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• The Big Doll House | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Director Jack Hill (COFFY SPIDER BABY) launched both a cycle of women-in-prison films and the stardom of Pam Grier with this sexy funny thrilling exploitation classic. At a prison farm in the Philippines new girl Collier (Judy Brown) is locked up with bitter lesbian Grear (Grier) rebel girl Bodine (Pat Woodell) tough blonde Alcott (Roberta Collins) and Harad (Brooke Mills) a strung-out junkie. The girls race cockroaches fight in the mud shower and get it on while the sadistic head guard (Kathryn Loder) conducts nightly torture sessions for the pleasure of the mysterious Colonel Mendoza. Eventually the girls escape and all hell breaks loose as they race to join the rebels their machine guns blazing a path through the jungles.

• 101 Dalmatians | DVD | (24/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Back in 1961, Walt Disney got a little hip with 101 Dalmatians, making use of that flat Saturday morning cartoon style that had become so popular. The result is a kitschy change in animation and story. Pongo and Perdita are two lonely Dalmatians who meet in a London park and arrange for their pet humans to marry so they can live together and raise a family. They become proud parents of 15 pups, who are stolen by the dastardly Cruella De Vil, who wants to make a fur coat out of them. Cruella has become the most popular villain in all of Disney--she is flamboyantly nasty and lots of fun. But it is the Dalmatians who shine in this endearing classic, particularly those precocious pups. Telling the story from the dogs' point of view is a clever conceit, a fundamental flaw of Disney's 1996 live-action remake. --Bill Desowitz

• Karate Kid, The / The Karate Kid 2 / The Karate Kid 3 | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The Karate Kid was a hugely popular 1984 drama by John G Avildsen who had also directed the original fighting classic Rocky. The new kid in town (Ralph Macchio), targeted by karate-kicking bullies, gets himself a mentor in the form of the Japanese handyman (Pat Morita) from his apartment building. The mentor teaches him self-confidence, fighting skills and the art of karate. The screen partnership of Macchio's motor-mouth character and Morita's reserved father figure works well and the script allows for the younger man to develop sympathy for the painful memories of his teacher. But the film's real engine is the fighting, and there's plenty of that. The film went on to breed many Karate Kid wannabes in the mid-80s. Literally picking up about five minutes after the conclusion of the original, the 1986 sequel The Karate Kid 2 sends Ralph Macchio's and Pat Morita's characters to the latter's home turf in Japan, where the older man is confronted by an old rival, and Macchio's newly confident fighter gets a tougher challenge than the punks back home. Sillier than its predecessor, this follow-up at least has some distracting soap opera elements as Morita comes to terms with an old flame, while Macchio woos a lovely local girl. Ironically, it's the action that evokes laughter, particularly a climactic fight that gets over the top quickly. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.comIn a vain effort not to let a good thing die, director John G Avildsen attempted once more to revive the action and popularity of the original Karate Kid with the 1989 adventure, the third and final instalment. More silly and absurd than either of its predecessors Karate Kid 3 marked the final outing for the "Kid" Macchio (who was now 27) and his mentor, as the youth audience of the day moved away from the desire to be Karate Kids and toward the need to be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles instead. --Nikki Disney

• Sherlock Hound | DVD | (12/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Written and Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) during his time at Japan's largest animation studio TMS. Before he went on to create Totoro and Studio Ghibli Miyazaki captured a whole generation of childrens' imaginations with his retelling of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries using a loveable cast of canines. For the first time ever in the UK all 26 episodes of the cult toon classic are collected into one deluxe box set Sherlock Hound. released as either Famous Detective Holmes or Detective Holmes in Japan is an anime based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series where all the characters are depicted as anthropomorphic animals the majority dogs though Holmes is a fox and his enemy Professor Moriarty is a wolf. The show featured regular appearances of Jules Verne-steampunk style technology adding a 19th-century science-fiction atmosphere to the series.

• Rainbow Bridge | DVD | (29/11/2008) from £12.08   |  Saving you £-6.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This controversial seventies cult classic has now been completely restored and is presented here in its original full length theatrical form. The music of Jimi Hendrix dominates the soundtrack and the centrepiece of the whole film is the stunning live footage of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's July 1970 concert atop the Haleakala Volcano in Hawaii.

• Bloodsport 2 | DVD | (15/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

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

  John Dahl, the director behind Red Rock West and The Last Seduction, is the director and co-writer of Kill Me Again, and it shows. Dahl's love of modern noir, ruthless women, Western landscapes, and double-crosses shines through. Joanne Whalley-Kilmer plays Fay, a spitfire who has somehow gotten herself mixed up with a psychotic thug (Michael Madsen, of course) named Vince. Fay runs off with a whole lot of Vince's stolen money and hires loser private eye Jack Andrews (Val Kilmer) to help her fake her own death. To say any more would spoil a terrific, intricate plot that keeps heating up as interested parties close in on Jack, Fay, and the money. The then-married Kilmer and Whalley-Kilmer clearly have a great time playing off each other, and Madsen adds another brilliantly played lunatic to his oeuvre. Enjoy it, and don't trust anybody. --Ali Davis, Amazon.com

• Maximum Overdrive | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £12.94   |  Saving you £0.05 (0.39%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A comet comes within range of earth and begins circling the planet. But a strange chain reaction comes to force. Suddenly machines everywhere have become their own masters beginning a horrifying deathly and violent revolt against their masters. Can the shell shocked survivors escape to a place where the mad machines cannot reach them?

• Battle Creek Brawl | DVD | (19/02/2001) from £14.40   |  Saving you £5.59 (28.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jackie Chan in his first American film takes on heavy-hitting 1930's mobsters in the ultimate street-fighting competition. A young Chinese American takes part in 'The Brawl' - a gigantic knock-down drag-out street fight in which the toughest roughest and meanest fighters gather to pound each other into the dust for a huge cash prize.

