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• Trouble In Store | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Perhaps surprisingly, the British comedy legend Norman Wisdom has made just 20 films, from his debut in Date With a Dream (1948) to the thriller Double-X (1992). From 1948 on he had his own TV series, Wit and Wisdom, but 1953 was the real turning point. Not only was his son Nicholas born, but he became an instant movie star with the release of Trouble in Store. Playing a character called Norman he brought his familiar stage and television personality to the big screen as a young man with the ambition to become a window dresser in a major department store. Ever loveable victim of his own clumsiness, all Norman's efforts to improve himself result in chaos. That is, until he meets Sally (Lana Morris), the girl of his dreams. Then things turn disastrous. Co-starring Margaret Rutherford, Trouble in Store introduced Wisdom's self-penned song which would become his theme, "Don't laugh at Me ('Cause I'm a Fool)". The film became a massive box-office hit and won Wisdom a BAFTA Award. Very much of its time, yet still highly entertaining, this video release provides the opportunity to nostalgically revisit and reassess one of Britain's greatest stars. Wisdom's follow-up was another substantial hit, One Good Turn (1954). --Gary S. Dalkin

• Face/Off / Snake Eyes / Bringing Out The Dead | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Face Off (Dir. John Woo 1997): Oscar-winning superstar Nicolas Cage and screen icon John Travolta battle head to head in 'Face/Off' the ultimate cat and mouse thriller directed by the world's most acclaimed action film director John Woo. To avenge the senseless murder of his son FBI agent Sean Archer undergoes a radical new surgery allowing him to switch faces with the comatose terrorist Castor Troy and assumes Sean's identity the real Sean is thrust into an unimaginable nightmare fighting not only for his life but also those of his wife and daughter! Brilliant performances and mind-numbing visual effects make Face/Off the explosive stylish action thriller you've got to see to believe! Snake Eyes (Dir. Brian De Palma 1998): An explosive highly entertaining action thriller Snake Eyes teams Nicolas Cage with big-screen favourite Gary Sinise. Cage is an Atlantic City cop who along with an arena full of spectators at a championship prize-fight is eyewitness to a political assassination! Determined to quickly solve the crime he immediately launches an intensive investigation... then learns that a search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-widening web of conspiracy intrigue and danger! Bringing Out The Dead (Dir. Martin Scorsese 1999): Nicholas Cage plays EMS paramedic Frank Pierce. It is the early 1990's and New York has not yet undergone its renaissance of recent years. Surrounded by the injured and the dying Frank is dwelling in an urban night-world crumbling under the accumulated weight of too many years of saving and losing lives. The film follows Frank over the course of fifty-six hours in his life - two days and three nights on the job - as he reaches the very brink of spiritual collapse and redemption.

• Tripfall | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A summer vacation turns into a nightmare as rising executive Tom Williams (John Ritter) takes his beautiful wife Gina (Rachel Hunter) and his children on a long-awaited break. Tom and his family are thrown into a deadly game of cat and mouse when they are kidnapped by a vicious gang led by the psychotic Mr Eddie (Eric Roberts) the last in a line of white trash criminals lured to the west coast by the promise of easy pickings. Tom is given an ultimatum find .2 million or his family will die! But all is not what it seems as it becomes clear to Tom that the sadistic Eddie has no intention of turning his family free. Unable to ask for help Tom must summon up every ounce of moral and physical courage to save his family from almost certain death!

• Guardian | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £5.91   |  Saving you £13.07 (447.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Though the Guardian opens with a nod or two to Three Kings, it really offers a cut-down version of Fallen, with Los Angeles Detective Kross (Mario Van Peebles) facing Telal--a body-hopping Sumerian demon he encountered at an archaeological site in Iraq during the Gulf War--entrusted by ritual scarification with the task of protecting a 12-year-old boy who will grow up to unite the three great monotheistic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) and thus set the Devil's work back millennia. A sub-plot deals with a red powder drug ("Chaos"), imported by the demon's minions, which catches on in LA sending coke-sniffing agents into murderous frenzies (the funniest scene) and briefly giving guest star dealer Ice-T superpowers until an ambiguously angelic hit lady (Stacy Oversier) tosses him off a building. There are elements of The Matrix stirred in, with Oversier and Telal dead ringers for the Carrie-Ann Moss and Hugo Weaving characters, but it inevitably boils down to a Fallen-style formula. It's stripped-down demonology--ever since The Evil Dead, those Sumerian demons have been getting a bad press--with direct-to-video action, but is by no means unlikeable. On the DVD: Along with the trailer, this disc offers IMDB filmographies for Van Peebles, Remar, Ice-T and John Terlesky (who used to be a busy B-actor in the likes of Chopping Mall and Valet Girls and now directs quickies such as Guardian). The transfer is augmented for 16:9 and looks significantly better than the video version, giving this low-budget effort a relatively lush feel, though the Iraqi desert does look as though it was an hour or so drive out of Los Angeles. --Kim Newman

