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• X-Men 1/X-Men 2: 2 disc doublepack | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £15.56 (165.01%)   |  RRP £24.99

  X-Men 2 picks up almost directly where X-Men left off: misguided super-villain Magneto (Ian McKellen) is still a prisoner of the US government, heroic bad-boy Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is up in Canada investigating his mysterious origin, and the events at Liberty Island (which occurred at the conclusion of X-Men) have prompted a rethink in official policy towards mutants--the proposed Mutant Registration Act has been shelved by US Congress. Into this scenario pops wealthy former army commander William Stryker, a man with the President's ear and a personal vendetta against all mutant-kind in general, and the X-Men's leader Professor X (Patrick Stewart) in particular. Once he sets his plans in motion, the X-Men must team-up with their former enemies Magneto and Mystique (Rebecca Romjin-Stamos), as well as some new allies (including Alan Cumming's gregarious, blue-skinned German mutant, Nightcrawler). The phenomenal global success of X-Men meant that director Bryan Singer had even more money to spend on its sequel, and it shows. Not only is the script better (there's significantly less cheesy dialogue than the original), but the action and effects are also even more stupendous--from Nightcrawler's teleportation sequence through the White House to a thrilling aerial dogfight featuring mutants-vs-missiles to a military assault on the X-Men's school/headquarters to the final showdown at Stryker's sub-Arctic headquarters. Yet at no point do the effects overtake the film or the characters. Moreso than the original, this is an ensemble piece, allowing each character in its even-bigger cast at least one moment in the spotlight (in fact, the cast credits don't even run until the end of the film). And that, perhaps, is part of its problem (though it's a slight one): with so much going on, and nary a recap of what's come before, it's a film that could prove baffling to anyone who missed the first instalment. But that's just a minor quibble--X-Men 2 is that rare thing, a sequel that's actually superior to its predecessor. --Robert Burrow

• Darkness | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A house in Spain hosts a terrible secret in this chilling thriller / horror from director Jaume Balaguero.

• Steamboy (Director's Cut) | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Katsuhiro Otomo's animation epic - a fusion of two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics produced with full digital technology - is finally complete! Ten years in the making with a total budget of million Steamboy is the most expensive Japanese anime production ever. The director's complete dedication to every detail of the project is evident throughout the film. A retro science-fiction epic set in Victorian England Steamboy features an inventor prodigy named Ray Steam who receives a mysterious metal ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation. This young boy must use it to fight evil redeem his family and save London from destruction. The lush Victorian interiors and the elegance of the era's mechanical design allows Otomo to create dazzling visual backgrounds and machines for this film. With more than 180 000 drawing and 400 CG cuts Steamboy is one of the most elaborate animated features ever brought to life!

• Annie / Matilda / Fly Away Home | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Includes Annie Matilda and Fly Away Home. Annie: The irresistable orphan of comic-strip and box office fame comes to life in this acclaimed musical production. In her search for her true parents Annie has many adventures and encounters a number of colourful characters. Matilda: The hilarious story of Matilda based on the book by Roald Dahl. Once upon a time there lived a quite extraordinary little girl named Matilda but unfortunately her parents were so obsessed with their own lives they never noticed Matilda. They send her to Crunchem Hall a horrible boarding school run by a bossy headmistress Miss Trunchbull. There Matilda discovers remarkable skills which allow her to turn the tables on the wicked grown-ups in her world. Fly Away Home: Young Amy (Anna Paquin) is reunited with her father (Jeff Daniels) after a nine-year separation. One day Amy discovers a nest of orphaned goose eggs and decides to take them home and nurture them until they hatch. When the newly hatched goslings adopt her as their Mother Goose Amy and her father become airborne adventurers battling against bad weather and a host of other pitfalls in their efforts to teach the geese to fly...

