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• Knight Moves | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Yet another serial killer drama, Knight Moves is perhaps a little too in love with its own ingenuity. Chess Grand Master Peter Sanderson (Christopher Lambert) finds himself, in the middle of a crucial tournament, challenged to a game whose rules he does not know, by a killer who will murder women until Sanderson stops him. The local police, headed by Sedman (Tom Skerrit), suspect this is actually a game Sanderson is playing with them; while Kathy, a woman profiler brought in on the case, finds herself falling in love with Sanderson but still suspecting him. None of the performances are more than competent and Lambert's aloof neurotic is perhaps less likable than was intended. Director Carl Schenkel is too fond of odd camera angles and garish lighting, but the end result is a moderately successful detective story for those who are fond of puzzles. On the DVD: Knight Moves is ungenerous with special features, providing a bare minimum of filmographies, photo gallery and trailer. It has a visual aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and Dolby Digital sound. --Roz Kaveney

• Stars Stories - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Star Stories the Comedy Award-winning series from the makers of Peep Show presses its nose against the steamy window of fame. Recreating the bust-ups love-ins and fall-outs of major league celebrities Star Stories is a hilarious romp through the stories behind the tabloid splashes. It reveals the warts and all revelations of the personal dramas behind the tabloid representation of celebrity figures such as Posh & Becks Take That Madonna & Guy Ritchie Britney Spears Catherine Zeta Jones & Michael Douglas and Simon Cowell. It's packed with the latest celebrity news the hottest lurrrve tips and the juiciest gossip the stars do not want published! Discover who really wears the trousers in Madonna's house why Take That really split up and why George Michael is the most influential artist of the Twentieth Century! In each episode a different celebrity is put under the microscope in a sacrilegious biopic of their lives to date. But these are the stories our stars would never want anyone to see.

• Tilly & Friends: Princess Tilly | DVD | (04/05/2015) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-40.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tilly and Friends follows the adventures of a little girl and her five animal friends. There’s Hector the playful pig Tumpty the gentle elephant Doodle the apple loving crocodile Tiptoe the little rabbit who loves to twinkle and Pru the fabulously glamorous but rather bossy chicken. In the Princess Tilly episode Tilly tries on a knight’s shield from the dressing up box Pru is horrified. She thinks boys should be knights and girls should be princesses. But being a princess and waiting around to be rescued is boring and Tilly doesn’t think it’s fair that Tiptoe Hector and Tumpty get to have all the fun just because they’re boys. But when the brave knights run into trouble in the garden shed it’s up to the Princesses to come to rescue! Princess Tilly includes 9 further episodes; Princess Tilly Pru and The Bangle Doodle and The Marching Band Tiptoe’s Rainbow Tumpty The Great Pru and The Feather Fairy Hector and The Dandelion Doctor Tilly Tilly’s Bug Hotel Tilly and The Splodge.

• Stormbreaker/Dreamer/Lassie | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £19.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (-33.30%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This box set features the following films: Stormbreaker (Dir. Geoffrey Sax) (2006): After the death of his uncle the 14-year-old hero is forced by the Special Operations Division of Britain's secret intelligence service MI6 into a mission which will save millions of lives... Dreamer (Dir. John Gatins) (2005): Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) was once a great horseman whose gifts as a trainer are now being wasted on making other men's fortunes. Sonador called 'Sonya' was once a great horse whose promising future on the racetrack was suddenly cut short by a career-ending broken leg. Considered as good as dead to her owner who also happens to be Ben's boss Sonya is given to Ben as severance pay along with his walking papers. Now it will take the unwavering faith and determination of Ben's young daughter Cale (Dakota Fanning) to bring these two damaged souls together in a quest for a seemingly impossible goal: to win the breeders' Cup Classic. However the true miracle might be that in helping this injured horse what they are actually healing is their own family... Lassie (Dir. ) (2005): Based on Eric Knight's 1938 novel about the most trustworthy of pooches Lassie Come Home the film is set on the eve of World War II in a Yorkshire mining town in northern England. The Carraclough family fall on hard times and have to sell Lassie to the Duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole). Transported to the Duke's remote castle in the north of Scotland Lassie is determined to escape from the clutches of the Duke and his evil trainer in an effort to make her way home for Christmas and return to the family she loves...

• Beastly | Blu Ray | (14/01/2013) from £15.60   |  Saving you £10.65 (74.27%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Beastly is a teen romance about learning how to see past false surfaces to discover true inner beauty. Seventeen year old Kyle (Alex Pettyfer: I Am Number Four) is the spoiled, shallow and an incredibly popular prince of his high school kingdom. Entirely captivated and empowered by his own physical appearance, Kyle foolishly chooses Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen), a goth classmate rumoured to be a witch, as his latest target for humiliation. Unfazed by his cruel behaviour, Kendra decides to...

