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• Minder - Series 2 - Part 2 Of 4 - Episodes 4 - 6 | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £12.96   |  Saving you £3.03 (18.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  EPISODE 4 - Don't Tell Them Willie Boy Was Here: Terry has to mind Willie Reynolds champion boxer who is making a comeback after two years away from the ring. EPISODE 5 - Not Bad Lad Dad: When Terry arrives home to find 9 year old Peter sitting on his doorstep it's a minding job that he had not anticipated. EPISODE 6 - The Beet Hunter: Arthur goes out on the town with 'Yorkie' an old mate from his army days and manages to lose him. Terry and Arthur have to find him before

• Sanctimony | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £9.97   |  Saving you £9.01 (129.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sanctimony is a slick thriller from German director Uwe Boll in which Seven meets American Psycho. Caspar Van Dien plays Tom Gerrick, a phenomenally successful city trader who leads a double life. By day, he buys and sells stocks; by night he indulges a passion for perverted prurience, visiting the basement of a nightclub to watch the enactment of torture snuff scenarios. Meanwhile hard-ass cop Jim Renart (Streets Of Fire's Michael Pare) and his cynical, Scully-like partner Dorothy (Jennifer Rubin) sift city filth on the trail of a serial killer dubbed the "Monkey Maker" for his predilection, mutilating the eyes, ears and mouths of his victims. Given its similarity to the aforementioned films, Sanctimony's plot twists are all too predictable but nevertheless enjoyable as Boll cranks up the audience's appetite for sick thrills. After finding out that Renart's wife (played by Catherine Oxenberg) is heavily pregnant it's evident that something exceedingly nasty is planned for her several plot points down the line. But it's Van Dien's tight-lipped yuppie psycho that steals the show, throwing the whole shebang into high camp. On the DVD: The DVD features beautifully designed animated menus but extras are limited to a theatrical trailer and cast and crew filmographies. The main feature is a crystal-clear transfer presented in letterboxed widescreen format with Dolby 5.1 sound. --Chris Campion

• Friends - Series 2 - Episodes 17-24 | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-2.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Season 2: Unfortunately, Rachel's brave intention to announce her feelings is scuppered in the season opener "T.O.W. Ross' New Girlfriend". It doesn't matter how great her hair looks (a real-life accident when a friend cut it with a razor), or how many sneaky tricks she tries to separate them. Ultimately it takes a peculiar doppelganger to lure the new girl away in "T.O.W. Russ" (Schwimmer credited as "Snaro"). The Friends couldn't be happier to have the angst and tension relieved, and "T.O.W. Ross and Rachel ... You Know" is unsurprisingly an all-time fan favourite. This was straightforward compared to the other side of Ross' love life in "T.O.W. the Lesbian Wedding" though. Initiating another will-they/won't-they subplot was the introduction of Richard (Tom Selleck) as a new flame for Monica. Highlights for the other characters all centred on the Emmy-winning two-part "T.O. W. After the Super Bowl" with a stunning cameo list including Brooke Shields, Chris Isaak, Dan Castellaneta (Homer from The Simpsons), Jean-Claude Van Damme and Julia Roberts (whom Perry subsequently dated a short while). Another great highlight was Chandler and Joey's ineptitude in "T.O.W the Baby on the Bus", which also featured Chrissie Hynde giving Phoebe's "Smelly Cat" its best ever rendition on guitar. To leave viewers hanging, the year ended with Rachel in understandable uncertainty over "T.O.W. Barry and Mindy's Wedding" (her ex-fiancé and ex-best friend). --Paul Tonks

• Bullet Train - SteelBook (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Supreme Sanction | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A journalist holds potentially threatening information and the government will not rest until he is dead. The government's trained assassin is undecided which side to choose...

• Viking - The Darkest Day | Blu Ray | (04/11/2013) from £6.98   |  Saving you £14.00 (350.88%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A novice monk, must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne - a book of great beauty and power - to the safety of the Iona monastery, while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell- bent on its capture.

