"Actor: Patrick Muldoon"

• Starship Troopers | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A gloriously over-the-top treat, Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers takes the militaristic moralising of Robert Heinlein's pulp classic and sets about undermining it mercilessly. Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) desperately wants to join the Mobile Infantry and kill some Earth-threatening alien bugs. He also desperately wants Carmen (Denise Richards), but only gets to fulfil one ambition in the second of Verhoeven's futuristic satires (also cowritten with his RoboCop scriptwriter Ed Neumeier). Set in a fascistic future where kids must do military service to qualify as citizens, own property or even have babies, the film's dark Vietnam and Nazi-era parallels are all the more disturbing given its deceptively sunny Beverly Hills 90210 teenage cast (though scenery-chewing veteran Michael Ironside steals the movie as tough-talking Lt Rasczak). The CGI arachnids are among the most convincing and dangerous-looking creatures ever seen on screen, and with the movie clocking up the highest number of blanks ever fired on a film set, it's also pretty loud! Verhoeven went on to be Executive Producer of the Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles animated TV series a couple of years later. On the DVD: Starship Troopers in this DVD incarnation can now be played continuously on one side of the disc (the original Region 2 release version was that crime against the DVD format, a "flipper"). You'll also feel really spoiled by the extras here: five deleted scenes (approximately six minutes) pad out Carmen's love triangle problems. There are impressive screen tests for Denise Richards and Casper Van Dien (three-and-a-half minutes). An eight-minute featurette zips by with key interviews and fact flinging. And a real treat is three scene developments with layers of FX work explained by Verhoeven. But what makes this DVD essential is the director's enthusiastic commentary alongside screenwriter Ed Neumeier: dissing astrology, making a stand for feminist issues, saying how he went nude to placate the actors for their shower scene, and drooling with praise for his FX team, Verhoeven makes a fascinating statement that "war makes fascists of us all". After a studio disclaimer, and beginning with his reaction to the film's critique in Time Magazine, this is no-holds-barred fun. --Paul Tonks

• Stigmata | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £5.20   |  Saving you £14.79 (284.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Stigmata': Bodily marks or pains resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ.

• Deadly Pursuits | DVD | (16/02/2002) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A woman helps a young boy to find his father but finds that the search could just turn deadly...

• Spiders | Blu Ray | (14/10/2013) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The City is crawling! In New York City's subway tunnel a new species of poisonous spiders is discovered. Inadvertently the spiders mutate to gigantic proportions and wreak havoc on the entire city.

• Starship Troopers 25th Anniversary | Blu Ray | (01/11/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Dog Who Saved Easter | DVD | (31/03/2014) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's Easter and everyone's favourite canine is back! The Bannisters are heading out on a family cruise and sending Zeus (voiced by Mario Lopez) to doggie day care. Everything is going according to plan until the day care's crosstown rival hires a trio of crooks to sabotage the fledgling business. Zeus will make some new friends and new enemies as he uses all his tricks to save the day care and Easter!

• Turbulent Skies | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (11.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After a pilot error causes a devastating airline crash, Devain Industries unveils the CD70 - a revolutionary automated system invented by Tom Woodard (Casper Van Dien of Starship Troopers) and his wife Samantha (Nicole Eggert of Baywatch) designed to someday make human pilots obsolete. But when reckless playboy Charles Devain (Patrick Muldoon of Starship Troopers and Melrose Place) and his billionaire father (Brad Dourif of Halloween and Deadwood) insist on using the prototype for a celebratory VIP flight from Los Angeles to New York City, a computer virus triggers a terrifying chain of events: The 747 goes off-course during a lightning storm. Their communication systems are dead. And the Pentagon wants to blast the crippled jet - and its passengers - out of the sky. Even if Tom can make a mid-air transfer at 30,000 feet, will he be able to disengage the infected system, or will Tom and the passengers fall victim to Turbulent Skies?

• A Christmas Promise | DVD | (02/11/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A city accountant takes a job at a horse farm over one magical Christmas in the country hoping for a simpler life for himself and his daughter. Instead he finds romance with the lively rancher whilst his daughter finds the love of a horse named Holly.

• Spiders | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £5.94   |  Saving you £10.05 (169.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The City is crawling! In New York City's subway tunnel a new species of poisonous spiders is discovered. Inadvertently the spiders mutate to gigantic proportions and wreak havoc on the entire city.

• Robo-Dog | DVD | (19/10/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Starship Troopers / Starship Troopers 2 | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Starship Troopers: The new millenium brings man face-to-face with the deadliest enemy of all... an intelligent race of alien bugs some thirty feet tall some that fly and all capable of destroying every living thing on Earth! That's where brave young freedom fighter Johnny Rico comes in. While Johnny trains in an elite infantry unit his stunning girlfriend Carmen becomes a top starship pilot - but is seduced by a suave flight instructor! Join their mission to the aliens' home planet where an all out inter-planetary war is about to begin... with mankind on the line. Epic filmmaking and jarring action sequences that put you in the middle of it all make 'Starship Troopers' the definitive space-age story in this or any other universe. Starship Troopers 2 - Hero Of The Federation: The bugs are back! A small group of troopers find themselves taking refuge in an abandoned outpost as they attempt to fight the encroaching Arachnids - not realizing that a much graver danger is actually infiltrating their unit....

