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• Farscape Season 1 | DVD | (11/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Farscape is genre television at its most ambitious, inspired both by the cult appeal of Babylon 5 and by the continuing success of the Star Trek franchise, but taking a visual and conceptual leap beyond those shows. Making extensive use of CGI, prosthetics, and state-of-the-art puppetry, courtesy of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, the Farscape concept has a freshness that makes it look and feel completely original. Among the first season's 22 episodes, "Premiere" introduces the characters and the basic premise: American astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder) is flung through a wormhole and comes out in the midst of an interstellar prison escape on the other side of the universe. When the galactic cops (called "Peacekeepers") mark him as the new public enemy number one, Crichton is forced to ally himself with the convicts: hulking warrior D'Argo (Anthony Simcoe), blue-skinned priest Zhaan (Virginia Hey), fugitive peacekeeper Aeryn (Claudia Black), exiled king Rygel (Jonathan Hardy), and Pilot, the giant insectlike nerve center of their living ship, Moya. In the action-packed and stylishly directed "Throne for a Loss," a race of mercenary criminals called the Tavleks kidnap the imperious Rygel. "PK Tech Girl" and "That Old Black Magic" feature a peek into the pasts of Rygel and Zhaan as they hide from the fleets of Peacekeeper soldiers in the galactic frontier known as the Uncharted Territories. Leading toward the climax of the show's first season, "Nerve" and "The Hidden Memory" make for a bold two-parter that reunites Crichton with his Peacekeeper Tech girlfriend, Gilina, and introduces the dreaded Scorpius, who uses his Aurora Chair torture device to extract what he mistakenly believes is vital knowledge from Crichton. The final episode, "Family Ties," ends with a cliffhanger guaranteed to bring viewers back for more, as the duplicitous Rygel plans to turn traitor, which eventually leaves the fates of Crichton and D'Argo up for grabs and Moya's young offspring under the control of the conflicted villain Crais, among other developments.

• Stargate S.G -1: Season 3 (Vol. 10) | DVD | (26/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's pet primary unit SG-1 With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" Goa'uld--the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. The welcome notion of a continued plot thread sees offshoots that follow the reincarnation of Daniel's wife, Sam's father joining a renegade faction of the Goa'uld, and Jack in an unending quest to out-sarcasm everyone. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but amid a dearth of derivative look-a-likes, Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. --Paul TonksOn this DVD: This volume begins in confusion when the S.G.1 team discover a military camp training for "Rules of Engagement". All is not what it seems however. The same is true of "Forever in a Day", when Daniel's wife Sha're is killed by Teal'c. This episode begins an important storyline about her stolen child who is a "Harcesis", an illegal breeding between Goa'uld hosts. Then an earlier thread is picked up in "Past and Present" on planet Vyus whose people all suffer amnesia. Their leader Ke'ra (played by Megan Leitch who's portrayed Mulder's missing sister in The X-Files) is a link to the earlier "Prisoners" episode and the dangerous "destroyer of worlds". Closing the volume is a cliffhanger in which Sam must attempt to rescue her father, face Satan himself on a prison moon, and resurrect "Jolinar's Memories" from the Goa'uld she was briefly possessed by. Trapped in Hell, the team's escape seems impossible. As well as trailers for the next volume, the disc includes a 10-minute interview with Christopher Judge on his 97-year-old character Teal'c. He spends much of the time recalling plot points, but his philosophy of the show as a social allegory is refreshing. --Paul Tonks END

• Kung Fu Panda 2 3D (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (13/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

  In Kung Fu Panda 2 we find Po now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five...but how long can the dream last?

• Invaders From Mars | DVD | (02/07/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.

• The Fog | UMD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A quiet seaside town is engulfed by a thick fog in this chilling horror remake.

