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• Coronation Street - 1971 | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £17.70   |  Saving you £-4.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Coronation Street was first broadcast in December of 1960 and since then has gone from strength to strength in establishing itself as the nation's favourite soap opera. With a more light hearted slant on the genre Coronation Street has always drawn viewers from across the generations and its longevity is tribute to it's across the board appeal. On this DVD we take a look back to 1971 and eight classic episodes from that year.

• Soursweet | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £12.84   |  Saving you £-3.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Lily and Chen move from Hong Kong to London to make their fortune. Enterprising Lily runs her own restaurant but she fails to persuade Chen who prefers the security of a job as a waiter in London's Chinatown. Soho which forms the backdrop of much of the action is Britain's nerve centre for the Chinese Mafia - the Triads. In the back streets and illicit gambling dens the film gives a rare insight to the Machiavellian exchanges between rival Triad gangs. Trying to pay off his father's gambling debts; the innocent Chen accepts money from a Triad member only to find that he is expected to pay for it by doing a heroin run. Terrified he falls in with Lily's plan to move away and start up a business. However back in Soho a high ranking Triad member is planning to overthrow his leader and Chen's unpaid debt could turn him into a pawn in a horrifying violent power struggle.

• Death Screams | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The last scream you hear... is be your own! A machete-wielding maniac stalks and kills teenagers at a town fair...

• 2000 Maniacs | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £10.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (23.13%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Available "fully uncut" for the first time in the UK, Two Thousand Maniacs! is the second of director HG Lewis' "blood" trilogy. Though the "once-in-a-lifetime" title makes a promise no film could keep--only about 30 maniacs show up--and the level of gore is a notch or so down from Blood Feast--only four deaths--this is perhaps the director's most watchable film. The Brigadoon-derived plot nugget concerns a Deep South town (variously suggested to be in Georgia or Arkansas, but actually Florida) wiped out by Union raiders during the Civil War, which reappears once every 100 years to wreak "blood vengeance". For the centennial celebrations, Pleasant Valley lures Yankee tourists off the road and subjects them to gruesome fairground games--a cannibal BBQ, a "horse-race", a "barrel roll" and "teetering rock". The ideas are nasty, and Lewis even attempts subtlety by keeping the quartering and the spiked barrel inside mostly off screen, but the creepiest touch is the "aw-shucks" good humour with which the ghostly Confederate maniacs--led by a mayor who is the spitting image of Sergeant Bilko's Colonel Hall--treat their horrible sport. It has the usual Lewis drawbacks--mostly inept staging, acting that veers between the wooden ("Playmate" Connie Mason) and the amateurishly hammy (one of the worst child actors in film history), clumsy editing, community theatre production values--but his fans wouldn't have it any other way and the hayseed music is great! On the DVD: The full-screen image is as good as this ever will look, considering Lewis' primitive understanding of lighting cinematography, with rich scarlet blood, vividly ugly 1963 leisurewear and very few print imperfections. The features offer an imaginative "Welcome to Pleasant Valley Centennial" menu, with buttons like the target you have to hit to drop the "teetering rock" on the Yankee; lurid original trailer ("Two thousand maniacs crazed for carnage started bathing a whole town in pulsing, human blood ... brutal, evil, ghastly beyond belief"); filmographies for Lewis, Friedman and star William Kerwin (aka Thomas Wood); promotional art gallery; notes by aptly-monickered expert Billy Chainsaw, highlighting the connections with John Waters and Brigadoon; a teaser trailer for "the Herschell Gordon Lewis Collection"; a mass of trailers for other "Tartan terror" titles. The Lewis-Friedman commentary and mind-numbing outtakes reel available on the Region 1 DVD are sadly absent, but that release doesn't have this one's major bonus addition--the entire soundtrack album, with compositions by Lewis himself (including the immortal "Yee-Hah, the South's Gonna Rise Again") and Flatt and Scruggs (of Bonnie and Clyde fame). --Kim Newman

• Stargate SG-1: Season 7 (Vol. 37) | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Make it your mission to seek out STARGATE SG-1 Season 7's feature-length finale - a stunning adventure which sees our intrepid space travellers including heart throbs Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks fighting to save Earth from destruction. Volume 37 is the very last release of the superb Season 7 and includes the feature length season climax Lost City which also sets up the story for the all-new Stargate spin-off series Atlantis which is currently being filmed. In Lost City the SG-1 team makes an amazing discovery- information which will lead them to learn the location of the Lost City of the Ancients and use that race's technology to save the galaxy from evil Goa'uld oppression. Just as they are about to remove the vital information however evil forces launch an attack...

