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• 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.

• 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

• The Education Of Little Tree | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £26.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (-68.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the novel by Forrest Carter 'The Education Of Little Tree' is a simple and touching tale set in the deep-south during the Depression. It tells the story of a young boy Little Tree who is sent to live in the Tennessee Mountains with his grandparents. On his arrival Little Tree discovers he is half Cherokee and begins to learn the wisdom and way of life of the Cherokee but the government places him in an Indian school where he is abused physically and psychologically...

• One Body Too Many | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A mixture of family members and servants gather at the estate of Cyrus J Rutherford to hear the late millionaire's will. There are surprises in store for all of them... Written by Winston Miller and Maxwell Shane and directed Frank McDonald.

• Rom Coms - 10 movies | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Girls Just Want To Have Fun Two teenage girls Janey and Lynne dream of being selected as the new 'DTV' dance regulars so they attend an open audition. There they meet two teenage boys Drew and Jeff who have the same idea... My Date With Drew My Date With Drew is a digital diary through the rose-tinted glasses of 27-year-old Brian Herzlinger who aspires to have a date with his dream girl: Drew Barrymore. Shot entirely for 100 that Herzlinger won on a game show the production used a camera purchased on credit from Circuit City and then returned it under the store's 30-day refund policy. Social Climber Based on Adele Lang's novel 'Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber'. Social satire based on the best seller by Adele Lang humorously chronicles the life of Katya Livingston a self-centered obnoxious and conceited 28 year old ad sales exec who won't let anything or anyone stand in her way in getting to the top of the San Francisco social ladder. When tax inspectors question her claims Katya is forced to keep a financial diary and finds time to add details about her friends enemies and lovers all from her unique point of view. Fourplay Colin Firth stars as Allen a man who has it all; including a beautiful wife (Mariel Hemingway) who is the star of the hit TV show he produces. But when a new writer arrives on his show and begins to flirt with his wife Allen finds himself falling in love with sexy French temptress Fiona (Irene Jacob)... Daydream Believer Nell (Miranda Otto) always loved horses more than she loved people until she meets a millionaire playboy (Martin Kemp). He's the kind of guy women always fall for she's the kind men fall over. Romatic fairytale comedy. Undercover Angel Harrison Tyler is a struggling pulp fiction writer who just can't find love. When an ex-girlfriend shows up at his door asking him to take care of her six-year-old daughter for a month Harrison ends up with more than he bargained for: a little girl determined to play matchmaker for him. The youngster manages to find Harrison a girlfriend but when her mother shows up to claim her Harrison finds that his life isn't the same without the six-year-old and he must fight for the little girl that has changed his life. Emerald City A tale of two cities four people and life's little pleasures... money lust temptation greed power and ambition. Emerald City comes from the pen one of Australia's best known writers David Williamson. How To Kill Your Neighbours Dog Life Is All About Making A Scene In the midst of writing a new play Peter McGowen's world is one crazy scene after another. He has a wife who desperately wants to start a family a stalker who's assuming his identity and a crisis which is a scribe's worst nightmare: writer's block. Love On The Side Eve believes she has no more appeal than the leftovers she clears way in her job as a waitress in a small-time diner. However for years she has harboured a secret crush for the eye-droppingly handsome local football hero who sadly doesn't even realise she exists. As if Eve's love-life couldn't get any worse Linda a larger than life blonde bombshell from the city sweeps into town swooping up all the fellas in her path. Conversations With Other Women Conversations With Other Women tells the compelling story of a couple whose reunion ignites a mysterious attraction for each other that is deeper and more emotionally perilous than they are willing to admit.

