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• Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut Titans of Cult 4k Steelbook | Blu Ray | (25/04/2022) from £39.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This Watchmen Titans of Cult 3-Disc SteelBook set includes: Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut on 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray Blu-ray Special Features disc Collectable SteelBook case Dr. Manhattan Enamel Pin 3 Rorschach Test Cards See the Ultimate Cut like never before in this exquisitely remastered version that intertwines the animated Tales of the Black Freighter into The Director's Cut of Watchmen. The year is 1985, and society's most famous superheroes are in danger. After the mysterious murder of Comedian, his former colleagues team up for the first time in years to investigate and survive. The secrets they uncover could jeopardise the entire world, but can they save us if they can't save themselves? Dive into this acclaimed, thrilling adaptation of the graphic novel that forever changed how we look at heroes. Product Features Technologies of a Fantastic World The Phenomenon: The Comic That Changed Comics Real Super Heroes, Real Vigilantes Video Journals (Webisodes) Viral Video: NBS Nightly News Music Video - My Chemical Romance song, Desolation Row Easter Egg Viral Video: The Keene Act & You

• Lethal Weapon 2 | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (133.56%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The series formula started to kick in with this immediate sequel to Lethal Weapon, but that doesn't necessarily make it a weak movie. Joe Pesci joins the fold, Richard Donner directs again, and Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as LAPD partners, their relationship smoother now that Gibson's character has recovered from his maddening grief over his wife's death. But the reckless Mel and cautious Danny equation, good for a million laughs, settles into place in this story involving a South African smuggler and a new girlfriend (Patsy Kensit) for Gibson. The movie is hardly comfy, though. The last act gets nasty, and a climactic fight between Gibson (who gets the worst of it) and some high-kicking villain is ugly. --Tom Keogh

• The War Bride | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £4.23   |  Saving you £2.76 (65.25%)   |  RRP £6.99

  With all the men away to war Lily falls madly in love and married a handsome Canadian soldier Charlie Travis. But Charlie is shipped off to the front and Lily discovers she's expecting his baby not knowing if she will ever see him alive again.

• The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1967 (Box Set 4) | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The final box set in the series draws the curtain on the career of Mrs Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) and introduces swinging new assistant Tara King! Featuring the following episodes: The ''50 000 Breakfast Dead Man's Treasure You Have Just Been Murdered The Positive-Negative Man Murdersville Mission... Highly Improbable The Forget-Me-Knot

• Freddy's Dead - the Final Nightmare | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £8.49   |  Saving you £6.50 (76.56%)   |  RRP £14.99

  They tried to burn him. They tried to bury him. They tried to wash him away with holy water. But like Freddy says ""Sticks and stones may break my bones - but you can never kill me"". There's just one problem; he's run out of kids to spook in Springwood! So Freddy hitches a ride inside some poor soul's dream to the nearest town and hey quicker than you can say ""Nine ten never sleep again"" the dreamstalker's back in business... But enough is enough. Do or die: it's time someone made Freddy hang up his hat for good.

• The War Bride | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Marry in haste, repent at leisure, goes the old adage. Certainly, The War Bride sees the chirpy Cockney Lily (Anna Friel) with plenty of time to regret her lot. After a whirlwind romance in wartime Britain she marries her handsome Canadian hunk, Charlie (Aden Young). Finding herself pregnant and alone, Charlie having been sent back to the front, she jumps at the chance of a new life abroad when she receives a one-way ticket to Canada. Unfortunately Charlie's tales of his family ranch in Alberta are more fanciful than factual and when she gets there her natural ebullience is tested to the limit by a crumbling shack and a frostbite-inducing welcome from his widowed mother (Brenda Fricker, superbly dour) and his crippled sister (Molly Parker). They view her townie ways, her penchant for picture houses and scarlet lipstick, with deep suspicion. The only light in these dark days is derived from visits from her longstanding best friend Sophie (who also married a Canadian, but one with rather more to offer) and a burgeoning friendship with Joe, her sister-in-law's boyfriend. The film was inspired by the experiences of screenwriter Angela Workman's mother, one of 48,000 war brides who immigrated to Canada during World War II, and it vividly demonstrates that for the unlucky ones the future was far from rosy. The result could have been mawkish but it's saved by fine performances from Friel--who is increasingly showing herself to be an actress of some versatility--and the always splendid Brenda Fricker. --Harriet Smith

