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• Life On The Line | DVD | (27/02/2017) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Golden Globe winner John Travolta (Pulp Fiction) stars in this tense action thriller, where a team of Texas linemen race to install miles of cable before a deadly lightning storm destroys the power grid. These unsung heroes work hundreds of feet in the air, on wires carrying as much as 500,000 volts of electricity, with death often inches away. Beau Ginner (Travolta) is haunted by the electrocution death of his younger brother, which left Beau raising his niece, Bailey (Kate Bosworth, Heist) on his own. Beau is determined to see her go to college and away from the life of linemen, but Bailey has other plans, including staying in touch with her ex-boyfriend Duncan (Devon Sawa, Final Destination) whom Beau despises. As a major storm descends on the county, events come to a head, leaving both Bailey and Beau's lives on the line.

• Best Laid Plans | DVD | (20/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this unforgivingly hard-hitting thriller, Danny (Stephen Graham) and his friend Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), are faced with a terrible ultimatum. To pay off Danny’s mounting debts to crime boss Curtis (David O’Hara), Joseph must battle his way through a number of unliscensed cage fights. As the fights get tougher so their friendship will be tested to the very limit…

• Boys On Film 4 - Protect Me From What I Want | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £15.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (14.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Where 2009 saw the birth of the hugely popular Boys on Film brand 2010 picks up where Boys On Film 3: American Boy left off with nine award-winning and hotly anticipated short films about objects of desire and whether the attaining of them is worth the struggle. Elliot Tittensor (TV's Shameless) stars as Daz in headlining film Protect Me From What I Want a gripping British film debut that sees him woo a young lad in an underpass only to be threatened with a break-up the following morning. Passive and submissive roles are tackled and tugged in gay graffiti tale Vandals and Icelandic grapple-fest Wrestling while Postmortem My Name is Love and Iris Prize winner Steam look at promising encounters that turn awry. Rounding out the collection are Heiko an alternative ode to foot fetishes French farmyard fantasy Far West and Breath where 12 year old Erik swims out to sea to make a daring move on his best friend's father.

• Thunderbirds: Volume 4 | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £8.36   |  Saving you £7.63 (91.27%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Filmed in VIDECOLOR--[explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax]--and SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a)the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracey boys take second place in the audience's affections to their cool machines--the real stars of the show--while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catchphrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracey, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company.) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nail-bitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. On this DVD: The four episodes are: "Vault of Death", "The Mighty Atom", "City of Fire" and "The Imposters". Amazon.com

• Zodiac - Director's Cut | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From David Fincher, director of "Seven" and "Fight Club" comes this new thriller about four investigators obsessed with finding a serial killer who is terrifying the San Francisco Bay Area.

• The Scorpion King | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £14.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (37.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wrestling superstar The Rock reprises his role from "The Mummy Returns" as a deadly assassin in ancient times, destined to become The Scorpion King.

• Dad's Army - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £4.96   |  Saving you £11.03 (222.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The complete collection of the third series of episodes (in colour) featuring the inept Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) and his unruly Home Guard platoon... Episodes comprise: 1. The Armoured Might Of Lance Corporal Jones 2. Battle School 3. The Lion Has Phones 4. The Bullet Is Not For Firing 5. Something Nasty In The Vault 6. Room At The Bottom 7. Big Guns 8. The Day The Balloon Went Up 9. War Dance 10. Menace From The Deep 11. Branded 12. Man Hunt 13. No Spring

