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• Legacy | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £4.09   |  Saving you £8.90 (68.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Taking refuge in a shabby Brooklyn motel after narrowly surviving a failed mission in Eastern Europe Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba - The Wire The Losers) is torn between retribution and personal salvation as he broods over the legacy of his actions. Haunted by his demons while holed up in his room Malcolm ponders the ascent of his brother (Eamonn Walker) an ambitious senator with designs on the presidency in this dark and tense action thriller packed with stellar performances.

• Irma La Douce | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £14.18   |  Saving you £1.81 (12.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Irma La Douce reunited The Apartment team of Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine with director Billy Wilder in an adaptation of the stage musical of the same name which had been a hit in Paris, London and New York. The screen transfer by Wilder and his colleague--writer IAL Diamond--however, omits the show's songs, relegating them to a background score refashioned by Andre Previn with some additional themes of his own. Background here is a complimentary term, for whatever qualms one might entertain as to this move, the two sets of themes are skilfully woven together by Previn and emerge as a witty and lyrical aural delight in their own right which is given due prominence on the soundtrack. Wilder is no rush to tell prostitute Irma's story: her affair with Lemmon being the pivot of the tale as he takes on the disguise of an English Lord. Lemmon and MacLaine beautifully play their mutual attraction under Wilder's deft direction with the slapstick never allowed to get out of hand. Many will recognise Wilder's touch in his handling of the scene where Lemmon as a policeman is carted off in a van full of voracious prostitutes from the bunks-in-the-train sequence in Some Like It Hot. The handsome production, designed by Alexander Tranner--with the occasional view of the Seine thrown in for good measure--and the Panavision photography by Joseph La Shelle are further assets. On the DVD: The DVD contains a longer than usual theatrical trailer, half shot as a cartoon with characters closely resembling those Pink Panther figures who emerged at the same time from the Mirisch Brothers, a pair prominent in sustaining the unique success of United Artists, whose name was deleted, in favour of the MGM logo, in the early 1960s. It's too bad that the music on this DVD transfer sometimes strikes a coarse note particularly over the extended opening credits. --Adrian Edwards

• Men At Work | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £11.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (8.43%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's up to a pair of trash-hauling heroes to clean up the city in this action-comedy starring brothers Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. With hilarious supporting performances and an all-star soundtrack Men At Work is an engaging comic adventure. Garbage men James (Estevez) and Carl (Sheen) dream of opening a surf shop but often land in hot water due to their practical jokes. When they discover the body of a murdered politician on their route they attempt to sniff out the kille

• Suspects series 1 | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £15.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (7.15%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Gritty British crime drama starring Damien Molony and Clare-Hope Ashitey.

• Next Stop Wonderland | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £4.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (71.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The critically acclaimed romantic comedy of the year Next Stop Wonderland is a light-hearted story about a man and a woman who seem destined to be together.... and the hilarious chain of accidents that seem determined to keep them apart! Dumped by her loser boyfriend Erin thinks that her love life has hit rock bottom. In reality the all-time low comes when her overbearing mother places an embarrassing ad for her in the personals section of a local newspaper! Erin's disgust turns to curiosity however when the calls start pouring in -- all 64 of them! As she searches for the right guy in a hilarious series of disastrous dates a lonely ex-plumber named Alan clumsily searches for his dream job.... all the while narrowly missing one chance meeting with Erin after another! Filled with delightfully unexpected surprises you're sure to love every minute of this smart and funny adventure into the wildly unpredictable world of dating.

• The Nines | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £4.89   |  Saving you £11.10 (226.99%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer (all Ryan Reynolds) find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.

• Bing Crosby - Screen Legends - A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court / Going My Way / Holiday Inn / Pennies From Heav | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £14.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (66.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This box set features a quartet of 'Der Bingle's' best-loved movies! A Road To Zanzibar (Dir. Victor Schertzinger 1941): Chuck and his pal Fearless flee a South African carnival when their sideshow causes a fire. After several similar escapades they've finally saved enough to return to the USA when Chuck spends it all on a ""lost"" diamond mine. But that's only the beginning; before long a pair of attractive con-women have tricked our heroes into financing a comic safari featur

• September Dawn | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £3.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (151.01%)   |  RRP £9.99

  September 11 1857... 150 men women and children were savagely murdered... Based on the true story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre September Dawn is a gripping and fascinating portrayal of the dreadful slaughter of innocent men women and children in Utah in 1857. As a party of settlers heading for California were travelling on wagons from Arkansas they came across a group of resident Mormons in Mountain Meadows... resulting in tragic and horrifying consequences. The secrets surrounding who was to blame for this heinous crime and the conspiracy to protect his name and reputation have been kept hidden... until now.