• Critters 2 | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Get ready for seconds... they're back! It's been two years since the fiendish Critters first terrorized the town of Grovers Bend and sent the Brown family packing. But the ""boy who called Critter "" Brad Brown (Scott Grimes) is back... and just in time! Critter eggs have been hatching lethal litters and the bloodthirsty hairballs are eager to partake in their favourite pastime - eating. In no time the eggs are popping open everywhere - a field full of livestock becomes a gigantic fe

• Courage | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £2.58   |  Saving you £1.41 (54.65%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Marianna's son's life is being ravaged by his dependency on heroin and cocaine. Her husband is angry skeptical and confused. With her back to the wall Marianna vows to take desperate measures to save her crumbling home. Aided by a hotshot drug agent she fights her way through a life-threatening battle in the New York City underworld. Based on a true story.

• The Saint's Vacation | DVD | (27/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Robin Hood Of Modern CrimeThat was how The Saint was often promoted to entice readers, and it's a theme that his creator Leslie Charteris returns to a number of times in his books and stories. It was the publication of The Saint In New York in 1935 that made Charteris an international name. The film rights were sold even before publication and - despite some problem with the American censors over its violent content - became a hit picture for RKO in 1938. Charteris wanted Ronald Colman, Cary Grant or Douglas Fairbanks Jr for the role of Simon Templar. Instead, after Louis Hayward premiered the character, the much-respected George Sanders took on the role in four of the films, with Hugh Sinclair taking the lead in The Saint's Vacation and The Saint Meets The Tiger.The Saint's Vacation:Simon Templar (Hugh Sinclair), aka The Saint, and trusty sidekick Monty Hayward (Arthur Macrae) go to Switzerland on vacation - pursued by wily reporter Mary Langdon (Sally Gray). What was planned as a quite holiday becomes a web of intrigue when Templar spies criminal mastermind Rudolph Hauser, who subsequently relives The Saint of a mysterious music box containing a secret code. This sets off a dangerous cat-and-mouse between Templar and a gang of Nazi agents for possession of the box.

• The Naked Jungle | Blu Ray | (07/01/2022) from £34.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Charlton Heston is the powerful, brooding owner of a plantation in the wild and treacherous South American jungle. Eleanor Parker is his charming American mail-order bride. But Heston is wary of the beautiful and talented Parker and wonders why she would leave America for the rigors of jungle life. They're both threatened by the advance of billions of relentless killer ants who are making their way across the jungle-cutting a path of creeping horror which is 20 miles long and two miles wide. Produced by George Pal, The Naked Jungle is a timeless fan favourite starring Charlton Heston & Eleanor Parker.

• Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  In 1990, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael showed Winona Ryder as cinema's top teenage role model. Her edge was a delinquency-equals-sympathy angle that held true throughout Beetlejuice, Mermaids, Heathers and Edward Scissorhands. Here as Dinky Bossetti she's chasing the ghosts of a past no one can explain. She's adopted; her town of Clyde, Ohio is mysteriously stuck in the 1950s; but weirder still is everyone's fixation with the imminent return of once-famous homecoming girl Roxy Carmichael. Dinky's school peers conform to the John Hughes 80s look and mindset, but it's the retro adult population that really winds her up. Jeff Daniels ought to be a perfectly conditioned suburbanite, but can't get over having once been married to Roxy. Imparting the secret that they'd had a child and given it away, Dinky's own confusions and obsessions suddenly make sense. The tangle of B-plots are given purpose at the same time she is. Her silent admirer (Thomas Wilson Brown) is able to approach her at last, and her school guidance counsellor becomes the friend she's never had. Ultimately the story's about the notion that no teenager ever feels like they fit in. Of course the real problem facing Ryder, Dinky and any viewer is that all teens grow up. What then? On the DVD: This is a bare-bones package with a simple two-channel stereo and 16:9 anamorphic ratio transfer. That said, it looks and sounds just fine. There's only one trailer, but someone's tried with the diner-style menu at least. --Paul Tonks

