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• The Green Mile | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £3.85   |  Saving you £15.14 (393.25%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Set on Death Row in a Southern prison in 1935, The Green Mile is the remarkable story of the cell block's head guard, who develops a poignant, unusual relationship with one inmate who possesses a magical gift that is both mysterious and miraculous.

• Saving Private Ryan | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £3.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Since its release in 1998, Steven Spielberg's D-Day drama Saving Private Ryan has become hugely influential: everything, from the opening sequence of Gladiator ("Saving Marcus Aurelius") to the marvellous 10-hour TV series Band of Brothers, has been made in its shadow. There have been many previous attempts to recreate the D-Day landings on screen (notably, the epic The Longest Day), but thanks to Spielberg's freewheeling hand-held camerawork, Ryan was the first time an audience really felt like they were there, storming up Omaha Beach in the face of withering enemy fire. After the indelible opening sequence, however, the film is not without problems. The story, though based on an American Civil War incident, feels like it was concocted simply to fuel Spielberg's sentimental streak. In standard Hollywood fashion the Germans remain a faceless foe (with the exception of one charmless character who turns out to be both a coward and a turncoat); and the Tom Hanks-led platoon consists of far too many stereotypes: the doughty Sergeant; the thick-necked Private; the Southern man religious sniper; the cowardly Corporal. Matt Damon seems improbably clean-cut as the titular Private in need of rescue (though that may well be the point); and why do they all run straight up that hill towards an enemy machine gun post anyway? Some non-US critics have complained that Ryan portrays only the American D-Day experience, but it is an American film made and financed by Americans after all. Accepting both its relatively narrow remit and its lachrymose inclinations, Saving Private Ryan deserves its place in the pantheon of great war pictures. On the DVD: Saving Private Ryan on disc comes in a good-quality anamorphic 1.85:1 transfer with a suitably dynamic Dolby Digital 5.1 sound mix in which bullets fly all around your living room. Extra features are pretty minimal, with a standard 30-minute "making of" piece called "Into the Breach" and two trailers. There are text notes on the cast and crew as well as the production, and a brief message from Mr Spielberg himself about why he decided to make the movie. --Mark Walker

• Maze Runner: 1-3 | DVD | (28/05/2018) from £11.89   |  Saving you £-0.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.22

  A group of teens must escape from a massive labyrinth, survive a desert wasteland and break into the legendary Last City in this epic trilogy based on the Maze Runner book series.

• The Green Mile | Blu Ray | (28/03/2022) from £19.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar Winner Tom Hanks Stars in Stephen King's Magical, Epic Drama. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this emotional, touching film about miracles and the power of redemption stars Tom Hanks as prison guard Paul Edgecomb. When a giant of a man is brought to death row, Edgecomb and his fellow guards discover something very unusual about their new charge, John Coffey (Oscar nominee Michael Clarke Duncan). Convicted for the sadistic murder of two young girls, but behaving almost childlike himself, Coffey seems to have a supernatural gift of healing living things. Expectations are turned upside down and the guards' sense of humanity is awakened in this astonishing adaptation of Stephen King's compelling novel.

• The Painted Bird (Montage Pictures) Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (16/11/2020) from £8.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release THE PAINTED BIRD on Blu-ray as a part of the Montage Pictures range from 16 November 2020. The Blu-ray will include the feature-length documentary 11 COLOURS OF THE BIRD, a behind-the-scenes look at the incredible 11-year process it took director Václav Marhoul to create the film version of Jerzy Kosiński's controversial novel. The first print run of 1000 copies will include a Limited-edition O-card Slipcase and Collector's Booklet. Featuring a staggering central performance from the young Petr Kotlár alongside a star-studded international ensemble including Udo Kier, Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands and Barry Pepper. The Painted Bird has won ecstatic acclaim, with The Guardian's Xan Brooks describing the film as a monumental piece of work rewarding the film with a five-star review. The film follows the journey of a boy, entrusted by his Jewish parents to an elderly foster mother in an effort to escape persecution. Following a tragedy, the boy is on his own. Wandering through the desecrated countryside, the boy encounters villagers and soldiers whose own lives have been brutally altered, and who are intent on revisiting this brutality on the boy. When the war ends, the boy has been changed, forever. Shot in crisp black and white 35mm - Václav Marhoul's The Painted Bird does far more than simply depict the horror of war. It is an unflinching examination of the very worst of humanity. Special edition Contains: Limited Edition O-Card slipcase (1000 copies only) 1080p presentation on Blu-ray Optional English subtitles 11 Colours of the Bird: The Making of ˜The Painted Bird' [125 mins] a behind-the-scenes look at the incredible 11-year process it took director Václav Marhoul to create the film version of Jerzy Kosiński's controversial novel PLUS: A collector's booklet featuring an essay on the film by Jason Wood (1000 copies only)

