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• Angels with Dirty Faces | Blu Ray | (26/02/2024) from £16.70   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O'Brien teamed up for the sixth time in this enduring gangster classic. Cagney's Rocky Sullivan is a charismatic ghetto tough whose underworld rise makes him a hero to a gang of slum punks. O'Brien is Father Connolly, the boyhood chum-turned-priest who vows to end Rocky's influence. Other ace talents join them: Humphrey Bogart as a scheming lawyer, Ann Sheridan as Rocky's hard-edged girlfriend and the Dead End Kids as worshipful street urchins, all ably directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca). The 1938 New York Film Critics Best Actor Award came Cagney's way, as well as one of the film's three Oscar nominations. Watch the chilling death-row finale and you'll know why.On-Disc Special FeaturesLeonard Maltin Hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1938 with NewsreelMusic Short Out Where the Stars BeginCartoon Porky and DaffyTheatrical TrailersFeaturette Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya SayCommentary by Film Historian Dana PolanAudio-Only Bonus: Radio Production with Film's Two Stars

• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £4.80   |  Saving you £20.19 (420.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up to bring Roald Dahl's classic childrens book to the big screen.

• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £5.95   |  Saving you £14.04 (235.97%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The animated story of a wild stallion's journey through the untamed American frontier. Encountering man for the first time he develops a remarkable friendship with a young Brave, but defies being broken.

• Carry On Christmas Special | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £17.44   |  Saving you £7.55 (43.29%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Unseen for many years these four made-for-TV Christmas Carry On spectaculars feature favourite stories and timely traditions including Treasure Island A Christmas Carol pantomime and much more in the only way the Carry On team know how... pure slapstick comedy and scripts full of trademark innuendo! This is Carry On at its Christmas best! Carry On Christmas 1969: sees Sid James Barbara Windsor et al in a re-working of literary classic 'A Christmas Carol' - obviously thou

• Bear In The Big Blue House - Dance Party | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  The acclaimed children's series from Jim Henson Productions is back with this collection containing two music-oriented episodes. In ""Music To My Ears"" and ""Dance Fever "" Bear and the gang explore the joyful power of music and dancing. Includes four new songs!

• Anatomy Of A Murder | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £18.40   |  Saving you £1.59 (8.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Anatomy of a Murder, Otto Preminger's 1959 film of the novel by Robert Traver (a pen name for a Michigan Supreme Court Justice), was controversial in its day for making frank on-screen use of then-unheard words such as "panties", "rape" and "spermatogenesis"--and it remains a trenchant, bitter, tough, witty dissection of the American legal system. With its striking Saul Bass title design and jazzy Duke Ellington score, Anatomy of a Murder takes a sophisticated approach unusual for a Hollywood film of its vintage. Most radically, it refuses to show the murder or any of the private scenes recounted in court, leaving it up to us to decide along with the jury whether the grumpy and unconcerned Lieutenant Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara) was or was not subject to an "irresistible impulse" tantamount to insanity when he shot dead Barney Quill, the bear-like bar owner alleged to have raped Manion's teasing trailer-trash wife Laura (Lee Remick in unfeasibly tight trousers). James Stewart plays Paul "Polly" Biegler a former District Attorney keen to get back into court to clash with the political dullard who replaced him in office. Biegler is supported by the skills of his snide secretary (Eve Arden) and boozy-but-brilliant research partner (Arthur O'Connell). For the prosecution, the befuddled local DA hauls in Dancer (George C Scott), a prissy legal eagle from the local big city whose sharp-suited, sly elegance makes an interesting clash with Biegler's "aw-shucks" jimmy-stewartian conniving. This is simply the best trial movie ever made, with a real understanding of the way lawyers have to be not only great actors but stars, assuming personalities that exaggerate their inner selves and weighing every outburst and objection for the effect it has on the poor saps in the jury box. On the DVD: The print is letterboxed to 1.85:1, but it's a bit of a cheat since that seems to involve trimming the top and bottom of the image (losing the steps under and the clouds above the Columbia lady in the opening titles), though the film isn't seriously hurt by a tighter look at the action. Also included are: an Ellington-scored photo montage, soundtracks in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish with subtitles in ten languages, filmographies for director and principal cast, original advertising (highlighting Saul Bass' poster designs, a trailer and more trailers for more Columbia Jimmy Stewart or courtroom films. --Kim Newman

• The Cell | DVD | (12/03/2001) from £7.49   |  Saving you £12.50 (166.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jennifer Lopez stars in this dazzling thriller as a psychologist who must journey into the mind of a comatose serial killer to save the life of his latest victim.