• Santa Fe Trail | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £7.43   |  Saving you £-3.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  History and Hollywood have always made strange bedfellows. And there's no better example of that than Santa Fe Trail (1940) from director Michael Curtiz. Historical accuracy is never allowed to interfere with setting up a great action sequence. Errol Flynn is Jeb Stuart. Ronald Reagan is George Armstrong Custer (a part Flynn would play in 'They Died With Their Boots On'). Raymond Massey makes a flamboyant John Brown. And rounding out the cast are Oliveia de Haviland Alan Hale Van

• The Settlement | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £5.71   |  Saving you £1.27 (46.69%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Dying is a lousy way to make a living. Two con artists develop a scheme to make money off the life insurance policies of ill patients until they are out-smarted by a woman with an inoperable brain tumour.

• Cribb - Vol. 1 - Swing, Swing Together | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alan Dobie stars as Detective Sergeant Cribb a member of Scotland Yard's newly formed CID unit in Victorian London. Known for his wry sense of humour Cribb is aided and at times hindered by the ever-faithful Constable Thackeray... Featuring Episodes Swing Swing Together Abracadaver The Detective Wore Silk Drawers The Horizontal Witness Wobble To Death

• The Smurfs - 4 Valentines Favourites For The One You Smurf! | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £7.39   |  Saving you £-1.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  4 Favourite Episodes For The One You Love!My Smurfy Valentine: Smurfette discovers the evil witch Chlorhydris's wicked plan to cast a world without love spell at the magic wishing well. It's a race against time for the Smurfs and Cupid to save the day!Romeo and Smurfette: Spring has sprung and the Smurfs are all competing for Smurfette's affections. Gargamel puts a spell on her to lure the lovestruck Smurfs, but with the unwitting help of Azrael, Papa Smurf manages to foil Gargamel's evil plan.Smurfette's Dancing Shoes: When an evil Imp gives Smurfette magical dancing shoes, little does she know it is a trick to force her to marry him. Rushing to Smurfette's aid, Papa Smurf and the Smurfs attempt to deliver the Imp's demands to free her, only to be double crossed.Papa's Wedding Day: To win her freedom from Lord Balthazar, Flowerbell the nymph fairy is sent to the Smurf village to trick Papa Smurf into marrying her. The other Smurfs suspect that something is not right and try to make Papa Smurf see sense before the wedding.

• The Lost City | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £8.55   |  Saving you £-2.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An evil scientist has invented a machine that can cause earthquakes, which he is unleashing as part of his plan for world domination. Electrical engineer Bruce Gordon is sent to Africa, the likely source of the disturbances, to investigate the phenomenon.

• Western Box Set 2 | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Titles Comprise: Bullet For A Badman: A former Texas Ranger framed for murder escapes from prison and goes on the run in an attempt to prove his innocence. Glory Guns: Backlash: Legendary Hollywood director John Sturges breathed new life into the western and brought it to another level of greatness with landmark movies such The Magnificent Seven and Gunfight At The O.K Corral. He also proved himself to be master of action/drama with the equally iconic The Eagle Has Landed and The Great Escape. John Sturges expertly manages to bring all these elements together for Backlash a highly original unconventional western brimming with tense violent action and a plot riddled with mystery and suspense. Backlash features Richard Widmark the menacing and unforgettable star of film noir masterpieces such as Kiss Of Death and Panic In The Streets. Co-stars accomplished actress Donna Reed most renowned for her popular roles in It's A Wonderful Life and From Here To Eternity. Backlash tells the story of one man's journey in search of his estranged father and one woman's attempt to discover the truth behind the disappearance of her husband both of whom were possibly the victims of a brutal Apache massacre. But the Arizona desert is a harsh merciless and unforgiving landscape filled with deadly secrets and few survivors.

