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• Friends, Series 7 - Episodes 21-23 | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Season 7: Lots happened behind the scenes between seasons and early on in the seventh year of the hit comedy, leaving audiences speculating this might be the last. Perry became seriously ill again, and returned looking more emaciated than ever. Cox regained weight, but despite finishing Scream 3 happily, things were already rocky with David Arquette. Much was made in the press about Aniston marrying Brad Pitt, of course, but the real news (allaying fans' fears) was NBC's expensive renewal of the cast for two years at $750,000 per episode each (more than six times their previous increase). On-screen, at least there was Chandler and Monica's engagement lasting the whole year, despite predictable ups and downs (eg: "T.O.W. the Truth About London" revealing that Monica fancied Joey). By the time we finally get to "T.O.W. Chandler's Dad" (Kathleen Turner), it seems inevitable that the two-part finale will be an insane mess--but with a happy-ish ending. Sure enough, "T.O.W. Chandler and Monica's Wedding" features Gary Oldman joining in the chaos as Chandler repeatedly goes missing. Other star turns in the year were Seinfeld's Jason Alexander as a suicidal Office Manager, Susan Sarandon as soap queen bitch Jessica Lockhart, Denise Richards as one of Ross and Monica's endless number of cousins and Winona Ryder as a surprise old friend, prompting "T.O.W. Rachel's Big Kiss". But perhaps the most telling instalment of this weirdly atmospheric year was "T.O.W. They All Turn Thirty". It suggested that maybe the Friends are all getting too old to carry on living their frivolous lives the same way after all. --Paul Tonks

• Zero Patience | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this wacky musical with a message the ghost of Patient Zero the French-Canadian flight attendant who allegedly first brought AIDS to Canada materialises and tries to contact old friends... A timely and eccentric musical that serves up water baller dancing jungle animals and singing butt puppets to explore the politics of AIDS scapegoating!

• Jacknife | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £14.45   |  Saving you £-8.46 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Made in 1989 and set 15 years after the end of the Vietnam War, Jacknife tells the story of alcoholic trucker Dave (Ed Harris) who lives with his sister Martha (Kathy Baker). Robert De Niro is Megs, Dave's ex-'Nam sidekick who re-enters his life on the promise of a fishing trip. Megs and Martha embark on a tentative courtship to the seething fury of Dave, who considers Megs "bad news". However, through wartime flashbacks it soon becomes clear that his hitting the bottle is a means of bottling up his feelings about Vietnam, Megs and their mutual buddy Bobby, killed in action. Ruminative and romantic, Jacknife slow-burns its predictable though satisfying way to its resolution, the three main players carrying the burdens of their roles with admirable restraint, especially Ed Harris, whose rage is internalised at the expense of his liver. There are echoes of The Deerhunter but this is not a film of that order or scale, as its low-budget synthesiser soundtrack signifies, feeling at times like a superior made-for-TV affair. On the DVD: A full-screen version with a ratio of 4:3. Neither sound nor picture quality are exactly a showcase for DVD technology, both being a little fuzzy, while the dubbing goes noticeably awry on 42 minutes. Special features are decidedly un-special: the original, lugubrious trailer plus "talent profiles" which are merely lists of the main players' previous films. --David Stubbs

• 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

• The Twilight Zone - Season 3 (Colour) | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow between science and superstition and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area we call...The Twilight Zone! Episodes comprise: 1. Two 2. The Arrival 3. The Shelter 4. The Passerby 5. A Game of Pool 6.

• On The Buses - The Best Of Series 3 And 4 - Vol. 3 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Running from 1969 to 1973 On The Buses was one of the most successful comedy series ever made. Re-live the flares and wide collars with the On The Buses crew. 'On the Buses' is British comedy at its best. Starring Reg Varney as jack-the-lad bus driver Stan Bob Grant as his chirpy conductor Jack and Stephen I'll 'ave you Butler! Lewis as the long-suffering dim-witted Inspector Blake who does his best to get the buses out on time while making their lives as miserable as possible. Episode titles: Going Steady The Squeeze On The Make Brew It Yourself.

