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• The Mummy and The Mummy Returns - Ultimate Edition Box Set | DVD | (01/12/2001) from £24.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (40.24%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The modestly titled Ultimate Mummy Collection is an extravagant four-disc package that contains both The Mummy Ultimate Edition and The Mummy Returns Special Edition two-disc sets. For his breakthrough into the blockbuster big time, director Stephen Sommers was determined to avoid the hackneyed Hollywood Mummy clichés of flailing bandages, somnambulant zombies and wooden acting. If you're happy to settle for two out of three then the finished film could be your cup of Egyptian tea, fully delivering on its visual promise but occasionally mired in a quicksand of stilted dialogue and plot contrivance. Anrold Vosloo is disgraced high priest Imhotep, awoken from his ancient prison to unleash his vengeful wrath in a whirl of computer generated pestilence and plagues; Brendan Fraser brings an infectious boyish enthusiasm to his Indiana Jones-style adventurer, while supporting players Rachel Weisz and John Hannah are mostly eclipsed by the spectacle on offer. The lavish DVD extras include deleted scenes, a director's commentary and, most interestingly, veteran effects supervisor John Berton presenting a step-by-step guide to some of the film's most extraordinary computer generated shots. There's also the obligatory "making of" programme in which everyone insists their primary concern was to ensure the effects never superseded the story. Unfortunately, this only makes you more aware of the script's shortcomings. --Steve Napleton The Mummy Returns has an even more relentless pace and hammer headed tone than the first film--more explosions, more action and more mind-numbingly endless computer generated effects, set to a headache inducing surround soundtrack. The original cast are reunited and joined by WWF star The Rock (in a cameo role designed to plug his spin-off vehicle The Scorpion King) and young actor Freddie Boath who plays an English eight-year-old in the 1930s whose dialogue borrows from Bart Simpson. Still, despite the wearying relentlessness of its computer generated effects, endless chases and fights, this is undeniably fun popcorn fodder and provides some memorable scenes along the way, notably Rachel Weisz and Patricia Velasquez battling it out for the affections of nasty old Imhotep. Extras in this generous two-disc set include a decent commentary from the director and producer, DVD-ROM features, a 20-minute "making-of" documentary and a five-minute interview with the Rock. Best of all are the detailed special effects breakdowns of key sequences. --Mark Walker

• Christmas Collection | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Nanny For Christmas:Ally (Emmanuelle Vaugier of Covert Affairs and Two and a Half Men) is a smart young career woman who needs a new job. Samantha (Cynthia Gibb of Fame and Gypsy) is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom whose too-well-mannered kids need some fun in their lives. Danny Donner (Dean Cain of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) is the tough-guy owner of a chocolate company who wants a major ad campaign immediately. Could it all somehow lead to the Christmas that changes everyone's lives forever?Richard Ruccolo (Rita Rocks), Sierra McCormick (Ramona and Beezus), Jared Gilmore (Mad Men) and Sarah Thompson (7th Heaven and Angel) co-star in this surprising comedy about little white lies, big holiday wishes, and a woman who may just find love in the most unexpected places by becoming A Nanny For Christmas!A Christmas Proposal:When real estate tycoon Alexander Malone (Tom Arnold - True Lies) sets in motion a proposal to turn the small ski town of Fillmore into a posh year-round resort he finds himself up against local attorney Lisa Donahue (Nicole Eggert - Baywatch) who will do whatever possible to stop the demolition of the town.Nothing Like The Holidays:John Leguizamo (Ice Age, Moulin Rouge!), Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under, Bobby), Debra Messing (Will & Grace, The Starter Wife), and Alfred Molina (Spiderman 2) lead a hilarious ensemble cast in this humourous and heartwarming holiday story.It's Christmastime in Chicago, and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parent's home to celebrate the season. During the course of this eventful week, traditions will be celebrated, secrets revealed, old resentments forgotten, familial bonds re-affirmed, and the healing power of laughter will work its magic.

• Buster And Chauncey's Silent Night | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Buster & Chauncey the world's greatest Mouse-icians befriend a poor little orphan girl Christina as they make their way to the annual Christmas Pageant in Oberndorf. But when they encounter two evil villains determined to wreck the Christmas Eve festivities Buster and Chauncey do everything they can to save the day and show the true meaning of Christmas...

