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• Kojak - The Complete Series (30 DVD Box Set) | DVD | (17/11/2014) from £45.55   |  Saving you £74.44 (163.42%)   |  RRP £119.99

  On the timeline of successful TV cop dramas, Kojak offered bold authenticity and paved the way for NYPD Blue. As immortalised by Telly Savalas, veteran detective Theo Kojak was introduced in the 1973 TV movie The Marcus-Nelson Murders, a ratings hit that encouraged CBS and writer-producer Abby Mann to create a trend-setting series (based on a book by Selwyn Raab) that premiered on October 24 of that year. The Greek, bald-headed, snappily attired Kojak brought no-nonsense bravado to homicide cases in South Manhattan--a setting that lent a gritty, urban edge to intelligent plots that won the respect of real cops with an emphasis on diligent police work instead of overblown action and phony glamour. While working cases with his captain Frank McNeil (Dan Frazer) and closest colleagues Crocker (Kevin Dobson) and Stavros (played by Savalas's brother George, credited as Demosthenes for the first two seasons), Kojak had a knack for bending the rules (but never breaking them) if he knew it would solve a crime. Kojak came at a perfect time for Savalas and cop dramas in general. The actor's career was slumping in the early '70s (he'd just appeared in the Italian horror film Lisa and the Devil), and he quickly put his personal stamp on the role with street-wise sarcasm and trademark lollipops (a perfect prop that Savalas adopted to quit smoking). Consistently well-written, the series was realistically rooted in a broad spectrum of New York City crime. These qualities attracted plenty of fresh and established talent, including guest appearances by Harvey Keitel, James Woods, Richard Jordan, Hector Elizondo, John Ritter (in one of his first TV roles), Paul Michael Glaser, Dabney Coleman, Tina Louise, and a host of familiar TV veterans. For the debut season, Savalas won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and Kojak ran for five well-rated seasons, followed by several TV-movie revivals in 1985, 1989, and 1990. The enduring popularity of Kojak was further proven when the show was revived yet again in March of 2005, with Ving Rhames in the title role And now, it's an open and shut case for this slick, well plotted, entertaining series, with all 118 newly remastered episodes, from all 5 seasons, available together for the very first time in this 30 disc box set

• Wayne's World | DVD | (11/12/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Thanks to Mike Myers' wonderfully rude, lowbrow humour and his full-bodied understanding of who his character is, Wayne's World proved to be that rare thing: a successful transition of a Saturday Night Live sketch to the big screen. Wayne Campbell (Myers) and his nerdy pal Garth (Dana Carvey) are teens who live at home and have their own low-rent cable-access show in Aurora, Illinios, in which they celebrate their favourite female film stars and heavy-metal bands. When a Chicago TV station smells a potential youth-audience ratings hit, the station's weasely executive (Rob Lowe) tries to co-opt the show--and steal Wayne's new rock 'n' roll girlfriend (Tia Carrere) at the same time. Like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure before it (and the later Detroit Rock City), this is a film that affectionately parodies and celebrates slacker teenage culture. It's also filled with all kinds of knowing spoofs of film conventions, from Wayne talking to the camera (while forbidding other characters to do so) and hilariously self-conscious product placements, to labelling a moment a "Gratuitous Sex Scene". Dumb yet clever--and very funny. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• High Plains Drifter | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £7.88   |  Saving you £2.11 (26.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Eastwood portrays a mysterious stranger who emerges out of the heat waves of the desert and rides into the guilt-ridden town of Lago. After committing three murders and one rape in the first 20 minutes The Stranger is hired by the town to protect it from three gunmen just out of jail. The Stranger then paints the entire town bright red renames it ""Hell "" and supplies Divine retribution in a fiery climax.

• Clint Eastwood Westerns Collection | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £19.95   |  Saving you £-6.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Titles comprise: Pale Rider: In Pale Rider Clint Eastwood returned to the saddle after nine years and Western movies were riding high again. After corporate mining boss Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart) begins a campaign of terror to drive independent pan miners out of the area a nameless stranger called Preacher (Eastwood) rides into the underdog's camp. He becomes their avenger. The tycoon then hires a badge-wearing killer and his duster-shrouded deputies men loyal to whoever pays the most. LaHood pays gold. But in a climactic shootout to remember Preacher pays in lead. The Outlaw Josey Wales: As the Outlaw Josey Wales Clint Eastwood is ideal as a wary fast drawing loner akin to the Man with No Name from his European Westerns. But unlike that other mythic outlaw Josey Wales has a name and a heart. That heart open up as the action unfolds. After avenging his family's brutal murder Wales is pursued by a pack of killers. He prefers to travel alone but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected. One of the top Westerns ever. Unforgiven Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey: Richard Harris is an ill-fated interloper a colourful killer-for-hire called English Bob. Gene Hackman is the sly and brutal local sheriff whose brand of Law enforcement ranges from unconventional to ruthless. Big trouble is coming to Big Whiskey...

