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• Gorillas In The Mist | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (100.43%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Sigourney Weaver more than earned her Oscar nomination for Best Actress in Gorillas in the Mist, dominating every frame of Michael Apted's biopic about primatologist Dian Fossey. Tenderly mothering an orphaned gorilla infant or terrorising an African poacher with a staged lynching, the statuesque star is never less than fiercely focused, a glamorous warrior for animal rights. As the amateur scientist who researched and spotlighted Rwanda's endangered mountain gorillas in National Geographic, Weaver is the passionate heart that keeps an otherwise flaccid film alive. Unfortunately, the film's stodgy script and direction simply document Fossey's magnificent obsession, offering no insight into what lonely impulse of the soul led this extraordinary woman to climb up an African mountain to bond so strongly with gorillas. Cardboard characters include an eternally smiling, sexless African soulmate (John Omirah Miluwi), a perfect boyfriend (Bryan Brown) who has to be dumped in favour of gorilla-love, and stereotypical villains. Still, the African scenery is spectacular, and who can resist the cross-species thrill when the huge dark hand of Digit, Fossey's favourite, first rests in her outstretched palm? Gorillas in the Mist will please those who savour Sigourney Weaver's Amazonian fervour and the pure fire of her physical and spiritual passion--and harbour a slightly misanthropic fondness for liaisons between beauties and beasts. --Kathleen Murphy

• The Death and Life of Bobby Z | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £3.00   |  Saving you £16.99 (85.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Marked for death by a biker gang ex-Marine convict Tim Kearney (Paul Walker) just got one last chance to walk out of jail alive. A scheming DEA agent (Laurence Fishburne) needs somebody to impersonate recently deceased drug-lord Bobby Z... and Tim happens to be a dead ringer. It's a risky proposition but if Tim plays his part right he may be able to claim Bobby Z's smoking hot exgirlfriend (Olivia Wilde) and a cool fortune in illegal profits. Unfortunately taking on Bobby Z's name

• Cimarron Strip (Multi-Region DVD) | DVD | (28/05/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Robert Duvall and Beau Bridges star in the complete collection of 23 films.

• Lie With Me | Blu Ray | (23/10/2023) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the powerfully emotional drama LIE WITH ME, successful novelist Stéphane Belcourt (Guillaume de Tonquédec) returns to his hometown for the first time in decades as an ambassador for a famous cognac distillery. Once there, he is stunned to discover that one of the company's executives is Lucas (Victor Belmondo), the son of his first love Thomas. This triggers for Stéphane vivid memories of his passionate but secret adolescent affair with Thomas, at a time when homosexuality was kept in the shadows. As Stéphane confronts the painful ghosts of the past, Lucas also begins to understand his father's truth in Olivier Peyon's moving and superbly acted adaptation of Philippe Besson's acclaimed novel. Product Features Interviews with director Olivier Peyon, actors Jérémy Gillet & Julien De Saint Jean, and author Philippe Besson. Jérémy Gillet & Julien De Saint Jean screen tests Theatrical Trailer ‹

• The Deceived | DVD | (28/09/2020) from £15.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Deceived follows English student, Ophelia, who falls in love with her charismatic lecturer, Michael. Following the accidental death of Michael's wife, Ophelia moves to Ireland to be with him, just when suspicions around his wife s death begin to grow. As Ophelia finds herself taking the place of a dead woman, she must discover whether it is the ghost of Michael's wife haunting her, or her own guilt.

• Charlie Chaplin: The Mutual Films Collection (Limited Edition Blu-ray box set) | Blu Ray | (25/05/2015) from £8.75   |  Saving you £21.24 (242.74%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Charlie Chaplin entered the film industry in 1914 and by 1916 was the highest paid entertainer in the world after signing a contract with the Mutual Film Corporation for a salary of $670 000. Mutual built Chaplin his very own studio and allowed him total freedom to make 12 two-reel films during a 12-month period which have been brought together for the first time on this two-disc boxset. Chaplin subsequently recognised this period of film-making as the most inventive and liberating of his career. These twelve films demonstrate the breadth of Chaplin’s abilities as both a physical slapstick actor and a subtle endearing character actor. The collection includes the slapstick custard pie fights of Behind the Screen and his first minor masterpiece The Vagabond where he successfully combines pathos and comedy to create a lyrical love story. This limited edition collection of Chaplin films has been fully restored and features music by acclaimed silent film composer Carl Davis. Bonus Features: 12 films (1916-1917) with Carl Davis scores all presented in full High Definition: The Floorwalker The Fireman The Vagabond One AM The Count The Pawnshop Behind the Screen The Rink Easy Street The Cure The Immigrant The Adventurer Alternative scores for each film by a range of composers Audio commentaries for selected films Newsreel shorts: Chaplin Signs the Mutual Contract (1916 30 secs); Charlie on the Ocean (1921 5 mins) Carl Davis interview (9 mins) Extensive booklet with essays and full film credits

