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• By Any Means | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £24.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  There are some criminals who always manage to evade justice. Untouchable they know the legal system and they know how to play it exploiting its flaws and capitalizing on its weaknesses. In short they are just too clever to get caught. But they are still the bad guys and they need to be taken off the streets. By Any Means follows a clandestine department living on the edge and playing the criminal elite at their own game existing in the grey area between the letter of the law and true justice. Led by the sharp and elusive Jack Quinn alongside straight-talking Jessica Jones digital whizz-kid Thomas Tomkins and ex-copper Charlie O'Brien they stop at nothing to get the job done. Receiving their target from the mysterious Helen Barlow they weave a web of cunning and deception to deliver their unwary targets into the arms of justice.

• Spaghetti Westerns | DVD | (13/11/2000) from £19.99   |  Saving you £30.00 (150.08%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A Fistful Of Dollars: - Languages: English (Dolby Digital Mono) ; Subtitles: English Clint Eastwood's stunning Spaghetti Western debut. When the Man With No Name rides into town the rival gangs of the Baxters and the Rojos soon find themselves fighting each other. As the lean cold-eyed cobra-quick gunfighter Clint became the first of the Western's anti-herores. The cynical enigmatic loner with a clouded past is the same character Eastwood fans have been savouring ever since. 'A Fistful Of Dollars' is the western taken to the extreme - with unremitting violence gritty realism and tongue-in-cheek humour. Leone's direction is taut and stylish and the visuals are striking - from the breathtaking panoramas (in Spain) to the extreme close-ups of quivering lips and darting eyes before the shoot-out begins. And all are accentuated by renowned composer Ennio Morricone's quirky haunting score. For A Few Dollars More - Languages: English and French (Dolby Digital Mono) ; Subtitles: English Dutch French Clint Eastwood had proven so successful in his first foray into European Westerns with 'A Fistful Of Dollars' that a follow up sequel was inevitable. Superbly scripted by Luciano Vincenzoni featuring an unforgettable alliance between ruthless gun-slingers to track down the notorious bandit El Indio played by Gian Maria Volonte. The film is also noted for its array of weaponry a veritable arsenal of rifles that became so startingly influential in future westerns. Sergio Leone's direction is both violent and operatic and Ennio Morricone's atmospheric score keeps the tension taut as the action moves from jail breaks and hold ups to spectacular gun battles. The Good The Bad And The Ugly - Languages: English (Dolby Digital Mono) ; Subtitles: English Dutch By far the most ambitious unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever attempted 'The Good the Bad and the Ugly' is an engrossing actioner shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Clint Eastwood returns for a final appearance as the invincible Man With No Name this time teaming with two gunslingers (Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef) to pursue a cache of 0 000 - and letting no one not even warring factions in a civil war stand in their way. From sun-drenched panoramas to bold hard closeups exceptional camera work captures the beauty and cruelty of the barren landscape and the hardened characters who stride unwaveringly through it. Forging a vibrant and yet detached style of action that had not been seen before and has never been matched since 'The Good the Bad and the Ugly' shatters the western in true Clint Eastwood style. The complex plot of bloodshed and betrayal winds its way through the American Civil War filmed to resemble the French battlefields of WW1 to end in a climactic Dance of Death. Arguably the quintessential Italian Western this 1966 film boasts a fine Ennio Morricone score featuring a main theme that reached No.1 in the world's pop charts.