• Apache Rifles | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Audie Murphy stars as Captain Jeff Stanton a man of honour caught between his duty and his conscience at a time when not all men were equal. When Indian Chief Victorio and his people leave the confines of their reservation Captain Stanton is sent to bring them back by whatever means necessary. Whilst he prefers a diplomatic solution many local miners would like nothing more than to be rid of the Indians once and for all leaving the gold-rich reservation land free to mine. As the injustice of the situation begins to have its effect on Stanton he must choose to fulfil his military obligation or disobey orders to prevent more bloodshed and the possible annihilation of an entire Indian tribe.

• Viking Women And The Sea Serpent | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A group of lonely Viking women build a ship and set off across the sea to locate their missing menfolk who have not returned from an earlier voyage. As they are sailing they are caught in a whirlpool that sends them near a hideous sea serpent and their boat is destroyed. The survivors make their way to an island the land of the Grimolts... a race of people that have enslaved all the unfortunate beings that land on their territory including the Viking men who have been forced to work down their mines. The women must battle to save their men and themselves.

• Friends - Series 7 - Episodes 1-4 Plus Director's Cut | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Lots happened behind the scenes between seasons and early on in the seventh year of the hit comedy, leaving audiences speculating that this might be the last. Perry became seriously ill again, and returned looking more emaciated than eve r. Cox regained weight, but despite finishing Scream 3 happily, things were already rocky with David Arquette. Much was made in the press about Aniston marrying Brad Pitt, of course, but the real news (allaying fans' fears) was NBC's expensive renewal of the cast for two years at $750,000 per episode each (more than six times their previous increase). On-screen, at least there was Chandler and Monica's engagement lasting the whole year, despite predictable ups and downs (eg: "T.O.W. The Truth About London" revealing that Monica fancied Joey). By the time we finally get to "T.O.W. Chandler's Dad" (Kathleen Turner), it seems inevitable that the two-part finale will be an insane mess--but with a happy-ish ending. Sure enough, "T.O.W. Chandler and Monica's Wedding" features Gary Oldman joining in the chaos as Chandler repeatedly goes missing. Other star-turns in the year were Seinfeld's Jason Alexander as a suicidal Office Manager, Susan Sarandon as soap queen bitch Jessica Lockhart, Denise Richards as one of Ross and Monica's endless number of cousins and Winona Ryder as a surprise old friend, prompting "T.O.W. Rachel's Big Kiss". But perhaps the most telling instalment of this weirdly atmospheric year was "T.O.W. They All Turn Thirty". It suggested that maybe the Friends are all getting too old to carry on living their frivolous lives the same way after all. Paul Tonks

• Kidnapped | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance his relative first tries to murder him and then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Fortunately for David he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck (Michael Caine) and together they manage to escape. On arriving back in Scotland they set out for Edinburgh dodging the ruthless Redcoats to claim David's rightful inheritance...

• The Invisible Man - The Complete TV Series | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This box set contains 26 episodes from the 1958 television series The Invisible Man. Over the years H G Wells' tale of psychological terror first published in 1897 has inspired many films and several TV versions. However the cosy 1950s version produced by Ralph Smart was the first to reach the small screen. Billed as 'featuring the invisible star' the series is also notable to TV historians as being one of the first contemporary set TV thrillers shot entirely on film. Episodes comprise: 1. Secret Experiment 2. Crisis In The Desert 3. Behind The Mask 4. Shadow On The Screen 5. The Mink Coat 6. The Locked Room 7. Jailbreak 8. Blind Justice 9. Bank Raid 10. Strange Partners 11. Odds Against Death 12. Picnic With Death 13. Play To Kill 14. Point Of Destruction 15. Death Cell 16. The Vanishing Evidence 17. The Prize 18. Flight Into Darkness 19. The Decoy 20. The Gun Runners 21. The White Rabbit 22. Man In Disguise 23. Man In Power 24. The Rocket 25. Shadow Bombs 26. The Big Plot

