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• The X Files: Providence | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £5.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (167.39%)   |  RRP £15.99

  As with earlier releases, The X-Files: Providence splices together two episodes, "Provenance" and "Providence", into a pseudo-movie. Again, the results fall way below the series average as the long-dead alien conspiracy business is flogged, with a lot of running around and ominous rumbling still not adding up to anything like an actual story. FBI agent Neal McDonaugh (of Minority Report) inexplicably survives a flaming motorcycle crash, leaving behind brass rubbings taken from an alien spaceship, then shows up and tries to murder Scully's psychokinetic baby, who is promptly kidnapped by a UFO cult. In Part 2, Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Reyes (Annabeth Gish) fend off enemies and friends within the bureau as they track down the cultists, who are having trouble with a spaceship they've dug up, and a typical pointless climax has things happen without the characters doing anything to contribute. Even at this late, post-Duchovny stage in the game, The X-Files has turned out some fine stand-alone episodes, but these dreary wallowings go a long way towards explaining why only diehards are still watching. After the child says "I made this" at the end of the credits, it's becoming very hard not to shout "well, clean it up then". On the DVD: The X-Files: Providence, as with Nothing Important Happened Today, arrives in a great-looking anamorphic widescreen transfer. There are two slight promotional "featurettes"--three-minute clips/talking heads promos focusing on the episode "Providence" and actor Cary Elwes' character. --Kim Newman

• What Have I Done To Deserve This? | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £8.57   |  Saving you £9.42 (109.92%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An erotic and bizarre black comedy which follows a typical Spanish housewife with rather atypical family problems! Nazis homosexuality drug dealing extra-marital affairs and a plot to forge Hitler's diaries: everything you'd expect from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar's fourth film!

• The House By The Cemetery (3-Disc Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (21/01/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Man Who Knew Too Much | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  James Stewart and Doris Day in a rare dramatic role are superb in this brilliant suspense thriller from the undisputed master. Stewart and Day play Ben and Jo MacKenna innocent Americans vacationing in Morocco with their son Hank. After a French spy dies in Ben's arms in the Marrakech market the couple discovers their son has been kidnapped and taken to England. Not knowing who they can trust the McKennas are caught up in a nightmare of international espionage assassinations and terror. Soon all of their lives hang in the balance as they draw closer to the truth and a chilling climatic moment in London's famous Royal Albert Hall. Special Features: The Making of the Man Who Knew Too Much Production Photographs Trailers

• Lords Of Dogtown / Dogtown And Z-Boys | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Lords Of Dogtown: Anyone who grew up in Southern California will talk with both nostalgia and frustration about the periodic summers of drought in which the oppressive heat is exacerbated by a shortage of its antidote--fresh water. In 1975 a clan of scruffy rebellious teens found a way to turn this dearth to their advantage using the sloping bowl of empty suburban swimming pools to create a new underground sport - skateboarding. The development explosion and corporate co-

• The Beyond - Uncut | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young woman inherits a decaying hotel on the edge of a Louisiana swamp unaware that more than fifty years ago it served as the gateway to hell and that its horrific evil lives on to this day. Her dream to build a new life for herself becomes a nightmarish fight for survival as horrors straight out of Lovecraft's Book of Ebion lay their own claim to her property and the souls around her...

• Bon Voyage | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £10.40   |  Saving you £9.59 (92.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vivianne Denvers is a well-known film actress who has many male admirers. At the premiere of her latest picture she is pursued by Beaufort a rather large government official. To get away from him she attaches herself to an unsuitable older man who takes her home. After an argument she slaps him only to find that he has dropped dead! Terrified she calls on a former boyfriend to help her move the body...

• Carlos Saura - Carmen / Flamenco / Tango | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This box set features a collection of films directed by the Spanish maestro Carlos Saura. Tango: A 1998 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film Carlos Saura's incomparable vision of dance and music is woven around the Latin passion of the Tango. In this sensual motion picture evocatively photographed in stunningly rich and vivid colours by legendary Vittorio Storaro cinematographer of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Last Emperor' tells the passionate struggle of choreograph

• Time To Leave | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Francois Ozon's most intimate and lyrical work 'Time to Leave' features a moving performance from Melvil Poupaud as a 30 year-old man facing up to the reality of his own mortality. With his perfect life thrown into chaos by the shock diagnosis of a serious illness fashion photographer Romain finds himself unable to share the news with his boyfriend or family confiding instead only in his grandmother (affectingly played by screen legend Jeanne Moreau). But anger and denial give way to an acceptance of sorts when a chance encounter with a waitress (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) offers Romain a glimmer of hope and the unexpected chance to leave something of himself behind.

• The Horse Soldiers | Blu Ray | (14/06/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sword Of God | DVD | (13/01/2020) from £2.61   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two Christian knights arrive on a remote island intent on converting Pagan villagers to their own religion. The first seeks to win them over with understanding and humility, whilst the second relies on intimidation and violence. As a rift forms between the men, the villagers must decide which side they are on, and the men must decide how far they are willing to go for their faith. Bloodshed is inevitable and many will die.

