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• Mutant X, Series 1 Vol. 2 | DVD | (26/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mutant X takes the useful SF trope of the mutant minority persecuted by the state and adds potentially interesting spins on which it rarely delivers. After a couple of pilot episodes that pushed into OTT visual stylishness, the show has settled into mildly repetitive though watchable blandness: for the most part it avoids story arcs and a large cast of regulars in favour of plugging its characters into the stock plots of television SF, such as doubles, vengeance crusades and untrustworthy lovers. On the DVD: Mutant X Series 1, Volume 2 contains the following episodes: "The Meaning of Death". A plague that kills mutants forces Adam to work with Mason Eckhart and the invulnerable mercenary Marlowe in the knowledge that any cure he comes up with will lead to a double-cross. "Lit Fuse". Brennan is attracted to energy-absorbing Ashley, who is being set up for betrayal by bounty-hunter Cross. When she absorbs Brennan, things get really complicated. "In the Presence of Mine Enemies". Jesse's hacker girlfriend Toni is forced by Eckhart to betray Adam's hideout Sanctuary and the computerised journalist Proxy Blue. Can the tables be turned? "Crime of the New Century". Youthful mutant firestarter Joshua is kidnapped, rescued and then turned over to the GSA by a renegade FBI agent. "Dark Star Rising". The survivors of a commando team have been altered into mutancy by scientists and want vengeance for their dead squad members. Mutant X helps them stop Eckhart getting the secret serum. The DVDs also contain trailers, a feature on the elaborate stunts and interviews with stunt coordinator Paul Rapovski, show runner Howard Chaykin and Victor Webster (Brennan). --Roz Kaveney

• Tender Loving Care | DVD | (30/01/2000) from £17.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You are about to experience a fantasy quit unlike anything you've ever seen or felt before - a fantasy built from the very stuff of your own mind. Tender Loving Care is not just a finely crafted suspense story; it's an exploration into the innermost perceptions opinions and attitudes. The unfolding story is shaped and changed by your responses to it so that no two people will experience Tender Loving Care in the same way.

• Passing | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-0.55 (-9.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dying is a punishment to some to some a gift and to some a favour.... Ernie and his best friend Rose buddies since World War II have outlived their youth outlived their families and outlived all hopes for the future. Yet despite their austere existence a gentle whimsy and affection for each other fills their days. With humour and courage they face the increasing vulnerability in a world that moves faster than they can. Wade is a drifter and a loner who meets and falls in lov

• Lucky Chances 1/Lucky Chances 2 | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jackie Collins' sweeping story of passion power greed and betrayal spans over 40 years from the tough streets of depression bit New York to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and Las Vegas.

• ECW - The Doctor Is In | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  More extreme ECW wrestling action!

• The Royle Family - Series 1 | UMD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• V For Vendetta | UMD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• Wartime Stories | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £50.99

  A wonderfully evocative three DVD box set which features three films each telling a wartime story. Goodnight Mister Tom: John Thaw (Inspector Morse) stars as the widowed and cantankerous Tom Oakley in this charming film adaptation of the prize-winning children's novel by Michelle Magorian. When the Second World War is declared Tom finds that his quiet life in the village of Little Weirwold is set to change when nine-year old Willie Beech (Nick Robinson) is evacuated from Lo

• The Inkwell | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (178.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  At Inkwell Beach summer's never been so much fun! It's a time and a place where cool clothes hot music and good friends turn a dull family trip into the summertime vacation of a lifetime! Critics everywhere praised this film - the hot big-screen comedy treat that delivers outrageous summertime fun and good time entertainment all set to an irresistible soundtrack! Spend some time down at the shore with the funniest folks you're ever going to meet - summer fun doesn't get any bette

• Archies Weird Mysteries - Volume 1 | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Ever since an experiment in the local high school went wrong things have been getting weirder and weirder in Riverdale. The town has become a magnet for monsters. Now Archie and the gang - Betty Veronica Reggie and Jughead (not forgetting honorary gang members nerdy Dilton and Jughead's dog Hot Dog!) - are called on to unravel a variety of mysteries that involve swamp creatures mad scientists vampires werewolves giant ants zombies UFOs and much more. Episode titles: Attac

• Schizoid / X-Ray | Blu Ray | (26/04/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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

  Pam Grier stars as Della Wilder a sexy sharp-tongued single mum and maverick cop who considers it a job perk to torment all women-abusing men who have the misfortune of crossing her path. She and partner Harlan Lee (Romano Orzari) are assigned a case that at first glance seems clear-cut: the murder of a woman who had destroyed the career of her gynaecologist and lover Dr. Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer). The murder of Doctor Charney's ex-wife leads detective Wilder to uncover a series

• Immer wenn er Pillen nahm (alle 17 Folgen) - Special Edition inkl. Das Geheimnis der blauen Tropfen (alle 15 Folgen) (Fernsehjuwelen) | DVD | (17/01/2020) from £26.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos (Sills, Boston So) | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos (Sills Boston SO)

• Princess Mononoke (DVD and Book) | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Princess Mononoke has already made history as the top-grossing domestic feature ever released in Japan, where its combination of mythic themes, mystical forces, and ravishing visuals tapped deeply into cultural identity and contemporary, ecological anxieties. For international animation and anime fans, this epic, animated 1997 fantasy, represents an auspicious next step for its revered creator, Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service), an acknowledged anime pioneer, whose painterly style, vivid character design, and stylised approach to storytelling take ambitious, evolutionary steps here. Set in medieval Japan, Miyazaki's original story envisions a struggle between nature and man. The march of technology, embodied in the dark iron forges of the ambitious Tatara clan, threatens the natural forces explicit in the benevolent Great God of the Forest and the wide-eyed, spectral spirits he protects. When Ashitaka, a young warrior from a remote, and endangered, village clan, kills a ravenous, boar-like monster, he discovers the beast is in fact an infectious "demon god", transformed by human anger. Ashitaka's quest to solve the beast's fatal curse brings him into the midst of human political intrigues as well as the more crucial battle between man and nature. Miyazaki's convoluted fable is clearly not the stuff of kiddie matinees, nor is the often graphic violence depicted during the battles that ensue. If some younger viewers (or less attentive older ones) will wish for a diagram to sort out the players, Miyazaki's atmospheric world and its lush visual design are reasons enough to watch. For the English-language version, Miramax assembled an impressive vocal cast including Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup (as Ashitaka), Claire Danes (as San), Minnie Driver (as Lady Eboshi), Billy Bob Thornton, and Jada Pinkett Smith. They bring added nuance to a very different kind of magic kingdom. -- Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com On the DVD: with an impressive widescreen aspect of 2.35:1 and a pleasant 5.1 Dolby digital sound, you cannot fault the transfer of this animation in any way. However, the special features leave a lot to be desired on what is a classic piece of modern anime. The "Behind the Scenes" feature holds no information on the making of Princess Mononoke in its original form--with no input from animator Hayao Miyazaki--and the trailer is taken from the American release of the movie (even though it calls itself an "original" theatrical trailer), complete with the annoyingly hyped-up voiceover that comes with US film trailers. The redeeming feature of this DVD is the ability to watch the anime in its original language with subtitles, a much more passionate and beautiful form--so much of the feeling and lyricism of the movie is lost with the transfer to English language and misplaced casting. After watching the original Japanese version of Princess Mononoke and reading the book you begin to wonder why the West has become such a solitary child of Disney. --Nikki Disney

• Any Man's Death | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war a roll of film holds the only clues to his disappearance. Following the trail found in the photos a veteran reporter finds himself in the middle of events as they escalate into war.

• Kiss Me If You Dare | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £9.29   |  Saving you £-5.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Obsession can turn a woman wild....While on a trip into the jungles of South America, the gorgeous Teresa Burns is bitten by a strange creature.Upon returning home Teresa starts to change, at first she experiences heightened sexual arousal then she becomes consumed with an uncontrollable passion. The mysterious bite has inflicted her with the lust of a wild woman and the killer kiss of a demon.Teresa's boyfriend Paul is detained as the prime suspect of several mysterious murders. He informs the police about his girlfriend's strange behavior since their return and that it is she who is responsible for the murders.As Teresa's passion grows stronger, so does her bloodlust. Soon the sexual demons within her take over, pushing her to the very edge of sanity.

• Black Beauty | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £14.25   |  Saving you £-8.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It would be easy to pass by this movie, based on Anna Sewell's famous novel Black Beauty, on the assumption that it's dated and twee. Well, perhaps it is a little, but the sheer quality of the whole enterprise places it in the front rank of children's cinema classics. Screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz's ability to harness both literary and popular techniques in the same work (also true of his written fiction) remains unsurpassed in this captivating tale of Beauty's eventful life, from being raised as a foal by the devoted Joe (Lester), then passing through the hands of various owners before being purchased by, supposedly, Miss Sewell herself, to be once more cared for by a now-adult Joe who is in her employ. Along the way, Beauty passes through the hands of gypsies, a circus owner, a family of aristocrats and is even ridden into war, with each episode being expertly cast (Mower is in particularly fine form as a mad, bad and dangerous army officer) and produced to the highest cinematic standards--even the exterior lighting is perfect. Absolutely recommended. The 4:3 DVD is a transfer of exceptionally high quality and includes the cinema trailer, an image gallery of stills and collector-enthusing promotional ephemera (presented in a thumb-saving slideshow format) and, rather incongruously, a trailer for Help! I'm a Fish!--Roger Thomas

• Atomic Train | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A train headed for Denver carrying nuclear waste and toxic materials is en route for disaster when it becomes a runaway. Renegade investigator and train enthusiast John Seger jumps on board in a bid to save thousand of innocent lives...

• Cinema Collection - Vol. 5 | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Features eight movies. In '12:01 PM' a man is forced to consult a physicist when he finds himself stuck in the same 59 minutes of his life. Also features: 'A Hard Rain' 'Bufford's Got A Gun' 'Leslie's Folly' '15th Phase Of The Moon' 'Heart Of The Deal' 'Astronomy' and 'The Great O'Grady'.