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• The Glass House | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An orphaned teenager is taken in by a Malibu couple but discovers they aren't the caring friends they seemed to be.

• Blast From The Past | DVD | (13/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Coasting on the successes of Gods and Monsters and George of the Jungle, Brendan Fraser turns in yet another winning performance in this fish-out-of-water comedy in which Pleasantville meets modern-day Los Angeles, with predictably funny results. Fraser stars as Adam, who was born in the bomb shelter of his paranoid inventor dad (a less-manic-than-usual Christopher Walken), who spirited his pregnant wife (Sissy Spacek, in fine comic form) underground when he thought the Communists dropped the bomb (actually, it was a plane crash). Armed with enough supplies to last 35 years, the parents bring up Adam in Leave It to Beaver style with nary any exposure to the outside world. When the supplies run out, and dad suffers a heart attack, Fraser goes up to modern-day LA for some shopping and long-awaited culture shock. More of a cute premise with lots of clever ideas attached than a fully fleshed out story, Blast from the Past is also supposed to be part romantic comedy, as the hunky Adam hooks up with his jaded Eve (Alicia Silverstone) and tries to convince her to marry him and go underground. The sparks don't fly, though, because Silverstone is saddled with the triple whammy of being miscast, playing an underwritten character, and suffering a very bad hairdo. Fraser, however, carries the film lightly and easily on his broad, goofy shoulders, mixing Adam's gee-whiz innocence with genuine emotion and curiosity; only Fraser could pull off Adam's first glimpse of a sunrise or the ocean with both humour and pathos. Also winning is Dave Foley as Silverstone's gay best friend, who manages to make the most innocuous statements sound like comic gems. -- Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

• Dark Horse | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £5.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Writer/director Todd Solondz ('Welcome to the Dollhouse', 'Happiness') examines the irretrievability of youth in the hilariously dark and idiosyncratic comedy Dark Horse, featuring an all-star cast led by Jordan Gelber ('Boardwalk Empire'), Selma Blair ('Cruel Intentions'), Academy Award winner Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow ('Rosemary's Baby') and Justin Bartha ('The Hangover').Tempering his trademark lacerating humour with unexpected tenderness, Solondz creates a poignant and provocative portrait of two dysfunctional thirty-somethings, their plans to marry and a besieged man-child and his fractured family.

• Dead And Buried | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Something very strange is happening in the quiet coastal village of Potters Bluff where tourists and transients are warmly welcomed then brutally murdered! Even more shocking is when these slain strangers suddenly reappear as normal friendly citizens around town... Now the local sheriff and an eccentric mortician must uncover the horrific secret of a community where some terrifying traditions are alive and well: no one is ever truly dead and buried!

• The Piano Player | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  As a child Alex Laney (Christopher Lambert) stands helpless by the family piano as his parents are brutally gunned down by a hired hit-man. He has lived with these demons all his life and has himself become a clinical professional killer. When notorious crime lord Christo Nichol is released from a South African prison Alex is dispatched there to protect corrupt lawyer Robert Nile (Dennis Hopper) who has a violent history with Christo. After an attempt on Nile's life they are forced to run for the only safe haven left to them the remote mining village near Cape Town where Robert grew up. There they await the showdown with the assassin and Alex must face his past and its terrible connection to Nile.

• The Fall of the Roman Empire/The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) | Blu Ray | (11/06/2024) from £14.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Diary of a Teenage Girl | DVD | (11/01/2016) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Recording all her secrets in 'The Diary Of A Teenage Girl', Minnie is an aspiring cartoonist living with her mother, and nursing a crush on her mum's boyfriend. Growing up in San Francisco in 1976, Minnie's sexual awakening begins as the hippie movement fades and punk rock is on the rise. Yearning to be loved and treated like a grown-up, her rebellious teenage nature clashes with the newfound demands and responsibilities of adulthood. The winner of the Best International Feature award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, 'The Diary Of A Teenage Girl' stars Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard.

• Watchers | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  They were created in a top secret government laboratory enhanced by genetic masterminds given superior intelligence and bred to be the perfect weapons. Now they are on the loose. From the pages of Dean R. Koontz's best-selling thriller Watchers explodes onto the screen with relentless fury more terrifying than any nightmare. Corey Haim (The Lost Boys) stars as Travis Cornell who befriends a magnificent golden retriever. Little does he know that this extraordinary dog is about to lead him on the most bizarre and terrifying adventure of his life.