• Vigo - Passion For Life | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Julien Temple directs this modern and personal take on an extraordinary story. Vigo is a tragic but inspiring film about the passionate relationship between French film-maker Jean Vigo and his beautiful wife Lydu. The film is interspersed with extracts of Vigo's work.

• The Unwanted | DVD | (30/01/2017) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Horror drama adaptation from Bret Wood starring Hannah Fierman, Christen Orr and William Katt. A wandering young woman named Carmilla (Orr) makes her way to a quiet little town on a journey to discover the truth about her mother, of whom she has no memory. In the town she meets a sensitive woman called Laura (Fierman) and they start a physical relationship. But in confiding in her new lover about her lost mother, she invites the scorn of Laura's brooding father, Troy (Katt).

• 3 Classic Musicals Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 3 | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Something To Sing About: Cagney is at his best as a Manhattan bandleader who journeys to Hollywood when he is offered a contract with a studio but he is determined to do things his way and not theirs. A classic 1930's musical about Hollywood studio life that won an Oscar for best score. Basin Street Revue: Musical variety filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem New York City. This is a collection of exciting R&B performances from the early-mid 1950's including Cab Ca

• 21 Hours At Munich | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the true story of terrorism striking at the 1972 Olympics in Germany this film does not spare viewers the violence and intensity of the real event. A Munich police chief learns that during the games a group of Palestinian extremists have kidnapped members of the Israeli team. With the help of a brave policewoman the cops negotiate with the terrorists in an attempt to buy time until the authorities can devise a rescue plan. As time ticks away the skirmishes escalate into gu

• Wu Tang Vs Ninja | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fast and furious martial arts action in which the evil Abbot White teams up with Japanese ninjas to destroy the Shaolin Temple!

• Audrey Hepburn | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £13.95   |  Saving you £6.04 (43.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For almost 20 years Audrey Hepburn's pixie-like features lit up Hollywood's silver screens with hit after hit and she became not only a screen icon, but also a style icon (with a little help from Givenchy), and still features high in polls of the world's most beautiful women. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that Paramount have chosen to honour her with a box set of some of her best-known films. However, this is only "some of", with the absence of her dazzling performances in Roman Holiday and My Fair Lady, leaving three out of the four films included here lacking in comparison. Breakfast at Tiffany's is the strongest and certainly the best-loved Hepburn film in this collection, offering beautifully comic performances by both Hepburn and her leading man, George Peppard. Funny Face also makes a welcome entry, if only for the wonderful performance by Fred Astaire; Hepburn, though, was not a strong enough dancer to hold her own against Astaire's brilliance. Sabrina holds its own as the Cinderella story of a chauffeur's daughter who turns into a beautiful society girl, but it was clearly a quick and easy vehicle for Paramount to produce in the wake of Hepburn's success in Roman Holiday. The mysterious entry of the collection is Paris When It Sizzles, probably one of Hepburn's least-known and most quirky films, with two parallel love stories played out on the screen. Although not an obvious hit and hard work in places it offers an interesting screwball performance by Hepburn, even if the sparks did not fly with her screen partner William Holden. On the DVD: The Audrey Hepburn Collection offers a nice clean widescreen transfer for three of its movies, but Sabrina is a full-frame transfer that lacks something in comparison. All but Breakfast at Tiffany's (which has a 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack) are mono sound transfers, which is only a real disappointment in Funny Face because of George and Ira Gershwin's score. The special features are also lacking, with only a trailer offered on two of the films and a mildly interesting documentary on Sabrina. The best is the featurette on Funny Face, which charts the success of Paramount in the 1950s, but offers nothing a film fan would not have known already. All in all this is an attractive box set, but perhaps one for the die-hard Hepburn fan only. --Nikki Disney

• The Shadow Box | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  At a hospice facility nestled in the mountains of Southern California three very different families face the one thing they have in common: One member of each family is in the last stages of a terminal illness.

• Look Both Ways | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An innovative mix of animation and live action, the film deals with the intersecting lives of three people.

• Star Trek - Space Enterprise - Complete Box Set | DVD | (24/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A