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• Flubber | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £5.70   |  Saving you £12.29 (215.61%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Wacky Professor Philip Brainard (Robin Williams) has just invented a revolutionary new compound. Its green it flies and it looks like rubber. Its Flubber! And it has the ability to save his financially troubled college as well as his broken engagement to his girlfriend Sara. That is until the gooey substance is stolen right from under the nose of his beloved but jealous robot assistant Weebo! Now the professor's got to get the goo and the girl back where they belong. Mix one

• Dog Soldiers | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £4.90   |  Saving you £13.09 (267.14%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Imagine you're leading a six man squad on a routine army exercise. You're cut off on foot in a hostile wilderness. And there's every chance that you're about to be eaten alive by a pack of vicious, snarling, blood-lusting, seven-foot tall werewolves...

• Empire of the Sun | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (146.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Roundly dismissed as one of Steven Spielberg's least successful efforts, this very underrated film poignantly follows the World War II adventures of young Jim (a brilliant Christian Bale), caught in the throes of the fall of China. What if you once had everything and lost it all in an afternoon? What if you were only 12 years old at the time? Bale's transformation, from pampered British ruling-class child to an imprisoned, desperate, nearly feral boy, is nothing short of stunning. Also stunning are exceptional sets, cinematography and music (the last courtesy of John Williams) that enhance author J.G. Ballard's and screenwriter Tom Stoppard's depiction of another, less familiar casualty of war. In a time when competitors were releasing "comedic", derivative coming-of-age films, Empire of the Sun stands out as an epic in the classic David Lean sense--despite confusion or perceived competition with the equally excellent The Last Emperor (also released in 1987, and also a coming-of-age in a similar setting). It is also a remarkable testament to, yes, the human spirit. And despite its disappointing box-office returns, Empire of the Sun helped to further establish Spielberg as more than a commercial director and set the standard, tone and look for future efforts Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. --N.F. Mendoza

• K2 | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £11.39   |  Saving you £-1.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  K2 is a thrilling action adventure about two men Taylor Brooks (Michael Biehn) and Harold Jamieson (Matt Craven) attempting to conquer the most feared mountain in the world. Their quest takes them from America to the sheer peaks of Alaska where they encounter and join a group preparing for the mammoth expedition. Then on to the mighty Karakoram mountain range in Northern Pakistan where K2 ""The Savage Mountain"" awaits. One by one the mountaineers are faced with setbacks and disast

• The Wicker Man - Special Edition Director's Cut (2 disc set) | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  It must be stressed that, despite the fact that it was produced in 1973 and stars Christopher Lee, The Wicker Man is not a Hammer Horror film. There is no blood, very little gore and the titular Wicker Man is not a monster made out of sticks that runs around killing people by weaving them into raffia work. Edward Woodward plays Sergeant Howie, a virginal, Christian policeman sent from the Scottish mainland to investigate the disappearance of a young girl on the remote island of Summerisle. The intelligent script by Anthony Schaffer, who also wrote the detective mystery Sleuth (a film with which The Wicker Man shares many traits), derives its horror from the increasing isolation, confusion and humiliation experienced by the naïve Howie as he encounters the island community's hostility and sexual pagan rituals, manifested most immediately in the enthusiastic advances of local landlord's daughter Willow (Britt Ekland). Howie's intriguing search, made all the more authentic by the film's atmospheric locations and folkish soundtrack, gradually takes us deeper and deeper into the bizarre pagan community living under the guidance of the charming Laird (Lee, minus fangs) as the film builds to a terrifying climax with a twist to rival that of The Sixth Sense or Fight Club. --Paul Philpott On the DVD: The Wicker Man can finally be seen in its glorious entirety on DVD, thanks to the restoration of some 15 minutes of previously lost material. Since the original negative long ago disappeared (apparently dumped beneath the M3 motorway) the picture quality for the added scenes is dubious, but what's much more important is the regained richness in the depiction of Summerisle's society (including a wonderful deflowering ritual set to music) and the added depth to Howie's character. Almost redundantly this excellent two-disc package provides the butchered theatrical cut as well, which comes with a good new documentary explaining both the genesis of the film and its turbulent history. Christopher Lee and director Robin Hardy pop up in an archival interview from the 1970s and are also reunited with Edward Woodward in the brand-new and first-rate commentary track for the director's cut: Lee in particular remains passionate about the movie and still angry about its shabby treatment. Both versions of the film are widescreen 1.85:1; the theatrical cut is in remastered Dolby 5.1, but the director's cut remains in mono. --Mark Walker

• Scary Movie 4 | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £6.46   |  Saving you £11.53 (64.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Anna Faris and Regina Hall return to save the world from a ruthless alien invasion in this new spoof!

