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• The Small Voice | DVD | (13/07/2015) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  James Donald and Valerie Hobson star as a couple whose act of kindness has devastating consequences while a young Howard Keel (billed as "Harold Keel") makes his film debut as the desperate fugitive who terrorises them in this brilliantly claustrophobic post-war thriller. Keel's astonishing performance brought him to the attention of MGM and paved the way to Hollywood success and the film earned a BAFTA nomination for Best British Film. Released in the U.S. as The Hideout The Small Voice is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.  Whilst driving to their house in the Welsh hills Murray Byrne and his wife Eleanor come across a crashed car and take the occupants home with them for medical care. Then they discover that the men are armed. No one is allowed to leave the house and the Byrnes' movements are now closely watched by their captors... Features: Image Gallery Press Material PDF

• To Live And Die In L.A. | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £35.37   |  Saving you £-19.38 (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

• Friends: Complete Series 1 - New Edition | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £10.98   |  Saving you £39.01 (355.28%)   |  RRP £49.99

  This handsome box set includes all the episodes from Series One--from our favourite coffee-drinking sextet's initial meeting in the pilot right up to the series cliff-hanger "The One Where Rachel Finds Out"--that Ross is in love with her, that is. Other highlights include: "The One With the Butt", in which Joey gets a big break as Al Pacino's stunt bottom; "The One With the Monkey" in which Ross acquires Marcel, his pet monkey; and the two-parter (imaginatively called "The One with the Two Parts") in which Joey starts dating Ursula, Phoebe's twin sister and Monica and Rachel double-date cute doctors played by George Clooney and Noah Wyle from ER. --Leslie Felperin

• The Blue Max | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Blue Max is highly unusual among Hollywood films, not just for being a large-scale drama set during the generally cinematically overlooked Great War, but in concentrating upon air combat as seen entirely from the German point of view. The story focuses on a lower-class officer, Bruno Stachel (George Peppard), and his obsessive quest to win a Blue Max, a medal awarded for shooting down 20 enemy aircraft. Around this are built subplots concerning a propaganda campaign by James Mason's pragmatic general, rivalry with a fellow officer (Jeremy Kemp), and a love affair with a decadent countess (Ursula Andress) As directed by John Guillermin (best known for 1974's The Towering Inferno), the film's main assets are epic production values, great flying scenes and stunning dogfights. The weak point is the sometimes ponderous character drama, not helped by Peppard who is too lightweight an actor to convince as the driven anti-hero. Clearly influenced by Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1958), The Blue Max is a cold, cynical drama offering a visually breathtaking portrait of a stultified society tearing itself apart during the final months of the Great War. On the DVD: The Blue Max DVD's only extra is a very grainy original trailer presented at 1.77:1. However, for the first time the film itself is complete to buy: the reel which was missing from the widescreen video release being restored here. Also included is the original intermission music. The film is presented anamorphically enhanced at a ratio approximating the original 2.35:1 CinemaScope, though some shots clearly have details cropped at the sides of the frame. Picture quality is good with an acceptable level of grain, which increases significantly during the brief back projection shots. There is a little print damage, but nothing too distracting and the aerial photography itself looks wonderful. The four-channel Dolby Prologic sound is excellent for a film of this age, with Jerry Goldsmith's superb score having richness and clarity and providing almost all the emotional impact. --Gary S Dalkin

• Doctor Who - The Collection - Season 23 | Blu Ray | (04/10/2021) from £39.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Build Your Own Doctor Who Archive With This Collectors' Set! The Trial Of A Time Lord The Epic Season-long Adventure All 14 Episodes Newly Restored For Blu-ray And Packed With Bonus Material Including: Extended Edits Of Every Episode Terror Of The Vervoids Standalone Special Edition Immersive 5.1 Surround Sound & Isolated Scores On All 14 Broadcast Episodes Behind The Sofa New Episodes With Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Bonnie Langford, Frazer Hines, Mark Strickson & Matthew Waterhouse The Writers' Room Eric Saward, Philip Martin, Christopher H Bidmead & Wally K Daly Discuss The ˜lost' Season 23 The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited Brave Cast Members Tackle Recipes From The 1985 Official Cookbook The Doctor's Table Join Colin Baker And Friends For Dinner In Conversation Matthew Sweet Chats To Companion Bonnie Langford Unseenstudio Footage Rare Archive Discoveries Blu-ray Trailer Colin Baker On Trial PDF Written Archive Scripts & Rare Archival Material This Set Also Features Extensive Special Features Previously Released On DVD Including: Making-of Documentaries, Featurettes, Deleted Scenes, Audio Commentaries, Info Text And Much More. Starring Colin Baker And Nicola Bryant With Bonnie Langford

