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• Mannequin | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £5.48   |  Saving you £7.51 (137.04%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Made in 1987, Mannequin represents everything that was naff about late-80s Hollywood: from its bland, boxy, electro-rock soundtrack to its sub-Sarah Ferguson fashion sense to its tawdry sets, flimsy characterisation and cheap slapstick humour (including the mandatory amusing dog). It might be centuries before its radioactive awfulness dies down enough to make it watchable, even as kitsch. Mannequin is notionally a romantic comedy in which Andrew McCarthy plays a luckless department store employee and Kim (Sex and the City) Cattrall is an Egyptian Princess reincarnated as a shop window dummy, who comes to life when she encounters McCarthy, only to revert to mannequin status when anyone but McCarthy is watching her. With her encouragement, he becomes emboldened in his career as a window decorator as well as falling in love with the Princess. James Spader's oily, stammery executive is just one of the many examples of a film that tries way too hard to be funny, the sort of characterisation that would be barely adequate for a comic TV ad, let alone a 90-minute movie. Still, for fans of Sex and the City who might want to feast upon the spectacle of a younger Kim Cattrall, Mannequin might offer a measure of relief. On DVD: Mannequin on disc has just the original trailer as an extra, while no amount of DVD enhancement can conceal the tawdry feel of this movie. --David Stubbs

• Freddy's Nightmares - Vol. 1 | DVD | (09/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A trilogy of stories from Elm Street hosted by its' most famous inhabitant Freddy Krueger. No More Mr Nice Guy: The sinister Freddy Krueger recounts the horrific events that led to his burning and how he became a dream killer. When Freddy Kruger is acquitted on a technicality for the slayings of innocent children an enraged mob led by the parents of the victims seeks revenge against the fedora-donned razor-gloved janitor of the Springwood power plant. It's a Miserable Life: A moment becomes a lifetime between the pulling of the trigger and the impact of the bullet to an innocent victim of a drive-by shooting: while his girlfriend's fear of hospitals fiendishly materialise when she becomes a victim as well. Killer Instinct: A high school track star who's lost her competitive edge experiences the thrill of victory and the painful agony of defeat when her coach urges her to get the killer instinct. He provides her with a talisman to help her not only visualise winning but focus on the gruesome destruction of her opponents.

• A Kid In King Arthur's Court | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Faith in oneself is crucial but often difficult to develop. Calvin Fuller (Thomas Ian Nicholas) a misfit from the 20th-century ""Knights"" baseball team lacks self-confidence. Imagine his alarm when he's sucked into the Middle Ages to answer the wizard Merlin's (Ron Moody) plea for a ""Knight"" to save King Arthur and Camelot from the scheming Lord Belasco (Art Malik). Intense culture shock befalls all involved as a bewildered Calvin dines on pig snouts and learns to lance while King Ar

• The Phantom Of The Opera | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Phantom Of The Opera