adventures Mary and her fun-loving sidekick Bert deliver endless joy and surprises to a troubled family. Bambi (2 Disc Special Edition) (1942): Bambi a young deer hailed as 'Prince Of The Forest' at his birth is left to fend for himself after his mother is killed by a hunter... Acknowledged for generations as perhaps Disney's greatest animated classic the funny touching and timeless masterpiece that is 'Bambi' was indeed fondly remembered by Walt Disney himself as his favourite animated film. Alice In Wonderland (1951): Lewis Carroll's immortal literary classic comes to life like never before. The surprises begin when a daydreaming Alice encounters a White Rabbit who is frantically running late. She chases him and falls into the magical madcap world of Wonderland with its kaleidoscope of off-the-wall characters. Aristocats (1970): A kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to her family - a family of adorable high-society cats. Overhearing her plan Edgar the greedy butler catnaps Duchess the elegant soft-spoken mother and her three mischievous kittens and abandons them in the French countryside. The charming Thomas O' Malley a rough-and-tumble alley cat saunters by and offers to escort them home. Dumbo (1941): When a slow stork finally delivers Mrs. Jumbo's pint-sized baby elephant he's the talk of the circus. But with a pair of oversized ears baby Dumbo is laughed at and ridiculed. With remarkable courage and the help of his loyal friend Timothy Mouse Dumbo overcomes all odds in a triumphant celebration of love and determination! Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971): Angela Landsbury gives a bewitching performance as an amateur witch who reluctantly takes in three precocious orphans. The children soon find themselves swept aboard a flying bed it's magic brass bedknob their ticket to on fantastic adventure after another. Hercules (1998): Bestowed with superhuman strength a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus and Phil Hercules is tricked by the hilarious hotheaded villain Hades who's plotting to take over Mount Olympus! Hercules must now choose between his legendary strength and his true love the Grecian beauty Meg. Robin Hood (1973): The legend of Robin Hood one of the most popular stories of all time is brought magically to life in this full length animated Disney classic. The spirit of fun and romance abounds as Robin Hood the swashbuckling hero of Sherwood Forest and his valiant sidekick Little John plot one daring adventure over another. The Sword In The Stone (1963): A sword mysteriously embedded in a massive stone offers this challenge: whoever can pull it from the stone will become the king of England! Many try to remove the sword and fail and for an awkward young squire in training the quest seems ludicrous! However...

• The Little Rascals | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Little Rascals

• EDtv | DVD | (18/05/2015) from £6.75   |  Saving you £3.24 (48.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The third entry of 1998-99's cinematic TV trilogy kind of got lost in the shuffle following The Truman Show, an art film masquerading as a blockbuster, and Pleasantville, a heartfelt feel-good movie masquerading as a special-effects extravaganza. Edtv is nothing more than it appears: a scruffy comedy about fame and its discontents. Matthew McConaughey stars as Ed, a white-trash rube who gets his own dawn-to-midnight TV series in which every aspect of his life, no matter how sordid or dull or embarrassing, becomes mass entertainment (it inverts Truman by having the protagonist invite the pervasive cameras). Predictably, fame makes him miserable and, unsurprisingly, he finds a way out of his predicament. Albert Brooks covered this same territory in the funnier Real Life, and it's probably not the best idea for a load of comfy celebs to preach to us about how difficult fame is. But the film is cannily cast, including a number of performers who themselves have fallen victim to stupid media tricks (McConaughey, Ellen DeGeneres as the network executive, Elizabeth Hurley as a vamp hitching her star to Ed's and Woody Harrelson as Ed's even dumber brother). Structurally, the movie is a mess. It looks as if the filmmakers had the choice between making a fully realised, two-and-a-half-hour-long movie that no one would sit through or one that clocks in under two hours but has a lot of plot holes; they opted for the latter (Hurley's character disappears, practically without comment). Still, there are enough laughs to keep things moving and as a shaggy dog tale it's decent fun. --David Kronke, Amazon.com --This text refers to another version of this video.

• Mischief 3000 | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The import tuning company Teckademics brings you Mischief! A sixty minute feature packed with illegal street racing out-running cops hot-chicks crazy skits auto abuse tight imports fat euros running barricades raiding the 2002 Detroit Auto Show. All in all one definately not to be missed!

• Alien Raiders | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket an idyllic family grocery store in Buck Lake Arizona. But the normal monotony of rounding up shopping carts and settling out the cash drawers is broken at 11:07pm just before closing when a group of masked and armed-to-the-teeth militants invades the store immediately killing several of the employees and shoppers and holding the rest hostage. Though the hostage-takers at first appear to be robbers or terrorists they reveal themselves to be a cadre of rogue scientists that has discovered and tracked an alien infestation to THIS STORE on THIS NIGHT and they are determined to find out which of the survivors are extraterrestrials and end the invasion at any cost.

• The Tale Of Despereaux with Limited Edition 3D Lenticular Sleeve | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-1.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  All hope was lost in a land where sunlight disappeared and the world became dreary grey. Until Despereaux Tilling was born that is!

• Blackwoods | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Crime thriller in which a man is haunted by a drink-driving accident in which he killed a young girl. His guilt causes him paranoid delusions and now driving to visit the family of his new girlfriend in their reclusive woodland home his demons seem to be getting worse...

• Peter Kay's Driven To Distraction | UMD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Transporter 2 | UMD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Mercenary Frank Martin, who specializes in moving goods of all kinds, heads home to the United States.

• Creature | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a secret high-tech government laboratory deep under the Rocky Mountains a military experiment goes terribly wrong unleashing a 5 000 year old creature with the potential to destroy the world.

• Rancid | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £5.36   |  Saving you £4.63 (86.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Writer's block isn't the worst thing that happens to a young author in this thriller. Though he was on track for success his torturous past still haunts him. Then he meets an old love and things seem to be improving until he's framed for murder.

• Vantage Point (with Bonus Digital Copy) | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £13.27   |  Saving you £11.71 (113.91%)   |  RRP £21.99

  When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide. With a "Rashomon" narrative style, the attempted assassination is told from five different perspectives.

• Blackwoods | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A tragic accident leaves a young girl dead. The man responsible goes free. But for the victim's family no crime goes unpunished. Pursued by a family thirsty for vengeance Matt tries to escape to the Blackwoods. But escape is never that easy. Twists and turns reveal themselves as the night grows darker and Matt's chances slip away with the final rays of light.