• Cleopatra -- Three-Disc Special Edition | DVD | (15/04/2002) from £25.13   |  Saving you £-0.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Still the most expensive movie ever made, Cleopatra nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox. It also scandalised the world with the very public affair of its two major stars, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. But Joseph L Mankiewicz's 1963 epic deserves to be remembered for more than its off-screen troubles. An extravagantly elaborate production, the sets and costumes alone are awe-inspiring; Mankiewicz's own literate screenplay draws heavily on the classics and Shakespeare; while the supporting cast, led by Rex Harrison as Caesar and Roddy McDowall as his nephew (and future emperor) Octavian, are all first-rate thespians and generally put in more convincing performances than either of the two leads. Mankiewicz's original intention was to make two three-hour films: the first being Caesar and Cleopatra, the second Antony and Cleopatra. But before the film’s completion, and following a boardroom coup worthy of Ancient Rome itself, legendary mogul Darryl F Zanuck took back control of Fox and insisted that Cleopatra be cut to a more economical length. A heartbroken Mankiewicz was forced to trim his six-hour vision down to four. This was the "roadshow" version shown at the film’s premiere and now restored here for the first time. Then following adverse criticism and pressure from cinema chains Zanuck demanded more cuts, and the final released version ran a mere three hours--half the original length. Capitalising on the feverish publicity surrounding Burton and Taylor, the shortened version played up both their on- and off-screen romance. This longer four-hour roadshow version allows for a broader view of the film, adding some depth to the politics and manipulation of the characters. But the director’s original six-hour edit has been lost. Perhaps one day it will be rediscovered in the vaults and Mankiewicz’s much-maligned movie will finally be seen the way it was meant to be. Until then, Cleopatra remains an epic curiosity rather than the complete spectacle it should be. On the DVD: this handsome three-disc set spreads the restored four-hour print of the movie across two discs. The anamorphic widescreen print looks quite magnificent and Alex North’s wondrous score comes up like new in Dolby 5.1 sound. There’s a patchy and only intermittently revealing commentary from Chris Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz, Martin Landau and Jack Brodsky. Much better is the comprehensive two-hour documentary that occupies disc three, which tells in hair-raising detail the extraordinary story of a film production that became totally out of control. This is accompanied by some short archival material, but the documentary alone is a compelling reason to acquire this set. --Mark Walker

• Hotel Artemis | Blu Ray | (26/11/2018) from £9.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jean Thomas, aka THE NURSE (Jodie Foster) is the manager of the Hotel Artemis, an ultra-exclusive, members-only hospital hidden in a hotel redolent of faded ˜20s glamour. Tough, sharp and utterly fearless, The Nurse treats an assortment of assassins, gunrunners, thieves and gangsters in an unexpected state-of-the-art emergency room capable of providing a new liver with a 3-D printer or injecting a patient with nanobots that heal from the inside out. With the help of her towering assistant EVEREST, The Nurse wrangles some of the most dangerous criminals in the world, from sultry French assassin NICE and international arms dealer ACAPULCO, to bank robbers WAIKIKI and his brother HONOLULU. One night as a violent riot rages on the streets of Los Angeles, legendary crime boss Orian Franklin, aka NIAGARA, arrives needing immediate treatment after a failed attempt on his life. Niagara's sudden arrival creates a violent clash among the criminals in the hospital, with one ˜patient' having a particularly deadly motive for checking into the hotel. The Nurse makes a decision that could jeopardize the future of the ER and everyone in it. Now the safest place for criminals in the city has become the most dangerous.

• Hairspray | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £6.45   |  Saving you £8.54 (132.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  It's 1962 and Tracy Turnblad has the largest bouffant on the block. She also has all the right moves to be on the local dance show and win the crown of Miss Auto Show as well as the ex-steady of Amber the snooty reigning princess. But Amber is not too happy and has other plans for Tracy.

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (20/11/2023) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.

• Blindspot: Season 1 | DVD | (03/10/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (501.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Sullivan Stapleton (300: Rise of an Empire), Jaimie Alexander (Thor films) and Oscar® nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Without a Trace) star in this one-hour action thriller from Berlanti Productions (The Flash, Arrow, Pan) and writer/executive producer Martin Gero. Stapleton stars as hardened FBI agent Kurt Weller, who is drawn into a complex conspiracy when a naked amnesiac, Jane Doe (Alexander), is found in Times Square covered in a series of cryptic tattoos ... including his name on her back. As Weller and his teammates at the FBI -- among them, wartime vet Edgar Reed, the secretive Tasha Zapata and Assistant Director Mayfair (Jean-Baptiste) -- begin to investigate the veritable treasure map that are Jane Doe's tattoos, they are drawn into a high-stakes underworld that twists and turns through a labyrinth of secrets and revelations -- the information they uncover might ultimately change the world. At the center of this mystery is the relationship between Weller and Jane Doe. With every passing day, Jane unveils a new skill or a hidden talent without understanding its origin, while Weller is drawn deeper into his troubled, complicated relationship with this enigmatic woman. They both strive to make a connection, unaware of the dangerous blindspot that threatens them.

