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• Class Of Nuke 'Em High | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Welcome to Tromaville High School the most bizarre High School you'll ever attend and it is conveniently located a stone's throw from the local Nuclear Power Plant. Meet the students as they transform into horrifying mutations! Become a member of The Cretins - a psychotic punk gang who ride motorcycles through the classrooms trashing the school. If you're thinking of bunking off classes you had better beware - there is a gigantic gremlin-like creature growing in the hot water pipes and a gigantic slime drenched monster growing in the basement - just waiting for you!

• Humanoids From The Deep 2 | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  In this sequel/remake to the original 1980 ecological horror movie a secret government experiment turns nightmarish when genetically altered fish bred as amphibious weapons escape. Scientists believe them dead after a biohazardous chemical spill. Far from it the creatures thrive as bloodthirtsy killers threatening to annihilate a small coastal town by slaughtering the men and abducting the women for mating! Government scientists attempt to keep the creatures' origin a secret while trying to destroy them. Starring Emma Samms Humanoids From The Deep 2 also stars Robert Carradine and Justin Walker as the locals who try to put an end to the carnage!

• Corman's World | Blu Ray | (26/03/2012) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (55.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A feature-length documentary about Roger Corman's life, career and remarkable influence on modern moviemaking.Blue jeans, sock-hops and drive-in movies: the Fifties were America's age of innocence. But stalking the depths of its post-nuclear bliss, mass paranoia became fuel for Joseph McCarthy's brand of Red Scare terror propaganda. Bomb shelters were a deluxe feature in every American home, government-sponsored educational reels promised an imminent nuclear threat from across the Atlantic, and Hollywood, Babylon of the western world, hung on the brink of collapse. It was here, in the last-ditch machinations of a dying juggernaut, that a mild-mannered, civil engineer's son would become the most influential force in modern moviemaking. Corman's World tracks the triumphant rise of Hollywood's most prolific writer-director-producer, the true godfather of independent filmmaking.

• Fantastic Voyage/Voyage to Bottom of the Sea | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Irwin Allen's visually impressive but scientifically silly Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea updates 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as the world's most advanced experimental submarine manoeuvres under the North Pole while the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, giving the concept "global warming" an entirely new dimension. As the Earth broils in temperatures approaching 170 degrees F, Walter Pidgeon's maniacally driven Admiral Nelson hijacks the Seaview sub and plays tag with the world's combined naval forces on a race to the South Pacific, where he plans to extinguish the interstellar fire with a well-placed nuclear missile. But first he has to fight a mutinous crew, an alarmingly effective saboteur, not one but two giant squid attacks and a host of design flaws that nearly cripple the mission (note to Nelson: think backup generators). Barbara Eden shimmies to Frankie Avalon's trumpet solos in the most form-fitting naval uniform you've ever seen; fish-loving Peter Lorre plays in the shark tank; gloomy religious fanatic Michael Ansara preaches Armageddon; and Joan Fontaine looks very uncomfortable playing an armchair psychoanalyst. It's all pretty absurd, but Allen pumps it up with larger-than-life spectacle and lovely miniature work. Fantastic Voyage is the original psychedelic inner-space adventure. When a brilliant scientist falls into a coma with an inoperable blood clot in the brain, a surgical team embarks on a top-secret journey to the centre of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to microbial dimensions. Stephen Boyd stars as a colourless commander sent to keep an eye on things (though his eyes stay mostly on shapely medical assistant Raquel Welch), while Donald Pleasence is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. The science is shaky at best, but the imaginative spectacle is marvellous: scuba-diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers. The film took home a well-deserved Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Director Richard Fleischer, who had previously turned Disney's 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea into one of the most riveting submarine adventures of all time, creates a picture so taut with cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy that niggling scientific contradictions (such as, how do miniaturised humans breathe full-sized air molecules?) seem moot. --Sean Axmaker

• Iron Man | Blu Ray | (01/11/2010) from £9.11   |  Saving you £19.14 (243.82%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Robert Downey Jr. stars in this live action adaptation of the cult comic book series.

• The Unbelievable Truth | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After serving time for murder Josh Hutton returns to his home town where me meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did and so as the town gossips tales of Josh's part spiral out of control!

