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• The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1968 (Box Set 4) | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The final adventures of the oh so dapper John Steed and his sidekick Tara King. Episode titles include: Fog Who Was That Man I Saw You With Pandora Thingumajig Homicide And Old Lace Requiem Take-Over Bizarre

• Real Genius | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An underrated little picture, Real Genius offers a rare college comedy that doesn't rely on gross-out humour as well as a look at Val Kilmer before he turned into a star. A high school whiz kid (Gabriel Jarret) arrives at a brainy college, where the crème de la crème of the science students are marshalled under an ambitious professor (expert villain William Atherton). Unbeknown to them, the kids are working on a weapons system that the prof. plans on selling to the government. The star student and chief rabble-rouser is played by Kilmer, in good early form as a cocky genius who hasn't lost touch with his goofy side. The director is Martha Coolidge, whose Valley Girl was one of the brightest (and most unexpected) of 1980s comedies; she keeps the movie perking along and never worries about dumbing down a film that just happens to be about smart people. --Robert Horton

• D.O.A. | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Edmund O'Brian - DOA

• Dollar For The Dead | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £6.96   |  Saving you £-0.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Cowboy (Emilio Estevez) a lone gunslinger of grey-eyed coldness and very few words rides into town trailing a single wooden coffin behind him. Hotly pursued by The Regulators a band of self appointed lawmen whom are hell bent on revenge and led by the imposing figure of Reager (Howie Long). This mysterious figure is a man with no name and a man with no home whose only role in life appears to be to utilise his incredible gunslinging skills to defend those who are unable to do so against the oppressive bandits and ruthless cowboys in this lawless society. It is on one such occasion when he rescues a crippled civil war veteran he is entrusted with the secret of untold treasures and now has not only Reager and his vengeance riddled posse to deal with but also another band of ruthless outlaws who have made the search for the gold their life's work. It's incredibly stylised action all the way as this cold blooded killer must utilise all of his skills in a battle against overwhelming odds as the mystery behind the single wooden coffin slowly unfolds.

• Kiss Of The Dragon / Bulletproof Monk / Marked For Death | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kiss Of The Dragon China's top secret agent Liu Jian (Jet Li) visits Paris on a pleasure trip only to encounter government espionage at the highest level. Accused of a murder he did not commit and on the run in a city he doesn't know Liu befriends an American woman Jessica (Bridget Fonda) and makes a promise that could compromise his career and even cost him his life... Bulletproof Monk 'Bulletproof Monk' begins in the 1940s as a Tibetan Buddhist monk charged with protecting an ancient scroll passes on his legacy to his pupil. As the student receives the power to safeguard the scroll his aging process is halted and he gives up his name only to be known as the Monk (Chow Yun-Fat). Suddenly the monastery is raided by Nazis led by the ruthless Strucker (Karl Roden). As they attempt to seize the relic the Monk is shot and falls off a cliff taking the scroll with him... However six decades later the Monk appears in America and crosses paths with Kar (Seann William Scott) a tough city kid with a talent for picking pockets. Together the unlikely duo must contend with the forces of the now-elderly Strucker still determined to possess the mystical scroll. As Strucker's granddaughter Nina (Victoria Smurfit) leads his thugs to track down Kar and the Monk the two heroes receive help from the mysterious Jade (James King)... Marked For Death Just retired from the Drug Enforcement agency John Hatcher (Seagal) returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighbourhood. Determined to drive the dealers out Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican druglord who vows that Hatcher and his family are now marked for death...

• Star Trek 5 : The Final Frontier - Special Edition (2 discs) | DVD | (22/12/2003) from £10.79   |  Saving you £17.19 (220.38%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Almost universally derided on its first release as the worst of the Star Trek movies to date, The Final Frontier might just have been the victim of bad press. Following in the wake of the massively successful fourth instalment The Voyage Home didn't help matters (notoriously, even-numbered entries are better), nor did having novice director and shameless egomaniac William Shatner at the helm. But if the story, conceived and cowritten by Shatner, teeters dangerously on the verge of being corny, it redeems itself with enough thought-provoking scenes in the best tradition of the series, and a surprisingly original finale. Granted there are a few too many yawning plot holes along the way, and the general tone is over-earnest (despite some painfully slapstick comedy moments), but the interaction of the central trio (Kirk, Spock and McCoy) is often funny and genuinely insightful; while Laurence Luckinbill is a charismatic adversary as the renegade Vulcan Sybok. The rest of the cast scarcely get a look in, and the special effects betray serious budgetary restrictions, but with a standout score from Jerry Goldsmith and a meaty philosophical premise to play around with, Star Trek V looks a lot more substantial in retrospect. Certainly it's no worse than either Generations or Insurrection, the next "odd-numbered" entries in the series. --Mark Walker

• Justice - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Margaret Lockwood, one of British cinema s greatest stars, takes on the role of a no-nonsense female barrister in this outstanding series from the makers of Yorkshire Television s classic legal drama The Main Chance. Intuitive, adept and deeply conscientious, Harriet Peterson possesses a steely determination and the necessary tenacity to fight for her clients. But she is not infallible and a turbulent personal life occasionally spills over into her professional life as she takes on a range of cases, from child custody battles to murder, medical negligence to treason. This first series sees Harriet making the move from the north of England to London. Executive producer Peter Willes marshalled key members of the Main Chance team, including legal consultant John Batt and writer Edmund Ward, to create a rigorously researched and compelling courtroom drama. This set comprises both Justice and the single Screenplay drama which preceded it, Justice Is a Woman also starring Lockwood as Julia Stanford, a barrister who, convinced of her client s innocence, defends a young man accused of rape and murder

• Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1 | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its' five year mission: to explore strange new worlds to seek out new life and new civilisations to boldly go where no man has gone before! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Man Trap 2. Charlie X 3. Where No Man Has Gone Before 4. The Naked Time 5. The Enemy Within 6. Mudd's Women 7. What Are Little Girls Made Of? 8. Miri 9. Dagger Of The Mind 10. The Corbomite Maneuver 11. The Menagerie (Part 1) 12. The Me

• Mad City | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Mad City is an earnest effort at media criticism that's never convincing enough to stir a viewer's outrage in the way filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Music Box) might have intended. John Travolta plays a barely educated museum guard who is laid off from his job and ends up holding his former boss (Blythe Danner) and a bunch of schoolchildren hostage. Dustin Hoffman is a former television-network journalist making a grab at the limelight again by pushing and controlling press coverage of the story. What follows is by the numbers and not nearly as enlightening or enthralling as other films (such as Dog Day Afternoon or Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole) about simple events manipulated into a media circus. Despite Travolta's tragic performance and Hoffman's impassioned one, the film breaks up over efforts to blame electronic voyeurism for social chaos. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• 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 Bridge on the River Kwai/Das Boot/The Guns of Navarone | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bridge Over The River Kwai: Set in Burma during World War II the story tells of British P.O.Ws who are forced to build a large bridge for the Japanese while a British Commando team is sent to destroy it. Winner of seven Academy Awards. (Dir. David Lean 1957) Das Boot: Das Boot is a graphic and gripping tale that follows the daring patrol of U-96 one of the famed German U-Boats known as 'The Grey Wolves'. Prowling the North Atlantic they challenged the British Navy at every turn. The crew abroad the U-96 is portrayed in a desperate life-and-death struggle coping with life beneath the waves quickly gives way to terror when confronting the enemy... (Dir. Wolfgang Peterson 1981) The Guns Of Navarone: Exciting war film based on a novel by Alistair Maclean which tells of the attempts of a British raiding team to sabotage two giant German guns on a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Carl Foreman brought Allistar MacLean's best-selling novel to the screen winning nominations for seven Academy Awards in 1961. (Dir. J. Lee Thompson 1961)

• Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Vol. 6 | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Like a multi-headed serpent the branches of the Dragon Line become the arms with which Galatea seeks to crush the last vestiges of human resistance in Tokyo. Now the city is abandoned. Only the Knight Sabers remain mankind's last line of defense against the nightmarish spawn of man and machine. But can even the Sabers defeat a beast with a million eyes and the mind of an insane child? The war against Galatea movesito the highest frontier as the Sabers stage a final desperate ass

• Bad Timing | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Art Garfunkel plays a moody American psychoanalyst whose mounting obsession with a beautiful fun-loving young girl drives her to the brink of death on a drug overdose. As he waits anxiously at the hospital and tries to answer police questions he recalls the details of the complex and tempestuous affair: their meeting their discovery of physical joy marred by mental anguish their constant separations and reconciliations. Yet is he telling the police the whole truth?

• Brand | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Patrick McGoohan gives an outstanding performance as Henrik Ibsen's uncompromising and ultimately tortured priest in the original 1959 BBC World Theatre production. Highly powerful 'Brand' sometimes makes difficult viewing as the character forces those around him to accept the only true path to God...

• Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the aftermath of the great earthquake one ruthless corporation stands ready to take over the devastated city of Tokyo with an army of synthetic monsters. Only one small band of female mercenaries is ready to stand against the monolithic power of Genom but in this case four women is all it takes! Armed with the most incredible combat suits ever designed the Knight Sabers wage a desperate war in the shadows combating the monstrous by-products of technology run amuck with courage

• Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £7.56 (80.17%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A young girl Maria is caught in flagrante delicto with her lover by Father Vicente who belongs to the nearby Serreda Iris cloister. The fiendish clergyman persuades her parents who are poor and easily intimidated to put Maria under his protection. She is brought to Serreda Iris where the nuns seem to have an unusual interest in her beautiful body. Maria abondoned by everyone loses hope but first she wants to make things clear with the only friend left to her: She writes a let

• The Unholy | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (69.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  More controversial than The Exorcist; more terrifying than The Omen... Ben Cross Hal Holbrook Ned Beatty and the legendary Trevor Howard star in The Unholy a supernatural thriller of demonic proportions. After a miraculous recovery from a seventeen-storey fall Father Michael (Cross) is appointed pastor of St. Agnes church which has been closed for three years following the mysterious and violent deaths of his predecessors. When the young priest is told he is the ""Chosen One"" Father Michael sets out on a search for the answer to these mysteries... but what he encounters is a life and death battle with the demon of desire The Unholy.

• Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Vol. 3 | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A new horror envelops Tokyo in a web of fear as a mysterious entity runs amok pulling it's victims into the sewers and devouring them! Can even the combined forces of the Knight Sabers Genom and the A.D. Police stop the monster before it chooses its next victim? Then with Linna missing and Sylia and Nene out of action Priss finds herself facing her most deadly adversary yet a gargantuan military boomer that she cannot possibly stop alone. Contains the episodes: My Nation Underg

• Focus | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £8.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (43.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set in New York during the height of World War II 'Focus' recounts the unravelling of an American community when the identity of a man (William H. Macy) and his wife (Laura Dern) are mistaken. Slowly ostracised at home and work they learn the value of self and solidarity as they struggle to maintain dignity and find happiness.

• The A Team - Series 1 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem if no one else can help and if you can find them maybe you can hire the A-Team! Episodes comprise: 1. Mexican Slayride (Part 1) 2. Mexican Slayride (Part 2) 3. Children Of Jamestown 4. Pros And Cons 5. A Small And Deadly War 6. Black Day At Bad Rock 7. The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas 8. The Out-Of-Towners 9. Holiday In The Hills