• Saving Private Ryan (4K UHD) | 4K UHD | (04/06/2018) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  IN THE LAST GREAT INVASION, OF THE LAST GREAT WAR, THE GREATEST DANGER FOR EIGHT MEN WAS SAVING ONE. Internationally acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg, is an unforgettable film achievement that has had a profound and lasting impact throughout the world. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Director (Spielberg) Saving Private Ryan also garnered two Golden Globe™ Awards for Best Motion Picture (Drama) and Best Director. Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers, the story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion, then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission. Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan (Matt Damon), whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honour, decency, and respect. SPECIAL FEATURES: An Introduction Looking into the Past Miller and his Platoon Boot Camp Making Saving Private Ryan Re-Creating Omaha Beach Music and Sound Parting Thoughts Into the Breach: Saving Private Ryan Theatrical Trailer Re-Release Trailer Shooting War

• Seven Pounds | DVD | (12/05/2009) from £10.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Seven Pounds" tells the emotional story of a man who will change the lives of seven strangers forever.

• Battlefield Earth | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £6.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (109.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a manipulative race of aliens on a quest for global domination. Led by the seductive and powerful Terl (Travolta), the Psychlos have taken all natural resources for themselves and left mankind behind to

• True Grit | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £7.05   |  Saving you £12.94 (183.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross's father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney, and she is determined to bring him to justice...even if it means siding with the dangerous Rooster Cogburn.

• The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £6.21   |  Saving you £11.78 (189.69%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Ranch hand Pete Perkins vows to keep his promise and bury a friend in his hometown in Mexico.

• Saving Private Ryan | Blu Ray | (29/04/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Since its release in 1998, Steven Spielberg's D-Day drama Saving Private Ryan has become hugely influential: everything, from the opening sequence of Gladiator ("Saving Marcus Aurelius") to the marvellous 10-hour TV series Band of Brothers, has been made in its shadow. There have been many previous attempts to recreate the D-Day landings on screen (notably, the epic The Longest Day), but thanks to Spielberg's freewheeling hand-held camerawork, Ryan was the first time an audience really felt like they were there, storming up Omaha Beach in the face of withering enemy fire. After the indelible opening sequence, however, the film is not without problems. The story, though based on an American Civil War incident, feels like it was concocted simply to fuel Spielberg's sentimental streak. In standard Hollywood fashion the Germans remain a faceless foe (with the exception of one charmless character who turns out to be both a coward and a turncoat); and the Tom Hanks-led platoon consists of far too many stereotypes: the doughty Sergeant; the thick-necked Private; the Southern man religious sniper; the cowardly Corporal. Matt Damon seems improbably clean-cut as the titular Private in need of rescue (though that may well be the point); and why do they all run straight up that hill towards an enemy machine gun post anyway? Some non-US critics have complained that Ryan portrays only the American D-Day experience, but it is an American film made and financed by Americans after all. Accepting both its relatively narrow remit and its lachrymose inclinations, Saving Private Ryan deserves its place in the pantheon of great war pictures.--Mark Walker

• The Kennedys | DVD | (18/07/2011) from £3.13   |  Saving you £11.87 (634.76%)   |  RRP £13.74

  The story of the most fabled political family in American history told in a manner similar to The Godfather: a manipulative egocentric father determined to live out his own ambitions through his sons who in turn spent their lives dancing to his tune while at the same time trying to stand on their own. This is history through personality - the tangled relationships through which paint a picture of one of the most turbulent periods of the modern age. Viewers will be upstairs at the White House not in the Cabinet Room. Through iconic events in history - the Bay of Pigs the Cuban Missile Crisis the civil rights struggle the mob connection - viewers will learn about the lesser known yet critical personal stories.

