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• Penance | DVD | (29/04/2019) from £9.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  1969, Northern Ireland, and Father Eoin O'Donnell is praying for atonement, but the past always catches up in the end. Decades have passed since 1916, a time when British rule is ripping apart communities, and Eoin is a young priest preaching passionately from the pulpit in favour of violence if necessary to kick the English out. Falling under the his influence, teenager Antaine is recruited to join the fight for independence. However, the terrible price for his ideals proves much greater than he, or anyone, could ever have imagined. Now, after over fifty years of silence, Father Eoin again comes face to face with Antaine, since twisted by personal grief into a hardened IRA gunman, still unrepentant and looking for his old mentor's loyalty. But Eoin knows things can never be the same. The time has finally arrived for the old priest to make the hardest choice of his life. The time has come for his penance. From award-winning director TOM COLLINS, twice Ireland's entry for the Oscars and nominated a record 14 times at the Irish Film and Television Awards, comes this gripping action film starring PETER COONAN (Love/Hate) and GERARD McSORLEY (Omagh). Includes subtitles for the Hard Of Hearing

• Hancock's Half Hour - Vol. 1 | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £5.89   |  Saving you £7.10 (120.54%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tony Hancock has been voted Britain's best ever comedy performer thirty-five years after his premature death in 1968. This DVD contains the remaining episodes from Series 2 and Series 3 plus a Christmas Special. Episodes from Series 2: 1. The Alpine Holiday Episodes from Series 3: 1. Air Steward Hancock The Last Of The Many 2. The Lawyer: The Crown vs Sidney James 3. Competitions: How To Win Money And Influence People 4. There's An Airfield At The Bottom Of My Garden The Christmas

• Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan | Blu Ray | (06/09/2021) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Including both the original theatrical and director's cuts, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is one of the most celebrated and essential chapters in STAR TREK lore. On routine training manoeuvres, Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned that this may be the last space mission of his career. But an adversary from the past has returned with a vengeance. Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen, Khan (Ricardo Montalban) brilliant renegade of 20th century Earthhas raided Space Station Regula One, stolen the top-secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation starship, and now schemes to set a most deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk with the threat of a universal Armageddon.

• A Challenge for Robin Hood (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (24/11/2025) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The third Robin Hood film from Hammer, A Challenge for Robin Hood sees Barrie Ingham (The Day of the Jackal) donning the Lincoln green.When his cousin (Peter Blythe, Frankenstein Created Woman) frames him for murder, Robin must hide from the Sheriff of Nottingham (John Arnatt, Whistle Down the Wind) in Sherwood Forest. There, Robin assembles his band of merrie men, rescues Maid Marian (Gay Hamilton, Barry Lyndon), and plans his revenge...Directed by C M Pennington-Richards (Dentist on the Job), this action-packed adventure features acting support from Leon Greene (Adventures of a Plumber's Mate) and James Hayter (Gideon's Day).INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURESHigh Definition remasterOriginal mono audioAudio commentary with film historians Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby (2022)The John Player Lecture: The Hammer Forum (1971, 61 mins): onstage discussion chaired by John Russell Taylor, with contributions from noted Hammer luminaries Michael Carreras, Peter Cushing, Terence Fisher, James Needs, Anthony Nelson-Keys, and Jimmy SangsterThe BEHP Interview with C M Pennington-Richards (1990, 96 mins): archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the veteran cinematographer and director in conversation with Alan Lawson and Colin MoffatAn Excuse for Action (2022, 12 mins): actor John Gugolka remembers making the film at Pinewood and on locationSherwood on Screen (2022, 25 mins): author and critic Kim Newman surveys the many cinematic portrayals of the world-famous English outlawSongs from the Hood (2022, 12 mins): appreciation of Gary Hughes' score by David Huckvale, author of Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-GardeRobin Hood Junior (1975, 61 mins): Children's Film Foundation adventure yarn, starring actor and television presenter Keith Chegwin as the young outlawAudio commentary with film historian Vic Pratt on Robin Hood Junior (2022)Original theatrical trailerImage gallery: on-set and promotional photographyNew and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Snakes On A Plane | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Samuel L. Jackson attempts to survive against hundreds of deadly snakes when they're released on a commercial airplane.