• The Dead Pit | DVD | (08/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A mad doctor performs fiendish experiments on a group of mental asylum patients. In an effort to stop the slaughter a colleague eventually feels driven to kill him The corpse of the once brilliant Dr. Ramzi is sealed along with those of his victims in a pit. Twenty-one years later a beautiful young woman suffering from total amnesia is admitted. Soon after a massive earthquake hits the asylum and strange and terrifying events start to happen.

• Barbershop / Barbershop 2 / Soul Plane | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Barbershop (Dir. Tim Story 2002): A smart comedy about a day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin (Cube) who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out. Calvin's barbershop is filled with an eclectic and hilarious cast of characters that share their stories jokes trials and tribulations. In the shop we find Eddie (the Entertainer) an old barber with strong opinions and no customers. Jimmy (Thomas) is a highly educated barber with a superiority complex who can't stand Isaac (Garity) the new white barber who just wants a shot at cutting some hair. Ricky is an ex-con with two strikes against him and is desperately trying to stay straight. Terri (Eve) is a hard-edged woman who can't seem to leave her two-timing boyfriend. And lastly there's Dinka a fellow barber who is madly in love with Terri but doesn't get the time of day. Barbershop 2 (Dir. Kevin Rodney Sullivan 2004): The continuing adventures at the Barbershop where Calvin (Ice Cube) finds his premises under threat from a big name chain of barbers who are taking over the smaller family run ventures in the neighbourhood... Soul Plane (Dir. Jessy Terrero 2004): Why just fly when you can soar with soul? After a humiliating experience on an airplane Nashawn Wade sues the airline and is awarded a huge settlement. Determined to make good with the money Nashawn creates the full service airline of his dreams complete with sexy stewardesses funky music a hot onboard dance club and a bathroom attendant. Departing from all-new Terminal X in Los Angeles Soul Plane gives fly a whole new meaning taking its passengers on a maiden voyage full of comedy!

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

• Dead Long Enough | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £8.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (14.17%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Michael Sheen stars in the role that began his glittering film career as one of two brothers on a stag night in Donegal where they last spent a holiday 16 years ago. Here old passions and love are reignited amidst the unlikely mix of an ex- local gun runner a suspicious Garda and the British Army. This begins a sequence of misunderstandings and mishaps with hilarious consequences. With breathtaking scenery Dead Long Enough is in the very best tradition of Irish comedy film making.

• Blood Camp Thatcher | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In a faceless and clinical landscape of the future where every living soul is a potential enemy of the State a degenerate hierarchy - ruling by terror and intimidation - wields absolute and ultimate power over life and death. The State has become master; the protesters deviates the unfortunates who end up at notorious Camp 17 have little to look forward to. Behind the electrified fences a band of sadistic guards - teasing taunting dispensing cruelty at the crack of a whip - make survival a living hell. The cold-blooded commandant Thatcher and his devious cronies live a life of two pleasures: one of the flesh the other organising regular Turkey Shoots - it is the only possible escape. With a head start selected prisoners are allowed to run beyond the camp's boundaries to the hills and apparent freedom whilst Thatcher and his evil menagerie scheme to devise fascinating and gruesome deaths for their 'turkeys'. As the hunt begins so does the ultimate nightmare.

• Trouble Bound | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £13.09   |  Saving you £-3.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An ex-con just out of the joint finds himself with $5000 a convertible Lincoln and a beautiful woman; that's before he's forced to go on the run from the Mafia...

• Inhabited | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Russell's think that they have found their dream home the perfect place to raise their kids teenaged son Tyler and young imaginative Gina. Before long the dream house becomes a nightmarish hell as haunting events rattle the family. Strange noises broken toys murdered pets - is it the work of the beasts Gina describes or a disturbed child acting out? Dr. Werner a child psychologist is brought in to help Gina come to grips with reality. But can Dr. Werner come to grips with the chilling truth - a vicious pack of creatures no doctor can cure. The house becomes a battleground between the new occupants and the ancient monsters beneath. Not since Poltergeist has a family fought so hard for their home and their lives taking one final stand to keep their home from becoming... INHABITED!

