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• Affliction | DVD | (19/02/2001) from £12.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (54.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is at a turning point in his life. People order him around everywhere he turns from his demanding boss to his ex-wife who won't let him see his daughter to his ageing violent alcoholic father (Academy Award winner James Coburn). For Wade the future looks bleak until his quiet New Hampshire town is shattered by the death of a Boston union official in a deer hunt led by Wade's friend Jack. The incident is written off as an accident but Wade suspects that Jack is guilty of murder. Solving the crime becomes Wade's obsession and his last opportunity to redeem himself in the eyes of the town his ex-wife his father and - most of all - himself. Featuring an impressive star cast Affliction is a tense and compelling psycho-drama from Paul Schrader screenwriter of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and director of American Gigolo.

• Dexter - Season 3 | Blu Ray | (18/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Play.com's favourite serial killer finds a very disturbing ally in Season 3. Dexter's desire to become a family man derails when he starts working with highly respected DA Miguel Prado (Jimmy Smits), a charming and powerful lawyer on the surface, but a dark and deranged would-be murderer underneath.To all around him, blood splatter analyst Dexter Morgan appears to be a perfect gentleman and respected member of the police force but, behind this convincing facade, Dexter harbours a terrifying secret. He is a serial killer.The Emmy-nominated series returns for an all-new season - and this time Dexter's got a new take on taking life. Having faced some of his darkest demons, Dexter's ready to put the past behind him. Now, with family life, a day job catching kills and an uncontrollable urge to do away with the ones that get away, Dexter's got his work cut out for him. And when a high-profile case sides him with powerful Assistant DA Miguel Prado, the pressure might be too great for even our most beloved serial killer.

• Carry On Dick | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £6.38   |  Saving you £3.61 (56.58%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The 18th century, with its frills and bawds, was ideal territory for the Carry On movies: Carry On Dick is one of the few of the series where one notices the quality of the art direction in intervals between terrible old Talbot Rothwell jokes and the creaking of standard farce moments. Captain Fancy (Kenneth Williams) is sent to the remote village of Upper Denture to arrest Big Dick Turpin (Sid James) and makes the mistake of confiding in the local Rector, the Reverend Flasher (who is Big Dick's secret alter-ego). Dick has troubles of his own: his liaison with his housemaid and henchperson Harriet (Barbara Windsor) is perpetually interrupted by his amorous housekeeper Hattie Jacques). Meanwhile, Joan Sims struts around the plot as the proprietor of a touring show of scantily clad young women. This is not one of the best of the series--a certain mean-spiritedness creeps in to the humour as does the self-conscious awareness that 1974 was a date a little late for some of the more sexist jokes--but any film with Kenneth Williams discussing satin coats with his tailor has something going for it. On the DVD: Sadly, the DVD has no frills: it is presented in mono and 4:3 screen ratio.--Roz Kaveney

• Physical Evidence | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £7.52   |  Saving you £2.47 (32.85%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A hard-boiled cop wakes up drenched in blood he remembers nothing but the police find a bloody murder weapon that matches his type. A criminal has been killed and he becomes the prime suspect...

• Stripshow | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Coming soon to a hotel pay channel near you, Stripshow, with its rednecks and top-heavy trailer-trash, is the American softcore equivalent of movies like Bridget Jones's Diary, which are more-or-less targeted at the kind of people who are in them. Tane McClure plays a stripper who acquires a suitcase full of money from an aged punter who expires during a show. She than attempts to track down an ex-lover, who eventually wanders off into the desert to die rather than risk appearing in the sequel. The end. Actually, there's rather a lot of wandering off into the desert in this movie. There's also some--but not much--of the usual faked bonking, but the closest thing to a genuinely erotic scene is the obligatory lipstick-lesbian encounter which takes place in a Native American teepee (although you can't help thinking that, somewhere off-camera, Fox Mulder is being distracted from communing with a shaman), and even that's a pretty truncated episode--after all, Billy-Bob, it just ain't natural. Anyone who'd like to see McClure in a real film may prefer to check out Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas instead. On the DVD: Stripshow has nothing extra on this 4:3 release other than a few cast biogs--not even subtitles, so listening to the dialogue is unfortunately compulsory. --Roger Thomas

