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• Dead End | DVD | (12/07/2005) from £12.61   |  Saving you £0.38 (3.01%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On the mean streets of New York's Lower East Side Drina (Sylvia Sidney) hopes to save her brother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin (Bogart) has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave (Joel McCrea) for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him?

• Breathless | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Breathless, Jim McBride's 1983 remake of Au Bout de Souffle rewrites Godard's existential hipster as a vain, style-obsessed hood and in the process loses some of the point. Godard's hero was a translation and productive misunderstanding of a quintessentially American sort of delinquent; because it is a retranslation, Gere's intelligent, nervy performance as Jesse Lujack suffers by comparison, however admirable it is taken in itself. McBride's direction strokes Gere's face and body lovingly--his every foxy smile, or glance at himself in a mirror, is played for passionate significance. This is also a good-looking film: the back alleys of LA and sunset over the Mojave desert have rarely looked as good. Valerie Kaprisky's Monica is inevitably given secondary importance; the decision to make the woman who goes along with Jesse's wild final ride on a whim an exchange student makes her at once more and less like her equivalent in the Godard--she has a touching exoticism that is at the same time somehow beside the point. The DVD includes the original theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney

• Deathgasm | Blu Ray | (29/02/2016) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Zavvi Exclusive Blu-ray Metal-thrashing Brodie is an outcast in a sea of jocks and cheerleaders until he meets a kindred spirit in fellow metal head Zakk. After starting their own band, they find a mysterious piece of sheet music said to grant ultimate power to whoever plays it. But when the music also summons an ancient evil, it's up to Brodie, Zakk and their group of friends to stop a force of pure evil from devouring all of mankind. Featuring an awesome original soundtrack of fist-banging metal, DEATHGASM will gush bodily fluids, rain limbs and tickle your funny bone, before tearing it out and beating you with it.

• The Last Kingdom season 1-5 | Blu Ray | (16/05/2022) from £53.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Witness the birth of England as you've never seen in the acclaimed series The Last Kingdom from the makers of Downton Abbey. At the end of the 9th century many of the separate kingdoms, which we now call England, have fallen in bloody conflict with invading Danes. Against this turbulent backdrop lives our hero, Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon). Born the son of a Saxon nobleman, he is captured by the Danes and raised as one of their own. For many years fate binds him to Alfred (David Dawson), Saxon King of Wessex. Uhtred must fight for Alfred's dream of uniting the kingdoms. Suffering great personal tragedy, Uhtred is torn between the country of his birth and the people of his upbringing. After Alfred's death, the turbulent reign of the new King Edward threatens his father's dream more than ever. Uhtred confronts a difficult choice - if he deserts Alfred's legacy, the future of the English people will be changed forever.

• Carry On Cruising | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £7.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (72.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A life on the ocean wave with the Carry On crew! Sid James is the long-suffering Captain of the luxury cruise liner S.S. Happy Wanderer a ship full of misfits who don't know their portholes from any other holes! It isn't long before the luckless passengers mix with the hopeless crew to raise titanic laughs on the ship of fools. Carry On Cruising is the sixth Carry On film and the first in colour and stars all the Carry On favourites including Sid James Kenneth Williams Kenneth Connor Joan Sims and Lance Percival.

• Kalifornia | DVD | (06/05/2002) from £4.96   |  Saving you £11.03 (222.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Directed with a cool remove by Dominic Sena, Kalifornia falls somewhere between Badlands and Natural Born Killers. David Duchovny is a blocked author with a fascination for outlaw killers who hatches a plan to road trip through America's mass-murder landmarks to finish his book. He enlists the help of his frustrated photographer girlfriend Michelle Forbes, who desperately wants to leave the East Coast for LA, and they advertise for riding partners. Luckily for them, they wind up with a veteran killer, the greasy trailer-park ex-con Brad Pitt, who decides to skip parole with his cowering child-woman girlfriend Juliette Lewis. Duchovny is enamoured by gun-toting Pitt's recklessness and lawless disregard for, well, everything--simultaneously terrified and thrilled by Pitt's brutal beating of a barfly. Meanwhile, Pitt's leaving a trail of corpses in their wake. Pitt brings a ferocious magnetism to his part, but it's still hard to buy genial Duchovny's odd attraction; Juliette Lewis conveys a terrifying sense of victimization with her poor dumb creature. Despite the film's best efforts, it never really plumbs the psyche of Pitt's simmering psycho--he's just plain bad, you know--but it does fashion an effective little thriller out of the tensions brewing in the restless quartet. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Elf | Blu Ray | (17/11/2008) from £7.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (126.29%)   |  RRP £17.99

  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.