• Tammy | DVD | (10/11/2014) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman (Melissa McCarthy) hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother (Susan Sarandon).

• Mulholland Drive (Digitally Restored) | DVD | (22/05/2017) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After a car wreck, an amnesiac woman sets out to learn what happened to her with the help of a wannabee actress.

• Downton Abbey: A Journey to the Highlands (Christmas Special 2012) | DVD | (26/12/2012) from £8.91   |  Saving you £12.34 (161.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The family receive a warm welcome at Duneagle Castle, visiting Rose and her parents in the Highlands. But there is no disguising the tensions between their hosts. Carson is determined to keep the servants back at Downton working hard, but with a country fair coming up, will some be tempted to push their luck? Could romance be on the cards for Mrs Patmore? Special Features: A Making of Featurette

• Antz | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £4.49   |  Saving you £15.50 (345.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Woody Allen as a worker ant with an inferiority complex? Sylvester Stallone as an affable soldier ant who discovers that digging tunnels is cool? The animation playground we all knew so well is turning into a theme park full of in-jokes for grownups. Antz explores age-old topics (one person--err, insect--can make a difference, individuality and social responsibility must exist side by side, war is hell) with comic asides and Woody Allen's funniest quips this side of PG (adults will chuckle at the socialist slogans bandied about as he campaigns for workers' rights). Sharon Stone voices the rebellious princess with a fun-loving streak that doesn't quite overcome her royal bearing and court training, but she can learn. Gene Hackman is all teeth (ants have teeth?) and menacing grins as the Army general plotting insect-icide. This bug's-eye view of life on Earth gives Allen's neurotic nonconformist an epic adventure of microscopic proportions: a devastating war with a termite colony, an odyssey to the fabled land of plenty (a picnic ground), and a race to save his fellow workers from certain death. Other voices include Anne Bancroft as the Queen, Christopher Walken, Jennifer Lopez, Danny Glover, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin and John Mahoney. The computer animation isn't exactly realistic but feels as solid and contoured as puppet animation with the smoothness and slickness of traditional cell cartoons, and the character designs and animation offer a marvellous range of expressions. The PG rating includes a gritty battle sequence that may frighten youngsters. --Sean Axmaker

• Commando: Director's Cut | Blu Ray | (04/05/2015) from £10.75   |  Saving you £7.24 (67.35%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Now on Blu-ray™ for the first time ever experience every awesome moment of Commando the way it was intended! In time for the 30th Anniversary this special edition Director’s Cut includes amazing action extensive special features and all the Arnold you could ask for. Retired Delta Force operative Colonel John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger) lives a secluded life with his daughter (Alyssa Milano). When she is kidnapped by a brutal former team member seeking revenge Matrix must travel to South America and get her back. Somewhere… somehow… someone’s going to pay!

• Enough | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £13.92   |  Saving you £-7.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jennifer Lopez marries her dream man, but soon discovers he isn't the man she thought he was. For her own safety - and that of her daughter - she decides to take drastic action...

• The Hunger | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (100.14%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Miriam (Catherine Deneuve) an ancient vampire who survives on the blood of her lovers promises the gift of eternal youth in return for her continued longevity; that is until she tires of them. When her current beau John (David Bowie) falls victim to this very fate he attracts the attention of premature aging specialist Dr. Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon)...

• It's All Gone Pete Tong | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £6.43   |  Saving you £9.56 (148.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Paul Kaye stars in an engaging comedy exploring the relationship between fame and sanity set in Ibiza.

• Stakeout | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £13.06   |  Saving you £1.93 (14.78%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A comedy thriller with a silken thread of romance, 1987’s Stakeout stars Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as a pair of undercover cops assigned to watch the apartment of the former girlfriend (Madeleine Stowe) of a violent escaped convict. Complications ensue when Dreyfuss’ cop poses as a telephone inspector to get in and bug the girlfriend’s phone and they strike up a relationship. Initially coming on a bit like a cross between Hitchcock's Rear Window and Porky's, Stakeout ends up falling between the two stools of mirth and suspense. Some half-amusing business involving a series of practical jokes between the cop duo and their relief partners doesn’t add materially to the film. Emilio Estevez’s sidekick role is under-developed and he brings to this none of the loose cannon mania he would later bring to Young Guns. Dreyfuss isn’t entirely convincing as a tough, seasoned cop and Aidan Quinn as the villain comes across as a poor man’s James Woods. Yet for all these flaws, director John Badham just about manages to cobble together a watchable caper. On the DVD: Stakeout on disc has no extras of any kind, not even a trailer. The feature is presented in widescreen 1.85:1 format with Dolby digital 5.1 sound. The dubbing briefly goes awry near the end. --David Stubbs

• Western 73 | Blu Ray | (03/02/2025) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Noirish shadows spread across the frontier in this landmark western, the first of the celebrated collaborations between director Anthony Mann and actor James Stewart that redefined the genre with their moral and psychological intensity.