• Oppenheimer | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £19.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (25.01%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The acclaimed, multi award-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project, starring Sam Waterston. Sam Waterston stars in this classic seven-part BBC mini-series as nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who led the Manhattan Project to build the weapon that would bring a devastating end to World War Two.A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer began to realise the scale of the weapon he was developing, and he became increasingly ambivalent and even hostile about its eventual use. His fears lead the military establishment to suspect him of having Communist sympathies and, during the McCarthy era, Oppenheimer found himself accused of being a risk to national security.The series won three BAFTAs including Best Drama Series, and was nominated for two Emmys. Sam Waterston was nominated for the Best Actor Golden Globe.

• Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card - Part One DVD/BD Combo | DVD | (11/02/2019) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The power of the Clow is back with a brand-new adventure! Join Cardcaptor Sakura as she faces a new power, new friends, and reunites with some familiar faces. As Sakura settles into a normal routine, she prepares to face her newest challenge junior high! While her classes are challenging, things start looking up when Syaoran reappears and says he'll be staying for good. But when she has a strange dream about a mysterious figure and wakes to find her Clow Cards completely clear, she must return to her duty as Cardcaptor. Ready to take on these cards with a new key and new wand, Sakura will face this mystery with the help of her friends and seriously cute outfits!

• Archipelago | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With her son Edward (Tom Hiddleston – star of the forthcoming Thor & The War Horse) about to embark on a volunteer trip to Africa, doting mother Patricia wants to give him a good send-off, and gathers her family together for a getaway to a holiday home on idyllic Tresco, one of the Isles of Scilly.Edward's father's attendance is eagerly anticipated, though sister Cynthia appears to be there under some duress, going through dutiful motions. Gradually, deep fractures within the family set-up begin to surface in this eagerly awaitied second feature from director Joanna Hogg.

• Only When I Laugh - Series 4 - Complete | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Only When I Laugh was written by Eric Chappell (Rising Damp Home to Roost) and directed by Vernon Lawrence (Duty Free The Bounder). The series starred James Bolam (Beiderbecke) Peter Bowles (To the Manor Born) and Christopher Strauli (Raffles) as three congenital hypochondriac layabouts forever haunting the ward patrolled by the droll Doctor Thorpe (Richard Wilson - One Foot in the Grave). Episodes Comprise: 1. Blood Brothers 2. Conduct Unbecoming 3. All in the Mind 4. In Sickness and in Health 5. Escape 6. When Did You Last See Your Father? 7. The Reunion

• The Accused | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £26.24   |  Saving you £-6.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Accused (2 Discs)

• The House On Sorority Row | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Seven graduating sorority sisters decide to throw a graduation party at their sorority house despite the objections of the resident house mother. Following an embarrassing altercation between the house mother and one of the girls a foolish prank is played that results in the old woman's death. Unable to cope with the accidental death the girls decide to temporarily hide the body and not inform the police until after the party. On the night of the party each girl is individually stalked and murdered in a grizzly fashion by an unknown assailant. There is only one girl left alive to tell the tale... and the one person who can reveal the truth may be the one who wants her dead.