• Just Cause | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £6.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (101.29%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Just Cause is a film that relies on phony plot twists and steals openly from any other thriller that it can remember. If there was a drinking game requiring players to drink during every cinematic "homage", you'd be tanked after its first 45 minutes. Take one case of racial injustice, place it in an exotic, exquisitely photographed location (the Florida Everglades), and bring in an outsider, played by a bankable star, to save the day. Make sure nothing appears as it seems. Add a couple of plot twists, some over-the-top character actors (Ed Harris, shamelessly riffing on Hannibal Lecter), stir, and serve. The big name in this case is Sean Connery, who plays a Harvard law professor summoned to the swamps by an apparently innocent death row inmate (Blair Underwood), who swears he didn't rape and kill that 11-year-old girl. He says he confessed because maverick psycho-cop Tanny Brown (Laurence Fishburne) made him play a solo game of Russian roulette. He says his Serial-killer neighbour on death row (Harris) committed the crime. Connery buys it, the audience buys it, and how could they not? Director Arne Glimcher (who made the lacklustre Mambo Kings) coerces everyone with simplistic plot manipulations. Characters are given no depth, and the actors are pawns moved about like pieces on a Cluedo gameboard. -- Dave McCoy, Amazon.com

• Vinyl - Season 1 | DVD | (06/06/2016) from £12.75   |  Saving you £-0.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.34

  Vinyl is an exciting new drama series that explores the drug- and- sex fueled music business of the 1970s, played out through the story of a NYC record executive trying to revive his label and keep his personal life from spiraling out of control. A dizzying ride through America's music-business landscape at the dawn of punk, disco, and hip-hop, the story is seen through the eyes of Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale, Emmy winner for Boardwalk Empire), a major-label executive with a dark past and darker present. With his company, American Century Records, facing a number of client crises, and with his A&R team having trouble landing important new acts, Richie, newly sober after years of drug and alcohol abuse, looks to sell his label to a West German conglomerate. But the deal ends up being overshadowed by a front-page scandal involving the murder of a sleazy Long Island radio-company owner, a crime in with Richie was directly involved. Facing jail time, not to mention the loss of his disenchanted wife Devon (Olivia Wilde) and their two kids, Richie ends up reverting to his old vices, but has an epiphany during a punk-rock concert at a Greenwich Village theater where the roof caves in on him literally.

• Silverado | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill) clearly set out to make an old-fashioned Western, but he couldn't help bringing a hip, self-conscious attitude to the proceedings. Silverado thus finds its own funky tone--sometimes rousing, sometimes winking. Four cowboys--Kevin Kline (a distinctly modern kind of Western hero), Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, and the rowdy young Kevin Costner--converge on a little Western burg called Silverado. Kasdan peppers the somewhat generic action with smart dialogue and a parade of quirky supporting players, including John Cleese as a sheriff who seems to have stepped straight from a Monty Python sketch into an Old West saloon. Bruce Broughton supplies the music, a real throwback to the glory days of thundering Western themes. One thing's for sure: Silverado's a lot more fun than the later Kasdan-Costner Western, Wyatt Earp. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 2 (Limited Edition Digipack) | Blu Ray | (19/10/2015) from £8.39   |  Saving you £11.60 (138.26%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The second season of the action drama spin-off from 'Marvel Avengers Assemble' (2012). Clark Gregg reprises his role from the film as Agent Phil Coulsen, who runs an elite team for the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. Together these agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. must investigate and hunt down strange occurences posed by new threats and a rising number of supervillains. The episodes are: 'Shadows', 'Heavy Is the Head', 'Making Friends and Influencing People', 'Face My Enemy', 'A Hen in the Wolf House', 'The Writing On the Wall', 'The Things We Bury', '...Ye Who Enter Here', 'What They Become', 'Aftershocks', 'Who You Really Are', 'One of Us', 'Love in the Time of Hydra', 'One Door Closes', 'Afterlife', 'Melinda', 'The Frenemy of My Enemy', 'The Dirty Half Dozen', 'Scars' and 'S.O.S.'.

• Heimat: A Chronicle Of Germany (Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (30/04/2018) from £68.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Highly acclaimed eleven-part series directed by Edgar Reitz, originally produced for German television over a two-year period at the beginning of the 1980s. The series chronicles over 60 years of turbulent German history from 1919 to 1982, including the economic meltdown that followed World War 1, the rise and fall of the Nazis and World War 2, and the subsequent rebuilding of Germany in two halves, East and West. The tale unfolds in a small fictional rural village and follows the fortunes of a woman called Maria (Marita Breuer) who at the start of the series is a young girl, and by the end is an old woman who has lived to tell the tale of some of history's harshest moments. The series won the International Critics' Prize at the 1984 Venice Film Festival.

