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• The Last Of The Mohicans | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (90.09%)   |  RRP £18.99

  The Last of the Mohicans is a large-scale adventure set during the colonial conflicts between Britain and France 20 years before the American War of Independence. Based loosely on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper, but actually inspired by director Michael (Manhunter, Heat) Mann's boyhood love of the 1936 film of the same name, this is rousing, romantic stuff. As "Hawkeye", a white raised by the last of the Mohican tribe, Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a performance which, had he followed it up, could have established him as an action hero for the 1990s and beyond. Despite an under-written role Madeline Stowe convinces as the heroine. The remaining cast are uniformly excellent. Filmed amid the spectacular mountains, rivers and forests of North Carolina by Mann's regular cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, the film is a visual joy, while Trevor Jones' majestic, spine-tingling score (with additional music by Randy Edleman) is one of the finest of the decade. Taking time to establish the motives of British and French colonists and the various native tribes, as well as the varying opinions and characters within these groupings, Mann offers much greater balance and complexity than The Patriot (2000), yet never looses sight of the object here: telling a stirring yarn laced with bold action set pieces and passionate romance. On the DVD: The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 image is a massive improvement over VHS, but still shows considerable grain in many scenes, possibly a result of the film being shot in low, natural light and containing many very dark sequences. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is very powerful, though little use is made of the rear channels, and in some scenes the sound effects all but drown out the dialogue. Isolated scores are usually only found on feature-packed special editions, so the inclusion here is a welcome surprise--and testament its popularity. The only other extra is an anamorphic 2.35:1 presentation of the immensely stirring theatrical trailer. --Gary S Dalkin

• Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (HBO) | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (57.22%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The epic fall of the American Indian. Inspired by Dee Brown's acclaimed bestseller the HBO Films event Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn. The action centers on the struggles of three characters: Charles Eastman (Adam Beach Flags Of Our Fathers) a young Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor; Sitting Bull (August Schellenberg The New World) the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity their dignity and their sacred land - the Black Hills of the Dakotas; and Senator Henry Dawes (Aidan Quinn Empire Falls) one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While Eastman and schoolteacher Elaine Goodale (Anna Paquin X-Men: The Last Stand) work to improve life for the Sioux on the reservation Senator Dawes lobbies President Grant for kinder Indian treatment. Epic in scope Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is a new Western classic

• The Missing | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £6.83   |  Saving you £11.16 (62.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones star in a tale about a mother in 19th-century Mexico who must team up with her estranged father to rescue her daughter from a savage Indian witch.

• Head Full of Honey | DVD | (26/08/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Matilda tries to help her grandfather, Amadeus, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, to navigate his forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.

• The Scarlet Letter | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When intimacy is forbidden and passion is a sin love is the most defiant crime of all. Hester Pryanne is a beautiful sensual woman in the New World Of Americas. She is a free spirit trapped in a harsh and puritanical colony and dominated by a violent husband Roger Chillingworth. She falls in love with the reverend a passionate man of God who risks everything for their tempestuous affair. But the couple must face the settlers toughened by their harsh lives bent on purging sin

• Big Eden | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Big Eden is a tiny town tucked away in the timberland of Northwestern Montana where cowboys lounge on the porch of the general store to pass the time away. It's also the childhood home of Henry Hart (Arye Gross) a successful but lonely New York artist who returns after years away to care for his ailing grandfather. Back home Henry confronts his unrequited passion for his high school best friend and his feelings about being gay in a small town. But as we quickly learn Big Eden residents defy the stereotype of ""small town small minds."" As Henry works through his emotions the townspeople quietly conspire to help him along until Henry realizes new possibilities for both friendship and romance. ""Big Eden"" is a uniquely American fable about home and family. It hits upon the universal longing and hope we each have for finding a place where we are loved and the unconditional desire to see those that we love find happiness.

• The Missing | DVD | (14/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones star in a tale about a mother in 19th-century Mexico who must team up with her estranged father to rescue her daughter from a savage Indian witch.

• 500 Nations (DVD) 2010 | DVD | (26/05/2010) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The amazing story of America's original inhabitants has been crystallized as never before into a powerful epic event. The insight actor/filmmaker and series host/executive producer Kevin Costner brought to his Dances With Wolves serves as a springboard to this thrilling chronicle filmed at actual locations from the jungles of Central America to the Canadian Arctic. A cast of star voices and state-of-the-art computer recreations bring this rich untold history to vivid moving life.

• Missing, The / Silverado / Quick And The Dead | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A trio of Westerns from the esoteric The Missing to the thrilling Silverado to Sam Raimi's razor-sharp spaghetti western pastiche The Quick And The Dead. The Missing: In 19th-century New Mexico Samuel Jones (Tommy Lee Jones) returns home hoping to reconcile with his now adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). When Maggie's daughter is kidnapped father and estranged daughter are forced to put their troubled past behind them and work together to get her back... Silverado: This spirited Western stars Kevin Kline Scott Glenn Kevin Costner and Danny Glover as four unwitting heroes who cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day but first they have to break each other out of jail and learn who their real friends are. The spectacular cast also includes Rosanna Arquette John Cleese Brian Denehy Jeff Goldblum and Linda Hunt. The Quick And The Dead: Herod (Gene Hackman) Mayor and ruler of Redemption has turned his town into a haven for thugs and Miscreants of every type. In return for his 'leniency' he keeps 50 cents on every dollar traded by the unsavoury group. Each year in order to weed out rivals and to protect his position of power Herod holds a shooting contest which attracts people from miles around including his son 'The Kid' (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Cort (Russell Crowe). It is a shoot to kill contest with the prize being a large sum of cash. Herod wins every year so protecting his position and reputation for being the fastest killer in the West. That is until Ellen (Sharon Stone) rides into town a six-gun strapped to her hip and revenge burning in her heart. She's fast furious and her mind is set on winning the ultimate prize of a duel to the death with Herod.

• The Missing | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £6.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (86.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones star in a tale about a mother in 19th-century Mexico who must team up with her estranged father to rescue her daughter from a savage Indian witch.