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• Days Of Thunder | DVD | (31/07/2000) from £3.05   |  Saving you £12.94 (424.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This loud and fast 1988 effort by director Tony Scott (Beverly Hills Cop 2, Top Gun) has much more style than substance but it does effectively depict the edgy and dangerous world of stock car racing. Tom Cruise plays yet another cocky loner trying to find success and happiness, this time as stock car racer Cole Trickle, a driver with raw talent but no discipline who is desperate for guidance and sponsorship. They both materialise in the visage of world-weary Robert Duvall, who despite his better instincts sees a second chance at victory in the young driver. Featuring supporting roles by Nicole Kidman, as Cruise's physician and love interest, and Randy Quaid, as a bombastic sponsor, and with a screenplay by Robert Towne (Chinatown), Days of Thunder is a slickly packaged entertainment best suited for die-hard Tom Cruise fans and those who want an intense visual experience. --Robert Lane

• Real Michael Jackson, the | DVD | (31/10/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Producer & television star David Gest presents a feature length definitive portrait of his best friend Michael Jackson through the eyes of family friends and music legends including Smokey Robinson Dionne Warwick Whitney Houston Nick Ashford & Valerie Simpson Holland-Dozier-Holland Gamble & Huff Freda Payne The Temptations' Dennis Edwards Martha Reeves Paul Anka Petula Clark Jimmy Ruffin Percy Sledge Brenda Holloway Kim Weston Bobby Taylor Russell Thompkins Jr. plus many more. Includes never before seen footage and unprecedented interviews with Michael's Mum Katherine and siblings Tito and Rebbie Jackson covering all the highs and also the lows in the King of Pop's extraordinary life story uniquely told by those who knew him best. Plus fantastic music from The Jackson 5 and other Motown Legends.

• Naked Gun Trilogy | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Naked Gun (Dir. David Zucker 1988): Those screw-loose Airplane! creators have done it again! Leslie Nielsen stars as Police Squad's own granite-jawed rock-brained cop Frank Drebin who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Priscilla Presley O.J. Simpson a stuffed beaver two baseball teams and an odd assortment of others join the wacko goings-on and blow the laugh-o-meter to smithereens. The Naked Gun 2 1/2 - The Smell O

• South West 9 | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £8.66   |  Saving you £5.33 (61.55%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Set in Brixton, SW9, land of yuppies, clubbers, anarchists, guns and riots, this new Britsh drama follows five very different characters through a single extraordinary day.

• The Complete Naked Gun Collection | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Naked Gun series must be the only successful big-screen franchise to have been a spin-off from a spectacularly unsuccessful TV series. Although Police Squad went on to become a cult favourite, at the time the American TV network was so unimpressed they only showed four of the six episodes before cancelling it. But Leslie Nielsen's bumbling Lt Frank Drebin just wouldn't go away. Supported in masterly deadpan style by George Kennedy and Priscilla Presley, Nielsen cemented his reputation as a gifted comic actor with The Naked Gun decades after he had first become known as a minor Hollywood leading man (in 1955's Forbidden Planet for example). The first movie appeared in 1988 and spawned two sequels that replayed exactly the same routines: in The Naked Gun series sight gags (some of which are worthy of the Marx Brothers, some not) combine with excruciating puns and lots of toilet humour to follow the same hit formula as the creators' earlier slapstick masterpiece, Airplane. By the third film the formula may have become more than a little overworked, and few including the filmmakers cared much about the increasingly creaky scenarios, but Nielsen's easygoing idiotic charm goes a long way towards saving the day. There are still a lot of laughs to be found in all three Naked Gun movies, even if some of them are the unintentional result of seeing OJ Simpson before notoriety overtook his budding film career. On the DVDs: All three features are anamorphically enhanced 1.78:1 widescreen ratios, with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Each disc also has a jovial ensemble commentary featuring co-creator David Zucker with other producers and writers, which is only intermittently informative but is at least intermittently funny, too. --Mark Walker