• Batman And Robin - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (24/06/2013) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Cryogenic scientist gone wrong Mr. Freeze wants to turn Gotham City into a frozen wasteland. Poison Ivy has revenge on her mind after a toxic run-in with a Wayne Enterprises scientist. While she has designs on Mr. Freeze his cold heart is only consumed by his demented plans. With the addition of Batgirl the dynamic duo become a trio. Will Gotham survive?

• When The Bough Breaks 2 - Perfect Prey | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £21.62   |  Saving you £-15.63 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Next Time They Meet May Be The Last... With chills that will slice through you like a butcher's knife this edgy disturbing serial thriller centres on criminal psychologist Audrey MacLeah and the desperate manhunt for a vicious murderer who has slaughtered a string of successful young career women dumping their bodies in grotesque death poses. MacLeah may havea unique gift of delving into the twisted minds of psychopathic killers but she's also tormented by crippling flashbacks to a past terror. And she knows this particular sicko like no other... because she's the only one who's ever survived his vile grasp.

• Young At Heart | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £6.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  "Young @ Heart" is a chorus like no other. With ages ranging between 75 and 93, this rowdy bunch of seniors based in Northampton, Massachusetts, have won sensational reviews performing rock classics all over the world!

• Living It Up | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £8.85   |  Saving you £1.14 (12.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Dean and Jerry light up the screen in this classic comedy thought by many to be their finest team-up.

• Total Recall | Blu Ray | (16/07/2012) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  They stole his mind: now he wants it back! In a futuristic world construction worker Doug Quaid obsesses about taking a vacation on the planet Mars. His wife objects so Doug instead opts to have an artificial memory of a Martian holiday implanted into his mind. The trouble is during the implantation procedure Quaid suffers a strange reaction. Why? It seems as though he has already been to Mars but his memories of his journey have been wiped... Now secret agents and the cohorts of a megalomaniacal industrialist are out to get him. Can Quaid experience total recall and finally figure out just why everyone is trying to stop him from reaching the red planet?

• Handel: Messiah (Handel: Messiah (Staged Version) | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £17.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The A-Team/ True Lies Double Pack | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £9.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (30.16%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The A-TeamGive it up to the A-Team: they've always been good at demolishing things in big, big ways. Freed from the confines of the 1980s TV series, the 2010 blockbuster movie version allows the four members of the paramilitary squad to really amp up the mayhem to newly crazed heights. Liam Neeson plays team leader Hannibal Smith (inheriting the cigar-chomping from the show's George Peppard), and pro wrestler Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is "B.A." Baracus, the TV show's most iconic character (insert Mr. T "I pity the fool" joke here). As the vain Face, Bradley Cooper preens in convincing fashion, and District 9 out-of-nowhere star Sharlto Copley plays the unhinged pilot "Howlin' Mad" Murdock. These boys are on the trail of some money-counterfeiting plates, from Baghdad to Germany to places in between. It would be understating it to say that the plot is not of primary importance, although Patrick Wilson has some fun as a CIA official and Jessica Biel occasionally strikes poses as Face's ex-flame, now a military officer displeased with the A-Team's extra-legal shenanigans. The storytelling is insipid and half-hearted--but when it comes to snarky dialogue and two-fisted action scenes, director Joe Carnahan is in his comfort zone. It's reasonably fun watching the working-out of such logistical puzzles as dropping a tank (with crew inside) from a plane, or scattering the main characters on a dockside as cargo containers rain down from a ship looming above them. Good times, although is it asking too much for certain basic laws of physics (if you drop a human body ten stories, for instance, it might actually sustain injuries) to be used as a guideline? But worrying about such matters isn't in the spirit of The A-Team, which cheerfully ignores the petty concerns of credibility and logic. --Robert Horton True LiesFrom The Terminator to Titanic, you can always rely on writer-director James Cameron to show you something you've never seen on the big screen before. The guy may not consistently pen the most scintillating dialogue in the world (and, especially in this movie, he doesn't seem to have a particularly high regard for women), but as a director of kinetic, push-the-envelope action sequences, he is in a class by himself. In True Lies, the highlight is a breathtaking third-act jet and car chase through the Florida Keys. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a covert intelligence agent whose wife of 15 years (Jamie Lee Curtis) finally finds out that he's not really a computer salesman and who becomes mixed up in a case involving nuclear arms smuggling. Tom Arnold is surprisingly funny and engaging as Schwarzenegger's longtime spy partner, and Bill Paxton is a smarmy used-car salesman whom Arnold thinks is having an affair with his wife. Purely in terms of spectacular action and high-tech hardware, True Lies is a blast. --Jim Emerson

• The Mummy / The Mummy Returns / The Scorpion King | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £23.73   |  Saving you £-3.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Easy Living | DVD | (18/08/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hilarious comedy written by Academy Award winner Preston Sturges. Mary (Jean Arthur) is a poor working girl who gains a fortune when a financier throws a fur coat out of a window into her lap! Everyone assumes she's his mistress but soon her rags-toriches lifestyle threatens a real romance with an inept waiter (Ray Milland)!