• Death Screams Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (16/09/2021) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Death Screams In one of the most unlikely cinematic pairings of all time, David Nelson (who rose to fame as a child star playing alongside his real-life family in the wholesome TV show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet) directs Playboy Playmate and adult star Susan Kiger in this bodycount-heavy, long overlooked slice of Southern fried hack-and-slash - 1982's Death Screams! Late one night, a young couple are brutally murdered at a make-out spot by an unseen assailant, their bodies tossed into the nearby river. As the lifeless lovers drift slowly downstream, the residents of the town excitedly prepare themselves for their annual carnival, unaware that a machete-wielding maniac with a twisted grudge is lurking in their midst. When a group of teen revellers plan a late-night after party down in the local cemetery, they unwittingly set the stage for a bloodbath. Death Screams, which was released on US VHS as House of Death (and on UK DVD with the reels in the wrong order!) oozes early '80s regional slasher charm from its every pore, boasting an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink final reel featuring slashed throats, bisected bodies and exploding heads. At long last arriving on Blu-ray and lovingly restored from the only-known existing 35mm print, this little-seen slasher classic is ready to carve its way into the bleeding hearts of horror fans everywhere! Special Features: Brand new 2K restoration from an archival 35mm print Original uncompressed mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new audio commentary with producer Charles Ison and special effects artist Worth Keeter moderated by filmmaker Phil Smoot Brand new audio commentary with The Hysteria Continues All the Fun of the Scare: The Making of Death Screams - newly-produced making-of documentary featuring interviews with producer Charles Ison, special effects artist Worth Keeter, writer Paul Elliott, actors Hanns Manship and Curt Rector, actor/producer's assistant/assistant supervising editor Sharon Alley and actor/talent wrangler Robert Billy Bob Melton TV and Radio Spots Image Galleries House of Death Alternate VHS Opening Titles Two versions of the screenplay under the original title of Night Screams [BD-ROM content] Reversible sleeve featuring original artwork and a newly-commissioned reimagining of the original VHS artwork by Sadist Art Designs presented with die-cut slipcover Fully-illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by Brian Albright

• Alien Quadrilogy | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £24.99   |  Saving you £35.00 (140.06%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The Alien Quadrilogy is a nine-disc box set devoted to the four Alien films. Although previously available on DVD as the Alien Legacy, here the films have been repackaged with vastly more extras and with upgraded sound and vision. For anyone who hasn't been in hypersleep for the last 25 years this series needs no introduction, though for the first time each film now comes in both original and "Special Edition" form. Alien (1979) was so perfect it didn't need fixing, and Ridley Scott's 2003 Director's Cut is fiddling for the sake of it. Watch once then return to the majestic, perfectly paced original. Conversely the Special Edition of James Cameron's Aliens (1986) is the definitive version, though it's nice finally to have the theatrical cut on DVD for comparison. Most interesting is the alternative Alien3 (1992). This isn't a "director's cut"--David Fincher refused to have any involvement with this release--but a 1991 work-print that runs 29 minutes longer than the theatrical version, and has now been restored, remastered and finished-off with (unfortunately) cheap new CGI. Still, it's truly fascinating, offering a different insight into a flawed masterpiece. The expanded opening is visually breathtaking, the central firestorm is much longer, and a subplot involving Paul McGann's character adds considerable depth to the story. The ending is also subtly but significantly different. Alien Resurrection (1997) was always a mess with a handful of brilliant scenes, and the Special Edition just makes it eight minutes longer. On the DVD: Alien Quadrilogy offers all films except Alien3 with DTS soundtracks, the latter having still fine Dolby Digital 5.1 presentation. All four films sound fantastic, with much low-level detail revealed for the first time. Each is anamorphically enhanced at the correct original aspect ratio, and the prints and transfers are superlative. Every film offers a commentary that lends insight into the creative process--though the Scott-only commentary and isolated music score from the first Alien DVD release are missing here--and there are subtitles for hard of hearing both for the films and the commentaries. Each movie is complemented by a separate disc packed with hours of seriously detailed documentaries (all presented at 4:3 with clips letterboxed), thousands of photos, production stills and storyboards, giving a level of inside information for the dedicated buff only surpassed by the Lord of the Rings extended DVD sets. A ninth DVD compiles miscellaneous material, including a Channel 4 hour-long documentary and even all the extras from the old Alien laserdisc. Exhaustive hardly beings to describe the Alien Quadrilogy, a set which establishes the new DVD benchmark for retrospective releases and which looks unlikely to be surpassed for some time. --Gary S Dalkin

• Schizoid (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (24/08/2020) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this lurid shocker (Leonard Maltin), a newspaper advice columnist (Marianna Hill, Blood Beach) starts receiving threats from a mysterious person. At the same time, the female members of her psychiatrist's (Klaus Kinski, Crawlspace) therapy group are being murdered one by one by a maniac wielding a large pair of scissors. Could these incidents be linked? Donna Wilkes (Angel, Jaws 2), Craig Wasson (Body Double), Flo Gerrish (Don't Answer The Phone) and Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) also star.