• Amityville II - The Possession | DVD | (18/06/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Amityville II: The Possession tells the 'true' story of the Montelli's, a dysfunctional Catholic family who arrive in the Amityville house two years before the Lutz's of the first film. Sonny, the eldest son, is horrifically possessed by a sinister supernatural presence rising up from a secret basement room. Instructed by a voice through his Walkman, Sonny seduces his younger sister before brutally slaughtering his entire family. Local priest, Father Adamski, tries to rescue Sonny's soul and returns to the sinister Amityville house to face the demon...

• Ordinary People | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £5.72   |  Saving you £7.27 (127.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Robert Redford made his Oscar-winning directorial debut with this highly acclaimed, poignantly observant drama (based on the novel by Judith Guest) about a well-to-do family's painful adjustment to tragedy. Mary Tyler Moore and Donald Sutherland play a seemingly happy couple who lose the elder of their two sons to a boating accident; Timothy Hutton plays the surviving teenage son, who blames himself for his brother's death and has attempted suicide to end his pain. They live in a meticulously kept home in an affluent Chicago suburb, never allowing themselves to speak openly of the grief that threatens to tear them apart. Only when the son begins to see a psychiatrist (Judd Hirsch) does the veneer of denial begin to crack, and Ordinary People thenceforth directly examines the broken family ties and the complexity of repressed emotions that have festered under the pretence of coping. Superior performances and an Oscar-winning script by Alvin Sargent make this one of the most uncompromising dramas ever made about the psychology of dysfunctional families. There are moments--particularly related to Mary Tyler Moore's anguished performance as a woman incapable of expressing her deepest emotions--when this film is both intensely involving and heartbreakingly real. No matter how happy and healthy your upbringing was, there's something in this excellent film that everyone can relate to. --Jeff Shannon

• Joker | Blu Ray | (10/02/2020) from £6.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Joker is an original, standalone story. Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale. Extras Becoming Joker - Watch the haunting evolution of Arthur Fleck to Joker with this peek into the costume test process. Joker: A Chronicle of Chaos-Through a series of photos shot on-set, explore the production of Joker through a new lens. Joker: Vision & Fury-Todd Phillips, Joaquin Phoenix, and others take you inside the seedy underbelly of their Gotham for this comprehensive look at the making of Joker.

• Westworld: Season 2 | Blu Ray | (03/12/2018) from £16.70   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the first season, the hosts didn't understand the nature of their reality. They didn't have an element of choice. All that changes with the pull of a trigger. In Season Two, chaos takes control as the rancher's daughter, Dolores Abernathy (series star EVAN RACHEL WOOD) takes charge, Maeve Millay (series star THANDIE NEWTON) is on a mission and the mysterious Man in Black (series star ED HARRIS) is back. A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness, the birth of a new form of life on Earth, and the evolution of sin, the series also stars JEFFREY WRIGHT, JAMES MARSDEN, TESSA THOMPSON, LUKE HEMSWORTH, RODRIGO SANTORO and more.

• Tom's Midnight Garden | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £12.45   |  Saving you £0.54 (4.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tom's Midnight Garden is the magical tale of a young boy who is transported to a mysterious world of times past. 14-year-old Tom is sent to stay with his Aunt and Uncle for the summer to avoid catching measles from his brother. One night on hearing the grandfather clock strike 13 he sets off to explore and discovers the house has been transformed. He investigates further and opens the door to a magical sunlit garden of a bygone age where he meets Hatty a young orphan girl and begins an incredible adventure. Based on Philippa Pearce's timeless fantasy Tom's Midnight Garden stars Greta Scacchi James Wilby and David Bradley who later starred as Argus Filch in the Harry Potter series.

• The Wild | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Animals from the New York Zoo head into the city to rescue a friend in this CGI comedy-adventure.

• We Still Kill The Old Way | DVD | (26/12/2014) from £6.71   |  Saving you £9.28 (138.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When retired East End villain CHARLIE ARCHER is murdered by a feral street gang his brother RITCHIE returns to London from Spain to investigate. With the police investigation drawing blank after blank Ritchie decides to take the law into his own hands and bring his old school justice back to the streets of East London. Rounding up his old firm he leads a vigilante crusade against the vicious young criminals using every grizzly method at his disposal to find and punish his brother’s killers. They’re outgunned and outnumbered but this firm has never been outclassed yet!

