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• Civilisations: Rise and Fall | DVD | (26/01/2026) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Roma (2018) | Blu Ray | (24/02/2020) from £16.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With his eighth and most personal film, ALFONSO CUARÓN (Children of Men) recreated the early-1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo (YALITZA APARICIO, in a revelatory screen debut), the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals. Written, directed, shot, and coedited by Cuarón, Roma is a labour of love with few parallels in the history of cinema, deploying monumental black and white cinematography, an immersive soundtrack, and a mixture of professional and nonprofessional performances to shape its author's memories into a world of enveloping texture, and to pay tribute to the woman who nurtured him. Features 4K digital master, supervised by director Alfonso Cuarón, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack on the Blu-ray Road to Roma, a new documentary about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and an interview with Cuarón Snapshots from the Set, a new documentary featuring actors Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira, producers Gabriela Rodríguez and Nicolás Celis, production designer Eugenio Caballero, casting director Luis Rosales, executive producer David Linde, and others New documentaries about the film's sound and postproduction processes, featuring Cuarón; Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay, and Craig Henighan from the postproduction sound team; editor Adam Gough; postproduction supervisor Carlos Morales; and finishing artist Steven J. Scott New documentary about the film's ambitious theatrical campaign and social impact in Mexico, featuring Celis and Rodríguez Nothing at Stake, a new video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada Trailers Alternate French subtitles and Spanish SDH for the film PLUS: Essays by novelist Valeria Luiselli and historian Enrique Krauze, along with (Blu-ray only) writing by author Aurelio Asiain Córdova and production-design images with notes by Caballero

• Bette Davis - Anniversary Collection | DVD | (16/06/2008) from £11.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (250.25%)   |  RRP £34.99

  To commemorate Bette's 100th birthday here are six films from her heyday: In This Our Life (Dir. John Huston) (1942): A young woman Stanley (Bette Davis) dumps her fiance Craig (George Brent) and runs off with her sister's husband Peter (Dennis Morgan). They marry settle in Baltimore and Stanley ultimately drives Peter to drink and suicide. Stanley returns home to Richmond only to learn that her sister and old flame have fallen in love and plan to marry. The jealous and selfish Stanley attempts to win back Craig's affections but her true character is revealed when she attempts to pin a hit and run accident on the young black clerk who works in Craig's law office. The Old Maid (Dir. Edmund Goulding) (1939): This is the sad story of Charlotte (Bette Davis) a woman whose circumstances force her to give up her illegitimate child and pose as the childs old maid aunt thereby facing a lifetime of maternal sacrifice. Miriam Hopkins provides effective counterbalance with her portrayal of Charlottes effusive cousin who raises the little girl. All This And Heaven Too (Dir. Anatole Litvak) (1940): A first-rate drama about a 19th century nobleman who falls in love with his childrens' governess and murders his wife The Great Lie (Dir. Edmund Goulding) (1941): After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child. Watch On The Rhine (Dir. Herman Shumlin and Hal Mohr) (1943): Set during WW2. An anti-Nazi leader escapes with his wife to America only to find himself being pursued and blackmailed by Nazi agents. Deception (Dir. Irving Rapper) (1946): Based on Louis Verneuils 1928 play Jealousy the film tells the story of pianist Christine Radcliffe separated from her great love cellist Karel Novak by World War II. Unexpectedly reunited with him Christine desperately strives to hide her wartime dalliance as the mistress of a wealthy sadistic composer (Rains) with devastating results. All films come with the extra content 'Warner Night At The Movies' - a special selection of extras that recreate the movie going experience of the time with newsreel footage featurettes and contemporary cartoons and trailers

• The Untouchables | Blu Ray | (13/10/2008) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As noted critic Pauline Kael wrote, the 1987 box-office hit The Untouchables is "like an attempt to visualise the public's collective dream of Chicago gangsters." In other words, this lavish reworking of the vintage TV series is a rousing potboiler from a bygone era, so beautifully designed and photographed--and so craftily directed by Brian De Palma--that the historical reality of Prohibition-era Chicago could only pale in comparison. From a script by David Mamet, the movie pits four underdog heroes (the maverick lawmen known as the Untouchables) against a singular villain in Al Capone, played by Robert De Niro as a dapper caesar holding court (and a baseball bat) against any and all challengers. Kevin Costner is the naive federal agent Eliot Ness, whose lack of experience is tempered by the streetwise alliance of a seasoned Chicago cop (Sean Connery, in an Oscar-winning performance), a rookie marksman (Andy Garcia), and an accountant (Charles Martin Smith) who holds the key to Capone's potential downfall. The movie approaches greatness on the strength of its set pieces, such as the siege near the Canadian border, the venal ambush at Connery's apartment, and the train-station shootout partially modeled after the "Odessa steps" sequences of the Russian classic Battleship Potemkin. It's thrilling stuff, fueled by Ennio Morricone's dynamic score, but it's also manipulative and obvious. If you're inclined to be critical, the movie gives you reason to complain. If you'd rather sit back and enjoy a first-rate production with an all-star cast, The Untouchables may very well strike you as a classic. --Jeff Shannon

• My Life Without Me | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £5.36   |  Saving you £4.63 (86.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A twenty-three-year-old mother of two discovers she has only two months left to live and sets out to live them right.

