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• Andromeda - Season 1 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based on an idea by Gene Roddenberry Andromeda confidently wears its debt to Star Trek on its sleeve, recalling the best sci-fi of Roddenberry's heyday. The two-part premiere "Under the Night" and "An Affirming Flame" make for a terrific introduction to the lead character, Captain Dylan Hunt, played by Kevin (ex-Hercules) Sorbo. He's a sympathetically flawed idealist in command of the Andromeda Ascendant, a massive 1.4 km long starship of the now-disbanded Systems Commonwealth. The fall of civilisation has meant that although she ought to be a relic she remains the zenith of technological advancement. In the series opener we see Captain Hunt in battle against 10,000 enemy ships, winning a bout of fisticuffs with a close friend turned enemy traitor, wrestling with the shock of being frozen in time for 300 years and then diplomatically negotiating his way out of a salvage rights battle for his ship. The Andromeda Ascendant's emotionally driven, life-like computer is desired by the Eureka Maru salvage vessel, and feisty Captain Beka Valentine can barely stop her engineer Harper from drooling about tinkering with her. The Maru's shipmates are similarly driven: Rev Bem (from another sworn enemy race) has a spiritual calling, while cutesy-pie Trance Gemini's motivations are part of her winning mysteriousness. One final addition is the show's muscle, Tyr, the enemy with a conscience. But it's Dylan's show all the way, though he's no flawless hero: in "To Loose the Fateful Lightning" he makes a really stupid mistake. On the DVD: the first box set contains the show's first five episodes. From the excellently animated menus there are links to some standard fare: trailers for each of the (uncut) episodes, a Web link, biographies of the seven leading cast and a 16-picture Production Design Gallery of the Andromeda Ascendant. Much more interesting are the mini interviews with Sorbo (nine minutes) and Producer/Writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe (eight minutes), an archive of deleted scenes and audio comments by Sorbo per episode. Picture is standard TV format 4.3 and sound is plain stereo. --Paul Tonks

• Grim Weekend | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £12.96   |  Saving you £0.03 (0.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shy and retiring young executive Brandon Walker invites a select group of friends for a quiet weekend in the country. Denise a hitchhiker joins them and soon fills them with a sense of dread with her fireside tales of true revenge killing sprees. Nightmare tales can come true...

• Running | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £13.81   |  Saving you £-11.82 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Mike Andropolis is a failure law school drop-out and jack-of-all-trades about to lose his house and family. In desperation he decides to train for the Olympic Marathon in a last ditch attempt at winning back his family and his self-respect...

• Ring Of Steel | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £12.11   |  Saving you £-3.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It only takes one fatal flash of a broken blade to trap a young man in the arena of death where victory is bought with blood and the greatest reward will be living to fight another day... Unknown to Alex Freyer after accidentally killing his opponent in a fencing match his every move is being watched by a man with deadly ambitions. A man who presides over The Ring Of Steel an underground 'club' where the rich and powerful bet for the highest stakes: other men's lives...

• Black Samurai | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £2.68   |  Saving you £-0.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Jim Kelly, the star of Black Samurai, was a multi-talented martial artist perhaps best remembered for his role in Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon. Black Samurai is essentially a vehicle for his fighting skills in which he plays a secret agent out to retrieve his Japanese sweetheart from the drug-dealing Satanist who has abducted her to blackmail her father. His investigative skills are almost non-existent--much of the plot consists of his arriving at the villains' houses and hitting people. At the same time, the character's utter ruthlessness and the extravagant evil of the villains, the chief of whom, Jannicot, is in the habit of sicking a vulture on his enemies, are entertaining enough and the 1970s styling unselfconsciously entertaining. The director, Al Adamson, was mostly famous for his horror films, and there is a Gothic extravagance to the sets and gimmicks here: Kelly's jet-pack sequence has to be seen to be believed. On the DVD: The DVD comes with a wonderful period trailer for The Green Hornet, the usual chapter selection, biographies of Kelly and Adamson (who was murdered in 1995) and a feature which enables you to look at the fight scenes in isolation. --Roz Kaveney

• Ernest In The Army | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This movie finds Ernest as a ball retriever at a driving range with aspirations of driving army trucks like real army people. His buddy assures him that if he joins the reserves he can party every weekend while driving the big green trucks. So Ernest joins up. But coincidentally his unit suddenly gets called up and sent to the Persian Gulf as peace keepers monitoring a border dispute. The border dispute goes rapidly out of control and Ernest winds up on the front lines. The fate of

• 3 Ninjas - High Noon At Mega Mountain / Kick Back / Knuckle Up | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  3 Ninjas High Noon At Mega Mountain: When dastardly villains Medusa and Lothar Zogg and their evil cohorts invade a family fun park and take its summer visitors hostage it's up to the three ninjas to save the day with a little help from an aging action movie hero who needs to pull off the rescue to regain his street credibility. 3 Ninjas Kickback: Colt Rocky and Tum Tum are back in another action-packed story where they travel with their grandfather to Japan in search of a secret cave of gold closely followed by a band of heavy metal rockers. 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up: Rocky Colt and Tum Tum find themselves in action again as they get drawn into a struggle between an American Indian tribe and a ruthless businessman who is dumping toxic waste on their land.

