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• Tucker & Dale Vs Evil | Blu Ray | (07/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A confident mix of comedy and horror, Tucker & Dale Vs Evil brings together Firefly star Alan Tudyk and Reaper’s Tyler Labine as a pair of hillbillies. More to the point, they’re a pair of hillbillies who have bought themselves a secluded cabin in the middle of the woods. Anyone who’s seen even a handful of horror movies will have be more than familiar with the conventions that are being set up, and might just be settling back for a dose of the familiar. But they don’t really get it. Instead, Tucker & Dale Vs Evil chooses to play up the comedy, thanks to writer-director Eli Craig’s very good script. It’s a screenplay that accepts and warms to the trappings of a horror movie, and then has a great deal of fun playing with them. Thus, when a bunch of students turn up in the middle of the woods, things don’t quite go the way that many will be expecting. It’s odd that Tucker & Dale Vs Evil never really secured itself the broader theatrical exposure it deserves, because it’s a really smart film. Granted, it’s bereft of outright movie stars, but the pairing of Tudyk and Labine proves inspired, and Craig is wise enough to keep his running time nice and tight. Don’t let the relatively low budget of the production lead you to think you’re not getting good value from a Blu-ray upgrade, mind. In terms of picture quality in particular, you get a really sharp transfer here, and the audio mix is no slouch either. Given that most people never got to enjoy the film in cinemas, it seems right to make the most of it in the home. Tucker & Dale Vs Evil is far from the most ambitious film of recent times. But it’s certainly one of the funniest. It throws in the necessary gore quotient expected by fans of the horror genre, but delivers far more solid laughs that its relative anonymity might lead you to expect. It’s pretty much the epitome, then, of an undercover gem. --Jon Foster

• Lighthouse Hill | DVD | (09/04/2007) from £7.76   |  Saving you £12.23 (157.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jason Flemyng and Kirsty Mitchell star in this funny and thought provoking story of the conflict between love and the realisation of a dream the power of money and position and what happens when we turn our backs on everything that is familiar. Charlie Davidson (Flemyng) is a thirty something single and seems to have it all; a successful London publishing company a beautiful and intelligent girlfriend everything money can buy but something was missing... When his best friend suddenly dies Charlie decides to find a real purpose in his life. Driving off into the countryside he stumbles accross a surreal and lonely hotel with a landlocked lighthouse in the woods beyond inhabited by a series of strange and fascinating characters who will change his life forever...

• The Stars Collection Quad Pack - Vol. 2 | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £6.44   |  Saving you £-0.45 (-7.50%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Corruption Empire The death of a corporate mogul due to an overdose from a sexual performance enhancing drug leads to a case in which a witness (Roberts) accuses Detective Curtis (Bratt) of tampering with evidence. Meanwhile Detective Briscoe is set up by a former partner to take the rap for corruption. Now the two cops must take the stand to face the very justice that they defend... Playing God It's high-voltage thrills as hot X-files star David Duchovny and new big-screen bad boy Timothy Hutton square off in an edgy confrontation where the stakes are high...and the action is deadly! Duchovny plays Dr. Eugene Sands an ex-surgeon lured into a dark underworld by a hip - but lethal - mob caught in a web of murder and mayhem and growing far too close to the mobster's seductive mistress played by sexy Angelina Jolie. It's a potent action thriller where passion and deception meet in a battle between good and evil! Al's Lads Adventure drama set in 1927 Chicago surrounding Jimmy and his two Liverpool pals who work as lowly waiters on the Mauretania steaming towards America. They soon become involved in a gin selling racket and before long they are working for legendary gangster Al Capone... All The Queens Men Led by an American a mismatched team of British Special Services agents must infiltrate in disguise a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will help end the war.

• Heaven And The Suicide King | DVD | (31/07/2000) from £8.94   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.67%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Heaven and the Suicide King is a powerful and edgy thriller set against a backdrop of a sinister wife swapping syndicate amidst the glamour and glitz of Hollywood. Tommy and his actress wife 'Heaven' relocate to Los Angeles each with their own dreams of prosperity. While Tommy struggles with his new business venture Heaven's dream of becoming a successful actress is kick-started when she befriends a group of high powered film executives.

• Greyfriars Bobby/Beethoven | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Adventures Of Greyfriar's Bobby (Dir. John Henderson 2005): Bobby a small dog befriends Ewan a young boy. The adventures that they share in 19th century Edinburgh change their lives and the city forever. Based on the true story of 'Greyfriars Bobby'. Beethoven (Dir. Brian Levant 1992): A St. Bernard puppy 'adopts' a new home after escaping from dog thieves. The Newton family just haven't realised the trouble that 185 pounds of dog can get into...

• Attila The Hun | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Straight out of the American television movie school of historical thought, Attila the Hun is a glossy, at times long and often ridiculous re-telling of one of the great stories of Ancient Rome. How much of it is historically accurate is debatable--much of the action is ludicrously far fetched--and the image that most of us have of Attila is quite different to the bare-chested, longhaired reject from an 80s soft rock band that is presented here. The film does have its own slightly warped charm, though. The storyline is surprisingly complex, involving plots and counter plots, and the movie does exhibit a sense of epic somewhat in the vein of Gladiator, but is sadly lacking the budget, style or talent. The acting is awful (as befits anything that stars Steven Berkoff) and reduces the political machinations of Rome to little more than Dynasty in togas. Gerrard Butler is a fine actor--as he proved in the recent TV drama The Jury--but is woeful here, delivering his lines in a bizarre trans-Atlantic Scottish accent. At three hours it's way too long, too. There does remain something strangely compelling about Atilla the Hun, though you'll find more reliable facts about Roman history in an Asterix book. --Phil Udell

• Black Swan | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Seas Ablaze...with black villainy with fiery romance with breathless deeds of daring...in the roaring era of Love Gold and Adventure! When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Carribean of Buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels things are set for a fight.