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• Star Trek 9: Insurrection | DVD | (05/06/2000) from £8.35   |  Saving you £7.64 (47.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Star Trek fans were decidedly mixed in their reactions to this, the ninth big-screen feature in Paramount's lucrative Trek franchise. Die-hard loyalists will appreciate the way this Next Generation adventure rekindles the spirit of the original Trek TV series while combining a tolerable dose of New-Age philosophy with a light-hearted plot for the Next Gen cast. This time out, Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his executive crew must transport to a Shangri-la-like planet to see why their android crewmate Data (Brent Spiner) has run amok in a village full of peaceful Ba'ku artisans who--thanks to their planet's "metaphasic radiation"--haven't aged in 309 years.It turns out there's a conspiracy afoot, masterminded by the devious, gruesomely aged Ru'afo (F. Murray Abraham, hamming it up under makeup resembling a cosmetic surgeon's worst nightmare), who's in cahoots with a renegade Starfleet admiral (Anthony Zerbe, in one of his final screen roles). They covet the fountain-of-youth power of the Ba'ku planet, but because their takeover plan violates Starfleet's Prime Directive of non-interference, it's up to Picard and crew to stop the scheme. Along the way, they all benefit from the metaphasic effect, which manifests itself as Worf's puberty (visible as a conspicuous case of Klingon acne), Picard's youthful romance with a Ba'ku woman (the lovely Donna Murphy), the touching though temporary return of Geordi's natural eyesight, and a moment when Troi asks Dr. Crusher if she's noticed that her "boobs are firming up".Some fans scoffed at these humorous asides, but they're what make this Trek film as entertaining as it is slightly disappointing. Without the laughs (including Data's rousing excerpt from Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore), this is a pretty routine entry in the franchise, with no real surprises, a number of plot holes, and the overall appearance of a big-budget TV episode. As costar and director, Jonathan Frakes proves a capable carrier of the Star Trekflame--and it's nice to see women in their 40s portrayed as smart and sexy--but while this is surely an adequate Trek adventure, it doesn't quite rank with the best in the series. --Jeff Shannon

• Doctor Who - Fury From The Deep | Blu Ray | (14/09/2020) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fury From the Deep is the missing sixth serial of the fifth season of Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from March to April 1968. Starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor, the story concerns a colony of sentient, parasitic seaweed, last seen in the eighteenth century, returning to attack a number of gas instillations in the North Sea in an attempt to take over humanity. No full episodes of this story exist within the BBC archives, and only snippets of footage and still images are around to represent the story. However, off-air recordings of the soundtrack do exist, thus making the animation of a complete serial possible once again. The six new animated episodes are being made in full colour and high definition. The DVD/Blu-ray release will also include those surviving clips from the original 1968 production.

• For The Boys | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £13.14   |  Saving you £2.84 (27.98%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bette Midler poured her heart and soul into For the Boys, the story of a pair of entertainers who repeatedly took time from their careers to entertain US troops at war, from World War II to Vietnam--and it sank like a stone at the box office. Granted, it's corny and emotionally over the top. It is the tale of an unlikely team of singer and comedian (played by Midler and James Caan), who are brought together for a reunion show in their dotage. As they nervously anticipate seeing each other for the first time in years, they are flooded with memories of their earlier days as a hot show-biz couple whose own troubles always took second place to their patriotic urge to buoy the boys in uniform. Some say this was a veiled film version of the Martha Raye story; Midler gives it her all and Caan isn't bad. But director Mark Rydell lays on the schmaltz so thickly at times that it overpowers the tougher material. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Portrait Of A Zombie | DVD | (19/08/2013) from £5.69   |  Saving you £10.30 (64.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A working class family is caught up in a zombie invasion. When son Billy becomes a zombie the family chooses to take care of him in the home which doesn't exactly go well with the neighbours let alone the local crime boss. Meanwhile they have invited an American; documentary filmmaker to film the situation and the crew is soon caught up in the mayhem of the full scale outbreak. Will the family prove that blood is thicker than water or will their love lead to their eventual doom?

• Spun | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £7.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jason Schwartzman stars as a speed junkie who embarks on an three-day adventure with his dealer in this darkly comic look at the grungy underworld of American life.

• Star Trek : Insurrection | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The battle for paradise has begun. Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise fulfill one of man's enduring dreams - to find a fountain of youth.

• Jack Frost II | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sequel to the horror 'Jack Frost'. The evil snowman is resurrected but now he's resistant to fire bullets and even chemical anti-freeze! With revenge on his mind Jack sets out on a chilling killing spree that threatens to ice everyone around him...

• Invoked | DVD | (17/08/2015) from £3.30   |  Saving you £9.69 (293.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A group of young people went on a abandoned hostel in Sligo, Ireland. After they play a really creepy game, all of them disappear.

• Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman | Blu Ray | (28/12/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A