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• Rob Roy | DVD | (01/02/2000) from £5.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (191.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of the most invigorating period adventures to hit the big screen in decades, this lavish, brilliantly directed film drew critical and audience raves when it was released in 1995. Inspired by historical fact and larger-than-life legend, the intelligently scripted story takes place in Scotland in 1713, when Highland farmer and clan leader Rob Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson) is forced to borrow money from the duplicitous aristocrat Marquis of Montrose (John Hurt) to help his clan survive a harsh winter. When Montrose's vile henchman (Tim Roth) schemes to dishonour MacGregor and his wife (Jessica Lange) and take the money for himself, the rugged Highlander must take courageous action to preserve his integrity. What follows--along with some of the finest sword-fighting ever filmed--is a tale of courage and valour destined to become an enduring movie classic. Tim Roth received a well-deserved Oscar nomination (for Best Supporting Actor) for his indelible performance as the foppish but deadly villain Cunningham, and both Neeson and Lange bring an earthy, sensual quality to their passionate roles. Boasting a wealth of breathtaking scenery and high-intensity action, Rob Roy is further blessed by a splendid supporting cast (including Brian Cox and Eric Stoltz), and the lush soundtrack by Carter Burwell strikes a perfect balance of romanticism and vigorous dramatic energy. --Jeff Shannon

• Murphy's Law - Series 1-5 - Complete | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £28.19   |  Saving you £-3.58 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.61

  James Nesbitt plays Detective Sergeant Tommy Murphy a maverick cop with a dark past. After failing a psychiatric assessment he is given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment. Murphy is a loner with little to lose and deals with everything on his own terms...

• The Ghost And The Darkness | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £25.99   |  Saving you £-13.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Val Kilmer stars in The Ghost and the Darkness as Lt Col John Patterson, a 19th-century Irish engineer drafted by Britain's railroad bosses to build a trestle bridge over an African river, thus expanding the empire a tiny bit more. In Tsavo, Patterson is instantly hailed for killing a man-eating lion that had been making life hell for native workers. But morale sinks when two more unstoppable big cats devour more men and destroy the project. Along comes an, expatriate American hunter (Michael Douglas) to help Patterson face the almost preternatural powers of the two killers. The script by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is based on fact, though the film owes more to Steven Spielberg (specifically to Jaws) than history. There are also suggestive echoes of Kipling and Conrad in the material and characters, and there are hints of emotional complexity and psychological nuance that make one wish this could have been a great film instead of a merely fun one.--Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Speed 2 - Cruise Control | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £5.94   |  Saving you £7.05 (118.69%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Anybody seen Keanu? The action star of Speed opted out of this overbearing sequel, which finds co-star Sandra Bullock in love with another guy (Jason Patric) and in trouble aboard a cruise ship under the control of a mad extortionist (Willem Dafoe). Speed director Jan de Bont is back at the helm for part 2, but even he seems to have forgotten that what made the first film work was the simplicity of its hook (the bomb, the bus that can't drive below 50 mph, the handful of sympathetic passengers, etc.). Speed 2 is all about hugeness: big ship, lots of places to get into trouble and so on. Even with an eye-popping, endless finale of the vessel crashing into port (and causing mondo destruction), there is nothing about this movie that is remotely as involving as its predecessor. --Tom Keogh

• Cortes - Heroes and Villains | DVD | (12/08/2019) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An epic film telling the incredible true story of the Spanish adventurer Hernan Cortes is supposed to have taken the Aztec empire with a small army and a few horses.

• Heroes and Villains | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lavish all-action dramatic spectacles based on the lives of six men who shaped the world around them either by sheer force of will genius courage or even greed. Powerful magnetic personalities who have earned their place in the world's imagination all prepared to die for what they believed in - whether it was God or gold the pursuit of power and glory or a magnificent ideal. From Spartacus the gladiator who brought Rome to its knees to the audacious military genius Napoleon this series combines absorbing drama with CGI to ask what were the motives the strengths and even the weaknesses that drove these men to achieve what no one else had dared. The amazing stories of Hernan Cortez Attila the Hun Tokugawa Ieyasu and Richard the Lionheart are also included.

• For Those In Peril | DVD | (03/03/2014) from £29.93   |  Saving you £-11.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Aaron a young misfit in a remote Scottish community is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men including his older brother.  Spurred on by sea-going folklore and local superstition the village blames him for this tragedy making him an outcast amongst his own people.  Steadfastly refusing to believe his brother is dead and possessed by grief madness and magic Aaron sets out to recover him.

• Mr Barrington | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (10.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  ...danger has never been so charming. Mr. Barrington is the story of a woman haunted by her past a beguiling stranger who works his way into her psyche and a husband who races to uncover the secrets of her history before they destroy her.