• Junior | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Arnold Schwarzenegger as a pregnant man? The Terminator with cramps and morning sickness? That was all the teasing audiences needed to flock to this 1994 farce, which reunited Arnold with his director and co-star from Twins, Ivan Reitman and Danny De Vito. Reitman had also directed the Austrian muscleman in Kindergarten Cop, and they brought the same breezy quality of those earlier films to this enjoyable fluff, in which Arnold plays a scientist who uses his own body to test a revolutionary new fertility drug. His colleague De Vito talks him into the experiment, which succeeds beyond their wildest expectations when Arnold begins a full-term pregnancy. Emma Thompson offers a wealth of comedic support as the biologist who moves into Schwarzenegger's lab while he's coping with his "maternal" condition, and Pamela Reed (who was also in Kindergarten Cop) adds to the fun as De Vito's pregnant ex-wife. What's surprising about this mainstream hit is not that it makes the most of its absurd premise, but that it's also sweetly heart-warming in its treatment of role reversal and the joys and pains of pregnancy. It's a good-natured vehicle for a different side of Schwarzenegger's star appeal, and the fact that it works at all is a tribute to Reitman and his cleverly talented cast. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Get Shorty | DVD | (01/02/2000) from £5.00   |  Saving you £10.99 (219.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Travolta is the standout in this somewhat cartoonish adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel about a smalltime Miami enforcer (Travolta) who decides to get into the movie business in LA. The cast sparkles--Gene Hackman as a failing cut-rate-movie producer, Rene Russo as a failed actress, Danny DeVito as a vain thespian, Delroy Lindo as a mobster who wants a cut of Travolta's film action--and the script is clever. But not clever enough: this isn't Robert Altman's The Player, as far as satires about Hollywood go. But director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) keeps Get Shorty cute and brisk and that makes for an enjoyable experience. Travolta is great as a vaguely dangerous, supremely self-confident man whose love of movies makes him almost cuddly. --Tom Keogh

• Duffer / Moon Over the Alley | Blu Ray | (17/01/2011) from £15.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The BFI Flipside presents two previously unavailable unique and compelling films directed by William Dumaresq and Joseph Despins. Duffer (1971) is a bizarre study of obsession that is by turns beautiful and disturbing featuring sound design from acclaimed electronic composer Delia Derbyshire while The Moon Over the Alley (1976) is an equally unconventional drama about the problems of the multicultural residents of a West London boarding house with fantastic musical numbers by Galt 'Hair' MacDermot.

• Independence Day | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £3.90   |  Saving you £8.09 (207.44%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Sequel to the 1996 blockbuster 'Independence Day'. Enemy aliens return to earth.

• Rise of the Planet of the Apes | DVD | (27/02/2012) from £8.48   |  Saving you £13.50 (208.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES combines fantastic storytelling with the next leap in Visual Effects for an emotional and action-packed motion picture experience unlike any other.

• Tora! Tora! Tora! | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.70   |  Saving you £13.29 (198.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Here is just one of the many mishaps chronicled in Tora! Tora! Tora!: "Sir, there's a large formation of planes coming in from the north, 140 miles, 3 degrees east." "Yeah? Don't worry about it." The epic film shows the bombing of Pearl Harbour from both sides in the historic first American-Japanese coproduction: American director Richard Fleischer oversaw the complicated production (the Japanese sequences were directed by Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, after Akira Kurosawa withdrew from the film), wrestling a sprawling story with dozens of characters into a manageable, fairly easy-to-follow film. The first half maps out the collapse of diplomacy between the nations and the military blunders that left naval and air forces sitting ducks for the impending attack, while the second half is an amazing re-creation of the devastating battle. While Tora! Tora! Tora! lacks the strong central characters that anchor the best war films, the real star of the film is the climactic 30-minute battle, a massive feat of cinematic engineering that expertly conveys the surprise, the chaos and the immense destruction of the only attack by a foreign power on American soil since the Revolutionary war. The special effects won a well-deserved Oscar, but the film was shut out of every other category by, ironically, the other epic war picture of the year, Patton. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Battlestar Galactica: The Plan | Blu Ray | (08/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.00

  The Cylons began as humanity's robot servants. They rebelled and evolved and now they look like us. Their plan is simple: destroy the race that enslaved them. But when their devastating attack leaves human survivors, the Cylons have to improvise. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan tells the story of two powerful Cylon leaders, working separately, and their determination to finish the task. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Audio Commentary Featurettes

• Still Open All Hours - Series 3 | DVD | (13/02/2017) from £14.88   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Arkwright's, the nation's favourite corner shop, opens its doors again for series three of Roy Clarke's follow up to Open All Hours. The series begins with a Christmas special where Granville (David Jason) and Gastric (Tim Healy) find themselves playing marriage counsellors and Kath (Sally Lindsay) attempts to get everyone into the Christmas spirit. In other episodes Granville finds ever more ingenious ways to winkle out a small profit from customers like the ever-gullible Cyril (Kulvinder Ghir) and Granville's courtship of Mavis (Maggie Ollerenshaw) continues with more fish and chip dinners and trips out in Gastric's mini, but he's got to keep an eye out for Mrs. Featherstone (Stephanie Cole) who doesn't seem quite satisfied with Mr Newbold (Geoffrey Whitehead), her current candidate for the position of husband number four Meanwhile Granville's son, Leroy (James Baxter) still yearns for a delivery vehicle that won't spoil his success with dating; love-sick Gastric, full of heart but low on grey matter, is still trying to impress Mavis's formidable sister Madge (Brigit Forsyth); local gossip Mrs Hussein (Nina Wadia) continues her quest to catch Leroy's eye; and arch pessimist Eric (Johnny Vegas) is still looking for improvements in his own married life, which takes a turn for the worse when a mystery woman starts asking for him round the neighbourhood

