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• Wolf | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sophisticated to a point, this well-executed wolf-man tale works due to its clever setting and enormous star power. We all know Jack Nicholson can go nuts but the script makes his character aware of his changes, sometimes for the better, early on. The setting, a publishing house in the middle of a takeover, gives the characters dramatic life before the horror elements kicks in. A senior editor about to get the boot, Nicholson's character becomes a new man after being bitten by a wolf. He takes on challenges at work, lives a more robust life and attracts a new love. But will his new-found energy consume him? Director Mike Nicholson keeps the action alive in the first half but the film peters out at the end with cheap theatrics and the overuse of slow motion. Michelle Pfeiffer has little to do as simply the love interest with a grittier than average personality. Better is James Spader as a smarmy colleague. Nicholson is in fine form, relying on his keen gift to spark interest (a twitch of the head, a look in the eyes), instead of heavy doses of movie make-up. Giuseppe Rotunno's sweeping camerawork sets the mood quite well. Wolf is easy to recommend, with the added feature it's hardly gratuitous. --Doug Thomas

• Certain Women | Blu Ray | (25/09/2017) from £17.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The expanses of the American Northwest take centre stage in this intimately observed triptych from Kelly Reichardt. Adapted from three short stories by Maile Meloy and unfolding in self-contained but interlocking episodes, Certain Women navigates the subtle shifts in personal desire and social expectation that unsettle the circumscribed lives of its characters: a lawyer (Laura Dern) forced to subdue a troubled client; a woman (Michelle Williams) whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a night-school teacher (Kristen Stewart) who forms a tenuous bond with a lonely ranch hand (Lily Gladstone), whose unguardedness and deep attachment to the land deliver an unexpected jolt of emotional immediacy. With unassuming craft, Reichardt captures the rhythms of daily life in small-town Montana through these fine-grained portraits of women trapped within the landscape's wide-open spaces. DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: New 2K digital transfer, supervised by director Kelly Reichardt and cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New interviews with the film's cast and crew, including Reichardt and executive producer Todd Haynes New interview with Maile Meloy, author of the stories on which the film is based Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Ella Taylor

• The Lady | Blu Ray | (23/04/2012) from £8.39   |  Saving you £16.60 (197.85%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

• Heist | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £19.92   |  Saving you £-4.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Gene Hackman stars as an ex-con who decides to pull off the biggest jewelry heist of his career, but mayhem ensues when the gang of jewel thieves he teams up with turn on him.

• True Legend | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £3.97   |  Saving you £13.28 (490.04%)   |  RRP £15.99

  True Legend is the extraordinary journey of a man - a martial arts hero - whose greatest dream is to create a unique school of martial arts for the world to follow. All his life Su Can has been pursuing the summit in martial arts. There are two things he holds dearest to his heart - the dream of creating a unique kind of martial arts that will pass on to generations; and his beloved wife. Su has a happy family and his wife is the joy of his life. But owing to a turn of fate and Su's own stubbornness he loses his wife and his family is destroyed. After losing his wife Su cannot live with himself and collapses totally. He is drunk all the time and becomes a crazy beggar in everyone's eyes. Everyday his young son ties him with a piece of rope and leads him through the streets greeted by people's curious and disdainful gazes. But all this time during his spiritual exile his dream for the highest peak in martial arts is still alive. In his madness Su continues his practice to perfect his skills and fists.

• Hairspray | Blu Ray | (19/11/2007) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  John Waters' 1988 cult classic gets a 21st century makeover in this update of the musical.

• Diary Of The Dead | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  From the legendary director of Dawn Of The Dead, George A. Romero comes a new take on his terrifying world of the undead.

