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• Signora Volpe Season 1 | DVD | (20/11/2023) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Ted | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £7.98   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Avatar Extended Collector's Edition | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £8.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (135.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After 12 years of thinking about it (and waiting for movie technology to catch up with his visions), James Cameron followed up his unsinkable Titanic with Avatar, a sci-fi epic meant to trump all previous sci-fi epics. Set in the future on a distant planet, Avatar spins a simple little parable about greedy colonizers (that would be mankind) messing up the lush tribal world of Pandora. A paraplegic Marine named Jake (Sam Worthington) acts through a 9-foot-tall avatar that allows him to roam the planet and pass as one of the Na'vi, the blue-skinned, large-eyed native people who would very much like to live their peaceful lives without the interference of the visitors. Although he's supposed to be gathering intel for the badass general (Stephen Lang) who'd like to lay waste to the planet and its inhabitants, Jake naturally begins to take a liking to the Na'vi, especially the feisty Neytiri (Zoë Saldana, whose entire performance, recorded by Cameron's complicated motion-capture system, exists as a digitally rendered Na'vi). The movie uses state-of-the-art 3D technology to plunge the viewer deep into Cameron's crazy toy box of planetary ecosystems and high-tech machinery. Maybe it's the fact that Cameron seems torn between his two loves--awesome destructive gizmos and flower-power message mongering--that makes Avatar's pursuit of its point ultimately uncertain. That, and the fact that Cameron's dialogue continues to clunk badly. If you're won over by the movie's trippy new world, the characters will be forgivable as broad, useful archetypes rather than standard-issue stereotypes, and you might be able to overlook the unsurprising central plot. (The overextended "take that, Michael Bay" final battle sequences could tax even Cameron enthusiasts, however.) It doesn't measure up to the hype (what could?) yet Avatar frequently hits a giddy delirium all its own. The film itself is our Pandora, a sensation-saturated universe only the movies could create. --Robert Horton

• The House By The Cemetery | DVD | (26/06/2017) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  You may have just mortgaged your life! Shock gore master Lucio Fulci's The House by the Cemetery is one of the finest typically single-minded exercises in zombie terror. It s just a shame no-one told the Boyle family who move into a gothic style house (by a cemetery) with a bloody past and a guts spraying future, what is yet to come! You d think they d twig given the basement door is nailed shut that they should get the hell out. Instead they stay long enough to discover their zombified non rent-paying lodger, the cellar-dwelling, flesh-hungry Dr Freudstein and boy is he angry!

• World Noir Vol 2 (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/08/2024) from £40.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  AS THE 1960S BEGAN, THE CLASSIC PERIOD OF FILM NOIR CAME TO AN END IN HOLLYWOOD. BUT FILMMAKERS FROM ACROSS THE WORLD WOULD CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FIRST-RATE EXAMPLES OF THE GENRE, WITH THREE SUPERB EXAMPLES COLLECTED HERE. IN HELMUT KÄUTNER'S BLACK GRAVEL AN ILLICIT COUPLE FIND THEMSELVES HAVING TO COVER UP A PAIR OF DEAD BODIES IN POST-WAR GERMANY. IN JACQUES DERAY'S SYMPHONY FOR A MASSACRE FIVE GANGSTERS BUY A CACHE OF DRUGS, BUT ONE OF THEM IS PLANNING A DOUBLE CROSS. IN TAKUMI FURUKAWA'S CRUEL GUN STORY A GANGSTER (JOE SHISHIDO) EXECUTES A DARING HEIST ON AN ARMOURED VEHICLE.

• We Still Kill the Old Way | Blu Ray | (07/10/2024) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After two men are killed on a hunting trip a lonely professor (Gian Maria Volonté, The Working Class Goes to Heaven), takes it upon himself to investigate what he believes was not a simple honour killing,As his search intensifies, politics and the Church become implicated in a complex conspiracy orchestrated by a powerful criminal organisation,Elio Petri's We Still Kill the Old Way, based on the novel by Leonardo Sciascia (The Day of the Owl), is a tense paranoid thriller that features Volonté in one of his finest performances and a superb score by Luis Bacalov (Django),Winner of awards for Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival and Best Actor at the Italian Golden Globes, the film is made available on home video for the first time in the UK LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES2K restoration of the film by Movietime in association with Museo Nazionale del Cinema Torino, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UKOriginal uncompressed mono PCM audioArchival documentary featuring interviews with writer Ugo Pirro, composer Luis Bacalov and Paola Petri Interview with make-up artist Pierantonio Mecacci Interview with Roberto Curti, author of Elio Petri: Investigation of a Filmmaker Interview with Fabrizio Catalano, grandson of author Leonardo Sciascia TrailerNewly translated English subtitles Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original postersLimited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by scholar David Wingrove Limited Edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