• Ghosts of Mars (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (14/12/2020) from £11.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  John Carpenter blends horror and sci-fi in this action adventure set on Mars in the year 2176 as Martian police battle supernatural forces unleashed by a deep mining facility. Extras High Definition remaster 5.1 surround sound track Alternative stereo audio Audio commentary with director John Carpenter and actor Natasha Henstridge The Guardian Interview with John Carpenter - Part Two, 1984-1994 (1994, 41 mins): the director discusses his career with Nigel Floyd at the National Film Theatre, London Video Diary: Red Desert Nights - Making ˜Ghosts of Mars' (2001, 17 mins): location documentary exploring various aspects of the production Scoring ˜Ghosts of Mars' (2001, 6 mins): behind-the-scenes footage of John Carpenter, Steve Vai, Buckethead and members of Anthrax during the recording sessions for the film's score Special Effects Deconstruction (2001, 7 mins): documentary montage looking at the art and design of the film Concept Art Gallery: illustrator John Eaves' original production designs Original theatrical trailer New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• Vendredi Soir | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On the evening before she moves in with her boyfriend, a French woman finds herself in a traffic jam on a Paris street and when a calm and self-assured stranger appears, she opens her car door to a man who will change her life.

• Wag The Dog | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £17.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (11.18%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wag the Dog (1997) is a rarity: an intelligent, sophisticated and very funny film about American politics. Just before an election the President--in an uncanny anticipation of real life--gets sexually involved with a young woman, leaving spin-doctor Robert De Niro to think of something quick. He enlists Hollywood producer Dustin Hoffman to help him concoct a war against Albania to take the public's mind off the President's peccadilloes. Both stars are in top form, with Hoffman particularly funny as the larger than life producer. Scripted by David Mamet (House of Games, Glengarry Glen Ross) and directed by Barry Levinson, (whose previous comedies include Good Morning, Vietnam with Robin Williams and Tin Men with Danny De Vito) Wag the Dog manages to make you laugh even while you're thinking about how true the insights are, and how politics is getting more like the media every day. On the DVD: The so-called platinum DVD is packed with features. There is a series of production shots, assembled in no particular order, some showing the director watching filming on his monitor. There are interview clips with Hoffman, De Niro, Anne Heche, William H Macy and Barry Levinson talking about the film, plus scrolled filmographies. There's an audio commentary on the whole film by Levinson and Hoffman, occasionally rambling but with some interesting insights. In another feature, Macy talks at some length about David Mamet. There are extensive scroll-down production notes giving useful information (such as the film's budget), and finally a 50-minute documentary in which producer Jane Rosenthal talks about the relationship between the film and real-life politics. Her comments are supplemented by such luminaries as writer Budd Schulberg, director John Frankenheimer, newscaster Tom Brokaw and Dee Dee Myers, former White House press secretary. The Dolby Digital soundtrack is good quality, as is the image in 16:9 ratio. --Ed Buscombe

• To Live And Die In L.A. | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Directed by William Friedkin this cult classic stars William Petersen as Chance the risk-seeking maverick Secret Service agent and Willem Dafoe as the slick and stylish yet truly psychopathic Rick Masters. Chance's partner Jack who is near to retirement is close to completing a case against Rick Masters a ruthless ex-con and expert counterfeiter who has been selling millions worth of almost undetectable fake currency to support his weird fetishes. Unfortunately Jack gets a l

• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | DVD | (14/09/1998) from £7.63   |  Saving you £12.36 (161.99%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Let's be honest: this should be titled Wretched Excess' Frankenstein. Swooping, wild, bloody, and energetic, this is bad moviemaking from the best, which makes it all the more loveable. Kenneth Branagh plays Victor Frankenstein, a man so obsessed with conquering death that he decides to create life. What he gets, after a protoplasmic mud wrestle, is a Mean Streets monster (Robert De Niro) that isn't particularly happy to be back from the dead or thrilled about all the stitches. Helena Bonham Carter may, at several points in this film, actually be channelling Ramtha. The supporting cast couldn't be peopled with better performers (Tom Hulce, John Cleese, Ian Holm) but they all look like they're ringside at some Ultimate Fighting competition. A must for any midnight movie collector for the shock factor alone. A hoot. --Keith Simanton

• Nacho Libre | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £10.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In order to save an orphanage from closure, a cook dons a masks and moonlights as a luchador.

