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• Van Helsing | UMD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Like a roller coaster ready to fly off its rails, Van Helsing rockets to maximum velocity and never slows down. Having earned blockbuster clout with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, writer-director Stephen Sommers once again plunders Universal's monster vault and pulls out all the stops for this mammoth $148-million action-adventure-horror-comedy, which opens (sans credits) with a terrific black-and-white prologue that pays homage to the Universal horror classics that inspired it. The plot pits legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) against Dracula (the deliciously campy Richard Roxburgh), his deadly blood-sucking brides, and the Wolfman (Will Kemp) in a two-hour parade of outstanding special effects (980 in all) that turn Sommers' juvenile plot into a triple-overtime bonus for CGI animators. In alliance with a Transylvanian princess (Kate Beckinsale) and the Frankenstein monster (Shuler Hensley), Van Helsing must prevent Dracula from hatching his bat-winged progeny, and there's so much good-humored action that you're guaranteed to be thrilled and exhausted by the time the 10-minute end-credits roll. It's loud, obnoxious, filled with revisionist horror folklore, and aimed at addicted gamers and eight-year-olds, but this colossal monster mash (including Mr. Hyde, just for kicks) will never, ever bore you. --Jeff Shannon

• 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...

• Dead Creatures | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £4.92   |  Saving you £15.07 (306.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story of a group of zombie girls living in London who must feed on human flesh to survive whilst trying to avoid the zombie hunter.

• Evil Aliens | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £5.19   |  Saving you £4.80 (48.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In an attempt to rescue their falling ratings, Weird Worlde presenter Michelle Fox (Emily Booth) takes a film crew to deepest darkest Wales to investigate claims of alien abduction. The television crew don't believe a word of the story until the real stars arrive. They're aliens and they're not friendly. To survive, the crew will have to arm themselves with whatever weapons they can find, ranging from hammers to machetes, chainsaws to rotary tillers and even a combine harvester! Will they survive the alien threat? Who will be abducted, mutilated, probed and decapitated?

• The Michael Haneke Trilogy | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Seventh Continent (1989): Described by Haneke as a reflection on ""the progressive emotional glaciation of Austria "" The Seventh Continent focuses on George (Dieter Berner) a middling engineer and his sardonic wife Anna (Birgit Doll). Unable to empathize with their daughter's compulsion for lying and uninterested in each other's emotional well-being the couple turns their pedestrian way of life into a vortex of subjective malaise. And while a recurring ad for an Australian vacation stands as a signal of potential blissfulness the couple's perfunctory melancholy eventually materialized into barbarism. Based on a true story and filmed as a succession of beautifully composed and yet mundane tableaux this unsentimental depiction of individual and family collapse ""ranks among the most truly terrifying in modern cinema"" (Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune). More than a metaphor of hope and escape The Seventh Continent is a meticulous dive into the postmodern disregard of affect - and a stark look at lives severed from feelings. Benny's Video (1993): Winner of the FIPRESCI award given by the International Federation of Film Critics in 1993 Benny's Video is the second installment of Michael Haneke's (The Piano Teacher Cache) ""emotional glaciation"" trilogy. Written and directed by Haneke the bone-chilling story opens with the amateur footage of a pig being slaughtered with a butcher gun. This unceremonious recording is owned by 14-year-old Benny (Arno Frisch; Haneke's Funny Gamers) a boy whose preferred mediums of experience are video cameras action movies and the surveillance monitors placed in his room. Accustomed to a trite routine of school activities daily visits to a local video store and hours in front of his bedroom TV Benny finds himself enthralled by his tape of a slaughtered swing. Staying alone is his parents' apartment Benny eventually brings home an unknown girl immediately exposing her to the rapturous videotaping. Then after revealing that he stole the gun that took the pig's life Benny coldly shoots his guest and turns his unwrought curiosity into a slaughter video franchise. ""I once saw a TV program about the tricks they use in action films "" says Benny. ""It's all ketchup and plastic."" By colliding the differences between frames and flesh Haneke's sophomore theatrical release offers a lucid depiction of human beings deprived of their capacity to empathize with - and be hurt by - others. 71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance (1994): With his signature cold cerebral style his long slow takes and meticulous action Austrian director Michael Haneke presents a series of isolated scenes of unrelated people that culminates in an act of sudden and senseless violence in a bank. 71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance delves into some of the prevalent themes of Haneke's earlier films The Seventh Continent and Benny's Video: existential isolation the oppressive force of contemporary western civilization the effects of television on human experience and sudden inscrutable violence. Similar to Antonioni Haneke has become one of the contemporary cinema's greatest provocateurs deliberately withholding crucial information and denying any audience expectation. The eerie and beautiful 71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance hovers between a terrible nihilism and a tenuous humanism.