• Gomorrah Season 3 | Blu Ray | (12/03/2018) from £16.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  There is a void to be filled in the underworld of Naples. Genny takes control, using the opportunity to settle old scores. The survivors of the remaining factions, exhausted by the warring and massive police pressure, have suffered drastic financial losses and make peace. And with Avitabile in prison for another year, Genny now has to reign over North Naples and Rome. Ciro, on the other hand, has had his revenge but his dreams and his family have been destroyed. He decides to leave everything behind, travels to Bulgaria and goes to work for the big-time drug dealer Valentin. But when Ciro has to return to Naples, he forms a new powerful partnership with the young and ambitious Enzo; a light that was once extinguished in Ciro s eyes reappears. Enzo, with Ciro s help, learns how to be a real boss and to take what he is entitled to. It is a time of drastic change for all of them. Once they started out as street-level drug dealers. Now they are casting their net way beyond the city of Naples and the borders of Italy.

• Bellini: La Sonnambula | Blu Ray | (01/09/2013) from £14.37   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Ted (Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UV Copy) | Blu Ray | (26/11/2012) from £6.00   |  Saving you £18.99 (316.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Anyone who's watched Family Guy knows that its creator Seth MacFarlane has a lot of hang-ups. As outrageous as many of them are in their animated TV show forum, they get a real rundown in Ted, MacFarlane's multi-hyphenate debut in feature films. As the director, producer, cowriter, and voice artist behind the title character, MacFarlane riffs on pop culture, drug culture, religion, sex, bodily functions, and all things '80s with the kind of abandon that borders on offensive to pretty much anyone--if only it all weren't so spot-on funny. Ted is an utterly believable CGI teddy bear who comes to life in the arms of a friendless 8-year-old boy named John, who quickly grows up to be Mark Wahlberg. John has made a wish that the pudgy plush be a friend for forever, a deal that they both hold on to with genuine poignancy as the years roll by. Ted grows right along with John in voice, manner, attitude, and bad habits until they're both unmotivated layabouts who would rather do nothing more than swill beer, smoke dope, and watch the absurdly iconic '80s movie Flash Gordon over and over again to the exclusion of most everything else in life. John has managed to pick up a girlfriend named Lori (Mila Kunis), who somehow tolerates the pair of them--at least for a little while. Eventually she's annoyed enough with John for not putting away his childish things, thoughts, and behaviours that she demands Ted move out and let them move on as adults. Among all the conceits that Ted embraces is the fact that this fully anthropomorphized stuffed bear started life as a global celebrity sensation before everyone forgot about him. Now he's just a blue-collar Boston nobody who sucks on a bong, chases women, and makes dirty jokes at every opportunity while nobody pays attention. This could have been a generic lowbrow buddy movie in the Judd Apatow mold, which might have been a little funny with a human slob in the Ted role. But MacFarlane brings to the remarkably expressive CGI creation an astonishing and often shocking dynamic with his voice characterization and the consistently clever situations, which whiz by in a structure that's pretty similar to an episode of Family Guy. There are frequent non sequitur digressions and offhanded one-liners that MacFarlane could never get away with on TV. But in the raunchy, anything-goes world of Ted it's all fair game. In addition to farts, drugs, bodily functions, and all manner of sexual vulgarity, it's the slams or homages to the 1980s that are the butt of many of the best zingers or recurring jokes. There are several cameo appearances that may make for delighted double takes. And Sam Jones, the star of the ill-fated Flash Gordon, plays a version of himself that makes a running gag all the more ingenious and demonstrates how far MacFarlane will go to bring comedy down to his level of hilarity. Mark Wahlberg should be commended for being game enough to participate and absolutely shows the comedy chops to make his scenes with Ted come alive. Technically the movie is a wonder as the two-foot Ted blends into the real world with complete believability even as he spouts some of the most outrageous dialogue this side of The Hangover. Ted may be an acquired taste for those who have a dislike for MacFarlane's comic sensibility--and there are a lot of people who do. But as a laughable lowbrow adventure that delivers virtually nonstop unexpected laughs with a little heart to back it up, Ted is a surprising comic novelty that may even win over some of the most vituperative MacFarlane haters. --Ted Fry

