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• Constant Gardener/Out Of Africa | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Constant Gardener (Dir. Fernando Meirelles 2005): In a remote area of Northern Kenya activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz) is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion a doctor appears to have fled the scene and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes) will leave the matter to them. They could not be more wrong.... Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets he will risk his own life stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth; a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined. Based on the novel by John Le Carre The Constant Gardener was nominated for 3 Oscars and Rachel Weisz duly collected statuette hers for a superb supporting turn as Tessa Quayle. Out of Africa (Dir. Sydney Pollack 1985): Sydney Pollack directs this sweeping romantic drama based on the memoirs of Danish writer Isak Dinesen. Meryl Streep stars as Karen Blixen the restless wife of European aristocrat and plantation owner Baron Bror Blixen (Brandauer). When Bror departs to hunt big game and chase women the running of their East African coffee plantation falls to Karen. She throws herself into this task with the same determination and spirit she brings to her passionate but sporadic affair with free-spirited British hunter Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford). While enduring her husband's infidelities and the eventual destruction of their beloved land she entertains Denys and befriends the workers. Hatton shares Karen's profound love for the African landscape but is unwilling to sacrifice his independence for their relationship...

• Evil In Clear River | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  High school teacher and mayor Peter Suvak is a pillar of the community in Clear River Canada. But his popularity is tested when Kate McKinnon the mother of one of his students discovers that he is filling his students' heads with blatant racism.Disturbed by Suvak's twisted interpretation of history and current events McKinnon undertakes a campaign and Suvak loses his teacher's position. Still Mayor however Suvak retains considerable power and nearly runs McKinnon out of town.Then the Canadian government steps in and takes Suvak to court. The controversial courtroom drama puts the children of Clear River on the stand and the Canadian constitution to the test.

• Voices Of Seduction | DVD | (02/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Battlestar Galactica - Series 1 | UMD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• The Sopranos: Series 1 (Vols. 4-6) | DVD | (17/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £32.99

  The FBI take an unhealthy interest in the family's life causing more strain on life. If that's not enough the world of movie making seems to be poking its nose in. Skeletons come out the closet causing huge revelations... Golden Globe winners January 2000 for Best Actor (James Gandolfini) Best Actress (Edie Falco) and Best Supporting Actress (Nancy Marchand).

• Fated | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When the charismatic and eccentric art teacher Tatty (Michael Angelis) falls in love with Amy (Katrine de Candole) one of his students he believes he has met the love of his life. Unfortunately Amy beautiful and free-spirited does not share his feelings and ends the relationship. As Amy breaks away from him Tatty is left to watch in horror as she runs into the path of an oncoming car. Distraught and blaming himself Tatty loses all focus on his own life and drinks heavily. In a state of delirium he creates a statue of Amy that he places in the dark interior of a haunted burnt-out church. Tatty lives there protecting his creation and devoted to her for the next 13 years. On New Years Eve a magical night with the sky lit with fireworks a clubhouse burns. While the city celebrates Cal (Brendan Mackey) is on the run suspected of arson. Tired and frightened Cal takes refuge in the church only to be startled by Tatty. As Cal starts to run again he accidentally breaks the statue. The magic of the night and the mystery of the church combine to cast a spell and Amy comes alive. However in order to remain alive Amy must kiss the first man she sees. To Tatty's horror it was Cal not him that Amy saw so together they run into the night after Cal. Amy realises that if she is to live Cal must die and so she runs again. As Amy enjoys the magic of the evening in the company of drunken reveler Pedro (Craig Charles) Tatty works frantically to reverse the spell and save them all.

• The Red Right Hand | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £7.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.50%)   |  RRP £7.99

  When five friends return home from a high school reunion it is clear between them they share a dark secret. Their bond of secrecy is put under threat as the story of a friend who was buried alive begins to surface. They must attempt to survive the dark forces that lead them back to the shallow grave as one grisly event after another continues to plague them...

• Road Of No Return | DVD | (11/01/2010) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Road of No Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the nation. Contrary to their coldhearted facades the hit men are lost souls in search of redemption. On their mission what the men discover is their own demons a reflection of who they are and what they have become. And when the hit men rescue a little orphaned girl from the hands of drug traffickers a close bond blossoms between them and the little girl jeopardizing the operation's secrecy. Not to compromise the mission the forces behind this covert operation order the men killed and as such the hunters become the hunted and the orphaned girl becomes the catalyst that will forever change their lives in the most unexpected ways.

• Space Fury | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  While attempting to dock their spacecraft two American astronauts collide with a Russian space station.Meanwhile in Russia a murdered prostitute is found and it soon becomes apparent that one of the American astronauts may be the killer revealing a terrorist plot to sabotage the space station and send it hurtling back to earth.Now all that stands in the killer's way is Rene a female astronaut forced to fight for her life and the lives of those on board.