• The Virgin Suicides | Blu Ray | (13/03/2023) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sofia Coppola's stunning directorial debut, featuring a spellbinding performance from Kirsten Dunst. With mesmeric cinematography from Edward Lachman, accompanied by a cult soundtrack from French duo Air, The Virgin Suicides remains a coming-of-age classic. In a quiet, conservative American town in the 1970s, Cecilia Lisbon, just 13, attempts suicide. She is one of five beautiful teenage sisters and this incident begins to unravel the lives of the entire family. The story is told from the point of view of the neighbourhood boys who are obsessed with these enigmatic sisters and draws its dark humour from the fabric of teenage life. Little by little, the family begins to shut itself off from friends and neighbours and the girls are soon forbidden to go out. As the situation spirals downward, the boys plot to rescue the girls. Product Features 4K restoration from Criterion, approved by director Sofia Coppola and supervised by cinematographer Ed Lachman. NEW Soundtrack by Air: Interview with JB Dunckel & Nicolas Godin Revisiting The Virgin Suicides (2018) In Conversation with Jeffrey Eugenides(2018) Making The Virgin Suicides (1998) Lick the Star short film (1998)

• Friends: Complete Series 3 - New Edition | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £44.00 (734.56%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Seemingly low-key but as wittily crafted as the first two series, this season develops minor characters--Gunther, Central Perk's proprietor, who is in love with Rachel; Phoebe's half-brother Frank (played by rising-star Giovanni Ribisi); the chick and duck--who will play key parts later on while the foundations for crucial story lines developed in Series 4 are laid down. The most momentous story arc covers Rachel and Ross splitting up when she suggests they take a "break" and he sleeps with the girl from the copy shop. Phoebe gets to know her little brother Frank who falls in love with the much-older Alice, for whom Phoebe will bear triplets in a later series. Monica pines after Richard and then starts dating the millionaire Pete, although towards the end Chandler is trying to persuade her he's good boyfriend material--clearly an omen of things to come. --Leslie Felperin

• Marvel's Agent Carter - Season 2 | Blu Ray | (05/12/2016) from £15.25   |  Saving you £-0.78 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.47

  Bigger, bolder and brighter than the white-hot lights of 1940s Hollywood, Marvel's Agent Carter blazes back for a second season packed with action, humour and intrigue! In the wake of World War II, top SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve) agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) is dedicated to stopping new, Atomic Age threats. Blessed with brains, beauty and formidable fighting skills, Peggy trades the lampposts of New York City for the palm trees of Los Angeles to crack a baffling case with her partner in crime-fighting, Edwin Jarvis (James D'Arcy): A body has just been discovered in a frozen lake during a heatwave. When this bizarre phenomenon is traced to Isodyne Energy, the mystery deepens, exposing a shocking conspiracy and the revelation of a substance that could end life as we know itonce it falls into the hands of actress-turned-mad-scientist Whitney Frost. With the fate of humanity at stake, Peggy must defeat Whitney, face off again with archnemesis Dottie Underwood and navigate a love triangle involving potential new romance Dr. Jason Wilkes and smouldering old flame Chief Daniel Sousa. Experience all the adventure and pulse-pounding suspense with Marvel's Agent Carter: The Complete Second Season. DISC 1: THE LADY IN THE LAKE A VIEW IN THE DARK BETTER ANGELS SMOKE AND MIRRORS THE ATOMIC JOB DISC 2: LIFE OF THE PARTY MONSTERS THE EDGE OF MYSTERY A LITTLE SONG AND DANCE HOLLYWOOD ENDING Bonus: Bloopers

• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series | DVD | (26/03/2018) from £32.92   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the best-selling anthologies of Victorian and Edwardian detective fi ction, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes features the world-famous consulting detective's fictional rivals in the fog-shrouded crime capital of London. Set in the three decades before the Great War, each story dealt with an individual and perplexing case (and a different detective). This top-flight, BAFTA-winning series attracted an incredible array of talent, including John Neville, Robert Stephens, Peter Vaughan, Roy Dotrice, Donald Pleasence, Ronald Hines, Peter Barkworth and Donald Sinden. This set contains the 13 high quality episodes that made up the complete first series

• Downton Abbey Movie & TV Collection | DVD | (05/10/2020) from £34.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Downton Abbey, with all its splendour and scandal, has found its way into the hearts of millions around the globe. Now the full collection of six award-winning seasons and one sensational movie is yours to treasure, forever. Home to the Crawley family and their servants, Downton appears to be all elegance and order upon first glance, but no family is ever quite what it seems. Between the desires and dreams of all the residents, both upstairs and downstairs, a day in this household is never far from high drama. Re-live the laughter, tears, tragedy and triumph leading up to the most spectacular event in the history of this grand estate, a Royal visit. BONUS FEATURES Over 5 Hours of Bonus Features Including: Feature Documentary:The Story of Downton Abbey Deleted Scenes Behind the Scenes The Downton Diaries s Upstairs & Downstairs Cast Conversations Feature Commentary with Director Michael Engler And More!

• Sitting Ducks - Vol. 1 | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £10.03   |  Saving you £7.96 (79.36%)   |  RRP £17.99

  State of the art 3D digital animation allied to exciting but simple storytelling makes for great children's entertainment! Meet Bill and Aldo two crazy friends from opposite ends of the food chain in their first collection of hilarious 'Sitting Ducks' adventures! Episode titles: Running Ducks Peeking Duck Great White Hype Midnight Snack Hic Hic Hooray All In A Days Work Ducks On Ice.

• Crimson Tide | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £6.38   |  Saving you £11.61 (181.98%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In the typical Don Simpson-Jerry Bruckheimer mould(the partnership yielded Top Gun and Days of Thunder, among many other films), this 1995 drama is a combination of one-dimensional but enjoyable performances, lots of high-tech nonsense taking place onscreen, and mechanistic movie-making at its loudest and most seizure-inducing. Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington play nuclear submarine officers squaring off over the former's apparent intention to do some unauthorized damage to an enemy. Tony Scott (Top Gun) directed, bringing his lustre and pop commercial sense to go with all that Simpson-Bruckheimer eye candy. --Tom Keogh

• Salvador (1986) | Blu Ray | (17/09/2018) from £24.63   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release SALVADOR, a powerful, vivid and uninhibited political drama from Oliver Stone, making its UK debut on Blu-ray as part of The Masters of Cinema Series in a special Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition on 17 September 2018. A harrowing drama set during the Salvadoran Civil War, Salvador is a one of director Oliver Stone's most underrated films, a thrilling and violent look at the chaos of war as seen through the lens of an amoral photojournalist. In 1980, young men, women and children are being brutally killed in a bloody civil war in El Salvador. A horrific setting, but a perfect one for Richard Boyle (James Woods in an Oscar® nominated role), a sleazy journalist whose career needs a jumpstart. Armed with his camera, Boyle joins the front lines in an attempt to capture atrocious-but-valuable images of pain and horror. But with each picture he takes, he catches a tragic side of humanity that ignites his long-buried compassion. And he unexpectedly discovers something that will change him forever: his soul. Also starring Jim Belushi (Thief, Twin Peaks: The Return) and John Savage (The Deer Hunter, The Thin Red Line), Salvador is a searing critique of the United States' role in the Central American crisis, and The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the film in its UK debut on Blu-ray in a special Dual Format edition.

