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• Marie - A True Story | DVD | (17/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Marie: A True Story charts the rise of Marie Ragghianti (Sissy Spacek) from her violent marriage through her struggle as a single mother putting herself through school right up to her appointment as head of the state parole board. Uncovering widespread corruption in the parole system Marie makes the life changing decision to blow the whistle on the grafters and sentence the governor and his officials to the very prisons they sought to control...Through powerful oppostition and a barr

• Body Count | DVD | (06/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A group of teenagers go camping for the weekend and fall victim to a serial killer known only as 'The Shaman'.

• Men in Black 3 | DVD | (05/11/2012) from £4.50   |  Saving you £0.49 (10.89%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Agent Jay travels back in time to 1969, where he teams up with a younger version of Agent Kay to stop an evil alien from destroying the future.

• Jason And The Argonauts | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This version of Jason and the Argonauts is not a remake of the classic 1963 Ray Harryhausen feature, but a new re-telling of the Greek legend. It takes just as many liberties with the saga, but--with a running time twice as long as the original--it packs in much more of the story, building to an exciting finale filled with betrayal, retribution and copious sword-play. Made by mini-series specialists Hallmark, who also produced a lavish version of Homer's The Odyssey (1997), only the rapid fades where the commercial breaks would be really give away the fact that this is a TV feature. The multinational cast is variable, and while Jason London is unhappily wooden in the title role, such stars as Denis Hopper and Frank Langella are good value, American accents aside. Coming straight from the big screen sword and sandal epic, Gladiator, Derek Jacobi adds sheer class, while Jolene Blalock makes a breathtaking debut as Medea. The visual atmosphere is strong; the superb cinematography varying between lush beauty and the stark, sun-bleached look of Pitch Black. Production values are excellent, with several increasingly powerful and spectacular action set-pieces incorporating outstanding (for TV) CGI effects, the whole being immeasurably lifted by British composer Simon Boswell's splendid musical score.--Gary S. Dalkin

• About A Boy/Love Actually/Notting Hill | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Love Actually: (Dir. Richard Curtis) (2003): The story of a group of people who find themselves surrounded by love... There's the new Prime Minister who falls for his personal assistant the Prime Minister's sister Karan who realises that her husband is attracted to his secretary. Author Jamie who flees England to escape his unfaithful girlfriend and then falls for his housekeeper. Movie stand-ins John and Judy who become attracted to each other on the film set. Recently widowed Daniel who helps his stepson who is smitten with one of his class-mates and Billy Mack an ageing rock star who discovers that love can be found in the most unlikely of places... About A Boy (Dir. Paul Weitz Chris Weitz) (2002): Growing up has nothing to do with age... Will (Grant) is a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his father some years previously. A serial womaniser Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women. Inventing a two-year old son for himself he meets lonely bullied schoolboy Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) and his depressed music therapist mother (Toni Collette). The intelligent Marcus soon learns Will's secret and so blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place and watch afternoon telly. However what starts out as an uneasy quiz show watching alliance turns into an unlikely friendship... Notting Hill (Dir. Roger Michell) (1999): A famous actress in disguise (Julia Roberts) in London runs into a divorced bookstore owner (Hugh Grant). They strike up a friendship with each other as they each find something that was previously missing from their own lives...

• Race To Space | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The true story of Mac: the first chimpanzee in space. Wilhelm Von Huber is a NASA scientist who moves to Florida with his son Billy after the recent death of Billy's mother. But there's a widening gap developing between father and son because Billy thinks his father is boring and yearns to be with the young astronauts. Then Billy gets his wish when Dr. Donni McGuinness enlists his help to train the chimps NASA needs for an experimental space flight. Billy's favourite Mac is chosen to be the first in space but the boy then realises the real risks involved. Can Wilhelm and Billy pull together to ensure a happy outcome for Mac's mission? Based on a true story.

