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• Frankenthumb | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A half-hour parody, Frankenthumb is one of a series of featurette pastiches of famous movies masterminded by Steve Oederkerk (Kung Pow: Enter the Fist) cast with human thumbs with CGI-inset mouths and eyes, a process that is weirder than it is funny. A précis of the 1931 Frankenstein, shot on impressive (and beautifully-lit) miniature sets, the film tells the old, old story: megalomaniac Dr Frankenthumb and his inept assistant Humpy create life in the laboratory, unleashing a monster named Pepper ("because he's brought spice into our lives") who goes on a rampage, menaces the daughter of a somewhat irritating Italian man, and is pursued by a mob into a burning windmill, whereupon a guest star from an earlier mini-epic (Bat Thumb) turns up to deliver some sort of an ending. One or two good jokes pop up, but probably not enough. On the DVD: Frankenthumb on disc is a very nice package, containing storyboards, manufactured outtakes and cast interviews, trailers for this and the rest of the series (Thumb Wars, The Blair Thumb, Thumbtanic, Bat Thumb, The Godthumb) and a mass commentary track by the entire creative team that makes a cheerful accompaniment. --Kim Newman

• Last Of The Mohicans, The / Daniel Boone | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  James Fenimore Cooper's classic tale of the English Indian scout Hawkeye and his Mohican friends during the French and Indian War remains a favourite adventure.

• Notting Hill | DVD | (15/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) is the world's most famous movie star. Her picture has been plastered on the cover of every magazine, and every time she makes a move, the entire world knows about it.

• Gasaraki (Vol.6): Fires of War | DVD | (19/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As Yushiro and Miharu seek to escape the seeds sown by Symbol and Gowa begin to reap their bitter fruit. Like dominoes toppling over one by one the barriers holding back the fires of war begin to crumble and the future of Japan hangs in the balance. Now only the actions of a few human pawns can tip the scales away from the edge of the abyss...

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

  Set in the near future the film focuses on Arnold Mosk (Neil Patrick Morris) a high school student caught abusing drugs. Consequently he's enrolled in a controversial isolation programme nicknamed 'The Animal Room'. The 'Room' is a no holds barred arena designed to hold the most troubled youth and Arnold's life soon comes under threat. He is terrorised by the 'Room's gang leader Doug Van Housen (Matthew Lillard) a reckless delinquent with little care for life or society. However when Arnold's childhhod friend Gary a popular school athlete tries to save him they all get caught up in a cycle of violence leading to a near-apocalyptic conclusion.

• Seize The Day | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Elaan | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Terror has a new name - Baba Sikander for he rules by fear. Just a call from his phone can sound your death knell. He recognises no geographical boundaries in his reign he respects no international laws for he makes his own. Obey him and he may let you live. One man Kantilal Shah refuses to yeild to his demands and pays the terrible price. One man Karan Shah his son will defy the improbable odds and make an impossible vow he will capture the mighty Baba Sikander and drag him back to India alive. This is Elaan. Assisting him in his mission are Arjun - an ex-cop Abhimanyu - a petty criminal Sonia - a club dancer and Priya - a TV reporter. Together they are a team of five unlikely heroes. Together they make Elaan.

• The Business/Be Cool/The Transporter | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Business (Dir. Nick Love 2005): The director and cast of The Football Factory relocate to Spain's Costa Del Crime for this swaggering gangster film a savagely funny tale of suntanned playboys blokey camaraderie and violence that's as casual as the natty 1980s fashion. With an acute eye for the cultural details of the 80s; from clothing to drugs and tacky Spanish clubs boasting a superb soundtrack and a nailbiting climax The Business is a tasty knuckle sandwich! The Transporter (Dir. Louis Leterrier 2002): Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean hiring himself out as a mercenary ""transporter"" who moves goods - human or otherwise - from one place to another. No questions asked. Carrying out mysterious and sometimes dangerous tasks in his tricked-out BMW Martin finds his latest assignment could well be his last after his package is revealed to be a beautiful woman (Shu Qi) at the centre of a human trafficking ring... Produced by Luc Besson this insanely entertaining action flick features a pumped-up Jason Statham commanding in the lead role (see him deflect an anti-personnel missile using nothing more than a tray!) with sultry Taiwanese beauty Shu Qi holding her own in Corey Yuen's extravagantly choreographed action sequences. Be Cool (Dir. F. Gary Gray 2005): Disenchanted with the movie industry Chili Palmer (Travolta) decides to try his hand in the music industry he romances the sultry widow (Thurman) of a recently whacked music exec poaches a hot young singer (Christina Milian) from a rival label and discovers that the record industry is packin' a whole lot more than a tune!

• Academy Award Winning Shorts | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Experience an amazing collection of Academy Award winning and nominated features all in one box! The celebrated Cinema Collection includes 56 short movies starring some of Hollywood's finest acting talent! Films comprise: 1. Texan 2. The Investigator 3. Teach 109 4. Another Round 5. Hogg's Heaven 6. Museum Of Love 7. Once In A Blue Moon 8. Hearts Of Stone 9. Lieberman In Love 10. The Witness 11. Birch St. Gym 12. The Price Of Life 13. The Gift 14. Grandpa's Funeral 15. Two Ov

• Drive-In Massacre (Beyond Terror) | DVD | (15/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Unfortunately for the residents of Aurora - Illonois the Drive-in is about to become the site of some of the most gruesome murders America has ever seen. This time however they're not happening on screen but in the car park itself where necking teenagers soon find themselves at the risk of losing their heads to a murderous psychotic whose chosen murder weapon - an oriental sword - has the police stumped and its victims left with... stumps!

