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• Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World | Blu Ray | (04/08/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Scott Pilgrim vs. the WorldScott Pilgrim vs. the World is a finger-blistering time capsule of right now, yet in a hundred years it will still be so crammed with charm, wit, brio, and exuberance it will still be irresistible. Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera, Superbad) is an accidental heartbreaker, a Canadian slacker who obsesses over the girls who've dumped him but hardly realizes how he's dumped other girls. But everything else in his life (including playing bass in a band) fades to insignificance when he lays eyes on Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Live Free or Die Hard), his deadpan pixie dream girl. Unfortunately, Ramona has some serious baggage: seven deadly exes, and Scott must battle them all if he wants to date Ramona. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is saturated in pop culture, particularly video games. Many events make almost no sense, but it doesn't matter--sheer narrative ferocity and glee of invention sweep the viewer along. Cera pushes his geek/dork dreamboat persona to new heights of sweet twee-ness; if this movie doesn't shoot him into the stratosphere, we live in a cold, unfeeling universe, bereft of justice. The whole supporting cast (including Kieran Culkin, Jason Schwartzman, Anna Kendrick, Chris Evans, Brandon Routh, and a host of less familiar but excellent young actors) plays every moment for all it's worth. This movie is supremely uncool and passionate, which makes it essential viewing. --Bret FetzerHot FuzzA major British hit, a lorryload of laughs and some sparkling action? We’ll have some of that. It’s fair to say that Hot Fuzz proves that Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s brilliant Shaun Of The Dead was no one-off, serving up a superbly crafted British homage to the Hollywood action movie. Deliberately set in the midst of a sleepy, quaint English village of Sandford, Pegg’s Nicholas Angel is sent there because, bluntly, he’s too good at his job, and he’s making his city colleagues look bad. The proverbial fish out of water, Angel soon discovers that not everything in Sandford is quite as it seems, and joins forces with Nick Frost’s lumbering Danny Butterman to find out what’s what. Hot Fuzz then proceeds to have a rollicking good time in both tipping its hat to the genre films that are clearly its loving inspiration, and coming up with a few tricks of its own. It does comedy better than action, with plenty of genuine laugh-out-loud moments, but it’s no slouch either when the tempo needs raising. One of the many strong cards it plays is its terrific cast, which includes former 007 Timothy Dalton, Bill Nighy, Bill Bailey, Paddy Considine, Edward Woodward and Jim Broadbent. Hot Fuzz, ultimately, just falls short of Shaun Of The Dead, but more than does enough to warrant many, many repeat viewings. It’s terrific fun, and in the true hit action movie style, all-but-demands some form of sequel. That said, with Pegg and Wright now with two excellent, and suitably different, genres ticked off, it’ll be interesting to see what they do next. A period drama, perhaps…? --Simon Brew Shaun of the DeadIt's no disparagement to describe Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s zombie-rom-com Shaun of the Dead as playing like an extended episode of Spaced. Not only does the movie have the rather modest scope of a TV production, it also boasts the snappy editing, smart camera moves, and deliciously post-modern dialogue familiar from the sitcom, as well as using many of the same cast: Pegg’s Shaun and Nick Frost’s Ed are doppelgangers of their Spaced characters, while Jessica Stevenson and Peter Serafinowicz appear in smaller roles. Unlike the TV series, it’s less important for the audience to be in on the movie in-jokes, though it won’t hurt if you know George Romero’s famous Dawn of the Dead trilogy, which is liberally plundered for zombie behaviour and mythology. Shaun is a loser, stuck in a dead-end job and held back by his slacker pal Ed. Girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) is exasperated by his lack of ambition and unceremoniously dumps him. As a result, Shaun misses out on what is apparently the end of the world. In a series of beautifully choreographed and edited scenes, including hilarious tracking shots to and from the local shop, he spectacularly fails to notice the death toll and subsequent zombie plague. Only when one appears in their back garden do Shaun and Ed take notice, hurling sundry kitchen appliances at the undead before breaking out the cricket bat. The catastrophe proves to be the catalyst for Shaun to take charge of his life, sort out his relations with his dotty mum (Penelope Wilton) and distant stepdad (Bill Nighy), and fight to win back his ex-girlfriend. Lucy Davis from The Office and Dylan Moran of Black Books fame head the excellent supporting cast. --Mark Walker

