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• Sword Of Honour | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £22.08   |  Saving you £-12.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Award-winning novelist and screenwriter William Boyd brings Evelyn Waugh's classic trilogy of the Second World War vividly to life in this epic two-part drama starring Daniel Craig Megan Dodds Leslie Phillips Julian Rhind-Tutt Robert Pugh and Katrina Cartlidge. At the heart of the story is one man's heroic quest: Guy Crouchback (Daniel Craig) returns from his self-imposed exile in Italy in 1939 and joins the army to fight for a deep moral cause and reclaim his self-respect following a shattering divorce from society beauty Virginia Troy (Megan Dodds). But as his encounters with the absurd reality of life in the armed forces in his training at Southend-on-Sea and the Isle of Mugg and in his postings to Dakar Alexandria and Crete prove to be more of a challenge than facing the enemy itself. Virginia has also returned to London from America at the start of the war having parted with husband number three. As Britain's fortunes dwindle so do Virginia's until Guy appears to be her only hope. On his return to London she tracks him down. In strong contrast to the darkly comic nature of his military experience his renewed and passionate acquaintance with his dangerously beautiful ex-wife provokes a personal and moral crisis that tests - to the limits - both his love for Virginia and his profound sense of duty. Sword of Honour is both a war story and a love story - as well as a biting satire on the emergence of the world we live in today.

• Superman: The Movie (4 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (340.68%)   |  RRP £21.99

  To commemorate the recent release of Superman Returns this fantastic 4 disc Special Edition of the original with have fans (metaphorically) salivating in the aisles! Featuring the original 1978 cut plus the 2001 extended edition commentary from Richard Donner and a whole host of archival footage additional scenes and screen tests this is truly the most definitive Superman box set ever! The movie that makes a legend come to life. The planet Krypton is doomed. Only one man Jor-El knows it and rockets his infant son to refuge on a distant world called Earth. As Jor-Els son grows to manhood he learns that he possesses super-powers he must hide from ordinary mortals around him. It takes a big movie to contain the considerable talents of Marlon Brando Gene Hackman Jackie Cooper Glen Ford Margot Kidder Valerie Perrine and at its heart the most human portrayal of the Man of Steel Christopher Reeve. Superman an Academy Award winner (1978) for special achievement in visual effects is more than big enough. Directed by Richard Donner Superman: The Movie makes us believe this epic story all over again.

• New Spider-Man 1995 - Season 5, Volumes 1 & 2 | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A bullied schoolboy genius gets bitten by a radioactive spider. Through a miracle of science Peter Parker gains spider-like super powers but with great power comes great responsibility. Haunted by his failure to prevent the death of Uncle Ben he turns to a life of fighting crime. A web-slinging wall-crawling super hero is created - - - Spider-Man! Contents: Episode 1: The Wedding Episode 2: Six Forgotten Warriors Chap. I Episode 3: Six Forgotten Warriors Chap. II Episode 4: Six Forgotten Warriors Chap. III Episode 5: Six Forgotten Warriors Chap. IV Episode 6: Six Forgotten Warriors Chap. V Episode 7: The Return Of Hydro-Man Pt. I Episode 8: The Return Of Hydro-Man Pt. II Episode 9: Secret Wars Chap. I Episode 10: Secret Wars Chap. II Episode 11: Secret Wars Chap. III Episode 12: Spider Wars Chap. I Episode 13: Spider Wars Chap. II

• The Venture Brothers - Season Two | DVD | (05/07/2010) from £8.08   |  Saving you £11.91 (147.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Season 2 of the inspired spoof of 1960s action cartoons such as Johnny Quest The Venture Bros. follows the bizarre mis-adventures of Hank and Dean who believe themselves to be an unusually gifted team of brains and brawn while actually possessing very little of either. The boys travel the world with their renowned scientist-father Doctor Venture - and treat even the most mundane situation as a bold new adventure. As a result they often find themselves in danger with a host of oddball villains - but rarely find their way out. The rely instead on their body-guard/undercover government agent Brock Sampson voiced by Patrick Warburton of The Tick and Seinfeld fame to save them.

