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• Already Dead | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Already Dead is a suspenseful thriller of one man's journey down the twisted road of revenge. Thomas Archer (Ron Eldard) had everything: a beautiful wife a job as a senior associate at a powerful architecture firm and a beautiful son. This all changes on one fateful night when the Archers' home is burglarized and their young son is killed. Thomas does everything he can to try to put the pieces of his life back together. But when the police can't find the killer Archer's therapist Dr. Heller (Christopher Plummer) offers up another option - a last resort. Heller knows of a mysterious group that can track and find the killer of Archer's son killer and give Archer the opportunity to take justice into his own hands.

• Zack And Reba | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Reba (Murphy of CLUELESS and 8 MILE) calls off her wedding a week before it is to occur. After her fiance commits suicide guilty Reba takes off for her hometown of Spooner. There she encounters Beulah (Reynolds) and her grieving grandson Zack (Flanery of POWDER) who is still in love with his dead wife. Beulah begins scheming to bring these two attractive and mixed-up youngsters together...

• Ultimax Force | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Missing in action and presumed dead, Captain Dave Morgan turns up alive in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. He has been able to send word out - but help better come quickly before the sadistic Colonel Minh, who runs the hellish internment stockade, succeeds in breaking Morgan's body and spirit. Getting into Vietnam through the back door is easy enough, with the help of gunrunning soldiers of fortune but trying to ferret out the phantom POW camps, rescuing half dead prisoners and getting the...

• Rehearsal For Murder | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-6.08 (-305.50%)   |  RRP £1.99

  One year after the supposed suicide of his fiance a playwright gathers together the cast from his last play in order to find out what really happened on that fateful night.

• X-Men 1.5/X-Men 2: 4 disc doublepack | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £7.72   |  Saving you £30.26 (639.75%)   |  RRP £34.99

  X-Men 2 picks up almost directly where X-Men left off: misguided super-villain Magneto (Ian McKellen) is still a prisoner of the US government, heroic bad-boy Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is up in Canada investigating his mysterious origin, and the events at Liberty Island (which occurred at the conclusion of X-Men) have prompted a rethink in official policy towards mutants--the proposed Mutant Registration Act has been shelved by US Congress. Into this scenario pops wealthy former army commander William Stryker, a man with the President's ear and a personal vendetta against all mutant-kind in general, and the X-Men's leader Professor X (Patrick Stewart) in particular. Once he sets his plans in motion, the X-Men must team-up with their former enemies Magneto and Mystique (Rebecca Romjin-Stamos), as well as some new allies (including Alan Cumming's gregarious, blue-skinned German mutant, Nightcrawler). The phenomenal global success of X-Men meant that director Bryan Singer had even more money to spend on its sequel, and it shows. Not only is the script better (there's significantly less cheesy dialogue than the original), but the action and effects are also even more stupendous--from Nightcrawler's teleportation sequence through the White House to a thrilling aerial dogfight featuring mutants-vs-missiles to a military assault on the X-Men's school/headquarters to the final showdown at Stryker's sub-Arctic headquarters. Yet at no point do the effects overtake the film or the characters. Moreso than the original, this is an ensemble piece, allowing each character in its even-bigger cast at least one moment in the spotlight (in fact, the cast credits don't even run until the end of the film). And that, perhaps, is part of its problem (though it's a slight one): with so much going on, and nary a recap of what's come before, it's a film that could prove baffling to anyone who missed the first instalment. But that's just a minor quibble--X-Men 2 is that rare thing, a sequel that's actually superior to its predecessor. --Robert Burrow

• Minder - Series 4 - Parts 1 To 4 | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This DVD Boxset features the following episodes: Rocky Eight and a Half; Senior Citizen Caine; High Drains Pilferer; Sorry Pal Wrong Number; Car Lot Beggars; If Money be the Food of Love Play on; A Star is Gorn; Willesden Suite; Windows; Get Daley; A Well Fashioned Fit Up.