• Downton Abbey: Series 1-5 | DVD | (17/11/2014) from £32.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (51.53%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Contains all episdoes of the first five series of the ITV costume drama. This collection also includes the Christmas Day episodes from 2011 2012 and 2013.Spanning the idyllic pre-war era through the storms of The Great War and beyond to the roaring 1920s Downton Abbey tells the story of the aristocratic Crawley family and the servants who work for them. As the world around them undergoes extraordinary change life in the sumptuous country house continues to be marked by romance ambition passion and heartbreak. As challenges are faced upstairs and down inhabitants of the great house share in each other's joys and hardship; their lives are inseparably interlinked. Bonus Features: Series 1 Commentaries Deleted Scenes House in History- Downton Abbey The Making of Downton Abbey Series 2 Episode 1 commentary Deleted Scenes House to Hospital Fashion and Uniforms Romance in a Time of Warfare Series 3 Downton Abbey in 1920 Lady Mary's Wedding Day Lady Edith's Wedding Day The men of Dowton Abbey An interview with Shirley Maclane Behind the scenes - The Cricket Match Series 4 The Making of The Downton Diaries New Arrivals Series 5 The Roaring Twenties A Day With Lady Rose Mrs Pattmore's London Kitchen

• Crossroads | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £6.50   |  Saving you £13.49 (207.54%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pop superstar Britney Spears makes her big screen debut in this tale of three childhood best friends, and a guy they just met, take a trip across the country, finding themselves and their friendship in the process.

• Evil Dead 2 | Blu Ray | (04/03/2019) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After the shocking and notorious cult classic THE EVIL DEAD impaled its way into the minds of a whole generation, visionary maverick director Sam Raimi decided to elaborate on its twisted scenario. Featuring B-movie legend Bruce Campbell in his most iconic role, EVIL DEAD 2 is a gore-fuelled, splatstick masterpiece that gleefully stomps on the entrails of good taste whilst puking in the face of Hollywood with no apologies. Special Features: Audio commentary with Sam Raimi, Scott Spiegel, Bruce Campbell and Greg Nicotero Bloody and Groovy, Baby! - Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2 Shallowed Souls: Making of Evil Dead 2 Cabin Fever: A Fly on the Wall Road to Wadesboro: Revisiting the Shooting Location with Filmmaker Tony Elwood The Gore the Merrier: Making of Evil Dead 2 Interview with Bruce Campbell Trailer

• The Simpsons - Season 10 | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £11.99   |  Saving you £30.00 (300.30%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Join the residents of Springfield for the tenth season of the classic animated series.

• Yu-Gi-Oh! Movie Triple Pack | DVD | (08/10/2018) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light After the conclusion of the Battle City Tournament, deep below the sands of Egypt, an ancient evil has awakened. Anubis, who was defeated centuries ago by Yugi's mysterious alter ego - the ancient Pharaoh - has returned for revenge. Wielding the power of the Eighth Millennium Item, Anubis is determined to destroy Yugi and take over the world... Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Bonds Beyond Time Yusei Fudo pursues the mysterious stranger who has stolen his most powerful duel monsters card. After falling through a time-slip, Yusei meets Judai Yuki and Yugi Muto, two of the greatest duelists of all time. They agree to help Yusei in his battle to defeat the evil Paradox, who is planning to destroy Pegasus and thus prevent the Duel Monsters from ever being created. Will our heroes save the day? Find out in this action-packed adventure! Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Dark Side of Dimensions The stakes have never been higher; the rivalries never as fierce; the risks never so great. One wrong move one card short and it's game over for good. A decade in the making, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions features new designs and an all-new story from the original creator of the global phenomenon, Kazuki Takahashi. His masterful tale features anime's most beloved characters in their long-awaited return: Yugi Muto, Seto Kaiba, and their faithful friends Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor Téa Gardner, and Bakura. It's the most highly anticipated re-YU-nion ever!

• Grosse Pointe Blank | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £6.76   |  Saving you £10.49 (190.73%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hit man Martin Q Blank (John Cusack) is in an awkward situation. Several of them, actually. He's attending his high school reunion on an assignment; he's got a rival hit man (Dan Aykroyd) on his tail; and he's going to have to explain to his old girlfriend (Minnie Driver) why he stood her up on prom night. Grosse Pointe Blank is an amiable black comedy, cowritten by Cusack and directed by Jonathan Demme protégé George Armitage (Miami Blues), has the feel of Demme's Something Wild and Married to the Mob--which is to say its humour is dark and brightly coloured at the same time. Cusack and Driver are utterly charming--as is the leading man's sister, Joan, who plays his secretary. (Cusack received an Oscar nomination for her next role, in In & Out.) Alan Arkin is also very funny as Martin's psychiatrist. --Jim Emerson