• Taggart - Hardman | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A man's mangled body is found in a Clydeside shipyard and it becomes clear many people wished him dead. The atmosphere within the investigating team remains fraught - though the arrival of forensic specialist Sheila Crombie could improve Burke's mood.

• Good People | Blu Ray | (05/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Academy Award ® Nominees James Franco* (Homefront) and Kate Hudson** (The Killer Inside Me) star in GOOD PEOPLE as a debt-ridden couple who discover a hidden bag of cash in their dead tenant's apartment. When they decide to spend it, they find themselves pulled deeper and deeper into a world of deception and they soon become the target of a deadly adversary Academy Award® Nominee Tom Wilkinson*** (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Omar Sy (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and Anna Friel (Limitless) also star in this contemporary action-thriller.

• Inglorious Bastards | Blu Ray | (09/01/2012) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It’s World War II, the Ardenne mountains. During a bombing, five no-good soldiers headed to military prison for a variety of transgressions ranging from murder to desertion get a chance to escape when their convoy is attacked. They decide to make for Switzerland and freedom, now as fugitives on the run from both the Americans and the Germans, their only hope of escape in the barrel of a gun. After mistakenly killing a group of American agents disguised as a German patrol, the party is caught by the French resistance, who give them a last chance at redemption by forcing them to carry out an impossible mission, to sneak into the most heavily guarded Nazi fortress, steal their most precious weapon and return it to the Allies undetected.

• Seed | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sam Seed an insane mass murderer is scheduled for execution at the hands of Warden Wright. After three attempts to electrocute complete with boiling blood that steeps from his eyes Seed is still alive. The executioner Wright and the doctor collectively agree that the breathing Seed be pronounced dead. He is bound and buried alive. After biting and clawing his way to the surface Seed the blood soaked enraged madman is now bent on vengeance.

• Hoboken Hollow | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  No-one Gets Out Alive! Based on the true story of the Texas slave ranch a war veteran drifts through Texas on collision course with a nightmare. Still haunted by the evils of war Trevor is confronted with the brutal homegrown evil of the Broderick family at Hoboken Hollow a remote Hill Country ranch that many visit but few ever leave.

• The Benchwarmers/The Longest Yard | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £21.58   |  Saving you £3.41 (13.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Longest Yard: It was hard to put a team together... until they found out who they were playing. Director Peter Segal and comedian Adam Sandler join forces once more for a fun remake of the 1974 classic The Longest Yard. In the role of Paul ""Wrecking"" Crewe first immortalized by Burt Reynolds (who appears here as Nate Scarborough) Sandler plays an ex-football star whose career ended amidst allegations of point shaving. Fed up he drunkenly steals his unfriendly wife's (an uncredited Courtney Cox Arquette) luxury car and drives it into a multi-car pileup. This lands Crewe in a cruel Texas state penitentiary. His only respite comes from Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) who wants Crewe to help lead his well-equipped prison-guard football team to the league championship. Crewe timorously agrees suggesting the creation of an opposing team of convicts to the give the guards an easy tune-up before the season. To the ragtag inmates this is the chance they've been waiting for and they hustle to get their team together so they can exact some revenge on the harassing guards. (Dir. Peter Segal 2005) The Benchwarmers: Get off the bench and get into the game. Gus and his geeky buddies Richie and Clark are scouted by a millionaire geek Mel who wants to form a baseball team and compete with the meanest Little League teams in the state. A stellar ballplayer Gus becomes a role model for geeks and outcasts everywhere. But when his fans learn that Gus himself was once a school bully they feel outraged and betrayed until Gus takes extraordinary steps to win back their admiration and trust... (Dir. Dennis Dugan 2006)

• Runaways, the | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Titles Comprise:Almost Famous: From the writer/director of Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe brings us Almost Famous, nominated for four Academy Awards and winner of Best Original Screenplay.Set in 1973, it chronicles the funny and often poignant coming-of-age of 15-year-old music fanatic William (Patrick Fugit). Having managed to land an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview the up-and-coming band Stillwater, fronted by lead guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup), and with the help of gorgeous 'band aid' Penny Lane (Oscar nominee Kate Hudson), William finds himself drawn into the band's inner circle, despite the objections of his over-protective mother (Frances McDormand). As he becomes less an observer and more a participant in the band's dynamics, William learns a life-changing lesson about the importance of family: the ones we inherit and the ones we create...The Runaways: Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga, Adventureland) and Dakota Fanning (The Twilight Saga, Coraline) star as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie in The Runaways, the music-fuelled coming of age story of the groundbreaking, all girl 1970s rock band, that paved the way for future generations of female musicians.Plucked from obscurity by rock impresario Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road), raven-haired rocker Joan, the rebellious Cherie and their band become an outrageous sensations thanks to their tough image and raw talent. But their fast, drug-fuelled lifestyle soon catches up with the teenage girls as success starts to cloud their judgments...

