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• Alien/Predator - Total Destruction Collection | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £41.98   |  Saving you £18.01 (42.90%)   |  RRP £59.99

  This box set features the following films: Alien: The terror begins when the crew of the spaceship Nostromo investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and makes a horrifying discovery a life form that breeds within a human host. Now the crew must fight not only for its own survival but for the survival of all mankind. Aliens: Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley the only survivor from mankind's first encounter with the monstrous Alien. Her account of the Alien and the fate of her crew are received with skepticism until the mysterious disappearance of colonists on LV-426 lead her to join a team of high-tech colonial marines sent in to investigate... Alien 3: Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the lone survivor when her crippled spaceship crash lands on Fiorina 161 a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. Ripley's fears that an Alien was aboard her craft are confirmed when the mutilated bodies of ex-cons begin to mount. Without weapons or modern technology of any kind Ripley must lead the men into battle against the terrifying creature. And soon she discovers a horrifying fact about her link with the Alien a realisation that may compel Ripley to try destroying not only the horrific creature but herself as well. Alien Resurrection: Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) died fighting the perfect predator. Two hundred years and eight horrific experiments later she's back. A group of scientists have cloned her along with the alien queen inside her hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the resurrected Ripley is full of surprises for her ""creators"" as are the aliens. And soon a lot more than ""all hell"" breaks loose! To combat the creatures Ripley must team up with a band of smugglers including a mechanic named Call (Winona Ryder) who holds more than a few surprises of her own. Predator: Deep inside the jungles of Latin America a team of elite commandos are being slaughtered by a mysterious predator. No longer are they the hunters they are the prey: of an alien whose only instinct is to kill. One by one it strikes with inhuman ferocity. Now to survive with the jungle as their only ally they face their greatest challenge: to stay alive. Predator 2: Last time it landed in the jungle. This time it's chosen Los Angeles. Ravaged by open warfare between rival drug gangs L.A. is the perfect killing ground for the Predator who is drawn by heat and conflict. When the police find mutilated bodies Lieutenant Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) thinks it's the work of the feuding gangs. Then a mysterious government agent (Gary Busey) arrives and orders him to stay off the case. Instead Harrigan sets out to learn what is really going on and comes face to face with the savage alien in a climatic electrifying confrontation... Alien Vs Predator: It may be our planet but it's their war! The discovery of an ancient pyramid buried in Antarctic

• Revelation Of The Pyramids | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (61.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  From China to Peru from Egypt to Mexico throughout the Middle East through the world's oldest most enigmatic and often most beautiful sites - the director has spent six years of investigation guided by his anonymous informant verifying his discoveries one by one and meeting the planet's most eminent scientific and technical specialists. The result will shake the history of mankind as it is taught to its very core and revolutionize Egyptology entirely.

• The Anomaly | DVD | (27/10/2014) from £4.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (256.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Traumatised ex-soldier Ryan comes to in the back of a van. Alongside a trussed-up boy who sobs that someone has kidnapped him. Ryan helps the boy escape they are pursued. But when Ryan finds a mask in his pocket he comes to an appalling realisation he's the man who kidnapped the boy. Even more startling five years have passed since he was last awake. There's no time to act after nine minutes and thirty seven seconds of consciousness it all goes black again for Ryan it's like turning off a light. Ryan comes to again its days later and now he's in a study with a co- conspirator. They kidnapped the boy together and it's merely one step in a much grander plan. Ryan fights the mystery man gets knocked out only to snap back to consciousness in a New York brothel. He rescues a girl Dana and pleads with her to get him arrested; someone is controlling his mind making him do things and he has to be stopped. Nine minutes and thirty seven seconds later he loses consciousness again. This time when he wakes he's in the middle of breaking a scientist out of a high security jail.Ryan's episodes of consciousness are occasional and random; each lasts exactly nine minutes and thirty seven seconds - why? Who is in control the rest of the time? And what is the grand scheme that he is unwittingly perpetrating? What does it have to do with his past as a patient at the experimental Hibiscus Unit? Can he sabotage the control mechanism and get his mind back? Ryan has a lot of questions and very little time to find answers.

• Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves / Last Of The Mohicans / The Bodyguard | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Last Of The Mohicans: 1757: the war raging between England and France in the American colonies enters its third year. Moving through the dangerous and untamed land is the frontiersman Hawkeye adopted son of the Mohican Chingachgook. En route to a camp in the West he breaks up an ambush and rescues a group of English people including Cora Munro. Hawkeye agrees to guide them to safety and in doing so all their fates become intertwined as they are forced to fight to survive both the war - and the wilderness... The Mission: Set in the quasi-mystical rain forests of South America 'The Mission' presents each man with his greatest challenge. The priest (Irons) has come to spread the word of God amongst the Guarani Indians; the mercenary (De Niro) has come to enslave them. With the passing of time their destinies become entwined... Robin Hood - Prince Of Thieves: It was a time of tyrants: the only way to uphold the truth was to break the law. He fought for the good of all men and for the love of just one woman. Kevin Costner brings the epic hero Robin Hood to life in a film filled with pageantry intrigue action and romance. With an outstanding cast record-breaking theme song and film production on a sweeping scale 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' has become a legend in its own right.

• Basket Case - The Trilogy | DVD | (22/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  What's in the basket? A question Duane Bradley is asked a lot when he arrives in New York and checks into the sleazy Hotel Broslin. Whi would guess it contains his grotesquely deformed brother Belial?! Seperated at birth, the Siamese twins have come looking for revenge on the doctors that left Belial for dead and now the basket-dweller's ready to wreak blood-soaked carnage. Where the original classic ends the sequels pick up and things start to get really wraped when the brothers meet their long lost aunt 'Granny Ruth' and her whole houseful of freaks. Special Features: A look at the making og the trilogy with Director Frank Henenlotter; Actors Kevin van Hentenryck, Beverly Bonner, Annie Ross; Producers Edgar Levans and James Glickenhaus; Make-up effects artists John Caglione Jr, Kevin Haney, Gabe Bartalos and Writer Uncle Bob Martin Interview with Graham Humphreys Video Introduction by Frank Henenlotter Audio Commentary by Frank Hennenlotter, Edgar Levins and Beverly Bonner Outtakes / Behind the Scenes 2001 Video Short: The Hotel Broslin Trailers / Rapid Spots Photo Gallery: Behind the Scenes, Promotional Material and Stills

• The Flamingo Kid | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £11.90   |  Saving you £-5.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As The Flamingo Kid amply demonstrates, there's always room for one more rites of passage film if it's made with care and affection. Garry Marshall's 1984 study of a young Brooklyn poker player who thinks the grass is greener at a Long Island beach club, nails the bad guy, realises he got it wrong and returns to the bosom of his "humble" family certainly satisfies on both counts. It also has a strong cast: Matt Dillon as Jeffrey, whose niggling aspirations create the inevitable barrier between himself and his parents; Richard Crenna as his prospective role model who turns out to have feet of clay; and Hector Elizondo as his bemused father. But Jessica Walter (Clint Eastwood's stalker from hell in Play Misty for Me) almost steals the show as an acid-tongued beach-club wife. If the whole thing lacks the depth and warmth of, say, Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, it succeeds on its own merits as an homage to a more innocent time when a young man didn't need to stray far from his own tenement block in order to find himself, with the help of a suitably nostalgic early-1960s soundtrack of course. On the DVD: As far as extras go, this is a budget offering. There are detailed actor biographies but precious little on the film itself, apart from the snippet that Richard Crenna earned a Golden Globe award nomination. There is an adequate scene index and, for those who want to study Dillon in detail, a reasonable stills gallery. The picture is presented in standard format, and hardly distinguishable from ordinary VHS or telecast quality, but the stereo audio certainly helps pump out the period soundtrack. --Piers Ford

• Phantom Thread | 4K UHD | (18/06/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in the glamour of 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love. With his latest film, Paul Thomas Anderson paints an illuminating portrait both of an artist on a creative journey, and the women who keep his world running. Phantom Thread is Paul Thomas Anderson's eighth movie, and his second collaboration with Daniel Day-Lewis. Bonus Features Camera Tests: with Commentary by Writer/Director/Producer Paul Thomas Anderson For the Hungry Boy House of Woodcock Fashion Show

• The Ring 20th Anniversary Steelbook | Blu Ray | (17/10/2022) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Ring is the critically acclaimed, smash hit thriller David Ansen of Newsweek says 'raises some serious goosebumps!' This cinematic thrill ride will keep you on the edge of your seat from the stunning opening to the astonishing conclusion! It begins as just another urban legend - the whispered tale of a nightmarish videotape that causes anyone who watches it to die seven days later. But when four teenagers all meet with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape, investigative reporter Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) tracks down the video...and watches it. Now, the legend is coming true, the clock is ticking and Rachel has just seven days to unravel the mystery of The Ring.

• Pavee Lackeen | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £8.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (55.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Winnie lives in a trailer in a desolate part of Dublin, where her family struggle with prejudice and poverty.