• Animal Shelf - Series 1 - Episodes 7 To 12 | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  As soon as the grown ups turn their backs the adventures begin! The five toy animals that live on Timothy's top shelf are not like regular toys. Out of sight of adult eyes the toys come to life seeking out adventures with exciting and sometimes hair raising consequences...

• Dancing On Ice - Series 1-5 Complete Highlights | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £35.08   |  Saving you £-5.09 (-17.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Dancing On Ice: Complete Highlights Series 1-5 (4 Discs)

• Shaft Trilogy | DVD | (05/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  The original and hippest version of Shaft cruised onto cinema screens in 1971. John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is an African-American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Director Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) seems fond of certain detective genre clichés (e.g., the hero walking into his low-rent office and finding a hood waiting to talk with him), but he and Roundtree make those moments their own. Shaft produced a couple of sequels, a follow-up television series, and a remake starring Samuel L. Jackson, but none had the impact this movie did. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com Shaft's Big Score is the first sequel to the super-hip 1971 original. When a pal of detective John Shaft is murdered in a bombing, New York's coolest private eye finds himself caught in the middle of a power struggle between black and white gangsters over the numbers racket in Queens. Directed by Gordon Parks (who does a brief cameo as a croupier in an illegal casino) and written by Ernest Tidyman (both of whom made the original Shaft), this film lacks the pacing of its progenitor. Roundtree is at his best when he's questioning a woman he's just met about a suspect while at the same time beguiling her into the sack (ah, those lazy, crazy days of the sexual revolution). The finale--a shootout in a cemetery, followed by a car-boat-helicopter chase through Queens and up the Harlem River--is preposterously drawn-out: Shaft, impervious to machine-gun fire, winds up tripping, spraining his ankle, and limping while running from the chopper; two shots later, he's sprinting like a halfback. Look for late Muhammad Ali trainer Drew Bundini Brown as a wise-cracking mobster. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.comShaft in Africa, the second sequel to the original hit, foreshadows itself early on when Shaft, asked to go undercover in Africa to halt a modern-day slave trade, claims that he's not James Bond but strictly Sam Spade. Bond, however, is the operative model here, with John Shaft masquerading as an Ethiopian to infiltrate the slave business and bring it down. Yet everyone he encounters seems to know who he is and wants to kill him--but the string of dead bodies he leaves in his wake across two continents proves that no one is able to stop everyone's favourite hip private eye. Written by Stirling Silliphant, the film is long on action set pieces that are filmed with more energy than the previous movie, Shaft's Big Score. Given contemporary practices involving smugglers of illegal Chinese and Mexican immigrants, the plot isn't all that far-fetched. Roundtree, as usual, is the picture of unflappable cool--but don't get him mad. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Edge Of Honor | DVD | (06/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  An innocent camping trip turns deadly when a band of boy scouts stumble upon a cache of high tech weapons. When their scout leaders are killed the young men must rely on all of their wilderness training to outsmart a group of merciless gun muggers.

• The Little Mermaid/the Little Mermaid II (Disney) | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Little Mermaid: Disney's 28th animated masterpiece. Awash with breathtaking animation unforgettably colourful characters and two Academy Awards for score and song ""Under The Sea "" The Little Mermaid is one of Disney's most cherished films. Ariel the fun-loving and mischievous mermaid is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea she swims to the surface and in a raging storm rescues the prince of her dreams. Determined to be human she strikes a bargain with the devious sea witch Ursula and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her best friend the adorable and chatty Flounder and her reluctant chaperone Sebastian the hilarious reggae-singing Caribbean crab at her side Ariel must win the prince's love and save her father's kingdom -- all in a heart-pounding race against time! The Little Mermaid II - Return To Sea: After rejoicing over the birth of their daughter Melody Ariel and Eric must face a new threat from Ursula's revengeful sister Morgana - a threat that forces them to hide Melody's true mermaid heritage. Melody a young princess curious about her roots ultimately ventures into the sea against her parents' wishes. There she meets new friends and in her dreams to be a mermaid becomes a pawn in Morgana's plot to gain control of the Seven Seas. Ariel must reunite with her childhood friends Sebastian Flounder and Scuttle to rescue her daughter and restore harmony to the family.