• Cannibal Apocalypse | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The horrors of war take on a whole new meaning for Vietnam vet Norman Hopper (John Saxon) whose quiet domestic life in Atlanta is shattered by the return of Charlie Bukowski a combat buddy who dredges up terrifying flashbacks of flesh eating and bloodshed in the war-torn jungles. Now on the run from the law Charlie begs Norman to help him get out of town with another fellow veteran Tom (Tony King). Soon the ragtag team of cannibals are fighting for their lives spreading a deadly contagion through the city before heading into the sewers for a gut-wrenching climax you won't soon forget! One of the most infamous Italian horror films of all time 'Cannibal Apocalypse' is a thrilling collision of action-packed combat and monstrous horror from cult director Antonio Margheriti.

• Lost Highway (1997) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (31/10/2022) from £28.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, DAVID LYNCH's seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker's most potent cinematic dreamscapes. Starring PATRICIA ARQUETTE and BILL PULLMAN, the film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty. Product Features New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director David Lynch, with new 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack Alternate uncompressed stereo soundtrack Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch, a feature-length 1997 documentary by Toby Keeler featuring Lynch and his collaborators Angelo Badalamenti, Peter Deming, Barry Gifford, Mary Sweeney, and others, along with on-set footage from Lost Highway Reading by Lynch and critic Kristine McKenna of excerpts from their 2018 book, Room to Dream Archival interviews with Lynch and actors Patricia Arquette, Bill Pullman, and Robert Loggia English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: Excerpts from an interview with Lynch from the 2005 edition of filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley's book Lynch on Lynch

• Avatar: Limited Edition Steelbook with 4 Lenticular Artcards and An Activist Survival Guide to Pandora | Blu Ray | (26/04/2010) from £29.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (16.67%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver star in this epic, special effects fantasy.

• The Gift Limited Edition 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (27/01/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE ONLY WITNESS TO THE CRIME WAS NOT EVEN THEREDirector Sam Raimi combined the spooky underpinnings of his early work with his newly proven talent for handling powerful drama in the supernatural thriller The Gift, coaxing nuanced performances from a star-studded cast to bring a gripping script by Billy Bob Thornton & Tom Epperson (One False Move) to life.In rural Georgia, recently widowed psychic Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett) works as a tarot reader to support her young family. When she is introduced to her son's affable school principal (Greg Kinnear) and his socialite fiancée (Katie Holmes), Annie has a grisly premonition of things yet to come. After her violent vision comes true, all eyes turn to Annie, leaving her with no choice but to use her clairvoyant abilities to find the culprit herself. Could it be the abusive husband (Keanu Reeves) of one of Annie's regular clients (Hilary Swank)? Or the nervy mechanic (Giovanni Ribisi) whose yearning for friendship masks an uncontrollable rage? Or is another terrible secret hiding in plain sight?Made right before a certain web-slinger finally catapulted Raimi from the cult fringes onto Hollywood's A-list, The Gift is an underappreciated but vital entry in his filmography that is ripe for reappraisal with this brand new 4K remaster.4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS¢ New 4K remaster from the 35mm interpositive by Arrow Films and Shout! Factory¢ 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)¢ Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio and optional lossless stereo audio¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing¢ Brand new audio commentary by critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson¢ Brand new audio commentary by critic Meagan Navarro¢ Isolated music and effects track¢ Haunting Visions, a newly filmed interview with actor Chelcie Ross¢ Savage Waters, a newly filmed interview with editors Bob Murawski and Arthur Coburn¢ Southern Gothic, a newly filmed interview with composer Christopher Young¢ Four archive featurettes: The Gift: A Look Inside, The Making of The Gift, The Cast on Sam Raimi and Sam Raimi on The Cast¢ Promotional interviews with Sam Raimi, Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves and Giovanni Ribisi¢ Footage from the film's world premiere¢ Music video for Furnace Room Lullaby by Neko Case¢ Theatrical trailer, TV spots and radio spots¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Thinh Dinh¢ Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Bilge Ebiri, original production notes and and an excerpt from the book The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi by John Kenneth Muir