• Rio Bravo | Blu Ray | (01/08/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• House of 1,000 Corpses | Blu Ray | (11/04/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The X Files: Season 8 | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  The eighth series of The X-Files was a year of brave decisions. David Duchovny's increasing dissatisfaction with the role meant he only appeared in a few episodes. The solution: enter Agent John Doggett (Robert Patrick) who basically stole the show within his first two minutes of screen time (and watch out for several Terminator 2 in-jokes too). Scully switched roles to being the believer alongside Doggett's sceptic in a year that was more reliant on the background story arc than ever before. Her pregnancy remained at the foreground, while a more prominent Skinner joined in a hunt for the abducted Mulder that drew upon the black oil, cloning and bounty hunting aspects of the convoluted alien conspiracy story. A distinct lack of guest stars or writers indicated maturity beyond the need for ratings stunts: dedicated fans were pleased to see cameos from sinister Krycek, the reliable Lone Gunmen and the return of the show's very first abductee. The real strengths of the series came from new characters, including alternative female role model Special Agent Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish), and some terrific standalone episodes. Investigations covered a man going backwards in time, deaths aboard an oil rig, a contagion in the Boston subway tunnels and creatures resembling bats and slugs. Agent Leyla Harrison (named after an X-Files fan who died of cancer) got to ask all the petty questions regular viewers want to know themselves. This year turned out to be a remarkable achievement so late in the show's life. On the DVD: The X-Files, Series 8 is a six-disc box set with all the episodes presented in anamorphic 16:9 format with Dolby 2.0 sound. The extras are mainly confined to the final disc, though there are selected deleted scenes and "international" clips from the dubbed German, Japanese and Italian versions of the show on the other discs. Two audio commentaries for the episodes "Alone" (from director Frank Spotnitz) and "Existence" (from director Kim Manners) are supplemented by a routine 30-minute behind-the-scenes documentary, more deleted scenes (with optional commentary), character profiles and special effects clips. --Paul Tonks

• House of 1,000 Corpses | Blu Ray | (17/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Doogie Howser MD - Season 3 | DVD | (17/09/2012) from £16.92   |  Saving you £13.07 (77.25%)   |  RRP £29.99

  It was the year that changed it all for Douglas ‘Doogie’ Howser. In this season, Doogie (Neil Patrick Harris) deals with his virginity, moves into an apartment with best friend Vinnie (Max Casella) and confronts the changing relationship with girlfriend Wanda (Lisa Dean Ryan). There's still more life lessons to be learned as Doogie hits Palm Springs for Spring Break, accepts the challenge to work a 'mindless' fast food job, becomes part of a Civil War screenplay, makes an unexpected detour during a father/son trip to Honduras and much more... Special Features: Interviews with James Sikking: The Other Doctor Howser and Neil Patrick Harris: Growing Up on the Set

• The X Files: Season 3 | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Focused lightning bolts, stigmata, possession, and ancient curses become secondary in Season 3 of The X-Files as more episodes are devoted to pursuing the increasingly complex story threads. "The Blessing Way" is an explosive start, introducing the Syndicate's well-manicured man (John Neville), while Scully's sister Melissa is shot and Mulder experiences Twin-Peaks-like prophetic visions. We learn of medical records of millions, including Scully, who have been experimented upon ("Paper Clip"): the fast-paced train-bound two-parter "Nisei" and "731" suggests the experiments are about alien hybridisation. Krycek turns out to be hosting an alien in the next double-act, "Piper Maru" and "Apocrypha", in which Skinner is shot by Melissa's killer. Two great one-offs outside the arc are "Clyde Bruckman's "Final Repose", a bittersweet tale of foreseeing death (featuring an Emmy-winning performance from Peter Boyle) and Jose Chung's " From Outer Space", a spoof of alien conspiracy theories through an author's investigations into abductees. --Paul Tonks