• Memoirs Of An Invisible Man | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Nick Halloway (Chase) is a sophisticated stock analyst until a freak accident at an industrial plant renders him invisible! Yet being invisible is not as easy as it sounds as he finds himself the object of a frenzied manhunt by a corrupt government official (Neill) who wants him to become an assassin...

• Anti-Clock | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £15.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A complex and fascinating avantgarde examination of time and personality. A film of authentic startling originality brilliantly mixing cinema and video techniques Arden and Bond have created a movie that captures the anxiety and sense of danger that has infiltrated the consciousness of so many people in western society.

• The Next Karate Kid | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Who says the good guy has to be a guy? Noriyuki Pat Morita and Oscar-winner Hilary Swank co-star in The Next Karate Kid the story of a rebellious teenager Julie who blossoms with a little help from her friends - in this case the wise Mr. Miyagi and a trio of Buddhist monks! The action kicks into overdrive when Julie is pitted against a posse of paramilitary students who rule her high school. And while their leader teaches them to fight to kill Julie and Miyagi teach them the secret of fighting to live. Action humor and emotion all come together as Julie makes her exciting journey from rebellion to reason from adolescence to adulthood and from friendship to love.

• The Little Mermaid/the Little Mermaid II (Disney) | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Little Mermaid: Disney's 28th animated masterpiece. Awash with breathtaking animation unforgettably colourful characters and two Academy Awards for score and song ""Under The Sea "" The Little Mermaid is one of Disney's most cherished films. Ariel the fun-loving and mischievous mermaid is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea she swims to the surface and in a raging storm rescues the prince of her dreams. Determined to be human she strikes a bargain with the devious sea witch Ursula and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her best friend the adorable and chatty Flounder and her reluctant chaperone Sebastian the hilarious reggae-singing Caribbean crab at her side Ariel must win the prince's love and save her father's kingdom -- all in a heart-pounding race against time! The Little Mermaid II - Return To Sea: After rejoicing over the birth of their daughter Melody Ariel and Eric must face a new threat from Ursula's revengeful sister Morgana - a threat that forces them to hide Melody's true mermaid heritage. Melody a young princess curious about her roots ultimately ventures into the sea against her parents' wishes. There she meets new friends and in her dreams to be a mermaid becomes a pawn in Morgana's plot to gain control of the Seven Seas. Ariel must reunite with her childhood friends Sebastian Flounder and Scuttle to rescue her daughter and restore harmony to the family.

• The Executioner's Song | DVD | (23/03/2020) from £16.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who lobbied for his own execution.

• The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (64.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Before nerds geeks and cyberpunks there was regular-guy Medfield College student Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) who accidentally turns into a human computer through a shocking lab mishap. As the hype over his instant genius threatens to swell his head he becomes the centre of a winner-take-all tug-of-war between greedy college deans and dangerous gamblers which lands him in big trouble! The ""genius"" Dexter then learns a valuable lesson when the same friends he had earlier turned his

• Flaming Brothers | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A tale of two brothers: one who has left the Triads attempts to help his sibling reform the ways of the gang even if it means losing his own life in the process...

• The Professionals | DVD | (30/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £149.99

  Perhaps the most easily parodied action series of its era, The Professionals was the one about the gruff but fatherly counter-terrorist top cop Cowley (Gordon Jackson) and his favourite surrogate sons, the curly haired ex-copper Ray Doyle (Martin Shaw) and taciturn-but-pouting ex-mercenary William Bodie (Lewis Collins). As set out by series creator Brian Clemens (veteran of the more fantastical Avengers), their job was to stop threats to the government, visiting dignitaries or the general public "by any means necessary". What this boiled down to was dashing about, leaping out of cars, getting into thump-happy fistfights, leering at every "bird" who passed by as if they were trying to prove something, wearing eye-abusing late-70s leisure wear well beyond the sell-by date, potting baddies with guns hauled out of their smart shoulder holsters, and occasionally choking back manly tears when another of the trio was wounded. All three leads were professionals of another stripe--the sort of actors who could soar with a good script and do their best to sell a weak one--and they were generally set against a parade of top-flight British character acting talent along with sundry sit-com/pin-up refugee disposable girlfriends and suspects. One strange, if understandable, element of the premise is that CI5 tackle all manner of Greek, Middle Eastern, Soviet and radical nutcase groups--with the odd racist Klansman, corrupt civil servant and dubious big business tycoon thrown in to prove they're not fascists--but almost never have anything to do with the Irish terrorist groups who were the main focus of the organisation's real-life counterparts from 1977 to 1983. --Kim Newman

• Married in a Year | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £1.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (402.01%)   |  RRP £9.99

  You too can find true love!Just ask the thousands of happy couples brought together by Patti Stanger, TV matchmaker and CEO of the Millionaire's Club matchmaking service.Now Patti can help your marriage dreams come true with Married in a Year - her proven, 12-month action plan for finding love. With her expert knowledge and no-nonsense approach, Patti will motivate and guide you each step of the way.Your 12-Month Action Plan For Finding Love Includes:Dating Detox:Take a break to focus on yourself and what you wantMeeting Your Match:Put yourself out there to attract the right manRed Flags:When and how to move on from a losing relationshipNegotiating the Ring:Sealing the deal within a year!

• Tim | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-6.97 (-116.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A handsome young man who has the mental age of a child shares a relationship with an attractive older woman for whom he works as a gardener. When the question of marriage eventually arises they suddenly realise the seriousness of their friendship.

• Daytrippers | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £16.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza her parents her sister Jo and Jo's boyfriend all pile into a station wagon to go to the city to confront Louis with the letter. On the way the five explore their relations with each other...