• Catholics | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Controversial for its time The Catholics stars Trevor Howard in a powerhouse performance as the Abbot in charge of a remote Irish monastery in Mork Eire. In defiance of an edict from Rome the Abbot and his monks elect to travel to the Irish mainland in order to celebrate the Mass in Latin. Refusing to bow down to Papal pressure and use English for their Mass the monks of Mork soon become celebrated amongst orthodox Catholics and Eire turns into a place of international pilgrimage. Alarmed by the Abbot's populist move Rome acts to quell the dissent when The Father General (Raf Vallone) sends his representative Father Kinsella (Martin Sheen) to force the Abbot to cease the Latin masses or be transferred to another position. When the two men argue against each other's religious beliefs and interpretations the Abbot discovers that it is not just the teachings of his church that he has come to question but the very basis of his own belief in God.

• Daddy Collection, The - Scum / Births, Marriages And Deaths / Last Orders | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Scum: Alan Clarke's Scum shows a vicious system and doesn't pull any of the punches - or kicks - so relentlessly deployed in the battles between rivals in the power stakes that incarceration promotes. It's the brutal story of life in a modern-day Borstal. Run by the violence and cruelty of both inmates and officers the system is a jungle which brutalizes all within its walls. Carlin who has been transferred from another Borstal for retaliation against violent officers is thrown into this human quagmire - and what follows is a harsh and bitter battle for survival. He realises that the only way is by beating the system at its own game and eventually erupts as leader of a bloody climatic riot. Last Orders: This adaptation of Graham Swift's 1996 Booker Prize winning novel Last Orders by writer/director Fred Schepisi is an affecting movie about death friendship and booze starring a first rate cast of British actors. Jack Dodds (Michael Caine) was a regular guy so why the strange last order to have his ashes thrown off the pier at Margate? And why did his wife Amy (Helen Mirren) refuse to do it? As their Mercedes speeds towards the sea an emotional mystery unfolds where the men try to understand Jack's death by reliving their life through him... the war the children the good times and the bad. The journey becomes a pub crawl full of drink-ups and punch-ups and the men discover that through it all it's your friends who break your heart and... and your friends who mend it. Births Marriages And Deaths: Alan Graham and Terry have been best mates since primary school. Now pushing forty the three friends are still inseparable. Naturally Alan and Graham are going to give Terry a stag night to remember. A big fry-up breakfast bubbly down the dogs for a flutter ten-pin bowling... fantastic. But when the boys pay a late night revenge visit to their despised former headmaster things begin to go disastrously wrong. A tragic accident sets off an unforeseen chain of events revealing terrible secrets. Life will never be the same again.

• The Professionals - Vol. 1 | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £24.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (60.09%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Thrown together to join George Cowley's new C15 organisation....Hard men no patience nor time for subtleties. Charged with combating terrorists criminals and corruption wherever they find it. Capable of using any means necessary. The only people they can trust are themselves... Features all 14 episodes from the first series broadcast in 1977 uncut and digitally remastered!

• COMING OUT - MOVIE | DVD | (15/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Multiplicity | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £16.49   |  Saving you £3.50 (21.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An inevitable idea: a working man (Michael Keaton) who can't meet all his professional and family responsibilities has himself cloned. It works so well having one copy of himself to take charge of matters at the office that he makes another copy who takes care of the home front. Pretty soon, different aspects of Keaton's personality are emphasised in the different clones: the labourer becomes a macho creep and the domestic god becomes rather feminine. A third clone, struck from the duplicates instead of the original, becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy: inferior. Multiplicity is a timely comedy should be better than it is, but special-effects requirements are so labour-intensive that most scenes feel stiff and leaden. Keaton is good in all four parts, and in certain gee-whiz effects scenes, where he even high-fives himself, he pulls off a minor miracle or two. (Of course, a kid did the same thing in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap.) --Tom Keogh

• The Norman Warren Collection | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Satan's Slave (1976): Following the death of her parents a young woman is sent to live with her uncle only to find that the mansion is a haven for a devil-worshipping cult... Prey (1978): A cannibalistic alien lands in the heart of wealthy England. Assuming the form of a local man the alien is introduced to the eccentric household of a lesbian and her neurotic lover... Terror (1979): Royal ancestors feel the wrath of the curse of a condemned witch whose espou

• Dinotopia - Quest For The Ruby Stone | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An Orphaned Boy sets out in search of adventure but when a shipwreck lands him on an island where Dinosaurs and Humans coexist he finds not only adventure but a family as well.