• The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1968 (Box Set 3) | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  John Steed partnered with Tara King sees out the Sixties in style! Eight more episodes see elegant confrontations between our cool heroes and a variety of evil blaggards. This is 'The Avengers' at their most surreal and imaginative! Episode titles include: Super Secret Cypher Snatch Game False Witness Noon-Doomsday The Morning After Love All Take Me To Your Leader Stay Tuned

• Lethal Weapon 2 | DVD | (22/03/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The series formula started to kick in with this immediate sequel to Lethal Weapon, but that doesn't necessarily make it a weak movie. Joe Pesci joins the fold, Richard Donner directs again, and Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as LAPD partners, their relationship smoother now that Gibson's character has recovered from his maddening grief over his wife's death. But the reckless Mel and cautious Danny equation, good for a million laughs, settles into place in this story involving a South African smuggler and a new girlfriend (Patsy Kensit) for Gibson. The movie is hardly comfy, though. The last act gets nasty, and a climactic fight between Gibson (who gets the worst of it) and some high-kicking villain is ugly. --Tom Keogh

• Doogie Howser: Season 2 | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £11.09   |  Saving you £18.90 (170.42%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Douglas 'Doogie' Howser (played by How I Met Your Mother's Neil Patrick Harris) may now be 17 years-old, but balancing the demands of being a doctor and trying to live like a normal kid is harder than ever.In the second season, Doogie is plagued by odd dreams about missing his youth, helps his best friend Vinnie (Max Casella) deliver his French teacher's baby, has doubts about his relationship with girlfriend Wanda (Lisa Dean Ryan) and learns a lot about himself as a person, a doctor and a teenager.James Sikking and Belinda Montgomery co-star in this Emmy Award-winning season of the acclaimed comedy-drama created by Steven Bochco (LA Law, NYPD Blue) and David E. Kelley (Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal).

• Doogie Howser Season 4 | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £6.28   |  Saving you £24.97 (497.41%)   |  RRP £29.99

  He began as a 16 year-old doctor, but now 'boy genius' Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) is a young man dealing with the adult dilemmas of self-doubt, sexual relationships, racial tensions, new roommates, gun control, child abuse and beyond. This fourth and final season includes such fan favourite episodes as 'There's A Riot Going On', 'The Adventures of Sherlock Howser', 'You've Come A Long Way, Babysitter' and the Emmy Award-winning 'Doogie Got A Gun' Special Features: Interviews with Lawrence Pressman and Kathryn Layng

• The X Files: Existence | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £6.55   |  Saving you £9.44 (59.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The pretentiously titled Existence is another two-part X-Files yarn glued together to make a feature-length episode. Here the story concerns the birth of Scully's perhaps-alien-tinged child and proves the old maxim that you should stop watching any series when the characters start having babies. By now, newbie Robert Patrick is settled into the role of Agent Doggett, Scully's new partner on the X-Files, but David Duchovny's contract negotiations have enabled Fox Mulder, no longer in the FBI, to come back and hang about the delivery, clashing and then bonding with his replacement. The action content comes from a mild-mannered alien abductee transformed into an unstoppable killing machine, ripping through everything as he tries to prevent the upcoming nativity for reasons that (as ever) don't quite become clear. Also in the support cast are semi-regular Nicholas Lea as lurking plot-explaining conspirator Alex Krycek, and the more welcome Annabeth Gish, whose interestingly spiritual Agent Monica Reyes is being worked up as a replacement for Scully when Gillian Anderson gets out of her contract. Weirdly, The X-Files is in pretty good shape for a show that's been running this long--the performances and the direction are still strong, and outside the "continuing story" shows individual episodes hold up well. But this dreary muddle of running about (plus the odd decapitation) and agonised rumination (blathery philosophical musings about the miracle of life and childbirth) does not represent the series' strengths, suggesting that the best thing that could happen would be to get shot of the long-time stars and their played-out characters to make room for a revitalised show starring Patrick and Gish. On the DVD: The full-screen print, with the extra detail of the DVD image and Dolby Digital, allow you to pick up a lot more than from the murky telecasts. "Alex Krycek Revealed" Parts 1 and 2, a couple of character profiles, turn out to be very snippet-like Fox TV promo pieces, with some interview footage and behind-the-scenes stuff amid the usual teaser clips.--Kim Newman

