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• Starsky And Hutch - The Complete First Season | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In the rough-and-tumble, wildly entertaining world of Starsky & Hutch, impatient cops--anxious to join a foot race in pursuit of a villain--throw themselves out of moving vehicles and roll to a bruising stop. Undercover detectives Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Soul), hardly imbued with the powers of Spider-Man, routinely scale walls, hop from rooftop to rooftop, and fling themselves down steep hillsides to stop bad guys from doing what bad guys do. Years later Hill Street Blues would redefine the cop genre as a mesh of overlapping storylines and workaday frustrations, but Aaron Spelling's iconic 70s show portrays LA's finest as madly heroic creatures of reckless determination and physicality. This first season is also startlingly brutal for a primetime US show—it was later significantly toned down, much to the regret of fans—while maintaining a delightful, often incongruous, self-deprecating humour. From the series pilot on, partners and best pals Starsky and Hutch work a fine line between predator and prey, relentlessly pursuing suspects while also snared by crime chieftains or short-sighted superiors. In "The Fix", Hutch's secret romance with the former girlfriend of a mafia boss (Robert Loggia) results in the lawman's kidnapping and forced addiction to heroin. Similarly, in "A Coffin for Starsky", a mad chemist injects the wisecracking cop with a slow-acting but lethal poison. "Jo-Jo", written by Michael Mann, finds our guys at loggerheads with federal officers over a dumb deal the G-Men make with a serial rapist. The 23 episodes in this set are all fun, if sometimes shocking, viewing. Expect each character to take as much abuse as he dishes out. Still, the comic sight of Starsky and Hutch (in "Death Notice") trying to conduct business amid busy strippers is well worth the surrounding violence. --Tom Keogh

• No Code Of Conduct | DVD | (29/08/2002) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Jake Peterson is a renegade cop who thrives on the adrenaline rush of danger and fear and is no more at home than when bullets start flying with his insatiable quest for a piece of the action causing him to have a callous disregard for those nearest and dearest to him all but alienating even his closest family. The biggest and baddest criminals come and go as they fall victim to Jake Peterson's own brand of justice and the body count rises in spectacular fashion. Unfortunately for Jake his true sense of loyalty is about severly tested when he thwarts a multi-million dollar drug deal and revenge and retribution are the only focus of the battle hardened high-tech criminals who have suffered as a result of Jake's interference.

• Ghoul School | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Where the uneducated meet the undead... Two thugs in search of hidden treasure mistakenly unleash a chemical into the school's water supply causing everyone it comes into contact with to become flesh-eating ghouls. Now it's up to a couple of geeks and a bad heavy metal band to escape the mayhem before the students consume everyone in sight!

• My Brothers | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £5.65   |  Saving you £7.34 (129.91%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Stealing a dodgy bread van, brothers Noel (17 and serious), Paudie (11 and cocky, with dreams of playing for Liverpool) and Scwally (7 and obsessed with Star Wars) set out on an adventure across the wild Irish landscape to replace their dying fathers watch. Along the way they are side-tracked by odd local characters, they bicker amongst themselves and the van keeps breaking down. Their road trip to the seaside town of Ballybunion won't be easy, but it will bring the brothers closer together in this heart-warming and often hilarious family comedy.

• Ghoul School | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two drug dealers are infected with a vampiric virus by female angels united to declare war on humanity and reclaim Earth which they believe is rightly their own. In an interesting twist it is the realm of the underworld which must come to the rescue in the form of demons who are perfectly satisfied to have the three worlds co-exist as they are...