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• The X Files: Deadalive | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This release consists of two episodes--"This is Not Happening" and "Deadalive"--of the eighth series of The X-Files spliced together into a feature-length story. With David Duchovny contracted only to do a certain percentage of shows this year, Robert Patrick was brought in as Agent John Doggett, partnering Gillian Anderson's Agent Scully while Duchovny's Mulder is off being tortured by alien-abductors in what looks like an industrial dentist's chair. This story comes about two-thirds of the way through the arc and sets up Duchovny's return to the show--though he literally has to die and come back to get back on the case. It's an unfortunate paradox that most X-Files stand-alone releases concentrate on the dreary alien-abduction/conspiracy episodes which carry the greater storyline of the show, giving the misleading impression that the series is a drearily solemn, badly plotted, straight-faced but stupid sci-fi soap opera. Always skipped over are the far more interesting, entertaining and impressive stand-alone supernatural mysteries or strange comic exercises. Though Duchovny is mostly lying in a hospital bed with oatmeal all over his face, Anderson--whose character is pregnant this series, another dull sub-plot--still gives an amazingly committed performance and gets terrific support from Patrick, whose character has shaken up a lot of what was settled or stale about the show, and the always-underrated Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Skinner. The story features several wild-eyed UFO guru types (including Roy Thinnes, once star of The Invaders) and returned abductees transformed into un-killable alien zombies. It's as well made as ever, with ominous shadows and the odd smart line, but you need to have been paying very close attention for seven years to understand what's going on. With Duchovny a potential escapee and Anderson perhaps in line to follow, this episode brings on the excellent Annabeth Gish as Agent Monica Reyes, a specialist in bizarre rituals, who is being effectively set up to partner Patrick in a post-Mulder-and-Scully X-Files that might well keep the franchise going on forever Star Trek-fashion. --Kim Newman

• Face Of Terror | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nothing's more deadly than a man with nothing to lose... A police officer searching for his missing sister in Spain mistakenly uncovers a terrorist cell and must dismantle their operation if he is to survive!

• The X Files - Complete DVD Collection | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £199.99

  Now you can own the entire adventures of The X-Files in this bumper DVD box set. every episode from all 9 seasons of this multi-award award-winning show are available for the first time in this exclusive Collector's Edition. Don't miss the opportunity to see how the phenomenon all began back in 1993 and how it came to a close 9 years later!

• Young Doctors In Love | DVD | (13/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A comedy about what really goes on behind the screens in a big city hospital.

• Steely Dan - Aja | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Originally produced for cable and home video as a documentary project, the Classic Albums series offers in-depth profiles of enduring rock and pop albums built around first-person interviews with the artists, producers and musicians that created them. That audio focus creates an ironic, largely perceptual problem for DVD release, since the segments aren't intended to replace the original audio recordings, only to expand upon them: these are conventional DVDs, not harbingers of true audio DVD optimised for sonic resolution, and they are not mixed to exploit surround playback. If you haven't heard these albums, nearly all of them landmarks in late 20th century pop, then this isn't the place to start, and Aja magnifies that issue through the very high standard of the original audio recording, itself a true audiophile work. If you do know the album, however, the Classic Album presentation is a handsomely produced, revealing companion. --Sam Sutherland

• Stargate S.G -1: Season 5 (Vol. 20) | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £11.45   |  Saving you £11.53 (136.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The opening episodes of the fifth season of Stargate SG-1 had a lot of story left over from the nail-biting Season 4 cliffhanger, so this year had to open with a two-part conclusion. "Enemies" is aptly named because the team are faced with their biggest nemeses of all, Apophis and the Replicators, while stuck in another galaxy 120 years away from Earth. The biggest interpersonal problem facing them, however, is a switch in allegiance by Teal'c. Continuing into "Threshold", it takes the wisdom of his old master Bra'tac to perceive that all is not as it seems. But after so many attempts, can the enemies ever truly be vanquished? At long last, Sam gets a sympathetic and revealing spotlight. We get to see some of her home life and who she is away from the science lab. In her garage she has a 1940 Indian motorcycle, a 1961 vintage Volvo and a Harley. These aren't the only things she tinkers with in "Ascension", however. In a case of torn loyalties, she's confronted by an imaginary friend/lover (Young Indiana Jones himself, Sean Patrick Flanery). And then Jack seems to experience something very similar when the team gains a "Fifth Man". Both these episodes' storylines are threatened by the poisonous introduction of Colonel Simmons (John de Lancie, Star Trek's Q). --Paul Tonks