• Alien Quadrilogy | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £20.99   |  Saving you £39.00 (185.80%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The Alien Quadrilogy is a nine-disc box set devoted to the four Alien films. Although previously available on DVD as the Alien Legacy, here the films have been repackaged with vastly more extras and with upgraded sound and vision. For anyone who hasn't been in hypersleep for the last 25 years this series needs no introduction, though for the first time each film now comes in both original and "Special Edition" form. Alien (1979) was so perfect it didn't need fixing, and Ridley Scott's 2003 Director's Cut is fiddling for the sake of it. Watch once then return to the majestic, perfectly paced original. Conversely the Special Edition of James Cameron's Aliens (1986) is the definitive version, though it's nice finally to have the theatrical cut on DVD for comparison. Most interesting is the alternative Alien3 (1992). This isn't a "director's cut"--David Fincher refused to have any involvement with this release--but a 1991 work-print that runs 29 minutes longer than the theatrical version, and has now been restored, remastered and finished-off with (unfortunately) cheap new CGI. Still, it's truly fascinating, offering a different insight into a flawed masterpiece. The expanded opening is visually breathtaking, the central firestorm is much longer, and a subplot involving Paul McGann's character adds considerable depth to the story. The ending is also subtly but significantly different. Alien Resurrection (1997) was always a mess with a handful of brilliant scenes, and the Special Edition just makes it eight minutes longer. On the DVD: Alien Quadrilogy offers all films except Alien3 with DTS soundtracks, the latter having still fine Dolby Digital 5.1 presentation. All four films sound fantastic, with much low-level detail revealed for the first time. Each is anamorphically enhanced at the correct original aspect ratio, and the prints and transfers are superlative. Every film offers a commentary that lends insight into the creative process--though the Scott-only commentary and isolated music score from the first Alien DVD release are missing here--and there are subtitles for hard of hearing both for the films and the commentaries. Each movie is complemented by a separate disc packed with hours of seriously detailed documentaries (all presented at 4:3 with clips letterboxed), thousands of photos, production stills and storyboards, giving a level of inside information for the dedicated buff only surpassed by the Lord of the Rings extended DVD sets. A ninth DVD compiles miscellaneous material, including a Channel 4 hour-long documentary and even all the extras from the old Alien laserdisc. Exhaustive hardly beings to describe the Alien Quadrilogy, a set which establishes the new DVD benchmark for retrospective releases and which looks unlikely to be surpassed for some time. --Gary S Dalkin

• Danielle Steel's Message From Nam | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £8.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-49.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In this compelling feature length movie from bestselling author Danielle Steel Paxton Andrews a young idealistic woman faces love loss and the harsh realities of war. Thrown into the radical 1960's campus life at Berkley she believes she has found a true soulmate in a bright idealistic law student called Peter. But when fate gets him drafted and killed in Vietnam grief motivates Paxton to become a war correspondent for a San Francisco newspaper. In a career move that will eventually change her life her attitudes and her future she is transferred to Saigon. Reporting the truths and tragedies of war through first-hand experiences her column 'Messages From Nam' becomes an enormous success in America. But her personal relationships including a passionate affair with an army captain continue to suffer the casualties of combat. From front line fighting to the moral battle within her heart Paxton uses hope and determination to survive the fall of Saigon.

• Genova | DVD | (15/02/2010) from £3.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (50.13%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Colin Firth stars as Joe, a father and a recent widow, who decides to make a fresh start with his two daughters by moving to the Italian town of Genova.

• Duma | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £5.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (217.03%)   |  RRP £18.99

  A young boy and a cheetah face a perilious journey in this heart-warming adventure.

• Ealing Comedy DVD Collection - Hue and Cry/Passport to Pimlico/The Titfield Thunderbolt | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £21.36   |  Saving you £13.63 (63.81%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This second collection of Ealing Comedy, while not quite as important a reissue as the first box, is nonetheless essential viewing for all aficionados of classic English film. In Passport to Pimlico a group of Londoners demonstrate, paradoxically, their Englishness by eccentrically choosing the Burgundian citizenship granted them by a rediscovered medieval charter. Similarly, in The Titfield Thunderbolt neighbours outraged by the closing of their local branch line steal an antique locomotive from the museum and run their own railway. A similar sense of taking charge of your own life fills Hue and Cry as a group of boys, infuriated that crooks have been using their favourite comic to send messages, summon scores of others by radio to help them track down and capture the gang. There are shared themes here, a shared sense of the importance of eccentricity and imagination to a healthy society as well as excellent ensemble acting from casts that include Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford and Sid James. The box is filled out with a television documentary about the history of Ealing Studios. It covers its early silent days, the golden age that produced the classic comedies and such important films as The Cruel Sea, its time as a BBC studio and its possible renaissance under new management. On the DVD: Ealing Comedy presents the three films and the documentary in 1.33:1 (i.e., 4:3), and has excellent mono sound that does full justice to both dialogue and scores. The extra features include introductions to the four films in the first box set by such luminaries as Terry Gilliam and Martin Scorsese as well as DVD-ROM files of the original brochures for all seven films. --Roz Kaveney