• The Dark | DVD | (30/12/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The world is teetering on the brink of apocalypse. A group of survivors have found themselves isolated from the remnants of society and under siege living in a subterranean bunker. They dare not abandon the crumbling complex as it is the only security from the enemy that awaits them outside. Living in a constant state of fear, they face the fact that food supplies and ammunitions are running out, giving them no choice but to leave the secure area. Together they start their quest for survival, facing an enemy that is stronger than expected, with a power that can destroy all of mankind.

• Real Women Have Curves | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £11.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (16.78%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Real women take chances have flaws embrace life... Should Ana leave home go to college and experience life? Or stay home get married and keep working in her sister's struggling garment factory? It may seem like an easy decision but for 18 year-old Ana every choice she makes this summer will change her life. At home she is bound to a mother who wants her to become someone she's not. But at school she's encouraged by a teacher who sees her potential and adored by a boyfr

• Heat (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £15.14   |  Saving you £-0.15 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An epic tale of crime and obsession and two men on opposite sides of the law. When Al Pacino and Robert De Niro square off Heat sizzles. Written and Directed by Michael Mann Heat includes dazzling set pieces and a bank heist that USA Today's Mike Clark calls ""the greatest action scene of recent times"". It also offers ""the most impressive collection of actors in one movie this year"" (Newsweek). Val Kilmer Jon Voight Tom Sizemore and Ashley Judd are among the memorable supporting players in this tale of a brilliant LA cop (Pacino) following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by an equally brilliant master thief (De Niro). Heat goes way beyond the expectations of the cops-and-criminals genre - and into the realm of movie masterpieces.

• The Island Of Dr Moreau | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £39.56   |  Saving you £-23.57 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Though this graphic 1996 version of HG Wells' The Island of Dr Moreau was roasted by critics, it's an utterly fascinating failure, largely due to the performances of David Thewlis, Val Kilmer and especially Marlon Brando in the title role as a mad (and in this case outrageously bizarre) scientist whose experiments in crossbreeding humans with animals have gone terribly awry. Thewlis plays the wayward scholar who is rescued at sea by Kilmer and brought to Moreau's island to discover the doctor's unnatural "children". Fairuza Balk plays Moreau's half-cat daughter, but it's Brando and Kilmer (in one scene doing a killer Brando impersonation) who steal the show, along with the astounding make-up effects created by Stan Winston. A guilty pleasure by any measure, this movie has definite cult-favourite potential. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Francofonia | DVD | (23/01/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.

• Illegal Tender | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £9.12   |  Saving you £3.87 (42.43%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Wilson DeLeon Jr. is an exceptional college student with an adoring girlfriend doting mother and a future full of promise. He has never wanted for anything and he has never been forced to stand his ground. But when ghosts from his mother's past come back to haunt his present he must defend his family ... and quickly turn into the strong man his father prayed he'd become.

• Greetings | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Robert De Niro stars in this his second film for director Brian De Palma. 'Greetings' is a satirical comedy focusing on the lives of three New Yorkers each with his own personal fixation ranging from sex and voyeurism to Kennedy assassination theories. Their common interest is discussing the ways to dodge the draft board. De Palma's originalty captures perfectly the spirit of late sixties America. And De Niro even in this early performance displays all the hallmarks that has e

• Once Upon a Time in America (Limited Edition Steelbook--Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Once Upon a Time in America has a chequered history, having been chopped from its original 229-minute director's cut to 139 minutes for its theatrical release. The longer edition presented here benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in flashback by an ageing Jewish gangster named Noodles (Robert De Niro). On the other hand, it's almost four hours long, and this sometimes-indulgent Sergio Leone film is no Godfather. Still, it is notable for the contrast between Leone's elegiac take on the gangster film and his occasional explosive action, as well as for the mix of the stoic, inexpressive De Niro and the hyperactive James Woods as his lifelong friend and rival. --Marshall Fine

• Stargate S.G - 1: Season 5 (Vol. 23) | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £5.92   |  Saving you £14.07 (70.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stargate SG-1 is the TV spin-off from the 1994 big-screen movie. 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 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. Episodes on this DVD: "Summit", "Last Stand", "48 Hours" and "Proving Ground". In a daring Tok'ra mission, Daniel Jackson is sent to infiltrate and attend a Goa'uld "Summit" disguised as a manservant. With a lot of sneaking around and a little technobabble thrown in to explain how he isn't recognised, things come to a head with the unveiling of who the secret new baddies are and how they affect Daniel personally. In a direct continuation from "Summit", SG-1 make what they hope is a "Last Stand" against the System Lords. Similarly, the Tok'ra stand together on planet Revanna where O'Neill and Teal'c have a crash course in alien technology as they learn how to grow different types of tunnel from crystal. It's been a while since someone made the analogy of the Stargates operating like a telephone exchange. "48 Hours" traps Teal'c within the system, and the team have only two days to find a way to reconnect him. Unfortunately, this requires the aid of the Russians who are more than a little reluctant about giving up their private dialling device. This episode also features terrific cameos from the slithery Maybourne and Simmons (John de Lancie). Inevitably there needs to be a next generation of SG teams, so Jack and co take time out from their missions to train up some newbies. "Proving Ground" is all about who can make the grade, and in particular they have their eyes on the brilliant Jennifer and headstrong Elliot. The tension is really piled on in this show as layers of reality build to confuse the kids and the audience as to what's really happening to them. --Paul Tonks