• True Blue | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £17.08   |  Saving you £-7.09 (-71.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  On one level, True Blue is a distillation of the brutal physicality and unique focus demanded of participants in the annual University Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge. Based on legendary oarsman and Oxford coach Dan Topolksi's book about the 1987 race, it is also a tale of revenge; dominant Oxford had been defeated the year before and wanted the title back. More than that, though, it is a story of sporting obsession and the Machiavellian resources required to last the course in an event shrouded in ritual. When a clutch of lantern-jawed American international rowers muscle in on the Oxford team and threaten, quite literally, to rock the boat with their disregard for any of the tradition surrounding the race or Topolski's coaching methods, the fragile concept of team spirit is splintered. Ferdinand Fairfax's film, full of fine performances, builds the tension through a series of confrontations and a constantly shifting balance of power over the year leading up to the race. The intuitive relationship between the besieged Topolski (the excellent Johan Leysen) and the President of the College Captains, Donald McDonald (the quietly impassioned Dominic West) is particularly well drawn. With more than a hint of Chariots of Fire, not least in the Vangelis-like soundtrack, this is a moving and beautifully observed film about sporting passion.On the DVD: True Blue is presented in widescreen with a 16:9 anamorphic video aspect ratio that makes excellent use of the sweeping vistas of the Thames for the racing and training scenes which dominate the film. Stanislas Syrewicz's brooding score underpins the action at every stage and, thanks to the quality of the Dolby Surround soundtrack, helps to bring an appropriately epic, theatrical feel to your home viewing. --Piers Ford

• Challenger | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  As the world awaited what should have been a routine lift-off for the space shuttle Challenger unattended complications with equipment turned the mission in to a ticking time-bomb. Adding to the excitement of the mission was the presence of Christa McAuliffe (played by Karen Allen) a small town school teacher chosen from hundreds of candidates to teach the first lesson in space. This compelling account offers a poignant look into the lives of each of the seven Challenger crew members during the months leading up to the launch. Not only devoted to astronauts these heroic seven were also devoted mothers fathers husbands and wives. But during these moments we witness bewildered corporate inability to resolve an issue before it becomes a catastrophe of the highest order. Excitement frustration and grief unfold as the true story of the space shuttle disaster is revealed.

• The January Man | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £15.97   |  Saving you £-2.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The January Man is an odd comedy-thriller about the hunt for a serial killer that could just be a case of too many stars spoil the movie. The screenplay is by John Patrick Shanley, who won an Oscar for Moonstruck. The plot goes like this: a serial killer is terrorising Manhattan, targeting one woman a month, much to the horror of the mayor (a rabid Rod Steiger, more foam than substance) and the police commissioner Frank Starkey (Harvey Keitel). There's only one man to save their bacon: enter Nick Starkey (Kevin Kline), brother of Frank, who had been a cop but was kicked out of the force for his unorthodox ways. Being a heroic kind of guy, his next career move was as a firefighter and we first see him leaping out of a burning building, carrying a child under his arm. Kline agrees to go back on one condition: that he cooks dinner for his brother's wife (the fantastically haughty Susan Sarandon), a former girlfriend for whom he still holds a candle. The pace hots up, Nick finds himself a new girlfriend, the mayor's daughter Bernadette (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), whose main claim to fame is that her best friend was murdered by the serial killer. Oh, and of course he gets the guy, in the nick of time (literally). Confused? You won't be. The plot is an improbable potion of coincidences and divine inspiration but it's not complicated. Kline overcomes the shortcomings of the script with a charmer of a performance, but the real star is the funny, sly Alan Rickman. The January Man is worth seeing for some very fine individual turns (Sarandon is terrific), but in all honesty, it doesn't add up to a great movie, mainly because it can't quite decide what it wants to be, genre-wise, settling on an uneasy compromise of comedy and thriller. On the DVD: The January Man disc has absolutely no-frills. Picture and sound are perfectly adequate without being anything to write home about. And if you're looking for extra goodies, you'll be disappointed: there's the original theatrical trailer and a wide array of subtitle languages, but that's it. --Harriet Smith

• Prophet Of Evil | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £8.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-49.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The true story of Ervil LeBaron a fanatical cult leader who ordered the death of anyone who dared to challenge his beliefs. Investigator Dan Fields is determined to bring this figure of pure evil to justice even with a price on his own head...

• Short Circuit / Flight Of The Navigator | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Short Circuit Delivering an abundance of android adventures when a military robot is spirited to life by a freak bolt of lightening. Number 5 is alive! Flight Of The Navigator Telling the story of a 12 year old boy who is mysteriously abducted by an alien space craft and returns to Earth eight years later still only 12. He now has great navigational powers which enable him to fly his spaceship anywhere he desires.

