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• Mutant X, Series 1 Vol.4 | DVD | (31/03/2003) 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 4 contains the following episodes: "The Lazarus Syndrome". Both Emma and GSA agent Pamela are targeted by Caleb, a vampiric mutant whose kiss drains life force from mutants and who rises again each time he is killed. "Interface". Emma tries to convert her school friend Michelle, a GSA agent and super-hacker; their escape from GSA is easy, perhaps too easy. "Presumed Guilty". A memory-stealing mutant frames Adam for a murder and Eckhart exploits the situation to find out Mutant X's whereabouts. "Ex Marks the Spot". Shalimar's unreliable former lover Zack involves Mutant X in the heist of a Faberge egg in which important genetic code has been hidden. The DVDs also contain trailers and interviews with Michael Shea (Adam) and show runner Howard Chaykin. --Roz Kaveney

• The Sopranos: Series 2 (Vol. 4) | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include soldier Chris (Michael Imperioli) hapless efforts to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the Government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --David Stubbs

• Man in the Chair | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £29.16   |  Saving you £-13.17 (-82.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A young social misfit forms an unlikely friendship with a bitter old film industry technician, and enlists the latter's help in making a student film.

• The Mummy / The Scorpion King | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Duet: The Mummy / Scorpion king

• Smallville - Season 1-7 | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £119.99

  Smallville: The Complete First Season Between the boy Clark Kent thought he was and the man he is destined to become lie the compelling stories of Smallville the popular action series that re-imagines the Superman saga from its roots. Watch. Wonder. Enjoy. A legend grows up in Smallville. Smallville: The Complete Second Season This year finds Clark Kent grappling with his calling as he explores his true origins: was he sent to Earth to save humanity or destroy it? Lana and Clark grow closer than ever before. Lex gets married. Lionel lures Chloe toward the dark side. Martha and Jonathan Kent receive miraculous news. And Pete becomes a keeper of Clark's secret. One thing we can't keep secret: the legend grows stronger in Smallville! Smallville: The Complete Third Season The fascinating reinterpretation of Superman mythology and its classic characters continues in an event-packed 22-episode Season 3 that includes Clark's embracing of his dark side...and the devil's bargain Jonathan makes with Jor-El to rescue his son. Other highlights: Perry White and villainous Morgan Edge debut in the series. Clark hones a sensational new power. Chloe lets slip an intriguing reference to someone named Lois Lane. And the secret to Clark's true identity burdens Pete obsesses Lex and drives a wedge between Lana and Clark. The challenges of today shape tomorrow as never before in Smallville. Smallville: The Complete Fourth Season Clark Kent will have plenty of reasons to remember his senior year! The thrilling reinterpretation of the Superman legend evolves in Season 4 whose 22 episodes include the quest for 3 Kryptonian crystals and Clark's bold attempt to keep those mysterious stones from destroying Earth. Clark also becomes a highly recruited football star. Lana embarks on a new romance and Lois Lane - smart opinionated and entirely annoying to Clark - comes to Smallville Chloe learns the scoop of the century. Lionel becomes a straight-up nice guy (stay tuned) Lex steps further into darkness and a new calling awaits Clark - an awakening to a destiny that only he can accept and fulfill. Smallville: The Complete Fifth Season An astonishing season of destiny! Clark Kent now carries a full load of classes at Central Kansas U. but that's not all he carries. He carries the full weight of his - perhaps the world's - destiny. We call this season Superman in Training series co-creator Alfred Gough says. Clark is going to accept his destiny. During this exciting pivotal season: Clark faces rogue Kryptonians. Lex Luthor launches a vicious political campaign. The Fortress of Solitude rises. Clark's love for Lana Lang deepens and he and Lois Lane remain friendly adversaries. He also crosses paths with AC (aka Aquaman) Victor Stone (aka Cyborg) and the mysterious Milton Fine (aka Brainiac). A dark tragedy - one even Clark's powers can't prevent - strikes. These and more key elements of Superman lore fall into place. Smallville: The Complete Sixth Season They tried to be friends. But their chosen paths set them on a collision course. The Clark Kent - Lex Luthor rivalry explodes into the fierce good-versus-evil battle fans have long expected in Season 6 of the spectacular series that reinterprets the characters and events of Superman mythology from its core. Adding to the rivalry: Lana Lang becomes Mrs. Luthor. Clark would be stunned to find out why she says yes. Smallville: The Complete Seventh Season When Clark's cousin Kara (Supergirl) arrives on the scene Clark advises her to keep a low profile and master her powers but Kara has other ideas and becomes the focus of Lex Luthor's powerlust.

• The Sopranos: Series 1 (Vol. 4) | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £15.51   |  Saving you £-1.52 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: this ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there is the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his mid-level capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what is not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Comedy/Horror Box Set | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £17.53   |  Saving you £2.46 (14.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Includes: Jack Frost: He's got ice in his veins and he's cold blooded: his name is Jack Frost. After five years of terror and 38 bodies in five states serial killer Jack is on his way to execution. But a freak accident with a truckload of genetic material in the middle of a snowstorm mutates Jack into a killer snowman. Now only an army can stop the 'slayride' of terror from this frosty monster with icicle fangs. Hell has just frozen over... Root Of All Evil: Th

• Horror | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Eric's Revenge: Missing presumed dead in a fire that destroyed his home Eric Matthews returns a year later to the site now occupied by a massive shopping mall. Demented even insane Eric is obsessed with being reunited with his childhood sweetheart no matter who he kills. Offerings: John Radley has a curious way of liking someone. Be nice to him and you'll start receiving severed body parts. Fingers ears noses... it's only after Tim wakes up with his head in a vi

• Fun With Dick And Jane | UMD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni star in this remake of the 1977 comedy.

