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• Smallville: Complete Season 2 | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £28.33   |  Saving you £28.66 (50.30%)   |  RRP £56.99

  For many fans, the Superman revisionist series Smallville truly hit its stride in its second series, when it shifted focus from traditional comic book conflicts to one of self-discovery for its hero, a teenage Clark Kent (Tom Welling). Fans and first-timers can judge for themselves with this six-disc set, which collects all 23 episodes and a decent selection of supplemental features. Whereas series 1 focused on Clark using his powers to combat a host of menaces as in the WB's other big fantasy hit, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, series 2 delved into Clark's past and the extent of his super powers, most notably in the back-to-back "Heat", in which he discovers his heat vision, and "Red," in which red kryptonite uncorks Clark's less-than-upstanding side. Other plot developments that pull the series in interesting directions include the arrival of Dr Helen Bryce (Emanuelle Vaugier), who becomes involved with Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum), but the series' most significant moment comes during episode 17, "Rosetta", in which Clark learns of his Kryptonian origins courtesy of a scientist, who, in an effective bit of casting, is played by Superman star Christopher Reeve. The complexity of the writing and the issues dealt with in series 2 marked Smallville as a series with depth and drama worthy of its considerable fan following as well as a second boxed set; fittingly, the supplements in this set are more expansive than on the first one. Producers Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and Greg Beeman and cast members Welling, Rosenbaum and Kristen Kreuk weigh in on commentary tracks for two episodes ("Red" and "Rosetta"), while a trio of short featurettes explore Christopher Reeves' appearance in "Rosetta", the show's visual effects and the amusing "Wall of Weird" web page maintained by Chloe (Allison Mack). The extras are rounded out by a handful of deleted scenes and a gag reel. --Paul Gaita

• Golgo 13 | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Live For Passion... Die For Vengeance. Everyone's favorite assassin is back in his most exciting mission yet! Code Name: Golgo 13 - Professional assassin Duke Togo aka GOLGO 13 is an assassin for hire the most proficient sharpshooter in the known world and a completely amoral man with few redeeming qualities. Indestructible to his enemies and irresistible to his women GOLGO 13 is shrouded in mystery and anonymity. When solicited extermination is 100% guaranteed. Based on the dramatic Gekiga (Graphic Novels) by Saito Takao the world of Golgo is a harsh one filled with violence intrigue gadgetry and sex. Golgo must remain cold and calculating just to stay alive but can he survive the combined forces of the FBI CIA The Pentagon and the U.S. Army before pitting his wits against the superhuman powers of the Snake and the twin evils of psychopathic mercenaries Gold and Silver?

• Island Of Terror | DVD | (20/10/2014) from £10.49   |  Saving you £4.50 (42.90%)   |  RRP £14.99

  One the great British Sci-Fi thrillers of the 1960s! When the inhabitants of Petrie’s island succumb to a mysterious disease doctors Brian Stanley (Peter Cushing) and David West (Edward Judd) are asked to investigate. Puncture marks on the corpses reveal the horrifying truth: the islanders and their animals are being killed not by a disease but by a strange type of silicate organism that sucks the bone from their bodies...

• Autumn In New York | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A New York restaurant owner falls for a young woman chef. When she reveals a dark secret about herself, their relationship takes on deeper meaning.

• The Hunger Games MockingJay Part 1 | Blu Ray | (16/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, which finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and a nation moved by her courage. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 is directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Danny Strong and Peter Craig and produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik. The novel on which the film is based is the third in a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins that has over 65 million copies in print in the U.S. alone.

• Saturday Night Fever / Staying Alive | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The years have endowed Saturday Night Fever with a powerful, elegiac quality since its explosive release in 1977. It was the must-see movie for a whole generation of adolescents, sparking controversy for rough language and clumsily realistic sex scenes which took teen cinema irrevocably into a new age. And of course, it revived the career of the Bee Gees to stratospheric heights, thanks to a justifiably legendary soundtrack which now embodies the disco age. But Saturday Night Fever was always more than a disco movie. Tony Manero is an Italian youth from Brooklyn straining at the leash to escape a life defined by his family, blue collar job and his gang. Disco provides the medium for him to break free. It was the snake-hipped dance routines which made John Travolta an immediate sex symbol. But seen today, his performance as Tony is compelling: rough-hewn, certainly, but complex and true, anticipating the fine screen actor he would be recognised as 20 years later. Scenes of the Manhattan skyline and the Brooklyn Bridge, representing Tony's route to a bigger world, now have an added poignancy, adding to Saturday Night Fever's evocative power. It's a bittersweet classic. On the DVD: Saturday Night Fever is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround soundtrack, both of which help to recapture the unique atmosphere of the late 1970s. The main extra is a director's commentary from John Badham, with detailed descriptions of casting and the improvisation behind many of the scenes, plus the unsavoury reality behind Travolta's iconic white disco suit. --Piers Ford

• Sleepover | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £11.90   |  Saving you £-1.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the summer before their Freshman year in high school Julie (Alexa Vega) has a slumber party with her best friends Hannah (Mika Boorem) Yancy (Kallie Flynn Childress) and Farrah (Scout Taylor-Compton) and they end up having the adventure of their lives. In an attempt to cast off their less-than-cool reputations once and for all Julie and her friends enter into an all-night scavenger hunt against their popular girl rivals.