• Meet The Parents | DVD | (02/07/2006) from £3.74   |  Saving you £12.25 (327.54%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Randy Newman's opening song, "A Fool in Love", perfectly sets up the scenario of Meet the Parents: "Show me a man who is gentle and kind and I'll show you a loser". Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) is the fool in love. Just as he's about to propose to his girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo), he learns that her sister's fiancé asked their father, Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), for permission to marry. Now he feels the need to do the same thing. When Greg meets Jack, he is so desperate to be liked that he makes up stories and feebly attempts to ingratiate himself with his prospective father-in-law rather than having the courage of his convictions. It doesn't take an elite member of the CIA to see right through Greg, but unfortunately that's precisely what Jack is. Directed by Jay Roach (the Austin Powers films), Meet the Parents is a well-crafted comedy that makes for a pleasant contrast to the sloppy excesses of the Farrelly brothers. Stiller is great at playing up the uncomfortable comedy of errors, balancing just the right amount of selfishness and self-deprecating humour, while De Niro's excels as the intimidating father. Blythe Danner as his wife, the Gracie to De Niro's George Burns, is the true heart of the film and Owen Wilson turns in yet another terrific comic performance as Pam's ex-fiancé. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com

• The Sum of All Fears | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £3.90   |  Saving you £16.09 (412.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ben Affleck is ready for action, commanding the role of CIA agent Jack Ryan in this thrilling adventure based on the Tom Clancy bestseller.

• Josh - Series 1 | DVD | (05/09/2016) from £19.75   |  Saving you £0.24 (1.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Josh is trapped. He's a grumpy old man in the body of a twenty-something, a potentially brilliant boyfriend who can't get a date and, worst of all, he lives in a flat with the world's two most frustrating friends. There's Owen, a romantic Welshman whose only interest is boring Josh about when he met Tasmin Archer or bought Lenny Kravitz's deckchair; and Kate, who wants to be seen as one of the cool kids but, well isn't. And then there's Geoff. A landlord who for some reason thinks it's also his job to teach Josh to swim or get him on stage with Paul and Barry Chuckle. All Josh wants is a quiet life, and it would probably happen if it wasn't for his bad luck, bad judgement and bad mates.

• Revenge | Blu Ray | (30/05/2016) from £14.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (15.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Joan Collins, James Booth and Sinéad Cusack star in this sensational, X-rated thriller in which an ordinary family turn to vigilante justice in the wake of their daughter's murder. With taut direction from Sidney Hayers and a tense script from The Saint screenwriter John Kruse, Revenge was a notable success in both Britain and the USA; it is featured here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Publicans Carol and Jim Radford learn that a reclusive local man suspected of raping and murdering their ten-year-old daughter has been released due to insufficient evidence. Heartbroken and hungry for vengeance, Jim hatches a chilling plan to force a confession from the suspect: abducting and imprisoning him in the pub's cellar, he will become judge, jury and if necessary executioner! Special Features: Original theatrical trailer Image Gallery Promotional Material PDF

• The Scarlet Pimpernel | DVD | (18/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's tough trying to beat the 1934 version of the popular adventure-romance story, starring Leslie Howard as the 18th-century British hero who poses as a fop in London society but runs a secret mission to rescue the doomed in Robespierre's Paris. But this 1982 television version, starring Anthony Andrews (Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited) as the Pimpernel and Jane Seymour as his beloved but estranged wife, is quite a treat. Andrews and Seymour expertly capture the essence of a relationship suffering from misunderstandings and elusive passion, and there is plenty of crackle to the action sequences. Clive Donner (What's New, Pussycat?) brings some strong cinematic qualities to this television presentation. --Tom Keogh

• Absolute Power - Series 1 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £7.23   |  Saving you £12.76 (176.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stephen Fry and John Bird star as spin doctors Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe bringing the popular and satirical Radio 4 comedy Absolute Power to BBC 2. Written by media commentator Mark Lawson writers Andy Rattenbury (Teachers) and Guy Andrews (Chancer) Absolute Power casts a witty and acerbic eye on the machinations of PR gurus and does for the PR industry what Drop The Dead Donkey did for the newsroom. Stephen as Prentiss and John as McCabe are a

