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• Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £23.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Buster Crabbe stars as Flash Gordon in this classic 1930s serial presented for the first time on DVD. Humanity is doomed to destruction! A distant planet has broken its orbit and is headed straight toward the Earth. While Dr. Hans Zarkov works feverishly to finish a rocket ship of his own design internationally renowned polo player and Yale graduate Flash Gordon is a passenger on a small plane where he meets fellow passenger Dale Arden. When a meteor storm destroys their aircraft

• Annie / Pollyanna / Return To Oz | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Annie (Dir. Rob Marshall 1999): As seen on The Wonderful World of Disney this new production of the classic musical features an all-star cast belting out the beloved songs. Original Broadway Annie Andrea McArdle makes and appearance too! Fun for the whole family. Pollyanna (Dir. David Swift 1960): The heartwarming story of a young girl who brings goodwill and happiness to the residents of a New England town. Hayley Mills won an honorary Academy Award for her performance. Return To Oz (Dir. Walter Murch 1985): In 1899 Dorothy Gale returns to the land of Oz only to find the enchanting Emerald City in ruins and all her old friends have been captured by the Nome King and the evil Princess Mombi...

• Frankie | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (60.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fabienne Berthaud's psychodrama Frankie probes the events that led to emotional crisis mental breakdown and psychiatric hospitization for a fashion model. Nearing the age of 30 the titular ex cover girl (Diane Kruger) is neither particularly young nor thin. She instead resides in an asylum in Blois France drugged out and in a semi catatonic state. In flashback Berthaud dramatizes the events that led to this predicament. Once active before the cameras and highly sought after by agents frankie experienced a series of minor calamaties including an on set fight with a fashion photographer and the experience of accidentally hearing agents make disparaging remarks about her appearance that collectively propelled her over the edge. Amid this world of grotesque artifice the one bright spot seemed to be her ever evolving friendship with the kindly driver of the modeling agency. For now Frankie contents herself with institutional life and resists the thought of leaving and returning to the scabrousness of the real world...

• UFO - Vol. 2 - Episodes 5-7 | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  UFO was Gerry Anderson's first live-action TV series after a decade of producing such children's animated classics as Stingray (1963) and Thunderbirds (1964). The premise of UFO, which ran for a single season of 26 episodes, was like a more serious version of Anderson's Captain Scarlet (1967)--in the near future of 1980 a hi-tech secret organisation, SHADO, waged covert war against mysterious alien attackers. Ed Bishop played the American head of SHADO--he had had previously featured in Captain Scarlet and Anderson's Doppelganger (1969)--though in all other respects this was a thoroughly British production. As with all Anderson series UFO evidenced remarkable technological inventiveness and groundbreaking production values, coupled with startling lapses in fundamental logic too numerous to list. Much more adult in story and content than earlier Anderson productions, and surprisingly dark with its pragmatic view of human nature and downbeat endings, the show now seems like a forerunner of The X Files and the equally short-lived Dark Skies (1996). Barry Gray's memorable theme and atmospheric music greatly enhanced the overall impact. Stylishly made, though terribly sexist by current standards and featuring eye-catching costumes more fitted for a camp fancy dress party than the front line of a futuristic war, this cult classic eventually evolved into Space 1999 (1975). On the DVD: from the animated menus onwards these DVDs have been beautifully designed and produced. The mono sound is exceptionally strong and the restored and remastered picture is almost unbelievably good for a 1970 TV show. With barely a flaw anywhere the episodes look so clear, colourful and detailed that they could have been filmed last week. --Gary S Dalkin

• Ultimate Lie | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• The Pheonix and the Carpet | DVD | (02/02/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99