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• The Best Of Smack The Pony | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Take the banal, the irrelevant and the downright silly, add a female perspective, pour in a hefty dose of comic timing, stir well, and what do you get? Two series of Smack the Pony, the highlights of which are found here. So many of the sketches are very short that watching this in one go might induce epilepsy, but regular doses, little and often, can only prove beneficial. The team of Sally Phillips, Doon MacKichan and Fiona Allen play on women's neuroses (snogging, pubic hair and size of boobs, not necessarily in that order), their preoccupations (finding a man, finding a man and finding a man), their weaknesses (Marks & Spencer, fashion and men) and their competitiveness (more covert than that of the male of the species, and therefore far more deadly). The spoof dating agency clips take in the full range of stereotypes and unfailingly hit the spot. And the prize for the most surreal sketch goes to the one which sets that most bourgeois of institutions--the wedding list--in a sex shop, with the coup de grace: "Two butt plugs ... with love from Kathy and Edward". Not a compilation to give your grannie for her birthday but to be enjoyed in the company of like-minded people (men included). On the DVD: The one failing here is that the DVD disappointingly adds nothing to the VHS format. Shame!--Harriet Smith

• Romance Collection (How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days, Failure To Launch, Just Like Heaven, Forces of Nature) | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (-5.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (2003): Andie needs to prove she can dump a guy in 10 days. Ben needs to prove he can win a girl in 10 days. Now the clock is ticking-and the year's most wildly entertaining comedy smash is off and running in this irresistible tale of sex lies and outrageous romantic fireworks! Failure To Launch (2006): Matthew McConaughey is Tripp a 35 year old who still lives with his parents. And who can blame him? It's free he's got a great room and mom (Kathy Bates) does the laundry. Desperate to get him out of the house his parents hire a gorgeous woman Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker) to give him a little...push. They just didn't expect Tripp would push back! Just Like Heaven (2005): When David (Mark Ruffalo) rented his quaint San Francisco apartment the last thing he expected - or wanted - was a roommate. He had only begun to make a complete mess of the place when a pretty but decidedly controlling young woman names Elizabeth (Reese Witherspoon) suddenly shows up adamantly insisting the apartment is hers. David assumes there's been a giant misunderstanding...until Elizabeth disappears as mysteriously as she appeared. Changing the locks does nothing to deter Elizabeth who begins to appear and disappear at will - mostly to rebuke David for his personal living habits in her apartment. Convinced she is a ghost David tries to help Elizabeth cross over to the 'other side'. But when Elizabeth discovers she does have a distinctly ethereal quality - she can walk through walls - she is equally convinced that she is somehow still alive and isn't crossing over anywhere. As Elizabeth and David search for the truth about who Elizabeth is and how she came to be in her present state their relationship deepens into love. Unfortunately they have very little time before their prospects for a future together permanently fade away. Forces Of Nature (1999): It's only two days before his wedding when Ben's (Ben Affleck) plane skids out of control leaving him stranded in New York with no way home to his nervous fianc''e in Savannah. Against his better judgment the reliable groom-to-be hitches a ride with free spirited traveler Sarah (Sandra Bullock) - setting off the year's most riotous road trip. At first these two opposites attract nothing but trouble in a sidesplitting series of comic mishap as and unnatural disasters. But an irresistible attraction and the forces of nature threaten to detour them forever in this sexy whirlwind adventure Jeffrey Lyons (WNBC-TV) declared a fun hip ride - one you'll never forget.