• Maggie And The Ferocious Beast - The Jelly Bean Express | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Maggie And The Ferocious Beast: The Jelly Bean Express

• Blackmail/Easy Virtue | DVD | (24/07/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Land Of The Dead | UMD | (26/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The zombies are back and they're still hungry in this horror from maestro George A. Romero.

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 4 | DVD | (29/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series was the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras.Volume 4 cherry-picks four of the show's more diverse episodes. In "Mr Dingle the Strong" (episode 55) alien visitors experiment on a hapless human, but instead of sinister X Files horror, Serling plays it for laughs. Despite the sparkling presence of Burgess Meredith (the closest the series came to a regular star), this one-joke plot demonstrates why the Zone only rarely ventured into comedy. "Two" (episode 66) pits a characteristically taciturn Charles Bronson against an even more stoical Elizabeth Montgomery, two soldiers from opposing sides who must rediscover themselves as the last man and woman and play Adam and Eve in a post-holocaust world. "A Passage for Trumpet" (episode 32) casts Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple, Quincy) as a downtrodden trumpeter who, in a jazz rewrite of It's a Wonderful Life, learns to value life. Nice. Finally, "The Four of Us are Dying" (episode 13) employs four different actors to play the same character, a "cheap little con-man" whose ability to change his features at will doesn't prevent his deserved comeuppance (more jazz here, this time in a wonderfully jagged underscore from Jerry Goldsmith).On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. --Mark Walker

• Trinity Goes East | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Respected 'Gweilo' veteran Steve Tartalia stars as Trinity a loner obsessed with safely transporting his beloved piglet who constantly finds all his Kung Fu skills called upon...

• Stag | DVD | (26/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ever felt the chill wind of déjà vu? You will with Stag, as its entire premise follows that of director Peter Berg's none-more-black comedy Very Bad Things to the letter--except that Stag actually came first. While Very Bad Things starred Cameron Diaz and Christian Slater and therefore got a cinema release, Stag stars (oh dear) Mario Van Peebles, ex-Brat Pack star Andrew McCarthy and Taylor Dayne, and therefore didn't grace the silver screen. Van Peebles plays Michael, the loyal best friend and housemate of Victor (John Stockwell) who is poised to leave the buddy fold for marriage and domesticity. So, being a pal, Michael organises a surprise stag party for Victor, and invites along a host of their old crowd--including, regrettably, drug dealer and racketeer Pete (McCarthy), and the obligatory pair of strippers, Serena and Kelly (Dayne and Jenny McShane). Of course, things swiftly turn rowdy, Kelly falls to her wholly accidental death, and the boys have to cover up the death fast. Having established this nightmarish scenario, Stag veers away from the Gap-ad Grand Guignol of Very Bad Things and instead attempts to juggle suspense, melodrama, and a fairly ponderous examination of modern-male morality. The results aren't particularly edifying, but they do display a certain conviction, even if it's never satisfactorily explained why Van Peebles spends the entire film without eyebrows. Them's the breaks. --Danny Leigh

• John Mayer - Where the Light Is | Blu Ray | (14/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Digipak. Blu-Ray. Where The Light Is! This is John Mayer Live in Los Angeles. A film by Danny Clinch. This DVD captures the multi-Grammy Award winning, platinum selling singer and songwriter in the element where fans love him the most - Live on stage! The special concert includes three sets: an acoustic performance, a rare set with John Mayer Trio (with Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino), as well as a set featuring Mayer's full band, all recorded during the night of December 8, 2007 at the No.

• Devil Bat, The / The Corpse Vanishes | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £10.49   |  Saving you £6.50 (61.96%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In the Forties the studios of Hollywood's Poverty Row used Bela Lugosi to lure audience into theatres. The dark promise of Lugosi's name never ceased to pack them in.Lugosi made nine pictures for Sam Katzman and Monogram. The Corpse Vanishes (1942) might be the best. Bela's a scientist (aided by a sinister dwarf) who used the bodily fluids of virgin brides in his attempts to keep his ancient wife alive. This is just one of many many films Wallace Fox directed for Monogra

• The Great Escape | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The all time classic tale of a massive escape from a World War Two German Prisoner of War camp released as a two disc DVD set with a host of extra features.

• John Wayne Box Set Volume 4 | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two classic John Wayne movies a documentary and a rare TV appearance all in one box set! Including McLintock Angel & the Badman and the documentary the American West of John Ford. This documentary features John Wayne and James Stewart amongst other great western actors as the career of John Ford is examined. Ford was one of the most durable and creative directors of the American cinema with some 50 years of high quality work to his credit all of it stamped with his unmistakeable signature. To complete this package - the fourth in a series from Delta - is John Wayne's appearance in the TV sit com The Lucy Show alongside Lucille Ball. Angel And The Badman: Gunslinger Quirt Evans is injured and found by Penelope Wirth and her father Thomas a Quaker family with values and a way of living in contrast to Quirt Evans'. Quirt and Penelope are drawn to each other although Quirt has no intention of embracing the Quaker lifestyle. He does however intervene to conivince a rancher to restore their water supply even if the family would not have approved of his methods... Evans' rival Laredo Stevens is unimpressed with the new peaceful Quirt Evans whilst local Marshall Wistful McClintock stokes up trouble between the two men certain he'll get one or the other (the survivor) brought to justice in the end... Widely regarded as one of the most romantic of all John Wayne's films this marked his first production credit. (Dir. James Edward Grant 1947) McLintock: George McLintock has to try and convince his wife that he has been faithful after a two year seperation with their fights the talk of the town. Matters are not helped by the extremely attractive cook Mrs Louise Warren he has hired at the ranch house... The film achieved a certain notoriety for the 'spanking' scene widely regarded as a cinematic first. (Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen 1963)