• Pinero | DVD | (22/02/2005) from £10.48   |  Saving you £4.51 (43.03%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Miguel Piero was a New York City poet and playwright who wrote what he knew: a world of ""stabbing shooting and dying."" This gritty non-linear biographical film presents Piero's dark charisma and even darker life in all it's angry glory. A junkie a drug dealer and a thief Piero (played by Benjamin Bratt) spent time in Sing-Sing prison an experience which was the basis of his most famous play SHORT EYES which won the Tony award in 1974. P

• Emanuelle In Prison | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Investigative reporter Emanuelle finds herself locked up in an all women penitentiary run by a ruthless warden and her brutally sadistic guards. Vowing to exact revenge on the corrupt politician who set her up Emanuelle must first survive the daily torture and attempts at her life by grotesque prison bully Albina. Into this powder keg of smouldering sex and violence comes four bloodthirsty death row inmates led by 'Crazy Boy' Henderson. Blasting their way to a prison takeover this q

• Michael Franti/Spearhead - Live in Sydney | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Michael Franti/Spearhead - Live In Sydney

• Gun Brothers | DVD | (16/03/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sidney Salkow directs this 1950s drama starring Buster Crabbe and Ann Robinson. Chad Santee (Crabbe) is a recently discharged Cavalry sergeant travelling back west to join his brother Jubal (Neville Brand) on the family cattle ranch. Sharing a coach with singer Rose Fargo (Robinson) and a gambler known as Blackjack Silk (Jimmy Seay), when Chad arrives at his destination he discovers that his brother has become an outlaw and has got himself involved with notorious rustler Shawnee Jack (Michael Ansara). As Chad refuses his brother's proposal of a partnership, he leaves with Rose at his side only to be followed by Shawnee Jack and his gang...

• They Call Me Bruce? | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young man is constantly being confused with Bruce Lee.

• Minder - Series 5 - Part 2 Of 3 | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £6.95   |  Saving you £6.04 (86.91%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Series 5 of Minder continues the comic adventures of Arthur Daley (George Cole) and Terry McCann (Dennis Waterman). Strong support is provided as ever by Dave The Barman (Glynn Edwards) Inspector Chisholm (Patrick Malahide) and guest star appearances from the likes of Robbie Coltrane Ray Winstone Beryl Reid and others. All together - ""I could be so good for you!"" Episode titles: 'The Second Time Around' 'Secondhand Rose' and 'Ride to Scratchwood'.

• Scooby Doo Samurai Sword Triple | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £18.49   |  Saving you £6.50 (35.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Includes Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King Chill Out Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword.

• Allan Quatermain And The Temple Of Skulls | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (-25.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The original Indiana Jones in a classic action adventure in the tradition of National Treasure and The Mummy! In this retelling of H. Rider Haggard's classic action adventure 'King Solomon's Mines' battles his arch nemesis in the perilous pursuit of the world's greatest treasure.

• Best Of British Mystery | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  None of these British films have ever been released before on video or DVD since their original cinema run. All are re-mastered from the negatives. Featuring British thriller film stars Patrick McGoohan Sylvia Syms Tom Bell Susan Hampshire Herbert Lom Carole Landis Ed Begley and many other British stars. Includes: 1. Brass Monkey 2. The Quare Fellow 3. Violent Enemy

• Minder - Series 5 - Part 3 Of 3 | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Series 5 of Minder continues the comic adventures of Arthur Daley (George Cole) and Terry McCann (Dennis Waterman). Strong support is provided as ever by Dave The Barman (Glynn Edwards) Inspector Chisholm (Patrick Malahide) and guest star appearances from the likes of Robbie Coltrane Ray Winstone Beryl Reid and others. All together - ""I could be so good for you!"" Episode titles: 'Hypnotising Rita' & 'The Balance of Power'.

• LAPD | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Dennis Hopper stars as Captain Ellisworth in this drama that focuses on crooked cops and the crime underworld. The captain is up to his neck in red tape when new officer (Marc Singer) tries to play hero during a bank robbery turning it into a dangerous shoot-out. Soon the new officer also happens upon a dirty lieutenant (Michael Madsen) and his crew in the middle of wrongdoings and accepts a payoff to keep his mouth shut. This opens up a new story of conspiracy and corruption within