• The Good Shepherd | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £14.86   |  Saving you £-4.87 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The truth will test his faith to the limit... Worldly priest Daniel Clemens (Slater) is forced to challenge his comfortable existence as an ecclesiastical spin-doctor when he comes to believe in the innocence of a young priest accused of murder...

• Death And The Compass | DVD | (15/02/2005) from £14.91   |  Saving you £-5.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An adaptation of the José Luis Borges short story, Death and the Compass is a baroque murder mystery with a comic touch. Plagued by his involvement in a prior investigation, weary and embittered Police Commissioner Treviranus (played by Cox regular Miguel Sandoval, Straight to Hell, Three Businessmen) attempts to set a peculiar history straight. When his star detective Lonnrot (Peter Boyle), an intuitive, blue-suited Buddhist, is stumped as to the motive behind a series of unsolved psycho-geographical murders with Kabbalistic overtones, Treviranus suspects master criminal Scharlach (Christopher Eccleston), at large in the city. But Lonnrot rejects this thesis and, with the aide of enthusiastic, atheist journalist, Zunz (Chistopher Eccleston), he is lead to believe that the crimes are allied to points on the compass. Drawn fatefully to where he believes a final crime will be committed, Lonnrot and Zunz search for the solution within a mysterious deserted mansion to the South of the city. Shot with a comic book sensibility (like a 1930s movie serial) on richly coloured modernist sets with futurist flourishes, Cox's film looks sumptuous and follows the style of Borges' labryinthine scenario to the letter without losing the plot. The three leads all acquit themselves admirably. Boyle's mystical detective is awkward and aloof in contrast to Sandoval's cunning, career-minded police inspector, while Ecceleston shape-shifts between three roles with alarming ease. On the DVD: An audio commentary by Alex Cox and composer Dan Wool of Pray for Rain (who also scored Cox's Straight to Hell and Three Businessmen) primarily examines the relationship between sound and setting. Paul Miller's "Spiderweb", the featurette advertised on the sleeve and liner notes, does not appear on this disc. --Chris Campion

• Power Rangers Samurai - Volume 4 - The Ultimate Duel | DVD | (12/08/2013) from £5.19   |  Saving you £4.80 (48.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Maria Full Of Grace | Blu Ray | (16/02/2009) from £8.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (22.25%)   |  RRP £10.99

  These pellets contain heroin. Each weighs 10 grams. Each is 4.2 cm long and 1.4 cm wide. And they're on their way to New York in the stomach of a 17-year-old girl.

• Airwolf - Season 3 | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Jan-Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine star in the cult favourite Airwolf - although some might call ""Airwolf"" itself the star. The Emmy Award-winning series followed the dangerous missions of the high-tech helicopter Airwolf and it's renegade pilot Stringfellow Hawke.

• Naked Souls | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Edward is a struggling young scientist whose experiments using the memories of dead killers worry his beautiful artist girlfriend Brit (Pamela Anderson). After meeting an elderly scientist Edward sees the opportunity to prove his worth to Brit with a special experiment steeped in mysticism and voodoo. The results turn Edward into a terrifying half-man tormented by the memories of the dead men he experimented on...

• The Invisible Man, Series 1 (Box Set 2) | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Invisible Man continued its first year in increasingly tense and cryptic fashion. Anti-hero Darien has to keep up his spying gig in order to be fed an antidote to the side effects of the invisibility gland. Unfortunately it isn't working. The clock is ticking all the way to a tense finale, where the Quicksilver insanity threatens to consume him whole. There's lots of fun with the format on the way, of course. Darien encounters a ghost, a sperm thief and a hitman who likes to blind his witnesses. Some grander political backdrop comes to the fore as well, with the Chinese government seeking surreptitiously to obtain the gland. All the while there's a growing sense that the Agency has troubles of its own. In an unprecedented bit of audience participation, viewers were allowed to vote for the resolution of a story entitled "Money for Nothing". Fans went for the more interesting option, thankfully, and so an invisible bank raid pays off nicely for everyone. Creating constant conflict throughout the year is the lurking presence of arch-enemy Arnaud. The immediate resolution of that conflict is one of several surprise twists that singled out the show as more than standard TV SF fare. Not even a so-so cameo from Star Trek's Wil Wheaton could spoil the fun. On the DVD: The Invisible Man's second box set features even more extras than the first DVD set. Two cast commentaries are frequently comic, though with a constant sense of disappointment the show didn't go further than two series. There are lengthy interviews with the cast, too. But of real interest to fans will be alternate footage previously unseen in the UK. Some FX shots and script pages round out the package. --Paul Tonks

