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• Steamboat Bill Jr | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Steamboat Bill Jr dates from 1928 and is the last great film Buster Keaton made before he gave up his independence and signed for MGM. Buster is the rather fey son of an elderly steamboat owner who is being driven out of business by a wealthy competitor. More by accident than intention Buster turns things around and gets the girl as well. The last 15 minutes are truly astonishing: a storm sequence in which a whole town is blown apart, with Buster experiencing a series of amazing escapes as buildings fall down around his ears. On the DVD: The print is a good one, best seen in the 4:3 ration, with unobtrusive organ music added. As a nautical extra there's The Boat, a 1921 short (the print not in such a good state as the feature), in which in the course of launching his newly built craft Buster manages to wreck his house, tip his car into the river and sink the boat. And that's only the beginning. --Ed Buscombe

• Nightmaster | DVD | (26/09/2002) from £5.44   |  Saving you £0.55 (10.11%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Game Is Just Getting Good! By day Robbie (Tom Jennings) and Amy (Nicole Kidman) are ordinary students. By night they are the top contenders in a highly competitive simulated war game designed to test athletic prowess and intellectual superiority. Robbie remains champion of the dame pushed to the limit of his endurance by his extreme and obsessive martial arts instructor. When Robbie realizes the extent of his instructor's fanaticism the once friendly game has become real li

• Chocky - The Complete Collection | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Chocky: The first series tells the story of young Matthew Gore an intelligent lad who is chosen by a mysterious extra-terrestrial visitor Chocky as a source of information about life on earth. As Matthew's schoolwork and artistic talent improve dramatically his parents become concerned about the strange changes in his behaviour and refer him to a child psychiatrist. But his dubious social connections lead to Matthew's subsequent kidnap as a ruthless businessman tries to ta

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

  2 000 years ago he conquered the world... Now he's back to clean it up. Two thousand years ago: as Alexander the Great was conquering the world he had his highest ranking general Parmenion assassinated. Before Parmenion died he vowed one day he would return and exact his revenge. Present Day: Andrew Garret is a cop with psychic abilities assigned to investigate The Play a barbarous gladiatorial cometition organised by the city's underworld. Garret goes undercover and infiltrates the Play disguised as a fighter calling himself the Gladiator. Parmenion a gambler of the Play baits Andrew to enter the battle dome called the Arena of Death and fight the giant Mongol.

• Boneyard | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Whilst investigating a series of mysterious deaths detectives Jerry Callum and Gordon Mullin with the help of psychic Alley Oates at the county morgue unwittingly reactivate an ancient oriental curse. Joined by a trapped pathologist an orderly and a failed suicide they fight for their lives. Only the lucky don't survive as survival is a fate worse than death!

• Luciano Pavarotti And James Levine In Recital | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Pianist James Levine accompanies tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in 1988. Works includes: Sibella - 'La Girometta' Puccini - 'Sole E Amore' and Mascagni - 'Serenata'.

• The Listening | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (10.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a remote American intelligence outpost the US National Security Agency is implementing spy technology that can turn a phone into a live transmitter enabling the Agency to eavesdrop on anyone anywhere in the world. When classified documents relating to this technology accidentally fall into the hands of a civilian Francesca Savelli (Maya Sansa) she immediately becomes the target of a deadly pursuit as Agent Anthony Ashe (James Parks) is assigned to track her down and eliminate her at all cost before the technology is exposed. Appalled by his Agency's conduct James Wagley (Michael Parks) defects to try and save Francesca and employs a plan to expose the technology in order to save her life and his. With the clock ticking a deadly battle ensues high on the glaciers of Mont Blanc.

