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• The Temp | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £23.03   |  Saving you £-3.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a cookie company is the subject of a takeover bid high echelon employees begin scrambling to save their jobs. Executive Peter Derns (Hutton) is not helped in his quest by the rapid departure of his regular assistant. However her replacement Kris Bolin (Boyle) seems too good to be true particularly when the obstacles in his way up the corporate ladder are being ruthlessly eliminated...

• Tales Of The Unexpected - The Complete Fourth Series | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £21.92   |  Saving you £3.07 (14.01%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Roald Dahl's chillingly brilliant anthology series Tales of the Unexpected makes an expected return to DVD. Although widely-regarded as one of the greatest children's authors of all-time Roald Dahl also wrote chilling adult fiction taking the twisted ideas used to entertain children and thrilling adults with similar themes. Much-gossiped about in its day the surprising stories - usually with a sting in the tale - enthralled a nation the moment the iconic titles started. Episodes Comprise: 1. Would You Believe It? 2. Vicious Circle 3. The Boy Who Talked With Animals 4. The Best Of Everything 5. A Woman's Help 6. Shatterproof 7. The Sound Machine 8. Never Speak Ill Of The Dead 9. The Best Policy 10. The Last Bottle In The World 11. Kindly Dig Your Own Grave 12. Completely Foolproof 13. There's One Born Every Minute 14. Bosom Friends 15. A Glowing Future 16. The Way To Do It 17. Hijack

• Creatures From The Abyss | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £0.99

  A boating trip turns into a nightmare for five teenagers when they happen upon an abandoned yacht. Curious the teens hop aboard and two Bob and Julie decide that the yacht is a perfect place for some illicit lovemaking despite the presence of a bizarre biology laboratory. Unfortunately the amorous couple become infected with radioactive plankton turning Bob into a flesh hungry monster who greedily devours his lover. Soon other monsters have come up from the deep to hunt down the three remaining teens.

• Manufacturing Dissent - Uncovering Michael Moore | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £8.76   |  Saving you £10.22 (177.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Michael Moore is the world's most successful and influential documentary filmmaker. He has produced a series of satirical documentaries beginning with Roger & Me which explored how General Motors' plant closings and layoffs devastated his hometown of Flint Michigan. He followed this with Bowling for Columbine which mocked America's gun culture and brought Moore to the world's attention. His last film Fahrenheit 9/11 was his most controversial to date and charted President Bush's skewed handling of the war on terrorism. Scheduled for release later this year in October is Sicko which takes aim at America's health care system. Manufacturing Dissent is a documentary that seeks to separate fact fiction and legend. Two Canadian filmmakers track Michael Moore on tour during the release of the explosive Fahrenheit 9/11 chronicling the politically supercharged climate in America that has fuelled Moore's transition from filmmaker to icon of the political left. The film raises interesting questions about Moore's research filmmaking and his presentation of the truth. The DVD contains previously unseen material and includes a section on ""TV Nation"" Moore's TV show from 1990's.

• New Years Day | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It's the end of the Christmas term and Jake (Andrew Lee Potts) and Steven (Bobby Barry) set off with their English teacher on a school skiing trip. One of their friends has brought along a videocam and is making a documentary about them all: what they want who they want and how they're going to get it - an adolescent wish-list of big ambitions and small rebellions. The group is larking about for the camera off-piste when they are all suddenly engulfed by a freak avalanche. Later Ja

• Franz Lehar - Der Graf Von Luxemburg | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £10.41   |  Saving you £14.58 (140.06%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Der Graf Von LuxemburgThe Count Of LuxembourgLe COmte De LuxembourgOperette In Drei AktenOperetta In Three ActsOperette En Trois Actes

• The Maker | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Josh Millen a very bright but somewhat directionless teen turns 18. He's surprised when his brother Walter Schmeiss shows up on the doorstep wishing him a happy birthday. He lies that he's married with two children but explains to Josh that he's in the storage and transfer business.