• Fiend Without A Face | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £28.97   |  Saving you £-18.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Few 1950s creature features deliver in the way Fiend Without a Face does. The first hour is all build-up as tension grows between an Air Force research base and a small Canadian town (this is one of those British B films that pretends to be set overseas) as a series of mystery deaths are blamed by the superstitious on weird military experiments. It's not a spoiler to give away the big revelation, since every item of publicity material, including the DVD cover, blows the surprise: the initially invisible culprits turn out to be a killer swarm of disembodied brains with eyes on stalks and inchworm-like spinal cord tails. These creatures have a nasty habit of latching onto victims and sucking out their grey matter. The finale is a siege of a house by the fiends, which swarm en masse making unsettling brain-sucking sounds, and are bloodily done away with by the heroes. Using excellent stop-motion animation, this climax goes beyond silliness and manages to be genuinely nightmarish. The orgy of splattering brains stands proud among the cinema's first attempts at genuine horror-comic glee, setting a precedent for everything from The Evil Dead to Peter Jackson's Braindead. Marshall Thompson is a bland, stolid uniformed hero and most of the rest of the cast struggle with "anadian" accents, but Kynaston Reeves is fun as the decrepit lone researcher whose fault it all is. On the DVD: Fiend Without a Face on disc comes with a montage of scenes from other films in this batch of releases (The Day of the Triffids, The Stars Look Down) that plays automatically when the disc is inserted, but otherwise not even a trailer, much less the commentary track and other material found on the pricey but luxurious US Region 1 Criterion release. The print has nice contrasts but is pretty grainy. --Kim Newman

• Princess Daisy | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £7.18   |  Saving you £-1.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the Judith Krantz novel which tells the story of a beautiful and spirited daughter of a Russian Prince and an American movie star. This rich and captivating story blends romantic passion with bitter tragedy glittering glamour with dark and dangerous intrigue. The beautiful and elegant Daisy has been scarred by a troubled and traumatic childhood. With a hollywood filmstar mother and exiled Rusian Prince Father her life should have been privileged and perfect but her parents angrily split after her domineering father's refusal to accept Daisy's brain damaged twin sister and the tragedy is made worse by the death of her Mother in a car accident. Arriving penniless in America Daisy enjoys a meteoric rise to stardom as a fashion supermodel. She's desired by men envied by women and tormented by a guilty secret she has gaurded all her life.

• Dead Cold | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! When a carjacking leaves L.A. screenwriter Eric Thornsen recovering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen his wife Alicia nurses him back to health in the country. However when a stranded motorist requests refuge for the night their nightmare is only just beginning... Murder is the coldest affair...

• The Fiance | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Advertising Executive Richard Moore has been neglecting his beautiful wife Faith. Believing that her husband is having an affair she has a one-night stand with a handsome stranger by the name of Walter... Instantly regretting her extra-marital activities she spurns Walter and returns to her oblivious husband... However Walter isn't happy and his attraction to her develops into obsession. If he can't have her no one can...

• Sleeping With Strangers | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Struggling hotel owner Daniel MacTavish may not know a rocker from a rocking chair but he is very clear about one thing... Ever since a stretched Limo stopped in front of his place and a sloshed rock god and poultry movie goddess stepped out Daniel's little known hotel has become big news! Who's doing what to whom and how - an inquiring media want to know. And in the spinning merry-go-round of mix-up and boudoir bedlam involving the celebrities their entourage Daniel's fiancee

• Columbus Day | DVD | (31/03/2009) from £5.72   |  Saving you £8.53 (191.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• Legion Of The Dead | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  An ancient tomb unearthed... An underworld army unleashed! When the mummified remains of an evil Egyptian queen are brought back to life she resurrects an army of living dead to help fulfill the prophecy that promises her all the powers of the Underworld.

• Born And Bred - Series 2 - Part 1 | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  James Bolam and Michael French star as father and son doctors in the second series of Born And Bred. GP Arthur Gilder is enjoying having his family around him especially now he has moved in with his son Tom Tom's wife Deborah and his four grandchildren. It's all part of making Arthur feel one of the family but Arthur can't resist interfering from time to time.

• Call Girl | DVD | (19/07/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Diandra Jensen is a talented but struggling young art photographer who longs for success.Broke and facing eviction from her apartment after failure of her first exhibition, Diandra takes a job with an `escort' agency. Her first client, patron of the arts Arthur Benton, coaxes Diandra into a dangerous world of sexual exploitation.Once under the control of Arthur, Diandra sinks deep into a world of sexual intrigue and experimentation.

• Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban | UMD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

• Apocalyptic Evil | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-6.59 (-44.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The year is 2014. The face of the planet has been altered and reshaped after a Mega-Tsunami, the likes of which the world has never seen. After ripping through the Caribbean, Cuba and most of southern Florida have been completely wiped off the face of the earth. The wide spread damage has even left Central Florida isolated and cut off from the continental United States. Orlando is now a wasteland, a lawless shadow of the prosperous community that thrived before the devastation. It's survival of the fittest as gangs and ruthless thugs control the streets.

• Teletubbies - Teletubbies And The Snow / Happy Christmas From The Teletubbies | DVD | (30/11/2001) from £55.19   |  Saving you £-40.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Teletubbies and the SnowOne day, sparkly clouds appear over Tellytubby land. Soon, everything is covered in fluffy, white snow--including the Tubbies' favourite things--their ball, bag, hat and scooter. The chubby foursome are at first afraid, but soon get stuck into some serious snow games, including rolling snowballs, sliding down hillsides, making footprints and making a snow Tellytubby--even their goggle-eyed vacuum-cleaner, Noo-noo, gets covered from brush to wheels in it. Teletubbies and the Snow will particularly delight pre-schoolers just getting their first taste of a real winter, but children who have never seen snow will love the four short films of real-life children singing winter songs and celebrating the year-end, as well as the antics of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-laa and Po, giggly Sun Baby and a cast of hundreds of fluffy bunnies hopping around. --Alison JardineHappy Christmas From The TeletubbiesWhat better time than Christmas could there be for these four likeable, er, things? After all, like the children they really are, the Teletubbies find the whole procedure to be an endless source of wonderful surprises and exciting things to do. They get presents, of course, found with the tree which, in Teletubby Land, just mysteriously appears--exactly as it does to real children, of course (unless they're unfortunate enough to be awake when an effing-and-blinding adult is attempting to manoeuvre it into place). There's also some jolly footage of real children, including a suitably happy bunch choosing and decorating a real tree, and of course it's these sections of "outside broadcasting" which balance the caperings of the four plush poppets so well. Despite the festive theme, this needn't be a Christmas-only video; the whole world is wondrous for the Teletubbies' pre-school audience, so the occasion is perfectly presented as a part of that, no more and no less. --Roger Thomas

• Midnight Crossing | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £11.91   |  Saving you £-5.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With a pounding, synthesised sound track, big-haired babes in bikinis and succession of increasingly incredible fight scenes and returns from the dead, Midnight Crossing takes some beating as an eminently watchable slab of 1980s schlock. Honesty is a premium in this torrid tale of a buried fortune, hot sex, deceit on the high seas and much extended suspense. Jeff Shub (John Laughlin), a six-packed hunk in tight shorts, lives for his yacht, inherited from his father. When his wife's boss Morley (married to a blind woman and played by Daniel J Travanti) charters the yacht for a birthday celebration, the two couples head off for the Bahamas. Then, Morley reveals his real agenda--the recovery of treasure he buried on a Cuban island in the pre-Castro years--and it soon becomes clear that nothing and nobody are what they seem. Kim Cattrall, years before her emergence as a stylish television star in Sex and the City, pops up in a in a wet t-shirt. And at the film's centre is a knockout, beyond self-parody performance from Faye Dunaway. Here she plays Joan Crawford playing a blind woman who might not, in fact, be blind at all. Dunaway confirms the suspicion that she was an actress born 30 years too late for the kind of scripts that would have best served her unique brand of throbbing melodrama. The rest of the cast, particularly the usually reliable Travanti, soon follow her over the top. The result is a compulsive 90 minutes of hammy and thoroughly enjoyable action. On the DVD: Presented in letterbox widescreen (1.85:1) format for maximum effect Midnight Crossing surfaces pretty much as it did in the cinema. Picture quality is fine. The daylight scenes on board the yacht certainly benefit but the interminable night-time struggles are less convincing. Were they shot in a tank? Probably, if the dull stereo sound quality at this point is anything to go by. Extras are limited to the original cinema trailer and filmographies of the leading players.--Piers Ford

• Love Actually | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.08

  An ensemble comedy from the makers of "Notting Hill" following a whole host of separate but intertwining stories of love in London.