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• Stargate SG-1: Season 1 | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Like the very best of SF TV, Stargate SG-1 began very simply. Of course it had the benefit of a movie preceding it--in which the alternate universe, its rules and its characters were largely established--so this premiere season was therefore able to concentrate on good storytelling. In 1997 not every new show was obsessed with securing a syndication-guaranteed franchise (same goes for Buffy debuting the same year), instead one-off episodes were the way of things, exploring interesting scenarios and conundrums. Naturally there were allusions to the feature film, but most were subtle and inspired. For example, a trip to retrieve the trapped professor who'd worked on the Gate decades ago was an unusual way of tying up loose ends. Some groundwork was laid for continuation should the show be renewed into an ongoing series. Knowing that these elements were pure wishful thinking at the time makes the tapestry of System Lords and the interlinks with our history and mythology all the more enjoyable in revisiting the show from its beginnings. With Richard Dean Anderson, leading the team in a far more charismatic and empathetic way than Kurt Russell in the movie, the series also benefited from some spot-on casting that instantly won audiences over. Special effects and use of studio sets may be less dazzling in these initial shows, but its solid grounding in old-fashioned SF won for the show a loyal audience. --Paul Tonks

• Safety Last! (1923) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (14/09/2020) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin was the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloydthe modern guy striving for successis us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to him. Lloyd plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success. Laugh-out-loud funny and jaw-dropping in equal measure, Safety Last! is a movie experience par excellence, anchored by a genuine legend. Special Features: New 2K digital film restoration Musical score by composer Carl Davis from 1989, synchronized and restored under his supervision and presented in uncompressed stereo on the Blu-ray edition Alternate score by organist Gaylord Carter from the late 1960s, presented in uncompressed monaural on the Blu-ray edition Audio commentary featuring film critic Leonard Maltin and director and Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Correll Introduction by Suzanne Lloyd, Lloyd's granddaughter and president of Harold Lloyd Entertainment Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius, a 104-minute documentary from 1989 Three newly restored Lloyd shorts: Take a Chance (1918), Young Mr. Jazz (1919), and His Royal Slyness (1920), with commentary by Correll and film writer John Bengtson Locations and Effects, a new documentary featuring Bengtson and special effects expert Craig Barron New interview with Davis PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Ed Park

• Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? | Blu Ray | (04/11/2013) from £9.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (80.08%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Blackly comic psychodrama from director Robert Altman starring screen legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Jane Hudson (Davis) found fame as child star 'Baby Jane', only to be eclipsed by her sister Blanche (Crawford) when the latter became a Hollywood glamour girl in the 1930s. Blanche's career was brought to an abrupt end by an accident for which Jane was seemingly responsible. Now the two ageing sisters live together in their Hollywood mansion, attended by their maid, Elvira (Maidie Norm...

• The Man Who Cried | DVD | (10/04/2003) from £4.66   |  Saving you £5.33 (114.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The story, set before World War II, tells of a young woman who has fled from Russia to Paris, but secretly desires to head to America

• Rookie Of The Year | DVD | (03/01/2005) from £6.74   |  Saving you £6.25 (92.73%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Chicago Cubs needed a miracle... They got Henry Rowengartner. Twelve-year-old Henry Rowengartner suffers a broken arm whilst showing off at school and is shocked to discover that with the plaster off he can now throw like a professional pitcher!

• Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears | DVD | (11/05/2020) from £17.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Fortune Cookie | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £16.43   |  Saving you £-0.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Billy Wilder directs this first-time pairing of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in a brilliant comedy in which a larcenous lawyer convinces his brother-in-law to perpetrate insurance fraud. Jack Lemmon portrays Harry Hinkle a TV cameraman who gets injured by a very considerate player while working a Cleveland Browns football game. Walter Matthau is the devious lawyer Willie Gingrich who encourages the expensive lawsuit. Co-written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond the film garnered