• Criminal Minds - Season 8 | DVD | (09/12/2013) from £9.89   |  Saving you £21.10 (213.35%)   |  RRP £30.99

  The most suspenseful show on television in this complete collection of Criminal Minds. Evil is a State of Mind. The FBI's Behavioural Analysis Unit (BAU) is trained to blow your mind. Stay riveted through each and every episode as the elite profilers assigned to the Behavioural Analysis Unit work against the clock to analyse and identify the most dangerous criminals in an effort to catch them before they kill again. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Featurette: Beautiful Minds Gag Reel

• Canadian Bacon | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The American President is behind in the polls and is looking to increase his popularity. His advisors launch an 'anti-Canadian' campaign which inadvertantly results in bumbling U.S. sheriff Boomer (John Candy) and his hair-trigger deputy Honey (Rhea Perlman) leading their troopers to invade Canada!

• Psycho Sisters | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-2.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  As little girls Jackie and Jane witnessed the gruesome deaths of their parents. As teenagers they watched helplessly as their younger sister was attacked then murdered. Now Jackie and Jane are being released from the psychiatric institute after many years of therapy... and Ellenville New Jersey will have a couple of serial killers moving in next door! As the bodies start piling up and with the police scratching their heads no one suspects these two sweet gorgeous girls are up to no good... and are beyond madness!

• Roxanne | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £8.39   |  Saving you £-2.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In 1987, almost 100 years after its first production, the romantic story of Cyrano de Bergerac found new life in a winsome film written by Steve Martin. Roxanne updates the tale with a smart 80s' spin, yet writer-star Martin stays close to the old-fashioned heart of the matter. He plays a small-town fireman named CD Bales, whose otherwise unremarkable existence is crowned by an amazingly long nose. He falls for the world's most beautiful astronomer (Daryl Hannah), but he is embarrassed by the size of his proboscis and prefers to stay on the sidelines. Like Cyrano, the shy CD instead helps a handsome friend (Rick Rossovich) woo the fair lady by providing flowery sentiments and soulful poetry. Not only does the story still work, but director Fred Schepisi captures a dreamy grace in his visual design for the film (some of which will be lost without the widescreen format). Set in Washington State, but filmed in the hilly ski resort of Nelson, British Columbia, the location seems like a fairy-tale town, nearly as unreal as Steve Martin's nose. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• The Mummy | DVD | (15/05/2003) from £5.93   |  Saving you £7.05 (239.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set ten years after the original movie, adventurer Rick O'Connell's son is kidnapped by the followers of his old nemesis The Mummy, in the belief that the boy can lead them to the tomb of the ancient and evil warrior The Scorpion King.

• Atomic Blonde (BD + digital download) | Blu Ray | (04/12/2017) from £5.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar®-winner Charlize Theron stars as elite MI6's most lethal assassin and the crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Lorraine Broughton. When she's sent on a covert mission into Cold War Berlin, she must use all of the spycraft, sensuality and savagery she has to stay alive in the ticking time bomb of a city simmering with revolution and double-crossing hives of traitors. Broughton must navigate her way through a deadly game of spies to recover a priceless dossier while fighting ferocious killers along the way in this breakneck action-thriller from director David Leitch (John Wick). Also includes a standard Blu-ray disc. Click Images to Enlarge

• Terminator Genysis | Blu Ray | (12/06/2017) from £21.25   |  Saving you £-1.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.00

  4x SHARPER THAN HD NEW MISSION, NEW THREAT, NEW FATE. Enjoy an explosive ride through time* in this new chapter of the blockbuster Terminator franchise. In the war of man against machine, Sgt. Kyle Reese is sent back to 1984 by resistance leader John Connor to protect his young mother, Sarah Connor. However, this time unexpected events have altered the past and threaten the future for all mankind. Now Reese, (Jai Courtney, The Divergent Series) must join forces with Sarah (Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones) and her Guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to save the world and stop the next evolution of Terminators. DISC 1: UHD FEATURE FILM DISC 2 BLU-RAY FEATURE FILM NEARLY AN HOUR OF BONUS FEATURES: FAMILY DYNAMICS: Casting the film's iconic characters INFILTRATION AND TERMINATION: Shooting on location UPGRADES: VFX of Terminator Genisys

• Criminal Lovers | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this French thriller from Francois Ozon Alice (Natacha Regnier) and her boyfriend Luc (Jeremie Renier) find themselves in a terrifying trap when they sneak out into the woods to cover up a crime they committed together and then cannot find their way back out. Compared to 'The Blair Witch Project' and to 'Shallow Grave' the tale is creepy and twisting involving rape murder burying dead bodies and perhaps the worst of all: getting lost in the woods...

• Ncis Los Angeles: The Complete Collection | DVD | (18/08/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £66.99

  The Naval Criminal Investigation Service's Office of Special Projects takes on the undercover work and the hard to crack cases in LA. Key agents are G. Callen and Sam Hanna streets kids risen through the ranks.