• Kingdom Of Heaven | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Minder - Series 2 - Part 1 Of 4 - Episodes 1 - 3 | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £9.12   |  Saving you £9.86 (160.85%)   |  RRP £15.99

  EPISODE 1 - National Pelmet: Minding a race horse was the last thing Tery expected to happen when he goes to the seaside for the day with Arthur. EPISODE 2 - Whose Wife Is It Anyway?: Arthur visits an old friend Alex in hospital who has been threatened and beaten up. Terry moves in to mind Alex's antique shop while he is laid up. EPISODE 3 - You Lose Some You Win Some: Having promised his wife that he won't gamble anymore Maurice organises a gambling school of six punters

• Snake Eyes / Bringing Out The Dead | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Snake Eyes (Dir. Brian De Palma 1998): An explosive highly entertaining action thriller Snake Eyes teams Nicolas Cage with Gary Sinise; Cage is an Atlantic City cop who along with an arena full of spectators at a championship prize-fight is eyewitness to a political assassination! Determined to quickly solve the crime he immediately launches an intensive investigation... then learns that a search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-wideni

• 29 Palms | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When hapless office assistant (Davis) uncovers an illegal casino ring run by his boss he grabs the money and runs for his life. Now he's got casino bosses a hitman a corrupt cop all chasing him for the bag of money. Who will survive to claim the cash and get out of 29 Palms?

• Henry Purcell - England My England | DVD | (03/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Tony Palmer directs this unique film drama about the great English composer Henry Purcell. Very little is known about his life but the script - by Charles Wood and the late John Osborne - solves this problem by launching a group of actors in the 1960s on a voyage of discovery into the 1660s & late-17th century England the extraordinary period in which Purcell lived. The all-star cast includes Michael Ball Simon Callow Corin Redgrave Letitia Dean John Shrapnel Robert Stephens and many other well-known names. But it is Purcell's music which is the driving force of this dramatisation with a stunning soundtrack performed by a line-up of superb artists such as Susan Graham Stephen Varcoe Lynne Dawson Nancy Argenta James Bowman and Michael Chance. The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists are conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

• Chocky - The Complete Collection | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Chocky: The first series tells the story of young Matthew Gore an intelligent lad who is chosen by a mysterious extra-terrestrial visitor Chocky as a source of information about life on earth. As Matthew's schoolwork and artistic talent improve dramatically his parents become concerned about the strange changes in his behaviour and refer him to a child psychiatrist. But his dubious social connections lead to Matthew's subsequent kidnap as a ruthless businessman tries to ta

• Cars/The Incredibles (Disney Pixar) | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Titles Comprise: Cars:Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) is a cocky rookie race car. Speeding on his way to a big race he crashes into Radiator Springs destroying lots of the inhabitants' belongings! In order to make up for what he did the raucous roadster is sentenced to community service. Though he will do anything to get away from the work McQueen must learn to respect and bond with the Radiator Springs inhabitants in order to get out of the town and back on the racetrack... After taking moviegoers magically into the realm of toys bugs monsters fish and superheroes the masterful storytellers and technical wizards at Pixar Animation Studios (The Incredibles Finding Nemo Monsters Inc.) and Academy Award-winning director John Lasseter (Toy Story A Bug's Life) hit the road with a fast-paced comedy adventure set inside the world of cars. Fuelled with plenty of humour action heartfelt drama and amazing new technical feats Cars is a high octane delight for moviegoers of all ages. The Incredibles:From the Academy Award-winning creators of Toy Story and Finding Nemo comes this hilarious animated adventure about a team of superheroes. Bob Parr was once known as Mr Incredible the world's greatest superhero. Fifteen years later Bob and his wife Helen (Formerly Elastigirl) have adopted civillian identities and retreated to the suburbs to lead ""normal lives"" with their three children. Now Bob's a clock-punching insurance claims adjuster fighting boredom and an ever-bulging waistline. However Bob is thrown back into the world of super-heroism when he receives a mysterious communication summoning him to a remote island for a top-secret mission. Yet again Pixar continue their trend for making ground-breaking animated films stretching the boundries laid down by their previous movies.