• Farscape 1.1 | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An international co-production of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Australia's Channel 9 and Hallmark Entertainment, Farscape is genre television at its most ambitious, inspired both by the cult appeal of Babylon 5 and the continuing success of the Star Trek franchise. Making extensive use of CGI, prosthetics and state-of-the-art puppetry, Farscape takes a visual leap beyond previous shows. Admittedly, the basic premise may be borrowed from Buck Rogers (American astronaut catapulted to far-flung galaxy populated by strange aliens), while the crew have something of Blake's 7 about them (a motley bunch of escaped convicts pursued by a relentless foe), and ideas like the living ship are borrowed from Babylon 5, but the Farscape concept has a freshness that makes it look and feel completely original. The production design is all bio-mechanical curves and the script never takes itself too seriously (fart jokes and double-entendres pop up when you least expect them). It must have been expensive to make, but it certainly looks (and sounds--in Dolby Digital 5.1) like every penny made it to the screen. In this handsome box set, two discs contain the first four episodes of the first season, completely uncut. In "Premiere", astronaut John Crichton is inadvertently catapulted into a parallel universe where he is taken on board the bio-mechanical ship Moya and meets the inhabitants: D'Argo, a seven-foot-tall Luxan warrior, Zhaan, a blue-skinned Delvian priestess, and the diminutive slug-like Rygel, the Henson Creature Shop's proudest creation. Another humanoid (and potential love interest), formidable-yet-sexy Peacekeeper Aeryn Sun, joins soon after. In true Buck Rogers style, Ben Browder plays Crichton as an all-American astronaut, although with a more believable sense of bewilderment; the supporting cast is a mixture of Australian and British actors, mostly disguised under heavy make-up. In episode 2, "Throne for a Loss", Rygel's devious side is developed further as he gets the crew into trouble when he "borrows" a crystal crucial to the operation of the ship and is kidnapped by some unpleasant characters. Disc Two opens with the wittily titled "Back and Back and Back to the Future", the obligatory time-travel episode, followed by "I, E.T.", in which Crichton feels the force of his earlier comment: "Boy did Spielberg get it wrong. Close Encounters, my ass." On the DVD: Disc One includes a "making of" documentary, with comments from the cast, Brian Henson and producer Rockne S. O'Bannon (the man also responsible for Alien Nation and SeaQuest), plus a profile of principal character John Crichton. Disc Two profiles Aeryn Sun and has the original trailer and DVD-ROM extras (screensaver and weblinks). --Mark Walker

• The Fast And The Furious - Tokyo Drift | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift has all the elements that spelled success for its predecessors: Speed, sex, and minimal dialogue. The plot doesn't need explication; it's a nonsensical series of confrontations and standoffs that serve to get us from one race to another. Tokyo Drift can most accurately be described as a visual poem about screeching tires, crunching fiberglass, and sleek female skin, set to a killer soundtrack of Japanese pop and hip-hop. The actors are only needed for tight close-ups of narrowed eyes or sweaty hands tightly gripping gearshifts, though Sung Kang, Better Luck Tomorrow, stands out as a vaguely philosophical hoodlum with deadpan charisma. The curved bodies of the cars and the luscious flesh of the women are both shot with a fetishistic hunger. The "drift" style of racing--in which the cars are allowed to slide in order to take sharp turns at high speeds--grabs your eyes; there's a strange, spectral beauty to rows of cars sliding sideways down a mountain road at night. Also starring Lucas Black (Friday Night Lights) as our wheel-happy hero; Bow Wow (Roll Bounce) as the scam-artist comic relief; and martial arts legend Sonny Chiba (Kill Bill) as a yakuza big shot. --Bret Fetzer

• House of 1,000 Corpses | Blu Ray | (11/04/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Farscape - The Complete Season 4 (Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (08/10/2012) from £53.98   |  Saving you £-13.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Farscape is a groundbreaking science-fiction series that blends liveaction, CGI graphics and sophisticated puppetry to create a uniquely absorbing universe of action, adventure and comedy.

• Metal - A Headbanger's Journey | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £9.47   |  Saving you £15.52 (163.89%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The film that will take you into the heart of the beast. Sam Dunn a 30-year old anthropologist decided to study the plight of a different culture one he has been a part of since he was a 12-year-old: the culture of heavy metal. Sam sets out on a global journey to find out why this music has been consistently stereotyped dismissed and condemned and yet is loved so passionately by its millions of fans. Along the way Sam explores metals obsession with some of life's most provocative subjects - sexuality religion violence and death - and discovers some things about the culture that even he can't defend. Shot on location in the UK Germany Norway Canada and the US this documentary is the first of its kind. It is both a defense of a long-misunderstood art form and a window for the outsider into the spectacle that is heavy metal.

• The Order | DVD | (27/05/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The carefree holiday of a young couple is upset by an unexpected meeting with a vagrant who persuades the girl (Roberta Gemma) to accept an old wooden box as a gift when she later opens it she finds it contains an antique jewelled medallion which she puts on. The medallion is cursed and brings Roberta under the evil influence of a satanic cult and their charismatic leader who slowly draws out and exploits Roberta s dark sexual nature. UK Premiere. Extras: Stills gallery, Original trailer, Salvation trailers.