• The Roger Corman Horror Collection | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Siren DVD's three-disc Roger Corman Collection contains The Little Shop of Horrors and The Terror, which Corman directed, as well as Dementia 13, which he produced. Though he has a reputation as one of the craftiest businessmen in Hollywood, Corman was too cheapskate in the 1960s to bother copyrighting a bunch of his films and so the same titles have been showing up on video and now DVD from many different distributors. All these films were thrown together in odd circumstances to take advantage of leftover sets, contracted performers or tied-up production funds. Little Shop of Horrors (a disguised remake of A Bucket of Blood) was famously made over a three-day weekend "because it was raining and we couldn't play tennis". The Terror exists because Boris Karloff owed a few days' work after completing The Raven and castle sets were still standing. Dementia 13 was written and directed by a young Francis Coppola in Ireland to take advantage of a European trip made for Corman's The Young Racers. All the films are interesting, in themselves and as footnotes to distinguished filmographies. Little Shop of Horrors has a lasting cult reputation for its blackly comic tale of codependency between a skid-row botanist (Jonathan Haze, relying a bit too much on a Jerry Lewis impersonation) and a blood-drinking, flesh-hungry mutant plant voiced by screenwriter Chuck Griffith ("feed meeee!"), with a creepy cameo from a young Jack Nicholson as a masochist who loves to visit the dentist. The Terror, which has Nicholson as the bewildered lead, is a wilfully incomprehensible Gothic picture made up on the spot by Corman and a handful of other directors (including Coppola and Monte Hellman), climaxing with Karloff's bogus baron and a decaying spectre woman swept away by a flood in the dungeons. Dementia 13, a saga of axe murders and mad sculptors, is brisk grand guignol with a lot of creepy imagery to do with drowned children and family rituals. On the DVD: The Roger Corman Collection limply claims the films are "digitally mastered" (note, not "remastered") as they are simply copies of low-quality video onto disc. Because these titles are public domain no one seems willing to take any care with transfers, and all three films are in terrible state. The Terror, the only colour film, looks especially atrocious (Vistascope cropped to full-frame) but the black-and-white films also suffer all manner of damage. The packaging is classy, but it's a shame more work wasn't done on the films themselves.--Kim Newman

• Raving Maniacs | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £35.69   |  Saving you £-19.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ravers at the biggest rave in Providence Rhode Island perpetuate their evening by taking a new drug to hit the streets. The reckless youths in their quest for euphoria don't take a second thought to what they are taking indeed no one has ever seen these type of drugs before. But soon it becomes apparent that not all is well and unbeknown to them they are becoming embroiled in an alien plot...

• McLintock | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  George McLintock has to try and convince his wife that he has been faithful after a two year seperation with their fights the talk of the town. Matters are not helped by the extremely attractive cook Mrs Louise Warren he has hired at the ranch house... The film achieved a certain notoriety for the 'spanking' scene widely regarded as a cinematic first.

• Gossec/Gretry - La Petite Musique De Marie-Antoinette (Waas) | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £35.08   |  Saving you £-8.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

• A Crack In The Floor | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The continuing popularity of horror spoofs has created an opportunity for low-quality slashers such as A Crack In the Floor to pass themselves off as humorous. The story follows axe-wielding psychotic hermit Jeremiah who meets a bunch of fresh-faced young hikers and the movie employs every trick in the genre's book but still fails to rise itself above cheap exploitation (best indicated by the tasteless rape of Jeremiah's mother that prefaces the action). Brazenly claiming to feature Tracy Scoggins and Gary Busey--who in reality appear for about five minutes each--the film features young unknowns, the most high profile being Saved By the Bell's Mario Lopez. Which is fitting really because the film, with its mix of teen enthusiasm, redneck stereotypes and crass violence, is little more than that show meets The Dukes of Hazzard meets Deliverance meets Friday the 13th. Recommended for connoisseurs of everything gory and tacky but no-one else. On the DVD: The DVD manages to keep the quality set so spectacularly by the film itself--featuring an appalling trailer, a reprint of the information on the disc's box, biographies of the handful of established actors who make the briefest of cameos and trailers for some equally naff TV movies. Not what DVD was invented for. --Phil Udell

• Paris Opera Ballet - Swan Lake | DVD | (01/01/1995) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Paris Opera Ballet present an unforgettable performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

• A Genius, Two Partners And A Dupe | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Produced by Sergio Leone (and considered by many the missing link in Leone's career) Genius features Terence Hill and a barnstorming performance from McGoohan plus a bizarre cameo from Klaus Kinski. In one of the last major productions of the 70s boom in Italian Westerns Hill plays freewheeling con-artist Joe Thanks in this semi-sequel to the hugely succesful 'My Name is Nobody' up against crooked cavalry officer Major Cabot (McGoohan) who is planning an Indian massacre in orde

• Cult TV Legends | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The disc contains the colour 'Danger Man' episode 'Koroshi' and an adventure for 'The Saint' which pits Simon Templar against a mad scientist (in 'The House of Dragon's Rock' an episode directed by Roger Moore). The DVD also includes the opening episodes of 'The Persuaders' (Overture) and 'The Prisoner' (Arrival).

