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• To Catch A Thief | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £5.18   |  Saving you £7.81 (150.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  To Catch a Thief is not one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest, but it's arguably his most stylish thriller, loved as much for the elegantly erotic banter between Grace Kelly and Cary Grant as for the suspense that ensues when retired burglar Grant attempts to net the copycat diamond thief. The action, much of it shot on location, hugs the coast of the French Riviera; John Michael Hayes' screenplay crackles with doubles entendres; and Edith Head's dresses define the aloof poise of one of cinema's more enigmatic icons. If anything is missing, it's the undertow of black humour which snags the unsuspecting viewer in so many of Hitchcock's greater films. Here, the edge is supplied by the splendid Jessie Royce Landis as Kelly's vulgar, worldly mother; her special way with a fried egg is one of those cinematic moments which linger in the mind with almost pornographic disgust. History, of course, delivered its own ironic blow years later when the then Princess Grace of Monaco died in an accident on the very road where Kelly and Grant shot their exhilarating car chase. Portents aside, she remains Hitchcock's most alluring and sophisticated heroine. On the DVD: To Catch a Thief is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, which distils the distinctive qualities of the VistaVision cinematography, and with a mono Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. Interesting extras include several mini-documentaries in which Hitchcock's daughter and granddaughter, among others, reminisce about the great director, censor problems over the risqué dialogue, the talents of costume designer Edith Head, and the peculiar difficulties of shooting in VistaVision. An original theatrical trailer is another bonus. --Piers Ford

• Home Alone 3 | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £7.35   |  Saving you £-0.55 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.80

  International crooks hide a top-secret computer chip inside a toy car but an airport mix-up lands it in the hands of eight-year-old Alex Pruitt who's home alone with the chicken pox. Madness and mayhem kick into high gear as the pint-sized hero defends his house against the bumbling bad guys armed with an outrageous array of ambushes and booby traps.

• Following | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £14.74   |  Saving you £1.25 (8.48%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When writer Bill (Jeremy Theobald) is confronted by his latest 'target' of inspiration a man called Cobb (Alex Haw) he is drawn into a life of snooping and breaking and entering...

• The Mallorca Files - Series 2 | DVD | (15/02/2021) from £12.04   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All the episodes from the second series of the BBC crime drama starring Elen Rhys and Julian Looman. Set in Mallorca, unlikely partners DC Miranda Blake (Rhys) and Detective Max Winter (Looman) investigate a number of different crimes on the Spanish island. The episodes are: 'The Maestro', 'Son of a Pig', 'A Dish Served Cold', 'The Beautiful Game', 'The Blue Feather' and 'The Outlaw Jose Rey'.

• Cats & Dogs | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £4.36   |  Saving you £9.63 (220.87%)   |  RRP £13.99

  For thousands of years a war has raged right under the noses of human beings and we've never even suspected it. Now the battle between cats and dogs is hotting up, as the cats set out to make everyone allergic to dogs!

• Bill & Ted Face The Music | Blu Ray | (25/01/2021) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The stakes are higher than ever for the time-traveling exploits of William Bill S. Preston Esq. and Theodore Ted Logan. Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle aged best friends set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends - to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe. Bill & Ted Face the Music is directed by Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest), from a screenplay by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) - and produced by Scott Kroopf, Alex Lebovici, and Steve Ponce.

• Shine | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £5.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (178.62%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This tearjerker by Australian filmmaker Scott Hicks is a surprising story about real-life classical pianist David Helfgott, an Australian who rose to international prominence at a very young age in the 1950s and 1960s, and suffered a psychological collapse after enduring years of abuse from his father (Armin Mueller-Stahl). Hicks has three very fine actors portraying Helfgott at different stages of his life, including the adorably wry and goofy Noah Taylor (Flirting), who takes up the character's teen years, and Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, giving a great performance playing the musician as a schizophrenic adult. Despite the Helfgotts' compromised psychological health, Shine is hardly a depressing experience. If anything, the story is really about how long one person's life can take to make glorious sense of itself. Sir John Gielgud, in golden form, plays Helfgott's teacher. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle | Blu Ray | (15/07/2019) from £7.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they've never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately sucked into the jungle world of Jumanji in the bodies of their avatars (Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan). They'll have to complete the adventure of their lives filled with fun, thrills and danger or be stuck in the game forever! Blu-ray Disc Special Features: Gag Reel Meet the Players: A Heroic Cast Surviving the Jungle: Spectacular Stunts Attack of the Rhinos Journey Through The Jungle: The Making of Jumanji Book to Board Game to Big Screen & Beyond! Celebrating The Legacy of Jumanji

• Red Scorpion | DVD | (01/01/2000) from £5.52   |  Saving you £-2.53 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

• Beastly | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a spell is cast on a handsome, egocentric young man (Alex Pettyfer) that physically transforms him into everything he despises, he has one year to find a cure or risk destroying everything he has ever loved.