• The Stars Collection Quad Pack - Vol. 2 | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £2.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (100.33%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Corruption Empire The death of a corporate mogul due to an overdose from a sexual performance enhancing drug leads to a case in which a witness (Roberts) accuses Detective Curtis (Bratt) of tampering with evidence. Meanwhile Detective Briscoe is set up by a former partner to take the rap for corruption. Now the two cops must take the stand to face the very justice that they defend... Playing God It's high-voltage thrills as hot X-files star David Duchovny and new big-screen bad boy Timothy Hutton square off in an edgy confrontation where the stakes are high...and the action is deadly! Duchovny plays Dr. Eugene Sands an ex-surgeon lured into a dark underworld by a hip - but lethal - mob caught in a web of murder and mayhem and growing far too close to the mobster's seductive mistress played by sexy Angelina Jolie. It's a potent action thriller where passion and deception meet in a battle between good and evil! Al's Lads Adventure drama set in 1927 Chicago surrounding Jimmy and his two Liverpool pals who work as lowly waiters on the Mauretania steaming towards America. They soon become involved in a gin selling racket and before long they are working for legendary gangster Al Capone... All The Queens Men Led by an American a mismatched team of British Special Services agents must infiltrate in disguise a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will help end the war.

• The Legend Of Zorro | UMD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Antonio Banderas returns as the masked hero in this sequel to the 1998 adventure.

• Big Stories, Small Flashes | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nine short films by nine new directors! Five Ways John Wayne Didn't Die: People don't always die in dramatic circumstances. As this character well knows dead but not yet buried he's convinced God that God has a sly sense of humour! (Directed by Martin Wallace) Bouncer: One night in the life of a doorman events spiral out of control when the threat of an angry punter returning turns into a bloody reality... (Directed by Michael Baig-Clifford) First To See Th

• Transformers - Season 1 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This box set features all the episodes of season 1 remastered and enhanced. Available for a limited time only in a special collector's tin box set! Episodes comprise: 1. More Than Meets The Eye (Part 1) 2. More Than Meets The Eye (Part 2) 3. More Than Meets The Eye (Part 3) 4. Transport To Oblivion 5. Roll For It 6. Divide And Conquer 7. Fire In The Sky 8. S.O.S. Dinobots 9. Fire On The Mountain 10. War Of The Dinobots 11. The Ultimate Doom: Brainwash (Part 1 of 3) 12. The Ultimate Doom: Search (Part 2 of 3) 13. The Ultimate Doom: Revival (Part 3 of 3) 14. Countdown To Extinction 15. A Plague Of Insecticons 16. Heavy Metal War

• Contra Conspiracy | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £16.16   |  Saving you £-3.17 (-24.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The C.I.A. inherit footage of the slaughter of a Hollywood movie crew while on location. One crew member the teenage daughter of the slain director escapes the carnage to tell the blood-thirsty tale of staying alive and a counter-revolutionary army's ruthless objectives that must be stopped!

• Octopus 2 | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Deep within the murky depths of New York harbour something is stirring. After the mysterious disappearance of a young couple from a pier police divers discover their mutilated bodies. Who or what could have caused such a grisly mutation...

• The Detonator | UMD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Inglorious Bastards | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in Europe during WWII a group of American soldiers are in the process of being shipped off to military prison for a variety of infractions ranging from desertion to murder. While they're being transported a German artillery attack hits the convoy killing the MPs and enabling four of the prisoners to escape. The group decides their best bet is to head to neutral Switzerland where they can avoid the fighting and prison. As they make their way to what they think will be freedom they end up volunteering for a commando mission to steal a V2 warhead for the French Underground.

• Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure / Van Wilder: Party Liaison / Slackers | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure: Bill and Ted are two cool dudes, but to their teacher they are high school no-hopers. They fantasise about forming a band called 'Wyld Stallyns' - one day they'll put themselves together and learn to play guitar. But unless Ted achieves the seemingly impossible and passes a history presentation, he will be shipped off to military school. End of friendship. ; A figure from the future appears in the nick of time, providing a time-travelling phone booth...

• Dead Awake | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Evil Never Sleeps. He's a sleepwalker in a deadly dreamland a murder witness turned suspect a man without an alibi. Stephen Baldwin (The Usual Suspects) is brilliant marketing executive Desmond Caine a tortured soul stricken with bizarre insomnia that keeps him walking the city's dangerous streets at all hours of the night. During one of his hallucinogenic journeys he witnesses a brutal murder. Upon finding the victim's watch he goes to the police and quickly becomes the main suspect in a twisted tale of cruel corruption big money and cold-blooded killing. How can you stop the nightmare when you're already awake?

• Ghost Rock | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £14.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (6.67%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A band of merciless outlaws led by the ruthless 'Black' Jack Pickett (Gary Busey - 'Lethal Weapon' - 'Under Siege') has been blazing a trail of murder and destruction through the frontier towns of Arizona.In an attempt to bring justice to the lawless West U.S. Ranger Moses Logan (Jeff Fahey - 'The Lawnmower Man' - 'Wyatt Earp) relentlessly pursues Pickett to the small town of Ghost Rock.This peaceful town has been taken over by Pickett and his gang. Out-manned and out-gunned Logan joins forces with the famed bounty hunter John Slaughter (Michael Worth - 'US Seals' - 'Fists Of Iron') and a mysterious female gunfighter (Jenya Lano - 'Blade') to unleash war on Pickett in the streets of Ghost Rock.