• Venom | 4K UHD | (04/02/2019) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of Marvel's greatest and most complex characters takes center stage as Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) becomes the host for the alien symbiote Venom. As a journalist, Eddie has been trying to take down the notorious founder of the Life Foundation, genius Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed) and that obsession ruined his career and his relationship with his girlfriend, Anne Weying (Michelle Williams). Upon investigating one of Drake's experiments, the alien Venom merges with Eddie's body, and he suddenly has incredible new superpowers, as well as the chance to do just about whatever he wants. Twisted, dark, unpredictable, and fueled by rage, Venom leaves Eddie wrestling to control dangerous abilities that he also finds empowering and intoxicating. As Eddie and Venom need each other to get what they're looking for, they become more and more intertwined where does Eddie end and Venom begin?

• Wolfblood Series 4 (BBC) | DVD | (20/06/2016) from £10.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  All 12 episodes from the fourth series of the teenage fantasy drama. The programme follows a group of young wolfbloods as they come to terms with their transformation and try their utmost to protect the woldblood secret. In this series, former wild wolfblood Jana has moved to Newcastle where she works for Segolia. There, she rescues oprhaned wolfblood siblings Matei and Emilia Jack Brett Anderson and and forms a new pack. The episodes are: 'Captivity', 'A Long Way from Home', 'Wolfblood Ultimatum', 'Morwal', 'The Quiet Hero', 'She-Wolf', 'Sheep's Clothing', 'Where Wolf', 'Into the Wild', 'The Wild at Heart', 'Viral' and 'Protocol 5'.

• Waxwork | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £6.19   |  Saving you £9.80 (158.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Stop On By And Give Afterlife A Try. Zach Galligan (Gremlins) teams up with special effects wizard Bob Keen (Alien Highlander) to star in this spine-tingling horror. Mark and his college class decide to have a little fun and attend a 'private' midnight showing at the new waxwork museum. Admission is free... but getting out may cost them their lives! Join them in this roller-coaster ride into terror in Waxwork.

• Doctor Who - Series 10 Part 2 BD | Blu Ray | (24/07/2017) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The second volume of the new 2017 series, as Peter Capaldi continues his adventures as the Time Lord, again accompanied by new companion Bill (Pearl Mackie). Contains the concluding 6 episodes, as well as 6 exclusive Series 10 art-cards.

• Babylon A.D. | Blu Ray | (29/12/2008) from £13.02   |  Saving you £11.96 (91.86%)   |  RRP £24.98

  Vin Diesel stars as a mercenary hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The "package" is a mysterious young woman with a secret.

• Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Complete DVD Collection | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £104.99   |  Saving you £75.00 (71.44%)   |  RRP £179.99

  From its charming and angst-ridden first season to the darker, apocalyptic final one, Buffy the Vampire Slayer succeeds on many levels, and in a fresher and more authentic way than the shows that came before or after it. How lucky, then, that with the release of its box set of seasons 1-7, you can have the estimable pleasure of watching a near-decade of Buffy in any order you choose. (And we have some ideas about how that should be done.) First: rest assured that there's no shame in coming to Buffy late, even if you initially turned your nose up at the winsome Sarah Michelle Gellar kicking the hell out of vampires (in Buffy-lingo, vamps), demons, and other evil-doers. Perhaps you did so because, well, it looked sort of science-fiction-like with all that monster latex. Start with season 3 and see that Buffy offers something for everyone, and the sooner you succumb to it, the quicker you'll appreciate how textured and riveting a drama it is. Why season 3? Because it offers you a winning cast of characters who have fallen from innocence: their hearts have been broken, their egos trampled in typically vicious high-school style, and as a result, they've begun to realize how fallible they are. As much as they try, there are always more monsters, or a bigger evil. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the core crew remains something of a unit--there's the smart girl, Willow (Alyson Hannigan) who dreams of saving the day by downloading the plans to City Hall's sewer tunnels and mapping a route to safety. There are the ne'r do wells--the vampire Spike (James Marsters), who both clashes with and aspires to love Buffy; the tortured and torturing Angel (David Boreanz); the pretty, popular girl with an empty heart (Charisma Carpenter); and the teenage everyman, Xander (Nicholas Brendon). Then there's Buffy herself, who in the course of seven seasons morphs from a sarcastic teenager in a minidress to a heroine whose tragic flaw is an abiding desire to be a "normal" girl. On a lesser note, with the box set you can watch the fashion transformation of Buffy from mall rat to Prada-wearing, kickboxing diva with enviable highlights. (There was the unfortunate bob of season 2, but it's a forgivable lapse.) At least the storyline merits the transformations: every time Buffy has to end a relationship she cuts her hair, shedding both the pain and her vulnerability. In addition to the well-wrought teenage emotional landscape, Buffy deftly takes on more universal themes--power, politics, death, morality--as the series matures in seasons 4-6. And apart from a few missteps that haven't aged particularly well ("I Robot" in season 1 comes to mind), most episodes feel as harrowing and as richly drawn as they did at first viewing. That's about as much as you can ask for any form of entertainment: that it offer an escape from the viewer's workaday world and entry into one in which the heroine (ideally one with leather pants) overcomes demons far more troubling than one's own. --Megan Halverson

• Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-rama | DVD | (27/06/2016) from £16.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (10.71%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Few films from the rental shop era are more likely to raise a smile among Scream Queen buffs than 1987's classic SORORITY BABES IN THE SLIMEBALL BOWL-O-RAMA. Originally released in the UK under the moniker of THE IMP, this creature feature favourite introduces us to a pint-sized pest that grants wishes but also takes soul-control of those stupid enough to fall for his promises. Featuring a cast headlined by video vixen superstars Linnea Quigley (RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD), Brinke Stevens (NIGHTMARE SISTERS) and Michelle Bauer (HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS), and directed by low budget legend David DeCoteau (CREEPOZOIDS), this is not only a rental shop romp that defies time but one of the all-time must-see late night beer and pizza pot-boilers! With plenty of boobs and blood, and a brand new HD restoration, 88 Films is proud to present SORORITY BABES IN THE SLIMEBALL BOWL-O-RAMA in a stunning special edition Blu-ray package! Extra: Trailer

• Ash vs Evil Dead Season 1-2 DVD | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ash has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind and Ash becomes mankind's only hope.

• Incendiary | DVD | (02/03/2009) from £3.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (350.42%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set against an immediate-future London gripped by terrorist attacks, "Incendiary" sees events on the intimate level of ordinary humans living in extraordinary times.

• Bad Education: Series Two | DVD | (29/09/2014) from £8.63   |  Saving you £11.36 (131.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bad Education - written by and starring Jack Whitehall - returns to BBC3 and it’s even bigger and better than the hugely successful first series. Mathew Horne Michelle Gomez and Sarah Solemani reprise their roles in this series. They are joined by brilliant new cast additions including Harry Enfield Samantha Spiro Greg McHugh Frances Barber and Jake Canuso. Also returning are the wonderful young comedy talent in Alfie’s class. It’s a new term and Alfie Wickers (Jack Whitehall) is back as the self-styled maverick of Abbey Grove attempting to teach his class something - anything - that requires zero effort. Though Alfie’s heart’s always in the right place his judgment is often clouded by the fact he is in reality a bigger kid than any of the kids he teaches. Bad Education series two features a swimming gala a drugs awareness day that ends in utter humiliation for Alfie Fraser staging Abbey Grove’s own Take Me Out and Joe being shot in the bum. It may be a new term but it looks like Alfie hasn’t learnt a thing but his pupils still love him...

• Downton Abbey - Series 1-4 | Blu Ray | (11/11/2013) from £10.46   |  Saving you £44.53 (425.72%)   |  RRP £54.99

  Contains all episdoes of the first four series of the ITV costume drama, following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in an English stately home. This collection also includes the Christmas day episodes from 2011 & 2012.

• Restart the Earth | Blu Ray | (22/05/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In order to combat desertification, humans have developed drugs that promote the accelerated reproduction of plant cells, but they have accidentally liberated the stress system of plants and awakened plant emotions.

• Scooby Doo Live Action Quadrilogy | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £19.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  There's no business like ghost business and when you join Mystery Inc. you get to travel!