• A Christmas Adventure | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A unique and charming special for children of all ages A Christmas Adventure... from A Book Called Wisely's Tales is a computer generated 3D animated story set in the North Woods as told by the great storyteller Wisely Owl. In this heartwarming adventure filled with action humor and suspense Wisely's friends come together when Santa's sleigh is forced to crash land due to a ferocious blizzard. When Santa's reindeer scatter it is up to Wisely's friends to help Santa bring them back together in time to save Christmas. Braving the elements and relying on each other they learn the meaning of the true spirit of Christmas.

• Fiend Without A Face | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £28.97   |  Saving you £-18.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Few 1950s creature features deliver in the way Fiend Without a Face does. The first hour is all build-up as tension grows between an Air Force research base and a small Canadian town (this is one of those British B films that pretends to be set overseas) as a series of mystery deaths are blamed by the superstitious on weird military experiments. It's not a spoiler to give away the big revelation, since every item of publicity material, including the DVD cover, blows the surprise: the initially invisible culprits turn out to be a killer swarm of disembodied brains with eyes on stalks and inchworm-like spinal cord tails. These creatures have a nasty habit of latching onto victims and sucking out their grey matter. The finale is a siege of a house by the fiends, which swarm en masse making unsettling brain-sucking sounds, and are bloodily done away with by the heroes. Using excellent stop-motion animation, this climax goes beyond silliness and manages to be genuinely nightmarish. The orgy of splattering brains stands proud among the cinema's first attempts at genuine horror-comic glee, setting a precedent for everything from The Evil Dead to Peter Jackson's Braindead. Marshall Thompson is a bland, stolid uniformed hero and most of the rest of the cast struggle with "anadian" accents, but Kynaston Reeves is fun as the decrepit lone researcher whose fault it all is. On the DVD: Fiend Without a Face on disc comes with a montage of scenes from other films in this batch of releases (The Day of the Triffids, The Stars Look Down) that plays automatically when the disc is inserted, but otherwise not even a trailer, much less the commentary track and other material found on the pricey but luxurious US Region 1 Criterion release. The print has nice contrasts but is pretty grainy. --Kim Newman

• London's Burning - Series 6 - Complete | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The complete sixth series of London's Burning features Blackwall Fire Station's Blue Watch in some of their most dramatic stories; collapsing scaffolding and exploding petrol stations counterpoint the more personal stories of the firefighters. It's this combination of drama and personal issues that made London's Burning a huge success for ITV with viewers loving the quirky but human characters who put their lives on the line every week. This set features all ten episodes of the sixth series originally transmitted in 1993. The complete sixth series of London's Burning features Blackwall Fire Station's Blue Watch in some of their most dramatic stories; collapsing scaffolding and exploding petrol stations counterpoint the more personal stories of the firefighters. It's this combination of drama and personal issues that made Londons Burning a huge success for ITV.

• L'Africaine - Meyerbeer | DVD | (02/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Meyerbeer - L'Africaine (Arena Orch/Chorus/Ballet SFO)