• Black Sabbath: Paranoid Classic Albums | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £9.69   |  Saving you £-0.70 (-7.80%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Paranoid: Classic Albums

• Piggy Tales: Season 1 | DVD | (25/01/2016) from £2.97   |  Saving you £7.02 (236.36%)   |  RRP £9.99

  NEW TO DVD! From the world of Angry Birds, follow the everyday lives of the mischievous minion pigs, who solve their problems with their limited wisdom! In this unique, clay style CGI animation the loved and long-suffering Bad Piggies face a series of challenges and unexpected events, leading to comical solutions. DVD includes HOLIDAY SPECIAL episode Snowed Up and 4 BONUS EPISODES of Angry Birds Toons and Angry Birds Stella! Special Features: It's A Wrap LIVE featurette Piggy Tales: Making Of featurette Bonus Episodes: 2 Full Episodes of ANGRY BIRDS STELLA Season One 2 Full Episodes of ANGRY BIRDS TOONS Season Two

• Capricorn One | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Thanks to repeated showings on cable television and home video, this speculative thriller has built quite a loyal following since its release in 1978. The provocative "what if?" scenario still packs a punch, even if it is not always believable. James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O J Simpson star as three astronauts who agree to spare the government embarrassment by faking their historic landing on Mars after their spacecraft is determined to be unsafe for blastoff. When a scheming mission controller (Hal Holbrook) plots to kill the astronauts in a staged capsule fire, the trio embarks on a dangerous mission to expose the truth. Elliott Gould costars as the journalist determined to crack the conspiracy, and director Peter Hyams turns up the tension with an exciting chase sequence involving Telly Savalas as an eccentric barnstormer who comes to Gould's aid in his attempt rescue the hoax mission's sole survivor. --Jeff Shannon

• Ready When You Are, Mr McGill! | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ready When You Are Mr. McGill

• The Last Tree Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (27/01/2020) from £9.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Growing up with his foster mother amongst the rolling fields of rural Lincolnshire, Femi s young life seems as idyllic as the landscape. But when he returns to London to live with his birth mother he begins to struggle with the culture and values of his new environment. As the years pass, he must decide which path to adulthood he wants to take and what it means to be a young black man in London during the early 00s. His search for self and identity will take him on an emotionally charged and utterly unforgettable journey through various stages of his life. Featuring outstanding performances from a standout cast, this stunning new film from Shola Amoo is simply unmissable.

• The Big Year | Blu Ray | (26/03/2012) from £31.08   |  Saving you £-4.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Three avid bird watchers compete to spot the rarest birds in North America at a prestigious annual event.

• Viz Boxset | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £44.00   |  Saving you £-24.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sid the Sexist: Sidney Smutt is a smooth talking sex machine a lady killing hard man who can drink anyone under the table... or so he thinks. Meet Sid Baz Bob and Joe on their adventures as they paint Newcastle red and jet off to sunny Spain in search of love excitement and a truly satisfying takeaway. Oh Lordy! It's The Fat Slags - 3 Saucy Adventures: Here it is. Raunchier than a Swedish rabbit and bluer than a baboon's arse. The two and only Fat Slags burst on

• Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Start your f***in' engines! Zakk Wylde the premier rock guitarist of our generation and his Black Label Society cohorts have raised the bar once again with their debut DVD release - 'Boozed Bruised And Broken Boned' featuring their fiercest tracks from their sell out US tour. Recorded live in concert at Harpo's in Detroit the tracklist features 'Demise Of Sanity' 'Graveyard Disciples' 'Bleed For Me' '13 Years Of Grief' 'Stronger Than Death' 'Genocide Junkies' 'Spoke In T

• Black Label Society - The European Invasion - Doom Troopin' | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-3.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Black Label Society is the brain child of guitar great Zakk Wylde. Hard and heavy big on riffs and even bigger on the solos BLS is the bastard child of Black Sabbath only pumped up on steroids. Having graced the world's stages for the last 18 years both as Ozzy Osborne's right hand man as well as fronting BLS Zakk Wylde has established himself as one of the few remaining guitar heros. European Invasion captures BLS live on their sold out European tour last year - one of the most anticipated tours of the year and they didn't disappoint. Tracklist: 1. Stoned & Drunk 2. Destruction Overdrive 3. Been A Long Time 4. Funeral Bell 5. Suffering Overdue 6. In This River 7. Suicide Messiah 8. Demise Of Sanity 9. Spread Your Wings 10. Solo Acoustic Jam 11. Spoke In The Wheel 12. Fire It Up 13. Stillborn 14. Genocide Junkies