• Top Cat Vol.3 | DVD | (12/05/2009) from £5.61   |  Saving you £7.38 (56.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  TC always the irrepressible con-artist hits DVD for the third time with more laugh out loud antics as he continues to trick tease and out-wit Officer Dibble.

• Bubblegum Crisis - Vol. 2 | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The second instalment of the popular Japanese anime, Bubblegum Crisis 2 contains the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the eight original videos. In a devastated high-tech Tokyo of a Blade Runner-ish future, four beautiful women disguised by their heavily armed exoskeletons protect society from killer androids and from an ambitious corporation that tries to take over the world, while also having complicated personal lives. The cute teenager NeNe always has a crush on someone or other; flighty Linna has to fit her superhero life into a busy social schedule; and Priss has her career as a rock singer as well as a habit of feeling emotional. Only the austere Sylia is entirely in control of her life--so much so that she needs the others for a bit of productive chaos. In the episodes included they deal with a mysterious car that is riding down motorcyclists, help a tragic android who is vampirising citizens to feed a damaged friend and cope with attempts by an evil conspirator to frame them for mass mayhem. The stories rely rather too heavily on extended sequences of fast bikes and car racing, or mechanised bodysuits and big robots tearing each other apart, but the plotting can be subtle and the emotional scenes tense and fraught. Someone trying to get a sense of anime's strengths and weaknesses could do a lot worse than start here. On the DVD: the disc is presented in a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and has a very loud Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack which presents every screech of tortured metal vehemently and every pounding anthem in the slightly pompous score. There are no extras apart from a very extended documentation of the credits. --Roz Kaveney

• Ziegfeld Follies | Blu Ray | (15/06/2021) from £25.54   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Tapes | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £6.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Prepare for a rollercoaster ride of fear and terror......In February 2008 Police discovered The Tapes. They remain the only clues to the fate of missing teenagers Danny, Gemma and Nathan who disappeared in mysterious circumstances. Now, three years on this real-time footage is released by their families in a desperate attempt to piece together what really happened. It quickly becomes obvious that what started out as a prank turns into a brutal, sadistic and terrifying fight for survival. Real and uncompromising - don't watch this alone!A massive internet sensation, the debate about release of The Tapes rages on today.

• Meet John Doe | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £11.57   |  Saving you £-9.58 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  In protest at the corruption and hypocrisy he sees all around him an unemployed man calling himself John Doe has written to the New Bulletin newspaper pledging to throw himself from the top of City Hall on Christmas Eve. Written by a discharged journalist as a publicity stunt and as a parting shot at the paper's new editor the premise of the letter unexpectedly fires the imagination of the bulletin's readers and the wider American public. Its real author Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is rehired and now needs to find someone to play the part of the fictional John Doe... Meet John Doe is often held to be part of a thematic trilogy that includes Mister Deeds Goes To Town and Mister Smith Goes To Washington. It explores a recurring notion in Capra's work that of the universal everyman exploited by a corrupt and powerful establishment. The film's reflections on corporate control of both the media and of ordinary people's lives is still as resonant as ever.

• Agent Cody Banks / Agent Cody Banks 2 - Destination London | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £14.60   |  Saving you £5.39 (36.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Agent Cody Banks Cody Banks (Muniz) seems like a typical teenager - he loves skateboarding hates maths his mum drives him crazy and he feels like a complete idiot around girls. But Cody has a really big secret even his family and best friends don't know: he's actually an elite undercover agent for the CIA. Cody is living every kid's dream. Specially trained at a top secret facility disguised as summer camp Cody can drive like a stuntman jump kick like a pro and has an ar

• Darkman 3 - Die Darkman Die | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Skeleton Coast | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £5.81   |  Saving you £-2.82 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Tough action story in which a group of renegade mercenaries are called upon to enter Angolan territory to rescue a CIA agent who captured by some bad guys involved in the African Civil War.