• Green Day - Bullet In A Bible | UMD | (26/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Disney Pixar Complete Collection | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Cars: Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) is a cocky rookie race car. Speeding on his way to a big race he crashes into Radiator Springs destroying lots of the inhabitants' belongings! In order to make up for what he did the raucous roadster is sentenced to community service. Though he will do anything to get away from the work McQueen must learn to respect and bond with the Radiator Springs inhabitants in order to get out of the town and back on the racetrack... (Dir. John Lasseter 2006) Toy Story: As 6-year-old Andy's favourite toy Woody (Tom Hanks) a take-charge pull-string cowboy is confident in his role as room leader. But after Andy's birthday party newcomer Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) a flashy space ranger with laser action and pop-out wings crash-lands into Woody's world. Buzz instantly wins the admiration of Andy's other toys igniting a rivalry that lands the duo inside the home of Sid - the toy-torturing boy next door. To escape Sid's evil plans Woody and Buzz must work together and realize they've got the perfect friend: in each other! (Dir. John Lasseter 1995) Toy Story 2: While Andy is away at summer camp Woody is toynapped by Al a greedy toy collector. His best friends including Buzz Mr Potato Head Slinky Dog and Rex set out on a heroic rescue mission to save him. Along the way they meet a whole host of new friends including Jessie the cow girl and Bullseye the horse. Together the gang set out to make sure Woody is home safely before Andy returns... (Dir. John Lasseter 1999) Monsters Inc.: Monsters Inc. is the largest scare factory in the monster world and the top Kid-Scarer is James P. Sullivan (John Goodman) a huge intimidating monster with blue fur large purple spots and horns known as ""Sulley"" to his friends. His Scare Assistant best friend and roommate is Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) a lime green opinionated feisty monster. And visiting from the human world is Boo a tiny girl who turns the monster world upside down and teaches Sulley and Mike that laughter is more powerful than a scream.... (Dir. Peter Docter David Silverman & Lee Unkrich 2002) A Bug's Life: On behalf of ""oppressed bugs everywhere"" an inventive ant named Flik hires ""warrior bugs"" to defend his colony from a horde of greedy grasshoppers led by Hopper. But when Flik's cavalry turns out to be a motley group of flea circus performers the stage is set for comic confusion...as well as unlikely heroes! (Dir. John Lasseter 1998) Finding Nemo: Nemo an adventurous young clownfish is unexpectedly taken to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to Marlin (Albert Brooks) his worrisome father and Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) a friendly but forgetful regal blue tang fish to make the epic journey to bring Nemo home. Their adventure brings them face-to-face with vegetarian sharks surfer dude turtles hypnotic jellyfish hungry seagulls and more. Marlin discovers a bravery he never knew but will he be able to find his son? (Dir. Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich 2003) The Incredibles: Bob Parr was once known as Mr Incredible the world's greatest superhero. Fifteen years later Bob and his wife Helen (formerly Elastigirl) have adopted civillian identities and retreated to the suburbs to lead ""normal lives"" with their three children. Now Bob's a clock-punching insurance claims adjuster fighting boredom and an ever-bulging waistline. However Bob is thrown back into the world of super-heroism when he receives a mysterious communication summoning him to a remote island for a top-secret mission.... (Dir. Brad Bird 2004)

• 13 Going On 30 | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Gangsta's Paradise | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Producers of `Rude Boy' deliver a brutal slice of violence betrayal and murderous retribution from the ghettos of Kingston Jamaica to the streets of Downtown L.A. `Gangsta's Paradise' boasts a star-studded cast of today's hottest talent including Beenie Man Ninja Man with John ""Ras Kidus"" Cornelius as Shotta.

• S.W.A.T. | Blu Ray | (19/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• S.W.A.T | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Kill Bill Volume 1 | UMD | (07/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• Born And Bred - Series 4 - Part 1 | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Part 1 of the fourth series of the popular BBC drama series starring Richard Wilson and Maggie Steed.

• Kill Bill Volume 2 | UMD | (07/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• The Plague | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Welcome to the 21st Century. A story of England told from inner city London. Set amongst a landscape of police wagons and estate blocks. Trapped in a World where hate breeds hate. A story seen through the eyes of four young multi-cultural friends. One City. One weekend. This is a film about the streets. And with that comes the risks and horrors that street life involves. The focus isn't on the poverty and division but on the people that live amongst it. And the only way to express this was through the raw talents of young non-actors to represent the lives behind what is labelled urban culture.

• Return of Superfly | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This pumping action thriller sees the return of Priest - former Harlem heroin kingpin out for vengeance. Having escaped his past life as a dealer and now living in France Priest is drawn back to his old ways in order to avenge the death of his former partner Eddie. Return of Superfly includes a platinum selling sound track by Curtis Mayfield and also features Samuel L Jackson.

• English Heritage | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £6.84   |  Saving you £13.15 (65.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  English Heritage act as the guardian's of the nation's history and are charged with preserving and maintaining over 350 000 historic and listed buildings ruins and castles. When Simon Thurley took over as chief executive of English Heritage he was hailed the person who could take the organisation into the 21st century. This series follows English Heritage as it embarks on 4 amazing new projects - but what was intended and what actually happened were two very different things. There is comedy chaos and bitter political controversy as massive losses ensue the credit crunch bites and massive infrastructure projects are thrown off track...

• Home Of The Brave | Blu Ray | (05/10/2009) from £13.48   |  Saving you £2.51 (18.62%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nearing the end of their tour of Iraq four American soldiers are sent on one last humanitarian mission that sees them ambushed taking heavy losses with the troops suffering physical and psychological injuries. Samuel L. Jackson stars as Will Marsh a doctor tormented by the lives he could not save returning home to a son who now hates him for going and a wife who is struggling to understand him. Living in the same town driver Vanessa Price (Jessica Biel) has lost her right hand in the ambush and now finds herself having to face the emotional and physical readjustment that her wounds carry. Army specialist Curtis (50 Cent) Jackson is haunted by the killing of an Iraqi woman and unable to cope with the rage inside when he returns home to his friends. Finally Brian Presley is the combat soldier whose best friend dies in his arms and who ultimately feels compelled to go back to war and support his comrades in their fight. For all coming home is the real battle.

• The Code | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dris (Le Bihan) and Yanis (Naceri) two urban rogues have decided to escape the concrete jungle through a life of crime. From petty break-ins to robbing armoured cars they gradually become experts in their new vocation. Their companions are Niglo a gypsy Fooued Son of Senegalese immigrants and Nina a beautiful gypsy first class thief and devoted lover of Dris. Dris is now 33. He has spent the last four years in jail and decides to straighten out. All he wants now is to lead a

• Dead Wood | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £14.04   |  Saving you £-1.05 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dead Wood