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• The Batman - Season 1 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £18.86   |  Saving you £-0.87 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Hidden in the shadows The Batman casts a protective eye while tracking the thugs thieves and criminal masterminds that claim Gotham City's dark alleys each night. In one magnificent swoop he descends upon opponents and battles with a fierceness that seems almost inhuman. This is the young Bruce Wayne who assumes the role of Gotham's greatest defender in a fresh retelling of the Dark Knight's beginnings. With incredible gadgets awesome animation and a cool new vibe these 13 excit

• Godzilla - The Monster Wars Trilogy | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (93.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Picking up where blockbuster motion picture left off this is a fast-paced animated adventure series that pits humanity against a new generation of giant monsters! Monster Wars - Part 1: With Elsie's surreptitious help Hick finds and extracts the alien spacecraft from the bottom of the ocean. Tension and friction between HEAT and Hicks escalates. Meanwhile in Africa a giant earth-shattering Bat with huge jaws is on the loose... Monster Wars - Part 2: Tracking the Gi

• Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles - Vol. 1 - The Pluto Campaign | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £4.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (303.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Roughnecks is the computer-animated TV spin-off from director Paul Verhoeven's live-action sci-fi shoot-'em-up Starship Troopers. Verhoeven had already seen his Robocop movie spun-off into animated television with mixed results, so when it came to Starship Troopers he wanted Roughnecks to be a little different (the director acted as Executive Producer on the series). The style of computer animation here recalls, if anything, the little green soldiers from the Toy Story movies. Backed by an unending techno-based score (despite which the series has won several awards for sound editing), the 20-minute episodes are like viewing brilliantly conceived "cut scenes" from computer games. The series concept begins by taking the movie's characters, giving them different origins---and then forgets about a bug home-world in favour of a mobile threat that can appear anywhere. With souped-up combat suits that better acknowledge Robert Heinlein's original novel, the technological look and feel also owes a significant debt to Aliens. This first collection edits together the opening five episodes to make a 100-minute self-contained movie about a crawling infestation on Pluto. You'll know where shows start and end by the narration. The story is all to do with set-up as we meet the titular Roughnecks: Rico, Dizzy, Doc, Jenkins, Higgins and Razak. Between missions of rescue and mercy, a love triangle is established, Rico's heroics and Higgins' cowardice are explored and more bugs are wasted than you can possibly keep count of. The finale's discovery of "Bug City" will test anyone for arachnophobia. --Paul Tonks

• Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles - Vol. 2 - The Tesca Campaign | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £6.88   |  Saving you £13.11 (190.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Volume 2 of Roughnecks--Starship Troopers Chronicles, Johnny Rico, Lieutenant Razak and their computer-animated squad embark on the Tesca campaign, once again fighting the bugs in all their myriad forms, shooting anything that moves and generally causing chaos and mayhem. Inspired by Robert Heinlein's sci-fi classic and executive-produced by Paul Verhoeven, who made the big-screen version, Roughnecks is cutting-edge TV animation that's more for grown-ups than kids. The neat equipment, combat suits and weapons are as deadly as they are cool, and even though the extreme gore and violence of the movie has been toned down the endless threat from all manner of nasty bugs is still pretty terrifying (the Giant Spider Bug, for example, really is the stuff of nightmares). As with Volume 1, the five 20-minute episodes are here spliced together into a movie-length feature, which makes for a satisfyingly lengthy story arc instead of the more usual self-contained individual episodes. The show's structure also allows for plenty of character development: this time the squad are joined by an alien "skinny" called T'Phai who, as might be expected, has to work hard to bond with the rest of the team and earn their respect. Like all good war stories, at its heart Roughnecks celebrates that "Band of Brothers"-style bonding in extreme circumstances which we viewers can only experience vicariously. On the DVD: The 4:3 picture is good, although it's better to watch with the lights off to see all the detail in the moody (i.e., "dark") CG animation. The 5.1 sound shows off explosions and gunfire, but also the almost incessant techno soundtrack. There's a good commentary from cast and crew members, who talk about their various movie inspirations (from the D-Day landing sequence of Saving Private Ryan to, of course, Aliens) and their desire to parallel real war situations. There's also a photo gallery of the human actors and a trailer. This is a stylish show, and a good DVD.--Mark Walker

• Extreme Ghostbusters | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £12.73   |  Saving you £-6.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the blockbuster films, this action-packed animated series starts a decade after the original Ghostbusters saved New York City from ghosts, goblins and ghouls. All the guys have left town except for Egon, now teaching a Paranormal Studies class at the local university. But Zool, the all-powerful demon, has awakened from hibernation to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting masses. Desperate to recruit a new team, Egon and the plucky Janine turn to four of his teenage students: Kylie, a genius with an encyclopedic knowledge of the occult; Eduardo, a hip slacker with a crush on Kylie; Garrett, a wheelchair-bound athlete with a hot temper; and Roland, a gentle giant who's a mechanical whiz. It's only a matter of time before Egon, Janine, old pal Slimer and the kids band together to rid the city of the evil-doers. Season 1 Darkness at Noon: Part 1 Darkness at Noon: Part 2 True Face of a Monster Fear Itself Deadliners Casting the Runes The Infernal Machine Home Is Where the Horror Is Killjoys The Unseen The Crawler The Pied Piper of Manhattan Be Careful What You Wish For

• Spider-Man Unlimited Complete Season | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Peter Parker and Mary Jane are back together again whilst Spider-Man takes the blame for the loss of the Daily Bugle publisher's son John Jameson. Donning a new high-tech costume his rescue mission leads him to Counter-Earth a strange alternate reality where humans are second class citizens. A battle against humanoid animal incarnations of some of his greatest adversaries ensues... The most famous Marvel'' Comics character shoots into the 21st Century with the complete animated series of Spider-Man Unlimited on double DVD. Adapted from Stan Lee's comic book character with a hint of anime this release includes all thirteen original episodes. Spider-Man's arrival on the Earth-like planet is spiced up with arch enemies Venom and Carnage... his adventures feature clashes with Counter-Earth versions of the Green Goblin the Vulture and Electro... in a dramatic finale the planet's safety is threatened by its leader the High Evolutionary. Episodes Comprise: 1. Worlds Apart Part I 2. Worlds Apart Part II 3. Where Evil Nests 4. Deadly Choices 5. Steel Cold Heart 6. Enter the Hunter! 7. Cry Vulture 8. Ill Met by Moonlight 9. Sustenance 10. Matters of the Heart 11. One is the Loneliest Number 12. The Sins of Our Fathers 13. Destiny Unleashed

• Lethal Lolita | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £7.21   |  Saving you £-1.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  On 13 May 1992 17-year-old Amy Fisher had an accomplice drive her to the house of Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa New York. When Mary Jo answered the door Amy shot her in the head. Mary Jo survived the attack but sustained injuries that left her paralysed. The case caused a sensation. Amy was dubbed ""The Long Island Lolita"" by the media and became the most notorious teenager in America. Portrayed as promiscuous and immoral Amy claimed to have started a passionate affair at a yea

• Puccini-Il Trittico | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Giacomo Puccini - Il Trittico:Recorded live at the Teatro Comunale di Modena, 8 February 2007.