• Fury At Smuggler's Bay | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A small coastal village is the setting for smuggling and ship wrecking. Only the Squire's son is prepared to speak out against the man responsible...

• Dolly Parton - Blue Valley Songbird | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a totally unexpected piece of casting, Blue Valley Songbird stars Dolly Parton as a country singer/songwriter with big hair, large breasts and lots of lippy. The comparison ends there, though, because here she plays Leana Taylor, a talented performer hampered by her provincial background (and unpleasant manager/boyfriend) who realises she must escape her small-town roots in order to achieve her true potential. This isn't the most taxing of narratives, but it's the music that counts here. This movie is of the "musical drama" genre--take a star musical performer, give them the lead role in a movie, then furnish them with every excuse to perform therein so long as it can be done as a realistic element within the overall story--and as such it's highly agreeable. Parton not only has buckets of musical talent but also has plausible acting skills, even if the viewer is bound to think that these are mainly to do with being Dolly Parton. In any event, the songs are excellent, so this is well worth watching even if you find yourself fast-forwarding until you see someone picking a guitar up.--Roger Thomas

• Hammer Horror Resurrected Box Set | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  This Hammer Horror Resurrected box set collects Hammer movies from the mid-1960s (plus a stray 1975 title), an era when Hammer was making sequels or even sequels to sequels and occasionally cobbling together films with a lack of care that would not have passed muster in the 1950s. Nevertheless, all of these films have elements that remain pleasing and a good half of the titles represented are in the front-rank of the Hammer canon. Rasputin the Mad Monk is a bloodied-up slice of Russian history, hindered somewhat by the need to limit the sets to those that could be recycled from Dracula Prince of Darkness and a legal injunction to refrain from naming names. Christopher Lee makes a fair fist of the lead role, employing his Dracula staring eyes and wringing hands to go with an impressive false beard and using sheer force of will to dominate the Tsar's court, especially the elegantly masochistic lady-in-waiting Barbara Shelley. Frankenstein Created Woman sends Peter Cushing's Baron back to the drawing board and finds him diverted from his usual brain surgery and corpse-stitching into experimenting with cryogenic suspension and soul transference. Terence Fisher, on his third Hammer Frankenstein, directs the cynical script with cold flair. The side is let down only by Playboy Playmate Susan Denberg's insufficiently devastating lady monster. The Vengeance of She is the mildest effort in this bunch, a quickie sequel to She in which blonde, bosomy Czech "discovery" Olinka Berova did not turn out to be an international sensation along the lines of previous Hammer babes Ursula Andress and Raquel Welch. The feeble storyline peters out as the heroine is plagued by dreams that suggest she is the reincarnation of the evil ice queen Ayesha but then turns out not to be. The Plague of the Zombies is a grimmer Hammer, with cartoonish social comment ladled onto the voodoo goings-on. Cornish squire John Carson (even chillier than the usual Christopher Lee) enjoys rampaging around the countryside with his hunting pals abusing comely lasses while his fortune is kept going by the exploited living dead working his tin mine. Andre Morell has the Peter Cushing role as a concerned expert who recognises that there's voodoo in the air, and Jacqueline Pearce--unforgettable in director John Gilling's companion piece, The Reptile--is suitably affecting as the secondary heroine who turns into a seductive zombie and gets her head lopped off. In Quatermass and the Pit boffin Professor Quatermass (Andrew Keir) unearths an eerie history of insect aliens who have influenced human evolution when workmen extending the London underground discover a five million year old Martian spaceship. This is a rare intelligent science fiction movie with genuine ideas to go along with its creepy moments. 1975's To the Devil a Daughter was the last gasp of Hammer's horror cycle, an attempt to rejig Dennis Wheatley's once-popular Satanist-bashing novel into a post-Exorcist/Omen Devil movie. Fallen priest Christopher Lee tries to get teenage novice Nastassja Kinski pregnant with a monster, while pipe smoking occultist Richard Widmark does his best to foil the dastard. Sloppy, silly and awkwardly structured, with an especially limp climax (the villain is foiled by being bashed with a rock), it does manage some chills along the way, and has an interesting supporting cast of neurotics (especially Denholm Elliott, cowering inside a pentagram). This release presents a fuller version than some video or TV prints, including a strange sequence in which Kinski's womb is invaded by a repulsive demon child. The very young Kinski has a nude scene, but so does Christopher Lee's game stunt double. On the DVD: Hammer Horror Resurrected box set has no extras at all. But the films are presented in nice, anamorphic transfers which bring out the pretty pastels of the landscape around Bray Studios and the rich red splashes of blood. --Kim Newman

