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• Space: 1999 - Vol. 4 - Episodes 13-16 | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £16.03   |  Saving you £-0.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For the time, there had never been a more lavishly produced science fiction TV series than Space: 1999, which was British-made on an astounding first-season budget of 3.25 million pounds, and ran for two seasons from 1975-77. What keeps fans enthralled after all these years has only partly to do with the first-rate production values, the plausibly constructed spaceship models and expert special effects. The tone of the show is one of scientific dispassion, setting it apart from its TV SF predecessors such as Star Trek in which the mood is more generally convivial. Our heroes here are in dire circumstances that require cool heads as a survival trait. Those circumstances: the moon and the 311 crew members of Moonbase Alpha experience a cataclysm that causes the moon to break away from Earth orbit and travel endlessly through space, making our heroes into unintentional explorers. No TV series has created a more palpable feel of hard science fiction than this. Of course, the show is not without its detractors, having been soundly lambasted for its many scientific errors. No less august a figure than Isaac Asimov criticised the show for its premise in the opening episode "Breakaway", which had nuclear explosions on the "dark side of the moon" somehow propelling it out of Earth orbit and flying through space without regard to physical law. In "Earthbound", aliens travelling to Earth state it will take them 75 years to reach their destination, making one wonder why it didn't take the moon that long to encounter the aliens. While these are serious complaints, fans tend to remember the scientific seriousness of the series and the sense of awe created by the many strange creatures and phenomena they encounter on their journey through the galaxy. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com

• The Judy Garland Show | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £4.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (140.76%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Three legends one unforgettable music performance. A collection of fantastic songs from the Judy Garland Show featuring guest appearances from Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Tracklist: 1. Just In Time - Judy Garland 2. When You're Smiling - Judy Garland 3. You Do Something To Me - Judy Garland & Frank Sinatra 4. Too Marvelous For Words - Frank Sinatra 5. You Do Something To Me - Judy Garland Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin 6. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby

• Gulliver's Travels | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the classic children's novel by Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels take him to Lilliput a country whose inhabitants are no more than six inches tall.

• Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Volume 3 | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £16.18   |  Saving you £3.81 (19.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The simple version: This is the story of Master Shake Frylock and Meatwad: teens who live together unsupervised somewhere near the Jersey shore. Carl their next door neighbor has an above-ground pool and an attitude. The complicated version: This is a story of mysteries neighborhood conflicts aliens mad scientists rabbits robots rabbit robots perms cologne heavy metal haunted school buses giant moths mold with a generous heart Dracula road trips removable brains and of course leprechauns. And that's only the beginning. Directed by Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro with guest voices including MC Chris Todd Barry (The Wrestler & Flight Of The Conchords) and David Cross (Arrested Development & Family Guy). The release of the complete first season follows on from the feature film 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres' that Empire reviewed as 'More than The Simpsons movie could manage'. Aqua Teen Hunger Force follows the adventures of Master Shake a sadistic and lazy milkshake who loves to torture Meatwad. Frylock the floating packet of fries is the brains the group and has the one thing that the rest of the group lacks: common sense. Meatwad is a loving caring gentle ball of meat that crawls wherever he goes and is frequently tortured by Shake. The Aqua Teens are a group of mystery-solving fast food detectives who fight very little crime. Hanging out instead with their neighbour Carl avoiding the annoying exploits of rock n' roll-loving aliens The Mooninites and fighting rabbits robots robot rabbits perms giant moths killer mould Dracula and leprechauns to name but a few!

• Ricky Martin - European Tour | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £8.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (10.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ricky Martin may be the undisputed king of Latino pop but this European Tour DVD collection presents the star in a wholly uninspiring way. It's the televisual equivalent of a 100 per cent unofficial Ricky Martin annual, packed full of ancient library photos and sneaked pictures of the star. Ricky's live concert performances of his Spanish-language greatest hits are fine but are terminally scarred by the poor picture and sound quality. Throughout the presentation a distracting "RM" logo is displayed in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. The interview and behind-the-scenes footage is farcical, and any interesting information about Ricky uncovered in the interview is ruined by the pathetic visual effects. Equally as awful are the voice-overs, which resemble the style and tone of those used on Channel 4's Eurotrash, but with any irony squeezed out. The translations (from Spanish to English) are decidedly dodgy, with one Spanish female fan saying she likes Ricky because "he has great buns". The majority of the visual material is stretched out of proportion, continually repeated in slow motion and appears to have been shot on an ordinary video camera. Even die-hard fans of Martin are strongly recommended to steer well clear of this release, especially with other DVDs such as the Official Video Collection and One Night Only providing far better value for money. On the DVD: As well as the overall poor quality of the feature, there are no decent extras. The bonus video clip of "La Bamba", is a camcorder recording of Martin performing a song on stage with a live recording of the track dubbed over the top. Due to the use of a tiny font, and a flickering typeface the biography and discography are impossible to read. Capitalisation and punctuation also seem to be randomly applied in the biography. Furthermore the feature and bonus material is only presented in standard picture format and in stereo.--John Galilee

• Love And Bullets | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A tough American Detective is sent to the Swiss Alps to bring back the girlfriend of a powerful gangster so that she can testify against him. The Crooks will do anything they can to stop her..