• King Kong | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  "Now you see it. You're amazed. You can't believe it. Your eyes open wider. It's horrible, but you can't look away. There's no chance for you. No escape. You're helpless, helpless. There's just one chance, if you can scream. Throw your arms across your eyes and scream, scream for your life!" And scream Fay Wray does most famously in this monster classic, one of the greatest adventure films of all time, which even in an era of computer-generated wizardry remains a marvel of stop-motion animation. Robert Armstrong stars as famed adventurer Carl Denham, who is leading a "crazy voyage" to a mysterious, uncharted island to photograph "something monstrous ... neither beast nor man." Also aboard is waif Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and Bruce Cabot as big lug John Driscoll, the ship's first mate. King Kong's first half-hour is steady going, with engagingly corny dialogue ("Some big, hard-boiled egg gets a look at a pretty face and bang, he cracks up and goes sappy") and ominous portent that sets the stage for the horror to come. Once our heroes reach Skull Island, the movie comes to roaring, chest-thumping, T. rex-slamming, snake-throttling, pterodactyl-tearing, native-stomping life. King Kong was ranked by the American Film Institute as among the 50 best films of the 20th century. Kong making his last stand atop the Empire State Building is one of the movies' most indelible and iconic images. --Donald Liebenson

• Locked Down | DVD | (07/06/2021) from £3.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Just as they decide to separate, Linda (Anne Hathaway) and Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor) find life has other plans when they are stuck at home in a mandatory lockdown. Co-habitation is proving to be a challenge, but fuelled by poetry and copious amounts of wine, it will bring them closer together in the most surprising way. Special Features: Locked Down: An Impossible Journey-To make a movie during a global pandemic, everyone must play apart. Join director Doug Liman and the cast and crew for a behind the scenes look at the making of Locked Down.

• Fireball | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  "Fireball" combines the breakneck paced sport of basketball with the bone crushing brutality of Muay Thai fighting and mixed martial arts for an action movie experience quite unlike any other.

• Dead Mine | DVD | (13/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A band of treasure hunters set off to a remote Indonesian island searching for wartime gold left behind by the Japanese. Having overcome internal conflicts and the harsh terrain they are attacked by a mysterious enemy.They seek refuge in an old tunnel system, where something far more deadly awaits them... From the director of Mum and Dad, Dead Mine is a suspense-filled action-horror that brings the modern world face to face with the terrors of World War II.

• Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken | Blu Ray | (26/09/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Endeavour: Series 1-3 | DVD | (01/02/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.00

  All episodes from the first three series of the feature-length spin-off of ITV's long-running crime drama 'Inspector Morse'. Set in 1965, the show follows Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) in his younger years as a police constable. Working alongside his senior partner Detective Inspector Fred Thursday (Roger Allam) and PC James Strange (Sean Rigby), Morse engages in a number of investigations around Oxford, England. Series 1 episodes are: 'Girl', 'Fugue', 'Rocket' and 'Home'. Series 2 episodes are: 'Trove', 'Nocturne', 'Sway' and 'Neverland'. Series 3 episodes are: 'Ride', 'Arcadia', 'Prey' and 'Coda'.

• Alien vs Predator: Extreme Edition (Two Discs) | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £5.32   |  Saving you £17.67 (332.14%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In delivering non-18-rated excitement, Alien vs. Predator is an acceptably average science-fiction action thriller with some noteworthy highlights, even if it squanders its opportunity to intelligently combine two popular franchises. Rabid fans can justifiably ask "Is that all there is?" after a decade of development hell and eager anticipation, but we're compensated by reasonably logical connections to the Alien legacy and the still-kicking Predator franchise (which hinted at AVP rivalry at the end of Predator 2); some cleverly claustrophobic sets, tense atmosphere and impressive digital effects; and a climactic AVP smackdown that's not half bad. This disposable junk should've been better, but nobody who's seen Mortal Kombat or Resident Evil should be surprised by writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson's lack of imagination. As a brisk, 90-minute exercise in generic thrills, however, Anderson's work is occasionally impressive... right up to his shameless opening for yet another sequel. --Jeff Shannon

• Adrift | Blu Ray | (05/11/2018) from £10.11   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Shailene Woodley (Fault in Our Stars, Divergent films) and Sam Claflin (Me Before You, The Hunger Games films), ADRIFT is based on the inspiring true story of two free spirits whose chance encounter leads them first to love, and then to the adventure of a lifetime. As the two avid sailors set out on a journey across the ocean, Tami Oldham (Woodley) and Richard Sharp (Claflin) couldn't anticipate they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. In the aftermath of the storm, Tami awakens to find Richard badly injured and their boat in ruins. With no hope for rescue, Tami must find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved.

• Bright Lights, Big City | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A young wannabe writer haunted by his mother's death his wife's desertion and his boring research job on a magazine succumbs to booze cocaine and the late-night New York club scene...

• Not Another Teen Movie | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this teen movies parody the local highschool is full of bitchy cheerleaders, dumb ass jocks, the new girl, and the undercover reporter!

• Timeless: Season 1 | DVD | (01/01/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From Eric Kripke (Revolution, Supernatural), Shawn Ryan (The Shield) and the producers of The Blacklist comes this thrilling action-adventure series in which a mysterious criminal, Flynn (Goran Visnjic), steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: Lucy (Abigail Spencer), a history professor; Wyatt (Matt Lanter), a soldier; and Rufus (Malcolm Barrett), a scientist, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?

• Miss Sloane | Blu Ray | (18/09/2017) from £17.65   |  Saving you £-2.75 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.90

  In the high-stakes world of political power-brokers, Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain) is the most sought-after and formidable lobbyist in D.C. Known equally for her cunning and her track record of success, she has always done whatever is required to win. But when she takes on the most powerful opponent of her career, she finds that winning may come at too high a price.

• Mum Series 2 | DVD | (02/04/2018) from £5.84   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A