• Various: Viennese Night at the | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £12.05   |  Saving you £7.94 (65.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Friends - Series 8 - Episodes 13-16 | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Series 8 of Friends keeps throwing in distractions, but nothing can really get in the way of our interest in Rachel's baby and Joey's newfound infatuation. In "The One Where Chandler Takes a Bath" the notorious stress-head finds a new way of relaxing; but really the focus is on Ross and Rachel arguing over baby names and guessing its sex. The subplot revolves again around Chandler in "The One with the Secret Closet", where he finally thinks to investigate what's next to the bathroom, but again the focus is elsewhere: this time on Joey attending to Rachel's stomach pains and trying to get her out of his head for good. Valentine's Day makes "The One with the Birthing Video" a team effort for Chandler with Monica, but the point of the episode is Joey telling Ross how he feels regardless of the consequences, or how the world's happiest dog makes him feel. All of which means the focus is squarely on "The One Where Joey Tells Rachel", since no one else believes him! --Paul Tonks

• Space Precinct - Vol. 1 And 2 | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Double Duty. A drug war is raging in Demeter City and a professional assassin is taking out the competition. The sole survivor of an attack on drug baron Oturi Nissim is a pretty alien girl Aleesha Amyas who is taken into protective custody. Suddenly the killer is loose in the Space Precinct House and Orrin is its first Victim...Protect And Survive Brogan's informant Slik Ostrasky is murdered by Tylan Gershom a smuggler of illegal Xyronite immigrants and the only witness is slimy Melazoid business executive Armand Loyster. Brogan and Haldane are assigned to offer Loyster protection until he can testify as Gershom's trial. But Gershom plans to ensure that Loyster never reaches the courtroom...Enforcer On Skall Street in Demeter City members of the infamous Hydra Gang are found dead - their hearts shredded but not a single mark in their bodies! Accompanied by an orphaned alien girl a new enforcer has taken over and the Skall Street traders soon discover that the Hydras have been replaced by something far worse. Flash: A new drug HE-11 (also known as 'Flash') has arrived on the street of Demeter causing spontaneous combustion in its users. While Brogan and Haldane visit Interchem the pharmaceutical company which originally developed the drug Orrin and Beezle run into trouble when Interchem's chief chemist Pola Vad Moonacki is kidnapped.

• Sin | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £6.17   |  Saving you £13.82 (223.99%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Never forgive. Never forget. When his sister turns up missing retired homicide detective Eddie Burns (Rhames) finds himself back on the job and hot on the trail of a sadistic monster (Oldman). But as he finds himself being pulled deeper and deeper into the world of pornography and drugs Burns soon discovers that he has a great deal in common with the prey that he is stalking. And as the renegade lawman squares off with evil personified in the ultimate battle one man will be puni

• Steel Frontier | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  All-action tale set in the 21st Century radioactive wastelands where the colony of survivors are rebuilding their lives from the ashes. Joe Lara stars as Yuma a gunslinging anti hero who must strike out alone against the 'United Regime' led by the evil General Quantrell played by Brion James.

• Winston Churchill - The Wilderness Years | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  It's easy to forget that, though fronting the British war effort through most of World War Two, Winston Churchill had spent the previous decade isolated in Parliament and in an internal opposition to the Conservative party. Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years dramatises this period, in which the growing menace of Nazism in Germany was met with indifference, even fear by governments of the day who were more concerned with their survival than in serving those who had elected them. Churchill is perceptively played by Robert Hardy who confirms the image without falling into caricature. Visionary and obstinate by turns, he galvanises his supporters and enrages his enemies with a passion borne of conviction. A seasoned British cast includes Peter Barkworth as the amiable but ineffectual Stanley Baldwin, Eric Porter as the truly "out of time" Neville Chamberlain, Edward Woodward as the scheming Samuel Hoare, and Nigel Havers as the tragically flawed Randolph Churchill. Martin Gilbert has done a persuasive job transforming his novel into a TV script, the scenes in the House of Commons having a gritty reality that makes compulsive viewing. On the DVD: It's a pity that the Southern Pictures production first screened in 1981 has emerged so dimly in this incarnation. Has the master tape eroded so badly, or was it simply not available? However, it's worth putting up with the technical defects to enjoy this historically informed and grippingly dramatic serial. --Richard Whitehouse

• Girl | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Andrea is attractive and intelligent but to the opposite sex she is a no-go area. She is not part of the in-crowd and is quite happy to go to university a virgin. That is until she meets Todd who turns her world upside down. Suddenly sex becomes the only thing on her mind. Starring Dominique Swain proving that her stunning performance in Lolita was not a one off.