• The Dead Zone | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One of the very best Stephen King film adaptations, The Dead Zone is imbued with an ever-present atmosphere of dread. Shot in a permanently wintry Canada (standing in for New England), the icy backdrops are subtly employed by director David Cronenberg to accentuate the story’s fatalistic tone. Cronenberg’s welcome emphasis for the most part on psychological terror over physical shocks (something of a change of direction for him after The Brood and Scanners) is further enhanced by composer Michael Kamen’s marvellously chilly music score and Christopher Walken’s understated yet dominating central performance as high school teacher Johnny Smith, who wakes from a coma following a car crash to learn that he has been cursed with the gift of second sight. That his uncanny ability is indeed a curse and definitely not a blessing is made abundantly clear: even when Johnny is able to save people’s lives, there is always a price to pay. The cosmic law of Karma is grimly unforgiving. Herbert Lom, as Johnny’s sympathetic doctor, sums up the character’s plight, "Some things just weren’t meant to be." And even when Johnny learns the terrible secret of future Presidential candidate Greg Stillson (a villainous Martin Sheen), he knows he cannot act without accepting the fatal consequences. Brooke Adams, as the love of Johnny’s life, and Tom Skerrit, as the quietly desperate sheriff on the trail of a serial killer, are excellent in support. On the DVD: this disc comes with a chunky accompanying booklet with background notes on the film, cast and director, as well as a script excerpt for the originally planned pre-credits sequence (in the finished film we assume Johnny’s second sight is a result of the car accident--this earlier screenplay follows the book more closely). The movie itself--which features the "scissor-suicide" scene uncut--is accompanied by a chatty and informative commentary from film critics Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (a regular Amazon.co.uk contributor). Both the 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen picture and the Dolby 5.1 sound are adequate if unexceptional. --Mark Walker

• The Whip And The Body | Blu Ray | (03/11/2014) from £21.19   |  Saving you £0.80 (3.78%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Italian horror maestro Mario Bava directs this gothic horror. Kurt Menliff (Christopher Lee) returns to his father’s castle to find that his servant (Harriet Medin) believes he is responsible for her daughter’s death. Meanwhile Kurt’s passion for sadism knows no borders as he subjects his sister (Daliah Lavi) to a horse-whip beating.

• The Point Men | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £5.35   |  Saving you £14.64 (273.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In any war there are covert groups whose moral flexibility makes them ideal for intelligence and assassination duties: they are The Point Men. Tony Eckhart (Christopher Lambert) heads up one such team protecting the Middle East peace process. In what seems to be a bungled operation, he's the only one who believes they've killed the wrong man. When the other members of his team start dropping dead, the matter becomes a personal vendetta. Unfortunately, that's exactly what the master of disguise Amar (Vincent Regan) is hoping for (aided by some fast-healing plastic surgery). Personal back stories become clear as the plot ranges all over the world from Luxembourg to Jerusalem, Zurich, Tel Aviv, New York and Monaco. There's lots of espionage intrigue and assassins' technology in this adaptation of the novel The Heat of Ramadan by Steven Hartov. Director John Glen, who helmed the James Bond films during the Roger Moore-to-Timothy Dalton era, knows how to choreograph action, and with Maryam d'Abo (from The Living Daylights) plus the fiery Kerry Fox as Maddy he also maintains a believable pair of love interests. A cross between Ronin and Face/Off, The Point Men inhabits familiar film territory, but as always Lambert is eminently watchable.On the DVD: A crisp 1.85:1 anamorphic transfer and 5.1 Surround makes this as clean a presentation of a modern film as possible. One trailer and page-long filmographies of Christopher Lambert and director John Glen also make it a cheap one. --Paul Tonks

• Murder Most English | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Flaxborough Chronicles. Murder Most English contains four terrific tales of detective sleuthing based on the Flaxborough novels of Colin Watson. Starring Anton Rodgers as Detective Inspector Purbright and Christopher Timothy as Detective Sergeant Love the series was filmed in 1977 and is a glowing tribute to an England long-gone of heavy tweed jackets dial telephones typewriter ribbons and old-fashioned investigation and deduction. Told over 7 episodes: Hopjoy Was Here Lonelyheart 4122 The Flaxborough Crab and Coffin Scarcely Used tell tales of mysterious murders dire disappearances and conniving conspiracy that are designed to keep the local investigators at bay but their layers of intrigue simply draw the detectives in deeper. One surprising and prescient tale considers the effects of an early variation on Viagra that sets the small town astir in some most unexpected ways. But whatever the crime and whoever the culprit one thing you can be sure of is a case or two of Murder Most English.

• Back To The Future Trilogy | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £15.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (87.55%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Back To The Future (1985): 17 year old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early. Michael J. Fox stars as Marty McFly a typical American teenager accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean ""time machine"" invented by slightly mad scientist Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). During his often hysterical always amazing trip back in time Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love otherwise he'll never be bor

• Fortress 2 | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  7 years on from the original Fortress movie, Brennick and his family are still on the run from the Mental corporation.