• Blue Velvet | DVD | (23/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Possibly the most influential American film of the 1980's Lynch's bizarre erotic mystery spawned a whole raft of imitations with its portrayal of the dark underside of American small-town life. Critics and audiences responded to Lynch's original and startling images of sex and violence and made the film a box-office smash. Blue Velvet is renowned for creating in Dennis Hopper's Frank one of the greatest screen villains of all time.

• Suspects Series 2 | DVD | (12/01/2015) from £4.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (202.83%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A detective drama that doesn’t follow the script. Suspects is a fresh and original British procedural crime drama set in London that tackles difficult subjects in a gritty and real way. Shot like a fly-on-the-wall documentary this innovative new series is unscripted with the cast devising their own dialogue lending Suspects a unique sense of authenticity. It’s like the crew has been granted the privilege of following a real police investigation. Starring Fay Ripley as D.I. Martha Bellamy (Cold Feet) Damien Molony as D.S. Jack Weston (Being Human Ripper Street) and Clare-Hope Ashitey as D.C. Charlie Steele(Children of Men Top Boy) as East London CID officers each episode follows a different case from the committing of the crime to its conclusion. In this second series of two two parters Bellamy and her team investigate crimes that are hard-hitting and contemporary – a brutal hammer assault on a man in his own home and then the abduction of a young boy by a paedophile ring. With guest stars including Charlie Brooks (Eastenders) Dominic Powers (Emmerdale) Gillian Kearney (Casualty) and Larissa Wilson (Skins). Suspects is immersive and absorbing taking the viewer into exhilarating new territory. This DVD contains all 4 episodes of Series 2.

• The Deep End | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £8.50   |  Saving you £4.49 (34.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The story tells of a mother who covers up a murder to protect her teenage son from being implicated. But someone knows and soon she is sinking deeper and deeper into a mire of blackmail and extortion.

• Pocketful of Miracles (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (21/09/2020) from £9.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For years Apple Annie (Bette Davis), a poor Broadway fruit seller, has maintained to her daughter that she is a wealthy New York socialite. But, with a reunion and society wedding on the horizon, Annie's fabricated lifestyle risks being revealed. To maintain the ruse, local gangster Dave the Dude (Glenn Ford) engages a colourful crop of 42nd Street characters to help imitate high society. But will Annie be able to maintain the masquerade? Nominated for three Academy Awards and the last film by director Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life), Pocketful of Miracles is a charming urban fairy tale, featuring stand out performances from Davis, Ford, Hope Lange and Peter Falk. Special Features: To Be Confirmed

• Death Wish (Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (09/04/2018) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this explosive story of revenge and urban violence, Charles Bronson plays Paul Kersey, a bleeding-heart liberal who has a change of opinion after his wife and daughter are violently attacked by a gang of thugs in their apartment. His daughter is sexually assaulted and his wife is murdered. Bronson then turns vigilante as he stalks the mean streets of New York on the prowl for muggers, hoodlums and the like. Death Wish is a violent, controversial film that is frank and original in its treatment of urban crime and the average citizen's helplessness in dealing with it. Herbie Hancock wrote the musical score. And watch for a young Jeff Goldblum in his film debut as one of the thugs. Features: Theatrical Trailer

• Road To Utopia | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £7.61   |  Saving you £2.38 (31.27%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The fourth in the hilarious Bob Hope/Bing Crosby 'Road To...' series is a blizzard of laughs with Bob and Bing playing turn-of-the-century vaudevillians who search for Klondike gold - and find the beautiful Dorothy Lamour instead! After stealing the map to a gold mine from two Alaskan ne'er-do-wells Hope and Crosby assume the identities of the bad guys swagger into Skagway and meet saloon singer Lamour. A series of misadventures ensues as the boys Lamour the criminals and other c

• The Cat And The Canary | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ten years have passed since the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman. Relatives gather at midnight in a creepy old house for the reading of his will whereupon the local prison guard arrives to warn all assembled that a homicidal maniac known as 'The Cat' has escaped and could be heading for the house...