• The Salvation - Spur der Vergeltung | Blu Ray | (24/02/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tale of A Vampire | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A cross-cultural oddity, Tale of a Vampire feels like a 1970s British horror movie retranslated from the Japanese and mounted as a vehicle for Julian Sands. Director-writer Shimako Sato takes a gloom-haunted approach to the undead, allegedly influenced by the necrophile romanticism of Edgar Allan Poe (it claims to be based on Poe's poem "Annabel Lee") but also draws on the popular blood-sucking posiness of Anne Rice's bestselling novels. Alex (Sands), is a style-conscious vampire whose white shirts are always immaculate although he spends most of his nights messily pouring gore over his face. Living in a spartan docklands pad, Alex haunts a library of long-forgotten lore where he sets his cap at a young woman (Suzanna Hamilton) who may be the reincarnation of his lost love. Unfortunately, a hat-wearing rival vampire (Kenneth Cranham) has been nurturing a grudge against Alex for lifetimes and sticks his oar in, complicating the relationship between vampire and willing victim, setting up for a big stake-shoving climax. For all its vampire feuds and dodgily S&M-flavoured blood-drinking scenes, this is somewhat staid and solemn, with few locations and a low budget abstraction reminiscent of those old episodes of The Avengers where they could only afford to build a corner of a set and there wasn't any money left to hire actors. While Sands, with aptly vampirish poise, and Cranham, with a sinister Southern accent, are interesting and poised antagonists, making the most of Sato's allusive dialogue, heroine Hamilton lets the side down with an awkward performance that hardly suggests anyone worth giving up immortality for. Cranham's character is supposed to be Poe himself, oddly transformed from his historical stature: he seems to have put on a bit of weight since his death in 1849, but Cranham's sly nasty way of ordering gruesome nouvelle cuisine and tormenting a harmless crackpot is aptly Poeish. The slow-paced film takes a long time to confirm what is obvious from the outset (even from the title) and then shudders to a halt with all the characters' fates left vague. However, it has a unique and disturbing atmosphere--the few familiar vampire images of a bloody Sands are outweighed by weirder moments like Cranham's presentation of a pale Hamilton, tied to a bed with red ribbons, as an offering to his nemesis--that makes it more insidiously memorable than many of its higher-budgeted, splashier cousins. On the DVD: A no-frills (no trailer, no cast notes, no nothing), full-screen presentation, which sometimes cramps Sato's careful compositions, this also has a mixed blessing transfer which lends a mouldy or rusty fuzz to some of the blacks in the many night scenes. There is, however, a nice animated menu. --Kim Newman

• Lair Of The Beast | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £4.36   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Famous self-help Guru, Dr. Carson travels to his new facility with eight young addicts with the aim of helping them through their troubles and integrating them back into society. Unfortunately for them society is about to be dismantled as a military force, not from this world, begins a hostile take-over. Can these youngsters escape the facility and if they do, will it even make a difference?

• Fat Actress | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (39.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fat Actress a hybrid new comedy/reality series stars Emmy-Award winning actress Kirstie Alley who plays a fictional version of herself: a successful television and movie star whose weight gain has become the subject of every tabloid imaginable as well as the blight of her existence as she tries to find work and true love in an unforgiving Hollywood... Episodes Comprise: 1. Big Butts 2. Charlie's Angels 3. Holy Lesbo Batman 4. The Koi Effect 5. Crack For Good 6. Cry Ba

• Lady Of Burlesque | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £8.52   |  Saving you £-1.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Foyle's War - War Games / The Funk Hole | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £5.44   |  Saving you £19.55 (359.38%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Two more investigations for Foyle set on the southern coast of England during World War II who is assisted by Milner and his driver Sam.

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

  British Secret Service agent John Rennie becomes a liability to the Agency after a harrowing mission in Argentina. His ex-wife and children receive death threats and marked for murder he returns to Argentina with a plan that will either protect his family and the woman he loves or destroy them.

• Star Trek: Movies Collection 1-9 | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Star Trek 1 - The Motion Picture: Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner)is called upon to collect his old crewmates in order to save humanity from a giant hostile alien vessel steadily approaching Earth and destroying everything in its path. Star Trek 2 - The Wrath Of Khan: It is the 23rd century. The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training manoeuvres and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this inspection may well be the las

• Babylon 5 : The Complete Universe | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £203.99

  This mammoth of a box set contains the Babylon 5 Seasons 1-5 (please see individual box sets for episode listings) all the Babylon 5 films and Crusade Season 1. The Babylon 5 films comprise: 1. Legend Of The Rangers 2. The Gathering 3. In The Beginning 4. Third Space 5. Call To Arms 6. River Of Souls For synopsises please see individual titles. This luxury box set is the ultimate for any Babylon 5 fan.