• Earthlings | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £4.43   |  Saving you £9.82 (309.78%)   |  RRP £12.99

  |??r?li ng| noun inhabitants of the earthKlingon translation|bIQSIp 'ugh| ugly bags of mostly water Earthlings is a fascinating and often amusing documentary that explores the 'Trekkie' (aka: 'Trekker') phenomenon and Klingon language. Interviews of KLI members (Linguists Psychologists Star Trek fans and steadfast individualists) reveal the intellectual fraternal liberating and no-nonsense direct qualities they enjoy within the constructed-from-pop-culture Klingon language. From Louise Witty who becomes fascinated with the language from her interest in Star Trek boots (and then fabricates and sells them) to a Paintball King who shouts strategic military movements in the Klingon tongue Earthlings examines the interplay between culture and language communication and emotion and the rather delicate line between reality and fiction. As Star Trek comes around for its 40th anniversary this DVD could be the perfect companion to the classic sci-fi franchise.

• B Movie Campaign Digistak | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark: Meet Elvira the notorious American cult heroine! This wisecracking vamp wishes to open her own show in Las Vegas but needs 000. Suddenly her great aunt dies and Elvira goes to a conservative mid-west town to hear the reading of the will. Elvira discovers the evil force in the town and finds that only she has the power to stop it! Return of the Killer Tomatoes: 20 years on from the Great Tomato Wars and red skins are still banned. But Professor Gangreen has made a fiendish discovery - how to turn tomatoes into perfect replicas of people. These tomatoes are really stewed and dangerous! Night of the Living Dead: A spill of radiation causes the recently deceased to rise from the grave and feast on the flesh of the living in this chilling classic. Now the dead and the living must fight against each other in a struggle for survival. Hell Comes to Frogtown: Hell is a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war that leaves the human race in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader. Return to Horror High: Producer Harry Sleerik wants to recreate the notorious Crippen High killings for the big screen using some of the school's original employees to play themselves. But filming starts to go horribly wrong when one by one cast and crew begin to disappear. Crocodile: High school sweethearts Brady Claire and six of their college friends board a houseboat for a fun-filled spring break vacation. But when they discover a nest of large eggs in the marshlands -- and one of them can't resist taking one back to the party -- their weekend of fun-in-the-sun will turn into a weekend of terror! Creature: A family living around a naval research station experience shark attacks against their boat. When they investigate further they discover a half-man half-shark like creature. Based on the novel by Peter Benchley (Jaws). The Stuff: A satirical horror movie about a designer foodstuff that takes the public by storm... but are they eating it or is it eating them? Another cult classic from director Larry Cohen (It's Alive Black Caesar Q - The Winged Serpent). Slugs: An idyllic country community is shocked following the discovery of a mutilated corpse covered in slime. As the days go by more horrific deaths take place each one more repulsive than the last. They must discover the cause of these brutal murders before it's too late. Spiders: College newspaper reporter Marci and her colleagues head out to a restricted area of the desert to prove the existence of aliens. When the shuttle crash lands nearby they sneak into headquarters and stumble upon a secret unauthorized experiment that has gone wrong: a spider on board that was injected with alien DNA is now on the loose...and each time it kills it gets bigger and hungrier! Rats: The Brookdale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison it sits on top of a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret only known by one person. There is something living in the tunnels and it has developed a taste for human blood. Octopus: An unknown object attacks the US submarine Roosevelt with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength!

• 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

• Dancehall Queen | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Dancehall Queen is a hugely enjoyable melodrama featuring a resourceful heroine, spectacularly slimy villains and a lot of very loud music. Street vendor Marcia (Audrey Reid) is under pressure from all directions--family friend Larry has made her dependent on his good will before putting sexual pressure on her teenage daughter while street thug Priest has killed a friend for minding her patch and is now trying to push his way into her bed. What is attractive about this film is that Marcia wins by playing to her strengths: she goes back to the wild-child dirty dancing she loved before having her children and becomes Mystery Lady, a contender for cash prizes in competition. Most of the film's occasional touches of wild comedy come from her attempts to keep this from her rather staid daughter and the ease with which, from behind silver foil fringes and jewelled nose-chains, she can take revenge on the men who mess with her quieter persona. This is a surprisingly classy little movie, whose rawness comes across as urgency: e en those of us who miss half the patois dialogue can't help but respond to its fizzy energy. On the DVD The DVD has digitally re-mastered music, the usual chapter index, a Web link and what is called "Hyperactive DVDROM" content which means it is very, very flashy and very, very loud. --Roz Kaveney