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• Men Of Honour | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A military drama starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr that tells the true story of Carl Bashear who combated racism to become the US Navy's first African-American deep-sea diver.

• Return Of The Living Dead | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £32.77   |  Saving you £-17.78 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Return of the Living Dead is a parody-cum-sequel spin-off from George Romero's superior Night of the Living Dead films. A corpse-containing canister gets breached and releases an oily, loose-limbed, brain-eating zombie tatterdemalion and a gas that revives anything dead in the vicinity, even a bisected dog preserved as a vet's teaching specimen and a case of pinned butterflies. The dim-bulb leading characters--earnest Clu Gulager, goofy James Karen and Thom Matthews--burn up a mess of surplus living body parts, but the rains wash the ashes into the earth of a nearby cemetery and a whole crowd of brain-eating zombies claw their way out to terrorise a group of teens who sport the kind of 1985 fashions, hairdos, slang preferences and musical tastes that will never feature in a TV nostalgia programme. There are plenty of in-jokes at the expense of the Living Dead films (learning that shooting 'em in the brain doesn't work, the appalled Matthews gasps, "You mean the movie lied?"), and director Dan O'Bannon, the writer of Dark Star and Alien, hurries things along through some gruesome action and terror-by-zombie bits until the surprisingly cynical anti-government conclusion. It's not as wittily outrageous as Re-Animator or Braindead, but it has an amiable, drive-in-cum-home video grunge about it. Frequently naked exploitation regular Linnea Quigley makes an impression as the punkette zombie who goes on the rampage wearing nothing but leg-warmers and body make-up. The frill-free DVD is full-screen (boo hiss!) except for the titles, offers only the trailer and inadequate cast and crew notes as extras, but it looks okay. --Kim Newman

• The X Files: Deadalive | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This release consists of two episodes--"This is Not Happening" and "Deadalive"--of the eighth series of The X-Files spliced together into a feature-length story. With David Duchovny contracted only to do a certain percentage of shows this year, Robert Patrick was brought in as Agent John Doggett, partnering Gillian Anderson's Agent Scully while Duchovny's Mulder is off being tortured by alien-abductors in what looks like an industrial dentist's chair. This story comes about two-thirds of the way through the arc and sets up Duchovny's return to the show--though he literally has to die and come back to get back on the case. It's an unfortunate paradox that most X-Files stand-alone releases concentrate on the dreary alien-abduction/conspiracy episodes which carry the greater storyline of the show, giving the misleading impression that the series is a drearily solemn, badly plotted, straight-faced but stupid sci-fi soap opera. Always skipped over are the far more interesting, entertaining and impressive stand-alone supernatural mysteries or strange comic exercises. Though Duchovny is mostly lying in a hospital bed with oatmeal all over his face, Anderson--whose character is pregnant this series, another dull sub-plot--still gives an amazingly committed performance and gets terrific support from Patrick, whose character has shaken up a lot of what was settled or stale about the show, and the always-underrated Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Skinner. The story features several wild-eyed UFO guru types (including Roy Thinnes, once star of The Invaders) and returned abductees transformed into un-killable alien zombies. It's as well made as ever, with ominous shadows and the odd smart line, but you need to have been paying very close attention for seven years to understand what's going on. With Duchovny a potential escapee and Anderson perhaps in line to follow, this episode brings on the excellent Annabeth Gish as Agent Monica Reyes, a specialist in bizarre rituals, who is being effectively set up to partner Patrick in a post-Mulder-and-Scully X-Files that might well keep the franchise going on forever Star Trek-fashion. --Kim Newman

• The True Story Of Jesse James | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £12.96   |  Saving you £0.03 (0.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Real Story Really Told for theiFirst Time! What sets a preacher's son on the path to violence? Against the backdrop of post-Civil War brutality Jesse James (Robert Wagner) goes from teenage Missouri farm boy to Confederate vigilante and then to outlaw king - as he ""invents"" the train robbery and his exploits virtually change Missouri's name to ""The Robber State!"" With director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without A Cause) at the reins this re-telling of the life of Jesse

• Prince-Sign O the Times | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  DVD-85 MINUTES-ALL REGIONS

• Female Drama Collection - The Truth About Cats And Dogs/Kissing Jessica Stein/Hope Floats | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Dir. Michael Lehmann 1996): Charming and bittersweet this modern-day romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman Janeane Garofalo and Ben Chaplin explores the beguiling perils of mistaken identity. Abby a gutsy and witty veterinarian who hosts her own radio talk show is anything but confident when it comes to love. A petite brunette she describes herself as tall and blonde when Brian a caller who is smitten with her radio persona asks her on a date. She talks her tall blonde neighbour Noelle into assuming her identity setting off an escalating series of hilarious and romantic crises. Kissing Jessica Stein (Dir. Charles Herman-Wurmfeld 2002): Acclaimed romantic comedy in which Jessica Stein (Westfeldt) is a single sucessful businesswoman living in New York City who finds herself not as straight as she thought... Hope Floats (Dir. Forest Whitaker 1998): Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart - and find hope again...