• Only You | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £8.54   |  Saving you £12.71 (174.59%)   |  RRP £19.99

  While director Norman Jewisons Moonstruck is a romantic cornerstone, this 1994 film is often overlooked. Its a sweet valentine about a young woman, aptly named Faith (Marisa Tomei, never cuter), who chases an unknown man to Europe because the name "Damon Bradley" was once spelled on a Ouija board as her true love. With her sister-in-law (Bonnie Hunt, whose own marriage seems to be falling apart), she travels the streets of Rome looking for Damon Bradley. And lo and behold, she literally runs into a man claiming to be Damon. Is this meant to be? Faith certainly thinks so. Robert Downey Jr. (also never cuter) plays Damon in a role that showcases his charms. He shows his quick wit in handing Faiths advances and his absolute devotion to her when the winds change. Despite the cuteness factor, this is a movie to fall in love with. Jewison and Sven Nykvist (Ingmar Bergmans cameraman) present a sun-kissed Italy so beautiful, you might be tempted to hop on a plane immediately after viewing the movie. --Doug Thomas

• Casino 4K | Blu Ray | (09/09/2019) from £24.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas, 1973, is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multimillion-dollar casino operation, where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice. Disc 1 / 4k Ultra HD Movie For The Ultimate Movie Watching Experience, This Disc Features: 4X Sharper Picture Than Hd Hdr (High Dynamic Range) For Brilliant Brights And Deepest Darks Immersive Audio For A Multi-Dimensional Sound Experience Moments With Martin Scorsese, Sharon Stone, Nicholas Pileggi And More! Disc 2 / Blu-Ray Movie™ + Bonus Features Moments With Martin Scorsese, Sharon Stone, Nicholas Pileggi And More! Deleted Scenes Vegas And The Mob History Alive: True Crime Authors: Casino With Nicholas Pileggi

• Mean Streets | Blu Ray | (15/01/2024) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A low-level mafioso battles with his guilty conscience as he tries to save his misfit friend from the same world of crime that he was born into. Product Features Dual format edition including both UHD and Blu-ray with main feature and bonus features on both discs New 4K restoration supervised and approved by Director Martin Scorsese and Collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker UHD presented in Dolby Vision HDR Restored original mono audio New audio commentary by Demetrios Matheou (author of BFI Classics Mean Streets) and David Thompson (Co-Editor of Scorsese on Scorsese) Scene specific audio commentary with Martin Scorsese and Actor Amy Robinson Keep Moving Forward: a new interview with Producer Jonathan T Taplin Saints and Sinners: Dr Catherine Wheatley on Mean Streets 2011 Film at Lincoln Center screening introduction, interview and Q&A with Martin Scorsese Mardik: Baghdad to Hollywood feature-length documentary Archive featurette: Back on the Block Archive featurette: Home Movies Trailer

• Marvel's Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 3 | DVD | (30/01/2017) from £13.86   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gear up for explosive action and mind-blowing adventure when Hydra's ancient origins and ultimate agenda are revealed in the epic, game-changing third season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The survival of mankind hangs in the balance as Director Phil Coulson and his Agents battle an otherworldly evil. Devastated by the apparent loss of Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz risks everything to rescue her. Agent May rejoins the teamonly to discover a terrible truth about her ex-husband, Dr. Andrew Garner. Meanwhile, after the release of Terrigen, the U.S. government creates the ATCU (Advanced Threat Containment Unit) to monitor emerging Inhumans. But the program is actually a smoke screen for the sinister machinations of Hydra's leader Gideon Malick, who joins forces with treacherous ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Grant Ward. The resulting carnage spurs Coulson to exact a revenge that will ultimately backfire, unleashing apocalyptic consequences in the form of a terrifying alien entity known as Hive. To help combat this threat, Agent Daisy Johnson organizes a small band of Inhuman Secret Warriors, not knowing that she will soon meet her match and once again be forced to make a heartbreaking sacrifice. Experience all 22 thrilling episodes plus captivating bonus features with this must-own boxed set: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The Complete Third Season.