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 5 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  The fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is about illusions and the truth that they often reveal; suddenly Buffy has a younger sister, has always had a younger sister. Michelle Trachtenberg as the moody, gawky Dawn achieves the considerable triumph of walking into an established stock company of well-known characters--Xander, Willow, Giles and so on--with the perfect assurance of a long-term member of the cast. Of course, nothing is as it seems; even Glory, the mad brain-sucking beauty in a red dress who is the villain of the year, turns out to be even more than she seems. Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy manages to convey heartbreak, self-involvement and real heroism as her relationship with her emotionally dense soldier boyfriend Riley hits the shoals and the blonde vampire Spike starts to show an altogether inappropriate interest. This season is also about the hard truth that there are some enemies it is impossible to fight. Even being around Buffy and Dawn is dangerous for their friends, as Glory and her minions proceed by a process of elimination. The eventual confrontation, when it comes, is genuinely shocking. Meanwhile, the vampire Spike's obsessed desire for Buffy takes them both to some very strange places and Willow and Tara have their love tested in the most gruelling of ways. And in the quietly upsetting episode "The Body", the cast produce their most impressive performances yet as they have to deal with another enemy they cannot fight. --Roz Kaveney

• The Walking Dead - Season 1-3 | Blu Ray | (30/09/2013) from £9.95   |  Saving you £62.04 (623.52%)   |  RRP £71.99

  Based on Robert Kirkman's hugely successful comic book series, The Walking Dead is an epic, edge-of-your-seat drama where personal struggles are magnified against a zombie apocalypse. The series follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) who are traveling in search of a safe and secure home. However, instead of the zombies, it is the humans who remain that truly become the walking dead.

• Super Shark | DVD | (13/01/2014) from £15.58   |  Saving you £-0.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When an underwater earthquake releases a giant prehistoric 'walking' shark from suspended animation, marine biologist Kat Carmichael jumps into action, securing the aid of a ragged Skipper and his rag-tag boat. After a series of bloody attacks it becomes clear that the creature is attracted to radio waves and the heroes engage a local radio station in order to lure the monster to a deserted beach where the Army hopes to kill it using a new four-legged walking Tank!

• The Mile High | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £42.40   |  Saving you £-17.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Fasten your seatbelts for the flight of a lifetime! What do pilots and cabin crew get up to both in and out of uniform? Mile High is the sexy drama series which follows the lives and loves of six airline crew from sharing a house in London to travelling across different countries and time zones. Young and sexy they work hard and play even harder!

• Sex and the City: Series 3 | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £17.98   |  Saving you £19.00 (118.82%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The Sex and the City phenomenon continues in Series 3 of this outrageously addictive cult show. The four highly sexed thirtysomethings share their hopes, fears and even boyfriends (when Charlotte decides to throw a "used boyfriend party") in a New York where you can buy Manolo Blahniks on the proceeds of one article a week and eat mountains of junk food yet stay as thin as a pencil. But if the peripheral details remain somewhat fantastical, the searing honesty of the main storyline takes this third season to dramatic heights only suggested by the previous seasons. Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) falls head-over-heels for chunky furniture designer Aidan Joff (John Corbett) but still embarks on a disastrous affair with her newlywed ex, Mr Big (Chris Noth). The resulting triangle, set against the background of Charlotte's outwardly perfect marriage to Trey (Kyle MacLachlan), proves to be electrifying viewing. But the humour is as sharp as ever too: Samantha's run-in with her drag-queen prostitute neighbours, Miranda pretending to be an air stewardess so as not to frighten men away and one of Charlotte's boyfriends talking dirty to her in bed are all moments of great high comedy. It just gets better and better. --Warwick Thompson

• The Return | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £6.38   |  Saving you £12.87 (251.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A young woman becomes determined to learn the truth behind terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her.

• All You've Got | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £7.93   |  Saving you £8.06 (101.64%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two rival volleyball teams both desperate to assert their superiority in their division discover that they aren't as different from each other as they previously thought when tragedy strikes close to home. The Madonnas and the Phantoms are two volleyball teams with a longstanding grudge. With a bitter rivalry that frequently spills off of the court and into the streets the Madonnas and the Phantoms appear to have nothing in common until fate forces them to break down the social and cultural barriers that bind them. Now determined to keep it together on the court as they make their way to the championships these former rivals are about to find out what true sportsmanship is really all about.