• The Office Series 2 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The second series of the award-winning BBC2 mockudrama The Office exceeded even the sky-high standards of the first. Indeed, it ventured beyond caricature and satire, touching on the very edge of darkness. Ricky Gervais was once again excruciatingly superb as David Brent, a subtly shaded modern English comic grotesque in the desperate and self-deluding tradition of Alan Partridge and Basil Fawlty. In this series, however, Brent's to-camera assertions concerning his man-management qualities and executive capabilities are seriously challenged when the Slough and Swindon branches are merged and his former Swindon equivalent Neil takes over as area manager. To compensate Brent cultivates his pathologically mistaken image of himself as an entertainer/motivator/comedian whose stage happens to be the workplace. This culminates in a comically disastrous motivational session ending with a sing-along of Tina Turner's "Simply the Best", which is greeted, typically, with stunned, appalled silence. Meanwhile, Tim, who can only maintain his sanity by teasing the priggish, puddingbowl-haired Gareth, continues to wrestle with his yearning for receptionist Dawn, a sympathetic character persisting with a relationship with a yobbish bloke about whom she still maintains unspoken reservations. As ever, it's the awkward, reality TV-style pauses and silences, the furtive, meaningful and unmet glances across the emotional gulf of the open-plan office, that say it all here. As for Brent, his own breakdown is prefaced by a moment of hideous hilarity--an impromptu office dance, a mixture of "Flashdance and MC Hammer" as Brent describes it, but in reality bad beyond description. Then, when his fate is sealed, he at last reveals himself as a humiliated and broken man in a memorable finale to perhaps the greatest British sitcom, besides Fawlty Towers, ever made. All this and Keith too. --David Stubbs On the DVD: The Office, Series 2 is a single-disc release unlike the more generous Series 1. Extra features are enjoyable nonetheless. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant feature in a gleefully shambolic video diary--highlights of which include Gervais flicking elastic bands at his cowriter and taping their editor to his swivel chair. The ubiquitous Gervais also mockingly introduces some outtakes (mostly of him corpsing throughout dozens of takes) and a series of deleted scenes, notably of Gareth arriving in his horrendous cycle shorts. --Mark Walker

• Look Who's Talking / Look Who's Talking Too / Look Who's Talking Now | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £16.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Fear X | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £9.30   |  Saving you £9.68 (153.41%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Security guard Harry Caine (Turturro) is desperately searching for a reason behind the murder of his wife. He spends his nights watching CCTV footage to find a face that might give him a clue. His walls are plastered with 'suspects' but when he closes in on one who might be the killer his world is turned upside down once again...

• Ender's Game | DVD | (10/03/2014) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After an alien race attack, Earth prepares for a future war by recruiting the most intelligent children and training them to lead the inevitable battle.

• Speak No Evil | Blu Ray | (20/10/2025) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Steelbook exclusive to UK.After befriending a British couple with a mute son, Americans Ben and Louise accept an unusual invitation to bring their daughter for a weekend at an idyllic country estate. Yet when they discover their hosts are hiding sinister motives, Ben and Louise fear their family may be pawns in a disturbing plot. Led by a riveting performance from James McAvoy (Split, Glass) as a charismatic man masking unspeakable darkness, a dream holiday warps into an unnerving nightmare in this shocking thriller from Blumhouse, producers of The Black Phone.BONUS FEATURESNuclear FamiliesA Horrifying CrescendoThe Farmhouse of HorrorsFeature Commentary with Writer/Director James Watkins

• Vampire Diaries - Season 8 | Blu Ray | (23/10/2017) from £17.06   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young teen struggles to make a decision between two vampire brothers and their supernatural lives. Soon after she discovers the truth her whole world turns upside down.

• Whale Rider | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £5.04   |  Saving you £8.95 (177.58%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Award-winning and magical story of a young Maori girl's struggle to fulfill her destiny in a small coastal town in New Zealand.