• The Scarlet Pimpernel - A King's Ransom | DVD | (13/11/2013) from £12.24   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In this final film of the series The Scarlet Pimpernel is drawn into a mystery which threatens to destroy the French monarchy forever whilst putting his own life in grave danger. The heir to the French throne 10 year old Dauphin is under the control of Robespierre but is kidnapped by a sinister masked character. As Sir Percy gets close to witnesses who might identify the Dauphin's kidnapper they are killed before they can reveal the truth. However all the signs point to the legend

• The Professionals Mk IV | DVD | (08/10/2018) from £22.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Long-awaited, long-overdue: The Professionals as you have never seen them before. Bodie and Doyle need little by way of introduction, but if the series had at all escaped you since its debut in 1977 their boss George Cowley, head of CI5, couldn't put it more succinctly than his opening gambit: anarchy, acts of terror, crimes against the public. To combat it I've got special men experts from the army, the police, from every service. These are The Professionals . Featuring the perfect ensemble cast of Martin Shaw, Gordon Jackson (completely against type here) and the much-missed Lewis Collins, the series ran for 57 action-packed episodes and made an immediate impact on British and then international audiences which has sustained 40 years. But the series has never looked this good. Painstakingly restored from the camera-original negatives the series could have been made yesterday. No matter how many times you have seen The Professionals, this is a new experience, like seeing it for the first time. Features: Brand-new, High Definition restorations of all 18 episodes in series four and five from the camera-original negatives Brand-new 5.1 tracks from original sound elements Remastered original as-broadcast mono tracks Remastered music-only tracks featuring Laurie Johnson's original scores HD photo galleries featuring hundreds of rare and previously unseen images Restoration featurette ATV Today: two newsclips featuring Martin Shaw and Lewis Collins The Professionals Serving the Professionals: outtakes from a 1982 NAAFI promo Then and Now The Location Files PDF PDF material featuring scripts and memorabilia All episodes are presented in their original production order English HOH subtitles

• Under The Tonto Rim / Sunset Pass | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £5.97   |  Saving you £0.02 (0.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Under the Tonto Rim (1947): A suspense filled classic western starring Tim Holt masquerading as a stage coach robber in order to infiltrate the nefarious Tonto Rim gang. Helping another gang member escape from jail Holt follows the outlaw to the gangs lair under the Tonto Rim. Once there he must rescue a kidnapped girl (Nan Leslie) and recovers stolen Payroll - all the while trying not to tip off the gang as to his real identity. Gun blazing shoot - outs and breakneck chases h

• Serial Experiments Lain - Vol. 3 | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  There are rumors that Lain is stealing people's secrets and spreading them in the wired. Her friends including Arisu abandon Lain and even her parents leave telling Lain that they are not her real parents. Lonely and confused Lain then encounters a man who calls himself ""God"" in the wired... Includes episodes 8-10: Rumours Protocol Love.

• Pink Panther 2 | Blu Ray | (29/06/2009) from £19.99   |  Saving you £10.26 (54.78%)   |  RRP £28.99

  Steve Martin is back as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Pink Panther 2! Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin) teams up with a squad of International detectives who are just as bumbling as he is. Their mission: Stop a globe-trotting thief who specializes in stealing historical artifacts.

• Fidel and Che Guevara | DVD | (29/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  An Epic 3 And A Half Hour TV Film Featuring Gael Garcia Bernal As Che Guevara The Actor Who Played Che In 'The Motorcycle Diaries' In 1959 Fidel Castro's small band of rebels assisted by Che Guevara's guerrilla fi ghters toppled the corrupt Cuban dictatorship of General Baptista. Castro then remained as Cuba's president for almost 50 years before stepping down due to ill health in 2008. This remarkable man survived a CIA led invasion of his county a missile crisis eight assassination attempts nine US presidents and the fall of his Soviet allies. 'FIDEL' is a riveting hard-edged and intensely emotional fi lm spanning 60 years in the life of one of history's most intriguing and controversial figures. From a guerrilla outpost to the presidential palace it chronicles the rise of a major world political leader through bloody revolution alongside the iconic Che Guevara public & private tragedy economic sanctions and political upheaval presenting a rare personal portrait of a man driven relentlessly by his convictions his pride and his passions.

• Snow White | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Deception never looked so sweet... There is perhaps no more beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale than the legend of a beautiful young girl fleeing her home because of a jealous stepmother. Now more breath-taking than any previous interpretation 'Snow White' is a fantasy of truly epic scope. Wonderfully acted and cleverly scripted this modern retelling introduces such classic elements as Snow White's miraculous birth and the mysterious reason why her father remarries after his wife'

• The Mad Butcher | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Apart from its obvious Sweeney Todd influence this Italian production released by Harry Novak (which is also known as The Stranger Of Vienna and Meat Is Meat) exudes a strong Grand Guignol flavour thanks mainly to its ghoulish subject matter and the use of cheap bargain basement theatrical sets.

• Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria -- Zurich/Harnoncourt | DVD | (10/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Klaus-Michael Gruber's austere staging of Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria ("Ulysses' Return") gives the impression of a sun-drenched ancient Greek island by the simplest of means: a bleached white wall against a dazzling sky-blue backcloth. It is an ideal setting for conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt's pared-down reading of the score (fewer "authentic" rasps and rattles than 25 years ago) and Vesselina Kasarova's intense, restrained performance of Penelope, all the more powerful for being held back. For example, her repeated cry of "Torna!" ("Return to me!")--an excuse for much hand-wringing on the part of some mezzos--rarely rises above mezzo-forte here. Dietrich Henschel is equally impressive as Ulisse, and uses his rich, flexible voice with inventiveness: he handles the moment of recognition with his son Telemaco (the outrageously handsome Jonas Kaufmann) beautifully. There are some off-the-rail moments to the staging which might not appeal to English theatrical tastes: Penelope's suitors are presented in a rather silly puppet show and the comedy scenes with Iro (Rudolf Schasching) fall flat. But it doesn't prevent the final moments of reconciliation and recognition reaching powerful heights. On the DVD: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria is presented in 16:9 ratio and has PCM Stereo or Dolby Digital 5.1 sound options. There are subtitles in Italian, German, English, French and Spanish. A handsome, well-lit production is rendered on the small screen with as much subtle shading as possible by video director Felix Breisach, and falls very easily on the eye. --Warwick Thompson

• Space: 1999 - Vol. 6 - Episodes 21-24 | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For the time, there had never been a more lavishly produced science fiction TV series than Space: 1999, which was British-made on an astounding first-season budget of 3.25 million pounds, and ran for two seasons from 1975-77. What keeps fans enthralled after all these years has only partly to do with the first-rate production values, the plausibly constructed spaceship models and expert special effects. The tone of the show is one of scientific dispassion, setting it apart from its TV SF predecessors such as Star Trek in which the mood is more generally convivial. Our heroes here are in dire circumstances that require cool heads as a survival trait. Those circumstances: the moon and the 311 crew members of Moonbase Alpha experience a cataclysm that causes the moon to break away from Earth orbit and travel endlessly through space, making our heroes into unintentional explorers. No TV series has created a more palpable feel of hard science fiction than this. Of course, the show is not without its detractors, having been soundly lambasted for its many scientific errors. No less august a figure than Isaac Asimov criticised the show for its premise in the opening episode "Breakaway", which had nuclear explosions on the "dark side of the moon" somehow propelling it out of Earth orbit and flying through space without regard to physical law. In "Earthbound", aliens travelling to Earth state it will take them 75 years to reach their destination, making one wonder why it didn't take the moon that long to encounter the aliens. While these are serious complaints, fans tend to remember the scientific seriousness of the series and the sense of awe created by the many strange creatures and phenomena they encounter on their journey through the galaxy. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com

• Fox | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This BAFTA nominated series follows the fortunes and feuds of old Billy Fox (Peter Vaughan) and his family in South London. With a superb cast including Ray Winstone and Bernard Hill and shot entirely on location in pubs clubs and streets 'Fox' evokes a strong London atmosphere through a wonderfully tense and involving story.

• Hitchcock Collection - Marnie/Frenzy/Torn Curtain | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £23.36   |  Saving you £-8.37 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Marnie: A psychological mystery thriller from the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock. Kleptomaniac Marnie Edgar (Tippi Hedren) who moves from job to job and has a pathological fear of the colour red is caught stealing by her latest employer Mark Rutland (Sean Connery). Instead of turning her over to the police Mark forces Marnie to marry him convinced that he can get to the bottom of her psychosis... Frenzy: In modern-day London a sex criminal known as the Necktie Murderer has the police on alert and in typical Hitchcock fashion their trail is leading to an innocent man who must now elude the law and prove his innocence by finding the real murderer. Jon Finch Alec McCowen and Barry Foster head the British cast in this thriller that alternates suspense scenes with moments of Hitchcock's distinctive black humour. Torn Curtain: One of the recurring themes of Alfred Hitchcock's movies is the plight of a common decent man caught in uncommon circumstances. Torn Curtain is no exception. In this reaction to James Bondism Paul Newman plays world famous scientist Michael Armstrong who goes to an international congress of physics in Copenhagen with his fiancee/assistant Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews). While there she mistakenly picks up a message meant for him and discovers that he is defecting to East Berlin in order to get funding for his pet project. Or is he? That's the answer Sarah and the audience discover as 'Hitch' directs this action thriller behind the Iron Curtain...

• Wagner: Das Rheingold | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £4.04   |  Saving you £22.21 (798.92%)   |  RRP £24.99

• The Curious Dr Humpp | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Sex dominates the world and now I dominate sex! Emilios Vieyra's cult classic digitally remastered and available on DVD for the first time. When a bunch of hippies a couple of lesbians and a stripper are kidnapped along with others they wind up at the estate of eccentric old Dr. Humpp who seeks to turn them into nonstop sex machines with the aid of a few aphrodisiacs and properly prepared brainwashing (thanks to the requisite sentient brain-in-a-jar). Soon these unfort