• Agatha Christie's Marple - The Sleeping Murder | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £9.18   |  Saving you £0.81 (8.82%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Agatha Christie's classic sleuth Miss Marple (here essayed by Geraldine McEwan) takes on another case of murder most foul... Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs. In fear Gwenda turns to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them they attempt to solve a 'perfect' crime

• Saturday Night Fever / Save The Last Dance / Footloose / Flashdance | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £8.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (177.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Definitive Dance Collection! 4 Discs of pure dancing magic... Footloose: Teenager Ren MacCormack sends ripples through Bomont a small Midwestern town that could stand some shaking up when he arrives from Chicago with his mother Ethel to settle with her relatives. The adults tend to view him with suspicion as a possible contaminant from the outer world. Some of his male peers eye him as a threat and most of the girls just plain eye him. It's a tough time for Ren

• Dawn Of The Dead | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £26.29   |  Saving you £-8.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Roadkill Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (07/12/2020) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Four-part miniseries written by David Hare and starring Hugh Laurie as self-made politician and aspiring Prime Minister Peter Laurence in this British political thriller. Having just received a promotion in the Cabinet Laurence has no time to celebrate as he is informed about a secret from his past that may threaten to put an end to his political career. Despite the turmoil in his private life Laurence continues to consolidate his position in Government as he eyes the top job but with a growing list of enemies it may only be a matter of time before Laurence will have to face the consequences of his previous actions.

• Queenie | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £16.22   |  Saving you £-9.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  From humble beginnings in the slums of Calcutta to the lofty heights of Hollywood fame and fortune Queenie achieves a triumph she never imagined. But dark secrets from her past and jealous rivalries threaten to destroy her. Based on the novel by Michael Korda.

• Robot Chicken - Season 3 | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £10.09   |  Saving you £9.90 (98.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Season 3 of the toy murderin' attention span shatterin' stop-motion mayhem is packed with pop culture p*ss-takes including Zombie Idol and Jesus fighting his nemesis Kill Bill style. Guest starring Scarlett Johansson Sarah Michelle Gellar & Hulk Hogan

• Flight Of The Living Dead | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.48   |  Saving you £14.51 (264.78%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm the instability of the aircraft allows the corpse to get out of its container. The flesh-eating zombie quickly starts to spread the virus infecting many of the passengers which now will have to fight for their lives stranded in the air with no way out...

• Paper Boys | DVD | (23/07/2018) from £8.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a brash decision Cole has secretly moved to San Francisco under the guise of his straight best friend's engagement party. It also doesn t hurt that San Fran is so far from New York, many miles from a dead-end career and the memories of a passionate summer fling with a beautiful boy. But when he arrives, he runs into his former fling and old feelings resurface. And after his friend, Darren, reveals his engagement was an accident, Cole uses the mysterious powers of a re-discovered sketchbook to try to put their lives back on track, whatever the consequences. A gay romantic fantasy dramedy about discovering who you are, and with a newly found magical power, becoming who you want to be, PAPER BOYS is a fun, modern look at gay twenty-somethings.

• Spiderwick Chronicles/Charlotte's Web | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £4.84   |  Saving you £6.41 (179.05%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Titles Comprised: The Spiderwick Chronicles: Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace along with their sister Mallory discover a guide to an alternate magical world in their great-uncle's dilapidated house. They soon find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of fairies and other creatures...

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6 (New Packaging) | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £19.29   |  Saving you £8.70 (45.10%)   |  RRP £27.99