• The Powell & Pressburger Collection - 9 DVD Box Set | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £49.98   |  Saving you £-9.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  ***WARNING***ALL DVD TITLES CONTAIN ENGLISH SUBTITLES EXCEPT FOR THE DVD TITLE - A CANTERBURY TALE*** Never in the history of British film have two figures become as iconic as those of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Reigning throughout the 40s and 50s these two magnificent filmmakers brought to life British films and continue to radiate immense critical acclaim and inspiration for all contemporary film making. Includes: 1. A Matter of Life & Death (1946) 2. The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) 3. A Canterbury Tale (1944) 4. I Know Where I am Going (1945) 5. 49th Parallel (1941) 6. The Battle of the River Plate (1956) 7. Ill Met By Moonlight (1957) 8. They're A Weird Mob (1966) 9. The Red Shoes (1948)

• Sir Francis Drake | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Terrence Morgan stars in the classic 1960's action adventure series - Sir Francis Drake. Drake is a freebooter adventurer expert swordsman and defender of the crown during Britain's war with Spain during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I a war which he wages from the bridge of his ship The Golden Hind. Presented here is the entire series of 26 action-packed episodes of this classic action show. This thrilling adventure series will appeal to people who enjoyed Network's previous releases of The Adventures Of Robin Hood and archive television fans.... Episodes: 1. The Prisoner 2. The Lost Colony Of Virginia 3. Mary Queen Of The Scots 4. Doctor Dee 5. Bold Enterprise 6. The English Dragon 7. Boy Jack 8. The Garrison 9. Visit To Spain 10. The Flame Thrower 11. The Governor's Revenge 12. The Slaves Of Spain 13. The Doughty Plot 14. King Of America 15. The Irish Pirate 16. Beggars Of The Sea 17. Drake On Trial 18. The Bridge 19. Johnnie Factotum 20. Mission To Paris 21. The Reluctant Duchess 22. The Gypsies 23. Court Intrigue 24. Gentlemen Of Spain 25. The Fountain Of Youth 26. Escape

• Lassie - Vol. 1 - Great Adventure / The Wayfarers | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Join Lassie the ever-faithful companion and her friends in their exciting adventures. The courageous canine will always be there in times of trouble and strife helping those in need. Lassie truly is everyone's best friend! Lassie's Great Adventure (Dir. William Beaudine 1965): Originally a three-part TV serial Great Adventure features the heroic pooch in fine fettle! While out with Timmy the heroic Border Collie is kidnapped and taken hundreds of miles away from

• The Face Of Fu Manchu | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.

• Meet Joe Black / The Mexican | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Meet Joe Black: Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) has it all success wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger Joe Black (Brad Pitt) who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time Bill agrees to serve as Joe's earthly guide. But will he regret his choice when Joe unexpectedly falls in love with Bill's beautiful daughter Susan (Claire Forlani)? The Mexican: Brad Pitt stars as Jerry Welbach a small-time loser who is given no choice but to run an errand for a powerful boss (Bob Balaban) who will have him killed if he fails. But if he accepts the job to go to San Miguel to pick up the beautiful handcrafted gun known as the Mexican his loud demanding girlfriend Samantha (Roberts) will leave him and move to Vegas. But through a course of bizarre events his contact is shot in the top of his head the gun is stolen and Sam is kidnapped and held hostage by a hired killer (James Gandolfini) who is not all that he seems...

• Iron Man (with Marvel Iron Man Comic Book, Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £6.25   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You know you're going to get a different kind of superhero when you cast Robert Downey Jr. in the lead role. And Iron Man is different, in welcome ways. Cleverly updated from Marvel Comics' longstanding series, Iron Man puts billionaire industrialist Tony Stark (that's Downey) in the path of some Middle Eastern terrorists; in a brilliantly paced section, Stark invents an indestructible suit that allows him to escape. If the rest of the movie never quite hits that precise rhythm again, it nevertheless offers plenty of pleasure, as the renewed Stark swears off his past as a weapons manufacturer, develops his new Iron Man suit, and puzzles both his business partner (Jeff Bridges in great form) and executive assistant (Gwyneth Paltrow). Director Jon Favreau geeks out in fun ways with the hardware, but never lets it overpower the movie, and there's always a goofy one-liner or a slapstick pratfall around to break the tension. As for Downey, he doesn't get to jitterbug around too much in his improv way, but he brings enough of his unpredictable personality to keep the thing fresh. And listen up, hardcore Marvel mavens: even if you know the Stan Lee cameo is coming, you won't be able to guess it until it's on the screen. It all builds to a splendid final scene, with a concluding line delivery by Downey that just feels absolutely right. --Robert Horton