• Superhero Movie | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £13.23   |  Saving you £4.76 (35.98%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Zucker clan return with another outrageous spoof, this time taking aim at the glut of comic book films that have taken cinema by storm.

• The Good Fight: Season 1 | DVD | (13/11/2017) from £12.21   |  Saving you £2.50 (20.48%)   |  RRP £14.71

  The spin-off of The Good Wife is a legal drama series, that takes place about a year after the first series ended. Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) and her goddaughter Maia (Rose Leslie) end up joining Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo) at a new firm, after a scam ruines their reputations and leaves them broke. This first season follows Diane and Maia as they attempt to decipher the mystery that destroyed their professional and personal lives, and as they slowly start to rebuild their careers.

• Sometimes They Come Back....Again | DVD | (02/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In this terrifying sequel to Stephen King's Sometimes They Come Back Jon Porter (Michael Gross) returns to his hometown to mourn his mother's death. When sinister forces that caused his sister's death many years ago materialize Jon must stand up to his fear... or lose his beautiful teenage daughter forever.

• Lara Croft Tomb Raider -- Special Collector's Edition | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £3.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Angelina Jolie brings the famous computer game archaeologist & adventurer to life in this action packed blockbuster.

• Uncle Drew | DVD | (05/11/2018) from £2.95   |  Saving you £7.05 (238.98%)   |  RRP £10.00

  After draining his life savings to enter a team in the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem, Dax (Lil Rel Howery) is dealt a series of unfortunate setbacks, including losing his team to his longtime rival (Nick Kroll). Desperate to win the tournament and the cash prize, Dax stumbles upon the man, the myth, the legend UNCLE DREW (NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving) and convinces him to return to the court one more time. The two men embark on a road trip to round up Drew's old basketball squad (Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Webber, Reggie Miller, Nate Robinson, and Lisa Leslie) and prove that a group of septuagenarians can still win the big one.

• Billy Liar | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £11.39   |  Saving you £5.59 (66.55%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Billy Liar was the multimedia phenomenon of its era. Starting out as a novel by Yorkshire writer Keith Waterhouse, it rapidly became a long-running stage play, adapted by Waterhouse with playwright Willis Hall, which lead to the movie, scripted by Waterhouse and Hall for John Schlesinger to direct, then a stage musical and finally a spin-off TV series. Do you get the feeling it caught the mood of the times? The basic set-up owes a lot to James Thurber's classic short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Our hero, Billy Fisher, lives at home in a Bradford semi with his nagging parents and works as a lowly clerk in an undertaker's parlour. But, in his imagination he lives a rich and varied fantasy life as gallant military leader, suave socialite, best-selling novelist and so forth. Trouble is, he can't always keep fantasy and reality apart, any more than he can the keep two girls he's engaged to separate. Not to mention his other problems…. Schlesinger's direction brings out the desperation behind the comedy, and Tom Courtenay, at once defiant and hangdog, slips perfectly into the role created on stage by Albert Finney. But the whole cast's a joy, not least the great Leonard Rossiter as undertaker Mr Shadrach, Billy's saturnine boss. And then there's Julie Christie--the luminous spirit of the Swinging 60s--in her first starring role as the girl who offers Billy a chance of real escape. At the end, when she takes the train to London, away from the smoke and the grimness "oop" north, the whole British New Wave went with her. On the DVD: just the theatrical trailer which is a fairly crass affair. There's been no remastering, it seems, but both sound and vision are clean enough and the print preserves the original's full 2.35:1 widescreen ratio. --Philip Kemp