• Lizzie McGuire - Season 1.1 - When Moms Attack | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £10.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Meet Lizzie McGuire. She is so thirteen years old with all the worries every thirteen-year-old has. How can I be more popular in school? Can I be seen wearing this or will it be a total social disaster? How do I stop my mother humiliating and embarrassing me? Am I turning into a geek? Join Lizzie (Hilary Duff) and her cartoon alter ego for an hilarious look at life on the edge - of teen years... Episodes include: Pool Party Picture Day Rumours I've Got Rhythmic When Mom Attacks Jack Of All Trades.

• I Witness | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £9.87   |  Saving you £4.12 (41.74%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Human rights investigator James Rhodes (Jeff Daniels) is supervising union elections at a U.S. owned factory in Mexico when 27 gunshot riddled corpses are found in a collapsed tunnel near Tijuana and two American kids on a expedition go missing. Is there a connection and will James discover it before his own life is in danger?

• Andy Williams - The Best Of The Andy Williams Show | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  There is no denying that Andy Williams is one of the greatest entertainers of our time. During its 9 year run on NBC ""The Andy Williams Show"" was enjoyed by millions of people around the world and won three Emmys for Best Variety Series. This compilation hand-picked by Andy himself features priceless moments from the golden age of live television. This digitally remastered video presents Andy at his best performing both solo and with some of the greatest music stars of our time among them Tony Bennett Bobby Darin Sammy Davis Jr. Ella Fitzgerald and Judy Garland. Take center stage with Andy as he and these entertainment legends perform some of the most memorable duets ever seen on music TV! Tracklist: 1. On A Wonderful Day Like Today 2. Do Re Mi - Andy Williams & Eddie Fisher/Bobby Darin 3. Give Me The Simple Life - Andy Williams & Pearl Bailey 4. I'm An Old Cowhand - Andy Williams & Sammy Davis Jr. 5. Way You Look Tonight 6. City Medley - Andy Williams & Tony Bennett 7. In The Arms Of Love - Andy Williams & Henry Mancini 8. Introduction - Judy Garland 9. In A Little Spanish Town - Andy Williams & Bing Crosby 10. Lida Rose - Andy Williams & The Osmonds 11. Look Down That Lonesome Road - Andy Williams & Ella Fitzgerald 12. Girl From Ipanema - Andy Williams & Antonio Carlos Jobim 13. Introduction - Jerry Lewis 14. Pawnbroker 15. Language Of Love - Andy Williams & Julie Andrews 16. May Each Day

• Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon / The Many Faces Of Sherlock Holmes | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £7.48   |  Saving you £0.50 (9.11%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The inventor of a secret weapon and its prototype are abducted leaving the wartime Allies in dire need of assistance. Sherlock Holmes is called and begins to do battle with Professor Moriarty who will later become his arch-enemy...

• Thirteen Ghosts / Darkness Falls / Night Of The Living Dead | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £28.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Thirteen Ghosts: The family may have moved in but the ghosts aren't moving out in this special-effects update of William Castle's classic 1960s shocker... Darkness Falls: A young man Kyle (Kley) is considered insane by everyone in town with the exception of his childhood girlfriend Caitlin (Caufield) and her younger brother Michael (Cormie). Kyle must confront his fears and his past to save Michael from the hands of a small town's legendary evil the Tooth Fairy. Night Of The Living Dead - The Remake: It's a new night for terror ... and a new dawn in horror movie-making when special-effects genius Tom Savini (creator of the spectacularly gruesome make-up in 'Friday The 13th' and 'Creepshow') brings modern technology to this colourful remake of George A. Romero's 1968 cult classic. Dead bodies are returning to life and eating human flesh! A group of survivors seeks refuge in a farmhouse hoping to protect themselves from the hordes of advancing zombies. Trapped and alone they fight for their lives... hoping this horrible nightmare will come to an end. Who will survive the night of the living dead?

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

  Adrien Brody is Steven a wannabe ventriloquist who lives with his eccentric parents and his sister Heidi in the suburbs. They love him but don't understand him or his passion for the unusual dream of being a ventriloquist. But in a world surrounded by misfits and eccentrics his dream makes sense. His best friend Fangora is a punk rocker with a lot of attitude and a lot of bad advice. His sister Heidi is a wildly emotional wedding planner obsessed with Michael her ex-fiance who is currently stalking her. A sequence of hilarious events lead up to a wedding day in which everyone takes part including Fangora and her band Steven and his Dummy as entertainment and Heidi as the wedding planner. Michael shows up in a violent last ditch effort to get Heidi back. Steven in a surprising show of strength comes to her rescue gaining the respect of his family and friends and the love of Lorena the girl he longs for...

• Linewatch | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £3.00   |  Saving you £16.99 (85.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Linewatch

• Great Mysteries and Myths of the Twentieth Century - Ww2 | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Mysteries And Myths - Mysteries Of World War II

• Replacement Killers | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £14.64   |  Saving you £5.35 (36.54%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This didn't turn out to be quite the deserving American vehicle for Hong Kong action superstar Chow Yun-fat that it should have been. But it is an entertaining potboiler about a hired gun (Chow) who fails to carry out an assignment to kill a cop (which would leave the fellow's son without a father), and becomes a target himself when the contract is handed over to other assassins. Mira Sorvino plays a document forger who is drawn into the fray, pairing up with the hero as they fight their way out of bad spots. The whole enterprise is a little too routine, but the action is sharp and the battles are imaginative and crisp. Director Antoine Fuqua has a by-the-numbers feeling for the influence of Hong Kong on contemporary thrillers (this film was also produced by John Woo), and that's enough to make The Replacement Killers purely enjoyable if not exactly a revelation. --Tom Keogh

• Backyardigans - Robin Hood The Clean | DVD | (31/08/2009) from £19.85   |  Saving you £-13.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Backyardigans: Robin Hood the Clean

• My Favourite Brunette | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Bumbling baby photographer Ronnie Jackson gets mistaken for a private detective and hired to find the missing Baron by Baroness Carlotta Montay. This is not a straight forward assignment however and Jackson soon finds himself involved in a murder and pursued by gangsters....

• Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  From Janet Jackson's multi-platinum album 'Rhythm Nation 1814' comes the first ever DVD video compilation containing the videos of US No.1s Miss You Much Escapade Black Cat and Love Will Never Do (Without You) which was directed by world-renowned photographer Herb Ritts. Digitally remastered audio and visuals bring the conceptual video Rhythm Nation to new life. Also included are interviews and behind the scenes footage of Janet plus the extended version of Alright which includes cameos by Heavy D. Cyd Charisse The Nicholas Brothers and jazz legend Cab Calloway. Tracklist: 1. Prologue 2. Miss You Much 3. Rhythm Nation 4. Escapade 5. Alright (Extended Version) 6. Come Back To Me 7. Black Cat 8. Love Will Never Do (Without You) 9. Epilogue

• Award Winners Triple (Walk The Line, Sideways, Good Night & Good Luck) | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Walk The Line (Dir. James Mangold 2005): In 1955 a tough skinny guitar-slinger who called himself J.R. Cash walked into the soon-to-be-famous Sun Studios in Memphis. It was a moment that would have an indelible effect on American culture. With his driving freight-train chords steel-eyed intensity and a voice as deep and black as night Cash sang blistering songs of heartache and survival that were gutsy full of real life and unlike anything heard before. That day kicked off the electrifying early career of Johnny Cash. As he pioneered a fiercely original sound that blazed a trail for rock country punk folk and rap stars to come Cash began a rough-and-tumble journey of personal transformation. In the most volatile period of his life he evolved from a self-destructive pop star into the iconic 'Man in Black' - facing down his demons fighting for the love that would save him time and again and learning how to walk the razor-thin line between destruction and redemption. Sideways (Dir. Alexander Payne 2004): A wine tasting road trip to salute Jack's (Thomas Haden Church) final days as a bachelor careers woefully sideways as he and Miles (Paul Giamatti) hit the gas en route to mid-life crises. The comically mismatched pair who share little more than their history and a heady blend of failed potential and fading youth soon find themselves drowning in wine and women (Sandra Oh and Virginia Madsen). Emerging from a haze of pinot noir wistful yearnings and trepidation about the future the two inevitably collide with reality. Now the wedding approaches and with it the certainty that Miles and Jack won't make it back to Los Angeles unscathed or unchanged... if they get there in one piece at all. Winner of the 2005 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Good Night And Good Luck (Dir. George Clooney 2005): George Clooney's second film as director takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America chronicling the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow (Strathairn) and Senator Joseph McCarthy with the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public Murrow and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly (Clooney) and Joe Wershba (Downey Jr.) in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist 'witch-hunts'. A very public feud develops when the Senator responds by accusing the anchor of being a communist. In this climate of fear and reprisal the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity will prove historic and monumental.

• The Trail Beyond | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £10.18   |  Saving you £-2.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two rough adventurers journey to the Northwest in search of gold. Their plans are temporarily sidetracked when they happen on a kidnapped girl.