• U.S Seals 2 | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When terrorists take over an island there's only one team for the job... At a secret Russian nuclear base a former and very disgruntled U.S. Seal member is planning to launch a missile strike on the United States. The only way to stop him is to send in the best of the best...

• Turbo | Blu Ray | (05/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From the makers of Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda Turbo is a high-velocity 3D comedy about a snail who dares to dream big - and fast. After a freak accident infuses him with the power of super-speed Turbo kicks into overdrive and embarks on an extraordinary journey to achieve the seemingly impossible: competing in the world's fastest race the Indianapolis 500. With the help of his tricked-out streetwise snail crew this ultimate underdog puts his heart and shell on the line to prove that no dream is too big and no dreamer too small.

• Wing Chun Sil Lim Tao | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Wing Chun is widely recognised as one of the fastest fighting styles in the world. It has a speed and directness of action that is difficult to match. Ideal for self defence as a starting point for further Martial Arts or simply as a hobby Wing Chun is both challenging and rewarding and can be practiced anywhere. This DVD will take you from the first form 'Sill Lim Tao' to its application in real situations and real time sparring. Using a lot of fast hard real techniques will prepare you for the real world and teach you how to deal with the forces of combat. Using live presenting rather than voice over: Master Wong talks direct to you and guides you along step by step move by move.

• Then There Were Giants | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £14.50   |  Saving you £-4.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  They were three world leaders united against a common enemy but their own differences and forceful personalities threatened the fragile alliance. Based upon the actual cables between Washington London and Moscow during the Second World War the film examines the relationship between the leaders of these countries throughout the conflict. Franklin Roosevelt (John Lithgow) Winston Churchill (Bob Hoskins) and Josef Stalin (Michael Caine) spring to life as real but imperfect people who nevertheless are great leaders fighting a great war.

• The Walter Hill Collection | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Set Comprises: The DriverRyan O'Neal plays the driver - an ice-cool getaway ace for hire by whoever can afford his crash course skills. Bruce Dern is the detective - a man obsessed with arresting the speed demon at any cost... The Driver lures his foe into a deadly game of cross and double cross by leaving tantalising evidence at every heist until the vengeance-crazed Detective can stand no more and the film erupts into a frenzy of twisted metal and burning rubber. A 1970's classic from Walter Hill. Southern ComfortIt's the land of hospitality... unless you don't belong. A group of National Guardsmen embark on a routine weekend of manoeuvres in the boggy swamps of Louisiana. Everything goes smoothly until blanks are fired at the Cajun locals. Suddenly the men are hurled into a terrifying battle for their lives... An allegory of America's involvement in Vietnam in the tradition of Deliverance featuring brilliant cinematography and an excellent Ry Cooder bluegrass score. Extreme PrejudiceA Texas Ranger stands on one side of the border aimed at cleaning up the Mexican drug traffic. A ruthless narcotics kingpin who'll stop at nothing to get his way stands on the other. Friends since childhood now they are deadly adversaries. Johnny HandsomeJohnny Handsome (Mickey Rourke) is a small time crook with a grotesquely deformed face. When thrown in prison for a crime he did not do he befriends a kind doctor (Forest Whitaker) who believes that Handsome would change his ways if he had a normal face. Handsome undergoes plastic surgery and reappears unrecognisable to anyone who knows him. When given parole it seems that Johnny plans to live a straight life... until the past catches up and shows that he only has one aim: to fullfil his revenge on the man who set him up. The Long Riders: The notorious James-Younger gang is the most famous group of outlaws in the country robbing banks trains and stage coaches with a sense of daring that makes them folk heroes throughout the land. But when the mighty Pinkerton detective agency swears to back them down these criminals must face an awesome enemy that will stop at nothing to see them behind bars... or dead! Only through the strength of their loyalty and blood ties can the outlaws hope to survive the brutal pursuits unexpected betrayals and blistering showdowns that mark the end of their dangerous ride. The Warriors: A battle of gigantic proportions is looming in the neon underground of New York City. The armies of the night number 100 000; they outnumber the police 5 to 1; and tonight they're after the Warriors - a street gang unfairly blamed for a rival gang leader's death. This contemporary action-adventure story takes place at night underground in the sub-culture of gang warfare that rages from the Bronx to Coney Island Bay as the Warriors desperately try to get back home. Members of the Warriors fight for their lives seek to survive in the urban jungle and learn the meaning of loyalty.