• X-Men 2 | UMD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• It's The Rage | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £6.92   |  Saving you £-0.93 (-15.50%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mixing a superb cast with a serious salting of dark humour "gun culture" comedy It's The Rage is that rare thing, a genuinely outstanding film which went straight-to-video. Like Magnolia (1999) it makes coincidence a virtue in telling the stories of a group of disparate characters, and how their lives are entwined and sometimes ended because of America's obsession with firearms. When Jeff Daniels shoots his business partner, his wife, Joan Allen, leaves for a job with a software billionaire, Gary Sinise, and the film expands to encompass brother and sister punks (Giovanni Ribisi and Anna Paquin), a video store assistant, a pair of detectives and a gay couple. Adapted from his own play, Keith Reddin ensures the script remains pointed, while Sinise delivers a wonderful performance of supreme eccentricity recalling Peter Seller's Dr Strangelove. Indeed, there is much akin to Kubrick's tense, pitch-black humour in this anti-gun parable, while in various ways, from the central Daniels/Allen couple to the sardonic detachment of the music to Paquin's "almost-relationship" with an older man It's the Rage parallels the contemporaneous American Beauty (1999). It's actually the more powerful film, and though made for cable deserved all the praise it received on its festival screenings. On the DVD: The trailer doesn't capture the spirit of the film at all, while the 13-minute making-of documentary is routine promotional material. The commentary by first time film director (but veteran stage director) James D. Stern is exceptionally good, both enthusiastic and packed with information; the fact that It's The Rage really bites can almost certainly be attributed to Stern's college roommate being shot dead. The sound is Dolby Digital 5.1 and while this isn't the sort of film to show-off a sound system,it's atmospheric and the diverse music score becomes almost a character in itself. The anamorphically enhanced 1.77-1 image is good but a little grainy and shows occasional compression artifacting. --Gary S Dalkin

• X-Men 1.5/X-Men 2: 4 disc doublepack | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £7.72   |  Saving you £30.26 (639.75%)   |  RRP £34.99

  X-Men 2 picks up almost directly where X-Men left off: misguided super-villain Magneto (Ian McKellen) is still a prisoner of the US government, heroic bad-boy Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is up in Canada investigating his mysterious origin, and the events at Liberty Island (which occurred at the conclusion of X-Men) have prompted a rethink in official policy towards mutants--the proposed Mutant Registration Act has been shelved by US Congress. Into this scenario pops wealthy former army commander William Stryker, a man with the President's ear and a personal vendetta against all mutant-kind in general, and the X-Men's leader Professor X (Patrick Stewart) in particular. Once he sets his plans in motion, the X-Men must team-up with their former enemies Magneto and Mystique (Rebecca Romjin-Stamos), as well as some new allies (including Alan Cumming's gregarious, blue-skinned German mutant, Nightcrawler). The phenomenal global success of X-Men meant that director Bryan Singer had even more money to spend on its sequel, and it shows. Not only is the script better (there's significantly less cheesy dialogue than the original), but the action and effects are also even more stupendous--from Nightcrawler's teleportation sequence through the White House to a thrilling aerial dogfight featuring mutants-vs-missiles to a military assault on the X-Men's school/headquarters to the final showdown at Stryker's sub-Arctic headquarters. Yet at no point do the effects overtake the film or the characters. Moreso than the original, this is an ensemble piece, allowing each character in its even-bigger cast at least one moment in the spotlight (in fact, the cast credits don't even run until the end of the film). And that, perhaps, is part of its problem (though it's a slight one): with so much going on, and nary a recap of what's come before, it's a film that could prove baffling to anyone who missed the first instalment. But that's just a minor quibble--X-Men 2 is that rare thing, a sequel that's actually superior to its predecessor. --Robert Burrow

• Stan Lee Presents: Condor/Mosaic | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £4.74   |  Saving you £8.25 (174.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Condor: Tony Valdez (Wilmer Valderrama) is a college dropout who turned his back on his family's robotics corporation to become a champion skateboarder. But when his parents are murdered and Tony's legs are destroyed in a brutal beating, he uses his father's experimental NanoBot technology to walk again. Now as the superhuman skater known as the Condor, Tony must reconcile a crime fighting conscience with his rage for vengeance. What is the missing component to his parent's DNA regener...

• Stan Lee Presents Mosaic | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £5.79   |  Saving you £7.20 (55.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Maggie Nelson (voiced by Academy Award'' winner Anna Paquin of The Piano and X-Men fame) is a student at the High School Of Dramatic Arts and a rising star of the New York stage. But when she is caught between a freak electrical storm and a mysterious rune stone Maggie discovers that she has the uncanny ability to shape-shift like a chameleon. Now Maggie must stop the plot of an alchemic madman from an ancient race that walk hidden among us. Why has her Interpol agent father been abducted? What can a sexy teenage actress dare to do with the powers of DNA replication? And will the world's most unlikely new superhero save the day without flunking her midterms?

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• X-Men | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £7.09   |  Saving you £5.89 (143.66%)   |  RRP £9.99

  They are mutants, genetically gifted human beings - the worlds newest and most persecuted minority group.

• X-Men 2 | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Marvel Comics' team of mutant superheroes The X-Men return in a sequel to the blockbuster hit of 2001.

