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• The X Files: Season 2 | DVD | (30/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Season Two, the 1994-95 run, of The X Files was the one where creator Chris Carter, having had a surprise hit when he expected a one-season wonder, started trying to make sense of all the storylines he had thrown into the pile in the first year. Moreover, he had to cope with Gillian Anderson's maternity leave by having Scully get abducted by aliens (back then, a pretty fresh device) for a few episodes and come back strangely altered. The season also inaugurated the tradition of opening ("Little Green Men") and closing ("Anasazi") with the show's worst episodes, both pot-boiling attempts to keep the alien infiltration/government conspiracy balls up in the air while seeming to offer narrative forward-thrusts or revelations.But it's also a show noticeably surer of itself than Season One, with its stars reading from the same page in terms of their characters' relationship and attitudes to the wondrous. Scully's no-longer-workable scepticism finally starts to erode in the face of Mulder's increasingly cracked belief. There are fewer marking-time leftover-monster-of-the-week shows--although we do get a human fluke ("The Host"), vampires ("3"), an invisible rapist ("Excelsius Dei") voodoo ("Fresh Bones")--and the flying-saucer stories at last seem to be going somewhere. The powerful two-episode run ("Duane Barry", "Ascension") features Steve Railsback as Mulder's possible future, an FBI agent burned out after a UFO abduction who has become a hostage-taking terrorist, which climaxes with Scully's disappearance into the light. The standout episode is also a stand-alone--"Humbug"--the first and still most successful of the show's self-parodies (written by Darin Morgan, who had played the Flukeman in "The Host"), in which the agents investigate a murder in a circus freakshow, allowing the actors to make fun of the mannerisms they have earnestly built up in a run of solemn, even somnolent, explorations of the murk. Other worthy efforts: "Aubrey", about genetic memory; "Irresistible", a rare (and creepy) straight psycho-chiller with little paranormal content; and "The Calusari", a good ghost/mystery. Rising deputy characters include Nicholas Lea as the perfidious Krycek and Brian Thompson as the shapeshifting alien bounty hunters. Notable guest stars: Charles Martin Smith, C.C.H. Pounder, Leland Orser, Terry O'Quinn, Bruce Weitz, Daniel Benzali, John Savage, Vincent Schiavelli, Tony Shalhoub. --Kim NewmanOn the DVD: The individual episode discs have a small selection of deleted scenes, foreign language clips and behind-the-scenes footage, but the bulk of the extra material is on the final disc. There's not a lot to get to grips with, but what there is consists of a 14-minute documentary about the making of Season Two, with contributions from Chris Carter, various directors, writers and actors (but not the two principals); Carter talking briefly about each episode in turn; a series of short TV spots and pieces about the show's FX and secondary characters; and three very short behind-the-scenes glimpses, one of which has the self-explanatory title "Gillian eats a cricket". There's also a DVD-ROM utility with Web links and a game. --Mark Walker

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 6 DVD Collection | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £29.98   |  Saving you £50.01 (166.81%)   |  RRP £79.99

  The sixth series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer followed the logic of plot and character development into some gloomy places. The year begins with Buffy being raised from the dead by the friends who miss her, but who fail to understand that a sacrifice taken back is a sacrifice negated. Dragged out of what she believes to have been heavenly bliss, she finds herself "going through the motions" and entering into a relationship with the evil, besotted vampire Spike just to force her emotions. Willow becomes ever more caught up in the temptations of magic; Xander and Anya move towards marriage without ever discussing their reservations; Giles feels he is standing in the way of Buffy's adult independence; Dawn feels neglected. What none of them need is a menace that is, at this point, simply annoying--three high school contemporaries who have turned their hand to magical and high-tech villainy. Added to this is a hungry ghost, an invisibility ray, an amnesia spell and a song-and-dance demon (who acts as rationale for the incomparable musical episode "Once More With Feeling"). This is a year in which chickens come home to roost: everything from the villainy of the three geeks to Xander's doubts about marriage come to a head, often--as in the case of the impressive wedding episode--through wildly dark humour. The estrangement of the characters from each other--a well-observed portrait of what happens to college pals in their early 20s--comes to a shocking head with the death of a major character and that death's apocalyptic consequences. The series ends on a consoling note which it has, by that point and in spite of imperfections, entirely earned. --Roz Kaveney

• Just One Day | DVD | (03/02/2014) from £4.15   |  Saving you £10.10 (349.48%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Academy Award nominees Andy Garcia and Vera Farmiga star in this charming and delightful romantic comedy where one day can change everything. George (Academy Award nominee Andy Garcia) is an uptight surgeon with a rebellious teenage son. Edith (Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga) is a free spirit with an overachieving teen daughter. When they meet during an admissions tour with their kids at the small idyllic Middleton University George and Edith decide to play hooky together and soon discover that the only thing better than the college tour - is the detour. Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story) Spencer Lofranco Nicholas Braun (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) Peter Riegert (The Good Wife) and Tom Skerritt (Picket Fences) co-star in a story about what can happen on your first day of college - no matter who you are - at Middleton.