• Fallen | DVD | (23/10/1998) from £5.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (133.56%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Although it received mixed reactions from critics and audiences alike when released in 1998, this supernatural thriller benefits from a sustained atmosphere of anticipation and dread, and its combination of detective mystery and demonic mischief is handled with ample style and intelligence. Under the direction of Gregory Hoblit (who fared better with Primal Fear), Denzel Washington plays detective John Hobbes, who witnesses the gas-chamber execution of a serial killer (Elias Koteas). But when another series of murders begins, Hobbes suspects that the killer's evil spirit has survived and is possessing the bodies of others to do its evil bidding. Even Hobbes's trusted partner (John Goodman) thinks the detective is losing his grip on reality, but the dire warnings of a noted linguist (Embeth Davidtz) confirm Hobbes's far-out theory, and his case intensifies toward a fateful showdown. Although its idea is better than its execution, and the story's film noir ambitions are never fully accomplished, this slickly directed thriller has some genuinely effective moments in which evil forces are entwined into the fabric of everyday reality. Among the highlights is a memorable scene in which Detective Hobbes must track the killer as the evil spirit is transferred between many people via physical contact. Even if the film is ultimately less than the sum of its parts, it's an intriguing hybrid that resides in the same cinematic neighbourhood as Seven and The Silence of the Lambs with a cast that also includes Donald Sutherland and James Gandolfini. Included on the DVD is a full-length audio commentary by director Hoblit, screenwriter Nicholas Kazan and producer Charles Roven. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Far From Heaven | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £7.56   |  Saving you £12.43 (164.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.

• Battlestar Galactica - The Mini Series | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £8.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Despite voluminous protest and nitpicking criticism from loyal fans of the original TV series (1978-80), the 2003 version of Battlestar Galactica turned out surprisingly well for viewers with a tolerance for change. Originally broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in December 2003 and conceived by Star Trek: The Next Generation alumnus Ronald D Moore as the pilot episode for a "reimagined" TV series, this four-hour mini series reprises the basic premise of the original show while giving a major overhaul to several characters and plot elements. Gone are the flowing robes, disco-era hairstyles, and mock-Egyptian fighter helmets, and thankfully there's not a fluffy "Daggit" in sight... at least, not yet. Also missing are the "chrome toaster" Cylons, replaced by new, more formidable varieties of the invading Cylon enemy, including "Number Six" in hot red skirts and ample cleavage, who tricks the human genius Baltar! into a scenario that nearly annihilates the human inhabitants of 12 colonial worlds. Thus begins the epic battle and eventual retreat of a "ragtag fleet" of humans, searching for the mythical planet Earth under the military command of Adama (Edward James Olmos) and the political leadership of Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), a former secretary of education, 43rd in line of succession and rising to the occasion of her unexpected Presidency. As directed by Michael Rymer (Queen of the Damned), Moore's ambitious teleplay also includes newfangled CGI space battles (featuring "handheld" camera moves and subdued sound effects for "enhanced realism"), a dysfunctional Col. Tigh (Michael Hogan) who's provoked into action by the insubordinate Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff), and a father-son reunion steeped in familial tragedy. To fans of the original BG series, many of these changes are blasphemous, but for the most part they work--including an ominous cliffhanger ending. The remade Galactica is brimming with smart, well-drawn characters ripe with dramati! c potential, and it readily qualifies as serious-minded science fiction, even as it gives BG loyalists ample fuel for lively debate. --Jeff Shannon

• Elf | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £3.28   |  Saving you £7.97 (394.55%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After growing too big for his elf community, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to New York in search of his true identity.

• One Tree Hill - Series 4 | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £6.92   |  Saving you £43.07 (622.40%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Dreams schemes graduation - the completion of Senior Year! Goodbye Tree Hill High. Graduation nears. And with its approach comes the realization that for students and parents alike life is changing forever. There are new loves to nurture old score still to settle. The longtime triangle of Lucas Peyton and Brooke finally comes down to two. The memory of Keith - or is it his spirit? - inspires Lucas and Nathan and haunts Dan. Two expectant mothers are about to raise Tree Hill's population stats. Lucas begins to wonder what really happened the terrifying day Keith died. And the Ravens - led by Coach Whitey Durham - have one last chance for hoops glory and the state championship. Live for now. Make way for what's to come. Hello future...

• Mission Without Permission | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £4.91   |  Saving you £11.08 (225.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mission Impossible y'know for kids! This Hollywood remake of the Danish blockbuster 'Klatretosen' sees 12 year old Maddy (Kristen Stewart) and her friends using all their skills to raise money (by 'appropriating' money from a bank's vault protected by hi-tech security!) for an operation that may help Maddy's father walk again...

• X-Men: Apocalypse | 4K UHD | (07/11/2016) from £21.25   |  Saving you £-3.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.00

  Following the critically acclaimed global smash hit X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer returns with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel's X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction