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• XXX - 15th Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (09/01/2017) from £11.26   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For a movie that would like to think of itself as the future of the action / espionage picture, xXx uses a surprising number of jokes and stunts lifted directly from the Roger Moore Bond era while the actual premise resembles a sex-change for Nikita. Vin Diesel's Xander Cage--an extreme sports daredevil recruited by spymaster Samuel L Jackson for a covert mission in Prague--may be Blofeld-bald, pumped-up with testosterone, tattooed like a graffiti-covered wall and given to driving sports cars off bridges for fun, but he turns out to be a disappointingly square goodie-goodie when the quips and bullets are flying. Even the slinky heroine (Asia Argento), a double agent within a mad ex-Soviet gang called Anarchy 99, laughs at the idea that a walking cue ball with three Xs tattooed on his neck could ever be a secret agent. There's one stunt scene that will be remembered as a classic, as xXx triggers an avalanche and snowboards ahead of the fall. But there's too much of the falling-out-of-planes, straddling-and-defusing-jet-propelled-germ-bombs, blasting-every-baddie-in-the-place business that makes it too familiar. Enough material for several great trailers, but next time they'll need a script. --Kim Newman On the DVD: xXx comes loud and proud to DVD, with Dolby 5.1 sound and the kind of sharp screen transfer you'd expect for a movie of this magnitude. From beautiful scrolling menus based on the tattoo artwork to the brash music, this disc epitomises everything an extreme sports release should be: special features are offered in the "Zander Zone" and include a whole host of behind-the-scenes action and commentaries, made all the more interesting by Rob Cohen's reluctance to use CGI and Vin Diesel's willingness to be thrown in at the deep end. If there's one thing you should avoid, though, it's the Gavin Rossdale music video--unless of course you want to see a grown man's vanity on screen. --Nikki Disney

• Score: A Film Music Documentary | DVD | (02/04/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  What makes a film score unforgettable? Featuring Hans Zimmer, James Cameron, Danny Elfman, John Williams, Quincy Jones, Trent Reznor, Howard Shore, Rachel Portman, Thomas Newman, Randy Newman, Leonard Maltin, and the late James Horner and Garry Marshall, SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY brings Hollywood's elite composers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of the world's most international music genre: the film score. A film composer is a musical scientist of sorts, and the influence they have to complement a film and garner powerful reactions from global audiences can be a daunting task to take on. The documentary contains interviews with dozens of film composers who discuss their craft and the magic of film music while exploring the making of the most iconic and beloved scores in history: James Bond , Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, Titanic, The Social Network, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Psycho.

• Dracula 2001 | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £7.90   |  Saving you £8.09 (102.41%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Abraham Van Helsing, a London antiques dealer, travels to America to find his daughter and save her from his longtime nemesis, Dracula.

• The Burning Dead | DVD | (24/10/2016) from £3.48   |  Saving you £11.51 (330.75%)   |  RRP £14.99

• XXX | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Featuring both the big-budget high-octane action-thrillers in the XXX series. XXX(Triple X): A new brand of secret agent: this 'Xtreme' edition features an addtional 8 minutes of new content not seen in theatrical version! This amped action drama stars Vin Diesel as Xander (aka Triple X) a rebellious extreme sports star with a mission to defy authority and create anarchy. In the dramatic opening scene of the movie Xander pulls an outrageous series of stunts with the help

• XXX (Xtreme Edition) | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £3.69   |  Saving you £16.30 (441.73%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vin Diesel stars as an extreme sports athlete called Triple X hired by a government agency who turn him into a secret agent and send him on a covert mission to destroy a dangerous terrorist cell.

• Kings Row | DVD | (12/11/2014) from £16.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Taxi Season 2 | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In its second Emmy-winning season as Outstanding Comedy Series Taxi cruised to new heights of comic invention. In addition to the brilliant ensemble from the first season. Taxi welcomed three breakout actors as regular contributors in the second season. Perhaps the most memorable is the fried philosopher Jim Ignatowski (Christopher Lloyd) whose hilarious Slow Down episode is featured here. Also joining the cast are Carol Kane as Latka's love interest and Rhea Perlman as the unlikely girlfriend of the despised Louie De Palma. (Danny DeVito). Highlights of the second season include Louie's first romance with a non-professional the infamous race between Alex and Louie and one of the most outrageous goodnight kisses ever seen on TV. From farce to fantasy to human comedy these 24 episodes garnered three Emmys including one for Outstanding Comedy Series.

• XXX (Wide Screen) (Superbit) | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This amped action drama stars Vin Diesel as Xander (aka Triple X) a rebellious extreme sports star with a mission to defy authority and create anarchy. In the dramatic opening scene of the movie Xander pulls an outrageous series of stunts with the help of a band of similar-minded jocks broadcasts the whole event live onto the Internet with a network of strategically placed digital cameras and then avoids being captured by the squadron of police who pursue him. When Triple X is later taken into custody Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) a representative from a government agency hires the chiseled athlete and turns him into a secret agent with a mission to travel to Prague and collapse a dangerous terrorist cell operated by Yorgi (Martin Csokas) and the seductive Yelena (Asia Argento). Triple X is quickly drawn into Yorgi's lair a stunning chateau situated in the mountains that is equipped with every high-tech modern amenity imaginable along with a sizeable team of extra-large Slav bodyguards a laboratory staffed by top scientists and an always-ready gaggle of gorgeous concubines. Non-stop stunts pounding hard-core music elaborate sets and inventive costumes make this Rob Cohen-directed adrenaline overload a visually exciting aurally engaging highly entertaining success.