• Jumanji: The Next Level - Steelbook (2 Discs - UHD & BD) | Blu Ray | (13/04/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Jumanji: The Next Level, the gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored, from the arid deserts to the snowy mountains, in order to escape the world's most dangerous game.

• Friday the 13th Collection | Blu Ray | (13/10/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope | DVD | (24/08/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Young farm boy Luke Skywalker is thrust into a galaxy of adventure when he intercepts a distress call from the captive Princess Leia. The event launches him on a daring mission to rescue her from the clutches of Darth Vader and the Evil Empire

• Shetland Series 1-4 | DVD | (26/03/2018) from £25.02   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Deathstroke: Knights and Dragons | Blu Ray | (17/08/2020) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ten years ago, Slade Wilson aka the super-assassin called Deathstroke made a tragic mistake, and his wife and son paid a terrible price. Now, a decade later, Wilson's family is threatened once again by the murderous Jackal and the terrorists of H.IV.E. Can Deathstroke atone for the sins of the past or will his family pay the ultimate price?

• Walking with Cavemen | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £24.74   |  Saving you £-6.75 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Breaking the mould of previous "Walking with" offerings, the BBC's Walking with Cavemen sees Professor Robert Winston follow in the footsteps of ancient man in a series that traces the history of humanity from bipedal ape-men (Australopithecus Aphaeresis) to the awakening of the human mind's potential with Homo Erectus. Spread over four fascinating half-hour instalments, Wilson presents an accessible and populist, but still suitably anthropological study on how apes became human and the traits that we inherited from our earliest ancestors. Unlike Dinosaurs and Beasts, Cavemen combines CGI with actors to portray the characters in the story of man. Initially this seems to make it far less technically impressive than the earlier programmes--memories of Kubrick's 2001 are inevitable--but fortunately the acting is superb and the viewer soon forgets that these are people in monkey suits. The series also makes use of a special effect called "deep time-lapse", which shows in a matter of dramatic seconds the thousands of years of geological changes that sped up our ancestors' evolution. Wilson himself takes part in the action as if he is a modern-day naturalist following lions across the Serengeti rather than creatures long extinct. This approach makes for a more immediate as well as poignant interpretation of history: the result is an enlightening and moving tribute to the human journey. On the DVD: Walking with Cavemen on disc has production interviews with series producer Peter Georgi, executive producer and director Richard Dale, director of animated extras Ben Palmer and actor David Rubin. There are also location interviews, the best of which is two of the actors in full costume explaining the difficulties involved in eating lunch. There are sequences explaining the creation of the digital effects, and the original score can be accessed as an audio-only option. A fact file for each episode and a picture gallery complete the extras package. --Kristen Bowditch

• Jumanji: The Next Level (2 Discs - UHD & BD) | Blu Ray | (13/04/2020) from £18.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Jumanji: The Next Level, the gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored, from the arid deserts to the snowy mountains, in order to escape the world's most dangerous game.

• C.R.A.Z.Y. | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £14.83   |  Saving you £5.16 (34.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Extraordinary lives of ordinary people in search of love and happiness, "C.R.A.Z.Y." is a family drama unlike any other.

• The Descent | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £6.69   |  Saving you £12.29 (332.16%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A caving trip goes badly wrong for six girlfriends as they discover they're not alone in the dark.

• Deathstroke: Knights and Dragons | DVD | (17/08/2020) from £3.80   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ten years ago, Slade Wilson aka the super-assassin called Deathstroke made a tragic mistake, and his wife and son paid a terrible price. Now, a decade later, Wilson's family is threatened once again by the murderous Jackal and the terrorists of H.IV.E. Can Deathstroke atone for the sins of the past or will his family pay the ultimate price?