• Turkey Shoot | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  In a totalitarian society a few years from now innocent ""deviants"" like Paul (Steve Railsback) and Chris (Olivia Hussey) are forced into government camps where their ""rehabilitation"" includes beatings rape and torture. But the most shocking brutality is still to come when Chris and Paul are chosen for the Turkey Shoot a horrific hunt by the sadistic warden and his wealthy friends using prisoners as human prey! Uncut!

• The Tomorrow People - Series 2 | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £8.98   |  Saving you £26.01 (74.30%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Contains the following Serials: 'The Blue And The Green' 'A Rift In Time' & 'The Doomsday Men'.

• The Executioner's Song | DVD | (23/03/2020) from £16.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who lobbied for his own execution.

• Police Academy | DVD | (05/06/2000) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-10.50%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Astoundingly silly but incredibly popular, Police Academy is the first film in a seemingly endless franchise that takes aim at the men in blue. After a police academy drops all of its entrance requirements, all manner of misfits flood in, hoping to make it onto the force. One of these misfits, a lazy, aimless cadet played by Steve Guttenberg (Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby), was forced to enlist and tries whatever he can to get kicked out. But once he decides to stay, he tries anything and everything to finish his training, even as his drill instructor tries to shove him out. Featuring a wild bunch of strange supporting characters, from a female trainee who speaks below a whisper to a dominatrix instructor to a human sound-effects machine, Police Academy is mindless but fun. --Robert Lane, Amazon.com

• Chucky Season 1 Good Guys Edition | Blu Ray | (02/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Child's Play creator Don Mancini The notorious Chucky slashes his way to television in a killer new series written and executive produced by creator Don Mancini, who penned the iconic film franchise. After teenage loner Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur) discovers a vintage ˜Good Guy' doll at a suburban yard sale, a quiet American town soon erupts into mayhem as a blood-chilling murder spree begins to spill everyone's deepest and darkest secrets. While Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) unleashes havoc, familiar faces from his past return and threaten to reveal his shadowy origins as a seemingly ordinary child who somehow became the legendary murderous doll. Product Features Lenticular Slipcase Chucky Acetate Artcard 4 x Artcards 32-page booklet with character biographies and stills Bonus features: Deleted Scenes The Legacy of Chucky

• True Identity | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Miles Pope (Lenny Henry) is a struggling black actor whose life takes a hilarious turn for the worse when he unwittingly discovers a ruthless mobster's most guarded secret. To save his neck Miles enlists the help of an eccentric makeup whiz who concocts a brilliant disguise to conceal his 'true identity'...

• Lexx - Season 2 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (27/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Seductive sci-fi from the Lexx universe. The crew of the Manhattan-sized insect return with a new twist: the voluptuous Xenia Seeberg takes over from Eva Habermann for adventures with their tongue planted firmly in someone else's cheek! 2.04 LUVLINER A desperate Stan and a frisky Xev come across a floating bordello and decide to give it a try. Needless to say it doesn't live up to the brochure and Xev Stan and 790 are all in danger - with 790 about to give 'head' a new meaning! 2.05 LAFFTRAK The name of the game is survival and ratings are the key. Xev and Stan accidentally involve themselves in a planet of television and have to keep the audience amused for fear of getting cancelled. Permanently. 2.01 MANTRID Kai is possessed with the essence of His Divine Shadow and takes the LEXX to see Mantrid the mad former Bio-Vizier to the insect lord. With Kai feeling a shadow of his former self Zev Stan and 790 have to contend with Mantrid's new plan for universal domination. 2.02 TERMINAL Kai mortally wounds Stan and the crew have to take him to the MedSat Medical Facility in order to save his life. Dishy Doctor Kazzan saves Stan's life and sweeps Zev off her feet but can Kazzan be trusted? Or is his attraction to Zev a mere ruse and he finds the LEXX a far more appealing being?