• Lawmen: Bass Reeves - Season One | DVD | (13/05/2024) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bitter Harvest | DVD | (24/07/2017) from £5.54   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An emotive and powerful drama, Bitter Harvest displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union. Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, the film conveys the untold story of the Holodomor (the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin) through the eyes of Yuri, a young Ukrainian and his childhood sweetheart Natalka. With an exceptional cast of established and rising stars, the film epically recreates the violent conflict, loss and famine of one of the most dramatic and dangerous episodes in the history of 20th Century Europe.

• True Grit - Triple Play (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy | Blu Ray | (13/06/2011) from £12.05   |  Saving you £14.94 (123.98%)   |  RRP £26.99

  True Grit is a powerful story of vengeance and valour set in an unforgiving and unpredictable frontier where justice is simple and mercy is rare. Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn Academy Award Winner Jeff Bridges) a one-eyed trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Academy Award Winner Matt Damon) to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution.

• The 25th Hour | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £6.48   |  Saving you £8.51 (131.33%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The clock is ticking on Monty Brogan's freedom: in 24 hours he goes to prison for seven long years. Once a kingpin in Manhattan Monty is about to say goodbye to the life he knew - a life that opened doors to New York's swankiest clubs but also alienated him from the people closest to him. In his last day on the outside Monty tries to reconnect with his father who's never given up on his son and gets together with his two closest friends from the old days Jacob and Slaughtery

• Saving Private Ryan | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £5.24   |  Saving you £14.75 (281.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers the story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission. Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war each man searches for his own answer - and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honour decency and courage.

• Enemy Of The State | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £5.43   |  Saving you £12.56 (231.31%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) is a lawyer with a wife and family whose happily normal life is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a college buddy (Jason Lee) at a lingerie shop. Unbeknownst to the lawyer, he's just been burdened with a videotape of a congressman's assassination. Hot on the tail of this tape is a ruthless group of National Security Agents commanded by a belligerently ambitious fed named Reynolds (Jon Voight). Using surveillance from satellites, bugs and other sophisticated snooping devices, the NSA infiltrates every facet of Dean's existence, tracing each physical and digital footprint he leaves. Driven by acute paranoia, Dean enlists the help of a clandestine former NSA operative named Brill (Gene Hackman) and Enemy of the State kicks into high-intensity hyperdrive. Teaming up once again with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Top Gun director Tony Scott demonstrates his glossy style with clever cinematography and breakneck pacing. Will Smith proves that there's more to his success than a brash sense of humour, giving a versatile performance that plausibly illustrates a man cracking under the strain of paranoid turmoil. Hackman steals the show by essentially reprising his role from The Conversation--just imagine his memorable character Harry Caul some 20 years later. Most of all, the film's depiction of high-tech surveillance is highly convincing and dramatically compelling, making this a cautionary tale with more substance than you'd normally expect from a Scott-Bruckheimer action extravaganza. --Jeremy Storey

• Crawl 4K | Blu Ray | (19/09/2022) from £19.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From producer Sam Raimi (Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness) and director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes ), Crawl is a nail-biting creature feature from start to finish. As a category 5 hurricane tears through Florida, Haley rushes to find her father, who is injured and trapped in the crawl space of their home. The storm intensifies and water levels rise, just as the pair face an even more terrifying threatalligators lurking below the surface, ready to chomp. Product Features Bonus bites Motion comic of alternate opening Beneath crawl Category 5 gators: The VFX of crawl Alligator attacks Deleted and extended scenes Over 45 minutes of bonus content

• Unknown | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £5.57   |  Saving you £10.42 (187.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse, none of them able to remember how they got there or even who they are.