• Airport | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.54

  Airport (Dir. George Seaton 1970): Take a non-stop flight with an all-star cast to a world of tension-filled human drama in this trend-setting box office blockbuster. Based on Arthur Hailey's runaway best seller the emotion-charged adventure stars Burt Lancaster as the manager of a glamorous international airport who must juggle personal crisis with professional responsibilities as he attempts to keep his blizzard torn facility open to rescue a bomb-damaged jetliner. The la

• The Take / The Runaway Double Pack | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £12.95   |  Saving you £12.04 (92.97%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise:The Take: An exciting and uncompromising four-part adaptation of the best-selling crime thriller by Martina Cole, The Take stars Tom Hardy (RocknRolla) as Freddie Jackson, and Brian Cox (The Escapist) as Ozzy. Freddie is a free man after spending a considerable stretch at Her Majesty's Pleasure, and now he plans to take the underworld by storm. As events unfold, his wife Jackie (Kierston Wareing - Leaving) becomes increasingly unstable, not helped by the actions of her younger sister, Maggie (Charlotte Riley - Easy Virtue), who is in love with Freddie's cousin, Jimmy (Shaun Evans - Boy A). If you are a Jackson then you trust no one, because everyone in this criminal world is on The Take.The Runaway: From the makers of the hit series the The Take, the latest tale from best-selling crime writer Martina Cole follows the lives of two childhood sweethearts. Set in the seedy East London and sleazy London's Soho in the 1960's plus the mean streets of New york ion the 1970's, The Runaway has an outstanding cast including Keith Allen (Robin Hood), Alan Cumming (The Good Wife), Ken Stott (Rebus) and a host of hot new talent.Cathy Connor and Eamonnn Docherty were brought up together in the heart of gangland East London. Separated by violent circumstances their lives take strikingly different directions until they meet together again as adults...

• Treme - Season 1 (HBO) | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £5.55   |  Saving you £34.44 (620.54%)   |  RRP £39.99

  As Treme opens, a group of New Orleans residents are celebrating their first "second-line parade" since Hurricane Katrina blew through the city and across the Gulf Coast just three months earlier. Folks are strutting and dancing, a brass band is blowing a joyful noise--it's a celebration of "NOLA's" resilience and proud spirit ("Won't bow--don't know how," as they say). But there's darkness just below this shiny surface, and anyone familiar with The Wire, cocreator-writer David Simon's last show, won't be a bit surprised to find that he and fellow Treme writer-producer Eric Overmyer aren't shy about going there. The New Orleans we see is a city barely starting to recover from what one character calls "a man-made catastrophe… of epic proportions and decades in the making." Many people's homes are gone, and insurance payments are a rumor. Other locals haven't come back, and still others are simply missing. The people have been betrayed by their own government, and New Orleans's reputation for corruption is hardly helped by the fact that the police force is in such disarray that the line between cop and criminal is sometimes so fine as to be nonexistent. Bad, but not all bad. NOLA still has its cuisine, its communities, and best of all its music, which permeates every chapter, from the Rebirth Brass Band's "I Feel Like Funkin' It Up" in episode 1 to Allen Toussaint and "Cha Dooky-Doo" in episode 10. There's Dixieland and zydeco, natch, but also hip-hop and rock; there are NOLA stalwarts like Dr. John, Ernie K-Doe, Lee Dorsey, and the Meters (as well as appearances by Elvis Costello, Steve Earle, and others), but plenty of younger, lesser knowns, too. Whether we hear it in the street, in a club or a recording studio, at home, or anywhere, music is the lifeblood of the city and this series, and it's handled brilliantly. Treme has a lot of characters and their stories to keep up with. There's trombonist Antoine Batiste (Wendell Pierce), a wonderful player but kind of a dog, especially to his current baby mama and his ex-wife, LaDonna (Khandi Alexander), a bar owner who's desperately searching for her missing brother. There's Creighton Bernette (John Goodman), a writer preoccupied with telling the world what's really going on in the city, and his wife Toni (Melissa Leo), a lawyer and thorn in the side of the authorities. There's Davis McAlary (Steve Zahn), a well-meaning but annoyingly clueless radio DJ, his occasional girlfriend Janette (Kim Dickens), who's struggling to keep her restaurant open, and Albert Lambreaux (Clarke Peters), who returns from Houston, finds his house in ruins, and sets about rebuilding it. You might not like all of them. Not all get through the series unscathed, or even alive. But that's part of the deal. The show feels authentic: dialogue (natural, plain, and profane), story lines, locations, camera work, the utter lack of gloss and glamour--this is no Chamber of Commerce travelogue. It's not a documentary either, but there are moments when it's just down and dirty enough to pass for one. --Sam Graham