• Like It Is | DVD | (11/09/2000) from £12.70   |  Saving you £2.29 (18.03%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Like It Is is much like watching a train wreck--the very idea of it is repellent and yet you perversely can't avert your eyes. While its urban grittiness and sooty veneer entranced some critics who mistook its violent, netherworld neorealism for art, Like It Is offers little in the way of redemption, positive gay imaging or even particularly good narrative. Paul Oremland directed this venture about a young, gay Blackpool tough named Craig (Steve Bell) who bare-knuckle boxes for money. He ultimately moves to London in search of a better life and falls in with the trendy London gay-club scene, meeting and falling for a handsome record producer named Matt (Ian Rose) and his wealthy boss (played by the Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey). The better life is quickly tainted by disillusion and misery, much as is the viewing experience. Steve Bell is, in real life, a featherweight boxing champion in Britain and therefore brings an urgent and raw vitality to the lead, but the characters as a whole are either irritating or unsympathetic, and it's ultimately difficult to find anyone to care for, or a story worth empathising with. --Paula Nechak, Amazon.com

• Real Michael Jackson, the | Blu Ray | (31/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Producer & television star David Gest presents a feature length definitive portrait of his best friend Michael Jackson through the eyes of family friends and music legends including Smokey Robinson Dionne Warwick Whitney Houston Nick Ashford & Valerie Simpson Holland-Dozier-Holland Gamble & Huff Freda Payne The Temptations' Dennis Edwards Martha Reeves Paul Anka Petula Clark Jimmy Ruffin Percy Sledge Brenda Holloway Kim Weston Bobby Taylor Russell Thompkins Jr. plus many more. Includes never before seen footage and unprecedented interviews with Michael's Mum Katherine and siblings Tito and Rebbie Jackson covering all the highs and also the lows in the King of Pop's extraordinary life story uniquely told by those who knew him best. Plus fantastic music from The Jackson 5 and other Motown Legends.

• Power Rangers - Mystic Force Vol.4 - Dark Wish | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £8.36   |  Saving you £3.63 (43.42%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Hang on tight for legendary entertainment as the complete Dark Wish saga unfolds in this spectacular full-length blockbuster DVD. The Power Ranger's heroic crusade for good vs. evil is put to the ultimate challenge when a wicked mystic army drains all color and hope from Earth. Now the five teens chosen to fulfill their destiny and become powerful protective warriors have lost their power and must fight to restore it. Join the next generation of Power Rangers as their most thrilling

• Prom Night 4 - Deliver Us From Evil | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A maniacal killer stalks two young couples on the night of their prom in this fourth installment of the hit Prom Night series. After 33 years in captivity a possessed man who is 'evil beyond imagination' escapes and makes his way to a monastery he knows from his youth. But it is now a summer home where four teens are celebrating prom night in their own special way. The kids intended to make this an evening to remember... their uninvited guest turns it into a night of un

• Touching The Void | HD DVD | (31/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Marilyn Manson - Demystifying The Devil | DVD | (01/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Diehard supporters of everyone's favourite anti-Pope will want Demistifying the Devil, if only because Marilyn Manson is all things to all of them--cutting-edge nu-nasty rock theatre act or slacker anti-hero--you take your choice. However, this very unauthorised biography (there's no footage of young Brian himself or his immediate musical circle other than a few seconds of blurry concert material) is also informative viewing for the merely curious. Mostly consisting of anecdotes from people who were either associated with him before he became famous or who were ejected from his entourage, it soon becomes clear that MM was and remains a genuinely talented visionary. It also becomes clear that the best thing he ever did to further his career was to abandon the huddle of derivative no-marks who constituted the "scene" in his home town of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and whose parochial ramblings dominate this unintentionally hilarious documentary. If you're a fan, you'll have your faith confirmed. If you're not, you'll still end up feeling strangely pleased that both Manson and those he left behind are getting the respective levels of attention they deserve. --Roger Thomas

• The Pheonix and the Carpet | DVD | (02/02/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99