• Ocean's 8 | Blu Ray | (22/10/2018) from £4.29   |  Saving you £10.69 (249.18%)   |  RRP £14.98

  Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Rihanna and Helena Bonham Carter team up in the action adventure Ocean's 8.Five years, eight months, 12 days...and counting. That's how long Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) has been devising the biggest heist of her life.She knows what it's going to takea team of the best in their field, starting with her partner-in-crime Lou Miller (Cate Blanchett). Together, they recruit a crew of specialists: jeweller Amita (Kaling); street con Constance (Awkwafina); expert fence Tammy (Paulson); hacker Nine Ball (Rihanna); and fashion designer Rose (Bonham Carter).

• Batman: Soul of the Dragon | DVD | (15/02/2021) from £7.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in the midst of the swinging 1970s, this Elseworlds adventure finds Bruce Wayne training under a master sensei. It is here that Bruce, along with other elite students, is forged in the fire of the martial arts discipline. The lifelong bonds they form will be put to the test when a deadly menace arises from their past. It will take the combined efforts of Batman and world-renowned martial artists Richard Dragon, Ben Turner and Lady Shiva to battle the monsters of this world and beyond! Bonus Features A Sneak Peek at the Next Animated DC Universe Movie: Justice Society World War II A Preview of Superman: Red Son A Preview of Gotham By Gaslight

• Hamburger Hill | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £4.90   |  Saving you £8.09 (165.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Because Hamburger Hill was released less than a year after Oliver Stone's Platoon and within months of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, this exceptionally well-made film about one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War was largely overshadowed and overlooked. It's a pity, because in some respects this is the best of the Vietnam films of the late 1980s, at least in terms of the everyday authenticity it depicts. Stripped clean of dramatically extraneous narrative, the movie opts instead for a straightforward approach to its day-by-day account of one of the war's costliest victories--a deadly siege on Hill 937 in the Ashau Valley, where soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division engaged the enemy over the course of 11 brutal assaults between May 10 and May 20, 1969. The film specifically follows the 3rd Squad, 1st Platoon, a mixture of "new guys" and battle-weary "short-timers" who fought against terrifying odds and suffered a 70 per cent casualty rate. From first scene to last, Hamburger Hill traces the rise and fall of their battle experience, from the horror of fire-fights to the camaraderie of men who've faced death and survived. Racial tensions flare and subside, trusts are established and courage emerges from unexpected places. Through it all, writer Jim Carabatsos and director John Irvin maintain a purity of focus that pays tribute to the soldier's life without promoting false patriotism or gung-ho theatrics. In addition, the film features a cast full of talented and well-known actors in the early stages of their careers, including Dylan McDermott and Don Cheadle (Devil in a Blue Dress, Boogie Nights). Colour accuracy, image clarity and the explosive soundtrack have been remarkably preserved in a flawless DVD transfer, lending even greater immediacy to this underrated film. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• A Room For Romeo Brass | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Growing up ...fighting family ...talking out of your arse...

• My Father The Hero | DVD | (20/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Gerard Depardieu stars as an overprotective father who lands in hot water when his overactive teenage daughter gets in over her head at a tropical vacation resort! Soon the mischievous teen is getting dad in big big trouble -- hurling him into one madcap misadventure after another. Combining uproarious comedy and a beautiful island setting MY FATHER THE HERO simply overflows with nonstop fun in the sun.

• Chaplin | Blu Ray | (18/04/2011) from £10.09   |  Saving you £11.16 (126.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Directed by Sir Richard Attenborough and starring an all star cast including Robert Downey Jr) Anthony Hopkins and Marisa Tomei 'Chaplin' is a loving grand-scale portrait of the Little Tramp's amazing life and times. His poverty-stricken childhood in England comes to life along with his friendships with Mack Sennett (Dan Aykroyd) and Douglas Fairbanks (Kevin Kline) his many wives and scandalous affairs and his relentless pursuit by J. Edgar Hoover. 'Chaplin' is the larger-than-life story of the actor behind the icon and a stunning depiction of a bygone era when Hollywood was at its most glamorous.

• Cosh Boy (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (20/01/2020) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A gang of juvenile delinquents tear up post-war London in Lewis Gilbert's (The Spy Who Loved Me, Alfie) shocking and energetic X-rated drama. Roy (James Kenney) is a brash, chain-smoking thug who bullies his friends (including Rene, played by a young Joan Collins) into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behaviour escalates to murderous consequences. Unafraid to tackle a host of taboo subjects, Cosh Boy is a penetrating portrait of 1950s Britain and its simmering social tensions. One, if not the first British film to receive an X certificate, this landmark classic is available on Blu-ray for the first time and is the 40th entry to the longstanding BFI Flipside catalogue Special features: Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition Stranger in the City (1961, 22 mins): short film by Robert Hartford-Davis **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full film credits Other extras TBC