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• Star Trek : 1-10 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £109.99

  Even if (when) more big-screen adventures come along, this Star Trek DVD Movies Collection will remain a fitting memento of this astonishingly long-running franchise. Containing all 10 movies from The Motion Picture (1979) to Nemesis (2003), this box set charts the voyages of the USS Enterprise(s) from the original ship's first major refit since its legendary five-year mission to the last outing for the Enterprise E in the next century. After this, there will be new ships and new crews. The most famous starship in the galaxy has finally retired. Along the way, there have been many highs and just a few lows. The Motion Picture's Director's Edition solved many of the theatrical release's problems. Its follow-up, The Wrath of Khan, is still regarded as the series' finest hour. Movies III and IV chart Spock's fall and resurrection in quasi-religious terms, but also add welcome humour in The Voyage Home. Taken together II, III and IV make for a satisfyingly self-contained trilogy, which is one reason why the next entry, The Final Frontier, seemed like a disappointment. Khan director Nicholas Meyer returned for the superior VI, The Undiscovered Country, allowing the original crew to sign-off in style. Attempting to please fans old and new, the messy Generations ended up pleasing almost no one. Thankfully, the second Next Generation film, First Contact, comes in a close second to Khan in the series-best stakes. Neither Insurrection or Nemesis could quite match what had gone before, but both were solidly entertaining adventures nonetheless. On the DVDs: The Star Trek DVD Movies Collection is a 10-disc set complete with booklet and postcard-size Nemesis film stills. However, only the first four movies are presented in their Special Edition versions--these have the same content as the feature discs of the separately released two-disc sets--and the Nemesis disc also contains a commentary, documentaries and deleted scenes. Movies V-IX are bare-bones releases, though, with no extra content to speak of. Fans will therefore not find this box set to be a substitute for the individual Special Edition versions. --Mark Walker

• On the Buses - The Complete Series + Don't Drink the Water | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Without a doubt one of the most long-lasting and endearing of ITV sit-coms, On the Buses lasted for a tremendous seven series - from 1969 to 1973.This Complete Omnibus Set contains all seven series - a total of 74 shows - plus the three feature film spin-offs On The Buses, Mutiny On The Buses and Holiday On The Buses. Also included is the complete series of Don't Drink the Water - a spin-off sitcom featuring Blakey in Spain - plus exclusive special features, including archive news footage and Reg Varney's TV play The Best Pair of Legs in the Business.

• Secrets Of The Clown | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £11.00   |  Saving you £-8.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Secrets Of The Clown

• Silver City | Blu Ray | (29/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Beast Must Die | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Wealthy businessman and skilled huntsman Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) summons a selection of guests to his home for the weekend one of whom is a werewolf with a taste for blood. It's up to the others to seek out the monster before the full moon reveals the culprit.

• The Blue Max/A Yank In The RAF/D-Day The Sixth Of June | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £23.86   |  Saving you £-10.87 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Blue Max: A raging war time thriller featuring spectacular aerial combat sequences. It is the story of Bruno Stachel a cold ambitious German combat pilot in World War I. As brave as he is ruthless he excels in combat wins the highest medals The Blue Max and becomes a national hero. The Blue Max is among the best aviation films with outstanding photography spectacular dogfights and a dramatic score. A Yank In The RAF: Tyrone Power and Betty Grable are captivating in this romantic WWII drama. When slick money-motivated pilot Tim Baker (Power) takes a high-paying job ferrying bombers across the Atlantic he meets up with Carol (Grable) an old flame who sparks enough new heat that he joins the RAF just to be near her. But Carol is also pursued by another pilot - Baker's superior officer! And when Baker must start flying bombing missions life suddenly takes on far more meaning than ever before. Featuring actual aerial combat footage and Grable's classic musical numbers A Yank In The RAF is an engagingly dramatic love story. D-Day - The Sixth Of June: Hollywood once again looks back at the undeniably compelling story of D-Day this time through the device of two officers facing the coming battle one American and one British recalling their love for the same woman.

• Phantasm III - Lord Of The Dead | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £12.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (15.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Thirteen years after the original nightmare began Mike and Reggie reunite with the spirit of Mike's dead brother and are pursued by The Tall Man through warped dimensions of space and time. Who Will reign supreme? Prepared to be scared witless as the fine line between the living and the dead snaps with a vengeance!

• Eden Of The East | Blu Ray | (29/11/2010) from £14.83   |  Saving you £20.16 (135.94%)   |  RRP £34.99

  On November 22nd 2010 ten missiles strike Japan. Known as Careless Monday this attack does not result in any apparent victims and is soon forgotten by almost everyone. Then three months later... Saki Morimi a young woman currently Washington D.C. on her graduation trip is saved by a mysterious man who has lost his memory and has nothing except for a gun and a phone with 8.2 BILLION yen in digital cash.

• Maniac Cop 2 | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  You have the right to remain silent...forever! The Maniac Cop is back.... and you will be screaming blue murder again in this chilling action-packed sequel to the original hit penned by subversive horror-maestro Larry Cohen! The mysterious Officer Matt Cordell is stalking the streets of New York once more... and when this psycho with a badge books you it's for the arrest of your life! Once Cordell was a hero a super-cop. But he was framed by crooked superiors and now

• Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Father Vassey (Michael Rooker) has a problem. Using his two 9mm, laser-sighted cannons, he has tracked down and killed the holders of a heretic ceremony meant to bring a demon into the world. Not just any demon, for this one's reason to be is nothing less than uncreating creation. The problem is, Vassey's too late. The demon has manifested and escaped, and is now on the hunt for the soul of a young boy who is believed to be saint material, due to the stigmata he had at birth. The film is directed by Jamie Dixon, heretofore a special effects supervisor, who shows canny restraint where special effects are concerned. The shadowy demon of the title is depicted often by a fluid black cloud, which is functional without losing its eeriness or credibility. The acting is solid, never campy, though Michael Rooker sometimes feels out of place. And the climactic scenes, built up to with good pacing, are fraught with peril and excitement. All in all, this is a worthwhile effort for a first-time director, and that makes it one of the best direct-to-video releases I've seen in quite a long time. I just wish I could locate the Bram Stoker story it's supposed to be based on. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com