• Ronin 4K UHD (2-Disc Edition) | Blu Ray | (03/06/2024) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Strategy expert Sam (De Niro), mastermind Vincent (Reno), computer expert Gregor (Skarsgård), weapons specialist Spence (Bean) and driver Larry (Sudduth) form an international team of ex-secret agents hired by the mysterious Deirdre (McElhone) to attack a motorcade and steal a suitcase. The men know nothing about the contents of the suitcase, the identity of Deirdre's backers, or the organization from which the suitcase is to be stolen. In Deirdre's team, where no one knows each other's true motives, there are only two things that are certain: no one wants to miss out on the money that the lucrative job brings in, and everyone is willing to kill for it 2-Disc version incl. the feature on 4k-UHD + bonus features on Blu-Ray. Audio Commentary by Director John Frankenheimer. Blu-Ray Bonus Disc: In the cutting room, Natascha McElhone Natascha McElhone: The Work of an Actress, Composing the Music, Risky Driving Manoeuvres, Filming in the Fast Lane, Through the Lens, Interviews in Venice, Alternative Ending

• Central Station | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In the opening scenes of Central Station, colourful crowds of Brazilians stream into and out of a Rio de Janeiro train, pushing through doors and windows. You're immediately pulled into the brutal vitality of a nation in motion, setting the tone for a picturesque road movie that charts Brazil's renaissance in a little boy's search for his father and an old woman's emotional reawakening. When we first meet Dora (Fernanda Montenegro), this frozen-hearted, sour-faced woman is the epitome of immobility: day after day, she sits in the train station selling her letter-writing skills to all comers, but often doesn't bother to mail these precious messages. When a woman who's paid Dora to write a pleading note to her son's long-missing dad gets run over by a bus, the child, Josue (Vinicius de Oliveira), is up for grabs. (The summary execution of a thieving street kid--seen in longshot--underscores the seriousness of this waif's plight.) After an abortive attempt to sell Josue for a new TV, the aspiring couch potato finds herself reluctantly propelled into an occasionally Fellini-esque odyssey through the hinterlands of Brazil's sertäo, where Dora and her sidekick find unexpected faith and family. Former documentary filmmaker Walter Salles (Foreign Land) mixes magic with realism in his appreciation of striking faces and places, but Central Station is primarily fuelled by the tough/tender performances of Montenegro, Brazil's Judi Dench, and de Oliveira, an airport shoeshine boy Salles cast over 1,500 other hopefuls. (Montenegro was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, and Central Station was in the running for Best Foreign Language Film.) No cloyingly cute child-star, de Oliveira plays Josue as a bracingly idiosyncratic brat. And watching Dora's face and soul slowly, unwillingly unclench as she gets back in motion--and emotion--is potent pleasure, even if Salles' trip does dead-end in soap opera as his Brazilian pilgrim's progress winds down. --Kathleen Murphy, Amazon.com

• Raid On Rommel | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £8.34   |  Saving you £1.65 (19.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  British intelligence officer Richard Burton poses as a high-ranking Nazi who leads a ragtag group of POWs on an impossible mission in this exciting World War II desert adventure. Based on the real life battle of Tobruk this action-crammed drama has Burton and his 'army' battling Nazi Panzer Divisions destroying fuel dumps and making a suicidal assault on Rommel's infamous gun emplacement that has the potential to destroy the British fleet...

• The Deer Hunter | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £6.28   |  Saving you £6.71 (106.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Deer Hunter is an astonishing powerful and vivid epic about three men steelworkers from Pennsylvania whose lives are changed irrevocably in the tragic devastation of the Vietnam war. When Michael Steven and Nick are captured by the Vietcong they are forced to play Russian Roulette by their brutal captors who make bets on their survival. The experience of capture leaves them with terrible physical and spiritual wounds and when Michael returns to Saigon to fulfil an old vow to one of his friends he makes an unexpected horrific discovery. Director Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter won no less than 5 Oscars in 1978 for Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actor Best Editing and Best Sound.

• Treasure Island | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £8.25   |  Saving you £7.74 (93.82%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Strap on your pantaloons and prepare to travel with Jim Hawkins and Blind Pew to one of the most famous fictional islands in history, Treasure Island. Walt Disney's 1950 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's swashbuckling masterpiece has held up extremely well, with action and characterisations that feel freshly minted (although it's unlikely that the Mouse of today would sanction the high level of booze flowing throughout the picture). Great fun, with nary a wasted frame and, in the character of Robert Newton's much-imitated Long John, one of cinema's most boisterously crowd-pleasing villains ever. (Proving that you can't keep a good--er, bad man down, Newton would return with director Byron Haskins for the enjoyable sequel, Long John Silver.) Watching this classic is like having a flashback to some perfect Technicolor childhood. --Andrew Wright