• Studio Classic: Fantastic Classics | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Five all time classics from 20th Century Fox. The Fly (Dir. Kurt Neumann 1958): Scientist Andre Delambre becomes obsessed with his latest creation a matter transporter. He has varying degrees of success with it. He eventually decides to use a human subject - himself - with tragic consequences. During the transference his atoms become merged with a fly which was accidentally let into the machine. He winds up with the fly's head and one of it's arms and the fly with Andre's

• The Joe Louis Story | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A biopic of one of the first true greats of boxing in the 20th century this film is interspersed with footage from the real Joe Louis in action. The fact that Louis is treated on equal par with the white characters in the story led to the film being banned in certain parts of southern America when originally released!

• Care Bears To The Rescue - Share Bear Shines The Movie Double DVD Pack | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £8.94   |  Saving you £1.05 (11.74%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Care Bears live in a magical faraway place called Care-a-Lot. Care-a-Lot is part of the Kingdom of Caring and is filled with lots of rainbows and clouds to jump and slide on. It is from this secret place high up in the sky that the Care Bears watch over us and keep us safe using their special individual Belly Badge powers.

• Las Vegas - Season 2 | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £9.94   |  Saving you £25.05 (252.01%)   |  RRP £34.99

  One of television's hottest drama series' Las Vegas is back with all 24 episodes of the thrilling Second Season and the stakes are higher than ever! Rejoin the red-hot surveillance team of the Montecito Resort and Casino as they take on more card-counting crooks uncover secrets from the past solve murders and teach topless employees how to move - all while maintaining security 24-7. It's Sin city action like you've never seen before with guest stars: Sylvester Stal

• Buffy Season 4 | DVD | (18/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In its fourth season, Buffy the Vampire Slayer had to change its formula radically. Two major characters--the vampire-with-a-soul Angel and Cordelia, the queen bitch of Sunnydale High--had gone off to be in their own show, Angel, and soon after the start of the season Willow's werewolf boyfriend Oz left when Seth Green needed to concentrate on his film career. Buffy and Willow started college, where they met new characters like Riley, the All-American Boy with a double life, and Tara, the sweet stuttering witch; but Xander and Giles found themselves at something of a loose end. Several characters were subjected to the radical re-envisioning possible in a show that deals with the supernatural: the blond vampire Spike came back and soon found himself with an inhibitor chip in his head, forced into reluctant alliance with Buffy; the former vengeance demon Anya became passionately smitten with Xander. Not all fans were happy with the central story arc about the sinister Dr Walsh (Lindsay Crouse) and her Frankensteinian creation Adam, though Crouse's performance was memorable. The strength of Season Four was perhaps most in impressive stand-alone episodes like the silent "Hush", the multiple dream sequence "Restless" and the passionate, moving "New Moon Rising", in which Oz returns, apparently cured, only to find that Willow is no longer waiting for him. This was one of the high points of the show as a vehicle for intense acting, perhaps only equalled by "Who Are You?", in which the evil slayer Faith takes over Buffy's body and Sarah Michelle Gellar gets to play bad girl for once. --Roz KaveneyOn the DVD: Buffy Season 4 was a hit and so is this sublime box set. The commentaries for "The Initiative", "This Year'sGirl", "Superstar" and "Primaveral" are all well above average, but are nothing compared to "Hush" and "Restless" where Joss Whedon gives out all the information and insights any fan would dream of. The four featurettes included are a pleasure to watch, especially the evolution of the sets for the show. The scripts, trailers and cast biographies complete the set and make for a decent addition to your Buffy archive. The soundtrack is in 2.0 Dolby surround, but the image is as grainy and dark as the previous seasons on DVD. --Celine Martig

• The Flight Of The Phoenix | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £18.91   |  Saving you £-5.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a gripping tale of courage resourcefulness and determination the consequences of a plane crash strip bare the morals of the survivors. The pilot of the doomed aircraft Frank Towns (James Stewart) is an aviator of the old school used to seat-of-the-pants flying distrustful of new technology. With his navigator Lew Moran (Richard Attenborough) he is piloting a cargo-cum-passenger plane high above the Arabian desert when a powerful sandstorm rises from below. Trusting his instin