  The sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer followed the logic of plot and character development into some gloomy places. The year begins with Buffy being raised from the dead by the friends who miss her, but who fail to understand that a sacrifice taken back is a sacrifice negated. Dragged out of what she believes to have been heavenly bliss, she finds herself "going through the motions" and entering into a relationship with the evil, besotted vampire Spike just to force her emotions. Willow becomes ever more caught up in the temptations of magic; Xander and Anya move towards marriage without ever discussing their reservations; Giles feels he is standing in the way of Buffy's adult independence; Dawn feels neglected. What none of them need is a menace that is, at this point, simply annoying--three high school contemporaries who have turned their hand to magical and high-tech villainy. Added to this is a hungry ghost, an invisibility ray, an amnesia spell and a song-and-dance demon (who acts as rationale for the incomparable musical episode "Once More, with Feeling"). This is a year in which chickens come home to roost: everything from the villainy of the three geeks to Xander's doubts about marriage come to a head, often--as in the case of the impressive wedding episode--through wildly dark humour. The estrangement of the characters from each other--a well-observed portrait of what happens to college pals in their early 20s--comes to a shocking head with the death of a major character and that death's apocalyptic consequences. The series ends on a consoling note which it has, by that point and in spite of imperfections, entirely earned. --Roz Kaveney

• Box Of The Banned | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Video Nasties.... For the first time ever 'together' six of the most shocking depraved and corrupt movies which were banned under the Obscene Publication Act 1983/4 - Along with a feature length documentary 'Ban The Sadist Videos' which was a headline for the Daily Mail at the height of the frenzy. Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979): There is something sinister about the sailing-boat drifting slowly in Hudson Bay upon boarding the coast-guard police are confronted with a terrifying sight appearing out of the hatchway - a man covered in blood walks towards them menacingly only after being shot repeatedly does he fall overboard and disappear amid the waves. This news causes a panic in America as the sailing-boat belonged to a famous scientist who mysteriously disappeared in the Caribbean. Ann the scientist's daughter together with a famous journalist Peter West set out to look for him setting sail on a schooner belonging to Brian an American Ethnologist and Susan an underwater photographer they head for the Caribbean. Meanwhile on Mutal Island in the Antilles professor Menard is conducting strange experiments. What follows in the Caribbean and later in New York is truly terrifying - Zombie Flesh Eaters are here! (Dir. Lucio Fulci) I Spit On Your Grave (1978): Jenny (Camille Keaton) a New Yorker who goes to a secluded country retreat to finish work on her novel is one day assaulted raped and left for dead by four men. But she survives to take revenge. She seduces each of her rapists separately and personally performs their painful executions... (Dir. Meir Zarchi) Driller Killer (1979): Reno is struggling artist close to breaking point. The loud punk band in the flat next door practices for 24 hours a day. His debts are mounting. He needs to sell his new painting to pay the overdue rent on the shabby New York apartment he shares with his girlfriend and her spaced-out lesbian lover. Despite the desperate need for cash Reno will not admit that he has completed the painting. It becomes an obsession. In his troubled mind the picture triggers a violence he cannot contain... (Dir. Abel Ferrara) The Last House On The Left (1972): The terrifying story of two teenage girls Mari and Phyllis heading up to the city to celebrate Mari's 17th birthday at concert by the band Bloodlust. Prior to the show the pair are drugged beaten and kidnapped by a group of escaped convicts and taken into the woods where their horrific ordeal ends in rape and murder. When the criminals coincidentally but unknowingly take refuge at the nearby house of one of their victims the girl's parents discover the gruesome fate of their daughter and seek to exact their revenge... (Dir. Wes Craven) Nightmares In A Damaged Brain (1981): Escaped mental patient George (Baird Stafford) repeatedly suffers a graphic nightmare that depicts the axe murders of a couple making love. In Florida a prowler stalks a babysitter - when she is attacked the youngest child she is looking after just sits and laughs... George begins a journey of brutal murder death and destruction until the final moment of truth when his nightmares come to frightening life! (Dir. Romano Scavolini) The Evil Dead (1982): In the literary tradition of Stephen King and the cinematic mode of George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) The Evil Dead is a visual and aural attack on the senses which requires a strong stomach and a healthy sense of humour! Whilst holidaying in the Tennessee woodlands five innocent teenagers unwittingly unleash the spirit of the evil dead. One by one the teenagers fall victim to the frenzied flesh-eating monsters amidst a tour-de-force display of stunning special effects. (Dir. Sam Raimi)