• Prototype | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (10.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Growing up in the shadow of Sin City Las Vegas smart but troubled high-schooler Alex Mackendrick is dissed by his girlfriend bullied by his boss and abused by his drunken step-father. However his life is about to change when he becomes empowered by a pair of prototype telekinetic gloves stolen from his only real friend an experimental scientist. The God-fearing teen spins violently over the edge when the scientist is accidentally killed during a fight over the gloves. Convinced that his life is over Alex heads out on a resentment-filled revenge spree using his newly acquired kinetic powers to pay back those who have done him wrong.

• The Lord of the Rings -- Limited Edition Box Set | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the film's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives what is surely the definitive Gollum (he revived his portrayal a couple of years later for BBC Radio's exhaustive 13-hour dramatisation). The film's other outstanding virtue is avant-garde composer Leonard Rosenman's magnificent score in which chaotic musical fragments gradually coalesce to produce the triumphant march theme that closes the picture. None of which makes up for the incompleteness of the movie, nor the severe abridging of the story actually filmed. Add to that some oddities--such as intermittently referring to Saruman as "Aruman"--and the final verdict must be that this is a brave yet ultimately unsatisfying work, noteworthy as the first attempt at transferring Tolkien to the big screen but one whose virtues are overshadowed by incompleteness. --Mark Walker

• Foyles' War Series 4 Part 2 | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £12.12   |  Saving you £12.87 (106.19%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Michael Kitchen (Alibi) returns as Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the fourth chapter of this hugely popular series.

• UFC 110: Nogueira vs Velasquez | DVD | (14/06/2010) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Main Card Minotauro Nogueira vs. Cain Velasquez Wanderlei Silva vs. Michael Bisping Joe Stevenson vs. George Sotiropoulos Keith Jardine vs. Ryan Bader Mirko Cro Cop vs. Anthony Perosh Preliminary Card Stephan Bonnar vs. Krzysztof Soszynski Chris Lytle vs. Brian Foster C.B. Dollaway vs. Goran Reljic James Te-Huna vs Igor Pokrajac

• Andromeda - Season 5 | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  The long night has fallen the greatest civilisation has crumbled. The universe falls into chaos. It is left to a man out of time Captain Dylan Hunt (Kevin Sorbo) of the warship Andromeda Ascendant to take back the night and reform the Systems Commonwealth before all is lost. On the Andromeda Ascendant hope lives again... Episodes comprise: 1. Weight (Part 1) 2. Weight (Part 2) 3. Phear Phactor Phenom 4. Decay Of The Angel 5. The Eschatology Of Our Present 6. When Goes Around... 7. Attempting Screed 8. So Burn The Untamed Lands 9. What Will Be Was Not 10. The Test 11. Through A Glass Darkly 12. Pride Before The Fall 13. Moonlight Becomes You 14. Past Is Prolix 15. The Opposites Of Attraction 16. Saving Light From A Black Sun 17. Totaled Recall 18. Quantum Tractate Delirium 19. One More Day's Light 20. Chaos And The Stillness Of It 21. The Heart Of The Journey (Part 1) 22. The Heart Of The Journey (Part 2)

• Nightkill | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It starts with a broken marriage and turns rapidly into fear - that instinctive emotion with a vice-like grip. The throat dries and tightens and the heart pounds; the small hairs know and contort while the flesh crawls; there is nausea panic and a complete lack of logic from the brain. Jaclyn Smith and Robert Mitchum star in this nightmare of fear intrigue double-cross and terror.

• Lola / The Witness | DVD | (01/08/2001) from £15.38   |  Saving you £-11.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  LOLA: Similar to ""Lolita "" this kinetic film chronicles the story of an aging sex book writer (Charles Bronson) and his passion for a 16-year-old seductress and the social pressures that result from their relationship and eventual marriage. THE WITNESS: A man depends on the testimony of a mystery woman to disprove his involvement in a murder and bank robbery. But where is she?