• The Comedians: Volume 5 | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £11.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Comedians: Volume 5

• Slapstick Of Another Kind | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £8.54   |  Saving you £-2.55 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Wilbur and Eliza Swain are the incredibly wealthy parents of giant ugly twins. Unbeknown to them the twins are in fact super intelligent aliens sent to help save the Earth. Just one hitch: their super powers only work when they are together. So when they find themselves being pursued by U.S agents they have a huge mission on their hands.

• Stuart Little / Stuart Little 2 | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £31.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Stuart Little: Join the fun when the Little family adopts an adorably spunky boy named Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox) who looks a lot like a mouse. Mr. and Mrs. Little (Hugh Laurie and Geena Davis) fall in love with Stuart right away but their older son George (Jonathan Lipnicki) isn't so sure what to make of his new brother and the family's white cat Snowbell (voiced by Nathan Lane) devises a dastardly plan to get Stuart out of the house...permanently. Stuart Little 2: Stuart rescues an injured bird Margalo from the clutches of a menacing falcon. Margalo heals quickly under the care of the Littles and soon becomes a treasured member of the family but their joy is shattered when Margalo disappears. Stuart must summon all his courage to find her as he learns the true value of trust family and friendship in this heart warming adventure for the entire family.

• Eyes Of Crystal | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  While hunting a cultured intelligent and vicious psychopath Inspector Amaldi comes face-to-face with the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his own past. A psychological-thriller in the classic 'Giallo' mould...

• Latter Days | DVD | (09/10/2008) from £13.56   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Vigo - Passion For Life | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Julien Temple directs this modern and personal take on an extraordinary story. Vigo is a tragic but inspiring film about the passionate relationship between French film-maker Jean Vigo and his beautiful wife Lydu. The film is interspersed with extracts of Vigo's work.

• Tender Loving Care | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Overtons were a blissfully happy couple until tragedy struck and their little daughter was killed in a car crash. The mother fails to cope with the loss still believing that her little daughter is alive. A nurse is hired by her husband for her mental healing but Kathleen Randolph has more in mind than just to heal Allison...

• The Last Horror Movie | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £11.24   |  Saving you £4.75 (42.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ""I'm trying to make an intelligent film about murder whilst actually doing the murders...."" Julian Richards' independent slasher horror film is a disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry a mild-mannered wedding photographer with a rapacious hunger for human flesh...

• Mr. Magoo (Volume 1) | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £15.95   |  Saving you £-9.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mr. Quincy Magoo is a cartoon character created by John Hubley in 1949 for UPA. Hubley based the character on his former professor Francis Peabody Magoun who bore some physical resemblance to the character. Voiced by Jim Backus (also famed in popular culture for his role as Thurston Howell III in the 1960s sitcom ""Gilligan's Island"") Quincy Magoo is a wealthy short-statured retiree who gets into a series of sticky situations as a result of his nearsightedness compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem in which the affected people (or animals) think that he is a lunatic rather than just being near-sighted. He is notable as one of the few cartoon characters to be an alumnus of a real-life university Rutgers University in New Brunswick New Jersey. Include the following episodes: Magoo's Last Stand Short Order Magoo Lost Vegas Cupid Magoo Cuckoo Magoo

• Delivery Boys | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £11.95   |  Saving you £-7.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A gang of boys under the Brooklyn Bridge are united by their common interest in break dancing. Some work as pizza delivery boys hence they call themselves the ""Delivery Boys"". They form a dance team and enter a local break dance contest sponsored by a woman's panty manufacturer. A rival gang's sponsor intimidates their employer into thinking she must keep the boys working so they won't be harmed. She gives the boys some ""specialized"" deliveries to make them late for the contest. The

• Silver Dragon Ninja | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £6.55   |  Saving you £6.44 (49.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Roger Kimsky's ruthless Black Ninja empire an international arms dealing organisation comes under attack from mysterious do-gooder known only as the Silver Dragon...

• Street Fight | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Street Fight chronicles the bare-knuckles race for Mayor of Newark N.J. between Cory Booker a 32-year-old Yale Law School graduate and Sharpe James the four-term incumbent and undisputed champion of New Jersey politics. Fought in Newark's neighbourhoods and housing projects the battle pits Booker against an a political machine that will use any means necessary to crush its opponents: city workers who do not support the mayor are demoted; disloyal businesses are targeted; a campaigner is detained and accused of terrorism; and disks of voter personal data are stolen during the night.Even the filmmaker is dragged into the fray and by election day the climate has become so heated that the national government is forced to send in observers to watch for election fraud and even violence and intimidation. Street Fight is set in the underbelly of democracy where elections are not won with spin-doctors or media consultants let alone policies are won on the streets.

• Vengeance Valley | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99