• Backflash 2 - Angels Don't Sleep Here | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Some secrets do not stay buried.Robert Patrick (Terminator 2) stars in this compelling thriller as a corrupt cop who's hiding the dark secrets of a high profile politician (Roy Scheider Jaws).Everything seems under control until a forensic specialist comes to town asking questions about the disappearance of his twin brother.There are more questions than answers in this daunting thriller about corruption mistaken identity and murder.

• Minder - Series 9 - Parts 1 To 4 (Box Set) | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The ninth series of the classic TV series which features Arthur Daley, a small-time conman, who employs a minder to protect him from other crooks.

• 13 Going On 30 / Legally Blonde / Saved | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  13 Going On 30 (Dir. Gary Winick 2004): It is 1987 and Jenna is a 13-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood. The problem is that adulthood is just not arriving fast enough! She's suffocated by her dorky parents ignored by the hip kids in school and the cute guy she has a crush on barely knows her name. No longer content to spend time only with her best friend and neighbour Matt Flamhaff Jenna invites the cool kids to her 13th birthday party which turns into a disaster. Jenna is humiliated when she's locked in the closet for a game of 'Seven Minutes In Heaven' and everyone deserts her. Alone in the closet Jenna makes an earnest wish. If only she could be all grown up she'd have the life she's always wanted... The next day when Jenna emerges from the closet it's 2004 and she's 30 years old. What's more she is a gorgeous successful woman with a great job and a fabulous Fifth Avenue apartment. She is finally cool and popular. The only hitch? She has absolutely no idea how she got there! Initially frightened but gradually enchanted by her new life Jenna soon realizes there's something missing--Matt. When she looks him up she is horrified to discover that she and Matt are no longer in contact and furthermore he is engaged to be married. Jenna learns that 'having it all' is not enough and decides to take a second chance at first love... Legally Blonde (Dir. Robert Luketic 2001): Reese Witherspoon gives a glittering performance as Elle Woods the natural blonde sorority queen who enrolls at Harvard Law School. Expecting her boyfriend Warner Huntington III (Matthew Davis) to propose Elle is mortified when instead he says he needs somebody serious as his wife. When Elle discovers Warner's brother is engaged to a law student she discovers enrolling at Harvard might be the way to prove she is serious. She studies for the LSATs submits a video essay - in which she appears in a sequined bikini - and miraculously is accepted. At first Elle is rebuked by Professor Stromwell (Holland Taylor) and is the target of snide comments from other students. But gradually it becomes clear that Elle is no fish out of water; she is smarter more driven and more likely to survive in the rarefied Harvard atmosphere than anyone else. Witherspoon gets fine support from Selma Blair as Warner's new fiancee Jennifer Coolidge as a beautician Victor Garber as an unscrupulous professor Ali Larter as a client from Elle's sorority and Luke Wilson as a lawyer fascinated by Elle's unconventional approach. Saved (Dir. Brian Dannelly 2004): Mary a devout Christian girl with a seemingly perfect life is distraught when she finds out that her boyfriend Dean may be gay. Dean is sent to a 'degayification' centre and Mary ends up pregnant after seeing a vision of Jesus in her pool. It's during this time that she turns to the 'misfits' at her local school...

• Danger UXB 4 | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Classic military drama series revolving around a World War Two bomb disposal squad.

• Counterforce | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £4.03   |  Saving you £-1.04 (-34.80%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The most powerful criminal organizations in the city, untouchable by law are being massacred.Destroyed with surgical precision.The FBI and the local police track a group of vigilantes discovered to be a renegade SWAT Team from citywide police forces - self appointed executioners.....fulfilling the will of the people.

• 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Rocky Colt and Tum Tum find themselves in action again as they get drawn into a struggle between an American Indian tribe and a ruthless businessman who is dumping toxic waste on their land.