• Flipper/Fly Away/Simple Wish/the Flintstones | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Flipper (1996): What starts out to be a bummer of a summer for a rebellious teenage boy turns into one of the most action-packed vacations of his life. Paul Hogan and Elijah Wood star in this exciting all-new 'Flipper' family adventure hit. When Sandy (Wood) is sent to the Florida Keys to stay with his salty Uncle Porter (Hogan) he never dreamed he'd become best mates with a feisty orphaned dolphin whose life he saved. Sandy and Flipper get into some high seas antics and thrilling escapades fighting dangerous enemies and making new friends. Sandy's special relationship with Flipper helps clear the decks for a closer bond with his well-meaning uncle and a whole new outlook on his own life. 'Flipper' is a splashy tidal wave of family entertainment based on the popular 60's TV series. It combines action-filled underwater photography with an exciting and emotion-charged story. Fly Away Home (1996): Young Amy (Anna Paquin) is reunited with her father (Jeff Daniels) after a nine-year separation. One day Amy discovers a nest of orphaned goose eggs and decides to take them home and nurture them until they hatch. When the newly hatched goslings adopt her as their Mother Goose Amy and her father become airborne adventurers battling against bad weather and a host of other pitfalls in their efforts to teach the geese to fly... Simple Wish (1997): Anabel's 'simple wish' is that her father a taxi driver would win a leading role in a Broadway musical. Murray her male fairy godmother wants to grant her wish but unfortuantly his magic wand is broken and it falls to Anabel to fight against the evil witches Claudia and Boots. Flintstones (1994): After an aptitude test mix-up Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) trades his job as Slate & Company Bronto-crane operator for a vice presidency. But there's trouble brewing in Bedrock: An evil executive (Kyle MacLachlan) and his sinister secretary (Halle Berry) are now plotting to use Fred as the fall guy in an embezzlement scheme!

• True Blood: Season 3 | DVD | (11/04/2011) from £21.98   |  Saving you £20.85 (104.30%)   |  RRP £40.84

  Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood vampires have progressed from legendary monsters to fellow citizens overnight. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu many remain apprehensive about these creatures coming out of the coffin. Religious leaders and government officials around the world have chosen their sides but in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps the jury is still out. Local waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) however knows how it feels to be an outcast. Cursed with the ability to listen in on people's thoughts she's also open-minded about the integration of vampires - particularly when it comes to Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) a handsome 173-year-old living up the road. But at the service of Bill's less virtuous vampire associates Sookie is drawn into a series of catastrophes that will put their love to the test. The latest hit series from 'Six Feet Under' creator Alan Ball 'True Blood' delves into the meticulously-crafted world of novelist Charlaine Harris. Described by the Emmy winning Ball as popcorn for smart people the first season of 'True Blood' caused an overnight sensation - and the new installments only build on his colorful cast of supernatural misfits.

• True Blood: Season 3 | Blu Ray | (11/04/2011) from £16.19   |  Saving you £34.86 (215.32%)   |  RRP £51.05

  Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood vampires have progressed from legendary monsters to fellow citizens overnight. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu many remain apprehensive about these creatures coming out of the coffin. Religious leaders and government officials around the world have chosen their sides but in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps the jury is still out. Local waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) however knows how it feels to be an outcast. Cursed with the ability to listen in on people's thoughts she's also open-minded about the integration of vampires - particularly when it comes to Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) a handsome 173-year-old living up the road. But at the service of Bill's less virtuous vampire associates Sookie is drawn into a series of catastrophes that will put their love to the test. The latest hit series from 'Six Feet Under' creator Alan Ball 'True Blood' delves into the meticulously-crafted world of novelist Charlaine Harris. Described by the Emmy winning Ball as popcorn for smart people the first season of 'True Blood' caused an overnight sensation - and the new installments only build on his colorful cast of supernatural misfits.

• True Blood: Seasons 1 And 2 | DVD | (06/03/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Steamboy - DVD | DVD | (24/09/2018) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the leader in anime Katsuhiro Otomo (Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis, Memories), comes his first feature- length directorial project since his breakthrough film (Akira). Ten years in the making, with a total budget of $22 million, Steamboy is the most expensive Japanese anime production ever. A retro science-fiction epic set in Victorian England, Steamboy features an inventor prodigy named Ray Steam, who receives a mysterious metal ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation, the Steam Ball. Young Ray Steam must use the Steam Ball to fight evil, redeem his family, and save London from destruction. With more than 180,000 drawings and 400 CG cuts, Steamboy is one of the most elaborate animated features ever created. Steamboy will be brought to life with an outstanding ensemble voiceover cast including Anna Paquin (X-Men), Patrick Stewart (X-Men), and Alfred Molina (Spider-man 2).