• Angel: Series 1 (Standard plastic case packaging) | DVD | (01/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Angel - Season 1 Box Set [Repackaged]

• Quatermass And The Pit | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-22.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  We have met the enemy, and it is us: when a Martian spacecraft with a terrifying link to the origins of humanity is unearthed beneath a London tube station, only the esteemed Professor Bernard Quatermass can save London's suddenly murderous population from itself. One of the most intelligently paranoid science fiction films ever produced, this pessimistic masterpiece functions as a dark flip-side to the relatively optimistic alien-induced evolution theory presented in the later 2001: A Space Odyssey. Nigel Kneale's brilliant script (which posits a surprisingly plausible, otherworldly rationale for the existence of the supernatural) was later appropriated by acknowledged fan John Carpenter for his underrated Prince of Darkness. A must-see for horror and science fiction aficionados. This film is also known as Five Million Years to Earth. --Andrew Wright

• Spider-Man 1 and 2 (Four Disc Box Set) | DVD | (26/11/2004) from £4.90   |  Saving you £25.09 (512.04%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Spider-Man: Go for the ultimate spin! Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is an ordinary guy who lives with his beloved aunt and uncle and quietly pines for the girl next door Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst). But when a genetically-modified 'super-spider' bites him while on a school trip Peter develops unusual skills - fantastic acrobatic strength supernatural awareness and a talent for web-spinning. It's not until tragedy strikes at home that Peter decides to use his new powers to figh

• As I Lay Dying | DVD | (23/06/2014) from £5.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (65.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Adapted from the classic novel by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying is the story that chronicles the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased mother Addie to her hometown for burial. Addie's husband Anse (Tim Blake Nelson) and their children Cash (Jim Parrack) Darl (James Franco) and three of their siblings leave the farm with her coffin - each affected by Addie's death in a profound and different way. Their road trip to Jefferson forty miles away is disrupted by every antagonistic force of nature or man: flooded rivers injury and accident a raging barn fire and not least of all - each individual character's personal turmoil which threaten the fabric of the family more than any outside force.

• Sizzle Beach USA | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £9.97   |  Saving you £-6.98 (-233.40%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Three beautiful young women who meet by chance decide to follow their dreams of stardom to Malibu. As they become more accustomed to the Los Angeles lifestyle they each explore fantasies they never knew existed.

• Frankenhooker | DVD | (14/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The Frankenstein legend gets stitched up by the makers of Basket Case and Brian Damage in this outrageous horror comedy. When his pretty fianc''e goes to pieces under the blades of a runaway lawnmower aspiring mad scientist Jeffrey Franken hatches an unorthodox scheme to bring his beloved back to life. With the help of an explosive super drug Jeffrey reassembles his girlfriend from the body parts of New York prostitutes. But his dream-girl runs amok on 42nd Street turning tricks that literally make people's head's spin. Can Jeffrey still find true love or has he created a monster...?

• Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel | DVD | (08/08/2016) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Capitalising on the huge success of The Scarlet Pimpernel, this Alexander Korda-produced sequel stars Barry K. Barnes as the enigmatic saviour of aristocrats during the Revolutionary Terror. The final film directed by Austrian émigré Hanns Schwartz, The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel also stars James Mason, Sophie Stewart, and Francis Lister as Sir Percy's ruthless arch-enemy, Chauvelin. The film is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. This transfer, however, has intermittent, decades-old film damage so the previously released archive transfer is also included as an alternative viewing experience. Sir Percy alias the Scarlet Pimpernel is being pressured by his wife, Marguerite, to retire from his daring escapades. The French still want the Pimpernel's head, however, and so set a trap for him involving the bold rescue of a Spanish actress and her lover! SPECIAL FEATURES: Image gallery Memorabilia PDFs

• The Lady Says No | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• White Fang | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £11.80   |  Saving you £4.19 (35.51%)   |  RRP £15.99