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• The Dead Next Door | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-1.64 (-6.80%)   |  RRP £23.99

  This well-known film financed by Sam 'Evil Dead' Raimi follows the effects of a deadly virus which turns corpses into flesh-eating zombies. A crack team of soldiers called The Zombie Squad fight a non-stop struggle for life and death....

• The Doll Squad | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £8.47   |  Saving you £-5.48 (-183.30%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Both director-entrepreneur Ted V Mikels and the packaging of The Doll Squad claim that the TV show Charlie's Angels was ripped off from this cheapo action film. In truth both concepts owe a lot to Emma Peel, Pussy Galore's Flying Circus or the femme armies that crop up in Our Man Flint and other 60s spy efforts. Despite its (horrible) lounge score and eye-straining selection of flared, midriff-baring 70s outfits, Mikels' opus is basically a late-trailing Bond knock-off shot without a stunt budget. Extortionist baddie Eamon O'Reilly (the usually classier Michael Ansara) wants to blackmail the US into handing over secrets and giving into a load of terrorist demands by spreading a bubonic plague manufactured by twin (or clone) mad scientists. "Big Bertha", a computer, suggests that the best way to nail O'Reilly is to send out "the Doll Squad", a cadre of female agents led by Sabrina (Francine York), who can take advantage of his weakness for women (and occasional impotence). The first two choices, a Q-type scientist and a martial artist, are killed by O'Reilly's goons, though Sabrina sees off her would-be assassin with a cigarette lighter/flamethrower that scars his face (and only mildly perturbs the people in the next booth at the bar), so she rounds up a new gang of hairspray-addicted fashion victims: a librarian (Sherri Vernon), a stripper (Tura Satana) and a swimmer (Leigh Christian), later hauling in a squealy and useless undercover girl who is easily kidnapped by O'Reilly to lead them into a trap. We're supposed to believe most of the action takes place in a Dr No-like island retreat but it looks a lot like scrubby California desert and the director's ranch-style "castle". Aside from some fab gear (matching jumpsuits with bust-accenting white lines) the girls have little to do but run around shooting inept stuntmen. On the DVD: For a marginal title, The Doll Squad offers some pleasing extras: a lurid trailer that's probably a more fun watch than the film ("Sabrina's code-prefex is OO-38-24-35!"); a gallery of publicity materials and stills; an exhaustive Mikels filmography; and an odd 1993 interview with the director. The film itself looks as good as it ever will--it's muddily photographed with low-tech effects (the flamethrower flames are just scratched on the emulsion) but at least the colours are vivid and the print is in great condition. --Kim Newman

• Out For Blood | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Martial Arts action. Karateman is out for revenge when his entire family is butchered....

• Orcs! | Blu Ray | (06/06/2011) from £5.97   |  Saving you £14.02 (234.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two park rangers must defend their turf against hordes of rampaging orcs.

• Widespread Panic - Live From Austin, TX | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  If you're among the legions of Widespread Panic fans you already know that the band is legendary for never playing the same show twice - or the same song the same way twice. What makes this performance that much more special is the inspiring presence of found member Michael Houser (whose nickname Panic inspired the band's name) who died of pancreatic cancer less than two years later. As much as anything this is a celebration of Houser's life and the sheer joy he brought to a band that became one of the biggest draws on the international concert circuit and created a vibe that makes the Panic experience unique in the pop rock world. Tracklist: 1. Let's Get Down To Business 2. Ain't Life Grand 3. Space Wrangler 4. Climb To Safety 5. Blue Indian 6. Casa Del Grillo 7. Driving Song/Surprise Valley/Drivin... 8. Travelin' Light 9. Bear's Gone Fishin' 10. Dyin' Man 11. Porch Song

• Street Gun | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Joe is troubled in his search for success. He teams up with his friends Danny and Jake to embark on a life of crime. Their incompetence is quickly revealed as their attempt to pull off a string of robberies ends in disaster. Discouraged and hungry for a life in the big time Joe takes a tip from a street hustler and attempts to join a crime syndicate...

• Street Gun | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Joe is troubled in his search for success. He teams up with his friends Danny and Jake to embark on a life of crime. Their incompetence is quickly revealed as their attempt to pull off a string of robberies ends in disaster. Discouraged and hungry for a life in the big time Joe takes a tip from a street hustler and attempts to join a crime syndicate...

• Flat Out | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £3.75   |  Saving you £6.24 (62.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A tragic accident paralyses professional motorcycle road racer Shaun Powell from the chest down thus ending his promising racing career. Yet when he is inspired by the child safety wheels of a kids toy motorcycle he realises that he may well ride again. When both his wife and his mechanic refuse to get involved in this 'madness' he turns to his (rather strange) neighbour for help. After he has completed this invention Shaun is determined to compete at the highest level....

• Puppet Master 1 And 2 | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Puppet Master': Five psychics hear rumours that the secret of life has been discovered by Andre Toulon a puppeteer and decide to investigate. What they find are five puppets which have been specially designed to kill. 'Puppet Master 2': The group of deadly puppets are back to create more murder and mayhem. This time the victims are a team of researchers.

• Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Twice the Action! Twice The Adventure! Twice The Excitement! Lock and load! It's time for gut-wrenching glove-spanning hardcore military action as Delta Force the world's most elite special operations unit take on international terrorists. Ranging from the deserts of the Middle East to the icy waters of the Bering Sea this battle-hardened squad must face down the threat of nuclear holocaust as they combat the forces of the notorious criminal mastermind Flint Lukash. Utilizing a stolen Russian submarine and a hijacked luxury cruise ship - with its terrified passengers - acting as a shield Lukash evades the combined military forces of the U.S. and Russia to carry out his main objective: the theft of six nuclear missiles. Lukash succeeds in his mission and aims the missiles demanding billion not to unleash them. With his finger poised on the launch button there's only one thing to stand in his way ... Delta Force!

• Adventureland | Blu Ray | (18/04/2011) from £26.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A sweet and slap-happy mix of indie coming-of-age drama and Judd Apatow’s scatological but heartfelt manchild comedies, Greg Mottola’s Adventureland is a winning look at the pleasures and frustrations of dead-end jobs and teenage kicks as viewed through a filter of mid-‘80s pop culture. The underutilized and always watchable Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) is a sheltered, introspective New York college grad who discovers that his parents' financial woes will not only quash his dream of a summer in Europe (to enjoy its more "sexually permissive" nations) but require a move to Pittsburgh, where he lands a job at a dilapidated amusement park. There, he’s thrown in with a motley crew of eccentrics, small-town types and a few genuine free spirits, most notably co-worker Em (Kristen Stewart), whose complicated past proves irresistible to his repressed psyche. Mottola, who directed Superbad, and once worked in a similar park as a teen, doesn’t shy from the crude laughs that make Apatow’s features so popular, but he tempers it with a wistful tone and layered characters that hew closer to his earliest work, The Daytrippers. Though ill-matched at first, Eisenberg and Stewart make a likable on-screen couple, and they’re well-supported by a terrific cast that includes such die-hard scene-stealers as Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as the park’s offbeat owners, Martin Starr as a Russian lit aficionado, and Ryan Reynolds as a former town tamer, now reduced to working as the park’s handyman. A soundtrack performed by underground faves Yo La Tengo and filled with a smart mix of hip cuts (Hüsker Dü, the New York Dolls, the Replacements) and period faves (Falco’s "Rock Me Amadeus") underscores the film’s blend of tentative emotions and broad laughs. -- Paul Gaita