• A Town Like Alice (1981) | DVD | (13/11/2020) from £24.54   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hellbent | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Possibly the first gay horror/slasher movie of our time HellBent is a scary sexy funny thrill-ride through a wild Halloween night where chiseled gay chaps become the target of a sickle-wielding serial killer. Taking place at the famed West Hollywood Halloween Carnival there is a serial killer on the loose. A group of four gay friends will have to fight for their lives to make it through a night where flamboyant costumes beautiful people drugs music dancing and sex are

• Downton Abbey - Series 2 | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Julian Fellowes' hit drama Downton Abbey returns to DVD for a second series with all the regular cast including Dame Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Brendan Coyle, Joanne Froggatt and Dan Stevens. Returning to Downton Abbey in 1916, we see the effects of The First World War on the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. The new series sees the return of all the much loved characters whose intertwined lives are rendered more complicated by wartime and its impact on the great house itself. And when the storms of war have finally cleared, will the way of life known by all the inhabitants of Downton have changed forever?

• Ballers: The Complete Series | DVD | (30/03/2020) from £37.21   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The sun-soaked world of a group of past and present football players in and around Miami, FL is the setting for this half-hour comedy series starring Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. Created by Steve Levinson (Entourage, Boardwalk Empire) and featuring cameos from sports stars and journalists, the show follows various players as they navigate life off the field. Leading the pack is Spencer (Johnson), a retired superstar who is trying to find a foothold as a financial manager to current players. Within his inner circle are talented but volatile wide receiver Ricky (John David Washington); Charles (Omar Miller), a reluctantly retired lineman struggling to adjust to life after the game; and rookie sensation Vernon (Donovan Carter), who lands himself in hot financial water. Troy Garity co-stars as a top-tier sports agent and Rob Corddry as Spencer's larger-than-life boss.

• The Responder: Series 2 | Blu Ray | (24/06/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following his mother's death, Chris is broke, separated, and living alone in his dingy flat. But he is determined not to go back to his old ways. No more taking the law into his own hands. Now, Chris does things by the book. When gang war erupts between two of Liverpool's top drug-dealers, Chris is inexorably drawn in after his DCI threatens to expose his past misdeeds. But Chris is alone. The low-level criminals who once formed his network of informants are now either out of the game or in too deep. Which leaves only his former partner Rachel. Desperate to rebuild her own life and career, Rachel soon realizes she needs a partner who bends the rules. She needs Chris. As they are both sucked back towards the darkness, Chris and Rachel must pull each other back towards the light. Starring: Martin Freeman, Warren Brown, Rita Tushingham, Philip Barantini, Adelayo Adedayo.

• Simon & Garfunkel - The Concert in Central Park | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £10.76   |  Saving you £3.23 (30.02%)   |  RRP £13.99

  What started as a suggestion for Paul Simon to play a concert in New York's Central Park blossomed, on September 19, 1981, into a full-blown Simon and Garfunkel reunion after an 11-year hiatus, and now proves a priceless snapshot of two of America's greatest folk-rock performers. (It's also the rightful bookend to Simon and Garfunkel's acoustic Live from New York City, 1967.) Performed with a who's-who of East Coast session aces before a record-setting crowd of half-a-million fans, the Concert in Central Park finds its stars just shy of their 40th birthdays and very much in their primes, their voices sweet and pure and their playing relaxed, perfectly in tune and in synch. The show features a mix of S&G and solo Simon tunes, including all the songs that appear on the CD, with the addition of a reprise of "Late in the Evening" and the first live performance of Simon's "The Late Great Johnny Ace". This is classic material from start to finish, 87 minutes of unmitigated beauty. --Michael Mikesell

• Dexter: Original Sin - Season One Steelbook | Blu Ray | (09/06/2025) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Miami, 1991. When his bloodthirsty urges can't be ignored any longer, young Dexter Morgan must learn to channel his inner darkness as he transitions from student to avenging serial killer with the guidance of his father, Harry.