• Stolen Kisses | DVD | (25/08/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Stolen Kisses reunites François Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Léaud to catch up with Truffaut's cinematic alter ego, Antoine Doinel, the troubled adolescent of The 400 Blows. Stolen Kisses opens with the now-grown Doinel sprung from military prison with a dishonourable discharge, drawn directly from Truffaut's own history of delinquency, but the parallels end there. Lovesick Doinel woos the perky but unresponsive object of his affections, Christine (Claude Jade) while he engages in a series of professions--hotel night-watchman, private investigator, TV repairman--with mixed success and comic entanglements. But when he falls in love with the elegant wife of his client (Delphine Seyrig at her most beautiful and charming), Christine realises she misses Antoine's persistence and clumsy passes, so she embarks on a seductive plan of her own. Truffaut's comic confection is full of deadpan gags and screwball chaos, a world away from the heavy seriousness of The 400 Blows, and Léaud is endearingly naive as the determined Doinel, forging ahead with more pluck and passion than aptitude. It may be Truffaut's most sweetly romantic film, a knowing man's embrace of eager innocence and storybook sentiment. Doinel returned two years later in Bed and Board. --Sean Axmaker

• Minder - Series 6 - Part 1 And Part 2 | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Give Us This Day Arthur Daley's Bread: Arthur sees the chance to use some ex-prisoners as cheap labour on his landscape enterprise puts Terry in charge and ends up out of pocket. Life In The Fast Food Lane: Arthur gets an illegal car phone installed and Terry is picked up by the rich daughter of a Hamburger King who goes bankrupt. The Return Of The Invincible Man: A strike a load of bespoke suits and a hasty agreement to rob a friend's safe mean trouble for Arthur and Terry with a safeblower who blows himself up. Arthur Is Dead Long Live Arthur: Arthur fakes his suicide when he can't bring himself to pay a ''20 000 tax bill. A reporter runs a story about his disappearance and Arthur's world threatens to fall apart. To Fulham With Love: Arthur and skinhead Nigel sell tracksuits and Walkmans to the crew of a Russian ship and search for a way to exchange roubles. Meanwhile ship member Natasha enlists Terry's help in finding a missing crewman. Waiting For Goddard: Arthur is offered a finder's fee by a firm of solicitors for locating elderly recluse Albert Goddard. With Arthur more interested in the inheritance the solicitor asks for Chisholm's help in the affair...

• The Beatles: Get Back | DVD | (12/07/2022) from £24.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• My Mother The Spy | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  This clever comedy gives an uproarious look at how a young woman who can't keep a steady boyfriend at home succeeds in snaring a small army of terrorists while on vacation.

• Relic Hunter - Vol. 2 | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Diamond In The Rough: Frank Newhouse an arrogant baseball star whose career is crashing and burning hires Sydney to fine the ""magical"" glove of former baseball great Jimmy Jonesboro. The glove was stolen more than 50 years ago. Sydney and Nigel track the missing glove - purported to have single ""handedly"" defeated the Red Sox in the 1946 World Series - to the sewers of Pre-Revolutionary war Boston while unwittingly being tailed by Sydney's former rival Kurt Reiner. Can the t

• Twin Daggers | DVD | (02/01/2012) from £14.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (37.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two inexplicably coherent zombies awake amidst a zombie attack and decide to take a road trip to find the one's lost love, unaware they are being chased by the agents of a ruthless company with it's own agenda.

• World Cinema Essentials | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £22.93   |  Saving you £17.06 (74.40%)   |  RRP £39.99

  House Of Flying Daggers (Dir. Zhang Yimou 2004) It is 859AD; the Tang Dynasty at its height one of the most enlightened empires in Chinese history is in decline. The Emperor is incompetent and the government is corrupt. Unrest is spreading throughout the land and many rebel armies are forming in protest. The largest and most prestigious is an underground alliance called the House of Flying Daggers. The House of Flying Daggers operates mysteriously stealing from the rich

• Hit Favourites - Back To School | DVD | (18/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Back To School

• The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus will probably be purchased mostly for the standards--those sketches that have become the staple material of every office joker and pub bore in Christendom--the Spanish Inquisition, the Australian philosophers, the Ministry of Silly Walks. Good fun though these are, once you've expunged the memory of a million witless impersonators, this collection is really worth owning for the material that never quite registered in the popular consciousness. Sketches such as the Summarise Proust Competition, the misunderstanding over the Hungarian phrasebook and John Cleese's manically embittered architect with a grudge against the Freemasons are every bit as funny as the more familiar hits and, free of any associated baggage, they will startle and delight the younger viewer as much as Python must have startled and delighted their parents when first broadcast in the 1970s. On the DVD: The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus is a three-disc set, and each volume is equipped with a sketch selector that is fussier than strictly necessary. But this is more than compensated for by the wonderful Terry Gilliam animations that the viewer uses to navigate. Subtitles are available in English only. --Andrew Mueller

• Minder - Series 3 - Parts 1 To 4 | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Series 3 firmly established the popularity of Minder with its breakthrough into the ITV top ten shows. Laugh along with the raw and unedited capers of Arthur Daley (George Cole) and Terry McCann (Dennis Waterman) as they duck and dive through the criminal underworld. Contains all the episodes from series 3.