• Beverly Hills 90210 Season 5 | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Watch as Brandon (Jason Priestley) Dylan (Luke Perry) Kelly (Jennie Garth) Donna (Tori Spelling) David (Brian Austin Green) Steve (Ian Ziering) Andrea (Gabrielle Carteris) and newcomee Val (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) take a crash course in cheating sex and heartache in all 31 steamy Fifth Season episodes of the show that forever scorched the airwaves: Beverly Hills 90210! Savor every delicious moment of drama from Val and Dylan infiltrating a smuggling ring in Mexico to Brandon getting busted by the cops. Watch your favorite characters struggle with psychopaths schemers and most of all each other.

• Rambo 40th Anniversary SteelBook | Blu Ray | (06/03/2023) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rambo: First Blood 40th Anniversary Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Steelbook. Sylvester Stallone co-writes and stars in this 1980s action feature. Disturbed Vietnam veteran John Rambo (Stallone) spends his days wandering from town to town, searching out his old service colleagues. When he resists a local sheriff's attempts to make him leave town, he is arrested for vagrancy. While in prison Rambo is forced to endure the abuse of a sadistic deputy and relive his traumatic experiences as a POW in Vietnam, until he escapes and takes to the woods, relying on his old army skills to survive an escalating manhunt that erupts into all-out war.Includes 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray.

• Count Duckula - The Vampire Strikes Back | DVD | (11/08/2008) from £9.50   |  Saving you £-5.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  In this episode it was revealed that Nanny makes powerful enough sarsaparilla to blow a person's head clean off.

• Feature Film -Zombie Driftwood | DVD | (21/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Its Metal heads versus Zombies in the ultimate showdown with the undead. Fresh from the grave comes Zombie Driftwood a brand new zombie-comedy that will have audiences dying with laughter. Tonight is Battle of the Bands at the Driftwood Bar. And after a cruise ship disappears off the coast of Grand Cayman its tourists reappear as cannibalistic zombies and besiege the bar with a group of dysfunctional metal heads trapped inside. These reanimated zombie tourists are out to eat some brains and have a good holiday even if it kills them! So brace yourself for the zombie party of the century with sex beer and plenty of blood! With standout performances from Peter Kosa as Bar Tender Dan and Brian Briggs as the metal addled Gordon Zombie Driftwood is a hilarious take on the traditional zombie flick. Prepare for metal madness as our heroes battle for survival armed to the teeth only with baseball bats bagpipes and booze. Theyre going to need all the help they can get when the Zombie Hitler appears to order in the attack. Hes back And this time no more Mr. Nice Guy.

• Red | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £6.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (109.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Multi-award winning actor Brian Cox plays reclusive Avery Ludlow a small-town shop owner whose only reason for living is his dog Red. When a group of bored and bad-seed teens savagely kill the animal Cox is determined to settle the score by wreaking vengeance by whatever means possible whether within the law or not. But when Ludlow learns more about one of the killers he finds himself conflicted by his desires for revenge and by the memory of a long-held secret. Based on the novel by cult thriller writer Jack Ketchum and written by the writer of 'The Grudge' Red is a powerful story detailing what motivates an otherwise quiet man to become obsessed with retribution.

• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - Series 1 | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £13.89   |  Saving you £9.09 (83.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mystery buffs will find Hetty Wainthropp to be delightful and uniquely entertaining company. Hetty has just turned 60, but she is not about to "ride serene into the evening tide," as her doting husband so poetically puts it. "I'm not 60 and I never will be," Hetty proclaims. "I'm not a senior citizen." Hetty wants to matter, so she gets a job at her local Lancashire post office. But that wouldn't make for much of a miniseries. Before you can say "cheeky monkey," she has involved herself in a deadly case of pension-fund fraud, and made a splash on the front pages as a "Super Gran Sleuth." The redoubtable Patricia Routledge, best known as Hyacinth Bucket on the beloved Keeping Up Appearances), does lovely work as Hetty, who first appeared in David Cook's 1986 novel, Missing Persons (Cook co-wrote the six first-season episodes contained here). Hetty is not as quaint as Miss Marple, nor her cases as seamy as Jane Tennison's Prime Suspect mysteries. She is a formidable character in her own right, opening her own private detective agency, and recruiting a 17-year-old shoplifter (Dominic Monaghan from the Lord of the Rings trilogy) to be her "devoted sidekick." A rogue cop, a roving arsonist, and other unsavory characters are no match for the woman who won't rest until things add up. As one police inspector grudgingly admits, "She's an extraordinary woman. She's no Miss Marple, but..." But, indeed. --Donald Liebenson