• Hellraiser | Blu Ray | (03/07/2017) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Having made his reputation as one of the most prolific and gifted horror writers of his generation (prompting Stephen King to call him "the future of horror"), Clive Barker made a natural transition to movies with this audacious directorial debut from 1987. Not only did Barker serve up a chilling tale of devilish originality, he also introduced new icons of horror that since have become as popular among genre connoisseurs as Frankenstein's monster and the Wolfman. Foremost among these frightful, Hellraiser visions is the sadomasochistic demon affectionately named Pinhead (so named because his pale, bald head is a geometric pincushion and a symbol of eternal pain). Pinhead is the leader of the Cenobites, agents of evil who appear only when someone successfully "solves" the exotic puzzle box called the Lamont Configuration--a mysterious device that opens the door to Hell. The puzzle's latest victim is Frank (Sean Chapman), who now lives in a gelatinous skeletal state in an upstairs room of the British home just purchased by his newlywed half-brother (Andrew Robinson, best known as the villain from Dirty Harry), who has married one of Frank's former lovers (Claire Higgins). The latter is recruited to supply the cannibalistic Frank with fresh victims, enabling him to reconstitute his own flesh--but will Frank succeed in restoring himself completely? Will Pinhead continue to demonstrate the flesh-ripping pleasures of absolute agony? Your reaction to this description should tell you if you've got the stomach for Barker's film, which has since spawned a number of interesting but inferior sequels. It's definitely not for everyone, but there's no denying that it's become a semiclassic of modern horror. --Jeff Shannon

• The Woman King | DVD | (13/02/2023) from £6.03   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A historical epic inspired by the true events that happened in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.

• Lucky Number Slevin | Blu Ray | (13/08/2007) from £18.06   |  Saving you £8.19 (48.75%)   |  RRP £24.99

  African-American and Jewish gangsters and a guy in the wrong place collide in this thriller.

• Travel Man: 48 Hours In... Complete Series 2 | DVD | (29/10/2018) from £9.18   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Richard Ayoade returns for more awkward holidays with celebrity comedians in his offbeat travel show, to experience the most efficient 48-hour city break possible. First broadcast on Channel 4 in 2016. Ayoade explores Vienna in the company of his IT Crowd co-star Chris O'Dowd. They sample the city's finest sausages, cakes, spirits, cafes and sewers. Ayoade suffers an allergic reaction and Chris breaks something valuable. Mel Giedroyc joins Ayoade at the top of Montparnasse Tower to experience the best view of Paris, before indulging in calf's head casserole, obligatory snails, green fairy' absinthe, cookery school and an art tour. Noel Fielding shares a 48-hour break with Aoyoade in Copenhagen, where they cycle around the city, savour stunning sandwiches and Danish pastries and down pints at the Carlsberg Brewery. Greg Davies is Ayoade's travel companion in Moscow, where their appreciation of the Kremlin, St Basil's and Lenin's tomb is rudely interrupted by tanks. After eating space food at the Cosmonaut Museum they visit one of the strangest circuses on earth. Winner: Best Factual Programme RTS Midlands awards, 2017, 2016, 2015 Nominated: BATFA for Best Features, 2017

• The Crow 4K UHD Steelbook | Blu Ray | (06/05/2024) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The modern-gothic original that entranced audiences and critics alike comes to 4K Ultra HD for its 30th Anniversary. THE CROW tells the tale of a young musician brutally murdered alongside his beloved fiancee, only to be risen from the grave by a mysterious crow. Seeking revenge, he battles a criminal underground that must answer for its crimes. This supernatural superhero movie from director Alex Proyas (DARK CITY) was based on the comic book series and stars Brandon Lee in his tragic final performance.

• Whitechapel - Series 3 | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.74

  Meticulous and obsessional, DI Chandler and his unit are based in Whitechapel - an area drenched in dark history and sinister goings-on. It is where Jack the Ripper carried out his horrific crimes. It is where The Krays constructed their Empire of Crime based on sadomasochistic punishments. This series unearths a Whitechapel full of Gothic shadows, cobblestones and ancient hostelries. There's fear in the Huguenot weaving houses of Wilkes Street, and terrifying discoveries in the dark corners and rooftops around Brick Lane.Ed Buchan joins DI Chandler and hard-bitten DS Miles as their historical advisor - operating out of the bowels of the police station among musty tomes of the crime archive. Chandler is convinced crimes of the past hold the key to solving crimes of the present. The team is tested by bloody and vicious murders on their own doorstep. Do crimes such as the Thames Torso murders, HH Holmes, The Zodiac Killer and The Ratcliffe Highway murders unlock the truth? In Whitechapel history isn't dead, it's deadly.