• Avatar: The Way of Water: Blu-ray 3D + 2D | Blu Ray | (06/07/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• It Started In Naples | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £9.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (63.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An American lawyer travels to Naples to settle the estate of his recently deceased expatriate brother. When he arrives he discovers that his sister-in-law was also killed in the accident leaving their son Marrietto in the guardianship of an aunt he hardly knows. The mutual suspicion of the two towards one another eventually turns to attraction.

• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Single Disc Edition) | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £4.94   |  Saving you £11.05 (223.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law play an intrepid reporter and ace aviator determined to stop an evil mastermind behind a plot to destroy the earth.

• Sneaky Pete: Season One | Blu Ray | (15/10/2018) from £11.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A con man (Giovanni Ribisi) on the run from a vicious gangster (Bryan Cranston) takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, 'reuniting' with Pete's estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he's trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he's never had. Includes subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing

• The House By The Cemetery | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £27.74   |  Saving you £-21.75 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young family move into a forboding New England mansion unaware that it was once the gruesome residence of Dr. Freudstein a dabbler in bizarre surgical practises. Soon Freudstein - now classic Fulci zombie - is up to his murderous old tricks again seeking freshly severed limbs and organs to keep his corrupt rotting flesh alive! As past and present collide in a vortex of fear the terrified family are forced to fight for their lives in the subterranean gore-soaked charnel-hous

• Heaven | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £6.08   |  Saving you £8.91 (146.55%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Cate Blanchett is an English teacher in Turin who has to live with the consequences of her actions when her plan to detonate a bomb in the office of the city's biggest drugs baron goes tragically wrong.

• The Gift Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (27/01/2025) from £22.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE ONLY WITNESS TO THE CRIME WAS NOT EVEN THEREDirector Sam Raimi combined the spooky underpinnings of his early work with his newly proven talent for handling powerful drama in the supernatural thriller The Gift, coaxing nuanced performances from a star-studded cast to bring a gripping script by Billy Bob Thornton & Tom Epperson (One False Move) to life.In rural Georgia, recently widowed psychic Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett) works as a tarot reader to support her young family. When she is introduced to her son's affable school principal (Greg Kinnear) and his socialite fiancée (Katie Holmes), Annie has a grisly premonition of things yet to come. After her violent vision comes true, all eyes turn to Annie, leaving her with no choice but to use her clairvoyant abilities to find the culprit herself. Could it be the abusive husband (Keanu Reeves) of one of Annie's regular clients (Hilary Swank)? Or the nervy mechanic (Giovanni Ribisi) whose yearning for friendship masks an uncontrollable rage? Or is another terrible secret hiding in plain sight?Made right before a certain web-slinger finally catapulted Raimi from the cult fringes onto Hollywood's A-list, The Gift is an underappreciated but vital entry in his filmography that is ripe for reappraisal with this brand new 4K remaster.LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS¢ New 4K remaster from the 35mm interpositive by Arrow Films and Shout! Factory¢ High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation¢ Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio and optional lossless stereo audio¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing¢ Brand new audio commentary by critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson¢ Brand new audio commentary by critic Meagan Navarro¢ Isolated music and effects track¢ Haunting Visions, a newly filmed interview with actor Chelcie Ross¢ Savage Waters, a newly filmed interview with editors Bob Murawski and Arthur Coburn¢ Southern Gothic, a newly filmed interview with composer Christopher Young¢ Four archive featurettes: The Gift: A Look Inside, The Making of The Gift, The Cast on Sam Raimi and Sam Raimi on The Cast¢ Promotional interviews with Sam Raimi, Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves and Giovanni Ribisi¢ Footage from the film's world premiere¢ Music video for Furnace Room Lullaby by Neko Case¢ Theatrical trailer, TV spots and radio spots¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Thinh Dinh¢ Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Bilge Ebiri, original production notes and an excerpt from the book The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi by John Kenneth Muir