• Inspector Lynley - Series 2 | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lynley and Havers come from totally different worlds but they are both dedicated professionals. In Series 1 they managed to put aside their cultural differences and work together as a successful team.They are now close friends and confidantes with a mutual respect for one another. Series 2 sees them solving four more puzzling crimes: the death of a star cricketer the abduction and killing of a Government ministers daughter a murder on Lynleys ancestral estate with the prime suspect his brother and the suspicious death of a young Asian man involving racial tension religious extremism family loyalties and illicit sex. Away from work Lynleys relationship with his old friend Helen Clyde (Lesley Vickerage - (Between The Lines Grafters) has blossomed into love and they are now planning to marry. Meanwhile Havers no longer has her parents to look after and is enjoying the first home of her own and a new-found freedom. Her career too is taking off with Lynley openly praising her and giving her more responsibility. She is also now free to enjoy romance if the right man comes along. Episodes Comprise: Playing for the Ashes In the Presence of the Enemy A Suitable Vengeance Deception on His Mind

• Henry Fool | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Hercules - The Legendary Journeys - Season 1 - Part 1 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Features the original TV movies 'Hercules And The Amazon Women' 'Hercules And The Lost Kingdom' 'Hercules And The Circle Of Fire' 'Hercules In The Underworld' and 'Hercules In The Maze Of The Minotaur' plus the first three episodes of the first series.

• If Lucy Fell | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Joe and Lucy are best friends and roommates in a small Manhattan apartment...and she's about to turn 30. So Lucy won't stop reminding Joe of their pact to jump off a bridge if they haven't found true love by the time she hits the big three-oh. Joe reluctantly agrees to honor the agreement. But first Joe tries to head off disaster by helping their romantic lives take off. He begins by anonymously inviting his beautiful neighbor (whom he's been ogling for years) to his first gallery ope

• Honeymoon In Vegas | DVD | (01/01/2007) from £6.22   |  Saving you £6.77 (108.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A comedy about one bride two grooms and 34 flying Elvises..... Jack Singer (Cage) is terrified of commitment...but even more terrified of losing his beautiful schoolteacher fiancee Betsy (Parker). So as an act of faith he takes the plunge and agrees to tie the knot in a quickie Vegas ceremony. But when he makes a bad $60 000 bet with mobster Tommy Korman (Cann) the marriage ""knot"" - and all of Jack's dreams - start unraveling fast. The only way that Korman will forgive the debt he says is if Jack will loan him Betsy for the rest of the weekend! It's yet another sucker bet for Jack though - because Korman plans to win Betsy away for good!

• Die Zauberflote | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Opera in two acts from the Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1978. Sung in German.

• Lethal Lolita | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £7.21   |  Saving you £-1.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  On 13 May 1992 17-year-old Amy Fisher had an accomplice drive her to the house of Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa New York. When Mary Jo answered the door Amy shot her in the head. Mary Jo survived the attack but sustained injuries that left her paralysed. The case caused a sensation. Amy was dubbed ""The Long Island Lolita"" by the media and became the most notorious teenager in America. Portrayed as promiscuous and immoral Amy claimed to have started a passionate affair at a yea

• Maceo Parker - My Name Is Maceo | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This is a rare kind of music film. A portrait of a musician who made his name first as a sideman than as a star. The classic recordings of James Brown are frequently punctuated with a cry of Maceo which listeners often assumed to be some funky catchphrase of Brown's own invention. In fact it was the cue for his long serving sax man Maceo Parker to step forward and blow his horn. When Brown was incarcerated in the late '80's necessity led Maceo to become a bandleader in his own right enlisting other funk pioneers such as trombonist Fred Wesley and tenor saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis. In 1994 Maceo and his band were filmed in concert in rehearsal and on the road. Though essentially a performance film My First Name is Maceo captures both on and off stage the warm generous personality that flows through Maceo's music. Interviews with Maceo his brother Melvin and the musicians who have worked with him fill in the background that began on a North Carolina Housing Project.

• Bloodied But Unbowed | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

• The Trail Beyond | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £8.61   |  Saving you £-2.62 (-43.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Two rough adventurers journey to the Northwest in search of gold. Their plans are temporarily sidetracked when they happen on a kidnapped girl.