• Lassie | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £6.75   |  Saving you £13.24 (196.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lassie has to try and make her way home in time for Christmas in this charming family movie.

• Butterflies - Series 1 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £14.30   |  Saving you £5.69 (39.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This classic poignant BBC comedy starring Wendy Craig as the bored suburban housewife Ria looking for more from life. Ria is seemingly happy with two teenage sons but after 19 years of marriage she feels that everyone is taking her for granted and that life is passing her by. A chance encounter with a handsome businessman Leonard leaves her dreaming of being swept off her feet. But dreaming is about as close as Ria gets before her lugubrious husband - the butterfly collecting d

• Mad Max Black and Chrome Edition | Blu Ray | (15/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Haunted by his turbulent past, Mad Max believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord marshals all his gangs and pursues the rebels ruthlessly in the high-octane Road War that follows.

• Censor (2-Disc Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (31/01/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Enid is a film censor during Britain's infamous ˜video nasty' era of the 80s. After her latest viewing has a disturbingly familiar storyline, she attempts to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance and embarks on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality. Special Features New audio commentary by Director and Co-Writer Prano Bailey-Bond and Executive Producer Kim Newman New audio commentary by Prano Bailey-Bond, Director of Photography Annika Summerson, Editor Mark Towns and Sound Designer Tim Harrison New audio commentary by Kat Ellinger, Lindsay Hallam and Miranda Corcoran My Own Nasty: a new interview with Prano Bailey-Bond Penning a Nasty: a new interview with Co-Writer Anthony Fletcher The Censor: a new interview with Actor Niamh Algar Nasty Images: a new interview with Annika Summerson I'm Cutting It: a new interview with Mark Towns Nasty Sounds: a new interview with Composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch The Making of Censor Deleted Scenes Enid's Gaze: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on Censor Screening Q&A with Prano Bailey-Bond and Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch hosted by Jed Shepherd Prano Bailey-Bond in conversation with BBFC compliance Officer David Hyman My Nasty Memories by David Gregory Ban the Sadist Videos! Parts One and Two feature length documentary English subtitles for the hearing impaired Limited Edition Contents Rigid slipcase with new artwork by James Neal Soft cover book with new essays by Anna Bogutskaya, Kat Ellinger, Tim Murray, Alison Peirse and Hannah Strong plus production photos 6 collectors' art cards

• Idle Hands | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Despite all the pot-smoking in Idle Hands, the message here seems to be that too many bong hits will take you on a one-way trip to the devil's playground. That's what happens to Anton (Devon Sawa), a wasted teen who's so perpetually zonked on weed that he doesn't notice his parents have been slaughtered by an evil force that then possesses Anton's right hand, taking on a wildly homicidal life of its own after Anton chops it off with a butcher knife. The first victims are Anton's pals Mick (teen-movie stalwart Seth Green), who gets a beer bottle embedded in his skull, and Pnub (Elden Henson), whose head is lopped off by a rotary saw blade, and later reattached with a barbecue fork and duct tape. (Did we mention that Mick and Pnub turn into undead jokesters? It's that kind of movie.) This unoriginal idea is little more than an excuse for gross-out effects and easy one-liners, and then Vivica A. Fox appears as the demon-buster who knows how to kill the hand once and for all. It's fun to a point, and certain to be a popular Halloween hit with its intended teenage audience, but you can't help wishing this movie had tried harder to be something more than a collection of crude and gory gags. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Mindhorn | Blu Ray | (04/09/2017) from £6.78   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mindhorn is a must-see British comedy from co-writers and stars Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh) and Simon Farnaby (Star Wars: Rogue One), with a supporting cast that includes Andrea Riseborough, Essie Davis and Steve Coogan. Washed-up actor Richard Thorncroft (Julian Barratt, The Mighty Boosh) is given the chance to revive his flagging career by returning to the role which made him famous: Mindhorn, a genetically modified detective whose eye was replaced by a super-advanced optical lie detector, allowing him to literally see the truth. Decades later, when a deranged Manx criminal demands only to speak to Detective Mindhorn, Thorncroft returns to the scene of his greatest triumph for one last chance to reignite his glory days and professional credibility.

• American Pie | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £4.39   |  Saving you £8.60 (195.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jim (Jason Biggs) is just Like any other healthy, red-blooded guy -- who is also a virgin -- he's desperate.