• Wanted (2008): Reel Heroes Sleeve | DVD | (16/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based upon Mark Millar's explosive graphic novel series and helmed by stunning visualist director Timur Bekmambetov - creator of the most successful Russian film franchise in history, the Night Watch series - Wanted tells the tale of one apathetic nobody's transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice.25-year-old Wes (James McAvoy) was the most disaffected, cube-dwelling drone the planet had ever known. His boss chewed him out hourly, his girlfriend ignored him routinely and his life plodded on interminably. Everyone was certain this disengaged slacker would amount to nothing. There was little else for Wes to do but wile away the days and die in his slow, clock punching rut. Until he met a woman named Fox (Angelina Jolie).After his estranged father is murdered, the deadly sexy Fox recruits Wes into the Fraternity, a secret society that trains Wes to avenge his dad's death by unlocking his dormant powers. As she teaches him how to develop lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility, Wes discovers this team lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: carry out the death orders given by fate itself.With wickedly brilliant tutors - including the Fraternity's enigmatic leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman) - Wes grows to enjoy all the strength he ever wanted. But, slowly, he begins to realize there is more to his dangerous associates than meets the eye. And as he wavers between newfound heroism and vengeance, Wes will come to learn what no one could ever teach him: he alone controls his destiny.

• Born And Bred - Series 3 - Part 1 | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Features the first half of the third series of the popular television drama in which we follow the post-war fortunes of Arthur Gilder and his family. Episodes comprise: 1.A Very Ormston Christmas 2.A Little Touch Of Harry 3.No Regrets 4.A Small Flourish 5.Thick As Thieves

• Nude For Satan | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In Nude for Satan, director Luigi Batzella deftly combines weirdly stylised horror and out-and-out exploitation (scenes of bondage, torture, unmotivated sex and an orgy are sprinkled throughout) for a film dripping in eerie mood and nightmare imagery. Two strangers who wreck their cars on a rural highway during a storm take refuge in a mansion. A doctor (James Harris), who has left an unconscious woman, Susan (the striking Rita Calderoni), in his car walks in to discover depravities behind every door when Susan suddenly appears, dressed in a flowing gown and acting as if they were old friends. The next morning, Susan wakes up in his car and enters the mansion to find a leering aristocrat, his snaggle-toothed servant, and the doctor dressed as a count and acting like a decadent dilettante. It's as if the two exist in parallel universes, confronted with ghost versions of one another in a portal to the past controlled by a devilish hedonist. The doppelganger story of split psyches doesn't always make sense, and a few clumsily executed scenes are laughably silly (a hoary papier mâché and pipe-cleaner spider is the worst offender), but the handsome production is unexpectedly compelling and unsettling. --Sean Axmaker

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 2 - Part 1 | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  James Bolam stars as the loveable rogue Jack Ford in this classic series set on Tyneside at the end of the first World War. This double DVD contains the first five stories from series two and sees Jack having to contend with trouble from within his union and family as well as with people in his past who are trying to catch up with him. Elected as District Secretary for the Fitter's union Jack makes his brother-in-law Matt his deputy...

• Fists Of Legends 2: Iron Bodyguard | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After facing his death in Shanghai Ching Wu Society member Chen Jan quietly roams China teaching Martial Arts to his fellow patriots. He is contacted by the associates of Dr. Sum who asks him to help bring Dr Sun into China from Hong Kong. The Manchu regime of course has other ideas. As plans are being arranged a Russian fighter asks Chan for a duel to see who is truely the best....

• My Name Is Joe | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  My Name Is Joe: A former alcoholic who is currently out of work keeps himself busy by coaching a football team in Glasgow. When one of his players becomes involved with local gangsters their lives are changed forever... Bread And Roses: Maya and Rosa are Mexican sisters living and working in downtown Los Angeles working for a pittence and in very hostile conditions. When they happen upon a young activist there seems to be hope as he vows to help them both get the justice they deserve.