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• Armageddon | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This 1998 testosterone-saturated blow-'em-up from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay (The Rock, Bad Boys) continued Hollywood's millennium-fuelled fascination with the destruction of our planet. There's no arguing that the successful duo understand what mainstream audiences want in their blockbuster movies--loads of loud, eye-popping special effects, rapid-fire pacing, and patriotic flag waving. Bay's protagonists--the eight crude, lewd, oversexed (but, of course, lovable) oil drillers summoned to save the world from a Texas-sized meteor hurling toward the earth--are not flawless heroes, but common men with whom all can relate. In this huge Western-in-space soap opera, they're American cowboys turned astronauts. Sci-fi buffs will appreciate Bay's fetishising of technology, even though it's apparent he doesn't understand it as anything more than flashing lights and shiny gadgets. Smartly, the duo also try to lure the art-house crowd, raiding the local indie acting stable to populate the film with guys like Steve Buscemi, Billy Bob Thornton, Owen Wilson, and Michael Duncan, all adding needed touches of humour and charisma. When Bay applies his sledgehammer aesthetics to the action portions of the film, it's mindless fun; it's only when Armageddon tackles humanity that it becomes truly offensive. Not since Mississippi Burning have racial and cultural stereotypes been substituted for characters so blatantly--African Americans, Japanese, Chinese, Scottish, Samoans, Muslims, French ... if it's not white and American, Bay simplifies it. Or, make that white male America; the film features only three notable female characters--four if you count the meteor, who's constantly referred to as a "bitch that needs drillin'". Sadly, she's a hell of a lot more developed and unpredictable than all the other women characters combined. Sure, Bay's film creates some tension and contains some visceral moments, but if he can't create any redeemable characters outside of those in space, what's the point of saving the planet? --Dave McCoy

• Kingdom Hospital - Complete | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Kingdom Hospital is horror novelist Stephen King’s adaptation of Danish director Lars Von Trier’s cult mini-series The Kingdom, geared very much for an American audience. The story unfolds across 15 hours, telling the story of a hospital in Maine that’s been built on the site of a 19th Century mill fire that killed most of its young occupants--themes that King fans will be familiar with. In the present day, Kingdom Hospital is haunted by the ghost of ten-year-old child labourer Mary and, even more bizarrely, a fearsome giant anteater-like creature called Antubis. It falls to the ace doctor Hook (Andrew McCarthy), the paraplegic artist Jack Coleman (Peter Rickman) and the hypochondriac psychic Sally Druse (Diane Ladd) to enlist the help of a surreal assortment of hospital staff and patients to help Mary and save Kingdom Hospital itself from certain doom. Fans of Stephen King will probably enjoy the blend of black comedy, spectral horror and general weirdness, which owes a big debt to previous television series like Twin Peaks and even ER. But too often, Kingdom Hospital seems to be trying too hard to make itself into a cult series, something which King is just not a subtle enough writer to carry off. But Kingdom Hospital looks good, especially the CGI Antubis, who steals every scene in which he appears. Generally, though, the series is more of an entertaining experiment than a cult-in-the-making. --Ted Kord

• Mansfield Park | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This is the story of Fanny Price, who emerges from this comedic maze of manners having discovered the rightness of of true love.

• The Reflecting Skin | DVD | (14/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A brand new fully restored print of Philip Ridley's cult classic. As mysterious deaths plague a small prairie town, young Seth (Jeremy Cooper) comes to believe that the pale, reclusive widow living next door (Lindsay Duncan, Birdman) is a vampire. Seth's worst nightmare comes true when his older brother Cameron (Viggo Mortensen, The Lord Of The Rings) returns home from abroad and falls in love with the widow - will he be next? But the truth behind the murders is much more shocking than Seth could ever imagine.

• Harlequin | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  An enigmatic stranger with uncanny magical prowess and miraculous psychic abilities mysteriously comes to 'visit' a powerful politician and quickly gains a spell-binding hold over the senator and his family... Magic Murder Mystery.... Nothing is as it appears to be....