• Drowning Mona | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Small quirky comedy thrillers such as Drowning Mona are one of the things that American cinema does best and far too rarely. Peter Steinfeld's appealing script attracted a solid cast of stars under the direction of newcomer Nick Gomez (whose previous work includes episodes of The Sopranos). It seems that someone has cut Mona's brake cables and she drove to her death by drowning. Bette Midler's Mona manages to make it entirely plausible that almost everyone might have wanted to kill her: from her son's business partner Eddie (Casey Affleck) to her husband's mistress Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis). The local police chief (Danny DeVito), already burdened with subordinates who refer to running away from danger as "securing the perimeter" and the impending marriage of his daughter (Neve Campbell) to the sweet but unreliable Eddie, has to make sense of the farrago of lies and half-truths which is all anyone will tell him. This is an ingenious tightly plotted film which is never too busy to scatter odd little gags at its margins; it's a tall tale, whose complicated telling is half the fun. On the DVD The DVD comes with the theatrical trailer, a director's commentary, interviews with the stars and four deleted scenes. The picture is 1.85:1 anamorphic and the sound is Dolby Surround. --Roz Kaveney

• Club Le Monde | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £6.13   |  Saving you £3.86 (62.97%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An affectionately tongue in cheek comedy exploring the early 1990's human traffic club culture in Britain where open air raves moved into more respectable indoor premises but the drugs dance music and dramas continued...

• XXX | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Vin Diesel is no James Bond, and he doesn't want to be. That's why XXX announced Diesel as the adrenalin-junkie Bond of the PlayStation generation, copying the Bond formula so shamelessly that this action-packed silliness would be a Bond movie if it starred Pierce Brosnan. Reuniting Diesel with his Fast and the Furious director Rob Cohen, XXX has an attitude (if not a brain) all its own, plucking Diesel's Xander Cage from his celebrity as an extreme sports renegade, recruited by a National Security Agency big shot (Samuel L. Jackson) to foil a nasty Czech villain (Marton Csokas) who's eager to depopulate Prague with remote-controlled biological weaponry. Toss in a sulky, sultry Russian agent (Asia Argento) and you've got extreme Bond-age for anyone who thinks tuxedos are passé. With a handful of eye-popping action sequences, XXX launched a movie franchise with a cool guy, another cool muscle car, and plenty of box-office sizzle. --Jeff Shannon

• Cricket On The Hearth | DVD | (21/10/2013) from £5.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (66.60%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A delightful animated musical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale A Cricket On The Hearth tells the story of a poor toymaker and his daughter whom a helpful Cricket named Crocket befriends on Christmas morning. When tragedy strikes the family it's Crocket who comes to the rescue and restores peace and happiness.

• Side By Side | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  What do you do when you are over 65 and are forced to retire? Abe Murray and Louie have the perfect solution - start up a new business! It's the answer to their golden years: a range of sportswear designed by seniors for seniors. The three friends and their new line of clothes are an instant hit - but then a rival fashion house plots to unravel their success. Realising the need for drastic action Abe Murray and Louie come up with a madcap plan to keep their business and prove that they can do anything if they just stand side by side.

• Side By Side | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £5.89   |  Saving you £-1.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  What do you do when you are over 65 and are forced to retire? Abe Murray and Louie have the perfect solution - start up a new business! It's the answer to their golden years: a range of sportswear designed by seniors for seniors. The three friends and their new line of clothes are an instant hit - but then a rival fashion house plots to unravel their success. Realising the need for drastic action Abe Murray and Louie come up with a madcap plan to keep their business and prove that they can do anything if they just stand side by side.

• Make Room for Daddy - Volume 1 | DVD | (15/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

• Daily Dose | DVD | (08/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Another progressive film comes to you from the makers of Unleashed and Road To Madness. This season Straight Jacket Films brings you DAILY DOSE- a film containing some of the most underground up and coming riders some of the best pros in the world and amazing riders tackling the most consequential handrails and jumps of the season! Filmed in Finland Sweden Norway Tahoe Whistler Backcountry Oregon Cascades East Coast Cities Portland Oregon and the Southern Sierras.

• Daily Dose | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Another progressive film comes to you from the makers of Unleashed and Road To Madness. This season, Straight Jacket Films brings you DAILY DOSE- a film containing some of the most underground up and coming riders, some of the best pros in the world and amazing riders tackling the most consequential handrails and jumps of the season! Filmed in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Tahoe, Whistler Backcountry, Oregon Cascades, East Coast Cities, Portland, Oregon and the Southern Sierras.