• Oliver Twist | DVD | (11/10/1999) from £6.47   |  Saving you £3.52 (54.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  There have been many film and TV adaptations of Oliver Twist but this 1948 production from director David Lean remains the definitive screen interpretation of the Charles Dickens classic. From the ominous symbolism of its opening storm sequence (in which Oliver's pregnant, ill-fated mother struggles to reach shelter before childbirth) to the mob-scene climax that provokes Bill Sikes's dreadful comeuppance, this breathtaking black-and-white film remains loyal to Dickens while distilling the story into its purest cinematic essence.Every detail is perfect--Lean even includes a coffin-shaped snuffbox for the cruel Mr. Sowerberry--and as young Oliver, eight-year-old John Howard Davies (who would later produce Monty Python's Flying Circus for the BBC) perfectly expresses the orphan's boyish wonderment, stern determination and waifish vulnerability. Best of all is Alec Guinness as Fagin, so devious and yet so delightfully appealing under his beak-nosed (and, at the time, highly controversial) make-up. (Many complained that Fagin's huge nose and greedy demeanour presented an anti-Semitic stereotype, even though Lean never identifies Fagin as Jewish; for this reason, the film wasn't shown in the US until three years after its British release.) Likewise, young Anthony Newley is artfully dodgy as Fagin's loyal accomplice, the Artful Dodger. Guinness's performance would later provide strong inspiration for Ron Moody's equally splendid portrayal of Fagin in the Oscar-winning Oliver! and while that 1968 musical remains wonderfully entertaining, it is Lean's film that hews closest to Dickens' vision. The authentic recreation of 19th-century London is marvellous to behold; Guy Green's cinematography is so shadowy and stylised that it almost qualifies as Dickensian film noir. Lean is surprisingly blunt in conveying Dickens's theme of cruelty but his film never loses sight of the warmth and humanity that Oliver embodies. --Jeff Shannon

• An American Tale: The Mystery Of The Night Monster | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £6.46   |  Saving you £3.53 (35.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Fievel Tony Tanya Tiger and their new friend hot-shot reporter Nelly Brie are on the trail of an alleged mouse-nabbing monster rumors of which have made Manhattan's rodent population tremble.

• Iron Man 1 And 2 | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £22.33   |  Saving you £2.66 (10.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Iron ManBillionaire industrialist and genius inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead using his intelligence and ingenuity he builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man. Iron Man 2With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) faces pressure from the government the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention Stark along with Pepper Potts and James Rhodey Rhodes at his side must forge new alliances - and confront powerful enemies.

• The Education Of Little Tree | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £26.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (-68.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the novel by Forrest Carter 'The Education Of Little Tree' is a simple and touching tale set in the deep-south during the Depression. It tells the story of a young boy Little Tree who is sent to live in the Tennessee Mountains with his grandparents. On his arrival Little Tree discovers he is half Cherokee and begins to learn the wisdom and way of life of the Cherokee but the government places him in an Indian school where he is abused physically and psychologically...

• Rabid | DVD | (07/08/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of David Cronenberg's most successful early films, Rabid features porn star Marilyn Chambers as a woman who becomes infected with a virus after an operation. As result she grows a kind of phallus with which she penetrates her victims as she sucks their blood and thus the disease spreads rapidly. The film displays all Cronenberg's usual horrified fascination with the human body and its sexual function. Looking back, it can be read as a kind of parable about AIDS, but it works perfectly well as an effective low-budget shocker. On the DVD: the widescreen image on the DVD is acceptable quality, as is the sound. The fairly routine extras consist of excerpts from a TV interview with Cronenberg, lasting about 10 minutes; a collection of stills from the film; some written notes by horror expert Kim Newman that give useful background, though in part reproduce what is said in the interview; full filmographies for Cronenberg and the three principal performers, including a long list of Chambers' porn credits. --Ed Buscombe

• For Hire | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This 1997 thriller For Hire ponders the question of what terrible things a person might be persuaded to do, given the right circumstances and the right price. Rob Lowe plays Mitch, a Chicago cab driver trying to make it as an actor, married to the pregnant Faye. Among his clients are bestselling writer Lou Weber (Joe Mantegna), who befriends Mitch and confides in him that a drug dealer is trying to kill him. Over the next few days, Mitch begins to suffer severe stomach pains, collapsing in Weber's apartment after a fare and is diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer. With only a short time to live, he decides to take up Weber's offer to rub out his drug dealer stalker for $50,000, a nest egg for his family after he's gone. A not entirely unpredictable twist follows, hinted at by the Lucifer-like beard sported by Mantegna and the film alights only briefly to meditate on the potential for evil in all of us before resuming its journey along conventional, though certainly passable Hollywood thriller lines. An intriguing precept--it's just a slight shame that neither the players nor director's hearts seem really to be in this movie. On the DVD: Features a trailer. --David Stubbs

• Leprechaun 2 | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! This time... luck has nothing to do with it! The evil little Irishman returns to wreak bloody havoc in his never-ending quest for female companionship in this 'Leprechaun'. Ancient lore gives him claim over any woman who sneezes three times and the current object of his affections is the descendant of a former rival.

• The Blood Beast Terror | DVD | (17/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A Victorian English entomologist whose daughter happens to be a giant moth moves with her to a quiet village where he can begin work on an insect mate for her. His family problems worsen when his winged daughter starts killing people and drinking their blood.