• Dv8 Physical Theatre - Strange Fish, Enter Achilles | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £14.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (66.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Contains the films:- Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men.- Strange Fish.- Enter Achilles.

• CSI: Miami - Complete Season 2 | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Chronicling the work of the Miami-Dade crime investigations CSI: Miami is set against the sun fun and tropics of the Florida tourist haven. Leading the team is Horatio Caine played with steely calm by Emmy-award winning film and TV veteran David Caruso. An ex-bomb squad detective Horatio is no stranger to confrontations with criminals and the underworld... Episodes comprise: 1. Blood Brothers 2. Dead Zone 3. Hard Time 4. Death Grip 5. The Best Defense 6. Hurricane Anthony 7. Grand Prix 8. Big Brother 9. Bait 10. Extreme 11. Complications 12. Witness To Murder 13. Blood Moon 14. Slow Burn 15. Stalkerazzi 16. Invasion 17. Money for Nothing 18. Wannabe 19. Deadline 20. The Oath 21. Not Landing 22. Rap Sheet 23. MIA/NYC - NonStop 24. Innocent

• Quincey M.E. - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-19.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.23

  Quincy M.E. the trailblazing series that almost single-handedly created the medical investigation genre comes to DVD for the first time in this gripping double pack featuring all the episodes from Seasons One and Two! Television icon Jack Klugman is the crusading and headstrong medical examiner Dr. Quincy in the the distinguished role that earned him 4 Emmy nominations. Aided by his loyal lab assistant Sam Fujiyama (Robert Ito) Quincy's not afraid to stand up fo

• Jennifer's Body | Blu Ray | (22/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Starring Megan Fox ("Transformers") and Amanda Seyfried ("Mamma Mia"), "Jennifer's Body" is a sexy, dark comedy balancing chills with the witty humour of Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the 2008 smash hit "Juno".

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules | DVD | (02/01/2012) from £5.54   |  Saving you £10.45 (188.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this sequel to 2010's surprise hit, Greg Heffley, the kid who made 'wimpy' cool is back in an all-new family comedy based on the best-selling follow-up novel by Jeff Kinney.

• Bionicle 3 | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £7.60   |  Saving you £7.39 (97.24%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Get caught up in the action-adventure in the all-new CGI-animated movie Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows! Six legendary Bionicle heroes are snared in webs of intrigue and betrayal as they face the most extraordinary trials and transformations yet. With one final duty to fulfill before they can build their new home on the island of Mata Nui the Toa return to Metru Nui and find their once-glorious city shrouded in shadows chaos and ruin and overrun by a poisonous pack of s

• Naked Gun Trilogy | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Naked Gun (Dir. David Zucker 1988): Those screw-loose Airplane! creators have done it again! Leslie Nielsen stars as Police Squad's own granite-jawed rock-brained cop Frank Drebin who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Priscilla Presley O.J. Simpson a stuffed beaver two baseball teams and an odd assortment of others join the wacko goings-on and blow the laugh-o-meter to smithereens. The Naked Gun 2 1/2 - The Smell O