• Air Bud: World Pup | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £6.08   |  Saving you £8.91 (146.55%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Disney is proud to present the second heartwarming and hilarious sequel to the popular family favorite Air Bud! Buddy masters two new starring roles... soccer player and father. 'Air Bud: World Pup' is loaded with laughs and cool soccer action as Buddy teams up alongside U.S. women's soccer greats Brandi Chastain Briana Scurry and Tisha Venturini meanwhile keeping a protective eye over his adorable new family of soccer-playing puppies!

• Surgical Spirit - The Complete Series | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £22.33   |  Saving you £37.66 (168.65%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Sheila Sabatini is the senior surgeon at the Gillies Hospital. With a sharp tongue and considerable wit her collegaues hide behind their surgical masks in fear of volatile outburst. Follow all the trials and tribulations down at the Gillies Hospital in series one of Surgical Spirit.

• Frank Miller's Sin City | Blu Ray | (01/02/2021) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An amazing cast of big-screen favourites is directed by Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn), Frank Miller and special guest director Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill 1 and 2, Pulp Fiction) in an acclaimed and visually stunning hit that's the coolest movie of the year! Straight from the pages of Miller's hip series of Sin City graphic novels, Bruce Willis stars as a cop with a bum ticker and a vow to protect a sexy stripper (Jessica Alba Fantastic Four); Mickey Rourke (Man On Fire) as an outcast misanthrope on a mission to avenge the death of his one true love. (Jaime King Pearl Harbor); and Clive Owen (King Arthur) as Dwight, the clandestine love of Shellie (Brittany Murphy Little Black Book), who spends his night defending Gail (Rosario Dawson The Devil's Rejects) and her Old Town girls (Devon Aoki and Alexis Bledel) from a tough guy (Benicio Del Toro 21 Grams) with a penchant for violence. Also starring Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl, Michael Madsen, Carla Gugino and Michael Clarke Duncan.

• Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror | DVD | (27/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Charlie Brooker, the writer of E4's Dead Set, returns with a suspenseful, satirical three-part mini-series that taps into collective unease about our modern world.The National Anthem - the least sci-fi, in that it's set very much in the present day. Inspired by news events that get whipped up in the social networks and Twitter, and everything feels like it's rattling slightly out of control...15 Million Merits - (co-written with Konnie Huq) is set in a dystopian, sarcastic version of the future, in which everyone is compelled to live a life of physical drudgery, and the only real means of escape is by entering a kind of talent show, of a type which may seem familiar to visitors.In Memoria (written by Jesse Armstrong). You know when you have an argument, and everyone's fantasised about being able to rewind and go, 'Here's what you said earlier,' or 'Look how you embarrassed me' or what have you? Well, this is set in a world where everybody has got the ability to do that - you've got the equivalent of Sky+ for your head, so that you can rewind and replay your visual feed.

• Bad Girls - Series One | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £24.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (60.02%)   |  RRP £39.99

  If the concept of a TV drama set in a woman's prison was one potentially fraught with cliché, the critical and commercial success of Bad Girls is a testament to fine writing, performance and production. With no preamble or scene setting, Series 1 immediately plunges the viewer into the world of Larkhall Prison, its inmates and staff. This approach leaves the characters to reveal themselves at varying pace, with each episode bringing new details about their life on the outside. Given the nature of the setting, it is unsurprising that the show is an ensemble, female-dominated piece. Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones and Debra Stephenson are all excellent in the three key roles, with impressive support throughout the cast. Male characters are generally relegated to the sidelines, with the exception of sleazy warden Jim Fenner (played with skin crawling accuracy by Jack Ellis). The sexual realities of the environment are handled realistically and sensitively, and not for nothing is the word "uncut" splashed across the cover: there are some quite disturbing scenes, especially in the earlier episodes. On the DVD: The DVD enhances the show's attempts to capture the atmosphere of prison, with sharp contrast between light and darkness and the constant barracking, cat-calling and snide asides sounding crisp, clear and suitably nasty. Of the impressive 70 minutes of extra features much will only be of real interest to absolute devotees. A documentary examining work on the forthcoming third series may go into admirable detail, but how much interest a costume truck can actually be is perhaps debatable. The footage itself is a little unpolished, but does provide the cast members with an opportunity to reveal themselves, as does the extensive interview section. Not only do the main actors give valuable insights into their characters, but it is also interesting to see how the process has influenced their opinions on the prison system. A feature on a book signing in London certainly puts the show into an audience context, but the collection of outtakes (presented in a, supposedly intentionally, amateurish and tacky manner by Lahbib) is at best superfluous. There is more than a hint of trying to find material to fill the space, but overall this is an impressive effort. --Phil Udell