• Saving Christmas | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £6.94   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this fun family tale starring comedy legend Edward Asner, Danny and his brainy buddies launch an investigation to discover the truth about Santa. But they have no clue that St. Nick (Asner) is real and he's making toys right in their hometown! Join Danny, his gang and a loveable pup on their adventures as they unravel the funny, festive truth that's out there.

• My Best Friend | DVD | (01/08/2016) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (66.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Kristen feels like the luckiest girl in the world; she has it all. But when she moves away from the city she has to leave her friends behind and start again. Arriving at her Grandma's ranch, Kristen has to adjust to a new life in the country, to new friends and to a totally different style of fashion. With the help of her new BFF, a talking horse named Stanford, she's finally fitting in and the two become inseparable. But sometimes, even best friends can become jealous of other friends!

• Wicked | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A teen-themed entry in the long-established Psycho-Bitch-from-Hell sub-genre of Hollywood thriller, Wicked affords current high school princess Julia Stiles an opportunity to stop smiling and play a manipulative, disturbed, alienated girl who is also the number one suspect in the “did she or didn't she batter Mum to death with a heavy tragedy mask” mystery.Set in one of those hideous American "gated communities", a pastel suburban enclave with round-the-clock security and enough adulteries to keep a soap going for a year, the film is subtler than stablemates like The Crush and Teacher's Pet, with a more convoluted plot and enough suspects to put the outcome in doubt. However it's still a by-the-numbers mix of soap and suspense. Stiles crosses her eyes and pouts a lot, making tastefully incestuous moves on her weakling father (an aptly hollow William R Moses), but she's not really well cast in a role Christina Ricci could have played in her sleep a few years ago. The best supporting performance comes from Michael Parks as a drawling cop brought into the community by the killing of the strident mother (Chelsea Field), who lingers to watch the fall-out as Stiles replaces Mum as the homemaker only to be sidelined in favour of the au pair who needs a green-card marriage. When the battering and stabbing starts, the film is surprisingly explicit, splattering several distinct types of stage blood around the designer living caricature home.On the DVD: the picture is an anamorphic 1.85:1 print, with Dolby Digital surround-sound. The minimal extras include trailers, filmographies for very few of the principals, and a neat menu. --Kim Newman

• The Christmas Pony Boxset | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £6.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Collection of three festive family equine movies. In 'My Christmas Pony' (2015) teenager Juliet (Nadine Crocker) and her mother Karen (Krista Allen) move back to their old home in the country to visit her late grandfather's ranch. Initially unhappy to leave the city, Juliet soon warms to life at the struggling ranch when she discovers her grandfather's horse Rodeo and meets a young cowboy named Monty (Zeb Halsell). Together, will Juliet, her family and her new friends be able to save the ranch? In 'My Christmas Gift' (2017) city-dwelling accountant and single father Michael (Patrick Muldoon) struggles to see eye-to-eye with his teenage daughter and decides to accept an offer from a family farm out in the country who are currently engaged in a battle with a relentless bank manager. Thinking that a new start is all that the father-daughter team need, Michael and Chloe (Mandalynn Carlson) set up home in the country. Not entirely convinced by the move, Chloe continues to play the teenager card, but when Michael meets the farm owner's daughter Samantha (Charisma Carpenter), sparks begin to fly and a new life looks to be on the cards. In 'A Christmas Wish' (2013) the Kamp family are struggling to make ends meet in depression-era America. With his son's rising medical bills and the recent loss of his wife, things begin to take their toll on the family patriarch William (Brian Krause). As Christmas draws closer the children are expecting another holiday of festivities but their hopes are tested when their father gives them a dollar in change and challenges them to buy each other gifts with it. Facing a seemingly impossible challenge, will the children change their view of Christmas?

• Heart Of America | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's the last day of school and the unthinkable is about to happen. Distraught by constant bullying and verbal abuse from their peers two senior high school students plan to take weapons to school to murder the bullies that torment them then end their own lives in a horrific suicide pact... Based on the tragic events at Columbine High School.

• My Christmas Gift | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £3.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Patrick Muldoon and Charisma Carpenter star in this festive family feature directed by Brad Keller. With city-dwelling accountant and single father Michael (Muldoon) struggling to see eye-to-eye with his teenage daughter, he decides to accept an offer from a family farm out in the country who are currently engaged in battle with a relentless bank manager. Thinking that a new start is all that the father-daughter team need, Michael and Chloe (Mandalynn Carlson) set up home in the country. Not entirely convinced by the move, Chloe continues to play the teenager card, but when Michael meets the farm owner's daughter Samantha (Carpenter), sparks begin to fly and a new life looks to be on the cards.

• Red Team | DVD | (28/08/2000) from £13.45   |  Saving you £2.54 (15.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Investigating the mysterious deaths of two notorious mass murderers FBI Special Agent Jason Chandler (Patrick Muldoon) finds that half a dozen more of the FBI's most wanted serial killer suspects have recently disappeared without trace. He soon comes to the incredible conclusion that there's a killer slaughtering serial killers!

• Starship Troopers | UMD | (05/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• Blackwoods | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A tragic accident leaves a young girl dead. The man responsible goes free. But for the victim's family no crime goes unpunished. Pursued by a family thirsty for vengeance Matt tries to escape to the Blackwoods. But escape is never that easy. Twists and turns reveal themselves as the night grows darker and Matt's chances slip away with the final rays of light...