• Shadow Run | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Shadow Run ought to be considerably more interesting than it is--Geoffrey Reeve is an efficient director and both Michael Caine and James Fox turn in icy performances as, respectively, an almost completely ruthless thief and the renegade intelligence man who hires him for that one last big job. Caine in particular is convincing in the half-hearted attacks of compunction that never stop him killing obstacles. Many of the bit-players--Lesley Grantham, for example--do a lot with almost nonexistent parts. The film counterpoints the planning of the heist with the social embarrassments of the fat schoolboy who becomes, by a series of coincidences, too informed about it and, ultimately, Caine's secret sharer. Reeve is rather too in love with the cathedral school background of the subplot and skimps too much on the complicated technical business of getting a computerised security van into a radio blackout zone. Still, the boy is excellent, and Caine's affair with the doomed hooker Rae Baker has some much-needed moments of wit. On the DVD: Disappointingly, the DVD, whose Dolby surround sound does miracles for the scenes of schoolboy choristers, is presented in pan and scan 1.33:1, and has no extra features except for chapter selection and trailers for other films.--Roz Kaveney

• Police Academy 7 (DVD) | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £6.96   |  Saving you £4.02 (101.26%)   |  RRP £7.99

  For the seventh film the Police Academy squad goes global. Alan Metter (Back to School) directs on location in Moscow and a welcome ensemble again puts on department blues for new comedy antics. Addled Cmdt. Lassard (George Gaynes) motor-mouth Jones (Michael Winslow) gun fanatic Tackleberry (David Graf) curvaceous Callahan (Leslie Easterbrook) and human steam vent Harris (G.W. Bailey) join forces with Moscow's Chief of Police (Christopher Lee) and an icy-as-a-tundra translator (Claire Forlani). They take on the Godfather of the Russian mob (Ron Perlman) whose computer program plays like a video game but can actually steal money and goods planetwide without a trace. Prepare to kick some buttski!

• Empire Of The Sun - Special Edition | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £7.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (55.90%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Roundly dismissed as one of Steven Spielberg's least successful efforts, this very underrated film poignantly follows the World War II adventures of young Jim (a brilliant Christian Bale), caught in the throes of the fall of China. What if you once had everything and lost it all in an afternoon? What if you were only 12 years old at the time? Bale's transformation, from pampered British ruling-class child to an imprisoned, desperate, nearly feral boy, is nothing short of stunning. Also stunning are exceptional sets, cinematography and music (the last courtesy of John Williams) that enhance author J.G. Ballard's and screenwriter Tom Stoppard's depiction of another, less familiar casualty of war. In a time when competitors were releasing "comedic", derivative coming-of-age films, Empire of the Sun stands out as an epic in the classic David Lean sense--despite confusion or perceived competition with the equally excellent The Last Emperor (also released in 1987, and also a coming-of-age in a similar setting). It is also a remarkable testament to, yes, the human spirit. And despite its disappointing box-office returns, Empire of the Sun helped to further establish Spielberg as more than a commercial director and set the standard, tone and look for future efforts Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. --N.F. Mendoza

• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season Two (8 disc box set) | DVD | (11/01/2016) from £20.95   |  Saving you £19.04 (90.88%)   |  RRP £39.99

• Uncle Drew | Blu Ray | (05/11/2018) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After draining his life savings to enter a team in the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem, Dax (Lil Rel Howery) is dealt a series of unfortunate setbacks, including losing his team to his longtime rival (Nick Kroll). Desperate to win the tournament and the cash prize, Dax stumbles upon the man, the myth, the legend UNCLE DREW (NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving) and convinces him to return to the court one more time. The two men embark on a road trip to round up Drew's old basketball squad (Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Webber, Reggie Miller, Nate Robinson, and Lisa Leslie) and prove that a group of septuagenarians can still win the big one.

• Desert Saints | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £9.25   |  Saving you £10.74 (116.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The ultimate hitman is about to meet his match. When clients need a flawless assassin to take out their high profile targets they call on a mysterious hitman know only as Banks. But deep in the heart of the desert this cunning killer is about to make the biggest mistake of his life. He's teaming up with a sexy hitchhiker who seems like the perfect accomplice...for the right price.

• Doppelganger | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Suspected of brutally murdering her mother Holly Gooding a beautiful and mysterious young woman moves to Los Angeles to try and bury her horrific past. Her new flatmate Patrick finds her unpredictable - she is shy and innocent one minute and explosive with uncontrollable rage and passion the next. Patrick determines to find out more about her...

• Shadow Run | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Caine is a London gangster who backed up by an upper-class bad guy (Fox) plans to do a job on an armoured transport van filled with paper for the Royal Mint. This is the paper used to make twenty and fifty pound notes so a load of such paper would be worth as much as 110 million on the black market. The only problem is getting to the van...