• Star Trek Voyager: The Complete Collection | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-5.08 (N/A%)   |  RRP £54.91

  The much anticipated release of the first season of Star Trek: Voyager saw the franchise boldly do what it does best and provide fans with fantastically scripted, highly entertaining science-fiction. Star Trek: Voyager made sci-fi history when it became the first Star Trek series to feature a female Captain.

• See Spot Run | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £2.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (367.89%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A mailman adopts a dog that, unbeknown to him, is an FBI drug-sniffing dog who has escaped from the witness relocatio programme. Mayhem ensues when a hit man is sent to destroy the dog.

• Star Trek Voyager - Season 5 (Slimline Edition) | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £19.98   |  Saving you £17.00 (94.50%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The much anticipated release of the fifth season of Star Trek Voyager see the franchise boldly do what it does best and provide fans with fantastically scripted highly entertaining science-fiction. Star Trek: Voyager made sci-fi history when it became the first Star Trek series to feature a female Captain.

• Eight Below | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £4.50   |  Saving you £11.49 (255.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Brutal cold forces two Antarctic explorers to leave their team of sled dogs behind as they fend for their survival.

• Swan Princess 1, 2 And 3 Plus Sing Along | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A fabulous collection of animated movies for all the family comprising Swan Princess Swan Princess 2: Escape From Castle Mountain Swan Princess 3 and Swan Princess Singalong!

• Kidnapped | DVD | (28/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Cheated out of his rightful inheritance after being kidnapped young David Balfour joins forces with daring adventurer Alan Breck Stewart and together they flee across the Highlands to evade the King's redcoat forces...

• Kim Possible: A Stitch In Time | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £9.95   |  Saving you £5.03 (72.27%)   |  RRP £11.99

  When Shego and her evil henchmen capture the all-powerful Time Monkey and start monkeying around with time a visitor from the future Rufus 3000 (a buffed up talking descendent of everyone's favourite naked mole rat) alerts Kim to the plan. Kim along with her faithful sidekick Ron Stoppable and Rufus must triumph in the present and the past or the future will be history!

• The Finder - The Complete Series (4 disc set) | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £15.95   |  Saving you £14.04 (88.03%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From the creator of the hit series BONES comes the spin off series THE FINDER, a quirky new show centering on a remarkable man with an eccentric personality and a unique gift to help others recover what they have lost. Iraq war veteran Walter Sherman (Geoff Stults) gained a reputation in his army days as being the go-to-guy for tracking down insurgents and deserters and finding improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Unfortunately one IED found Walter before he could find it, resulting in severe brain damage with a lasting and unexpected effect. Walter's brother-in arms Leo Knox (Michael Clarke Duncan) is a philosopher as well as Walter's legal adviser and keeps a close eye on unruly teenager Willa Monday (Maddie Hasson). Walter has an on-again off-again relationship with Deputy U.S Marshal Isabel Zambada (Mercedes Mason), a beautiful and focused cop-on-the rise who is using her career in law enforcement to climb to the top of the heap in life. Thanks to the help and guidance of Leo, as well as a patchwork of indebted connections, he ultimately finds meaning in his own life by finding someone or something other people have lost.

• Planet Of The Apes | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £5.19   |  Saving you £7.80 (150.29%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Director Tim Burton's eagerly awaited new take on the story of an astronaut (Mark Wahlberg) who crashlands on a strange planet, only to find a civilisation where Apes are the dominant species!

• Dinnerladies: The Complete Collection - Series 1 & 2 | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £29.55   |  Saving you £0.44 (1.49%)   |  RRP £29.99