• Blue Steel | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (126.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For a rookie cop there's one thing more dangerous than uncovering a killer's fantasy. Becoming it. When a psychotic Wall Street broker witnesses rookie cop Megan Turner gunning down an armed robber in a grocery store he becomes instantly obsessed with her. In the midst of all the swift and sudden violence he manages to steal the assailant's gun; as a result the novice cop who already has more than one strike against her because she's a woman is suspended for using excessive force and killing an unarmed man. Soon thereafter the broker arranges a ""chance"" meeting with the now vulnerable policewoman and the two strike up a romance. Meanwhile he is carving her name onto bullets and using the stolen gun to go on a brutal murder spree.

• Ma (DVD) | DVD | (14/10/2019) from £5.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Everybody's welcome at Ma's. But good luck getting home safe. Oscar® winner Octavia Spencer stars as Sue Ann, a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town (Diana Silvers, Glass), to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own. She offers the kids the chance to avoid drinking and driving by hanging out in the basement of her home. But there are some house rules: One of the kids has to stay sober. Don't curse. Never go upstairs. And call her Ma. But as Ma's hospitality starts to curdle into obsession, what began as a teenage dream turns into a terrorizing nightmare, and Ma's place goes from the best place in town to the worst place on earth. Bonus Features Alternate Ending Deleted Scenes Creating Sue Ann Party at Ma's

• Carnivale - Series 2 | DVD | (08/07/2005) from £13.85   |  Saving you £26.14 (188.74%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Into each generation is born a creature of light and a creature of darkness. 1934. The Dustbowl. The last great age of magic. In a time of titanic sandstorms vile plagues drought and pestilence - signs of God's fury and harbingers of the Apocalypse - the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the Heartland of an empire called America. And when it is over man will forever trade away wonder for reason. A sweeping epic that is bot

• The Responder: Series 2 | DVD | (24/06/2024) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• What A Crazy World | DVD | (07/07/2014) from £8.05   |  Saving you £1.94 (24.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Joe Brown stars as a likable young dreamer who finds himself with a hit on his hands in this wonderfully endearing musical drama of 1963. Also starring Harry H. Corbett and featuring songs from Joe and his Bruvvers Marty Wilde Susan Maughan and Freddie and the Dreamers What a Crazy World is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Against the background of London's East End is set the story of Alf Hitchins an unemployed lad whose life revolves around dance halls amusements arcades and cafés - any place to escape from the family home where his father mother and sister are deeply preoccupied with dog racing bingo and courting respectively. Alf's cynical but cheerful acceptance of life expresses itself in the song he casually composes one night - and the results take everyone by surprise! Special Features: Image Gallery

• When We Were Kings | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £4.73   |  Saving you £7.26 (153.49%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Muhammad Ali's 1974 knockout of George Foreman to regain the heavyweight championship of the world at the age of 32 was probably the greatest sporting moment of the 20th century. Leon Gast's documentary on the "Rumble In The Jungle", When We Were Kings, eventually released in 1996, is probably the finest ever boxing film. The background to the contest was almost as dramatic as the fight itself. It was the first major coup for promoter Don King, a character described in this film as "very clever but completely amoral"--yet this was his finest hour. President Mobutu, unsavoury dictator of Zaire and a more frightening figure than either boxer, had spent millions of his country's money to host the event. George Foreman, like Sonny Liston before him and Mike Tyson after him, was considered unbeatable, expected to slaughter Ali. Seeing him pounding a dent the size of a grapefruit into a heavy bag during training, you can understand why. Ringside American journalists George Plimpton and in particular Norman Mailer offer exceptionally shrewd insights. As we stare into Ali's face during the minute interval at the end of round one, Mailer talks us through his probable thought processes. "That was the only time I ever saw fear in his eyes." Ali, of course, is the star, besting the sullen Foreman in the build-up with his freewheeling, hilarious braggadocio then outfoxing him in the fight with his "rope-a-dope" technique. Like Ali, the "Rumble In The Jungle" transcended sports in its inspirational significance. --David Stubbs