• Shark In A Bottle | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Guy Normal is an everyday sort of guy as his name suggests. Stuck in a boring badly paid job as a postman in Phoenix Arizona it seems unlikely he will ever realise his ambitions of a laid back new life surfing the waves off the coast of Australia. But one day Guy becomes the sole survivor of a headline-grabbing postal massacre and is forced to go on the run. The cops mistakenly think he's an ice-cold killer and so do a deadly organisation of assassins-for-hire run by the sinister Ben Gazzara They recruit Guy in best Nikita fashion brainwash him into forgetting his past identity and set him loose to kill on their behalf - with totally unexpected and blackly comical results...

• Fruit Of The Vine | DVD | (13/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A Super-8 documentary shot by Coan Nichols and Rick Charnosky 'Fruit Of The Vine' chronicles the directors' travels from California to Washington searching for empty or near-empty pools to skate. More of an episodic collection of stories the film follows Nichols and Charnosky as they meet and profile skaters who find break into and skate the abandoned or neglected pools of the suburban west coast. Featuring well-known skaters such as Tony Alva Lance Mountain Tony Farmer Salba

• The Terror - Reloaded | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £5.16   |  Saving you £0.83 (16.09%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Terror is a classic Horror movie. Bringing together three greats from cinematic history Jack Nicholson Boris Karloff and producer Francis F Coppola. Chop it up with some stomping mixes by The House Music Movement DJ Todd Terry and VJ Dr Magic what do you get..? New realms of sensual fear and erotic imagery... That is Terror Reloaded. A lieutentant in Napoleon's army (a young Jack Nicholson) traces a mysterious woman to a castle on the Baltic coast and finds himself trapped by a mad baron (Boris Karloff). This highly enjoyable atmopsheric slice of low-budget horror from the great Roger Corman was also reportedly directed at points by future talents Francis Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich.

• Pitch Perfect 3 | Blu Ray | (20/03/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Murder At Raven's Ridge | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Six friends have carried out an audacious plan to ambush an armoured car. Now they must trust each other with the secret information of the remote location they have chosen to hide the loot. Many months later the gang return to the secret location at Raven’s Ridge. But locating the exact spot where the money is buried does not prove easy as things have mysteriously changed. Suspicions start to arise and the gang begins to turn against each other. An evil presence descends upon

• Mike Bassett: England Manager | UMD | (01/01/1980) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ricky Tomlinson - star of TV's "The Royle Family" - plays football manager Mike Bassett in this spoof documentary that follows the turn of events after he becomes manager of England's international football team - because no one else wants the job!

• Donnie Darko / Blue Velvet | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Donnie Darko: October 1988 and small town USA is about to witness the end of the world. It's home to Donnie Darko a brilliant but troubled teenager plagued by terrifying visions the meaning of which he alone holds the key. With his class mate and soul mate Gretchen and a mysterious ex teacher Grandma Death he must unravel the strange occurrences infecting his school his home and his life before a horrifying spectre known only as Frank can pull Donnie over the edge of his sanity. Blue Velvet: Possibly the most influential American film of the 1980's Lynch's bizarre erotic mystery spawned a whole raft of imitations with its portrayal of the dark underside of American small-town life. Critics and audiences responded to Lynch's original and startling images of sex and violence and made the film a box-office smash. Blue Velvet is renowned for creating in Dennis Hopper's Frank one of the greatest screen villains of all time.