• TAGGART NEW BLOOD - 6 New cases to solve | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Now the longest-running crime drama on UK television Taggart is back with a series of new episodes a more contemporary feel and a host of guest characters. The city of Glasgow offers a unique backdrop and a characteristic dry wit. So whether it's making the connection between the torture and mutilation of a newly qualified doctor and drug trafficking or investigating when a seemingly open and shut arson and murder investigation becomes more sinister the team are always on hand. But there are also a series of personal issues threatening to derail their investigation as lives begin to spiral out of control. Episodes Comprise: Bad Medicine Abuse of Trust Silent Truth Fallen Angels Bloodsport Ends of Justice

• Three Businessmen | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £18.23   |  Saving you £-12.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Alex Cox's Three Businessman is an existentialist fable for the independent businessman. Two travelling art dealers staying in a labyrinthine Liverpool hotel, Frank King (Alex Cox) and Bennie Reyes (Miguel Sandoval of Clear and Present Danger), sit down for dinner only to find that the hotel staff have deserted them. They begin to walk the Mersey streets in search of sustenance, talking about dogs, dinner, the "Plutonium" credit card and the state of the world. But lost without a map, they inadvertently wander half way across the world on public transport in search of their hotel, touching down in Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Japan and Spain. In a desert, they come across a third businessman, Leroy Jasper (Robert Wisdom), clutching a replica of the Mir space station. Soon after, they stumble across a food stand outside a small abode that holds within it the true object of their quest. It is a destination that they have found without looking for. This small, mannered movie grows in stature as it progresses. Sandoval and Cox are amiably crotchety travelling companions. Aided and abetted by jump cuts, the surrealist conceit that allows the businessman to roam across the world without ever realising they have left Liverpool is distinctly Bunuelian (cf. the name of Cox's production company Exterminating Angel Films). On the DVD: An amusing commentary by Alex Cox and writing partner and producer Tod Davies has the added bonus of Cox acting out deleted scenes. The feature appears in widescreen format with an excellent sound and picture transfer, enhanced by Pray for Rain's melancholic soundtrack. But the Debbie Harry and Iggy Pop promo video promised on the sleeve and liner notes does not appear anywhere on the disc. --Chris Campion

• I Am Soldier | Blu Ray | (17/03/2014) from £10.95   |  Saving you £12.03 (151.13%)   |  RRP £19.99

  I Am Soldier follows Mickey (Tom Hughes Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll) taking on the most dangerous military training known to man: SAS selection. The Special Air Service is the UK’s most renowned Special Forces regiment tasked with missions in some of the most dangerous and hostile locations on the planet. Mickey is smashed by the grueling selection process- physically mentally and emotionally. But when the Counter Terrorism Squadron take charge of a deadly situation Mickey Carter (Noel Clarke Star Trek Into Darkness) and their fellow recruits advance into conflict to see if they really do have what it takes . Many try to get into the SAS. Only the elite prevail.

• Cyborg | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jean-Claude Van Damme, aka "the Muscles from Brussels", had only a few movies to his credit when he played the hero in this lame post-apocalyptic action flick from 1989. It's really just another martial-arts movie, dressed down with near-future trash and dirty sets that have "low budget" written all over them. Van Damme plays the protective escort for a half-human, half-cyborg woman whose programming contains a possible cure for a plague that is threatening to wipe out the entire population of Earth. But the woman is kidnapped by Van Damme's evil nemesis (is there any other kind?) while they are en route to her Atlanta headquarters. That leads Van Damme right into a lion's den of sadomasochistic torture and torment. If you've made it this far (and if you have, why?), you are probably a founding member of the Jean-Claude Van Damme fan club. To everyone else: don't say you weren't warned--this is the kind of movie in which naming characters after electric guitars (Van Damme's character is named "Gibson Rickenbacker") qualifies as clever screen writing. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Taggart 6 Disc Set B | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The city of Glasgow backdrop with its characteristic dry wit combined with the menacing nature of the cases make Taggart unique in style and it is now the longest running detective drama on UK television. Episodes Comprise: Halfway House Fade To Black Blood Money Hardman New Life Bad Blood

• La Mission | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £7.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A startlingly effective and provocative drama, La Mission is about more than a father's battle to overcome his homophobia, it's also a powerful story of the redemptive power of love. Jessie hasn't had the easiest of lives, having to deal with the loss of his mother whilst trying to carve out a life as a gay man in New York's infamously volatile 'barrio' district. But things are about to get a lot harder when his homophobic father, Che (Benjamin Bratt) gets released from prison. Initially reacting to Jessie's revelation with violence and fear, Che is soon forced to choose between his old sense of pride and his love for the only thing that really means anything to him in this world - his son.

• Shakespeare:Henry IV Part 1 | Blu Ray | (01/01/2015) from £24.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Taggart: Ultimate Classic Collection | DVD | (21/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Collection of 42 classic episodes from the popular television crime drama. The selection includes episodes from throughout the history of the long-running show, including the pilot episode, 'Killer', and the debut appearance of James Macpherson as DS Michael Jardine in 'The Killing Philosophy'. The collection also includes a number of episodes starring the original 'Taggart', Mark McManus.