• Primal Species | DVD | (01/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A group of terrorists thought they were stealing a few pounds of uranium. But they were wrong... dead wrong! It turns out they've stolen something much bigger but just as deadly - ten tons of fierce man-eating Velociraptor a species presumed extinct but now well and truly alive and kicking! This costly mistake proves to be their last and only a Special Forces elite team have any hope of stopping these prehistoric animals with an attitude. Unfortunately these dinosuars of destruction are on a mission of their own... the extinction of the human race. The future of mankind is now in the hands of this crack division led by squad leader Rance (Scott Valentine) who must now take out the velociraptor before a new generation has a chance to be born...

• The X-Files: The Truth | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The guest cast list for The X-Files: The Truth runs almost to the first commercial break, suggesting how many plot strands this season-and-series finale needs to make room for, with many old characters (including ghostly appearances for the dead ones) popping up. Mulder (David Duchovny), teasingly absent for the final season, is suddenly back, accused of murdering a super-soldier who isn't supposed to be able to die. He faces a military tribunal, defended by AD Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), as guest stars trot out testimony that fills the double-length episode with explanations recapping nine years of confusion as creator Chris Carter tries to spatchcock his impromptu conspiracy theories into a real plot. Last-season regulars Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish are shunted aside as Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder get to dodge a last-scene explosion and wind up in a pretty silly clinch-with-philosophy in the face of vaguely imminent apocalypse. Seriously, if the franchise is to continue on the big screen, how about ditching the embarrassing alien conspiracy mess and doing a monster story? On the DVD: The X-Files: The Truth comes to disc with a lovely widescreen transfer, a 13-minute "Reflections on the Truth" featurette that, though it hits the self-congratulation button a couple too many times, has a little more meat than the puff pieces included on previous releases, and a bonus episode ("William") that is unfortunately another of the maudlin ones, this time resolving the plotline about Scully's super-baby. --Kim Newman

• The X Files: Season 5 | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £22.98   |  Saving you £12.01 (34.30%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The fifth season of The X-Files is the one in which the ongoing alien conspiracy arc really takes over, building towards box-office glory for the inevitable cinematic leap in The X-Files Movie (1998). The series opener "Redux" begins with Mulder having been framed for everything going. Scully finally sees a UFO ("The Red and the Black") before being presented with a potential daughter (the two-part "Christmas Carol" and "Emily"). By "The End", there's an enormous tangle of threads for the big-screen adaptation to unravel (or not, as it turned out). Cigarette Smoking Man is being hunted, playing every side against the middle, as well as chasing after information on Mulder's sister. Krycek is back, too, as is an old flame for Mulder in the shape of Agent Diana Fowley. If that wasn't enough to goad viewers into the cinema, there was the Lone Gunmen's 1989-set back story ("Unusual Suspects", with Richard Belzer playing his Homicide: Life on the Streets character), a musical number in the black and white Frankenstein homage "Post Modern Prometheus", and scripts co-written by Stephen King ("Chinga"), William Gibson ("Kill Switch"), and even Darren McGavin (who had inspired the show as Kolchak: The Night Stalker) in "Travellers". On the DVD: The X-Files, Season 5 extras include Chris Carter's commentary over "Post Modern Prometheus", which reveals the decision making behind shooting in black and white as well as the problems it caused. A second commentary is from writer/coproducer John Shiban on "Pine Bluff Variant", where he openly admits the influence of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Across the six discs (only 20 episodes because of the movie of course) you get credits for every episode, their TV promo spots, deleted and international versions of several scenes (some with commentary from Carter), and a couple of TV featurettes. The best of these is "The Truth About Season 5", talking to an excited Dean Haglund (Langly) amongst other crew members.--Paul Tonks