• Midway (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (26/08/2024) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Recreating the famous sea battle between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy, Midway finds director Jack Smight (Airport 1975) confidently handling epic battle scenes and a stellar cast which includes Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum, and Robert Wagner. Midway is presented here with a wealth of extras, as well as in an extended, two-part TV version which features additional scenes. INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES High Definition remasterOriginal mono and 2.1 Sensurround audio tracksAlternative two-part TV version (101 mins and 92 mins): the rarely seen extended TV cut, containing unique scenes, reframed to 4:3 and presented in Standard Definition, as originally broadcastAudio commentary with film historians Steve Mitchell and Steven Jay Rubin (2021)The Guardian Interview with Robert Wagner (1983, 71 mins): archival audio recording of the film and TV star in conversation with Joan Bakewell at the National Film Theatre, LondonThey Were There! (1976, 7 mins): Charlton Heston presents this archival documentary featuring interviews with three combatants who survived the battleThe Making of 'Midway' (2001, 39 mins): documentary looking at the film's productionSensurround: The Sounds of 'Midway' (2001, 5 mins): a look at the film's use of the Sensurround audio systemSuper 8 version: original cut-down home-cinema presentationThe Battle of Midway (1942, 18 mins): award-winning documentary directed by John Ford relaying the battle with footage shot by Navy cameramenOriginal theatrical trailerTV spotsRadio spotsImage gallery: promotional and publicity materialNew and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Spider-Man | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £4.13   |  Saving you £20.86 (505.08%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Marvel comics' most famous superhero in the bggest movie of 2002!

• Zulu | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £8.07   |  Saving you £7.92 (98.14%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of the last of the classic-era widescreen epics, Zulu was also one of the last war movies to celebrate the virtues of the famous British stiff upper lip. At Rorke's Drift in 1879 a handful of British soldiers, hopelessly outnumbered by 4,000 Zulu warriors, fought one of the most celebrated defensive actions in military history. Zulu tells the story on an epic scale, bringing to life the heroism, courage, loyalty and sacrifice of those desperate hours. This is truly cast-of-thousands filmmaking, with vast action wonderfully captured in widescreen Technirama. John Barry, who also scored Goldfinger in the same year, provides a telling musical accompaniment. The superb cast includes Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins, but Zulu's final claim to fame is that it made an instant international superstar of a young actor whose name is Michael Caine. A belated sequel arrived in 1979 in Zulu Dawn, which despite even more spectacular action and a great cast died at the box-office. It is nevertheless well worth seeing. On the DVD: Zulu on disc has excellent prologic stereo considering the age of the film, while the anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 transfer is crystal-clear, boasting rich colours, strong contrast and detail and only occasional minor print flaws. The original American trailer, also presented anamorphically enhanced at 2.35:1, is a worthwhile addition. There is a very good new 45-minute "making of" (1.77:1 anamorphic, in stereo), curiously split into two parts. The heart of the programme consists of interviews with survivors from the film, focusing on Stanley Baker's widow. The only let down is lack of input from Michael Caine and composer John Barry. The commentary by film historian Sheldon Hall, author of a forthcoming book on the movie, and Second Unit Director Robert Porter is serious and packed with information. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Drop | DVD | (23/03/2015) from £6.95   |  Saving you £13.04 (187.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  THE DROP follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) through a covert scheme of funnelling cash to local gangsters - "money drops" - in the underworld of Brooklyn bars.

• Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Series | Blu Ray | (21/09/2009) from £58.21   |  Saving you £-23.21 (N/A%)   |  RRP £35.00

  The complete set of all five series of the TV smash hit Battlestar Galactica. Following a devastating attack on their homeworlds the only surviving humans of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol cross the galaxy in a space convoy headed by the Battleship Galactica. In hot pursuit are the ruthless Cylons powerful robots who turned on their human creators and brought about the near annihilation of mankind. The voyagers' last hope is to find the fabled 13th colony: Earth. But with their nemeses in hot pursuit and the revelation that the artificial machines now have the ability to take human form it's going to be very far from an easy quest.

• Allegiant | Blu Ray | (11/07/2016) from £11.43   |  Saving you £11.56 (101.14%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In this exciting penultimate film in The Divergent Series, Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) lead a team of rebels in a daring escape over the city wallinto a strange new world where they face a threat more dangerous than they ever imagined. Together, Tris and Four wage a furious battle for survival, fighting not only for their factions and loved ones, but for the future of an entire city in this dynamic, action-packed adventure.