• Angels In The Endzone / Angels In The Outfield | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Angels In The Outfield: Roger who has lost his mother is living separated from his father. As he and his friend J.P. are two of the biggest fans of the Los Angeles baseball team he has got only two dreams: Living together with a real family and LA winning the championship. As he is praying for these two things to happen some angels show up in order to help him - but he is the only one to see them and believe in them. Fortunately the coach of the baseball team sees his abiliti

• The Vengeance Of Fu Manchu | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In his remote Asian hideaway the evil Fu Manchu plots the death and discredit of his arch rival Inspector Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard as the first step in his plan to become leader of the world's most terrible criminals...

• 28 Days Later | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A virus accidentally released from a research facility has devastated the entire planet and the human race is faced with extinction. Only a handful of survivors are left to salvage a future from the apocalypse.

• Edward The Seventh | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The life and times of Edward VII dramatised for the television. The BAFTA award winning 1975 drama comes to DVD for the first time! Episode titles: The Boy Experiment In Education The New World Alix A Hundred Thousand Welcomes The Invisible Queen Dearest Prince The Royal Quadrille Scandal The Years of Waiting King At Last The Peacemaker Good Old Teddy!

• The Prophecy 3 - The Ascent | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £8.85   |  Saving you £7.40 (97.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Final Most Thrilling Chapter! Christopher Walken (Suicide Kings The Prophecy) and Vincent Spano (The Tie That Binds) star in The Ascent the third thrilling installment of the action-packed Prophecy trilogy! As fearsome armies of rebel angels continue to wage war in heaven and on earth Pyriel the brutal Angel of Genocide rises to power with the evil intent to destroy all of mankind! The only one on earth with the ability to stop the bloodshed is Danyael who was born of an

• Aquanoids | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  On a small island off the California coast it's July 4th and tourists are washing up dead in Babylon Bay... Aquanoids is a sea creature horror film that delivers a healthy dose of horror combined with a sexy star breathtaking scenery extensive underwater photography state of the art creature effects and a fast paced story with enough action to make anyone have to come up for air....

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 4 - Part 3 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jack loses his fortune in the Wall Street crash. He returns to Liverpool illegally with gangsters pursuing him across the Atlantic. He becomes involved in the Spanish Civil War and agrees to run arms for an ex-Sergeant Major. Episodes include: 'Action! Comrades In Arms!' and 'Roll Of Honour'.

• Treasure Island | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £5.49   |  Saving you £0.50 (8.30%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of dastardly pirates swashbuckling heroes buried treasure and a young boy's courage during the adventure of a lifetime. We begin with young Jim Hawkins living with his grandmother at the Admiral Inn and all is quite as it should be... Until the fateful day a stranger named Billy Bones stumbles into the inn with a wild tale. He is being pursued by a man named Blind Pew who hands him a piece of paper with the 'black spot' on it. Bones tells J