• NYPD Blue Complete Season 7 | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £26.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (34.32%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The complete seventh season of the popular US drama following detectives Andy Sipowicz as they help police the streets of the Big Apple. The episodes comprise: 'Loogie Nights' 'A Hole in Juan' 'The Man With Two Right Shoes' 'The Naked Are the Dead' 'These Shoots Are Made for Joaquin' 'Brothers Under Arms' 'Along Came Jones' 'Everybody Plays the Mule' 'Jackass' 'Who Murders Sleep' 'Little Abner' 'Welcome to New York' 'The Irvin Files' 'Sleep Over' 'Stressed for Success' 'Goodbye Charlie' 'Roll Out the Barrel' 'Lucky Luciano' 'Tea and Sympathy' 'This Old Spouse' 'Bats Off to Larry' and 'The Last Round Up'.

• Butterflies - Complete | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £39.99   |  Saving you £50.00 (125.03%)   |  RRP £89.99

  Every episode of Carla Lane's bittersweet comedy in a fantastic four double DVD boxed set. This classic poignant BBC comedy starring Wendy Craig as the bored suburban housewife Ria looking for more from life. Ria is seemingly happy with two teenage sons but after 19 years of marriage she feels that everyone is taking her for granted and that life is passing her by.

• Touching The Void | Blu Ray | (16/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The remarkable true story of two mountaineers whose descent from a 21,000 foot peak in the Peruvian Andes turned into a nightmare when one of them fell into a crevasse and was left for dead.

• Nathan Barley | DVD | (21/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The brainchild of Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris Nathan Barley is their latest comedy assault on society; a satirical parody of the Hoxton-finned style obsessed world of the new media. Nathan Barley is 26. He is a webmaster guerrilla filmmaker screenwriter DJ and in his own words a ""self-facilitating media node"". He is convinced he is the epitome of urban cool and therefore secretly terrified he might not be which is why he reads Sugar Ape Magazine - his bible

• The Goonies Titans of Cult Steelbook | Blu Ray | (30/08/2021) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A decade-defining classic from the imagination of Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus, The Goonies follows a tight-knit group of young friends desperate to save their homes from a greedy real-estate developer. After discovering a mysterious treasure map, they find themselves being chased by a family of fugitives through an underground realm full of twisting passages and booby traps. Their quest: to find the hidden gold of legendary pirate One-Eyed Willy. When all seems lost, the Goonies never say die in the beloved, generation-crossing adventure. This Collector's Set Includes: The Goonies on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Collectable SteelBook Case with new artwork Unique Enamel Pin Exclusive A3 Poster Extras: Director and cast commentary The Making of Goonies Featurette Cyndi Lauper The Goonies 'r' good enough Music Video Deleted scenes Theatrical trailer

• Mansfield Park | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £10.92   |  Saving you £14.07 (128.85%)   |  RRP £24.99

  True virtue triumphs over superficiality in this distinguished BBC production of Jane Austen's celebrated novel Mansfield Park. Set in 18th century England Jane Austen's tale of virtue and vice tells of young impoverished Fanny Price who arrives at the elegant country estate of her uncle Sir Thomas Bertam. Snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund Fanny begins her long struggle for acceptance by her shallow relatives who believe wealth automatically means quality. When

• Gulliver's Travels | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ebulliently imaginative and far more cleverly presented than you would expect from a TV miniseries, this adaptation of Gulliver's Travels succeeds by never pandering to the lowest common denominator. Closely based on Jonathan Swift's 1726 classic, it is enhanced by dazzling special effects from Jim Henson Productions and a superb, multi-ethnic cast. The biggest surprise is Ted Danson in the title role--one of his best performances, even if he is the only person in England with an American accent. He conveys amusement, amazement and intelligence as he travels from one strange country into another. Not that anyone back in Blighty believes Mr Gulliver's tales of little people or giants. The story is told in flashback from an insane asylum, where he is forcibly confined. This far outshines several previous adaptations of Swift's satirical novel. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• A Horse called Bear | DVD | (07/11/2016) from £21.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Playing Away | DVD | (26/10/2009) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From acclaimed Black British filmmaker Horace Ove (Pressure 1975) comes this comedy of manners in which a West Indian cricket team from Brixton travel to a Suffolk village to play against the local team as the culmination of the village's 'Third World Week'. Ove subtly explores and undermines white and black stereotypes and succeeds in linking two familiar but strange cultures through the simple device of a sports game.

• Midwinter Of The Spirit | DVD | (02/11/2015) from £15.93   |  Saving you £2.06 (12.93%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Outspoken, intelligent, attractive and down-to-earth, single mother Merrily Watkins is not what you'd expect to see upon hearing the words Church of England priest.