• The Fantasia Collection | DVD | (11/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  More ambitious in scope than any of its other animated films (before or to come), Disney's 1940 Fantasia was a dizzying, magical and highly enjoyable marriage of classical music and animated images. Fantasia 2000, originally made for the IMAX large-screen format, features some breathtaking animation and storytelling, and in a few spots soars to wonderful high points, but it still more often than not has the feel of walking in its predecessor's footsteps as opposed to creating its own path. A family of whales swimming and soaring to Respighi's The Pines of Rome is magical to watch, but ends all too soon; a forest sprite's dance of life, death and rebirth to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring too clearly echoes the original Fantasia's Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria sequence. But when it's on target, Fantasia 2000 is glorious enough to make you giddy. Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is a perfect narrative set to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2, and Donald Duck's guest appearance as the assistant to Noah (of the Ark fame) set to Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches is a welcome companion piece (though not an equal) to The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the one original Fantasia piece included here. The high point of Fantasia 2000, though, is a fantastic day-in-the-life sequence of 1930s New York City set to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and animated in the style of cartoonist Al Hirschfeld; it's a perfect melding of music, story and animation style. Let's hope future Fantasias (reportedly in the works) take a cue from the best of this compilation. The music is provided by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Levine, interspersed with negligible intros by Steve Martin, Bette Midler, Itzhak Perlman, James Earl Jones and others. --Mark Englehart

• Uptown Girls | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £8.81   |  Saving you £7.18 (81.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Molly Gunn (Brittany Murphy) is the toast of the Manhattan social scene. But when her inheritance is stolen, Molly is forced to do something she's never done before - get a job as a nanny!

• Blue Thunder: The Complete Series | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £15.45   |  Saving you £14.54 (94.11%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Episodes Comprise: 1. Second Thunder 2. A Clear and Present Danger 3. Arms Race 4. Revenge in the Sky 5. Trojan Horse 6. Skydiver 7. Clipped Wings 8. Payload 9. The Long Flight 10. The Godchild 11. The Island

• The Roaring Twenties (Criterion Collection) - UK Only | Blu Ray | (11/03/2024) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ripped from the headlines of the turbulent era between the Great War and the Great Depression, this dynamic, nostalgia-tinged crime drama balances tommy-gun action with epic historical sweep. Legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart star as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect, first in a foxhole on the front lines of World War I, then in Manhattan's Prohibition-era underworld. Directed by Hollywood master Raoul Walsh, and based on a story by prolific journalist turned screenwriter and producer Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties brought to a close the celebrated Warner Bros. gangster cycle of the 1930s, and it remains one of the greatest and most influential crime films of all time.Product FeaturesBLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary with film historian Lincoln Hurst New interview with critic Gary Giddins Excerpt from a 1973 interview with director Raoul Walsh Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by film critic Mark Asch

• Miss Meadows | DVD | (27/07/2015) from £6.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (166.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Katie Holmes stars as a vigilante school teacher in this drama written and directed by Karen Leigh Hopkins. Beneath her do-gooder, old-fashioned exterior, newly-arrived substitute primary teacher Miss Meadows (Holmes) moonlights as a violent vigilante who murders local criminals. Although the kids warm to her teaching methods, the local police are in hot pursuit of the suburban vigilante. While Miss Meadows begins a risky relationship with the local sheriff (James Badge Dale) trying to catch her, she is stalked by an ex-convict named Skylar (Callan Mulvey) whom she suspects may put her students in danger.

• Live And Let Die (James Bond) | Blu Ray | (20/10/2008) from £9.85   |  Saving you £10.14 (102.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Roger Moore's first outing as 007 he investigates the murders of three fellow agents he soon finds himself a target evading vicious assassins as he closes in on the powerful Kananga (Yaphet Kotto). Known on the streets as Mr Big Kananga is co-ordinating a globally threatening scheme using tons of self-produced heroin. As Bond tries to unravel the mastermind's plan he meets Solitaire (Jane Seymour) the beautiful Tarot card reader whose magical gifts are crucial to the crime lord. Bond of course works his own magic on her and the stage is set for a series of pulse-pounding action sequences involving voodoo hungry crocodiles and turbo-charged speedboats.

• El Dorado | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £10.78   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A