• The Element Of Crime | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Way, way before he dreamt up his famous Dogme manifesto, Lars von Trier launched his feature-film career with The Element of Crime and proved that, 400 years after Hamlet, the Danes can still do melancholy like nobody else. Less a film noir than a film jaune sale, this ultra-enigmatic thriller is shot entirely in tones of grimy sepia in a world where nightfall seems to be an unceasing condition. A police detective, Fisher (Michael Elphick), is summoned from Cairo to "Europe" (the location never gets any more specific than that) to investigate a series of gory child-murders. He comes to suspect that the killer may be a mysterious character called Harry Grey and sets out to retrace Grey's movements. The film takes its title from a treatise written by Fisher's old mentor Osborne (Welsh actor Esmond Knight, a veteran of Powell and Pressburger's films), but it might as well refer to water. Von Trier conjures up a world not only permanently benighted, but dank, sodden and dripping both indoors and out, cluttered with mouldy, antiquated industrial machinery. There are echoes (or pre-echoes) here of half-a-dozen other movies--Blade Runner, City of Lost Children, Tarkovsky's Stalker, Welles' The Trial--and at times it feels as though von Trier has just set out to show he can do art house as well as anybody and possibly better. The plot makes no sense whatever and clearly isn't meant to, and Elphick's bemused expression, one suspects, derives from the actor as much as from the character he's playing. As always with von Trier you can't help wondering if whole thing isn't an elaborate put-on, especially since the director himself shows up, epicene and shaven-headed, playing a personage called "Schmuck of Ages". But what it lacks in coherence (either narrative or visual) Element of Crime makes up for in atmosphere, which it has, literally, by the bucketful. This release, incidentally, is the English-language version. --Philip Kemp

• The Terminator | UMD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Terminator was the film that cemented Arnold Schwarzenegger's place in the action-brawn firmament, and both his and the movie's subsequent iconic status are well deserved. He's chilling as the futuristic cyborg that kills without fear, without love, without mercy. James Cameron's story and direction are pared to the bone and are all the more chillingly effective for it. But don't overlook the contribution of Linda Hamilton, who more than holds her own as the Terminator's would-be victim, Sarah Connor, thus creating--along with Sigourney Weaver in Alien--a new generation of rugged, clear-thinking female action stars. The film's minimalist, malevolent violence is actually scarier than that of its far more expensive, more effects-laden sequel. --Anne Hurley

• Comrades | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £31.03   |  Saving you £-8.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Bill Douglas' beautiful film Comrades tells the epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs six Dorset labourers deported to Australia in the 183's for forming a trade union. Unfolding in the pastoral haze of Dorset and the blinding light of Australia Douglas has created a film rich with carefully layered visual illusions and nuances. With lovely profound performances throughout the story - a compelling account of struggle and injustice - becomes an epic tale about history storytelling and the way we see our world.

• Airwolf - Vol. 4 | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £7.85   |  Saving you £2.14 (27.26%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The ultimate in Eighties action! Stringfellow Hawke (Vincent) and his irascible mentor Dominic Santini (Borgnine) continue their fight for freedom justice and liberty with the mighty Airwolf experimental helicopter at their disposal... Includes the episodes Dambreakers Random Target and The American Dream.

• Sherlock Holmes - The Naval Treaty / The Solitary Cyclist | DVD | (09/06/2003) from £6.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (43.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Two more cases for Holmes and Watson to solve. The Naval Treaty: Dr Watson's old school colleague 'Tadpole' Phelps needs help with a mysterious problem at the Foreign Office. A top secret treaty has vanished and its disappearance imperils the cause of world peace. Only Holmes can track it down in time. The Solitary Cyclist: For a while Miss Violet Smith's life is quite perfect. However the young heiress soon finds herself being followed by a sinister stranger and Holmes and Watson are engaged in a frantic race against time to prevent her from being kidnapped.

• Austin Powers 3 - Goldmember | UMD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Day Of The Panther | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Martial arts expert Jason Blade (Stazak) sets to get the gangland boss and his right-hand man responsible for the death of his partner.